The following is testimony from Chief Financial Officer at Deep Marine in Texas.
See:
http://minnesotaindependent.com/30404/excerpts-thomas-coleman-kazeminy-hays-deep-marineQ. And who was it that Nasser Kazeminy wanted to use at Hays?
A. Laurie Coleman.
Q. And who is Laurie Coleman? If you know.
A. She’s the wife of Senator Coleman.
Q. Okay. In that conversation that you had with Mr. Kazeminy, did he tell you, quote, United States senators don’t make shit, close quote? Or words to that effect?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Okay. In this telephone conversation, it was specifically about Hays insurance, though, right? And about the use of Hays?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. And he introduces in that conversation the subject about United States senators don’t make shit, correct?
A. That’s how the conversation started.
A.. . .the previous year we had gone through the discussions with the e-mail that I ultimately sent to Mr. Kazeminy relating to the use of Hays and an associated firm here in Houston to transfer our offshore insurance, or our insurance brokerage to. Neither one of us were very excited by that kind of move. We were very well taken care of by Aon. We were comfortable with the level of service and knew that the company was benefitting from the arrangement. We had ongoing use for Aon on a variety of issues and really did not want to change to an unknown entity that was significantly smaller in size.
Q. Okay. But from the date of the conversation when he told you U.S. senators don’t make shit until the expiration of a year later, to your knowledge, DMT never got any consulting services from Hays?
A. No, sir. Not that I’m aware.
Q. But they were paid $75,000 of corporate money for that?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Okay. Was there — did Mr. McKim later ever make an objection to any of the payments to Hays, to your knowledge?
A. Paul was very unhappy about making the payments and grumbled whenever, whenever one of the invoices came through.
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