The Informant! Page #11

You need to stop doing this to yourself.

Why do you...? Why do you keep lying?

I don't know.

Well, I think maybe I should go back

to the hospital.

Case 97-2001, United States

of America v. Mark Whitacre.

You have a right to make a statement,

if you wish.

Thank you.

Uh... I really appreciate the opportunity...

...to get up here and say a few words.

Um...

Wow.

What a ride.

Um...

Been a long five years.

A lot of memories.

I just really want to apologize

to a lot of people in this room...

...and a lot of people who aren't

in this room, um...

...for my actions.

I'm on medication now...

...so I'm seeing things

a lot more clearly.

And I just really want to...

I realize I hurt a lot of people,

and so I want to say:

I'm so, so, so sorry. I greatly apologize...

...and accept responsibility for my actions.

That's it.

Thank you.

To observe that Mr. Whitacre is not the

usual felon is a gross understatement.

He's well-educated...

...has a loving wife and family,

is well-respected in the community.

It's not inconceivable that,

in due course...

...he could have been CEO

of Archer Daniels Midland.

However, this court...

...can find no clear connection between

Mr. Whitacre's bipolar disorder...

...and the 45 counts of criminal

misconduct he's been charged with...

...just garden-variety greed.

It's very difficult to tell

when Mr. Whitacre is telling the truth.

I don't think what happened is fair...

...when you look at me compared

to Mick and Terry.

If you go

and hold up your local grocery store...

...you get maybe five years in prison.

Mick and Terry held up every grocery

store in the worid and they got three.

So you tell me how it makes sense

that I get nine.

You should consider that,

Mr. President...

...when reviewing this request

for pardon.

I'd also like to take this

opportunity...

...to apologize on behalf of myself

and my wife, Ginger...

...to Special Agent Brian Shepard.

He never hit me with a briefcase

or told me to destroy tapes.

The idea to sue him

came from someone inside ADM.

I shouldn't have listened.

I don't even remember who it was.

While I was there at ADM, I lived so many

lives, I didn't really know who I was.

And I know today more who I am

and what I really want out of life.

I've completed three postgraduate

degrees while in detention...

...a J.D., which is, of course,

a law degree...

...another advanced degree

in the psychology of jury selection.

I sleep better here in prison

than I have in years.

My wife, Ginger, has forgiven me.

She actually believes

that this incident with ADM...

...brought us closer together

in a marriage of over 20 years.

And I hope you'll allow me

to leave here...

...so that I can rejoin that life

with my family, my three kids...

...two of whom are adopted.

Especially in light of the fact that

in large part because of my testimony...

...the United States government

has to date been able to collect...

...over one billion dollars in price-fixing

fines from big businesses.

So that's it. Thanks.

Good luck with the pardon, Mark.

Thanks, Bob. Thanks for helping me

remember everything.

I wish Brian could have come.

- Well, he's still pretty angry.

- Yeah.

Well, tell him I'm real sorry.

Will you do that?

Sure, Mark.

The irony is

if I hadn't gone undercover...

...I never would have stole the 11

and a half million. It was my way out.

It was my severance. What else

was I gonna do? I had to write my own.

Work detail.

See you, Bob.

- Eleven and a half million?

- What?

I thought it was nine and a half.

- What did I say?

- You said 11 and a half.

You do know that the people at ADM

think you were the mole.

That you planted the virus,

then made it go away.

The 11 and a half

is with the interest.

Mark, is it nine and a half

or 11 and a half?

I don't know, Bob.

You tell me.

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