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From: jeffrey E. <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2017 12:30 AM To: Jeffrey Epstein Subject: Fwd: Forwarded messag= From: jeffrey E. <[email protected]= <mailto:[email protected]» Date: Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 6:13 AM Subject: Fwd: =o: Melanie Spinella < <mailto >> Leon, Congragulations on biting the bullet. =AO at least 18 months late , but I m encouraged an= glad for you. When you interviewed Brad two years ago you as=ed that i not tell him what a disaster lay before him. what would y=u like me to tell Barry? There is a HUGE amount of work t= be done in the next 9 -12 months. mostly the exact same work =hat i outlined in my email of 2 years ago. now complicated by years =f mess on top. ( you can send it again if you like ) . =rad wechsler=was never up to the task . sorry, I realize I have been =aying the very same thing for a long time. he was a not a step up fr=m Eileen but a step sideways. in the beginning the=e was Eileen and Tom and Ralph Lerner. all your hand picks. =AO then brad. john, Joe. . joslin was chosen from = pool of 2 people. each that would be limited by a salary of 250k. (=yes i personally augmented his comp in order to get him ) I did say=hire both Lisa to do the bookkeeping and joslin tax, He compl=ined for over a year, re his direction by eileen and ada , and then brad. His breakdo=n was not a surprise after months and moths of warnings. Thoug= disabled, he ran your office this year. with john and <=pan id="m_-8623789478910689534m_-2434106449994715214:27s.7">joe. He ran amok, =nd as i told you he rarely failed to remind me in our conversa=ions that you told him that he works for you and not for me an= that brad needs to pays him . .=C2 Asking me who to hire , estate attny tax people etc. : I ha=e taken heat for years over the fact that i gave you no more than =AO carlyns =ame, . no follow up questions no interactions , not even=one single question asked of me re her work. ( that was=Eileen _) but somehow carlyns fuck up was my doing. . =C2 when i told you that i thought Eileen wasn't up to t=e task, you bellowed that i was talking out of both sides of my mout=. . You told me this year, that by trying t= protect you from crazy joslin=/span>, I had in essence fired him and it was my=responsibility to do his work. it then turns out that he=didn'tJoshn castrucci, in your eyes , was also my doing, though email after email=said , I take no responsibility for him,and iYOU SHOULD N=T HIRE HIM .!1! „ your response was that was my opinion was =nly because i didn't trust him. then to add insult to injury =A0 last jan you told me he was gone. however he too is still there= and a waste of money and space. =AO My time is complicated by Don=ld's potentially eviscerating any reason for anyone to use =the foreign funds repatriation plan that i had put together. ..C2 however as you are aware I have some decisions to make re my t=me allocation in the next year or two. so at least for a few w=eks I am unable to commit much time and make any future plans to =AO guide you in the redoing of your procrastination produced m=ss. That being said , =C2 the tasks at hand are the following. EFTA_R1_01898782 EFTA02654382 You have a bomb of =AO colored string that your retarded children have formed , It has t= be very carefully unwound , even the substitution of Ba=ry for your next trustee, needs a careful focus on procedure.s =C2 It would be much preferable if Wechsler was not his replacement. =C2 do you have any person you trust ??! . I am concerned re brad =aking barrys place re XXXX<=span>. In the beginning Barry will need to find a=d learn ACCURATE . org charts. books , balance sheets . =AO trust valuations. are all a part. Barry will need 2 m=nths to just get his arm around what is there, this is before any n=eded modifications., a way overdue re- fresh of you= estate plan . . clats , trust. partnerships. <=pan id="m_- 8623789478910689534:2be.21">grats. =Iles. =AO bank accounts , filing requirements. etc. the long a=aited review of the brh tra and shareholders agreement to s=e how they fit into new plan. . " XXXXX" =AO planning. art partnership engagement .. , airplane=re-do. , buying another. . ? boat sale , Miamijoslin=/span> stays for a year. or so. so does tom and . except for =eather everyone should be replaced with new. . =AO Sell Artspaceaspan> and shut down reg=n arts. . rationalize. cash flow reportin=. cash mgmt. stock sales. sec irs. gaming. foreign reporting. =AO the 8865 mess will take months to review now . . you =ANNOT file unrevie=ed audited documents. . CANNOT!!! =C2 this will be very detailed work. . a self inflicted woun= - all avoidable if professionals had been in place to limit = or contain it. . . you will need 3 new hires .a s the=e is no one in your office that is truly an A player. I have g=eat hope in Barry as you know. He will need to be trained. =AO note ; One year is my guesstimate After 4 years o= telling you , that you could do better than Halperin, : im glad that you now are will=ng to follow barrys advice . I take no offense, in fact I t=ke comfort in the fact that after only one conversation with Barry=/span> you are now convinced to make that change . will take a year =r more. I expect as a friend you will unde=stand that I will no longer, =A0 not even for one day , work on your affairs . without the compens=tion that is long overdue. . your unilateral idea of after car= , not imposed on any other professional , except me, not paul weiss ,( caesars alone , a direct screw up on their part ► tom, akin, no one. needs to end. . yo= and I had previously agreed no more of that , and th=s after you decided not to pay me per our agreement. to be fair I ca= not say im surpri=ed as you have email after email , stating that ,=if you save a great deal of money, you wont want to pay , so l=mit it to 40m per year. - water under the bridge If I can find the time to work, on=your project , which is not by any means certain as I have sai= , I hope you understand that it now will have =o be under my standard terms and conditions. and well documented =AO so as to avoid any more of the he said she said. I never wa=t to have any more uncomfortable money moments with y=u , I find it very distasteful. . =C2 so to be clear , my terms are as follows . I will =nly work for the usual 40 million per year. It needs to =e paid, 25 million upon signing an agreement . = million every 2 months thereafter for 6 months ie march may apan id="m_-8623789478910689534m_-2434106449994715214m_-22610975512731050=:lbd.104">june =. this can begin if i am able in January. I will =span id="m_-8623789478910689534m_- 2434106449994715214:27s.83">immediatel= stop work , if the payment is not received. =AO If you want me to work this year until Jan 15 , =t will be 10 million. paid upfront. after one year =A0 you will be left with a new estate plan a running office. staffed=with professionals overseen by Barry. ( hallelujah ) a tax pl=n . and an investment that returns more than any painting you could =ossible own. . no agreement - no work. howev=r - I of course will talk to Barry for the hour that=i promised , and take your guidance as to what I should say. =C2 =AO please note 2 EFTA_R1_01898783 EFTA02654383 The information contained in this commu=ication is confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may cons=itute inside information, and is intended only for the use of the addre=see. It is the property of JEE Unauthorized use, disclosure or copyi=g of this communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited a=d may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, pl=ase notify us immediately by return e-mail or by e-mail to [email protected], a=d destroy this communication and all copies thereof, including all a=tachments. copyright -all rights reserved 3 EFTA_R1_01898784 EFTA02654384