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A.
That’s right.
First thing I did was, I sent Ben Shaw and

Glen Steilo down, and I followed five days later or so.

Q.
And that was in December of ‘96?
A.
Yes. Around the 20th.
Q.
Okay. I sent this subpoena here February 4th of
‘97.

A.
Uh-huh.
Q.
And pursuant to our agreement with the lawyers
that represent the Church, I sent it to them. How does this
work? I mean, how did this —— I mean, I assume the lawyers
would contact you, or who was the person
--

A.
Well, in this instance they contacted me.
Normally the way it works is the person in the local Church

who’s dealing with the case works with the lawyers, provides
them what they need.

Q.
Right.
But this one was somewhat unusual in that I had come to

Florida in December and really made myself part of the team

that was working on it, so I was the one dealing both with

General Counsel’s Office in L.A. andwith the lawyers here.

Q.
Okay.
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A. And they ,gave that’ subpoena to me to ‘answer your
question.

Q.
Okay. So that must have been kind of complicated

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