However, the prosecution had also angered members of Paty's family by refusing to push for maximum sentences, and by downgrading the qualification of some of the imputed crimes.

"If a family member endorses a publicly endorses a candidate for office, the code says it could be imputed to the judge," Alfini said.

"The same applies to other executives in the Trumpov Organization because their knowledge can be imputed to the entity," Rahmani said.

"We still got a couple of weeks before the actual meeting, so if anybody imputed some specific basis points of what I was for, that’d be inaccurate," he said.

As for making young William “a man,” Higgins means that he will introduce him to jazz, a meaning that I suspect has never before been imputed to that phrase in human history.