In the meantime, he remains somewhat at liberty, though subject to numerous restrictions. On the one side, Schroeder and his colleagues want to squeeze as much information from Harmon as possible before he goes off to jail, to aid the recovery effort. The defense usually is that this was just an honest business deal that went bad, not a fraud. Sometimes it's true. Then again, a lot of frauds start out as legitimate businesses, then they go sideways.
People begin to lie and send out false information.
And the people usually look nice. But it also means they take a long time to prepare. And he need Harmon's information to build the cases against the others. That would seem to be the question of the year. Officially, Schroeder couldn't say.