The Prosecution and Defense of Public Corruption: The Law and Legal Strategies is the first comprehensive, practice-oriented treatment of the law of public corruption in the U.S. legal market. This unique publication provides a thorough legal analysis of the disparate areas of the law that can be used to prosecute public officials at all levels of government. In The Prosecution and Defense of Public Corruption, authors Peter J. Henning and Lee J. Radek discuss how counsel can develop appropriate legal strategies for prosecuting and defending these cases. Many essential topics are addressed with the practitioner in mind, including: Evidence Gathering Issues; Privilege Issues; Issues at Trial; Sentencing Issues.

Peter J. Henning joined the Wayne State University Law School faculty in 1994, where he is a . He is a magna cum laude graduate of Georgetown University Law Center. His teaching focuses on criminal and corporate law, with a specialization in white collar crime. Before entering law teaching, he was a senior attorney in the Division of Enforcement at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission from 1987 to 1991, and a trial attorney in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice from 1991 to 1994. Professor Henning is a co-author of three casebooks on criminal law and white collar crime, two student treatises, and three volumes of the Federal Practice & Procedure treatise (with the late Professor Charles Alan Wright) on the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure.

Lee J. Radek is a cum laude graduate of the Loyola University of Chicago School of Law. He joined the U.S. Department of Justice under the Attorney General's Honors Program in 1971. In 1976 he was one of three attorneys selected to form the Public Integrity Section of the Department's Criminal Division. He became a Deputy Chief of that Section in 1978. In 1992, he was appointed to the position of director, Asset Forfeiture Office, and in 1994, he returned to the Public Integrity Section as its chief, where he served until 2001, when he became senior counsel in the Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section. Among his other duties, Mr. Radek was a member of the FBI Criminal Undercover Operations Review Committee, and was the Department's representative to the Financial Action Task Force-the international anti-money laundering body. Mr. Radek retired in 2005.