From: Kelley Lynch <kelley.lynch.2010@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 12:14 PM
Subject: Sandra Jo Streeter's "Theory" Of The Intent To Annoy Case Doesn't Synch Up With The Interview Cohen Gave In 2005
To: "*irs. commissioner" <*IRS.Commissioner@irs.gov>, Washington Field <washington.field@ic.fbi.gov>, ASKDOJ <ASKDOJ@usdoj.gov>, "Kelly.Sopko" <Kelly.Sopko@tigta.treas.gov>, "Doug.Davis" <Doug.Davis@ftb.ca.gov>, Dennis <Dennis@riordan-horgan.com>
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To the IRS and FBI,
Working on the Introduction to my Appeal right now. I do think you should review Cohen's August 2005 interviews with Brian Johnson. Cohen contacted him, months earlier, with the understanding that he had serious legal issues and a major tax hit. That's his motive. Brian Johnson, who interviewed him, understands that I was Cohen's personal manager. Streeter has said that I began this campaign of harassment. First of all, in 2004 and 2005, my lawyers were dealing with Cohen and Kory. When Cohen heard I reported his tax fraud to Agent Betzer/IRS he evidently freaked out and filed the retaliatory lawsuit and gave these desperate interviews. Cohen
-- Date: Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 12:14 PM
Subject: Sandra Jo Streeter's "Theory" Of The Intent To Annoy Case Doesn't Synch Up With The Interview Cohen Gave In 2005
To: "*irs. commissioner" <*IRS.Commissioner@irs.gov>, Washington Field <washington.field@ic.fbi.gov>, ASKDOJ <ASKDOJ@usdoj.gov>, "Kelly.Sopko" <Kelly.Sopko@tigta.treas.gov>, "Doug.Davis" <Doug.Davis@ftb.ca.gov>, Dennis <Dennis@riordan-horgan.com>
Cc: "SandraJo.Streeter" <SandraJo.Streeter@lacity.org>, ajackson <ajackson@da.lacounty.gov>, "Truc.Do" <Truc.Do@mto.com>, wfrayeh <wfrayeh@da.lacounty.gov>, jthompson <jthompson@da.lacounty.gov>, rbyucaipa <rbyucaipa@yahoo.com>, Robert MacMillan <robert.macmillan@gmail.com>, moseszzz <moseszzz@mztv.com>, a <anderson.cooper@cnn.com>, wennermedia <wennermedia@gmail.com>, "Hoffman, Rand" <rand.hoffman@umusic.com>, Mick Brown <mick.brown@telegraph.co.uk>, woodwardb <woodwardb@washpost.com>, "harriet.ryan" <harriet.ryan@latimes.com>, "hailey.branson" <hailey.branson@latimes.com>, "glenn.greenwald" <glenn.greenwald@guardiannews.com>, lrohter <lrohter@nytimes.com>
To the IRS and FBI,
Working on the Introduction to my Appeal right now. I do think you should review Cohen's August 2005 interviews with Brian Johnson. Cohen contacted him, months earlier, with the understanding that he had serious legal issues and a major tax hit. That's his motive. Brian Johnson, who interviewed him, understands that I was Cohen's personal manager. Streeter has said that I began this campaign of harassment. First of all, in 2004 and 2005, my lawyers were dealing with Cohen and Kory. When Cohen heard I reported his tax fraud to Agent Betzer/IRS he evidently freaked out and filed the retaliatory lawsuit and gave these desperate interviews. Cohen
began the campaign of harassment with respect to me and not the other way around. I didn't limit my contact, according to Streeter, to Cohen. That's correct. The IRS Commissioner's Staff have been copied in on my alleged emails since 2005. How does Streeter explain that? In any event, in one article, Cohen confirms that he's not accusing me of theft and testified - at the March 23rd bail hearing - that I have never stolen from him. So, why was Streeter lying to my jurors?
All the best,
Kelley
Prosecutor Streeter thus informed the the jury in opening statements: “So the people believe that the evidence will show in the case of People of the State of California vs. Kelley Lynch that during the 80s, Mr. Leonard Cohen, who was a singer ... struck up a relationship with Ms. Lynch. They had a brief intimate relationship, and then at some point after that the relationship ended in the late 80s when Mr. Cohen’s business manager died, Mr. Cohen hired Ms. Lynch, first as his personal assistant, and then ultimately as his business manager. But unfortunately around 2004 or so, things started to go not very well between Mr. Cohen and (RT 37) Ms. Lynch. And Mr. Cohen ended the business relationship that he had with Ms. Lynch. Unfortunately, that was not the end of it for Ms. Lynch, the evidence will show. The evidence will show that shortly after the termination of the business relationship by Mr. Cohen that Ms. Lynch began an onslaught, a campaign of harassment on Mr. Cohen, and that harassment -- that harassment has continued or did continue up until February 29, 2012. (RT 38)
But during this campaign, the evidence will show, that Ms. Lynch started against Mr. Cohen, she did not just limit her contact toward Mr. Cohen.
A 'devastated' Leonard Cohen
The Canadian music icon is broke and the lawsuits are flying. It's a sordid tale involving allegations of extortion, SWAT teams, forcible confinement, tax troubles and betrayal.
KATHERINE MACKLEM | Aug 17, 2005
... his highly trusted personal manager ...
,... and facing a multi-million-dollar tax bill ...
For example, the suit quotes Lynch describing how Cohen demanded she discuss business matters while he soaked in a bubble bath , and how later he was somehow involved in calling a SWAT team to her home, where she was handcuffed and forcibly taken to a psychiatric ward while in her bathing suit.
Kelley Lynch had been his personal manager for almost 17 years. Back in 1988, she'd been working as an assistant to his then-manager, who died that year.
From the first sale ... Greenberg had been enlisted to manage and that would protect Cohen from e had her take over. an upfront tax hit.
But he ran into a glaring, immediate problem ... he'd owe millions in taxes ...
On other points, Cohen disagrees. He was vitally interested in his financial affairs, he says.
By threatening his reputation, it appeared to Greenberg that Cohen, on Kory's advice, had decided to target Greenberg's and his insurance company's deep pockets. Then, alleges the lawsuit, Cohen and Kory began to pressure Lynch to join them in "their extortion scheme."
Greenberg's suit alleges that when Lynch refused to participate, Kory and Cohen vowed to "crush her." It goes on to say their "tactics to terrorize, silence, or disparage Lynch" included threatening her that she would go to jail, and "paying two paroled convicts to make statements that they had observed Lynch's older son brandishing a gun and threatening to kill someone."
"I'm not accusing her of theft," he says of Lynch.
"Face up to it, Neal," the email continues, "and square your shoulders: You were the trusted guardian of my assets, and you let them slip away . . . Restore what you lost, and sleep well." In his sign-off, Cohen delivered as much a piece of advice as his own philosophy: "Put this behind you and it will dissolve."
http://www.macleans.ca/article.jsp?content=20050822_110877_110877
Up close and personal
Cohen's lifestyle seems anything but lavish
BRIAN D. JOHNSON | Aug 17, 2005
Through interviewing him over the years, I've developed a bit of a relationship with Leonard Cohen. We stay in touch by email, and if I'm in Los Angeles or Montreal, the two cities he calls home, I might look him up. A few weeks ago, I joined him for dinner at his house in L.A. ... That night he told me what he'd hinted at months earlier in an email -- that he'd been stripped of most of his assets, and was mired in a legal battle with his money managers, who would accuse him of extortion. He said it would get nasty and personal, and that his name would be dragged through the mud.
Now, after reading the pre-emptive lawsuit filed against him, a 34-page screed that reads like a salacious tabloid, I know what he meant.
But his chronic depression, which lifted more than a decade ago on Mount Baldy, has not returned. With monastic discipline he gets up at 4 a.m. to write, and clings to the peace of the morning before the lawyers' phone calls and emails break the spell.
Q: What's brown and looks really good on a lawyer?
A: A Doberman.
A: A Doberman.
