The prosecution got into the batter's box first:
"You've heard of the 12 days of Christmas? This was 12 years of Christmas for Mr. Ryan, his family and his friends," Assistant U.S. Attorney Joel R. Levin said as closing arguments got under way after five months of testimony in Ryan's racketeering and fraud trial.
Levin said that the 72-year-old Republican who served one term as governor practiced "concealment, deception and lies" on a regular basis to cover up "dirty deals" in which he steered state contracts and leases to a small circle of friends and their lobbying clients
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