OK- now in insider trading trial of ex-Rep from Indiana Stephen Buyer - defendant is on the stand. Inner City Press is covering the case innercitypress.com/sdny10mnpitmob… and will live tweet, thread below
Buyer: When Tony Russo told me about a dark project, I thought he meant NSA and CIA, Sprint had those contracts...
Alonso: DId you tell Tony Russo you'd bought Sprint stock?
Buyer: No. I regret it because now I suffer innuendo
Buyer: Tony told me I was to tell VP Pence two hours before the merger. He's from Indiana too.
[Henry Waxman also on list for #TMobile lobbyists meeting]
Buyer: I traveled to Augusta to consider joining a golf club, Champions Retreat. My cousin wanted to play Augusta National.
[Cousin Cal's text about 9 1-putts shown; Buyer replied "I bought Sprint"]
Exhibits show TMobile telling John Sununu, and Manus Cooney for antitrust. They met at DLA Piper.
[Jurors are taking a lot of notes]

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OK- now endgame in insider trading trial of ex-Rep from Indiana Stephen Buyer: jury question during deliberations. Inner City Press is covering the case innercitypress.com/sdny10mnpitmob… and will live tweet to the end, threadette below
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OK- now in insider trading trial of ex-Rep from Indiana Stephen Buyer. Inner City Press is covering the closings and the case innercitypress.com/sdny10mnpitmob… and will live tweet the rebuttal, thread below
AUSA: Tony Rosso canceled the golf at Doral to be on merger calls. Does it make any sense he would not tell Steve Buyer why he canceled? No.
[Buyer is shaking his head]
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Judge asks for a brief.
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