Brian Levine

And by the way, I just, I always want to tell people

When you're naming your criminal character, when you're giving your criminal alias, it's best not to name yourself after the crime, because it may sound really cool at the time, cool to all your friends, the other group, but when you're eventually caught, and you will eventually be caught, it dramatically limits your available defense.

defenses.

So here it limited his defense to master fraud.

Who?

I'd never heard of any master fraud.

You can't argue at that point that this wasn't fraud.

Everybody, everyone understood what we were doing.

No.

So at that point, we could have arrested him.

We had enough evidence at that point to arrest him.

While he was in the U.S.?

While he was in the U.S.

So this was a difficult decision because he was a high-value target.

We figured of these three people, he was probably the second most important.

But master fraud was still in Romania, and we knew if we arrested him, master fraud would flee, or we felt like that was pretty likely.

We let him leave the country.

And part of the reason we felt comfortable doing that was we had worked with Romania for so long at this point.

I personally had been to Romania something like seven times.

And so we knew that we could work with them to successfully extradite.