More potentially tantalizing testimony went up in smoke when the plaintiffs decided against calling Nagin to the stand, saying they didn’t need him to prove their larger case.
On the flip side, Meffert surprised everyone when he decided to take the stand. After having indicated he’d plead the Fifth to any and every question, Meffert offered a defiant and vigorous defense over seven hours. That gave the public — and maybe prosecutors, too — an interesting preview of his potential criminal defense. It also exposed a few new details, such as:
Meffert believes he did nothing wrong when he accepted the credit card from St. Pierre’s NetMethods and used it for personal expenses, taking Nagin and his family to Hawaii and Jamaica with it and buying everything from cruises to nights at strip clubs to home furnishings for himself.
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