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            1                (Sidebar.)
            2              MR. BREEN:  I was just talking to Mr. Sten in
            3    the hallway and something that came up.
            4              THE COURT:  Mr. Who?
            5              MR. BREEN:  Mr. Sten.
            6              MR. BERKE:  You know we are calling in Bressman,
            7    he flew in from Washington.  We have to get to Bressman.
            8    We didn't know if he was coming or not.
            9              THE COURT:  The out-of-town guy goes first.
           10    Bressman.
           11              MR. BERKE:  He it here now.
           12              THE COURT:  Do them both.
           13              MR. BREEN:  Mr. Sten brought something up that
           14    he hasn't mentioned before and I thought that he should
           15    and I bring it up to warn everyone and I told Mr. Sten to
           16    not say what he told me under any circumstances, but
           17    apparently, as part of an investigation he worked on,
           18    there was some accusations that a short selling group that
           19    included Mr. Elgindy might have actually known about and
           20    traded ahead of the first bombing of the World Trade
           21    Center.  I told him not to mention it.
           22              MR. GERZOG:  The '93?
           23              MR. BREEN:  The date, that's what he told me.
           24    He knows not to go into it.  I wanted everybody to know
           25    that that he wouldn't go near it.  I told him not to

                                     Anthony Frisolone, CRR
                               Official US District Court Reporter

 

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            1    answer any question, just stop to turn to you, Your Honor,
            2    but this is --
            3              THE COURT:  Fake a heart attack.
            4              MR. BREEN:  I'll take a heart attack.
            5              THE COURT:  If he says it, I'll have a heart
            6    attack so, okay.
            7              MR. BERKE:  We'll all get to enjoy our holidays.
            8    My joke was --
            9              MR. GERZOG:  Scrambling to explain.
           10              MR. BERKE:  Stop.  My joke was that there would
           11    have to be a mistrial and the trial would end.
           12              THE COURT:  Is that to clarify?
           13              MR. BERKE:  That is what I meant.  I'm not that
           14    quick.
           15              MR. LEVINE:  February 12th.
           16              MR. BERKE:  I ask that everything we discuss be
           17    under seal.
           18              THE COURT:  That's very interesting.  But, yes,
           19    of course.