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On Oct 12, 2020, at 4:37 PM, (USANYS) [Contractor] cz :, wrote: Stephen Brown is filing his story shortly on the Epstein investigation (which includes discussion of the apparent decision by the Office in 2016 not to pursue the matter). If there's any guidance you think we can and should provide, please let us know in the next hour.

she had to have facts, witnesses, evidence, and victims of a New York crime. We assured the prosecutor that the number of victims in New York far exceeded those discovered in Florida. The group walked out excited that New York was finally going to bring a case against Epstein. I said to David and Pete, "Don't hold your breath, the Southern District obviously doesn't know who they're dealing with yet." The effort went nowhere, as far as the victims' attorneys know. Then, after attorneys David Boies and Sigrid McCawley took Maxwell's depositions in the case, Boies re-approached SDNY, I'm told. The meeting took place in August or September between Boies, Pottinger and Kramer. They pitched SDNY on charging Maxwell with perjury. They also believed Epstein, who was paying Maxwell's legal bills, was in a perjury conspiracy. They saw this as a work-around to oncerns about the NPA etc. But t at also went nowhere. Obviously everything changed after the Miami Herald articles and SDNY opened an investigation under Berman. In addition to the headline that SDNY initially passed on tackling the case, this story will also note how the contact between victims' attorneys and SDNY relates to the perjury counts in Maxwell's criminal case. She's said in filings she was the victim of a "perjury trap," presumably set by Boies in cahoots with SDNY. (From her perspective). Questions: Why didn't SDNY pursue the Epstein case in 2016? Why didn't it pursue perjury counts? Did SDNY contact the FBI or South Florida prosecutors about Epstein during that period? Who was the decision maker after Kramer met with the victims' attorneys? Did Preet make the call? This story is tentatively scheduled for Tuesday, so this is not super urgent. Hope to hear from you tomorrow. Thanks, Stephen Rex Brown Manhattan Federal Court reporter NY DAILY NEWS