Originally Posted by
Takwis
The same kinds of lawyers that told Forkner to take the fifth.
It's a different situation. Any competent defense lawyer would advise a client at risk of criminal charges not to provide testimony (or documents if they are, effectively, "testimonial"). On the other hand, corporate executives on an earnings call would have to be pretty close to brain-dead not to know that not taking questions from the three most important media organizations (in the current context) will almost certainly result in serious suspicion -- which isn't likely to help its already-shaky stock price.