— Matt Taibbi and Molly CrabappleHere was a major company, an employer of thousands, using its innocent employees as a kind of human shield in a desperate last-ditch attempt to stave off a criminal prosecution. It was a high-stakes stare-down in which Andersen’s lawyers all but dared the government to pull a My Lai and machine-gun its innocent employees into a ditch.
Replicated under Fair Use from The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap by Matt Taibbi and Molly Crabapple. (Pg. 21)