the plot involved the restaurant here in town, almost like a gang land style assassination attempt like you do in the mob days. >> look, the restaurant was something that was the fbi informant's suggestion. it was a fictional restaurant. there was no real restaurant. that's one of the problems in sorting out this case. clearly there was something real there and this is a wild case, you know, from the mexican zetas cartel to the, you know, saudi ambassador, the israeli ambassador. there are all sorts of tentacles. if you read the complaint closely, it's not clear that they were willing to put up $1.5 million for this. that's one of the difficulties in sorting through this here. what we know is this iranian american in corpus christi, a used cars salesman makes contact with a federal drug informant out of texas and says he wants