“A license to practise law is not a license to break the law,” said US Government prosecuting attorney Stephen D’Alessandro in his summation for the prosecution when the trial of Robert Simels continued in the Brooklyn court yesterday.The matter got underway around 9:50 hours, some 20 minutes later than usual.Robert Simels, the former lawyer for self-confessed Guyanese drug dealer, Shaheed Roger Khan, is on trial with his assistant attorney, Arienne Irving, for obstructing justice by the use of intimidatory tactics against witnesses, for the possession of wiretapping equipment and more than 12 other counts.According to D’Alessandro,Cheap NFL Jerseys Wholesale, addressing the jury, in a crowded courtroom, the defendants Simels and Irving felt that the rules did not apply to them when they obstructed the courts of justice and attempted to intimidate witnesses in the Roger Khan case.He told the jury that the two were no longer acting as lawyers but as criminals sending violent gang members to go after witnesses.D’Alessandro told the jury that the prosecution has fulfilled its obligation by proving beyond any reasonable doubt that the defendants were guilty of the charges.D’Alessandro submitted to the jury that Simels lied to them, that he was evasive when caught in the lies and that he told them what he, Simels, wanted them to believe him and his client.He stated that even though Shaheed Roger Khan was not on trial,Cheap NBA Jerseys Authentic, it was Robert Simels as his attorney, who corroborated with him and his gang of violent men, to make sure that Roger Khan’s instructions were carried out and that Khan be guaranteed a trip back to Guyana.He said that the two defendants opted to have witnesses intimidated in order that they lie outright or change their testimonies against the Guyanese drug dealer.Pointing to Simels’s assistant, Irving, D’Alessandro said that she assisted Robert Simels and as such was complicit.He added that Irving may say that she was influenced by her boss, but that doing a job does not mean committing an illegal act.He also submitted to the jury that Irving had choices that she could have made.ROGER KHAN.D’Alessandro referred to Simels’s client from where the conspiracy to obstruct justice began.He described Khan as a major drug dealer who controlled a gang of violent men who were also themselves drug dealers, and who were involved in kidnapping,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, murder and torture of citizens in Guyana.He reminded the jury by showing them photographs of the members of Khan’s gang (names provided) and those of Ronald Waddell and Donald Allison as he went over Selwyn Vaughn’s testimony of how the two men were killed.Pointing to Barry Dataram’s photograph, the prosecuting attorney said that it was Dataram who managed Khan’s drug exportation to the United States and named others as members of the ‘Phantom gang’ that wreaked havoc by carrying out their boss “Short Man” Khan’s instructions.He told the jury that the men who presented themselves as well-dressed people, were assassins. “They are killers. I don’t care if they wear Dockers,” D’Alessandro told a hushed courtroom.“Do you think he is being honest? Do you think he lies?” he asked the jury.He then reminded that judge Gleeson had to instruct Simels eight times to answer a question when the lawyer, turned defendant, sought to evade the question.“I respectfully submit to you that Robert Simels took the stand and lied. He looked you in the face and lied …He is a lawyer; he knows the difference between lies and the truth and he knows how to answer and how to evade the question.”Holding the fifty $20 bills in the courtroom, D’Alessandro said that it was the money that Simels paid Selwyn Vaughn to use in this quest to intimidate witnesses.He told the jury that it is a crime to pay for someone’s testimony. He pointed that all the witnesses against Khan in the drug case were named on a list found in Simels’s office and that the lawyer mentioned them to Vaughn as those he wanted to neutralise or change their testimony.Referring to David Clarke, D’Alessandro said that Simels told Vaughn that Khan said not to kill the mother but that he could use any means necessary to neutralize George Allison, Leslyn Comacho, Alicia Jagnarine, Farrah Singh, Vijay Jagnarine and Ryan Pemberton.TARGETSAmong the targets in the case was to get Vaughn to lie about Roger Khan on the stand and to get David Clarke to change his testimony or not testify at all by paying him.All that Simels was concerned with was that Vaughn carry out his and Roger Khan’s instructions and be careful not to get caught. Irving, D’Alessandro said was aware of everything.D’Alessandro said that Simels imported the laptops to the US and that Khan instructed Simels and Irving that the base that one of his men in Guyana (name