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Bruce Feder (AZ Bar No. 004832)

FEDER LAW OFFICE, P.A.

2930 E. Camelback Road, Suite 160

Phoenix, Arizona 85016

Telephone: 602.257.0135

bf@federlawpa.com

Knapp Counsel for Scott Spear

Eric W. Kessler, Esq. (AZ Bar No. 009158)

KESSLER LAW GROUP

9237 E. Via De Ventura

Suite 230

Scottsdale, AZ 85258

Telephone: 480.644.0093

Eric@kesslerlawgroup.net

Attorneys for Scott Spear

(Co-Counsel listed on following page)

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA 

United States of America,

Plaintiff,

vs.

Scott Spear, et al., 

 

Defendants.

Case No. CR18-00422-PHX-DJH-003

FIRST SUPPLEMENT TO 

DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO 

DISMISS OR TO STRIKE 

TESTIMONY, AND REQUEST FOR A 

HEARING DUE TO THE 

GOVERNMENT’S JENCKS AND 

BRADY VIOLATIONS

(EVDENTIARY HEARING AND 

ORAL ARGUMENT REQUESTED)

(Assigned to the Hon. Diane J. Humetewa)

 

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Gary Lincenberg (CA Bar No. 123058, admitted pro hac vice)

Ariel Neuman (CA Bar No. 241594, admitted pro hac vice)

Gopi Panchapakesan (CA Bar No. 279856, admitted pro hac vice)

BIRD MARELLA BOXER WOLPERT, 

NESSIM DROOKS LINCENBERG RHOW, PC

1875 Century Park East, 23rd Floor

Los Angeles, California 90067-2561

Telephone: (310) 201-2100

Fax: (310) 201-2110

glincenbrg@birdmarella.com

aneuman@birdmarella.com

gpanchapakesan@birdmarella.com

Attorneys for John Brunst

Paul J. Cambria (NY Bar No. 1430909, admitted pro hac vice)

Erin McCampbell Paris (NY Bar No. 4480166, admitted pro hac vice)

LIPSITZ GREENE SCHIME CAMBRIA LLP

42 Delaware Avenue, Suite 120

Buffalo, New York 14202

Telephone: (716) 849-1333

Fax: (716) 855-1580

pcambria@lglaw.com

emccampbell@lglaw.com

Attorneys for Michael Lacey

Joy Malby Bertrand (AZ Bar No. 024181)

JOY BERTRAND, ESQ, LLC

P.O. Box 2734

Scottsdale, AZ 85252

Telephone: (602) 374-5321

Fax: (480) 361-4694

joy.bertrand@gmail.com

Attorney for Joye Vaught

David Eisenberg (AZ Bar No. 017218)

DAVID EISENBERG, PLC

3550 N. Central Avenue, Suite 1155

Phoenix, AZ 85012

Telephone: (602) 237-5076

Fax: (602) 314-6273

david@deisenbergplc.com

Attorney for Andrew Padilla

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The Defendants, by and through undersigned counsel, hereby submit relevant 

portions of the governments’ latest untimely disclosure (Number 51) disclosed 

November 14, 2023 at 2:48 p.m. While undersigned counsel have not had a full 

opportunity to carefully review this new disclosure, some important points are as 

follows: 

1. As to exhibit 6272A and 6272B, it appears the government has disclosed 

documents with duplicate bates number, which match to entirely different 

documents from different disclosures. The defendants do not yet have an 

understanding of the scope of the problem. 

2. As to exhibit 6273, two issues should be noted. First, the email from Mr. Ferrer 

to Mr. Versoza dated July 13, 2018 post-indictment, demonstrates Mr. Ferrer 

knew how much his lawyers Clarence Dyer were paid (e.g., $4 million dollars).

Additional to the $4 million dollar retainer paid to Clarence Dyer, Mr. Ferrer knew 

that the unused retainer of Henze Cook Murphy, PLLC, was also sent to Clarence 

Dyer. (See, exhibit 6273A, USAO-BP-0038129). Mr. Ferrer testified under oath 

during his trial cross examination that he did not know how much the retainers 

were. (See, exhibit 6274). Second, Mr. Ferrer, Michael Gage, and Stephanie Parks 

communicated with the government using protonmail.com email addresses. Part 

of the government’s trial presentation was to assert that the use of protonmail.com 

email accounts was indicative of criminal intent. Consider, for example, AUSA

Berry’s rebuttal closing argument: “Maybe we should just stop regular emails and 

start using proton mail because they know what they’re doing is wrong, and they 

are trying to reduce the ability to see the evidence of that. I submit to you that 

that is evidence of a lack of good faith.” (See, trial transcripts 9/21/23 P.M.

Session, pgs. 83-84; 9/22/23 A.M. Session, pgs. 50, 56-58 and 11/1/23 A.M.

Session, pg. 58).

3. Additional emails to/from Carl Ferrer from Disclosure 51 are attached as 6275ACase 2:18-cr-00422-DJH Document 1972 Filed 11/15/23 Page 3 of 5
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R, which is comprised of eighteen emails from Ferrer directly to a government 

agent. They include a number of important topics such as, for example, payment 

of Backpage’s payroll and the use by Ferrer and his employees of protonmail.com 

email accounts to communicate with the government, even after Ferrer’s guilty 

plea. 

Finally, the Defendants renew their discovery requests for emails between 

Ferrer/his agents and government officials. 

RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED this 15th day of November, 2023.

FEDER LAW OFFICE, P.A.

s/ Bruce Feder

Bruce Feder

Attorneys for Scott Spear

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE 

I hereby certify that on November 15, 2023, I electronically transmitted the 

attached document to the Clerk’s Office using the CM/ECF System for filing and 

transmittal of a Notice of Electronic Filing to the CM/ECF registrants who have entered 

their appearance as counsel of record. 

Clerk of the Court

United States District Court

Sandra Day O’Connor U.S. Courthouse

401 W. Washington Street

Phoenix, AZ 85003

Efiling: https://ecf.azd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl

THE HONORABLE DIANE J. HUMETEWA

United States District Court

Email: Humetewa_chambers@azd.uscourts.gov

Kevin Rapp Kevin.Rapp@usdoj.gov

Andrew Stone Andrew.Stone@usdoj.gov

Margaret Perlmeter Margaret.Perlmeter@usdoj.gov

Austin Berry berry2.austin@usdoj.gov

Peter Kozinets Peter.Kozinets@usdoj.gov

Daniel Boyle Daniel.Boyle2@usdoj.gov

Attorneys for United States of America

By: /s/ M. Evans 

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