Opinion ID: 449051
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Heading: Dianne Warner's Civil Deposition.

Text: 12 Ten months after Feldman's trial Dianne Warner gave testimony at a deposition in a related civil case. Feldman claims that this testimony establishes conclusively that Feldman had no knowledge of the phoniness of the HTS-Option mail drop, and that he believed the address to be a genuine Harris Bank address. 13 At the deposition Warner testified, from notes she had made shortly after the scheme was uncovered, that on February 21, 1978, she showed Feldman several of the guarantee letters which had been returned as undeliverable. She also testified that Feldman, after making a phone call, told her to add a room number and send them out again, and that he did not tell her to change the address in any other way. Feldman has introduced into the record, together with the transcript of the deposition, Warner's notes and xeroxes of two envelopes, all government exhibits at the time. One of the envelopes was evidently mailed to the phony drop on February 13, 1978 and it bears the address: Mr. Albert R. Cooke Harris Trust & Savings Bank 171 West Monroe Street 14 Chicago, Illinois 60603. 15 This address shows, of course, that letters were being sent out with the full name of the bank--instead of merely HTS-Options--as early as February 13. The other is a similar envelope, mailed on February 21, bearing the address: Mr. Albert R. Cooke, Vice President Harris Trust and Savings Bank 171 West Monroe Street--Room 1161 Chicago, Illinois 60603 16 Warner testified that this was a new envelope typed up with the room number Feldman had told her to add. 17 The suggested inference from these entries is that Feldman was shown envelopes addressed explicitly to Harris Trust and Savings Bank and that, since Feldman did not express surprise or dismay at the envelopes bearing the full title of the bank, or instruct that it be changed to HTS-Options, he was unaware that the drop was a phony. 18