The Serious Story Behind 'The Informant'

Courtesy NPR: Arts & Culture  Sun, 09/20/2009 - 06:00

The Informant opened in theaters on Friday. Although the movie is sometimes played for laughs, the real story was no laughing matter.

It's based on a late-1990s case against the conglomerate Archer Daniels Midland. Executives there were accused of orchestrating a worldwide conspiracy to fix prices.

Host Liane Hansen speaks to investigative writer Kurt Eichenwald, whose book, The Informant: A True Story , is the subject of the new movie starring Matt Damon.

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