Ms. O'Brien, I just--I understand and I respect your constitutional rights.

Since the Dodd-Frank Act became law, the Commission has acted like a little child abandoning the old toys and swapping them out for the new.

I would like to know if Dodd-Frank caused this problem, then what caused Lehman Brothers, what caused Madoff?

I actually don't have a clue what questions to ask any of you.

I was on vacation.

If that is the case, I think we have more than a little bit of a problem here.

Do you see that as a potential little issue?

It is MF Global Inc.'s issue, not mine. I don't have anything to do with it.

Did anybody in the company, anyone, have authority to transfer customers' funds?

This hearing...reminds me an awful lot of a hearing we had on Enron.

So I have well-paid employees of a major company that somehow has misplaced or misappropriated a billion dollars of customer funds, and yet you are asking the trustee in bankruptcy to give bonuses to the very people who may or may not have…