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free the dead don't speak but their stories do welcome to hidden killers with tony brusky

featuring defense attorney and host of the podcast defense diaries bob mata having uh him try to settle

these things that would make sense i I guess, in a normal situation.

Doesn't make sense in this sort of a situation, though, where, you know, settling all these cases

while under, you know, federal investigation and federal charges for sex trafficking and such,

and all these allegations are about sex trafficking

and sexual misconduct.

Is that a horrible look to try and settle these things right now?

Because it's, I mean, I know it's not admitting guilt necessarily, but it's a settlement.

Yeah, it is to a certain.

But does he do that right now, or does he try to fight this shit shit or just be like, look, wherever things land, things land?

Well, the reality of the two systems is that the federal system moves like a bullet train.

You know, it does not drag like the state systems, the state criminal systems.

Like you'll have criminal cases that go two,

three, four years before they make it. The trial federal system is not like that,

short of there being superseding indictments, which I anticipate that there will be,

meaning that they're adding more charges as this investigation continues. I mean,

that's the only thing that'll kind of derail this thing

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