Julie K. Brown

Great to be here.

well you know let me back up i had somebody point out to me that they saw my names in connection with a plane itinerary a flight itinerary so of course that sounded very odd i knew my name would be in there because the whole reason why the southern district of new york opened the case to begin with was because of my

investigative story in the Miami Herald.

So, of course, they're mentioning my story throughout, you know, did you see this?

Did you look at that?

So I knew my name.

But when someone called me and said, well, there's a flight itinerary with your name on it.

And when they showed me a copy of it, it had my maiden name attached to it.

And that's very odd because I don't use my maiden name professionally.

So I thought, what is this now?

Everything is blacked out.

of course, except for my name.

So all I know when I first looked at it was this is my name because I have an unusual maiden name and I don't know why they're doing this because everything's all blacked out and you can't really tell.

So it did take me a couple of days to unravel what it was about.

And what they are saying is they weren't monitoring me.

they were monitoring one of the victims who I had purchased a flight ticket for.

And the reason why, and I didn't purchase it.

Actually, it was the Miami Herald that purchased it.

And I used my company credit card, which

I guess at the time, this was a while back, had my maiden name attached to my company credit card.