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It required a convoluted creation of what even one of the prosecutors called a “zombie” case.

She knows, vaguely, it has something to do with how California draws the boundaries for its 52 congressional districts, a convoluted and arcane process that’s not exactly top of the mind for your average person.

She spent hours poring over a convoluted spreadsheet Sasha kept and found communications with several different financial advisers.

The convoluted system allowed them to keep the peso strong and print money to cover ever-rising public spending.

Silver acknowledged that the convoluted format used this year “was a miss.”