Senator Eavis, you have five minutes for questions.
Mr. Wambsgans, I hope I'm saying that correctly.
[Tom gives a thumbs-up and mouths a "Yeah"]
Just some background. Mr. Lester McClintock. You accept he offered jobs to young women who would sleep with him?
Uh... That does seem to be the case. Um... But the-- the company, uh, wasn't aware, and obviously, that was some time before my time, um... However, Bill... uh, Lockheart, my--
Uh-huh.
predecessor--
But within the upper echelons of the firm and the family, Lester was commonly known as "Mo," is that correct?
I... I don't... I don't... I-- I'm a relative n-- newcomer.
This email, you call Lester McClintock "Mo." Why?
I-- I guess I think it was just a nickname.
Mm-hm. You call him "Mo" over 30 times in emails to family and colleagues, but you never use it in the items of correspondence sent to him privately, for instance, during his illness. Why not?
Senator, I don't know.
You don't know? He was called Mo, but always behind his back.
Um... Uh... I'd-- I'd have to look at the, uh, emails, uh, I never thought about it.
Lester's nickname was Mo. Mo Lester. Molester. That never came up?
Senator, I think, uh... [chuckles] I guess maybe perhaps he was, uh, a little creepy-seeming perhaps.
Well, you were right there.
But just because we-- he was called, um, Mo Lester, doesn't-- didn't mean... It was just a-- [chuckles] It's just an off-color joke. You know?
That was 100 percent based on truth. But of all the many, many people who called this molester... "Mo Lester," not one of them had the slightest idea that he was actually a molester. I mean, you could see how that stretches out our credulity.
Yes, Senator, I can see that. I think he just seemed a bit like one, maybe. But we didn't know anything.
Well, if he seemed a little bit like one, don't you think it behooved the people in charge to find out if he was one...
Oh, my...
...before you sent him out on ships full of young women and vulnerable old and young guests?
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