3 4 "I'll do anything to help my state and if it means putting people back to work I'll do what I can." Nothing out of the way whatsoever. That's what Stowe was doing, taking off time from 5 his work because he thought on January 25th, 1980 -- on 6 January 21st, 1980, hey, the deal's going through. Again 7 8 you'll hear a conversation when Stowe says to Mel Weinberg, "What about the deal? I'd like to get going on American Gear 9 10 11 2nd Pinion." Weinberg says, "You'll get it." He says, "I beg your pardon?" 16 to a close and finally he's supposed to come for the closing, he being Stowe, on February 2nd, and that's when he's going 17 18 19 to have the closing on his loan and everything else has gone by. "Now can I have my birthday cake? Can I have my And on February 2nd, 1980, he's met by the FBI. There will be evidence he was met by television crews. He 24 15 was met with a royal welcome. And he didn't get his loan 25 1 2 3 5 and that was the end of his birthday party and that leaves I have gone on a little bit longer than I anticipated and I thank you very much for your patience. I know it's been a long day the first day listening to the evidence You had to listen to the lawyers and that' 6 not even evidence. 7 more difficult than the evidence.as you'll hear it. 8 9 10 I'm almost through. But at the end of the evidence you are going to see the Government hasn't proved John Stowe guilty of anything. You're going to see that he's not a 11 criminal and that he's not a swindler and that he's certainly not a con man. He's certainly not in the league of Master You are going to see he was a dreamer and that he wanted something more than anything in life, that being to 16 go back not necessarily to Myrtle Beach but just to be back 17 on his feet, to have American Gear and Pinion and yes, it was at Myrtle Beach where he had been in '73 and where he had been in the country club. But with respect to any difference in versions as to what Mr. Jenrette is going to offer proof on, we are not concerned about that. We are asking you only to consider John Stowe, At the conclusion of all of that evidence, all - of the TV and all of the tapes, not segments if you take a segment and see him taking $50,000, if we turned off the 1 2 television set and you turned off your mind like a television set, we'd go home or go somewhere else that's worse than going 3 5 home. But don't turn off the volume in your head. Listen to all of it and you will see the seduction of John Stowe and when you come back, whether it's two weeks from now, 10 you are going to come back with a verdict of not guilty. Thank you. THE COURT: Mr. Kotelly, counsel, would you approach the bench for a moment? 1 2 3 4 Mr. Janus THE COURT: Mr. Janus? 4599 MR. JANUS: May it please the Court, Mr. Kotelly, Mr. Weingarten, Mr. Robinson, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, my name is Murray Janus and I represent the other 5 Defendant in this case, the other Defendant, John Stowe, sort 6 of a forgotten man, if you will. This is the Congressman 7 John Jenrette case. Stowe just happened to be there in the 8 9 10 11 12 wrong place at the wrong time. I, too, concur, of course, with Mr. Kotelly and Mr. Robinson in thanking you for your time, not just sitting as a jury but the horrible inconvenience of having to be sequestered. But it's necessary in a case like this. But on behalf of the Defendant Stowe, and I'm sure on behalf of the Defendant Jenrette, different from Mr. Robinson we don't apologize because your civic duty in this case may be one of the most important things that you do in your lives in evaluating the conduct of our Federal Bureau of Investiga tion law enforcement people in this entrapment situation 19 because that's what we respectfully submit to you it is. It's going to take longer of your time. You'll be here at least tomorrow but you do what you have to do. We 23 haven't come up with any fancy rhetoric for you, any fancy 24 defenses on behalf of the Defendant John Stowe. The case is 25 what it is. John Stowe took up $50,000. You saw that. 1 What happens to the money after that, it's not really material 2 for the Defendant John Stowe. He took some of the money. He 3 4 5 6 7 8 has to live with that. Way back five weeks ago in an opening statement I said you're going to see a television set and I think the television set was mounted up on that table at the time and I said after you see the first videotape of December 4th, 1979, don't turn it off. I urge you, don't turn it off in 9 10 11 your minds any more than you would physically turn off a television. Don't listen to part of the tapes. If you listen to any of them at all don't listen to Mr. Kotelly's three 12 tapes or four tapes or whatever. Don't listen to 13 Mr. Robinson's segments of things put together. Be fair to 14 yourself and be fair to these defendants and the Government. 15 Because the Government is entitled to a fair trial. It may 16 not have been fair in their inducement, in what they did to 17 John Stowe or John Jenrette, but the Government is entitled 18 to a fair trial. They are entitled to have you tell them 19 20 what they did wasn't fair, but in your fairness listen to 20 every one of those tapes if you have to or don't listen to Look at every one of the videos or don't look at any of them again. 23 As His Honor has told you, closing argument of 24 counsel, just like opening statements, are not evidence. The evidence came from that witness chair over the four or |