to handbags to... >> kroft: ...ms like marilyn merlot... >> roesler: rated as one of the best california merlots, year after year. >> kroft: ...to the playfully prurient outfits inspired by the late pinup queen, betty page. they are marketed as halloween costumes, but roesler says they seem to sell all year round. >> roesler: this is the devil costume. >> kroft: is the whip included? >> roesler: the whip is included, yes. and the tail and the horns. >> kroft: the product endorsements run the gamut from paraphernalia to the pinnacle of post-mortem prestige. and roesler has licensed more than 200 deals with the u.s. postal service. >> roesler: here's the boxer, jack dempsey. of course, jessie owens. one of the early stamps with babe ruth. of course, jackie robinson, a big part of the baseball series. a very successful stamp with malcolm x. >> kroft: so, these are all clients? >> roesler: yes, these are all clients. >> kroft: the agency has created web sites for all its deceased clients, and maintains and revives their

>> kroft: one top u.s.ntelligence official is on record saying that the chinese have already aggressively infiltrated the computer networks of some u.s. banks, and are operating inside u.s. electrical grids, mapping out our networks and presumably leaving behind malicious software that could be used to sabotage the systems. can a penetrator or a perpetrator leave behind... >> mcconnell: yes. >> kroft: ... little things that will allow them to be there and watch and look... >> mcconnell: yes. >> kroft: ... and listen and...? >> mcconnell: any successful penetration has the potential for leaving behind a capability. >> kroft: do we believe that there are... that governments have planted codes in the power grid? >> mcconnell: steve, i would be shocked if we were in a situation where tools and capabilities and techniques have not been left in u.s. computer and information systems. >> kroft: of all the critical components of the u.s. infrastructure, the power grid is one of the most vulnerable to cyber attack. t

: i'm steve kroft.nd so will the rest of us with another edition of "60 minutes." tomorrow on the "cbs evening news", special coverage of the oil spill disaster with katie couric reporting live from the gulf. here's a preview. >> couric: on day 56 of the crisis, president obama will be back on the scene, and so will we, talking to the people most affected: small business owners struggling to survive, forced to lay off workers, and not getting much help from b.p.; and the forgotten victims, children whose lives have been turned upside-down. plus steve hartman introduces us to an 11-year-old bird lover from long island, who's using her artistic talent to help save threatened wildlife. that's tomorrow on the "cbs evening news" live from the gulf. captioning funded by cbs, and ford-- built for the road ahead. captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org when our clients' needs changed we changed to meet them. through the years, when some lost their way, we led the way with new ideas for the finan

things. >> dreier: yeah. >> kroft: desperate. >> dreier: yeah. >> kroft: as the financial crisis set in, dreier was holding hundreds of millions of dollars in loans that were about to come due, and everyone wanted their money back. when dreier was a month late on a $100 million loan payment, the hedge fund that was owed the money demanded a face-to-face meeting with the executives at sheldon solow's real estate operations, here at his office building in new york. with reality closing in, dreier enlisted the services of a former client, kosta kovachev, to impersonate the president of solow's operation, and then he commandeered a conference room in solow's office for a meeting with the hedge fund, in hopes of getting a loan extension. and you conduct this whole charade right there in the middle of... of solow's business. >> dreier: yeah. >> kroft: did you think you were going to get away with that? >> dreier: yeah. >> kroft: you did, actually, didn't you? >> dreier: yeah. >> kroft: were you nervous? >> dreier: i should've been nervous, but i don't know, i... i wasn't very nervous. >> k

he did survive. >> kroft: for how long, do you think?> burd: total survival was probably about eight to ten hours, although he would not have been fully conscious for near that long of time. >> kroft: if he'd been rescued during that period, do you think he could've survived? >> burd: yes, he... he could... could've survived. >> kroft: but since no one knew where the plane had crashed that day, any chance of saving miller was lost. he is survived by his wife and a son. jeanette mcmahon says that she and the other widows probably would never have filed the lawsuit if blackwater or its aviation wing had shown some remorse. did they call you and express their condolences? >> mcmahon: never. never. they took absolutely no responsibility. i mean, if they had come out with open arms and said, "we are responsible. we are so sorry." that point never really came across. >> kroft: did anybody with the army come and say, "look, we really don't want you to file this lawsuit?" >> mcmahon: no. it was a personal decision. i do my lawsuit in my civilian

. >> kroft: when michael jackson died, he had nearly a half a billion dollars in debt. since then, it's been a very good year for his career. and this is not unusual. decades after their demise, some departed stars draw more income than they ever made while they were drawing breath. there is a growing legion of agents and managers willing to represent them. >> we're a business agent for about 250 entertainment, sports, music and historical clients. but most of those are deceased. >> dead. >> dead. >> they're working stiffs. >> i guess you could say that. >> i'm steve kroft.