Tom Hardin
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Yeah, exactly.
We're going to get taken over by Blackstone.
She's working the deal, right?
So then we go to June of 2008.
And she's like, Tom, I'm going to be in New York.
We need to meet because I want to figure out what I should tell the SEC.
I'm going to meet with them more.
What should I say?
I'm like, all right.
Let's meet.
And I'm trying to figure out cover stories I can tell her for these trades.
We meet at a coffee shop by, was it Rock Center there where the ice skating rink is outside there in Manhattan?
So summer, so nobody's ice skating.
So we sit down and she's like, all right, this is what I'm thinking about saying.
what do you think we should say?
Like, what do you think I should say, Tom?
I said, well, here's this report that said hotels were cheap.
And she's like, but you know, this was illegal insider trading, right?
I'm like, yeah, I know.
It was illegal insider trading.