From: 1 <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, December 9, 2018 4:42 PM To: Kathy Ruemmler Subject: thoughts =div class="gmail_quote"> for tuesday , we want a contigent sig=ing bonus, contingent on the stock being higher by x percent i= three years.. makes the current payment non taxable. &=uot;_ =blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-=eft:lpx solid rgb(204,204,204);padding- left:lex"> =span style="font-size:l6pt">A recent string of articles published by the Miami Herald has kicked up a dust storm of ill-informed speculation regarding what is inaccurately described as a "sweetheart deal". The =overnments ' non-prosecution agreement with Jeffrey Epstein was anything but. It=20 was the result of an intense negotiation at arms length for mo=ths between the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern Distri=t of Florida, the largest and one of the most respected of the nation's prosecutorial arms of the Department of Justice, and a group of equally well-respected criminal defense attorneys with impeccable reputations for integrity and professionalism. The implication of these tabloid styled articles that any one of these hi=hly accomplished attorneys would sacrifice a lifetime of superlative professional work to participate in base unethical behavior in order to curry favor with a singl= wealthy man accused of sexual misconduct is both insulting and preposterous. In the kindest of lights it can be said to <=span> reflect a fundamental misunderstanding of the federal statutory and constitutional laws and existing Department of Justice policies existing at the time when this agreeme=t was negotiated, willful blindness , regarding what actually transpir=d during those negotiations and what appears to be desire to justify the time and cost of a year-long newspaper "investigation" by foisti=g an intriguing but delusional tale of wealth, power and political corruption on the unsuspecti=g public. Put simply, the Miam