I imagine she thought she was getting Midge Ure or Billy Currie as much as Tom Metzger. That said, she left little doubt in the naming of their kids (its fair game though I won't name them here).Originally Posted by haleylh
At the end of the day, I look forward to your work. I believe you have become far too close to your source and believe what they have told you even though some of it clearly cannot be correct. It's fine, let there be several lines of inquiry and the public can decide how to apportion blame or believability. Is there a Zoltan? Seems true enough. Do we think this rando call center dude conned the master hustler with an extortion scheme in a country where $100 can buy a lot of mayhem? Or more importantly, that the same dude would know exactly all the pressure points that dodo hit on? Recall that dodo was the first to bring iesnare into the light of day.
Some can look at the case and point upwards, that Greg Pierson is the be-all, end-all holy chalice. Everyone else is subordinate to his peculiar brand of angle-shooting and should not share culpability for carrying off this long old school mafia-type skim operation. I'm not in that business. To me, its more interesting to see how groups of individuals and group dynamics allow this kind of behavior. The plausible deniability, the half-hearted mea culpas and the hiding out for years instead of coming clean.
To give Heick, Makar, David, Moore, Leinhos and the others a pass because craig is a master puppeteer is naïve, yes but more importantly it doesn't illuminate how some very good ideas were turned into very bad ones. Bates, for all his flaws at least had the stones to quit when he realized there was no standing up to Pierson/Dehaan. To look back now and have all of the compatriots say they just collected checks and did what they were told is going to be a heavy lift and require a lot of cross-wiring that won't easily bear scrutiny. Bates attempted to suggest Heick's role was minor, administrative and not of major significance. Friedberg seems to suggest Heick was a very important component who interacted daily with all levels of senior management and likely carries at least some grudge for not being elevated into the management suite after an enormous contribution to the success of the site.
We get it. Still doesn't excuse her approving 100k transfers from fake accounts to RussHamilton. As a credit card fraud specialist, those accounts should have screamed out to her. Actually its worse because she created some of the accounts. It's actually pretty noble that Russ wants to take care of his team though I think there is still a desire to offload some of the culpability onto Travis' shoulders like they wanted in early 2008.
Make your case, we'll make ours. People will figure out what happened.
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