Danny Schechter - ColdType

e prosecuted for being stupid. So all white-collar criminals
always try to play stupid.
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“They don’t want to show intent. It’s easier to say that this
was a result of a mistake or an error in judgment, than to say
that I intended to, to victimize or defraud somebody.
“It’s relatively easy. What prosecutors try to do to counter
that is, they try to use something called The Conspiracy
Counts. Conspiracy counts ARE a prosecutor’s orgasm – excuse
me, but – or wet dream. That enables them to use hearsay
evidence against other witnesses. Other ways prosecutors get
around it is by flipping witnesses from the bottom up.”
Antar believes that there will be more corporate crime
reported in the years ahead as investigators probe into the
enormous sums of money spent by government on bailouts
and stimulus programs – a view that a Congressional investigator
shares: “If I have to put myself in the mindset of a criminal,
okay? Okay, and it’s relatively easy for me. I’ll give you
that one. If I had to put myself in the mindset of a criminal, the
criminal element today is figuring out a way to exploit it.
“There’s going to be a trillion dollars in money that’s going
to be available to buy back distressed assets. The government
is printing money like there’s no tomorrow. I think the stimulus
program is over a trillion dollars, too. I think between
the stimulus program and the Wall Street bailout, we’re up to
about two trillion dollars. You know, how can I say it to you
in a way, um?
“When they have that much money being disbursed over a
short period of time, there’s going to be fraud. In the last three
years of Obama’s Administration, I will give you one prediction
– that Obama’s administration, the Democrats, are going
to be accused of being corrupt because of all the fraud that’s
going to be associated with the stimulus and bailout packages.
It’s just the natural order of things.
“And the way the Republicans are going to get back into the