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: of the 16 l lyers that global witness recorded i i the preliminary meetings, only attorney, jeffrey herman flatly declined to participate and showed ralph kaiser the door. >> i have some realuestions about that -- under the foreign corrupt >> right. >> under the foreign corrupt practices act, bribing foreign officials is illegal. >> by americans. >> by americans. >> but americans are not involved? so it is monon from others, not american entities. >> it's not -- >> aside from one exception. 1212f 13 law firms, including 15 of 16 lawyers, not only heard kaiser out, they suggested ways that the suspicious fund could be moved into the u.s. without compromising the minister's identiti. attorney james silkenaught was select by global witness. at the time he was president of american bar association. he and his colleague, provided what prosecutors said was a road map using layers of in multiple jurisdictions. >> presumably, set up a little bit of series of owners to tripe to have protect, privacy as much as anything else. >> yeah. >> company a owned by b, c, d. and yoyo party owns -- all of the

during the meetings, only one of the 16 lawyers, jeffrey herman, told him no. >> this ain't for me. my -- >> reporter: the rest expressed investigator degrees of interest with most of them offering advice on how it could be done. >> we do everything. so there is no limitation. windows, or we don't deal with the financial money manager, whatever. we orchestrate and organize the entire thing. we are happy to take that responsibility. >> reporter: what is important to point out, and it cannot be overstated, is that none of the lawyers we have shown you broke any laws, in part, because the african minister didn't exist and no hundreds of millions of dollars and global witnesses said no money ever changed hands. so this is sort of a morality test? >> it wasn't. it was a test on the system. >> reporter: you know, people would make the argument, look. all these guys did really was just listen to this person tt came into their office. they didn't make a deal, they didn't sign up, they said we need to do some more research. >> and you know what? they would be absolutely right to say that but

during the meetings, only one of th16 lawyers, jeffrey herman told him no. >> this ain't for me. my standards are higher. >> reporter: the rest expressed varying degrees of interest with most of them offering advice on how it could bee done. >> we do everything. soup to nuts. so there's no limitation. we don't say, oh, we don't do windows or deal with the whateverer we're happy to take that responsibility. >> rorter: what's importbnt to point out, and it cannot be overstated, is that none of the lawyers we showed you broke any laws n part because the african minister didn't really exist. there were no hundred s of millions of dollars and global witnesses said no money ever changed hands. >> so this is a morality test? >> it wasn't -- it was a test on the system. >> reporter: people would make the argument all they do iss listen to a person that came to the office. think didn't make a deal or sign up. they said we need to do more research. >> you know they would be right to say that but they need to say something se, too. which is those lawyers laid out and often in considerable d