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I literally could not sleep because it was such appalling prosecutorial misconduct. when i saw the people i named in the book that were chosen to the enron task force during the bush administration and have come to run the white house, the fbi and the department of justice, i could not be quiet about it. i had to try to alert the american public to what was going on. was there an attorney general more political than eric holder? >> absolutely not. we just witnessed the weaponization and politici...

And what did the supreme court rule? . >> they reversed it unanimously. mark: every justice said no. >> exactly. mark: what happened to mister wiseman? . >> absolutely nothing. he was director of the enron task force and by that time when anderson was reversed he already set his sights on the merrill lynch and indicted for executives on a multicount indictment that they also made up a crime. mark: what happened to anderson? . >> it was destroyed the minute it was indicted it collapsed not only u...

Media when? what media outlets? by the way we want your text and e-mails and phone logs. they were caught in a massive scandal. this is my opinion. what do you think? . >> i agree completely that is wisemans standard operating procedure he crafts the narrative he wants to put people ahead of the charges that are brought ahead of the trial. he did that with enron and merrill lynch litigation also. mark: its interesting to me in the hard left mass media that there is no criticism whatsoever of thi...

The real atrocity was that these men at the urging of mister wiseman and his enron task force cohorts were sent to prison upon their conviction. mark: they didnt wait for the appeal the immediately sent them off to federal prison? . >> the youngest defendant was sent to a maximum security federal transfer facility with the worst of the worst criminals in the country. mark: when i was chief of staff i saw marian which is a top security prison why would they send this gentleman to a maximum securi...

It up. to fight. >> yes. he was applauding her. mark: you have been doing this a long time you are a prosecutor and defense counsel. the media treatment of this? i look at the media treatment of ken starr. and robert mueller. and they are mirrored opposites of each other. has the media gone completely in the tank? . >> yes. i have no doubt but you need to know andrew wiseman is a master manipulator of the media he did that throughout enron litigation also and sat in the courtroom with his arm ar...

Defense counsel is charging which is really quite exceptional and for men are charged, executives, they convicted quick. >> yes they were indicted for conspiring to defraud enron with the services of andrew fast out. mark: what happened? i assume they appealed? . >> they were all convicted they did appeal and on appeal the fifth circuit reversed 12 out of 14 they reversed all counts against merrill lynch defendants and the related wire fraud. mark: be clear. all the counts relating to the work w...

Them to pile on additional charges. mark: if you look at the case involving anderson and merrill lynch with the four executives in manafort, its almost as if not that they have more to offer but there is almost an obsession or this odd desire to destroy these people not just punish them but to break them into a thousand pieces. >> exactly. and wiseman did the same thing to another person i described in license to lie young enron treasurer who just wanted to plead guilty to a crime that he admitt...

They knew they would destroy it by indicting it. mark: because they are the financial advisors to enron. >> exactly auditors and financial backers. mark: a manufactured crime by two different statutes were combined. >> exactly. mark: how may people worked for arthur anderson? . >> 85000. mark: and wiseman was the lead investigator. >> he was the lead prosecutor. >> reported in part the director of the fbi at the time reporting under mueller. >> yes. they knew they would destroy the company when ...

Tell us about andrew wiseman. >> i am told he is the poster boy for prosecutorial misconduct because mueller had a handrolled to pick him of the enron task force and appointing him to that position. mark: where was mueller at the time quick. >> director of the fbi. mark: he picks wiseman to handle enron. >> he was deputy director at the time when he first started under the chief of the enron task force when it was first created with the collapse of enron. so they targeted arthur anderson to begi...

Money. mark: on a case that was reversed by the united states supreme court and mister wiseman was in charge. >> yes. anderson was known to be the hallmark and the benchmark for accounting standards. mark: what happened to merrill lynch? . >> not the company but one of the reasons they indicted anderson was to send a message to others that if they knocked on your door as the enron task force you better cooperate or you could be destroyed and given the death penalty just like anderson. mark: even...