The Informant! (2009)

Scott Bakula: FBI Special Agent Brian Shepard

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• Brian Shepard : Everyone in this country is a victim of corporate crime by the time they finish breakfast.

• Mark Whitacre : What if I just put out some hypotheticals. I'll talk about certain financial situations, and you guys can tell me if they're wrong, or how serious they might be. Okay, for instance, what if a company gave an executive a car, you know, a corporate car, and instead of driving that to work, he used his personal car, and gave his company car to his daughter. That be a problem?

  FBI Special Agent Bob Herndon : That's it? That's hypothetical?

  Brian Shepard : That shouldn't be a problem.

  Mark Whitacre : Okay, what if it was a corporate plane, and the executive was using that for personal use.

  FBI Special Agent Bob Herndon : Basically the same thing.

  Brian Shepard : Maybe some IRS issues, but...

  Mark Whitacre : Okay, what if it was standard practice at ADM for executives to regularly accept kickbacks in cash.

  Brian Shepard : [stunned]  How much money are we talking about, Mark?

  Mark Whitacre : Well, Brian, hypothetically, $500,000.

• Mark Whitacre : [on the phone]  Well, they kept coming to the house and they only had ADM's side of the story.

  Brian Shepard : You talked to the Wall Street Journal, Mark? What did you say? It's real important that you not talk to the press.

  Mark Whitacre : Me? I told them I had no comment, but didn't matter, they already had the story, anyway. They already had it. Did you see my stipple portrait? It's pretty good.

• Mark Whitacre : Okay I never made any tapes. I...

  Brian Shepard : Mark

  Mark Whitacre : I, I never made any tapes because there are not gonna be anything on the tapes because it's over and they'd just be stupid tapes!