Grand jury subpoena to an internet company re helpfulexperts.com, July 2017

EFTA00153746¶

Grand Jury Subpoena¶

United States District Court¶

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK¶

TO: Google, Inc.¶

Google, Inc.¶

Attn: Legal Department¶

1600 Amphitheatre Parkway¶

Mountain View, CA 94043¶

GREETINGS:¶

WE COMMAND YOU that all and singular business and excuses being laid aside, you appear and attend before the GRAND JURY of the people of the United States for the Southern District of New York, at the United States Courthouse, 40 Foley Square, Room 220, in the Borough of Manhattan, City of New York, New York, in the Southern District of New York, at the following date, time and place:¶

Appearance Date: July 21, 2017¶

Appearance Time: 10:00 a.m.¶

to testify and give evidence in regard to an alleged violation of :¶

18 U.S.C. §§ 1341, 1343¶

and not to depart the Grand Jury without leave thereof, or of the United States Attorney, and that you bring with you and produce at the above time and place the following:¶

See Attached Rider¶

Personal appearance is not required if the requested records are (1) produced by on or before the return date to Investigator¶

and (2) accompanied by an executed copy of the attached Declaration of Custodian of Records. PLEASE PROVIDE IN ELECTRONIC FORMAT IF POSSIBLE.¶

Failure to attend and produce any items hereby demanded will constitute contempt of court and will subject you to civil sanctions and criminal penalties, in addition to other penalties of the Law.¶

DATED: New York, New York July 13, 2017¶

JOON H. KIM¶

Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York¶

Assistant United States Attorney¶

One St. Andrew’s Plaza¶

New York, New York 10007¶

Telephone:¶

rev. 02.01.12¶

EFTA00153747¶

(Grand Jury Subpoena to Google, Inc., dated July 13, 2017)¶

Please provide all records for any accounts registered to or associated with the following identifiers:¶

o As well as any other accounts associated with the domain “helpfulexperts.com”¶

All records should include, but are not limited to, the following:¶

1. All email accounts hosted by Google using the domain name “helpfulexperts.com” and the below information for any such accounts, in addition to the above-listed accents;

2. All subscriber identifying information, including, but not limited to:

a. name¶

b. username or other subscriber identity or number¶

c. address¶

d. primary and alternate telephone numbers¶

e. primary and alternate email addresses¶

f. date of birth¶

g. social security number¶

h. any temporarily assigned network address¶

i. MAC address¶

j. Browser and operating system information¶

3. Records of session times and durations and any IP addresses used by the subscriber at the beginning, end, and at any time during these sessions;

4. Length of service (including start date) and types of service utilized;

5. Means and source of payment for services (including any credit card or bank account number);

6. Account notes and logs, including any customer-service communications or other correspondence with the subscriber; and

7. Investigative files or user complaints concerning the subscriber, account, or email address.

EFTA00153748¶

N. B.: Personal appearance is not required if the requested records are (1) produced by on or before the return date to Investigator¶

; and (2) accompanied by an executed copy of the attached Declaration of Custodian of Records. PLEASE PROVIDE IN ELECTRONIC FORMAT IF POSSIBLE.¶

IMPORTANT: REQUEST FOR NON-DISCLOSURE¶

Due to the ongoing nature of the investigation, it is requested that you do not disclose any information relating to this Grand Jury subpoena request to any third party.¶

EFTA00153749¶

Declaration of Custodian of Records¶

Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1746, I, the undersigned, hereby declare:¶

My name is ___.¶

[name of declarant]¶

I am a United States citizen and I am over eighteen years of age. I am the custodian of records of the business named below, or I am otherwise qualified as a result of my position with the business named below to make this declaration.¶

I am in receipt of a Grand Jury Subpoena, dated July 13, 2017, and signed by Assistant United States Attorney requesting specified records of the business named below. Pursuant to Rules 902(11) and 803(6) of the Federal Rules of Evidence, I hereby certify that the records provided herewith and in response to the Subpoena:¶

(1) were made at or near the time of the occurrence of the matters set forth in the records, by, or from information transmitted by, a person with knowledge of those matters;¶

(2) were kept in the course of regularly conducted business activity; and¶

(3) were made by the regularly conducted business activity as a regular practice.¶

I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct.¶

Executed on ___.¶

[date]¶

(signature of declarant)¶

(name and title of declarant)¶

(name of business)¶

(business address)¶

Definitions of terms used above:¶

As defined in Fed. R. Evid. 803(6), “record” includes a memorandum, report, record, or data compilation, in any form, of acts, events, conditions, opinions, or diagnoses. The term, “business” as used in Fed. R. Evid. 803(6) and the above declaration includes business, institution, association, profession, occupation, and calling of every kind, whether or not conducted for profit.¶