one day after michael flynn pled guilty for lying to the fbi president trump is making headlines for a tweet that suggests he knew flynn lied to the fbi saying in part i had to fire general flynn because he lied to the vice president and the fbi. special counsel robert mueller reassigned a top fbi agent this summer helping in the russia investigation after reports that he may have shared anti-trump text messages. a spokesman from mueller s office confirmed the move saturday. now back to dateline. welcome back to dateline extra. i m craig melvin. pamela fayed seemed ready to expose her husband s questionable business practices. could that have led to her murder? here again is josh mankiewicz. reporter: lapd detective
as the los angeles detective digs deeper into the death of pamela fayed, he is about to get a break he did not expect. here s josh mankiewicz. reporter: jim fayed was in a federal lockup facing white collar charges, operating an internet gold business without a money transmitter license. but lapd detective salaam abdul-rahman was investigating whether jim had killed his wife to keep her from cooperating in that federal case. the detectives focused on that security video and realized that those grainy pictures were so telling, not because of what jim fayed is doing, but because of what jim isn t doing. it s the moment of pam s murder in the parking garage next door, and everyone in the frame starts to react, to move toward the sound of pam fayed s screams. everyone, that is, except jim
lapd detective salaam abdul-rahman was investigating the murder of a woman in a parking garage. then he learned that not only was pam fayed locked in a bitter divorce with her husband jim, but that the gold trading company that had generated all the money they were fighting over was now under federal investigation and that pam was going to turn on her husband and cooperate with prosecutors. she was probably going to be a witness against him and he was pretty pissed off about that. what potentially were the penalties for mr. and mrs. fayed in that federal case? potentially they could have had their assets seized, and that was huge. if they had their assets seized, mr. fayed wouldn t have been able to conduct business. reporter: after a long investigation, federal agents took jim into custody just days
as a los angeles detective digs deeper into pamela fayed, he gets a break he did not expect. here s josh mankiewicz. reporter: jim fayed was in a federal lockup facing white collar charges, operating an internet gold business without a money transmitter license. but lapd detective salaam abdul-rahman was investigating whether jim had killed his wife to keep her from cooperating in that federal case. the detectives focused on that security video and realized that those grainy pictures were so telling, not because of what jim fayed is doing, but because of what jim isn t doing. it s the moment of pam s murder in the parking garage next door, and everyone in the frame starts to react, to move toward the sound of pam fayed s screams. everyone, that is, except jim fayed. he doesn t seem interested. is it your belief that at the time surveillance cameras capture mr. fayed sort of
i mean, she was half owner. it s as simple as that. reporter: and soon there would be another problem. what pam fayed had worried about would come true. federal investigators would come after goldfinger, indicting both jim and pam fayed because their company didn t have those money transmitter licenses. when the indictment came down, pamela fayed was in contact with her lawyer very quickly. she immediately indicated that she wanted to cooperate with the authorities. that was the position that she was taking, i want to cooperate, i want to do whatever i can to help out the investigation, i didn t do anything wrong, according to pam. what can i do to help? did james fayed know that his wife was going to cooperate? that s the $64,000 question. coming up a suspect in the case and soon an arrest. he wasn t someone that i would ever think could be involved in something like this. but police had only just begun to solve the puzzle. lapd detective salaam [fbi agent] you re a