EFTA00194053



UNITED STATES vs. JEFFREY EPSTEIN
PLEA PROFFER


On August ___, 2007, FBI Special Agents E. Nesbitt Kuyrkendall and Jason Richards traveled to the home of Lesley Groff to serve her with a federal grand jury subpoena in connection with an investigation pending in the Southern District of Florida. Ms. Groff works as the personal assistant of the defendant. Ms. Groff began speaking with the agents and then excused herself to go upstairs to check on her sleeping child. While upstairs, Ms. Groff telephoned the defendant, Jeffrey Epstein, and informed him that the FBI agents were at her home. Mr. Epstein was then aboard a civilian aircraft in the Southern District of Florida, and was about to return to Teterboro, New Jersey. Mr. Epstein instructed Ms. Groff not to speak with the agents and reprimanded her for allowing them into her home. Mr. Epstein then re-directed his airplane, traveling to the U.S. Virgin Islands instead of the New York City area, thereby keeping the Special Agents from serving target letters on Nadia Marcinkova and Sarah Kellen.

During that flight, while in the special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States, the defendant telephoned Ms. Groff and applied pressure to keep her from complying with the grand jury subpoena that the agents had served upon her. In particular, Mr. Epstein warned Ms. Groff against turning over documents and electronic evidence responsive to the subpoena and pressured her to delay her appearance before the federal grand jury in the Southern District of Florida.

Also during that flight, while in the special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States, the defendant became angry regarding the federal investigation and became verbally abusive and threatening towards his female companion, Nadia Marcinkova,