Did John McCain Admit He Was a ‘War Criminal’? How long did Mark Whitacre work undercover with the FBI to gather evidence on the ADM price-fixing scheme?
Within two years, he received an offer from Degussa Chemicals (currently known as Evonik), a multi-billion dollar company.In 2011, he was a guest speaker at the Quantico FBI Academy.”I learned my family was the most important thing in my life.””No one is above the law, no matter how successful, no matter how wealthy, and no matter how educated.”In 2009, Mark was featured in a documentary titled – ”Undercover: Operation Harvest King” on the Discovery Channel.Mark Whitacre is an American former FBI informant and business executive who was imprisoned for nearly 8 years.
Eventually the CIA turned the case over to the FBI.--On at least four occasions, charges Whitacre, an FBI agent told him to destroy price-fixing tapes that the agent considered to be unfavorable to the case.Next chapter in the Mark Whitacre story?
Prosecutors contend the payments violated Whitacre's immunity agreement with the Justice Department.
Whitacre says those tapes are no longer in his possession, but sources say that the originals, as well as several sets of copies, still exist.Justice has also suspected Whitacre of hoarding tapes. Suferrers with bipolar I disorder have severe mania that requires hospitalization or at least one manic episode which persists for seven days or longer.After receiving his Ph.D., he accepted a position with Ralston Purina in St. Louis, MO. Suspecting that the plant was being sabotaged by a Japanese competitor, Dwayne Andreas called on a friend at the CIA--yes, the CIA--to investigate. Ironically, the man who exposed one of corporate America's great scandals may now deliver the information that helps Mick Andreas and Terry Wilson--his archenemies--beat the rap.In the following interview, Whitacre will lay out his version of events, which is damning to FBI agents, his former lawyers, and prosecutors.
- 10 yr deal maybe a Fine 35.
In November a grand jury issued a subpoena demanding that he turn over all tapes made for the FBI and of the FBI. this stuff..." Whitacre says Epstein advised him to hold his fire--that he already had one very powerful enemy in ADM and that he didn't need to take on the FBI and the Justice Department as well.--Whitacre claims federal agents violated his constitutional rights by denying him timely access to a lawyer and doctor, even after he discussed the possibility of killing himself in 1993.But even if Whitacre did steal money, why did the government indict him for price fixing? Mr. Whitacre contended that the money came to him as part of a company-approved practice to allow certain senior executives to accumulate off-the-books compensation, but the Government eventually came to believe the company's argument that such contentions were lies.Because today's plea did not affect the price-fixing charges, it remains unclear whether Mr. Whitacre will testify when that case begins here in May or choose to remain silent to avoid self-incrimination.He also turned on the Government, contending that the F.B.I. My concern is, what proof do we have that the material existed if it somehow disappears after they get it? In the Response, Whitacre merely listed the numbers of Plaintiff's Undisputed Facts which he contested. Actually, there has been bad blood between the parties for quite some time--ever since August 1995, when Whitacre admitted he had garnered millions of dollars in off-the-books payments from ADM. He has specifically declined to comment on the allegations.
He took the Fifth Amendment on each one.REPORTER ASSOCIATES Rajiv Rao, Eileen P. Gunn--Whitacre, for the first time, discloses that he is under treatment for bipolar disorder, a psychiatric condition most commonly known as manic-depressive illness. "The government wants the original material," says Bill Walker, one of Whitacre's lawyers.
All three men have pleaded not guilty.So when special agent Brian Shepard showed up in November 1992 to install a recorder at Whitacre's home, the executive--prodded by his wife, Ginger--decided to tell the truth about the aborning price-fixing scheme. But can someone who simultaneously led three separate lives--hotshot executive, mole for the FBI, and mole against the FBI--actually present one indivisible version of reality?
Whistleblower Mark Whitacre, former president of ADM's BioProducts division, received the most jail time, drawing a 30-month prison term. During a recent interview, Mark said: “I take responsibility for what I did, but I can say that I paid a tremendous price as well.” Whitacre was released in December 2006 on good behavior after serving 8 and a half years. Day in, day out we are subject to our frail human tendencies, as the Apostle Paul wrote, “For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing.” Even