Veteran organized crime reporter George Anastasia is covering the Pelullo and Scarfo federal fraud case for Bigtrial.net.
He wasn't a gangster. He was a turnaround expert.
And if the government had just left him alone, Salvatore Pelullo would have turned FirstPlus Financial, a struggling Texas mortgage company, into a profitable business enterprise.
Do the math!
That was the message, accompanied by nearly 100 slides and a heavy mixture of passion and sarcasm, that Pelullo's lawyer, Michael Farrell delivered to a federal jury today in a highly charged summation that offered a decidedly different view of the testimony and evidence from the one presented by the prosecution during the five-month trial.
You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:
http://www.bigtrial.net/2014/06/mafia-smoke-no-fire-in-fraud-case.html#more
No comments:
Post a Comment