EFTA00960855.pdf
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From: Richard Kahn
To: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com>
Subject: Fwd: Plant Order - LSJE LLC
Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 21:11:47 +0000
Attachments: LSJ_Plant_order -_Ken.pdf
After calling and emailing Ken 2x yesterday and once today he finally took my call today.
He was very frustrated regarding plant order. I apologized for anything i did to upset him and he said that over
the past 5 months he has priced and repriced this order 20-30x
I was able to convince him to proceed with order. We both agreed that next order should be done via Chris.
Please see his comments below. Attached is list that he will order with exception of 10 Butia palms.
Please confirm it is ok to proceed and your thoughts on using royal palms instead of Butia palms.
From: Ken Holmes <
Date: May 10, 2013 12:52:52 PM EDT
To: Rich Kahn <
Cc: Cynthia <
Subject: Fwd: Plant Order - LSJE LLC
Rich,
I made a couple of calls to vendors that we released our holds on. The main item at this point I see an issue
with is the (10) Butia palms, namely that they aren't available anymore through the vendor I was working with.
I suggest leaving them off the sales order for now, and if we can find them for a reasonable price in FL we can
add them back in later. The other option would be to use our Royal palms instead, but I don't know if that fits
into Jeffrey's and Chris' planting scheme at the secondary pool.
Without the Butia palms the total would come to $56,146.65, excluding freight. Payment in full is required
prior to processing the order. Payments by credit card are subject to a 3% processing fee.
Let me know how you wish to proceed.
Regards,
Kenneth Holmes
Cruzan Gardens
7000 RR 1
St. Croix, USVI 00850
Office
Fax
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From: Richard Kahn
Date: May 9, 2013 12:30:30 PM EDT
To: Ken Holmes <1
Subject: Re: Plant Order - LSJE LLC
are you free to speak?
Richard Kahn
HBRK Associates Inc.
575 Lexington Avenue, 4th Floor,
New York. New York 10022
tel
fax
cell
On May 9, 2013, at 12:29 PM, Ken Holmes wrote:
You made your point quite clear already, and I released all items that I had on hold, as instructed. I really
don't care to revisit the plant order again.
Regards,
Kenneth Holmes
Cruzan Gardens
7000 RR I
St. Croix, USVI 00850
Office
Fax
Sent from my iPhone
On May 9, 2013, at 11:55 AM, Richard Kahn < wrote:
can you please call me so we can discuss plant order
thank you
Richard Kahn
HBRK Associates Inc.
575 Lexington Avenue, 4th Floor,
New York, New York 10022
tel
fax
cell
On May 6, 2013, at 3:33 PM, Richard Kahn wrote:
Please release your holds as i have been directed to have materials purchased by LSJ LLC staff.
Richard Kahn
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HBRK Associates Inc.
575 Lexington Avenue, 4th Floor,
New York, New York 10022
tel
fax
cell
On May 6, 2013, at 10:58 AM, Ken Holmes wrote:
Never heard back from you on anything- can I assume that we're not moving forward? I have courtesy
holds on materials at my nursery, as well as several stateside, and need to release them if you're going a
different route.
Regards,
Kenneth Holmes
Cruzan Gardens
7000 RR 1
St. Croix, USVI 00850
Office
Fax
Sent from my iPhone
Begin forwarded message:
From: Ken Holmes
Date: April 30, 2013, 10:01:54 AM AST
To: Richard Kahn
Cc: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gtn>, Roy Hodges <
Subject: Re: Plant Order - LSJE LLC
Our Internet is down, so I faxed the revised Sales Order to you. As noted, items are F.O.B. Florida, and
shipping from St.Croix to LSJ would be through the General or Brigadier, which I understand owes LSJ
time on.
Also noted is that we are flying stateside to hand tag all plants, unloading and handling the blooming
plants at our nursery, then reloading and forwarding the freight on to LSJ. Therefore I'm not comfortable
in reducing the price any more than the 30% off that we've already noted. I apologize if this doesn't work
within your budget, but we obviously can't take a loss on the order.
Regards,
Kenneth Holmes
Cruzan Gardens
7000 RR 1
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St. Croix USVI 00850
Office
Fax
Sent from my iPhone
On Apr 29, 2013, at 3:03 PM, Richard Kahn wrote:
thanks for feedback
can you please let me know when i can expect revised quote
thanks
Richard Kahn
HBRK Associates Inc.
575 Lexington Avenue, 4th Floor,
New York, New York 10022
tel
fax
cell
On Apr 27, 2013, at 12:03 PM, Ken Holmes wrote:
Richard Kahn
HBRK Associates Inc.
575 Lexington Avenue, 4th Floor,
New York, New York 10022
tel
fax
cell
Begin forwarded message:
On Apr 27, 2013, at 12:03 PM, Ken Holmes wrote:
From: Richard Kahn [mailto:
Sent: Friday, April 26, 2013 5:10 PM
To:
Subject: Plant Order - LSJE LLC
It was nice talking with you earlier.
Mr. Epstein's comments on the attached list are as follows:
a) no palms Delete the Butia, Cabada and Areca palms from this Sales Order also, or just don't add
Coconuts to the list? The Butia were ordered by Chris to go around the pool area to replace the
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Bottle palms; the Areca and Cabada palms were to go in the bed near the dock that Jeffrey wanted
to infill with new palms.
b) no schefflera O.K.
c) no ficus As per our walkthrough, the Ficus were for screening near Roy and Stepahanies residence-
should we replace with something else?
d) more gardenia and more smellies I'll add more Tahitian gardenia, as well as some Nightblooming
jasmine and forward the revisions
e) please price 100 coconut sprouting seeds O.K.- will add in
Can you please revise to the best of your knowledge and also revisit your pricing
Thank you and have a nice weekend
Richard Kahn
HBRK Associates Inc.
575 Lexington Avenue, 4th Floor,
New York, New York 10022
tel
fax
cell
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