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Case 1:20-cr-00330-AJN Document 93 Filed 12/10/20 Page 60 of 91 60
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you can't, off the top of your head,
condition to them? You must be
absurd.
explain your financial
lying. That assertion is
We have been working since our client was detained,
with our client, trying to acce
best we could, a financial pict
ss family members to put, as
ure befor
extent it is relevant to this application
the court to the
and only this
application. This bail proceeding should not turn into some
mini investigation of our clien
has had ten years to investigat
t's finances. The government
e my client.
Let me address some of
the specit
Fic allegations in the
government's brief. They point
to a sale
of property in 2016.
According to the government, the property was sold for $15
million. There is no secret about that.
Those records are out
there. The government claims our client cleared $14 million
from that in 2016 and apparently has it all today, which would
probably make it the first New York real estate transaction to
that effect. There has been liabilities.
expenses. Our client has been through ex
litigation all over this country denying
in Khashoggi, far lower than that
There has been
tensive, substantial
these claims. We
think the number is far less than what the government asserts.
But even taking that number, it's a number far lower than that
in Dreier, far lower than in
many cases, and the impact of t
hat, in the court's discretion,
should be addressed by bail conditions.
SOUTHERN DISTRICT
(212)
805-0300
REPORTERS, P.C.
DOJ-OGR-00001937