Subject: RE: SDNY investigation¶
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2019 21:10:29 +0000¶
Importance: Normal¶
Attachments: 2019-02-19,_JE,_Hammad_memo_spreadsheet.xlsx¶
Following up on the below, I have good news – our Hammad memo has been approved by the Deputy U.S. Attorney, which is the final go-ahead we needed. We have permission to approach any of the individuals we’ve identified so far in the case as being a witness, victim, and/or subject. For any individuals represented by counsel we’ve already been in touch with, we’ll go through those attorneys to set up any interviews; for everyone else (all of whom we’ve attempted to list in the attached spreadsheet), we can approach them directly.¶
There are some individuals who we have some reason to believe may have been represented previously, and for those people we need to follow a protocol in the approach. That applies to:¶
For those 11 individuals, if/when you approach any of them, please:¶
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Identify the matter we are investigating, that is, conduct relating to Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged sexual contact with minor girls; and
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Ask the individual if they currently are represented by counsel in connection with a matter related to Jeffrey Epstein, and then:
a. If they say no, ask if they are willing to be interviewed, and if yes, proceed with an interview;¶
b. If they say yes, ask for the attorney name and/or contact information (and/or serve a grand jury subpoena, if we’ve decided to issue one to that person), and end the interaction.¶
For any individual not on the above list, we can proceed how you normally would with any other approach.¶
The planned interview that prompted us to pause to go through the Hammad process was who I think it still at the top of our list to approach, so I think the sooner the better on that, and happy to chat about it anytime if that would be useful. And we can talk about other approaches to do in the next week or two as well, but wanted to get this all to you in writing asap now that we have the approval.¶
Please let us know if any questions at all, and thanks.¶
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Team,¶
Following up on our conversation last week, wanted to let you know that after many discussions and rounds of editing, our Hammad memo (addressing our process for approaching potential witnesses / victims / subjects) has made its way through multiple layers of supervisors and is now with our criminal division chief. So we hope to be able to give you the green light (and related guidance) for additional approaches, including as soon as possible.¶
has also continued to be in touch with D.C. regarding the records; the latest there is that D.C. claims the hard copy records are all in Miami (and obviously Florida has told us that the records are in D.C.). So that continues to be a challenge but we’re working on it.¶
We’re also continuing to work on obtaining the records from the two civil cases in New York, which has been its own challenging and ongoing project, but we’ll let you know if and when there’s movement on that.¶
Finally, I also owe you a call to catch up on the status in California, and to see if anything else is pending, but since I’m just finishing my day now I figured I’d send a quick email.¶
Thanks as always, and talk soon,¶
Assistant U.S. Attorney¶
Southern District of New York¶
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