After a 10-day trial, the obstruction-of-justice and witness-tampering case against defense attorney Robert Simels and his associate Arienne Irving has gone to the jury. Assistant U.S. Attorney Morris J. Fodeman had the government’s last word this morning, rebutting yesterday’s closing arguments by defense attorneys Gerald Shargel and Javier Solano.
At one juncture, Mr. Fodeman listed the nearly dozen explanations Mr. Simels gave throughout the trial for tape recordings in which he appeared to be suborning perjury or planning to bribe a witness, such as that he was merely “trash talking,” “stringing along” a source or using the “vernacular” of the defense bar. “When you’re caught on tape and can’t deny what you said,” Mr. Fodeman told the jury, “you have to deny what you meant.”
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