Tracy Tully
Appearances
The New Yorker Radio Hour
How Bob Menendez Came By His Gold Bars
Will Hanna is kind of a serial entrepreneur. He started a bunch of businesses and he lost his job. house in Bayonne, he's got no money. And he becomes friends with Nadine Arslanian, who becomes Nadine Menendez.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
How Bob Menendez Came By His Gold Bars
And somewhere along the way, somebody comes up with the idea to create this halal certification company.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
How Bob Menendez Came By His Gold Bars
You know, trial testimony showed that then the company took off and ultimately won a monopoly. Hana's company was the gatekeeper to all of that product. So it made him a very wealthy man.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
How Bob Menendez Came By His Gold Bars
In that courthouse, you have no phones. Nobody has recording devices. So they developed this sort of cocoon-like space where the defendants, the reporters, the lawyers, we were all kind of existing together for nine weeks.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
How Bob Menendez Came By His Gold Bars
He would sing during breaks in court, sometimes in the courtroom, often outside in that vestibule that you described. And I remember riding down an elevator with a crowd of people at one point, and one of the lawyers said, I think it's a form of prayer.