Steven Corso
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The witness, Steven Corso, is a suntanned C.P.A. who started working with the government in late 2002 after he was caught embezzling $5.4 million from a number of his clients. His testimony overflowed with lunatic accounts of a Vegas mobster in the escort and carpet businesses and of a six-room office suite, built for Mr. Corso by federal agents, equipped with hidden microphones and cameras. At one point, he told the jury how he had had a business lunch with one of the detectives, Louis Eppolito, who was living in Las Vegas and wanted his assistance raising $1.5 million to produce his screenplay "Murder in Youngstown." In its second week, the federal trial has proved itself to be a transcontinental affair, a cross between a pulp-detective novel and "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas."