New Book – Featured in Bombshell 60 Minutes Report –Flips Conventional Wisdom on Who Is Bribing Whom in DCExtortion. Bribery. Racketeering.
Legal on Capitol Hill, would land the rest of us in jail
Conventional wisdom holds that Washington is broken because outside special interests bribe and buy politicians. The reverse is true. Politicians have developed a new set of brass knuckle legislative tactics designed to extort wealthy industries and compel donors into forking over big sums – cash that lawmakers often funnel into the pockets of their friends and families.
In his explosive new book, EXTORTION, the New York Times best-selling author Peter Schweizer exposes never-before-reported examples of blatant extortion tactics – bold even by Mafia standards – that would send any normal citizen to prison.
Yet thanks to an extraordinary effort by Schweizer and the investigative research staff of the Government Accountability Institute (a nonprofit research institution dedicated to investigating and exposing cronyism, government corruption, and misuse of taxpayer money), we now know the methods and players who profit from political extortion.
Inside this book, Schweizer reveals:
The never-before-seen secret “price list” each political party charges politicians for top Congressional committee assignments—positions that in turn provide maximum extortion opportunities. See them in their entirety for the first time. [p. 181 ff]
How 14 members of Congress, from both sides of the aisle, bagged hundreds of thousands of dollars using a secret, unethical self-loan loophole. [p. 74]
How Washington politicians use little-known Leadership PACs to bankroll lavish lifestyles and purchase each other’s loyalties. [p. 103 ff]
How the Department of Justice has taken vaguely written criminal laws and used them to shake down and extort wealthy targets and political opponents on behalf of the Obama administration. [p. 135 ff]
For more information on the new book, including Peter’s interview on 60 Minutes, please visit his new website:
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Peter Schweizer is the president of the Government Accountability Institute and the William J. Casey Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is author of Throw Them All Out, which exposed congressional insider trading and prompted a 60 Minutes investigation. Slate called it “the book that started the STOCK Act stampede.” He has written for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, National Review, Foreign Affairs, and others. He has appeared on ABC News, NBC News, CBS News, Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, and the BBC and has made hundreds of radio appearances.