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Glenn SimpsonPage 142 had dates, would you have been receiving them around the time they were dated?

A. Yeah. I believe so, yes. There might be some lag, transition lag.

Q. And what was — what use did you make of these memos?

A. These memos — I mean, I guess I'd like to back up a little bit and explain, you know, what led to the memos, which was — as I said, I mean, you know, we started looking at — first we started looking at Trump's business affairs generally with some of the emphasis on associations with organized crime and in particular Russian organized crime. As the project progressed towards the end of 2015 and into 2016 we became interested in his overseas business dealings particularly because they were so opaque and seemed to involve, you know, to say the least, colorful characters.

So as we got into 2016 we were looking broadly at — one of the things we were looking at, broadly speaking, was Donald Trump's international business dealings and, you know, through the spring of 2016, as I mentioned, we were — you know, we looked in various places, Latin America. He has worked on projects all over the world, but in 1-800-FOR-DEPO