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Glenn SimpsonPage 101 know, it ended up being an issue of why he didn't want to talk. So a lot of it was about his credibility, about his account of his activities in Russia, about his history of tax avoidance, all these things.

Q. Did Fusion provide the media information alleging that Browder had illicitly engineered the purchase of 133 million shares of Gazprom?

A. I don't know for sure, but we certainly did research on that issue.

Q. And you described investigating these series of issues. How did you acquire the information in the course of this investigate?

A. We used the methods that I've described here today. We pulled court records, we pulled corporate records, we, you know, pulled real estate records, SEC securities filings, that sort of thing.

Q. And was any of the information you provided to the media information that wasn't the result of your own research but that had been passed along to you by Baker Hostetler or Prevezon?

A. I think the answer to that is yes, but I'm struggling to think of a specific example. As I was saying earlier, the lawyers did a lot of the 1-800-FOR-DEPO