HOUSE OVERSIGHT 023322 Larry [stp:Date: Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 6:13 AM Subject: Fwd: To: Melanie SpineIla_______________________________ 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 people. each that would be limited by a salary of 250k. ( yes i personally augmented his comp in order to get him ) I did say hire both Lisa to do the bookkeeping and joslin tax, He complained for over a year, re his direction by eileen and ada, and then brad. His breakdown was not a surprise after months and moths of warnings. Though disabled, he ran your office this year. with john and joe. He ran amok, and as i told you he rarely failed to remind me in our conversations that you told him that he works for you and not for me and that brad needs to pays him . . Asking me who to hire , estate attny tax people etc. : I have taken heat for years over the fact that i gave you no more than carlyns name, . no follow up questions no interactions , not even one single question asked of me re her work. ( that was Eileen ) but somehow carlyns fuck up was my doing. . when i told you that i thought Eileen wasn't up to the task, you bellowed that i was talking out of both sides of my mouth. . You told me this year , that by trying to protect you from crazy josl