The Cyanide Canary Quotes

“through a calciner to burn”
― Robert Dugoni, The Cyanide Canary: A True Story of Injustice

“The guile, the emotion, the intellect, the ability he had to keep people, everyone, at bay who would try and stop him. As a nation our laws require that employers provide a safe workplace for their employees. As a people we depend on employers to look out for their employees. Just as Scott was a beloved son, a brother, a nephew, a cousin, and a fiancé, every worker is someone’s relative and friend. Every single one of them deserves to go to work knowing that they will return safely to their families when their work is done. But Allan did not believe that. To him the workers were an expendable commodity, just like the flue dust.” He pointed out the obvious, that Elias had never shown any remorse and instead called his employees lazy and stupid. He said that in the year”
― Robert Dugoni, The Cyanide Canary: A True Story of Injustice

“[H]e has basically called everybody who testified in this case a liar. So either they’re all lying or he’s lying,” Uhlmann said.”
― Robert Dugoni, The Cyanide Canary: A True Story of Injustice

“a man without remorse who refused to accept any responsibility for what had happened.”
― Robert Dugoni, The Cyanide Canary: A True Story of Injustice

“Elias’s view of reality was distorted and that he actually believed he could talk his way out of the whole affair. He was trying to sell the court as he had sold FMC and Kerr-McGee. When the video stopped Elias’s testimony quickly deteriorated into the theater of the absurd. He rambled without prompting, his thoughts frequently disjointed and defiant. He maintained that the tank left AEI empty, and any statements attributed to him to the contrary were “fantasy.” He said the material trucked to Evergreen from AEI was actually Kerr-McGee material he had previously trucked to AEI to turn into fertilizer and not the cadmium-bearing FMC material. He blamed the workers for their own injuries. He called OSHA overzealous and said they found no violations. He blamed Bill Brugger for the Tesco American litigation. At every opportunity he elevated himself and his efforts to get AEI and Evergreen working, saying it took “fortitude.”
― Robert Dugoni, The Cyanide Canary: A True Story of Injustice

“The rich get richer and the poor go to prison.”
― Robert Dugoni, The Cyanide Canary: A True Story of Injustice

“Judge Winmill stepped in from a door to the right of the bench and climbed to his high-back leather chair. Perhaps an inch over six feet with a slender, athletic build and youthful, boyish features, Winmill was an Idaho native. He grew up in Pingree, a small town in southeast Idaho near the Snake River, and attended college at Idaho State University in Pocatello, where he was student body president. He left the state to attend Harvard Law School but returned to Pocatello to live and practice law. A Mormon, Winmill was the father of four and active in the Democratic Party. He practiced for ten years in Pocatello, until 1987, when Governor Cecil Andrus appointed him to the bench in the Sixth Judicial District of the State of Idaho. Eight years later, in August 1995, he was a Clinton appointee to the federal bench. Breitsameter and Miller told Uhlmann that Idaho prosecutors and the defense bar universally considered Winmill extremely bright and even-handed. He was a judge who labored over his decisions, frequently taking matters under advisement rather than ruling from the bench, and he often conducted his own legal research to ensure the accuracy of his decisions.1”
― Robert Dugoni, The Cyanide Canary: A True Story of Injustice

“John F. Kennedy that would begin to define him as a person and shape his future career choice. “To whom much is given, much is expected.”
― Robert Dugoni, The Cyanide Canary: A True Story of Injustice

“Environmental law will always be at the apex of the conflict between two politically charged issues: protecting the environment, and promoting industry and business. It is subject to the uncertainty caused by political conflict, changes in administrations and their environmental policies, and public opinion.”
― Joseph Hilldorfer, The Cyanide Canary: A True Story of Injustice

“In the end, therefore, the successful prosecution of environmental crimes may not be so much about the complexity of the laws and the competence of those agencies struggling to enforce them, but rather about changing a fundamental reluctance in American society to accept white-collar criminals as true criminals. When that happens, they may start being treated as such.”
― Joseph Hilldorfer, The Cyanide Canary: A True Story of Injustice

“white-collar crime costs the communities in which it occurs more money than common crimes, but because white-collar criminals steal with a pencil they get away with it, while the eighteen-year-old kid who steals with a gun goes to prison for a long time.”
― Joseph Hilldorfer, The Cyanide Canary: A True Story of Injustice

“The EPA was realizing that massive quantities of toxic contaminants had already been released into the environment and the polluting wasn’t likely to end soon. The primary reason? Greed. Disposing”
― Joseph Hilldorfer, The Cyanide Canary: A True Story of Injustice

“It’s all about the money.” He was honest about it because he was right. Since December 2, 1970, when the EPA opened its doors, it had sparked an inevitable battle between American business seeking to generate as much profit as possible and environmentalists seeking to keep them from polluting America’s skies, waterways, and lands. At”
― Joseph Hilldorfer, The Cyanide Canary: A True Story of Injustice

“In stark contrast were the white-collar criminals who appeared before Shoob. Most were the people about whom Kennedy spoke—people who had been given opportunities. Their crimes were those of the well educated and well heeled, crimes of greed, arrogance, and a blatant disregard for the rules that governed the rest of society—crimes that Uhlmann realized did arouse the anger in him. It pissed him off. When”
― Joseph Hilldorfer, The Cyanide Canary: A True Story of Injustice

“Wojnicz quickly realized that what motivated people to cheat the IRS was exactly what motivated people to commit environmental crimes. It was all about saving money. It was all about greed. Wojnicz”
― Joseph Hilldorfer, The Cyanide Canary: A True Story of Injustice