driscoll vs. busch, dec. 16, 2014

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IN THE MATTER OF:

PATRICIA P. DRISCOLL,

Petitioner,

Vs.

KURT T. BUSCH,

Respondent ..

File No.: CK14-02747 Petition No.: 14-30621

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Transcript of Proceedings

December 16, 2014

KENT COUNTY FAMILY COURT 400 Court Street Dover, DE 19901

COMMISSIONER DAVID W. JONES, Judge

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PETITIONER: WITNESS P. Driscoll

RESPONDENT: WITNESS

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DESCRIPTION Text messages from 9/23/14 Text message chain between Ms. Driscoll and Mr. Busch Letter to Mr. Dycio Pocket Commando video Petitioner's email to Mr. Zipadelli 10/22/14 letter from Petitioner's attorney To Mr. Conley in Troy MI Copy of tweet made by Petitioner on 10/22/14

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THE CLERK: Driscoll versus Busch. Please

be seated in the courtroom.

THE COURT: All right, good morning

everyone.

MS. CAROLYN M. MCNEICE: Good morning Your

Honor.

MR. JAMES E. LIGUORI: Good morning Your

Honor.

THE COURT: This is not my usual courtroom,

and I apologize for the awkwardness that may appear

from me sitting up here. If we had you folks in my

usual courtroom we could have three of you. The rest

of you would have to wait outside.

This is a petition for an order of

protection that was filed by Ms. Driscoll against Mr.

Busch. The parties have had a chance to confer with

mediation staff to determine whether they could reach

an agreement with respect to the entry of a consent

order today, and the parties have been unable to agree

on a consent order, and so we're before the Court for

a hearing on the petition.

At this hearing it's Ms. Driscoll's burden

to prove by a preponderance of the evidence, which

means that it's more likely than not that Mr. Busch

has committed an act or acts of abuse within the


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meaning of our PFA statute.

Preliminary issues from counsel?

MS. MCNEICE: None from the Petitioner, Your

Honor. We're prepared-

THE COURT: Mr. Liguori.

MR. LIGUORI: Your Honor, good morning.

Preliminarily, one, I think we voluntary sequestered

our witnesses, and I hope the Petitioner has done that

also.

THE COURT: Ms. McNeice?

MS. MCNEICE: Oh yes, ours is outside.

THE COURT: Thank you.

MS. MCNEICE: Thank you.

MR. LIGUORI: And number two, Your Honor, I

would like to introduce to you Rusty Hardin.

MR. RUSTY HARDIN: Good morning Your Honor.

MR. LIGUORI: Mr. Hardin is from Houston,

Texas. You saw my pro hac vice motion, and it was

signed by the Court I understand.

THE COURT: I have signed it, yes.

MR. LIGUORI: And he is here representing

Mr. Busch.

THE COURT: Welcome Mr. Hardin.

MR. HARDIN: Thank you.

THE COURT: One thing with regard to the


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sort of Delaware rule if you will, we don't tag-team

witnesses here when there are co-counsel, so you all

have to make an election with regard to who's going to

examine a particular witness and stick with that

witness all the way through to the end.

All right, then the next question that the

Court has for the parties is are there issues that are

not in dispute that we can sort of stipulate to, like

nature of the relationship, personal jurisdiction, or

do we need to take testimony on all that stuff?

MS. MCNEICE: We're prepared to give

testimony on all those factors Your Honor.

THE COURT: All righty, we can begin. Ms.

McNeice you may call your-


THE COURT: Or openings if you wish.

MS. MCNEICE: I'm sorry,

THE COURT: Did you wish to make an opening?

MS. MCNEICE: I'll be very brief Your Honor,

it's late. We've been in this courthouse now for

roughly two hours, in the-Ms. Driscoll is here to

present her case for an order of protection from

abuse. She'll testify as to the nature of the

parties' relationship, that it was a substantive

dating relationship for an extensive period of time of


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four years. She has-she met with Mr. Busch on

September 26th, the Friday evening. This incident

occurred in his motor home that was parked at Dover

Downs in Dover, Kent County, and that's why we're in

this courthouse right now.

The incident that occurred included an

exchange of angry words, but most important, it

occurred that Mr. Busch attacked her, assaulted her,

grabbed her face and head, causing bruises, slammed

her head against the back of a wall-the back of her

head, excuse me, against a wall, and caused

substantial pain. We'll talk about what happened

after that, and the type of relief she would like at

the conclusion of the hearing. Thank you.

THE COURT: Ms. McNeice. Mr. Liguori or Mr.

Hardin. Mr. Hardin, I'm sorry.

MR. HARDIN: Your Honor, good morning, thank

you very much. I'm briefly just going to suggest to

you that we want you to keep your eye on the ball

obviously. This is a story that is unbelievable. It

is by a storyteller that is incredible. And you will

the fact that on September 26th this young lady was,

in my words, a trespasser, she was uninvited at 10:00

in the evening, she comes to the trailer of Mr. Busch,

the motor home. She comes in through a code that he


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had not changed, and she enters into his bedroom with

her ten-year-old son.

Your Honor, there was no way, shape or form

any abuse occurred at that time, and at any time

during their relationship. Your Honor, respectfully,

you will hear that this Petitioner is disingenuous,

she's calculating. She is literally someone who is

extremely mercenary, and what occurs here, what occurs

here is that-keep in step the idea with regard to

chronology.

On September 21st, after the race in New

Hampshire the relationship is over. Her sugar daddy

is telling her you're smothering me, it's done.

That's September 21st. There is little if any

communication between them between September 21st and

September 26th. On September 26th Petitioner takes it

upon herself to bring her ten-year-old at 10:00 at

night to my client's motor home trailer.

After this incident on September 26th, which

was nothing, after this incident, she then the next

day engages in communications with other individuals

about how she still loves Kurt, how she can't believe

that Kurt's doing this. And you will see streams of

texts wherein she says "You know, Kurt, there's a

financial responsibility you have. I made you what


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you are. You owe me something, and your lawyering up,

Kurt, is going in the wrong direction."

The fact then remains is that Kurt emails

her back on September-excuse me-texts her back on

October 19ili and says "Patty, you're a cancer to me.

It is over." And then on September 22nct her lawyer-on

September 22nct her lawyer, Michael Dycio, D-Y-C-I-0,

writes a letter to Kurt's representatives, and says-

and you will see this-and says-

MS. MCNEICE: [Interposing] Your Honor, I

rarely interrupt with regard to opening arguments,

because that's just what they are, they aren't part of

the testimony. Mr. Dycio is not here to testify. And

I would suggest that any comments from him are

hearsay.

MR. HARDIN: Well, they're not hearsay. If

you look at Rule 801, they're not hearsay.

THE COURT: Well, this is opening

statements, so certainly the Court's able to disregard

evidence that doesn't come in ultimately during the

course of the trial.

MR. HARDIN: Thank you, Your Honor.


MR. HARDIN: Prior to the interruption, Your

Honor, I am telling you that Mark Dycio writes, "As I


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am certain you can appreciate, Ms. Driscoll's actions

will in large part be dedicated"-excuse me-"be

dictated by Mr. Busch's efforts to resolve these

matters to her satisfaction."

So here's the pocket rocket, or pocket

commando, excuse me, the pocket commando is now saying

you're going to do it my way Kurt, or I'm going to

destroy you. That's on September 22nct. This young

lady then abuses our process by on November 5th she

goes to the State-the Dover City Police Department,

lodges a complaint. Det. Woods suggest-along with Ms.

McNeice, and alleges, they come here and file a PFA.

Your Honor, as I said, we have a

disingenuous, calculating individual. The Petitioner

and the Respondent do not live together. They don't

even live in the same state, they don't live in

Delaware. The fact of the matter is is that we

respectfully submit there is no need for any sort of

protection from abuse, because, one, it didn't occur,

and two, they don't need to avail themselves in this

jurisdiction of some Court order like that. Thank you

very much, Your Honor.

THE COURT: Ms. McNeice you may call your

first witness.

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1 Patricia Driscoll.

2 THE COURT: Ms. Driscoll you may take the

3 witness stand. If you've not already been sworn you

4 may be sworn or affirmed.

5 THE CLERK: Left hand on the Bible, raise

6 your right. State your full name.

7 MS. PATRICIA DRISCOLL: Patricia Pauline

8 Driscoll.

9 THE CLERK: Do you swear to tell the truth,

10 the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help

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12 MS. DRISCOLL: I do.

13 THE CLERK: You may be seated.

14 P A T R I C I A D R I S C 0 L L, having

15 been first duly sworn, testified as follows:

16 DIRECT EXAMINATION

17 BY MS. CAROLYN MCNEICE

18 Q: Good morning Ms. Driscoll.

19 A: Good morning.

20 Q: Could you give us your full name and address

21 ma'am?

22 A: Patricia Pauline Driscoll, 3899 College Avenue,

23 Ellicott City, Maryland.

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And your date of birth?

12/14/77.


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1 Q: That makes you 37?

2 A: Yes.

3 Q: And are you employed ma'am?

4 A: Yes.

5 Q: What kind of work do you do?

6 A: I am President of the Armed Forces Foundation,

7 and I am the CEO of Frontline Defense Systems.

8 Q: And what is the Armed Forces Foundation?

9 A: It is a foundation to help wounded service

10 members who suffer from PTSD and physical wounds. We give

11 financial grants to these military members and their

12 family members, to make sure they stay financially afloat.

13 We give a lot of counseling services, provide services for

14 these service members and their families.

15 Q: Okay. Do you know Kurt Busch ma'am?

16 A: Yes ma'am.

17 Q: How do you know him?

18 A: He was my long-time boyfriend and partner of four

19 years.

20 Q: And so you indicated the relationship lasted four

21 years. During those four years what was the frequency of

22 your contact with Mr. Busch?

23 A: Daily. We saw each other almost every day, and

24 if we didn't see each other we spoke to each other every

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1 Q: Okay. So you spoke to each other on the phone?

2 A: We spoke to each other on the phone, we texted.

3 Q: Okay. With regard to the-you said you saw each

4 other daily, where would you see each other?

5 A: We lived in each other's houses. We had keys to

6 each other's homes, alarm codes to each other's homes. We

7 were either on the motor home together on the weekend for

8 every NASCAR race, I believe, until the Dover incident,

9 that I had not missed a single race in those years, I was

10 there every single weekend, and weekends that I had my son

11 my son was also present.

12 And during the school year Kurt lives for the

13 majority of the time in my house in Maryland. But I am

14 solely responsible for paying all the bills, for Mr. Busch

15 never paid anything. And he lived with us most of the

16 time. He would help me take Houston to school, be a part

17 of his homework. He went to parent-teacher meetings with

18 me. And when we didn't-

19 Q: What is your-

20 A: --live there we lived in his house in Charlotte.

21 Q: Okay, I apologize, I interrupted you. What is

22 your son's name and his age, please?

23 A: My son's name is Houston Herman Storfer

24 [phonetic], and he is now ten years old.

25 Q: Thank you. Does he attend school in Ellicott


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2 A: He attends school in Ellicott City.

3 Q: Did you have keys to Mr. Busch's home?

4 A: Yes, I had keys to his home.

5 Q: And where is his home located?

6 A: In Morrisville, North Carolina.

7 Q: Thank you. Did you keep clothing and/or personal

8 items at his home in North Carolina?

9 A: Yes, I have clothing, I have a lot of furniture

10 and other belongings at his home in North Carolina, and so

11 does my son. He had his own room.

12 Q: Okay. Did you-did Mr. Busch maintain or retain

13 any-excuse me.

14 Did Mr. Busch store any personal items at your home

15 in Ellicott City?

16 A: Yes. He has golf clubs, clothes, all kinds of

17 things, hats, you know, a lot of his things are at our

18 house too.

19 Q: Okay, any-

20 A: And his car.

21 Q: He has a car there?

22 A: He has a car there.

23 Q: Okay. Has he sent anyone to your home to

24 retrieve these parsonal items and/or the car?

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any way, shape or form.

Q: Okay. Do you have any children with Mr. Busch?

A: I do not have any children with him. He

considers my son his stepson. He has said so in

interviews for years. He takes my son on stage with him

during driver introductions, just like he's his child.

Like I said, he participates in all of our parent-teacher

meetings. He takes him to school, helps him with his

homework. He's been with us for every holiday. You know,

he very much considers Houston his son, told him that.

Q: Okay. Did you see Mr.-excuse me.

THE COURT: Sure.

MS. MCNEICE: Your Honor, we are making an

allegation of course this is a substantive dating

relationship.

THE COURT: Mm-hmm.

MS. MCNEICE: Is it the Court's desire that

we at this time finalize that issue before we go

further?

THE COURT: Mr. Liguori, is there any

dispute that these parties had a substantive dating

relationship? Mr. Hardin?

MR. HARDIN: No, Your Honor, there's no

dispute about that.

THE COURT: All right. Then we can move on,


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2 MS. MCNEICE: Thank you.

3 Q: Did you see Kurt Busch on Friday, September 26,

4 2014?

5 A: Yes, I did.

6 Q: Okay. Now, where did this meeting take place?

7 A: In his motor home.

8 Q: And where was that located on that date?

9 A: Inside the track at Dover Downs.

10 Q: Okay. Now, did you have a purpose to be in Dover

11 on that weekend?

12 A: Yes.

13 Q: What was your purpose?

14 A: Besides the fact that I come every single

15 weekend, I had my own Armed Forces Foundation event. We

16 were bringing wounded troops to the track, like we do the

17 majority of the races as well. We have a program with

18 NASCAR that we've had prior to my relationship with Kurt

19 Busch, where we bring wounded service members and some of

20 their family members to the track.

21 And the VA had set up some kiosks at the track that

22 we had partnered with them on as well. And we were

23 pushing a program called eBenefits, to help veterans

24 enroll online, so that their records are not being lost,

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services with the VA, and the Assistant Secretary of the

VA and I were supposed to meet. I always had interviews

set up with TV and print media people.

Q: For the record, what is the VA?

A: The Veterans, Veterans Affairs.

Q: And did you-would you normally have traveled to

the site of a race event actually before the day of the

event?

A: Absolutely. I always came in on a Friday.

Sometimes we came in on Thursdays. Sometimes I traveled

with Kurt directly to the track on Thursday or Friday. If

I had Houston I usually waited until he was out of school,

as was this case, and then we would have traveled directly

to the track.

Q: On this particular date, however, did you plan on

going to the track on Friday?

A: I did not.

Q: And why is that?

A: Because Kurt and I had had a fight in New

Hampshire on the previous Sunday, and I was still very

angry with him for the stuff that he had said to me and

did, and I was not intending on showing up to the track

until Saturday morning for my TV hits and my meetings that

morning.

Q: Okay. Had you had any contact with Mr. Busch

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1 during the period of time between your argument in New

2 Hampshire and the meeting on Friday, September 26th?

3 A: No direct contact, but he had been in contact

4 with my staff, who was there at his media hit in New York

5 City. I sent one of my staffers there instead of myself.

6 And they had had lots of conversations that day.

7 Q: Okay. And this was a TV event?

8 A: It was TV event, it was the Today Show and the

9 Weather Channel that I had set up for him.

10 Q: Okay. Mr. Busch attended those TV-

11 A: Yes.

12 Q: --appearances?

13 A: Correct.

14 Q: Okay. And what day was that?

15 A: That was the Thursday before, so it would have

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you set up-

THE WITNESS: Yes sir.

THE COURT: --television appearances for Mr.

Busch?


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THE COURT: Okay. And were you working in

your capacity as Chairperson of the Armed Forces

Foundation, or were you operating as sort of a staff

member for Mr. Busch?

THE WITNESS: I was operating for him. You

know, we were kind of getting a dual hit out of this,

because he's one of our celebrity ambassadors.

THE COURT: Okay.

THE WITNESS: But I handled the majority of

his PR, and-

THE COURT: Okay.

THE WITNESS: --everything like that.

THE COURT: All right, thank you. Ms.

McNeice, you may continue. I'm sorry for the

interruption.


Q: So he was there speaking on behalf of the Armed

Forces Foundation; is that correct?

A: Yes, and for himself. It was kind of a joint

thing.

Q: Okay. For himself in what capacity?

A: As Kurt Busch the entity. We were trying-I did a

lot to build his brand and his image, and we got him a lot

of interviews that were just to promote himself.

Q: Okay. Now, you mentioned that you hadn't seen


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2 A: Correct.

3 Q: --or hadn't had contact with him as you normally

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5 A: Right.

6 Q: --during the week prior to September 26th. Did

7 you eventually contact him sometime earlier, before coming

8 to Dover?

9 A: Yes. I talked to a lot of people during the week

10 about how he was doing, what's going on, and my staffer

11 reported back to me. He would see him, physically seen

12 him and talked to him that Thursday. Everybody said he

13 was really up-

14 Q: [Interposing] Okay, well these were-

15 A: Sorry.

16 Q: These people aren't here. So why don't you tell

17 me why you were-you had made these inquiries?

18 A: I love him. I did not believe our relationship

19 to be over with. Kurt has done this before where we've

20 had a big fight, and it's usually around the end of the

21 season, usually around the New Hampshire race.

22 Unfortunately this track seems to bring bad stuff Up.

23 It's into the chase, he had really done poorly in this

24 race, and his chances of going, progressing within the

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1 point, and so he feels like his season's over, and he'll

2 blow up, and he'll go disappear for a few days.

3 He'll usually go drink himself to death. And he may

4 or may not call you. He needs some time and space to

5 himself. You know, he does this every nine months or so.

6 He just completely implodes, and he just needs to be left

7 alone. And when he decides to come out of his drunken

8 stupor he'll come to and we'll talk it out, and usually

9 he's flying to my house to ask for forgiveness and work

10 things out.

11 Q: So you did text him earlier in that night?

12 A: Yes, I did.

13 Q: What did you say to him?

14 A: I just said "How are you?" And within ten

15 minutes he responded "I'm laying on the floor, crying. I

16 just finished watching a movie, and my world is upside

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These are his words?

Those are his words.

MS. MCNEICE: If I might, Your Honor.

How did you feel when you saw those words?

Really worried.

I'm sorry?

I was really worried.

And what made you worried?

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A: Because I said "It's okay sweetheart,

everything's going to be all right. Just know that we

love you and everything's going to be okay." He sent back

to me "But I don't know if I love you, but I don't love

anything right now." And I said "Okay." And he said-I

said "I know that everything feels like it's coming down

on you, but it's going to be okay."

Q: Okay.

A: And then he said "No, the world is crushing down

on me," and that's when I got scared.

Q: Okay. What about those words made you scared?

A: Kurt's not the kind of person to be laying on the

floor crying. You know, Kurt is notorious for his temper,

and I think everybody's seen the videos and everything,

and he's the kind of guy to yell, and throw, and break

things, and he's not the kind of guy to lay on the floor

crying. When he does that, that's when everything is

really upside down. You love someone so much for four

years, the last thing you want to do is see them hurt, no

matter.

Q: Sorry, see them what?

A: See them hurting. And he was obviously hurting.

Q: Do you know why he was hurting? Did he tell you

why he was hurting?

A: In the text messages? No.


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MS. MCNEICE: May I approach Your Honor?

THE COURT: Yes.

Q: Can you identify that document?

A: These are screen shots between me and Kurt, text

messages.

MS. MCNEICE: If I may approach, and I ask

that this be admitted as Petitioner's 1.

MR. HARDIN: No objection.

THE COURT: I'm sorry?


THE COURT: All right, they'll be admitted.

Petitioner's 1.

[Whereupon Petitioner's Exhibit 1 was

admitted into evidence.]

Q: Okay. As you look at this document, you said it

was the text messages. It appears that you sent a text

message. Could you tell us the date and time?

A: Friday, September 26, 7:30 p.m.

Q: And what does it-which one of those speakers is

you?

A: I'm the dark colored. It says "I hope you're

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2 Q: I notice that there's something ahead of that.

3 What's the date and time of that particular?

4 A: September 21st, 7:30 p.m.

5 Q: Is that the last time you saw him before this?

6 A: Yes.

7 Q: And you had no contact during that week?

8 A: No.

9 Q: Okay. So, what's the next set of sentences

10 there, after "I hope you're okay"?

11 A: He says "I'm crying, laying on the floor. I just

12 finished watching Seven Years in Tibet. I don't know

13 which way is up, but for some reason you confuse me more,

14 and your timing is impeccable."

15 Q: Are you familiar with something called Seven

16 Years in Tibet?

17 A: No.

18 Q: Okay. Do you know what he meant by the last

19 sentence?

20 A: About my timing being impeccable? No.

21 Q: Okay. How did you respond to that?

22 A: "I love you."

23 Q: And what did he say?

24 A: He says "I know, but I don't know if I do. I

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Q: Okay. And what was your response?

A: I said "I am hurting for you, and I am always

here for you. The world feels like it's coming down

around you, you will get through this."

Q: Okay. And his response?

A: He says "It's down on top of me, I shouldn't have

replied."

Q: Now, had you talked to-strike that. With regard

to-strike that.

What did you think after you finished this series of

exchanges with Mr. Busch?

A: I was really worried about him. I thought that

he just sounds very broken. I was really-! know that he's

alone in the motor home. I was just-it kind of reaffirmed

everything that I had been hearing all week about how he

had looked upset, and he wasn't eating, and he was pale.

Q: Was that your concern?

A: Yes.

Q: I see. And what steps did you take next ma'am?

A: I texted and called a couple of people that I

knew. I texted-I took a picture of this conversation of

the part where he's saying "I'm crying on the floor,

laying on the floor," and I sent it to one of the guys

that I know he trusts at the track to see if maybe he

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Q: And-all right. What did you decide, ultimately

decide to do?

A: Well, after talking to our-

Q: [Interposing] Okay, you can't-no one else is here

that we know of, so tell us what you did.

A: I decided to go out and see him. I had been told

and I believed it was a good idea, because he maybe needed

his family around him, and to know that he's loved and

cared for.

Q: And how did you get to him?

A: I drove with my son.

Q: What time did you leave your home?

A: Between 8:15, 8:30, somewhere around there.

Q: Okay. And how long did it take you to get to

Dover?

A: About an hour and 40 minutes.

Q: Okay. What did you do when you arrived in Dover?

A: I pulled into the track, into the motor home lot,

showed my ID.

Q: What ID is that ma'am?

A: It's my NASCAR hard card.

Q: And what is A NASCAR hard card?

A: It's a license that they give NASCAR team members

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2 Q: [Interposing] And did you have this hard card

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4 A: I did not. I had a hard card as Kurt's

5 girlfriend.

6 Q: Okay. Again, tell me, what time did you arrive

7 in Dover?

8 A: About 10:00.

9 Q: And so you said you came into the area-

10 A: I came into the motor home area.

11 Q: Okay. And what did you do after you came into

12 the NASCAR area?

13 A: I parked my car right in front of the motor home,

14 and unlocked the door, came in, and Kurt yelled "Who the

15 fuck is here?" And I had asked Houston to wait outside

16 the bus for a moment, and I said "Sweetie, it's Houston

17 and I."

18 Q: Okay. Did he make a response?

19 A: He's like "Why the fuck are you here?" And-

20 Q: [Interposing] What did you say?

21 A: --we walked into the motor home, we walked back

22 to the bedroom, and said "We're here because we love you

23 and we care about you. Are you okay?"

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Q: Okay. Do you keep any clothing there?

A: Yes.

Q: Does your son keep items there?

A: Yes, my son has-in fact Kurt converted the bus in

the past year and a half to do a construction project on

it, and shortened the kitchen so that he would have his

own bunk in there, and drawers for his toys and

everything.

Q: Okay. What was the condition of the motor home

when you walked in?

A: It was dark. Everything was in place, like as if

I was coming that weekend. All of our pictures were up,

everything's out. Houston's toys were sitting out. You

know, everything was like waiting for us to arrive.

Q: Okay. Did you have a key to get into the motor

home?

A: We use a key code.

Q: Okay. And how did you get this key code?

A: Kurt gave it to me.

Q: What did you do after you announced that you were

there?

A: Houston came in and gave him a hug.

Q: Where was Mr. Busch?

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2 A: And then I asked Houston if he would please go to

3 the front of the motor home and watch TV.

4 Q: And why did you do that?

5 A: Because we needed to talk, and Houston did not

6 need to hear our conversation.

7 Q: Okay. What was your goal in talking with him

8 that day?

9 A: See how he was first, and what's wrong. I just-

10 laying on the floor crying is just not something he does.

11 Q: Okay. And did your son go into the living room?

12 A: He did.

13 Q: And what did you do then?

14 A: He turned on the TV, and I said "What's wrong?"

15 And he's like "You're a fucking psycho, why are you here?"

16 And I said "We're here to check on you." And he just kept

17 saying-he looked crazy.

18 Q: I'm sorry, he what?

19 A: He looked crazy.

20 Q: All right.

21 A: He didn't even look like himself. He was very

22 pale, and just didn't even look like himself. And I told

23 him that I was really worried about him, and he started

24 going off about his team, and how fucked up everybody is,

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conversations were all over the place.

He said "You abandoned me at the airport in New

Hampshire." And I told him that I did not abandon him.

He kept saying "I'm going to drop you off somewhere," and

I told him "No, I'm keeping the car and you're getting

out." Because he was acting crazy.

Q: In the car?

A: In the car.

Q: And what day was that?

A: The 21 8t. He had ripped the rear-view mirror out

of the car after the race, after cussing out his entire

crew, cussing out our coach driver, myself. He ripped the

rear-view mirror out of the car, breaking the windshield,

then he grabbed the rear-view mirror and smashed it

against the shifter and the steering wheel. He hit me

when he pulled the mirror down, caused a big bruise on my

leg, and then he threw the mirror at me.

Q: And what state was that in?

A: New Hampshire, heading into Massachusetts,

because we were-I eventually dropped him off at the Boston

Logan Airport, and I asked him to pull over and get out.

Because he had also wrapped the seatbelt around my neck.

And I just told him "Just get out." And I left. I left

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1 And so he's saying that I abandoned him. And I said

2 "You have a wallet with credit cards, I didn't abandon

3 you. You had your phone, you had plenty of money, I

4 don't-you were telling me to get out, you were acting

5 crazy, I'm not going to stick around and I'm definitely

6 not coming back to give you your bags~ My staff gave me

7 your bags a couple of days later in New York City." And

8 he kept going off about being abandoned by me.

9 Q: Did Mr. Busch, on the evening of the 25th, tell

10 you why he was mad at his team and upset?

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12 Q: I meant, sorry, on the 26th, yes.

13 A: Yes. He said that he was angry that Tony Stewart

14 had killed that kid, and is ruining his entire career, and

15 now this whole thing is being messed up for him, because

16 he should have had a crew chief change, and his crew chief

17 sucks, his crew sucks, his engineer is horrible. His

18 over-the-wall crew is terrible. And if he had just gotten

19 the change that he wanted before the chase, then he would

20 be doing better in the chase.

21 And because Tony screwed everything up again, you

22 know, now all the focus was on him at Stewart-Haas, versus

23 getting anybody else what they needed. And Kevin was

24 getting everything, he was getting nothing. He just kept

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to quit, he wanted to end everything. And at that point

he said if he had a gun in the motor home that he would

shoot himself.

Q: How did it make you feel when you heard him make

that threat?

A: Scared.

Q: Scared for who?

A: Scared for him, scared for me# because he just

seemed so out of his mind. Just more scared that he's

serious and if we leave he's going to just kill himself.

Q: How long did this conversation go on?

A: This went on for about ten minutes, you know, and

he just kept saying weird stuff like "You texted me while

I was laying on the floor crying, you have spies

everywhere, and you have-I'm sure you have cameras in the

bus." And just saying crazy things.

Q: What did you think when you heard him making

those statements?

A: That he's acting nuts, this is nuts, that I would

have a camera in the bus spying on him. That doesn't even

make any sense.

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Q: Where was your son during this conversation?

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2 A: I just said "Things will end up working out with

3 the team," and he said "No, no they won't." And he just

4 kept going off about the team, and he told me that he had

5 been yelled at earlier that morning by Greg Zipadelli, for

6 the way that he talks to the crew members, and that this

7 was his final warning, and that he was really in big

8 trouble.

9 And then he told me that after not qualifying after

10 that day on Friday, that after that, after he had already

11 been warned and yelled at, that he went back and screamed

12 at the crew chief and told him he was a fucking idiot.

13 And also the team represented - - and said that he was a

14 fucking idiot, and screamed at him, and kept cussing them

15 out.

16 And I asked him, "Are you trying to get fired? Why

17 are you doing this?" And he said "I just-I don't want a

18 contract extension, I don't want to work for these idiots

19 anymore," and just kept going off about the team.

20 And then he said "And I don't want you here, and you

21 should leave." And I said "We're here to support you and

22 love you no matter what happens with this race team, and

23 we always have been. You know, we just drove an hour and

24 40 minutes just to check on you to see if you're okay."

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A: He said "I'm not okay," and just kept going off

about the race team again.

Q: Did he raise his voice during this conversation?

A: We were kind of like whisper yelling so that

Houston can't really hear.

Q: Okay.

A: And then he said that he wanted us to go, and

he's done with everything, he's done with the team, you

know, and said again "If I had a gun I would just kill

myself, I'm just done with everything." And I said,

"Well, if"-and he said "And I'm done with you." And I

said "Well, if we're really done then get your clothes on

and you and I are going to go sit down and talk to that

little boy and let him know that we're finished," because

I was calling his bluff. Any time that he wants to win an

argument, that's what he does, is he threatens our

relationship. He's done this a million times.

And I said "Fine, if we're done put your clothes on,

we're going to go to talk to Houston together, and we're

going to tell him it's over with, we're finished, and I

will leave this bus right here and now." And he

immediately responded, "No, I'm not doing that. I'm not

doing that." And in fact, "I'll do it at the end of the

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2 up right now and let's go talk to Houston and we will

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4 Q: Did you have an opportunity to observe his

5 appearance or his face at that time?

6 A: Like I said, he was very pale, and he just looked

7 crazy. I don't know how else to explain it.

8 Q: Okay. What happened next?

9 A: He sprung up from the bed, he grabbed me by my

10 throat with one hand, and my face with the other, and he

11 smashed my head into the wall three times.

12 Q: Where was his hand, which hand are we talking

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14 A: He did this to my face and my throat.

15 Q: Which hand did he have on your face?

16 A: His right hand on my face. His left hand on my

17 throat.

18 Q: And what did he do when he hands on your face and

19 your throat?

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He choked me, and he smashed my head into the

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It scared me, because he just snapped.

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2 A: And I couldn't breathe. - - [Crying].

3 THE COURT: Ms. Driscoll, do you need a

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6 THE COURT: Ms. McNeice, it's getting a

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18 THE CLERK: Yes, we are.

19 THE COURT: Thank you.

20 MS. MCNEICE: Thank you Your Honor.

21 THE COURT: Ms. Driscoll, are you okay now?

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A: He sprung out of bed, he grabbed me by the throat

and by the face, and smashed my head into the wall three

times.

Q: You said he had grabbed you by the throat. Do

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hand?

A: Right here, right here, just across here.

Q: And what did he do when-

THE COURT: [Interposing] All right, the

record will reflect that the witness is showing a

hand up underneath her jaw, with the fingers behind

her ear. I'm sorry ma'am, when you make a gesture

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Q: Did you have an opportunity to observe his facial

expression during this incident?

A: He just looked like he snapped.

Q: What did he do with his hand that he placed on

your throat?

A: Crushed my throat with it, just like this. And

on the other one, he had - - on my chin, and on my cheek,

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1 Q: How did this feel, with his hand on your throat?

2 A: It felt like I couldn't breathe, he was choking

3 me.

4 Q: And how did it feel to have his hand on your

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6 A: He had my face so tight it hurt, just smashed my

7 head.

8 Q: I'm sorry?

9 A: He smashed my head. He had this very crazy look

10 in his eyes. He scared me.

11 Q: How long did he have his hand on your neck?

12 A: The amount of time it took to smash my head into

13 the wall, he did it so fast. And then I pushed his hands

14 away.

15 Q: How did-

16 A: Because he looked like he had a surprised look on

17 his face, that he had just done this to me.

18 Q: How did he-how did you push his hands away?

19 A: I grabbed 'em and shoved 'em.

20 Q: Shoved him?

21 A: No, shoved his hands off my throat and my face.

22 I grabbed them from underneath.

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2 A: A bed, and all of this is stationary, it has

3 slide-outs, but the bed, and then two night stands that

4 are built into the wall, and then there's a closet that's

5 also built in, with a little bench on the bottom.

6 Q: And as you're facing what might be described as

7 the head of the bed, what side was Mr. Busch on?

8 A: The left side.

9 Q: And where were you during the earlier discussion

10 that you had, or the conversation you had with Mr. Busch?

11 A: I was standing near the night stand, in between

12 the bed and the wall.

13 Q: What's the distance between the bed and the wall?

14 A: 18 to 24".

15 Q: And did you remain in that location?

16 A: I stayed right there when I was talking to him

17 the whole time.

18 Q: Okay, were you standing?

19 A: I was standing.

20 Q: And what was he doing?

21 A: He was laying down in the bed when we were

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23 Q: Okay. And after he put his hands on your throat

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1 A: Pushed him away. And I told him that he was a

2 piece of shit and a coward, and I ran out of the bus. I

3 grabbed my son and we left. We didn't-we didn't stop to

4 grab anything, we just left.

5 Q: How did you feel at the time you left?

6 A: Scared. I don't know how he could just do this

7 to me. I was scared, and in shock. Like this is the

8 person I spent four years of my life with. been a

9 part of my son's life. Why would he do this to me? I

10 don't understand.

11 Q: What did you do after you left the trailer?

12 A: I put Houston in the car and we drove to the end

13 of the coach lot, to the corner, where the-our church

14 motor home is. I wa? crying so hard I knew I couldn't

15 drive all the way home. So I went and knocked on their

16 door, and Nick and Amy Terry answered. Houston's crying,

17 I'm crying.

18 Q: What was the distance between the motor home

19 where you were with Mr. Busch and the Terry's motor home?

20 A: It's at the end of the-- , I don't know. 50

21 yards maybe. I don't know the exact distance.

22 Q: And did you know the Terrys before this?

23 A: Yes. We have a very close relationship with the

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2 always there to counsel you, and talk to you. And the

3 Terrys have been involved in some very tough times for

4 Kurt and I, when Kurt got fired from Penske, and when he

5 got suspended by NASCAR when he got into on-track

6 incidents, like at Darlington. They were there to help

7 talk to both of us.

8 And they've-they're always there to talk to us on the

9 phone whenever we need, or I n person. They watch our

10 kids, they have a little day care, and we drop the kids

11 off during the races, where the kids get together and

12 play, and a lot of the families get together and go there

13 and play during the race weekend.

14 Q: Tell us again, why did you go to the Terrys?

15 A: I was crying really hard, and I couldn't drive

16 home, I was in-I needed to talk to somebody. I can't

17 believe that he just did this.

18 Q: All right. When you arrived at the Terry home

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watch movies. Tried to calm him down, and gave

some water. I told them what happened. They

frozen Brussels sprouts for my head, because

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3 talking to them. And they also gave me some Ibuprofen.

4 Because my head was really starting to pound bad, and my

5 throat hurt. I felt like I couldn't breathe. I could

6 just still feel his hands around my neck, my throat felt

7 crushed.

8 Q: How long were you at the Terrys?

9 A: For about an hour.

10 Q: Let's review the timing again. What time did you

11 arrive at Mr. Busch's motor home?

12 A: Around 10:00.

13 Q: And how long did you talk to him?

14 A: About ten minutes.

15 Q: And how long were you in the home after you

16 stopped talking and he put his hands on your throat and

17 your face?

18 A: Under a minute, I ran out of there with Houston.

19 Q: Okay. Did you hear from Mr. Busch again that

20 evening?

21 A: Yes.

22 Q: How-what format did he use to contact you?

23 A: He sent me a text about ten minutes after I was

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2 THE WITNESS: Ten minutes after I left-

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4 THE WITNESS: --his motor home.

5 THE COURT: Okay.

6 Q: I'm going to hand you a document now. Can you

7 identify this?

8 A: This is a text message from Kurt.

9 Q: And the date of that text message and the time?

10 A: Friday, September 26, 10:30 p.m.

11 Q: I notice there's another text message there; is

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13 A: Yes.

14 Q: Is that related to this incident-excuse me. Is

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THE COURT: Mr. Hardin is there any

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1 Q: Could you read the content of this text please?

2 A: "Here's the deal, I will only support the Houston

3 custody shit if you cooperate with our split. Leaving me

4 stranded and then showing up unannounced has not been all

5 that cooperative."

6 Q: Okay. Do you know what he was talking about,

7 "custody shit"?

8 A: I'm in the midst of a very nasty custody battle

9 for the third time with my ex-husband over my son.

10 Q: Okay.

11 A: And the custody battle started again in July of

12 this year, and we were right in the thick of it.

13 Q: Okay. And Kurt was obviously aware of this,

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15 A: Correct.

16 Q: And did you anticipate that Kurt would be a

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18 A: Kurt was supposed to be a witness.

19 Q: What did you think when you got this text?

20 A: It's a threat.

21 Q: A threat? What type of threat?

22 A: He knows the most important thing to me is my

23 son. He knows what he did to me. And he knows that the

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Q: Okay. Again, how long did you stay at the Terry

home?

A: About an hour.

Q: Okay. What did you do at the end of that hour?

A: Houston was already asleep, and I put him in the

car, and buckled him in. And he just laid down in the

back of the seat.

Q: Did he return to sleep?

A: Yeah, he was passed out.

THE COURT: Ma'am, I apologize. I have one

question about the document that's Petitioner's 2.

Is this text message that's identified as Friday,

September 26th, at 10:37 p.m. the first contact you

had with Mr. Busch after the incident?


THE COURT: So that ~Here's the deal, I will

support the Houston custody shit" is the first

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THE WITNESS: First communication.

THE COURT: --between the two of you after

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2 Q: Okay, you said you were there for an hour, and

3 you put Houston back in the car?

4 A: Yes.

5 Q: And what did you do then?

6 A: I drove home. The Terrys wanted to get me a

7 hotel near the track and I told them "No, I didn't want to

8 be anywhere near this place, I'm going home."

9 Q: Okay. So, you left to return to Ellicott City,

10 correct?

11 A: Correct.

12 Q: And what time did you arrive home?

13 A: About 1:30 in the morning.

14 Q: And where was Houston during this drive?

15 A: He was in the back seat.

16 Q: I believe you said he was asleep; is that

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18 A: He was asleep.

19 Q: Did you have any further communication from Mr.

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21 A: No.

22 Q: Okay. Now-

23 A: [Interposing] And I did not respond to his texts

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2 Q: No. Okay. And I'm sorry, you said you didn't-

3 A: I did not respond to this text message he sent

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5 Q: I apologize. This text message?

6 A: Yes.

7 Q: The one that's listed on-

8 A: September 26th, 10:37 p.m., I did not.

9 Q: What did you do when you got home?

10 A: I had called my neighbor and I asked her to come

11 over, to meet me at the house.

12 Q: Okay.

13 A: I put my son to bed. The Terrys had told me that

14 my neck was red and I felt a bump on the back of my head,

15 and after I put my son in bed I went to the bathroom to

16 look at myself for the first time, and I saw the bruises

17 on my neck and my face.

18 MS. MCNEICE: May I approach Your Honor?

19 Q: Can you identify this picture?

20 A: This is me.

21 Q: What is this, ma'am?

22 A: This is a picture of the bruises around my throat

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THE COURT: All right, it will be admitted

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Q: Who took this picture ma'am?

A: I did.

Q: And when did you take it?

A: When I got home and I looked in the mirror. This

is in my bathroom.

Q: Okay. Specifically on this picture can you

identify what you described as redness, and identify what

you describe as a bruise?

A: This, all of this is the redness from where he

had his hands around my throat, and the bruise is right

here.

THE COURT: Okay ma'am, actually you don't

have the exhibit with you. Ms. McNeice, does the

witness have an identical copy of this exhibit?

MS. MCNEICE: Yes Your Honor.

THE COURT: All right, okay, thank you.

Q: Could you tell us again which portion of this

picture refers to some various marks?

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2 And down a little bit below my neck you can see some more

3 red. There's red spots everywhere.

4 Q: Which device did you use to take these pictures?

5 A: My iPhone.

6 Q: It appears that this picture has an overall red

7 tone; is that correct?

8 A: Yeah.

9 Q: And has that-does that have an effect on this

10 picture?

11 A: No, I still see where he-the red line where his

12 hand was, and where the bruises were.

13 THE COURT: Ma'am, when did you take this

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15 THE WITNESS: When I got home, and after I

16 put my son to bed, it was about 1:30 in the morning.

17 THE COURT: 1:30 in the morning? All right,

18 thank you.

19 MS. MCNEICE: May I approach again, if I

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21 Q: I'm going to hand you another document. Can you

22 identify that?

23 A: That's me, same time, in my bathroom, about 1:30

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A: About three hours after.


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MR. HARDIN: No objection. And since I'm

from another jurisdiction would the Court prefer I

stand before the objection? I made a mistake a while

ago saying "Objection" while sitting. I'm-

THE COURT: That's fine. You're fine Mr.

Hardin.

MR. HARDIN: All right.

THE COURT: I'm pretty informal with regard

to that. However you're comfortable sir.

MR. HARDIN: I have no objection.

THE COURT: All right, this will be admitted

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Q: And Ms. Driscoll, can you point out specifically

which part of this picture that you were trying to

highlight in your photograph? Excuse me.

What is in this picture? I'm sorry.

A: There's a big red-big bruise, black and blue,

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3 Q: Do you know how these bruises got to those

4 portions of your neck and cheek?

5 A: When he put his hands on my neck and my face.

6 His thumb was right where this big bruise is underneath my

7 neck.

8 MS. MCNEICE: May I approach again Your

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11 Q: I'm going to hand you another picture. Can you

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13 A: It's another angle of the same bruise. And the

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A: I did.

Q: And what was the date of the picture?

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MR. HARDIN: No objection Your Honor.

THE COURT: All right, will be admitted,

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Q: And Ms. Driscoll, on this picture can you

identify or point to the area of the picture that you

believe reflects-

A: [Interposing] This is a bruise on the chin, the

red marks, and the spots.

THE COURT: All right.

Q: And I'm going to hand you another picture ma'am.

Can you identify this one?

A: This is me, in the bathroom, 1:30 in the morning.

Another close-up of the bruise underneath my chin, and the

red marks, and the red spots, and bruises by my earlobe.

Q: Who took this picture ma'am?

A: I did.

Q: And what time, and the date?

A: September 27th, about 1:30 in the morning.


Petitioner's 6.

THE COURT: Mr. Hardin.


THE COURT: Without objection it will be

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2 A: It felt crushed. I felt where he put his hands

3 on me and crushed my throat.

4 Q: How about your neck?

5 A: My neck and the back of my head were really

6 pounding. The Terrys had given me some Ibuprofen while I

7 was there, and it just hurt, still hurt so bad. I wanted

8 to go take some more medicine.

9 Q: What medication did you take?

10 A: Ibuprofen, about 800 mg. You're only supposed to

11 take it every four hours, but it had been about three at

12 that point, and my head was really hurting, and my neck.

13 Q: Did you use any other devices to eliminate the

14 pain?

15 A: Some ice for my head, I had a cold pack.

16 Q: How long did you use the ice pack?

17 A: My neighbor came over, and I let her in, and I

18 grabbed the ice pack when I let her in the kitchen door.

19 We sat down and talked in the library, and it was on my

20 head until she left. And I got another one and I took it

21 to bed with me.

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How long did your neighbor stay?

She was there for about an hour.

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that evening?

A: I did.

Q: And what did you tell her?

A: I told her how he attacked me. And she said

"Enough, this is enough."

Q: You don't have to tell us what she said.

What did you do after your neighbor was there ma'am?

A: I locked the door, we changed the alarm code. We

changed the alarm code to a different code altogether. So

I went upstairs and went to bed and turned the alarm on,

so that all the doors and windows were on.

Q: And?

A: And I tried to go to sleep.

Q: Did you get to sleep?

A: Not very well, not very much.

Q: What time did you awake?

A: About 6:30.

Q: And what did you do then?

A: Just kind of laid in bed and started to think

about what I needed to do. I had-I was supposed to be at

the track for an event that morning, so I texted my staff

and told them I would not come, I would not be there.

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2 the weekend.

3 Q: Okay. Now, your staff, you directed them to go

4 to Dover; is that correct?

5 A: Yes ma'am.

6 Q: Okay. And serve in your capacity, correct?

7 A: Correct.

8 Q: All right. And tell us again, what were you to

9 have been doing that day?

10 A: We were announcing the eBenefits campaign in

11 kiosks that were at the track, to try and get veterans to

12 sign up for their benefits electronically. And I was

13 supposed to be doing interviews on TV, and we were

14 demonstrating how the machine worked, and have veterans

15 signing up.

16 Q: Okay. In addition to your neighbor, did you call

17 anyone else that-well, excuse me.

18 Did you call anyone else that night?

19 A: I tried to get a hold of my attorney. The Terrys

20 were asking me about calling the police, and I said I

21 can't, I need to talk to my custody attorney, this is

22 going to affect my custody battle, I knew it. And he

23 didn't answer. I called my brother.

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Where does your brother live?

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2 A: Called my mom. They're both really adopted

3 family, but I consider them family. And the godmother to

4 my brother's son. And I called the religious counselor

5 that both Kurt and I used, Richard Andrew [phonetic] . And

6 I called my neighbor, and that was it, and asked her to

7 meet me at the house when I got there.

8 Q: What did you do the next day, after you told your

9 staff to cover for you in Dover?

10 A: Pretty much laid on the couch and took a lot of

11 Ibuprofen, and switched between heat and ice on my head

12 and my neck.

13 Q: Did you see your mother that day?

14 A: I asked her to fly up, and she flew in about 8:00

15 that night, and I went and grabbed her from the airport.

16 We also changed the key code to the house with my

17 neighbor's help, and had every house camera, security

18 camera that I had around the house, got them all turned

19 on. And some that I had in the closet, I put them on.

20 They're very visible cameras that you know if somebody

21 comes up to the property that they can see you, that

22 there's cameras on the house, and I wired them all to my

23 bedroom, put a TV in my bedroom, so I could see from my

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Q: And did you see your neighbor, the same neighbor

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A: Yes. They came back over multiple times during

the day on Saturday.

Q: You said "they". I apologize. I think-

A: Her and her husband.

Q: I forgot to ask you her name, your neighbor?

A: Waleska Rodriguez. And her husband Esteban.

Q: And did you speak with Waleska on-this would have

been Saturday the 27th?

A: Yes, because she came over at 1:30 in the

morning. She did meet me at the house. And I talked to

her until, you know, for an hour or so. And then they

came back over in the morning to check on me. She did.

And then her husband came back with her later on in the

afternoon. We changed the locks, the pass code to all the

locks in the house.

Q: Okay.

A: And then, you know, we see each other all the

time, and she's always so good to come check on me.

Q: Did you provide care for Houston on Saturday the

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A: Yes.

Q: How did you feel on Saturday the 27th?

A: My head, my neck was killing me. My throat still

felt crushed. Scared. That's why I wanted all the locks

changed. I don't know why he snapped like that. I don't

know what he's capable of doing next. Confused. I don't

understand.

Q: Did you make-did you send any texts to Kurt?

A: No. I had no contact with him.

Q: When was the next time you heard from Mr. Busch?

A: He sent me a text Sunday, October the 5th, 4:00.

Q: Is that the text that is-

A: It's the next text on this piece of paper.

Q: The one that's-

A: That starts out ~I would like to thank you."

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Petitioner's 2?

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THE COURT: I see that-

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2 Q: Now, had you contacted him at all between Friday,

3 September 26th and October 5th?

4 A: No, I did not.

5 Q: Okay. Looking at this text message, it says-

6 makes it look like he's upset with you about something.

7 A: Yes.

8 Q: He said "I would like to thank you for taking a

9 screen shot." What does he mean by "screen shot"?

10 A: I took a screen shot of our text messages from

11 the-from September 26th, and I sent it to Eddie Jarvis, the

12 guy I mentioned earlier from his team, to see if Eddie

13 would go over and check on Kurt. And then he said he

14 would try if he had time, but he said he had a lot going

15 on with Tony.

16 Q: So that was actually before the incident in his-

17 A: Correct.

18 Q: --motor home. I see.

19 And did you know what he meant by "sharing our

20 personal problems"?

21 A: Yeah, because I had texted Eddie. Other guys on

22 the team had contacted me as well, just to see how I was

23 doing, because they had heard that he had done something

24 pretty bad to me in New Hampshire, and I didn't show up

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2 out of his airplane, and left me on the tarmac, to he had

3 beat me up, to all kinds of wild stuff from people.

4 Q: Did you start any of those rumors?

5 A: I did not.

6 Q: Did you talk to anyone about that?

7 A: No. I said I left him at the airport. I had

8 talked to his assistant Christi [phonetic] that night in

9 New Hampshire.

10 Q: After the New Hampshire incident?

11 A: After the New Hampshire incident, and told her

12 what happened. And so that she would go find out where

13 he's going, get him travel arrangements, whatever, because

14 I wasn't going back to give him his bag and stuff.

15 Q: And did she know Mr. Busch's whereabouts at that

16 time?

17 A: She said she did not, and she said, when she

18 called me back, that he would not allow her to make a

19 reservation for him. And she just told me, "Just get

20 calm, go to a hotel, this has happened before, it will be

21 fine."

22 Q: Did you contact any member of the press?

23 A: No.

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that Saturday morning and Sunday, I was not returning to

the track.

Q: Did you go to work at sometime during the week

after this incident?

A: Yes, I went back to work on Tuesday.

Q: Okay. So that would have been September 30th?

A: I don't have a calendar in front of me.

Q: Okay. And did you speak with anyone at work?

A: My chief of staff and my PR guy, Matt Ballard.

Those were the two I had contacted anyway to cover for me

in Dover on Saturday and Sunday.

Q: What did your neck look like on Monday, September

A: The bruising got a lot worse. When I woke up

from trying to sleep on the 27th, by the time that I went

to go brush my teeth that morning a lot of the redness was

gone, but the bruises were darker, and there were still

red spots. And they stinged.

Q: Did you take additional pictures?

A: No. I didn't want to. I hated just going to

wash my hands and seeing my face.

Q: Why did you take the pictures on the 20-early in

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2 I needed this to remind me any time that I was starting to

3 feel weaker, he might come to apologize, that this was not

4 acceptable and he will not do this to me, and I will not

5 go back no matter what, I just can't go back.

6 Q: How about on Monday, September 29th? What did

7 your neck look like at that time?

8 A: Bruises were still there.

9 Q: And what-

10 A: [Interposing] I had-I couldn't go out without

11 covering them up, and had to wear a turtleneck.

12 Q: And how did you feel?

13 A: My throat still hurt for days, where it felt

14 pushed in and crushed. And my head still had a lump a

15 little bit, and it just hurt.

16 Q: Where was this lump?

17 A: Right back here.

18 MS. MCNEICE: And for the record I'd like it

19 noted that my client has used her hand and pointed to

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5 A: Yes ma'am.

6 Q: And did you-when was the last time you observed

7 any bruising on your neck or your face?

8 A: By the end of the week. Throughout the week they

9 had kind of yellowed and eventually went away, where I

10 didn't have to use a lot of makeup to cover them up.

11 Q: Did you have any contact with Mr. Busch after the

12 one that's mentioned on October 5th?

13 A: More contact after this?

14 Q: Mm-hmm.

15 A: Yes, he continued to send me text messages.

16 Q: Do you remember the date of the next contact from

17 Mr. Busch?

18 A: He also called my attorney that Friday.

19 Q: What attorney is that ma'am?

20 A: Mark Dycio.

21 Q: What role does Mr. Dycio play for you? He's an

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Q: Did you initiate any contact with him?

A: Not at this point, no.

THE COURT: Ma'am, what do you mean by "not

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THE WITNESS: He kept sending me text

messages to initiate conversations, and I believe

only once within the month did I initiate a

conversation with him that was not in response to the

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THE WITNESS: And at no time have I had any

phone conversations with him since the Dover

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THE COURT: No problem. Did you need a

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A: These are text messages between Kurt and myself.

Q: And what's the date of those text messages?

A: Saturday, October 28th, 8:26 p.m.

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MR. HARDIN: I have no objection. May I

have exhibit numbers? Are they different exhibit

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MS. MCNEICE: I'm sorry, they're not-

THE CLERK: Will that be collectively as 7?

THE COURT: Collectively 7?

MS. MCNEICE: Collectively as 7.


THE COURT: Okay.

MR. HARDIN: And no objection.

THE COURT: Thank you. They'll be admitted

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Q: Again, where were you when you received this text

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A: I was at my home in Ellicott City.

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Q: And give us the date and time again please ma'am?

A: Saturday, October 18th, 8:26p.m.

Q: And-

A: And it's a text message from Kurt, and it says

"Is Houston in bed yet? Can we talk?"

Q: Okay.

A: And I did not respond.

Q: And you didn't respond at that time. When did

you respond next?

A: The next day, when I thought he would be racing.

Q: Okay, and what did you say? Can you read that

please?

A: Well, and he also said "Time's passed, I see the

route you've chosen."

Q: What do you think he meant-what did you perceive

that he meant by the expression "I see the route you've

chosen"?

A: I really don't know.

Q: Okay. And what did you say to him then ma'am?

A: So, Sunday, October 19th, 11:34 a.m. I said

"Kurt, what is it that you would like to talk about?"

Q: And?

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where we are."

Q: Okay. Did you arrange for him to meet any troops

on that day?

A: I did not.

Q: Okay. And-

A: I gave my staff specific instructions that they

were not to ask Kurt to do anything for our foundation

after the Dover incident.

Q: Okay. And did he ever explain to you what he

meant by "where we are"?

A: Never.

Q: Ma'am, at any time during this incident from

September 26th or even before that, at any time between

that date and today's date, did you ever ask Mr. Busch for

money?

A: No, I did not.

Q: At any time between this incident in Dover and

today's date did you contact any member of the press

specifically to discuss this incident with Kurt-about Kurt

Busch?

A: No, I did not. I had been contacted by members

of the press.

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have not given any comment.

Q: Okay.

A: And I had directed all communications to go

through my attorney.

MS. MCNEICE: I have nothing else at this

time.

THE COURT: Okay. Mr. Hardin, do you need a

break before cross?

MR. HARDIN: Sure.

THE COURT: All right, we'll recess.

THE CLERK: All rise.

MR. LIGUORI: He said do you want a break?

MR. HARDIN: Actually, I don't really need

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talking about lunch. I apologize.

THE COURT: All right. Well, if the parties

want to take lunch we can take lunch.

MR. HARDIN: Well, we'll do whatever you

prefer. I mean, I'm willing to go forward. However

you want to do it.

THE COURT: It's really up to the parties.

I'm willing to roll through if the parties want to

roll through.

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3 THE COURT: No? All right.

4 CROSS EXAMINATION

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6 Q: Good afternoon. I don't believe we've ever met,

7 have we?

8 A: No.

9 Q: Ms. Driscoll, have you ever told anyone that you

10 intended to ruin Kurt Busch?

11 A: No.

12 Q: Have you ever told different people that Kurt

13 Busch owed you money?

14 A: He does.

15 Q: And have you ever told people that Kurt Busch-you

16 made Kurt Busch's career?

17 A: I have said that I have helped improve his image

18 and brand from where it was.

19 Q: Yes ma'am. Well, if I could go back, you are

20 small in stature; is that right?

21 A: I'm 5', yes sir.

22 Q: All right. Can you give the Commissioner a

23 little bit of your background please? Your professional

24 background.

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1 Q: If you could just sort of give us a quick

2 autobiographical work statement.

3 A: I am President of the Armed Forces Foundation.

4 I'm a Board member of the foundation, and I have been

5 since 2001.

6 Q: And you're how old today?

7 A: 37.

8 Q: And at age 22 or 23 how were you employed?

9 A: Self-employed.

10 Q: Doing what?

11 A: I have a defense company called Frontline Defense

12 Systems.

13 Q: I'm sorry, called what?

14 A: Frontline Defense Systems.

15 Q: When did you form Frontline Defense Systems?

16 A: 2005.

17 Q: Okay.

18 A: No, no, no, no. We also have a holding company

19 called Frontline Defense Holdings that was formed in 2005.

20 I believe Frontline Defense was formed in 2002, 2003.

21 Q: Can you and I agree that, as the Commissioner

22 makes up his decision about this matter, that the real

23 issue here is going to be your credibility versus Mr.

24 Busch's? Would you agree with that?

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1 Q: There was no one else there that night, correct?

2 A: Houston was in the bus.

3 Q: Yes ma'am, except your son; is that right?

4 A: Correct.

5 Q: And was your son nine or ten at the time?

6 A: Nine.

7 Q: Nine. And you mentioned to the Commissioner that

8 you've been involved in a divorce~ and now some custody

9 issues are going on; is that right?

10 A: Correct.

11 Q: And your former husband, who is the father of

12 your son, is named-what is his name?

13 A: Geoff Herman Storfer.

14 Q: Could you say that in a way that the reader would

15 know how to spell it? Could you spell it for us, please?

16 A: Geoff with a G, Herman Storfer, H-E-R-M-A-N S-T-

17 0-R-F-E-R.

18 Q: All right. At the time you met him how were you

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THE COURT: Mr. Hardin, relevance of how the

witness was employed when she met her first husband?

MR. HARDIN: I think we're going to find-

what I hope to be able to show you is that her

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1 misrepresented things all her life.

2 MS. MCNEICE: I would suggest, Your Honor,

3 the incident that occurred on 9/26 is the crux of

4 this case, whether or not it occurred, and if it did

5 occur, the nature and extent of any contact.

6 MR. HARDIN: And I don't disagree with that.

7 I want to be able to just explore a couple of areas.

8 This won't take very long I promise.

9 THE COURT: I think the objection is

10 sustained. I don't think it's relevant how this

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13 MR. HARDIN: Okay.

14 Q: How would you describe the four years of your

15 relationship with Mr. Busch?

16 A: Some of the best times of my life, and some of

17 the worst.

18 Q: I see. And on this particular time, I notice the

19 complaint that you filed, can you and I agree on certain

20 dates? I believe you've been testifying that this

21 occurred on September the 26th; is that correct?

22 A: Yes sir.

23 Q: And I believe you filed this motion on November

2 4 the 5th, can we-

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1 Q: --we'll agree with that?

2 THE COURT: The Court will take notice of

3 that, it's in

4 MR. HARDIN: All right.

5 Q: And so, do you need to refer to it to know what

6 you said to the Court when you asked for it? Would it

7 help you to have a copy of it?

8 A: Yes please.

9 MR. HARDIN: Do you have an extra copy?

10 THE COURT: We can make one if we need to.

11 MR. HARDIN: Thank you. I've got one.

12 THE COURT: All right.

13 Q: Now, was this-how did-where did you do this and

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Q: Okay. And was that done in your presence?

A: No.

THE COURT: Now ma'am, when you say your

attorney did, are you speaking of Ms. McNeice or some

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THE WITNESS: Ms. McNeice.

THE COURT: --attorney?

THE WITNESS: No, Ms. McNeice typed this up.


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Q: But you were not with her?

A: I was not with her, we talked over the phone.

Q: All right. Did you dictate to her what happened?

A: Yes.

Q: According to you. And did you tell-I don't want

attorney-client communications, but what I do want to know

is, I notice it doesn't mention that you entered the home

without permission, does it?

A: Who said I didn't have permission? My key code

worked.

Q: Is it your contention that you had his permission

to be there that night?

A: Yes.

Q: I thought you believe-r thought you testified

earlier that as soon as you arrived he told you to leave?

A: He said ~who the fuck is here?"

Q: Yes, and then he asked you to get out of there,

didn't he?

A: No, he did not.

Q: Did you not testify to that a while ago?

A: I said during the conversation that he said that.

Q: All right. Was it his motor home?

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A: No, but I've lived there for four years.

Q: It wasn't your motor home, was it?

A: No, it wasn't.

Q: And you knew you didn't have any right there,

right?

A: Yes.

Q: And so when he asked you to leave his home, his

motor home, did you do so?

A: I did, about ten minutes after.

Q: Did you do so when he asked you to?

A: I did so when he choked me and smashed my head

into the wall.

Q: Yes ma'am, I understand, I heard you. I asked

you, when he asked you to leave did you do so right away?

A: No, I did not leave right away. We continued to

have discussions.

Q: All right. And when you came in you didn't-when

you said you sent text messages you didn't let him know by

text you were coming, did you?

A: I don't have to. We've been together for four

years.

Q: Let me try again. You didn't tell him when you

were coming that you were coming, did you?

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A: He answered when I opened the door.

Q: Yes ma'am, but he told you he was asleep and you

knew that. You came straight into his bedroom, didn't

you?

A: He didn't tell me he was asleep.

Q: You and your nine-year-old son came without him

knowing you were coming, did you not? And you came

straight into his bedroom?

A: Mr. Hardin-

Q: Is that true?

A: --I have been at this race track, at race tracks

with him for four years. Every single race. I always

come in Thursday or Friday, okay?

THE COURT: Ma'am, it's going to be helpful

if you answer the questions that Mr. Hardin asks of

you when he asks them of you. I'm sure you'll be

given an opportunity-

THE WITNESS: I have no reason-

THE COURT: --to explain your answers.

THE WITNESS: --to believe I was unwanted

there.

THE COURT: Ma'am, the other thing that you

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2 Q: The demeanor you're showing now is your normal

3 demeanor that you showed that night, isn't it?

4 A: No, it is not.

5 Q: Okay. When you came in and you-were you

6 concerned about him, is that the thing?

7 A: Yes, I was very concerned about him.

8 Q: And I believe you've testified you were very

9 afraid for him?

10 A: Yes.

11 Q: Explain to the Commissioner why you would take

12 your nine-year-old son into that kind of circumstance,

13 where according to you you were afraid he was going to

14 commit suicide or something?

15 A: He never threatened to commit suicide until I was

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17 Q: I see. So you weren't concerned about that

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19 A: I was worried about him. He said he's laying on

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THE COURT: Okays. Ma'am, again, more to

the point of Mr. Hardin's question, what was the

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THE COURT: Okay.

THE WITNESS: And I felt like the comfort

and love of his family is what he needed at the time.

THE COURT: Okay. So you took Houston with

you because you didn't have anybody to take care of

him right then?

THE WITNESS: Correct.

THE COURT: Okay.

Q: And were you concerned about taking him into a

situation like that?

A: No. I really believed that he just needed the

love and comfort of his family.

Q: When you say "he", you mean Mr. Busch?

A: Mr. Busch.

Q: All right. And how would you characterize Mr.

Busch's relationship with your son?

A: Very close.

Q: Houston care very much for him?

A: Yes.

Q: And did he appear to care very much for Houston?

A: Yes.

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A: Yes, very much so.

Q: Was Houston very fond of Mr. Busch?

A: Yes.

Q: All right. When you took him-and you and I agree

the particular night in question the only people who were

present was you, Mr. Busch and your nine-year-old son?

A: Yes.

Q: When you arrived and you found out that he didn't

want you there, why didn't you leave?

A: He didn't immediately say he didn't want me

there.

Q: Did you recall testifying that he told you to get

out before the physical altercation you're describing ever

occurred?

A: Yes.

Q: All right. So would you agree with me that if

you had done what he asked you to do in his home, none of

this would have had an opportunity to happen, whatever it

was that happened?

A: So you're saying that he had a right to put his

hands on me to throw me out of the motor home?

Q: No rna' am.

A: That's what you're saying. What's wrong with

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THE COURT: Ma'am, the Court understands

that these proceedings are emotional for you. I

think we have to understand that-

THE WITNESS: [Interposing] I am not to

blame for him putting his hands on me.

THE COURT: Ma'am, when I'm speaking to you,

you need to make sure that you don't speak to anyone

else so long as I'm talking to you. Mr. Hardin is

doing his job. And it's necessary for you as a

witness to do your job, and that involves answering

the questions he asks of you honestly. You needn't

be concerned about the way in which those answers are

perceived, you need only answer those questions

honestly.


THE COURT: And answer the question. Mr.

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Q: Ms. Driscoll, when you came into his motor home,

was he in bed?

nude?

A: Yes.

Q: Did he customarily sleep in the nude?

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Q: So when you came into his bedroom did he sit up

to talk to you initially?

A: No, he stayed laying down.

Q: Covered up with a sheet?

A: Yes.

Q: Do you recall it was his idea to take Houston

into the front so he could watch TV?

A: No. I asked Houston to move to the front.

Q: Is it your testimony that didn't happen?

A: Yes sir. He did not say that, I did.

Q: Okay. So if he were to say that he told you you

all needed to talk as adults away from Houston, and if he

is to say that he took Houston then into the front, got

him set up with the TV-

A: [Interposing] He did not get out of bed, and he

did not take Houston to get him set up with the TV. That

did not happen.

Q: Okay. I wasn't quite through, but I think you're

answering my question. So is it your testimony that he

did not take him to the front and close the door? Is

there some type of door or something that-let me restate

the question.

Is there some type of door or barrier that if he

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A: Correct. But he did not take Houston. He did

not get out of bed, and he did not take Houston to the

front of the motor horne, and the door was not closed to

the bedroom.

Q: All right. Was there a door blocking off Houston

from where he was sitting?

A: No.

Q: How far away would Houston have been from the two

of you as you talked?

A: I'm not sure the length of the motor horne.

Q: Okay. Can you do it by measuring looking in this

courtroom, comparing it to some distance?

A: The back of the courtroom to probably where I am

right now.

Q: All right. So if this-if we walk this off, 30'

or more-more than that. Whatever this distance is from

here, if we're looking at it visually, that would be a

pretty accurate rendition of how far away Houston was from

the two of you while you talked in the bedroom?

A: Approximately.

Q: It's a big motor home in other words?

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A: Yes sir.

Q: Okay. By the way, in your complaint why didn't

you inform the Magistrate, if we review this, this

actually occurred with you and your son coming into his

place? Would you look at it and see, if you notice on

page 3-

A: I don't have page 3.

Q: Okay. You have it.

A: Okay.

Q: I think I gave you just page 3. Do you see that?

Do you have any idea why you and your lawyer did not

inform whoever was going to review this that this event

occurred by you going to his home uninvited with your

nine-year-old son?

A: I had no reason to believe that I was uninvited.

Q: Well, you knew by the time this was filed, did

you not, that there was media that we're aware of of the

event, had been writing about it, hadn't there?

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A: I had nothing to do with that.

Q: I'm not asking you if you had anything to do with

A: I had no idea there was media writing about this.

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2 Q: Excuse me-

3 A: I'm sorry, that's the truth.

4 Q: I haven't finished my question.

5 A: Okay.

6 Q: What is your testimony as to whether or not you

7 knew, at the time this complaint was filed on November the

8 5th, that there were articles and public comment about this

9 alleged incident? What is your testimony as to your

10 awareness?

11 A: I was not aware of it, because I signed this

12 statement in front of the police officer in the police

13 station.

14 Q: This was actually done at the same time you were

15 making a criminal complaint to the Dover Police, correct?

16 A: Yes sir.

17 Q: And so this-did you sign this in the presence of

18 the police officer, Det. Wood-

19 A: Yes sir.

20 Q: --that was investigating?

21 A: So that we understand, this occurred on September

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2 Q: And you filed this complaint and signed it in

3 front of the Dover Police at the same time you were making

4 an official criminal complaint for assault against Mr.

5 Busch, correct?

6 A: At the conclusion of my meeting with the

7 detective, yes.

8 Q: You're pointing, is it-

9 A: My attorney, Carolyn-

10 Q: I see, okay-

11 A: --said "Please look this over, I'm walking this

12 over to the civil side now."

13 Q: Okay. So you did both the same day?

14 A: Yes.

15 Q: All right. And can you explain why-you knew this

16 was going to be picked up by the media, it was a public

17 document, didn't you?

18 A: I did not know that this-I thought we were

19 protected as victims.

20 Q: I see. And so, weren't you aware that when this

21 is filed that that might get in the media, and it doesn't

22 say anything about how this incident occurred, or that you

23 were there with your nine-year-old son, does it?

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3 Q: Okay. You knew that it would require a public

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5 A: Eventually yes.

6 Q: And for that public hearing there would have been

7 no indication in here that you arrived in his place

8 uninvited with your nine-year-old son, right?

9 A: Again I'm going to state that I did not believe I

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11 Q: All right. Now, did you send him a text telling

12 him you were coming?

13 A: No.

14 Q: Did he send you a text asking you to come?

15 A: No.

16 Q: Did you all talk over the phone?

17 A: No.

18 Q: And so, did you have any indication from him that

19 he wanted you to come that night?

20 A: He's texting me back, so yes, instantly.

21 Q: He what?

22 A: He was immediately responding to me, so yes, I

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3 A: I didn't ask him what he was doing.

4 Q: You didn't text him and ask him what he was

5 doing?

6 A: I said "How are you?" There's a big difference.

7 Q: Oh I'm sorry. All right. And he told you that

8 he was watching a particular movie; is that right?

9 A: Yup. You want to read it again? We can go

10 through it. He said "I'm crying on the floor, laying on

11 the floor, watching a movie."

12 Q: There's nothing about saying "Come to see me," is

13 there?

14 A: No, there is not.

15 Q: Now, when you arrived at 10:00 that night, you

16 mentioned some other people that you left and went over to

17 afterwards. And who were those people? I was trying to ...

18 A: Nick and Amy Terry.

19 Q: And Mr. and Mrs. Terry, are they there as a

20 trailer [phonetic]? They have a motor home there too?

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Q: Okay. Now, at the time after this occurred, you

described these different injuries and everything that

occurred, and we'll get to that probably after the lunch

break, before that happened you referred to something that

happened in New Hampshire was it?

A: Yes.

Q: It was after a race up there?

A: Yes.

Q: And you described what kind of injuries did he

supposedly give you on that occasion?

A: When he pulled the rear-view mirror out of the

windshield he pulled it down and it hit me on the leg.

Q: Did it appear to be on purpose?

A: No.

Q: So you didn't mean to suggest that he was

intentionally hurting you in New Hampshire, did you?

A: I never suggested that he did.

Q: Okay, I'm just asking, you didn't mean to suggest

that?

A: No.

Q: All right. So he was angry about how he had

driven, and the circumstances; is that a fair statement?

A: Yes sir.

Q: And so he reaches up, pulls off a mirror?

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1 Q: And you're saying that because you were sitting

2 next to him somehow that hit your leg?

3 A: It did.

4 Q: All right. Any indication at all that he meant

5 to hit you with it?

6 A: I don't believe he did that on purpose.

7 Q: Okay. Now, the two of you were heading out, you

8 all were supposed to go away that weekend, weren't you?

9 A: During the week, yes sir.

10 Q: Pardon me?

11 A: During the week, yes sir.

12 Q: Well I mean, after the race-what day of the week

13 was that?

14 A: Sunday.

15 Q: Okay. So that week you were supposed to go

16 where, for several days in New England?

17 A: Yes.

18 Q: So the Commissioner understands, these racers,

19 Thursday, Friday, Saturday are usually their main days,

20 and sometimes Sunday, correct?

21 A: Most days Sunday.

22 Q: So this would have been, you all were going like

23 Monday, Tuesday, maybe Wednesday-

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Yes.

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2 Q: It was to be a kind of a romantic time?

3 A: Yes.

4 Q: And you were looking forward to it?

5 A: Yes.

6 Q: And in the car he announces it's over, doesn't

7 he?

8 A: While he's ranting about he's firing everybody.

9 Q: Well, I was going to ask you that. You knew, of

10 course, this is an open hearing and the press was covering

11 it today, correct?

12 A: Yes.

13 Q: You made a great point, did you not, in your

14 answers to your lawyer, of saying a bunch of things that

15 he is supposed to have said about his teammates and other-

16 A: [Interposing] He did say those things.

17 Q: Excuse me, excuse me. That you know, as you sit

18 there, are going to be written by the media, right? Don't

19 you?

20 A: Sir, I answered the questions as they were asked.

21 Q: Just answer this first question ma'am. The fact

22 is, you sat here today, did you not, and used names and

23 critical comments you claim he made, abusive comments

24 about other people by name that you claim he made, and

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2 A: I was answering the question as it was asked of

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4 Q: None of those things-she never asked you what he

5 said about his teammates, did she?

6 A: She asked me to repeat the-

7 Q: She never asked-

8 A: --conversation.

9 Q: --you what he said about his teammates, did she?

10 A: This is what he said.

11 Q: She never asked you about what he said about his

12 teammates, did she?

13 A: She asked me what happened, and I said what

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15 MR. HARDIN: Judge, - - of five, so I've put

16 it three times, asking the same question.

17 THE COURT: I understand the answer.

18 MR. HARDIN: Thank you.

19 Q: And in fact, you had a bunch of answer naming

20 people, Tony Stewart, his teammates, his driving team,

21 knowing as you said so that not only would it probably be

22 repeated by the press, but it would be extremely harmful

23 to him and his working relationship and his profession,

24 all conversations before this event ever happened that

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2 Q: Do you recall my question, at the very beginning-

3 THE COURT: [Interposing] Ma'am, were you

4 aware that when you said these things on the witness

5 stand today that they would be reported by members of

6 the press?

7 THE WITNESS: I didn't realize that

8 everything was going to be reported by the press.

9 THE COURT: Okay.

10 THE WITNESS: I'm just answering the

11 questions honestly as I am being asked them.

12 THE COURT: Okay. Well, when you do answer

13 the questions though, you actually have to answer the

14 part that's asked of you, and Mr. Hardin was asking

15 whether or not when you gave your testimony today

16 that you knew that the things that you said would be

17 reported by the press? And it's only necessary that

18 you answer that question, and you have. Thank you.

19 Mr. Hardin.


21 Q: Didn't you-remember the Commissioner asked you a

22 question early on about when you talked about lining up

23 the Today Show interview or NBC show, I believe you said,

24 did you not, that you primarily handled the publicity for

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2 Q: And it's your position-you've told others haven't

3 you that you made his career these last four years?

4 A: As I already answered that question to you sir, I

5 did say I made him. I said I helped improve his image and

6 brand.

7 Q: Yes ma'am. But you actually told others, have

8 you not, that you feel that you should be compensated for

9 that, now that it's over?

10 MS. MCNEICE: Objection, relevance.

11 THE COURT: Goes to motive, objection is

12 overruled.

13 Q: Isn't that true?

14 A: I did not say that I should be compensated for

15 all the work, that it's over. Kurt and I always discussed

16 compensation for the work that I did while working for

17 him.

18 Q: Yes. And is it your position that he owes you

19 money for that?

20 A: Yes sir.

21 Q: I see. Are you asking the Commissioner to enter

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Q: Okay. Well, isn't it true that if somebody-or

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and the public image of a race car driver that they're

going to need to be pretty savvy about the media?

A: Yes.

Q: And you know a woman named Jenna Fryer don't you?

A: Yes.

Q: And she covers NASCAR, does she not?

A: Yes.

Q: She covers it for the AP, correct?

A: Yes.

Q: Now, did you forget about her when you swore to

the Commissioner that you didn't talk to the media about

this?

A: I did not make any statements on the record to

the media about this.

Q: Well, the media-

A: [Interposing] You know what? I can have some

friends in the media too that you can talk to as friends,

not anything that's on the record. And when I some things

on the record, and you're right about being media savvy,

you say things are on the record when they're on the

record, to be printed in a story. And when you say "I'm

talking to you as a friend and nothing I'm saying to you

is on the record," I have a right to talk to a friend, and

they have to respect that relationship.

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2 THE WITNESS: Yes sir.

3 THE COURT: Even though she's a member of

4 the media?


6 THE COURT: All right. Mr. Hardin?

7 Q: And are you saying that you spoke to her as a

8 friend, knowing that she was also interviewing NASCAR

9 people, and talking to Mr. Busch, and trying to intercede

10 on the two of you's behalf?

11 A: Ms. Fryer said that the person handling all of

12 this ,stuff for the Associated Press is somebody here in

13 Delaware, and she is not handling anything to do with

14 this.

15 Q: And Ms. Fryer was actually going back between the

16 two of you before this story broke the day you filed your

17 complaint, right?

18 A: I did not talk to Ms. Fryer.

19 Q: Do you remember when the Dover Police finally had

20 to make a public statement to satisfy the public inquiry

21 that they were investigating? Do you remember when that

22 happened?

23 A: Yes.

24 Q: All right. And do you remember having

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1 night, telling her that they were going to make a public

2 statement?

3 A: No, I did not.

4 Q: Okay. Is it a fair statement that you have

5 discussed this with Jenna Fryer, an AP reporter, your side

6 of what happened, an AP reported, during the time this has

7 all been pending?

8 A: She and I have had discussions about certain

9 parts of this matter as friends.

10 Q: So therefore is it your testimony that you have

11 talked to her?

12 A: As friends, and nothing on the record.

13 Q: All right. I'm going to ask you a list of people

14 for you to-that I might have some questions for you with.

15 I want to see if you can tell me who these people are as I

16 go through them, if you would please. Erica Anderson

17 [phonetic], who is that? Do you know?

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You don't know her?

I mean, the name sounds familiar.

Okay, but you're not sure who it is?


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1 A: No.

2 Q: Okay. Matthew Ballard.

3 A: He is my employee.

4 Q: And what is his position?

5 A: He is a communications director for the Armed

6 Forces Foundation.

7 Q: And how long has he been the communications

8 director?

9 A: Almost two years.

10 Q: Did you send him any emails or pictures yourself

11 the next day, the 27th?

12 A: Yes sir.

13 Q: Were the pictures you sent the pictures she's

14 shown you that have been introduced into evidence?

15 A: Yes sir.

16 Q: These are the pictures you took yourself?

17 A: Yes sir.

18 Q: Do you recall what you told him in that email?

19 MS. MCNEICE: Objection, calls for hearsay.

20 THE COURT: Well, it's supposedly the email

21 that was sent by the witness, so it's not hearsay.

22 MS. MCNEICE: I apologize.

23 Q: Do you recall what you told him?

24 A: That I can't go to-that Kurt hurt me and I can't

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A: Yes sir.

Q: All right. Did you-

A: [Interposing] I had also tried to get a hold of

him that night.

Q: Did you also ask him to lie to the police and

tell them that he saw you that day personally?

A: No.

Q: Is it your testimony under oath that you never

asked Matthew Ballard to tell the police that he saw you

the Monday after this event of the 26th, and tell the

police that he saw you then and saw your injuries?

A: He never-I never asked him to do that. He never

saw me on the 2 oth_the Monday after, because I was not in

the office. I did not see him until Tuesday.

Q: Is it actually maybe seven to ten days after the

26th before you ever personally saw him?

A: Nope.

Q: Now, do you remember who Ross Blankenship

[phonetic] is?

A: That name sounds familiar.

Q: Do you remember him as a former employee of the

foundation? Maybe the CFO?

A: Ross Blanken-a CFO? No, we do not have a CFO of

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1 Q: Okay. Do you recall who he is at all?

2 A: Maybe he was an intern at our foundation.

3 Q: How about Luke Barrett [phonetic] and his wife

4 Charisse [phonetic]?

5 A: They're owners of - - .

6 Q: All right. You actually knew them before you

7 knew Mr. Busch; is that correct?

8 A: Yes sir.

9 Q: You've known them eight or ten years?

10 A: No.

11 Q: Have you talked to them about this incident?

12 A: No.

13 Q: Never?

14 A: No.

15 Q: Chrissy [phonetic] Cloutier-how do you pronounce

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Cloutier, and C-L-0-U-T-I-E-R?

Yes.

And who is she?

She's Kurt's assistant.

Okay. Michael Domcheff?

Yes.

Did I pronounce it correctly?

Close enough, Domcheff.


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2 A: He is the motor home driver.

3 Q: Okay. And motor home-he drives the motor home

4 for Mr. Busch?

5 A: Yes sir.

6 Q: Would he have been somebody you would have seen

7 the week before this incident that you're describing?

8 A: Yes sir.

9 Q: Okay. And then Herman-Geoff Herman Storfer?

10 A: My ex-husband.

11 Q: And then a Janet Parker?

12 A: The fishing lady.

13 Q: Fine. And who is Richard Sniffen [phonetic]?

14 A: Who?

15 Q: Richard Sniffer?

16 A: I don't know, Richard-

17 Q: Do I pronounce it wrongly?

18 A: I don't know a Richard Sniffen.

19 Q: Maybe I have spelled it wrong. I'll check on it.

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21 MR. HARDIN: Hold on just a second. That's

22 my fault, I got the name wrong.

23 Q: What was the name that you used that consults

24 with you sometimes?

25 A: Richard Andrew.


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1 Q: And how do you-

2 A: Andrew.

3 Q: That's how you know him?

4 A: Yes sir.

5 Q: Okay. You've never known him under the name of

6 Sniffen?

7 A: No.

8 Q: Richard Andrews [phonetic] .

9 A: Yes.

10 Q: Whenever we talked about it it's Mr. Sniffen.

11 A: Okay.

12 Q: And you said that you talked to him?

13 A: Yes sir.

14 Q: And when did you talk to him?

15 A: I talked to him on the phone after the incident

16 happened.

17 Q: After this incident happened; is that right?

18 A: Yes sir.

19 Q: All right. Now, what kind of-I mean, how would

20 you describe your relationship with him?

21 A: He's been a spiritual counselor for both Kurt and

22 I, you know, and he's a guy who came and works with our

23 church at the NASCAR tracks, and somebody that Kurt really

24 took to. We really love his music. He's become a good

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1 Q: All right. Would you consider him a good friend

2 of yours?

3 A: Yes.

4 Q: So is he a friend of both of you?

5 A: I believe so, yes.

6 Q: Okay. By the way, while we're talking about

7 this, do you contend that Mr. Busch, in those four years,

8 ever on any other occasion physically assaulted you?

9 A: Yes sir.

10 Q: What?

11 A: Yes sir.

12 Q: You do? And whom have you told that to?

13 A: My attorneys.

14 Q: Anybody other than your attorney?

15 A: One of my staff members.

16 Q: Pardon me?

17 A: One of my staff members.

18 Q: And which staff member is that?

19 A: Wendy O'Neill [phonetic].

20 Q: I'm sorry?

21 A: Wendy O'Neill.

22 Q: And when do you contend this other-is it more

23 than one occasion according to you ma'am?

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No sir.

And when was this other occasion?


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1 A: A couple of years ago.

2 Q: Really? Well now, were you receiving counseling

3 by Mr. Anderson [phonetic] at that time?

4 A: Andrews.

5 Q: Andrews, excuse me. Were you?

6 A: Not sure exactly the timing of his counseling.

7 But that sounds about right.


9 A: And I'm sorry, my neighbor also knew.

10 Q: I see. I'm curious, why didn't you ever tell Mr.

11 Andrews that?

12 A: He might have known too.

13 Q: Pardon me?

14 A: He might have known too.

15 Q: Well, if he said you've never ever indicated that

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THE COURT: Ma'am, you don't need to

speculate about answers. If you do know, that's

fine. If you don't know whether you told him, that's

fine too.

THE WITNESS: I think I did. I'm not

positive sir.

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conversations with him after the 26th? Did you call him

and tell him this on the phone on the 26th or the 27th? Was

he one that you called that night?

A: Yes sir.

Q: Pardon me?

A: Yes sir, on-I called him on my drive home.

Q: All right. So if we were trying to plot people

you talked to that night, you talked to Mr. Terry and his

wife; is that right?

A: Yes sir.

Q: And you would have called Mr. Andrews on the way

home?

A: Yes sir.

Q: And you would have sent these pictures the next

day to Mr. Ballard, one of your employees?

A: In the morning, yes.

Q: All right. And so, when you called and talked to

Mr. Andrews, after that have you talked to him on repeated

occasions?

A: Yes sir.

Q: And how many times would you estimate you've

talked to Mr. Andrews about all of this since then?

A: I don't know.

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Q: Pardon me?

A: Yes sir, pretty honest man.

Q: All right. Did you ever call him on multiple

occasions and tell him your intention was to take Kurt

down?

A: No.

Q: Did you ever tell him your intention was to

destroy Kurt's career?

A: No. Richard and I-

Q: [Interposing] Have you used-have you ever used

literally the word with him "Destroy Kurt's career"?

A: No.

Q: Did you ever tell him that you believed you had

completely changed and remolded Kurt's reputation?

A: I believe I have told him, as I told you, I do

feel that I have done a great job of fixing his image and

brand.

Q: I see. Would you agree you've taken care of that

now, right?

THE COURT: I'm sorry Mr. Hardin, you have

to make your question a little more clear. I didn't·

understand that one.

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1 THE COURT: Okay.

2 Q: She feels when they're-did you ever say that when

3 the relationship started Kurt had a bad boy reputation and

4 you came in and completely remade him singlehandedly?

5 A: I do remember an article saying that about me.

6 Q:

7 A: I did not say that singlehandedly comment, that's

8 in an article.

9 Q: I'm asking you if you said that to Mr. Andrews?

10 A: I don't recall saying that to Mr. Andrews.

11 Q: I don't recall mean you didn't or you just don't

12 remember?

13 A: No, I don't-I don't believe I would have said

14 that.

15 Q: So is your testimony you did not say it?

16 A: I did not say that, no.

17 Q: Ma'am, I'm just asking if you said it. Did you?

18 A: I just said no.

19 Q: Okay. Have you ever said that you and you alone

20 were responsible for changing Kurt's reputation from a bad

21 guy to a respected guy?

22 A: Again, I'm going to repeat the same answer I keep

23 telling you. I have said I have greatly improved his

24 image from a really bad boy, since 2011.

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2 A: No.

3 THE COURT: And we're still talking about

4 Mr. Andrew?

5 MR. HARDIN: Yes, yes, we are.

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8 Q: Did you tell him you've made sacrifices with your

9 career and your non-profit on behalf of Kurt?

10 A: Yes.

11 Q: Did you tell him that Kurt had bought you a car

12 for $90,000, and if he thinks he can just walk away by

13 just giving her a $90,000 car, that's just not going to

14 happen; did you tell him that?

15 A: No.

16 Q: Did you ever say, quote, ~I'm going to get

17 reimbursed for everything that I ever did for his career

18 as a PR person"? Did you ever tell him that?

19 A: To Richard?

20 Q: Yes.

21 A: No.

22 Q Did you tell him, quote, ~I will destroy him,

23 which speaks beyond getting compensated, now it speaks to,

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1 A: No.

2 Q: Okay. Now, did you go to officials at NASCAR

3 after this incident to give them your spin and people you

4 wanted them to talk to?

5 A: Two senior guys from NASCAR sit on my Board at

6 the Armed Forces Foundation. A few days prior to me going

7 to report to the police, I have an obligation to notify my

8 Board if something could potentially harm the reputation

9 of the foundation, or the foundation is about to come into

10 some bad news. I informed my Board, and I went to the

11 police. NASCAR in turn sent somebody that was not a Board

12 member and said this is now the guy who will be

13 investigating on behalf of NASCAR the situation.

14 Q: When did you do all that?

15 A: The Monday before I went to the police.

16 Q: Well, you went to the police on November the 5th.

17 Do you recall what day of the month that was, or week

18 rather?

19 A: Then it would have been November 3rct.

20 Q: All right. And so, you told the Board then?

21 A: Yes sir.

22 Q: And you think they then told somebody else at the

23 NASCAR? Is that right?

24 A: Yes.

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2 investigate this.

3 Q: Is he with the general counsel-is he the general

4 counsel at NASCAR?

5 A: I was directed by my Board members that this is

6 the person designated by-I don't know his official title

7 and position.

8 Q: So let me see if I understand. Two or three days

9 before you filed this complaint that we're hearing now,

10 and you go to the police alleging a criminal assault, you

11 tell in a forum that you know that will make NASCAR know

12 what your allegations are, and that you're going to the

13 police, correct?

14 A: Yes sir.

15 Q: And then Mr. Bobo contacts you, doesn't he?

16 A: Yes sir.

17 Q: And he asks for names of witnesses?

18 A: Yes sir.

19 Q: And because they're going to, understandably, as

20 an organization look into it, right?

21 A: Yes sir.

22 Q: And you knew-how long had you been working with

23 NASCAR?

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Six years.

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2 Q: Six years. Before Mr. Busch?

3 A: Yes sir.

4 Q: And are you all a sponsor for NASCAR or anybody?

5 A: No.

6 Q: What is your foundation's relationship with

7 NASCAR?

8 A: NASCAR sponsors us.

9 Q: Okay. And NASCAR gives you all money?

10 A: The founda-NASCAR Foundation gives us money.

11 Q: All right. And you're pretty-would you say

12 you're pretty familiar with NASCAR?

13 A: It's a complex organization. As familiar as

14 someone could be, I guess.

15 Q: Well, but I think you said by the time you all's

16 relationship began-once it began you were at every one of

17 his races, correct?

18 A: Yes.

19 Q: Would you agree that you're very well plugged in,

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Q: No, I'm asking if you would agree?

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MR. HARDIN: Sure.

Q: Would you say that you're well connected to

people in positions of responsibility in NASCAR?

A: Yes. I said two of them sit on my Board.

Q: And as somebody that you say made him publicly

the last four years of his career, and rehabilitated his

image, would you say that you're familiar, much more than

the average person, of how NASCAR might react to an

allegation such as you're making here? Would you agree

with me?

A: Yes sir, just like any of the other professional

sports.

Q: Pardon me?

A: Yes sir, just like any of the other professional

sports.

Q: Okay. Are you aware Jenna Fryer tells Mr. Busch

if he didn't get this patched up with you before the

announcement happened, once the Ray Rice incident happens

it's all over, right?

MS. MCNEICE: Objection, this calls for-

THE COURT: Well, it's a question whether

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A: --taking place.

THE COURT: And the witness has answered.

MR. HARDIN: That's the only question, thank

you.

Q: Now, you knew when you informed NASCAR and you

gave the general counsel names of people to talk to-

A: Yes sir.

Q: --you knew what NASCAR's position was, right?

A: I gave them-I gave-go ahead.

Q: You knew the impact that was going to potentially

have on his career, didn't you?

THE COURT: You can answer the question

ma'am. It's-

A: Yes sir, potentially.

Q: And when it happened, this incident, the way you

described, whatever happened that night, you and I can

both agree that you're each going to agree that you were

in his home that night, correct?

A: Yes sir.

Q: On the 26th. And then why didn't you go to the

police immediately?

A: Because I'm involved in a legal custody battle

for my son.

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2 what does that mean? What would your custody-I'm going to

3 start from the beginning.

4 Your custody trial is scheduled for February of next

5 year, correct?

6 A: Yes sir.

7 Q: Or whatever the dispute is now.

8 A: Right.

9 Q: But there were no hearings scheduled and

10 proceedings going on-

11 A: Incorrect.

12 Q: --at that time? When were they? When were they

13 scheduled?

14 A: We had motions for dismissal already in to the

15 Court. There was motions out for discovery. There was

16 all kinds of action going on. A list of potential

17 witnesses for deposition going between both sides. There

18 was a lot of activity going on.

19 Q: I see. And so your testimony is that because of

20 that you didn't want to go to anyone officially and tell

21 them what you claimed Mr. Busch did?

22 A: Yes sir. I was not going to do anything until I

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3 Q: Yes ma'am. We're talking about the timeframe,

4 are we not, from September 26th to November the 5th,

5 correct?

6 A: Yes sir.

7 Q: Now, when was he on vacation?

8 A: He left for vacation that weekend.

9 Q: The weekend of the 26th?

10 A: Yes sir.

11 Q: And so he would have returned, what, the first

12 week in October?

13 A: Sometime, yeah.

14 Q: Isn't it true ma'am that that week from that

15 Sunday, the 21st, to Friday the 26th, you were still hoping

16 to get back with Mr. Busch?

17 A: My emotions were all over the place.

18 Q: Is it your testimony you were not hoping to get

19 back together?

20 A: Depending on what hour of the day it was.

21 Q: I see. And then in that week, that Sunday, he

22 got out of the car at the Boston Airport, didn't he?

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Q: --on the 21st?

A: He's said that a million times.

Q: Pardon me?

A: He says that a million times.

Q: Then the answer is yes, correct?

A: Yes, sir.

Q: All right. And you told him to stop the car,

didn't you?

A: Yes.

Q: And he stopped the car, didn't he?

A: Eventually.

Q: Well, he stopped the car, actually, right there

at the airport, didn't he?

A: Right in front of a rental car agency.

Q: He got out of the car, went back to the back,

didn't he?

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him. He got out of the car and I put the car in drive and

left.

Q: And you knew his baggage and everything was in

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2 That's the truth, isn't it?

3 A: Yes sir.

4 Q: All right. Because you talked later to your

5 lawyer about getting his bags back to him in a couple of

6 days later, right?

7 A: I did not talk to my attorney about getting his

8 bags back. I talked to his assistant.

9 Q: I thought you said that in your testimony.

10 A: No, I said I spoke to his assistant.

11 Q: I see.

12 A: And I gave my bags to my people to give to him on

13 Thursday morning.

14 Q: Ma'am, this is what happens when you and I don't

15 let each other finish.

16 A: Okay.

17 Q: I apologize I was talking about you told

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19 you got his bags back to him a couple days later?

20 A: Yes sir.

21 Q: All right. Now, you knew, as of the 21st' that

22 as far as Kurt Busch was concerned it was over-

23 A: No.

24 Q: --he told you that, right? Well, we would agree

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Q: Pardon me?

A: Yes, he said that.

Q: Okay. Now-

MR. HARDIN: Your Honor, it's going to~with

your tolerance, it's going to be a while longer. If

you want to break for lunch.

THE COURT: Counsels?

MS. MCNEICE: I do need to make a phone call

if I might, Your Honor, and-

THE COURT: Well, obviously if the parties

want to break for lunch, I'm good with that. If you

want to work through, I'll work through. Ms.

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THE WITNESS: I'm fine.

THE COURT: Okay. Do you want to take a

brief recess so you can make your phone call?

MS. MCNEICE: Yes, if I may.

THE COURT: And again Mr. Hardin, if you all

need to get lunch or something you let me know, and

we'll take a break. I'm good to go with whatever the

parties want.

MR. HARDIN: Is there-if we did take a break

is there someplace close by that could be done real

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quickly? There's tons of places just down at the end

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MR. HARDIN: Well, I didn't know whether you

want us to do it-excuse me, go ahead.

THE COURT: Yeah, there's tons of places

just down the end of the road where you can get some

lunch real quickly if you want.

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that's okay, so we could take the break for her to

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THE COURT: Are we back on the record?

THE CLERK: Yes, we are.

THE COURT: Sorry about that. I can see the

numbers when we're in my courtroom. I can't see the

numbers here because they're way down there. All

right, Mr. Hardin, you may continue.

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2 A: No sir.

3 Q: Has Mr. Busch made any attempt to contact you or

4 come to you?

5 A: Through other people.

6 Q: Has Mr. Busch himself-can you give us any example

7 of Mr. Busch trying to see you?

8 A: He's just texted me.

9 Q: Can you give us any example, any evidence, that

10 Mr. Busch has made any attempt to personally see you?

11 A: Not directly.

12 Q: What does "not directly" mean ma'am?

13 A: As in, he did not call me saying "Can I see you?"

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THE COURT: [Interposing] You mean other

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2 Q: Would you agree with me that you cannot give this

3 Commissioner a single time since September the 26th that

4 Kurt Busch has tried to physically see you?

5 A: He has not reached out to my directly to attempt

6 to see me.

7 Q: Right, okay. I guess-you know you're asking for

8 a protective order. Are you saying you're afraid of him?

9 A: Yes sir.

10 Q: Are you really saying that, in light of the fact

11 that he's made no attempt to see you or do anything

12 towards you since September 26th?

13 A: He has contacted my family members. He's

14 contacted my staff. You have, your attorneys have.

15 You've threatened them, you've tried to bribe them.

16 There's a lot that you guys have tried to do to try to

17 make people scare me. I mean, it's been nonstop with you

18 guys. Why are you doing this?

19 THE COURT: Ma'am, you just need to answer

20 the questions that are asked of you. If you need

21 some time to compose yourself you may. You can't ask

22 questions of counsel.

23 Q: If we go through emails in October of this year,

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protective order, are we going to see any text messages in

which Mr. Busch is trying to see you?

A: To see me? No sir.

Q: Have you seen, heard, or have any basis or reason

to believe that he has physically been anywhere near you

any time since September the 26th of this year?

A: Yes sir. He has been at-in Las Vegas, we were

both there the first week of December, at events we both

had, work related.

Q: He was there doing his job, right?

A: And I was there doing mine.

Q: Well, did he have any-make any attempt to see you

in Las Vegas?

A: No sir. You asked if he was anywhere near me. I

said yes sir, he was.

THE COURT: She's right, that was the

question Mr. Hardin.


Q: Did he make any attempt to see you personally-

A: No sir.

Q: --in Las Vegas?

A: No sir.

Q: Did you see him in Las Vegas?

A: I did not.

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2 Q: So let's try again. Is there any-do you have any

3 evidence at all that Mr. Busch has physically tried to be

4 around you or see you since September the 26th of this

5 year?

6 A: No sir.

7 Q: All right. So can we agree for the Commissioner

8 that this protective order that you are asking for hasn't

9 been necessary since September the 26th, has it?

10 A: Sir, I don't know what he's capable of doing.

11 Q: Well, I'm only asking you for what the

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13 A: [Interposing] The reason I asked for the

14 protective order-

15 Q: [Interposing] I didn't finish my question, but go

16 ahead, say what you want to say.

17 A: The reason I asked for the protective order is

18 because I don't know what he's capable of, sir. I don't

19 know what he's going to do.

20 Q: Yes ma'am. Well, when we go back to September

21 the 21st, had he told you that it was over?

22 A: Yes sir.

23 Q: Did he make any attempt to see you between

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Q: So can you and I agree that for five days after

he told you it was over, and you went off in your car and

left him at the-standing out in the street at the Boston

Airport, is there any indication that from that moment

forward he has made any attempt to ever be around you?

A: No sir.

Q: All right. So, isn't it true that you took that

rental car, which was in his name, wasn't it?

A: Yes sir.

Q: And you didn't turn it in right away, did you?

A: No sir.

Q: You kept it, and actually you wrecked it, didn't

you?

A: I did not.

Q: Did you do the damage to the front they sent him

a notice for?

A: There is no damage to the front.

Q: When you turned it in to Hertz, if Hertz were to

say that you finally returned the car, it had been damaged

in the front end, would·they be wrong?

A: The damage that was done was by him wrecking the

windshield and pulling the rear-view mirror out of the

car, and he ripped the emergency trunk handle out of the

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2 Q: You have to let me finish, please.

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4 they want him to pay for?

5 MS. MCNEICE: My client indicated she knows-

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7 A: No.

8 MS. MCNEICE: --about the damaged front end.


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12 THE COURT: Thank you for the objection. I

13 have heard now the answer, and will consider the

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16 Q: Now, after you kept that car do you recall when

17 you turned it in?

18 A: My staffer, Matt Ballard, turned it in.

19 Q: Pardon me?

20 A: My staff, Matt Ballard, turned it in on Thursday.

21 Q: Okay. Now, when you went on did you contact him-

22 -on the 26th I believe you introduced some texts. Had you

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A: No sir.

Q: Do you recall calling his mother repeatedly on

A: Yes sir.

Q: How many times would you estimate you called his

mother in North Carolina, the day before this incident

ever occurred? How many times?

A: In our dating history?

Q: No, on that day.

THE COURT: No, just between the 21st_

Q: Just that day.

THE COURT: --and the 26th.

A: I'm sorry-

MS. MCNEICE: The question was-which day are

we talking about?

MR. HARDIN: 25th.

THE COURT: 25th.

Q: Yes.

A: Is that a Wednesday?

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4 A: Thursday? I don't recall calling her.

5 Q: Did you email her?

6 A: I don't believe so.

7 Q: Did you email her and tell her you were concerned

8 about Kurt?

9 A: I talked to her on Tuesday of that week.

10 Q: How many times?

11 A: I was in a place with bad signal, and my phone

12 kept dropping.

13 Q: What does that mean?

14 A: Well, I call her, I had one bar, and when you

15 start to talk and it would drop, and I'd have to call her

16 back, or she'd call me back.

17 Q: That's all you remember doing?

18 A: Yes sir.

19 Q: Okay.

20 A: I mean, I'd have to go get my phone to go look

21 through to give you an absolute correct answer.

22 Q: Well, hold on just a second, let's see if I can

23 help you. As of the 25th, before you went to his place,

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2 there that night on the 26~?

3 A: Yes sir. As I've explained before, we've had

4 lots of these kinds of fights, and we get back together,

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6 Q: All right. And so it was your plan when you went

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THE CLERK: Well, it's-

THE COURT: That would be R-1 sir.

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2 THE COURT: Ms. McNeice, do you have any

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.4 MS. MCNEICE: I don't know who it is, I

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6 MR. HARDIN: Let me see if I can clear it up

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8 THE COURT: All right, that's fine. Then I

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10 Q: Would you look at this and see if this reflects

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12 mother? Do you recognize the number?

13 A: This says message received 11/10. I did not text

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15 Q: That's how it's forwarded to us. If you would

16 look at the date that the body talks about.

17 A: Yes sir.

18 Q: So I want you to look at it, see if this

19 refreshes your-are these the exchanges you had with Kurt's

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21 A: Where's her responses back to me?

22 Q: Yes, does it reflect those responses back to you?

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3 Q: Ma'am, there's a whole lot of conversations

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to introduce it as Respondent 1.

THE COURT: All right, Ms. McNeice?

MS. MCNEICE: I have no objection.

THE COURT: All right, that will be admitted

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opportunity to discuss what is missing and things of

that nature, but you just need to answer the

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help you here if you would look, I'll represent to you

these are texts forwarded to us, that's why you saw that

date up there, the 11/10/20 [phonetic] . If you look at

and see, all of them are forwarded to us at that date.

Are you with me?

A: I don't believe that I text ...

Q: Well, let me read it out loud and see if you

remember saying this-

A: Is the 23rct a Tuesday? I do not have a calendar

in front of me.

Q: 23rct. Well, it's going to be a Tuesday, isn't

it, if Friday-what was the date that you say that he

assaulted you?

THE COURT: I've got a calendar, and

September the 23rct was indeed a Tuesday.

THE WITNESS: Okay.

Q: All right? So, and didn't you tell me a while

ago you called her on Tuesday?

A: Yes sir.

Q: Okay. So now, do you recall saying to her, at

3:56 that day, "I'm worried sick about Kurt, can you

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13 this message was sent to her on September 23rct?

14 MR. HARDIN: Yes sir.

15 MS. MCNEICE: May I clarify something? You

16 said something was sent-she sent something at 3:56?

17 MR. HARDIN: You're actually right, I got

18 that wrong, thank you, I'll correct it, thank you.

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22 A: Yes sir.

23 Q: Okay. Then that's it. And your lawyer is

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3 A: Yes sir.

4 Q: And then at 4:01 p.m.-actually, at 8:12 p.m.,

5 throughout the same time, you say ni called the house."

6 Do you recall that? Is this sort of fitting into the

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8 A: Yeah, minus her conversation back with me.

9 Q: Pardon me?

10 A: Minus her text back to me that said ncall the

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19 so urgently calling her about?

20 A: I wanted to talk to her about what was going on

21 with Kurt and I, and the fight that had happened, and that

22 he was back to drinking again. And this has been a

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2 Q: Oh, you're now calling him an alcoholic too?

3 A: He's admitted it, yes, sir.

4 Q: I see. And I think you volunteered that when

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6 would go into these drunken stupors you said?

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8 Q: All in this public hearing that would be

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MS. MCNEICE: --Kurt's mother-

THE WITNESS: Yes.

MS. MCNEICE: If he doesn't like the answer,

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as well, and I'll allow the question to be asked, and

ma'am you can just answer the question as best you

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Q: What were you calling her about?

A: That he was drinking again.

Q: Well, you don't say that in these texts, do you?

A: No sir.

Q: And do you have texts in which you told her that

that night?

A: No, because we're talking about it on the phone.

Q: I see. So-

A: [Interposing] She wanted to put him into rehab.

She said that he needed to be in an inpatient treatment

over the off season. And this is what our discussion was.

Q: Why don't you just call a press conference and

say every damn thing you think will harm his reputation?

THE COURT: Mr. Hardin-

A: You asked me what my conversation was.

THE COURT: Mr. Hardin, that's not an

appropriate question, it's argumentative. I'll

strike it.

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2 else about that, and we'll move on.

3 Q: Now, let me ask you this ma'am-

4 MR. HARDIN: Could I have what we've marked

5 as Exhibit 12, which would be Respondent 2. Thank

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7 THE COURT: I don't get to see it until it's

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9 MS. MCNEICE: I don't have one. Thank you.

10 Q: Now what I'm going to, if I may ma'am, would you

11 look through it, and this is-I represent to you that this

12 is excerpts or these are emails from a limited period of

13 time from Mr. Busch's cell phone. I want you to look and

14 see if you would look through and recognize-and if, for

15 the Court, we can agree that whenever you see a bracket on

16 these emails, those are things he texted you, and the

17 unbracketed portions are from you to him. Just take your

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we asking the witness to look at? Nine pages? All

right, ma'am, we're going to recess in order that you

can read those, and we'll come back in. You just let

the Bailiff know when you're completed reading them,

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THE COURT: Back on the record?

THE CLERK: Yes.

THE COURT: Thank you. Ms. Driscoll, have

you had a chance to review the document?


THE COURT: Okay. Mr. Hardin.

Q: Does it reflect email exchanges that you and Mr.

Busch had from October the 13th?

A: No, we did not email. These are text messages.

Q: Did I say emails?

A: Yes sir, you did.

Q: Okay, I'm sorry, I meant to say texts. Does this

accurately reflect text messages that you and Mr. Busch

exchanged from October the 13th to October the 20th of this

year?

A: There seems to be some things missing.

Q: Pardon me?

A: There seems to be some things missing in there.

THE COURT: Okay, but are there things that-

Q: That wasn't what I asked you.

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THE WITNESS: Yes.

THE COURT: Meaning that may not be all the

text messages that you all sent, but the things that

are there, are they text messages that you folks

sent?

THE WITNESS: And I would have to compare

them to my phone to make sure that they're exactly

the same. Because there seems to be words taken out

or things missing in here.

THE COURT: There are things missing from

the messages?


Q: Ma'am-

THE COURT: Ma'am, have you-

THE WITNESS: I would have to compare them-

THE COURT: --placed your phone in the

locker here so that it could be accessed, or do you

have it?

THE WITNESS: It's in my car at the police

station.

THE COURT: It's in your car at the Dover

Police Station.


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3 available. So what we'll do, ma'am, is you'll just

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7 THE COURT: --once it is admitted, if it

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11 Q: On October the 13th of this year had you reported

12 what you claim is the assault by Mr. Busch to any law

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No sir.

Had you reported it to any Family Law agencies?

No sir.

Had you sought a protective order from him?

No sir.

Were you, according to you, afraid of him at that

Yes sir.

You and I know these messages don't reflect that,

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A: I think they do.

Q: I count 54 messages.

A: Okay.

Q: And 12 of them are from him.

A: I don't agree with you.

Q: What part don't you agree with?

A: I know the way that my phone looks, and they're

not broken up like this. These are individual-you're

trying to make it look like there's individual separate

messages, and they were not, when they were part of a

single message.

THE COURT: Okay, and I'll certainly let you

explain that to the Court.

THE WITNESS: Okay.

Q: The only thing I'm really asking you, ma'am, is

did you say these things to him, and did he say these

things to you during that timeframe, from the 13th to the

20th, just one little week?

A: [No verbal response]

Q: Did you tell him the following-look at the first

on October the lOth, at 8:28 a.m., "Kurt, lawyering up is

going in the opposite direction of where I had hoped we

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fences, and set the clock back. We need to do that for

each other." Does that sound-first of all, do you recall

saying that to him?

A: And the rest of it, "I thought when you agreed to

Mark helping us"-

Q: Ma'am-

A: This was all part of one message sir.

THE COURT: That's okay,--

MR. HARDIN: I could-

A: Yes sir.

rHE COURT: You'll be allowed to explain

that. Just answer the question that's asked of you

first.

Q: But let's do this. The part you just talked

about, do you go on to say "I thought when you agreed to

Mark helping us that we could talk through what happened"?

A: Yes sir.

Q: Did you say all of that that I just read?

A: Yes sir.

Q: So that part we know - - ?

A: Yes.

Q: Okay. Does that sound like a woman afraid of the

man she's writing to?

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Q: Does that sound like a woman afraid of the man

she is writing to?

A: Yes sir, to me it does.

Q: What you have said is, you're criticizing him for

getting lawyers involved, aren't you?

A: You're really taking out of what was going on at

the time.

Q: Are you criticizing him, ma'am, here, for getting

lawyers involved?

A: Yes sir.

Q: When you get lawyers involved is that the action

of somebody that is threatening someone physically?

A: I don't-

Q: [Interposing] , that's a bad question.

Isn't what's happening here is your lawyer, Mr.

Dycio, has contacted Kurt, and-

A: [Interposing] No, sir, Kurt contacted Mr. Dycio.

Q: Okay. Let's say that's the truth. They've had

conversations. And then what's happened, isn't it, that

you had found out that Kurt has gone to a lawyer, right?

That's what you're talking about here, isn't it?

A: Kurt had agreed that-

Q: Excuse me, this would go quicker if you just help

me out. And I'll let you say whatever you want after you

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What this exchange is about is you are criticizing

Kurt for getting a lawyer involved, other than Mr. Dycio,

your friend, correct?

A: Correct. Now may I explain?

THE COURT: Ma'am, what are you talking

about, in terms of getting a lawyer involved?

Getting a lawyer involved in what?

THE WITNESS: So Kurt had agreed to meet

with my attorney face to face, to sit down to talk

about the seriousness of what had happened, and that

is-that was the context of this conversation, which

is being taken totally in a different manner.

THE COURT: Okay, don't worry about how

people take it, you just answer the questions that

are asked.

THE WITNESS: He was supposed to meet with

my attorney and sit down and talk about him

assaulting me, and what had happened, and that I

wanted him to seek treatment, that I wanted him to go

into rehab for his alcoholism. I wanted him to go

back on his depression medications, and to go back to

seeing a counselor again.

THE COURT: Okay, and-

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3 THE WITNESS: Instead of, because they had

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6 THE WITNESS: --and Kurt kept changing the

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8 THE COURT: Okay.

9 Q: Actually ma'am, that's not true, is it?

10 A: It is absolutely true.

11 Q: What had happened is-would you look at the date

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13 A: It is text messages, and I am.

14 Q: Texts, I'm sorry,

15 MR. HARDIN: Is this 3?

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17 Q: What's happened here, isn't it ma'am, is that

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admitted?

THE COURT: That's not been admitted yet,

nor has the document that's been handed to you.

THE WITNESS: Oh you guys-this is awesome.

Q: What's happened, isn't it ma'am, that Kurt has

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6 A: Instead of talking to Mr. Dycio, as he had said

7 he was going to do, they were going to sit down and talk.

8 Q: That's fair enough. Let's just stay with-so

9 would you agree with me, for the Court to understand when

10 he asked you what does this lawyering up mean, you had

11 proposed that Mr. Dycio, a friend of yours, mediate

12 between you and Kurt about this matter, correct? Yes or

13 no?

14 A: I had asked Mr. Dycio to go meet with Kurt.

15 Q: All right. And what's happened here, isn't it,

16 that after Kurt and Mr. Dycio have several conversations,

17 Kurt gets uncomfortable, thinking that Dycio is really

18 representing your interests rather than being impartial,

19 and so he-

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3 answer it. I don't know how this witness can answer

4 a question about what's in Mr. Busch's mind.

5 MR. HARDIN: Fair enough Your Honor.

6 Q: But what happens here, let's just try to move

7 this along. What are you fussing at him about on the 13th

8 is that he has now gotten a lawyer for himself on this

9 matter, and you say ~Lawyering up is going in the opposite

10 direction of where I hoped we would be," correct?

11 A: Yes sir.

12 Q: And you will agree with me that that is a full

13 four weeks before you come in here and swear to this Court

14 this you're afraid of him and need a protective order,

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16 A: Four weeks?

17 Q: Well, what's October 13th to November 5th? Just

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19 A: Okay.

20 Q: It's three weeks. I mean, my only point, ma'am,

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MR. HARDIN: That's all right.

THE COURT: --your responses ma'am, I do.

Q: Now, then he responded to you. You recall him

responding to you saying this: "I'm sorry, but based on

your actions and the path you've drove us into, this is

what I felt most comfortable with." He writes back to you

when you fuss at him for getting a lawyer and saying he's

most comfortable with that now, do you recall that?

A: Now.

Q: Do you recall that?

A: Yes sir.

Q: Okay.

A: Especially after he was requesting meetings with

my lawyer.

Q: Well ma'am, immediately, like one minute after he

tells you that, do you recall telling him "I've been

devastated and lost, and hurt beyond belief"?

A: Yes sir.

Q: "So has Houston. I wake up sick to my stomach

every day, with a pain in my chest that doesn't go away."

A: Yes sir.

Q: I'm just asking if you said that to him?

A: Absolutely. Do you know what it's like to wake

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who supposedly loved you did that to you? And that your

whole world is now upside down because he attacked you?

And my custody is in question. - - [crying].

Q: So the answer to my question is yes.

And then you go, do you recall saying to him "What

actions? I've done nothing at all." And saying to him,

"I've sat on my fucking hands waiting on you." Do you

recall saying that to him?

A: Yes sir.

Q: Okay. And then he writes back to you right away-

THE WITNESS: [Interposing] Am I allowed to

explain what this means?

THE COURT: In a moment.

Q: He writes back to you and says "I'm hurt too,"

doesn't he?

A: Yes.

Q: He doesn't threaten you, does he? Does he?

A: No.

Q: He doesn't say "I'm coming after you," does he?

Does he?

A: No.

Q: He says he's hurt, right?

A: Yes.

Q: This is two people hurt in a four-from a four-

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2 A: Yes.

3 Q: There is nothing in here threatening, is there?

4 A: At this particular text, no.

5 Q: And in fact, you cannot show this Court, can you

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7 you filed this November the 5th, and even until today, any

8 threatening texts you have from him?

9 A: I absolutely did. We already entered it.

10 Q: Which was that?

11 A: When he's threatening my custody-

12 Q: Oh, wait a minute.

13 A: --and blackmailing me.

14 Q: Ma'am, excuse me. When you talked earlier to the

15 Commissioner about leaving certain things out, you all

16 left something out of that exchange, didn't you, when you

17 offered it-moved it into evidence, didn't you? Do you

18 recall what you left out?

19 A: No.

20 Q: You left out him-you asking him to be sure to

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Q: Did you talk to him about that at all?

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1 Q: Ma'am, do you understand that what this

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3 with a man saying whether or not he's going to help you in

4 your custody dispute. It has to do with whether you were

5 physically harmed and had a reasonable fear from him of

6 future physical threats, right? Would you agree that's

7 why we're here?

8 A: I didn't expect him to snap-

9 Q: Excuse me, would you agree-

10 A: Yes sir.

11 Q: Can you say yes or no-

12 MS. MCNEICE: Objection, that's certainly

13 not the whole story for why people get a PFA, and I

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15 MR. HARDIN: Well-

16 THE COURT: All right, yeah, the question is

17 somewhat argumentative and I'll sustain the

18 objection. And obviously it is legitimate, Mr.

19 Hardin, for you to be asking the witness about the

20 conversation that may have occurred and been the

21 genesis of Petitioner's Exhibit 2, and I'll certainly

22 allow you to do that.

23 Q: Yeah, all I'm asking is, what he said to you was

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THE COURT: Do you want to look at

Petitioner's 2 ma'am? That's not in that particular

exchange. I think what Mr. Hardin's talking to you

about is Petitioner's Exhibit 2.

MR. HARDIN: Here.

THE COURT: We need to make sure that you

actually have the exhibit, and I have the one that's

marked. We'll show the actual exhibit to the

witness. That's sort of standard procedure anyway.

A: Yes.

THE COURT: I think that's the conversation,

ma'am, that Mr. Hardin's trying to ask you about.

THE WITNESS: Okay.

Q: Ma'am, would you look at the entry on your

Exhibit 2, where it says "Here's the deal, I will only

support the Houston custody shit if you cooperative with

our split. Leaving me stranded and then showing up

unannounced hasn't been all that cooperative."

A: He sent this to me right after he attacked me.

Q: What does that have to do with my question?

A: What is your question?

THE COURT: Actually, you haven't asked the

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2 Q: And hold on just a second, let's back up. What

3 is that statement by him in response to, you didn't

4 provide that, what is he responding to?

5 THE COURT: Was there anything prior to that

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7 THE WITNESS: No, there was not.

8 Q: From , you didn't-you hadn't-you did not send

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10 A: No.

11 Q: --before this?

12 A: No.

13 Q: Okay. So this is the first-

14 A: [Interposing] This-we had the conversation before

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though is it physically threatening ma'am. Is there

a threat to cause physical harm to you in there?

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he had offered to financially support you in your custody

battle, hadn't he?

A: Yes sir.

Q: And what he's saying now is, - - , I'm not going

to continue to do that-

A: [Interposing] He hadn't paid any bills.

Q: Excuse me, you've got to let me finish.

A: Well, you said "continued", so I was-

THE COURT: [Interposing] Hang on, listen to

the question before you try to answer it.

Q: What he's saying here is, "Here's the deal, I

will only support Houston custody shit if you cooperate

with our split." He's saying I'm not going to continue to

finance on something unless you agree to let us separate,

right? Is that what he's saying?

THE COURT: Is that how you interpreted

that, ma'am?

Q: Is that what he's saying?

A: I took the "If you agree to cooperate with our

split," as in, now that we-he attacked me he's wanting me

to be quiet.

THE COURT: Okay, so that's your

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THE COURT: Okay, and that's fine. All you

can tell us about is your interpretation. You can't

tell us what Mr. Busch meant.

Q: And then you go on to say "Leaving me"-he goes on

to say "Leaving me stranded," he's talking about in Boston

at the airport, isn't he?

A: Yes.

Q: "And then showing up unannounced," he's talking

about that night, isn't he?

A: Yes sir.

Q: "Hasn't been all that cooperative." Would you

agree with me that this exchange simply sets out that

after you left his-what do we call it?

A: Motor home.

Q: --after you left his motor home that night he

tells you he's not going to continue to finance your

custody battle unless you cooperate with our split, that's

what he's telling you, isn't it?

A: Yes.

Q: Okay. Now, can we not agree that that is not by

any stretch of the imagination any threat to your physical

safety?

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2 A: Listen, I don't know what your client's capable

3 of. I never thought he would do that to me in the motor

4 home.

5 Q: By the way, do you ever say anything in this

6 exchange we're looking at in October-

7 THE COURT: [Interposing] Okay, we're not on

8 that same one now, we're on a different one, right

9 Mr. Hardin?

10 MR. HARDIN: Yes sir, yes sir.

11 THE COURT: Okay, so we've got to make sure

12 we direct the witness to the correct thing, and it's

13 not an exhibit yet, so I don't know.

14 MS. MCNEICE: I'm sorry, where are you-what

15 are you referring to Mr. Hardin?

16 THE WITNESS: Back to this.

17 MS. MCNEICE: The nine-page, R-2?

18 MR. LIGUORI: R-2.

19 Q: What I want to look at, if you would with me,

20 ma'am, is I want to go through a little bit more of this.

21 When he wrote that "I'm hurt too," then you wrote-do you

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23 me. I never wasted any of this-wanted any of this,"

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2 loved you too much for that."

3 Ma'am, that has you telling the man you wanted a

4 protective order from now, is it not, he should have come

5 to you, he should have called you. The very opposite of

6 what you're asking this Commissioner to do, right?

7 A: No, I said I never wanted what happened, and I

8 was referring to the assault that night.

9 THE COURT: Mm-hmm.

10 Q: "You at any point," you said, do you not, "could

11 have come to me, called me, anything." You're saying

12 October the 13th, three weeks after where you claim that he

13 assaulted you, correct? You never anywhere in here say

14 that's what you're complaining of, do you? You don't say

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16 A: [Interposing] I did not want him-

17 Q: Excuse me, you have to let me finish.

18 THE COURT: Hang on, listen to the question

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20 Q: You do not say anywhere in here that he

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2 spin you want. I'm just saying, you don't use those

3 words, do you?

4 A: I'm not going to-I don't use the word assault,

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6 Q: All right. How about hit? How about choked?

7 A: He didn't hit me.

8 Q: How about choking? You said he choked you.

9 A: He did choke me, but why am I going to say choke?

10 Q: All right, ma'am, look, all you have to say is

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12 THE COURT: Ma'am, you can answer the

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16 assault. I'm capable of understanding that. So all

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19 A: I did not, no, I did not use the word "assault".

20 Q: Or you didn't talk about anywhere in here

21 anything he did to you physically when you were

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6 Q: If you would look down at the bottom, he said to

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8 with words, so let me say this, I have a big heart for you

9 and Houston, and I want what is best for all of us. I

10 don't see a relationship for you and me in the future, and

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12 way."

13 Now ma'am, three weeks before you go over there he is

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THE COURT: Hang on, I think we're

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THE COURT: Three weeks before you-

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Q: Before you filed the charge, before you later

claim to both the police and this Court that you're afraid

of him, and need a protective order across the street on a

criminal charge filing, he is telling you that he has a

big heart for you, doesn't he, but he doesn't see a

relationship with you all, and he wants you to work

together to put this down the right way.

A: I don't believe that he's saying at this point.

Q: Is he saying that?

A: He's saying that, but I don't believe anything

that he's saying at this point.

THE COURT: Okay.


Q: Then if we go over to what said,--

A: As I stated in here too, "Then after that shit

you threaten my custody," I very much referred to when he

assaulted me that night.

Q: And then "You don't just dump your family," you

said, right? "You don't treat people you love the way you

did in New Hampshire."

A: You sure don't.

Q: "And definitely not like Dover."

A: Exactly.

Q: "We just came because we"-what, you say "I'm not

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2 After that shit you threatened my custody." I very, very

3 clearly state what he did to me, in both New Hampshire and

4 Dover.

5 Q: Yes ma'am, he threatened not to continue to pay

6 your bills.

7 A: No, he physically assaulted me.

8 Q: I'm talking about the custody.

9 A: This says "You don't treat people the way you

10 love in New Hampshire, and definitely not like in Dover."

11 And I am referring to his assault, and his screaming, his

12 verbal abuse.

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14 A: And his physical abuse.

15 Q: And then you're mad at him. Would you agree with

16 me that in these text messages the person that seems to be

17 the maddest and most threatening is you?

18 A: I'm not threatening him at all.

19 Q: And then you write, "Then after shit you threaten

20 my custody"?

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22 Q: And then you say to me, "You lied to me, you kept

23 lying to me about our future, before and after New

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2 Q: Yes ma'am. But would you agree with me that is

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4 A: No.

5 Q: Man or woman, it's a jilted person.

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9 THE COURT: Sustained, it's not necessary

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12 Q: Then he goes on to write, "There are no lies

13 here, I was unhappy for a long period. I promise"--you

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15 promise you there's no other woman, I'm a lost independent

16 soul right now," right?

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MR. HARDIN: It is the entirety of the

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he had during this timeframe. We only have here.

When this all happened he went on and erased

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THE COURT: Okay.

MR. HARDIN: So we don't have anything past

this period of time.

THE COURT: Okay.

MR. HARDIN: We're subject only to hers.

THE COURT: Okay.

MR. HARDIN: And actually, I never objected

to the text messages that they introduced themselves

that leaves things out. But I can-

THE COURT: [Interposing] I got it, but I

what I want to make sure of is that either side-that

if there's something that there's messages missing

from, if the other side wishes to admit the rest of

that conversation or the rest of that document, if

they have it available, they're able to do that.

MR. HARDIN: We would love to.

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4 A: Yes, minus quite a few text messages in between.

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MR. HARDIN: Thank you. Then in that case,

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information about what might be missing. In addition

to that, if we look for instance at a page-I'm

looking at something that says "I promise you there's

no other woman," and then it goes onto a number of

deliveries that are 9/19. I would suggest to the

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types them, or you type it in and the text sends it,

and it comes out in perhaps three different little

windows-

THE COURT: Mm-hmm.

MS. MCNEICE: --that's not necessarily, as

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THE COURT: Well, but-I get it, but the

issue is, for purposes of admissibility, is whether

or not what's in this document is conversations that

took place between Mr. Busch and the witness. And

the witness seems to have characterized that as

correct. Maybe it's not all of the conversations

that took place between the witness and Mr. Busch,

but the witness seems to be saying it is at least

parts of the conversation that took place. And the

Court's certainly willing to admit it into evidence,

and the witness can then explain, or others can

explain, what may be missing.

MS. MCNEICE: And I'll-

THE COURT: So it will be admitted.

MS. MCNEICE: I'm sure the Court will give

it the weight that it appears to deserve.

THE COURT: That's always correct. So that

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we can ma'am, and.any time you think it's not accurate,

please tell me. If we go over to-I think if you count it,

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you had said "You lied to me, and kept lying to me about

our future before New Hampshire. I believed you. It was

all lies." He responded to you "There are no lies here.

I was unhappy for a long period," correct?

A: Yes.

Q: And then do you then accuse him of there being

other women?

A: There's text messages missing here.

THE COURT: All right, do you remember what

was in those messages though ma'am?

A: I said "I'm sure there's somebody else."

THE COURT: Okay.

Q: All right. Did you believe at that time there

was another woman?

A: I don't know if there was another woman or not.

Q: Do you recall telling him that?

A: I guess.

Q: Okay. And he tells you "I promise you, there is

no women. I'm a lost independent soul right now," right?

A: Yes.

Q: And then you write back "It was all a lie. I'm

sure you told your ex the same." He said "No, I just

pulled the Band-Aid," right?

THE COURT: It looks like there's a Patricia

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8 THE COURT: Okay, and do you remember-

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12 the Band-Aid," do you remember anything about that?

13 THE WITNESS: About-probably about him

14 cheating. I said I don't know what's true or what's

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16 Q: [Interposing] That's it ma'am. I think there is

17 an omission. Let me see if this helps you remember.

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20 Entertain the possibility this is the truth-

21 MS. MCNEICE: I'm sorry, that this what?

22 MR. LIGUORI: This is the truth.

23 Q: This is the truth. "It was all a lie," you say,

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you said was "You just need to pull the Band-Aid"? Do you

recall that? Think back - - , take your time.

MS. MCNEICE: Objection, relevance. It's

something that-

MR. HARDIN: The relevance has-

MS. MCNEICE: --was said to them-

MR. HARDIN: Excuse me.

MS. MCNEICE: --four years before that. If

he wants to use the expression he pulled the Band-Aid

that's his expression-

MR. HARDIN: No, the-

THE COURT: It's okay. It refers to a

vernacular between the parties that's common, and so

the question is appropriate-

Q: And the reason I'm asking it is-

THE COURT: --and I'll allow it to be

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Q: --I wanted to refresh your memory, because you

were indicating to the Court there's something missing.

And what I'm trying to point out to you is, isn't it true

there is nothing missing there, because when you say "I'm

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A: I don't know what he means-

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A: --by that.

Q: That's fine. Let's move on.

THE COURT: Okay.

Q: And you say to him, did you not, "You lied, you

lied every time you looked me in the eyes and told me how

in love with me you were, when you would show me your

happiness and laugh, and look in my eyes and tell me you

were happy. Even Saturday night before New Hampshire,

when we planned our future and talked about it all of the

time, looked at , discussed finances, started our

company, when you made promises to me and Houston that

the future, graduations, trips, holidays, driving the

championship car in Germany, another kid, I believed all

of it, and always trusted you. I believed every word

until Dover. I should have known it at the Indy banquet

that I was only here to work for you. You failed to

mention your family in your speech, the person who did

everything for you, me. When you ran outside crying

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reason for your success, saved your life, and was your

partner forever. I believed your tears. That was June.

I saw what we accomplished together. I didn't realize I'd

just been here to work for you. I feel like an idiot.

You have fucked me up. I've had a very hard time

functioning. On top of it, everything bad has poured down

on me. I walk around in tears or like a zombie because I

have to be somewhere. I'm a fucking wreck. I can't eat,

I try, but eat little of anything at all. I wake up sick

to my stomach every morning." Do you remember saying

those things to him?

A: Yes.

Q: All right. Now, would you agree with me that

nowhere in that exchange are either one of you threatening

the other?

A: Okay.

Q: And then, on the 18th, you say he reached out to

you. Do you remember telling the Judge, when you guys did

your exchanges of emails, and I'm thinking more about the

one that starts the Sunday, October the 19th, 11:34 a.m.,

it's your exhibit-

MR. HARDIN: Do you mind telling me which

one that is?

THE COURT: That would be 7.

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8 MS. MCNEICE: Oh thank you, I apologize.

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10 MS. MCNEICE: I set mine aside somewhere.

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13 yet, can we talk?"; do you recall that?

14 A: Yes.

15 Q: And if you go back to what I just read to you,

16 and we talked about leaving things out, he reaches out to

17 you, does he not, on the 18th? Did you all have any email

18 exchanges between the 13u and the 18u?

19 A: No, and we did not have any text message

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21 Q: Thank you, I'm sorry. Thank you for - -

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A: Absolutely not. And-

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A: --wait, you asked the question, I'm going to take

the opportunity to explain myself.

THE COURT: You may.

A: When he-when I said "You have fucked me up," he

did, when he put his hands on my threat and smashed my

head into the wall. And I'm saying I'm having a hard time

functioning because I am. And I said, on top of that,

lots of other bad things have happened to me, and I walk

around in tears like a zombie because I have to be

somewhere but I'm a fucking wreck. I can't eat, I can't

sleep, because this is the moment that I keep replaying in

my brain.

I don't believe anything that he has to say at this

point is what I was getting to in all of this, because why

did he do this to me? And then he's just telling me

stuff. I don't believe anything the guy has to say at

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THE COURT: All right. And that's the last

message that you all folks exchanged prior to October

the 18ili, when Mr. Busch asks "Is Houston in bed yet,

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3 Q: Then so it's in sequence, he writes you at 5:26-

4 A: [Interposing] And he's already been told by my

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6 Q: Well-

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11 THE WITNESS: Yes.

12 THE COURT: Okay. But you don't know what

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17 Q: But by this time your attorney is sending letters

18 back and forth to his attorney, right? You know that,

19 don't you? Remember, I showed you one that's dated

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3 what is it you'd like to talk about?" Right?

4 A: Yes.

5 Q: And he writes to you ~I just finished meeting the

6 troops, now"-and he means Army troops, right? He means a

7 foundation thing?

8 A: Yes.

9 Q: ~Now I'm at the drivers' meeting, you know that.

10 Tonight or tomorrow we will have to try to understand

11 where we are. You have undermined me so heavily in the

12 past few weeks, my job is in jeopardy, I just saw

13 management talking with the Tier 3 [phonetic] driver.

14 You've done your job as a cancer, and it has to stop." Do

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A: It's right here. And it's right there.

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4 A: This is what came through on my phone.

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7 A: These are actual snapshots of my phone.

8 Q: Okay. Now, if you look-would you put that in

9 front of you please? Put them side to side.

10 A: Okay.

11 Q: And the complete one we've got here on the page

12 of R-2 says "You have undermined me so heavily in the past

13 few weeks, my job is in jeopardy." Is that in the one you

14 have?

15 A: Yes, it's right here.

16 Q: All right. "You've done your job as a cancer,

17 and it has to stop." Is that the way it says on yours?

18 A: No.

19 Q: Right. What does it say on yours?

20 A: This is an actual screen shot of my phone.

21 Q: I'm just asking you what it says.

22 A: I didn't manipulate this. It says-

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4 A: You have "And it has to stop now." To me "It has

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6 saying I'm threatening his job, and I'm doing no such

7 thing, and it has to stop.

8 Q: You take that as a threat?

9 A: Yes.

10 Q: I see. Let's go to the next page. You write to

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Respondent's 2.

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MR. HARDIN: Thank you, Judge.

MS. MCNEICE: And I apologize, I did not

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THE COURT: We're looking at-I'm sorry, this

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six-looks like that seventh page, ma'am, on

Respondent's 2, is I think what Mr. Hardin's trying

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THE WITNESS: All right.

THE COURT: --with you.

Q: Are you there?

A: I'm here.

Q: Okay. Actually, that exchange we just read that

are in R-2, you put a-you responded with a question mark,

right?

A: Yes.

Q: Do you recall doing that? And then what is his

answer?

A: "Laugh out loud."

Q: Okay. And then you write, do you not, "There

were no troops we requested for you to meet with, I made

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little boy trying to make sense of it all, the guy who

called himself Houston's stepdad hasn't been around, he's

trying to understand all of this. This has been an

extremely hard time on us."

A: Yes.

Q: Throughout this exchange on October the 19th,

this is each of you saying to the other that you don't

want to be around the other, right?

THE COURT: You can speak for what your side

of it was.

A: Yeah, I don't know what Kurt's saying.

Q: Well, you're saying to him you haven't been

around and haven't been in the camp and haven't been with

his guys, right? Isn't that what you're saying?

A: I said I haven't been anywhere near his people.

Q: That's what I see.

A: He was around my people.

Q: All right.

THE COURT: Okay.

Q: He goes on to tell you who somebody was that had

been there, right?

A: Correct.

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2 texts, phone calls, social media, etcetera, and too many

3 people have knowledge about propaganda you and you only

4 could be spreading." And then you answer him, right?

5 A: Yes.

6 Q: "It's my understanding you went up to the troops

7 on the drivers' meeting. I clearly instructed my staff to

8 no longer make request of your time after Dover. Nor

9 bother you at your car. I guess that race dedication

10 family was scheduled many weeks ago, as well as the gala

11 prize you offered. It won't happen again." And he writes

12 back "Okay, thank you," right?

13 A: He went up to my staff during-

14 Q: [Interposing] Did he write it? Did he say "Thank

15 you" ma'am? Does he write and say that?

16 THE COURT: It's been admitted. I see the

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18 A: Yes.

19 Q: So ma'am, what I'm trying to figure out is, this

20 is the man saying he wants you to stay away from him,

21 right? And you're saying-isn't that what he's saying

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23 A: I asked him to stay away from my people, and he

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2 Q: You go down at the bottom, can we finish, he says

3 "Okay thank you," would you agree, he thanked you for what

4 you said?

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6 Q: All right. And then you state, "You're being

7 paranoid. I know a lot of people and had long-standing

8 relationships with them before knowing you. I have a

9 relationship with NASCAR that is only going, and I will be

10 back at the track as I see fit, and in between my movie

11 premiers. I will work with a lot of other teams and

12 people who are truly invested in our call. It's business

13 as usual, so what does your comment about 'where we are'

14 mean? And what propaganda are you talking about?"

15 Now, would you agree with me that there is nothing in

16 this entire exchange for that whole week in which he

17 threatens you?

18 A: My perception is that I feel threatened, and he

19 keeps coming up to my staff, even when I've asked him not

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21 Q: Would you agree with me that entire exchange for

22 that week is him wanting to have you and your people stay

23 away from him and his people?

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A: Yeah, this is my foundation, the people I brought

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Q: Are they - - military people?

A: They could have been veterans. I don't know

which race this is exactly.

Q: You don't want-you just said "my troops." So

some military people there are at a NASCAR function, and

you don't want the man that you're upset with to be able

to meet with these people?

A: My staff is right there. I do not want him-

Q: Excuse me, just answer my question. Are you

actually telling us that you consider those troops, those

Army military, all types, all branches, Navy-

MS. MCNEICE: Objection.

MR. HARDIN: Excuse me, let me finish my

question.

THE COURT: He can finish the question and

I'll him to answer it-I'll allow it to be answered.

Q: Are you saying that you meant there, and in your

testimony now, that you wouldn't want him to be able to go

up to those military veterans or active duty people?

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Q: I was-

A: I didn't say stay away from every troop in the

NASCAR track, just stay away from my particular group.

THE COURT: Okay, all right, so ma'am, I

need some clarification with regard to what your

organization does at the NASCAR track with the

troops, so that I can fully understand this exchange

that we've just had.

THE WITNESS: We bring between eight and 12

wounded service members, sometimes they're active,

sometimes they're veterans, so they're out of the

system-

THE COURT: Mm-hmm.

THE WITNESS: --and I usually have two staff

bringing these guys around.

THE COURT: Mm-hmm.

THE WITNESS: And they go around and meet

with various teams. We have activities for them

during the day to go to pit road, to go to the

drivers' meeting, to meet with certain drivers, to be

a part of the pre-race ceremonies.

THE COURT: Okay.

THE WITNESS: So this is a small group.

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4 is my organization, this is my staff that's working

5 there. He knows who these guys are, and I just asked

6 that he stay away from our particular group.

7 THE COURT: Okay. So you asked Mr. Busch

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9 THE WITNESS: Yes.

10 THE COURT: Okay.

11 Q: And so are you saying, ma'am, that these members

12 of the military, some of them wounded warriors?

13 A: Yes.

14 Q: And some of them are Army veterans or military

15 veterans?

16 A: Yes.

17 Q: And some are on active duty, unwounded?

18 A: I said this, yes.

19 Q: And you seriously think they wouldn't like to

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2 Q: Do you think it's appropriate, because of your

3 dispute with him, to keep them away from him?

4 A: I absolutely believe it's appropriate for stay

5 his distance away from my staff. And he came up to them

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Mr. Busch to be around your staff?

THE WITNESS: Because they've been trying to

bribe my staff, they've been trying to get my staff-

harass my staff.

THE COURT: When you say "they", who do you

mean by that?

THE WITNESS: Mr. Hardin's crew, and Kurt

has called some of my staff members. He's been

trying to say "You better tell her to leave me alone.

You better tell her not to go to the police." They

have threatened me.

THE COURT: Okay. So your perception was

that Mr. Busch was trying to communicate with your

staff about this matter?

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2 THE COURT: [Interposing] Not this matter,

3 because this matter wasn't filed yet-

4 THE WITNESS: Right.

5 THE COURT: --but okay.

6 THE WITNESS: But he knew about it.

7 THE COURT: Right, I got it. Mr. Hardin?

8 Q: Could you tell me who we have supposedly

9 threatened or bribed?

10 A: You named some of my staff members, and do I know

11 these people.

12 Q: Which ones did we threaten?

13 A: Matt Ballard. You also threatened the preacher,

14 Nick Terry. I was on the phone with him last night.

15 Q: We threatened him?

16 A: Yes, you did. And then you also bribed him and

17 tried to get him to change his story.

18 Q: How did we bribe him?

19 A: That's what he said to me.

20 Q: No, how did we bribe him?

21 A: He said that you offered him financial

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Really?

Yes.

Who did he say did that ma'am?


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3 Q: Are you saying that either one of those men would

4 come here and swear under oath to that?

5 A: And they said that Kurt said that he'd be willing

6 to talk.

7 Q: Did what?

8 A: You're asking me what they said. This is what

9 I've been told.

10 Q: I want to make sure we have this now, because

11 obviously what you're accusing us of is a crime, you

12 realize that?

13 A: You bet.

14 Q: Pardon?

15 A: You bet.

16 Q: Okay. So I want to make sure that-

17 A: [Interposing] You have reached out to my staff

18 members.

19 Q: Excuse me, let's just let me finish the question.

20 I want you to give me the name and details. Because as an

21 Officer of the Court, he has an obligation, they have an

22 obligation, to report this. Because you are accusing us,

23 under oath, of a crime. So let me get this in. Matt

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A: Contacted by your office.

Q: Right. And what are you accusing us under oath

of saying?

A: Saying that you would help Kurt out.

Q: Who?

A: You told Matt that-Matt told me that you guys

asked him to help Kurt out.

Q: What's wrong with that?

A: Offering him a job.

Q: Who offered him a job? Are you suggesting that

somebody offered Matt a job?

A: Yes.

Q: Who offered Matt a job, and what job did they

offer?

A: To work for him, for PR.

THE COURT: So this is something that

someone told you ma'am.

THE WITNESS: Yes.

THE COURT: You obviously weren't-

THE WITNESS: I did not-

THE COURT: --a witness to any of this.

THE WITNESS: I wasn't witness to this

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THE COURT: --what happened?

THE WITNESS: --they're telling me.

Q: And who-

THE COURT: Okay, so you can't state for a

fact that that happened, all you could state-

THE WITNESS: Is what-

THE COURT: --is that somebody told you

that.

THE WITNESS: Yes. And he asked me what

they said.

THE COURT: Okay, all right.

Q: Did you ever see Caine Mutiny, the movie?

A: No.

Q: Or read the book?

A: No.

Q: All right.

THE COURT: That's kind of an old one for

somebody her age.

MR. HARDIN: It is, but the movie was

redone.

THE WITNESS: I'm going on what somebody

said to me. I have no direct knowledge.

THE COURT: I got it.

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4 THE WITNESS: Told me.

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7 THE COURT: I got it.

8 Q: And who else? And who was supposed-

9 A: [Interposing] And I heard a voicemail from

10 Rusty's office, from one of his associates to my employee,

11 Matt Ballard, that we have a copy of, that I believe he

12 gave to the police, that said "We believe that-Kurt gave

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THE COURT: That's-I mean-

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THE COURT: Okay, here's the deal, okay?

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MR. HARDIN: Here's the problem-

THE COURT: I certainly understand that, Ms.

McNeice, but here's the deal, Mr. Hardin sort of

worked his way into this circumstance where Ms.

Driscoll has indicated that others have told her that

his office has attempted to-

MR. HARDIN: Bribe.

THE COURT: --manipulate them, manipulate

members of her staff, and obviously that in and of

itself is particularly relevant, because, to be

honest, I'm dealing with what comes out on the

witness stand as opposed to anything else. But I

will allow Mr. Hardin, because it is something that

deals with the integrity of him and his office, to

ask some questions with regard to the utterances that

were made to this witness as it relates to that.

Now Mr. Hardin, I'm not going to let you

take up the rest of the day doing this, but I will

certainly give you some leeway with regard to asking

the witness who said what to her about what they're

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2 What is it that you say you were told that Mr.

3 Ballard was said-was told that was wrong? I mean, I

4 believe you said we threatened and bribed. And so, what-

5 A: [Interposing] He told me that he felt threatened.

6 THE COURT: Mr. Ballard told you that?

7 Q: Mr. Ballard-

8 A: Mr. Ballard told me that.

9 Q: And did he tell you how he-was a threat made by

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11 A: I told him to go to the police.

12 Q: Okay, was he-do you know whether he did or not?

13 A: I do not know.

14 Q: All right. What did he say he was threatened?

15 A: I did not get into it, I told him to go to the

16 police. He told me that he felt threatened. This is one

17 of the reasons I did not want Kurt around my staff. I'm

18 not-I do not want him around my staff.

19 Q: So he felt threatened by whom, the lawyers or

20 Kurt?

21 A: By your-he said your office.

22 Q: All right, my office. Not our client, our

23 office. Did he tell you who it was?

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2 A: Yes.

3 Q: And you're saying that that message was a threat?

4 A: No.

5 Q: Okay.

6 A: But he just, to prove to me that your office was

7 reaching out to my staff.

8 Q: And what is wrong with that, I'm trying to

9 understand?

10 A: Why are you reaching out to my staff?

11 Q: Well, if your client was accused of something-let

12 me put it another way, let me ask the question. If you

13 were accused of something wouldn't you want your lawyer to

14 try to talk to as many people as possible to find out what

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16 A: You're reaching out-but my staff, who was not

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from this particular aspect of things. Because the

fact of the matter is that it is appropriate for

attorneys and their staff to investigate the identity

of witnesses who may have information as it relates

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2 scared that lawyers were calling them-

3 THE COURT: I get it.

4 THE WITNESS: --this guy, who's a famous

5 lawyer, who's getting athletes off for doing all

6 kinds of stuff, is calling them. They're concerned.

7 They're 20 something years old.

8 THE COURT: Okay, but here's the deal, okay,

9 I get that that's why you wanted Mr. Busch to stay

10 away from your staff, and we'll move on, because it

11 is entirely legitimate for Mr. Hardin and his staff

12 to investigate. And to be honest, if folks felt

13 bribed or threatened or whatever, they can take

14 action on that, but it's nothing to do with what

15 we're having to do here. I'm going to decide this

16 case based on the evidence that's in front of me

17 about what did or didn't happen in September. Mr.

18 Hardin?

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21 Q: All right. And then Nick Terry, the testimony

22 was similar about him, just so I can move on?

23 A: Yes. I have no direct knowledge of what you said

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2 Q: Okay. Now I want to go to that if I may. In the

3 case of Mr. Terry, you went to Mr. Terry immediately; is

4 that right?

5 A: Yes sir.

6 Q: And if Mr. Terry was to say that neither he nor

7 his wife-she was there, right?

8 A: Yes.

9 Q: Saw anything that was physical, any marks, any

10 redness, anything, any physical marks on you at all when

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12 A: [Interposing] They told me they-


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15 THE COURT: Hang on a second. He's asking

16 her a question and he's not asked yet.

17 Q: If they were to say that, would that be true or

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19 A: Untrue.

20 Q: Okay. So is it your testimony that Mr. Terry and

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They told me that my neck was red. I asked them-

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Q: And if they have told anyone else differently

that would not be true, according to you; is that right?

A: Correct.

Q: Okay. Now, when you had your later conversation

in the car-do you realize when I was asking you about Mr.

Sniffen, that is Richard Andrew Sniffen?

A: Okay.

Q: Usually goes by Andrew Sniffen?

A: He goes by Richard Andrew.

Q: Richard Andrew. Okay. When you were talking to

him, did you later call him several times repeatedly after

the event?

A: Couple of times.

Q: Okay. Did you go seek counseling from him?

A: I was talking to him as a counselor, yes.

Q: Okay. Now, can you point us to any-would you

agree that you and Mr. Busch communicated frequently by

text?

A: Before this-

Q: During your relationship. During your whole

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2 Q: Okay. Can you help us out with any text that you

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4 A: But our preferential communication was talking on

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6 THE COURT: Okay, well, he's just going to

7 ask you about texting and you can talk about other

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9 Q: Can you point us to any text since September the

10 21st until today in which Mr. Busch has threatened you in

11 any way?

12 A: I'm telling you that my per-

13 Q: No, no, please-

14 A: My perception of some of his texts may not be the

15 same as yours. And yes, I take some of his texts very

16 threatening.

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18 THE COURT: And I think one of the-where we

19 may be missing each other, Mr. Hardin, is you're

20 using the threatening, and she's interpreting it to

21 be other than physical, and you're thinking physical.

22 Q: Any-can you point us to any text or any

23 documents, or any physical evidence that since September

24 the 21st until today, that Mr. Busch has in any way

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2 night, but there are no text messages where he physically

3 threatens me.

4 Q: You would agree that we have the pictures that

5 you took of yourself, correct?

6 A: Correct.

7 Q: In which you say that whatever is shown on there

8 is somehow caused by him, correct?

9 A: They were.

10 Q: And can you point to any text exchanges between

11 Mr. Busch and you in which you've said that?

12 A: Yes. I already did to you.

13 Q: Talking about physical?

14 A: Yes.

15 Q: Which one?

16 A: Yes, we just went through them Rusty.

17 Q: Yeah, thank you very much.

18 THE COURT: Okay-

19 A: And I said that-

20 THE COURT: --are you talking about the text

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22 THE WITNESS: In Respondent's 2, yes.

23 Q: Where does it say anything about physical threats

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2 Q: Okay. I'm only talking about words.

3 A: Yeah.

4 Q: We've heard-

5 A: [Interposing] "You have fucked me up," that is-

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7 A: --that is my term for you have assaulted me.

8 Q: I understand that's what you're saying. What I'm

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THE COURT: I think what Mr. Hardin's

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or did Mr. Busch ever use the word assault-

MR. HARDIN: Or hit.

THE COURT: --or hit or strike or choke-

MR. HARDIN: Not just assault.

THE COURT: --or anything like that in your

messages?

THE WITNESS: I did not use those words, I

used "Fucked me up."

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10 and that's what I mean. And it's very clear about

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12 Q: Are there any other circumstances ma'am besides

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15 Q: September the 20th and today, in which you

16 contend that there is physical evidence of emails, text

17 messages, documents, anything?

18 A: When I also said "I never wanted what happened,"

19 that is my reference to the assault as well.

20 Q: Okay, I'm-

21 A: When I said "You fucked me up," that's pretty

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23 Q: Those are the two times?

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have to go through them all to figure out in other areas

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THE COURT: I understand your testimony,

ma'am, and I understand your prior testimony in that

regard, as it relates to these messages.

Q: All right. Now, at the end of the day, when you

arrived that night, how long would you say you were in his

trailer?

A: About ten minutes or so.

Q: How many times do you estimate or believe he told

you you had to leave?

A: Once or twice.

Q: Do you contend to this Commissioner that during

the physical confrontation you contend happened that your

son was there where he could visibly see it?

A: He was at the front, and he was facing the front

of the bus, watching TV.

Q: Do you recall Kurt Busch telling you this was not

an appropriate conversation to have around your son?

A: Never.

Q: Okay. And then when the physical encounter that

you had in some detail described to the Commissioner-how

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A: Moments, one, two, three, and that was it.

Q: And then how did it stop?

A: I pushed his hands away from me, told him he was

a piece of shit and a coward, and I ran out. There was no

conversation between him and I at that point.

Q: Did you go get your son?

A: I grabbed my son and ran, as I've testified

already.

Q: I see. And when you did that, is it your

testimony that you were afraid?

A: Yes sir.

Q: And is it your testimony that-did he follow you?

A: No.

Q: Did he try to stop you?

A: I ran.

Q: Did he try to stop you?

A: No.

Q: What is the theory that you have that you were

entitled to stay after he told you to leave his house?

A: He kept talking to me about his team, and going

off about that. He was going off about different subjects

he was talking to me about. He wasn't-he didn't say "Now

leave, just leave, just leave." He kept talking to me

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2 happened? Just with your hands, and specifically put some

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4 A: He grabbed me by the throat and the face and

5 smashed my head into the wall three times.

6 Q: Yes ma'am. So which hand did he grab you by the

7 throat?

8 A: His left hand, right hand smashed my face.

9 Q: Let me see. So his left hand grabbed you where?

10 On your throat?

11 A: Right. here.

12 Q: On your left side? So where, could you point

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14 A: Like this.

15 Q: Okay.

16 A: Like this, as if I'm standing in front of you

17 like this.

18 Q: Okay. All right.

19 A: And this.

20 Q: I see. And so, the problem is the reader won't

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22 A: I've already described this in great detail. Do

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Q: Would you consider yourself a strong woman?

THE COURT: You'll have to qualify that.


THE COURT: Physically, emotionally,

mentally?

MR. HARDIN: Fair enough.

THE COURT: Strong has a number of

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Q: By the way, you were-did you go to the doctor

about these injuries?

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on my neck that they would be legally obligated to report

it to the police before I had a chance to talk to my

attorney.

Q: That's why you didn't go to a doctor?

A: Yes, I wanted to talk to my attorney first about

how this was going to affect my custody.

Q: Okay. And so you waited until your attorney came

back from out of the country to go to a doctor?

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2 Q: Okay. So did you go to anybody for any kind of

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4 A: No.

5 Q: All right. You mentioned the neighbor that you

6 called. Is she here as a witness?

7 A: Mm-hmm.

8 Q: And what is her name?

9 A: Waleska Rodriguez.

10 Q: And you called her over about what time that

11 morning?

12 A: 1:30.

13 Q: In the morning?

14 A: Yes.

15 Q: Do you consider her a good friend?

16 A: Yes.

17 Q: Is she married?

18 A: Yes.

19 Q: And do they live right across the street, next

20 door, or what?

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They live right next door.

Do they ever keep Austin?

Houston.

Houston, excuse me. Do they ever keep Houston?

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2 A: Yes.

3 Q: Why didn't you call them to keep him when you

4 decided to drive over to Dover to see a man whose mental

5 health you were concerned about?

6 A: I told you this already. Because I thought he

7 just needed the love of his family.

8 Q: Well, you remember the Judge interjected and said

9 "So you didn't take him because you didn't have anybody to

10 leave him with," right?

11 A: Yes. And I also that I thought-

12 Q: [Interposing] You said yes, you said yes, right?

13 A: Yes. And I just thought he needed the love of

14 his family, and I was going to be at the event the next

15 day. I just assumed that we would talk and work this out.

16 Q: Okay. So you took your son over there at that

17 time of night, not because you didn't have anybody to

18 leave him with, because you did-

19 A: That was-

20 Q: Excuse me. You did have someone you could leave

21 him with. She could have watched him, couldn't she?

22 A: I didn't see them there. But I wasn't-I thought-

23 Q: Ma'am, I'm just ask-look, this lady is a close

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2 Q: And she's a close enough friend that she's come

3 up here voluntarily to testify, right?

4 A: Yes.

5 Q: So did you not think about calling her at 8:00

6 that night and say, "Listen, I need to go to Dover on a

7 family emergency, can you watch Houston?" instead of

8 taking him into that situation?

9 A: Houston also wanted to see Kurt too.

10 Q: I see. Okay.

11 A: We're always together every weekend.

12 Q: Yes ma'am. But actually, when you came in, the

13 first thing you told Mr. Busch is, "I want you to tell

14 him," pointing to your son, "why it's over."

15 A: No, I did not.

16 Q: You never said that?

17 A: We never had that conversation in front of

18 Houston, absolutely not.

19 Q: Okay, that's fine. At the end, when it was over,

20 did you go get him? "Houston, come back," and again say

21 that-

22 A: Absolutely not. I ran out. I ran out of the

23 motor home immediately. There was no conversation.

24 Q: When you called the lady that you say your

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2 A: Yes.

3 Q: In Florida; is that right?

4 A: Yes.

5 Q: And she came up, I believe you testified, about

6 the next day or so?

7 A: Yes.

8 Q: And when she came up-and I think you said she

9 stayed Saturday to Monday; is that correct?

10 A: Yes.

11 Q: Did she talk to Houston by herself?

12 A: No.

13 Q: Did at any time she pull Houston aside to see

14 what he saw?

15 A: No.

16 Q: Are you saying the entire time she was up here

17 that didn't happen?

18 A: Yes.

19 Q: Okay. Would Houston have known whether or not

20 you were physically assaulted?

21 A: Houston said that he heard Kurt say some really

22 mean things.

23 Q: Well, I'm not speaking of what was said. I'm

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2 Q: I see, okay. So your answer-

3 A: [Interposing] And we were trying to be very

4 careful about our conversations around my son.

5 Q: So you're saying he wouldn't know, is that-

6 A: No.

7 Q: Okay. One way or the other. So we come back

8 down to this, we started out today, do we not? This

9 really depends upon whether you're telling the truth or

10 Mr. Busch is, correct?

11 THE COURT: I haven't heard anything from

12 Mr. Busch yet.

13 MR. HARDIN: I understand.

14 Q: But I mean, at the end of the day, assuming Mr.

15 Busch testified, this will really come down to there were

16 only three people there, and one's a child who, according

17 to you, didn't see anything, right?

18 A: Correct.

19 Q: All right, so we're going to have to decide it

20 based on what you say and what Mr. Busch says, correct?

21 A: Correct.

22 Q: Now, would you agree that by the time you went

23 over-I don't expect you will agree with this, but by the

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2 A: No, I just told you, I needed to talk to my

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4 Q: Isn't it true, ma'am, that this is not the first

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THE COURT: Hang on.

MS. MCNEICE: Excuse me.

Q: --has engaged in domestic violence?

THE COURT: You actually have to let the

question come out before you can object to it. And

what's the nature of the objection Ms. McNeice?

MS. MCNEICE: Relevance.

THE COURT: All right. Mr. Hardin, what's

the relevance of whether or not this witness has

previously accused someone else of being abusive?

MR. HARDIN: At least two or three times she

has made the same allegation with men she had a

relationship with.

THE COURT: Okay. So are we going to get

into mini trials regarding whether or not those two

or three people abused her?

MR. HARDIN: No,

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allegations.

THE COURT: --is sustained.


MR. HARDIN: Just so the record's clear, I

was only talking about whether or not she's made the

allegations.

THE COURT: Yes, in the absence of whether

the allegation is true, it's irrelevant. We're good.

Objection is sustained.

MR. HARDIN: Judge, can I just-

THE COURT: You may.

MR. HARDIN: I'm not arguing with you, I

just want to make a point.

THE COURT: Mm-hmm.

MR. HARDIN: That the reason I raise this is

because our contention is is that this is a pattern

she engages in when she has a dispute with a man.

That's the reason. Not whether it did happen,

MS. MCNEICE: Objection, Your Honor. His

furthering discussion, and I presume that's in the

form of summary argument that - - ·

[Crosstalk]

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2 have been abused more than once, and have therefore

3 reported abuse more than once. And that would have

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8 Q: Now, the next day did you also-you mentioned that

9 you were primarily responsible for the public image of Mr.

10 Busch, did you not?

11 A: Yes.

12 Q: And who is a Mr. Healthman [phonetic]?

13 A: He owns a marketing company called Exit 10, and

14 Kurt calls him-

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I'm sorry, it's called what?

Exit 10.

And?

And Kurt hired him to come up with ideas.

Well, he-isn't he really the guy that was in

the public relations for Mr-

No.

Oh I see, he was not?

No, he was not.

Was that you then?

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3 A: Email him?

4 THE COURT: Or text him.

5 A: At what point?

6 Q: I'm sorry-

7 THE COURT: Mr. Hardin and I are stuck in

8 the old days.

9 MR. HARDIN: Yeah, we really are.

10 THE WITNESS: Okay.

11 MR. HARDIN: We really are. Although-

12 THE COURT: When people used to email each

13 other all the time.

14 MR. HARDIN: You're absolutely right.

15 Q: But I'm curious, did you have an email you sent

16 him, text message, excuse me, you sent him that night?

17 A: That night?

18 Q: Or the next day?

19 A: I texted him before I left for Dover.

20 Q: I see. All right. Now, I wonder if I can

21 address this issue, is that what did you tell him before

22 you left for Dover, if you recall?

23 A: That I had taken a picture of Kurt's messages

24 about him laying on the ground, crying on the floor, and I

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what?

A: That he must be upset because you didn't cave in,

and at the end of the text message said, "Well, I don't

know what you should do, but maybe you should go out

there, maybe he needs the love of his family."

Q: And then, so then did you communicate with him

after that?

A: After what?

Q: After that phone conversation.

A: That was a text message.

Q: All right. Did you communicate-was that you say

on the way? So that would be the - -

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A: No, I was not on the way. This was me deciding

whether or not I was going to go out there.

Q: Okay. And then after you went did you

communicate with him?

A: That night? I did not communicate with him after

the assault, no.

Q: At all?

A: Not that night.

Q: Okay. Then did you communicate with him in the

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Q: Which would have been the 29th? Yeah, the 29th?

A: Okay.

Q: No, I'm asking.

A: I don't have a calendar in front of me.

Q: Let's assume Friday was the 26th.

A: Okay.

THE COURT: The 29th was a Monday.

THE WITNESS: Okay.

Q: So it would have been Monday when you saw him.

A: Yes.

Q: Do you recall sending him an email - - ?

A: A text message.

Q: Excuse me, everybody's-

A: No, I do not.

Q: All right. I'm going to show you, if you recall

maybe, our next exhibit, which is 4.

A: Again, I would like the opportunity to have my

phone, so I'm not trying to be distruthful, I'm just

trying to remember what I have.

THE COURT: I got it. And you can certainly

bring to the Court's attention anything that you

believe is missing from something that's presented to

you. There is no document that's been admitted as

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3 MR. HARDIN: It hasn't been admitted?

4 THE COURT: It hasn't been introduced into

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6 THE CLERK: So this will be 3 then.

7 MR. HARDIN: So she wants to mark them only

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9 THE COURT: Yes, yes. She's only marking

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12 then once it's been admitted for me to review, then

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Q: All right? Now, can you-

MR. HARDIN: And we would move, if we could,

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THE COURT: Ma'am, what is that that you're

looking at?

THE WITNESS: This is an actual email.

THE COURT: Okay, that's an actual email?

THE WITNESS: Yes.


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MR. HARDIN: I just wanted to have one.

THE COURT: I understand Mr. Hardin, I

understand. Ms. McNeice, is there any objection to

this document admitted? Its admission has been

moved.

MS. MCNEICE: None, thank you.

THE COURT: All right, it will be admitted

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Q: Will you tell us-so this indicates, does it not

ma'am, that you sent, on September 27th, what time does it

show that you sent Mr. Healthman the email?

A: 1:37 p.m.

Q: P.M.? Which is the afternoon. Do you recall

your testimony you were lying in bed in agony all day?

A: Yeah.

Q: And your head hurt?

A: I was not in bed, I was on my couch.

Q: Okay, you laid on your couch most of the day; is

that right?

A: Yes.

Q: Okay. And this looks like, does it not, over on

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Q: This is Mr. Williams?

A: Matt Ballard.

Q: No, looking at the back page.

A: Yes.

Q: The bottom, at the bottom of the second page.

A: Yes.

Q: And who is the person that it is from?

A: Chamine Williams [phonetic] .

Q: And who is that?

A: She's the Weather Channel producer.

Q: For whom?

A: The Weather Channel.

THE COURT: Okay, the Weather Channel is a

cable weather programming station.

THE WITNESS: Yes.

THE COURT: I just happen to be familiar

with that.

MR. HARDIN: A lot of stations have a

weather-never mind.

THE WITNESS: The Weather Channel.

MR. HARDIN: Excuse me, I'm sorry I didn't

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5 Q: Yes. And so she sent Mr. Ballard, who is an

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8 Q: And what is this about, do you know?

9 A: Yes, this is-

10 Q: First intern gone wild [phonetic] .

11 A: Yes, this is the spot that he did on the Thursday

12 that I did not attend.

13 Q: So somebody is forwarding you an interview he

14 did?

15 A: Yes.

16 Q: So, someone gives it to Mr. Ballard and then Mr.

17 Ballard forwards it to you?

18 A: I got this directly from Chamine as well.

19 Q: Okay. And then Mr. Ballard-Mr. Healthman sends

20 that to you I guess, or you send it to him? I'm confused.

21 Help me out what this is. Just describe these two-page

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4 THE COURT: --from the texts-from the

5 subject line of your email to Mr. Healthman that is

6 "Re: Kurt NTWC."

7 THE WITNESS: Yes.

8 THE COURT: Okay.

9 Q: Now, as you look at that, doesn't it look like

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11 A: Yeah, but I got this from her directly.

12 Q: Pardon me?

13 A: I got this from her directly.

14 Q: I don't care about that.

15 THE COURT: Okay.

16 Q: I'm talking about these documents.

17 A: Yes.

18 Q: All right. And then on the front page you

19 respond to Mr. Healthman, after he forwarded you something

20 that showed an interview with Mr. Busch, correct?

21 A: Yes.

22 Q: And then you say "This is really cool, I really

23 love Kurt and I hope he's okay. So does Houston. I just

24 keep praying he gets out of this funk." Did that

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2 night to every single person. You think I'm going to

3 respond to every person, "Do you believe what that bastard

4 did to me?" No. This is someone who is also employed by

5 Kurt. And I do think the spot was really cool, and it was

6 done the week before.

7 Q: That's-would you agree the tone of that email is

8 very upbeat?

9 A: Again, I'm not going to make sure that every

10 email that I send to everybody just was telling everybody

11 what happened that Kurt did.

12 Q: And would you agree that this is during the time

13 you told the Commissioner that you were in great pain that

14 day and lying on your sofa?

15 A: Yeah, and I can sit there and text and email on

16 my phone.

17 Q: Okay. Now-

18 A: [Interposing] I still have a job to do Mr.

19 Hardin, and it doesn't stop because he did this to me. I

20 have a responsibility to respond to people. What's going

21 on in my brain is a million things at the same time. I'm

22 not going to deny that I loved him very much. I was with

23 him for four years.

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what-ma'am, I do understand the response that you

made originally to the question. It doesn't require

any further explanation.

Q: Now-excuse me, I'm sorry.

THE COURT: It's all right. I do understand

that sometimes folks have to do things to keep up

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THE COURT: --and that they might not want

to air their dirty laundry with everybody.

Q: Tell the Commissioner, did you make a video

called "Pocket Commando"?

A: What?

Q: Did you make a video-

A: I never made a video. Somebody had proposed a

reality show to me called Pocket Commando.

Q: All right. Now, would you agree that you've

testified today that you were very alarmed and very

afraid, that's why you ran out?

A: Yes sir.

Q: And that you felt threatened physically by Mr.

Busch?

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Q: Okay. And you've testified, have you not, that

you remained afraid for the next six weeks before you

reported it?

A: I have no idea what he's going to do.

Q: Listen-

A: Yes.

Q: Thank you. Now, this reality TV show was

something you were pitching, right?

A: I was not pitching it, no.

Q: I see.

MR. HARDIN: Well, we'll move to introduce-it

would be R-4.

THE COURT: It's got to be 4 at this point,

because I've only got 1, 2 and 3.

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THE COURT: All right, what is it Mr. Hardin?

It looks like you've got a CD or DVD.

MR. HARDIN: I do. What we propose to do is

play it for the Court on a computer. It's about eight

minutes.

THE COURT: Okay.

THE WITNESS: What does this have to do with-

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don't even know what it is yet, so somebody's got to-

MS. MCNEICE: I don't have a clear picture of

what it is. It says it is "Rusty Hardin and Associates,"

I presume that means his office made a copy of this.

It's described as "Copy of Patricia Driscoll's Pocket

Commando video." She just testified she never made a

video.

MR. HARDIN: Well-

THE COURT: Okay.

MR. HARDIN: --all you have to do is look at

this, these films throughout.

THE COURT: Okay.

MR. HARDIN: What this is, you would find this

on You Tube now.

THE COURT: Okay.

THE WITNESS: You put it on You Tube?

THE COURT: Hang on a second.

MR. HARDIN: It is on You Tube now, and we will

find it. It's in public, and the woman displayed on

this, it is totally inconsistent and unbelievable that

this woman-

THE COURT: Mm-hmm.

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the way she's portraying both the events that night and

herself.

THE COURT: Do we know when this video was

made?

MR. HARDIN: I think we can ask her.

THE COURT: All right, well, let's lay some

foundation-

MS. MCNEICE: [Interposing] I thought her

testimony was she didn't make this-

THE COURT: Ma'am, did you-were you videotaped

at all for something called Pocket Commando?

THE WITNESS: There was a TV production company

who wanted to follow around my sensors and surveillance

work, my sensor work, out on the border.

THE COURT: Uh huh.

THE WITNESS: And they wanted to make a reality

show of like the Border Patrol, life on the border, and I

agreed not to do it after I saw it.

THE COURT: Okay.

THE WITNESS: So this was not for any public

consumption, this was not on YouTube.

THE COURT: Okay.

THE WITNESS: So I'd be interested to see when

it got put on YouTube, because this was-actually there's

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about this.

THE COURT: Okay, well, that's something that's

between you and the company I expect.

THE WITNESS: Yup.

THE COURT: But what we're going to do, I think

what we probably have to do is, we can't sort of admit it

into evidence before it's been identified, so what we're

going to do is, we're going to have to recess and let the

witness view whatever is on this DVD, so that she can

make a determination with regard to whether that's her,

and whether that's something that was videotaped of her.

And then she and counsel can review it, and then we'll

make a determination about whether it's admissible. So

we're going to take a recess so that that can happen.

And we'll make some sort of facility available where they

can-

THE CLERK: They have it right there.

MR. LIGUORI: Your Honor, respectfully,

yesterday we tried to do this, and apparently we've got

to bring our own laptops to get it done. It was-the

Court does not have the technology for it.

THE COURT: I apologize for that.

MR. LIGUORI: So we have the laptop here ready

to rock and roll.

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new courtroom. I'm just kidding. All right, so we're

going to recess, and what we're going to do is we're

going to set up a facility somewhere where Ms. McNeice

and the witness can review this. We're going to have

Court staff assist in the playing of it, so they can

review it and then we'll come back and make a

determination with regard to its admissibility.

I would prefer that it not be played in front

of the public at large before it's admitted. We're in

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THE COURT: Good afternoon again everyone. Ms.

McNeice, have you and Ms. Driscoll had an opportunity to

review the content of the disc that Mr. Hardin was

seeking to have admitted?

MS. MCNEICE: Yes. This has been identified as

Respondent's 4. It is a video that apparently was

produced in 2009. It appears to have been-it preceded

Ms. Driscoll's relat~onship with Mr. Busch. It also

appears to be completely irrelevant to any of the

information that's being presented here today. Our claim

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her neck, grabbed her chin. He had pushed her head or

face, I'm sorry, and pushed her head into a wall.

And I presume they want to show this as this is

really one tough lady, and she certainly couldn't be hurt

and/or wouldn't be that sensitive or be threatened, and

is not fearful. I would suggest that's just not relevant

to this hearing today.


MR. HARDIN: Well, I think the latter part

addresses our contention. I would respectfully say I

think the Court could do-there's a lot of evidence, and

decide whether to admit it, to look at it, and if you

decide it's inadmissible I think then it doesn't come in.

But I don't know how you, in the absence, would be able

to make an informed decision about it without looking at

it yourself.

THE COURT: Okay. How long is this video sir?

MR. HARDIN: It's eight minutes I believe.

THE CLERK:

MR. HARDIN: About eight minutes.

THE COURT: Eight minutes.

MR. HARDIN: And we'll say that what we're

offering it for is I don't believe anybody could look at

this video and conclude that this lady is, just as her

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reacted the way she claims she did not only the night of

the incident, but the fear she claims she's had for all

this period of time. This video, and the way she's

portrayed and portrays herself, is totally inconsistent

with that position.

THE COURT: All right, well, I guess I should

take a look at the video and determine whether it's

admissible. And unfortunately that probably means we're

going to have to take another recess. One of the things,

counsel, that we're going to need to do is, we're going

to need to start-because I understand that Petitioner has

one more witness?

MS. MCNEICE: That's correct, Your Honor.

THE COURT: At least. And Respondent has at

least three or four?

MR. LIGUORI: At least four.

THE COURT: Okay, so this isn't going to end

today I expect, unless these are really short witnesses

and we get done with-

MR. HARDIN: We're kind of late - -

THE COURT: --Ms. Driscoll really quickly. No,

no, no, so counsel's going to have to start thinking

about when to continue the trial to. I'm certainly

flexible as I can be-

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THE COURT: --as it relates to that. I have a

full child support calendar for tomorrow, but I can

probably make accommodations and make myself available

tomorrow. It's going to require my colleagues to do some

double duty for me. But I can do that. I've got next

Tuesday, I'm the PFA calendar next Tuesday, but that

means somebody else is going to have to cover the balance

of the PFA calendar. But we can work out days.

So what I want counsel to do is just be

conferring at some point today, and keep an eye on when

we can resume this hearing.


THE COURT: So in any event, I guess you all

can discuss that while I'm looking at this video.

MR. HARDIN: She'll bring it right back to you

Judge.

THE COURT: Okay thank you. And I suppose I

should-perhaps the conference room's available for me to

take at it-

THE CLERK: It is.

THE COURT: --to determine whether it's

admissible.

THE CLERK:

THE COURT: All right, and I'll do that.

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THE COURT: I have viewed the DVD that was

provided to the Court and that's been proposed to be

admitted, and Ms. McNeice, your objection is relevance?

MS. McNEICE: Yes, Your Honor. I apologize.

THE COURT: Okay. And Mr. Hardin, again, what

issue that is before the Court is the video that I just

saw relevant to?

MR. HARDIN: Whether or not she had a

reasonable fear at the time both of the event and since

then that required the protective order. Whether or not-

-I think it goes to whether or not--her credibility on

the issue of whether or not she was in fear and felt

threatened. And I don't think that video shows a woman

that would be capable of being threatened in the

circumstances she mentions, and I think it goes to that

issue. And whether or not she reasonably would be

someone who would afraid since that time.

THE COURT: Okay. I'll admit this video and I

will give it the weight that I deem appropriate as it

relates to the issue that it's been identified to be

relevant to. And we can move on from there, as I've

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MR. HARDIN: All right, now--

FEMALE VOICE: [Interposing] Do you have our

copy to be admitted?

MR. HARDIN: Do we have one marked?

MS. McNEICE: Yes.

THE COURT: I believe Mr. Ligouri's assistant

may have it.

MR. HARDIN: I've got this marked.

THE COURT: We should actually admit the one

that was just played for me.

MR. HARDIN: That he saw.

FEMALE VOICE: Okay.

MR. HARDIN: And I believe it's going to be 4

now.

FEMALE VOICE: Yes.

THE COURT: Yes.

MS. McNEICE: Ms. Still [phonetic], I believe I

don't have the copy that--

MR. HARDIN: I'll give you a copy in case you

don't have it.

MS. McNEICE: Okay. The copy that he viewed,

was that the copy that I viewed, ma'am?

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THE COURT: The one that gets admitted has to

be the one that I looked at.

MR. HARDIN: Oh, this one has got 4 on it.

You've already put 4 on this one.

FEMALE VOICE: This is--

MR. HARDIN: [Interposing] Right. That's the

one he viewed.

FEMALE VOICE: And this is the one that he

viewed though.

MR. HARDIN: Okay.

FEMALE VOICE: And we switched - - . She has

the other. I don't have it.

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MR. HARDIN: And this is the one that she saw

and he saw. - - a copy for your records.


MS. McNEICE: And I need that - - there. Thank

you.

THE COURT: Okay, Mr. Hardin, are you ready to

continue?

MR. HARDIN: I am.

P A T R I C I A D R I S C 0 L L, having been

first duly sworn, testified as follows:


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Q: Now, do you recall in your testimony you talked some

about some things that Mr. Busch had supposedly said about

Tony Stewart and that situation?

A: Yes.

Q: Is that correct?

A: Yes.

Q. Yes. And the Tony Stewart thing you're talking

about is an accident in which somebody on the racetrack was

killed in a car he was driving. Is that a fair statement?

A: Correct.

Q. Pardon me?

A: Correct.

Q: And your contention is that Mr. Busch was saying all

kinds of bad things about Tony Stewart and how that affected

him or so?

A: Yes.

Q: How would you characterize it?

A: That's what I said.

Q: All right, and when was he supposedly saying these

things?

A: What do you mean when was he supposedly saying these

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2 was saying these things?

3 A: He said them both that night, on the 26th. And he

4 also said it the 21st. Of September.

5 Q: He said it the 21st?

6 A: Yes.

7 Q: Okay. And then I'm going to show you what has been

8 marked as Respondent 5. And ask you to look at it. This is

9 an email, is it not?

10 A: Yep.

11 Q: And this is an email that you sent to--would you

12 identify who Mr. Zipadelli is?

13 A: He's a team manager.

14 Q: A team manager for whom?

15 A: Stewart-Haas Racing.

16 Q: And so that the - - knows, Stewart-Bass?

17 A: Is the team that Kurt drives for.

18 Q: And Tony Stewart does?

19 A: Yes.

20 Q: So Stewart-Haas is the Stewart of Tony Stewart; is

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Q: And that driving is the team that Mr. Busch had, was

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2 Q: And so this year, 2014, was his second year of that

3 three-year contract; is that right?

4 A: No, 2014 was the first year.

5 Q: First year?

6 A: Yes.

7 Q: Do you think this is the first year?

8 A: 2014 is the first--the 2014 season was the first

9 year of his driving season with Stewart-Haas Racing.

10 Q: How much time does he have left on his contract?

11 A: He has a two-year contract.

12 Q: A two-year, not a three-year?

13 A: No.

14 Q: Okay.

15 A: Not to my knowledge.

16 Q: All right. And we saw an email that was introduced,

17 didn't we, that talked about where he was saying that he was

18 driving for his--he was driving next year for his contract?

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Busch observed his team talking to a third-tier driver

and he felt that his job was in jeopardy.

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A: Okay.

Q: Now, all right, you were seeking to help him in this

year, weren't you, in trying to keep that job?

A: Yes.

Q: All right. 'Cause you were helping him with his

career on the racetrack. And August the 12th of this year you

sent an email to Mr. Zipadelli and Mr. Verlander; is that

right?

A: Mm-hmm.

Q: Pardon me?

A: Yes, sir.

Q: And Mr. Jarvis, who is he?

A: Eddie Jarvis is Tony Stewart's right-hand man.

Q: Pardon me?

A: Tony Stewart's right-hand man.

Q: Is that somebody that you contended that Tony was--

that Mr. Busch was saying bad things about earlier?

A: Eddie Jarvis? No, he never said anything bad about

Eddie.

Q: Okay. I was just trying to remember who he was.

Now when you look at Respondent's 5, do you recognize that as

an email you sent?

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2 were laying out what you consider a public relations approach

3 for Tony Stewart, correct?

4 A: Correct.

5 Q: As to what--how he could try to overcome the

6 difficulty he was in because he was in the public spotlight at

7 that time, right?

8 A: Yes.

9 Q: And the public spotlight was is the criticism of him

10 and everything for having accidentally killed someone?

11 A: Yes.

12 Q: Is that right? And so this email sets out exactly

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14 A: Yes.

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Honor.

THE COURT: What's the relevance of Ms.

Driscoll's advice given to someone on behalf of--who is

operating on behalf of Mr. Stewart about how to

rehabilitate Mr. Stewart's image?

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then about Mr. Stewart and all was, I think it's inconsistent

to think she'd be doing all this to try to help a man that she

contends the guy that she was having a relationship with was

badmouthing and everything.

A: He was.

THE COURT: Well, hang on a second.

A: I'm sorry. Go ahead. I'm sorry.

MR. HARDIN: And the second thing is, is that

this reflects accurately her attitude about how to deal

with these kinds of situations of public figures under

attack. And it's a pretty brutal assessment as to what

she's recommending they do.

THE COURT: Okay, I'm--to be honest, I'll take

a look at the document to determine whether it's

relevant, but I'm struggling to see the relevance at this

point.

MR. HARDIN: If I may, while the Court is

looking?

THE COURT: Mm-hmm.

MR. HARDIN: Throughout this document is advice

on how to manipulate the public--public opinion and the

media, and how to attack the victim. And it's replete

throughout this entire email that says the public

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MS. McNEICE: And that is of course Mr.

Hardin's assessment of this tool. She's writing a letter

to friends about some incident. I again reassert my

objection that it is irrelevant. Her testimony was that

Mr. Busch brought up how Mr. Stewart's actions had

affected his ability to be a race car driver.

THE COURT: That's not exactly what I heard her

testify--

MR. HARDIN: [Interposing] Yeah.

THE COURT: --Mr. Busch was saying, but I do

get it. All right, I think I understand the position

that Mr. Hardin is taking as it relates to the relevance

of this document. And again, I'll admit it and give it

the weight that I deem appropriate, which I expect is not

going to be very much. Mr. Hardin?

[Whereupon Respondent's Exhibit 5 was admitted

into evidence.]

Q: Thank you. Thank you. You actually suggested to

Stewart people that he find people that the deceased

smoked pot with to discredit him, didn't you?

A:

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Yes, sir.

You wanted him to look for people that he drank

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2 driver, correct?

3 A: Yes, sir.

4 Q: And in order to enhance Tony Stewart's ability to

5 .deal with this you actually wrote an unsolicited email--

6 A: [Interposing] No, it was solicited.

7 Q: Oh, who asked you for this?

8 A: Eddie Jarvis and Kurt suggested that I should also

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10 Q: Oh, I see. That you should tell them how to do it?

11 A: Yes. What would be my plan to help.

12 Q: Oh. And are you suggesting that Kurt reviewed this?

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18 A: It's an approach to dealing with the issue.

19 Q: Okay.

20 A: And it did turn out the kid had drugs in his system.

21 Q: And you--

22 A: [Interposing] And I also have the text message from

23 Greg Zipadelli's wife saying, "Thank you for the email, and

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did. II

Q: I see. And you wanted them to leak things, didn't

you? You say, "The Sheriff is staying quiet on the toxicology

report .. I'm assured they didn't draw blood from Tony, but I

can guarantee they did the victim. If he was drunk, this only

adds to his stupid level. We need a leaked report."

A: Okay.

Q: Is that something that you were recommending to

them?

THE COURT: Were you recommending that someone

leak a report, ma'am--

MR. HARDIN: [Interposing] Yeah.

THE COURT: --or that somebody obtain a report

that was leaked by somebody else?

A: I was recommending that they leak a report that was

obtained by somebody, not to go do something criminal.

Q: Okay. And then you talked about getting Mr. Penske

in. And your whole point is it not over on the third page is,

up at the top, is be on the offensive. Would you agree?

A: Yes.

Q: That pretty much accurately reflects your attitude

toward a situation where somebody has an event that they want

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A: No, this accurately reflects the situation that

happened with Tony Stewart where I was asked to give some

advice and I did. This does not--this is this situation; this

is not my life.

Q: I see. Did you talk about preparing the witnesses

and everything, about for the media, so that they--

A: [Interposing] Yes.

Q: - - the media?

A: If you're dealing with a hard subject, of course you

sit people down and talk to them about how they are going to

talk and say and practice it.

Q: You actually wanted the media to be reminded of an

8-year-old boy, is it Richard Petty? Had an accident?

A: Richard Petty killed somebody, an 8-year-old child,

in a drag race.

Q: In 1965?

A: And I suggested that Richard Petty come over and

talk to Tony Stewart and talk about how hard it is to

accidentally kill somebody. And that's a bad thing?

Q: And you refer to him as The King, right?

A: That is the nickname he is called--

Q: [Interposing] Yes. Yes.

A: --is The King, yes.

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A: That's true.

Q: "He should be pressured to be the face of this to

help everyone out."

A: Yeah, he should come over and help out Tony Stewart.

Q: So I take it, as you explain it you stand by this?

A: They asked for my recommendations of what to do in

this particular situation, and I gave my recommendations for

this particular situation.

Q: And that is how you would handle this kind of

problem; is that correct?

A: No, this is how I handled--how my suggestions for

this specific problem relating to Tony Stewart and his

incident.

Q: Yes, ma'am. Now, there were letters back and forth.

I want to ask you about a specific exhibit. And our time

together is almost over, okay? But I want to check with you

just about a few things here. Could you tell the Judge who

Todd Barrier is?

A: Yes, Todd Barrier was the crew chief for--former

crew chief for Kurt when he raced at Furniture Row.

Q: All right. And when he ran for Furniture Row that

was how long before he worked with the Stewart-Haas team?

A: He went with Stewart-Bass?


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A: He went with Stewart-Haas?

THE COURT: No, no, I think he's talking about-

A: [Interposing] Oh.

THE COURT: --before Mr. Busch went to Stewart-

Haas.

Q: How long was he with Furniture Row before--when was

this?

A: Kurt was with Furniture Row for one full season and

I think six races. So in 2013 and the end of 2012. And Todd

Barrier is also a personal friend of mine since before I knew

Kurt. Because I did a lot of work with Richard Childress

Racing and my Foundation.

Q: Do you recall calling him after the New Hampshire

incident that ended up at the Boston Airport? Do you remember

calling him?

A: Yes.

Q: And you keep telling him over and over that Kurt

owed you for salvaging his career?

A: No.

Q: Did you tell him you couldn't believe he was doing

Houston this way?

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Q: Did you tell him that you could not believe--

A: [Interposing] Is--this is after New Hampshire?

Q: You could not believe that Kurt was doing Houston

this way?

A: Was this after New Hampshire?

Q: Yes.

A: No, I did not say that. No.

Q: Okay. All right. Do you recall him asking you why

you brought your kid?

A: What?

THE COURT: Mr. Barrier?

Q: Mr. Barrier.

THE COURT: Okay.

Q: Yes, sir. Do you recall Mr. Barrier asking you in

conversation after this happened, after the incident on the

26th, to why you took your child?

A: No, he did not.

Q: He didn't ask you?

A: No.

Q: Do you recall telling him that you wanted to ask

Kurt, or you want to tell this boy to his face that you don't

love him any more?

A: No.

Q: Your testimony is that didn't happen?


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2 confusion on who the antecedent for him is. Because he's

3 gone back and forth between what she's told Kurt--

4 THE COURT: [Interposing] Well, I think what

5 we're talking about is a conversation with Mr. Barrier.

6 That's what--

7 A: [Interposing] Right.

8 MS. McNEICE: Okay.

9 THE COURT: --I understand to be the

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11 MR. HARDIN: And, and that's--

12 MS. McNEICE: [Interposing] But he's brought

13 up also what she told Kurt. So I'm having a little

14 trouble following this.

15 THE COURT: All right. I got it. I'm trying

16 to--I understand the question. Ma'am, if you don't

17 understand the question, please just let us know and

18 we'll ask that it be rephrased so that you can understand

19 it.

20 Q: The question I'm asking is did you tell Mr. Barrier

21 that one of the reasons you wanted your son there was for Kurt

22 to tell this boy to his face that you don't love him?

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Absolutely not.

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A: Yes.

Q: When was it?

A: Mid-October.

Q: It was after this September incident, the event that

we're here for?

A: Yes.

Q: Did you see Mr. Barrier there?

A: I did.

Q: Was his wife there?

A: She was.

Q: Do you recall in his presence telling the AP

reporter, Jenna Pryor, that we've talked about before, and

NASCAR's Jeff Burton about what happened, and do you recall

this particular quote? Quote, you were calling Kurt a mother-

fucker and angry for him not showing up for your night?

A: No.

Q: Did that conversation happen?

A: No. I didn't want him there.

Q: Okay. Don't you remember criticizing him in the

emails you looked at for not being there for your night ?

A: What?

Q: Did you criticize him to anybody for not being there

for your night?


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A: I did not want Kurt there. I asked my PR guy to

make sure he was not coming.

Q: Okay. All right. And you recall earlier testifying

to both me and your lawyer that you didn't want any money or

anything from Kurt?

A: What?

THE COURT: I think he's talking about Ms.

McNeice as well as the host.

Q: Yes. Yes.

THE COURT: In her direct examination and your-

-in his cross-examination of you, you were saying that

you didn't want any money from Mr. Busch.

A: I wanted repayment of my expenses and the work that

I've done. I did not--we are not here talking about money. I

did not ask for any relief in conjunction with this

whatsoever.

Q: Ma'am, when did Mr.--your home is in Maryland; is

that right?

A: Yes.

Q: That we've been talking about that you went all back

and did all the security stuff for, right? By the way, when

you went back to Maryland--are you in the kind of a

neighborhood where you have off-duty police for security or

anything?


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2 THE COURT: Are we talking about a gated

3 community?

4 A: What?

5 Q: Either gated or some type of security in the area?

6 A . •. No.

7 THE COURT: Any security in your neighborhood?

8 A: Nope.

9 Q: Okay. Then did you go back--what police would be

10 responsible for your houses?

11 A: Howard County Police.

12 Q: Okay. Did you call the Howard County Police and

13 tell them that you were concerned about whether or not some

14 man was going to come on one of your houses and ask them to be

15 aware of it, and that you were concerned?

16 A: No, because then we would be getting into the

17 situation where I am now having to report why.

18 Q: Okay. Now, do you recall when Mr.--when did Mr.

19 Busch buy his house in North Carolina?

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21 Q:

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23 Q:

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Which house?

Well, does he have a very nice, large house there?

Yes.

Was it in the past year or so?

Yes.


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2 A: September, October.

3 Q: And then y'all also formed a LLC that would--for him

4 to guarantee the purchase of your house, right?

5 A: No, we formed an LLC so that we would start

6 purchasing land together.

7 Q: But the first and only thing you've purchased so far

8 was that he guaranteed your house, correct? He's on your

9 loan?

10 A: Yes.

11 Q: All right. Now, in turn he bought and built his own

12 house when, in North Carolina?

13 A: About nine months, ten months before that.

14 Q: Okay. And did you attempt--and is Mr. Barrier's

15 wife named Jennifer?

16 A: Yes.

17 Q: Is she a real estate agent?

18 A: She is.

19 Q: And did you try to get her to put your name on the

20 title of his house?

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22 Q:

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Absolutely not.

Are you swearing that's not true?

Yes.

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2 your name is--

3 A: [Interposing] I have never seen his closing

4 documents?

5 Q: Just a second. Your name is marked off?

6 A: I have never seen the closing documents. I was--I

7 did not sit there to sign them.

8 Q: All right. So if somebody was to testify

9 differently, that wouldn't be accurate, right?

10 A: Correct.

11 Q: Okay. Now I just have a couple of other things with

12 you. You tweet, don't you?

13 A: Yes.

14 Q: And you tweet fairly often, don't you?

15 A: Yes.

16 Q: And during the time all this was pending you

17 continued to tweet kind of pretty often, didn't you?

18 A: Yes.

19 Q: Would you agree that the person on that video is

20 depicted is a sort of a very strong, macho woman? I'm not

21 asking you to agree with anything else. Just would you agree

22 that that's what the video shows?

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24 Q:

That's how they decided to cut it up, yes.

All right, so that was them cutting it up that way?


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A: Yes.

Q: That wasn't you?

A: And that's why I didn't agree to it.

Q: But that--so it wasn't your idea?

A: Yeah, just 'cause, you know, reality TV is always

100% accurate and never actually cuts anything up, right?

Q: Yeah. Well, I'm just curious. I want to do the

letter, No. 15, please.

FEMALE VOICE: The letter - - ?

MR. HARDIN: No, it's a different one.

Different one, thank you.

THE COURT: No, No. 15 is something that they

are looking at.

MR. HARDIN: From the same guy. Or not the

same guy, but the same subject. Thank you. So this

would be No. 6, would it not?

THE COURT: I believe, yes. Yes.

Q: Now, I'll give you a copy of No. 6. Here, take this

one. And I'm going to ask you, if you will look at that date,

this is a letter, is it not--I'm not going into the contents

yet; it's not in evidence. But this is a letter, is it not,

from your lawyer, Mr. Deceio [phonetic]?

A: Yes.

Q: And it is sent to a man that has been identified as


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a lawyer in Alexandria for Mr. Busch; is that correct?

A: It says Troy, Michigan.

THE COURT: It's addressed to someone in

Michigan.

Q: Mr. Conley. Yeah, Mr. Conley. The same one in the

previous letter of March 13?

A: Yep.

Q: Now, did you authorize your lawyers to tell Mr.

Busch's representative that there were both personal and

professional issues in your relationship that needed to be

dealt with? And we go over to the second page to see if this

was authorized. But these are not limited to the division of

property, the settlement of financial obligations, and

resolution of personal issues that are purely best kept in

confidence between the parties if at all possible. Did you

authorize him to say this? "As I am certain you can

appreciate, Ms. Driscoll's actions will be in large part be

dictated by Mr. Busch's efforts to resolve matters to her

satisfaction." Did you authorize that?

A: I did not authorize it, but he sent it.

Q: And did you agree with it?

A: Am I allowed to explain?

Q: Yes.

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off. We had that company together. It has to be dissolved.

I have belongings at his house; he has belongings at mine. My

son has stuff at his house, too. This is a break-up and we

have to get all of our stuff settled. I do not want to be

back with Mr. Busch, but I wanted Mr. Busch to get help. And

I did not want all of his mental issues, alcoholism and

everything else at this point to be a matter of public record.

I wanted him to get help and get treatment for what caused the

actions that night.

Q: Well, ma'am, the date of this is October 22nd, isn't

it?

A: And they had been having discussions for quite a

while.

Q: Yes, ma'am. We're now into a month since the event

happened that you have not complained to law enforcement or

notified them or any family--just yes or no--or any family

groups. Still lawyers are talking and you have a lawyer

making a demand, right?

A: Yes.

Q: You would have to agree with me that we end up here

and over at the police station after your demand disappeared

and you didn't follow through with it?

A: We did not make any demands.

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that what happens from here out from a lawyer?

A: And Kurt knows exactly what it was. I wanted him to

seek treatment, and you're--

Q: [Interposing] Well--

A: --trying to twist this around.

Q: So did you on the same date tweet anything about

this?

A: No.

Q: Do you recall tweeting on October 22nd, "I'm always

entertained when a person brings a knife to a fight or plays

checkers with a chess player"?

A: Yes, I did tweet that. It had nothing to do with

this. I've been handling something at my office over the VA

and some claims over a soldier who wasn't being taken care of.

And it was a joke.

Q: So the lady that we saw in tears and so mortified,

understandably, today is tweeting in October after she has

supposedly been so traumatized, the same date her lawyer sends

a demand letter she writes: "I'm always entertained when a

person brings a knife to a fight or plays checkers with a

chess player"?

A: This had nothing to do with this. As I told you, I

didn't even see this letter.

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A: As I said, with something at my office to do with a

soldier's VA claim.

THE COURT: Okay.

A: It had nothing--I didn't even see this letter that

he's saying occurred on the same day.

THE COURT: When did you get made aware that

your attorney had sent that letter?

A: Not for a couple of days.

THE COURT: Okay. All right. Ms. McNeice, is

there any objection to the admission of this letter from

Ms. Driscoll's counsel?

MS. McNEICE: Of course. My ongoing objection

as to the relevance of this. There's certainly no

information. It doesn't have a cc on here, and I'll note

that hardly ever do we have a letter going from a client

obviously and that they might receive it the same day

that they sent another tweet on a completely unrelated

matter, as relevant.

THE COURT: Well, obviously the letter I

believe is relevant to motive and will be admitted for

that purpose. The weight that I will give it as it

relates to motive is something that I will determine.

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2 THE COURT: Something that I will determine.

3 MS. McNEICE: Oh. Thank you.

4 THE COURT: So I have Respondent's 6.

5 [Whereupon Respondent's Exhibit No. 6 is

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7 Q: Now, I want to show you the tweet, and then

8 truly are. This is going to be 7. So look and see.

9 A: Thank you.

10 Q: And I'm seeking to introduce 7, Your Honor, just as

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THE COURT: And, ma'am, do you recognize what's

in the document that's in front of you?

A: Yes.

THE COURT: And is that a tweet that you--I

don't know how you do this--that you placed on Twitter, I

guess?

A: Yes.

THE COURT: I'm not a Twitter person myself.

They don't want us to do so in the media. Okay. Then it

will be admitted.

MR. HARDIN: Thank you, Your Honor. I believe

that's all I have.

THE COURT: Okay. What time is it, folks? Is


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A: [Interposing] Do I get to--

Q: I had moved. I think--

A: [Interposing] Do I get to explain about it? Is

there a question about it?

Q: I think he admitted it.

THE COURT: You've already explained. At least

I've understood you to explain. Oh, wait a minute. This

is a different tweet.

A: No, this is--

Q: [Interposing] Well, I think it's all the same.

MS. McNEICE: Are we admitting this as a two-

page document? I don't see--

MR. HARDIN: We could take off the top page

because the first one--I think she agreed it's all stuff

she has tweeted.

THE COURT: Okay.

MS. McNEICE: I'm sorry, what part are we

admitting, Your Honor.

MR. HARDIN: The second page.

THE COURT: Well, obviously at the top of the

second page there's a tweet that says I'm always

entertained when a person brings a--something--

MR. HARDIN: It's a drawing of a knife.


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THE COURT: A knife to a gunfight. Okay. Or

plays checkers with a chess player. Okay, that's fine.

It's admitted as something that this witness tweeted and

[Whereupon Respondent's Exhibit No. 7 was


THE COURT: All right, so the Court is now

closed, just for everyone's information. So Ms.

McNeice, I'm assuming redirect is next?

MS. McNEICE: That's correct, Your Honor.

THE COURT: Okay. And is this something

that you believe you're going to need to do on another

day? It's 4:30 now. Are we through redirect or any

time soon, or is it something that we need to--we're

going to have to reconvene. I can't keep - - out in

the building and keep the building open much after

4:30.

MS. McNEICE: I think it may take me longer

than ...

THE COURT: All right, so then I will hear

from counsel--

MS. McNEICE: [Interposing]· Than the

remaining time.

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when they would like to reconvene this hearing.

MR. HARDIN: 8:30 in the morning.

THE COURT: Ma'am, you're still on the

witness stand, so you can't discuss with anyone your

testimony between now and the time that you resume the

witness stand.

MS. DRISCOLL: Okay.

THE COURT: And that includes your attorney.

MS. DRISCOLL: Right.

MS. McNEICE: I'm sorry, and--

MR. HARDIN: [Interposing] I think I was

apart, but I think they talked about first thing in

the morning.

THE COURT: Tomorrow morning?

MR. HARDIN: If that would suit you, Judge.

THE COURT: Okay, well, I will make

arrangements for it to suit.

MS. McNEICE: Your Honor, I have a hearing

tomorrow at 8:45. It should take about an hour, so if

we could start at 10:00 that would be--

THE COURT: [Interposing] Okay, 10:00

tomorrow then?

MR. HARDIN: That's fine with us, Judge.

THE COURT: All right. Thank you all.


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THE COURT: And we're recessed.

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C E R T I F I C A T E

I, Aimee Rubinowitz, certify that the foregoing transcript

of proceedings in the Family Court of the State of

Delaware, County of Kent of Patricia P. Driscoll v. Kurt

T. Busch, File No. CK14-02747 was prepared using the

required transcription equipment and is a true and

accurate record of the proceedings.

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C E R T I F I C A T E

I, Rita Dillingham, certify that the foregoing transcript

of proceedings in the Family Court of the State of

Delaware, County of Kent of Patricia P. Driscoll v. Kurt

T. Busch, File No. CK14-02747 was prepared using the

required transcription equipment and is a true and

accurate record of the proceedings.

Signature:

Date: December 26, 2014


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