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With your full knowledge I paid out 8 mil to my staff before june, . so i guess I can safely assume that after consideration of all the things I did for the entire past year separate and apart from your unique free "after care" concept. , what you thought was ultimately fair was the contribution of 5 million to a foundation and a total of 2 million dollars to me.

Date: Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 1:08 PM
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To: Melanie Spinella [REDACTED]
I think you should consider the fact that your family office will be the most central component of what you leave to your children , wife heirs. it is the core of your assets. your art might be sold. your houses may lie empty, the apollo stock could be sold. you will pass on your office , . it will be the primary player in your estate tax. probate, transition. Brad has taken it from a D minus to a C minus, If I were you I would set the goal of an A. just like your paintings. . Like a house you could attempt to renovate it. it will take more time and money . or . in essence as I suggested in dec of 13, start from scratch. A financail head of office. - brad could move to being richards replacment as trustee. . barry cohen would be perfect but carries the trustee taint now. . take a tax partner from a major firm. to replace joslin, cost 1 + mil . keep heather and ssmantha. . bring in full time IT person. ASAP . your lighting contractor in your new townhouse has better IT than your multi billlion dollar antique opersation. data breaches are not your concern. precision is. . either re do the office layout . or get enterly new space. the proposals to focus on following on a monthly basis the values of all your current investments is an example of misplaced prioirties. . Your office is the heart of the familys financial life and temp future, it needs a heart operation

Date: Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 5:10 PM
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To: Melanie Spinella [REDACTED]
Radical but my preferred idea. . START from total scratch. there is absolutely nothing worth keeping in your family office except for heather , nothing at all . I remember when i bought my first house in order to renovate and jack robertson said forget it. knock it down start again, I could n't believe it. but he was right. Like your tax returns that were done in triplicate. TOM RICH ALAN. . tom and rich were not really useful in the end. Alan was the only smart one. you should in my opinion Start a brand new office. hire cfo. bring joe over. heather and samantha, run parallel for 6 months and close down the mess of elysium forever. leave your kids a functioning operation professionally constructed and managed. NOT BY ME!!! LAst nov i laid out priorities IT , being the first nothing as of today. in July I said focus on airplane as a test . to examine procedure and proficiency, so far mostly a waste of resources time people etc. Only last week told debra owns 49 percent of plane. no IT to speak of. bens house unaccounted for. tax returns very very sloppy, . boat still argued as third home. . pilots bonuses? , structure unkown by all. cash sitlling at the same time loans outstanding.
Phaidon , looks like close to breakeven in a few years. others totally unknown. Query , do you really want this ? : I m not sure how you both want to have an investment office and have cash flow being eaten by publishing and loans amounts outstanding increased by art. --interest rates will be going up.- . your plane will cost 10 million to refinance - so will boat if sold next year-. art space and regan , both needs more cash. with little return, taxes , art purchases . Part of radical solutition is to sell publishing.altogether. (are the children really interested.) . restrucuture plane from scratch. layers unncessary. simplify crazy structure s bank accounts trading accounts accounts payable. credit cards. etc. The best way to wean yourself away from me is to have someone else do the whole thing from scratch. . move brad to be the replacement for Richard. . he is nice but this is not what he does. Him saying it is soooo fucked up to me , was only an echo of me sayint it to you. .

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To: Melanie Spinella [REDACTED]
as brad can attest , I spent time today with joslin, joe. etc. no question at all, a failed experiment. In the words of a banker that made a call on your office. what happened? leon seems to have replaced Eillenn with a

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