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Q. And was the showing arranged for Prevezon, for HRAGI? Who was arranging this?

A. I don't know.

Q. Did Fusion have any role in that showing?

A. We supplied some names of people. They wanted to round up people who would be interested in coming, journalists, friends, people interested in Russia, and we supplied names for them.

Q. Did Fusion contact any journalists to inform them about the film or the showing or to encourage them to write about it?

A. I believe that I mentioned it to some journalists in terms of showing up. I don't believe I — I just don't remember whether I tried to get anyone to write anything about it, but if I did I would have had good reason to because it was all about William Browder's credibility which was the subject that we were hotly litigating in New York and I had been on this — you know, we had been on this, you know, multi-year effort to get him to answer questions about his activities in Russia. So it was the central issue in the Prevezon case.

Q. So you mentioned Mr. Cooper was involved 1-800-FOR-DEPO