Epstein Secrets

current and former USAO staff and attorneys and current and former Department attorneys and senior managers, including former Deputy Attorney General Mark Filip and former Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division Alice Fisher. OPR also interviewed former State Attorney Barry Krischer and former As

ocument Review As referenced in the Executive Summary, OPR obtained and reviewed hundreds of thousands of pages of documents from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida (USAO), other U.S. Attorney’s offices, the FBI, and other Department components, including the Office of the Deputy Attorney General, the

Judge July 8, 2019 Page 8 merely reduce his head start should he decide to flee. See United States v. Zarger, No. 00 Cr. 773, 2000 WL 1134364, at *1 (E.D.N.Y. Aug. 4, 2000) (Gleeson, J.) (rejecting defendant’s application for bail in part because home detention with electronic monitoring “at best . . . limi

IRKLAN08XLLTS I.LP N9000/013 10092 Kenneth W. Starr so • May 19. 2008 VIA FACSIMILE (2021 514-0467 CONFIDENTIAL in Joe D. Whitley Iionorable Mark Filip Office of the Deputy Attorney General United States Department ofJustice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20530 Dear Judge Film:

of Justice Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section ("CEOS") regarding the federal investigation of Jeffrey Epstein by the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida (`USAO").1 I will refrain from recounting Mr. Epstein's arguments in detail here, but, rather, will highlight salient points responsive

irst by the heads of CEOS (the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section), then by the Criminal Divisi=n, and finally by the Deputy Attorney General, Mark Filip, who, with the excep=ion of the Attorney General himself, was the highest ranking official at the Department. In short, despite the Herald's critici

f federal crime victims moot=20 ). We began to negotiate what eventually came to be a non-prosecution agreement between the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florid= and Mr. Epstein. The n=n-prosecution agreement was signed in September of 2007 following a wide-ranging FBI investigation and months of

et Loa Angeles, l _90027-580o Phone: ata-aatto-8440 Fax: 223-680450o Icearrekirldand.coin May 19. 2008 VIA FACSIMILE (202) 514.0467 lionorable Mark Filip Office of the Deputy Attorney General United States Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N. w. Washington, D.C. 20530 Joe D. Whitley

a person or entity must be harmed by an offense that has peen charged in Federal district court. See U.S. I. Guevara-Toloso, 2005 WL 1210982 at *2 (E.D.N.Y. May 23, 2005) (noting that § 3771's reference to "the crime" suggests "a focus only on the crime with which a defendant is charged in the case in wh

lenging both the sufficiency of the evidence and the federal interest in the case. At this point, Epstein sought review from Deputy Attorney General Mark Filip (Exhibit B- 33), and he hired Joe Whitley to join his defense team. I was informed that Epstein's deadline to enter his guilty plea would be extende

Re: Jeffrey Epstein/Saige Gonzalez: NOTIFICATION OF IDENTIFIED VICTIM. Dear Mr. Leopold: • By virtue of this letter, the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida asks that you provide the following notice to your client, On June 30, 2008, Jeffrey Epstein (hereinafter referred to as "Epstein) enter

at the relevant time. During the period most relevant to this Report, the Attorney General was Michael Mukasey, the Deputy Attorney General was Mark Filip, and the Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division was Alice Fisher. The Chief of CEOS was Andrew Oosterbaan. The U.S. Attorney’s

dead. The New York City Chief Medical Examiner concluded that Epstein had committed suicide. As a result of Epstein’s death, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York filed a nolle prosequi to dismiss the pending indictment against Epstein. On August 27, 2019, the district court held a hearing at w

notification letter and agree that the 323 In his June 3, 2008 letter to Deputy Attorney General Mark Filip, Sloman wrote, “Acosta again consulted with DAAG Mandelker who advised him to make the following proposal [to defer notification to the State Attorn

ment has filed charges, but courts have discretion to take a more inclusive approach); and United States v. Guevara-Toloso, 2005 WL 1210982, at *2 (E.D.N.Y. May 23, 2005) (order sua sponte) (in case involving a federal charge of illegal entry after a felony conviction, the court determined that victims o

rrent and former USAO staff and attorneys and current and former Department attorneys and senior managers, including former Deputy Attorney General Mark Filip and former Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division Alice Fisher. OPR also interviewed former State Attorney Barry Krischer and former

ument Review As referenced in the Executive Summary, OPR obtained and reviewed hundreds of thousands of pages of documents from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida (USAO), other U.S. Attorney’s offices, the FBI, and other Department components, including the Office of the Deputy Attorney General, th