ecution would not: put Joseph Hunter and Paul Le Roux on the stand. "You have heard that RX Limited was owned by Paul Calder Le Roux," Richman told the jury. "What the government neglected to mention to you is that Paul Calder Le Roux is a ruthless, vi- cious, international criminal. He is a murderer, a drug dealer, and a weapons smuggler. The U.S. government arrested Paul Le Roux in 2012. He is now in federal prison. He should be the one on trial here, but instead he cut a deal with the government to cooperate. The prosecution has hardly even mentioned Paul Le Roux, but we are going to call him to testify in this trial because we want you to know the full story."

On a break the first morning of the trial, Oz and I greeted each other just outside the courtroom. He projected the same warm confidence as he had in our first meeting back in December 2015. "I still can't believe I'm here and he got a deal," he said of Le Roux. He wasn't allowed to work in the United States under the conditions of his bail, so he occupied much of his time studying the Torah. He and his wife had a third child while he'd been awaiting trial. "I'm getting to spend a lot of time with my kids, which I wouldn't get to do in Israel," he said. I asked him if he'd ever con- sidered running, like Bezalel and Berkman had. "No, that's not me, I want to face it because I didn't do anything wrong. I have a family. I have kids. I can't spend my life looking over my shoul- der."

From the opening day, the prosecution's case felt muddled, form- less. At times they seemed uncertain about what story they were telling. The RX Limited network was a tangled ecosystem of web- sites, affiliates, doctors, pharmacists, and customer service centers, driven by technology that was not always simple to explain. Each of the defendants represented a different part of that ecosystem, but the story of their guilt always seemed just out of reach.

Marks and her colleagues were sitting on a mountain of evi- dence, but it quickly became clear that much of it would be use-