Just how did Traficant force Detor to say the following:
MR. DETOR: I've been threatened with the IRS. They told me that the IRS was immediately going to investigate me and that they were holding the IRS off, and I've been threatened with going and being six weeks in trial. They realize that I would lose my security licenses and I would lose my (UNINTELLIGIBLE) license if their were any kind of a Federal charge if found guilty, which would reasonably come, in all likelihood. And they have called and been on me and tried every threat, and they've gone all through my wife, what kind of salary, why I bought the house I bought, why I drive the kind of car I drive, you know, what my background is. It has just been a nightmare of unbelievable proportions. I really feel that I'm living in Red China.
Traficant did not need to "force" anything.
These are two criminals helping each other out. It is the most usual thing in the world for criminals to claim they are being railroaded ... the truth of their crimes is very helpful in "railroading" them.
Traficant uses political truths to garner sympathy. In this respect, he has always treated conservatives as chumps.