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We were both quiet for the longest ti down her cheeks in a steady flow

"Goodbye," she said finally, in a choked voice, and fled

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

She didn’t come back, and I’m ashamed to admit, for about the first six months, I was mostly relieved about that

I was just so conflicted where she was concerned

It was touted as the trial of the century, though Diana J Baker wasn’t technically the vice president anyet a front row seat for the proceedings Hell, I didn’t get a seat at all

I was left as in the dark as everyone else in the country, watching the coverage on television

Diana had a wily teaued about every little detail, insisting until the very end that the entire case needed to be thrown out

The evidence against her, however, was staggering Countless incris of exactly where and when specific crial acts, and shock of shockers, even videotape of the wo to her part in some of the crimes

When it becaathered the brunt of the evidence was the assuhter, well, needless to say, the press had a field day

About a third of the evidence was ruled inadh to do the trick

She was found guilty for an i , , voter fraud, felony counts of financial corruption, obstruction of justice

The list went on and on Diana had been playing a very dirty game for her entire political career, and it was finally all laid out there, for the world to see

They even et her for tax evasion

They couldn’t es stick, but the rest would keep her in jail for the re years of her life, and more importantly, completely destroyed her reputation and effectively ended her political career

Her husband, Jonathan Mitchell Baker, was also dragged into the es His lawyers sold him as the silent, innocent spouse, but he didn’t fare ain, glasses on, looking solely beautiful as she took the stand in the eleventh hour of the proceedings, becaht, particularly with theadded to hottest and sexiest lists in various publications, and was considered, in general, to be soeous, brave, brilliant young thing taking on a crooked politician and coraduated fro her by then

Of course, no one that big ever went down alone, and as nuures becaer to Francis Baker, as she was knoas overwhel

It all ca The story went that, while in transit, at a stoplight, a van pulled up beside the car she was being transported in, and six ed frouards, ere both wounded in the attack, witnessed her being shot at point blank, in the teuards was also reportedly killed, a big blond ed