1 2 3 4 5 6 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 DEPOSITION OF ROSEMARY STEWART VOL. II 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. MR. GALLAGHER: All right. THE WITNESS: I do not remember a March '89 article. Q. (BY MR. GALLAGHER) Do you remember any run MR. MCALEER: Objection. MR. MURPHY: Objection. MR. WHITE: Objection. THE WITNESS: I do not remember an article in March. Q. (BY MR. GALLAGHER) Do you remember an STICKLEY & SCHUTZMAN, INC. 288 Q. (BY MR. GALLAGHER) Did you ever talk to a reporter, newspaper or magazine reporter 10 11 12 13 14 15 Exhibit 52. 16 17 18 19 20 May I take a look at I have the impression from someplace that there was a press conference at some point in time discussing Exhibit 52 that you may have participated in. A. After the conservatorship of Lincoln, there were requests that I talk to the press. STICKLEY & SCHUTZMAN, INC. 23 24 25 2 3 5 6 7 DEPOSITION OF ROSEMARY STEWART VOL. II A. If that was the right time. I thought public at or about the time it was prepared, I take it? When was it released to the public? Sometime after the conservatorship in April of 1989, and I don't know how much after. Q. All right. Between the summer of 1986 and the conservatorship, you worked on a number of matters involving examinations of institutions 10 11 12 13 14 Q. 15 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? 290 DEPOSITION OF ROSEMARY STEWART VOL. II question, again continuing my objection from yesterday, on counsel's use of the tera leak or 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. And as a result there were a number of articles about other savings and loans by Mr. Benstein. Q. (BY MR. GALLAGHER) Is that a document that your office considered particularly sensitive? MR. MCALEER : Objection. STICKLEY & SCHUTZMAN, INC. 291 DEPOSITION OF ROSEMARY STEWART VOL. II 292 2 3 10 11 12 Objection. I thought we went MR. MURPHY: one stamp. I don't know all. MR. MURPHY: No, but there was no stamp at MR. GALLAGHER : There was no stamp "this is confidential"? MR. MURPHY: No, not in the sense that you documents as confidential. 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? 13 14 15 16 17 18 MR. MCALEER : Objection. I suppose there are. Q. (BY MR. GALLAGHER) All right. Are you aware of a meeting that Chairman Gray had with Mr. Benstein, the Regardies author? A. No. Q. Between the summer of 1986 and, let's say, the end of 1988, did your office subscribe STICKLEY & SCHUTZMAN, INC. |