for the good
The full email reads as follows:
OK, WHERE TO START I HAVE NO IDEA SO I,LL [sic] JUST START TYPING, FIRST OF ALL I THOUGHT YOU DID A GREAT JOB DEFENDING YOUR CLIENTS, FROM THE START I COULD SEE YOU WERE GOING TO HAVE AN UPHILL BATTLE WITH ALL THE MONEY AND RESOURCES THE GOVERNMENT HAS, I WAS GLAD TO SERVE ON THE JURY, AFTER GETTING TO KNOW THE OTHER MEMBERS OF THE JURY I COULD TELL THEY HAD NO IDEA OF HOW THE JUSTICE SYSTEM WORKED. I FEEL SOME AGREED WITH THE GOVERNMENT JUST BECAUSE THEY WERE THE GOVERNMENT, BUT THEY DON,T [sic] REALIZE HOW RUTHLESS THEY CAN BE, FACE IT THEY ARE THERE TO PAINT THE WORST PICTURE OF THE DEFENDANTS AS THEY CAN SO THAT THEY CAN GET A CONVICTION. THE THINGS I,VE [sic] LEARNED SINCE THE TRIAL WAS OVER ONLY WAS AT BEST SHOCKING. I SPOKE TO GEORGE [CAVALLO] TODAY AND I,M [sic] GLAD WE GOT IN TOUCH TO DISCUSS SOME OF THE THINGS THAT TRANSPIRED. ON MY PART I FELT THE DEFENSE YOU WERE TRYING TO GET ACROSS TO US THE JURY WAS THAT RICHARD WAS THE CAUSE OF THERE [sic] DOWNFALL, WHICH I BELIEVE, HE USED HIS BEING A FAMILY MEMBER TO INFLUENCE EVERYONE INVOLVED FOR HIS OWN MONETARY GAIN. ALSO USING HIS FRIENDS TO DO THE SAME. AS FOR THE JURY I HELD OUT ON CONVICTING THEM AS LONG AS I COULD AND KNEW THEY WOULD SOONER OR LATER Case: 12-15660 Date Filed: 06/22/2015 Page: 30 of 75
job that Unger had done at trial and an observation about the naiveté of fellow
jurors, who purportedly did not know how the justice system works and, in
particular, that prosecutors "can be ruthless" and try "to paint the worst picture of
the defendants."
George then reports to Unger that he has learned some "shocking" things
and, in fact, had just spoken to Cavallo that very day. He notes that he believed
that co-defendant Richard Bobka had been the cause of everyone's "downfall."
BEGIN TO NEGOTIATE, I KNEW THE CONSEQUENCES OF BEING CONVICTED WOULD BE DEVISTATING [sic] TO YOUR CLIENTS, AT THE END THERE WAS 2 OF US HOLDING OUT, MY REASON WAS I WASN,T [sic] CONVINCED THE GOVERNMENT PROVED TO ME BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT. BUT THEY SURE PUT UP A CONFUSING SMOKESCREEN. NOW HERE GOES THERE WAS A JUROR WHO HELD OUT, REASON BEING SHE BELEF/ED [sic] THAT IF SHE HUNG THE JURY THAT THE GOVERNMENT WOULD NOT RETRY THEM. I TRIED TO CONVINCE HER OTHERWISE BUT IT TOOK A FEW DAYS TO GET HER TO SEE IT MY WAY. I FOUND OUT SHE WAS HOLDING OUT FOR A HUNG JURY, ALSO SHE LOOKED UP THINGS ON INTERNET EVEN THOUGH WE WERE TOLD NOT TO, I FOUND OUT SHE KNEW ONE OF THE DEFENDANTS THAT PLEAD [sic] GUILTY ONLY RECEIVED HOUSE ARREST AND NO JAIL TIME, SO SHE TOUGHT [sic] BY HANGING THE JURY THERE WOULD BE NO RETRIAL, I