An internal email from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York discussing Maxwell's Rule 17(c) subpoena requests, dated May 3, 2021, with a letter due to Judge Alison J. Nathan the next day.

This is an internal prosecution email from an Assistant United States Attorney working on the federal criminal case against Ghislaine Maxwell. The email discusses preparing a response to Judge Nathan regarding three of Maxwell's Rule 17(c) subpoena requests, which sought documents from Boies Schiller Flexner LLP (the law firm that represented accuser Virginia Giuffre in a civil defamation case against Maxwell). The attachments include Judge Nathan's April 16, 2021 opinion, letters from both Maxwell's team and Boies Schiller, and a draft prosecution response.

Key Highlights

• •Internal SDNY prosecution communication about Maxwell's defense subpoena strategy
• •References Judge Alison J. Nathan's ruling on Maxwell's Rule 17(c) subpoena requests
• •Involves Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, the firm that represented Virginia Giuffre against Maxwell
• •Part of pre-trial legal maneuvering before Maxwell's November 2021 trial

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