1. two video depositions–Jamie Wilson (JW) and @JimmyWinSV –before Ira Kleiman took the stand in-person
key take away from JW deposition: JW was a former director and CFO at a CSW created company.
He allegedly knew CSW had over 1 million BTC
2. JW says CSW changed, and got very wealthy, once Dave Kleiman died.
JW resigned from his position as Director and CFO at the CSW company when he felt like fraud was going on and no longer understood where funding was coming from
2.5 important to note: JW has a chip on his shoulder, said he never receive any payment from his time as director and CFO even though he was the suppose to be the second-highest paid employee of the CSW company on paper
3. @JimmyWinSV's deposition was pretty uneventful, an hour long but the crucial part was the last 5 minutes.
3.5 in a previous interview, Jimmy says Satoshi was a group of people, Jimmy explains that he said this because he was being coy and wanted more people to attend the upcoming CoinGeek conference to learn more about Satoshi's origins.
3.75 However, Nguyen admits that Craig had help with certain parts of the project.
And evidence introduced in court supports this, for instance, Craig admits to having help posting online as Satoshi from Satoshi Accounts with different email addresses.
4. Lastly, Ira Kleiman took the stand, his examination revolved around email correspondence he had with Craig regarding unearthing Dave's Bitcoin after he died & touched on W&K, a company owned by CSW and Dave being restarted (post-termination) after Dave's Death
4.5 Ira believes that Craig unrightfully transferred A LOT of assets to himself via W&K after the company was restarted after Kleiman's death
5. the Cross-examination of Kleiman Stressed that there was no paperwork or official documentation that shows that Dave and Craig had a partnership.
Ira agrees that he was never shown writing or documentation that proves this.
Conclusion (1/2): today was slow, probably because a majority of what we saw was pre-recorded depositions.
today was about proving CSW and Kleiman owned a Boatload of Bitcoin, that CSW became very rich shortly after Dave died, that CSW admits to having help creating Bitcoin
Conclusion 2/2. Yet! there is no documentation that shows that this "help" was a partnership and Ira Kleiman agrees in this regard, Ira claims the partnership was verbal.
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1. Rivero Finished cross-examining Ira Kleiman and afterward, the plaintiffs did a redirect for Kleiman and 2 video depositions were played by the plaintiffs after that.
Here's the Jist of it.
Rivero is emphasizing that Dave and Craig only had one email correspondence about Bitcoin between March 2008 and October 2008 and on top of that, Wright and Kleiman partnered down the road for a different business venture.
when they partnered, they did not mention any existing
2. Partnership or Bitcoin Partnership. So both Kleiman and Wright clearly know how to establish a legal business partnership and document it, yet, they never did this in relation to bitcoin.
Afterward, Plaintiffs Lawyer Andrew Brenner did a redirect. He emphasized that this...