Released on: October 28, 2008, 7:14 pm

Press Release Author: STATE STREET PUBLICATIONS

Industry: Government

Press Release Summary: Is Treason Now Systemic?

Press Release Body: (WASHINGTON, D.C.) In a powerful precursor to the financial
crisis, a former counsel to the U.S. Senate Finance Committee suggests that treason
is now imbedded in a consensus mindset that ensured a Depression-era meltdown.

The widely acclaimed author of Democracy at Risk: Rescuing Main Street From Wall
Street (2000), attorney Jeff Gates argues in Guilt By Association that the
combination of free market ideology, lax regulations and easy credit were destined
to undermine America's financial security and ravage the retirement savings of an
entire generation.

With a sophisticated yet accessible analysis, the author chronicles the keen
similarities between this latest market crash and what he calls the financial "pump
and dump" that typified the savings and loan fraud of the late 1980s and the dot.com
crash of 2000. Then, as now, Wall Street sophisticates skimmed the financial cream
at the top and then bought assets on the cheap as markets tumbled.

In an account that links the origins of this mindset to a culture steeped in
organized crime, Guilt presents an evidentiary trail chronicling how those complicit
routinely conspire to displace facts with what people can be deceived to believe.
That mental manipulation can range from a false belief in Iraqi WMD and mobile
biological weapons laboratories to a "consensus" faith in the infallibility of
unfettered financial markets.



The first release in the Criminal State series, Guilt By Association chronicles the
relationship between organized crime, pro-Israeli policies and the fixed
intelligence that led America to war in Iraq and now threatens war with Iran. While
delivering on its promise to "make treason transparent," this book also proposes a
shift in financial policy and a reappraisal of U.S.-Israeli relations.

An attorney, investment banker, educator and consultant to government, corporate and
union leaders worldwide, Jeff Gates' previous books include The Ownership Solution:
Toward a Shared Capitalism for the 21st Century. Endorsers for these earlier books
include CEOs, heads of state, legislators, commentators and Nobel laureates in both
peace and economics.

This book is available now. For more information, or to order, go to
www.criminalstate.com.

Guilt by Association: How Deception and Self-Deceit Took America to War. (ISBN:
978-0-9821315-0-3; $27.95; 320 pages; 5" x 8"; perfect bound soft cover; State
Street Publications).





Web Site: http://www.criminalstate.com

Contact Details: Jeff Gates
STATE STREET PUBLICATIONS
480-994-1492
jeffgates2@gmail.com