He kept trying, taking a job as a plant foreman for a manufacturer and working his way up in sales.

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What the prosecutors learned in interviewing witnesses but never shared with the defense is that even the foreman on the job site shared the Stevens' understanding that they had been appropriately billed for all the work.

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It was always a crapshoot, hard to know when a foreman would select him, or even what job he would be assigned.

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