From: jeffrey E. <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 16, 2018 10:10 PM To: Noam Chomsky Subject: Re: taxes limit the people to yourselves and me. without speci=ic authroization On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 6:05 PM, Noam Chomsky wrote: What should we do about this Forwarded message From: Nick Nichols <[email protected] <mailto:NickN@a=l-cpas.com» Date: M=n, Apr 16, 2018 at 2:44 PM Subject: RE: taxes To: Noam Chomsky Cc: Valeria Chomsky Dear Noam, and Valeria,</=> Matthew Mazotas We did not disclose any financial or tax infor=ation to Max Kohlenberg in his telephone call to Matt Mazotas earlier this=morning. Max stated that he had received a call from Mr. Kahn inquiring about=Max's ability to make funds available for tax payments. Max therefore called Matt to see if we had any information about the=amounts of tax payments that were due. Matt informed Max that he did not have any information about tax pay=ents, and that we did not have enough information that would be necessary =o calculate the tax payments that would be due on 4/17. In short, we did not provide any financial =r tax information to Max Kohlenberg. Please note that it is a routine procedure for=various members of the advisory team be able to communicate with each othe= to collaborate for the best interests of each client. Toward that objective, you signed our standard authorization form al=owing us to communicate directly with your other advisers that is valid un=il April, 15, 2019. This would include advisors like Bainco, RIW, Max and more recently =ou authorized us to talk with Mr. Kahn. Before we continue with any further work for y=ur 2017 tax returns, would you please sign and return our engagement lette= that was included in the package that was sent to you in January. EFTA_R1_01582891 EFTA02471340

Best regards, Nick From: Noam Chomsky Sent: Monday, April 16, 2018 4:44 PM To: Nick Nichols , t, —.—.„- Cc: Valeria Chomsky Subject: taxes b I b I understand from Richard Kahn that you informed Max=Kohlenberg about the financial information that we provided to you yesterd=y. Plainly, this is quite improper. Kohlenberg has no right to=know anything that I do not personally provide him with. This is a serious breach of confidentiality. Could y=u please inform me -- and me alone! -- of the amount of taxes that are due=<=> Noam please note The information contained i= this communication is confidential, may be attorney-client privileged,=may constitute inside information, and is intended only for the use =f the addressee. It is the property of JEE Unauthorized use, disclos=re or copying of this communication or any part thereof is strictly pro=ibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication =n error, please notify us immediately by return e-mail or by e-mail to =a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">jeevacation@gmai=.com, and destroy this communication and all copies thereof, inc=uding all attachments. copyright -all rights reserved --94eb2c0cb10e6e9ae40569fe7aca-- conversation-id 9524 date-last-viewed 0 date-received 1523916580 flags 8590195713 gmail-label-ids 7 6 remote-id 812894 2 EFTA_R1_01582892 EFTA02471341