Jonathan Halpern Quotations

Sit back, sit up, and pay attention. There's a long show ahead.

I think the government presented a relatively streamlined case. It was a pretty coherent presentation of the witnesses.

We're talking about complicated transactions here, so the prosecution's challenge is to boil it down to simple fraud. Essentially, what they're saying is that this is about misleading and deception.

Even a brazen scammer in the soup can help his cause with the government.

The U.S. will seek his extradition from Brazil to the United States.

He separately negotiated a sale with a private art dealer from Europe.

The jury's attention will be riveted on their testimony.