Table of Contents
Chapter 1 "Do What You Have to Do" 1
Chapter 2 The Southern District of New York and "Individual-1": Behind the Scenes in the Department of Justice's Internal Struggle over Trump 14
Boss Tactics: How Criminal Kingpins Play the System 43
Chapter 3 Control the Lawyers, Control the Game 45
Chapter 4 Defense, at a Cost 58
Chapter 5 Insulation: The Hierarchical Pyramid 71
Chapter 6 Say It without Saying It 85
Chapter 7 It Takes a Criminal to Catch a Criminal 96
Chapter 8 Fear in the Jury Box 107
Chapter 9 Omertà: Enforcing Silence 116
Chapter 10 "Without Fear or Favor": The Truth about How Prosecutors Treat the Powerful 128
Chapter 11 Prey on the Vulnerable 136
Chapter 12 Biases, Individual and Systemic 151
One Man, Above the Law: When the Boss is the President 161
Chapter 13 Indictment-Proof: He Who Shall Not Be Charged 163
Chapter 14 "We're Fighting All the Subpoenas": Executive Privilege Gone Wild 176
Chapter 15 Pardons for the Silent 184
Chapter 16 "Tawdry," "Distasteful"-but Perfectly Legal 191
Pursuing Donald Trump 199
Chapter 17 United States v. Donald John Trump 201
Chapter 18 The Southern District of New York and "Individual-1": Post-Presidency but Still No Charge 235
Chapter 19 Georgia: The Looming Showdown 243
Chapter 20 Waiting for Garland 253
Acknowledgments 279
Index 283