Christina Stephens and BTU Ventures, BTU Industries, QGEN, etc. More to Come

upcoming information on a person that is seemingly KEY to much of BTU / QGEN.  She is his administrative assistant (and a seemingly devoted one at that).

from DEFENDANT BRIAN MURPHY’S ANSWER TO COMPLAINT (Murphy litigation)

"The defendant admits that on September 23, 2009 he reviewed surveillance video showing BTU employee Christina Stevens [sic] preparing a listening device that was then used by BTU CEO Wael Al-Mazeedi to conduct illegal audio surveillance of Mr. Murphy during a meeting September 23, 2009. The defendant denies the remaining allegations in this paragraph."  (paragraph 19)

from JOINT STATEMENT OF THE PARTIES, section IV. Proposed Deponents (Murphy litigation)

"The defendant seeks to depose Wael Al-Mazeedi (BTU President); Christina Stevens [sic] (Secretary to Mr. Al-Mazeedi); Faisal Kahn (BTU Chief Operating Officer); and Jeffrey Kent (BTU Accounting Department)."

from DEFENDANT BRIAN MURPHY’S OPPOSITION AND MEMORANDUM IN OPPOSITION TO PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION FOR INJUNCTIVE RELIEF (Murphy litigation)

"These steps were designed to resolve the plaintiffs’ immediate concerns about any confidential or proprietary information that remained in the possession of Mr. Murphy, the plaintiffs’ former Manager of Information Technology, after he was terminated November 9, 2010. They were also designed to ensure that no party to the litigation had exclusive control over certain BTU documents that have been subpoenaed from Mr. Murphy by Martin Betancourt, who is a party to litigation with BTU in this Court."  [footnote 1]

[footnote 1]  "Mr. Murphy’s preference for securing evidence with the Court is well founded. On November 30, 2009 he notified the plaintiffs’ CEO, Wael Al-Mazeedi by letter of his claims against BTU of unlawful discharge, wage violations and audio surveillance in violation of M.G.L. c. 272, § 99. Mr. Murphy’s counsel later learned from BTU’s counsel (not counsel of record in this action) that digital video captured by BTU’s surveillance system on December 3—video which, Mr. Murphy will testify, shows BTU’s preparations to conduct illegal audio surveillance on Martin Betancourt—had been overwritten and no longer existed on BTU’s computers. Fortunately, Mr. Murphy had prepared a cd backup of the December 3, 2008 video surveillance while he was IT Manager at BTU, with responsibility for the surveillance system. That cd backup, which now appears to be the only surviving video evidence of the events on December 3, 2008, is among the materials Mr. Murphy deposited with the Court January 11, 2010."