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33. APA notifies all Council members that it has removed the landing page for the Independent Review and the first version of the Report from its website. Plaintiffs obtain multiple statements from witnesses that APA General Counsel, Deanne Ottaviano falsely represented to the APA Council of Representatives during the August 10, 2018 Council meeting that the Plaintiffs have refused APA settlement offers and that the first version of the Report was was not posted APA on the APA website. Ottaviano again calls out and threatens witnesses who assist Plaintiffs and reiterates APA's intention to inappropriately draw out the lawsuit and deplete Plaintiffs' resources. (On September 10, 2018 Hoffman, Sidley Austin, and APA filed a request with the D.C. Court to further delay Plaintiffs' ability to reach the merits. See DC Litigation item 21.) 8/21/2018

34. On August 21, 2018 APA announced to all Council members via email that APA had revised and republished the APA timeline . Through an interactive link to the APA timeline provided in her email, and with the clear intention of reaching a wider audience than just those on the APA Council, APA through and on the direction of its General Counsel, Deanne Ottaviano, intentionally republished the September 4, 2015 Hoffman Report with David Hoffman's, Sidley Austin's and APA's clear knowledge and admissions of the falsehoods permeating in the Report. This anticipated republication was documented with the DC Court on July 23, 2018 and that document was served on Defendants' counsel. 8/21/2018

35. APA adds substantial new timeline content discrediting Hoffman's and Sidley's findings including: 1) The Division 19 Task Force Report Discrediting Hoffman's and Sidley's findings, 2) February 16, 2016 and May 15, 2016 (Hoffman's and Sidley's conflicts of interest) letters from the former Ethics Chairs, 3) June 12, 2016 letter from former APA Presidents, and an 4) "entry for February 16, 2017 stating, 'Five plaintiffs filed a lawsuit against the Association arising out of the publication of the Independent Review." (That complaint and the others identified the two copies and locations of two versions of the Reports on the APA website, see Ottaviano false representations to Council set forth in 33). 8/21/2018

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