Deposition Transcript of Scott Rothstein (Albert ... - Trustee Services
Deposition Transcript of Scott Rothstein (Albert ... - Trustee Services Deposition Transcript of Scott Rothstein (Albert ... - Trustee Services
1 A. Yes. No. No. To the bridge loans. Page 52 2 Q. Did he ever --- 3 A. The deals. Whatever you want to call them. 4 Q. Did he ever participate in any of the 5 settlements with you, to the best of your 6 recollection? 7 A. Not with full deal packets, no. 8 Q. Did he know you were engaged in them? 9 A. You know, he knew I was doing business with 10 hedge funds. I'd have to go back and look at the 11 e-mail track to see if he thought I had ever told him 12 about the settlement business premise, but he did 13 know I was doing business with hedge funds. 14 I remember seeing e-mails from Blandin and 15 the like regarding getting lines of credit from hedge 16 funds. 17 Q. You mentioned earlier, like two minutes 18 ago, Mr. Peter's embezzlement from the company. 19 Are you alluding to his embezzlement 20 through these fake invoices or is there a different 21 embezzlement that you're referencing? 22 A. Both. 23 Q. What is the different -- the other part of 24 it? 25 We have the invoices. What's part two?
1 MR. LICHTMAN: Uh-oh. A frozen screen. Page 53 2 Can you hear us? 3 MR. GOLDBERG: Frozen audio. Frozen 4 screen. 5 MR. LICHTMAN: We have a frozen screen. 6 (Short Break, after which the 7 deposition continued with Mr. LaVecchio out of the 8 room) 9 A. Where were we? 10 Q. I'm going to proceed. I suspect that Larry 11 is not going to care. 12 He may be in a moment, in any event. 13 A. Okay. 14 Q. With respect to the embezzlement before the 15 video got cut out I had asked you what part two was. 16 Part one was the invoices. 17 There was the fake invoices. There was 18 Mr. Peter's use of his Silversea American Express 19 card and expense account to fund a significant amount 20 of personal expenses. 21 (Whereupon, Mr. LaVecchio returned) 22 And then there was his involvement with me 23 in a scheme that was devised to prevent and avoid 24 detection of both our embezzlement scheme and his 25 expense account scheme and other things I suspect
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- Page 3 and 4: 1 Thereupon: Page 3 2 SCOTT ROTHSTE
- Page 5 and 6: 1 of the relationship began. Page 5
- Page 7 and 8: 1 say that this is an area of inqui
- Page 9 and 10: 1 Q. Sort of using the vernacular h
- Page 11 and 12: 1 able to direct that you would get
- Page 13 and 14: 1 Q. Did Mr. Peter actually acknowl
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- Page 19 and 20: 1 A. No. Page 19 2 Q. These are sep
- Page 21 and 22: 1 this sounds even with Mr. Peter's
- Page 23 and 24: 1 Q. Let's just focus in on the iss
- Page 25 and 26: 1 I was providing him legal advice
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- Page 31 and 32: 1 A. Yes, sir. Page 31 2 Q. And the
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- Page 35 and 36: 1 A. In the beginning it was me, Al
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- Page 41 and 42: 1 Q. Then if you take a look at pag
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- Page 47 and 48: 1 tell you that regardless of how m
- Page 49 and 50: 1 and then get him the money in one
- Page 51: 1 A. Because I discussed it with hi
- Page 55 and 56: 1 Q. When you say keeping Mr. Lefeb
- Page 57 and 58: 1 that he frequented prostitutes wh
- Page 59 and 60: 1 A. At a specific point in time we
- Page 61 and 62: 1 extent that he knew that they wer
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- Page 71 and 72: 1 A. Yes. Page 71 2 Q. There's a bi
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- Page 75 and 76: 1 Q. Is it a fair statement that an
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- Page 89 and 90: 1 He said, "I can send it to you fr
- Page 91 and 92: 1 directed by Albert. Page 91 2 Q.
- Page 93 and 94: 1 A. You'd have to see if it ties t
- Page 95 and 96: 1 moneys were paid. Page 95 2 Q. Wh
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1 A. Yes. No. No. To the bridge loans.<br />
Page 52<br />
2 Q. Did he ever ---<br />
3 A. The deals. Whatever you want to call them.<br />
4 Q. Did he ever participate in any <strong>of</strong> the<br />
5 settlements with you, to the best <strong>of</strong> your<br />
6 recollection?<br />
7 A. Not with full deal packets, no.<br />
8 Q. Did he know you were engaged in them?<br />
9 A. You know, he knew I was doing business with<br />
10 hedge funds. I'd have to go back and look at the<br />
11 e-mail track to see if he thought I had ever told him<br />
12 about the settlement business premise, but he did<br />
13 know I was doing business with hedge funds.<br />
14 I remember seeing e-mails from Blandin and<br />
15 the like regarding getting lines <strong>of</strong> credit from hedge<br />
16 funds.<br />
17 Q. You mentioned earlier, like two minutes<br />
18 ago, Mr. Peter's embezzlement from the company.<br />
19 Are you alluding to his embezzlement<br />
20 through these fake invoices or is there a different<br />
21 embezzlement that you're referencing?<br />
22 A. Both.<br />
23 Q. What is the different -- the other part <strong>of</strong><br />
24 it?<br />
25 We have the invoices. What's part two?
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