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Internal FBI email chain from July 2019 showing CNN journalist Mirna Alsharif requesting verification of a victim's 1996 FBI complaint against Jeffrey Epstein, which the FBI is internally discussing among New York field office agents.
This document captures a critical moment in the Epstein investigation: a CNN inquiry that exposed the FBI's decades-long failure to act. On July 26, 2019, CNN reporter Mirna Alsharif contacted the FBI asking to verify claims from a Miami Herald report that a woman (later identified as Maria Farmer) had reported Epstein to the FBI in 1996. The internal FBI response shows agents scrambling to determine if they knew the victim and whether she appeared in their Sentinel database system, revealing apparent confusion about a complaint filed 23 years earlier that was never properly investigated.
Key Highlights
- •CNN inquiry prompted FBI internal review of whether they had records of a 1996 victim report against Epstein
- •References Maria Farmer's sworn affidavit alleging she and her 15-year-old sister were sexually assaulted by Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell in 1996
- •FBI agents ask 'Does the team know this victim? Does she show up in Sentinel?' - suggesting the original complaint may have been buried or lost
- •The 2006-2007 reference mentioned may indicate the victim was interviewed during the Miami investigation but the original 1996 report was not followed up on
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From: Mg a To: Subject: Fwd: Re: CNN -= Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 14:29:46 +0000 Importance: Normal Inline-Images: image001.jpg See below, you guys know this person? SSA= FBI New York ------ Forwarded messy e ------- From: ' Date: Jul 29, 2019 10:25 AM Subject: Re: To: ' Ii Cc: Does the team know this victim? Does she show up in Sentinel? The 2006-2007 reference may be because MM interviewed her as part of their investigation. ASACIMMI New Yolk Field Office Criminal - Branch C From: Sent: Friday, July 26, 201912:02:18 PM To: a) Subject: FW: CNN -= — see below. Does this make any sense to you both? Thanks — From: NY Sent: Friday, July 26, 201912:38 PM To: Subject: Fw: CNN - Hello OPA. This email was received from a person claiming to be from CNN. Regards FBI NY • Federal Bureau of Investigation New York Division 26 Federal Nam New York. NY ItC7Ii Phone: Email: EFTA00037301
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From: Alsharif, Mirna Sent: Friday, July 26, 2019 12:34 PM To: NY Subject: CNN - Hello, My name is Mirna and I'm contacting you from CNN in New York. We've seen reports that a MIMI who says she was sexually assaulted by Jeffrey Epstein in 1996, reported her assault to the FBI in 1996. Can you please verify this document's existence? Please find below excerpts from the Miami Herald alleging the existence of this report: • A new victim has gone public in the Jeffrey Epstein case, filing a sworn affidavit in federal court in New York Tuesday, saying that she was sexually assaulted and her then-ls-year-old sister molested by Epstein and his companion, Ghislaine Maxwell, in 1996. then 26, claims that she was employed by Epstein, a multimillionaire financier who lived in a vast mansion on New York's Upper East Side, and that she frequently saw "school-age girls" wearing uniforms come into the mansion and go upstairs. She was told that the girls were auditioning for modeling work, according to her affidavit. Then an art student in New York Thank you and I look forward to hearing back from you. Mirna Alsharif CNN I NY Bureau Desk: EFTA00037302
Entities Mentioned
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Alsharif
PERSON
Ghislaine Maxwell
PERSON • 3 mentions
British socialite and sex trafficker, daughter of Robert Maxwell, accomplice of Jeffrey Epstein
Jeffrey Epstein
PERSON • 3 mentions
American sex offender and financier (1953–2019)
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Mirna
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MA
Mirna Alsharif
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Upper East Side
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Neighborhood in Manhattan
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