An internal email between SDNY prosecutors coordinating the review of 30,000 documents from the Southern District of Florida Epstein file for Ghislaine Maxwell's pretrial disclosure deadlines.

This March 2021 email from a Deputy Chief of the Public Corruption Unit at the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York discusses the logistical challenges of reviewing the Southern District of Florida's Epstein case file. The prosecution team had paid a vendor to scan the file in October 2020, and it was being loaded into Relativity (an e-discovery platform) for review. With a pretrial disclosure deadline at the end of April 2021, the team recruited 4 paralegals and an intern from the Public Corruption Unit, plus requested 3-4 additional paralegals to review approximately 30,000 documents to determine what had already been produced to the defense.

Key Highlights

• •Reveals the massive scope of the Epstein investigation: 30,000 documents from Florida alone needed review
• •Confirms the Public Corruption Unit handled the Maxwell prosecution, which legal experts noted was unusual for a sex trafficking case unless public officials were implicated
• •Shows tight timeline pressure with only one month to review thousands of documents for pretrial disclosure
• •Documents the inter-district coordination between SDNY and SDFL in building the Maxwell case

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