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31. I know.We were dumbfounded. We have a question...and he REALLY got mad about that.

Fri Aug 17, 2018, 09:55 PM

Aug 2018

He called us all in and said, "I told you all not to make this a drawn out thing or ask too many questions." Seriously. I guess he thought it was a slam dunk.

It was a tight case, but we wanted to go thru the defense's defenses & make sure...he did have some defenses. AND guess what we found? There were two stacks of money. The indictments listed the serial numbers for all the bills. Guess what? One of the indictments for one of the stacks - the serial numbers were wrong. So that count was dropped! The little lady who thought to check the serial numbers was a little, short, chubby older lady...very sweet & quiet. Bless her heart.

This wasn't the guy's first offense. We weren't supposed to consider the sentence, but we knew he'd be going to prison for a looooong time, so we wanted to be very careful.

The prosecution was all over the place, though. He didn't cover things in an orderly way, which left us confused and asking each other why he was asking about this or that...was that important? What was that about?

It was a federal felony white collar crime, so I guess somewhat similar to Manafort's, but not big time. The Judge was embarrassed when that question we asked, that he was angry about, was, "Are the serial numbers on the indictment important?" LOL.

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