Abacus : small enough to jail
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Abacus : small enough to jail
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The work Abacus : small enough to jail represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Kent District Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.
- Label
- Abacus : small enough to jail
- Title remainder
- small enough to jail
- Statement of responsibility
- directed by Steve James ; produced by Mark Mitten, Julie Goldman ; a Mitten Media, Motto Pictures and Kartemquin Films production for WGBH/Frontline and Independent Television Service (ITVS) in association with Blue Ice Docs
- Subject
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- Abacus Federal Savings Bank -- Trials, litigation, etc
- Documentary television programs
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Financial crises
- Nonfiction television programs
- Trials (Fraud) -- New York (State) | New York
- Subprime mortgage loans -- Corrupt practices
- Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009
- Financial institutions -- Law and legislation -- New York (State) | New York -- Criminal provisions
- Language
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- eng
- eng
- chi
- eng
- eng
- Summary
- Acclaimed director Steve James tells the saga of the Chinese immigrant Sung family, owners of Abacus Federal Savings of Chinatown, New York. Accused of mortgage fraud by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., Abacus becomes the only bank prosecuted after the 2008 financial crisis. The indictment and subsequent trial forces the Sung family to defend themselves, and their bank's legacy in the Chinatown community, over the course of a five-year legal battle
- Cataloging source
- TEFMT
- Characteristic
- videorecording
- Credits note
- Director of photography, Tom Bergmann ; editors, John Farbrother, David E. Simpson ; music, Joshua Abrams
- Date time place
- Originally broadcast by PBS Sept. 12, 2017
- Dewey number
- 345.7470268
- Intended audience
- TV rating: Not rated
- Language note
- English dialogue; subtitles in English or Chinese
- LC call number
- KFN6131.5
- LC item number
- .F76 2017
- PerformerNote
- With: Thomas Sung, Jill Sung, Vera Sung, Heather Sung, David Lindorf, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., Chanterelle Sung, Polly Greenberg
- Runtime
- 90
- Technique
- live action
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