HOUSE OVERSIGHT 023330 tax planing running out of time. . 7 restructure office. harry? 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 Spindle___________________________ 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 tha