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"Everyone thought I was lying so I decided to prove my detractors correct" is just lying to your customers with extra steps. "Because you thought I (cheated on
by roywiggins 5y ago
"Everyone thought I was lying so I decided to prove my detractors correct" is just lying to your customers with extra steps.
"Because you thought I (cheated on you|took drugs|did crimes) and I hadn't, I decided I might as well do it for real, so there's no harm done" is not a defense, it's a hollow self-justification.
- vmception 5y agoI'm not an apologist for them, I just don't care that they lied. Corporations lie and that's not controversial to me. They settled, with another US authority, the matter over their reserves is resolved - for that time period and legal agreement, the same standard applied to every other institution in the financial services sector. If you want a chronology of events, I offered it.