The Informant! Page #8

I still have a lot of friends there.

A lot of friends.

Hey, Mark...

...it's very important to your case you

not discuss this with anyone else. Okay?

These people you work with, your friends,

they could end up being witnesses.

Bob and I are the only people

you talk to about this from now on.

All right? And I want you to know

that you can tell us anything.

- Okay. Yeah.

Okay?

Well, they kept coming to the house

and they only had ADM's side of the story.

Did you

talk to The Wall Street Journal, Mark?

What did you say? It's real important

that you not talk to the press.

Me? I told them I had no comment,

but it didn't matter.

They had the story anyway.

They already had it.

Did you see my stipple portrait?

It's pretty good.

Oh, sh*t.

I'd appreciate any comment you

can make on the allegations on the TV.

Just a quick comment.

What do you have to say?

I came out to tell you that I'm not allowed

to talk to the press at this time.

At least any comment

on the effects of your actions...

...on ADM's declining stock prices?

What's been the reaction

of your friends being taped?

Well, I'm a person of interest in an

ongoing investigation.

Do you believe you and your

family can stay in Decatur?

Has the government made arrangements

to move you?

We're still getting

the threatening phone calls.

And I know for a fact

that Dwayne and Terry...

...have been telling people that he wasn't

a good worker and he can't be trusted.

We told Mark.

We told him

that he had to expect the unexpected...

...that he might be attacked...

...that he wasn't gonna win

any popularity contests for this.

Well, he just mopes around here

all day...

...watching the news,

looking for a glimpse of himself.

Or he's calling someone from ADM,

trying to get the latest gossip.

Maybe you guys should get out of town

until the hearings start.

He's got to stop talking to people.

Well, the FBI never forced me

to cooperate.

I don't owe Brian Shepard the truth.

I gave Brian Shepard two and a half years

and now I have legal bills to show for it.

And I'm the good guy in this,

the guy who took on ADM.

Is Brian Shepard gonna lose his job

for that? His standard of living?

I've gone to the school on career day

and talked about biochemistry...

...and the career opportunities available.

Can Brian Shepard and Bob Herndon

say that? I'm the white hat.

I did enough for Brian Shepard.

Who's gonna take care of me?

Who has a plaque for

the Mark Whitacre Environmental Award?

Where are your friends when it's dump

on Whitacre?

Where's the pot roast

and the warm coat?

You can see where he pasted it.

He's a f***ing forger.

- Mark Whitacre.

- Hello, Mark. It's Aubrey Daniel.

Listen, I'm here in Mick Andreas's office

and we were wondering:

Does the name Lennart Thorstensson

mean anything to you?

What about Nordkron Chemie?

Does that ring a bell?

I'll have someone get back to you

on that.

Oh, sure. You do that.

- He's going to call us back.

- Sure.

My lawyer's telling me not to talk

to you guys, but...

...there's something I've been wanting

to talk to you about.

Don't tell us anything.

You have a lawyer now

and it's not like it was before.

We are not asking you.

Okay, what if I just put out

some hypotheticals?

And, you know, I'll talk about

certain financial situations...

...and you guys can tell me if they're wrong

or how serious they might be.

Okay, for instance...

...what if...

...a company gave an executive a car?

You know, a corporate car.

And instead of driving that to work...

...he drove his personal car and he gave

the company car to his daughter.

Would that be a problem?

That's it?

That's the hypothetical?

That shouldn't be a problem.

Okay.

What if it was a corporate plane...

...and the executive was using that

for personal use?

Oh. Basically the same thing.

Maybe some IRS issues, but...

Okay.

What if...

...it was standard practice at ADM...

...for executives to regularly accept

kickbacks in cash?

How much money

are we talking about...

...Mark?

Well, Brian, hypothetically, $500,000.

- How much?

- It's the way things are done there.

Okay? I'm not the only one

who was doing it.

Everybody's doing it.

When did this start, Mark?

December 1991.

You, uh, ahem...

How were you paid?

Paid by check.

A check is deposited

in various accounts...

...and always under the amount

of $10,000.

And did any of these checks come in...

...after we met?

Maybe.

Two-point-five million dollars,

deposited into an account in Switzerland...

...while Mark Whitacre was there

on ADM business.

Now, we have sworn testimony...

...from Mr. Lennart Thorstensson

of the ABP Corporation...

...that he has never seen this contract,

and that his signature is forged.

Neither he nor his company

have ever received this check.

Now, it is clear to us

that Mark Whitacre...

...driven by his own boundless ambition

to take over ADM...

...has attempted

to frame his superiors...

...in a price-fixing conspiracy

of his own invention.

His cooperation with the government...

...merely a smokescreen

to hide his lying, cheating and stealing.

We have additional information...

...that we are willing to share

with Attorney General Reno...

...that the money has since been moved

to Grand Cayman...

...with the full knowledge and complicity

of Whitacre's FBI partners.

What are they accusing

me of? I want the specifics.

Are they saying I'm in cahoots

with the guy?

Paragraph 8

in our agreement with Whitacre...

...states that his actions

are directly attributable...

...to the FBI

and the United States government.

They're saying he stole two and a half

million dollars while we were running him.

But how could we know what he

was doing? He came to us.

The question they're asking isn't

"How could we know?"

It's "Why didn't we know?"

No. The question is,

"Were they price fixing?"

The investigation has shifted

from ADM to Whitacre.

Ha. Of course.

ADM decides Whitacre's a thief...

...as soon as they find out

he's working for us.

Who's counting money

if they can lose two and a half million...

...for years, then find it in a few hours?

We gotta call Mark.

I don't want you to do that.

- We're taking you off.

That's it?

We're done?

I thought the FBI never hung a witness

out to dry.

He's not a witness anymore.

He's a target.

I only kept a million and

a half dollars. And Mick knew about it.

He knows these things went on.

Who do you think taught me?

You can't bullshit these people.

Who knows what they know?

We gotta go in with the whole story.

It gets bad for you if you tell them you'll

confess and don't. Then you're screwed.

This is it.

What you have in front of you, that is it.

I've found every bank statement,

every record.

Why would I hide anything

from you guys?

This is it.

I haven't been telling you guys the whole

truth, but I'm gonna clear that up in there.

- What?

- No, we gotta get you out of here.

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