c-span: mick andreas? >> guest: the son. mick andreas was born to power. his godfather was hubert humphrey, also a very good friend of--of dwayne. and mick had always been destined to be his father's successor, the--the man who would take the throne, the man who would gain control of this corporate and political behemoth, and ultimately, got tripped up and caught in--in the--the tapings that took place at the company and was recorded engaging in both criminal conspiracies as well as actions that would certainly cause any member of a board of directors to--to wince and perhaps suggest a--a resignation: discussions of-of female executives, blatantly sexist discussions. and mick is now serving a three-year prison sentence, which began sometime earlier last--this year. c-span: you say a couple of times in your book that there's a big statue of ronald reagan outside the adm plant in decatur. how'd that get there? >> guest: reagan came for a visit to decatur in 1984, and dwayne andreas decided it would be a wonderful idea to, basically, build a monument to this v

-you know, as--as complex as the story is, this is a--this is an fbi success story in the end, mick andreas, who is the vice chairman and the--the heir-apparent, son of dwayne andreas, goes to jail. terry wilson, the head of one of the biggest divisions, goes to jail. mark whitacre, the--the informant in this case, goes to jail for a few different crimes, along with a group of other executives caught up in price-fixing, which actually wasn't one of the things that adm was doing. this goes back to the--to the dominoes; that adm named somebody, who named somebody. and ultimately there have been something like half a dozen folks who have gone to jail, far more who have paid criminal fines. as for corporations, this--i mean, this is the biggest white-collar conspiracy ever broken up by the government, i mean, ult--by--by almost any measure. ultimately, the government's collected some $2 billion in fines, and it's still going. c-span: you are from dallas; been with the new york times for 16 years; went to swathmore college. what's your beat at the new york times? >> guest: i have the greatest jo