Subject: RE: travel approval request (Hotel Options) Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 20:44:13 +0000 **Inline-Images:** image001.jpg; image002.jpg; image003.jpg; image004.jpg; image005.jpg; image006.jpg ## From: **Sent:** Friday, January 24, 2020 3:42 PM Subject: RE: travel approval request (Hotel Options) ## From: **Sent:** Friday, January 24, 2020 15:41 Subject: RE: travel approval request (Hotel Options) Amazing. Who knew Google Maps would be such a key part of your career as a prosecutor. ## From: **Sent:** Friday, January 24, 2020 11:48 AM Subject: FW: travel approval request (Hotel Options) My day so far . . . ## From: **Sent:** Friday, January 24, 2020 11:47 Subject: RE: travel approval request (Hotel Options) This email made me actually laugh out loud. The absurdity of DOJ’s bureaucratic nonsense never ceases to amaze. I feel like I’m living in a satiric novel. ## From: **Sent:** Friday, January 24, 2020 11:41 AM Subject: RE: travel approval request (Hotel Options) So, two fun things about the hotels. First, note that basically all of the hotels that sent are well over the per diem, so I’m going to email about getting approval for that. The other thing is, for reasons that I absolutely cannot fathom, the locations for a bunch of the hotels in E2 are totally wrong. For example, that horrible WAERDSHUSET place (which, don’t look at the photos online, it’s terrifying) is shown in E2 as being right downtown, here: EFTA00096392 when in reality it's an hour and 30 minute drive from downtown: Conversely, the Diplomat, where the FBI says the Legat may be able to book for us through the Embassy (!), is listed as being hours and hours outside of town: when in fact it's right downtown: EFTA00096393 Also notably, the prices in E2 are way higher than if we just booked through, like, Hotels.com (the Diplomat is $155 online or $382 on E2). I have no fucking clue why we’re all being tortured in precisely this fashion, but here we are. What do you guys think? The Sheraton seems pretty standard, located in city center, and it should be easy to get a conference room there. Or if you’d rather stay somewhere less standardized, the Hotel Kung Carl is also in the city center, seems well reviewed, and has meeting rooms. Good morning all, I've searched previously in anticipation of your trip to Stockholm, Sweden between the original dates between 1/27 – 1/31/20, and a few were within per diem, but those same hotels now are either sold out, or over per diem. I've screen captured a few of the hotels that popped up in my search this morning. I've hid the sold out hotels within the Stockholm area. EFTA00096394 ## Select a hotel Property Filters Reset Property Filters ☐ Eco friendly (31) Hide sold out □ Airport shuttle (15) Hide out of policy □ Executive floors (6) ☐ Coffee in room (107) ☐ ADA accessible (26) In room safe (70) □ Breakfast included (126) □ Fitness room (99) Dictanoe from: Stockholm, Sweden □ Laundry services (88) Parking offered (170) within 25 miles □ Restaurant on site (139) Name or chain ☐ Non-smoking property [143] □ Mini refrigerator (56) Room service (69) ☐ WiFi in public spaces (105) ☐ WIFI in room included (122) Non-smoking rooms (207) ## 249 of 283 hotels ☐ Wheelchair accessible (99) □ Translation services (5) Swimming pool (25) WAERD $HU$ SET GAMMEL TAMMEN Oesterbybruks Herrgard Oesterbybruk 116 45 Sweden 0.3 miles S Map Amenities per diem 5kr1,2995 $ 1986 SHERATON STOCKHOLM HOTEL Tegebacken 6-Box 195 Stockholm 10123 Sweden 0.4 miles NW Map Amenities | | | | :--- | :--- | | Skr2,790 | $293 | | per dean Skr1,996 $126 | | In my opinion, the best hotel option is Sheraton Stockholm Hotel that’s about $66 over per diem. Since it’s out of our control, we’ll need to book a hotel over per diem. If you agree that I should reserve the Sheraton Stockholm Hotel, I’ll inform of the issue so we could get approval to reserve a hotel over per diem and fill out the forms to give to him to sign. In the meantime, I’ll see if I could reserve your preferred flights so they don’t get sold out either. Thanks for informing me. EFTA00096395 similar request from me for the same trip, if you could please book the following refundable tickets –
-Monday, 2/3, Delta, 6:40 p.m. departure from JFK, landing at 11:55 a.m. in Stockholm(ARN) on 2/4, with a layover in Paris
-Friday, 2/7, Delta, 12:45 p.m. departure from Stockholm(ARN), landing at 9:55 p.m. at JFK, with a layover in Paris
Note that it appears this set of flights is only available in premium economy but those seats are *cheaper* than any other flights on those days in regular economy seating. Please let me know if e2 or EOUSA says we have to fly regular economy (and therefore spend more money) and I can look at other flight times. Separately, could you also please take a look at hotel options in downtown Sweden that are within the per diem allowance? We generally need to be in this area, downtown: I looked for a long time and literally didn’t see anything at $196 or below, so if you could please take a look and let us know three or four options, we can take a look at those. thanks very much, For this trip, could you please help with booking flights? If you could please book the following refundable ticket, that would be very much appreciated: EFTA00096396 - Monday, 2/3, 8:15 p.m. departure from JFK, landing at 2:25 p.m. in Stockholm on 2/4, with a layover in London (American Airlines) - Thursday, 2/6, 11:40 a.m. departure from Stockholm, landing at 7:30 p.m. at JFK, with a layover in London (American Airlines) - Frequent flier #: Thanks! Subject: RE: travel approval request Subject: RE: travel approval request Similar to prior requests in connection with the Epstein investigation (2018R01618), but with an added international element, we’d like to please request permission for the team to travel next week for an interview near Stockholm, Sweden, next week on January 29th and/or 30th. We expect to be traveling, respectively, some combination of the 27th (overnight) to the 31st, depending on when the interview ends up being scheduled, and we’ll put final dates on our formal applications. Also similar to prior trips, we’d like to request approval to get a conference room for one of those days at a hotel for the interview itself. Also based on our discussion earlier we’ll be mindful of looking for domestic (or domestic-flagged) carrier flights, as well as the costs of any alternatives, in looking at possible specific bookings. Thanks as always for your help and input on that. thank you, Similar to prior requests in connection with the Epstein investigation (2018R01618), we’d like to please request permission for the team to travel next week for an interview (or possibly interviews) in Los Angeles on December 16 and/or 17. We expect to be traveling, respectively, some combination of the 15th to the 18th. Also similar to prior trips, we’d like to request approval to get a conference room for one of those days. thank you, Subject: RE: travel approval request