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Mark Cuban: She took over about 11 months before I went to trial and kicked the SEC's (Securities and Exchanges Comission) ass. I spent seven years fighting them and where this is relevant is one of the things the SEC would not do before her and particularly during her tenure is release exculpatory information, which means if you find in your due diligence and all the research you're doing that somebody is not guilty or there is evidence to suggest they're not guilty or not liable for what they're accused of, you could release it. That's called exculpatory evidence. But the SEC has a habit of not doing that's o to hear what's going on was not surprising to me at all. There were so many ways the SEC could've made life easier, more just, fair for people that they dealt with and during the last four years of her tenure, there was no interest in that whatsoever. A lot of people think I'm pompous and arrogant, she makes me look like a choirboy. I just want to share because it was no surprise to hear--and look, I don't know any details, I'm not passing any judgment on what may or may not have happened because I have no cluse--but what I do know is that I had to deal with that organization and she was in charge from the period I went to trial and they had during my trial, which took three hours for the jury to come back and say that I'm not liable and an hour of that three hours was lunch time. There were no qualms of them trying to pull every trick in the book, just abusing good people, misleading people, I mean that was the way they did business and to this day may be the way they do business but she was in charge.

Mark Cuban: It depends on the severity. If something like this happens with one of our players, you'd have to be hands off. You'd have to say let due process take its course but if I thought there was something untoward--so if the tables were turned and Adam Silver created this commission and I knew Mary Jo White was on the commission, I'd be like look, I already know her pattern and her history, something is wrong. There's a red flag. So while I may just sit back a moment to see what happens and let it play out. For certain, I'd make sure that the process was fair, so I don't blame the union for taking steps, I don't blame Jerry--I don't know, I haven't followed it that closely to what steps he may have taken--but you can't diminish the severity or the importance of domestic violence. That is paramount and that is most critical. You've got to make sure you have the facts right. You've got to make sure that there's not a culture where that's deemed acceptable. You have to make sure your players are well aware that's not acceptable and you do your homework. All of that said, if you're going to appoint an independent commission, come on, at least make sure you know who's on the commission.

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