Serving a long four years in a Federal Prison Camp was a very unattractive reality. Could my sentence be trimmed under Rule 35, which allows the US Attorney to move the court to reduce the sentence for what the law calls "Substantial Assistance," delivering information to the prosecutor or to law enforcement, that will result in the arrest of additional individuals, or the recovery of criminally-derived assets by the government? Whilst every inmate dreams of a sentence reduction, either through some magical feat of his or her lawyer, or through cooperation, obtaining one is purely at the discretion of federal prosecutors, who alone can file such a motion. Remember, I was in prison precisely because I did not cooperate in years past, when my stubbornness and misplaced sense of loyalty to clients who failed to reciprocate, resulted in my eventual imprisonment. Could I switch sides, and return to the legitimate society, which I had left a decade before? The clients had certainly abandoned me, and I was on my own, and no longer bound by my perverse interpretation of the attorney-client privilege.

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