In Tom Wolfe’s novel The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987), a defense lawyer explains how the New York criminal courts work. “Everybody does favors for everybody else. Every chance they get, they make deposits in the Favor Bank.”
In Tom Wolfe’s novel The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987), a defense lawyer explains how the New York criminal courts work. “Everybody does favors for everybody else. Every chance they get, they make deposits in the Favor Bank.”