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Gold/Mining/Energy : coastal caribbean (cco@) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: andy harrison who wrote (770)	4/20/1999 1:49:00 PM
From: Edwin S. Fujinaka	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4686

Gady Epstein is no longer at the Tampa Tribune. He did interview a number of CCO shareholders (including me) and published some comments a few years ago. His slant was that we were a weird bunch of fanatics pretty much. I always have the feeling that we can persuade people that fairness and the law are on CCO's side and that "truth and justice" will prevail. (Perhaps naive). With some form of compromise settlement like the one that I am proposing, this doesn't have to be a fight to the finish and everything can be settled with money. And not even that much money considering the potential amount of oil involved. If CCO offers to reimburse the State (for any payments the State makes) out of eventual oil revenues it winds up not even costing the taxpayers anything in the long run. Actually, the taxpayers will be stuck with some interest costs (from tax free bonds) but even that would be offset by reduced legal expenses. The State already has their Environment 2000 (?) Bond Fund in place and I think they even have enough cash to pay for my compromise plan already in the coffers.