did you steal divert the fee away from the law firm? i did. how did you get in such a financial predicament that led you to steal money that wasn t yours? you know, i m not quite sure how i let myself get where i got, but it came from you know, i battled addiction for so many years. i was spending so much money on pills. i got in a spot i couldn t what type of addiction are you referring to? my addiction is to opiate pain killers, specifically oxycodone, oxycontin. when did you first become dependent or addicted opiods? oxycodone or opiods in general? opiods in general. i m not sure of the exact date. i can give you a timeframe. i hurt my knee really bad playing football in college. i had a knee surgery. the medical science at the time was such that the surgery didn t work, bottom line. it just didn t last. within a couple years of that i started having a lot of knee troubles. ultimately i had to have a couple of surgeries, but the last surgery i ha
saturday, september 4th, yes, sir, i remember. what happened? when i woke up? let s start after you met with chris wilson, did you meet with chris wilson? i met with chris wilson at my mom and dad s house in alameda. and did you lay it out for chris wilson, your opioid addiction and your misconduct? i definitely laid out my addiction. i definitely gave him some details about moneys that i had taken. i didn t give him we didn t go into all the details about all of it, but i certainly was very candid with him about the things that involved him.
extremely bad. how were you able to function or were you able to function? yes, i was able to function. you were able to practice law? yes. were you successful practicing law while you were addicted to opiods? on some level, yes, sir, i was successful. i mean, i after you were confronted on labor day weekend 2021, did you resign or were you forced to resign from the law firm? absolutely. and then on saturday, september 4th do you remember what happened that day? saturday, september 4th, yes, sir, i remember. what happened?
0 talked about that he found later in my office. and it was tight it was handwritten, ready to be tightened up by, you know because of the charges against paw, i kept everything close in the civil case, it was danny in his office that was doing it, and i had that document prepared, handwritten in the neatest handwriting that i could make because a secretary other than mine, a paralegal other than mine was going to be the person who was going to put that financial information into the final document, and that s the document that mark ball talked about that he found on my desk whenever it was that he found it. so that was what was going to be if necessary, what was going to be used thursday. alec, the jury has heard about testimony of you stealing client funds. did you do that? i did, yes. did you steal or divert that farris fee away from the law firm? i did. how did you get in such a financial predicament that led you to steal money that wasn t yours? you know, i m not
good morning and welcome to your new day. it is saturday, september 4th. the months just flying off the calendar, christi. i have to tell you, it is starting to feel a little bit chilly like autumn here in d.c. thank goodness. same here in atlanta. believe me, we re grateful for it. for the summer but nevertheless he s a miami man. that s right. we have to talk about weather and we begin this hour with how the united states is coming face to face with the climate crisis. the death toll continuing to climb from wednesday s historic flooding and tornadoes in the northeast, at least 50 people have died. in the northeast hurricane ida took a deadly flash flooding. i m sure you saw it sweeping away cars. there were tornadoes across the region. new jersey s governor said the recovery is going to take time