Tracy Smith

Imad Tofilis was angry, very angry.

He wanted his whole investment back, but it wasn't looking good.

How desperate was Imad?

He was a desperate man.

On a scale from 1 to 10, he was about a 9.

He was not going to let someone like Robert Dahl...

Attorney David Wiseblood.

That strategy was to hammer Robert Dahl in court and force him to pay up.

That collateral was mostly the wine tanks and all the equipment used to make the wine.

And what happened?

That all belongs to Emad, basically.

Even though Emad was winning in court, Robert Dahl was doing everything he could to cheat.

He was even secretly taking equipment and trying to sell it off.

But Robert Dahl's attorneys, Jasmine Dwal and Kusha Barakim.

There's a lot more than the headlines.

Say Dahl was a clever businessman, but he was no crook.

You think Robert's mindset was, I'm going to take this, but I'll be able to pay it back and everything's going to be okay.

Dahl's lawyers believed Dahl was a stand-up guy, that classic, all-American, risk-taking entrepreneur who puts it all on the line and at the last minute comes out a hero.

I was shown a document that says Robert Dahl was convicted of swindle in Minnesota.

But still, people look at that and say, once a con man, always a con man.