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Judge Ho asks #EmilBove for other examples in which his reasoning has been invoked in a decision to abandon an indictment, in which the defendant is a public ofcl w/serious responsibilities. Bove says he’s not aware of one, but says that prosecutors have invoked foreign policy interests in order to make justice-related decisions. He brings up the case of Viktor Bout, a Russian arms dealer who was released in a prisoner swap for the basketball player Brittney Griner.