"He also argued that Abdeldaim - who is from Haiti and speaks with a heavy accent - innocently left a zero off the money total she declared on her customs form due to a language barrier."
Numerals, specifically ARABIC numerals that are used internationally, should be no problem for anyone. What a load of BS that there was a language barrier. Typical lawyer.
Maybe she messed up converting from Roman numerals to hexidecimal before converting to binary and then to Base 10.