In legal filings, the four attorneys representing Redstone (including CBS board member David Andelman) called the claim over the 1972
transaction an «unprecedented abuse,» noting that Redstone was «now 90 years
old; material witnesses have been dead for decades; documents have long since been
discarded or have disintegrated; memories have unquestionably eroded.»
If anyone tried to game the system by erasing an
old transaction (so he could re-use the same money again) or adding an unwarranted new one (transferring the same money as before, say), he would be promptly found out, his proposed log
discarded, and the
transactions rejected as invalid.