Attention: Thomas Stephens, Bartit Beck…

 

Dear Tom,

 

I am under the gun, I am being picked up in less than 5 minutes to go to the movies, Good Boys, the time 6:18pm pst now faced with a # of choices and no doubt u could come up with several more yourself.

 

And of course I wouldn’t expect u to be “of counsel” tu me when you are tasked with representing the best interests of Citicorp Venture Capital Ltd [CVC] but then again I would think u would also be seeking a “win win” situation much like I do each and every day, about an hour or so ago I took quite a dive right at the spot where in the past it wasn’t all that unusual for me tu break a rib or too, my backpack with laptop inside very much cushioning my fall.

 

It wasn’t however, the result of any “stiff arm tackle” or my wife, Marie, reading me the “riot act”, rarely if ever feeling the need to raise her voice the last time I recall when her former husband Dr. JBS sent her this E-mail followed 15 odd minutes later with this E-mail, her recovery though in less time than it would take a seasoned SCAL [Shareholder Class Action Litigator] to undress a colleague getting up tu par, as in,

 

“Stop walking around the office like a leaky watering can and in a hunched position because u have a little bit of work to do, blah blah. Based on what I’ve seen your writing couldn’t get u out of 3rd grade. I don’t know how you passed the bar exam but we r going tu teach u how tu finally express ideas in a cogent and winning manner irrespective of your incompetence.”

 

Rather, I flew off my bicycle at full speed with Pypeetoe just cruising alongside, clearly not quite understanding how I failed tu avoid this large black and white dog that is apparently one of the featured dogs in Good Boys.

 

With all that said, the SCAL colleague resigned and rather than face the very aggressive knuckleball pitcher, called the following day, telling the less aggressive named partner, “The environment is to aggressive & abuse” and summarily, I assume, got s.oshed.

 

It is my opinion that sum people have pre-existing corrosive elements tu their health, in those situations their adverse life decisions merely accelerates the accumulation of rust on their organs.

 

Or

 

simply stated, they don’t have a lot tu lose.

 

Which brings me tu Mr. Newell Starks, Chairman of the Board of Sterling Holding Company, whose indebtedness to me is reflected in a document he and his wife signed, obligating in either of their deaths, their estate, the nuts and bolts of Mr. Starks diatribe followed up with this certified letter was that I had sumthing grand to look forward to in the event sumthing good were tu happen to the stock price of Sterling Holding Company.

 

And of course when a group like CVC control something like 60.67% of the outstanding shares of any fukukta company in the world the odds of that company imploding are pretty much “slim & none” which is not tu suggest that Citicorp hasn’t made mistakes in the past, and no need to make any more fun at least at this time of Mr. Sandy “Lets spin the wheel” Weil in merging his Transamerica Insurance Company with Citicorp, booting out John Reed, the pretty competent CEO of Citicorp, the merger imploding, Sandy being wheeled out in nothing short of a “wheelchair” but with sum 22 odd million shares of Citicorp worth several hundred million tucked under his belt.

 

So who do u think is richer Sandy Weill or my mother, Zena Ash Gevisser Zulman; and of course the argument is not necessarily moot especially if u were to get both Sandy Weil as well as my mother to sign their financial statement “under penalty of perjury” with a “codicil” [sic] that says words to the effect that the signatories to the financial statements agree to an audit by The Rattlesnake.

 

So what does it take tu make the “target company” in this specific case, Stratos Lightwave Inc, an inexpensive candidate and what exactly would it take 4 say the State of Wisconsin Investment Board owning sum 1,059,999 shares, 14.4% of Stratos to at least consider filing a class action lawsuit perhaps even engaging a law firm such as Grant Eisenhoff, the likes of Finkelstein and Krinsk Esq. a little to preoccupied right now, just trust me on that point, and then there is the 1,000 pound gorilla law firm of Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes and Lerach in the middle of quite a “get” although Bill Lerach is a gentile.

 

And please notice that I never said or inferred Bill “roach motel” Lerach to be anything butt a gentile and have no idea how well he faired in his divorce but I would hazard a guess he didn’t use anyone in his law firm setting himself up for the same sort of mistakes I understand begot Dr. JBS’ currant girlfriend “Ms. Dawn Kilicat” [sic] who works for Milberg Weiss in her messy divorce proceedings, the short of this, it taking probably just a couple of months be4 Melvyn Weiss, Bill Lerach’s east coast managing partner will be starting up his own law firm and then the fireworks will really begin,

 

Or so sum would think, but I would argue quite differently given my command of the fundamentals of western economies which are set tu implode, making it simply not worth the while of SCALs to initiate such actions given the current laws on the books [PRSLA] making it quite difficult for plaintiffs tu survive the “motion tu dismiss.”

 

Bill Lerach and I have yet tu speak, his secretary, KL, on at least one occasion calling around town wanting to get the “low down” on me perhaps no quite realizing that I alone was responsible for blowing up one of their SCALs, i.e. “no blood being drawn” other than MWBHL not quite able tu celebrate, adding more tu their hunched postures.

 

Back, however, in late 2000 Bill Lerach and I traded several phone calls during the course of one day my believing that he might be the most competent to take on the biggest leverage buyout scoundrel organization on the planet, i.e. your client, not simply Mr. Starks who, in my opinion, was simply selling his soul to save his marriage, sum might consider a noble pursuit, much like a whole number of folks might consider me using my wife to earn a nobel prize, for sum reason Microsoft word doesn’t like the way I spell this piddly $1 million odd award.

 

Which brings me tu why u think Melvyn Weiss and the folks from eRaider.com were so hell bent on denying that Melvyn Weiss had anything to do with those too posts on March 22nd 2000, just 3 minutes apart, why not simply admit tu it rather than run the risk of someone like myself crying “foul”?

 

In other words when will folks realize that “cover-ups” eventually all surface particularly as things get desperate, i.e. desperate people act desperately and do u also agree that Deep Throat during the Nixon presidential scandal was simply a figment of the imagination of Bill Bradley from the Washington Post or was he conned by the too reporters who r unlikely to spill the beans?

 

I am hanging out right now at a friend of mine who has already seen Good Boys which is apparently a takeoff of ET and one can only imagine how much training went into getting the dogs in this movie tu perform, so what in a nutshell will it take to get Mr. Starks to pay me what I “deserve”?

 

As we all know, the rules of the game r pretty simple, put on a good “dog & pony show” hire attorneys and accountants to say nice things about u and in a matter of “too toos” u could end up in the “pound seats”, less and less folks going out these days, the theaters not quite as crowded as they used to be, perhaps folks content to stay home and have great sex which is something I would at least expect tu hear coming out of the mouth of Mr. Newel Starks, agree?

 

Not that he, or anyone associated with CVC or Stratos Lightwave have done anything illegal, G-D only knows, there is nothing wrong in being a complete loser, i.e. terrible manager throwing away hundreds of millions of dollars of momworker63 types lifesavings when all the law requires is a duty of fidelity, care, trust and most would agree, candor?

 

Which brings me to those incredible Condor Houses I had quite a role in purchasing, the only homes in the village at the base of Machu Picchu that have a view of the most incredible ruins I know of other than Masada in Israel, sumtime I will send you a story my mother wrote titled Long Short Story of Masada that appeared in the January 1967 edition of Hashalom, a monthly publication sent out tu Jewry in Durban, South Africa.

 

Now of course my mother to the best of my knowledge has not appeared on the front page of the New York Times although there is a greater possibility she and/or one of her models appeared on the Jonny Carson show but can u explain how someone closer tu 85 than she is tu 65 still manages to attract so much publicity wherever she goes, yet only decided to retire sum 30 odd years ago because she was so tired of the “limelight”.

 

So what do u think of the argument that perhaps my incredible mother’s motivation, remembering she only argues with people who agree with her, is tu maintain a “shoe in” so as to provide somewhat of an “anchor” in the event I were tu decide to make “a run on the market” and of course there is very much a tie in between those who have contributed to the rigging of the insurance markets and those who make a mint out of being able to attract “anchor tenants”, agree?

 

Considering that Mr. Starks has been making just off one “gig” sum $12,000 per month since January of this year, having increased tu $20,833 on August 1st, why not simply pay me back the monies he borrowed even if it isn’t exactly as what he proposed my never having signed the agreement and in so doing getting The Rattlesnake off his back,

 

Or

 

Was Newell thinking that someone else or possibly sumthing else would distract me, the problem with so many engineer types is that they simply lack harmony, i.e. balance which is how I finally got around to thinking about solving the problem Einstein had pursued for a great part of his life squandering his time on wanting tu steal more than his allotted 15 seconds of fame without giving, at least in my opinion, more consideration to Quantum Mechanics to mention once again just in passing the lack of recognition 4 the mathematician Grossman who provided the mathematics that allowed Einstein a 180 degree view into the “mind of G-D”, wouldn’t you agree?

 

Make no mistake, all kids should be as fortunate as me and my siblings to have had such incredibly terrific parents, perfectly matched as our mom and dad. I simply cannot go tu my grave without at least postulating how even the most enlightened parents as they get older don’t repeat ad nauseum the mistakes of past generations, the generation gap having nothing tu do, in my opinion, with sex education, but more importantly the lack of credibility of those tasked by G-D as being “care givers” to hell with “loving” one’s kids, simply feeling responsible 4 them until such time as they are capable of flying, my father teaching me at about age 8 how to fly a plane and my mother letting me drive a motorcar on the streets of Durban, South Africa at age 11, albeit an emergency.

 

In a recent E-mail to Rex Solomon, perhaps not as worldly as he once thought, I made reference to the Roy Cohen household, Roy’s wife Sonia Cohen once almost having a stroke as she saw one of the Moshal Gevisser Group of Companies’ large delivery trucks leaving the parking lot of our day school without a driver behind the wheel, my barely able, to c over the steering wheel, compos mentis enough to know that only Rabbi Abner Weiss had a left hand drive car in our rather tight knitted community, a vehicle he brought back from the United States after spending sum time over here getting accustomed to a number of things including I assume why so many Jewish people in this country are idiotic enough to belong to the Democratic Party which is in so many ways like the Communist Party, versus the Republican Party supporters in the form of Jim Gibson who r, in my opinion, nothing short of cowardly bastards, agree?

 

Later Sonia ended up marrying another good pal of our family’s father, once of course Roy Cohen, had passed away. Irwin Strous is also one of Raymond Oshry’s elder brother’s good friends from almost childhood, my once stating in not so many words, also promising not tu make more of Irwin’s mother being eaten by a lion, the Strous’ a rather successful butcher family, I have yet tu get the full scoop on why Ivan Oshry, perhaps the most brilliant attorney of our generation growing up in the dysfunctional Jewish community of Durban South Africa, not finding a way to assist Irwin who is also an attorney to make a small fortune out of this fortunate, unfortunate mishap, certainly this event helped my other friend, Mervyn Cohen’s mother, i.e. Sonia, not have to pay an “arm and a leg” for kosher meat, not that the Perlings, Schneidermans and Strous family controlled the world supply of Easter Eggs, just checking whether u r still paying attention.

 

Again the Lazarus clan and the Wolman family perhaps the least hypocritical of any too Jewish families I was aware of other than the Baskin and Schmarman family whose support from the rest of the Durban Jewish Community for taking on the Nazi-like oppressors was essentially “slim & none” one of perhaps better examples I recently heard from a buddy of mine Michael Sagorin who while in the South African Police Force, doing his 2 year compulsory military service, was responsible for arresting a black kid who stole the helmet sitting on top of one of the Baskin brother’s motorcycles’ outside of their home, the one Baskin brother who answered the door as Mr. Sagorin knocked on the door, the black kid no doubt “lassoed in” certainly I would have expected Mr. Sagorin to place the offender in handcuffs, probably being on the “banned list”.

 

Suffice tu say Mr. Baskin failed tu convince Mr. Sagorin to “look the other way” eventually leading to the black kid who probably stole the helmet for bread money going to prison, the extent of the systemic injustice to mention little of the deep rot within the Jewish community can be found in how things were so very different for a bunch of teenager kids from affluent Jewish families who went on “joyrides” in other peoples’ minis, not quite as “souped up” as my Mini Cooper S but nevertheless not belonging to any of them, so much so and please notice not one “sic” when they were eventually “busted” it simply came down to “money talks”.

 

So what do u think of Mr. Krinsk Esq. hell bent on getting Senator John Kerry elected the next president of the United States in the 2004 presidential elections, “over my dead body” marrying Campbell Soup who was at one time married to the “Big Whip” Majority Leader of the Florida Senate, “a Replican” [sic], wouldn’t u say it is taking the notion of “sleeping with dogs getting up with fleas” to a whole new level, of conspiratorial thinking, but of course how would u know that Campbell soup in her teen years, I don’t believe she is a day over 30, being not only a world class sailor but having been raised in Texas where everyone is Republican, other than the Bushes, my belief that the next generation of Bushes will have a tough time beating our great president, the honorable George W. Bush.

 

And of course u r beginning to understand a little bit more why it is not just Mr. Newell Starks who has been so deafeningly quiet as of late, the same with Mr. Norman Lazarus, Mr. Merrick Wolman, Mr. Cliff Benn, Mr. Roy Essakow et al and I certainly look forward to celebrating once again with Mr. Michael Sagorin, us planning one major party in perhaps too weeks from now at my wife’s beach house, u and Les Houtz are certainly invited, just make sure u bring a check in hand as well as couple of excellent bottles of wine, we will provide the champagne, glasses and food

 

At the end of my lunch with Mr. Krinsk Esq today, once again my feeling the need to pick up the tab for “poor Jeffrey” Jeffrey couldn’t bring himself to state “allegorically” [sic] state when precisely next week we would meet again, obviously Jeffrey having picked up that I am not happy about our view over at Rainwater’s now permanently blocked and I won’t go into once again, in detail, at least, why someone like Dan Weinstein is a member of the California Coastal Commission and not say someone like my wife who although not needing a job could get worried about the expense of burying me out at sea if it involves her having to charter the entire 6th Fleet, bringing home the 82nd Airborne Division from Iraq and Afghanistan, I assume fuel being the bulk of the $85 billion just recently appropriated to fend off wrongdoers in that part of the world, running all sorts of batteries of tests to make certain none of them fart as they exit the B52s after dropping their payloads of nuclear devices into one, possibly too of Mr. and Mrs. Krinsk’s koi ponds, my assuming that this Republican senator didn’t exactly leave Campbell Soup penniless, other than G-D only knows how many shares in companies like Verizon Campbell Soup owns, once again this terrific lady being the lead plaintiff in that shareholder class action litigation.

 

Suffice tu day, there is not a single chance in hell, hell of course u know by now is without almost no shadow of doubt here on planet earth, of me being buried, unless I am alive, in which case my heirs will have no choice, the plan of a sea burial my hope tu mitigate the possibility of anyone coming and peeing on my grave, despite Mr. Krinsk Esq. at one time impressing upon me this supposed “sign of respect” by Icelanders, the buyers of my wife’s house doing nothing short of trashing such a notion.

 

So who can I trust if not someone like Mr. Jeffrey R. Krinsk Esq to inform me of what else is happening in the world these days, how about u?

 

Tu many it comes down tu a matter of perspective but that is not in fact how things work in the “real world” where proof is a function of evidence the better the evidence the better the proof, there being no such thing as absolute certainties but rather going “backwards & forwards” constantly improving the odds until such time that one can say things along the lines, “The preponderance of the evidence suggests blah blah”.

 

And why I beseech u at this time tu have Mr. Starks call me or say Mr. Jeffrey R. Krinsk Esq. 1-619-238-1333 so that we can begin once more to have meaningful dialogue.

 

And I will end this with the words of my incredible wife, “When the dialogue becomes two monologues it is the beginning of the end.”

 

Good Shabbas,

 

Gary

 

Ps – I had planned on sending out one more email yesterday but with all the problems I was having with my computer I simply quit after the 3rd but I will be back, at sum point.