We have requested that the U.S Attorney for the Southern District investigate how these private conversations were recorded and disseminated, and who was responsible.

It's easy to imagine that one would not feel comfortable having private conversations with your attorney, with your wife, with foreign heads of states, with people driving around in your car, repeated when you assumed they were confidential.

The (district attorney) can also present, let's say, the first instance, the heavier charge and then subsidiary. If that cannot be proven then, and if that cannot be proven, and then to lighter forms of crimes.

intensely partisan Democratic district attorney.

Margo Hill deliberately buried exculpatory evidence from the district attorney.

Bloomberg is impressed by the speed with which the FBI and the U.S. attorney for the central district of California has acted in charging an individual they believe is responsible for perpetrating this hoax.