Now on with the conclusion of last week's segment on how and why I testified against my clients. I went off to the minimum-security prison at Eglin Air Force Base, in the Florida Panhandle, with a four-year sentence. Gain Time, or time deducted from one's assigned sentence, is only 15% since the Federal Sentencing Guidelines became law in 1987. That meant I would be serving roughly 41 months in custody. This was not a very pleasant thought, understanding three and a half years of confinement. It was difficult to take, because I knew I was there because clients whom I had zealously (and recklessly) protected for a decade had put me there to lessen their own sentences. Since they had thrown me under the bus, my loyalty was gone, and that would represents a problem for the clients, as it was yours truly who had started a lot of their drug profits on a long journey into the tax havens of the world. I knew intimate details of their placement, layering and integration techniques, as I had created many of them myself. In short, I knew where the financial bodies were buried.

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