Julie K. Brown

That was never accepted norm in our country.

The excuses that he was giving for this deal, it was very easy for me to dispel every single thing that he said in that speech.

That was pretty surprising to me.

Journalists don't get that very often.

No.

It was very, you know, and the prosecutor later subsequently, he wrote a book, you know, and he later called me and he said, in case anybody tries to tell you anything different, I'm telling you, your story was the reason why we opened that case.

And I appreciated that because, you know, part of the story also was there were a lot of journalists that were dismissing my work.

Yes.

Because the story had been reported before.

So people who reported on it before were very offended that I was getting so much credit.

I hope.

I mean, in this political climate right now, there's a lot of people that don't want to take on controversial stories.

Well, actually, Adam McKay, way back when my series published, he was one of the first people who reached out to me and said he wanted to do this.

He didn't know what form, but he wanted to buy all the rights to everything because he was so keen on doing this from the very get-go.

That's such an Adam McKay statement, too.

I don't pay any attention to that stuff.

I just keep moving forward.

And I just want it and still want justice for the victims.

And so I still really focus on that aspect of it.

I can't do this whole story from every angle.