"Janie," Ty said, his voice drifting into the "warning tone", as in, "Tell me because I'm your husband and we're going to get into a fight if you don't."
"Usually people lower-level have information, and in my experience the government is going to want that information to see whether they can go up the chain, " saidTy Howard, who is a former assistant U.S. attorney in Nashville who now defends people accused of white-collar crimes.