21 ordspråk av Dan K. Webb
Dan K. Webb
George Ryan is my last witness -- we want to get everything done before George Ryan takes the stand.
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He will not be testifying in this case and that is his final decision.
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I don't know of a single witness in this so-called corruption trial that's going to say there was a corrupt payment to George Ryan. No one got cheated out of anything. The contracts were good deals, fair deals, for the secretary of state's office.
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I think she's being as sincere and honest as a human being can be.
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I will make the decision at the time.
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If you want to use rhetoric, how about this? Seven years of hell. Because that's what he's been through as they pulled his life apart.
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In every one of these contracts, the low bidder got the contract. George Ryan did absolutely nothing to interfere with these contracts.
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Is George Ryan perfect? No. He's grown up in the rough-and-tumble world of politics in Illinois, and he's not perfect.
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Maybe they proved he made some mistakes in judgment, maybe he did some things that you don't think he should have done.
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My client is likely to take the stand, although I will make that decision at the time.
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No witness testified that he ever gave George Ryan any financial or personal benefit for the purpose of influencing his official decisions.
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Not only does no one say it happened, you have witnesses saying it didn't happen.
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One thing I'm confident of is that, at the end of the day, after the jury's heard all of the evidence, they will find and see that George Ryan is not guilty of all charges in this indictment.
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That is basically the 100-pound gorilla sitting in the courtroom that the government doesn't want to admit exists.
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There is no evidence that Ron Swanson ever gave George Ryan anything of value to influence any decisions he made.
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