0 he may never have to come clean. greg: i don t think it s a scheme. mutually beneficial. eric: you re saying a charity as a scheme to provide doping. greg: i am starting my own charity love for unicorns in case i get a scandal. dana: what color will the bracelet be? greg: rainbow. bob: but the whispering about it, he was dopeed this is before he started the charity. the answer he gave oprah on the preview, something she didn t get what she expected, this comes up with more one and two-word answers than anybody i have seen. i don t think the interview did him much good. andrea: i like the one-word answers. that was the strategy not having him give mealy-mouth it up. bob: i agree with what andrea said. you listen to his answers if he could have won without cheating, i don t know that i have a great answer. i ll start my answer by saying it is too late. that is the weaker answer. i don t know if anyone around the table with the exception of me and maybe you, used juice.
place their faith in the government, and charlie gasperino, you said this is not a surprise he got what he got, but a surprise that we should be surprised that he did get what he got. i m not quite sure what you said. neil: that we placed faith in a guy here is the thing, that corzine may be right that the european companies, he held bonds and short dated bonds in italy and spain. and the history of corzine, a bad risk manager, really, really bad and why was he trumped up as what people forget is the unprecedented nature of what happened at mf global. a bad at the time on european debt. that s why you see the markets fluctuating. you don t lose money in customer accounts. that never happens. it didn t happen at lehman, didn t happen at bear.
you said. and the lehman president, joe gregory, was a master at disguising just how machiavellian what he was and going on at lehman. so i think in fairness to dick fuld he wasn t the only person blinded as to also all sorts of human resource maneuverings and things happening, the leverage being taken. joe gregory fooled him and fooled a whole lot of are people too. did you get the sense, or maybe you know this in the book, that hiding risk yeah. with the repos on the 105s was a business model. basically take on as much risk as you can, take your garbage, hide it when it is necessary and take more risk? yes. that s fraud! in my book. it was a way of life at lehman and not just the story starts back in the 1970s when the traders would hide their