new tonight attorneys in Jacksonville's largest fraud case ever arguing over who will be called to the witness stand will ja officials testify before the federal court in the fraud trial against top Executives accused of trying to Swindle millions of dollars through selling Jaa right now our ranata D Gregorio joins us live from the federal courthouse she is breaking it all down for us ranata Genie the government wants to call three more witnesses that were not initially planed to call but the de
fense does have a problem with that because at the very start of this trial they told the juries that the government would not call these three people so defense attorneys believe calling them will hurt The credibility with jurors defense attorney suggested the government was not calling them for a reason the witnesses include two Jaa officials and a board member we have not heard from the only one left the government said they decided to call these Witnesses because of how the defense is portra
ying them the defense is portraying them as playing a big role in this case the next witness will be Jason Gabriel with Jacksonville's office of general counsel who is expected to deliver important testimonies starting tomorrow morning for a refresher former Jaa CEO Aaron Zan and former CFO Ryan wam maker are accused of conspiring to create an incentive plan to then become millionaires off its payouts they are also accused of lying that ja was in a bad financial position in order to push the Jaa
board to agree to move forward with selling it one of the investment bankers we heard from today testified he was concerned about the potential for ja's incentive PL payouts to be in hundreds of millions of dollars a second investment banker testified that he believed that ja sped up the process even though his firm had advised them not to because of public sentiment and shifting that was shifting and Executives wanted to move quickly to as he said alter the narrative live at the federal courth
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