A former paratrooper and con artist tried to get out of a torture conviction by claiming to work for the CIA. It didn’t work
Later, after Talabani discovered the missing money, Roggio alleges that he himself was kidnapped and tortured. According to Roggio’s legal filings, in December 2016, he was given two months to return $4 million, or he would be killed. Instead, he escaped and fled the country, climbing out of the window of his Sulaymaniyah penthouse apartment at two in the morning while guards watched his front door.
Talabani wasn’t Roggio’s only problem. After returning to America, he was arrested by federal agents, kicking off a bizarre five-year legal saga. Armed with a secret recording of Roggio admitting to torture and other crimes, prosecutors seemed to have him nailed. They offered him several plea deals, but instead, Roggio bet his freedom on a bunch of harebrained trial strategies.
He apparently believed he could avoid prison by engineering an ineffective assistance of counsel claim. Roggio refused to cooperate with his own lawyers, who accused him of making “scandalous accusations” in order to lay the groundwork for that claim. Later, after those lawyers were replaced by a court appointed lawyer, Gino Bartolai, Roggio attempted, unsuccessfully, to fire his new lawyer in order to call him as a witness in the case.
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