an investigative reporter on the business beat wall street steals far more than the mafia says gary weiss a wall street. takes lawers much larger sums of money to involve the mafia stales the regulatory system is such that they can get away with it the lack of media scrutiny the absence of regulation the widespread illusion that markets and real estate could only go up created a casino mentality and environment for successful fraudsters and white collar criminals your honor for many years until my arrest on december eleven two thousand and eight i operated a ponzi scheme i knew what i was doing was wrong and deed criminal. white collar crime on wall street has been underreported except for a very few high profile cases as when hundreds of reporters staked out a new york courthouse to report bernie made all submission of guilt in his ponzi scheme and millions and millions of dollars they say sort of day many of them regularly angry i had an ira worth one point three million of my other money it was about one point eight million pieces and it's gone on that how do you think you got away wit