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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

top of that there was questions being 3 asked of me through Mr. Preve. Somebody would contact 4 him from the group, one of these people. And then Preve 5 would say, the Clockwork group wants to know this, the 6 whatever he's calling it, the Von Allmen group, whatever 7 he was referring to. 8

EFTA00314948 Page 2248 1 get questions and have to answer things. 2 Then on top of that there was questions being 3 asked of me through Mr. Preve. Somebody would contact 4 him from the group, one of these people. And then Preve 5 would say, the Clockwork group wants to know this, the 6 wh

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

top of that there was questions being 3 asked of me through Mr. Preve. Somebody would contact 4 him from the group, one of these people. And then Preve 5 6 7 8 9 was 10 fairly significant due diligence, and they kept prodding 11 and pushing. They kept us on our toes, that's for 12 certain

EFTA01735047 Page 2248 1 get questions and have to answer things. 2 Then on top of that there was questions being 3 asked of me through Mr. Preve. Somebody would contact 4 him from the group, one of these people. And then Preve 5 6 7 8 9 was 10 fairly significant due diligence, and th

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

with its principal place of business in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. BIF, at all times relevant hereto, was operated by its Managing Members Levin and Preve as a putative investment entity formed exclusively to purchase interests in Ponzi scheme settlements. 55. Defendant, BANYON USVI, LLC (hereinafter

vestigative team representative privately told a D3 representative that they found three additional claimants about whom Rothstein did not yet know. Preve was present for this meeting, despite the fact that he was not involved as an investor or representative in the D3 deal. Page 35 of 2210 CONRAD &

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

r TD Bank. In fact, the fictitious $8,000,000.00 wire is powerful evidence of the frenzied push by the Principal Conspirators, along with Levin and Preve, to do and say whatever was needed to secure investor funding as the Ponzi scheme began to unravel. Indeed, in their feverish zeal to induce Razorb

e had knowledge of a prior deficit and serves as an unwitting admission of their involvement in the perpetuation of the Ponzi scheme; d. Levin and Preve often claimed to be continuously "reinvesting" all principal and profits back into the Principal Conspirators' settlement scheme. Plaintiffs aver t