ran her clinic by the books, it came to the attention of the dea task force. we had received complaints on it. so, we sent somebody in to see what we could do. and guess who the task force sent? john friskey, the computer expert. he also happened to be a dea informant. every time i went in there, i wore a wire from the dea. when you wore the wire, what were you assigned to do? my main goal was to get anything that would piece it together and prove it was a pill mill. he talked to cindy a lot. fishing, really, for what might be evidence of medical fraud. and then one day, it was just over two years after cindy shot nissim, friskey got a very big surprise. it made me very uncomfortable and i just wanted to leave. what happened? friskey asked cindy about her family and she launched into an amazing story about the shooting of illam nissim.
communication that already existed there. but the big issue of course was that dea audiotape. i knew what was gonna happen. this tape is the one in which she seems to confess. she s not confessing. she said that i shot that man in self-defense. i thought he was armed. it s not a confession. did he have a weapon on him when they found him? i think he did. remember, the defense argued that cindy was exaggerating wildly when she talked to the dea s friskey. embellishing to make herself look tough. but if you listen carefully, they said, you can hear one thing cindy did say on that tape that was true. the one thing prosecutors ignored. five, big words. i had to defend myself. i had to defend myself. now that, said the defense, was
nissim as a suspect in orlando s murder. at the time, he was the person the police was investigating and the only suspect in my husband s murder. and as for that dea undercover tape, which so faithfully recorded what she told friskey, about planning in vengeance, an eye for an eye. this is me telling him how i felt. my embellishment on the story. it was all pure theater, she said. she was trying to impress friskey, not confess to him. i made myself to look tougher than i was because i why d you do that? because i m a single mom, living in a man s world. so, i wanted to sound like i m tough. you can t mess with me. cindy asked the judge to look to one statement on that tape that was all true and consistent with the fear cindy showed on the 9-1-1 call. you told friskey that you had to defend yourself against