Subject: RE: Fort Lauderdale/SB Hotels Case Notes
From: "Crystal, Andy" <[email-masked]>
To: Tyson Brody <[email-masked]>, "Bauer, Nick" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Dillon, Lauren" <[email-masked]>, "Graham, Caroline" <[email-masked]>, "Dieter, Austin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 21 May 2016 12:32:04 -0700

Saw the word “drywall” and I got really excited. Alas, not what we are looking for. Sad!

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>