[ thunder rumbles ] [ bird caws ] i m jamie colby, and today i m in rolling meadows, illinois. it s a suburb of chicago. some weather, huh? i m here to meet two brothers whose strange inheritance had some serious strings attached. my name is justin snyder. and in 2006, our friend and mentor bill fosser passed away, leaving my brother and me a sort of chicago institution his puppet opera. hi, justin. i m jamie. jamie, nice to meet you. i m told that you have something that i may never see again. here, follow me. i will. justin leads me behind the scenes of a most unusual opera house. all these boxes here contain costumes for various, different productions. wow! this is my kind of wardrobe. if only it came in my size. the costumes are so small because the players taking the stage aren t the supersized tenors and sopranos you expect to see at the opera. they re 16-inch puppets. the maestro behind this pint-size production, justin s boss, the late bill fosser.
[ bird caws ] i m jamie colby, and today i m in rolling meadows, illinois. it s a suburb of chicago. some weather, huh? i m here to meet two brothers whose strange inheritance had some serious strings attached. my name is justin snyder. and in 2006, our friend and mentor bill fosser passed away, leaving my brother and me a sort of chicago institution his puppet opera. hi, justin. i m jamie. jamie, nice to meet you. i m told that you have something that i may never see again. here, follow me. i will. justin leads me behind the scenes of a most unusual opera house. all these boxes here contain costumes for various, different productions. wow! this is my kind of wardrobe. if only it came in my size. the costumes are so small because the players taking the stage aren t the supersized tenors and sopranos you expect to see at the opera. they re 16-inch puppets. the maestro behind this pint-size production, justin s boss, the late bill fosser. who was bill fosser
yes. i m jamie colby, and today i m strolling along the swanky streets of the upper east side of manhattan. the heir in this story reached out to us just a short time after her husband died. she wanted to talk about her strange inheritance, which she tells me takes up an entire room in her home. my name is carole postal, and less than one year ago, i lost my beloved husband, bob. he left me nearly 10,000 toy soldiers, which he called the guys. a whole room on the upper east side i m hoping it s shoes. uh, not quite. no way. it s not shoes. it s soldiers? across glass shelves, the tiny troops stand shoulder to shoulder, ready for battle. let s see. there s george washington. generals robert e. lee and ulysses s. grant. not to mention ancient and medieval warriors. a history of world combat in one jam-packed man cave. your husband must ve spent a lot of time putting this together. lovingly, over 40 years. it s really magnificent. i really did need to see
federal court. the bottom line is, he is toast! there is nothing he can do [laughs] i was gonna say screwed. there is a consistency problem here. you can say many times, in public, on television, there was all kinds of things in those boxes. i don t know what was in those boxes. so it s very hard to get from at and have any idea what was in the boxes, to, i know they planted things. do you agree with that? i completely agree. judge dearie is a no nonsense judge. he s not going to take pr statements and say that that has any merit and his court. he is going to say as these guys said, prove it. this is a very dangerous game for them to play as nick said, this is just another criminal charge waiting on all of the other criminal charges that are being investigated. so how do they play it then? yeah, i think they declare victory in some way and get out of this thing because this is not going to end well for them, this will end with perjury charges, it ll end with a hum
he s going to say, as these guys said, prove it. this is a very dangerous scheme for them to play. as nick said, this is just another criminal charge waiting on other criminal charges being investigated. how do they play it, than? i think they declare victory in some way and get out of this thing, because this is not going to end well for them. this is going to end with perjury charges. it s going to end with a hearing being called that they are not prepared for. and if they tried the pr strategy and judge dearie s court, it s going to be worse for the lawyers. okay. and politically it s terrible. but let me just say, they re gonna claim victory of some sort, some way. how does one do that in this instance and then get out of this? how do you get out of it at this point? are they in for a penny, and for a pound? all we really care about is the mystery special master looking at the other items seized on the search. we never said we were going to take possession of or w