1 00:00:01,070 --> 00:00:02,845 NARRATOR: In the criminal justice system 2 00:00:02,905 --> 00:00:06,786 the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups, 3 00:00:06,843 --> 00:00:08,652 the police who investigate crime 4 00:00:08,712 --> 00:00:11,556 and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders. 5 00:00:11,615 --> 00:00:13,322 These are their stories. 6 00:00:14,318 --> 00:00:17,266 I'm telling you, this is a sweet deal. Right. 7 00:00:17,322 --> 00:00:19,825 Well... Well, last week's deal was very sweet too, but this one 8 00:00:19,891 --> 00:00:23,964 we're only offering to a few very special clients, Mrs. Skolnick. 9 00:00:24,028 --> 00:00:25,030 (GUNSHOT) (WOMAN SCREAMING) 10 00:00:25,097 --> 00:00:26,098 Can you hang on a sec? 11 00:00:26,165 --> 00:00:28,111 MAN: Look out! He's got a gun! 12 00:00:29,268 --> 00:00:30,372 What? 13 00:00:30,436 --> 00:00:32,006 The price-earnings ratio, okay. 14 00:00:32,071 --> 00:00:33,175 It's a bit high. 15 00:00:33,238 --> 00:00:34,239 (GUNSHOTS) 16 00:00:34,306 --> 00:00:35,752 (PEOPLE SCREAMING) 17 00:00:36,242 --> 00:00:37,949 (PEOPLE SHOUTING) 18 00:00:38,645 --> 00:00:41,558 SPENCER: Oh, my God, Sean! Sean! 19 00:00:41,948 --> 00:00:44,828 What the hell's going... Somebody call an ambulance! 20 00:00:44,885 --> 00:00:46,262 Call 911! 21 00:00:49,991 --> 00:00:52,267 HARDWICK: Shooter came in through the front. 22 00:00:52,326 --> 00:00:53,930 Put a .38 in the receptionist. 23 00:00:53,995 --> 00:00:55,031 How's she doing? 24 00:00:55,097 --> 00:00:56,633 Last word, in surgery. 25 00:00:56,698 --> 00:00:57,699 Then what? 26 00:00:57,766 --> 00:00:59,370 Headed this way. 27 00:01:01,670 --> 00:01:03,206 Went straight to this office. 28 00:01:03,271 --> 00:01:05,183 Sean Alvarez. Twenty-four. 29 00:01:05,241 --> 00:01:06,515 There were closer offices. 30 00:01:06,576 --> 00:01:09,056 Guy was the target. Then where'd he go? 31 00:01:09,145 --> 00:01:10,215 Out that fire exit. 32 00:01:10,279 --> 00:01:12,259 ED: Huh, good plan for a lunatic. 33 00:01:12,315 --> 00:01:15,354 Crazy don't mean stupid. My ex-wife's living proof. 34 00:01:15,419 --> 00:01:16,693 What about Alvarez? 35 00:01:16,754 --> 00:01:19,894 Took two shots to the chest. Still had the strength to go for help. 36 00:01:19,957 --> 00:01:21,868 BRISCOE: And who's Mutt and Jeff there? 37 00:01:21,925 --> 00:01:24,930 Slick guy's Bruce Valentine. Kid's supervisor. 38 00:01:25,096 --> 00:01:27,633 Other one's Braddock. As in Braddock and Todd. 39 00:01:27,699 --> 00:01:28,905 Thanks. 40 00:01:31,002 --> 00:01:32,538 BRISCOE: Detectives Briscoe and Green. 41 00:01:32,604 --> 00:01:35,609 Carl Braddock. This is crazy. Just crazy. 42 00:01:35,875 --> 00:01:37,286 What can you tell us about him? 43 00:01:37,343 --> 00:01:38,583 Well, he was one of my brokers. 44 00:01:38,644 --> 00:01:40,590 How long had he been here? Year and a half. 45 00:01:40,646 --> 00:01:41,647 Any problems? 46 00:01:41,714 --> 00:01:43,523 No, actually he was leaving next month. 47 00:01:43,582 --> 00:01:45,221 Why was that? 48 00:01:45,385 --> 00:01:46,955 Greener pastures, I guess. 49 00:01:47,020 --> 00:01:49,557 It's tough to hold on to these kids these days. 50 00:01:49,623 --> 00:01:52,194 We're gonna need a list of everyone that was on the floor at the time. 51 00:01:52,259 --> 00:01:53,260 Of course. 52 00:01:53,326 --> 00:01:55,238 BRISCOE: And we'll need a list of his clients. 53 00:01:55,296 --> 00:01:56,400 For what purpose? 54 00:01:56,464 --> 00:01:58,501 For the purpose of finding out who shot him. 55 00:01:58,566 --> 00:02:00,477 Well, I can't let you go on a fishing expedition 56 00:02:00,535 --> 00:02:03,311 through our clients' financial records without a warrant. 57 00:02:03,371 --> 00:02:07,479 Come back with something more specific and I'd be happy to cooperate. 58 00:02:07,609 --> 00:02:08,713 Count on it. 59 00:02:08,777 --> 00:02:10,757 BRADDOCK: Would you excuse us now? 60 00:02:13,483 --> 00:02:14,587 Kid was leaving in a month. 61 00:02:14,651 --> 00:02:16,528 Yeah. Not soon enough. 62 00:03:10,879 --> 00:03:12,358 Who did this? 63 00:03:13,115 --> 00:03:15,857 We were hoping you could help us with that. 64 00:03:15,918 --> 00:03:18,159 Can you think of any reason why someone might have done this to him? 65 00:03:19,155 --> 00:03:21,032 Our son was just starting out in life. 66 00:03:21,090 --> 00:03:22,900 What reason could there be? 67 00:03:22,959 --> 00:03:24,802 What about his job? Any problems there? 68 00:03:25,629 --> 00:03:28,007 Sean used to pick stocks from the newspaper. 69 00:03:28,064 --> 00:03:30,635 This job at the brokerage was a dream come true for him. 70 00:03:30,700 --> 00:03:32,008 We heard he was leaving in a month. 71 00:03:33,404 --> 00:03:34,906 He never mentioned anything. 72 00:03:34,972 --> 00:03:37,009 So you know nothing about that? 73 00:03:37,074 --> 00:03:38,109 No. 74 00:03:38,209 --> 00:03:40,450 MR. ALVAREZ: Maybe you should talk to Ianna. 75 00:03:40,745 --> 00:03:41,883 Ianna? 76 00:03:41,946 --> 00:03:44,518 Ianna Mercer. She's Sean's fiancée. 77 00:03:44,583 --> 00:03:46,358 They're getting married. 78 00:03:46,418 --> 00:03:47,692 I mean... 79 00:03:48,187 --> 00:03:49,530 I'm sorry. 80 00:03:49,688 --> 00:03:51,497 I'm sorry. I'm sorry. 81 00:03:52,959 --> 00:03:54,700 I just talked to Carmichael. 82 00:03:54,761 --> 00:03:57,037 She says no judge will sign a subpoena 83 00:03:57,096 --> 00:04:00,134 for the customer list based on what we have so far. 84 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:01,406 How are they? 85 00:04:01,467 --> 00:04:02,606 Couldn't tell us much. 86 00:04:02,670 --> 00:04:05,173 I wonder why he never told them he was leaving the firm. 87 00:04:05,239 --> 00:04:06,445 Maybe it was a surprise. 88 00:04:06,507 --> 00:04:07,679 Wouldn't you want to tell your parents 89 00:04:07,741 --> 00:04:09,516 if you had good news about your job? 90 00:04:09,577 --> 00:04:10,885 His parents would never believe him. 91 00:04:10,945 --> 00:04:11,980 Oh! 92 00:04:12,046 --> 00:04:14,857 Well, talk to the fiancée. Maybe she knows. 93 00:04:17,786 --> 00:04:18,924 Everything was going fine. 94 00:04:18,987 --> 00:04:20,967 ED: He didn't seem nervous about work? 95 00:04:21,022 --> 00:04:22,058 No. 96 00:04:22,592 --> 00:04:24,503 I mean, I think Sean really liked it. 97 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:25,630 Then why was he leaving? 98 00:04:25,695 --> 00:04:29,939 I think he just felt like he'd already learned what he needed to know. 99 00:04:30,566 --> 00:04:33,411 Sean said that he had some ideas about the Internet 100 00:04:33,470 --> 00:04:36,474 and that he just wanted to take some time to figure out his next step. 101 00:04:36,573 --> 00:04:37,950 He could afford to do that? 102 00:04:38,008 --> 00:04:40,420 He had said he'd done pretty well working for Mr. Valentine. 103 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:45,359 This is a difficult question to ask, Ms. Mercer, 104 00:04:45,416 --> 00:04:50,388 but is there any chance there was another boyfriend in the picture? 105 00:04:50,455 --> 00:04:52,197 Maybe a jealous ex? 106 00:04:52,625 --> 00:04:55,572 Sean and I were gonna be married this summer. 107 00:04:56,462 --> 00:04:57,964 There was no one else. 108 00:04:58,631 --> 00:05:00,167 You understand we have to ask. 109 00:05:03,069 --> 00:05:06,812 Look, maybe you should talk to this one guy there. Randy Kush. 110 00:05:06,873 --> 00:05:10,047 He and Sean would grab a drink after work sometimes. 111 00:05:10,443 --> 00:05:13,254 Look, my bosses wouldn't be too happy with me talking to you guys like this. 112 00:05:13,314 --> 00:05:15,851 I mean, it's not exactly the kind of PR they're looking for. 113 00:05:15,917 --> 00:05:19,262 Oh, don't worry, you'll be back at your Rolodex in no time. 114 00:05:19,320 --> 00:05:21,460 Sean worked retail. I'm in munis. 115 00:05:21,523 --> 00:05:22,866 I'm not sure what I'm gonna be able to tell you. 116 00:05:22,925 --> 00:05:25,906 His fiancée said you guys used to grab drinks together. Discuss futures. 117 00:05:25,961 --> 00:05:27,440 Yeah. We just thought it was never too early 118 00:05:27,496 --> 00:05:28,804 to establish alliances, you know? 119 00:05:28,864 --> 00:05:30,810 Alliances? Sounds like a pretty ruthless place. 120 00:05:30,866 --> 00:05:33,609 Well, there's certain rules when it comes to making money, right? 121 00:05:33,670 --> 00:05:35,741 Well, what rules did Sean break? 122 00:05:36,506 --> 00:05:39,112 Guy was an animal. Just went after it. 123 00:05:39,809 --> 00:05:41,118 Sean wanted to be a market maker. 124 00:05:41,178 --> 00:05:42,748 Someone like Valentine, you know? 125 00:05:42,813 --> 00:05:46,022 With a network of customers who can create their own market for a stock. 126 00:05:46,850 --> 00:05:49,330 He just kept bringing Valentine coffee until he gave Sean a shot. 127 00:05:49,386 --> 00:05:50,456 A shot at what? 128 00:05:50,521 --> 00:05:52,593 IPO's. That's where the real money's at. 129 00:05:52,657 --> 00:05:53,658 What was Sean working on? 130 00:05:54,859 --> 00:05:55,963 Tell ya, I don't know. 131 00:05:56,795 --> 00:05:58,797 We check your mom and dad's records, 132 00:05:58,897 --> 00:06:01,401 we're gonna find some of these stocks, right, Randy? 133 00:06:01,467 --> 00:06:02,605 ED: It's called insider trading. 134 00:06:02,668 --> 00:06:04,045 Okay. Okay. 135 00:06:04,337 --> 00:06:07,875 Last thing Sean told me about was a stock called Healthroad2000.com. 136 00:06:07,940 --> 00:06:09,647 Some medical Internet thing. 137 00:06:09,709 --> 00:06:11,712 He said Valentine was working a pump and dump. 138 00:06:12,279 --> 00:06:13,656 Pump and dump? 139 00:06:13,714 --> 00:06:15,716 Buy it. Hype it. Dump it. 140 00:06:16,183 --> 00:06:17,184 Thanks. 141 00:06:20,153 --> 00:06:22,498 Okay. Healthroad2000.com. 142 00:06:22,557 --> 00:06:23,627 Company's a year old. 143 00:06:23,691 --> 00:06:26,331 With a P and E ratio of 1000-to-one. 144 00:06:26,394 --> 00:06:27,634 Clearly, no profits. 145 00:06:27,695 --> 00:06:29,834 Stock still went from $4 to $48 a share 146 00:06:29,998 --> 00:06:31,239 in the first nine days of trading. 147 00:06:31,300 --> 00:06:34,645 We lose money on every sale, but we make it up in volume. 148 00:06:34,703 --> 00:06:36,580 Not necessarily. The stock tanked. 149 00:06:36,638 --> 00:06:39,050 They stopped trading at 35 cents a share. 150 00:06:39,108 --> 00:06:41,953 That's gotta make for a pretty disgruntled customer. 151 00:06:43,279 --> 00:06:44,781 Call Carmichael. This should be enough 152 00:06:44,848 --> 00:06:47,920 for us to get a subpoena for their client list. 153 00:06:49,285 --> 00:06:50,526 Detectives? 154 00:06:50,588 --> 00:06:52,534 Didn't waste anytime with the Mop & Glo, huh? 155 00:06:52,590 --> 00:06:56,197 Yeah. Well, some of the brokers found the sight of blood a little unsettling. 156 00:06:56,260 --> 00:06:57,762 Figured around here they'd be used to it. 157 00:06:57,828 --> 00:06:59,739 May I see the subpoena? 158 00:07:02,534 --> 00:07:04,275 This is all confidential information. 159 00:07:04,336 --> 00:07:07,943 Yeah, well, you have your insider trading, we have ours. 160 00:07:12,111 --> 00:07:16,059 In the great scheme of things, $30,000 really isn't a lot of money, Detective. 161 00:07:16,115 --> 00:07:18,925 Yeah, I know. That's what I'm gonna have to live on when I retire. 162 00:07:18,985 --> 00:07:20,966 I guess you guys don't get stock options. 163 00:07:21,021 --> 00:07:22,728 So, you weren't angry with Sean Alvarez? 164 00:07:22,790 --> 00:07:24,167 Why should I be angry? 165 00:07:24,224 --> 00:07:26,135 Sean gave me a tip just the month before. 166 00:07:26,193 --> 00:07:28,002 Avery lucrative tip. 167 00:07:28,062 --> 00:07:31,601 No, as far as I could tell, the kid was a real go-getter. 168 00:07:34,536 --> 00:07:36,482 Sean called. Introduced himself. 169 00:07:36,538 --> 00:07:39,041 Said he got my number through his father's country club. 170 00:07:39,107 --> 00:07:40,109 You a member? 171 00:07:40,176 --> 00:07:41,211 Was. 172 00:07:41,277 --> 00:07:43,655 Unfortunately, I've suffered some setbacks recently. 173 00:07:43,712 --> 00:07:46,056 Like Healthroad2000? 174 00:07:46,415 --> 00:07:48,224 I was told it was a sure thing. 175 00:07:48,284 --> 00:07:50,458 You really need somebody to tell you that investing 176 00:07:50,520 --> 00:07:52,522 in an Internet company might be risky? 177 00:07:52,622 --> 00:07:56,092 What I needed was someone to tell me when to get out. Sean didn't. 178 00:07:56,359 --> 00:07:57,633 Maybe Sean didn't know. 179 00:07:57,694 --> 00:07:59,641 Money always makes money, Detective. 180 00:07:59,697 --> 00:08:01,040 That's why 1% of the world 181 00:08:01,099 --> 00:08:02,806 controls 99% of its wealth. 182 00:08:02,867 --> 00:08:05,404 ED: You're saying Sean had inside information? 183 00:08:05,470 --> 00:08:07,973 The stock market should never be a guessing game. 184 00:08:08,840 --> 00:08:10,582 So why were you left out in the dark? 185 00:08:11,076 --> 00:08:12,919 Maybe I just didn't play on the right team. 186 00:08:13,579 --> 00:08:14,751 What do you mean by that? 187 00:08:14,813 --> 00:08:16,121 From what I've heard since, 188 00:08:16,548 --> 00:08:19,189 Sean lived a certain lifestyle. 189 00:08:19,252 --> 00:08:21,323 What kind of lifestyle are we talking about? 190 00:08:23,623 --> 00:08:24,829 Just say it wasn't co-ed. 191 00:08:24,891 --> 00:08:25,892 (LAUGHS) 192 00:08:29,263 --> 00:08:30,298 I thought he had a fiancée. 193 00:08:30,364 --> 00:08:31,502 It wouldn't be the first time. 194 00:08:31,565 --> 00:08:33,135 Man's keeping secrets. 195 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:35,942 Yeah, he's also dropping money on dinners 196 00:08:36,003 --> 00:08:37,846 like I do on a new car. 197 00:08:37,905 --> 00:08:41,046 If he was leaving his job, he sure wasn't curtailing his entertainment. 198 00:08:41,109 --> 00:08:42,918 LUDs from his phones? 199 00:08:47,849 --> 00:08:49,727 Hmm. Nothing out of the ordinary. 200 00:08:50,019 --> 00:08:53,398 What about this one from his cell phone, Exotic Image? 201 00:08:53,956 --> 00:08:55,594 212 area code. 202 00:08:55,658 --> 00:08:57,069 Looks like he made a bunch of calls there. 203 00:08:57,126 --> 00:08:58,332 All about a month ago. 204 00:09:00,631 --> 00:09:02,304 Answering machine. 205 00:09:02,866 --> 00:09:04,675 Photo studio on Gansevoort. 206 00:09:04,735 --> 00:09:08,182 Meatpacking District. Home of the straight and narrow. 207 00:09:10,608 --> 00:09:13,350 I'm sorry, but Mr. Jankovic is in Bangkok. 208 00:09:13,411 --> 00:09:14,890 A bar mitzvah, no doubt. 209 00:09:14,946 --> 00:09:16,186 When will he be back? 210 00:09:16,247 --> 00:09:17,920 A week. Maybe two. 211 00:09:18,049 --> 00:09:21,964 Maybe you can help us out. Does the name Sean Alvarez ring a bell? 212 00:09:22,021 --> 00:09:23,398 Not really. Should it? 213 00:09:23,455 --> 00:09:25,435 ED: He called a couple times. About a month ago. 214 00:09:25,491 --> 00:09:27,493 Well, if he came in, it's easy enough to check. 215 00:09:27,560 --> 00:09:28,938 Thanks. 216 00:09:29,830 --> 00:09:32,640 I guess that's what they call a head shot. 217 00:09:33,233 --> 00:09:36,271 All right. I have a receipt here for an Alvarez. 218 00:09:36,336 --> 00:09:38,510 It's for a purchase of a set of negatives. 219 00:09:38,573 --> 00:09:39,745 ED: Negatives? 220 00:09:39,807 --> 00:09:42,117 Well, it looks like it's from an old photo shoot, 221 00:09:42,176 --> 00:09:44,952 but I couldn't tell you what specifically. 222 00:09:45,012 --> 00:09:46,457 Do you recognize this man? 223 00:09:47,148 --> 00:09:48,184 No. 224 00:09:48,317 --> 00:09:50,661 BRISCOE: Maybe there's an address on the receipt? 225 00:09:50,719 --> 00:09:53,131 It's a copy of a credit card slip. 226 00:09:54,790 --> 00:09:59,035 I'm telling you, I don't know anything about any Exotic Image photography studio. 227 00:09:59,095 --> 00:10:03,043 Well, your Chase Visa account shows a $1,700 charge. 228 00:10:03,099 --> 00:10:05,409 The clerk there says it was for a set of negatives. 229 00:10:05,468 --> 00:10:08,348 Negatives? Negatives of what? 230 00:10:08,405 --> 00:10:11,545 Please. Sean's aunt and uncle are waiting for us. 231 00:10:11,609 --> 00:10:13,054 They've come in from out of town. 232 00:10:13,110 --> 00:10:14,748 Can't we do this another time? 233 00:10:16,347 --> 00:10:17,793 Do you know anything about this? 234 00:10:20,218 --> 00:10:21,629 If those photos are evidence, 235 00:10:21,686 --> 00:10:24,599 concealing them could be an obstruction of justice. 236 00:10:26,258 --> 00:10:27,430 Nancy. 237 00:10:28,894 --> 00:10:31,101 Please, if you know anything. 238 00:10:51,085 --> 00:10:53,190 He didn't want you to know. 239 00:11:12,809 --> 00:11:15,449 Why didn't you ever say anything to me? 240 00:11:16,079 --> 00:11:18,686 He was worried about what you'd think. 241 00:11:19,317 --> 00:11:21,354 It was in college, Martin. 242 00:11:24,155 --> 00:11:25,964 Someone had came around the school 243 00:11:26,023 --> 00:11:29,096 offering students money to pose for a calendar. 244 00:11:29,828 --> 00:11:31,466 The Boys of Brown. 245 00:11:31,897 --> 00:11:34,241 It was a foolish thing to do Sean knew that. 246 00:11:34,299 --> 00:11:35,403 So why tell you? 247 00:11:36,668 --> 00:11:39,479 We were talking about him leaving his job. 248 00:11:40,306 --> 00:11:44,482 At first, he tried to tell me it was because he'd found a better one. 249 00:11:45,378 --> 00:11:47,950 But I could see in his face something was wrong. 250 00:11:48,716 --> 00:11:52,129 Finally, he told me. He had gotten this e-mail at work, 251 00:11:52,186 --> 00:11:54,029 with one of those pictures attached to it. 252 00:11:55,422 --> 00:11:58,893 Apparently, it had been posted on a gay men's website. 253 00:11:59,327 --> 00:12:00,328 Gay? 254 00:12:00,395 --> 00:12:03,001 Sean didn't realize that when he'd signed the release, 255 00:12:03,064 --> 00:12:06,911 the photographer could do whatever he wanted with the pictures. 256 00:12:07,002 --> 00:12:08,879 He wasn't gay, Martin. 257 00:12:09,071 --> 00:12:11,381 Did Sean ever tell you who sent the e-mail? 258 00:12:11,440 --> 00:12:14,546 No, but I do know they tried to find out. 259 00:12:15,244 --> 00:12:16,280 Who tried? 260 00:12:16,346 --> 00:12:17,689 His bosses. 261 00:12:17,748 --> 00:12:20,228 Braddock and Todd knew about the e-mail? 262 00:12:20,283 --> 00:12:23,992 Yes. Sean said his manager even teased him about it. 263 00:12:26,290 --> 00:12:27,963 Hey, someone sick enough to send hate mail 264 00:12:28,025 --> 00:12:29,766 might be sick enough to take it a step further. 265 00:12:29,827 --> 00:12:33,036 Or maybe we're asking the wrong person about a jealous boyfriend. 266 00:12:33,097 --> 00:12:35,543 Well, that seems like a pretty big coincidence 267 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:37,581 to have this secret past revealed. 268 00:12:37,636 --> 00:12:39,741 Then a month later, leave a job you love? 269 00:12:39,805 --> 00:12:41,216 Unless you were forced out. 270 00:12:41,273 --> 00:12:43,549 And we all know what that means. 271 00:12:43,609 --> 00:12:44,952 A lawsuit. 272 00:12:48,615 --> 00:12:52,062 Okay. Sean Alvarez filed a federal lawsuit 273 00:12:52,118 --> 00:12:54,428 against Braddock and Todd about six weeks ago. 274 00:12:54,687 --> 00:12:57,134 What was the basis for the lawsuit? 275 00:12:57,425 --> 00:12:58,927 Sexual harassment. 276 00:12:58,993 --> 00:13:00,995 He alleged a hostile work environment. 277 00:13:01,061 --> 00:13:02,165 Someone was hitting on him? 278 00:13:02,229 --> 00:13:04,573 Not necessarily. All he has to do is establish 279 00:13:04,632 --> 00:13:06,613 his work environment is upsetting. 280 00:13:06,668 --> 00:13:08,011 BRISCOE: I could do that. 281 00:13:08,069 --> 00:13:10,071 Upsetting sexually, Lennie. 282 00:13:10,839 --> 00:13:14,218 What about identifying the person who sent the e-mail? 283 00:13:15,177 --> 00:13:16,623 Wasn't part of the claim. 284 00:13:16,679 --> 00:13:19,285 He only sued his employer. Said he was being teased. 285 00:13:19,348 --> 00:13:21,658 A little teasing. Seems pretty thin. 286 00:13:21,717 --> 00:13:24,129 Not to his employer. They settled. 287 00:13:24,353 --> 00:13:26,163 BRADDOCK: We signed a non-disclosure agreement. 288 00:13:26,223 --> 00:13:29,204 I'm not at liberty to discuss the terms of the settlement. I'm sorry. 289 00:13:29,259 --> 00:13:32,832 Unless you start giving us some answers, you're not gonna be at liberty at all. 290 00:13:32,896 --> 00:13:34,569 Why didn't you mention the lawsuit before? 291 00:13:34,631 --> 00:13:37,636 If you're suggesting money as a motive here, Detective, it wasn't. 292 00:13:37,702 --> 00:13:39,943 The settlement was covered by insurance. 293 00:13:40,004 --> 00:13:43,816 Look, the truth is we were all embarrassed by the e-mail. 294 00:13:43,875 --> 00:13:45,480 Did you ever find out who sent it? 295 00:13:45,544 --> 00:13:49,014 I think Bruce Valentine tried. Now if you'll excuse me. 296 00:13:51,684 --> 00:13:53,391 I already had a tech check his system. 297 00:13:53,452 --> 00:13:55,956 Yeah, well, whoever sent it had his e-mail address. 298 00:13:56,022 --> 00:13:58,002 Maybe Sean gave it to him himself. 299 00:13:58,058 --> 00:14:00,504 So we need to check everyone on his outgoing e-mail. 300 00:14:00,560 --> 00:14:01,971 Who else knew about this? 301 00:14:02,028 --> 00:14:03,666 This is a business based on rumors. 302 00:14:03,730 --> 00:14:05,733 It's pretty hard to keep something like that quiet. 303 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:07,905 Especially when your boss gives you crap about it. 304 00:14:07,969 --> 00:14:10,973 Yeah, well, like it or not, Wall Street's still an old boys club. 305 00:14:11,205 --> 00:14:13,378 Just not those kind of boys, huh? 306 00:14:14,041 --> 00:14:16,488 Trading stocks involves a certain degree of trust. 307 00:14:16,778 --> 00:14:19,258 When I asked, Sean told me it was just a college prank. 308 00:14:19,882 --> 00:14:21,384 You saw the picture. 309 00:14:21,450 --> 00:14:23,760 Did it look like a prank to you? 310 00:14:26,656 --> 00:14:29,865 Actually, Mrs. Simms, we're looking for your husband. 311 00:14:29,926 --> 00:14:30,961 Mitchel isn't here. 312 00:14:31,027 --> 00:14:33,439 Do you know where we can find him? 313 00:14:33,763 --> 00:14:34,970 What's this about? 314 00:14:35,032 --> 00:14:38,138 Does your husband know a man named Sean Alvarez? 315 00:14:39,637 --> 00:14:41,844 Uh, I've never heard the name before. 316 00:14:42,406 --> 00:14:43,441 What's going on? 317 00:14:43,507 --> 00:14:46,216 We got your husband's name from Mr. Alvarez's computer. 318 00:14:46,278 --> 00:14:48,451 It was on his list of e-mail addresses. 319 00:14:48,513 --> 00:14:52,325 BRISCOE: Mr. Alvarez was a broker with a firm called Braddock and Todd. 320 00:14:52,584 --> 00:14:54,257 Braddock and Todd? 321 00:14:54,620 --> 00:14:58,124 But my husband dealt with a man named Valentine, not Alvarez. 322 00:14:58,824 --> 00:14:59,962 Bruce Valentine? 323 00:15:00,259 --> 00:15:01,329 Yes. 324 00:15:02,161 --> 00:15:04,004 But why are you looking for Mitchel? 325 00:15:04,063 --> 00:15:06,237 Mr. Alvarez was killed two days ago. 326 00:15:06,533 --> 00:15:07,910 Oh, my God. 327 00:15:08,135 --> 00:15:10,411 ED: It's important that we find your husband. 328 00:15:10,470 --> 00:15:11,676 (SIGHS) 329 00:15:12,973 --> 00:15:15,386 Mitch didn't come home last night. 330 00:15:15,443 --> 00:15:18,185 He's a gambler. He hasn't had a real job in over a year. 331 00:15:18,246 --> 00:15:19,782 I think that's why he traded stocks. 332 00:15:19,847 --> 00:15:21,952 It was easier than going to the track. 333 00:15:22,016 --> 00:15:24,463 ED: How about a bookie or a favorite OTB parlor? 334 00:15:24,520 --> 00:15:25,760 I don't know. 335 00:15:25,821 --> 00:15:28,324 We don't want anybody to get hurt here, Mrs. Simms. 336 00:15:28,390 --> 00:15:30,734 I swear I don't know where he is. 337 00:15:31,393 --> 00:15:33,805 But please, please don't hurt him. 338 00:15:34,531 --> 00:15:36,909 Wife says at most he'd have a couple of hundred bucks. 339 00:15:36,967 --> 00:15:38,776 What about an ATM card? 340 00:15:38,868 --> 00:15:40,108 No funds available. 341 00:15:40,170 --> 00:15:44,847 Thank you. DMV has a '95 Ford Escort registered to Mitchel Simms 342 00:15:44,909 --> 00:15:46,081 under the same address. 343 00:15:46,143 --> 00:15:47,645 Add the plates to the hot sheet. 344 00:15:47,712 --> 00:15:51,524 Simms used a credit card to buy gas on the service road to the Van Wyck, 345 00:15:51,582 --> 00:15:53,061 day before yesterday. 346 00:15:53,150 --> 00:15:54,459 That's on the way to Kennedy. 347 00:15:54,519 --> 00:15:58,126 Call Port Authority police. Have them check all parking lots for Simms' car. 348 00:15:58,190 --> 00:16:00,431 And let's notify the airlines. 349 00:16:01,727 --> 00:16:05,471 Lot attendant says the car came in about 6:30, day before yesterday. 350 00:16:05,531 --> 00:16:07,738 Talk about long-term parking. 351 00:16:10,003 --> 00:16:11,641 ED: .38's in his lap. 352 00:16:11,838 --> 00:16:13,648 Same caliber as Alvarez. 353 00:16:13,707 --> 00:16:15,812 Nobody touches anything until CSU gets here. 354 00:16:15,876 --> 00:16:19,289 When they do, tell them to bag his hands for GAR, voucher the gun. 355 00:16:19,346 --> 00:16:20,757 (PLANE FLYING OVERHEAD) 356 00:16:20,814 --> 00:16:23,055 Maybe he was afraid of flying. 357 00:16:28,189 --> 00:16:30,226 It doesn't make any sense. 358 00:16:32,060 --> 00:16:33,904 Why would Mitchel kill himself? 359 00:16:33,963 --> 00:16:36,000 ED: The GAR came back from the lab. 360 00:16:36,465 --> 00:16:40,003 Your husband's right hand tested positive for gunpowder. 361 00:16:40,069 --> 00:16:41,673 And the receptionist at the brokerage 362 00:16:41,737 --> 00:16:44,344 just identified him as the man who shot her. 363 00:16:44,408 --> 00:16:45,648 But why? 364 00:16:45,876 --> 00:16:47,617 Why would Mitchel shoot these people? 365 00:16:48,545 --> 00:16:52,618 Do you know anything about an e-mail your husband may have sent Sean Alvarez? 366 00:16:53,384 --> 00:16:55,057 An e-mail he sent? 367 00:16:55,653 --> 00:16:57,564 CARMICHAEL: Of a threatening nature. 368 00:16:57,622 --> 00:16:59,329 If there was anybody Mitchel would've threatened, 369 00:16:59,390 --> 00:17:01,267 it would have been Bruce Valentine. 370 00:17:01,459 --> 00:17:02,939 Why do you say that? 371 00:17:02,995 --> 00:17:06,568 Maybe six months ago, Mitchel ran into Valentine. 372 00:17:06,865 --> 00:17:08,867 They went to high school together. 373 00:17:09,334 --> 00:17:11,712 He talked to Mitchel about investing. 374 00:17:11,770 --> 00:17:14,411 Said he would give him some stock tips. 375 00:17:14,474 --> 00:17:15,509 Did he? 376 00:17:15,575 --> 00:17:17,111 In the beginning. 377 00:17:17,177 --> 00:17:20,021 Then he stopped returning Mitchel's calls. 378 00:17:20,146 --> 00:17:24,152 Then one day he calls Mitchel. Tells him about some health stock. 379 00:17:24,218 --> 00:17:25,891 I forget the name. 380 00:17:26,620 --> 00:17:28,566 It went through the roof. 381 00:17:28,622 --> 00:17:31,569 I begged my husband to sell. But he wouldn't. 382 00:17:31,926 --> 00:17:33,338 ED: Why not? 383 00:17:34,096 --> 00:17:37,543 He said Bruce Valentine would tell him when to get out. 384 00:17:39,001 --> 00:17:40,480 He never did. 385 00:17:41,937 --> 00:17:43,246 Mrs. Simms was under the impression 386 00:17:43,306 --> 00:17:44,842 you were handling her husband's account. 387 00:17:44,907 --> 00:17:47,251 Yes, but I turned it over to Sean. 388 00:17:47,310 --> 00:17:50,814 But you were the one who told Mr. Simms about the Healthroad2000 stock? 389 00:17:50,880 --> 00:17:52,485 I think so, yes. 390 00:17:52,750 --> 00:17:56,027 So why would he be mad at Sean Alvarez and not you? 391 00:17:56,286 --> 00:17:57,390 (SIGHING) 392 00:17:57,454 --> 00:17:59,991 Look, maybe he just picked an easy target. 393 00:18:00,057 --> 00:18:03,528 I don't know. I'm just glad that I wasn't around at the time, you know? 394 00:18:04,963 --> 00:18:06,442 His wife says he was broke? 395 00:18:06,498 --> 00:18:08,444 Yeah, Mitch had some tough luck. 396 00:18:08,500 --> 00:18:09,979 Well, what was he buying stock with? 397 00:18:10,435 --> 00:18:11,914 We set up a margin account. 398 00:18:11,970 --> 00:18:13,507 Margin? Mmm-hmm. 399 00:18:13,939 --> 00:18:15,509 What did he use for collateral? 400 00:18:15,975 --> 00:18:17,386 He took out a second mortgage. 401 00:18:18,477 --> 00:18:19,785 When was that? 402 00:18:21,013 --> 00:18:23,119 When he opened the account. 403 00:18:23,483 --> 00:18:25,690 Yep. Mitchel Simms. 404 00:18:25,752 --> 00:18:30,633 Took out a loan of 42.5, underlying mortgage on the condo was for 130. 405 00:18:31,124 --> 00:18:34,129 Place was assessed at a little over two bills. 406 00:18:34,395 --> 00:18:35,669 But he never made a payment? 407 00:18:35,730 --> 00:18:37,073 Not a one. 408 00:18:37,632 --> 00:18:39,077 So why didn't you foreclose? 409 00:18:39,634 --> 00:18:41,341 Matter a fact, we filed papers last month. 410 00:18:41,402 --> 00:18:43,349 Only he came in about a week ago 411 00:18:43,405 --> 00:18:45,885 with a cashier's check for the whole nut. 412 00:18:46,108 --> 00:18:48,714 A cashier's check? Drawn on what bank? 413 00:18:49,745 --> 00:18:53,216 The check was drawn on Braddock and Todd's house account. 414 00:18:53,283 --> 00:18:55,627 Same ones who called in his margin. 415 00:18:55,685 --> 00:18:57,494 It's not exactly sound business practice 416 00:18:57,554 --> 00:19:00,125 to give money to a man who just lost his shirt in the market. 417 00:19:00,190 --> 00:19:02,831 Not unless you felt responsible for how he lost it. 418 00:19:02,893 --> 00:19:04,167 You think they were trying to make good? 419 00:19:04,228 --> 00:19:06,868 That or trying to make something bad go away. 420 00:19:07,064 --> 00:19:08,566 It was a loan. 421 00:19:09,099 --> 00:19:12,445 A loan to a customer who already owed you a substantial amount of money. 422 00:19:12,504 --> 00:19:13,505 Explain that to us. 423 00:19:14,172 --> 00:19:17,745 Well, Bruce Valentine recommended I make the loan. We did. 424 00:19:17,943 --> 00:19:19,923 Throwing good money after bad? 425 00:19:19,978 --> 00:19:22,585 Well, Bruce is my top performer, okay? 426 00:19:22,715 --> 00:19:25,457 For $45,000, I wasn't prepared to question him. 427 00:19:25,518 --> 00:19:27,657 No, especially not if you had concerns 428 00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:29,825 about how the money got lost in the first place, right? 429 00:19:33,160 --> 00:19:35,197 Simms had a margin account. 430 00:19:36,563 --> 00:19:37,769 Who approved that? 431 00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:41,976 CARMICHAEL: Another favor, Mr. Braddock? 432 00:19:42,036 --> 00:19:46,109 The truth is Bruce allowed the man to trade when he shouldn't have. 433 00:19:46,341 --> 00:19:47,342 What do you mean? 434 00:19:47,408 --> 00:19:49,820 He let his friendship cloud his judgment. 435 00:19:49,944 --> 00:19:52,084 Simms had a gambling problem. 436 00:19:52,648 --> 00:19:55,595 Bruce knew about it, but let Simms trade on margin anyway. 437 00:19:55,684 --> 00:19:58,187 So you paid $45,000 438 00:19:58,254 --> 00:20:01,566 to make up for Valentine's lack of judgment, is that it? 439 00:20:01,625 --> 00:20:05,300 Look, these kind of things can reflect badly on the entire firm. 440 00:20:05,362 --> 00:20:09,105 When Simms lost the money on Healthroad2000, he threatened us. 441 00:20:10,233 --> 00:20:12,475 The last thing I needed was a bunch of federal regulators 442 00:20:12,537 --> 00:20:15,609 rehashing old trades I'd already lost money on. 443 00:20:16,440 --> 00:20:20,252 A benevolent broker. Where were these people in '87? 444 00:20:20,344 --> 00:20:23,883 According to Braddock, it wasn't benevolence. It was expedience. 445 00:20:23,949 --> 00:20:26,759 I'm not buying it. How many people in the market lose money 446 00:20:26,818 --> 00:20:28,661 and then try to blame their brokers? 447 00:20:28,720 --> 00:20:31,395 A payoff on a claim of that kind just opens the floodgates. 448 00:20:31,457 --> 00:20:32,902 Braddock had to know that. 449 00:20:32,959 --> 00:20:36,668 So, the $45,000 was for something else. But what? Murder? 450 00:20:38,331 --> 00:20:41,438 These people seem to be making a lot of payoffs. 451 00:20:41,769 --> 00:20:43,544 To Alvarez, to Simms. 452 00:20:45,606 --> 00:20:48,746 This lawsuit, Ms. Carmichael, what do we know about it? 453 00:20:48,809 --> 00:20:51,313 Nothing. There's a non-disclosure agreement. 454 00:20:51,846 --> 00:20:54,019 Talk to the insurance carrier. 455 00:20:54,082 --> 00:20:58,087 See if we can find out what they were really trying to keep quiet. 456 00:21:01,390 --> 00:21:02,596 CARMICHAEL: $2 million? 457 00:21:02,658 --> 00:21:03,728 What were the facts? 458 00:21:03,793 --> 00:21:05,704 Just what's there in the complaint. 459 00:21:05,761 --> 00:21:06,796 What about depositions? 460 00:21:06,862 --> 00:21:08,773 No depositions were taken. 461 00:21:09,198 --> 00:21:10,678 No discovery? 462 00:21:11,034 --> 00:21:13,014 Isn't that unusual given the amount of the settlement? 463 00:21:13,070 --> 00:21:15,812 Not where one side's afraid of what might come out of discovery. 464 00:21:15,872 --> 00:21:18,318 One side meaning Braddock and Todd? 465 00:21:18,375 --> 00:21:21,448 I took a look at the photograph, then I called the kid's supervisor. 466 00:21:21,512 --> 00:21:23,549 He tells me we have serious problems. 467 00:21:23,615 --> 00:21:25,060 So I called my supervisor. 468 00:21:25,116 --> 00:21:26,117 And? 469 00:21:27,518 --> 00:21:30,523 Apparently, Mr. Braddock already spoke to him. 470 00:21:30,589 --> 00:21:35,095 Said the allegations were true and that he wanted the lawsuit put to bed quietly. 471 00:21:35,194 --> 00:21:36,195 So you settled? 472 00:21:36,261 --> 00:21:37,797 We took a look at the policy's limits 473 00:21:37,863 --> 00:21:41,243 and cut a check to the brokerage for Alvarez that afternoon. 474 00:21:41,301 --> 00:21:43,713 I had a signed release by morning. 475 00:21:44,738 --> 00:21:48,242 $2 million, and Braddock doesn't even put up a fight. 476 00:21:48,308 --> 00:21:51,688 Why should he with the insurance company footing the bill? 477 00:21:51,746 --> 00:21:55,421 It was like a virtual lawsuit. There's no saber rattling, no discovery. 478 00:21:55,850 --> 00:21:58,353 Alvarez doesn't even live long enough to cash the check. 479 00:21:58,552 --> 00:22:00,260 But that couldn't be the motive for killing him 480 00:22:00,322 --> 00:22:02,563 because the insurance money would just go to his estate. 481 00:22:04,593 --> 00:22:08,040 So is this really a murder for hire or just some 482 00:22:08,096 --> 00:22:10,304 garden-variety let's kill my broker? 483 00:22:13,169 --> 00:22:14,648 The e-mail that started this whole thing? 484 00:22:14,704 --> 00:22:17,913 Are we even sure that Simms is the one who sent it? 485 00:22:19,743 --> 00:22:21,051 The e-mail was deleted. 486 00:22:21,111 --> 00:22:22,351 You're certain? 487 00:22:22,413 --> 00:22:25,587 Looks like they ran a Y2K compliance program a few weeks ago. 488 00:22:25,649 --> 00:22:28,596 Seems to have taken out all the e-mails on the hard drive. 489 00:22:28,652 --> 00:22:29,825 Intentionally? 490 00:22:29,888 --> 00:22:32,596 If it wasn't, it certainly was careless. 491 00:22:32,691 --> 00:22:35,035 So there's no way to know who sent it? 492 00:22:35,093 --> 00:22:37,972 I can't tell you who, but I can tell you when. 493 00:22:38,029 --> 00:22:42,103 The hard drive's transaction log posts it in October. 494 00:22:42,735 --> 00:22:45,181 So I checked that against the company's main server, 495 00:22:45,237 --> 00:22:48,616 that log indicates it entered the system in December. 496 00:22:48,809 --> 00:22:50,550 So the e-mail was back dated? 497 00:22:50,610 --> 00:22:51,611 That they couldn't hide. 498 00:22:51,978 --> 00:22:53,218 How would that be done? 499 00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:54,816 With the administrator's code. 500 00:22:54,881 --> 00:22:56,918 With that you can forward an e-mail to any terminal 501 00:22:56,983 --> 00:22:59,260 and put whatever transaction date you wanted on it. 502 00:22:59,420 --> 00:23:00,455 Who would have the code? 503 00:23:00,521 --> 00:23:02,432 Only senior management. 504 00:23:03,725 --> 00:23:05,636 Why would a company want to plant an e-mail 505 00:23:05,693 --> 00:23:07,468 that was gonna cost them 2 million bucks? 506 00:23:07,528 --> 00:23:09,440 Because the money was to come from their insurance. 507 00:23:09,498 --> 00:23:12,411 They knew they wouldn't be out of pocket a penny. 508 00:23:12,468 --> 00:23:13,913 Perfect hush money. 509 00:23:13,969 --> 00:23:15,471 But to hush up who? 510 00:23:15,571 --> 00:23:20,612 Alvarez, Simms and Valentine were all involved with a stock called Healthroad2000.com. 511 00:23:20,910 --> 00:23:23,447 Takes us right back to the beginning. 512 00:23:24,047 --> 00:23:27,085 Looks like Braddock and Todd did a bunch of IPO's. 513 00:23:27,150 --> 00:23:29,461 Healthroad2000 was just one of them. 514 00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:31,363 These offshore holding companies, 515 00:23:31,422 --> 00:23:34,733 Healthroad's board of directors also controlled them. 516 00:23:34,825 --> 00:23:37,931 Same holding companies with this other start-up. 517 00:23:37,995 --> 00:23:39,475 This one, too. 518 00:23:41,433 --> 00:23:45,404 All these IPO's, same board of directors, same holding companies. 519 00:23:45,570 --> 00:23:47,345 Same pump and dumps. 520 00:23:48,508 --> 00:23:50,647 We did a good job, they came back. 521 00:23:50,710 --> 00:23:52,053 No wonder. 522 00:23:52,278 --> 00:23:56,124 We pulled the SEC's insider trading statements on each of these companies. 523 00:23:56,182 --> 00:23:59,062 All of them filed to sell their shares as soon as they could. 524 00:23:59,119 --> 00:24:00,223 That's perfectly legal. 525 00:24:00,287 --> 00:24:02,699 Unless they knew something the rest of us didn't. 526 00:24:02,756 --> 00:24:05,930 Each of these companies saw the value of their shares skyrocket, 527 00:24:05,993 --> 00:24:07,769 then the price just dives. 528 00:24:07,829 --> 00:24:09,570 The market's a risky place. 529 00:24:09,631 --> 00:24:12,407 People want certainty, they should put their money in CD's. 530 00:24:12,467 --> 00:24:15,812 What the people want, Mr. Braddock, is a level playing field. 531 00:24:16,037 --> 00:24:19,076 Our guess is Sean Alvarez discovered you weren't providing one. 532 00:24:19,141 --> 00:24:22,054 That's why you planted the e-mail, isn't it? 533 00:24:22,178 --> 00:24:25,955 To create a bogus lawsuit in order to pay off Sean Alvarez. 534 00:24:26,315 --> 00:24:28,023 That's insurance fraud for starters. 535 00:24:28,084 --> 00:24:31,554 And who knows how many violations of federal security laws 536 00:24:31,621 --> 00:24:32,929 on the stock scheme. 537 00:24:32,989 --> 00:24:35,128 The federal sentencing guidelines for these crimes 538 00:24:35,192 --> 00:24:38,265 have been described as draconian, Mr. Braddock. 539 00:24:38,362 --> 00:24:40,865 I'm not a criminal lawyer, Carl, but I wouldn't answer anything else. 540 00:24:40,932 --> 00:24:43,208 JACK: He's right. Save your explanation for the jury. 541 00:24:43,267 --> 00:24:45,941 Only sometimes a murder charge has a chilling effect 542 00:24:46,003 --> 00:24:48,143 on a defendant's decision to take the stand. 543 00:24:48,207 --> 00:24:49,242 Murder? 544 00:24:49,308 --> 00:24:52,949 That's what the $45,000 you paid Mitchel Simms was for, wasn't it? 545 00:24:53,245 --> 00:24:54,724 To kill Sean Alvarez? 546 00:24:54,780 --> 00:24:56,123 I didn't kill anyone. 547 00:24:56,181 --> 00:24:58,321 It's your name on the check. 548 00:25:00,353 --> 00:25:01,559 (SIGHS) 549 00:25:05,358 --> 00:25:06,837 You know, in the old days, 550 00:25:06,893 --> 00:25:09,704 you made someone 10%, you were doing your job. 551 00:25:09,763 --> 00:25:10,798 Not anymore. 552 00:25:11,565 --> 00:25:14,068 Today, everyone wants to double their money. 553 00:25:14,134 --> 00:25:17,639 Not in a year. In weeks. Hours. 554 00:25:18,073 --> 00:25:19,609 JACK: Business was tough. 555 00:25:20,041 --> 00:25:21,918 That's your excuse, Mr. Braddock? 556 00:25:24,179 --> 00:25:26,659 I told Bruce there was no reason to kill them. 557 00:25:26,715 --> 00:25:29,560 But he was just talking crazy. 558 00:25:30,386 --> 00:25:32,889 But ever since we started dealing with those people... 559 00:25:33,589 --> 00:25:35,432 What people are we talking about? 560 00:25:35,992 --> 00:25:38,098 Haven't you figured it out? 561 00:25:38,529 --> 00:25:42,341 The men who controlled those companies, these board of directors. 562 00:25:43,700 --> 00:25:45,941 They're the mob, for God's sake. 563 00:25:54,946 --> 00:25:59,020 JACK: Carl Braddock says you were the front man for an organized crime group 564 00:25:59,084 --> 00:26:01,621 trading stocks through his brokerage. 565 00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:05,566 He says it was you who paid Mitchel Simms to kill Sean Alvarez. 566 00:26:05,991 --> 00:26:07,903 That's murder for hire, Mr. Valentine. 567 00:26:07,961 --> 00:26:09,907 You get a needle for that in this state. 568 00:26:09,963 --> 00:26:11,408 And it won't be for a flu shot. 569 00:26:11,498 --> 00:26:16,710 Well, now, let's all just slow down here for a minute, shall we? 570 00:26:18,039 --> 00:26:21,851 I assume Mr. Braddock didn't provide his information for free. 571 00:26:22,176 --> 00:26:26,626 We turned our prosecution of Mr. Braddock over to the federal authorities. 572 00:26:27,049 --> 00:26:29,051 They'll consider his cooperation. 573 00:26:29,117 --> 00:26:30,755 We want the same arrangement. 574 00:26:30,852 --> 00:26:33,298 JACK: I'll hear what he has to say. 575 00:26:35,057 --> 00:26:36,264 (SIGHS) 576 00:26:37,260 --> 00:26:39,365 I was approached about a year ago. 577 00:26:39,429 --> 00:26:41,067 JACK: Approached by who? 578 00:26:41,130 --> 00:26:43,041 Joseph Dantoni, Jr. 579 00:26:43,199 --> 00:26:45,270 Of the Dantoni crime family? 580 00:26:45,335 --> 00:26:47,839 Joey Jr. and I went to high school together. 581 00:26:47,905 --> 00:26:48,975 With Mitchel Simms? 582 00:26:49,807 --> 00:26:52,413 Yeah, I've handled some investments for Joey's father. 583 00:26:52,476 --> 00:26:55,150 Very conservative. But Joey wasn't blind. 584 00:26:55,446 --> 00:26:58,053 He saw how easily the market could be manipulated. 585 00:26:58,116 --> 00:26:59,254 How did that work? 586 00:26:59,317 --> 00:27:02,230 I set up some offshore shells to run the stocks through 587 00:27:02,287 --> 00:27:05,291 and then I'd post favorable information about them in chat rooms 588 00:27:05,357 --> 00:27:07,133 when we were ready to go public with the company. 589 00:27:07,193 --> 00:27:08,638 JACK: And Sean Alvarez? 590 00:27:10,363 --> 00:27:13,776 Obviously he did his homework. Found out what I was doing. 591 00:27:14,367 --> 00:27:16,041 He threatened to go to the SEC, 592 00:27:16,103 --> 00:27:19,141 so we came up with the idea of a phony lawsuit to pay him off. 593 00:27:19,206 --> 00:27:22,983 So you planted an e-mail to create a false claim of harassment? 594 00:27:23,043 --> 00:27:25,991 There was no other way to get Sean the money. 595 00:27:26,180 --> 00:27:28,319 The insurance company paid off right away. 596 00:27:28,816 --> 00:27:30,420 So what went wrong? 597 00:27:32,186 --> 00:27:35,099 Joey didn't trust Sean to keep his mouth shut. 598 00:27:37,526 --> 00:27:40,939 You're saying Joseph Dantoni, Jr. had Sean Alvarez killed? 599 00:27:42,364 --> 00:27:45,312 About a week after Joey found out about Sean, 600 00:27:45,935 --> 00:27:47,414 he called me. 601 00:27:48,438 --> 00:27:50,213 Told me what he was gonna do. 602 00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:53,211 See, Simms was into them for a lot of money. 603 00:27:53,276 --> 00:27:54,277 And Joey just figured 604 00:27:54,344 --> 00:27:57,519 Mitch would look like some disgruntled customer gone crazy. 605 00:28:01,552 --> 00:28:04,032 Your client remains in jail until I check out his story. 606 00:28:04,088 --> 00:28:05,727 He'll need protection. 607 00:28:06,258 --> 00:28:08,135 Yes, I'm sure he will. 608 00:28:12,664 --> 00:28:15,942 Let's pick up Dantoni. I want this in the grand jury right away. 609 00:28:16,002 --> 00:28:17,413 (KNOCKING ON DOOR) 610 00:28:18,604 --> 00:28:19,912 Joseph Dantoni. 611 00:28:21,140 --> 00:28:22,210 What's this about? 612 00:28:22,275 --> 00:28:23,413 On your feet, Mr. Dantoni. 613 00:28:23,476 --> 00:28:25,582 Okay. Okay. Just let me take care of the check. 614 00:28:25,646 --> 00:28:26,852 Save it for bail. 615 00:28:26,914 --> 00:28:28,222 ED: You have the right to remain silent. 616 00:28:28,315 --> 00:28:30,852 Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. 617 00:28:35,457 --> 00:28:37,698 What's this? I thought I had the Hinkson case this morning. 618 00:28:37,759 --> 00:28:40,603 Judge, this was added to the calendar at defense counsel's request. 619 00:28:40,662 --> 00:28:43,302 Joseph Dantoni, Jr. Murder in the first degree. 620 00:28:43,364 --> 00:28:47,177 Your Honor, Mr. McCoy is before the grand jury on this matter as we speak. 621 00:28:47,236 --> 00:28:48,943 JUDGE: What's the rush, Mr. Patton? 622 00:28:49,004 --> 00:28:50,642 Your Honor, may we approach? 623 00:28:55,412 --> 00:28:58,723 Judge, I tried Mr. McCoy this morning. I wasn't able to reach him. 624 00:28:58,782 --> 00:29:00,386 I was hoping to have a conversation with him 625 00:29:00,450 --> 00:29:03,693 before any murder indictment was voted in this case. 626 00:29:03,754 --> 00:29:07,498 A conversation? You're saying your client wants to cooperate? 627 00:29:07,725 --> 00:29:10,262 Not him. His father. 628 00:29:12,029 --> 00:29:13,872 I appreciate your seeing me, Mr. McCoy. 629 00:29:13,931 --> 00:29:15,639 This isn't a courtesy. 630 00:29:15,701 --> 00:29:18,045 You have information regarding this homicide? 631 00:29:18,103 --> 00:29:20,549 Yeah, we do. 632 00:29:21,140 --> 00:29:23,518 You understand there's no offer of immunity. 633 00:29:23,575 --> 00:29:25,021 For either you or your son. 634 00:29:25,078 --> 00:29:28,491 Mr. Dantoni merely seeks the same protection your office 635 00:29:28,548 --> 00:29:30,391 provides any other crime victim. 636 00:29:30,450 --> 00:29:31,929 Crime victim? 637 00:29:33,319 --> 00:29:36,130 This is a strange situation for all of us. 638 00:29:36,724 --> 00:29:38,795 I'm used to handling my own problems my own way. 639 00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:41,837 But this is different. 640 00:29:42,563 --> 00:29:44,805 My son did not commit any murder. 641 00:29:46,234 --> 00:29:48,680 That's the extent of your information? 642 00:29:48,870 --> 00:29:50,508 My son's a moron. 643 00:29:51,873 --> 00:29:52,977 But he's not a murderer. 644 00:29:53,041 --> 00:29:55,852 So he's only half a chip off the old block? 645 00:29:58,414 --> 00:29:59,757 Look, Joey might have been aggressive 646 00:29:59,816 --> 00:30:02,456 in terms of pursuing profits in the market. 647 00:30:02,518 --> 00:30:04,726 Certain rules might have been broken. 648 00:30:04,788 --> 00:30:08,600 But he never murdered nobody or hired nobody to murder nobody. 649 00:30:09,626 --> 00:30:11,037 How do you know this? 650 00:30:11,261 --> 00:30:12,672 I asked him. 651 00:30:13,565 --> 00:30:17,206 I asked him once I realized he'd lost over $4 million of my money. 652 00:30:18,536 --> 00:30:22,348 I took a look at these holding companies my genius son set up. 653 00:30:22,740 --> 00:30:26,314 Turns out all the assets were controlled by Valentine, not Joey. 654 00:30:26,846 --> 00:30:29,087 Only now, none of them got any assets. 655 00:30:29,148 --> 00:30:32,789 Mr. Dantoni's prepared to testify that his brokerage account, 656 00:30:32,852 --> 00:30:35,800 as well as the accounts of eight other of his associates, 657 00:30:35,855 --> 00:30:40,065 all with what you would call organized crime connections, 658 00:30:40,460 --> 00:30:44,773 were looted by the brokerage of Braddock and Todd. 659 00:30:44,932 --> 00:30:48,903 In proper parlance, Bruce Valentine cooked the books. 660 00:30:49,437 --> 00:30:53,944 This Valentine told my son Joey that these stock schemes were making money. 661 00:30:54,009 --> 00:30:57,252 Meantime, the guy's stealing from Peter to pay Paul. 662 00:30:57,946 --> 00:30:59,619 What about Mitchel Simms? 663 00:31:00,015 --> 00:31:01,517 Valentine whacked him. 664 00:31:01,583 --> 00:31:02,892 Convenient for you. 665 00:31:02,952 --> 00:31:06,832 Hey, I'm gonna hit Simms, I ain't gonna make it look like a suicide. 666 00:31:06,890 --> 00:31:08,665 Defeats the purpose. 667 00:31:09,092 --> 00:31:10,298 You don't believe me? 668 00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:12,306 Check your records on the .38. 669 00:31:12,362 --> 00:31:13,671 What will we find? 670 00:31:13,731 --> 00:31:15,836 Well, let's just say it wasn't fresh off the shelf. 671 00:31:16,834 --> 00:31:19,678 Valentine asked my son Joey for a gun a couple of months ago. 672 00:31:20,504 --> 00:31:23,884 Said he was afraid to be carrying so much cash around. 673 00:31:24,376 --> 00:31:28,085 Turns out it was my cash. 674 00:31:31,916 --> 00:31:36,195 I'm surprised that Dantoni isn't asking us to take a blood oath. 675 00:31:36,255 --> 00:31:39,464 Fact is our forensic accountant backs up his claim. 676 00:31:41,661 --> 00:31:45,735 The pilfered brokerage accounts were established 25 years ago. 677 00:31:46,266 --> 00:31:47,904 You're telling me the money's legit? 678 00:31:48,635 --> 00:31:51,673 I'm telling you there's no way to prove that it isn't. 679 00:31:51,738 --> 00:31:54,845 There's also no way a lawyer like Richard Patton gets involved 680 00:31:54,909 --> 00:31:56,286 if the money wasn't clean. 681 00:31:56,344 --> 00:31:57,584 What about the .38? 682 00:31:57,645 --> 00:32:00,626 Ballistics traced it back to an underworld slaying three years ago. 683 00:32:00,848 --> 00:32:02,795 Fine. Mob gun, mob murder. 684 00:32:02,851 --> 00:32:04,990 CARMICHAEL: Except that we wouldn't have known about the slaying 685 00:32:05,054 --> 00:32:06,658 if it weren't for Dantoni. 686 00:32:06,722 --> 00:32:10,636 Joey Jr. will testify he gave the gun to Valentine six months before 687 00:32:10,693 --> 00:32:11,934 in front of witnesses, 688 00:32:11,995 --> 00:32:13,975 two of whom had no record. 689 00:32:14,030 --> 00:32:16,032 None of us are happy about this, Adam. 690 00:32:16,266 --> 00:32:18,872 But if Valentine hired Simms to kill Alvarez 691 00:32:18,935 --> 00:32:22,110 and then killed Simms himself, he deserves the death penalty. 692 00:32:23,207 --> 00:32:27,087 So we end up performing our first hit for the mob. 693 00:32:27,812 --> 00:32:28,916 (SCOFFS) 694 00:32:28,979 --> 00:32:31,688 We've never drawn a distinction between crime victims before. 695 00:32:32,718 --> 00:32:34,220 Crime victims. 696 00:32:35,020 --> 00:32:38,001 And what do they want for all these little tidbits of information? 697 00:32:38,557 --> 00:32:41,299 Consideration for Joey Jr. on the stock scheme. 698 00:32:43,162 --> 00:32:45,073 Crime victims my elbow. 699 00:32:49,268 --> 00:32:51,977 Bruce came to me and said he had a group of investors 700 00:32:52,039 --> 00:32:55,612 interested in setting up companies and then taking them public 701 00:32:55,676 --> 00:32:56,950 through the brokerage. 702 00:32:57,611 --> 00:33:00,888 When did you learn these companies were actually fronts for organized crime? 703 00:33:01,048 --> 00:33:02,790 It was pretty clear at our first meeting. 704 00:33:02,851 --> 00:33:04,262 JACK: How did the plan work? 705 00:33:04,319 --> 00:33:08,358 Bruce set up these companies, then used money from the brokerage accounts 706 00:33:08,423 --> 00:33:11,063 to show assets to the investment banks. 707 00:33:11,694 --> 00:33:14,004 Then he took them public through my firm. 708 00:33:14,130 --> 00:33:15,268 And what happened? 709 00:33:15,331 --> 00:33:20,007 Bruce created markets for the stock through various chat rooms on the Internet 710 00:33:20,069 --> 00:33:23,142 and through our association with other retailers. 711 00:33:23,206 --> 00:33:24,776 And the stock prices went up? 712 00:33:24,975 --> 00:33:26,283 They skyrocketed. 713 00:33:26,343 --> 00:33:29,222 So how did Mr. Valentine end up losing the money? 714 00:33:29,279 --> 00:33:32,193 Mr. Dantoni and the others were insiders. 715 00:33:32,250 --> 00:33:34,856 Legally, they couldn't sell their shares right away. 716 00:33:34,919 --> 00:33:38,423 While they were waiting, the market had a correction. 717 00:33:38,856 --> 00:33:41,497 Bruce just wasn't able to sustain the price long enough. 718 00:33:42,094 --> 00:33:45,337 He started using the companies own cash to buy more stock. 719 00:33:45,397 --> 00:33:46,876 Eventually, he lost everything. 720 00:33:46,932 --> 00:33:49,742 How did he manage to hide this from you and the others? 721 00:33:49,935 --> 00:33:52,041 By using false financial statements 722 00:33:52,105 --> 00:33:55,416 and a variety of other accounts to cover the losses. 723 00:33:55,542 --> 00:33:57,283 But Sean Alvarez found out? 724 00:33:59,946 --> 00:34:02,757 I don't know what Sean knew, 725 00:34:03,217 --> 00:34:05,788 just that Bruce said we had to pay him off. 726 00:34:05,886 --> 00:34:07,297 And did you? 727 00:34:08,923 --> 00:34:11,336 Yes. Bruce planted an e-mail 728 00:34:11,393 --> 00:34:14,806 in order to create an harassment claim against us. 729 00:34:15,297 --> 00:34:18,574 Then we used the insurance money to pay Sean. 730 00:34:19,734 --> 00:34:21,339 Nothing further. 731 00:34:24,874 --> 00:34:29,016 You didn't object to this alleged stock scheme, did you? 732 00:34:31,014 --> 00:34:32,049 No. 733 00:34:32,116 --> 00:34:35,825 To using mob money to further your own aims? 734 00:34:37,421 --> 00:34:38,764 No, I didn't. 735 00:34:38,822 --> 00:34:41,133 Even to committing insurance fraud? 736 00:34:43,428 --> 00:34:45,339 I thought I had no choice. 737 00:34:47,499 --> 00:34:49,274 I'm sure you didn't. 738 00:34:49,801 --> 00:34:52,282 In fact, you thought there was a chance you might be killed. 739 00:34:53,072 --> 00:34:54,073 Yes. 740 00:34:54,173 --> 00:34:57,518 Killed by the same people the district attorney's office 741 00:34:57,576 --> 00:35:00,319 has paraded in front of this jury as crime victims? 742 00:35:00,380 --> 00:35:01,415 Objection. 743 00:35:01,481 --> 00:35:02,755 Sustained. 744 00:35:05,085 --> 00:35:10,832 Now, my client had no authority to orchestrate an insurance payoff, did he? 745 00:35:11,659 --> 00:35:12,694 No. 746 00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:17,607 In fact, the agreement to keep silent was between your brokerage and Mr. Alvarez. 747 00:35:17,665 --> 00:35:20,306 Mr. Valentine's name wasn't even mentioned, was it? 748 00:35:20,369 --> 00:35:22,144 No, it... It wasn't. 749 00:35:23,005 --> 00:35:24,382 By the way. 750 00:35:25,174 --> 00:35:28,383 You lied about all this to the police, didn't you? 751 00:35:29,478 --> 00:35:30,549 Yes. 752 00:35:30,647 --> 00:35:34,288 Because you thought they would think that it was you who hired Mr. Simms, 753 00:35:35,151 --> 00:35:36,357 wasn't it? 754 00:35:37,420 --> 00:35:39,229 Seems to me, Mr. Braddock, 755 00:35:39,289 --> 00:35:41,531 you had as much reason to see these people dead 756 00:35:41,592 --> 00:35:43,629 as any of the People's witnesses in this case. 757 00:35:43,694 --> 00:35:44,695 Objection. 758 00:35:46,564 --> 00:35:48,168 Nothing further. 759 00:35:52,704 --> 00:35:56,447 I let my son run my business interest while I was in Florida. 760 00:35:57,042 --> 00:35:59,044 Famous last words, right? 761 00:35:59,579 --> 00:36:01,354 JACK: What happened? 762 00:36:02,482 --> 00:36:05,656 He started trading with this Valentine character. 763 00:36:06,119 --> 00:36:08,065 He and Joey were friends from high school. 764 00:36:09,156 --> 00:36:12,569 They cooked up some scheme where they'd set up a company with Joey's... 765 00:36:13,460 --> 00:36:14,734 My money. 766 00:36:15,696 --> 00:36:17,767 Then hype the stock and get out with a profit. 767 00:36:18,232 --> 00:36:19,735 You were kept informed of this? 768 00:36:19,968 --> 00:36:23,142 Are you kidding me? I'm the generation that made it. 769 00:36:23,204 --> 00:36:25,081 My son's the one who spends it. 770 00:36:25,607 --> 00:36:29,021 We've heard testimony from several witnesses and your son 771 00:36:29,078 --> 00:36:31,991 that a great deal of money was lost by them. 772 00:36:32,214 --> 00:36:34,285 How much money was lost by you? 773 00:36:34,350 --> 00:36:36,261 Little over 4 million. 774 00:36:37,987 --> 00:36:40,093 Mr. Valentine's lawyer suggests 775 00:36:40,156 --> 00:36:44,127 your son was responsible for the murders of Mitchel Simms and Sean Alvarez. 776 00:36:44,594 --> 00:36:45,698 Not true. 777 00:36:45,762 --> 00:36:47,571 How do you know that? 778 00:36:49,133 --> 00:36:51,511 Because my son didn't have the authority. 779 00:36:52,637 --> 00:36:54,082 The authority? 780 00:36:55,106 --> 00:36:56,983 I'll rely on my constitutional right 781 00:36:57,041 --> 00:37:00,421 against self-incrimination and just leave it at that. 782 00:37:04,917 --> 00:37:06,521 Nothing further. 783 00:37:10,089 --> 00:37:12,535 Your son didn't have the authority? 784 00:37:13,359 --> 00:37:14,838 That's right. 785 00:37:15,561 --> 00:37:16,904 Meaning you do? 786 00:37:16,963 --> 00:37:22,038 Meaning if something's gonna be done in my name, I have the final say-so. Yeah. 787 00:37:22,903 --> 00:37:27,079 Is this some type of organization that we're unaware of, Mr. Dantoni? 788 00:37:29,177 --> 00:37:31,919 Oh, I think you know what I'm talking about, Counselor. 789 00:37:31,980 --> 00:37:35,826 Yes, I think I do. I just want to make sure that the jury does. 790 00:37:36,017 --> 00:37:37,553 This is a chart 791 00:37:38,588 --> 00:37:39,589 of all the crimes 792 00:37:39,655 --> 00:37:43,865 some of the People's witnesses have been charged with or convicted of. 793 00:37:43,926 --> 00:37:44,927 Objection. 794 00:37:44,994 --> 00:37:46,268 Overruled. 795 00:37:48,165 --> 00:37:50,702 Now, let's see, amongst other things, 796 00:37:50,767 --> 00:37:54,579 murder, racketeering, bribery, 797 00:37:54,638 --> 00:37:56,447 (SIGHS) assault, arson, 798 00:37:56,506 --> 00:37:57,781 jury tampering. 799 00:37:58,643 --> 00:38:00,554 Did I miss anything, Mr. Dantoni? 800 00:38:00,611 --> 00:38:03,922 Yeah. That I was acquitted of the bribery charge. 801 00:38:06,050 --> 00:38:08,190 I'm sorry. You're right. 802 00:38:09,288 --> 00:38:12,861 But then that's what led up to the jury tampering indictment, isn't it? 803 00:38:14,293 --> 00:38:17,502 In fact, every witness against Mr. Valentine 804 00:38:17,898 --> 00:38:20,708 has been convicted of one felony or another, haven't they? 805 00:38:20,767 --> 00:38:21,802 Objection. 806 00:38:21,868 --> 00:38:23,279 That I'll sustain. 807 00:38:23,837 --> 00:38:26,477 We paid our debt to society, Counselor. 808 00:38:26,906 --> 00:38:29,148 It's time for your client to pony up. 809 00:38:30,244 --> 00:38:32,246 You say you lost $4 million? 810 00:38:33,347 --> 00:38:34,382 Yeah. 811 00:38:34,448 --> 00:38:36,894 Where'd you get that money from, Mr. Dantoni? 812 00:38:38,153 --> 00:38:40,565 My accountant can better answer that question. 813 00:38:40,956 --> 00:38:43,163 It was from illegal activities, wasn't it? 814 00:38:43,825 --> 00:38:45,361 Absolutely not. 815 00:38:46,028 --> 00:38:47,906 Come on, Mr. Dantoni. 816 00:38:48,131 --> 00:38:51,601 You were so honest with us before about your authority. 817 00:38:52,368 --> 00:38:53,904 Why be shy now? 818 00:38:54,070 --> 00:38:55,413 Objection. 819 00:38:56,572 --> 00:38:58,348 STOKELY: Doesn't really matter if he answers. 820 00:38:59,310 --> 00:39:03,156 Like he said, "We all know what we're talking about here." 821 00:39:09,487 --> 00:39:11,592 The first time I had a witness take the Fifth Amendment 822 00:39:11,690 --> 00:39:13,636 and didn't try to make him pay for it. 823 00:39:13,725 --> 00:39:17,196 Never say never. We already have a defendant to convict. 824 00:39:17,763 --> 00:39:19,743 Valentine's taking the stand tomorrow. 825 00:39:19,799 --> 00:39:22,405 He'll try and blame the mob for the murders. 826 00:39:22,468 --> 00:39:25,005 Time to make your bones, consigliere. 827 00:39:28,008 --> 00:39:29,214 (SIGHS) 828 00:39:32,179 --> 00:39:34,785 We have Dantoni losing 4 million, right? 829 00:39:34,848 --> 00:39:36,954 4,000,000. 830 00:39:37,018 --> 00:39:40,022 And the other eight accounts, Dantoni's associates, how much all told? 831 00:39:40,988 --> 00:39:42,695 Give or take another 9 million. 832 00:39:43,024 --> 00:39:45,971 So that's 13 million invested with Valentine. 833 00:39:49,398 --> 00:39:50,536 Something wrong? 834 00:39:51,100 --> 00:39:53,341 I just added up all the capital funneled through this thing 835 00:39:53,402 --> 00:39:55,143 and I get 15 million. 836 00:39:55,971 --> 00:39:57,713 We're 2 million short. 837 00:39:57,907 --> 00:40:00,547 This guy just doesn't know how to stop. 838 00:40:01,377 --> 00:40:03,050 Yes, I took money. 839 00:40:03,613 --> 00:40:05,650 And, yes, I paid Sean and Mitchel to keep quiet. 840 00:40:05,715 --> 00:40:08,822 But I never murdered anyone. 841 00:40:09,820 --> 00:40:13,529 You never hired Mitchel Simms to kill Sean Alvarez? 842 00:40:14,024 --> 00:40:15,128 Why would I? 843 00:40:15,192 --> 00:40:18,299 Sean would've gotten in almost as much trouble as I would if he would've talked. 844 00:40:18,396 --> 00:40:20,376 No. The Dantonis. 845 00:40:21,166 --> 00:40:23,009 They're the ones who kill. 846 00:40:23,502 --> 00:40:25,948 And now they're trying to blame me. 847 00:40:27,073 --> 00:40:28,882 No further questions. 848 00:40:34,847 --> 00:40:37,852 Standing over the lifeless body of Sean Alvarez, 849 00:40:37,918 --> 00:40:41,627 you lied to two New York City detectives 850 00:40:41,688 --> 00:40:45,329 when you told them that you knew nothing about his murder, didn't you? 851 00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:46,864 I was scared. 852 00:40:46,928 --> 00:40:48,601 Scared of the mob? 853 00:40:48,963 --> 00:40:49,964 That's right. 854 00:40:50,031 --> 00:40:52,705 But not too scared to do business with them? 855 00:40:53,568 --> 00:40:56,914 When did this fear of the mob you say caused you to lie 856 00:40:56,972 --> 00:40:59,976 first begin to afflict you, Mr. Valentine? 857 00:41:01,110 --> 00:41:02,453 I can't really say. 858 00:41:02,778 --> 00:41:06,192 Seems to me it must have been when you realized that those stock scams of yours 859 00:41:06,683 --> 00:41:08,162 weren't going to work. 860 00:41:08,218 --> 00:41:09,526 I told you, I can't say. 861 00:41:09,586 --> 00:41:12,396 Well, isn't that when you asked Joey Jr. for a gun? 862 00:41:12,455 --> 00:41:14,332 I didn't ask Joey for a gun. 863 00:41:14,391 --> 00:41:17,839 Two witnesses, with absolutely nothing to fear, say that you did. 864 00:41:18,162 --> 00:41:19,232 They're lying. 865 00:41:19,297 --> 00:41:22,244 Or maybe it was when you committed insurance fraud? Was that when it started? 866 00:41:22,300 --> 00:41:23,540 Sean was blackmailing me. 867 00:41:23,601 --> 00:41:27,209 But Mitchel Simms wasn't blackmailing you about the mob, was he? 868 00:41:27,272 --> 00:41:29,115 And you paid him off too, didn't you? 869 00:41:30,175 --> 00:41:31,176 Yes. 870 00:41:31,243 --> 00:41:34,053 So if it wasn't fear of the mob that made you do it, 871 00:41:34,112 --> 00:41:36,093 what was it, Mr. Valentine? 872 00:41:37,617 --> 00:41:39,221 I don't know what you're talking about. 873 00:41:39,285 --> 00:41:41,356 I'm talking about opportunity. 874 00:41:41,421 --> 00:41:43,833 That's the name of the game in your business, isn't it? 875 00:41:43,890 --> 00:41:47,031 Recognizing opportunity and taking advantage of it? 876 00:41:47,094 --> 00:41:48,437 I suppose. 877 00:41:49,029 --> 00:41:52,943 How much of the mob's money did you say you lost, Mr. Valentine? 878 00:41:53,567 --> 00:41:55,570 $13 million. 879 00:41:55,670 --> 00:41:59,117 Yet we found that 15 million in capital 880 00:41:59,541 --> 00:42:01,487 was funneled through those accounts. 881 00:42:01,543 --> 00:42:06,015 So where did that extra $2 million come from? 882 00:42:09,352 --> 00:42:10,558 I don't know. 883 00:42:11,253 --> 00:42:14,257 It came from the insurance settlement, didn't it? 884 00:42:14,992 --> 00:42:17,734 You never gave the money to Sean Alvarez. 885 00:42:19,563 --> 00:42:23,238 You stole it and used it for your stock scheme. 886 00:42:24,201 --> 00:42:26,375 That's why you had to kill Sean Alvarez, isn't it? No. 887 00:42:26,437 --> 00:42:30,783 There is no record of $2 million ever being paid 888 00:42:31,276 --> 00:42:33,916 from Braddock and Todd to Sean Alvarez. 889 00:42:34,345 --> 00:42:36,690 Another opportunity presented itself and you took it. 890 00:42:36,749 --> 00:42:38,023 Isn't that right, Mr. Valentine? 891 00:42:38,083 --> 00:42:39,118 No. 892 00:42:39,184 --> 00:42:42,688 I think you arranged to meet Mitchel Simms. 893 00:42:42,922 --> 00:42:45,665 I think you used his desperation 894 00:42:45,792 --> 00:42:47,601 to force him to kill Sean Alvarez. 895 00:42:47,661 --> 00:42:48,662 Objection. 896 00:42:48,728 --> 00:42:51,641 And later, you lured him to the airport and killed him 897 00:42:51,698 --> 00:42:54,441 with the gun given to you by Joey Dantoni, 898 00:42:54,502 --> 00:42:56,038 knowing that you could blame the mob. 899 00:42:56,103 --> 00:42:57,776 That's not true! (STAMMERING) I didn't. 900 00:42:57,838 --> 00:43:00,648 Stock fraud, insurance fraud, payoffs, finally murder. 901 00:43:00,708 --> 00:43:02,585 All crimes of opportunity. 902 00:43:02,643 --> 00:43:05,056 But you're all out of chances now. 903 00:43:07,049 --> 00:43:09,086 Aren't you, Mr. Valentine? 904 00:43:31,008 --> 00:43:32,112 Members of the jury 905 00:43:32,176 --> 00:43:34,817 I am advised by the clerk that you have reached a verdict? 906 00:43:35,580 --> 00:43:36,820 We have, Your Honor. 907 00:43:37,015 --> 00:43:38,892 JUDGE: Please read it. 908 00:43:38,984 --> 00:43:41,089 In the matter of The People v. Valentine, 909 00:43:41,352 --> 00:43:43,833 on the count of murder in the first degree, 910 00:43:43,889 --> 00:43:46,392 we find the defendant guilty. 911 00:43:46,459 --> 00:43:48,097 (PEOPLE MURMURING) 912 00:43:51,364 --> 00:43:54,505 Members of the jury, you are excused until Monday morning, 913 00:43:54,568 --> 00:43:57,981 whereupon the death penalty phase of this trial shall begin. 914 00:43:58,839 --> 00:44:00,443 (GAVEL BANGS) 915 00:44:09,784 --> 00:44:10,819 So? 916 00:44:13,589 --> 00:44:16,229 The jury gave Valentine the death penalty. 917 00:44:17,459 --> 00:44:19,132 They were out for less than an hour. 918 00:44:19,194 --> 00:44:21,538 Nothing redeemable about Wall Street. 919 00:44:21,597 --> 00:44:23,373 What about Center Street? 920 00:44:23,433 --> 00:44:24,434 Oh. 921 00:44:24,968 --> 00:44:26,845 Now you have scruples? 922 00:44:27,871 --> 00:44:29,851 We avenged Sean Alvarez. 923 00:44:31,307 --> 00:44:33,618 I still have to call the family. 924 00:44:34,044 --> 00:44:35,387 Which one?