before he was president. the lawsuit was protnor man a year ago. he just paid out that $2 million fine this month in the middle of his impeachment. it s actually the second multi-million dollar fraud settlement he s had to pay out. i mean, this is a remarkable and sometimes overwhelming time in the news right now. there s a lot going on and a lot to pay attention to. it is hard, believe me, i know. but big stories, important stories, one of the important things we re learning about them day in and day out in this administration is that sometimes those important stories have a long half life, right you follow for a little while and you think what happened to them, go back to them and circle back because they almost always come back. as we enter a new year and we continue to follow this presidency through its various scandals and now it s impeachment phase, you know,
not help corralluzzo by setting fire to paige s car. i said, i don t care if mother theresa comes and asks me to burn a car, i d tell her to go to hell, you know. reporter: so they let him go too, for the moment. the other clients? hautzinger knew one of them very well, a prominent real estate investor named steven heald. he was almost as well known in town as rob dixon and, like dixon, for the wrong reasons. the first major case i handled when i came to this jurisdiction was his multi-million dollar fraud case. i mean, i had prosecuted him and sent him to prison back in the early 90s for that. so when he came up again as a suspect in the birgfeld matter it was interesting. reporter: when detectives questioned him, heald admitted he embezzled money from his company to pay for dates with paige. but then, he claimed, paige turned the tables on him. he made allegations that she
i said, i don t care mother theresa comes and asks me to burn a car, i d tell her to go to hell, you know. reporter: so they let him go too, for the moment. the other clients? hautzinger knew one of them very well, a prominent real estate investor named steven heald. he was almost as well known in town as rob dixon and, like dixon, for the wrong reasons. the first major case i handled when i came to this jurisdiction was his multi-million dollar fraud case. i mean, i had prosecuted him and sent him to prison back in the early 90s for that. so when he came up again as a suspect in the birgfeld matter it was interesting. reporter: when detectives questioned him, heald admitted he embezzled money from his company to pay for dates with paige. but then, he claimed, paige turned the tables on him. he made allegations that she was essentially blackmailing him asking for extra money. reporter: what a motive.
maximums is almost nonsensical in this it s in the hundreds of years. i ve been talking about the sentencing guidelines, the realistic framework that he ll be sentenced. as far as all the pleas made for the defendant on behalf of the family members, you know, that s something that federal judges and all judges hear in every single case. i can tell you after 20 years of being a prosecutor, sentencing is the hardest thing for a judge. it is an unpleasant thing for even the prosecutors most of the time who push for people to be sentenced. it is just a difficult thing. but at the same time, he has got to be sentenced with something that approximates what people who have multi-million dollar fraud and money laundering convictions across the country are sentenced to. that s why the guidelines are in effect and that s why i
somebody. reporter: then there was the list of clients, coralluzzo at the top of it given he didn t have a solid alibi and skipped town right after her disappearance. coralluzzo was the one that was most concerning. reporter: not to mention corralluzzo s friend jose tavera the one with the big burn on his arm. i said well, i said, i burned myself at work. reporter: who swore he did not help corralluzzo by setting fire to paige s car. i said, i don t care mother theresa comes and asks me to burn a car, i d tell her to go to hell, you know. reporter: so they let him go too, for the moment. the other clients? hautzinger knew one of them very well, a prominent real estate investor named steven heald. he was almost as well known in town as rob dixon and, like dixon, for the wrong reasons. the first major case i handled when i came to this jurisdiction was his multi-million dollar fraud case. i mean, i had prosecuted him and sent him to prison back in the early 90s for