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1 2 3 4 DIGITALLY RECORDED 5 SWORN STATEMENT 6 OF 7 8 9 OIG CASE #: 10 2019-010614 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 19 OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL 20 SEPTEMBER 22, 2021 21 22 23 24 25 26 RESOLUTE DOCUMENTATION SERVICES 28632 Roadside Drive, Suite 285 Agoura Hills, CA 91301 Phone: (818) 431-5800 EFTA00125856 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 1 APPEARANCES: 2 3 OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL 4 BY: 5 BY: 6 7 8 WITNESS: 9 10 11 12 OTHER APPEARANCES: 13 NONE 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 EFTA00125857 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 3 1 MR. : It's Senior Special Agent 2 . He's also assisting on the 3 case. 4 MR. : Is it Dennis -- 5 MR. : Yeah. 6 MR. 7 MR. : Yeah. I'm right here. 8 I'm the Senior Special Agent here. So, yeah. 9 Like here just said, we just want to ask 10 you a couple questions regarding August 8th 11 through the 10th of 2019. 12 MR. : Okay. 13 MR. : And just so you know, all 14 of our interviews are recorded. 15 MR. : Okay. 16 MR. : And just for 17 documentation purposes. Just so you know. 18 MR. : Understood. 19 MR. : All right. Great. So, 20 is going to take it. I'll only jump in 21 if we need some clarifying information. 22 MR. : Okay. 23 MR. : Perfect. And I'm going to 24 start the recording. 25 MR. : Okay. EFTA00125858 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 4 1 MR. : My name is , and 2 I'm a Special Agent with U.S. Department of 3 Justice, Office of the Inspector General. New 4 York Field Office. This interview is with 5 former SigNet employee, Jeff . And it 6 is being conducted as part of an official U.S. 7 Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector 8 General investigation. Today's date is 9 September 22nd, 2021. The time is 9:03 a.m. 10 This interview is being conducted 11 telephonically, via phone number (III) III- 12 . Did I get that right? 13 MR. : Yes. 14 MR. : Okay. Also present -- 15 MR. : I'm going to read that 16 back. (M) • I'm sorry. 17 MR. : Yes. Perfect. Also present 18 is DOJ/OIG Senior Special Agent Dennis 19 This interview will be recorded by 20 me, Special Agent . Could 21 everyone please identify themselves for the 22 record, and spell your last name? To start, 23 again, I am DOJ Special Agent 24 25 MR. : Senior Special Agent EFTA00125859 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 5 1 with the DOJ/OIG. 2 3 MR. : Jeff, can you introduce 4 yourself, please? 5 MR. : Former SigNet employee, 6 Jeff - or Jeffrey, full name - . M-C- 7 K-E-N-Z-I-E. 8 MR. : Jeffrey. I apologize for 9 calling you Jeff. 10 MR. : That's - no, no - I go by 11 Jeff. 12 MR. : All right. 13 MR. : But I gave you my formal. 14 MR. : Yeah. Thank you. This is an 15 official DOJ/OIG investigation into the death 16 of inmate Jeffrey Epstein, and the surrounding 17 circumstances. And you are being asked to 18 voluntarily provide answers to our questions. 19 Will you agree to a voluntary interview? 20 MR. : Yes. 21 MR. : Thank you. Please let me 22 know if you do not understand any questions I 23 ask, and I will repeat it, or try to rephrase 24 it. 25 MR. : Okay. EFTA00125860 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 1 MR. : Okay? I'm going to go 2 through some of your background, and then we'll 3 go into the service request. What is your 4 current home address? 5 MR. : Current home address is 6 - and 7 that's 8 9 MR. : Okay. And -- 10 MR. : Zip code is 11 MR. : -- thank you. What is your 12 date of birth? 13 MR. 14 MR. : Is this your cell phone 15 number, the (III) number? 16 MR. : Yes. 17 MR. : Okay. And what is your 18 highest level of education? 19 MR. : High school. One year of 20 college. 21 MR. : All right. Where did you 22 attend college? 23 MR. : I went to Liberty 24 University. 25 MR. : Where is that? • EFTA00125861 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 1 MR. : Lynchburg, Virginia. 2 MR. : Was there a major you were 3 following? 4 MR. : It's just business 5 management. 6 MR. : Okay. And what did you do 7 prior to working for SigNet? 8 MR. : Prior to SigNet, I actually 9 delivered Little Debbie cakes for six months. 10 MR. : Excellent. And when did you 11 begin working for SigNet? 12 MR. : When did I pick up working 13 there? 14 MR. : Yeah. When did you begin 15 working for SigNet? 16 MR. : Oh. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. 17 I'm going back too far. Sorry. SigNet. I 18 actually worked for Orion Systems Group. That 19 as in Fairfax, Virginia. Sorry. I skipped a 20 whole bunch of years there. 21 MR. : No problem. 22 MR. : Yeah. 23 MR. : I'm thinking before the 24 security industry. Sorry about that. Okay. 25 MR. : And -. EFTA00125862 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 8 1 MR. : Yeah. Oh, no. Go ahead. 2 MR. : No, no. No problem. And 3 when exactly did you work, start, begin work 4 for SigNet? 5 MR. : That was April 2011. 6 MR. : Okay. And what was your 7 position with SigNet? 8 MR. : I came on as a service 9 tech, initially. And then, I entered into the 10 role, I want to say it was probably somewhere 11 in 2012, middle of 2012, or maybe early 2013. 12 I think it was the middle of 2012, they put me 13 as the senior customer support representative. 14 MR. : And that was your position in 15 August 2019? 16 MR. : Yes. 17 MR. : Okay. And what did that - as 18 a senior customer representative - what did 19 that position entail? 20 MR. : So, that was basically 21 traveling to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, 22 whenever they needed their VMS video system 23 server upgrades. Basically, any swap outs of 24 their systems, when they expired or went out of 25 warranty. And then, if I wasn't traveling, EFTA00125863 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 9 1 doing the upgrades, I was at home, working from 2 my house, and doing technical support for the 3 video systems at the prisons. 4 MR. : Okay. So, the main client 5 that you worked with was the Federal Bureau of 6 Prisons? 7 MR. : Yes. 8 MR. : Okay. And when did you leave 9 SigNet? 10 MR. : That was December 30th, 11 2019. 12 MR. : Where are you employed now? 13 MR. : I am at a UK based company 14 called ONVU Technologies. That's O-N-V-U. 15 MR. : Okay. Thank you. 16 MR. : Off of OSCAR NANCY VICTOR 17 UMBRELLA (Indiscernible *00:05:36) and Victor. 18 (Indiscernible *00:05:39). 19 MR. : Thank you. As part of your 20 job at SigNet, in 2019, do you recall working 21 on projects, or work orders, for the 22 Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York 23 City? 24 MR. : Yes. 25 MR. : Do you recall working on a EFTA00125864 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 1 project that started August 8, 2019? 2 MR. : Yeah. I remember the 3 project. I don't know the exact date, but that 4 sounds about right. 5 MR. : Hey. I just want to clarify. 6 You mentioned the ONVU, that where you work, 7 have you been working there since December 8 2019? 9 MR. : No. I worked at -. When I 10 left SigNet, I went to another company. It's 11 called Enterprise Security Solutions. 12 MR. : Okay. And that was in 13 December 2019? 14 MR. : Yeah. It was December 15 31st, or yeah, basically. 16 MR. : (Indiscernible *00:06:28) 17 MR. : January. 18 MR. : Okay. And you were there for 19 how long? 20 MR. : Until July, pfft. What was 21 that? July. July. It was July this year. 22 can Look it up. 23 MR. : And in July, you came over to 24 our You started working at ONVU? 25 MR. : Yes. So, my last day at EFTA00125865 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 11 1 ESS was July 9th. And my first day at ONVU was 2 on July 12th. 3 MR. : Okay. 4 MR. : 2021. Yeah. 5 MR. : Okay. Thank you for 6 clarifying that. 7 MR. : Yup. 8 MR. : Now, as part of - and I'm 9 going to go back to that last question I asked 10 - as part of your job at SigNet in 2019, do you 11 recall working on projects, or work orders, for 12 the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New 13 York City? 14 MR. : Yes. 15 MR. : Who were you dealing with at 16 the MCC? 17 MR. : I believe that was 18 MR. 19 MR. 20 MR. : Okay. And we have a copy of 21 SigNet service request, 24975. Because this is 22 telephonically, I know I can't show it to you, 23 but I will read it to you. Is that all right 24 with you? 25 MR. : Yeah. EFTA00125866 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 12 1 MR. : It says, "Raid (Phonetic Sp. 2 *00:07:32) just crashed." That's under the 3 service request. And this was created on 4 August 8, 2019. That status shows ESOP 5 assigned, and it's assigned to Jeff Cranor, 6 Jeff , and Justin Houston. The contact 7 we have is, and the service 8 location is for 150 Park Row, New York, New 9 York. Is your understanding that is for the 10 MCC? 11 MR. : Yes. I believe so. I 12 don't know their exact address, but yeah -- 13 MR. : Okay. 14 MR. it sounds 15 MR. : Now, this says 16 MR. familiar. 17 MR. is this an emergency 18 request? It says, yes. Must call. The 19 problem was reported by . And - 20 21 MR. • 22 MR. . I apologize. 23 It's . And I'm going to read the 24 comments here. The earliest comment, it looks 25 like, is on - it's by you - on August 8th, at EFTA00125867 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 13 1 3:36 p.m. It states that the assignment on 2 August 8th to 16th, all day for Justin Houston, 3 Jeff and Jeff Cranor was been 4 created. It says Jeff Cranor will be working 5 on this. Get a case started with Qognify? 6 MR. : Do you want to start with 7 August 8th first. Is that what you started 8 with? 9 MR. : Yeah. 10 MR. : Okay. Sorry. 11 MR. : It's Qognify. That's Q-O-G- 12 N-I-F-Y. Is that your internal system? 13 MR. : No. So, Qognify is the 14 video manufacturer of the software that they 15 were using. At the time, though, they were - I 16 believe - their system was a NICE Vision 17 system, just to give you guys a little 18 background on it. So, Nice Vision was the 19 prior company. 20 MR. : Okay. 21 MR. : When most of the prisons 22 got their video systems. And then, Qognify 23 basically purchased, or bought, Nice Vision. i 24 want to say that was probably in, like, 2018. 25 Maybe 2017. EFTA00125868 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 14 1 MR. : Okay. So, and that's why 2 MR. : So, they rebranded, 3 basically, the new systems that they were 4 putting in. 5 MR. : Understood. Okay. And then, 6 the assignment was created at 3:36 p.m. There 7 is a comment by Jeff - that's you, 8 right? - at 3:38 p.m. And -- 9 MR. : Yeah. 10 MR. : -- it looks like someone 11 addressed it to you. It says, "Hi, Jeff. 12 Unable to locate anything official. The basic 13 steps are as following: One, set the raid 14 level to none, and save. It will restart it 15 with all drives being J. Replace any faulty 16 drives. Two, set the raid level to five, and 17 save. It will restart and begin 18 initialization. The password is 1111. Four 19 ones. And if I recall correctly, once the raid 20 is created, you will need to restart Windows, 21 and create the proper partitions. I'll keep 22 looking, but that should get you going. Best 23 regards, Derek Barr (Phonetic Sp. *00:10:13), 24 Senior Support Engineer." 25 MR. : Derek Barr. Okay. I was EFTA00125869 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 15 1 wondering who that was. I was going to guess 2 Sharom (Phonetic Sp. *00:10:19), but 3 MR. : Is that someone -- 4 MR. : Okay . 5 MR. -- internally, or is that 6 from Qognify? 7 MR. : No. So, that -- yeah - 8 that's the Qognify technical support engineer. 9 MR. : So, you reached out to 10 Qognify and to get assistance on this matter, 11 and they responded on these are the steps? 12 MR. : Mm-hmm. 13 MR. : All right. And the next 14 step, the next comment I have is by Jeff 15 on August 14th, 2019. 8:02 p.m. So, 16 this is approximately six days after the 17 incident. 18 MR. : Okay. 19 MR. called us on 20 Thursday, August 8th, stating that he had two 21 bad drives in his raid unit. Off the Nice 22 Vision Pro, Unit NVR (Phonetic Sp. *00:10:57). 23 We advised him to get replacement drives. Once 24 they are replaced, they should start to 25 initialize, to become available for the raid EFTA00125870 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 1 array. did not have drives 2 readily available. He checked with his local 3 CSM." What is CSM? 4 MR. : Should be computer 5 specialists manager -- 6 MR. : That's 7 MR. : I believe. 8 MR. : -- that's internal for the 9 BOP? 10 MR. : Yup. 11 MR. : Okay. 12 MR. : That's what their IT 13 manager, and the IT department, I think. 14 MR. : Thank you. "He checked with 15 his local CSM, to see if they had any spare 16 replacement drives. Once he located 17 replacement drives on Friday, August 9th, he 18 did not have access to the DVR room, to replace 19 them. He called SigNet for some phone support 20 on Saturday, August 10th, when he gained access 21 to the DVR room. He attempted to replace the 22 drives, and they started to rebuild. During 23 the rebuild process of the drives, the drives 24 were required to be taken out of raid, on DVR- 25 2. Once the drives were removed without proper EFTA00125871 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 17 1 shutdown of the recorder, the video database 2 becomes corrupted. Typically, any time the 3 raid is - raid on - raid five configuration 4 loses two drives, the raid needs to be rebuild, 5 and all data is wiped from the raid." Do you 6 recall making that comment? 7 MR. : Yeah. That sounds about 8 right. That sounds what I would have stated. 9 MR. : Okay. So, I'm going to go 10 back. Can you explain to me the phone call 11 that you got from on August 8th, if you 12 recall what he stated to you on August 8th? 13 MR. : Yeah. I'm trying to think. 14 Well, yeah. I'm trying to -. So, August 8th, 15 well, that was a Was that a, like, a 16 Saturday, maybe? 17 MR. : No. 18 MR. : Maybe it was -. 19 MR. : That was a Thursday. 20 MR. : Thursday. Okay. 21 MR. : It looks like, on Thursday, 22 he called - August 8th - he called you, he 23 reported the incident. You gave - possibly 24 gave - him instructions on what to do. August 25 9th, he got replacement drives, but he did not EFTA00125872 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 18 1 have access to the room. That would be on a 2 Friday. Then August 10th is when he called you 3 back, and it looks like you -. The incident 4 with Epstein happened, and he called you back. 5 MR. : Oh. Okay. Okay. Yeah, 6 because I was going to say -. Let's see. 7 Yeah. I have a different recollection than I 8 thought, because I thought, from what, and I 9 want to say, maybe that incident started 10 earlier, but maybe not. Because what I was, 11 what I was recalling on that was, me and my 12 wife were actually about, I think, let's see, 13 2019. So, that would have been -. Yeah. 14 Me and my wife and my son were out at a 15 cabin on a weekend get-away, and I remember an 16 email, I believe that was from Justin, saying 17 something that he had gotten a call from 18 . Now, that could have been 19 after the initial reach out from him. That the 20 drives were down. I think that might have 21 been. So, I'm kind of questioning if 22 reached out to me initially, or if he reached 23 to Justin, and then Justin assigned that to me. 24 Because Justin, I believe, was also out on 25 vacation, either that week or that weekend, as EFTA00125873 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 19 1 I was, but I was kind of local. So, he had 2 asked me to reach out or, you know, basically 3 work with him, work with Qognify. And so, 4 that's what I was remembering from that, 5 because I know, I remember specifically, I was 6 on vacation on the weekend. 7 And trying to reach out, basically, to, 8 want to say, like, our sales rep, Steve Smith 9 (Phonetic Sp. *00:14:27), who worked, you know, 10 for the Bureau, or worked with the Bureau of 11 Prisons. He sold all their equipment. 12 Reaching out to Derek Barr. But again, I could 13 be -. I could be wrong on the timeframe there. 14 But -- 15 MR. : It's --. 16 MR. : -- either way, yes, I did 17 work directly with - at 18 one point, on the case, prior to visiting the 19 site. So, yeah. I was just trying to get that 20 timeline right, because I don't want to tell 21 you that it happened this specific way you're 22 saying it, and then it didn't. 23 MR. : No problem. And you 24 mentioned that you were away with your wife on 25 a camping trip. Do you know how long the trip EFTA00125874 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 1 was for? 2 MR. : It was just a weekend. So, 3 I think we might have left out on a Friday, you 4 know, Friday afternoon, and then, probably came 5 back, like, Sunday night. 6 MR. : So, it's possible that you 7 spoke to him on Thursday, August 8th, before 8 you headed out for the camping trip? 9 MR. : Possibly. Yeah. 10 MR. : You don't recall? 11 MR. : Yeah. I don't - yeah - I 12 don't recall specifically. I do - and like I 13 said - I do know, I did talk to him, at one 14 point, about the drives, and that he couldn't 15 . Okay. So - yeah - that does clear it. 16 Okay. So, that's really -. Sorry. I'm just 17 trying to piece it together. 18 MR. : No problem. 19 MR. : So, yeah. He did mention 20 something about that he would check with -. 21 So, that's why I'm trying to think that it may 22 have been the weekend prior to the 8th. Or not 23 the 8th. But it would have been the 10th, 24 would have been the Saturday. I want to say he 25 reached out before then. Because I want to say EFTA00125875 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 1 we were out on the weekend, before that. 2 MR. : So, hold on. Let me just 3 clarify. 4 MR. : Yeah. So, let me. So, 5 I'm looking at this now, Jeff. This is Dennis. 6 So, on August 8th -- 7 MR. : Uh-huh. 8 MR. : -- that's when you 9 received, it looks like, a message from that 10 individual. Who is it? 11 MR. : Derek Barr. 12 MR. : Derek Barr -- 13 MR. : Yes. 14 MR. : -- saying, "Hi, Jeff. 15 Unable to locate anything official. The basic 16 steps are as follows." So, it looks like, 17 maybe somebody would have reached out to you 18 before. So, in fact, that was the August 8th 19 comment. And then -- 20 MR. : Yeah. 21 MR. : -- that was something 22 that says comment made by you. And then -- 23 MR. : Uh-huh. 24 MR. : -- the next comment made 25 by you was actually on August 14th, 2019. EFTA00125876 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 1 MR. : Okay. 2 MR. : And what you're stating 3 here is, it's saying, called us 4 on Thursday, August 8th, stating that he had 5 two bad drives." So, it doesn't specifically 6 say he called you. Do you know if he would 7 have called you direct, or he would have called 8 someone else with SigNet? 9 MR. : That's why I was saying. 10 think he may have called Justin initially. And 11 then, Justin had asked me to basically work on 12 that case because, like I said, I think Justin 13 was out on vacation, and that's why he passed 14 the case to me, asking me to work with 15 and Qognify to try to see if we could get those 16 replaced. Let me look at the year here. I'm 17 just trying to pull it up. 18 MR. : And you mentioned there is a 19 possibility you were away on a camping trip the 20 weekend prior to that. 21 MR. : So, the 10th. Yeah. I 22 mean, I could try to verify that, if that's, 23 like, an absolute -- 24 MR. : No, no. 25 MR. : -- necessity. I could see. EFTA00125877 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 23 1 Yeah. I know it was basically right around 2 this case time. So, it could have been the 3 prior, or it could have been that weekend. But 4 yeah. That's really -. 5 MR. : I know it's tough. It's been 6 a couple years. So, remembering the exact 7 details is kind of hard. 8 MR. : You know, it may have been 9 that Friday night. The 9th. So, you said I 10 was talking to Derek on the 8th? 11 MR. : Yes. 12 MR. : Or I got a reply from him 13 on the 8th. Yeah. Because I want to say we 14 left out on the 9th, and we were at the cabin 15 on the 9th. And I want to say that me and 16 Justin were maybe communicating back and forth 17 via email. And trying to kind of figure out, 18 you know, what drives he could get, or 19 whatever. So, maybe, maybe it all happened 20 right in that weekend. Because I do remember 21 something about hearing that, you know, the 22 incident happened there. 23 MR. : Okay. Yeah, and I'm -- 24 MR. : Uh-huh. 25 MR. : re-reading this. It EFTA00125878 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 24 1 doesn't specifically state in your comment, on 2 the 14th, that you actually ever spoke with 3 him. It just says 4 MR. : With 5 MR. : -- it - yeah - with 6 It just says that he called us on the 7 8th. And then, it talks about, you talk about 8 how, on the 9th, he didn't have access to the 9 DVR room, to replace them. And then, it says, 10 he called SigNet for phone support on Saturday, 11 August 10th. So, do you know 12 MR. : Okay. 13 MR. : -- if you were away, I'm 14 assuming this information was passed to you on 15 August 14th, when you made the comment? Would 16 that be accurate, since it sounds like you were 17 aware that weekend? 18 MR. : Well, I do -. So, I do 19 remember talking to him, at some point, and him 20 Well, I don't know if I talked to him or 21 emailed -- 22 MR. : Okay. 23 MR. : -- but basically, I 24 remember, I remember him saying that, like, he 25 was trying to find drives. He didn't have any, EFTA00125879 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 25 1 so he was going to check with the CSM, to see 2 if they had any on site. Then, I believe he 3 found them, and then, he said, and he called, 4 he either called me back, or emailed, and said, 5 hey, the room where the NVR is locked, and it's 6 our internal investigation office, and they 7 have the keys. I don't have access to that. 8 So, I'm going to have to wait until such and 9 such. It was probably Saturday. I think I 10 stated there that he could actually get access 11 into the room, to go try and replace the 12 drives. 13 MR. : Okay. So -- 14 MR. : Sorry. 15 MR. : You just 16 MR. but 17 MR. don't know if that's 18 August 8th or August 9th, the day you left for 19 your trip? 20 MR. : No. I was actually trying 21 to see if I could pull up a Outlook data file, 22 because I believe I saved some emails. 23 MR. : Oh, that would be 24 awesome. And then, specifically -- 25 MR. : I'm just like that. EFTA00125880 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 26 1 MR. : -- yeah. No. That would 2 be great. Specifically -. 3 MR. : I want to even say I saved 4 all of my tickets from SigNet, but I can't 5 promise that. 6 MR. : Oh, that would be huge. 7 And I think going back, as far as, like, July 8 29th, if you don't mind, because that's when we 9 think that the drives may have actually gone 10 down. 11 MR. : July 29th? 12 MR. : Yeah. I mean, I don't 13 know that they contacted you or not, but that 14 would be the follow up question, after we 15 figure out what happened on the 8th and 9th. 16 It would be, how far back did you know that 17 these drives, or had you been working with 18 , to replace these things, 19 because it looks like they may have gone bad on 20 7/29/2019. 21 MR. : 29th. So, that would have 22 been about. That sounds about -. That sounds 23 about right. 24 MR. : Why do you say that? 25 MR. : Well, because - again - EFTA00125881 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 27 1 like, I know that he initially contacted us 2 about the drives being out. And I want to say, 3 it took -. I remember it -. I thought it was 4 at least a couple of days of the process of 5 trying to go back and forth with him. And I 6 don't know if it was me or Justin, basically 7 saying, hey, we've got to get drives. You 8 know, they don't sell them anymore at Qognify, 9 I don't think. Because they are basically non- 10 production drives, and we would have to get 11 refurbished drives. And I think Justin was 12 looking on, like, eBay, and, you know, a couple 13 of our sources, to find some. So, I don't know 14 exactly, did that comment say that he had 15 drives on site? 16 MR. : So -- 17 MR. : Or did he order them? 18 MR. : -- that -- 19 MR. : Because that's the other 20 question -- 21 MR. : -- it looks -- 22 MR. : -- is, did he not have 23 them? 24 MR. : -- he didn't have access to 25 them. EFTA00125882 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 28 1 MR. : Okay. So, that may have 2 been the gap, from the 29th. 3 MR. : Well, it does say -- 4 MR. : (Indiscernible *00:22:07). 5 MR. : -- so, after the August 6 8th thing, it says, "He checked with his local 7 CSM to see if they had any spare replacement 8 drives. Once he located replacement drives, on 9 Friday, August 9th, he did not -- 10 MR. : Okay. 11 MR. : -- have access to the DVR 12 room to replace them." 13 MR. : Okay. So then, he did have 14 them on site. Okay. 15 MR. : At least that's -- 16 MR. : That's what it sounds like. 17 MR. : -- that's what it sounds 18 like. Yeah. 19 MR. : Yeah. 20 MR. : Okay. 21 MR. : So, I'm assuming that 22 means that you wouldn't have sent them. Do you 23 know who the CSM was, by chance? 24 MR. : I can try to look here. 25 I'm looking at our database. I probably EFTA00125883 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 1 shouldn't have all this information, but -. 2 MR. : It helps us a lot. We 3 appreciate it. 4 MR. : Okay. Maybe, yeah. I 5 don't pass it out to, you know, other 6 companies, but stuff like this, I do find it 7 useful, if it -. Hmm. Okay. I've got -. 8 Hey. There is a camera outage. Oh. I've got 9 a camera outage report. 10 MR. : What is that? 11 MR. : But I don't That shows 12 from 8/16. These are all looking at August 13 16th. Which could have been the time that I 14 actually was on site. 15 MR. : Okay. 16 MR. : Yeah, we would be looking 17 specifically 8/10, and prior. 18 MR. : Okay. Let me see what I've 19 got. Do I have screenshots? 8/16. 8/11. 20 Okay. Let me go back and see. Let me look at 21 this report and see if it gives me, like, a 22 date of when this was exported to, because that 23 could be something, if you guys need it. 24 MR. : Okay. 25 MR. : I don't know if you guys EFTA00125884 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 30 1 have all that or not. 2 MR. : We don't have the -. This is 3 This is between SigNet employees. Right? 4 MR. : This is an Excel document, 5 but again, but I've got to see what date it 6 shows on here. Because they kind of hide it in 7 the columns. I'm trying to see if it has a 8 date. This is basically just a camera outage 9 report. So, I don't know if you guys need 10 that. And if that, again, I don't know if that 11 was ran from him, and we got that. 12 MR. : But you said this was on the 13 16th? 14 MR. : That one shows that it was 15 edited on the 17th, but it - like I said - in 16 the outage report, I thought that they give you 17 a date when it was actually exported from the 18 system. 19 MR. : Okay. 20 MR. : So, I would have to look at 21 the order. But yeah, let me go back to your 22 original. You're looking for the email traffic 23 and everything. So, let me see if I can find 24 that. Oh. Him. Oh, what's that? Sorry. I'm 25 looking through gigs and gigs of -- EFTA00125885 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 1 MR. : No problem. 2 MR. : -- information here. 3 MR. : No. We appreciate it. 4 Thank you. 5 MR. : Oh, no problem. Hopefully, 6 I can find something that helps a little more. 7 Okay. So, I've got -. All right. Let me see 8 if I can load this into Outlook and see, if it 9 will load. All right. So, files. Open. And 10 export. Let's do an import. Oh, import from 11 another program or file. Oh, that is a ODF. 12 Yup, right there. Let's see. Allow duplicates 13 to be created, replace duplicates with items 14 imported. I have no idea. But I'll screw my 15 work email up. Crap. 16 MR. : No problem. Can I - while 17 you're doing it, while you take a look - can 18 ask you a question? 19 MR. : Yeah. 20 MR. : This is, in here, it states, 21 "During the rebuild process of the drives, the 22 drives were required to be taken out of raid, 23 on DVR-2. Once the drives are removed without 24 proper shutdown of the recorder, the video 25 database becomes corrupted." Is that your EFTA00125886 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 1 understanding of what happened, from your 2 conversation with 3 MR. : I'm - so, yeah - I'm trying 4 to figure out when that was happening, because 5 I do know that, at some point, the FBI came 6 there on site, I think prior to us showing up. 7 And I want to say that the recorder was 8 rebuilding, and they said that they had to take 9 the equipment out. And that's what I'm -. 10 That's what I'm trying to piece together, if it 11 was then that they took it out. Or if it was - 12 Yeah. Because I don't, I don't really make 13 any sense of him putting them in and then 14 pulling them out. 15 MR. : Okay. 16 MR. : Yeah, because I would 17 think, once he puts them in, I mean, he would 18 leave them to rebuild. And I think I would 19 have probably made that comment, because he 20 said something about the FBI coming in, they 21 need to confiscate the equipment. And then, 22 and I'm pretty sure I told him, I said, well, 23 you don't want to, you don't want to unplug 24 those while it's rebuilding because if it, you 25 know, basically stops, you have no pick up EFTA00125887 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 33 1 point to start rewriting. It's going to start 2 all over, and then, you're going to have gaps 3 where you're going to be missing recordings. 4 MR. : Now, so, do you believe, 5 then, for whatever they did, that erased all 6 prior data, anything that was saved on there 7 would have been erased? 8 MR. : If - yeah - if they pulled, 9 if they pulled power, and pulled the units out, 10 then yeah. I mean, it would have wiped, wiped 11 the raid, I would think. 12 MR. : So -. 13 MR. : Now, if we have 14 information that the servers were already down, 15 since 7/29/2019 -- 16 MR. : Mm-hmm. 17 MR. : -- would have those 18 servers been recording up until the date that 19 they tried to rebuild them anyway? 20 MR. : That depends, because I 21 don't remember if the -. I think those 22 servers, the way, the older servers, I believe 23 they were set to a raid five. Let's see. 24 Those are the pros. So, I want to say that is 25 a raid five, and they loaded, basically EFTA00125888 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 34 1 everything was kind of compiled together, on 2 the same raid in those servers. So, that would 3 have put the OS, and the video storage on the 4 same raid array. 5 But they partition out for the OS. So, if 6 they lost one drive, then that would be okay. 7 With a raid five. If they lost two drives, 8 then -. So, if they would have lost two drives 9 simultaneously, they would lose everything. 10 The recorder would go down, and you wouldn't be 11 able to get into the OS. From what I 12 understood. So, it's possible that he lost one 13 drive and called us. Initially. Was trying to 14 replace that. And then, when, you know, 15 basically, another one went down while the 16 other one was rebuilding. That could have been 17 possible. And that could explain why the OS 18 didn't crash. 19 MR. : So, on that note, so, our 20 understanding, there is, like, let's say there 21 is 150 cameras in the MCC. 22 MR. : Uh-huh. 23 MR. : We were told about half 24 of them go to one drive, and half of them go to 25 the other drive. If that one drive went down EFTA00125889 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 35 1 on 7/29/2019, would those cameras that were on 2 that drive had continued to have recorded on 3 the other drive, or would have they stopped 4 recording, and only the other drive that was 5 good, that housed the other half of the 6 cameras, have recorded? 7 MR. : Well, sorry. So, it really 8 doesn't work like that. But yeah. I mean, 9 yeah, in theory, you would want it to work like 10 that. But essentially, the raid will spread 11 the data over all drives. 12 MR. : Oh, I'm going to stop -. Can 13 you explain what a raid is? 14 MR. : So, a raid is a group of 15 drives. 16 MR. : Is that, like, a DVR system? 17 MR. : What's that? 18 MR. : Is that, like, a DVR system? 19 MR. : Yeah. I'm sorry. Yup. 20 Let's - yeah - let's go back. So, the DVR 21 system recorder. So, normally, their old set 22 up, I believe, had a - and that would be a PC 23 or a computer, like a server. A server. Like, 24 a rack PC server. That would contain the OS. 25 Okay. So, yeah. Never mind. Let me take back EFTA00125890 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 36 1 what I said about the OS. Because now, I'm 2 remembering their set up. 3 I believe they had -. The way the old 4 ones were, is they had a separate computer. 5 They called the Nice Vision Pro units. So, 6 that, I believe, had two drives in it. So, 7 that would be a raid one redundancy. So, that 8 -. So, again, the raid is a group of drives 9 for storage. 10 MR. : Okay. 11 MR. : And what a raid allows is, 12 so, like, in your case, you were just talking 13 about if you had two drives, you had, you know, 14 half the cameras recording in one, half the 15 other, to the other one, if one went down, you 16 would technically still have all the other 17 cameras on that drive. So, what the raid does 18 is basically, it allows you to take - say you 19 don't have that scenario, of losing half your 20 cameras - the raid allows you to put, you know, 21 there is a number of drives that it requires to 22 have for certain raid levels. 23 But basically, it allows you to, like, 24 let's say four to six hard drives. It groups 25 those together. So now, you - then the EFTA00125891 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 1 recorder takes the video, the video recording, 2 and starts to spread it out over all those 3 drives, and it basically makes a mirrored copy. 4 So, if one did fail, it still can go back on 5 the other drives, and access the copied files, 6 or the mirrored files. 7 MR. : Now -. 8 MR. : So, how It's for the 9 purpose of redundancy, in case you did lose a 10 drive, you're not losing, you know, certain 11 data that was just written on that drive. 12 Because then, you have gaps in the recording. 13 MR. : So, a raid can also be 14 referred to as DVR system. Right? Now, if a 15 DVR system, they have two DVRs. If DVR-2 went 16 down completely, right? It stopped recording. 17 Should it have -- 18 MR. : Mm-hmm. 19 MR. : -- stopped recording on DVR- 20 1? 21 MR. : No, because they are two 22 separate -. They are two separate 23 MR. : Systems. 24 MR. : -- machines. 25 MR. : Okay. And how would they EFTA00125892 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 38 1 have known that the DVR system went down? Was 2 there any alerts that come up in Nice Vision, 3 anything that comes up to them? 4 MR. : Yeah. So, it would. It 5 would normally come up on the -. It's called 6 the AMS, or the Application Management Server. 7 And that's, like, the primary unit that 8 controls the whole video system. And then, you 9 add recorders underneath that AMS. Depending 10 on how many cameras you have. That's how they 11 kind of allocate recorders. So, if you have 12 100 cameras, okay, let's put 100 cameras on 13 this recorder. Let's put 100 more on the 14 second one. So on and so forth. 15 And then, Application Management Server 16 basically allows the users to authenticate and 17 log into that system, from any client in the 18 facility. Or outside if you, you know, if 19 they've managed to network that way. But yeah, 20 the Application Management Server is kind of, 21 like, the gateway to let people in, to view the 22 video. And then, that also manages the traffic 23 of, okay, you want to see this video and this 24 recorder. Okay, you've got, you know, you've 25 got correct credentials. Okay, you're allowed EFTA00125893 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 39 1 to view that camera. And then, it sends the 2 feed -- 3 MR. : Okay. 4 MR. : -- to their client station. 5 So, yeah. In short, the AMS would normally 6 have alerts, in an application, I believe it's 7 - it's not Investigator - it's called 8 Supervision. 9 MR. : Mm-hmm. 10 MR. : There was five different 11 applications for Nice Vision. Supervision 12 would keep all of the, like, the hardware, and 13 I think most software events, in that 14 application. And I think you could control, 15 basically, if you had pop-ups messages or 16 anything. But as far as if you didn't go to 17 that server physically, and check, from what 18 know from the Bureau, they did not allow those 19 servers to send email notifications out. 20 MR. : So -. 21 MR. : Because that would have 22 required them to load with an email client, on 23 the server, and then, you know, basically act 24 like it's, you know, someone's account on that 25 server, to send those email notifications out EFTA00125894 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 40 1 to other people in the facility there. And as 2 far as I know, up until I left, they didn't 3 allowed that. 4 MR. : So -- 5 MR. : So, you had, you would have 6 to go the physical server, to see those 7 notifications. Or you would -. Well, I take 8 that back, because you could go on the client 9 and log into Nice Vision. And then, check the 10 Supervision. But it's not going to send you, 11 like, an email notification. 12 MR. : So, I want to clarify this 13 for this. If you log into Nice Vision, let's 14 say you're reviewing the video footage -- 15 MR. : Mm-hmm. 16 MR. -- if you log in, there would 17 have been an alert, saying that these cameras 18 are not recording? 19 MR. : Yes. If you -. Ye ih. 20 MR. : Now -- 21 MR. : Normally. I don't -. Now, 22 I don't know if there would have been a pop-up. 23 I would say, to be safe, you would have to 24 actually go into that Supervision app. So, 25 like I said, there was multiple apps, and most EFTA00125895 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 41 1 of the time, from what I see, you've got -. 2 So, there is a control app that's normally for, 3 you know, you can play back video and see live 4 video in that application. 5 And then, there is an app called Site 6 Builder, and that's basically letting you set 7 up the site. But the Supervision app would be 8 where you check on the status of, okay, if your 9 recorder is offline, if you've got a bad hard 10 drive, things like that. So, that's where you 11 have to go, to see that. So, I don't know if 12 they had pop-up alerts on there, and you, like 13 I said, I think you could set those up to pop- 14 up on your machine. But again, that would 15 dependent if you're logged in to Nice Vision. 16 And you have those pop-up alerts turned on. 17 Otherwise, you would have to log in, go to that 18 application, and look at the list of alerts -- 19 MR. : To see it. Okay. 20 MR. : -- to see what was going 21 on. 22 MR. : Or, if they tried to review 23 video, they would realize the fact it was not 24 recording. 25 MR. : Right. That's the other EFTA00125896 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 1 way. 2 MR. : Okay. 3 MR. : Well, that goes back to, 4 I don't think that you actually ever answered 5 this question. I think we got kind of 6 diverted. Was -- 7 MR. : Sorry. 8 MR. : -- you were talking about 9 the half of the video that were on the one 10 server, if that server went down, would have 11 that other server, then, captured it? Where 12 you're saying the mirrored it. Would have they 13 have captured that video, that, you know, the 14 server went down on 7/29/2019, the other server 15 is good. Would those videos have been saved 16 somewhere, if they were still a live feed was 17 going? 18 MR. : Okay. So, you're saying, 19 if the server two went down, but server one 20 stayed up, you're asking, could you retrieve 21 the video from server two on server one? 22 MR. : Correct. 23 MR. : No. Because you have to 24 have a redundant server backup. 25 MR. : And they didn't, in this EFTA00125897 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 1 case? 2 MR. : No. 3 MR. : All right. So, 4 regardless if they pulled the drives when it 5 was being rebuilt on the 10th, if the server 6 went down on the 29th of July, nothing would 7 have -. They wouldn't have been able to 8 extract anything from 7/29 to August 10th, 9 anyway. 10 MR. : Yeah. If the whole server 11 went down. Yup. 12 MR. : Okay. 13 MR. : And just to clarify, I think 14 my understanding is, when the FBI got in there 15 on Saturday morning - - 16 MR. : Mm-hmm. 17 MR. already had pulled 18 out two drives. 19 MR. : Okay. 20 MR. : And he was rebuilding it. 21 MR. : Okay. 22 MR. : So, if they walked in, and if 23 - let's just say FBI followed the proper 24 protocol, they shut it down properly, they 25 pulled it down. And is it possible, when EFTA00125898 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 1 went to replace the drives, when he 2 replaced the drives, he could have wiped out 3 whatever was saved on the drives? 4 MR. : If - yeah - it just depends 5 if they showed if they were bad. So, or if 6 they were totally, like, wiped. And non- 7 retrievable. 8 MR. : All right. Because I 9 thought -- 10 MR. : (Indiscernible *00:39:07). 11 MR. : -- what you were saying - 12 13 MR. : Sorry. Go ahead. 14 MR. : -- was that was 15 rebuilding them -- 16 MR. : Yeah. 17 MR. : -- and that's what he 18 should have done, was to replace those drives, 19 but then, the FBI pulled the ones that he was 20 replacing. Is that not correct? That he was 21 rebuilding. 22 MR. : I don't know if they pulled 23 the drives, or if they pulled the whole 24 recorder out. 25 MR. : They pulled the whole system. EFTA00125899 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 45 1 And my understanding is, when they left the 2 MCC, they took the whole system with them. 3 MR. : Okay. Then that, I think 4 that was when I actually showed up on site the 5 following. 6 MR. : And then, you guys set up a 7 new system for them, right? 8 MR. : Yes. Yeah. Because I know 9 10 MR. : Okay. 11 MR. : I know that FBI met me 12 there. Yeah. They showed up when I was kind 13 of getting the new system set up. And then, 14 they kind of jumped in and they were doing 15 stuff, and asking me questions about a, you 16 know, check to see where those video gaps and 17 stuff like that. Okay. So, I'm starting to 18 remember a little bit. 19 On the drives that you're talking about, 20 so, I want to say that we actually suggested to 21 him to pull all of the drives out, and try to 22 rebuild it, because I think that was our normal 23 protocol. If, let's say you had a bad drive, 24 sometimes on those older Pro units, you can 25 pull one out. As long as you don't have, like, EFTA00125900 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 46 1 two failed drives, like I was saying on our 2 raid five. 3 MR. : Okay. 4 MR. : Because if you have two 5 failed drives, you're not going to do anything 6 to fix it. But if you had one, you can pull 7 one out, and refeed it, and it will give you a 8 status on the front of that recorder, saying 9 it's attempting to rebuild. So, I'm starting 10 to recall that we may have told him to pull one 11 out. 12 MR. : Okay. 13 MR. : And let it rebuild. 14 MR. : That would be the same 15 That would be based on the instructions came 16 over from a Derek Barr? 17 MR. : Yes. And so, I think what 18 I'm recalling is, I think we had him pull one 19 out, try to rebuild. That failed, I think. 20 And then, I think he told the other -. He may 21 have pulled the second drive out, that was 22 showing bad, and tried to rebuild that. 23 MR. : And then, your comment, your 24 comments exactly on this is, "He attempted to 25 replace the drives, and they started to EFTA00125901 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 47 1 rebuild. During the rebuild process of the 2 drives, the drives were required to be taken 3 out of the raid on DVR-2. Once the drives are 4 removed without proper shut down of the 5 recorder, the video database becomes corrupted. 6 Typically, any time the raid on a raid five 7 configuration loses two drives, the raid needs 8 to be rebuilt, and all data wiped from the 9 raid." Does this - based on your comment 10 does it mean that - your understanding is - 11 that he went in, tried to replace it, and he 12 pulled the drive without the proper shut down 13 of the recorder? 14 MR. : Wait, so, you don't have to 15 shut down the drive if - or, you don't have to 16 shut down the recorder if you're pulling a 17 drive out. Like, one drive. And it's called a 18 hot swappable (Phonetic Sp. *00:42:11) drive. 19 MR. : Yeah. 20 MR. : So, what that means 21 basically, you can pull it out, re-insert it, 22 and let it rebuild. But there is a limit to 23 how many you can do. Because you can't just 24 say, okay, I've got two bad drives. Lightbulb 25 goes out. And try to re-insert them, let those EFTA00125902 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 48 1 build. Because once you do that, if there is a 2 possibility of the one of the two being good, 3 and it's writing somewhat, you pull those both 4 out, you're going to crash your system. 5 So, so, and those drives, when you rebuild 6 them, it takes - I want to say it takes at 7 least eight hours. So, I do remember him 8 replacing one, and I want to say it was an 9 overnight process. He pulled it out. Put it 10 in. It looked like it started rebuilding. And 11 I think he came in the next day, and it failed. 12 I don't know if he tried it again. Or he may 13 have tried that second drive, then, at that 14 point. Tried to pull that and let it rebuild. 15 And that may have been the point where the FBI, 16 maybe, come on site. And said, hey, we've got 17 to, you know, confiscate it or whatever. I 18 don't know, at that point. 19 MR. : Yeah. 20 MR. : I don't know. 21 MR. : And that's what my 22 question was. Is this all talking about 23 Daniel, his actions, or is it talking about 24 both his actions, as well as the FBI actions of 25 them pulling it, while it was trying to be EFTA00125903 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 1 rebuilt? Are you able to tell by what was 2 read? 3 MR. : So, you can't send me that 4 comment, right? 5 MR. : No. Well, I'll just keep 6 on reading it to you. It says, "He attempted 7 to replace the drives, and they started to 8 rebuild. During -- 9 MR. : Oh. 10 MR. : -- the build of the 11 drives, the drives were required to be taken 12 out of the raid on DVR-2. Once the drives are 13 removed without proper shutdown of the 14 recorder, the video database becomes 15 corrupted." So, my question there would be, 16 like, is that new sentence - "Once the drives 17 are removed without proper shut down" - is that 18 anything that you're talking about with regard 19 to the FBI removing them without proper shut 20 down, or are you still talking about what 21 Daniel did? 22 MR. : I would say what the FBI 23 because I wouldn't I don't think I would 24 have put "required to be." Did I say, 25 "Required to be taken out," or "Required to be EFTA00125904 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 50 1 removed"? 2 MR. : Yeah. So, I'll just read 3 it again. 4 MR. : Okay. 5 MR. : "He attempted to replace 6 the drives, and they started to rebuild. 7 During the rebuild process of the drives, the 8 drives were required to be taken out of the 9 raid on DVR-2. Once 10 MR. : Okay. 11 MR. : -- once the drives are 12 removed without proper shutdown of the 13 recorder, the video database becomes corrupted. 14 Typically, any time the raid on a raid five 15 configuration loses two drives, the raid needs 16 to be rebuilt, and all data is wiped from the 17 raid." 18 MR. : Okay. So, yeah. And 19 listening to my statement of, "During the 20 drives being rebuilt, they were required to be 21 taken out." Yeah. I wouldn't have stated that 22 they would have been required to be taken out. 23 Because there was nobody requiring him, other 24 than the FBI, to take them out. 25 MR. : I thought that was EFTA00125905 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 1 (Indiscernible *00:45:26). 2 MR. : Okay. 3 MR. : So, that's, like, you're 4 talking about him rebuilding it, and then the 5 FBI pulling them while they were being rebuilt? 6 MR. Yup. 7 MR. : Yeah. Okay. 8 MR. : That's - yeah - that's what 9 I'm understanding, and what I would have -- 10 MR. : Thanks for clarifying -- 11 MR. : -- yeah. 12 MR. : -- that for us. 13 MR. : Yeah. 14 MR. : I'm going to keep moving 15 because -- 16 MR. : Sorry. Sorry it took so 17 long. I was just, like -- 18 MR. : -- no, no, no. 19 MR. : uhh. 20 MR. : No, no. I guess the main 21 question is, is there anything that Daniel did, 22 that was wrong, or did he, you know, was he 23 doing everything that he could have done to 24 rebuild this thing, but then the FBI came and 25 pulled it, and lost any chance of potentially EFTA00125906 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 1 recovering things? 2 MR. : Yeah. From what I can 3 tell, he was - yeah - going through the process 4 of what we instructed him to do, pull the drive 5 out, insert, then let it rebuild. And yeah, : 6 think he gave it plenty of time on the first 7 drive. Like I said, I think, I think, from 8 what I remember, that was an overnight process. 9 And so, that may have been the Thursday, or 10 something, maybe. Again, prior to that 11 incident, I believe -- 12 MR. : Okay. 13 MR. : -- where he would have 14 inserted it, let it rebuild, and came back in 15 the next morning, or hours later, and realized 16 that it had failed. And then, yeah, then that 17 second drive was probably where he went next. 18 MR. : Well, just for 19 clarification -- 20 MR. : (Indiscernible *00:46:47). 21 MR. : -- on that, prior to the 22 - in that same statement - you said, you August 23 8th, he contacted you regarding the two bad 24 drives. And then, you advised him to get 25 replacement drives. It says, "Once they are EFTA00125907 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 53 1 replaced, they should start to initialize, to 2 become available for the raid array. 3 did not have drives readily available. He 4 checked with his local CSM, to see if they had 5 any spare replacement drives. Once he located 6 replacement drives on Friday, August 9th, he 7 did not have access to the DVR room to replace 8 them. He called SigNet for some phone support 9 on Saturday, August 10th. When he -- 10 MR. : Oh, okay. 11 MR. : -- gained access." Sc, 12 it sounds like -- 13 MR. : Okay. 14 MR. : -- it all happened on the 15 10th, or he replaced them -- 16 MR. : Yeah, because he 17 MR. -- and -- 18 MR. : -- didn't have access. 19 Yup. He didn't have access in -- 20 MR. : -- and then -. 21 MR. : -- there until the 10th, 22 right? 23 MR. : Right. So, he started 24 rebuilding them in the morning, and then it 25 sounds like the FBI came in, and then pulled EFTA00125908 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 54 1 the drives while they were being rebuilt. Does 2 that sound right, based upon on your comments? 3 MR. : I - yeah - I think so. 4 Yeah. Yeah. 5 MR. : And just to clarify, too. 6 MR. : Yeah. My comments are 7 going to be a little more solid than my memory, 8 I think. 9 MR. : Yeah. 10 MR. : At this point. 11 MR. : Yeah. If, based on these 12 comments, right, and if -- 13 MR. : Yeah. 14 MR. : -- based on the FBI, my 15 understanding is, when they came in, two drives 16 were pulled out. And there was two drives that 17 were replaced, and it was going through. You 18 mentioned before that, if he pulls one drive 19 out, it's okay, but if he pulls out two drives, 20 at the same time, it could have possibly 21 corrupted everything. 22 MR. : Mm-hmm. 23 MR. : All right. So, it's a 24 possibility that, if he did pull out two drives 25 at the same time, it might have contributed to EFTA00125909 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 55 1 the failure, and also the fact that, if he has 2 two drives rebuilding, and the FBI came in and 3 pulled it out in the middle of the rebuild, it 4 could have also contributed to the failure? 5 MR. : That is correct. So, yeah, 6 and that's what I was questioning, is if the 7 statement said that he had two drives basically 8 out of the system at that point, and if there 9 were two drives out, then, and nothing was 10 replaced, if there was two blank spots, then 11 yeah, then the system would have already been 12 failed. As far as the video sort side. 13 MR. : Okay. 14 MR. : But again, yeah, I don't 15 know - again - if he had four total drives, two 16 old ones, two new ones, and he was kind of in 17 the process of that when they came in. 18 MR. : But when -- 19 MR. : And I don't know the detail 20 21 MR. : -- my understanding is when - 22 23 MR. : -- (Indiscernible 24 *00:48:54). 25 MR. : -- they came in, they took EFTA00125910 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 56 1 everything, there were two old drives that were 2 sitting -- 3 MR. : Yeah. 4 MR. : -- outside of the housing, 5 two new drives sitting inside, that 6 MR. : Okay. 7 MR. : -- he could have replaced 8 that morning. 9 MR. : Okay. Gotcha. 10 MR. : So -. 11 MR. : So, yeah. I don't know at 12 that process, or, at that point, if he - yeah - 13 basically maybe pulled, you know, maybe he had 14 attempted both old ones. 15 MR. : (Indiscernible *00:49:15) 16 SigNet. 17 MR. : Maybe they failed. And 18 then, he said, okay, I'm going to pull those. 19 This is all speculation, at this point, but 20 yeah, he could have. If they both failed at 21 that point, then yeah, it would have been 22 screwed anyways. 23 MR. : Who actually 24 MR. : Because he 25 MR. : -- go ahead. Sorry. EFTA00125911 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 57 1 MR. : -- he had already lost the 2 two drives, at that point. 3 MR. : So, White House, at SigNet, 4 would have walked him through this process? 5 MR. : That would have been, 6 probably between me and Justin. 7 MR. : But you both were on 8 vacation, technically. Right? 9 MR. : Yes. 10 MR. : I think both of you were or. 11 camping trips. So, would 12 MR. : And I want to say -. So, 13 you had mentioned, there was a comment from 14 Jeff Cranor. And so, he had actually started 15 with SigNet, I believe it was February of 2019. 16 So, yeah. He was a former Bureau employee. He 17 was a -. What's -? Rachel comtech out in 18 Kansas City. And then, we brought him on to 19 work with SigNet because he knew, he knew Nice 20 Vision pretty well. 21 MR. : Okay. You think he might 22 have -- 23 MR. : So -. 24 MR. : -- worked with him? 25 MR. : That's kind of what I'm EFTA00125912 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 58 1 wondering because, that kind of started to ring 2 a bell, since, if me and Justin were out, 3 Justin basically pushed it to me. And I don't 4 think I had access to, like, our -. Something 5 was -. It might have been, like, my internet 6 service, or phone service, or something, 7 because I, I mean, I was out in the middle of 8 nowhere. At that point. So, I may have tried 9 to text him, or, you know, if we went into town 10 or something, and I contacted him, and said, 11 hey, you know, this is what's going on. Can 12 you get a case started? That may have been 13 what I had done. So, he may have had a little 14 bit of interaction with , as well. 15 MR. : Okay. I'll reach out to him 16 17 MR. : More at least -- 18 MR. : -- about that, too. 19 MR. : --, now was there 20 MR. : I'm look -. 21 MR. : -- any additional comments? 22 MR. : No. That's all -- 23 MR. : About him on that case? 24 MR. : -- that's all. That was the 25 only comment over there. There is nothing else EFTA00125913 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 59 1 in there. 2 MR. : They didn't give you any 3 other tickets, right? 4 MR. : No. 5 MR. : I'm going to look and see 6 if I have more tickets. I don't know if I 7 saved the tickets, or if I just saved contacts, 8 but -. 9 MR. : I'm going to ask you that, if 10 you can get everything together, right? 11 MR. : Mm-hmm. 12 MR. : Everything you have on this 13 tickets, any communications, things like that, 14 can you forward that over to me? 15 MR. : Yeah. 16 MR. : We actually have another 17 interview starting at 10:00. So, I'm going to 18 wrap it up quick. 19 MR. : All right. Yup. 20 MR. : We're not trying to push you 21 off. Just had a question for you. 22 MR. : Mm-hmm. 23 MR. : Do you recall, prior to 24 August 8th - right? - were there any issues 25 that you were aware of, with the MCC cameras? EFTA00125914 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE ‘ - 1 MR. : Prior to August 8th. No. 2 So, whenever - again, I don't know if the -. 3 So, that's where I was unclear on the weekend, 4 basically. But I think we may have clarified 5 that, that everything happened on the 8th, 6 through the 10th. So, I think, prior to the 7 8th, I may have known about - yeah, I mean - 8 may have known about issues through Justin's 9 correspondence with 10 MR. : Okay. 11 MR. : He may have been working. 12 Yeah. I don't know. But yeah. And I would 13 say, August 8th is when I definitely picked up 14 the case. 15 MR. : Understood. Okay. So, but 16 you were not aware of any other issues, prior 17 to it? 18 MR. : No. 19 MR. : Thank you for taking the time 20 to talk to us today. Is there anything that 21 you think that we've missed to ask, or anything 22 pertinent that you think will be useful for our 23 investigation? 24 MR. : I don't believe so, at this 25 time. Yeah. But if I can think of anything, I EFTA00125915 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 61 1 can send you some information over, but -. 2 MR. : I appreciate that. You have 3 my email address. Anything you have, if you 4 can forward that over to me, I would really 5 appreciate it. 6 MR. : Okay. 7 MR. : Mm-hmm. 8 MR. : Yeah. I'll take a look 9 here in a few minutes, and see if I can find 10 some stuff. 11 MR. : Thank you for taking the time 12 to talk to us today. 13 MR. : Yes. 14 MR. : And -- 15 MR. : All right. Not a problem. 16 MR. : I'm going to end the 17 interview. The time is 9:55 a.m. on September 18 22nd, 2021. This is Special Agent , and 19 the interview is being ended. 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 EFTA00125916 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 62 1 CERTIFICATE 2 I hereby certify that the foregoing pages 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 represent an accurate transcript of the electronic sound recording of the proceedings before the Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General in the matter of: Interview of Brianna Rose Burton, Transcriber EFTA00125917