They read him his rights but did not put him in handcuffs. They told him that he could have a lawyer appointed for him if he couldn’t afford one, and he shook his head during that part. And after that was out of the way, he talked to them quite freely, not so much as a man wanting to confess but as one wanting to get things straightened out. Geoffrey Harris told them that he was an investment banker with a large house in New York. That he had started working in finance in London after graduating from the London School of Economics and had been sent to the New York office in 1991. He told them that he was married with four children and six grandchildren. He said he was in St. Louis on business. He said, “The gentleman I worked with is named Robert Alan Gray. He is what we call in this industry a wholesaler.” Hastings said, “Selling what?” “Financial products. They want old men like myself to buy those products. As part of the wining and dining, they basically give us a girl.
