Makes me wonder how many other lives they ruined over the years?
On a related note, if you’ve never watched the Don’t Talk to Cops university lecture, you should.
And read this:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1998119
I recommend printing this from the above and using it to “take the 5th” should you ever need to:
On the advice of my lawyer, I respectfully decline to answer on the basis of the Fifth Amendment, which—according to the United States Supreme Court—protects everyone, even innocent people, from the need to answer questions if the truth might be used to help create the misleading impres- sion that they were somehow involved in a crime that they did not commit.
Notice the word “incriminate” does not appear, as it does in many such statements. This is intentional.