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SHERMAN – Veteran Austin lawyer Jamie Balagia sat inside the accused cocaine kingpin’s room in a Colombian prison when his investigator suddenly mentioned paying off officials in Washington D.C. to make the man’s charges go away. What did he do? Nothing, according to the government. “You just sat there,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Heather Rattan said Wednesday during Balagia’s federal corruption …

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