She has, she testifies, "participated in numerous investigations involving crimes related to violations of immigration laws," including "petitions and applications submitted by individuals seeking immigration benefits".
"I think I must have been pretty drunk or else I wouldn't have," she testified.
But had she testified, she would have been asked at least one follow up about her story that she sold her ImClone shares as a result of a prior arrangement with her Merrill Lynch broker, Peter Bacanovic, rather than because she was tipped off by her broker's assistant, as the jury found.
She had, she testified, relented after physical and emotional pressure.
A second witness in the case, Julissa Goris, the police officer who arrested Mr. Lopresti, in December 2006, was caught on a wiretap discussing two tickets she had sought to have fixed, she testified in court last month.
She had always, she testified, "formed really close relationships with women, and I have only ever fallen in love with women.
When a prosecutor, Julia McClure, asked Ms. Huang what she understood Mr. Ravi to have meant, she testified that she believed that the webcam feed would show "a man with another man".
But hadn't she testified that the new commission rates would result in those clients paying the auction house $10 million to $15 million more annually?
But this, too, meant nothing to her. "I wish I had had that knowledge," she testified.
"The individual market in Kansas and anywhere in the country has never had consumer protections," she testified at the hearing.
