the volume of materials and determine how to best have the data processed, whether through PAE or another vendor, and to do QC to make sure we got the docs in a format that can be processed. From: (USANYS) < Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2020 13:04 To: Cc: Subject: RE: Epstein search warrant documents >; (USANYS) I'm not sure I follow — isn't email below, if not exactly friendly, consistent with the call we all had a few weeks ago, where we agreed that he needed to re-extract the non-media data so that it could be attributed to a source device, and then give it to =, so that I= could arrange to have it put in relativity? It sounds like, from his email, that he has now done that for "multiple devices" and needs to figure out a way to get them to because is working remotely? Since I think= just sends them to the POC at Relativity, could we skip the middle step and just have FBI send to Relativity directly? From: ) < Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2020 12:34 PM To: (USANYS) Cc: Subject: FW: Epstein search warrant documents >; (USANYS) < Guys, to keep you updated on this, see below. One huge frustration on this case is that while we've been asked to pursue various evidence and interviews we don't expect to yield useful evidence, there is a *huge* trove of evidence that the FBI gathered nine months ago, that may very well contain important information, that we still haven't gotten a single functional production from. And it doesn't seem to be a significant priority above the line level either at the FBI or our office. Ultimately, after months and months of attempts to get this, the end result is that the FBI isn't going to process any of it after all — they're just going to dump the raw materials on us and we'll need to process it into loadable files ourselves, and get it up on Relativity, which will likely take additional months. I expect that we'll likely come back to you in June for permission to request significant funds for a vendor to do this correctly. From: Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2020 12:25 To: Cc: c *; Subject: RE: Epstein search warrant documents >; Respectfully, I think there are some miscommunications here — all we have asked is to receive the materials in a format such that we can view them using a system we have access to. We're not able to get web-enabled access through any FBI tool, so we asked for the materials to be transferred in a loadable format so we could put them on Relativity, which both we and the agents can access. We're required to have the files in a format that we can produce them to defense counsel. I've done that in many other cases and it hasn't previously been an issue. My understanding from =I is that the best way to do it now is just for us (the U.S. Attorney's Office) to get the original files, which our vendor will process—by which I just mean converting into file formats that are loadable onto Relativity. It doesn't really have anything to do with the taint review—we have to have access to the docs in our systems for discovery purposes. And we were happy to get the materials as they were processed, but when we received the 1.1 million documents earlier this year, they were in a format that wasn't usable for the reasons described in the email I sent on March 9. Again, I EFTA00027445