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513:. The indictment claimed that he tampered with evidence when he deep-cleaned his brother's BMW in early December, after having driven the vehicle to California from a Las Vegas storage facility. The FBI had asked him whether he knew of any storage lockers that his younger brother had in Las Vegas; David attested that he did not, but prosecutors were able to show that he did. David pled guilty in 2007 to lying to the FBI, and a federal judge in Arizona sentenced him to three years of probation.
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