In People v. Bell, 73 N.Y.2d 153, [1989], a government agent engaged defendant in recorded conversation about his attempt to bribe a witness into not testifying about a case on which defendant retained counsel. On one level, the court adopted the formula of Mealer v. Jones and Maine v. Moulton for the Skinner right to counsel context, because it found "no sound reason for extending that right to protect a defendant against incriminating himself in a new unrelated crime." People v. Bell, 73 N.Y.2d at 162.) Government agent in Bell did not "interfere with defendant's representation" on the prior matter, and that he "did not question defendant about the crime for which he had obtained representation." (73 N.Y.2d at 162.)