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To: mmmary who wrote (3379)	6/28/2002 6:16:50 PM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12465

Hard to tell. Given the others who got arrested are out on bail, the judge really does need a solid reason for keeping A@P in custody. I suppose what'll matter more than anything is the explanation as to why his wife got power of attorney and why his fund line was set up to channel into Lebanon, some of it via the Canadian route. And of the Canadian route I'd think the judge will have to examine very closely whether or not there's a likelihood possibility he could reach Lebanon, where the U.S. will never get him back, by first getting into Canada which isn't necessarily a difficult feat to accomplish. Then there's the consideration as to what kind of public pressure would befall upon the judge were he to let A@P free and he then disappeared, what with the 9/11 investigation still in the mill. So although there's a pressure for fairness to let him out, given the others are free; there's probably some strong practical considerations and certainly there's gotta be some political pressure to keep him in. I'm sure, given the value of the resources within the Elgindy family, including his parents, that his wife and children will be in far better shape during the course of the trial than say the wife and kids of a black man hauled into jail on a drug or mistaken identity charge. Of course, if, as has been the track record of the past, he is singing like a bird in cooperation with the authorities, and maybe has contacts to some bigger fish who could be hauled in, this may also bode well for him getting released. But I don't think this would happen until solid and documentable depositions are firm in the hands of the authorities. Ultimately, however, nobody knows what's going on. Thus, the question: Has anybody talked with him?