its too convenient a story. why did they need to use his phone? just to implicate him. what did it buy the terrorists to implicate him?
He was set up by the bisexual assassin named Mandy.
Richard's story still doesn't explain how the kidnappers knew that Heller and Audrey would be at Richard's that morning.
From his phone, they got the DOD"s whereabouts in order to kidnap him to make that video.