people of west tennessee as the united states attorney, as the chief law enforcement officer for the district. tell our viewers what is, what was operation tennessee waltz an your role in it. it was in the early 2000s in the mid 2000s in the tennessee legislature. it was a level of corruption. among state legislators and so, the u.s. attorney s office and the fbi before i became united states attorney, developed an undercover operation, tennessee waltz, where a fictional company was created. they would quote unquote lobby the tennessee legislature. of course, they were bribing those members who had been b engaged in other activity that they should not have been eng e engaged in. so, i prosecuted those cases after they were indicted. and it resulted in the conviction of 12 members of the legislature, some that were outside of the tennessee legislature, but the main thing is it sent a signal to elected officials, public servants across the state of tennessee, that just can