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

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

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 &

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

22 23 24 25 Page 58 funds that were supposed to be held in trust? A It was simply what Frank and I had -- the whole reason it stayed in, Mr. Preve and I discussed from time to time the fact that anything we could do to add additional levels of security for the investors was good. So, it staye

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 &