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The government then filed their full response, reiterating their earlier descriptions of conversations between the prosecution team and Salame’s then legal team, and also raising some procedural objections to the petition. This time they attached copies of contemporaneous notes that — assuming they are accurate summaries of the conversationsb — seem to support their assertions that they were extremely clear to Salame’s former attorneys that Salame’s plea would not impact the status of Bond’s investigation. However, other notes put some doubt in my mind as to whether Salame’s lawyers actually heard what they were saying, and whether those lawyers properly communicated this to him. One email chain shows his legal team expressing surprise this spring over ongoing investigations into Bond, as though they didn’t recall the earlier conversation. Email from Salame’s lawyers to the Bond’s prosecution team in April: Sheb, Thank you for the introduction. We are surprised to hear from you given our course of dealing with the FTX prosecution team, which led us to believe that this matter was not going to be pursued. Best regards, Gina Portion of a reply by Salame’s lawyers to Bond’s prosecution team: On another note, to answer the question posed in your earlier-in-time email, we have reviewed our notes, and they do not reflect the statement that you recounted to us on our prior call, nor do they reflect the statement that you made below about a disposition with Mr. Salame not resolving