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🗓️ 5 March 2016
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He was implicated in a case of missing money from a courthouse evidence vault. He was facing allegations of misconduct and illegal handling of a witness in a major drug trafficking trial, which lead to the judge ordering a federal investigation.
One way to stop that federal investigation would be to come up with a quick plea deal to end the case. One problem, there was no way to do the plea deal without violating federal law.
And unfortunately, for US assistant attorney Jonathan Luna things were about to get worse. Much, much worse.
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0:43.2 | He was implicated in a case of missing money from a courthouse evidence fault. There were |
0:47.6 | allegations of misconduct and illegal handling of a witness in a major drug trafficking |
0:51.6 | trial, which led to the jarge ordering a federal investigation. One way to stop that federal |
0:57.9 | investigation would be to come up with a quick plea deal to end the case. One problem, |
1:03.2 | there was no way to do the plea deal without violating federal law. And unfortunately, |
1:09.2 | the US Assistant Attorney Jonathan Luna, this wasn't even the worst of it, not even close. |
1:16.2 | How do the housing projects in the South Bronx, New York City, describe to some of the poorest |
1:41.4 | neighbourhoods in the country, came Jonathan Luna. Despite the non-stop violence shootings, |
1:46.9 | gangs and drugs that he grew up around, Jonathan somehow managed to avoid at all and become |
1:51.8 | a bright, well-read student. Reading and learning to better himself was Jonathan's |
1:56.6 | drug of choice. He dedicated himself to school, saying that to be successful, you had to |
2:01.9 | be educated. In high school, he also developed the love of running and keeping fit. If |
2:07.9 | he wasn't studying, he was running. To his own hard work and determination, Jonathan |
2:12.9 | Luna overcame the poverty-stricken, drug-ridden, violent housing projects he was brought |
2:17.2 | up in and went off to college. He was later accepted into the University of North Carolina |
2:22.9 | School of Law. In 1992, he graduated from law school and won a clerkship with a US district |
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