Pages 5121 - 5150 of the Who's Who Worldwide Registry trial transcript contain sixteen examples of how cleverly Watstein, highly-paid government informant who was told that the cost of 'no prison' was maneuvering one WWW Registry employee after another into lies and fraud, failed in his attempt to use his multimillion-dollar con man skills, dangling, pushing, distorting and lying. All to stay out of prison.
The tapes reveal consistently honest and excellent business practices at Who's Who Worldwide, represented by Annette Haley and others with enthusiastic honesty and cutting-edge business integrity,
(Does YOUR organization operate with such commitment to excellence?) And still, the jury said "Guilty".
Hard to blame them, between efforts to taint the jury and exposing them to such a weighted amount of evidence against one man, with little or none indicating lack of integrity, let alone a crime, regarding the sales defendants.
This organization earned its rank as #1 in the industry. It led the way with a CD-ROM so advanced that the device, in the year 2001, still ranked in the top percentile of all cd-roms for pure utility, ease, and effectiveness. The postally-infected jury still said "guilty."
Despite the unprecedented package of financial, networking, publicity and other benefits available to members, such as Tribute Magazine, filled to bursting each issue with profiles of and articles by America's seniormost business leaders, each and every one of them a one-or-more-time member of Who's Who Worldwide Executive Club! -- the literally crying jurors
voted 'guilty,' tearfully apologizing to defense counsel and defendants before departing the courthouse.
Including but not limited to hearing how he changed the words of each person he was focused upon, each review of tape or transcript reveals deception on the part of the desperate Steven Watstein a/k/a Steven West and so many other names.
Here in this small piece of the transcript from Feb 20th, separate examples of the taped evidence indicated a scrupulously honest woman doing her job in a conscientious, ethical manner, in accordance with law and good custom, no matter that he's repeatedly dangling a fat juicy sale in front of her, and offering information completely different from what had just been taped, without her knowledge. The way he addresses the Court so arrogantly says much of Watstein's hubris, undermining his own credibility.
HARRY RAPAPORT, CSR, CP, CM OFFICIAL COURT REPORTER 5121
1 S T E V E N W A T S T E I N, 2 called as a witness, having been previously 3 duly sworn, was examined and testified as 4 follows: 5 6 THE COURT: You are previously sworn and you are 7 still under oath, Mr. Watstein. 8 THE WITNESS: Yes. 9 THE COURT: Mr. Geduldig, were you still 10 cross-examining? 11 MR. GEDULDIG: I think I was, Judge. 12 THE COURT: You are going to move along, right? 13 MR. GEDULDIG: I am. 14 15 CROSS-EXAMINATION (con t'd) 16 BY MR. GEDULDIG: 17 Q Mr. Watstein, I think we had given you a copy of the 18 transcript we were looking at the other day? 19 A Yes. 20 Q I have handed up to you 1325, which is the transcript 21 of the conversation you had with Annette Haley on November 22 11th, 1994. If memory serves me correctly, where we 23 finished off yesterday, we were going through whether or 24 not a delicatessen owner was sufficiently prestigious to 24 be in the registry.
HARRY RAPAPORT, CSR, CP, CM OFFICIAL COURT REPORTER5 122 Watstein-cross/Geduldig
1 Do you remember that? 2 A Yes, sir. 3 Q What I would like to do now is turn to page 9 of the 4 transcript.