. - so if you think about the 1980s, when suddenly these guys like ivan boesky and michael milken weren't always the best, but at the end of the year, it turns out that that's really what counts. - they were the "greed is good" people, and rudy went after them too. - three persons were arrested and charged with illegal profits of millions and millions of dollars. - among those arrested, nine stockbrokers all in their 20s and 30s, eight of them from one firm. - that was fantastic. and for new yorkers, it was a spectacle. and rudy, in his ruthless way, would make these guys do a perp walk. that is, instead of doing what was considered the correct thing when you have dignified gentleman in three-piece suits, which is you ask them to turn themselves in at the precinct house-- no, rudy would send in the fbi. he would have alerted tv news. and these guys, who worked at big investment banks, would be marched out in front of the tv cameras to the edification of all new yorkers and, of course, the utter humiliation of themselves and their family and loved ones. - the problem with that thinking