DEPOSITION OF ROSEMARY STEWART VOL. II 288 2 3 5 6 9 10 11 12 MR. WHITE: Object to the form of the question; it assumes facts not in evidence. MR. MURPHY: It certainly does. If you want to ask her about whether she knows about the story, that's one thing; but then to add all the lard on all the pejoratives MR. MURPHY: Well, I will let your question speak for yourself, speak for itself. 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 THE WITNESS: I do not remember a March '89 article. Q. (BY MR. GALLAGHER) Do you remember any article around the spring of 1989 out in Orange County, California, that was followed up by a run on Lincoln Savings? MR. MCALEER : Objection. MR. MURPHY : Objection. Q. (BY MR. GALLAGHER) Do you remember an STICKLEY & SCHUTZMAN, INC. 10 11 12 13 THE WITNESS: I do not. Q. (BY MR. GALLAGHER) Did you ever talk to a reporter, newspaper or magazine reporter about Lincoln between the summer of 1986 and April 14th, 1989? I do not believe I did, no. 16 17 18 19 I have the impression from someplace that there was a press conference at some point participated in. (Mr. Miller returns to the deposition 23 24 A. After the conservatorship of Lincoln, there were requests that I talk to the press. STICKLEY & SCHUTZMAN, INC. 1 2 3 7 DEPOSITION OF ROSEMARY STEWART VOL. II A. If that was the right time. I thought it was before. Q. I was asking you about before. A. I did not talk to the press before the conservatorship. Q. Okay. That document, that is dated public at or about the time it was prepared, I When was it released to the public? 10 11 12 take it? 14 Q. 15 A. 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 other than Lincoln, correct? A. Yes. Q. In any of those other instances were there problems with leaking of confidential information to the press that you are aware of? MR. MCALEER: STICKLEY & SCHUTZMAN, INC. I would object to the 38-020 - 91 - 30 290 DEPOSITION OF ROSEMARY STEWART VOL. II 1 question, again continuing my objection from 2 yesterday, on counsel's use of the tera leak or 5 6 leaking; also object that I don't see how in any respect this even leads to the discovery of THE WITNESS: One of the documents that supervisory case report for the Federal Home Loan Bank Board. Mr. Benstein used that document to write articles not only about Lincoln but about a number of other institutions turning each, that particular document has a one-page description of all of the savings and loans that are in our significant supervisory case load. It was called that at the time. 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Benstein. And as a result there were a number of articles about other savings and loans by Mr. (BY MR. GALLAGHER) Is that a document that your office considered particularly 291 1 2 3 5 DEPOSITION OF ROSEMARY STEWART VOL. II MR. MURPHY: Objection. I thought we went through all this yesterday about the degrees of one stamp. I don't know - NR. MURPHY: No, but there was no stamp at 10 MR. GALLAGHER : There was no stamp "this is confidential"? MR. MURPHY: No, not in the sense that you are speaking of. There is a designation of documents as confidential. That is all. THE WITNESS: That was a confidential Bank Board document. Q. (BY MR. GALLAGHER) Ms. Stewart, there are degrees of significance to documents, even though they may all be confidential, correct? 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 MR. MCALEER : Objection. I suppose there are. Are you Q. (BY MR. GALLAGHER) all right. Mr. Benstein, the Regardies author? A. No. Q. Between the summer of 1986 and, let's the end of 1988, did your office subscribe & SCHUTZMAN 292 |