For the prosecution, the assistant United States Attorney Jeffrey R. Finigan told the jury that evidence would show that Graham referred many athletes to Heredia for drugs, and that he received drugs from Heredia to provide to others, including the star sprinter Marion Jones.
"Today's charges make clear that the Iran trade embargo will be strictly enforced". Representing the prosecution was Assistant U.S. Attorney Anirudh Bansal '90, who asserted in court that Banki operated as "an underground, unlicensed version of Western Union". After a 15-day trial, a jury found him guilty on all counts.
"It's not the prosecution position," an assistant district attorney, Scott Kessler, said of her assertions of an accident.
In his closing speech for the prosecution, Ian McGinley, the assistant district attorney for the southern district of New York, said Hamza "jumped at opportunities across the globe" in support of jihad: in Afghanistan, in Yemen, and in the US.
"Those who think they can stay below the radar face a real risk of prosecution," John DiCicco, acting assistant attorney general in the Justice Department's tax division, said in a statement.
For the prosecution, Daniel Wenner, an assistant U.S. Attorney, made two points that were probably of particular interest to Corso, who had helped the Feds set up the sting: several of the murders discussed at the trial had been committed in order to eliminate state witnesses, and the defendants had a history of obstructing justice.
In a daylong summation of the prosecution case, the assistant United States Attorney Marc A. Agnifilo painstakingly sketched out the details of the 32-count indictment against Robert W. Lee Sr., 66, the president of the I.B.F., and his son, Robert F. Lee Jr., 38, who served as liaison to his father.
But opening for the prosecution, Christopher Clayton, an assistant Suffolk County district attorney, said that Mr. Payne acted deliberately and in anger when he picked up a shotgun on the night of April 27 , 1998 and fatally shot Mr. Curtis, his friend for 20 years.
Choi's lawyers have argued that the prosecution, led by Assistant U.S. Attorney Angela George, was unjustly harsh from the beginning.
One of Guzman's lieutenants, Cifuentes testified, made hats and T-shirts imprinted with "Cartel Sinaloa". But in the prosecution's closing, Assistant U.S. Atty.
