Subject: RE: Fort Lauderdale/SB Hotels Case Notes
From: "Bauer, Nick" <[email-masked]>
To: Tyson Brody <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Dillon, Lauren" <[email-masked]>, "Graham, Caroline" <[email-masked]>, "Dieter, Austin" <[email-masked]>, "Crystal, Andy" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 21 May 2016 21:35:13 -0700

Case notes for the Triology suit are attached.  As mentioned yesterday, this was a huge case with several thousand pages of filings, so there are about 15 pages of notes here.  Again, no drywall and nothing substantially new that hasn’t been touched in the previous press reports, but there is definitely a lot of color and detail that we need to bullet and include in our Bayrock docs.  This set of notes should serve as a good guide for what we want to fish out and include in our traditional research review document on the case (and Bayrock in general).  There are a lot of depositions here, including Trump’s (the one in which he claims not to know Sater), as well depositions from representatives of Bayrock and Stillman’s company.  There are also high resolution copies of the marketing materials that are central part of the plaintiffs’ claims of deceptive marketing.   I am creating a folder in the “For Review” Box folder that Caroline started the other day that contains key docs and depositions.

We’ve got one (much smaller) case to complete for review, and we’ll send around notes on that one tomorrow.

Thanks again to Austin and Andy for their work on this!

From: Tyson Brody [mailto:[email-masked]]
Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2016 9:40 AM
To: Bauer, Nick
Cc: Dillon, Lauren; Graham, Caroline; Dieter, Austin; Crystal, Andy
Subject: Re: Fort Lauderdale/SB Hotels Case Notes

Wow, thanks guys! Will look through this. Appreciate the crashing here.

On May 21, 2016, at 12:48 AM, Bauer, Nick <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>> wrote:
Tyson –

Attached are case notes we’ve completed for the 15 cases we got through today.  No mentions of Chinese drywall yet, and most of the material we’ve come across has been covered in previous news reports on the Fort Lauderdale saga.  There are some interested tidbits in here that have not been focused too much by media, including a last-ditch effort by SB Hotel Assoc. to basically force purchasers into closing on the property when it was clearly on the verge of going down the tubes and some additional detail on the promotional materials used to advertise Trump’s role in the project.

We are still making our way through the major case (Trilogy v. SB Hotel Associates), which is the federal class action suit into which many of the smaller state court cases were consolidated into.  That case has more than 550 docket entries and has a page count well into the 1000s, but we’re making progress on it and we’ll have notes completed on that one tomorrow.  The Trilogy case should be a fruitful source of info, as the case file includes several hundred pages of depositions and a ton of high-resolution pictures of brochures, promotional materials and other documents entered into the record as exhibits demonstrating the plaintiffs’ allegations about deceptive marketing of Trump’s involvement in the case.  The Trilogy case also includes documents pertinent to one of the major controversies in the dispute, involving Trump’s attorney withholding information about an insurance policy that could have been used to pay off claims to plaintiffs.

Per our discussion in Slack today, though it was not on our initial list, we should probably also run this same process on Kriss v. Bayrock.

Let us know if you have any questions.  Thanks to Austin and Andy for all their work on this!
<20160520 FL SB Hotel Case Notes.docx>