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E-mails publicly. so like here's the merrill lynch report saying some internet company called life minders, which doesn't exist anymore, life minders is "an attractive investment." and then here's the merrill lynch e-mail from earlier that month where the same guy says, "i can't believe what a piece of --" thing that rhymes with bit "that thing is." so attractive investment or piece of thing that rhymes with bit. that was for life minders. right? so it's one thing that they're marketing to the public. it is another thing that they're saying among themselves. you remember infospace.com? that sa...

Lynch e-mail from earlier that month where the same guy says, "i can't believe what a piece of of --" thing that rhymes with bit "that thing is." so attractive investment or piece of thing that rhymes with bit. that was for life minders. right? so it's one thing that they're marketing to the public. it is another thing that they're saying among themselves. you remember infospace.com? that same firm, merrill lynch, had infospace up on its favored 15 list. these are our top 15 recommended stock buys. and while they had it on their favored 15 list spitzer had the merrill lynch internal e-mail cal...

Stock. well, here was the internal e-mail at merrill lynch saying, what's so interesting about goto.com except for the money we're getting from them for us being their bank? the analyst responding by e-mail, "nothing." so yeah, merrill lynch wanted to keep all of this stuff quiet. they wanted to pay a little fine and make this stuff go away. eliot spitzer instead dragged them through it publicly, expose what'd they had been doing, and then he did not enter into negotiations with merrill lynch about how to make this thing go away. he called merrill lynch and he told them, you know what? it's $1...

Well, here was the internal e-mail at merrill lynch saying, what's so interesting about goto.com except for the money we're getting from them for us being their bank? the analyst responding by e-mail, "nothing." so yeah, merrill lynch wanted to keep all of this stuff quiet. they wanted to pay a little fine and make this stuff go away. eliot spitzer instead dragged them through it publicly, expose what'd they had been doing, and then he did not enter into negotiations with merrill lynch about how to make this thing go away. he called merrill lynch and he told them, you know what? it's $100 mill...

What's so interesting about goto.com except for the money we're getting from them for us being their bank? the analyst responding by e-mail, "nothing." so yeah, merrill lynch wanted to keep all of this stuff quiet. they wanted to pay a little fine and make this stuff go away. eliot spitzer instead dragged them through it publicly, expose what'd they had been doing, and then he did not enter into negotiations with merrill lynch about how to make this thing go away. he called merrill lynch and he told them, you know what? it's $100 million. it's a $100 million fine you're going to pay. no negoti...