Subject: Biden
From: "SMancinelli" <[email-masked]>
To: "Rebekah J. H. Sullivan" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2017 18:33:04 +0000

Rebekah-

It was a difficult day for everyone- including Hunter. 

Bottom line, it was reckless to file that Motion as part of a public court filing and the repercussions of this are and will continue to be widespread- and will negatively impact Hunter, Kathleen, and the girls.  While no one could have predicted the exact timing of this story breaking in the press, that fact that it would break at some point was never a question.  You could have moved to seal the file before filing that motion- especially since it was never even set for a hearing.  

Hunter’s business has already been impacted and his income earning potential has been jeopardized if not already damaged.  This is bad for everyone. 

What Hunter was prepared to do last week at mediation, literally may no longer be possible.  And candidly, his willingness to be as generous as he offered before, is now limited if not non-existent. 

I am in trial next Monday and Tuesday and Hunter has a meeting he cannot reschedule on Thursday.  I am going to talk with him about how to proceed from here but at this juncture, the path I saw to settlement on Tuesday is no longer achievable.  

Furthermore, Hunter will now need to file an opposition to the motion instead of focusing on settlement as we had hoped. This is, again, all truly unfortunate. 

I am not sure what, if anything, can be done at this point to salvage this. I assume you will brainstorm with Kathleen to that end.

Sarah
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