“No, sir,” Mr. Zarrab replied. Mr. Zarrab made it clear that he believed the Turkish action had been in retaliation for his cooperating with United States prosecutors. But a defense lawyer, Cathy Fleming, tried to put a different spin on Mr. Zarrab’s testimony during cross-examination. “Yes, ma’am,” Mr. Zarrab replied. Mr. Zarrab testified that he had paid tens of millions of dollars in bribes to Zafer Caglayan, who was the country’s economy minister at the time of the scheme.

Source: New York Times December 09, 2017 16:18 UTC