Moreover, Mr. Cunningham's efforts were greatly tempered by the fact that many of our meetings with him were necessitated by his apparent retreat from the factual basis of his own plea agreement. See e.g., Letter to Wayne Winters, dated May 2, 2006, ("not all of what the press claimed was true or what I had to plead to -- But [I] had to take the whole plea or nothing.") At the opposite end of the spectrum, we were concerned that he would embellish facts if he thought doing so would improve his prospects for a sentencing reduction, as he did on at least one occasion.... In addition, his lack of candor before and after his plea (one example of which was the $50,000 in cash he left for his wife on the eve of his sentencing hearing) and the egregiousness of his crimes, presented the real risk that whichever side called him as a witness would be irreversibly tainted by such association. This may explain why Wilkes did not call him either, notwithstanding his counsel's promise to do so.