needdiamonds: Because there was supposedly a meeting, and a funding request was talked about at that meeting, doesn't mean a deal was cut.
And if one had been, the claims made by RA about USXP would never have stood up to the most basic of DD, and reading that email would have killed that deal.
It isn't really clear that anything about this email is anything more than RA setting up 'evidence' that he was in fact working on getting 40M as he had said he was doing.
But none of this matters, as it is absolutely clear no 40M was provided to USXP (unless RA siphoned it off to himself, and the receiver would have found that in the records).
