The brazen nature of the fraud by management and the trial findings about Deloitte's willingness to issue a clean
audit opinion despite knowing it had been intentionally deceived by management were extraordinary, as was the subsequent complete financial downfall of Livent shortly after Deloitte issued that clean opinion.
Perhaps the best two pieces I've come across are from the Newark Star - Ledger's Tom Moran including an
opinion piece on where things stand that notes district progress along with charter school improvements and reformers» misguided focus on the parts of the story Russakoff leaves out (Newark students are better off,
despite the political noise) and also a Q & A with Russakoff in which the author rebuts a deeply flawed NYT review, proposes a forensic
audit of Newark's $ 23,000 - per student spending, but calls the Zuckerberg - funded reform efforts a «wash» over all (Author Dale Russakoff discusses new book).