“You understand this man is a criminal witness who has just handed you the rope.”

“Yes.”

“And you want me to keep him out of it.”

“I want you to use the check and the text and leave him standing.”

She sighed through her nose. “I can do most of that. He’ll have to sit for a deposition and his lawyer will tell him to take the Fifth about four times and it will be unpleasant for him for one afternoon. That’s the floor. I can’t get him below that.”

“One afternoon is fine.”