Opinion ID: 2978433
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Heading: The content of the tape-recorded statements

Text: On the recording, O’Reilly speaks at length about the robbery, naming each of his five co-defendants and identifying Watson as the killer of the armed guard. He states that it was Johnson’s idea to rob the ATMs, which were near the headquarters of Ford Motor Company, because Johnson (a Ford employee) thought the ATMs would contain large amounts of cash shortly after Ford issued certain profit-sharing checks to its employees. O’Reilly states that Johnson surveilled the DFCU prior to the robbery and recruited two of his Ford co-workers to participate. O’Reilly also refers to Johnson as “expendable” and a “dumb-ass” because Johnson underestimated the number of guards who would be in the armored truck and the amount of money that would be in the ATMs.