HOUSE OVERSIGHT 023251 Date: Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 5:16 PM Subject: Valuation Discount To: "jeffrey E." [email protected]> I am attaching a draft response from Empire Valuation as to why it arrived at a valuation discount on the low end. Let's discuss the response and next steps. Thanks Alan Date: Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 10:27 PM Subject: To: Melanie Spinella______________________________ sorry, I can call on thurs or sit face to face fri afternoon. . I will be in ny until monday morning. decisions- questions good news . I have a really elegant solution for most of the following, 1 gift tax. cash or in kind . 2 . 1031. 3 fire drill brh tra etc. 4 . ,000( 5. 8865 s. tax planing running out of time. . 7 restructure office. barry? brad told me he thought you had acknowledged high value this year. gift tax audit etc., . April, Oct. . returns. manage joslin , who is still running your tax dept. you and I need not rehash old postures, its tedious - I would ask that you tell me if you intend to pay for the work that was done, and for the work you expect to be done, thanks Date: Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 12:13 PM Subject: Fwd: To: Melanie Spinella .1__________________________________k> Leon, Congragulations on biting the bullet. at least 18 months late , but I m encouraged and glad for you. When you interviewed Brad two years ago you asked that i not tell him what a disaster lay before him. what would you like me to tell Barry? There is a HUGE amount of work to be done in the next 9 -12 months. mostly the exact same work that i outlined in my email of 2 years ago. now complicated by years of mess on top. ( you can send it again if you like ) . Brad wechsler was never up to the task. sorry, I realize I have been saying the very same thing for a long time. he was a not a step up from Eileen but a step sideways. in the beginning there was Eileen and Tom and Ralph Lerner. all your hand picks. then brad. john, Joe. . joslin was chosen from a pool of 2 peopl