“Isn’t it true you purchased a tricket for your brothers on Sept. 24, 2003,” Brothers said. Brothers said he gave several members of his family his credit card number to make travel arrangements for grand jury testimony.

Green said during a taped conversation a car door can be heard shutting in the background. But Brothers said he has no car he was able to drive at the time.

The judge said there is no proof of this.

Green said Brothers was recorded on Sept. 23, 2003, talking to Gary Ray.

Brothers said he believed he was being recorded at this time. “I was concerned they would take things out of context,” Brothers said of why he told his family he believed he was being taped.

Brothers said he does not recall telling Melvin Brothers repeatedly not to talk over the phone because it was tapped.

Brothers denies using a second cell phone, pay phones and Maria Crisafulli, an alleged former girlfriend, to avoid phone taps.

On one of the wiretaps Maria Crisafulli tells Vincent Brothers that Troy Brothers missed his flight from LaGuardia, which the prosecutor said was on Sept. 24, 2003.

Brothers said he was in two branches of the military, the Marines and the Army. He does not remember the years, but he believes it was in the early to mid-1980s.

Brothers said he spoke with fraternity brother Steve Birchfield also known as Shake. Brothers said his name was “dogfish.”

Brothers said he enlisted in the Marines while at Norfolk State University from 1980 to 1986.

Brothers said his military obligation followed him to Bakersfield.

Brothers said he trained with an M-16 A-1 riffle. He said he was trained to shoot in bootcamp. He had to reach a certain proficiency. He went through the course once.

He was military police in the Army in Bakersfield. He had no additional training in firearms when he went into the Army.