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To: carranza2 who wrote (296919)	3/18/2009 2:01:55 PM
From: Ruffian	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793958

ATTORNEY: What was the first thing your husband said to you that morning? WITNESS: He said, 'Where am I, Cathy?' ATTORNEY: And why did that upset you? WITNESS: My name is Susan! ____________________________________________ ATTORNEY: What gear were you in at the moment of the impact? WITNESS: Gucci sweats and Reeboks. ____________________________________________ ATTORNEY: Are you sexually active? WITNESS: No, I just lie there.. ____________________________________________ ATTORNEY: This myasthenia gravis, does it affect your memory at all? WITNESS: Yes. ATTORNEY: And in what ways does it affect your memory? WITNESS: I forget. ATTORNEY: You forget? Can you give us an example of something you forgot? ___________________________________________ ATTORNEY: Do you know if your daughter has ever been involved in voodoo? WITNESS: We both do. ATTORNEY: Voodoo? WITNESS: We do. ATTORNEY: You do? WITNESS: Yes, voodoo. ____________________________________________ ATTORNEY: Now doctor, isn't it true that when a person dies in his sleep, he doesn't know about it until the next morning? WITNESS: Did you actually pass the bar exam? ____________________________________ ATTORNEY: The youngest son, the twenty-year-old, how old is he? WITNESS: He's twenty, much like your IQ. ___________________________________________ ATTORNEY: Were you present when your picture was taken? WITNESS: Are you shitting me? _________________________________________ ATTORNEY: So the date of conception (of the baby) was August 8th? WITNESS: Yes. =2 0 ATTORNEY: And what were you doing at that time? WITNESS: getting laid ____________________________________________ ATTORNEY: She had three children, right? WITNESS: Yes. ATTORNEY: How many were boys? WITNESS: None. ATTORNEY: Were there any girls? W ITNESS : Your Honor, I think I need a different attorney. Can I get a new attorney? ____________________________________________ ATTORNEY: How was your first marriage terminated? WITNESS: By death. ATTORNEY: And by whose death was it terminated? WITNESS: Take a guess. ____________________________________________ ATTORNEY: Can you describe the individual? WITNESS: He was about medium height and had a beard. ATTORNEY: Was this a male or a female? WITNESS: Unless the C ircus was in town I'm going with male. _____________________________________ ATTORNEY: Is your appearance here this morning pursuant to a deposition notice which I sent to your attorney? WITNESS: No, this is how I dress when I go to work. ______________________________________ ATTORNEY: Doctor, how many of your autopsies have you performed on dead people? WITNESS: All of them. The live ones put up too much of a fight. _________________________________________ ATTORNEY: ALL your responses MUST be oral, OK? What school did you go to? WITNESS: Oral. _________________________________________ ATTORNEY: Do you recall the time that you examined the body? WITNESS: The autopsy started around 8:30 p.m. ATTORNEY: And Mr. Denton was dead at the time? WITNESS: If not, he was by the time I fini shed. ____________________________________________ ATTORNEY: Are you qualified to give a urine sample? WITNESS: Are you qualified to ask that question? ______________________________________ And the best for last: ATTORNEY: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse? WITNESS: No. ATTORNEY: Did you check for blood pressure? WITNESS: No. ATTORNEY: Did you check for breathing? WITNESS: No. ATTORNEY: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy? WITNESS: No. ATTORNEY: How can you be so sure, Doctor? WITNESS: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar. ATTORNEY: I see, but could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless? WITNESS: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law.

To: carranza2 who wrote (296919)	3/18/2009 10:34:11 PM
From: Brian Sullivan	1 Recommendation Respond to of 793958

The AIG names will follow shortly... Judge Says BofA Must Give Names By CHAD BRAY NEW YORK -- A New York state judge rejected a bid by Bank of America Corp. to keep details confidential about individuals who got bonuses at Merrill Lynch & Co. on the eve of its merger with the Charlotte, N.C., bank. In an order on Wednesday, New York State Supreme Court Justice Bernard J. Fried in Manhattan denied a motion by Bank of America for a protective order modifying a subpoena by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo to include a confidentiality provision. He denied a motion to separately intervene and put a similar confidentiality restriction on testimony by John A. Thain, Merrill Lynch's former chief executive. The bank had asked the judge to prevent Mr. Cuomo from publicly releasing the names of individuals who received bonuses and how much they made. More Text of the rulingIn his ruling, the judge found Bank of America didn't make efforts to keep compensation data confidential, other than to encourage employees not to discuss pay in the workplace. There also is no evidence the bank took measures to prevent employees from sharing compensation information with third parties, the judge said. "The record indicates that Bank of America has not taken the kind of measures to protect the secrecy of its employee-compensation information that one would expect it to have taken if this information were a trade secret," the judge said. The judge also found that New York's Martin Act gives the attorney general the discretion to decide whether to keep information he gathers in the course of an investigation secret or make it public. "We will, of course, comply with the order of the court and turn over the information requested," said Scott Silvestri, a spokesman for Bank of America. "We will continue to cooperate with the attorney general's investigation." Mr. Cuomo's office is probing disclosures related to the timing and nature of more than $3.6 billion in bonus payments made shortly before Bank of America's merger with Merrill Lynch closed on Jan. 1. The attorney general's office has subpoenaed the bank for a list of names of 39,000 people who received bonuses. The bank had agreed to produce a list of the 200-highest bonuses but refused to provide the names. The bank now has to turn over the names and could do so as early as Thursday. Bank of America has claimed that publicly releasing details about who got bonuses and how much the awards were would cause it harm and put it at a competitive disadvantage. The bank has claimed the information was proprietary data, and some employees might leave because of privacy or security concerns if the list were made public. online.wsj.com