This guy, featured in a 60 Mins programme, would have made an exellent banker or politician in this Country.
I very much doubt that he would have received 20 years here for his crimes. We would have done nothing or set up a few tribunals to look into his misdemeanors.
You can watch some of the interview on video in the NY Times or seekingalpha. Riveting stuff. You almost feel sorry for Dreier but he is/was a manipulator par excellence, a quintessential conman and, if the truth be known, mad.