Epstein Secrets

ving O'Brien's Novem- ber 2002 complaint, Stolt-Nielsen hired John Nannes, a former Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Antitrust Division at the U.S. Department of Justice, to con- duct an internal investigation of possible antitrust violations by the Company and advise it regarding any criminal liability. On Novembe

risdiction to enforce or modify its order. Two years later, in July 1985, as part of a criminal investigation based on a referral from the FDA to the Department of Jus- tice, the government applied for and ob- tained a warrant to search an office com- plex that, as the warrant stated, housed the administrative offices of

te prosecutor to consider the fact that Harvey had cooperated with both the U.S. Attorney and the Drug Enforcement Agency. Additionally. given use Immunity but that he did not know whether or not he was given transac- tional immunity. Finally, the prosecutor most intimately involved with the agree- men

ayman Islands bank. Having thus determined what had hap- pened in 1980, the magistrate turned to the 1985 tax evasion indictment. Stephen Sny- der, the Justice Department's Criminal Tax Division attorney responsible for the inves- tigation of the government's case and its presentation to the grand jury appeared at the

a formal grant' E.g., United 7. As a part of the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970 Congress added the current scheme for statutory grants of use Immunity. currently co- III 13 U.S.C. §§ 6001.4005. and repealed other Immunity statutes. Including trap transactional immunity provisions, that had been s

s of his offenses. After signing this Agreement, Epstein and his counsel decided that they were dissatisfied with its terms, and again complained to the Justice Department, seeking review to the Deputy Assistant Attorney General and the Deputy Attorney General. After those attempts also failed, on June 30, 2008, Epste

still does not wish to testify in this case and has a Fifth Amendment basis for er position. She wishes not to accept the "proffer letter " cover of Immunity, which again is her right. I think it Is a waste of time to have her appear Friday to just take. the Fifth. I suggest that you huddle with your peo