Bit more background: https://www.nwaonline.com/news/2018/apr/30/the-trapdoor-under-the-woods-case-20180/ https://www.nwaonline.com/news/2018/apr/30/the-trapdoor

Bit more background: https://www.nwaonline.com/news/2018/apr/30/the-trapdoor-under-the-woods-case-20180/ https://www.nwaonline.com/news/2018/apr/30/the-trapdoor-unde... > The laptop became an issue when it was used to copy audio recordings the government says it never sought. > Neal, a former state representative of Springdale, carried an audio recorder disguised as a pen during most of 2016. He was cooperating with the government and told investigators he was willing to wear a hidden recording device. Investigators declined, but Neal went ahead and recorded any conversation he thought might interest investigators. He said he hoped he could be of more value to the government and reduce his sentence. He pleaded guilty on Jan. 4, 2017. > Cessario used his FBI laptop to make copies of the audio files after they were placed in a Dropbox file-sharing folder. He testified in a February court hearing he copied every file that was there and copied them to computer disc in November 2016. Copies of those recordings were turned over to the defense in April 2017. > According to court testimony, not all the files were in the Dropbox folder the day Cessario downloaded the files and then made his copies. For whatever reason, only 39 of at least 119 audio files made it to the defense. Recorded conversations specifically mentioned in texts from Neal's attorney to Cessario in 2016 were not there. > Cessario was ordered Dec. 4 in an email from Assistant U.S. Attorney Aaron Jennen to turn over the laptop for examination to try and find out what happened. That same day Cessario had the hard drive professionally erased at a computer shop in Bentonville, then erased it again himself before turning it in on Dec. 7, he testified in a pretrial hearing Jan. 25.