“It might make people think twice, but...

“It might make people think twice, but the fact that (Saul Steinberg) did get away with some of his profits may mean that greenmail is here to stay.”

Richard J. Riordan, a Los Angeles lawyer, on the agreement by corporate raider Steinberg and Walt Disney Co. to pay $45 million to settle shareholder suits that claimed Disney paid Steinberg “greenmail”--a premium price for his stock--to avert a takeover.