Now Craig you could have easily had a Godfather reference here for our daily amusement.  “Take it on the lam”?
“Bernie, you need to go away for a while. I’ll square it with mom and we’ll give that girl of yours a call when the time is right”

Chris—I’ve had the, um, fortune of representing a couple of guys who got busted for massive frauds and embezzlement schemes.  The whole exit strategy thing was the biggest question on my mind.  I came to realize, however, that the kinds of guys who get involved in these sorts of things tend not to think that they’re really doing anything wrong or, at the very least, have as their “exit plan” some method of paying back the money before they’re ever caught.  It simply never occurs to them that the music will ever stop or at least that it won’t stop before they’ve made the pot right, as it were.

I think the cautious impulse you and I have—why wouldn’t you have a plan in place in case things go sideways—is borne of a mindset that never would have allowed us to take the kinds of criminal risks that the Madoffs of the world take.  They’re crooks, sure, but before they’re crooks, they’re ego-driven sociopaths.

Fair enough.  I guess that makes sense.  That’s just a mindset I have trouble wrapping my brain around.  I mean, first and foremost I’d've stashed a safety-net of cash in some place like Luxembourg.  Then I’d have multiple escape plans, etc.

And you’re probably right: that sort of thinking probably helps prevent me from committing massive embezzlement anyway.

In case anyone’s still interested, the D-backs mascot is a bobcat because their stadium was originally named Bank One Ballpark, nicknamed the BOB.  So BOB-cat…clever…yeah.

Now that it’s Chase Field, they stuck with it, ‘cause there’s no such thing as a Chasecat, except maybe in George Clinton songs.

What is “You are correct, sir” Alex?