best hope of doing so. It started off well enough, with Wall describing how he had worked for Le Roux's call centers in the Philippines. He testified that he knew Oz handled money for RX Limited, and that the one time they met in the Philippines, they had played poker. He recounted how, back in the United States, he'd been Le Roux's go-to shipper, buying everything from planes and boats to logging equipment and art. When Le Roux had charged him with recruiting pharmacies in the States, he said, he'd started to believe what he was doing was illegal. The obvious implication was that the other RX Limited employees should have drawn the same conclusion.

On cross-examination by Oz's lawyer Friedberg, however, Wall lost his footing. At first, Friedberg seemed to be goading him into talking as much as possible about Le Roux:

FRIEDBERG: Could you list for the jury the friends you're aware that Mr. Le Roux had?

WALL: When you say "friends," what do you mean?

FRIEDBERG: I don't know if I can do any better than that. Did you know of him to ever have a friend?

WALL: Not really.

FRIEDBERG: Okay. Do you know why?

WALL: I guess people didn't like him very much.

FRIEDBERG: Why?

WALL: He was unpleasant to be around often.

FRIEDBERG: All right. You apparently handled some lawsuits for him, did you not?

WALL: Just one.

FRIEDBERG: How did you do that?

WALL: Uh, it was pretty easy. He bribed the judge.

FRIEDBERG: Did you know he bribed the judge?

WALL: Yes.

FRIEDBERG: How did you know he bribed the judge?

WALL: The attorney told me.