wasn’t anything like Yardley; he was motivated by money, and she was motivated by doing the job that the government was asking her to do. Elizebeth only discussed active cases in public when a prosecutor called her to testify in court, and at all other times she limited her comments to closed cases, and then only with the full authorization of the Treasury publicity office. She testified for a reason: to put bad guys in prison. Yet Elizebeth was so talented at this task, and the trials so spectacular, that the resulting waves of publicity threatened to wash away her career, in an era when
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