One anxious woman told the judge that unknown people had told her she would pay a price if she testified against Mr. Harris.
It seems that just days before Ms. Marrow had appeared in court, Mr. Thomas signed a written agreement promising to give her 20 percent of any damages he received if she testified on his behalf.
She said Bannon had told her the lawyer would make her look like the guilty party if she testified and the attorney told her she would be broke if Bannon went to jail.
The rabbi, Bernard Freilich, 48, of Borough Park, was charged with witness intimidation and witness tampering last June after prosecutors presented evidence that the rabbi had gone to the woman's home in April and warned her that she would "end up in the cemetery" if she testified against her father.
After the incident, first reported by the New York Post, Piccard told police Bannon threatened her if she testified against him in court.
If a witness testifies that she saw the green car hit the brown car, then she can be impeached if she testified in a deposition that she didn't see which car hit the brown car.
Some blogs and fringe news sites have published her name, and mainstream outlets may follow once she testifies, if not before.
He told her what to say at Mr. Warren's office and that "nothing would happen" to her if she accompanied him, she testified.
As she testified, "If every woman who stays with her significant other hoping for wedding bells to ring is threatened with a loss of her primary residence, then half the women in New York City may be in danger of losing their apartments".
She got into her own car not long after, she testified, wondering if he realized his own strength.
