From: jeffrey E. <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 29, 2016 11:41 AM To: Melanie Spinella Subject: I know you have a lot on your mind.but.. sent to you JAN 29th 2016 you've ag=eed that Your office is a multi billion dollar responsibility. your children will inherit it , in order to oversee their financial lives- I feel =or you, truly ,but the facts are the facts, your ceo ( Brad) has provi=ed one bad document after another for over a year, no getting away from it„ =C2 bad cash flows no new IT, each time with " its gettting better " no in fact -! its =ot. - the excuse, that Brad is not the numbers guy, is ludicrous. of course he=20 didnt actually prepare the statements. - no ceo would ,-=but over and over he presented them to you and me , after , holding them back=20 for his personal review multiple times and after multiple drafts. weeks of his editing,=C2 the consistant but "inexplicable "missing the obvious serious errors . ( gaming ) inaccuracies, = cashflow ) and mistakes (tax returns). why, ?! the simple answer i= that at best, he is a c minus, (note. I, like you ,also give points for effort. )- ! a= elegant art partnership gone fallow. ??=ff and its core reason to exist. not used ? no docs for plane?, still ! why?=no docs for decantings why? the docs for deal 1 received last night, "= no docs at all for deal 2, the biggest " . why wasn't Tom brought in , =C2 after 4 times of my incessant reminders your admonition etc. the trading accounts ? =AO Barry Cohen is great. more like him please .= you asked , - I did my best trying to train your brad chosen people in the face of my telling you that they were never going to be more than c-minuses, thousands of emails thousands=? Brad at its head . you can't as a ceo,=have an accountant give you multiple pages with the most important numbers missing altogether=20 and not notice, you and I saw the errrors right away ,as did my very junior=20 bookeeper after only a cursory glance. He to