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Nature of Suit Code: 470
Nature of Suit: Civil (Rico)
Cause of Action: 18:1962 Racketeering (RICO) Act

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KEVIN V. RYAN (CSBN 118321)

United States Attorney

JAY R. WEILL (CSBN 75434)

Assistant United States Attorney

Chief, Tax Division

CYNTHIA STIER

Assistant United States Attorney

 450 Golden Gate Avenue, Box 36055

 San Francisco, California 94102

 Telephone: (415) 436-7000

 Facsimile: (415) 436-6748

SHIRAH NEIMAN

Assistant United States Attorney

Chief Counsel to the U.S. Attorney for the

Southern District of New York

 U.S. Attorney’s Office

 One St. Andrew’s Plaza

 NY, NY 10007

 Telephone: (212) 637-2576 

 Facsimile : (212) 637-2615 

 shirah.neiman@usdoj.gov 

Attorneys for United States of America

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN JOSE DIVISION

 REESE M. JONES, )

) Case No. CV-04-05357 JW (RS)

Plaintiff, ) (Related Cases: CV-06-2064 JW (RS),

) CV-03-04518 JW (RS)

v. )

) APPLICATION TO 

DEUTSCHE BANK, AG a corporation, et al. ) CONTINUE HEARING AND 

) [proposed] ORDER

) 

) Hearing: February 7, 2007 at 9:30 a.m.

 )

The United States of America respectfully requests that the Court continue the hearing 

on the United States’ Motion for Stay of One Deposition Pending Completion of S.D.N.Y. Stein

Criminal Tax Shelter Trial, currently scheduled for December 27, 2006, at 9:30 a.m., to February

7, 2007, at 9:30 a.m. The grounds for this request are:

 1. The United States filed a Motion to Stay the Piovanetti deposition in this case pending

the completion of the Stein criminal trial. That motion was re-scheduled for hearing on

December 27, 2006, before Magistrate Judge Richard Seeborg. 

*E-FILED 12/28/06*

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Jones v. Deutsche Bank,et al. Case No.

 CV-04-05357 JW (RS)

Application to Continue Hearing 

and [proposed] Order 2

2. On December 20, 2006, Judge Kaplan in the S.D.N.Y. scheduled trial in United States

v. Stein, et al., SI 05 Crim 0888 (LAK)(S.D.N.Y.) to commence in September, 2007. 

3. The United States and counsel for Plaintiff, Reese M. Jones, have conferred and

agreed to continue the hearing on the government's motion to stay the Piovanetti deposition until

February 7, 2007, in order to allow the parties to resolve this matter without judicial

intervention. The parties believe that they can resolve this matter prior to February 7, 2007.

Accordingly, the United States respectfully requests that the Court continue the hearing

on the United States’ Motion to stay the Piovanetti deposition currently scheduled for December

27, 2006, at 9:30 a.m., to February 7, 2007, at 9:30 a.m. 

Dated this 27 day of December, 2006. th

 Respectfully submitted,

KEVIN V. RYAN

United States Attorney

/s/ Cynthia Stier 

CYNTHIA STIER 

Assistant United States Attorney

Attorneys for the United States of America

ORDER

Pursuant to the Application by the United States of America as set forth above, and for

good cause shown,

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the hearing date on the United States’ Motion for Stay

of One Deposition currently scheduled for December 27, 2006, at 9:30 a.m., is rescheduled to

February 7, 2006, at 9:30 a.m. 

Dated: 

RICHARD SEEBORG

 United States Magistrate Judge

December 27, 2006

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