!!:perman, Philip _ From: Mark Sapperstein mark@sapperstein.com> < Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2011 8:24 PM To: Ziperman, Philip Subject: RE: Crystal Cox Attachments: web domain names.xls; Email from Donald Stone.docx; Email from Crystal Cox.docx; contact information.docx Mr. Ziperman, here is a narrative explaining our situation. In late 1992, a friend of ours was raising capital for a new business called Donald Stone Industries (0511). Along with a group of investors, Mark invested $2,500 into 0511. Mark does not recall actually meeting Donald Stone, although it is possible. However, Mark was not involved in any way in the business, other than his investment. The company failed and Mark lost his money. Apparently disgruntled, in February 1998, Mr. Stone filed a RICO case in Florida against approximately 100 defendants including Mark, the original investors, the US Attorney General and the Director of the FBI. The case was dismissed in June 1998. In August 1999, Donald Stone purchased the site, marylandcorruption.com, which appears to be dedicated to defaming Mark accusing him of bribery, extortion, money laundering among other illegal activities. At some point we became aware of the website but decided to ignore it. In January 2010, Mr. Stone contacts Ms. Crystal Cox, an internet investigative blogger and it appears they team up to defame Mark. Ms. Cox has never met, talked to, emailed or in any way communicated with Mark, yet she proceeded this online campaign entitled {{trial by blog." An online search showed 58 different websites she used to defame Mark (list attached). In early 2011, it was brought to Mark's attention that negotiations on a potential business deal were cut short because of the unsubstantiated, false and inaccurate information spewed online. So, we hired a computer expert, Edward Ko, to research what could be done. Mr. Ko's first step was to contact Mr. Stone to see if he could be reasoned with. Mr. Stone did not answer that phone call but responded to Mr. Ko by email (attached). The email demand2d $2.5 million to stop his harassment. We did not respond. Four days later, Mr. Ko received an email from Ms. Cox (attached). She appeared upset that although she helped Mr. Stone promote his defamatory information he did not offer her a share of his $2.5 million demand. So she suggests we pay her $25,000 upfront and $10,000 a month to get her to stop. She writes that in order to prepare for this extortion attempt, she purchased the domain marksapperstein.com. Ms. Cox posts Mark's address, birthday and social security number on her website. We did not respond. We are asking for you help for the purpose of stopping these people, getting our good name back. Their contact information that I have is attached. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you need any additional information or cia rificatio n. Mark Sapperstein 28 Walker Avenue Baltimore, Maryland 21208 1 = Page 1 =