Subject: RE: When exactly...
From: "Miranda, Luis" <[email-masked]>
To: Susan Crabtree <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 21 May 2016 11:02:57 -0700

Ha! Susan, I like your spirit but you're dead wrong. Off the record, the point I was making is that you're misrepresenting the nature of my work. I was not involved in any activity that would trigger registration. Period.

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From: Susan Crabtree [[email-masked]]
Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2016 8:03 AM
To: Miranda, Luis
Subject: Re: When exactly...

Huh -- nobody put me up to this -- I read that you were hired by Trimpa in either Mother Jones or the Nation -- so no one ever paid you any money to work on Cuba related matters? Why would your name come up at all in these articles? I'm going to have to say that in the article I write -- that you're disavowing any involvement on the Cuba issue unless you explain to me exactly how you were involved -- unless of course the Nation or Mother Jones article got it wrong. If so, they should run a correction and I will talk to the pubs about that and then if they stand by their story, then that becomes the story I write.

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On May 20, 2016, at 10:55 PM, Miranda, Luis <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>> wrote:

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]<mailto:[email-masked]>>
Date: 05/20/2016 07:07 (GMT-05:00)
To: "Miranda, Luis" <[email-masked]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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.

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From: Susan Crabtree [[email-masked]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[email-masked]>> wrote:

Did you try to reach me?

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