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Crowe says he would have dismissed the report had it come from a con man like Eckardt. But knowing Saunders to be devoutly honest, Crowe called his father Alan, who pressed him about the credibility of the tale. "I don't want to parade a ridiculous story about a national figure," Alan warned. They settled on a strategy. Alan Crowe phoned an investigative reporter with the Oregonian while Saunders and an attorney approached the Clackamas County D.A., who steered Saunders to the FBI. All of this left the FBI scrambling to follow up Saunders' leads even as the story...
Saunders was not the only source with information about a conspiracy. Rusty Rietz, 38, was a former aluminum worker who was also in Crowe's course, studying to become a paralegal. Rietz told TIME that he too visited Eckardt's house in early January, when he had to stop off to pick up a computer disk. The bodyguard, Rietz says, invited him inside to "talk confidentially...
...Would you kill somebody for $65,000?" Eckardt asked. When Rietz said no, Eckardt pressed...
...Would you break some legs for $65,000?" When Reitz again refused, Eckardt continued, "Well, I've got a job in Detroit...
...that's nice," Rietz joked, at which point Eckardt concluded, "Well then, I guess I'll have to send my team." Rietz assumed this was Eckardt doing his usual weird cloak-and-dagger routine. But only seven days later, Rietz said, he "put the pieces together...