How many shares of AZNT does Bob Quiel have? Amnesia strikes!!
19 Q. Do you have any beneficial interest directly or 20 indirectly in any Amazon stock?
21 A. Yes. 22 Q. How much? 23 A. I don't recall. 24 Q. More than one share? 25 A. More than one.
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1 Q. More than ten? 2 A. Okay. Tell me where you're going with this. Because I --
3 Q. How many shares do you own? 4 A. Roughly 600,000. 5 Q. When did you acquire the 600,000 shares? 6 A. Over a period of the last couple years. 7 Q. When did you begin acquiring shares in Amazon? 8 A. Probably June or so of '97.
9 Q. When's the last time you acquired shares in Amazon? 10 A. Probably October of last year. 11 Q. October of '98? 12 A. Yeah. 13 Q. Who have you purchased Amazon shares from? 14 A. Who have I purchased them from? 15 Q. Yeah. 16 A. You mean personally? 17 Q. Did you first -- 18 A. I mean, I'm not sure I understand the question. 19 Q. Well, I'll -- 20 A. I bought some through a broker dealer. Is that what the
21 question is? 22 Q. Okay. Well, let me go back and make sure. Are these 23 600,000 some odd shares that you own in your own name? 24 A. Yes. 25 Q. And you acquired some of those shares through trades with
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1 a broker dealer? 2 A. I'm sorry? 3 Q. You acquired some of these 600 shares of Amazon through a 4 broker dealer? 5 A. Yes. 6 Q. About how many of the 600,000 shares did you acquire 7 through a broker dealer?
8 A. I don't know. 9 Q. More than half? 10 A No. 11 Q Less than half? 12 A Yes. 13 Q More than 100,007 14 A Probably not. 15 Q Which broker dealer did you acquire your shares in Amazon
16 from?
17 A. Most recently Global Financial. 18 Q. Do you know who the principal of Global Financial is? 19 A. A fellow by the name of Kevin Miller. 20 Q. Is Global Financial out of Las Vegas? 21 A. No. 22 Q. Did you acquire shares in October '98 through Global
23 Financial? 24 A. I don't know the date. 25 Q. Was your last --
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1 A. But that's close enough. 2 Q. Was your last acquisition through a broker dealer? 3 A. Pardon me? 4 Q. was your last acquisition of Amazon stock through a broker
5 dealer?
6 A. Correct. 7 Q. Was your last acquisition through Global Financial? 8 A. Correct. 9 Q. Do you recall the amount of shares you acquired the last
10 time you acquired Amazon shares? 11 A. I think the last that I did was 200 shares. 12 Q. What is the largest block of Amazon shares that you've 13 acquired at one time?
14 A. I don't know. The largest block probably 140,000 shares. 15 Q. When did you do that? 16 A. Don't have the date. It was probably around -- I don't
17 know -- September, maybe. 18 Q. Of 19987
19 A. Yeah. 20 Q. At that time did you do that through a broker dealer? 21 A. No. 22 Q. Who did you acquire the shares from? 23 A. I bought those directly from Titan Investments. 24 Q. Who is the principal of Titan? 25 A. The name escapes me at the moment.
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1 Q. Have you ever known Titan Investments to do business as 2 Total Concept International? 3 A. No, I've never known that. 4 Q. Have you ever understood that Michael Sylver had any 5 connection with Titan? 6 A. No. 7 Q. When you acquired 140,000 shares of Amazon stock from 8 Titan what did you pay?
9 A. I don't recall. 10 Q. More than $17 tl A. It was -- might have been ten cents a share or something
12 like that. I don't remember.
13 Q. Did you receive a certificate? 14 A. Uh-huh. 15 Q. Is that a yes? 16 A. Yes. 17 Q. And did you track through to find out what certificate
18 Titan had received by which you could acquire 140,000 shares?
19 A. Did I track through? 20 Q. Did the certificate you have a restrictive legend on it? 21 A. Yes. 22 Q. Stamped in red? 23 A. Pardon me? 24 Q. Stamped in red? 25 A. Yes.
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1 Q. Who did you actually acquire the certificate from? 2 A. Titan Investments. 3 Q. was a transfer agent involved? 4 A. When they transferred the shares, yes. 5 Q. What was the name of the transfer agency? 6 A. At the time I don't remember. 7 Q. Did that transaction occur something along this lines that
8 Titan told the transfer agency to issue 140,000 shares of its 9 shares to you? 10 A. Yes. 11 Q. Then that transfer agency issued the shares to you in your 12 own name?
13 A. Yes. 14 Q. Was that ten cents per share paid through an escrow? 15 A. No. 16 Q. It was paid directly to Titan? 17 A. Right. 18 Q. Did you ever acquire any Amazon shares directly from
19 Amazon? 20 A. Not that I recall. 21 Q. So you've acquired all Amazon shares from other 22 shareholders of Amazon? 23 A. To my best of my knowledge, yes. 24 Q. Did you acquire any shares from Titan other than the 25 140,000 shares?
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1 A. I can't remember that. Might have, but I just don't 2 recall. 3 Q. Do you remember any other large block of Amazon shares 4 that you acquired from a particular person? 5 A. I can't recall the times, dates and everything. 6 Q. How often have you acquired shares from Amazon since 7 June 19977
8 A. Don't know that answer either. I'd have to look at the
9 records. I don't know.
10 Q. More than 20 times? 11 A. No. 12 Q. More than -- 13 A. Twenty times? 14 Q. Yes. 15 A. No. 16 Q. More than ten times? 17 A. No. 18 Q. More than five times? 19 A. Questionable. I don't think so.
20 Q. Well, if we have one time when you acquire 200 shares,
21 another time when you acquire 140,000 shares, the other times 22 you acquired shares you probably would have acquired quite a 23 number, a big block, correct? 24 A. There were times when I acquired 25,000. There were 25 some -- I'd really have to look at the records to know for
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1 sure. But I can't recall all of those specific events. 2 Q. Well, in your investigation that you referred to leading 3 you to come here to testify today, did you look at any of your 4 transactions? 5 A. No. 6 Q. Do you remember the names of any other broker dealer from 7 which you purchased Amazon shares?
8 A. Schwab. 9 Q. Anyone else? 10 A. Yeah. I'm trying to think of the name of the firm. It's 11 -- it escapes me at the moment. 12 Q. Do you have any shares that are attributable to you where
13 the actual certificate rests with the DTC -- Depository Trust
14 Company?
15 A. Uh-huh. Yes, that's true. 16 Q. About how many? 17 A. You mean currently? 18 Q. Yes. 19 A. Nothing. 20 Q. You have none?
21 A. With DTC -- oh, no. I have 3,000 shares. That's correct. 22 Q. The shares that you acquired from Schwab, did you receive 23 the actual certificate? 24 A. Oh, did I receive them from Schwab? 25 Q. Did you receive the actual certificate from Schwab?
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1 A. No, I didn't receive it from them. No. 2 Q. Do you remember the names of any other person from whom 3 you acquired Amazon shares?
4 A. Gary Sylver. 5 Q. How many shares did you acquire from Gary Sylver? 6 A. I don't remember.
Note: For those of you not keeping up with absolutely everything, Global Financial is the company for whom Bob Quiel's son Michael works, lolol.
How the hell can ANYONE fail to see what an enormous JOKE all this is?
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