FBI surveillance video transcript

March 4, 2006: Baraonof Hotel, Suit 604, 10:50 pm

Then-Veco CEO Bill Allen and then Veco VP Rick Smith



Allen: All right, let me tell you. We gotta produce.

Smith: We have to produce, we have to work&

Allen: Me and you have to f---ng produce.

Smith: That's right.

Allen: Right here.

Smith: That's right.

Allen: Right f---ing here.

Smith: OK.

Allen: Right f---ing here.

Smith: No, you're right.

Allen: I don't give a f--- where we got to go.

Smith: Bill, I agree 100 percent with you. But we still gotta get prettier&

Allen: Yeah&

Smith: But we have to produce.

Allen: Right now. Right NOW. Right now, me and you have to produce.

Smith: I know, I know &

Allen: Me and you have to f---ing produce.

Smith: You have to get dirty and you have to produce. I understand that.

Allen: Right here. Right here in this ... place. Right here.

Smith: I know.

Allen: And it don't, you know, whether we gotta go, uh, kiss, uh&

Smith: Gene Therriault's ass&

Allen: Or, yeah.

Smith: (Laughs)

Allen: Or with, uh & Let me tell you, right now. We're, you know, when we've done 519?

Smith: Yeah.

Allen: Right now we've got to do more than that.

Smith: We have to be careful how we do it.

Allen: For sure.

Smith: Yes, we have to do it. It's...

Allen: But...

Smith: And we're doing it.

Allen: But our clients have to know what we've done.

Smith: I know. But they don't f---ing pay any attention. They (Indiscernible.)

Allen: That's what we've gotta do.

Smith: &they're idiots, we got, you know&

Allen: Whether you do or you don't&

Smith: I know, I know.

Allen: Somewhere, somewhere here with Jim Mulva and with the big wheel with BP and Exxon and all that stuff, we got to f---ing produce. And I don't make a f--- who you've got to kick anybody's ass. Pete Kott or whosever's ass. We gotta f---ing do it, whether you like it or you don't. Really Rick, we're down to the nubs on this son of a bitch.

Smith: I know it. I'm there. You don't think I am...

Allen: Oh I know you do.

Smith: You get nervous, Bill.

Allen: Yeah you do. But sometimes you get, when you get drunk and you start 'Well, f--- you, f--- that' and you forget about that s---.

Smith: I do not. I have a, always have a... Bill, sometimes....

Allen: Yeah, just like ol' Vic the other night.

Smith: So, who?

Allen: Vic. Kohring. Vic Kohring.

Smith: I know.

Allen: You know, you take off and I gave him a thousand.

Smith: (Agitated) Well you told me you were! That's why I left you!

Allen: I know you did. I know you did. But that's what, you know, that's what I gotta do.

Smith: I know, but that's the reason I left you guys alone.

Allen: I know you did . I f---ing know that. I'm just giving you an example. And he would, he would kiss our ass.

Smith: I know.

Allen: And ol' Pete Kott , he's f---ed up with his family. He's f---ed up with uh, uh&

Smith: Yeah, I know.

Allen: You know, hell, I may even have to tell him 's--- yeah we'll get a job - whatever it takes. That's what we gotta f---ing do. And I have to do it when I tell him before I am going to do this what I gotta do. Because it's so important to us. It is. Your life and my life. Whatever the f--- I got to do, I'll do it because you want to be a pretty boy, right here we got to produce.

Smith: I know. We have to produce. But also you have to realize how old you are and where the company is at and everything else too.

Allen: I'm telling you, that's why I'm doing it.