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From: Gerald Barton Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2016 1:54 PM To: Jeffrey E. Subject: Re: My Extraordinarily Talented, Outrag=ous Friend, Thank you for asking how I am doing. The short=answer is very well. I hope that you are in good health and continue to use your special talents to make the world a better place and f=r your somewhat unique amusements. The longer answer to your question is that at the en= of 2014 I closed down the office of Landmark, transferred all of the assets to=pay all of the major creditors, except me, and found myself as broke as I was w=en you first called me that Friday after Thanksgiving, with my only remaining assets, a large capital loss, my reputation, and my energy. Since then, our luck has been better than even an op=imist like me would expect. Being free of the $500,000 a day I was fined by the GM after several years they abandoned t=is fine, which was initiated strictly to ensure that I had no opportunity to finance any new developments, I became involved with an extraordinary, larg=, important real estate development in Oklahoma City and two others in the D.=. area. The bad news is that my dear friend and good partner= Aubrey McClendon, was killed in a single car accident on March 2nd of t=is year and the development with great potential is now either delayed or abandoned. The good news is that our involvement in a 1,000 acre development on Deep Creek Lake in western Maryl=nd is in the process of being financed and should be underway sometime this summer. Our second project is a 405 acre development in Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, that is probably the =rettiest piece of property I know of in the U.S. that is zoned and developable.40=A0 Its business plan is now underway and we should be in the financing mode this fall. My impression is that there is a tremendous amount of money on the sidelines, but the top 5% or 10% that control it are terribly frightened of losing money they don't need, while the 90% to 95% of the citizens =re continuing their daily labors somewhat frightened that they are not certain where next month's or next year's mortgage payment is comin= from. On a lighter note, Donald Trump recently bought our development in Ireland, Doonbeg Golf Club. It has been rated the first or second best resort in Europe. To-date,=to my surprise, he is managing it reasonably well, probably because he is presently devoted to an endeavor th=t amuses him. Jeffrey, I want you to understand that I am extremel= pleased and not at all melancholy about my present circumstances. Whe=ever I get an opportunity, I always visit those assets I helped create and almost without exception, I wish I had bee= smarter, but generally satisfied that I made a positive contribution and on= much higher than normally EFTA_R1_01424032 EFTA02394569 done by my competitors, because I am fortunate th=t the labor focus of my life has not attracted the best and the brightest. When good fortune brings you to the D.C. area, pleas= let me know. I always enjoy understanding your activities and do so with amazement and amusement. =erry On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 3:56 PM, jeffrey E. <[email protected]=> wrote: =ow are you On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 2:35 PM, Gerald Barton <IMIIM=la <mailto > wrote: Jeffrey, I am certainly glad that you have thick s=in and care little about what the press says. I am sorry that you ha=e to appear tolerant against intolerance. From al= appearances, you fulfill the challenge of Kipling when he said: "If you can talk with=crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk=with Kings - nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much."<=div> The Ba=ton Development Group, Inc. 1993 Moreland Parkway, Suite 20= Anna solis, MD 21401 <=div> =C240 please note The informat=on contained in this communication is 2 EFTA_R1_01424033 EFTA02394570 confidential, may be attorney-cli=nt privileged, may constitute inside information, and is intended only =or the use of the addressee. It is the property of JEE Unauthoriz=d use, disclosure or copying of this communication or any part thereof =s strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this return e-mail o= by e-mail to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> , and destroy this communication and all copies =hereof, including all attachments. copyright -all rights reserved </=iv> r/div>rdiv><=mg src="https://docs.google.com/uc?exportrdownload&idr0B1CXrDbPT=LwWWVIam lqa E NJSmc&revid= OB1CXrDbPTSLwR OVvSVRDUOUySWUrVisrNSsxRjlIZOQ=d1VNPQ" width="96" height="72"> Gerald G. Barton<=span> The Barton Development Group, Inc. 1993 Moreland Parkway, Suite 204 Annapolis, MD 21401 =span style="font-size:12.0ptfont-family:"Times New Roman"">Di=ect Line: Fax: <=div> 3 EFTA_R1_01424034 EFTA02394571