Q. All right. Let's talk about bank accounts for a minute. Last week during Mrs. Rivera's deposition, which you attended, we identified a bunch of bank accounts. Let's go over the list with you.It's true that you had -- did you have a joint bank account with Ms. Price, now Rivera, at Regions?
A. If she said so.
Q. And did you have a USSE account over which you and Ms. Rivera had signatory authority at Regions?
A. Where we were the only ones that had signatory authority?
Q. No. Where you were able to sign on behalf of U.S. --
A. If she said so, I'm sure it's true.
Q. All right.
A. But not exclusively. I mean, Gerald Brent, other people had --
Q. I didn't -- I didn't ask that.
A. I -- I understand, but I just want to clarify.
Q. All right. Did you have an account at River Hills Bank in Port Gibson? Which, of course, I couldn't1 find when I was there.
A. Well, you know what, neither could I. Okay? But, you know, when he wasn't giving birth to a cow or feeding chickens, there was a bank in Port Gibson that you couldn't deposit over $5,000 in without getting an act of Congress. If the name of that bank was River Hills Bank, then so be it. But yes, I did have an account, or the company did have an account there.
Q. When you were at the Commission being interviewed earlier in this case, you mentioned that you might have had an account or a brokerage account at an Indiana bank.
A. What testimony are you referring to?
Q. One of your testimonies at the Commission.
15 A. When?
Q. When?
A. Today? Are we talking about one of the three times that I testified?
Q. Yes, sir.
A. I have no -- no recollection of anything that occurred there.
Q. Do you have any recollection that you had a bank in Indiana?
A. I have no recollection of anything that happened at those meetings in Atlanta.
Q. We'll come back to that. We marked these last week as Exhibit 105 to your -- to Mrs. Rivera's testimony.
MR. RUE: Do you need a copy, Don?
MR. LELAND: Uh-huh.
Q. (By Mr. Rue) And this is a series of checks and cashier's checks, and I think there's a wire transfer in here from Admiral Lora to you and Ms. Price that I believe adds up to about $764,000.
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Why did Lora give you this money?
A. Well, if you look at the check, it says loan (prestamo). Admiral Lora has been a friend for 20 to 30 years, I don't remember how long, but it's been over 20 years, possibly 30. Okay. And when we cranked up his public company, he was, prior to that, extremely instrumental in helping us with various contacts and testimony and bringing -- I'm sorry, my thingy fell off.
Q. That's your microphone thingy that fell off.
A. Yeah. The other one will wear off.
THE VIDEOGRAPHER: Let me help you, sir.
THE WITNESS: Slippery little sucker. There we go.
A. Okay. I mean, he's -- he's made visits there. He's had the Secretary of State come down. He's had the Secretary of the Civil Aviation come down. He has issued press releases and statements in the Dominican Republic validating our -- our process with Tubes Technology Licensing. He assists -- assisted us in acquiring like 6,000 hectares of property adjacent to the Santa Domingo beach. And –
Q. (By Mr. Rue) Who owns those -- who owns that acreage?
A. Well, I'm not trying to be obtuse or evasive, I would say that if I had to give a opinion, I would say that -- that acreage is owned by the defunct stockholders of Earth First Technologies. When Stanton took over Earth First, I told him, you've got all the -- you've got, you know, all this land out here. It's beach front property. It's, you know, worth ten times or 100 times what -- what you guys paid for it. And he didn't want to hear about anything from a third-world country, you know. They're so much garbage under his toes.
THE VIDEOGRAPHER: Excuse me, Mr. Rue, we have five minutes left on this tape.
MR. RUE: Let's go off the record and change this one right quick.
THE VIDEOGRAPHER: Okay. This marks the end of tape 2. The time is 2 :21, we're off the record.
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