Sellout

by Schippers, David P.

• ISBN13: 9780895262431
• ISBN10: 0895262436
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-09-01
• Publisher: Regnery Pub

Summary

One of the driving, behind-the-scenes figures in the Clinton impeachment trial was David Schippers, a Chicago prosecutor who made his name by prosecuting mobsters in the 1960s.

Author Biography

David P. Schippers has been a practicing trial attorney for more than forty years. Under Attorney General Robert Kennedy, he led the Justice Department's Organized Crime and Racketeering Unit. At the invitation of Congressman Henry Hyde, he led an oversight investigation of the Justice Department and eventually became Chief Counsel to the House Managers charged with the impeachment trial of President Clinton. He has since returned to private practice with his firm, Schippers and Bailey Alan P. Henry has had a distinguished newspaper career covering three decades with the Chicago Sun-Times, Boston Herald, Boston Globe, Middlesex News, and Pioneer Press, where he is currently Deputy Executive Editor. He has won numerous awards for news, investigative, feature, and column writing and is an award-winning writer of short stories

Table of Contents

Author's Note	ix
The Sellout	1	(6)
Three Strikes, We're Out	7	(20)
The Call	27	(10)
Injustice for All	37	(16)
The 800-Pound Gorilla	53	(46)
Gut Check	99	(10)
Contemptible Behavior	109	(26)
Stonewalling	135	(14)
Starr to the Stand	149	(24)
Abuse of Power	173	(20)
A Lie Is a Lie	193	(58)
Impeached!	251	(8)
Weak Knees and Monica	259	(26)
Appendix A The Evidence	285	(16)
Appendix B The Voice of the People	301	(20)
Acknowledgments	321	(2)
Index	323