Streeter: Did you receive that voice mail approximately February 15, 2011? Cohen: Yes, I did ... I think is page 13, the middle of page 13 ... CD played (251) Streeter: Okay. Did you receive that voice mail message from Ms. Lynch sometime in May of 2011, May 11, 2011? Cohen: Yes, I did. (RT 252) CD played ... Streeter: Did you receive that voice mail from Ms. Lynch on approximately May 11, 2011? Cohen: Yes, I did. (RT 252) CD played ... Streeter: Did you receive that voice mail message approximately May 11, 2011? Cohen: Yes, I did. (RT 253) CD played ... Streeter: Did you receive that voice mail approximately May 11, 2011? Cohen: Yes, Ma’am. (RT 254) CD played. Did you receive that voice mail approximately May 11, 2011? Cohen: Correct ... Streeter: Do you recall if you received a voice mail message from Ms. Lynch around May 19, 2011? Cohen: I believe I did. (RT 255) Streeter: ... Did you receive that voice mail message from Ms. Lynch on approximately May 19, 2011? Cohen: Yes, I did ... Streeter; Do you know a person by the name of Paul Shaffer? Cohen: Yes,, I know him. Streeter: Who is that? Cohen: Paul Shaffer is David Letterman’s bandleader. Streeter: ... Do you know a person by the name of Dylan? Cohen: Yes, I do. Streeter: Who is that? (RT 256) Cohen: That’s Bob Dylan. Streeter: ... Were you ever with Mr. Dylan when Ms. Lynch was in your employ? Cohen: I met with Bob Dylan several times. We have a cordial acquaintance. Streeter: How about Mr. Shaffer? Was he ever around when Ms. Lynch was in your employ? Cohen: I -- I believe -- I wouldn’t say she was around, but I did bump into him a couple of times under professional circumstances. Streeter; And Ms. Lynch was present? Cohen: No. Streeter: ... Are you from America or from a different country? Cohen: I’m from Canada. Streeter: Is Mr. Shaffer from a different country? Cohen: I think he is. I’m not certain. (RT 257)
NOTE: Bob Dylan is a friend of Phil Spector’s and I wrote him because he helped save Hurricane Carter. I know Paul Shaffer personally through Phil Spector. He is a close friend of Phillip’s and Cohen and I did bump into Paul at the Juno Awards. In fact, Paul told Phillip that I was pregnant with Ray and Phillip repeated this in front of me and Cohen’s daughter, Lorca Cohen, who Cohen encouraged to visit Phillip (with me) at the Bel Air Hotel after Ray’s birth. Cohen also encouraged me to have dinner with Phillip after the Clarkson incident which I did. He told me Phillip needed a friend. Cohen can’t live in Canada because he has residence/tax issues there. He told me he obtained a new green card (a couple of years after abandoning his green card following Marty Machat’s death) due to the fact that Canada Revenue asks where you filed your prior returns while the IRS does not. This all relates to his off-shore accounts; badges of residency in Canada; paying non-resident taxes in the U.S. while holding a U.S. green card; the 1977 tax memo he received advising him that he didn’t have to pay taxes where he has residences (the U.S., Canada, and Greece) but cautioning him not to have a U.S. green card. Probably his numerous social security numbers that his accountant helped resolved after Marty Machat’s death.
