Subject: RE: Jeffrey Epstein-Related Touhy Requests - Times FOIA Action¶
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 18:03:55 +0000¶
Got it. Do you mind sending the complaint, then?¶
Subject: RE: Jeffrey Epstein-Related Touhy Requests - Times FOIA Action¶
I don’t have the underlying FOIA requests yet. The Times did not attach them to the Complaint, and BOP hasn’t sent them to me. I will circulate once I have them. Thanks.¶
Subject: RE: Jeffrey Epstein-Related Touhy Requests - Times FOIA Action¶
Thanks – could you send us the request?¶
Subject: RE: Jeffrey Epstein-Related Touhy Requests - Times FOIA Action¶
Thanks, . and , please let me know if you’d like to discuss or have any particular concerns here.¶
Subject: RE: Jeffrey Epstein-Related Touhy Requests - Times FOIA Action¶
I think the AUSAs you’d particularly want to check with are the ones doing that prosecution – and . Copying them here.¶
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Subject: RE: Jeffrey Epstein-Related Touhy Requests - Times FOIA Action¶
All,¶
FYI, the New York Times has filed the attached FOIA complaint challenging BOP’s response (or lack thereof) to the Times’s FOIA requests for records related to Jeffrey Epstein. I’ve contacted to see who at BOP will be handling this. Our Answer date is currently March 4, 2020. Please let me know if you have any particular concerns here or would like to discuss.¶
Subject: RE: Jeffrey Epstein-Related Touhy Requests¶
Thanks for talking with me this evening about this, we appreciate it. To briefly memorialize our discussion, and to loop in everybody on the case on the criminal side, you’ll be the point person for requests from civil plaintiffs / victims in connection with Epstein lawsuits, and we’ll work with you on those requests given our knowledge of the relevant facts and materials.¶
In terms of this first question from the plaintiff, which was essentially presented as a question of how they should go about making a request for certain materials possibly in the possession of the Government, we’ll plan to take a look at the letter you draft that will essentially set forth the requirements for making a Touhy request (e.g., similar to, or including, the kind of information in example below), and separately sometime early next week I’ll let plaintiff’s counsel (Robbie Kaplan at Kaplan & Hecker) know that they can expect to hear from someone in our Civil Division, within approximately a week or so (of when that conversation occurs), and that we anticipate that communication will include the relevant requirements of making such a request.¶
Please let me know if I’m forgetting anything, thanks again, and talk soon.¶