Epstein Secrets

tant U.S. Attorne Original Messa e From: (USAFLS) Sent: Thursday, Jul 05, 2007 3:30 PM To: Villafana, Ann C. (USAFLS); Sloman, M(USAFLS) Cc: Lourie, Andrew (USAFLS) Subject: RE: Epstein Both the tone and substance of your email are totally inappropriate and, in combination with other matters in

pleas are appropriate and consistent with the Ashcroft memo and the USAM -- not you. As for your statement that my concerns about this case hurting Project Safe Childhood are unfounded, I made it clear to you that those concerns were voiced by the US Attorney. Whether or not you are correct, matters of policy are alw

[email protected] Original Message From: Valle, Alicia (USAFLS) Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 10:10 AM To: Villafana, Ann Marie C. (USAFLS) Cc: Lourie, Andrew (USAFLS) Subject: FW: PSAs on Project Safe Childhood Importance: High Morning, Marie FYI -- February project on Project Safe Childhood. L

C. (USAFLS) From: Villafana, Ann Marie C. (USAFLS) Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 10:26 AM To: Valle, Alicia (USAFLS) Subject: RE: PSAs on Project Safe Childhood Tracking: Recipient Valle, Alicia (USAFLS) Read Read: 11/16/2006 10:27 AM Thanks, Alicia. No one has approached me about PSAs, but a local atto

To: Villafana, Ann Marie C. (USAFLS) Cc: Lourie, Andrew (USAFLS) Subject: FW: PSAs on Project Safe Childhood Importance: High Morning, Marie FYI -- February project on Project Safe Childhood. L

To: Villafana, Ann Marie C. (USAFLS) Cc: Lourie, Andrew (USAFLS) Subject: FW: PSAs on Project Safe Childhood Importance: High Morning, Marie FYI -- February project on Project Safe Childhood. Let's stay in touch on this. aov Original Message From: Acost

ffrey Sloman and Andrei Londe arguing against federal prosecution. 34 7/13/2007 Letter from Roy Black to Marie Villa' la with handwritten attorney Lourie notes 35 7/25/2007 latter from Gerald l.efrourt and Alan Dershowia to Matthew Menchel arguing that no charge can or should be made under 18 U.S.C

Epstein may have been involved in the manufacture and/or possession of child pornography. Eradication of child pornography was a particular focus of Project Safe Childhood; its production and storage on computer equipment involved the use of items produced in interstate and foreign commerce; and child pornography was

so the plea agreement would have had to be a binding plea pursuant to Fed. R. Crim. P. 11(c)(1)(C), which is what I drafted. I was informed by Mr. Lourie that USA Acosta did not want to do a (c)(1)(C) plea, so I had to find charges that would result in a two-year statutory maximum. This resulted in m

borhood prosecutors. In January 2004, AUSA Villafafia transferred to the West Palm Beach Office. In 2006, the U.S. Department of Justice initiated Project Safe Childhood, and, in recognition of her expertise in child exploitation matters, AUSA Villafalia became the Southern District of Florida's first Project Safe C

ion ............................................20 5. October 2006 – February 2007: Epstein’s Defense Counsel Initiate Contact with Villafaña, Lourie, and Sloman, and Press for a Meeting ....................................................................................22 6. February 2007:

he child exploitation cases in West Palm Beach, along with other criminal matters. In 2006, she was designated as the USAO’s first coordinator for Project Safe Childhood, a new Department initiative focusing on child sexual exploitation and abuse.2 In 2006, Villafaña assumed responsibility for the Epstein investig

nt sitting on the shelf since May to engage in these negotiations. There has to be an ending date, and that date is Monday. Early that afternoon, Lourie—who was participating in the week’s negotiations from his new post at the Department in Washington, D.C.—asked Villafaña to furnish him with the las

ta’s and Sloman’s “concerns about taking this case because of [the P]etit policy and a number of legal issues” and Acosta’s concerns about “hurting Project Safe Childhood.” Defense counsel raised myriad legal and factual challenges in their voluminous letters to the USAO. Defense submissions attacked the legal theo

disenfranchise and silence the victims. It is unfortunate, and appears fundamentally unfair to the victims, that Acosta and Sloman (after Menchel and Lourie departed) took the unusual step of deciding to vet the USAO victim notification letters with the defense after the NPA was signed, but failed to go b

legations, and every fact described therein should be treated as an allegation. i Attachment(s): Download U.S, v Jeffrey Epstein Indictment Topic(s): Project Safe Childhood Component(s): USAO - New York. Southern Press Release Number: 19-211 i Updated July 9, 2019 CA/Aronberg-0009.18 FILED: PALM BEACH COUNTY, FL, JOSEPH