Subject: 2020.04.23 - NOTES from call with¶
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 15:11:21 +0000¶
2020.04.23 - NOTES from call with DOJ-OIG¶
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Briefing IG on Monday about status and adjournment
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Unlikely that they will do anything until after our trial, but if that changes, will give us a heads up
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Don will call on Tuesday
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DOJ-OIG
○ DOJ-OIG reports to Congress, not to AG¶
○ IG is head of agency¶
○ Divisionally, OIG is separated into components¶
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Investigations Division (do criminal and administrative investigations; who we are working with, NY Field Office); majority is criminal, but can also handle administrative matters that stem from criminal investigations
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Also handling the Epstein Report
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Administrative report that arose out of criminal investigation
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During criminal investigation, OIG identified numerous administrative concerns relating to conduct of other BOP employees, unrelated to and conduct
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Concerns identified were failure to provide Epstein a new cellmate; Epstein’s personal call on unrecorded phone line; potentially problems with video system
personal call on unrecorded phone line; potentially problems with video system¶
○ NOT failure to conduct counts or rounds¶
○ Currently, not looking into staffing issues and does not foresee doing it¶
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is detailed to Investigations Division, usually part of Oversight and Review
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These reports would typically be done by the case agent
○ Here, has had no involvement in working on report except for an initial conversation and opining on what circulated¶
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Oversight and Review—made up of investigative attorneys; in charge of investigating matters of national importance; vast majority administrative, but also can handle criminal investigations that roll out of admin.
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Evaluations and Inspections Division – administrative investigations that aren’t of national importance or high profile; very rarely, if ever, criminal investigations
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Audit Division – does audits; purely administrative
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Management and Planning
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Fair to say no completed draft at this point
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Draft will contain recommendations about BOP, which will then be discussed by DOJ-OIG; these discussions have not yet begun
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Disclosure now could negatively impact future administrative investigation by DOJ-OIG on this very matter
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Reviewed representations we are making in the brief—fine with them with minor changes above
Assistant United States Attorney¶
United States Attorney’s Office¶
Southern District of New York¶
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