Look at Marilyn Briley's PFD.
Facing Marilyn on the left is Flip Hollstein, who was known to be wearing an infant life jacket throughout. Marilyn's PFD is clearly larger than FH's. Hers is an adult life jacket. End of story.
Furthermore, the NTSB accident photo file (page4), showing Fuddy's Infant Life jacket says, "Life vest was cut at clinic". Queens Hospital could hardly be called a clinic, and the USCG helo crew would not have forced someone to continue to wear a life jacket for the 40-minute helo ride, and the ambulance crew would not have transported her with an infant life jacket for the 10-minute ride to Queens.
The entire body of evidence is against this made up story of MB wearing an infant life jacket! Let alone one that had just one cartridge pulled.
Hollstein was not around when either Marilyn Briley or Fuddy came out of the plane. He'd already been out of the plane for a minute and a half before Fuddy.
MB is shown outside the plane 20 seconds before FH is seen outside the plane (coming up vertically from the deep, near the plane's tail). She doesn't have a life jacket on, so it has to be labeled untruthful that FH put a life jacket on her before she exited the plane.
Furthermore, Bruce Briley wasn't wearing any life jacket when he exited. Minutes later he's seen floating on his back without a life jacket on, but still carrying it on his stomach.
It seems to me the visual evidence once again to show FH to making stuff up left and right. Giving false evidence to federal officials concerning an investigation was still illegal last time I checked.
It's really not appropriate to make stuff up on the fly. To do so when easily-available evidence contradicts should create some self-restraint. It would in most people.