Subject: FW: [DRAFT] SDNY PRESS GUIDANCE FOR U.S. v. GHISLAINE MAXWELL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2021¶
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2021 23:02:22 +0000¶
Can you please send the press off the pseudonym and sketch artist orders?¶
Thanks,¶
Subject: RE: [DRAFT] SDNY PRESS GUIDANCE FOR U.S. v. GHISLAINE MAXWELL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2021¶
Great. We’ll offer intermittent guidance (when we have guidance to provide), thanks. Would you recall offhand the document number for Judge Nathan’s order granting pseudonyms? Is it 438?¶
Subject: Re: [DRAFT] SDNY PRESS GUIDANCE FOR U.S. v. GHISLAINE MAXWELL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2021¶
This looks good. I think it will be hard to provide reliable daily guidance on witnesses, so let’s not commit to that.¶
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On Nov 22, 2021, at 4:04 PM,¶
Thanks. For sure, we’d like to include the order, but I’ve just been to swamped to get on PACER to pull it. We’d be happy copy you when this goes out. A stopped short of promising daily guidance, as they would require us knowing on a nightly basis who would testifying the next day. If you think we’d be able to provide that guidance, we’re happy to send them daily.¶
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Subject: RE: [DRAFT] SDNY PRESS GUIDANCE FOR U.S. v. GHISLAINE MAXWELL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2021¶
Thanks. Do you want to include the court’s order re: victim names and re sketches as well (in addition to our brief as mentioned below)?¶
And can you copy us when this goes out as I think the team would be happy to see the guidance (and will you repeat it with press guidance about the case throughout trial?)¶
We wanted to run this draft guidance for tomorrow by you. Thanks.¶
In order meet the demand for the high volume of media requests we are already receiving, the following guidance is being provided in advance of the trial to ensure efficient communications. Please take careful note.¶
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PRESS GUIDANCE¶
Tuesday, November 23, 2021¶
*OFF-THE-RECORD, AND FOR GUIDANCE ONLY: Several of the government’s anticipated witnesses will be testifying in this trial using a pseudonym or first name. The Court granted a Government motion [attached] requesting that they be able to do so, because the victim witnesses are expected to describe alleged sensitive, explicit and personal events concerning illegal sexual abuse, sexual contact and other acts of which they have been victims. I believe most, if not all, news media outlets have a policy against identifying sex crime victims without their consent, and urge you to abide by that policy with our witnesses and respect their privacy.¶
9:30 a.m. – Final pretrial conference U.S. v. Ghislaine Maxwell – the defendant is charged in connection to conspiring with Jeffrey Epstein to entice minors to travel to engage in criminal sexual activity – before Judge Alison Nathan (Courtroom 318, 40 Foley Square [overflow Courtrooms 110, 506, 905, and 906 of the Thurgood Marshall U.S. Courthouse]).¶
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