Epstein Secrets

mi until January 2004, when she transferred to the West Palm Beach branch office. Villafaña handled the majority of the 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 initia

She explained to Lourie the basis for her objections to the meeting, but Lourie “vehemently” 24 disagreed with her position. Villafaña and a West Palm Beach AUSA with whom she was consulting about the investigation, and who served for a time as her co-counsel, both recalled meeting with Lourie in his office

d the defense proposal for a sentence of home confinement. In a subsequent email exchange with Criminal Division Deputy Assistant Attorney General Sigal Mandelker, who supervised CEOS, Oosterbaan reported that the meeting was “non-eventful,” noting that defense counsel argued “federalism” and might approach C

s well as in several supervisory positions in the SDFL. By mid- 2006, he had returned to his position as the Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division in West Palm Beach (head of the West Palm Beach branch office), after serving as the interim Chief of the Public Integrity Section at DOJ at the request of AAG Fisher.

bahn. Many of these legal and factual issues have been discussed and approved by Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division (DAAG) Sigal Mandelker and the Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division (AAG) Alice S. Fisher, as well as the Criminal Division's Appellate Section and the Off

ssible public corruption or, at the least, a miscarriage of justice. With regard to the logistics of opening the case file, the opening of files in West Palm Beach is relatively informal. In instances where an agent approaches a line AUSA directly (either because it is a duty matter or because the investigation

tion for indictment/ongoing investigation B-111 2/20/2008- W21/2008 Entails between Drew Oosterbaan, Marie Villatana, Robert Senior,Jeff Montan, Sigal Mandelker, Karen Atkinson, Alex Acosta, Rolando Garcia and Myesha Braden regarding status of CEOS plans to meet with counsel for Epstein and status of indict