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MC: Did you receive any negative reactions, hate mail or anything of the like after the petition was filed?

DM: You know, I'm sure we did, and I think I've blocked all out. I'm really sure we did but I don't remember.

MC: Interesting.

DM: But I, we did... none of the negative stuff seemed to have affected me as far as recollection.

MC: And during this time you were still trying to raise money, so presumably after the petition was filed and the evidence was made public it was easier to raise money.

DM: It was. That's correct. I mean, we had to raise roughly a hundred thousand dollars, probably a hundred fifty thousand dollars to finance all of this.

MC: And a lot of the legal work was done pro bono or I guess some of the documents were photocopied by people at large law firms, and then there was, there were some donations of time and resources, right?

DM: Yeah, absolutely. Hanson Bridget Marcus Vlahos in San Francisco, where Bob Rusky worked, gave terrific amounts of resources to us.

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