a search of weldon's house turned up firearms - all legally owned. the law says possession of a gun during the drug crime adds to the offence. >> lawyer jerry mooney defended weldon angelos. >> it's a progressive statute. the first gets you five years. >> to be clear, did he ever use the gun, pull the gun, threaten someone with the gun? allegations of that. >> the prosecutor offered weldon angelos a deal - plead guilty to gun charges and drug dealing and >> we faced 100 years if we didn't accept the deal. >> the prosecutor said if you don't take the plea offer you face 100 years in prison. >> over 100 years. >> weldon angelos had no prior criminal record. >> first of all i thought it was outrageous. outrageous amount of time for what was involved. the presence of the guns were incidental. there was violence surrounding anything, just guns. >> if the prosecutor is threatening you with 100 years, why wouldn't you take the plea. 100 years. i refused to believe it was possible in america. especially when you consider rapists or murderers do 10-15 years.

total joke jokester. >> this is weldon's sister.nafge left he was also a smalle marijuana dealer. trans actions that let him down to this place the fed penitentiary where he has been incarcerated for a debl decade w rchl. >> while we talkin angela called for prison and talked about what led him there. i was young and dumb and it was a big mistake. >> a mistake that owe i e he isg dearly for. >> one of my childhood friends was arrested and he was works as an informant. >> he sold his friend pot three times. a total value of just over 1,000 dollars. the informant claimed he saw a gun in two transactions. and aer iscer is e serb a seard guns. >> it's a progressive stat utd youtuba progress statute withth. 9 firsltthe first one is five y. >>. >> did he use the gun or pull the gunned o gurn or begun o gu. >> no. the prosecutor gave him a 3450ea deal. >> we faced over on 100 years ie didn't take the plea offer. the prosecutor said if you don't take the plea offer you will face a hundred years in prison. >>. >> he had no prior sentence. >>

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greg weldon hasn't played in three years. if he is going to make them a much bigger team. it's a big. >> is it good for the league to have one dominant team over a long period of time, or would you like more even keel chance of different teams wining? do you need that parity? >> i think parity is good for the game. i don't like -- you know, i don't want us to be like baseball where you got five teams that can win it and 25 teams. >> you know uh-huh. >> when i played the nba, i played 16 years, the celtics won. the lakers won. the pistons won. the rockets won. bulls won and the spurs won. so, it was spread out. even as dominant as the bulls were winning six championships, it still was spread out. 1, 2. the spurs one on for, the rockets won 2. it was spread out. i think it's better for the over all game because these pays pay an exhorn tant amount of money to watch us play. i want them to have hope. the players got a great life. i want the fans to feel like, you know what? if i am going to pay an exsorb tant amount of money, my team has a chance. >> you said you were disappo

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america tonight, exploring the case of weldon angelo and a new report on how drug defendants are forced to accept guilty please or face excessive sentences. >> that's coming up on thursday. coming up on "america tonight," on assignment, the artful life of dan eldon. remember that talent next. >> they were bashing my head with their boots... they had their guns on me and everything.... >> how much more real can this get? >> fault lines only on al jazeera america new details on what lead to that deadly plane crash in new york. the commuter train was traveling far too fast, more than 80 miles an hour down the track. the question is why? lisa stark joins us from washington. what is the latest? >> that train should have been going at 30 miles an hour around the curve. there are no published reports this morning including from wabc, those reports indicate that the engineer, william rockefeller has said he may have zoned out at the controls. he may have dosed off and then snapped awake too late to stop the train in time the ntsb will continue to interview the engineer and also look back at >>>

. >> kathleen weldon and jim barnett. >> she went to lobby for biogen, a biotech company.he left to lobby for hoffman-laroche. >> they did a marvelous job for this house and we owe them a debt. thank you all. >> we owe them all right. wow. yeah, i mean, this happens -- it happens with every bill. i mean, i think -- what was striking about that is congressman tauzin actually sort of -- if we sent a resume out on all of their behalf, by sort of doing a roll call in his remarks. but look, i mean, that -- the steve kroft piece was stunning in that i think he caught tauzin just, oddly flat-footed. i mean, i think we've seen in reading his face, he seemed almost flat-footed that the question would be asked. i mean, no one is really going to burn any bridges. i mean, it's like one big bridge, in some ways. and look jack abramoff is a name that actually has not come up here. he's the picture of modern disgrace in washington, right? the disgraced lobbyist. one of the many books i read in preparing this book was his memoir, which he wrote, i think, largely i don't know if he wrote i