“Unless and until the state, city and county learn there are victims of corruption ... (and) unless and until people who vote understand that there are important consequences in their public officials' acts of dishonesty, this system will not change.”
“In 1998 this case started as licenses for bribes, and if anyone would have said when we first heard from a wire tap about fundraising that we would be here today talking about a verdict against the governor, I would have said they are crazy.”
“I went into this trial with the utmost respect for Mr. Webb. I had heard he is the greatest lawyer in America, and I heard he is a former U.S. attorney and that his word is his bond. That is not the way this trial has transpired. We have been lied to.”
