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The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York responds to defense counsel's requests for document preservation and production in the case of United States v. Jeffrey Epstein, stating they will comply with their legal obligations but consider many of the requests to be overbroad. The letter also addresses concerns about the defense's attempts to obtain victim identities and denies any improper influence from other U.S. Attorney's Offices in initiating the investigation.

Subject

United States v. Jeffrey Epstein, 19 Cr. 490 (RMB)

Sender

GEOFFREY S. BERMAN, Assistant United States Attorneys, Southern District of New York

Recipients

Martin G. Weinberg, Esq., Reid Weingarten, Esq., Michael Miller, Esq.

Document ID

19 Cr. 490 (RMB)

Date

2019-08-06

Without conceding any obligation to preserve any of the categories of documents, or, further, any obligation to produce responsive such documents to the extent any exist, we will take reasonable steps to ensure the preservation of documents we believe may be covered by the Letters' identified categories to the extent such documents are already within the possession, custody, or control of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York (the "Office").

Indeed, the defendant will be unable to make any kind of showing of the conspiracy theory that there was activity inconsistent with any duty not to circumvent or transfer a case from an immunizing district to another district, because-as we have proffered to you and to the Court previously-this Office initiated its investigation without any transfer, circumvention, or other influence from any other District.

This request for any and all communications with victims and their counsel, and apparently intended to apply to this Office as well as all Non-Party Entities and Individuals, is grossly overbroad and vastly beyond the scope of our Obligations. As described above, to the extent this Office has within its care, custody, or control statements made by victims or their counsel that are within the definitions of materials subject to Brady or § 3500 obligations, any such statements or materials will be disclosed promptly and based on the Court's schedule, respectively.

• Defense's assertion of a prior non-prosecution agreement and potential due process violation.
• Government's concern about the defense's attempt to obtain the identities of victims.

Context

The case of Jeffrey Epstein and the handling of the investigation are matters of significant public interest.

Media Worthy

Yes

• Potential discovery disputes
• Concerns about disclosing victim identities

Legal matters/litigationCommunications/correspondenceAllegations/complaints

Jeffrey EpsteinMartin G. WeinbergReid WeingartenMichael MillerGEOFFREY S. BERMAN

U.S. Department of JusticeUnited States Attorney, Southern District of New YorkMartin G. Weinber P.C.Ste toe & Johnson LLPFBIUnited States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of FloridaUnited States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of FloridaUnited States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of GeorgiaMain JusticeChild Exploitation and Obscenity SectionSecurities and Exchange CommissionDepartment of Homeland SecurityNew York [City] Police DepartmentManhattan District Attorney's OfficeState Attorney's Office for the 15th Judicial District in and for Palm Beach CountyPalm Beach County Sheriff's OfficeNew Mexico Attorney General's Office

New York, New YorkBoston, MAPalm Beach CountyNew Mexico

Tone

Formal, legalistic, defensive

Purpose

To respond to defense counsel's requests for preservation and production of documents in the case of United States v. Jeffrey Epstein, outlining the government's position on discovery obligations.

Significance

This letter outlines the government's response to the defense's discovery requests, indicating the scope of information they are willing to provide and pushing back against what they consider to be overbroad requests.

File Name

EFTA00016596.txt

Dataset

dataset_8

Type

Text

Model

gemini-2.0-flash-001

Processed

2026-02-07T18:44:33.703635

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