By the end of his opening statement, it seemed as if Robert Trout had said his piece about Lori Mody. He called her “emotionally fragile,” “difficult” and “unreliable.” He said that in a series of wine-drenched conversations she played a “damsel in distress,” luring his client, then-Rep. William Jefferson, into an FBI sting that would eventually cause Jefferson to lose his congressional seat and lead to his prosecution.
And yet, for all the shots taken, there was much the Trout Cacheris name partner couldn’t say about Mody. One week into testimony in Jefferson’s federal corruption trial, many of the most important questions in the case continue to revolve around the Virginia businesswoman.
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