An internal DOJ email chain from February 2019 showing US Attorney Geoffrey Berman instructing his Public Corruption Unit chief to remove Epstein from a list of cases to be briefed on.

This document is an internal email exchange within the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) dated February 19-20, 2019. The Chief of the Public Corruption Unit emails Geoffrey Berman with a list of cases requiring detailed briefing memos. When Epstein appears on the list, Berman responds simply: 'You can leave off Epstein.' This communication occurred approximately five months before SDNY publicly charged Epstein with sex trafficking in July 2019, raising questions about the internal handling of the Epstein investigation during this period.

Key Highlights

• •Geoffrey Berman, then US Attorney for SDNY, explicitly instructed staff to exclude Epstein from a case briefing list
• •The email is dated February 19, 2019 - five months before SDNY's public indictment of Epstein in July 2019
• •The request came from the Chief of the Public Corruption Unit, suggesting Epstein was being tracked as a significant case at that time
• •The terse response 'You can leave off Epstein' provides no explanation for why the case should be excluded from briefings

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