Deposition excerpt discussing hiring and compensation of a lawyer named Mr. Edwards and references to Ken Jenne’s role at Rothstein

owt n woe Ww DN MM MMNMNFRFHFRP RPP RPRP RP OemwWwnrF OW DH RUB WNHH Ow Daan SF WN FE MONMONNNPPRP PEEP BE Bb mBWNHEFE OW DARE SB WNHE OW 25 together possible that ] gave Russ the okay to hire him before, 1] just don't have a specific recollection one way or the other. Q. At some point, | take it, you learned, whether you sat in on a meeting when Mr. Edwards was hired or whether your co-conspirator hired him, at some point you learned that Mr. Edwards, in fact, had been hired by the firm; is that correct? A. I'm certain that ] gave the final okay to hire him. Q. Okay. When you were giving the final okay io hire him, ] assume there had to be discussion of the money that he was going to be paid, correct? A. With somebody, yes. Q. Certainly with Mr. Edwards, right? I assume he wanted to know how much he was getting paid. A. Yes, but] don't have a specific recollection of whether ] discussed that with him or . whether ] authorized Adler or maybe even Rosenfeldt to discuss it with him. | don't recall. Q. Do you have the slightest idea how much money Mr. Edwards was paid when he first joined the firm, what his salary was? = A. J don't have an independent recollection. ~ Q. Generally someone like Mr. Edwards at his level of accomplishment and his age, you know what the general salary would have been at your firm? It didn't work that way. ] see. Tel] me how it worked. It's a case-by-case basis. Tel] me how it worked. Case-by-case basis. . And how did you make that determination on a case-by-case basis? A. Actual book of business, potential book of business, potentiality for growth, character, what he brought to the table, and obviously a function of how much money we had available at the time. Q. Okay. And you don't have any recollection of the machinations that occurred in determining what Mr. Edwards salary would be, correct? A. 1 do not. Q. But certainly one of the things you would consider would be the book of business, 1.e. the Epstein case, nght? A. I'm certain that ] did consider the Epstein case. Q. Do you know whether he brought any other book of business -- A. But I'm also certain it wasn't the only Q>O>ro> Page 99 Oo pBWNHOrF OW DWI DUBWNHrFP OW DAHA HBWN EH SHR GR EST ASS RE AST CL eae em EIN AR AR GE ERR ALANS WARES NM NM NHN NYFF RF RP RF RFP RPP HB factor 1 considered. Q. All right. Do you know whether he brought, in his book of business, do you know whether he brought any other cases to the firm other than the Epstein case? A. J] don't recall one way or the other. Q. Okay. Do you know whether your -- well, bad question, | won't ask that. Now, you've talked a lot about Ken Jenne here this morning. Was Ken Jenne part of your Ponzi scheme? A. No, sir. Q. Had nothing to do with it, right? A. That's correct. Q. Other than his having -- working for you as an investigator, he was not one of your co-conspirators, right? A. He didn't work for me as an investigator, he worked for me heading up our investigative division, heading up our internal security, heading up my personal security, and acting as a political advisor to me. Q. Okay. Did he serve any kind of investigative function at all, after all, he was a law enforcement officer at one point in his career? Page 100 A. I note that he assisted the other people at the firm that were doing the investigative work. ] don't know if he personally did investigative work. He may have. Q. Do you know whether Mr. Jenne, in his role as your advisor or your political consultant, do you know if he was involved in any kind of illegality, illegal wire tapping or anything like that while he was at Rothstein? MR. SCAROLA: Excuse me, ]'m going to object to the form of the question, vague and ambiguous. THE WITNESS: To my knowledge he was not. BY MR. GOLDBERGER: Q. To your knowledge, no? A. Correct. Q. Okay. You talked about having a bunch of fundraisers, I know you had a bunch of fundraisers that was kind of a deal at Rothstein. This was kind of a rock star Jaw firm, right? ] mean, you had lots of fundraisers, lots of parties, right? Was that the image you were trying to present? A. In reality that's the way we were. Q. Okay. A. A Jot of young lawyers having a good time, Page 101 26 (Pages 98 to 101) FRIEDMAN, LOMBARDI & OLSON 305-371-6677 5ed93085-0554-447f-bcdd-ca2d8fe94 1df HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017515