1 1 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF MONONGALIA COUNTY 2 WEST VIRGINIA 3 WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY ) 4 BOARD OF GOVERNORS, for ) and on behalf of ) 5 WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY, ) ) 6 ) Plaintiff, ) 7 ) vs. ) Civil Action No. 07-C-851 8 ) RICHARD RODRIGUEZ, ) Judge Stone 9 ) ) 10 Defendant. ) 11 12 - - - 13 14 DEPOSITION OF MICHAEL L. BROWN 15 VOLUME I (Morning Session) 16 17 DATE: May 5, 2008 at 9:05 a.m. 18 PLACE: Marriott Courtyard 2435 East Mall Drive 19 Holland, Ohio 20 REPORTER: Casey G. Schreiner, RMR-RDR Notary Public 21 22 - - - 23 24 2 1 APPEARANCES: 2 On behalf of the Plaintiff: 3 FITZSIMMONS LAW OFFICES: Robert P. Fitzsimmons 4 Robert J. Fitzsimmons 1609 Warwood Avenue 5 Wheeling, West Virginia 26003 (304) 277-2700 6 and 7 FLAHERTY, SENSABAUGH & BONASSO, 8 P.L.L.C.: Jeffrey M. Wakefield 9 Jaclyn A. Bryk 200 Capitol Street 10 Charleston, West Virginia 25338 (304) 345-0200 11 12 On behalf of the Defendant: 13 BARKAN & ROBON LTD.: Marvin A. Robon 14 1701 Woodlands Drive Maumee, Ohio 43537 15 (419) 897-6500 16 and 17 DiTRAPANO, BARRETT & DiPIERO, PLLC: 18 Sean P. McGinley (via telephone) 604 Virginia Street, East 19 Charleston, West Virginia 25301 (304) 342-0133 20 21 ALSO PRESENT: 22 Frank Mannino, Videographer Alexander Macia, Vice President for 23 Legal Affairs and General Counsel, West Virginia University 24 3 1 I N D E X 2 EXAMINATION Witness Name Page Line 3 MICHAEL L. BROWN Examination By Mr. Robert P. Fitzsimmons 13 11 4 Examination By Mr. Robon ............... 503 4 Re-Examination By Mr. Robert P. ........ 532 12 5 Fitzsimmons 6 EXHIBITS Exhibit Description Page Line 7 EX 1 Letter - Brown to Pastilong - .. 250 17 2-15-06 8 EX 2 Letter - Brown to Dorer - ...... 262 19 3-28-06 9 EX 3 E-mail - Brown to tom.dorer - .. 266 6 4-3-06 10 EX 4 E-mail - [email protected] to .. 272 4 [email protected] 11 EX 7 Letter - Brown to Dorer - ...... 280 13 5-22-06 12 EX 8 Letter - Dorer to Brown - 6-6-06 299 6 EX 11 Letter - Dorer to Brown - ...... 303 1 13 8-15-06 EX 12 E-mail - Parsons to ............ 308 19 14 [email protected] - 12-8-06 EX 13 Term Sheet - 12-8-06 ........... 312 16 15 EX 14 Letter - Brown to Pastilong - .. 314 14 2-28-07 16 EX 17 Letter - Dorer to Brown - ...... 324 23 5-17-07 17 EX 20 E-mail - [email protected] to .. 328 1 Craig [email protected] 18 EX 22 E-mail - [email protected] to .. 333 9 Craig [email protected] 19 EX 24 Memo - Walker to Brown - 7-27-07 335 23 EX 25 E-mail - lbfound75 to Craig .... 344 15 20 Walker @mail.wvu.edu - 7-27-07 EX 26 E-mail - Walker to Brown - ..... 347 5 21 8-1-07 EX 27 E-mail - [email protected] to .. 355 7 22 Craig Walker@ mail.wvu.edu - 8-6-07 23 EX 29 E-mail - Walker to ............. 357 20 [email protected] 24 EX 30 E-mail - Wilcox to Walker - .... 362 19 4 1 EX 31 E-mail - Wilcox to Walker - .... 366 9 8-23-07 2 EX 32 E-mail - Wilcox to ............. 367 19 [email protected] 3 EX 33 E-mail - Wilcox to Garrison - .. 370 22 4 8-24-07 EX 35 E-mail - From: Mike Wilcox - ... 374 12 5 8-27-07 EX 40 E-mail - [email protected] to .. 419 5 6 Craig Walker @mail.wvu.edu EX 42 E-mail - Mike Wilcox to Craig .. 427 2 7 Walker - 11-18-07 EX 43 E-mail - Mike Wilcox to Craig .. 429 22 8 Walker - 11-24-07 EX 44 (Not provided to reporter) ..... 432 7 9 EX 46 (Not provided to reporter) ..... 433 7 EX 48 (Not provided to reporter) ..... 437 9 10 EX 50 (Not provided to reporter) ..... 449 2 EX 53 Employment Agreement ........... 121 12 11 EX 54 First Amendment to the ......... 122 21 Employment Agreement for Richard 12 Rodriguez EX 55 Copy of business card .......... 379 14 13 EX 56 E-mail - Brown to Jenkromp - ... 381 6 11-15-01 14 EX 57 Second Amendment to teh ........ 126 14 Employment Agreement for Richard 15 Rodriguez EX 57 Text ........................... 388 24 16 EX 58 (Not provided to reporter) ..... 141 10 EX 59 (Not provided to reporter) ..... 518 9 17 EX 60 (Not provided to reporter) ..... 518 9 EX 61 (Not provided to reporter) ..... 520 2 18 EX 62 Letter with handwriting - Dorer 533 18 to Brown - 4-24-07 19 OBJECTIONS 20 By Page Line Mr. Robert P. Fitzsimmons ................. 503 21 21 Mr. Robert P. Fitzsimmons ................. 509 6 Mr. Robert P. Fitzsimmons ................. 509 14 22 Mr. Robert P. Fitzsimmons ................. 510 7 Mr. Robert P. Fitzsimmons ................. 514 10 23 Mr. Robert P. Fitzsimmons ................. 522 14 Mr. Robon ................................. 14 6 24 Mr. Robon ................................. 14 17 5 1 Mr. Robon ................................. 16 7 Mr. Robon ................................. 18 7 2 Mr. Robon ................................. 19 3 Mr. Robon ................................. 19 15 3 Mr. Robon ................................. 31 6 Mr. Robon ................................. 31 21 4 Mr. Robon ................................. 32 4 Mr. Robon ................................. 35 5 5 Mr. Robon ................................. 38 22 Mr. Robon ................................. 39 7 6 Mr. Robon ................................. 46 4 Mr. Robon ................................. 48 9 7 Mr. Robon ................................. 48 24 Mr. Robon ................................. 49 24 8 Mr. Robon ................................. 56 9 Mr. Robon ................................. 57 16 9 Mr. Robon ................................. 61 14 Mr. Robon ................................. 62 20 10 Mr. Robon ................................. 63 13 Mr. Robon ................................. 64 2 11 Mr. Robon ................................. 64 12 Mr. Robon ................................. 64 21 12 Mr. Robon ................................. 65 7 Mr. Robon ................................. 66 2 13 Mr. Robon ................................. 68 7 Mr. Robon ................................. 69 1 14 Mr. Robon ................................. 69 23 Mr. Robon ................................. 72 7 15 Mr. Robon ................................. 78 16 Mr. Robon ................................. 78 23 16 Mr. Robon ................................. 79 22 Mr. Robon ................................. 84 16 17 Mr. Robon ................................. 86 2 Mr. Robon ................................. 87 9 18 Mr. Robon ................................. 91 10 Mr. Robon ................................. 95 3 19 Mr. Robon ................................. 95 12 Mr. Robon ................................. 95 23 20 Mr. Robon ................................. 96 10 Mr. Robon ................................. 96 17 21 Mr. Robon ................................. 97 18 Mr. Robon ................................. 98 4 22 Mr. Robon ................................. 98 12 Mr. Robon ................................. 100 17 23 Mr. Robon ................................. 102 7 Mr. Robon ................................. 103 8 24 Mr. Robon ................................. 104 21 6 1 Mr. Robon ................................. 107 3 Mr. Robon ................................. 107 11 2 Mr. Robon ................................. 109 23 Mr. Robon ................................. 112 22 3 Mr. Robon ................................. 115 6 Mr. Robon ................................. 118 18 4 Mr. Robon ................................. 119 7 Mr. Robon ................................. 121 3 5 Mr. Robon ................................. 124 8 Mr. Robon ................................. 125 7 6 Mr. Robon ................................. 126 8 Mr. Robon ................................. 127 22 7 Mr. Robon ................................. 129 5 Mr. Robon ................................. 129 23 8 Mr. Robon ................................. 130 17 Mr. Robon ................................. 131 13 9 Mr. Robon ................................. 132 17 Mr. Robon ................................. 133 10 10 Mr. Robon ................................. 135 19 Mr. Robon ................................. 136 21 11 Mr. Robon ................................. 137 1 Mr. Robon ................................. 138 14 12 Mr. Robon ................................. 138 21 Mr. Robon ................................. 139 1 13 Mr. Robon ................................. 140 13 Mr. Robon ................................. 141 8 14 Mr. Robon ................................. 149 5 Mr. Robon ................................. 149 9 15 Mr. Robon ................................. 151 9 Mr. Robon ................................. 153 22 16 Mr. Robon ................................. 154 23 Mr. Robon ................................. 155 6 17 Mr. Robon ................................. 160 20 Mr. Robon ................................. 161 24 18 Mr. Robon ................................. 162 15 Mr. Robon ................................. 165 10 19 Mr. Robon ................................. 166 2 Mr. Robon ................................. 166 12 20 Mr. Robon ................................. 168 3 Mr. Robon ................................. 168 22 21 Mr. Robon ................................. 169 4 Mr. Robon ................................. 171 14 22 Mr. Robon ................................. 173 3 Mr. Robon ................................. 179 3 23 Mr. Robon ................................. 180 8 Mr. Robon ................................. 182 24 24 Mr. Robon ................................. 186 3 7 1 Mr. Robon ................................. 187 13 Mr. Robon ................................. 188 20 2 Mr. Robon ................................. 189 15 Mr. Robon ................................. 189 23 3 Mr. Robon ................................. 190 8 Mr. Robon ................................