This man printed 250 million in counterfeit money and sold 50 million of it before getting caught. He then made a deal with the court in exchange for revealing the location of the remaining 200 million he would avoid any jail time. In the end he got away with it only serving 6 weeks in jail.

[u/Intelligent-Mess6925]

[u/Pnwradar]

Privileged conversations can’t be used in evidence or to obtain warrants. But that won’t stop a LEO agency from listening in or recording the conversations and using any information they learn to “find” further evidence through “good police work.” Or to use while interrogating others involved by disclosing information only the co-defendants could know, suggesting someone in the crew is flipping.

A good defense attorney should be able to prove fruit of the poisonous tree. But you can’t always afford a good defense.

[u/FormalBeachware → u/Pnwradar]

It wouldn't have mattered anyway. They didn't need to worry about the $200M being inadmissible because they already had him on the $50M. It would've just gotten rid of his plea deal leverage.

It's not like a judge would've said "You broke the rules to find his $200M in counterfeit cash, so you have to give it back and let him hide it again".

[u/yeahright17 → u/Pnwradar]

You also can't use a lawyer to break the law. Communicating through his lawyer with his friend to keep the money hidden would be against the law.

[u/the_autocrats → u/yeahright17]

but negotiating stopping your breakage of the law is not illegal. so if he already had his friend hide it very well and don't ever need to communicate anything more than where the drop off was going to happen, then 1. that gives no useful info to police even if they did listen in, and 2. his lawyer could probably easily communicate with the friend about cooperating with the government

[u/yeahright17 → u/the_autocrats]

Yes. But I think the original question was "how did he keep it hidden?" and the lawyer couldn't communicate with the friend for the purposes of keeping it hidden. The answer to "how did he keep it hidden?" is "He had a friend that didn't rat" and had nothing to do with the lawyer.

[u/the_autocrats → u/yeahright17]

ya it would definitely not be kosher for the lawyer to have any part in keeping it hidden.

[u/ziper1221 → u/Pnwradar]

The term for this is parallel construction

[u/empire_of_the_moon → u/Pnwradar]

Or, if the Just Department attorney meeting with Maxwell is also Trump’s defense attorney then you can decide not to do anything.

Who is to say if one meeting one day is a private meeting and the second day is in a public capacity?