The Solomon Scandals

Jon Stone is a Spinoza-loving reporter with a rationalist's need to see the world as it is, not as Washington's elite would prefer to print it.

He is already digging into the campaign donations of Seymour Solomon, a real estate magnate, when one of Solomon's high-rises collapses in Northern Virginia, killing hundreds.

An ex-bricklayer who left fingertips behind on the job, Solomon learned how to pour concrete, move money, and make problems disappear. Now he's a philanthropist, too, with frien...