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Information that i got, player, i can go to the police, but i m not. i m just i m just trying to get my money so i can go. so, the conversation about hush money continued. magdi, true to form, haggled over the price. $5,000 ain t that much, man, i, you know i don t have it, that s the problem. i have some, but not the whole amount. it just goes to show the true character of this man. i mean, here s a guy who will negotiate with thugs ten years later because he feels like he already paid. i mean, it s just that s what i mean, he s not in a normal range of thrifty. this is a whole new level. when you consider what his net worth is, it s unthinkable that he would enter into a conversation. $1,500. what s that? $1,500 i have on me. police probably had enough to arrest magdi right then and there, but they waited. ....
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Then the defense directed jurors to those threats ryan had received on his computer just weeks before the murder. you better watch your back. i know where you live. and the taunting message that came after the murder. how did you like your gift, lollol. did anybody follow up, not really, no, they just said, oh, well, we know who did it, magdi did it. they focused on magdi, they never left magdi. could the threats be the reason ryan s friend offered him a knife. the fact that he was offered a knife for his protection by his drug dealing friend just minutes or at the latest, hours before the murder of his mother by someone using a knife suggests to me that there was some reason for him to be afraid for his own safety, in his own home. the defense also attacked ryan s credibility. remember what ryan told us, that one of the intruders said. ....
despite what you ve seen, the case still wasn t a slam dunk. there was no proof magdi knew the alleged killer anthony bridget, no evidence he had paid bridget any money, and while detectives had suspicions about the involvement of a middleman, they still couldn t prove it, and as you ll see, even that undercover tape could be seen through a different lens. on the eve of the trial, richard and ryan got ready for the big day. their suits were pressed. they reviewed their prior statements. and they weighed the consequences of what this moment meant. i m happy that we will get closure but then it s just sad. it s like we lost our mom, and then in the same light it s like we lost our dad too. their only surviving parent, the one they d lived in fear of for years, would be the one they had to face in court. part of me is scared of him but also part of me wants to ....
tell me about this scheme. you call it a scheme, i call it a plan. by any name, it was an attempt to trap magdi. the only way anthony brigt or somebody like him commits a crime like this is some kind of gain, financial primarily. so you develop that kind of individual and you come up with a way in which they were able to contact magdi and demand more money. in other words, these two undercover officers posing as gang members would approach magdi and hit him up for some hush money since investigators knew money was magdi s particular obsession, they hoped they were about to strike a nerve. they had to be careful, if the killers were working for magdi, it wasn t clear if he knew them directly or hired them through a middle man. you couldn t have these guys claim they were the actual guys ....