Steven Machat Advised Me That Leonard Cohen Also Stole From Phil Spector

From: Kelley Lynch <kelley.lynch.2010@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, May 20, 2013 at 7:46 AM
Subject: Re:
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Mr. Riordan,

One last point, Machat evidently has evidence that Cohen stole Phil Spector's masters and sold them to Sony.  See the transcript of our conversation.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/57415308/Kelley-Lynch-s-Conversation-With-Steven-Machat-Leonard-Cohen-and-Phil-Spector

I've asked Steven to leave me out of his game with Gianelli.

Love,

Kelley

On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 7:45 AM, Kelley Lynch <kelley.lynch.2010@gmail.com> wrote:

Steven,

One last point before I put this little game to bed for the day.  I am moving against Cohen legally, have an attorney, and Gianelli and Walsh continue to criminally harass me and others.  For the record, Cohen does lie and accuse people (like Berger & Martin) of ripping him off and uses false accusations to breach contracts.  I am aware that Machat & Machat's deal with Cohen was 15% of the IP and 15% management commission.  That was my deal also.  We have the evidence and Cohen's lies won't change that fact.  You personally advised me to sue Cohen for theft so let's be honest about that fact.  Cohen made a killing in the art market and pursued a deal I had nearly finished negotiating with respect to lithographs.  The man, as you know, also withholds commissions.  I am aware that he did not pay Machat & Machat the commissions he owes them.

Not sure where lunatic Gianelli's going but leave me out of all games.  Thank you.

I don't think I had to turn Spector off of Cohen, as you well know.

And, one other thing, you are aware that Cohen unwound off-shore accounts with Loyens & Volkmaars.  Speak to Flemming Schmidt - Cohen wired him the $100,000 (later accusing him of extortion) from that account.  He also wired Dominique Issermann $100,000 from that account.  She bought the house next door to hers with the money. 

Does Gianelli think using you against me helps Cohen?  You've confirmed - in your book - that he's a thief.  As I've said, Gianelli's dangerously unstable and has relentlessly targeted my children?  That would include my younger son when he was a minor.  Any strange adult male who attempts to lure my then minor son into privately communicating with him will be viewed as a potential sexual predator and member of NAMBLA.  I have been clear about this. 

Gianelli does snot know my sister or sons.  He has criminally harassed them for years.  He actually phoned y elderly parents.  My sister hired a lawyer to advised this lunatic to cease and desist.  He refuses and thinks she will help him?  He - on behalf of Cohen - falsely accused her of starting her business with Cohen's cash.  That's a bald-faced lie.  He then attempted to blackmail her.  My ex-husband, Richard Dallett, wrote me and said he had no idea what Gianelli was talking about after Gianelli lied about him.  I was with my ex-husband in Florida and went sailing with him.  At that point, Eric Salter and I filed a report with the police about Gianelli's criminal harassment and the USPS advised me that they opened a criminal investigation into Gianelli.

He engages in criminal witness tampering and intimidation.  I have been clear with the IRS and FBI about this.  Gianelli doens't care about Cohen?  His obsession is astounding and I believe he sets up reasonable doubt theories about Phil Spector on the internet so that they may be attacked and refuted.  An investigator from the DA's office told me he thinks Gianelli is a shady character who may have found a sympathetic ear with Spector prosecutor Alan Jackson about me.  Well, they can all deal with Cohen's three versions - highly embellished - of the Phil Spector gun story before LA Superior Court.  Cohen cannot stop lying.  He is the pathological liar. 

Please leave me and my family out of your games.  

Kelley

Leonard was desperate to get rid of this two managers, Judy Berger and Mary Martin, who he believed had stolen the rights to his songs and records early on in his career.  Even back then, Cohen was convinced that women were ripping him off.  He signed an agreement, and when he wanted to get rid of the contract, he accused everyone of ripping him off.  You could say it became repeat behaviour.  My father duly got rid of Berger and Martin, set up a new company called Stranger Music for Cohen and agreed to manage Leonard for 15% as well as 15% of Stranger.  The idea of the company was twofold:  one, to maintain ownership of the copyrights duly created; and two, to minimise Leonard’s exposure to American tax, just like any other rich individual trying to minimise their tax liabilities. 

Gods, Gangsters & Honour by Steven Machat

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Leonard was desperate to get rid of this two managers, Judy Berger and Mary Martin, who he believed had stolen the rights to his songs and records early on in his career.  Even back then, Cohen was convinced that women were ripping him off.  He signed an agreement, and when he wanted to get rid of the contract, he accused everyone of ripping him off.  You could say it became repeat behaviour.  My father duly got rid of Berger and Martin, set up a new company called Stranger Music for Cohen and agreed to manage Leonard for 15% as well as 15% of Stranger.  The idea of the company was twofold:  one, to maintain ownership of the copyrights duly created; and two, to minimise Leonard’s exposure to American tax, just like any other rich individual trying to minimise their tax liabilities.  

I’ve no problem with people trying to avoid tax, but as the years have passed, I couldn’t help but smile at the apparent contradiction between Leonard’s public persona and his private business arrangements.  This was a supposedly devout Buddhist with no interest in material possessions, who was all the same happy to put his trust in business managers and companies he created with his knowledge and consent whose sole aim was to minimise tax liability.  

Leonard then sold Stranger Music for a small fortune and I’ve seen nothing from Cohen.

Cohen controlled his copyright, not my father.  The irony was that Cohen had total control over my father …  Do you know what happened to the $400,000 worth of bearer bonds in my father’s office?  Bearer bonds are just unregistered bonds or paper money that are used to conceal ownership and, with it, tax liabilities.  Cristini told me (who knows if this is true?) that he had found the bonds in my father’s office hours after he had died but the next day they disappeared.

Cohen denied any knowledge of these bonds.  I was unsure if they existed or were part of my father’s schemes cooked up to conceal Leonard’s money.  

Cohen said:  “Steven, you remember the 1988 tour?  Flemming extorted $100,000 from me.  He wanted 20% managerial commission, in addition to his promoter’s fees.  He thought he was doing extra work for me and wanted me to pay him.”

Far from being the poet of the spirits, Leonard was a hustler using Buddhism as a facade.  

The next time I would see Leonard … We’d just seen The Hand That Rocks The Cradle where Rebecca De Mornay plays the psychopathic nanny who stalks this family.  Who should walk along but Cohen, who was holding hands with DeMornay, his girlfriend at the time.  Cohen was extremely uncomfortable because he knew he had stolen from me and it was clear he couldn’t get away quick enough.  Neither could my son, because he took one look at DeMornay and ran.  He was terrified because he thought she was the nanny in the film!

It was clear that Leonard was also wary of me because, I guess, he thought I might be planning to sue him.

Leonard told me that when he had gone off on his Buddhist retreat Kelley was left managing his business interests.  He said:  “She started believing this money was hers and she started spending it.  All of it.  When I got back from my pilgrimage, I went to withdraw money left in the account to cover the draft.  I was speechless.  I didn’t know where to look, where to turn or what to think.”

Then Leonard told me that Kelley had bought a multi-million dollar house in Mandeville Canyon with his money … Leonard said:  We didn’t even get the house back.  Kelley stopped paying the mortgage so the house got repossessed and the mortgage company took everything in the house as well.

Lynch had been sending out long and bizarre emails to his friends, journalists, and the authorities denouncing Leonard for a million and one sins, which would have worried me if I was their target.

The whole scheme was so ridiculous [Leonard Cohen’s attempts to limit his liabilities on the deals] from the start.  All Leonard had to do to avoid U.S. taxes was tear up his green card, and stop living in and using the U.S. as his base.  

It’s no secret that Leonard has also made a killing on the art market by selling his paintings, plus his touring of the last two years … If that’s true, it doesn’t really tally with the clear implication from Cohen that he is a man who has been robbed of everything.

Leonard told me before I left that he had actually offered Kelley a settlement …

It’s clear that Cohen and his lawyers want to heap the blame on Kelley’s shoulders for more than just revenge.  Because Cohen’s pension assets were cashed in … ahead of schedule they are liable to tax so they need to establish that this situation is her fault.  The penalties could actually be greater than the tax itself.  

Leonard has cast himself into a hell of his own making. 

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In order to convict under Section 7201 of the Code, the basic elements that must be proven are (1) the existence of a tax deficiency, (2) an affirmative act constituting an evasion or attempted evasion of the tax, and (3) willfulness.