DOJ email on withholding FOIA pages from NYT request about Epstein

DOJ email on withholding FOIA pages from NYT request about Epstein

Emails and letters

Internal DOJ email noting a division handling a New York Times FOIA request to the Bureau of Prisons is withholding pages referencing an inmate to avoid interfering with the prosecution of MCC guards.

DOJ Epstein Files, Data Set 9

The Civil Division is handling a FOIA request from the NYT to BOP regarding documents relating to Epstein. Some of the responsive documents reference Tartaglione. At this point, the team that is prosecuting the MCC guards has decided to withhold all of the pages that reference Tartaglione as potentially interfering with their prosecution. If their case ends before Tartaglione’s trial finished, though, we will need to consider whether those documents need to be held back to prevent interference with our case. I don’t think there’s anything for us to do right now on this, but I wanted to put it …