We can choose or lose our friends and associates, we can't choose our relatives.
We don't know his brother, but if they were estranged from each other for so long, neither did he know Bruce Ivins that his colleagues knew.
That has no bearing on the point I was making.
His lawyer is the one who claims he was beloved by his friends and family.
I just pointed out that the lawyer isn’t being entirely honest. He knows about the estranged brother, and he knows it isn’t truthful to imply that he was beloved by his whole family.