“a cellphone wrapped in tin foil on top of a desk” (when G. Maxwell arrested)
nytimes.com
nytimes.com
> Prosecutors said that during a search of the house, investigators found a cellphone wrapped in tin foil on top of a desk — which they interpreted as “a seemingly misguided effort to evade detection” by law enforcement.
> “As these facts make plain, there should be no question that the defendant is skilled at living in hiding,” the prosecutors wrote.
So was wrapping the phone a dumb idea, or is she skilled at hiding? They should have said something like "she's accustomed to taking extreme measures to live in hiding." Or maybe this article is smashing together two quotes out-of-context.
Sounds more like someone who doesn’t know how things actually work, but wants to hide and knows that something like that should be done to radio devices if you want to hide.
It all changes when I turn on my microwave with phone inside it.
>After her arrest, a private security guard who worked on the property told the F.B.I. that Ms. Maxwell’s brother had hired former British military members to protect her in New Hampshire, the prosecutors said in their filing Monday.
>The guard told the agents that he was given a credit card in the same name as the L.L.C. to make purchases on Ms. Maxwell’s behalf, and said that Ms. Maxwell did not leave the property at all during his time there, according to prosecutors.
I'd imagine the prosecutors were referring to these details. Like you said, I think the author of the article just laid it out in a misleading way.
Well this is a rather unfortunate name collision. Sorry, Greg.