A forwarded email from April 2019 showing anti-trafficking advocate Conchita Sarnoff sharing a news article about a new Jeffrey Epstein accuser and defamation lawsuit with DOJ Criminal Division staff.

This document is an internal DOJ email exchange from April 2019, during a period of renewed public interest in the Epstein case following the Miami Herald's investigative reporting. Conchita Sarnoff, a Cuban-American anti-trafficking activist who was among the first journalists to break the 2008 Epstein plea deal story, forwards a Bradenton Herald article about an emerging accuser and defamation lawsuit. The email references the modeling recruitment scheme that allegedly lured victims with promises of work at Victoria's Secret or MC2, the modeling agency Epstein financed through associate Jean-Luc Brunel.

Key Highlights

• •Communication between DOJ Criminal Division staff and anti-trafficking advocate Conchita Sarnoff during the renewed Epstein investigation in 2019
• •References the modeling recruitment scheme used to lure victims with Victoria's Secret and MC2 modeling agency promises
• •Sent in April 2019, the same month Virginia Giuffre filed her defamation lawsuit against Alan Dershowitz

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