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Most revealingly, many of the people on the list contributed to both parties. Indeed, real estate developers are infamous as political contributors. Many of them strike it big by getting a zoning change from the local commission or obtaining a license to develop a facility from a state agency. Real estate developers commonly donate to both parties. In early 1987, Texas S&L insiders held a Republican fund-raiser at which Treasury Secretary Baker was the featured speaker. Baker sat next to Don Dixon of Vernon Savings. Dixon had also contributed to the DCCC. In 1987 he was the worst known control fraud in the nation; he was on the prosecutors’ list of 400 names. When Wright saw his name on that list he thought “Democratic contributor.” Similarly, Craig Hall contributed to the Republicans and the DCCC (O’Shea 1991, 227). Wright never considered that control frauds have compelling incentives to make contributions to powerful politicians of either party who might intervene on their behalf.
The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One
William K. Black
I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and traveled and thought and written. I have had an intercourse with the world, the special intercourse of writers and readers. Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.
But I’m convinced childhood is overrated; you can have a much better childhood as an adult, when you have the freedom and the affluence to enjoy it. You get this small window to be a legend, and you have the rest of your life to act like a kid, at any age.
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