Barry Gitarts

Feds Visit Steve Jobs At Apple HQ In Continuing Options Probe

Technicolour, If you don't talk to investigators there is no chance of you lying to them. If you talk to them and you give information that is false (even if you think its true) you could be charged with obstruction of justice. Thats what happened to Martha, she thought she was telling the truth.

This is not being dishonest, it is a way of protecting yourself from investigators representing an organization (government) which earns its keeps by dishonest means; extortion (taxes).

Feds Visit Steve Jobs At Apple HQ In Continuing Options Probe

Tommo, the situation you describe is exactly like Martha Stewart. She met with the SEC and look what happened to her, she was not even convicted for insider trading she was convicted for lying to the feds. Had she not met with the feds she would not have been convicted. Another is Hank Greenberg who did not met with investigators and as a result was not convicted or even trialed for anything.

From a business and legal perspective I would never want any of my company executives meeting with government investigators as there is nothing that can be gained from such meeting and everything to be lost. So just for the future, when you have a company where the executives willingly start talking to investigators, it shows poor exercise of judgement and regardless of the outcome instantly increases the risk of the company without adding any reward.