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evidenceevidenceaudioGarcia–MagbanuaMagbanua RetrialCharlie AdelsonDonna AdelsonDolce Vita recordingThe Dolce Vita recording captures an FBI-surveilled April 2016 restaurant meeting between Charlie Adelson and Katherine Magbanua. Restaurant noise and other gaps left significant portions difficult or impossible to understand; courts allowed the recording to be played while limiting or excluding transcript use in the described trials.
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Dolce Vita recording

The Dolce Vita recording captures an FBI-surveilled April 2016 restaurant meeting between Charlie Adelson and Katherine Magbanua. Restaurant noise and other gaps left significant portions difficult or impossible to understand; courts allowed the recording to be played while limiting or excluding transcript use in the described trials.

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Also known as (20)
  • Dolce Vita restaurant meeting evidence
  • Dolce Vita restaurant secret recording of Charlie Adelson and Magbanua
  • Dolce Vita restaurant surveillance recording
  • Dolce Vita surveillance recording — multiple clips played during cross
  • Dolce Vita combined enhanced audio-video composite
  • Dolce Vita restaurant recording, clarified by a former CIA audio expert
  • Dolce Vita wire recording
  • Dolce Vita surveillance recording with synchronized rolling transcript (ellipses version)
  • Dolce Vita recording demonstrative
  • Paper transcript of Dolce Vita recording prepared by James Keith McElveen (38-page and 12-page sections with inaudible markers)
  • McElveen Dolce Vita transcript
  • Dolce Vita restaurant recording — multiple clips played and challenged line by line
  • FBI video recording of Charlie Adelson and Katherine Magbanua meeting at Dolce Vita restaurant, Miami
  • Dolce Transcript
  • Dolce Vita surveillance recording
  • Covert audio-video recording of the April 20, 2016 Dolce Vita meeting between Charlie Adelson and Katherine Magbanua
  • Dolce Vita covert surveillance recording of Charlie Adelson and Magbanua
  • Dolce Vita surveillance recording of Adelson-Magbanua meeting — largely unintelligible audio
  • Dolce Vita undercover video
  • portion of State's Exhibit 154

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The recording was used in competing arguments about whether the participants' response to the undercover bump reflected an alleged conspiracy or an alleged extortion.

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