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>> i call mister wiseman the poster boy for prosecutorial misconduct because he had a role in being hand-picked for head of the enron task force and appointing him to that position. mueller was in the fbi at the time. mark: so he picks wiseman to handle the enron case. >> yes. he was deputy director at the time under leslie caldwell who was the chief of the enron task force when it was first created and a collapse of enron. so they set about to target arthur anderson to begin with the accounting...

That these men at the urging of the task force cohorts were sent to prison upon their conviction. >> they did not wait for the appeal what kind of federal prison? , maximum-security federal facility with the worst criminals and cajuns why would they send this gentleman to maximum-security prison gang bosses and the worst of the worst in order to break them. >> the federal bureau of

To pile on additional charges. mark: if you look at the case involving anderson, like i said its not that we have more to offer but there is an obsession and an odd desire to break them into a thousand pieces. >> exactly and mister wiseman did the same thing to another person and that was the young enron treasurer who pled guilty to a crime he admitted he committed and then wanted the president to serve his time that mister wiseman wanted him to cooperate and testify against other people that he...

Two, where are these federal judges -- you and i practiced law in federal court from time to time and a federal judge learns false or misleading information was presented to him or her and on that basis they sign off on a warrant. i can tell you the federal judge lambert would have dragged my butt back into court and headed evidentiary hearing and held me in contempt. where are these judges? how does wiseman get away with this i guess because mueller wants them to and secondly why are these fede...

Required and anderson had not committed a crime at the time. mark: anderson is caught up in the enron case. so wiseman must know that there was criminal culpability. he indicts the entity was for a major international corporation is a disaster to begin with because they get documents and subpoena you check your records. so it creates great to molt in a company. that in and of itself depending on the nature and the indictment can freeze a company. here is a company, arthur anderson in the busines...

Think illegal. and then the merrill lynch executive. mark: than the company it is investigating. >> these four executives are indicted what happens to them quick. >> they went through a ten year period of unmitigated hell. there was the investigation and the trial was a circus. . >> they are tried in houston and wake of the enron collapse? people were serious. anderson was convicted so

Think illegal. and then the merrill lynch executive. mark: than the company it is investigating. >> these four executives are indicted what happens to them quick. >> they went through a ten year period of unmitigated hell. there was the investigation and the trial was a circus. . >> they are tried in houston and wake of the enron collapse? people were serious. anderson was convicted so

Government lawyers have decided that is the beginning of the process not the end of the process. because the media treats it what happened to those executives? . >> merrill lynch offered a sacrificial lamb entering into a nonprosecution agreement with the government on behalf of the company that was extremely onerous in fact, they agreed to have an oversee from the enron task force installed for a period of 18 months to oversee everything including the bills the defense lawyers were submitting t...

And look at everything from the defense counsel it is quite exceptional. the four men are charge charged, executives and they are convicted quick. >> yes. they were indicted for conspiracy and seeing my for conspiring with enron. mark: what happened? they appealed quick. >> they were all convicted they did appeal and on appeal the fifth circuit reversed 12 to 14 counts of conviction and reversed the accounts against all the merrill lynch defendants and related wire fraud accounts. mark: so all a...

What i have seen. it was so egregious, such appalling sectorial misconduct. it got even worse under the obama administration. when i saw the people i named in the book that were chosen for the enron task force during the bush ministration then promoted to the highest halls of government during the obama administration and literally come to run a white house, white house and the permanent justice i cannot be quiet about it. i had to try to alert the american public to what was going on. mark: any...