Epstein Secrets

1 Q Okay. From TD Bank. 2 Is this e-mail purporting to send what purports 3 to be a $64 million balance in an account at Rosenstein 4 (sic,) Rosenfeldt, Adler escrow account? 5 A Can you ask the question again, please? I'm 6 sorry. 7 (The pending question was read back by the 8 court reporte

25 the standard questions. I answered them. The rest you United Reporting, Inc. (954) 525- 2221 EFTA00314954 Page 2261 1 could meet with Mr. Rosenfeldt as did other investors, 2 and my recollection is he was referring to Mr. Scherer's 3 clients. I don't know if that ever - if I actually let 4 M

7 Bekkedam had brought Von Allmen into? 8 A I don't recall. 9 Q That basically Razorback was lending -- that 10 A.J.'s group lent money to a Banyon entity for a fixed 11 rate of interest plus a small percentage of the equity 12 piece. 13 A Now I understand what you're asking me. My 14 un

eral 12 hours with Mr. Szafranski, took him through the whole 13 thing. 14 Q They met him through you? 15 A Yes, through me and through the Banyon group, 16 sure. 17 Q Clifford Chance, that was the law firm that 18 Discala brought down prior to Morgan Lewis. Do you 19 remember that? 20

1 Q Okay. From TD Bank. 2 Is this e-mail purporting to send what purports 3 to be a $64 million balance in an account at Rosenstein 4 (sic,) Rosenfeldt, Adler escrow account? 5 A Can you ask the question again, please? I'm 6 sorry. 7 (The pending question was read back by the 8 court reporte

questions. I answered them. The rest you United Reporting, Inc. (954) 525- 2221 EFTA_R1_00015713 EFTA01735053 Page 2261 1 could meet with Mr. Rosenfeldt as did other investors, 2 and my recollection is he was referring to Mr. Scherer's 3 clients. I don't know if that ever - if I actually let 4 M

7 Bekkedam had brought Von Allmen into? 8 A I don't recall. 9 Q That basically Razorback was lending -- that 10 A.J.'s group lent money to a Banyon entity for a fixed 11 rate of interest plus a small percentage of the equity 12 piece. 13 A Now I understand what you're asking me. My 14 un

eral 12 hours with Mr. Szafranski, took him through the whole 13 thing. 14 Q They met him through you? 15 A Yes, through me and through the Banyon group, 16 sure. 17 Q Clifford Chance, that was the law firm that 18 Discala brought down prior to Morgan Lewis. Do you 19 remember that? 20

ship which, at all times relevant hereto, served as the auditing firm for BIF and Banyon 1030-32 and as the accounting firm for RRA, Rothstein, and Rosenfeldt individually. As described, Berenfeld was uniquely positioned as Banyon auditor and RRA accountant to discover the fraudulent scheme and, despite co

he produce current account statements. Eventually, Stay relented and began inconsolably crying, repeating the phrase, "I don't want to go to jail." Rosenfeldt proceeded to telephone Spinosa, who initially declined to provide account balance verification. After much cajoling, Spinosa finally informed Rosen

rs' inner-circle of facilitators (TD Bank, Spinosa, Kerstetter, Caretsky, Gibraltar Bank, Berenfeld, Weintraub, Berkowitz, Leitstein, Levin, Preve, Banyon entities, Szafranski, Onyx, Villegas, Boden, Barnett, Stay, Platinum, and Centurion) and promoters (TD Bank, Spinosa, Kerstetter, Caretsky, Gibralta

ties are hereinafter collectively referred to as "the Banyon Investors." 114. Logistically, the Banyon Investors were Limited Partners in BIF while Banyon 1030-32, served as the General Partner and Levin as the Managing Partner. 115. Notably, at no time during his courtship of Mr. Von Allmen, did Bek

g independently verified; b. Berenfeld's complicity in the Ponzi scheme is further compounded by its role as accountants for RRA and Rothstein and Rosenfeldt individually, providing it with first-hand knowledge of the patent inconsistencies between Banyon's purported verified audited receivables and RRA'

cipation; m. in late November, TD Bank fired Spinosa; B. Levin, Preve and Banyon 309. Plaintiffs have discovered, relative to Levin, Preve, and Banyon, that: a. an $8,000,000.00 wire transfer confirmation used by Levin, Preve, and Rothstein to induce Razorback's $32,000,000.00 payment was never

exceed two hundred million dollars ($200,000,000.00). 38 Leitstein even joked with other Berenfeld employees who toyed with the idea of telling "the Banyon investors we can do better than the 20% return they are getting, lol." Page 146 of 2210 CONRAD & SCHERER, LLP, 633 SOUTH FEDERAL HIGHWAY, FORT LAU