the scary part. That guy is going to walk out again, and he is not done with business. The stashes that he has—still has, because I don't know what he gave up. Not everything. And what they seized, it's never going to be everything. He's not that stupid.” He paused and said it again. “He's not that stupid that he's going to give up everything. No.”

The one man who could shed the most light on Le Roux's plans, Le Roux himself, was still hidden away by the U.S. government. After two years, I was finally able to confirm the identity of Le Roux's attorney, the one who requested that the courtroom in Minnesota be closed. His name was Joseph DiBenedetto. Based in Manhattan, he was known for taking on highly publicized crimi- nal cases, including the defense of John Gotti's brother Peter, once accused in a plot to kill Mafia hit man-turned-government infor- mant Sammy “the Bull” Gravano. DiBenedetto also appeared regularly on Fox News and in other media outlets to discuss legal cases in the headlines. But in this one he'd worked hard to keep his name out of the public eye, for reasons he didn't seem to want to discuss. He never returned any of my phone calls or emails asking him to talk about Le Roux's case and explain why, in this instance, he had chosen to work anonymously.

The Minnesota court did eventually unseal DiBenedetto's 2016 letter. It contained some information on Le Roux's family, report- ing that his first wife remained in Europe, where her safety was in jeopardy. Cindy Cayanan, according to the letter, had returned to the Philippines, but soon noticed people following her, and she and their daughter went into hiding. “Based on this information,” the letter continued, “Le Roux's handlers are attempting to have Le Roux's family temporarily relocated to the U.S. to ensure their safety.” (Later, the former 960 agent told me that the relocation plan was never serious. “To be quite honest with you it was pos- turing on our part,” he said. “He didn't care about them. He was