bob strauss beatty-- played a behind-the-scenes role in bob strauss's way of doing business.

bob strauss beatty-- played a behind-the-scenes role in bob strauss's way of doing business. basically in terms of smoothing the way toward settlement between admnd the government, there was a fact-- faction that wanted to fight this caseo the debt. they had a lot of good reasons and when they looked at the case, you had "the informant," the cooperating witness, whitaker, had blown up. i mean he had been found to be stealing millions of dollars. he was under criminal best casion himself. there was a possibility, far-fetched but a possibility thathe government might not even be able to introduce the audio and videotape of the criminal activity in my not b able to introduce it i a court. so there was a faction within adm that wafted toight this to the end. wasverybody else who s in the room-- adm did not conspire with markhitaker. they conspired with japanese corporationsnd european executives and korean executives and the government cut deals with them and their testimony would get the tapes. adm by that time had cut its own deal, but nick andreas and one of his colleagues ter