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An email from the U.S. Attorney's Office (SDNY) to Roberta Kaplan's law firm regarding victims' rights at Jeffrey Epstein's July 2019 bail hearing.
This is an internal legal coordination email dated July 10-11, 2019, between federal prosecutors and attorneys at Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP, who represented an Epstein victim. The SDNY prosecutor reaches out to inform defense attorneys about their client's rights under the Crime Victims' Rights Act (18 U.S.C. 3771) to be heard at Epstein's upcoming bail hearing. The prosecutor offers to include victim statements in the government's bail submission due that Friday. This document shows the behind-the-scenes coordination between prosecutors and victim attorneys in the days before the historic July 15, 2019 bail hearing where victims Annie Farmer and Courtney Wild testified.
Key Highlights
- •Federal prosecutors proactively reached out to victim attorneys about rights under the Crime Victims' Rights Act
- •Email dated July 10-11, 2019 — just days before the July 15 bail hearing where victims testified
- •Roberta Kaplan's firm Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP represented at least one Epstein victim
- •Prosecutors offered to include victim representations in their bail submission due Friday July 12
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From: Roberta Kaplan To: " "MI Conlon" Jenna Dabbs , Alexandra Elenowitz- Hess Cc: " " ' Subject: Re: U.S. v. Epstein, 19 Cr. 490 -- victims' rights re: bail hearing Date: Thu, II Jul 2019 02:06:10 +0000 Can you talk? Roberta ("Robbie") Kaplan, Esq. Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP New York, New York 10118 From: Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2019 5:56:39 PM To: Conlon; Roberta Kaplan; Jenna Dabbs; Alexandra Elenowitz-Hess Cc: I; Subject: RE: U.S. v. Epstein, 19 Cr. 490 -- victims' rights re: bail hearing Hi all, As you may already know, pursuant to the Crime Victims' Rights Act, specifically 18 U.S.C. 3771(a)(4), a crime victim has the right to be reasonably heard at certain public proceedings in the district court, including proceedings involving release. Accordingly, we wanted to be in touch consistent with our responsibilities and obligations—and your client's rights—under that statute, to see whether your client would like to be heard in any fashion, whether through a submission, a representation that we can include in our bail submission due Friday, or some other form. Of course no requirement or obligation, but we would be happy to discuss it if that would be useful. To the extent this information is useful in your consideration, I can say that while I don't want to prejudge the Would it make sense to set up a brief call sometime tomorrow, if any of you want to discuss? I should be able to make myself available whenever is convenient for you (and likely will be just me, as the remainder of the team will be traveling). thank you, EFTA00026681
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Assistant U.S. Attorney Southern District of New York This email and its attachments may contain information that is confidential and/or protected from disclosure by the attorney-client. work product or other applicable legal privilege. If you am not the intended recipient of the email. please be aware that any unauthorized review. use. disclosure. dissemination. distribution. or copying of this communication. or any of its contents. is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately and destroy all copies of the message from your computer system. Thank you. EFTA00026682
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