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You asked for two things. you suggested that the statute be waved by cosby and invite the investigation of the claims. he set up $100 million fund. in light of marty singer's latest letter from cosby's lawyer, saying that one allegation is tainted because of an extortion charge. do you worry about this asking for money and think it taints the credibility? >> not at all. let me say that i was not the lawyer on the case. he made that charge. having said that in compensating victims would find that i have no problem in saying that if a

Allegations, the deeper it seems to run. >> eric: how do you feel about this. a dozen or so public official, including the mayor elect charged in this case? >> yes. as of friday, we had 12 individuals charged. we made some more arrests and i think we are up to 15 now. and the investigation is ongoing. >> eric: what were they trying to do? >> what started out was, their vote -- their election was in march. i received calls of concerned citizens that the election was not going properly. so i put together a task force within a day. the day that they were down on the streets in sunland park, they ...

Holloway family in exchange for what he said would be information about natalee holloway. he provided no information, but he did use that $25,000 to travel to peru, and to enter a poker tournament and that's where he met the 21-year-old stephany flores and murdered her that night in peru exactly knife years to the day when natalee holloway went missing. jenna, back to you. jenna: lots of twists and turns to this story. steve, thank you very much. we have more on this now. jon: let's bring back lis wiehl, a fox news only lis and federal prosecutor. bon jean is a federal attorney. they wanted to...

On natalee holloway's whereabouts. that would be good news if he were to serve a few years to peruvian prison. he could be tried for extortion and possibly murder and then maybe he deal could be struck. listen. >> i would think something like, this even with a murder charge on top of, this i would think 20 years would be appropriate that would give him incentive to fes up and tell them where natalie is is he a relatively middle aged guy rather than spending the rest of his life in prison. >> we should note that extortion charge alone could land him in a u.s. prison for up to 20 years. >> shepa...

Together in this country and you get the extortion charge and get him in jail on that they could get information on her killing. now, this defense in peru, the violent. motion defense is kind of like served for a crime passion offer there, mostly used for spouses who catch other spouses cheating. and that is what they are look at but a lot of experts document it can be used because after the 21-year-old was killed, van der sloot went to great lengths to try and cover that up as well as make a planned escape to chile. >>shepard: thank you, trace. a disturbing report as trace spoke, we have foll...