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“Sustained.”
“So what did you do?” Prosecutor Swartz asked.
“Well, I tried to contact Ms. Reed to set up another appointment for her to come in, but she never came. I did talk to her on the phone and tried to find out if this doctor was the same man she was dating.”
“So you began to do some investigative work on your own?”
“Well, kinda, yes. Our procedure is to work with the fraud department and submit any suspicious activities as well.”
“So what did you do?”
“Well, I didn’t do anything else because my supervisor told me to turn everything over to our investigator at the fraud department.”
“So after the fraud department continued with the case file, is that when you found out that the Michael the defendant was seeing was indeed Dr. Michael Ricci?”
“Yes.”
“No more questions, Your Honor.” Prosecutor Swartz took her seat.
Judge Fritz looked over at the defense table. “Your witness.”
Kyle stood and walked over to the witness stand. He faced Shakeeda and gave her a warm, inviting smile.
Shakeeda stared into his beautiful eyes and almost melted right there on the witness stand.
“Ms. Bingham, would you say that you and the defendant were somewhat cool with each other?”
“Um . . . yes.”
“So you and her were friends, right?”
“No, not friends.”
“Come on, Ms. Bingham, being cool with her means that you and her were more like friends than just her caseworker. You know, sister girls, right?” He smiled.
Shakeeda smiled back. “Well, yeah, something like that.”
“OK, good. So whenever you had to meet with her, the two of you would talk like old girlfriends, right?”
“Yeah.”
“What did you talk about?”
“About men, being a single mother, clothes, shoes, things like that.”
“Yeah, I know, girlfriend type stuff.”
“Yes.” Shakeeda started to feel more relaxed talking to Kyle. He didn’t demand answers from, or put pressure on her like she thought he would.
“So you said the two of you talked about men, huh?”
“Yes.” Shakeeda blushed a little.
“Would you say that Diamond had good luck in dating?” Kyle smiled at her.
“Oh, yes, Diamond could get any man she wanted.” Shakeeda smiled, thinking of some of the crazy stories Diamond had told her.
“Do you have a boyfriend, Ms. Bingham?”
