El Diablo’s efforts to silence his Caribbean Princess crew didn’t work. Prosecutors won the case. In the final stages of the case in 2016, Udell wrote to the judge with a special request. Keays had done the right thing, Udell said, and he had done it at considerable risk to himself, for the right reasons, and with no expectation of financial gain. Might it be appropriate to bend the rules, Udell asked, and allow a bounty in this case, even though Keays did not originally report the crime directly to American authorities? The judge agreed, and Keays received roughly $1 million from the
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