Visitors sit transfixed.
As prosecutor Richard Rose dips into his storehouse of tapes, they wonder what new insights into corruption may come next. Sometimes the audio tapes are more vivid than the videos, in the same way a radio broadcast of a baseball game, much more than a telecast, forces you to employ your imagination of the scene. When Rose aired an audio of Pannone and Freitas at a Biltmore fundraiser for Mayor Buddy Cianci, we heard the unmistakable upbeat music and snatches of muffled conversation, and you could feel the glasses clinking and your mind's eye could take in the tables, the food and the view. On the various tapes, the vulgar Pannone rambles, tells stories, boasts and vents. The person actually on trial is Deputy Tax Assessor Rosemary Glancy, but the central figure so far has been Pannone, admitted criminal.