Subject: RE: When exactly...
From: <[email-masked]>
To: Susan Crabtree <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 22:55:05 -0400

Susan, Off the record, your premise is wrong. For starters I was never an employee of the Trimpa Group, and I am not a lobbyist. That's not what I do, so clearly whoever put you up to this didn't give you accurate information.

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From: Susan Crabtree <[email-masked]> 
Date: 05/20/2016  07:07  (GMT-05:00) 
To: "Miranda, Luis" <[email-masked]> 
Subject: Re: When exactly... 

Probably for Monday -- not sure I am writing anything -- just want to see why no one registered to lobby for the Cuba lobbying campaign that has been extensively written about. 
Also,  I'm not sure that you were easy to get a hold of at that time -- in August of last year. I called and emailed repeatedly the logical place to reach you, the employer that seemed to be taking credit for the lobbying campaign
 for #CubaNow.
 They told me to call James Williams, the point man, I guess, and I tried him every way I could but he never responded. Follow ups to Trimpa to reach you or anyone else about it were not responded to. 

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On May 19, 2016, at 10:18 PM, Miranda, Luis <[email-masked]> wrote:

When are you writing for? I'm easy to find so the idea that you tried to reach me and couldn't didn't make sense. 

From: Susan Crabtree [[email-masked]]

Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2016 7:09 PM

To: Miranda, Luis

Subject: Re: When exactly...

Nice to hear from you. Last August before I went on maternity leave when I did the story. Wasn't going to bring up your name today but Josh was trying to get me to be more forthcoming about what I was getting at and I understood why he was doing that and
 thought o would just be forthcoming. 
 But I do have questions about your role in the Trimpa Group's lobbying on the Cuba issue. I contacted the Trimpa Group several times to try to reach you -- didn't know you had moved on to the DNC until yesterday. 

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On May 19, 2016, at 6:44 PM, Miranda, Luis <[email-masked]> wrote:

Did you try to reach me?

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