Epstein Secrets

berger 9/17/2008 Villafatia, Acosta, Senior, Lee, Atkinson Sloman Email chain regarding obligation to sealing NPA 9/19/2008 Notes of calls to Bob Josefsberg 10/8/2008 Villafatia Senior Email agreeing with Villafaiia's 10/8/08 email that a copy of the Response to Jane Does' Motion to Unseal the NPA sh

ial EFTA00224947 EPSTEIN INVESTIGATION TIMELINE Date To From Re: Exhibit # 5/18/2007 Matthew Menchel A. Marie Villafana Email informing Menchel of intent to subpoena Roy Black's private investigator and steps taken to obtain DOJ authorization 26 5/21/2007 Matthew Menchel and Jeff Sloman

6/18/2007 Subpoena to NES, LLC (return date 7/10/07) 6/21/2007 Matthew Menchel A. Marie Villafalia Email re Meeting next week with emails from Menchel to Villafalia (6/21/07) and Villafaria to Menchel (6/21/07) attached ll 6/22/2007 Subpoena to Guys and Dolls (return date 7/10/07) 6/25/2007 Je

tten attorney (Lourie) notes 1 I 7/13/2007 Matthew Menchel A. Marie Villafaria Email re Epstein with email from Menchel (7/5/07), Villafana to Menchel (7/4/07) and Sloman to Villafatia (7/3/07) attached 7/16/2007 Black Villafaria Response to letter regarding subpoena to Paul Lavery for computer

the power of the federal government to perpetrate and further their fraud. And the expense of litigating these cases has been extreme. For example, Bob Josefsberg, who I do not believe was aware of the Rothstein crimes, is now demanding over $2 million in legal fees. As a lawsuit brought by some of the invest

it is whether they can require the defendant to serve a sentence that was not even "available" to State prosecutors. Id. In this case, however, Mr. Menchel has not asked for anything that State prosecutors could not have obtained. The fact that State authorities chose—for unquestionably legitimate reaso

without substantiation, that the proposed State plea agreement failed to vindicate the federal interest. On August 3, 2007, Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew Menchel rejected the State's new proposed plea agreement. He flatly stated that "the federal interest will not be vindicated in the absence of a two year te

ted States Attorney's Office (the "USAO") and the attorney representative ultimately selected to represent the women on Ms. Villafana's secret list, Bob Josefsberg. It enabled Mr. Josefsberg, in connection with the performance of his duties under the NPA, to seek information, guidance and assistance from Ms. V

As a weak explanation of the many complaints about Ms. Villafana's misconduct and her flagrant violations of the USAM, her Criminal Division Chief, Matthew Menchel, eventually characterized her as "unsupervisable." In August 2007, Ms. Villafana demanded that, in exchange for a deferral of federal prosecution,