Blackburn Testimony: Weekend before the Fake Belize Strike.
23 Q. I'm handing you now a document that has been
24 marked as Exhibit 72.
25 Exhibit 72 is an e-mail from you to Frank Itak
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1 and Ray Amanollahi dated January 29th, 2012, with the
2 subject line, TECO revision one of news release. Do you
3 recognize Exhibit 72?
4 A. Yes.
5 Q. Is this an e-mail that you sent?
6 A. Yes.
7 Q. Who are Mr. Itak and Mr. Amanollahi?
8 A. Amanollahi. They are two consultants that were
9 working for Treaty headquarters.
10 Q. What were these gentlemen doing for Treaty?
11 A. They were doing investor communications through
12 social media.
13 Q. So on Sunday, January 29th, 2012, which was the
14 day before Treaty made the public announcement of its
15 claimed oil strike in Belize, you sent a draft of that
16 release to Mr. Itak and Mr. Amanollahi?
17 A. Right.
18 Q. Why were you sending a draft of the press release
19 to these two individuals?
20 A. They were working for the headquarters, for
21 Andrew Reid, and they're responsible for social media
22 communication with shareholders.
23 And they were -- and I was asked to get
24 information to them so that they could handle
25 shareholder inquiries and shareholder information
1 through their social media after the news release went
2 out so they had to be informed as to what we were
3 talking about.
4 Q. So you wanted them to be prepared to push the
5 news out on social media that Treaty was planning to
6 announce on Monday morning?
7 A. They were being prepared so that when the news
8 release went out Monday, and I didn't want them to do
9 it.
10 Headquarters had them under agreements to do
11 social media communication of investor information, and
12 they would never put anything out until after it was
13 already public information by news release. So they had
14 to be informed.
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