An internal DOJ email from Geoffrey Berman, then-U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, responding to breaking news about the FBI's investigation into Ghislaine Maxwell just five months after Jeffrey Epstein's death.

This December 27, 2019 email shows Geoffrey Berman, the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, requesting an immediate phone call after receiving a CNBC article about the FBI investigating Ghislaine Maxwell. The timing is significant—this was sent just four months after Epstein's suicide and seven months before Maxwell's arrest. The document provides a rare glimpse into real-time prosecutorial communications as the Maxwell investigation was publicly revealed.

Key Highlights

• •Geoffrey Berman, SDNY U.S. Attorney who led the Epstein case, urgently requested a call upon learning of public FBI investigation reports
• •Email sent December 27, 2019—the same day CNBC broke the story about Maxwell being under FBI investigation
• •Shows internal DOJ response to media coverage of their investigation before Maxwell's July 2020 arrest

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