Piece Comment

Review of The Face of White Collar Crime


This piece takes you inside, quickly but pretty deeply, the mind and experience of a "white collar" criminal. It's really good, one of the better pieces I've heard about white collar crime. Mark Morze was a CFO convicted of various kinds of fraud and sent to prison for 8 years. Now he's out, and this piece takes you back to how he got in trouble, and why, and the pretty thin line that he crossed (that "one" crosses) when "one" goes from being a legit business person to a criminal. Some of the best parts of the piece are when Mark is talking about what it was like to be in prison, how the other prisoners viewed the "white collar" guys. Mark says, even when he went to prison he did not see himself as a criminal, but the other prisoners showed him that he is a thief, because he did what they did, "lied to people and took their money." This is a very thoughtful, very engaging piece. Listen and see if you can find a place for it.