From: Kent Crispin <kent@bywater.songbird.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 21:38:42 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Jim Bell sentencing delayed
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On Fri, Oct 31, 1997 at 07:01:16AM -0500, John Young wrote:
> Greg,
> 
> What's your take on repeated delay in Jim's sentencing:
> 
> 1. A squeeze on Jim to finger co-conspirators.
> 
> 2. Weak case, must use procedure to punish.
> 
> 3. To let time served be the sentence.
> 
> 4. Jim was up to something worse now being discovered
> (like 5 below).
> 
> 5. Jim is a secret gov agent, now feet up in Tacoma IRS 
> laughing at those who fell for suckerbait, screwball AP 
> written by IRS as a sting (a recent book package to Jim was 
> returned marked "Not in Jail").
> 
> 6. The court was hoodwinked by IRS, too, and the AUSA
> is preparing an indictment of the stingers and federal defenders
> and who knows who else that was in on it.
> 
> 7. Secret Agent Jim is squealing on his double-crossing
> secret agents, cutting a deal with whoever else is double-
> crossing whomever. He's going down, they're going down,
> we're going down, the whole country's going down; Up the
> Revolution!

 8. Jim is in a hospital somewhere.

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