{"id":184582,"date":"2012-03-13T20:48:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T01:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/03\/13\/quote-of-the-day-187\/"},"modified":"2012-03-13T20:48:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T01:48:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-187","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/03\/13\/quote-of-the-day-187\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>I\u2019ll say what Joe didn\u2019t: The prosecutors need to cut a deal with one of the small fish in order to catch a big (or bigger) fish. Perhaps with MFG\u2019s Treasurer or Comptroller. If it were me, I\u2019d let the Defense bar know that we have 3 potential immunity deals that go to the first takers (with several hi profile exceptions).<\/p>\n<p>This is just like prosecuting drug dealers \u2014 you pick up the dime bag seller, roll them to the mid-level guy, repeat. Keep doing that until you reach as close to the top as you can get.<\/p>\n<p>Works for pot, crack, robo-signing, and segregated account theft . . . <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ritholtz.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/mf-globals-free-pass\/\">Barry Ritholtz<\/a> on how to prosecute MF Global executives for stealing customer funds<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ll say what Joe didn\u2019t: The prosecutors need to cut a deal with one of the small fish in order to catch a big (or bigger) fish. Perhaps with MFG\u2019s Treasurer or Comptroller. If it were me, I\u2019d let the Defense bar know that we have 3 potential immunity deals that go to the first &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1004,1002,972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-finance","category-good-writing","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184582"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}