He suggests that for Elizabeth to have returned the treasure Drake plundered would have been a suicidal and insane political and economic move.

“And the truth is she was never going to return such a windfall because she is too mean, too short of money. You know, she's not going to look a gift horse in the mouth. >> So remember, you said the 400,000 was bigger than her entire annual income, right? >> Yeah. I mean, this is a point at which the”