Now forgotten, this process nonetheless resonated in the early 1930s in the United States. It’s kind of like Jeff Bezos is in court today. The defendant is Andrew Mellon, a wealthy banker, former finance minister. He was tried for fraud by the Roosevelt administration. This political process shows the tensions and criticisms surrounding capitalism at the time, immediately after the crisis of 1929. Romain Huret is a historian and specialist in the United States. He discovers this process in this Discovery book “Mr. Mellon’s Millions, Capitalism on Trial in the United States.”
