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ZBA Hearing - March 8, 2023

Philadelphia Zoning Board of Adjustment (ZBA)Mar 8, 20233h 49m

Thank you.

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Okay, Chair, we have 16 attendees, and we can start as you wish.

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Thank you.

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Good morning, everyone.

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My name is Bill Bergman, and I will be chairing this morning's EPA hearings.

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With me is our Vice Chair, Ishmael Shahid.

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President, Mr. Chairman.

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Our Board Member, Thomas Holloman.

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President, Mr. Chairman.

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And our Board Member, James Snell.

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President, Mr. Chairman.

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Also present is Hillary Emerson, our Attorney, and our Executive Director, Tanya Sunken.

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Here's our virtual format.

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Be wise, the proceedings are being recorded.

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The video will be available by contacting tanyasunkett at philo.gov.

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For the benefit of our court sonographer, we ask attorneys and witnesses to identify themselves before testifying.

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If you're participating by phone, if you wish to testify, press star 9 to raise your hand and star 6 to unmute.

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To enter an appearance statement, call 267-270-5548.

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Leave your email address and the address of the property in question. And finally,

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the question answer box on the screen is not for comments or testimony. All comments should be

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directed to our Executive Director, Tanya Sunkett. Let's look at our list for this morning and the

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continuations that we have.

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Number one, MI 2022-005-929-7030 North Broad Street.

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We have a request from the council person because the RCA meeting has not yet

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occurred.

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Is Christopher Brown in the audience?

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no hash chair

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MI 2022

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005 929

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7030 North Broad Street

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this case is continued

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mark must be tried

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number

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11

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MI 2022-005-922, 1719th North 2nd Street, this case is continued.

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Number 12, MI 2022-002-815-3852 Germantown Avenue, this case is continued.

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And number 13, MI-2022-002-764-5235 Jefferson Street.

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This case is continued.

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Second listing.

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Mark must be tried.

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Is there anyone in the audience who has a question or a statement relative to the four cases that have been continued?

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Good morning, Chair.

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This is Fatina L.

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I'll be your co-host this morning.

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Thank you.

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You're welcome.

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I see no hands.

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Okay. Are there any other requests for continuances?

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I see no hand.

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Thank you.

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I'm sorry, Chair.

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One just went up.

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Okay.

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Last name ending in P-H-A-M.

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Okay. Bring them on.

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Okay. Please unmute yourself.

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Good morning.

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Good morning. Could you state your name, please, and spell for the court reporter?

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My name is Kwong Dinh Pham, C-U-O-N-G, last name is P-X-A-M.

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Right.

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Do you swear, Fern, to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?

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Yes, sir.

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What case do you want to talk about, sir?

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It's, the case is MI2022002349.

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I apply for a rezoning for three apartments, sir.

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And you want to continue this case?

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And you want to continue this case?

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Yes, sir.

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Yes, sir.

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Excuse me, Mr. Chair.

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This is Hillary.

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And the address is 1129 South Indianapolis Street.

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Okay.

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Mr. Pham, we have received all of your documents.

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If you are able to proceed today, you can.

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Yes, I prefer to proceed, please.

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Okay.

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All right.

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So we'll call you.

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Your case will be called, sir.

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We will call your case, okay? I'll let you know when to come back in.

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All right. We're going to look at now cases that we don't have any documents for.

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number four mi 2022 002 348 3218 holyoke road um we have no documents for this

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wayne hoglin is the owner applicant this is the second listing

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i see no handshare so number four mi 2022 002 348 3218 holy oak road second listing no one's

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appeared i vote to dismiss thomas holloman my vote is to dismiss james snell dismiss

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Ishmael Shaheed dismissed. Thank you. Number five, MI 2022-005-923-547

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High Street. Anthony Green is the listed owner. No exhibits. This is the first listing.

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I see no handshare. So MI 2022-005-923-547 High Street.

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This case is continued, will be marked, must be tried.

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Number seven, hold on one minute, I'm sorry.

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I lost my page here, man.

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Okay, number seven, MI 2022-002-346-450-North 61st Street.

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This is the second listing.

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no one appeared the first time.

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Kennard McKenzie is the owner.

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I see no hands, chair.

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MI 2022-002-346-450-North 61st Street.

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I vote to dismiss.

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Thomas Holloman, my vote is to dismiss.

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James Snell, my vote is to dismiss.

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Ishmael Shahid, my vote is to dismiss.

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Thank you.

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Number nine, MI 2022-002-353, 1601 Fraser Street.

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Janice Ferguson is the owner.

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This is no exhibits, second listing.

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No one appeared at the first listing.

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Janice Ferguson.

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I see no hands, Chair.

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MI 2022-002-353, 1601 South Fraser Street.

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I vote this is dismissed.

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Thomas Holloman, my vote is to dismiss.

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James Snow, my vote is to dismiss.

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Thank you.

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We're going to go to our adwords.

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Number one, MI 2022-002-233-5807-13 Germantown Avenue.

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The vote on this matter will now be held on Wednesday, March 15th at 9.30 a.m.

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Number two, MI 2022-005-751-7631 Algonne Street.

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The vote on this matter is being held pending receipt of an amended refusal.

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We're going to start our regular list.

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We're going to go to number 10 first.

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MI 2022-002-881-1550 Lardner Street.

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Josue Bonagre is the owner applicant.

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There's a letter of opposition from Take Back Your Neighbors.

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there's also a letter of support in a petition from 49 residents

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chair we have someone with the name dame excuse me dean last name beginning in v

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Last name beginning in V.

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i'm gonna allow him to speak if that's okay

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I'm going to allow him to speak if that's okay.

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That's fine.

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Sir, please speak and unmute yourself.

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Yes, can you hear me, guys?

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Yeah, good morning.

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Could you state your name, please, and spell for the court reporter?

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Yes, it's Dean Vassar, D-E-A-N-V-A-S-S-O-R.

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Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth?

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Yes, I'm the attorney.

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Okay, you're the attorney.

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Okay.

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Let's see here.

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Could you identify your client in a relationship type property?

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Yes, my client is Josney Bonigray.

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Right.

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He is the owner of the property.

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Okay.

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Do you have your camera?

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Could you go on camera for us?

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Yes, give me a second.

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Good.

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Our vice chair has a few questions for you, sir.

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yes good morning council do you agree to waive the reading of the refusal and stipulate to

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his accuracy uh yes have you emailed all the required documents and exhibits five days in

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advance i'm sorry you're not as clear i'm sorry can you hear me now uh yeah much better so have

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you emailed all the documents and exhibits that are required to proceed with this case five days

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in advance of this hearing? I believe there's two documents that we're missing. So my answer

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would be no. All right. Please proceed to share your screen. We may not be able to vote on this

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depending on the information you have, but we'll go through. I'm very sorry. I can't hear what you

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said, that last part. I said we may not be able to vote on this case, but we will proceed depending

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it on all the information you have okay all right please proceed to share your screen

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oh just just a second i'm sorry

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green button at the bottom

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i'm uh i'm trying mike my computer just froze i think he just froze up yeah

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want to try coming back in okay let me let me let me log out

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there you go oh you can you see me i see you now okay this is um this is everything's frozen

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you see a green button at the bottom i know my my my screen is completely frozen

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i get the audio is working but i can't see you guys or

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it's just completely frozen well why don't we do this why don't we come back to you

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I want you to see if you can bring that around, and I'll call you back in about maybe 20 minutes.

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Okay.

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Okay?

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All right.

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Case number three.

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MI 2022.

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002 349.

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1129 South 51st Street.

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Kong FOM is the owner.

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Mr. Fon?

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I see no handshare.

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He's in the audience. He just was on. Remember?

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Yeah. It was coming up. I'm sorry. It was a little

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delay with my... Sure. That's fine.

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Okay.

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He's coming back in as a panelist.

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Thank you. Perfect.

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Mr. Pham?

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Yes, sir.

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All right.

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Could you go on?

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Do you have your video that we can see you?

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There you go.

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Thank you.

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Sir, could you state your name because you've already been sworn?

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My name is Kwong Den Phams.

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Okay.

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and may you spell it again for the court reporter

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first name is C-U-O-N-G

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First name is C-U-O-N-G, middle initial is D, last name is P-X-A-M.

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middle initial is D

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last name is P-X-A-N-G

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