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  "full_text": "Case18-cr-00490-RMB Document 18 Filed 07/16/19 Page 12 of 18 12\nprior to the government's entering the agreement.\nThe Department of Justice at the time did not believe the CVRA extended absent a federal charge. The predicate is a federal crime that harms a victim. The petitioners have vigorously asserted a different position. Judge Marrah, in a summary judgment motion, agreed with the petitioners as to the fault of the government in not conferring. The issue of remedy is before Judge Marrah at the present time, your Honor.\nTHE COURT: Okay.\nMR. ROSSMILLER: Your Honor, if I may very briefly?\nTHE COURT: Yes.\nMR. ROSSMILLER: The crux of the defense argument here I think cuts precisely the other way. They are arguing that the Southern District of Florida has sort of sent up a flag that these prosecutions could be undertaken elsewhere. That's true. The Southern District of Florida has argued in papers that they believed, the Southern District of Florida believed, that the nonprosecution agreement was limited to that district. They have said that out loud and in public and in their positions in filing.\nSo certainly this investigation was not shoveled to the Southern District of New York from anywhere else, including the Department of Justice. We expect that the nonprosecution agreement will not be an impediment, in particular because the defendant certainly did not lack for sophisticated counsel in\nSOUTHERN DISTRICT REPORTERS, P.C.\n(212) 805-0300\nDOJ-OGR-00000398",
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