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The article is light on details around the actual cash itself but I have to wonder if it wasn't counterfeit. If you are, without any type of conversation, randomly trying to pay off jurors that seems like a lot of real money to just blindly throw at the problem and hope it goes away.
Even $5k or $10k could be a life-changing amount of money for some people, seems like it would be easier/cheaper to start there (if it's real) then promise more on a specific outcome.
It's not like your average person would be able to tell a real from a fake bill...
Your lawyers know quite a bit about the jurors, including economic status. You scale your bribes to the general income range.
C'mon, man... this is bribery 101.
I flunked out of crime school and never got past remedial bribery.