88 Ben-Menashe said: I conducted two extensive phone interviews with Ben- Menashe in 2016. When I first reached him, Ben-Menashe wearily informed me that I wasn't the first to inquire about Paul Le Roux. "Joseph Hunter's lawyers came to Montreal to try and get something on him," he said. "I'll give you the same."

88 hoped to obtain a diplomatic passport: In addition to Ben-Menashe's account, I confirmed that the diplomatic passport was Le Roux's motivation from a former DEA agent in the SOD 960 group. I confirmed additional details of Ben-Menashe's dealings with Le Roux through an anonymous relative of Le Roux's who attended meetings with Ben-Menashe in Montreal on Le Roux's behalf. See also USA v. Berkman, Document 774, January 17, 2017, at 18.

89 disclosure forms Ben-Menashe filed: "Supplemental Statements Pursuant to Section 2 of the Foreign Agents Registration Act" by Dickens and Madson Canada, featuring Paul Calder Le Roux, filed November 14, 2007; Janu- ary 31, 2008; January 31, 2009.

89 $6 million for their services: The exact number is difficult to parse from the forms. Ben-Menashe himself told me the number "was more like $12 mil- lion." On the forms themselves, though, the number appears to be $6 million. Moran Oz later asserted through his attorneys that Kugel told him that "Kugel transported $6 million to Ben-Menashe in order to get a diplomatic passport for him, and Ben-Menashe stole the $6 million and disappeared." See USA v. Berkman, Document 774, January 17, 2017, at 18.

90 permits in the country: According to Ben-Menashe, the permits allowed Le Roux's organization to log and export rare kauri trees.

90 Moran Oz got a call: The details of Oz and Berkman's trip to Manila were first provided to me by Moran Oz, as well as by court documents in USA v. Berk- man, including: Document 950, April 3, 2017, at 5–6; Document 774, Janu- ary 17, 2017, at 10–11; and Document 1045, August 17, 2017, at 5. It was further confirmed in USA v. Hunter, Document 580, April 5, 2018, at 401–2.

91 When Oz arrived at the dock: I received a firsthand account of the following events from Oz himself, the details of which were later corroborated in inter- views with other members of Le Roux's organization, surveillance tapes of Joseph Hunter (USA v. Hunter, Document 524-1, March 16, 2018, at 3), and court testimony (USA v. Hunter, Document 580, April 5, 2018, at 401–2; and Document 585, April 11, 2018, 1220-21).

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97 millions of drug orders: Interview with Kimberly Brill.

98 federal prosecutors . . . needed more: Interview with Kent Bailey. Linda Marks and the press office of the Consumer Protection Branch declined to comment on the record about the case.

98 turned up on a list of calls: Interview with Kent Bailey.

98 Israeli American named Jon Wall: Details of Jon Wall's involvement derive