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be N Ww ws Oo OY ~] oO Ke) a fan) = be N Ww = Hs Oo a OY a ~] a oO a Ke) 20 21 22 23 24 25 Case 21-770, Document 20-2, 04/01/2021, 3068530, Page134 of 200 71 k7e2MaxC kjc THE COURT: All right. + Thank you, Mr. Cohen. Ms. Moe, would the government like a brief reply? MS. MOE: Yes, Your Honor, your Honor. Thank you very much. I want to begin by addressing head on the notion that the government's presentation in this case is somehow about spins or about throwing dirt or about the media. Your Honor, my colleagues and I of New York. Our presentation of of the United States Attorney's Of fice of are appearing today on behalf the Southern District the defendant's conduct is detailed in an indictment that was returned by a grand jury in this court. These ar the facts. It is not dirt. It is not spin. That is the evidence and that is what we have proffered to the court. And the notion that anyone could read the indictment that has been returned in this case and now reach the conclusion that an adult woman, cultivating the traffic o underage girls, knowing that they will be sexually abused and exploited by an adult man, conduct, that is, on the face of Turning to the about the defendant's defendant's conduct in and conclude that that is chilling the indictment, your Honor. Fered to the court facts we have prof hiding, it appears, is undisputed that the defendant was finances, and particularly about the your Honor, that it living in hiding and took this spin. Those are the those actions. There cannot be any spin or characterization of facts that appear to be undisputed. SOUTHERN DISTRICT R G sPORT ERS, (212) 805-0300 P a Gs DOJ-OGR-00001075