Brigance, Alisha and Dustin - Testimony Transcript

Transcript of the Testimony of Alisha and Dustin Brigance
Date: November 14, 2013 Volume: I Case: In Re: Joplin Critical Investigation
Printed On: November 27, 2013
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Alisha and Dustin Brigance
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Joplin Critical Investigation
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IN RE:
JOPLIN CRITICAL INVESTIGATION
SWORN STATEMENT OF
ALISHA BRIGANCE and DUSTIN BRIGANCE
Taken on Thursday, November 14, 2013, from 3:46 p.m. to 4:43 p.m., at the law offices of Juddson H. McPherson, LLC, 626 S. Byers, in the City of Joplin, County of Jasper, State of Missouri, before SHARON K. ROGERS, C.C.R.650, a Certified Court Reporter and a Notary Public within and for the County of Jasper, and State of Missouri.
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APPEARANCES
MR. THOMAS E. LORAINE Loraine & Associates, LLC 4075 Osage Beach Pkwy., Suite 300 Osage Beach, MO 65065
[email protected]
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S T I P U L A T I O N
IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED AND AGREED that this Sworn Statement may be taken by steno-mask type recording by SHARON K. ROGERS, a Certified Court Reporter, and afterwards reduced into typewriting. It is further stipulated that the signature of the witness is hereby waived, and that said Sworn Statement of said witness shall be of the same force and effect as though said witness had read and signed Sworn Statement.
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Exhibit #26 Contract
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Exhibits in separate binder
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Page 5 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 ALISHA BRIGANCE and DUSTIN BRIGANCE Having been first duly sworn and examined, testified as follows: BY MR. LORAINE: Let's swear Dustin Now I'm
in, also, while we're doing it.
going to try to take the statement from Alisha first, and only one of us can talk because the court reporter has to listen to one of us and then the other one responding and they can't understand head shakes so you've got to say yes, no, or whatever. And
if we can if you, Dustin, have something to say just say I've got something to add to that and then I'll stop and I'll go to you and she'll be able to distinguish the voices and of course it would be so on the record. You knew that we were taking statements under oath, is that true? BY MR. BRIGANCE: BY MR. LORAINE: truth so here we are. DIRECT EXAMINATION BY MR. LORAINE: Q. Alisha, can you tell me let's go through this again, it's my understanding that neither you nor your husband work for the City? Yes. And we want all the
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Page 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 A. Q. A. Q. A. Q. A. A. Q. That is correct. And you knew that I was doing an investigation on some matters involving the City from your mother-in-law? I knew you were doing an investigation of the City because we live here and we were involved already. She is the one that knows
enough people that called and got the - Bill Scearce and, what is the other one's name, Rosenberg, both of them called my mother because when all this came down she got really pissed and voiced her opinion and called them. So when you got involved they
called her and she called me to call the City Attorney and I called him a week ago and left my name and number and he called me back and we scheduled this to come talk to you through my mother. And what's your mother's name? Cheryl Dandridge. And she's an ex-Mayor of the City of Joplin? Yes. And she's been retired now for a few years off that Mayor job? She's been retired since 1992.
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Page 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Q. A. A. Q. Q. Q. A. Q. A. And she's not on the Council now? No. And hasn't been since '92? No, she hasn't even lived in the City since 1992. So tell me what you're here to tell me about. A. Our dealings with Mike Woolston and Four
State Homes in the sale of our home, our house. Four State Homes is the company he was working for? No, Four State Homes is the person that purchased our house - well, this is going to get confusing. Okay, Mike Woolston at the He was working for
time worked for Pro 100.
Four State Homes to purchase an extremely large amount of property in our area. Who did he work for, Four State Homes? That's who his client was was Four State Homes. In July of 2002 we received a letter July 2012 we received a
- sorry, 2012.
letter from Woolston saying that somebody was interested in the purchasing of our property. About that same time were the rumors of the movie theater and library going in at 20th
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Page 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Q. A. A. Q. Q. A. and Connecticut. Our house was at 1812
Delaware which our yard, I don't know how to explain this - Connecticut was here and Delaware was here (indicating) so there was no alley so the yards would connect in a way. You were one block away from Delaware? No, we were on Delaware. away from Connecticut. From Connecticut. And Connecticut was We were a block
essentially where the -At the time was where the rumors were going that the -The art center or whatever it is? Yes, the library, theater, all that stuff. At the time we got the letter that was what the rumor was. about it. I called my mom and told her
She told me to call Gary Shaw and
I called Gary and he said, oh, it's nothing, it's just rumors, we don't know what it's about, you know, don't know why someone would want to purchase the property. We were like,
okay, so we didn't do anything about it at the time. Our neighborhood is an extremely
close knit neighborhood so we knew that we weren't the only ones that got - we knew that
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Page 9 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 A. Q. everybody got a letter from 18th and Delaware all the way to 20th Street and then down 19th Street to New Jersey. It's a really weird So we knew and
it's a very L-shaped area. then --
You knew that everybody in that L-shaped area was receiving letters from Woolston? Yes, and it didn't say who was purchasing, who was interested, just that he had someone that was interested in purchasing the property. And then September or October
there was the announcement - it was one of the CART meetings that Wallace-Bajjali made the announcement that it really was going there, the library when we went to that meeting at City Hall. BY MR. BRIGANCE: Before that we had
the neighborhood meeting and Woolston was there. BY MRS. BRIGANCE: neighborhood meeting first? BY MR. BRIGANCE: Yeah, it was when Did we have the
Scearce had the CART meeting at City Hall at that meeting after we already knew. He said
we had a neighbor in the meeting - a neighbor
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Page 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 tornado. tornado? BY MR. BRIGANCE: This was after the just off 16th Street when everybody got together and exchanged phone numbers, kind of set up a neighborhood watch and started kind of implements to that program and wanting to also establish - someone invited a City Council representative was invited, two of them were invited. BY MR. LORAINE: BY MR. BRIGANCE: BY MRS. BRIGANCE: section zone person. BY MR. BRIGANCE: Woolston was invited. Then you have Mike Who were invited? Benji Rosenberg. And he is our
As things were
progressing everybody was talking expressing concerns, well, we have this house, demolition is going there, everybody was kind of taking notes, okay, this one we need to call the City on demolition, or just trying to make the neighborhood safer, like that, trying to take hold of our neighborhood from there. BY MR. LORAINE: That was after the
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Page 11 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 learned? BY MRS. BRIGANCE: Yes, this would
have been September of 2012. BY MR. BRIGANCE: So as we were
talking and everything and turned around to where we asked - Woolston asked what was going on and he said nothing is going in the neighborhood, he's not at liberty to say. We asked a grocery store or what, he said he's not at liberty to say on behalf of his client. So secretive about everything. Mr.
Rosenberg was also, he was caught off guard, was unaware of everything going on based off of his reaction and the - what I'm saying what was going on I wasn't particularly talking to him, I was trying to listen to Mike Woolston's conversation as my wife was talking to Mr. Rosenberg and his wife. BY MR. LORAINE: Mr. Rosenberg was
not aware that Woolston was contacting people in this area? BY MRS. BRIGANCE: BY MR. BRIGANCE: my assumption. BY MR. LORAINE: That's what you Correct. Correct. That was
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Page 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Q. A. Q. A. Q. A. BY MR. BRIGANCE: Correct.
I have something to add to that. (By Mr. Loraine) All right. Go ahead.
Dr. Rosenberg and I was talking to him because he asked - he said - he asked me where we lived and I told him our address and he asked are you one that Woolston is trying to - and I said yes. I said Woolston has
contacted all of this grouping of people about purchasing their land, and he was caught off guard. He had no idea that --
That Woolston was doing that? That Woolston was doing that. All right. So what then did Woolston say? He assured us that
BY MR. BRIGANCE:
he still had somebody interested in it, could not divulge anything one way or the other as to who and what interests were. He
reiterated basic stories that were running in the paper being the library, the complex, just the scuttlebutt. possibility. He said that's a
He's never said definitive as For
to this is or is not going in place.
privacy of his client he wouldn't jeopardize that, which is justifiable. And then that
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Page 13 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 A. Q. A. was in September and then we had a neighborhood meeting - sorry, the City Council meeting. Well, CART where they come
through and said this is what we have proposed and puts it like that. Yeah, Wallace-Bajjali made the big announcement that - because it was City Hall and Wallace-Bajjali was there and they were wanting to get some ideas, other ideas, but they were also making a big announcement that, yes, the library and whatever was going at 20th and Connecticut. And we went to that
and talked to David Box there because he was the one that was going to discuss that. (By Mr. Loraine) Wallace-Bajjali? He works for Wallace-Bajjali. So after the He works for
big announcement they let everybody kind of sit out and talk to varying different groups of I guess Wallace-Bajjali people that were representing certain things and all of us went to go to talk to - our entire neighborhood, most of our neighborhood was at this meeting - went to talk to David Box about it. And in this time period we had
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Page 14 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 A. Q. Q. A. A. Q. A. Q. A. Q. A. contacted Bonnie, which is Bonnie Wright who works for Pro 100 was our realtor for us. had contacted her to contact Woolston. BY MR. BRIGANCE: We wanted to get a We
buffer in there and we were trying to get some things on our side to figure out what was going on because we don't want to get blindsided in trying to get some -(By Mr. Loraine) We got a realtor. And what was your realtor's name? Bonnie Wright. How do I get hold of her? And she actually worked for Pro 100. she was a personal friend of ours. BY MR. BRIGANCE: with us whenever we -She's the one that sold us the original property. (By Mr. Loraine) How do I get hold of her? No, it's She'd actually been I mean So you got a realtor?
417 - is that her work, the 649? not.
I don't need her work, just whatever number you've got for her. 437-2726.
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Page 15 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 A. Q. A. Q. A. Q. A. Q. A. Q. Q. A. Q. 2726. Now does she know anymore than you do Would
about any of the things with Woolston? she talk with him? She would be the one to talk to him.
She was
who would talk to him in the negotiations and everything else. So would you call her and tell her I'd like to speak with her down here and see if she'd come? Uh-huh. And I'd like to know what conversations she had. Now does she still work for Woolston or
with Woolston at Pro 100? No, he actually no longer works for Pro 100. Okay. So she would not have any hesitancy to
talk to me? I don't think so. I don't know.
You paid her a commission, didn't you? Yes. Well, see if she will. Okay. And if she will I'll be here tomorrow about 1:00 or 1:30 and at 2:00, something like that. me. See if she'll come in and talk with Would you do that?
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Page 16 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 A. Q. A. Q. A. A. A. Q. Yes, I'd do that. I appreciate that. talk to me. what else? So we contacted her kind of just to see - we hadn't officially decided. how serious is this? It was a more of Maybe she'll come and So
Now let's talk some more.
Can you kind of just -We wanted a buffer,
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kind of get somebody else's input, are we jumping the gun too early, should we just hang loose, what do we need to do on our end as well as prior to this CART meeting that went on here at City Hall. And at City Hall
then at the meeting we talked to Mr. Box and everything like that and our neighborhood was altogether that's when everything started to come out that -When he knew we were selling. (By Mr. Loraine) Who knew?
David Box knew that we had contacted a realtor. We hadn't told anybody other than
our realtor. But David Box had some conversation with your realtor apparently? No, David Box had contacted Woolston.
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Page 17 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Q. A. Q. A. Q. A. A. Q. A. Q. Because we had talked to Bonnie and said just talk to him, see what - I guess kind of just put feelers, see what's going on, and she's like, yeah, sure, I can just kind of see, you know, see if she could get a little more information than what we -Had you already signed a contract with Bonnie? Huh-uh. So she was a friend? Yeah, she was a friend. So at the night of
that meeting and we were talking to Box he told every one of us if you live south of 18th Street they want your property. Wallace-Bajjali wanted their property. Did you live south of 18th Street? (Nodding head) That's a yes? That's a yes. 18th Street. Sorry. Yes, I live south of Or that
And I said so you're basically
telling me that I shouldn't have built back and he asked me where I lived and I said -You should what? That I should not have rebuilt my house. And
he asked me where I lived and I said - I gave
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Page 18 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 A. Q. A. Q. A. A. Q. A. Q. 2011. Q. A. him my address and he said, well, I thought you were already selling. said we are not selling. And I said, no. I
And the look on his He was So I knew
face was like I just kicked him. shocked that I answered that way.
at that point that Woolston had talked to him and told him that we were interested in selling our property. When had you built your house back? We had moved in Christmas Eve of 2012. BY MR. BRIGANCE: Sorry. So how many months before 2011.
(By Mr. Loraine) this? Six months.
So you had already built a house back. house was totally destroyed? Our house was totally destroyed. How did you build back? Insurance money. a mortgage loan.
Your
Insurance money and we had We had a contractor's loan
that turned into a mortgage loan. And there was sufficient money in the insurance to build your home again? Yes.
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Page 19 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Q. A. Q. A. Q. A. Q. A. So you were not intending on moving then? No, we had absolutely no intention of moving at all. Are you now in that house? No, we sold it. It sold.
You sold it because they were going to what? We sold it because Four State Homes bought every bit of property around our house and sold it to the City. So there was no neighbors anymore? We have no neighbors. Well, -BY MR. BRIGANCE: As we were going We had no neighbors.
through the hoops - after all this we contacted Bonnie and we did contracts, okay, let's go ahead since this is going this way and they went from 18th Street south we're stuck, we've got to get out no matter what so let's get out when we can, cut our losses and just get away because I don't want to live in a neighborhood with commercial things like that. That's why we built back. So we
secured ours with Bonnie, things to cover Bonnie Wright to cover it that way, and then we started going through various requests by
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Page 20 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 A. Q. Q. Q. A. Q. A. Q. A. A. Mike Woolston on behalf of his client, which at this time we still didn't - we had suspicion it was Four State Homes, but I mean we weren't completely sure. We knew who it was because we knew - the property to the south of us was originally owned by a gentleman by the name of Jason Bass and he's a good friend of ours. He actually sold his property first and we knew who he sold his property to so that's why we had a feeling we knew who was buying. And it was Four State Homes? And it was Four State Homes. Now who is that name, Jason who? Jason Bass, B-A-S-S. He was the original -
he was the first to sell all of them, or sell out of all of them. Now had he rebuilt his home? No, we were the only ones to rebuild. Everybody else was land. So I'm going to have to ask you some personal questions. That's fine. Did you have enough money from the insurance company to cover your entire building back?
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Page 21 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Q. A. Q. A. Q. A. A. Q. A. Yes. Well, -BY MR. BRIGANCE: Before we had to do
a contractor's loan and then after the contractor's loan that rolled into a mortgage so we went back to having a mortgage. (By Mr. Loraine) So you didn't have a
mortgage before the tornado? Yes, we did. We had a mortgage. Okay, we
had enough insurance money to pay off our existing mortgage, then we got a contractor's loan which rolled over into a mortgage once our house was built. Who fixed you up with that contractor? Arvest Bank. Who? Arvest Bank. BY MR. BRIGANCE: Fixed us up with
the contractor or the loan? It wasn't a contract, it was a construction loan, sorry. It was called a construction
loan, and once the construction of the house was completed it automatically rolled over into a mortgage loan. (By Mr. Loraine) Arvest Bank? And who is involved at
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Page 22 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 A. Q. Q. A. A. Q. A. Q. Q. A. Q. A. Who did our loan? -Did they inquire as to whether or not the rest of the neighborhood was selling or anything? Huh-uh, we owned the land before. All of us Casey Cowger was our loan
- when our house was completely built everybody still owned their original lots. But they were all in various stages of dilapidation? Yes. They were affected by the tornado? Correct. Was there anybody still really living in any of those homes? No, our entire neighborhood was completely wiped out. BY MR. BRIGANCE: From 18th Street
south along Delaware we were the only house that was there. (By Mr. Loraine) correct? That's the new house, yes. Now let's talk about so now you don't want to be in a commercial neighborhood so you And that's the new house,
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Page 23 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 A. Q. A. Q. Q. A. Q. A. A. contact Bonnie Wright and she contacts who? She contacts Mike Woolston and says, okay, they're deciding to go ahead and sell, let's negotiate. And we knew he was in
negotiations not only with us, but everybody else in the neighborhood. And we started
talks in the end of October and we did not even come to -What year? October of 2012. When did you finalize your negotiations? February 28th of 2013 is when we officially signed the documents that this is what we agreed to sell. And who did you sign that with? Woolston? We signed with - well, Woolston had Charlie Kuehn sign the paperwork and he was the owner of Four State Homes, he gave the papers to Bonnie and Bonnie brought them to us and we signed them. Now do you know if Woolston received a commission? According to the papers - according to these Was that
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Page 24 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 A. Q. A. A. Q. Q. Q. A. papers it says that we will pay for Bonnie's commission and Four State Homes would pay for Mike Woolston's commission. Let me see what papers you've got. That's the original contract we signed. there's much more other jacked up stuff. it's right here. Right there. You're talking about special agreements, number 22 on page 607? Yes. And it says, "Seller will pay commission for listing agent and buyer will pay commission for selling agent. Sale and closing contingent on -" so it says the buyer is going to pay for one and the seller is going to pay for the other? Uh-huh. Did you pay for somebody? We paid for Bonnie. commission. We paid Bonnie's But Oh,
In these negotiations we had -
our house is custom built, or was custom built. Custom cabinets, hardwood floors, It was a
granite countertops, tile floors. 1,900 square foot home. price was $210,000.00.
Our original asking
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Page 25 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 A. Q. A. A. Q. Q. A. Q. A. Q. Q. Q. A. Q. A. Now you're talking about your rebuilt home? Our rebuilt home. Okay. It was $210,000.00?
Was the offer that we told Bonnie to give to Woolston to give to Four State Homes. And how much profit would that have made you on what you owed? On what we owed? Yes. After commission we ended up with -No, I'm saying -BY MR. BRIGANCE: brought us $50,000.00. (By Mr. Loraine) You would have made That would have
$50,000.00 on that you're saying based over above what you paid for the house? Yes. And that would have helped you on your mortgage? Yes. How much was your mortgage? Our mortgage was $110,000.00. BY MR. BRIGANCE: As we were talking
with him the issue of if we were going to move the house, have somebody come out and
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Page 26 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 A. Q. A. Q. A. walk through the house, my client might walk through the house to see about moving it if it's feasible to move it. And I kept telling him it wasn't feasible to move because there was a solid poured concrete safe room in the dead center of the house and they did not believe me it was not feasible to move. So Bonnie and I met Mike
Woolston, someone from Four State Homes, and then two people from Wallace-Bajjali showed up at our house to look at our house and they never looked at the possibility of moving it. They never once crawled underneath the house. They looked at the house like they And the first
were wanting to purchase it.
offer that they came back to us was for $150,000.00. (By Mr. Loraine) $150,000.00 as opposed to
the $210,000.00 that you had listed? Correct. So what then happened? Bonnie basically told them no and don't come back unless you actually have a real offer for us. They wanted to know basically what
we paid to purchase the house, or sorry, to
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Page 27 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 A. Q. A. Q. A. Q. A. A. Q. A. Q. client. Four State Homes. (By Mr. Loraine) And did you talk directly Q. A. build the house. The new house? The new house, yes. they wanted the -BY MR. BRIGANCE: They wanted to know They wanted to know -
everything about investment, about how much we invested out-of-pocket, how much was insurance invested, they wanted to know the whole details of everything. BY MR. LORAINE: BY MR. BRIGANCE: Who is they? Mike Woolston's
to Mike Woolston or Four States? Bonnie talked to Woolston. So what did Bonnie tell? what you had in it? Correct. What was that number? They wanted documentation of everything. What was that number? $170,000.00. What you had into it? Yes. Did you tell Bonnie
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Page 28 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 A. Q. A. Q. A. Q. A. Q. A. Q. Q. A. A. Q. A. Q. So you were looking to make a $25,000.00, there abouts, profit? Right. BY MR. BRIGANCE: fair amount of money. Which is also a
We were not being
excessive, we were being fair market value of the house. (By Mr. Loraine) house? Yes, the bank appraised the house at the time that it was complete. And who appraised it? Arvest Bank's appraiser. gentleman's name. Did you have a copy of that appraisal? Yes, I did. Do you have it now? Yes, I do. Do you have it with you? No, I don't. I can get it to you. I don't know the Did anybody appraise your
Can you get it to me? Uh-huh. And that appraisal would have said $200,000.00? Actually, no, the appraisal said $173,000.00
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Page 29 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Q. Q. A. Q. A. Q. A. Q. A. I think is what the appraisal said. And you asked for $200,000.00? We asked for $210,000.00. So what now then happened? They continued - we at first thought we had an agreement of the $190,000.00 and in the last minute they backed out and said no and we had to start negotiations over again. That was Woolston? Yes, Woolston and Bonnie thought they had everything worked out. Woolston took it to I
guess Charlie and Charlie said no. Charlie Kuehn? Charlie Kuehn, yes. And then he wanted us to They were
jump through some more hoops.
still wanting to see if it was possible to move the house. They actually didn't want to
- they didn't want to purchase the house. What they wanted to do was they wanted us to be able to still live in the house and they were going to move the house to another location for us and they just wanted the land. I understand. that? And you didn't really want
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Page 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Q. A. Q. A. A. Q. A. A. No, because -BY MR. BRIGANCE: Where they proposed
moving the house was in the same neighborhood, once we were back there the same boat of, okay, we're putting a development through this, you know, we'd be pushed back out again. As well as we built a
house to be in that location I don't want to deal with the house moving or moving somewhere else and take the actual money we get and we'll start from scratch again and go from there. I said that I didn't trust the integrity of the house with it being moved because it had a concrete room in the middle of the room. (By Mr. Loraine) So you were worried about
the condition of the house? Yeah, I was more worried about the condition of the house once we got it moved. like, no. So did they ultimately tear your house down? No, they ultimately have someone living in my house. Right now? Yes. I was
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Page 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Q. Q. A. Q. A. A. A. Q. A. Q. A. Q. And nothing else is there? No. So really you were forced from your home under the concept that other things would be built there? Correct. And yet they haven't? Correct. And two other things happened. And
once we signed the contracts they also wanted - they originally wanted us to have 120 days. It was 120 days - how was it worded? BY MR. BRIGANCE: within -120 days they could back out and another 60 days after that they would close, and we were like no. And we put it down to 45 days they It was 120 days
could change their mind and then 30 days after that we close. (By Mr. Loraine) And what was the price?
$190,000.00 is what we finally agreed on. And that's what you got? And that's what we got. what we got. real estate -Let's find out, what did you get? Well, no, that's not So our
We got a little more.
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Page 32 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Q. A. May A. Q. A. Q. Q. A. A. Well, let me explain why I say it's a little more than that. May 15th was our close date.
Just give me the number and we'll go back. $190,000.00 plus 7, 7, and 7. BY MR. BRIGANCE: Another $2,100.00,
plus then the last was $1,000.00 so 7 and 7 is $1,400.00 plus $1,000.00 would be $2,400.00. (By Mr. Loraine) $2,400.00 in addition to
the $91,000.00 (sic.)? $190,000.00, yes. $190,000.00. $190,000.00. BY MR. BRIGANCE: They had agreed on $191,000.00?
15th they were going to take possession
of our house so we moved everything, vacated our house at that time, that way they could have possession of the house at that time. Then they came and said we need 30 more days. We can't finalize the house. They came and told us this a week before our close date, that sorry, can we extend this for another 30 days. (By Mr. Loraine) your furniture? And you've already moved
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Page 33 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Q. A. A. Q. A. Q. A. A. We've already moved everything out of the house. Do you have another house? Yes. At that time did you have another house? My family has a farm that we moved into after the tornado and we just moved back out there. BY MR. BRIGANCE: So we penalized
them since they tried to postpone we penalized them with a month's mortgage is how we came up with $700.00. Another month comes
up, actually I think it was four or five days prior. Yeah, it was the month - we were supposed to close on a Friday. They called us that
Monday and said we have to extend it another 30 days. I'm like, okay. Who called you?
(By Mr. Loraine)
Woolston called Bonnie, Bonnie called us, and they said they needed to extend it another 30 days. And they needed to change who was It was going to
going to purchase the house.
come out of - it was no longer going to be Four State Homes, LLC purchasing it, it was switching to Charlie Kuehn and his wife
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Page 34 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 A. A. Q. Q. A. Q. personally. And so they said the second one
- is it the second one? Yeah, it would have been July. So we said fine, another $700.00.
And they originally wanted the money that they were giving us for our mortgage to come off the total asking price and we said, no, you have put us out, we're not doing that. So, fine. And we even moved it back another So one week
week because it was July 24th.
before our closing again we get another call that says they need to push it back again. So now we're closing in August. August of? 2013. So basically they strung you along for eight months? Correct. Now they being Woolston and dealing with your realtor? Yes, Four States. And in this time period
Woolston is also no longer working for - some time in this grouping Woolston no longer works for Pro 100. goes to work for. BY MR. BRIGANCE: And at the same And I don't know who he
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Page 35 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Q. Q. A. A. A. Q. time, too -(By Mr. Loraine) though? Yes, he stayed on our deal. BY MR. BRIGANCE: is a corner lot. North of our house He stayed on your deal,
He had already secured that
one and paid for that one. BY MR. LORAINE: BY MR. BRIGANCE: Woolston? Correct. Everybody
completely down our street was completely secured. It was us, it was us at 1812 Delaware and I don't know Gale's, but Gale's was at 19th and New Jersey. Those are the only two
properties that are still - that they hadn't purchased. And actually -As of August?
(By Mr. Loraine) As of August.
Everyone else is closed, and
as a matter of fact everyone down 18th Street, everyone between 18th and 19th and Delaware and actually the property directly across from us has also been sold to the City. Now have any of the homes been ripped down by
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Page 36 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 A. Q. A. hearsay? BY MR. LORAINE: BY MR. BRIGANCE: Absolutely. Okay, Alisha works stuck. BY MR. BRIGANCE: Now do you want A. Q. A. Q. A. that point? No, there was no homes to rip down. They were already gone? They were already gone. Were they were cleaned up, though? Yes. BY MR. BRIGANCE: While all this
we're going through we're stuck, we can't back out because we're trapped because you already have everybody else around us boxed in. It was one of those no reason to sit
there and fight with it. BY MRS. BRIGANCE: We're basically
with Gale, which what is his last name? Okay. I work with a gentleman by the name of He is the last hold out that was
Gale Wade.
on 19th and New Jersey. (By Mr. Loraine) name? W-A-D-E. How do you spell his last
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Page 37 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Q. A. Q. A. A. Q. A. Q. A. Q. Do you have a phone number for Mr. Wade? I can get one for you. I see him every day.
I would like you to make contact with Mr. Wade and possibly send him down here tomorrow if at all possible. Okay. Probably about 3:00, yeah, about 3:00. Okay, Gale, at this time - well, in this whole crazy negotiations that we're having Woolston is also - actually Woolston didn't even know how to get ahold of him, didn't have a phone number. He showed up at the new
house knocking on his door. At Wade's house? At Wade's house interested in selling, because he wasn't going to sell either. they were in kind of the same thing, negotiations and everything, and Gale wanted $45,000.00 for his property because he had a 75x200 lot and he knew it was going to go commercial and he didn't want to pay - he didn't want to be paid -Residential? -- residential when he knows it's going to go But
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Page 38 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Q. A. Q. A. Q. A. Q. commercial. Because he has already had a
previous experience where he sold something residential, they turned around and redid it as commercial, so he was not doing it again. Was this still zoned? It was all still zoned residential. So Mr. Wade, what else can you tell me about Mr. Wade? Wade ran into Gary Box at the Elks Lodge one night and Box asked Wade have you come to an agreement and he says, no, we're at a $5,000.00 difference. they want $40,000.00. I want $45,000.00, He says don't worry This
about it, I'll get it taken care of. was a Saturday night.
The very next day Wade
got a call from Woolston and told him he'd been ordered to give him what he had been asking for. BY MR. BRIGANCE: Which we thought
was odd because he doesn't work for that guy, he works for Four State Homes. How do you
know what - just didn't make sense to us. (By Mr. Loraine) Who was Box working for?
Gary Box works for Wallace-Bajjali. So Bajjali basically ordered Woolston to get
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Page 39 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Q. A. Q. A. Q. A. A. Q. the extra five grand? BY MR. BRIGANCE: Four State Homes. But on behalf of
Four State Homes is the
one that secured the property, but why are they -(By Mr. Loraine) Four State Homes? They closed - we closed - we got a call - all the TIF money and everything was sold and basically the City got the influx of all their money and we got a phone call and said can you do this, can you close on your house the 9th or the 11th. Of when? Sorry, the 9th or the 12th of August, which do you want, and Dustin said let's do the 9th, so 8:00 a.m. August 9th, 2013 we walked in and signed our papers and sold our house. And you got your money? And got our money. And the same thing happened to Wade? No, Wade, when he originally signed his papers he had - he signed them I think May is when he finally signed his agreement and he wasn't even going to close until September So it was finally sold to
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Page 40 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 A. Q. A. A. Q. A. Q. A. Q. A. Q. Q. A. and he ended up closing in September. like a long drawn out -2013? 2013, yes. BY MR. BRIGANCE: And he was content He had
with that because it was just land. It was just land. (By Mr. Loraine) So your contention is that
Woolston was still a City Councilman? Correct. And he was negotiating on behalf originally of Pro 100 for some mystic client? Correct. And then he talked about selling your property to Kuehn personally? Yes. And that didn't happen and eventually the property was sold to? Well, -Who did you sign it over to? We signed it over to Charlie Kuehn is who originally bought it, but they own Four State Homes. BY MR. BRIGANCE: But CART specified
them directly, not Four State Homes.
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Page 41 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Q. A. Q. A. able to. Bonnie might be able to remember who they were because that's the first - when we saw them walk in we're like what are they doing here and why are they involved? (By Mr. Loraine) So Wallace-Bajjali Q. A. A. Q. (By Mr. Loraine) And obviously Bajjali
ordered Kuehn to pay you an extra $5,000.00? For Wade's property, yes. And we also
thought it was really weird when Kuehn came to look at the house to possibly move it that two people from Wallace-Bajjali showed up with him. Do you know who they were? It's a lady, and I think her last name is Love, and the other gentleman from Joplin who is not David Box. his name is. BY MR. BRIGANCE: Bonnie might be I could not tell you what
basically wound up with all the property? Our house is still - as far as I know our house is still being owned by Charlie Kuehn, but every bit of the property around it is owned by the City. Okay. So what else? Did Woolston ever
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Page 42 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 A. Q. A. Q. Q. A. suggest to you that you would be condemned? Did that word ever come up? No, he never said anything about condemned. Q. He said you would be in a commercial area? BY MR. BRIGANCE: He said across the
street from us could look into become a grocery store. He never flat said our house Now in CART meetings
would be this or that.
that we had, though, when talking to Gary Box he said that 18th Street to the south is going to be bought up and this is proposed laid out, our house is gone and it's shopping center and parking lots and things like that. (By Mr. Loraine) So you're saying Woolston
didn't tell you the truth? Correct. He didn't disclose everything to you? No. Any other complaints about Woolston? BY MR. BRIGANCE: The only thing that
I feel is that throughout this whole series, and I'm limited to what we know because we're not following around with him and knowing everything, he has to make money at this, I understand that.
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Page 43 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Q. BY MR. LORAINE: BY MR. BRIGANCE: BY MR. LORAINE: make money? BY MR. BRIGANCE: His job is a You mean Woolston? Yes. Why does he have to
realtor therefore his job is to sell houses and sell property and things like that so I understand that in that regard. BY MR. LORAINE: But you knew he was
also on the City Council at the same time, didn't you? BY MRS. BRIGANCE: of what pissed us off. BY MR. BRIGANCE: That was the Yes, that's kind
initial, but we had nobody else express interest in our property, we don't want to still get stuck behind the eight ball and we've got to sell and we've got to get out of our property. BY MR. LORAINE: So that did impress
you with the fact that he was going to be a buyer somehow or he was going to make it happen? BY MR. BRIGANCE: (By Mr. Loraine) Yes. And
That impressed you.
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Page 44 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Q. A. Q. A. when I say impressed you, you were left to believe that he would take care of this problem, get it resolved, and you would not be stuck in a commercial area? I mean you
knew that at some point because he had told you? We knew that basically if we did not sell now we would be stuck living with the library, all the commercial, everything else if we didn't sell. We were basically be living in
a construction zone for however long it takes to build the property and then we'd be stuck with the commercial stuff to do with it, yes. You thought it was inappropriate for a City alderman to be acting in this fashion on your purchase? Yes, because he had prior knowledge to the fact that the library and other stuff was going there so he is involved with all the property around it. He basically is
monopolizing all the property around it by selling it to this one person or being the broker for this one person, and he's been using almost his prior knowledge. And he's controlling the prices?
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Page 45 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 A. A. Q. Correct, he's also controlling the prices. Do you believe that if you would have held out you now would be able to sell your property for more? No. BY MR. BRIGANCE: to somebody else? BY MR. LORAINE: BY MRS. BRIGANCE: BY MR. BRIGANCE: To anybody. No. I do not believe As far as to him or
anybody else would have come in and bought it because -BY MR. LORAINE: That the City would
have, the City would have been forced to buy it. BY MR. BRIGANCE: BY MR. LORAINE: condemnation matter. BY MR. BRIGANCE: BY MR. LORAINE: Correct. You're aware of that Correct. Then it's a
word condemnation, aren't you? BY MR. BRIGANCE: BY MRS. BRIGANCE: BY MR. LORAINE: with them? Yes. Yes. And you were aware
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Page 46 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 BY MRS. BRIGANCE: Yes, that's kind
of why we felt stuck that basically if we didn't sell now we weren't going to get what we wanted later. BY MR. BRIGANCE: You kind of take
the crumbs and you run or you try to get a little piece of the pie and run that way. BY MRS. BRIGANCE: Because like I
said by the time we signed our papers the City owned every bit of the property around us. BY MR. BRIGANCE: But I was with the
understanding Woolston is going to make money we sit back and everything we get secondhand as far as to my knowledge. So reading the
paper we know that - that was being sold. BY MR. LORAINE: BY MR. BRIGANCE: The what? Coca Cola, used to
be on 8th Street down by the flea market area, we knew that property was being sold, okay, and it's funny how - it was a strange coincidence how the next thing you see a little later on in the paper was Four State Homes purchased property right next -BY MRS. BRIGANCE: Dr. Joseph.
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Page 47 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Q. A. Homes. (By Mr. Loraine) Who is Dr. Joseph? What's that BY MR. BRIGANCE: Dr. Joseph which
owns Four State Homes has his hand in it. BY MRS. BRIGANCE: He and Four State
You're going to learn a lot.
building, the Griffon Building, he owns that building and I think he owns the majority of the buildings from on down to flea market, all of that. The Coca Cola was going to be
sold so I think Joseph ended up buying all that property and somehow Wallace-Bajjali is involved because that's the property that they want to put the post office. BY MR. BRIGANCE: That got released
that was to be for the post office, but it's already conveniently owned by -BY MRS. BRIGANCE: BY MR. LORAINE: BY MR. BRIGANCE: is Four State Homes. BY MRS. BRIGANCE: Four State Homes. BY MR. LORAINE: you know? Okay. Anything else Has his hand in Somebody else. Dr. Joseph? Correct, which also
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Page 48 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 A. Q. A. Q. A. Q. Q. it. BY MR. BRIGANCE: And just as a
citizen driving down the tornado's path from 32nd Street east/west, 20th Street, 26th Street -BY MRS. BRIGANCE: BY MR. BRIGANCE: Four State Homes. Four State Homes is
buying up property galore down there and that's conveniently where - that whole corridor is also all Wallace-Bajjali is looking at changing, I mean asking the City for one thing or another and it's all popping up with Four State Homes, Four State Homes. BY MR. LORAINE: BY MRS. BRIGANCE: What does Dr. -He had a hand in
I don't know, he's almost I guess like
an investor. (By Mr. Loraine) owns Four States? Yes, Charlie owns Four State Homes. That's Charlie Kuehn? Yes. So we now think that they're holding property for Wallace-Bajjali to buy? Yes. Okay. So they're accumulating property? Well, you know that Charlie
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Page 49 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 A. Q. A. Q. A. They're accumulating property that eventually is sold to the City or somehow -BY MR. BRIGANCE: But how do they
know which - but as you drive from 20th Street in that tornado path Four State Homes signs went up and there were Wallace-Bajjali and you don't see hardly any Four State Homes signs. Now the other maybe you can is
there's more available there because everybody is trying to sell off and get out while they can or like that, so you have that argument, but other things, too, there was real estate, I mean land, purchased land and stuff, but why are they all Four State Homes? That was kind of weird. And then we know on
our side who represents Four State Homes what else is there going on in this area or that area where you see a Four State Homes sign that is the pipeline that somebody is trying to buy it beforehand. (By Mr. Loraine) name? Joseph. Dr. Joseph, okay. And there's about eight of them so just to What was the doctor's last
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Page 50 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Q. A. Q. A. Q. A. Q. A. Q. A. Q. Q. A. Q. A. Q. A. let you know. You don't know who the rest of them are? It should be Michael, I think is who it is is Michael Joseph, then there's also Richard Joseph. Who? Richard, Sr. and Jr. Okay, who else? Those are the only ones that I know. are the only three men. So we've got four, but we think there's eight though, huh? How do you know that? My father Those
I've grown up in this entire town. was a well known doctor. Your dad is a doctor? Yes. What's your dad's name? Dr. Dandridge. Is he still alive? Yes, he is.
So somehow you know that there's eight members? Well, no, I'm not for sure. I just know that
there are - there's a lot of Josephs. But you know that there's more than one owner
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Page 51 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Q. A. A. Q. A. to -Four State Homes. No, I don't know.
So we know Joseph at least? I just know that any time you see a Four State Homes property there is a Joseph somehow. And Charlie? Yes, Charlie is the one that I know owns Four State Homes. BY MR. BRIGANCE: With this whole
thing we figured out Four State Homes buyer. We found out through Mr. Bass that Four State Homes bought his property. This is odd.
Here and there and then find out that assuming they're going to be ones that got our property until we find out later on that, yes, we were, in fact, correct, but just the whole whenever you wash your hands of all this stuff it was like - and we asked them how do you vote in the neighborhood meeting we had, how can you be a realtor and purchase property inside of Springfield when you might know what's going on, but he says I abstained the votes that affects zoning and stuff like that. But I understand his part on that, but
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Page 52 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 A. A. Q. Q. he's going in, buying the property, putting money in his pocket. And I understand he has
to make money, I am not disputing that in the slightest, but that's why you buy somewhere away from it just to make sure your hands stay clean or - and if he hasn't done anything unethical. To me he's an unethical person just because you know too much was going back. (By Mr. Loraine) illegal? Yes. But you don't know how much he's getting on the side or if he is? Correct. BY MR. BRIGANCE: Correct. But as a You don't know if it's
City Councilman I would assume he had a little window, snippets here or snippets there or what's going on and what's not going on, and it just looks - and whenever we heard the investigation being focused on Dr. Rosenberg we were like, good, somebody else has raised enough concerns to where it's not just us that feels this way. BY MR. LORAINE: And I assume there
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Page 53 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 are people in your community, your old neighbors that feel this way? BY MR. BRIGANCE: From 18th Street to Now
the south has all been purchased, okay?
from house it goes back 200 feet, 175 feet, back behind those, those houses were approached, some of those were. One of those
neighbors directly behind us, his last name is Burton, he was never approached. BY MRS. BRIGANCE: never approached. BY MR. BRIGANCE: BY MRS. BRIGANCE: Palmer and then Cupp. But Cupp -No, you have Those two were
And Cupp has been
approached I think directly from Wallace-Bajjali because she has property from 18th almost all the way to 20th. She is the
one property that stands in the way from the City owning -BY MR. LORAINE: And what's her name? Her last name is -
BY MRS. BRIGANCE:
her name is Katie Cupp and she's almost 90 years old. BY MR. BRIGANCE: So to say that as
far as anybody else down on 18th Street as
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Page 54 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 A. Q. A. Q. Q. far as to the best of our knowledge none of them have received any letters. (By Mr. Loraine) Who is Bryant? Have you
ever heard the name Bryant, B-R-Y-A-N-T? Bryant? Huh-uh.
Last name. BY MR. BRIGANCE: It clips in there,
but I don't know where for sure. (By Mr. Loraine) want to tell me? I don't know because I know his name Irish (inaudible). BY MR. BRIGANCE: And I don't know if Is there anything else you
it's kind of weird, too, on the corner of Murphy and 20th Street where they kind of make like it a little triangle ledge and the doctor that had purchased that was going to put -BY MRS. BRIGANCE: her practice there. BY MR. BRIGANCE: put up her practice there. She was going to And that Going to put up
property, I don't think he had a for sale sign on it. BY MRS. BRIGANCE: It never had a for
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Page 55 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Q. A. Q. A. Q. Q. A. Q. A. Q. A. sale sign, but -BY MR. BRIGANCE: And she purchased
it and shortly after she purchased it everything I got from Box was nothing was going on further on that side, that corner there, just like the little park and everything like that. BY MRS. BRIGANCE: But it did go to
get rezoned and it did get that, but past that nothing has happened. (By Mr. Loraine) Commercial. And that would have come before the City? The City. And what is her name? I couldn't tell you what her name is, I'm sorry. It's a doctor and does she have an office there now? No, there's nothing there. But it is zoned commercial? As far as I know it is zoned commercial. there's a few other bits along 20th Street that have been put up to rezone. And all of those votes, you wonder about how And Rezoned residential?
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Page 56 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 number. else? BY MRS. BRIGANCE: think of. BY MR. BRIGANCE: number for you for -BY MRS. BRIGANCE: He's on vacation. I need Gale's I think he went We'll get a phone Not that I can Mr. Woolston would have voted? BY MR. BRIGANCE: Correct, because as
of now the way we understand it from the there's a church there on 20th Street and that church all the way west towards Connecticut is all City property now. BY MRS. BRIGANCE: Well, it is either
between City property and Four State Homes property, somewhere in between all that. BY MR. LORAINE: BY MRS. BRIGANCE: Wallace-Bajjali, yes. BY MR. LORAINE: Okay. Anything Or Wallace-Bajjali? Or
on vacation today. number, though.
I can still get you the
BY MR. LORAINE: BY MRS. BRIGANCE: He's the 19th and Jersey.
Gale Bass? No, Gale Wade.
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Page 57 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 A. Q. A. Q. A. Q. Q. BY MR. LORAINE: BY MR. BRIGANCE: BY MR. LORAINE: The other name was? Bonnie Wright. And you'll call both
of those for me, give them my number? BY MR. BRIGANCE: (By Mr. Loraine) Correct. I
Let me give you a card.
would particularly be interested to talk to Bonnie, if she will, because she'll have some insight, but I don't know whether she will or she won't. Here are a couple of my business
cards and if you can call me at that number or I can give you my cell number if you'll take that down. number? No. I probably shouldn't be giving that. If you Is that on there, the cell
can just call that number, you know, that would be fine. 348-8909. Yes, that's on here. There is a number - we knew that, didn't we? There's a City number, but I don't know the number of it yet. I only know the City Attorney's number. Yes, that will work. Okay, thank you for The 573 number there,
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Page 58 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 A. Q. A. Q. A. Q. coming in. You're welcome. I'm going to hand you back Exhibit #26. This
is the Contract for Sale on the residential property we've talked about earlier and it appears to be 7 pages long. Do you agree with that? Yes. Marked #26? Yes. This concludes this. by. (SWORN STATEMENT CONCLUDED) I appreciate you coming
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REPORTER'S CERTIFICATE
STATE OF MISSOURI ss. COUNTY OF JASPER I, SHARON K. ROGERS, Certified Court Reporter in the State of Missouri, do certify that pursuant to the foregoing Stipulation the witness came before me on the 14th day of November, 2013, was duly sworn by me, and was examined. That examination was then taken by me by
steno-mask recording and afterwards transcribed; said Sworn Statement is subscribed by the witness as hereinbefore set out on the day in that behalf aforesaid and is herewith returned. I further certify that I am not counsel, attorney, or relative of either party, or clerk, or stenographer of either party or of the attorney of either party, or otherwise interested in the event of this suit.
_________________________ SHARON K. ROGERS, CCR-650

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Alisha and Dustin Brigance

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JOPLIN CRITICAL INVESTIGATION

ALISHA BRIGANCE and DUSTIN BRIGANCE

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Page 4 I N D E X Page/Line DIRECT EXAMINATION BY MR. LORAINE . . . 5-22

Exhibit #26 Contract

Exhibits in separate binder

(sic) - typed as spoken (ph.) - phonetic

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in, also, while we're doing it.

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time worked for Pro 100.

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Page 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Q. A. A. Q. Q. A. and Connecticut. Our house was at 1812

She told me to call Gary Shaw and

okay, so we didn't do anything about it at the time. Our neighborhood is an extremely

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it's a very L-shaped area. then --

we had a neighbor in the meeting - a neighbor

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Page 11 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 learned? BY MRS. BRIGANCE: Yes, this would

have been September of 2012. BY MR. BRIGANCE: So as we were

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Page 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Q. A. Q. A. Q. A. BY MR. BRIGANCE: Correct.

He's never said definitive as For

to this is or is not going in place.

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417 - is that her work, the 649? not.