Originally requesting eight hours from the prison warden, she was given two hours to probe the man who spearheaded the largest Ponzi scam in history.

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He was a veteran of the system, having been either a prison warden or a commissioner in several states across the country for more than twenty years.

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She was the warden at California's San Quentin prison and oversaw four executions.

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