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And to be clear, these were not budget bin, amateur hour lawyers. At the time, he was being represented by two ex-DOJ lawyers working for the white-shoe law firm Mayer Brown: Jason Linder and Gina Parlovecchio. It seems to me that there are three possibilities here: Salame is falsely claiming that prosecutors improperly induced him to plead guilty, and that promises about Bond never happened Salame’s former team of bigshot lawyers royally screwed up by leading Salame to believe that Bond’s investigation would be terminated if he pleaded guilty even though the government had expressly told them it would not Some of the most powerful prosecutors in the country did, in fact, make these verbal promises to Salame, but simultaneously laid a paper trail reflecting the exact opposite, and are now lying about it under penalty of perjury The prosecutors’ argument currently lies somewhere between options 1 and 2. They maintain that such a promise was never made, and argue that the petition should be denied outright, suggesting option 1. However, their inclusion of the emails from Parlovecchio, and their request that if Kaplan does hold a hearing, that he also examine Salame’s attorney–client communications, tips things into option 2 territory somewhat. It’s not clear to me yet which of options 2 or 3 Salame is going to argue. Given the emails from Parlovecchio, it definitely seems like it might be appropriate to dig into those attorney—client communications to get the other side of