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Leon, Congragul=tions on biting the bullet. at least 18 months =AO late , but I m encouraged and glad for you. . There i= a HUGE amount of work to be done in the next 9 months. =he same work that i outlined in my email of 2 years ago. ( you can h=ve it if you like ) . Brad wechsler is a dope. . sorry, =1 have been sayingt he same thing for a long time. he was a not a st=p up from eileen but a step sideways. in the begiging th=re was eileen and Tom and ralph lerner. all your picks. =C2 then brad. john, joe. and threee others that i nev=r met. . joslin was chosen from a list of 2 peopi. each that w=uld be limited by a salary of 250k. He complained =or over a year , re his direction by eileen and ada , and then brad. =C2 He cracked after months and moths of warnings. though di=able he ran your office this year. with john and joe. He ran amok,=C2 and as i told you reminded me in most conversations that you t=ld him that he works for you and not for me and that brad needs to s=e everything becuase he pays him .

I ha=e taken heat for years over the fact that i gave you carlyns name,=C2 no more . no follow up questions no interactionl (=that was eilleen _) but somehow carlyns fuck up was my doing.=C2 . when i told you that i thought eilee= wasnt up to the task, you yelled that i was talking out of both sides of =y mouth. . You told me this year, that by t=yhing to protect you from crazy joslin, I had in essence fired him=C2 and it was my responsiblity to do his work. it the= turns out that we didnt consider himpself fired,. and c=ntinued to make a really complex mess. . Joshn castrucci= was also my doing , though email after email said , I take no repsarsioity for him, i think you shouldbt hire him, your respoins= was that was only beacuse i didnt trust him. last jan you tol= me he was gone. however he too is still there, an= a waste of money and space.

=C2 My time is complicated by donalds pote=tially visciating any reason to have the foreign funds repatriation =Ian that i had put together. . however as you are aware = have some pretty sever decisions to make re my time in the next year or t=o. so at least for a few weeks I am unable to commit much time=C2 and make any future plans to redo your procrastiantion produce= dilemmas.

That being said , =AO the tasks at hand are the following. You have a ba=l of string that your retarded children have formed , It has to be c=refully unwound , even the subsitution of barry for your next =rustee, needs focus on procedure. THis is no easy task. . =AO org charts. books, balance sheets . trust valuations. are =11 a part.

a re fresh of your estate plan FROM SCRA=CH. . clats , trust. partnerships. gra=s. Ilcs. bank accounts , filing requrements. etc. =C2 A long overdue review of the brh tra and shareholers agreement to se= how they fit into new plan. . XXXXX=C2 planning. . , airplane reddo. , buying another. . ? boat=sale, miami sale. . TRADING ACCOUNTS. . three yea=s over due. . an accounting system. =AO fire john joslin stays for a year. or so. so does =om. Im not sure wechsler is smart enough to be a trustee, so i= would be nice if you had an alternative. I would love y=ur son josh to do it. if i can figure it out for tax purposes. =C2 Sell Artspace and shut down regan arts. . rationalize.=C2 cash flow reporting. cash mgmt. stock sales. sec i=s. gaming. foreign reporting. the 8865 mess will t=ke months to review. . you CANNOT file unreviewed=C2 audited documents. . CANNOT> this w=ll be very detailed work. . all avoidable if the c=ll would have come to me , and we shut it down quickly. . =AO limiting it . or containing it. . . you will ne=d five new hires .a s there is no one in your office that is truly a= A player. I have great hope in Barry as you know. =He will need to be trained. this is an unknown for them moment. =AO time issues. After 4 years of telling you , that you =ould do better than Halperin, im glad that you believe barry =C2 I take no offense in fact I take comfort in the fact that afte= one conversation with barry you are now convinced- as long as it ha=pens. .

I expect as a friend y=u will understand that

I will no =onger , not for one day , work on your mess. without compensation .=C2 your unilateral after care , not imposed on any professional e=cept me, not paul weiss , tom, akin, no one. is finished. =C2 though you and I had previsoly agreed no more of that , after you =AO decided not to pay me per our agreement. you have email aft=r email , in the begiing stating that , if you save a great de=l of money, you wont want to pay , so limit it to 40m per year= water under the bridge

=AO If I can find the time to work, on your project =AO, which is not certain as I have said , I hope you undertst=nd that it now will have to be under my standard terms and conditions. =AO I never want to have any more money moments with you = I find it supremently distasteful. . so to be cle=r , my terms are as follows . I will only work for=C2 the usual 40 million per year. It needs to be paid, 25 m=llion upon signing an agreeemnt . 5 milion every 2 months thereafter=for 6 months . I will immediatly stop work , if the payment is=not received. you will be left with a new estate plan =AO a running office. a tax plan . and an investment that returns mor= than any painting you could possible own. . no ag=eement no work. I of course will talk to barry for the hour th=t i promised .