— Matt Taibbi and Molly CrabappleLehman Brothers succumbed to fraud, bad decisions, and book-cooking, dying not of any one specific thing but more generally of corruption itself, in the manner of elderly mobsters or Soviet rulers.
Replicated under Fair Use from The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap by Matt Taibbi and Molly Crabapple. (Pg. 144)