EFTA00089652¶
Subject: RE: GM — search warrant returns¶
I’m struggling to think of a way to limit “□” or “jeevaction” more because:¶
- is last name. Because she was Epstein’s primary secretary who handled the travel logistics for Epstein, his employees, and the victims who traveled. So it makes sense that her last name has so many hits. Those will include essentially all of the day-to-day communications regarding Epstein’s schedule and travel.
- The term “jeevacation” is the phrase Epstein used for the majority of his email addresses (e.g., jeevacation@gmail.com, jeevacation@yahoo.com, etc.). So it’s unsurprising that this phrase is the highest hit. I suspect that number reflects the majority of Epstein’s emails. We ran that search term because we do not know all of the email addresses Epstein used, and we suspected that there were more domains with “jeevacation” email accounts than we knew about.
We’ve already run search terms to cut out spam, though we can certainly try to find more.¶
Thanks, this is a helpful start. I would recommend we think about how we can perhaps narrow or focus our search terms a bit, perhaps through combinations/connectors or other means, particularly for common names/words that are likely to generate a significant number of hits. For example, “David” turns up nearly 40,000 hits, and “flight” or “flights” turns up over 100,000 just to pick a few.¶
Also, curious as to why “■” turns up 450,000 hits and “jeevacation” (which I’m not familiar with but assume you all are?) turns up 750,000. Those two alone seem to account for the overwhelming majority of documents we’ve identified, so if there’s a way to focus those two in particular, that might be a big help.¶
One thing you might want to do is just review a couple hundred random hits, if you haven’t already, to get a bit of a flavor for what we’re turning up, as that may help inform our efforts to focus the search. I think we may also have the technology to weed out spam and potentially duplicates, if we haven’t already, but defer to others with more experience in those areas…¶
The STR report is attached, in case that’s useful.¶
Sent: Monday, October 19, 2020 8:44 PM¶