Why would lawyers, whose work would supposedly be privileged, refrain from taking notes? Did they suspect that the law as written did not apply anymore? That laws were now whatever federal minder and bosses said they were and your notes could at any time be swept into an investigation?
Then again, why would the owners of the preferred bonds, people who sat in the offices of their investment advisors, and asked “What is the lowest risk and safest investment I can make”? suspect that their bonds would be stolen and that they would be called out as “Speculators” by the President of the United States?
It’s not just the lawyers, chief switch engineer, Raymond DeGiorgio flat out lied about the change in the switch and there certainly had to be others that knew about that change also.