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Glenn SimpsonPage 102 research too. So there was obviously a sharing of research where, you know, we were feeding research to them and they were housing a central repository of research and then the research would become memoranda and given in court filings. In a lot of these cases we were giving people court filings. So the information was mixed together from various sources.

Q. Did Fusion independently verify the information provided by Baker Hostetler or Prevezon or in this circumstance was it assumed to be reliable given your work with them?

A. We certainly did not independently verify everything that the lawyers generated in the case. That would have been an enormous task and it would have made no sense.

I just want to stress that I've worked with Baker Hostetler for — you know, since 2009, so I guess going on over eight years, and they're very good lawyers and very conservative. So if they provided me with information that they had gathered, I would have been confident — I was confident in the quality of their work.

Q. And did Prevezon or Baker Hostetler ever direct Fusion to relay to the media information 1-800-FOR-DEPO