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Stressing that he should be entitled to a better offer to keep his mouth shut, local judge Robert Arnold expressed his disappointment to reporters Monday that a proposed bribe was just the duffel bag. “When the guy I’d never seen before dropped the duffel bag next to me in the gym and said, ‘For your cooperation,’ I figured there’d be a bunch of money or something inside, but apparently it’s just the bag,” said Arnold, adding that he knew the defense attorneys in a local drug-trafficking case were trying to get him to rule in their client’s favor, but assumed they would offer more than the duffel bag in payment.