Summary of Untouchable By Elie Honig: How Powerful People Get Away with It

By Willie M. Joseph

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Elie Honig explores how the rich, famous, and powerful manipulate the legal system to escape justice. He takes us inside the heads of notorious figures like Donald Trump, Harvey Weinstein, and Bill Cosby. Honig explains how the system allows the powerful to become untouchable.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Willie M. Joseph
• Release date: Feb 1, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215713525

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Do What You Have to Do

Frank Hydell was shot three times in the head and chest by mobster Eddie Boyle at Staten Island strip club. Otto once typed up phony transcripts, put them in a binder, and showed them to a Gambino soldier to try to convince him that the FBI had been wiretapping him.  Otto DiLeonardo was working for the SDNYPD's Organized Crime Unit when he worked on the Hydell murder case. He and his colleagues were able to secure guilty pleas from members of the Gambino family involved in the crime. The shooter, Thomas Carbonaro, was sentenced to seventy years in prison.

The Gambino family was one of the main players in the murder of John Hydell, who was shot to death outside a barber's shop in New York City. Joe Marino was charged with conspiracy to murder his nephew, Hydell Hydell. A conviction would have put Marino behind bars for the rest of his life. The judge on the case was unimpressed with their proposed plea deal, and made them explain why they believed it was justified. The former president of the United States has never been charged with a crime; his rap sheet is blank.

Few if any people in American history have flouted the law in as many ways as Trump has. The prime opportunities to hold Trump criminally accountable for his actions have passed. Trump is a lawless Houdini, repeatedly escaping (and at times being rescued) from the clutches of law enforcement. A parade of his henchmen and personal, political, and business associates have been indicted and imprisoned. Yet the boss somehow stands at the epicenter of the carnage, untouched.

You need to know how to use those resources in the right way. Prosecutors need to get inside the heads of the savviest kingpins, and turn their tactics against them. There are countless ways prosecutors can use creativity and aggression to topple even the most ruthless criminals. I don't aim here to diagnose or cure all the ills of inequality in our justice system. But a careful examination of recent legal sagas around Trump and other powerful players can help us identify how they try to exploit fundamental flaws in our legal system.

David Rothkopf: Trump's hush money scheme offers a case study of how powerful people can get away with crimes while others around them don't. He says this is no defeatist eulogy for our