moving forward
[{"sender": null, "recipients": ["Melanie Spinclla (iii"], "timestamp": "Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 10:03 PM", "subject": "moving forward", "body": "I have mixed emotions about what transpired today. really, You saw first hand in nauseating detail what i have been saying to you for quite a while now. Joslins answers were totally incomprehensible. the charts he prepared unreadable. Brads defensive posture was at a minum very surprising . He and I have recently gotten along quite well , I thought . Neither Joslin or Brad understood a 180 million dollar number . no cash flow after weeks of requesting? odd. when you suggested that heathers behavior was emblematic of a sloppy office , brad said lets not talk about emblems??! bill pay , admittedly no change for the year. . plane not done. though it was the only thing 1 suggested doing first in july. . I sent youa list of 10 consultantts. brad said three, . 1 didnt want to push it. I was shocked that brad was opining on things he knows little or nothing about. tax issues. 1031. neg basis , note payoffs ( the same idea he said he had had from the beggining??!!) . answers re LBF holdings that can be corrected ( they cant) . valuations that have never been read. . When we met in your lobby he seems surprised that i was there. I dont know if he felt somewhat sandbagged. ..\n\nthe savings on the note payoff is aprrox 33 % of 1.8 billion. real money if you do phaidon which i see no reason not to . if later josh and ben want to buy it back with you or without you they can. 1 will walk you through the structure one on one. . the losses will offeset the calder gain as well as apollo gain.\n\nIm aware that seeing what you saw frustrated you. I felt badly for you.\n\nYou wanted a contingent deal. real value. etc. I will not of course hold you to your deal . . its silly. its not how 1 work or a reflection of our friendship. my proposal is as follows. I want away from your buisiness , but at the same time leaving you in good shape.  I think you should pay the 25m that you did not for this year. for next year its the same 40 m as always, paid 20 in jan and 20 in july, and then we are done. I will give you advice and counsel but new people will be running your operating machine. I will oversee all the work that needs to be done you and I will hire new people , and it will be self running. ( it was may in my house when you told brad it had been 5 months and you were getting fed up ) I will set up a parallel . office , somenoe like wendy dolman or her quality is paramount. two accountants two bookeepers and two office admins. . alan and zoe will handle trusts and grats. heatehr diana george will be incolved in art partnership. if you want brad, analysts etc. and kids to do investments I have little to add in that regard ,except to be able to account for things properly. I suggest that the kids must have skin in any deal.\n\nAlternatively , we can continue to focus on fun and let someone else do the things that you want done."}, {"sender": null, "recipients": ["Melanie Spinella iii! -"], "timestamp": "Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 2:07 PM", "subject": "Fwd: moving forward", "body": "I had forgotten that Alan was actually at the table when i explained my note deal to you. it was at the end of the meeting described below. . as you will recall , not once , not even a peep did alan suggest contemporaneously his hand in the crafting, in fact brad said it was an idea. that HE brad, HAD HAD , from the begiining . my emails between alan and IJ that you can read , further confirm authorship. Im sure you recall the obnoxious tooting when alan said he agreed with my plan. ."}]