Law Enforcement Want To ‘just Talk’ With My Wife About A Legal Issue Her Brother’s In
Resident of United States here. I’m trying to separate what’s paranoia on my part, vs my Brother-In-Law’s untreated delusions, vs what should genuinely be a concern.
My BIL owned a business providing healthcare for government employees. My wife worked for him for two years trying to help him manage his money, and build his HR department.
On the surface of it everything seemed legit, but he’s recently been found to have been working with some very shady people and is facing some serious jail time. He’s not very open with details on the charges.
This has been almost five years in the making. His former partners are all either already sentenced or in court. BIL is awaiting a court date sometime in the next few months.
He advised us two days ago law enforcement wants to “just talk” with my wife to help him with his case. But I assume: a. Law enforcement is not in the busiest of finding character witness for criminals they’re filing charges against b. Everyone involved with the business already have charges set against them, and is now out of the hands of law enforcement and in the hands of the court c. Law enforcement isn’t in the business of “just talking” with people who they believe are innocent
I don’t know which law enforcement agency, but we’re expecting them to contact us next week.
I don’t have a good feeling about this. My concern is BIL keeps shooting his mouth off to everyone who will listen, “Man, I am so glad they don’t want to talk to my sister.” But BIL is also delusional, and has a diagnosed mental illness he isn’t treating and is not all that unusual for him to make things up for attention.
My wife wasn’t involved with his dealings, worked mostly remotely, and didn’t not handle any money aside from payroll.
I really want to tell my wife that she needs to decline and insist if law enforcement needs info from her on these cases that they need to subpoena her for it, and we need to get a lawyer.
Is this over reacting? Is this going to make her look guilty? Should we just simply cooperate?
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