NOTE THIS CASE HAS BEEN UNSEALED.
TESTIMONY OF PARKER STILL Before the GRAND JURY
Impaneled February , 2017 And Convened in
THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE
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Meeting in
Grand Jury Room
Howard H. Baker , Jr . Federal Courthouse
800 Market Street
Knoxville, Tennessee
Testimony July 18, 2017
Examination Conducted by :
CYNTHIA DAVIDSON
Assistant United States Attorney 800 Market Street Knoxville, Tennessee
KENNEDY REPORTING SERVICES 205 NORTH 20TH STREET SUITE 408
BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA 35203
P R O C E E D I N G S
July 18, 2017 2:59 p.m.
PARKER STILL, a witness of lawful age having sworn to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, was examined and testified as follows:
EXAMINATIONBY MS. DAVIDSON:
Q Could you please state and spell your name for the record?
A My name is Parker Still. Last name S-T-I-L-L.
Q And what do you do?
A I 'm a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. I'm assigned currently assigned to the Knoxville Division.
Q And how long have you done that?
A Approximately five years.
Q And what type of experience did you have prior to being with the FBI?
A Prior to joining the FBI, I was an attorney for approximately seven and a half years. Still licensed to practice law. During my time as an attorney I did both prosecution and I've done criminal defense work.
Also a graduate of the Army JAG School in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Q And do you have a specialization at the FBI? Are you in a squad?
Do you investigate a specific type of cases?
A Yes, ma'am. I handle primarily white collar cases involving, you know, bank fraud, wire fraud, mail fraud, general financial crimes. Of course, we're a small division. We all kind of have to help, you know, out on other cases. So I do stuff with the violent crime squad as well.
But, primarily, I'd say 90% of my work is dedicated to white collar crime.
Q And so in -. in your role with the FBI, did you have an occasion to investigate a scheme to defraud the USAA?
A Yes, ma'am, I did.
Q And what is USAA?
A Okay. USAA is a -. what I'll -. I'll call it a kind of a multi facet financial institution. It's -. the banking part of USAA is federally backed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation commonly referred to as the FDIC. They offer products such as insurance. I'm sure some of y'all have probably seen the USAA commercials on TV.
They're also involved in real estate and retirement arenas as well. That's just some of what USAA does.
And I don't think I said what it was. U --it's United States Automobile Association. And that's so when I refer to USM, that's what I'm referring to it as today.
And, again, headquartered or based out of Texas.
Q And so tell me about your investigation.
How did this come to your attention and what did you learn? A Well, first let me back up just one second there, Ms. Davidson.
So just kind of you know how investigations come to the FBI. We rely a lot, and it's something that people don't realize, on citizens just contacting us with various financial fraud matters that they might be suspected of.
We also rely heavily on financial institutions, banking officials, those type of individuals to reach out to us and provide us information, which is what ultimately happened here that the Director for Financial Crimes for USAA reached out to us about this situation with Mr. Randall Keith Beane.
