Jack Lawrence

So what would happen is we asked for me to be transferred to a better prison and the U.S.

Embassy objected.

And so we asked.

I had friends in Bulgaria and I had developers that I used to work for.

And I've been to Bulgaria before, so it was my first trip.

I had friends help me with the lawyers and the logistics and getting money from my wife and giving to the lawyers and that kind of stuff.

And we kept asking the Bulgarian courts to let me out and just hold my passport and let me go stay with him and his family.

And the U.S.

Embassy kept objecting, but eventually we succeeded and they let me go.

But then what would happen is the U.S.

Embassy would file more stuff against me.

And every time they filed something new against me, they would come re-arrest me again.

And then I'd be in prison and then I'd get let out and then I'd get arrested and then I'd get let out.

And so it was this bouncing effect that lasted for about three months.

Yeah, the FBI agent brought me a letter to the prison.

She made a special trip to the prison to deliver me a letter to inform me that the Department of State had revoked my U.S.

passports because I had two of them at the time and they weren't allowed and I wasn't getting them back.

And we also asked them not to destroy them because they had evidence of my whereabouts from all the stamps in them.

And they still destroyed them even after we told them that it would be destruction of evidence to destroy my passport.

They could have just withheld them.