Epstein Secrets

O HAC VICE. For United States of America, Respondent: Ann Marie C. Villafana, LEAD ATTORNEY, United States Attorney's Office, West Palm Beach. FL; Dexter Lee, LEAD ATTORNEY, United States Attorney's Office, Miami, FL. For Roy Black, Intervenor: Jacqueline Perczek, Roy Eric Black, Black Srebnick Kornspan

F.3d at 1347. "The district court has 'substantial discretion' in determining whether grand jury materials should be released." Id. at 1349 (quoting Douglas Oil Co. v. Petrol Stops N.W., 441 U.S. 211, 223, 99 S. Ct. 1667, 60 L. Ed. 2d 156 (1979)). For internal use only SDNY_GM_00059572 CONFIDENTIAL - PURSUANT

. 9, 2008, Letter from Brad Edwards, Esq. to AUSA Dexter Lee). Indeed, it appears that the Government may hav

e 6(e) remains non-public, thus effectuating the privacy concerns addressed by the United States Supreme Court in Douglas and other cases. See e.g. Douglas Oil Co. v. Petrol Stops Northwest, 441 U.S. 211, 228-30 (1979). Under Rule 6(e), only a federal court can, absent findings, order the unsealing of federal

tr.if"'" • Case 9:08-cv-80736-KAM Docurnor450L1A w Eptyppeop FLSD Docket 03121/2011 Page 1 of 2 • aitadedataa% • AND ASSOCIATES October 9, 2008 Dexter Lee, AUSA United States Attorney's Office 99 N.E. 4th Street Miami, Florida 33132 Re: Jane Doe # and Jane Doe #2 United States of America Case No.

winger, 626 F. Supp. 24i 1231 (S.D. Fl. 2009): "The proper functioning of our grandiury system depends upon the secrecy of grand jury proceedings," Douglas Oil Co. I. Petrol Stops Northwest, 441 U.S. 211, 218 (1979), and this expectation of privacy is generally codified in Rule 6(e) of the Federal Rules of Cri