Inside Job Transcript - Final Version - 9.30.10 - Sony Pictures Classics
Inside Job Transcript - Final Version - 9.30.10 - Sony Pictures Classics
Inside Job Transcript - Final Version - 9.30.10 - Sony Pictures Classics
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<strong>Inside</strong> <strong>Job</strong> transcript – <strong>Sony</strong> <strong>Pictures</strong> – September 2010 72<br />
NARRATOR: As of mid-2010, not a single senior financial executive had been criminally<br />
prosecuted, or even arrested; no special prosecutor had been appointed; not a single<br />
financial firm had been prosecuted criminally for securities fraud or accounting fraud.<br />
The Obama administration has made no attempt to recover any of the compensation<br />
given to financial executives during the bubble.<br />
02:42:05.11<br />
ROBERT GNAIZDA: I certainly would think of criminal act-, action against some of<br />
Countrywide's top leaders, like Mozilo. I'd certainly look at Bear Stearns, Goldman<br />
Sachs and Lehman Brothers, and Merrill Lynch.<br />
CHARLES FERGUSON: For criminal prosecutions.<br />
ROBERT GNAIZDA: Yes. Yes.<br />
CHARLES FERGUSON: In, in regard to –<br />
ROBERT GNAIZDA: They'd be very hard to, to win.<br />
CHARLES FERGUSON: Yeah.<br />
ROBERT GNAIZDA: But I think they could do it, if they got enough underlings to tell the<br />
truth.<br />
02:42:31.05<br />
NARRATOR: In an industry in which drug use, prostitution, and fraudulent billing of<br />
prostitutes as a business expense occur on an industrial scale, it wouldn't be hard to<br />
make people talk, if you really wanted to.<br />
02:42:43.13<br />
KRISTIN DAVIS: They gave me a plea bargain, and I t-, I took it. Um, they were not<br />
interested in any of my records; they weren't interested in anything.<br />
CHARLES FERGUSON: They were not interested in your records.<br />
KRISTIN DAVIS: That's correct. That's correct.<br />
02:42:54.15<br />
ELIOT SPITZER: There is a sensibility that you don't use people's – uh, personal vices<br />
in the context of Wall Street cases, necessarily, to get them to flip. I think maybe it's,<br />
after the cataclysms that we've been through, maybe people will reevaluate that. I'm, I'm<br />
not the one to pass judgment on that right now.