Deposition of Scott Rothstein re - Trustee Services

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2 Q. It would have been a lie that Mr. Picou had
3 an employee who was electrocuted?
4 A. No, he did have an employee who was
5 electrocuted, but the way I pitched it to them was not
6 the real reason. As I testified earlier, either would
7 have been pertaining to one of Mr. Picou's gambling
8 debts or for money that he needed that either he
9 didn't want his daughter to see or his ex-wife or soon
10 to be ex-wife to see.
11 Q. Do you remember what you specifically told
12 Mr. Tonacchio and/or Mr. Lipsitz regarding Mr. Picou's
13 employee and how that gave rise to a need for funds?
14 A. I don't recall specifically, no. But
15 whatever it was, it was nonsense.
16 Q. Mr. Lipsitz I think has testified that what
17 you represented to him was that Mr. Picou had this
18 employee who had been killed, that this employee's
19 family had sued Mr. Picou and/or his business, and
20 that he, Mr. Picou, was interested in settling with
21 the family but did not have the funds to do so. Does
22 that comply with your recollection?
23 A. I don't have a specific recollection one way
24 or the other, but that certainly sounds plausible as
25 to how I would have pitched it. Because that was a