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even so he could still end up as a witness

And that would be a bummer. But possibly an opportunity to sneak some math into the courtroom?

You do realise this story is completely made up, using colourful narratives to illustrate the problems he's talking about?

http://analyticsmadeskeezy.com/what-the-hell-is-this-blog/

I did, and I was speaking about the character. :)

In these cases they tend to charge everyone who knew about it with conspiracy. There was a recent example in the form of that article about the guy who built stash compartments for cars.