<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">My name is Marc Bautch and I am the Facilities Manager at Patrick's Cabaret, a non profit arts organization and theater in Minneapolis. I just read some of the messages on the Tango list and was not the least bit surprised to find that our organization is not alone with a complaint about Burak Ozkosem's unethical and irresponsible "money games".</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> Burak rented our facilities for Tango classes and events from 2004 until March of 2006. At which time we had no choice but to stop renting to him because he stopped paying us for rentals 4 months earlier. Although he owed us money we continued to rent to him because we wanted to support his artistic endeavors and he kept promising to pay us back. However he suddenly dropped out of sight. We later found out that he moved to Chicago and left us no forwarding address, or phone number. He also changed his email address. However we recently were able to track him down via the internet. I sent letters and emails to his "new" tango studio that he works at with Maria. He still owes us $1515.00 and says he doesn't have the money to pay us. I had no choice but to turn this matter over to a collection agency. He then had Maria call me, to request that we stop sending letters to the Tango Studio asking for money and to stop the collection agency from contacting him because Maria claims Buraks intends to pay us. But she couldn't tell me when or how much he intends to pay us. So of course we will continue to have the collection agency try to get our money from him. Some of you may consider yourself lucky to get reimbursed by Burak. But in reality you are among a long list of people he has used. Burak is not to be trusted. It is truly sad when someone takes advantage of the arts community to use it for his own glory and at the expense of others.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Sincerely,</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Marc Bautch</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 22px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Facilities Manager</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">612-724-6273</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><A href="mailto:marc@patrickscabaret.org">marc@patrickscabaret.org</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">www.patrickscabaret.org</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;">Patrick's Cabaret is grateful for the support of the Jerome, McKnight and St. Paul Travelers Foundations, </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;">COMPAS/United Arts, and MRAC and the Minnesota State Arts Board through and appropriation by the </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;">Minnesota Legislature and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; 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color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Marc Bautch</DIV><DIV style=""><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Facilities Manager</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">612-724-6273</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">marc</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">@patrickscabaret.org</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px; ">Patrick's Cabaret is grateful for the support of the Jerome, McKnight and St. Paul Travelers Foundations, </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px; ">COMPAS/United Arts, and MRAC and the Minnesota State Arts Board through and appropriation by the </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px; ">Minnesota Legislature and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>