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From: jeffrey E. <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2018 9:29 PM To: Lawrence Krauss Subject: Re: Justin.. bill ok, as we thought. . n=xt stop the 28th. and then decision time On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 5:02 PM, La=rence Krauss < > wrote: I just had the conversation I was dreading.. I tired a variety of =egotiation tactics and after trying 2 or 3 different ones, I made some hea=way.. He has agreed to cut 10% off the bill. or $4k, . bringing it d=wn from $39.2K to about $35K.. which is frankly better than I thought I wo=ld do.. (I first suggested $30K and told him that I had planned at most $2=K for the appeal letter.. and I should have made that clear to him i= advance. Anyway, I was happy he did even this since when we began =nitially talking about specific items at the $500 level he balked at each =ne. We also agreed that going forward nothing significant would be =one without discussion of potential cost and approval by me. =e did say that while we would discuss specifics when the time comes he tho=ght the appeal hearing, if we do that with him, is likely to cost up to $5=K. Anyway, that is where it stands.. Q=A0 Of the $35K I am going to pay him at the end of the month, $15K is reta=ner, which I will of course get back if we let him go.. so I will only be =ut $20K in available funds for moving forward if we do it with someone els= or alone. LMK Lawrence M. Krauss Professor <=pan style="font-size:llpt"> Scho=I of Earth & Space Exploration and Physics Department Arizona State=University, P.O. Box 871404, Tempe, AZ 85287-1404 I =span style="font-size:9ptcolor:rgb(68,114,196)"> twitter.com/Ikraussl <https:=/urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/urI?u=http- 3A_twitter.com_lkrauss1&d=3DDQMFAg&c=AGbYxfJbXK67KfXyGqyv2Ejiz41FqQuZFk4A- 1IxfAU&r=DB9Lv=OlQiaqWcFOihHC0LZCntZCR8Xtq5BHKNVR5To&m=ciP97mEbO4349G8_Nf9I5Up33Th7=WHYf6uw7yUB PZc&s=mspp0SBZaPjp5BOPRbD2xXlzHCi4LgzTZ8KNgjNBBKg&e=3D> I conversation-id 327676 date-last-viewed 0 date- received 1537565327 flags 8590195713 remote-id 855408 <http://www.lawrencemkrauss.com> EFTA_R1_01831392 EFTA02622930