Deposition Transcript of Scott Rothstein (Albert ... - Trustee Services

1 tried to explain to him how we were additionally
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2 compensating Albert out of that money, because there
3 were times when Stuart would look at records and the
4 like, especially when I put Albert on payroll, Stu
5 wanted to understand why, and I explained to him that
6 we owed him the money, that we owed Albert the money,
7 and I explained to him why we owed him the money.
8 Q. Just to be sure, you know, you used the
9 phrase "what the market would bear."
10 I think that typically that phrase with
11 respect to hourly rates and lawyers would reference
12 whether a lawyer in downtown Fort Lauderdale for
13 instance could get $600 an hour compared to $450 an
14 hour.
15 I don't think that's what you were alluding
16 to.
17 A. That's not what I was alluding to.
18 Q. So let's just clean up the record a bit.
19 When you say what the market would bear,
20 what exactly do you know that you told Stu in terms
21 of your words and what he understood by them and how
22 you know that.
23 A. I told Stuart that I was billing them based
24 upon an arrangement that I reached with Albert with
25 regard to making sure that we had plenty of money