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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 that contradicted the government's view of the prosecution which was absolutely astounding and i
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 accounts relating to their work are reversed? yes. all fried charges were reversed. >> they were not ...
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 attorney general anymore political and eric holder? >> absolutely not. we've witnessed it the unpre...