Steve Mandell phone conversations

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CASE TITLE: United States v. Steven Mandell 1 CASE NUMBER: 12 CR 842 2 ACTIVITY: Telephone Conversation between Steven Mandell 3 and Frieda Sendelbach 4 DATE: October 31, 2012 5 TIME: 5:16 p.m. 6 TARGET PHONE: (847)229-8937 7 8 SPEAKERS: MANDELL = Steven Mandell 9 SENDELBACH = Frieda Sendelbach 10 11 * * * * 12 13

(NON-PERTINENT CONVERSATION) 14 15 MANDELL: How’s your day? 16 17 SENDELBACH: Well, I’ve got news for you, you’ve got to wait 18 until—T—we tried to find—Terry said what 19 directions you gave, there is no way you can find 20 the car. 21 22 MANDELL: Oh please. 23 24 SENDELBACH: Yeah, exactly. 25 26 MANDELL: Okay. 27 28 SENDELBACH: I, I, exactly. I told ‘em I have it written down 29 what you told me. I can, I can read it to you 30 again. Uh, where do I got it? Oh, I got it in 31 the— 32 33 MANDELL: Did you go with, did you go with Reine? 34 35 SENDELBACH: Yeah. 36 37 MANDELL: Did you (inaudible)— 38 39 SENDELBACH: We drove around, we, we just came home a little 40 while ago. We drove around all day long— 41 42

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(NON-PERTINENT CONVERSATION) 1 2 MANDELL: Oh god. Anyway. (Inaudible). 3 4 SENDELBACH: Yeah, I can’t find the car, so, I, I, we went 5 over to Terry, gave him the key— 6 7 MANDELL: He’s got the key at least? 8 9 SENDELBACH: Yes, we drove over there, gave him the key, and 10 now he’s, he’s going to take care of it, wh—, 11 but you’ve got to call him, he says: “With this 12 directions, you cannot find.” (Inaudible). 13 “It doesn’t run into Joliet” he says. That 14 don’t sound right. 15 16 MANDELL: Okay honey. That’s, that’s enough. 17 18 SENDELBACH: So, you go, you call Terry. Okay? 19 20 MANDELL: If I can get connected I will. Did you explain 21 to him how to set up the account? Did 22 you—Hello? 23 24 SENDELBACH: Yeah? 25 26 MANDELL: Did you explain to him how to call VAC and se 27 up the account? 28 29 SENDELBACH: Oh, you have—No, I didn’t do that, because I left 30 this morning. I got do, I gotta call him then. 31 32 MANDELL: Oh my God. Okay. 33 34 SENDELBACH: Okay. 35 36 MANDELL: (Inaudible). 37 38 SENDELBACH: He’s gotta set up, he’s got give ‘em the, the, 39 The credit card, right? 40 41 MANDELL: Yes honey, I gave you the phone number. 42 43 SENDELBACH: Yeah, I got it, I got, I got it, I got, I got 44 a little— 45 46 MANDELL: Did he give you his home address? 47

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SENDELBACH: When I—I left them, I put the keys in an 1 envelope, and I wrote in there that you would 2 like to have the home address and the email 3 address, so I put that all in an envelope so that 4 I wouldn’t forget. 5 6 MANDELL: Did you—But you didn’t copy it down for 7 yourself? 8 9 SENDELBACH: Huh? 10 11 MANDELL: You didn’t get, you didn’t get the address for 12 me for the phone call tonight? 13 14 SENDELBACH: No. No, I didn’t ta—, no, I, oh, I didn’t— 15 16 MANDELL: (Inaudible) email address honey. I just want 17 to ask him— 18 19 SENDELBACH: Oh, I didn’t know. 20 21 MANDELL: Call him back on his cell phone and ask him for 22 his home address and his email address. I’ll 23 call you back a little later, okay? 24 25 (Background message: This call is from a Federal prison). 26 27 SENDELBACH: (Inaudible). Why don’t you call him? 28 29 MANDELL: I can’t, I don’t even know if I can put his phone 30 number in the computer yet. It’s—This is gonna 31 take ays the way we’re moving. Just call him 32 on his cell phone— 33 34 SENDELBACH: No, no, I hate all that dammit— 35 36 MANDELL: (Inaudible) I’m sweating over here, it’s crazy. 37 38

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(NON-PERTINENT CONVERSATION) 14 15 MANDELL: What I want to ask you about is what time does 16 Peter come home in the day time? 17 18 SENDELBACH: He doesn’t uh, you never know when he comes home— 19 20 MANDELL: Roughly. 21 22 SENDELBACH: —he was working around, after four. 23 24 MANDELL So he comes home before five. 25 26 SENDELBACH: Somewhere, somewh—, sometimes he doesn’t come 27 home before six, seven o’clock. The other day 28 cause he (inaudible)— 29 30 MANDELL: You got his cell phone? 31

32 SENDELBACH: Huh? 33 34 MANDELL: You got his cell phone? 35 36 SENDELBACH: Yeah. 37 38 MANDELL: You give him a call and find out what time he’s 39 coming home. But here’s why: 40 41 SENDELBACH: Why? 42 43 MANDELL: What he, if he gets home today, can both of you 44 find time to go pickup the Nissan? 45 46 SENDELBACH: How can you pickup—Nobody called us. 47

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1 MANDELL: I’ll tell you where it’s at. 2 3 SENDELBACH: Yeah? 4 5 MANDELL: I’m gonna tell you at the last minute when you’re 6 ready to go pick it up. Cause I don’t want people 7 confiscating things for nothing. So— 8 9 SENDELBACH: Well can I, can I do that? 10 11 MANDELL: Pick, go pick up your car? 12 13 SENDELBACH: Yeah. 14 15 MANDELL: Yeah. 16 17 SENDELBACH: Yeah, I thought they have to notify me. 18 19 MANDELL: No, the Nissan, honey. 20 21 SENDELBACH: Yeah. 22 23 MANDELL: The white Nissan. 24 25 SENDELBACH: Yeah. 26 27 MANDELL: Not the Lexus they took out of the garage. 28 29 SENDELBACH: Yeah. 30 31 MANDELL: The white Nissan. 32 33 SENDELBACH: Yeah, where’s the keys? 34 35 MANDELL: You got the key to the Nissan. 36 37 SENDELBACH: Oh that’s right, yeah. 38 39 MANDELL: But what it would take is, I’m gonna give you 40 that information at the last minute. 41 42 SENDELBACH: Okay. 43 44 MANDELL: Okay? At the very last minute I’m gonna give you 45 that information. And he has to be willing to 46 drive you there. It’s only maybe (inaudible)— 47

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1 SENDELBACH: Well you know, you know what? I bet it would to 2 ask, I might, I might call Ray about that. 3 4 MANDELL: What? 5 6 SENDELBACH: If I can do that. 7 8 MANDELL: Why? 9 10 SENDELBACH: I don’t want to get, I don’t want to get in any 11 trouble that they didn’t— 12 13 MANDELL: That car’s not involved in anything, honey. 14 15 SENDELBACH: I know. 16 17 MANDELL: Go get your car. Do, but you—He’s got to drive 18 you down there, and you bring it home. 19 20 SENDELBACH: Yeah, but, okay. I’m gonna call Ray and see what 21 he says. 22 23 MANDELL: No, no there’s no need, honey. 24 25 SENDELBACH: Uhh. 26 27 MANDELL: Just go pick up your car, it’s not involved in 28 anything. I just want you to go pick up your car 29 and bring it home. Okay? 30 31


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(NON-PERTINENT CONVERSATION) 14 15 SENDELBACH: Yeah, and I want the Nissan too, but the thing 16 is uh, I don’t know if they, if they, they, if 17 they need, they keep it because of some, some 18 what they were looking for, evidence or 19 something. That, that, that’s why they’re 20 keeping it. I got to find out. 21 22 MANDELL: The Nissan or the Lexus? 23 24 SENDELBACH: Huh? No, no. The Lex—You know, y—Oh, and 25 Terry’s car is gone too. 26 27 MANDELL: What do you mean? 28 29 SENDELBACH: That car is gone too. 30 31 MANDELL: Which one? 32 33 SENDELBACH: The, the, the white one. The Ford. 34 35 MANDELL: Yeah. 36 37 SENDELBACH: Oh, you got that out? 38 39 MANDELL: They—No they took that. Honey, look— 40 41 SENDELBACH: Oh I see. 42 43 MANDELL: —what’s Terry’s phone number? 44 45 SENDELBACH: Oh, okay. I only got the trucking thing here. 46

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uh, 6-3-0— 1 2 MANDELL: Yeah. 3 4 SENDELBACH: —8-5-0— 5 6 MANDELL: Yeah. 7 8 SENDELBACH: —8-5-0-0. 9 10 MANDELL: Call him up tomorrow and ask— 11 12 SENDELBACH: Oh I, and—Yeah? 13 14 MANDELL: Was he nice to you? 15 16 SENDELBACH: Yeah, very nice. 17 18 MANDELL: Ask him if he can up with you and pick up that 19 car. See if it’s over there, okay? 20 21 SENDELBACH: Where is the car? 22 23 MANDELL: It’s in Lyons, Illinois. 24 25 SENDELBACH: The Ford? 26 27 MANDELL: The Nissan. 28 29 SENDELBACH: No. I’m, I’m talking about— 30 31 MANDELL: The Ford is confiscated. 32 33 SENDELBACH: Where’s the, where’s the Ford? Does Terry have 34 the Ford? 35 36 MANDELL: No, the FBI has got that. 37 38 SENDELBACH: Oh, okay. 39 40 MANDELL: That’s gone. 41 42 SENDELBACH: Yeah, so uh, I’m not picking th—, the, the Nissan 43 up. I won’t touch that. 44 45 MANDELL: Well let— 46 47

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1 SENDELBACH: I have, I have to have permission to pick that 2 up I found out. 3 4 MANDELL: Who said? 5 6 SENDELBACH: Huh? 7 8 MANDELL: Who said? 9 10 SENDELBACH: The lawyer. 11 12 MANDELL: Which one? 13 14 SENDELBACH: The Ray. 15 16 MANDELL: Why? 17 18 SENDELBACH: Because it, it, you can’t do, take the car 19 without permission when they tow it for 20 evidence. You cannot do that. 21 22 MANDELL: He’s not telling you— 23 24 SENDELBACH: You have to have permission. 25 26 MANDELL: —he’s talking about the Lexus. I’m talking about 27 The Nissan, honey. The white Nissan. 28 29 SENDELBACH: I know the Nissan. I can’t do that. That’s in 30 Lyons and they have it there for reason. 31 32 MANDELL: I left it there. 33 34 SENDELBACH: Oh, you left it there? 35 36 MANDELL: Yes, honey, I parked over there. 37 38 SENDELBACH: Oh, I didn’t know that. 39 40 MANDELL: So call Terry— 41 42 SENDELBACH: Oh, okay. 43 44 MANDELL: —and see if you give him the keys if he’ll go 45 Pick it up for you or I’ll try to call him. 46 47

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SENDELBACH: Okay, I, I talked to him today. I said: “I want 1 to talk to you, once we never met.” I said: “I 2 wanna—” 3 4 MANDELL: Yeah he’s a nice guy. You’ll like (inaudible). 5 6 SENDELBACH: “—I wanna have, well I’d like to have lunch with 7 You once.” 8 9 MANDELL: Yes, honey. 10 11 SENDELBACH: And, and I, and, he said: “Yeah anytime—” 12 13 MANDELL: Yes honey. 14 15 SENDELBACH: “—let me know.” 16 17 MANDELL: I don’t want to get cut off after fifteen 18 minutes. You want me to call you back again? 19 (Inaudible). 20 21 SENDELBACH: Uh, well, not tonight— 22 23 MANDELL: No, (inaudible). 24 25 SENDELBACH: —I’m gonna try to get some sleep. I have nine 26 o’clock appointment. 27 28 MANDELL: Yeah, get some chamomile tea— 29 30 SENDELBACH: Yeah. 31 32 MANDELL: —take your aspirin— 33 34 SENDELBACH: Oh so, so—Oh, the thing—Okay, so, uh, so the 35 Nissan I can pick up? 36

37 MANDELL: Yes. You got a paper and pencil? 38 39 SENDELBACH: Yeah. 40 41 MANDELL: Get it real quick. 42 43 SENDELBACH: Okay. You got to, you got to spell it for, for 44 me. 45 46 MANDELL: Yeah. 47

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1 SENDELBACH: (Inaudible). 2 3 MANDELL: Tell him, tell him he’s got to go on 294— 4 5 SENDELBACH: 294— 6 7 MANDELL: —he’s got to get off at Ogden Eastbound. 8 9 SENDELBACH: Ogden. 10 11 MANDELL: Ogden, that’s Route 34. 12 13 SENDELBACH: Yeah. 14 15 MANDELL: Ogden is Route 34— 16 17 SENDELBACH: —34— 18 19 MANDELL: —he’s got to go Eastbound to Joliet Road— 20 21 SENDELBACH: East, Joli—, Joliet— 22 23 MANDELL: —Eastbound to Joliet Road— 24 25 SENDELBACH: —Road. Yeah. 26 27 MANDELL: Then he takes a left on Joliet Road, which puts 28 him Northbound for about a half a block. 29 30 SENDELBACH: Northbound— 31 32 MANDELL: Joliet for about— 33 34 SENDELBACH: —a half a— 35 36 MANDELL: —block. He makes a left— 37 38 SENDELBACH: —block. Make— 39 40 MANDELL: He makes a left on a street called uh— 41 42 SENDELBACH: —make a left. 43 44 MANDELL: —on a street along the river and there’s some 45 condominiums about a half a block to the left. 46 47

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SENDELBACH: Along the river. Yeah, you have any, a, a, uh— 1 2 MANDELL: Here is it honey. He’s got to go left on Joliet 3 Road and Ogden— 4 5 SENDELBACH: Yeah. 6 7 MANDELL: —one block— 8 9 SENDELBACH: Let me read it. Uh, Ogden— 10 11 MANDELL: Ogden Avenue. Eastbound. 12 13 SENDELBACH: —Ogden Avenue, Eastbound. 14 15 MANDELL: Until the town of Lyons. 16 17 (Background automated message: This call is from a Federal 18

prison.) 19 20 SENDELBACH: Lyons. 21 22 MANDELL: If they disconnect me, I’m gonna try to call you 23 back. So let’s go quickly. Ogden Avenue 24 Eastbound into the town of Ni--, of Lyons. 25 26 SENDELBACH: Okay. 27 28 MANDELL: He goes to Joliet Road. That’s a light. 29 30 SENDELBACH: Well then call me back just in case. 31 32 MANDELL: Okay. Then he takes a left on Joliet Road for 33 a half a block. He takes a left at Riverwalk 34 Street. A left at Riverwalk Street. 35 36 SENDELBACH: Left. 37 38 MANDELL: Hello? 39 40 SENDELBACH: Yeah, you gonna, you gonna be gone. You can call 41 me, call— 42 43 MANDELL: No, no, no, it’s a left on Riverwalk. 44 45 SENDELBACH: (Inaudible). 46 47

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MANDELL: It’s in a condominium complex. 1 2 SENDELBACH: Riverwalk. 3 4 MANDELL: It’s parked in guest parking. 5 6 SENDELBACH: Okay. 7 8 MANDELL: It’s a white Nissan, four door with a 9 handicapped license plate. 10 11 SENDELBACH: License plate, what? 12 13 MANDELL: I don’t know. It’s a handicapped, two hundred 14 thousand series license plate. 15 16 SENDELBACH: Okay. 17 18 MANDELL: If he can see if it’s there. If it’s not there, 19 then we have to call the towing, but I think the 20 car’s there. It was only there for a few days. 21 22 SENDELBACH: Yeah, okay. 23 24 MANDELL: But he can drive by and see if it’s still there. 25 26 SENDELBACH: Oh, he can drive there to, it’s not far from him? 27 28 MANDELL: No, it’s—He takes, he goes (inaudible)— 29 30 SENDELBACH: A left on Riverwalk— 31 32 MANDELL: There’s a little side street along the river— 33 34 SENDELBACH: Okay. 35 36 MANDELL: —and there’s a condominium complex and it’s 37 parked in the guest parking. 38 39 SENDELBACH: Condominium. 40 41 MANDELL: He leaves his work, he goes down 294 South to 42 Ogden. 43 44 SENDELBACH: Okay. 45 46 MANDELL: Ogden he gets off East to Joliet Road in the town 47

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of Lyons, honey. 1 2 SENDELBACH: Okay. 3 4


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(NON-PERTINENT CONVERSATION) 14 15 MANDELL: I’ll call you back in a half hour. 16 17 SENDELBACH: Yeah. 18 19 MANDELL: See what they ask (inaudible)— 20 21 SENDELBACH: You, you, can you give me, can you stay on the 22 Phone until now? 23 24 MANDELL: Yeah, but I’m wasting minutes while you wait. 25 26 SENDELBACH: Oh, no, to give me the address again. 27 28 MANDELL: Oh okay, for the car? 29 30 SENDELBACH: Yeah. 31 32 MANDELL: You take Ogden Avenue— 33 34 SENDELBACH: Ogden. Okay, I got that. 35 36 MANDELL: Eastbound. 37 38 SENDELBACH: East. 39 40 MANDELL: You go past 171. 41 42 SENDELBACH: Past—This, you didn’t say that the last time. 43 44 MANDELL: Past 171— 45 46 SENDELBACH: Past 71— 47

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1 MANDELL: —into Lyons. 2 3 SENDELBACH: —to Lyons. 4 5 MANDELL: Into suburb of Lyons. 6 7 SENDELBACH: What? 8 9 MANDELL: Lyons, the suburb. 10 11 SENDELBACH: Yeah— 12 13 MANDELL: You go— 14 15 SENDELBACH: —in Lyons it is. 16 17 MANDELL: You go to Joliet Road— 18 19 SENDELBACH: You, you go—From Lyons, from where you go to 20 Joliet? 21 22 MANDELL: Honey, you’re Eastbound on Ogden, Shatz. Just 23 go to Joliet Road and take a left. 24 25 SENDELBACH: Oh my god, I’m telling you. 26 27 MANDELL: Ogden Avenue East to (inaudible). 28 29 SENDELBACH: Ah, slow down!! Ogden Avenue East— 30 31 MANDELL: Eastbound, EB, EB, Eastbound. 32 33 SENDELBACH: Eastbound. 34 35 MANDELL: To Joliet Road— 36 37 SENDELBACH: To— 38 39 MANDELL: —it should be on the— 40 41 SENDELBACH: —Joliet. 42 43 MANDELL: —Road. Joliet Road. 44 45 SENDELBACH: —Road. And then what? 46 47

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MANDELL: It’s in a suburb called Lyons. 1 2 SENDELBACH: Okay, that’s the— 3 4 MANDELL: You take a left on Joliet Road. A left. 5 6 SENDELBACH: Joliet left. 7 8 MANDELL: You take a left on Joliet Road. And you go about 9 a block and you take another left— 10 11 SENDELBACH: Block uh, one block— 12 13 MANDELL: And you take another left— 14 15 SENDELBACH: Wait!! One block, uh, go one block. 16 17 MANDELL: Take a left on Riverwalk. 18 19 SENDELBACH: On uh, uh, left to Riverwalk. 20 21 MANDELL: And you go about a block in, there’s a condo 22 complex, and the car’s parked in the guest 23 parking over there. 24 25 SENDELBACH: One block more on Riverwalk? 26 27 MANDELL: Yes, honey. 28 29 SENDELBACH: On Riverwalk one block. 30 31 MANDELL: And then there’s a condo complex there and 32 (inaudible). 33 34 SENDELBACH: And there’s a condo, yeah. Why don’t you know 35 The address? 36 37 MANDELL: I just don’t know the address. 38 39 SENDELBACH: Yeah. Uh, okay. 40 41 MANDELL: And— 42 43 SENDELBACH: Ogden, Ogden East. East. 44 45 MANDELL: To Joliet Road. 46 47

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SENDELBACH: The, what—Past 71. 1 2 MANDELL: 171. 3 4 SENDELBACH: 171. 5 6 MANDELL: And you go to Joliet Road, you, you stay East 7 on Ogden to Joliet Road. If, I (inaudible). 8 9 SENDELBACH: Ogden East— 10 11 MANDELL: —to Joliet Road. 12 13 SENDELBACH: —the, uh— 14 15 MANDELL: Ogden to Joliet Road. 16 17 SENDELBACH: To, to sta—, past 7 (inaudible)— 18 19 MANDELL: 171. 20 21 SENDELBACH: Past 71. 22 23 MANDELL: 171. 24 25 SENDELBACH: 171. 26 27 MANDELL: If you go to Joliet Road, you take a left. You 28 should write that down now. You got that left— 29 30 SENDELBACH: Oh, I can’t, I can’t do nothing anymore. Og—, 31 Ogden East. Ohhhh, I got everything mixed up 32 here. 33 34 MANDELL: You don’t. 35 36 (Simultaneous conversation). 37 38 SENDELBACH: Uh, uh—Ogden East— 39 40 MANDELL: (Inaudible) it doesn’t take all this time to 41 Ogden Avenue Eastbound. 42 43 SENDELBACH: To, ah, to, uh, uh, ahh! East to 1— 44 45 MANDELL: No. You go Eastbound on Ogden past 171. 46 47

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SENDELBACH: Past. 1 2 MANDELL: You don’t even need that. Just go to Joliet Road, 3 honey. 4 5 SENDELBACH: Okay. 6 7 MANDELL: Just go to Joliet Road. 8 9 SENDELBACH: Joliet Road. 10 11 MANDELL: And take a left on Joliet Road. Take a left on 12 Joliet Road, go one block, and you take another 13 left on Riverwalk. Ogden to Joliet Road, Joliet 14 Road you take a left— 15 16 SENDELBACH: (Inaudible) it’s, it’s, it’s, the more you, uh, 17 uh, uh, okay. 18 19 MANDELL: And you take a left on Riverwalk. 20 21 SENDELBACH: Ogden East to Joliet Road, left— 22 23 MANDELL: On Joliet, take a left— 24 25 SENDELBACH: Uh, take Ogden East to Joliet. 26 27 MANDELL: Road. 28 29 SENDELBACH: Ro—, Road, yeah (inaudible). 30 31 MANDELL: Then you take a left at that intersection. 32 33 SENDELBACH: (Inaudible) a left, one block— 34 35 MANDELL: And then you take a left at Riverwalk. 36 37 SENDELBACH: Make another left. 38 39 MANDELL: And about a block down there’s a condominium 40 complex. 41 42 SENDELBACH: Oh, I don’t know, I don’t ever get that. I don’t 43 Ever get that. Left to Riverwalk. 44 45 MANDELL: But that’s a street. 46 47

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SENDELBACH: That’s a street, okay. Okay. 1 2 MANDELL: And then about a block there’s a condo. It’s 3 Parked in the guest parking. 4 5


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CASE TITLE: United States v. Steven Mandell 1 CASE NUMBER: 12 CR 842 2 ACTIVITY: Telephone Conversation between Steven Mandell 3 and Frieda Sendelbach 4 DATE: October 30, 2012 5 TIME: 8:03 p.m. 6 TARGET PHONE: (847)229-8937 7 8 SPEAKERS: MANDELL = Steven Mandell 9 SENDELBACH = Frieda Sendelbach 10

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(NON-PERTINENT CONVERSATION 14 15 SENDELBACH: Yeah, okay. Alright. I’ll say goodnight. 16 17 MANDELL: And if the car’s there and you don’t want to move 18 it you can let Terry drive it, okay? If you feel 19 that you don’t want to touch it. 20 21 SENDELBACH: What? 22 23 MANDELL: The (inaudible). 24 25 SENDELBACH: The what? 26 27 MANDELL: The Nissan. 28 29 SENDELBACH: Uh, uh, oh I’ll drive it, because I got to drive 30 it. I got to have—If my car don’t run. I got 31 to drive it. I mean, Terry’s not going with to 32 pick it up. 33 34 MANDELL: Well, I would have preferred for him to drive 35 it for you. 36 37 SENDELBACH: No, I have to drive. I have to drive it home. 38 39


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(NON-PERTINENT CONVERSATION) 14 15 SENDELBACH: Hello? 16 17 MANDELL: Hi, sweetie. 18 19 SENDELBACH: Hi— 20 21 MANDELL: (Inaudible). 22 23 SENDELBACH: Uh, what is Terry’s address from the trucking? 24 What is the trucking’s name? 25 26 MANDELL: No, I want his home address, honey. His home 27 address, don’t— 28 29 SENDELBACH: No! I want, I want his address! 30 31 MANDELL: Honey, I need to talk to you. You’re taking up 32 time. You’re taking up time. Give me his home 33 address. You can call him tomorrow and ask him 34 all that stuff on your own. Here’s what I want 35 you to do tomorrow. It’s your car, but I’m just— 36 37 SENDELBACH: Never mind about that! (Simultaneous 38 conversation). I want— 39 40 MANDELL: (Inaudible). 41 42 SENDELBACH: —I want to know when, if I can’t find the car. 43 So I can— 44 45 MANDELL: Frieda— 46 47

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SENDELBACH: —go to the truck. 1 2 MANDELL: Frieda, listen to me. Do not pick up that car. 3 Do not pick up that car. I was just thinking, 4 what if these people are crazy enough and 5 they’re looking for that car and they can’t find 6 it? And maybe they want to bother you, because 7 you picked it up. I don’t know what these nutty 8 people can do. So what I want you to do is to 9 go there with Reine (phonetic) to see if 10 the car is there physically. If it’s not, take 11 down the towing number from that parking lot. 12 And three, just ask Terry to, go give the key 13 to Terry and have im pick up the car for you. 14 15 SENDELBACH: Okay— 16 17 MANDELL: I don’t want you (inaudible). 18 19 SENDELBACH: And, and now you got to tell me the trucking uh, 20 name, where he’s at. 21 22 MANDELL: You need to call him and take up his minutes, 23 honey. Don’t tie up mine. 24 25 SENDELBACH: How can I go to him, bring him the key when I 26 don’t know his address?! 27 28 MANDELL: Just call him when you’re on the street. 29 30 SENDELBACH: (Inaudible). 31 32 MANDEL Honey? 33 34 SENDELBACH: What’s the name of the trucking? 35 36 MANDELL: OK Transportation. 37 38 SENDELBACH: What is it? 39 40 MANDELL: OK Transportation. 41 42 SENDELBACH: OK? 43 44 MANDELL: OK, like OK. Transportation. 45 46 SENDELBACH: Oh, OK. Oh, OK Transportation. OK. 47

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1 MANDELL: In Northlake. 2 3 SENDELBACH: Northlake. 4 5 MANDELL: Call the company tomorrow before you go. They’ll 6 Give you the address. Just call the company. 7 8 SENDELBACH: Okay. 9 10 MANDELL: Now, listen to what I’m saying. I don’t know, 11 I don’t have a problem with that car, but you 12 don’t know what these nutty people are thinking. 13 I don’t want you to touch that car, because 14 they’re looking for it maybe. Who knows what 15 nutty things they’re gonna come up with? 16 17 SENDELBACH: (Inaudible). 18 19 MANDELL: Take a ride over there. See if the car is still 20 Where it’s supposed to be. 21 22 SENDELBACH: Okay. 23 24 MANDELL: If it’s gone, somebody towed it. 25 26 SENDELBACH: Yeah. 27 28 MANDELL: Call the towing company, but while you’re down 29 There go give the key to Terry— 30 31 SENDELBACH: Yeah. 32 33 MANDELL: —and simply ask him to bring the car home for 34 you. 35 36 SENDELBACH: Okay. 37 38 MANDELL: You got it? 39 40 SENDELBACH: Yeah. 41 42 MANDELL: Don’t get behind the wheel of that car. 43 44 SENDELBACH: Yeah. Okay. 45 46 MANDELL: Who knows, maybe they’ll say you’re aiding and 47

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abetting a crime or something. 1 2 SENDELBACH: Right, yeah. 3 4 MANDELL: (Inaudible) that might say— 5 6 SENDELBACH: No, I, I don’t, I don’t know what— 7 8 MANDELL: Yeah, I don’t know what they’ll come up with, 9 you know? 10 11 SENDELBACH: Yeah, right, I, I, I don’t know either. You know 12 need— 13 14 MANDELL: Go and find the car. 15 16 SENDELBACH: I need car because I got my other one is not 17 working, but uh, (inaudible). 18 19 MANDELL: Listen to me, just simply listen to me. 20 21 SENDELBACH: Yeah. 22 23 MANDELL: You take Reine (phonetic) down there and and 24 what’s her name, go see if you can find the car. 25 If it’s here, it’s there. If it’s not, take the 26 towing number own and see if they towed it. 27 28 SENDELBACH: Okay. 29 30


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(NON-PERTINENT CONVERSATION) 14 15 MANDELL: How’s your day? 16 17 SENDELBACH: Well, I’ve got news for you, you’ve got to wait 18 until—T—we tried to find—Terry said what 19 directions you gave, there is no way you can find 20 the car. 21 22 MANDELL: Oh please. 23 24 SENDELBACH: Yeah, exactly. 25 26 MANDELL: Okay. 27 28 SENDELBACH: I, I, exactly. I told ‘em I have it written down 29 what you told me. I can, I can read it to you 30 again. Uh, where do I got it? Oh, I got it in 31 the— 32 33 MANDELL: Did you go with, did you go with Reine? 34 35 SENDELBACH: Yeah. 36 37 MANDELL: Did you (inaudible)— 38 39 SENDELBACH: We drove around, we, we just came home a little 40 while ago. We drove around all day long— 41 42


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(NON-PERTINENT CONVERSATION) 1 2 MANDELL: Oh god. Anyway. (Inaudible). 3 4 SENDELBACH: Yeah, I can’t find the car, so, I, I, we went 5 over to Terry, gave him the key— 6 7 MANDELL: He’s got the key at least? 8 9 SENDELBACH: Yes, we drove over there, gave him the key, and 10 now he’s, he’s going to take care of it, wh—, 11 but you’ve got to call him, he says: “With this 12 directions, you cannot find.” (Inaudible). 13 “It doesn’t run into Joliet” he says. That 14 don’t sound right. 15 16 MANDELL: Okay honey. That’s, that’s enough. 17 18 SENDELBACH: So, you go, you call Terry. Okay? 19 20 MANDELL: If I can get connected I will. Did you explain 21 to him how to set up the account? Did 22 you—Hello? 23 24 SENDELBACH: Yeah? 25 26 MANDELL: Did you explain to him how to call VAC and se 27 up the account? 28 29 SENDELBACH: Oh, you have—No, I didn’t do that, because I left 30 this morning. I got do, I gotta call him then. 31 32 MANDELL: Oh my God. Okay. 33 34 SENDELBACH: Okay. 35 36 MANDELL: (Inaudible). 37 38 SENDELBACH: He’s gotta set up, he’s got give ‘em the, the, 39 The credit card, right? 40 41 MANDELL: Yes honey, I gave you the phone number. 42 43 SENDELBACH: Yeah, I got it, I got, I got it, I got, I got 44 a little— 45 46 MANDELL: Did he give you his home address? 47

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SENDELBACH: When I—I left them, I put the keys in an 1 envelope, and I wrote in there that you would 2 like to have the home address and the email 3 address, so I put that all in an envelope so that 4 I wouldn’t forget. 5 6 MANDELL: Did you—But you didn’t copy it down for 7 yourself? 8 9 SENDELBACH: Huh? 10 11 MANDELL: You didn’t get, you didn’t get the address for 12 me for the phone call tonight? 13 14 SENDELBACH: No. No, I didn’t ta—, no, I, oh, I didn’t— 15 16 MANDELL: (Inaudible) email address honey. I just want 17 to ask him— 18 19 SENDELBACH: Oh, I didn’t know. 20 21 MANDELL: Call him back on his cell phone and ask him for 22 his home address and his email address. I’ll 23 call you back a little later, okay? 24 25 (Background message: This call is from a Federal prison). 26 27 SENDELBACH: (Inaudible). Why don’t you call him? 28 29 MANDELL: I can’t, I don’t even know if I can put his phone 30 number in the computer yet. It’s—This is gonna 31 take ays the way we’re moving. Just call him 32 on his cell phone— 33 34 SENDELBACH: No, no, I hate all that dammit— 35 36 MANDELL: (Inaudible) I’m sweating over here, it’s crazy. 37 38


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CASE TITLE: United States v. Steven Mandell 1 CASE NUMBER: 12 CR 842 2 ACTIVITY: Telephone Conversation between Steven Mandell 3 and Frieda Sendelbach 4 DATE: November 1, 2012 5 TIME: 9:42 a.m. 6 TARGET PHONE: (847)229-8937 7 8 SPEAKERS: MANDELL = Steven Mandell 9 SENDELBACH = Frieda Sendelbach 10 11 * * * * 12 13

(NON-PERTINENT CONVERSATION) 14 15 MANDELL: So, you, you’re, you’re not even out of bed right 16 now, are you? 17 18 SENDELBACH: I just got out, and I just called Terry, and I 19 inaudible) Peter gonna, uh, Peter and Selma is 20 going to drive me down to pick (inaudible)— 21 22 MANDELL: What, this morning? 23 24 SENDELBACH: Yeah, uh, but I gotta go—I thought Terry had 25 picked the car up, he didn’t;; I gotta go to—He, 26 he’s taking me there. To pick the car up. 27 28 MANDELL: Who is, Terry? 29 30 SENDELBACH: Yeah. 31 32 MANDELL: Okay, the (inaudible)— 33 34 SENDELBACH: (Inaudible) wouldn’t find it, you know? 35 36 MANDELL: Right. 37 38


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(NON-PERTINENT CONVERSATION) 1 2 MANDELL: You want me to call you back later then, at any 3 certain time? 4 5 SENDELBACH: I’m going to go, be gone to, to pick up the car. 6 7 MANDELL: Okay. 8 9 SENDELBACH: And I don’t know how long that takes, uh. I 10 don’t know, because I don’t know, he, he, I 11 thought he picked it up, and he didn’t. He—I 12 asked to go with im, and to, to pick it up where 13 it is at, but I don’t know. 14 15 MANDELL: Okay, but have him clean out all that junk, and 16 throw all that shit out, okay? 17 18 SENDELBACH: Yeah, right. Okay. 19 20 MANDELL: Because you can’t— 21 22 SENDELBACH: (Inaudible). 23 24 MANDELL: —you don’t have the strength to do anything. 25 26 SENDELBACH: Yeah. (Inaudible). 27 28 MANDELL: (Inaudible) have him, have him do it for you. 29 30 SENDELBACH: I already try—I already asked him if he could 31 do it— 32 33 MANDELL: And? 34 35 SENDELBACH: And he says he will try. 36 37 MANDELL: Huh? 38 39 SENDELBACH: He—I, I already asked him to do it and he says 40 he’ll try. 41 42 MANDELL: Okay, because you can just—You don’t need any, 43 You need all your space for your groceries and 44 stuff. 45 46 SENDELBACH: Yeah, I know. I know. 47

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1 MANDELL: I’ll call you later this afternoon a little bit 2 maybe? 3 4 SENDELBACH: Okay. 5 6


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CASE TITLE: United States v. Steven Mandell 1 CASE NUMBER: 12 CR 842 2 ACTIVITY: Telephone Conversation between Steven Mandell 3

and Frieda Sendelbach 4 DATE: October 31, 2012 5 TIME: 6:16 p.m. 6 TARGET PHONE: (847)229-8937 7 8 SPEAKERS: MANDELL = Steven Mandell 9 SENDELBACH = Frieda Sendelbach 10

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(NON-PERTINENT CONVERSATION) 14 15 MANDELL: Hello? 16 17 SENDELBACH: Hello? 18 19 MANDELL: Hello honey. 20 21 SENDELBACH: Yeah, hello honey. Okay, I got your 22 information. Th— 23 24 MANDELL: Love you kiddo. Go ahead. 25 26 SENDELBACH: The home address is . 27 28 MANDELL: Okay. 29 30 SENDELBACH: 31 32 MANDELL: Uh-huh. 33 34 SENDELBACH: 35 36 MANDELL: So I’ll repeat that. 37 38 39 SENDELBACH: Right. 40 41 MANDELL: And his email? 42 43 SENDELBACH: Email is 44 45 MANDELL: Yeah. 46 47

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SENDELBACH: 1 2 MANDELL: Yeah. 3 4 SENDELBACH: 5 6 MANDELL: so this 7 is Okay. 8 9 SENDELBACH: Yeah. So now— 10 11 MANDELL: What did he have to say, anything? 12 13 SENDELBACH: —with the credit card, that’s—He doesn’t have 14 a credit card, only with the company. 15 16 MANDELL: Yeah. 17 18 SENDELBACH: And, he’s, he doesn’t have with the same 19 address. The credit card gotta be with the same 20 address, and the credit card. So he doesn’t 21 have that. So, I told him to call the, that 22 number and see, find out, how, how, how they can 23 arrange it, you know, maybe to set up an account 24 or whatever. 25 26 MANDELL: Uh-huh. Did he say okay? 27 28 SENDELBACH: Uh... Huh? 29 30 MANDELL: He said okay? 31 32 SENDELBACH: Yeah, yeah. 33 34 MANDELL: So, he was fine with you? 35 36 SENDELBACH: And he’s got, he’s got the car. 37 38 MANDELL: Huh? 39 40 SENDELBACH: He’s got the car already. 41 42 MANDELL: I told you. 43 44 SENDELBACH: Yeah. 45 46 MANDELL: Can he drive (inaudible). 47

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1 SENDELBACH: (Inaudible) he apparently know what the hell 2 was, d—, uh, what, what, what that area is, he 3 probably know. He knew, so he’s in that 4 neighborhood, whatever. 5 6 MANDELL: Uh-huh. 7 8 SENDELBACH: I don’t know, the, the directions you gave me 9 (inaudible) was, he said: “There’s no way we can 10 Find the car with that directions.” Anyhow, so 11 he got the car, so I gotta find somebody to, to, 12 to pick it up. 13 14 MANDELL: Okay sweetheart. And you have to check that 15 Right tire, have somebody check it. 16 17


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(NON-PERTINENT CONVERSATION) 1 2 SENDELBACH: What else did I wanted to tell you? Oh, well, 3 that’s about it. I’m trying to get the car 4 back. 5 6 MANDELL: Okay (inaudible). 7 8 SENDELBACH: I’m going to clean it out. 9 10 MANDELL: Yeah. Yeah. 11 12 SENDELBACH: Okay? 13 14 MANDELL: Yes. 15 16 SENDELBACH: Uh. 17 18 MANDELL: And throw away a lot of stuff. 19 20 SENDELBACH: Yeah. 21 22 MANDELL: And just make sure you check your right tire for 23 air pressure, or— 24 25 SENDELBACH: Right. 26 27


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