5113 1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK 2 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - X 3 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, : CR 96 1016(S-1) 4 v. : U.S. Courthouse 5 Uniondale, New York BRUCE W. GORDON, WHO'S WHO 6 WORLD WIDE REGISTRY, INC., : STERLING WHO'S WHO, INC., 7 TARA GARBOSKI, ORAL FRANK : OSMAN, LAURA WEITZ, ANNETTE 8 HALEY, SCOTT MICHAELSON, : and MARTIN 9 REFFSIN, : TRANSCRIPT OF TRIAL 10 Defendants. :February 20, 1998 11 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - X 1:30 o'clock p.m.
12 BEFORE:
13 HONORABLE ARTHUR D. SPATT, U.S.D.J. and a jury 14 APPEARANCES: 15 For the Government: ZACHARY W. CARTER 16 United States Attorney One Pierrepont Plaza 17 Brooklyn, New York 11201 By: RONALD G. WHITE, ESQ. 18 CECIL SCOTT, ESQ. Assistant U.S. Attorneys 19 For the Defendants: NORM
AN TRABULUS, ESQ. 20 For Bruce W. Gordon 170 Old Country Road, Suite 600 21 Mineola, New York 11501
22 EDWARD P. JENKS, ESQ. For Who's Who Worldwide 23 Registry, Inc. and Sterling Who's, Who, Inc. 24 332 Willis Avenue Mineola, New York 11501 25 (cont'd)
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1 APPEARANCES (cont'd):
2 GARY SCHOER, ESQ. For Tara Garboski 3 6800 Jericho Turnpike Syosset, New York 11791 4 ALAN M. NELSON, ESQ. 5 For Oral Frank Osman 3000 Marcus Avenue 6 Lake Success, New York 11042
7 WINSTON LEE, ESQ. For Laura Weitz 8 319 Broadway New York, New York 10007 9 MARTIN GEDULDIG, ESQ. 10 For Annette Haley 400 South Oyster Bay Road 11 Hicksville, New York 11801
12 JAMES C. NEVILLE, ESQ. For Scott Michaelson 13 225 Broadway New York, New York 10007 14 THOMAS F.X. DUNN, ESQ. 15 For , 150 Nassau Street 16 New York, New York 10038
17 JOHN S. WALLENSTEIN, ESQ. For Martin Reffsin 18 215 Hilton Avenue Hempstead, New York 11551 19
20 Court Reporter: HARRY RAPAPORT, CSR United States District Court 21 Two Uniondale Avenue Uniondale, New York 11553 22 (516) 485-6558
23 Proceedings recorded by mechanical stenography, transcript 24 produced by Computer-Assisted Transcription 25
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1 A F T E R N O O N S E S S I O N
2
3 (The following takes place in the absence of the
4 jury.)
5 THE COURT: Good afternoon.
6 MR. WHITE: Your Honor, good afternoon.
7 I want to put one thing on the record.
8 THE COURT: Sure.
9 Where is Mr. Wallenstein? Where is
10 Mr. Geduldig?
11 Someone go out to get them.
12 MR. TRABULUS: While they are doing that, I have
13 a Rule 17 subpoena, Rule 17(b) and (c) subpoena that I ask
14 you to sign.
15 THE COURT: Is everybody here now?
16 MR. WALLENSTEIN: Mr. Lee is on his way down.
17 THE CLERK: Geduldig is still missing.
18 THE COURT: You can all sit down.
19 (Whereupon, at this time there was a pause in the
20 proceedings.)
21 THE COURT: I am signing this subpoena. However,
22 it calls for information which may not be admissible at
23 the trial. It calls for mailing lists that were used by 24 Marquis Who's Who, in essence. 25 MR. TRABULUS: I was not trying to introduce the
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1 mailing lists themselves, just reference to their use.
2 THE COURT: Whatever, records or otherwise, I
3 don't know if it is admissible in this trial.
4 You better get some author
ity that says because
5 other people may commit frauds, I can do it, or that it is
11 custom and usage in the home improvement line to make
12 fraudulent bank loans. Does that make it admissible in
13 the trial and acceptable practice? Because the practice
14 itself is not legal, why should it be admissible.
15 In other words, is it a defense?
16 You better get some law on that. And here is the
17 subpoena.
18 MR. TRABULUS: Thank you.
19 THE COURT: Where is Mr. Geduldig?
20 I am going into the jurors and thank them that
21 they are here on time, and tell them I have held everybody
22 up.
23 Don't strike me down. 24 Any objection?
25 MR. TRABULUS: No.
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1 MR. NEVILLE: Thank you, your Honor.
2 MR. JENKS: Thank you; no.
3 MR. WHITE: No objection.
4 (The following takes place in the jury room.)
5 THE COURT: How nice to see all of you together
6 in this spacious, ample room, where you can have all the
7 space.
8 I have been tied up in something, and I will be
9 tied up a few more minutes. I want to thank you for being
10 prompt and punctual. Forgive me of keeping you waiting
11 for this period of time. I wanted to say hello to you and
12 welcome you again. I am very happy to have you.
13 A JUROR: We are happy to be here.
14 THE COURT: Good.
15
16 (Whereupon, at this time the following takes
17 place in open court.)
18 THE COURT: Good afternoon, Mr. Geduldig.
19 MR. GEDULD
IG: I apologize, Judge. I think this
20 is the first time I have ever been late, and it is today,
21 which is particularly bad.
22 THE COURT: The jurors buzzed at 25 after 1:00
23 that they were here and ready to go. We should be here 24 before time. I will not lecture. I am not a school 25 teacher, but because of the number of people, especially,
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1 it is important to be here on time. I don't like to keep
2 the jurors waiting. They are a very dedicated group.
3 They are entitled to this kind of courtesy.
4 MR. GEDULDIG: They are, Judge.
5 THE COURT: Bring in the jury.
6 MR. WHITE: Your Honor, earlier this week your
7 Honor asked the government to produce to the defense any
8 tapes Mr. West made in connection with the Garden City
9 hotel, in connection with the Oxford Who's Who
10 investigation. We retrieved that file from the closed
11 file of the postal inspection. We have the tapes. We
12 have a copy made for each of the defense attorneys. From
13 the way it looks, the sounds of things, Mr. West will be
14 here on Monday in any event.
15 THE COURT: Have you turned it over to them?
16 MR. WHITE: We just picked it up.
17 THE COURT: At a break show them what you have.
18 MR. WHITE: The one thing I wanted to ad was that
19 the tapes were all contained in the Oxford Who's Who file,
20 which was the enclosed files.
21 Some of them were either mislabeled or misfiled,
22 and in addition to Oxford employees, there are some people
23 on the tape who were former Worldwide employees as well. 24 THE COURT: Which you didn't know about? 25 MR. WHITE: Which I didn't know about. And I
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1 listened to it last night at midnight.
2 THE COURT: You are now definitely turning it
3 over?
4 MR. WHITE: Of course.
5 MR. SCHOER: Tapes we have not seen?
6 MR. WHITE: Yes.
7 THE COURT: You will have an opportunity to see
8 them, certainly over the weekend, if not today. And you
9 can use it over the weekend if you wish.
10 MR. WHITE: Nothing pertaining to these
11 defendants.
12 MR. TRABULUS: Any other 3500 material relating
13 to Mr. West that might have been in that file other than
14 tapes? Things may be 3500 material relating to his own
15 business, or the tapes which we know now which is Who's
16 Who Worldwide?
17 MR. WHITE: The tapes were kept separate from the
18 paper files. The paper files are on their way. They were
19 separate. I understand they are not related, because
20 anything relating to We
st, was in the West Who's Who file,
21 not the Oxford file.
22 THE COURT: You didn't know anything about that
23 until now? 24 MR. WHITE: Yes, your Honor, and I was quite 25 perturbed.
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1 THE COURT: You are turning it over?
2 MR. WHITE: Yes.
3 THE COURT: Let me ask, are you students back
4 there?
5 A SPECTATOR: Yes.
6 THE COURT: What school are you from?
7 A SPECTATOR: Tuoro Law School.
8 MR. TRABULUS: The young man with the necktie is
9 my son. He wanted to see a portion of the trial. He has
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Imagine a trial where not ten percent of the proceedings have ANY connection with most of the defendants.
That alone should require a separation of trial. In this case, NOT EVEN ONE PERCENT of the proceedings,
accusations, presented evidence, or accepted facts, had anything to do with the "sales" defendants.
The Who's Who Worldwide case was all about Bruce Gordon, his machinations and his accountant,
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For days and days and weeks and weeks, all the discussion was about Gordon and his actions.
Prosecution witness after prosecution witness exculpated the sales defendants, yet,
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