William Bastone Quotations

Frey lied to us, lied to his lawyers, and lied to his fans.

I give Oprah a lot of credit. She's incredibly powerful and she could have just ignored the whole thing. She didn't.

We were sitting here with our jaws dropping.

The overall majority of contentions he makes in the book are not borne out by contemporaneous police records or by interviews we conducted with police and court officials in Ohio and Michigan.

We knew right then and there that we had fire, a lot of fire.

Turns out he's a well-to-do frat boy who, you know, isn't kind of this desperado that he'd like people to think he was.

One day we decided to put together a group of felons who happen to be nice-looking.

It's not often we have people who have been convicted of a crime -- in her case took a plea -- and have been photographed, booking photo taken, under supervised release, that they would think that the distribution of their police photo shouldn't be done. That's a new one for us.

In off-the-record interviews with us, Frey admitted embellishing facts in the book for dramatic impact.

The only stuff we looked at were incidents for which there are a paper trail ... (and) everything we looked up was full of lies. (Winfrey said) the belief this book is changing the lives of people trumps the fact that maybe the story is a fake. You would expect somebody in her position would take the ethical stand.

Any magazine editor will tell you, Colin Farrell still sells better than Colin Powell,