Philip Russell
Philip Russell
burn lone second
He wasn't going to burn anybody. It wasn't that kind of case. He was a lone shooter, with no second shooter.
problems short
He had a lot to live for and, in the short term, he had problems, but he was not despairing.
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Even when Lincoln hanged draft dodgers, he made public his deviation from the law and imposed martial law. There is no analogy and no precedent for clandestine surveillance of domestic telecommunications without a court order.
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He was going to plead guilty. This was a white collar case and typically in white collar cases, we don't see these type of tragic results.
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The enormity of the loss that this family has sustained and the reversal of their destiny over the past three years is incomprehensible and heartbreaking.
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I don't know whether that perception will be changed by a misdemeanor prosecution for conduct after he resigned from office.
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His victims were for the most part financial institutions who exact their revenge in courtrooms.
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We're assembling documents. These are construction projects, and obviously there's a great difference of opinion as to what occurred on these contracts.
began since
We had been negotiating and cooperating since the investigation began at the end of June.