The China Hustle Movie Script

The lawyers don't go into the books and records of the companies.

We don't go check to see whether the shipments were received.

You know, we don't go visit the customers' homes.

I mean, no law firm does this.

No law firm does this.

This is the part of the story where I had to do a double take.

All of the people who we think of as gatekeepers, the lawyers, the bankers, the auditors, the people making good money to ensure that the markets are clean, weren't doing anything of the sort.

They simply processed the necessary paperwork, took their fees, and moved on.

If the companies were lying, so what?

The answers that I was receiving was insufficient to thwart my concerns.

And I didn't feel they were thorough enough answers to questions.

And that's when everything significantly changed for me.

My eyes were open to this concept that there was another side to this company.

I knew what my job was.

I knew what I couldn't do if I was sitting in that seat still.

So for me, it was... quit, go take a break, and see what happens.

I went on safari.

I'm at a Rodman & Renshaw conference, and a firm by the name of Muddy Waters puts out a report on Orient Paper, and it goes down significantly.

And this is the first time that we're actually hearing somebody's publishing a report and calling it fraud.

We decided that we were either good at what we do or we were lucky, and if we were lucky, we were about to go out of business.

I'm trying to reach either the general manager or the property manager... So we hired our own team.

And our own team went to China to vet some of these companies that were accused of fraud.

Let's talk about China Green Agriculture.

China Green Agriculture came to our attention originally in 2009.

And we invested long into what we thought was a great fertilizer company.