Now, based on my research and experience producing my white-collar crime documentary, Crossing the Line: Ordinary People Committing Extraordinary Crimes the time period between being convicted and sentencing can span over a years time.

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My father was a blue collar city worker at the water filtration plant, and my family lived in a teeny little apartment on the South Side of Chicago.

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For Six years I lectured about my own white-collar crime at universities across the country.

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Looking at him, wearing a red collar, I remembered my brother more than thirty years ago, when he left for an outpost with the exact same kind of collar.

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And the last one, Taj Gibson was able to collar me around my shoulder and bring me to the ground.

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And I share this often -- as many of you know, my father was a blue-collar worker at the city water plant.

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They're the values that so many of us were raised with, including myself. (Applause.) I told this story earlier, but my father was a blue-collar worker at the city water plant.

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Garrett Bauer, one of the white-collar offenders that I interviewed for my documentary, spent a little over a year as a free man while he was awaiting sentencing.

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My thanks to photographer Rick Maiman whose pics of white-collar defendants, prosecutors and lawyers help bring a human face to a story.

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