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Hellish Deposition - Witness Repeatedly F-Bombs Questioning Attorney

By John Mesirow

Must have been "f-bomb the lawyer day." Mr. Aaron Wider is the owner and CEO of HTFC Corp. In a lawsuit brought by GMAC Bank against HTFC, Mr. Bodzin (GMAC's attorney) was attempting to take Mr. Wider's deposition. To say Mr. Wider was uncooperative would be an incredible understatement. Here are a few excerpts from the deposition:

Q. [By Atty. Bodzin] This is your loan file, what do Mr. and Mrs. Fitzgerald do for a living?
A. [By Mr. Wider] I don?t know. Open it up and find it.
Q. Look at your loan file and tell me.
A. Open it up and find it. I?m not your fucking bitch.
Q. Take a look at your loan application.
A. Do it yourself. Do it yourself. You want to do this in front of a judge. Would you prefer to
[do] this in front of a judge? Then, shut thefuck up.
Q. Sir, take a look--
A. I?m taking a break. Fuck him. You open up the document. You want me to look at something, you get the document out. Earn your fucking money asshole. Isn?t the law wonderful. Better get used to it. You?ll retire when I?m done.

Q. ... We?re going to adjourn this deposition if this happens again because you are offending every single person.
A. Don?t speak for anybody in here except yourself fuck face.
Q. I?m speaking for myself and I?m speaking for the Court Reporter.
A. If she had a problem with me she would say something. She knows it?s [not] directed toward
her. It?s directed to you because you?re a piece of shit and a piece of garbage and I?m the only
person in your life that is fucking up your world and I enjoy it. I enjoy it and when you sit there
and say I?m perpetrating a fraud I?m just better at the law than you are and you can?t get in the
fucking door and it?s pissing you off. Keep trying.

What what what? [Funnier for South Park fans.] Just how bad was the rest of the deposition? Per the court:

The above [which includes one more excerpt] are only a few examples of Wider?s hostile, uncivil, and vulgar conduct, which persisted throughout the nearly 12 hours of deposition testimony. In fact, Wider used the word ?fuck? and variants thereof no less than 73 times. To put this in perspective--in this commercial case, where GMAC?s claim is for breach of contract and HTFC?s counterclaim is for tortious interference with contract--the word ?contract? and variants thereof were used only 14 times.

So what did the court do with this? Click below to find out.

Full post as published by Legal Juice on May 13, 2010 (boomark / email).