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What did the supreme court rule quick. >> they reversed it unanimously. >> mister wiseman went on to become director of the enron task force in fact, by that time when anderson was reversed he already turned from merrill lynch defendants from the nigerian barge case and indicted executives on a multi- count indictment. mark: what happened to anderson quick. >> it was destroyed the moment it was indicted. it collapsed not only under criminal indictment so it lost all of its clients but 160 civil ...

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...

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...

To it but a group of 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 lawy...

You talk to media, who in the media, what media outlets and by the way, we want your texts and e-mails and phone logs and they would have been caught up in a massive scandal. this is my opinion. what you think about that? >> i agree with you completely. that is wisemans standard operating procedure. he crafts the narrative he wants in the media to convict people ahead of the charges being brought or ahead of their trial. he did that in the enron and merrill lynch litigation also. mark: it is int...

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 business of protecting other companie...

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 if you...

He told her to keep it up. good fight. >> he was applauding her resistance to the president. mark: youve been doing this a long time, prosecutor on time, defense counsel a long time in the media treatment of the -- i look at the media treatment of ken starr in the media treatment of robert mueller and they are opposites of each other. has the media gone completely in the tank? >> yes, no doubt about that. the other thing you need to know is that andrew wiseman is a master manipulator of the medi...

He told her to keep it up. good fight. >> he was applauding her resistance to the president. mark: youve been doing this a long time, prosecutor on time, defense counsel a long time in the media treatment of the -- i look at the media treatment of ken starr in the media treatment of robert mueller and they are opposites of each other. has the media gone completely in the tank? >> yes, no doubt about that. the other thing you need to know is that andrew wiseman is a master manipulator of the medi...

You talk to media, who in the media, what media outlets and by the way, we want your texts and e-mails and phone logs and they would have been caught up in a massive scandal. this is my opinion. what you think about that? >> i agree with you completely. that is wisemans standard operating procedure. he crafts the narrative he wants in the media to convict people ahead of the charges being brought or ahead of their trial. he did that in the enron and merrill lynch litigation also. mark: it is int...