"To his dying day, Ray will believe if he'd been left in charge of HIH, he would have steered the company through those troubled waters that preceded the purchase of FAI. Unfortunately, lesser men than Ray took the helm in HIH's last year of operation and chose to abandon ship rather than risk going down with the wreck."

Noted philanthropist, corporate builder and national hero Alan Bond apparently also thinks that all would have been well if the big bad banks and government hadn't conspired to take the ship off him. And like poor Ray, he was betrayed by lesser men