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121a initiating, or encouraging immigration proceedings. It also included a provision stating the government's agreement to forgo a presentence investigation and a promise by the government to suspend the investiga- tion and withdraw all pending legal process. * Ok ok [79] I think Jay [Lefkowitz] will try to talk you out of a registrable offense. Regardless of the merits of his argument, in order to get us down in time they made us an offer that included pleading to an offense against a minor (encouraging a minor into prostitution) and touted that we should be happy because it was registrable. For that reason alone, I don’t think we should consider allowing them to come down from their own offer, either on this issue or on time of incarceration. Lefkowitz attempted to reach Acosta that night, but Acosta directed Villafafia to return the call, and told Lourie that he did not want to open “a backchannel” with defense counsel. Lourie instructed Villafana, “U can tell [JJay that [A]lex will not agree to a nonregistration offense.” On the morning of Friday, September 21, 2007, Villafana emailed Acosta informing him that “it looks like we will be [filing charges against] Mr. Epstein on Tuesday,” reporting that the charging package was being reviewed by the West Palm Beach manager, and asking if anyone in the Miami office needed to review it. Villafafia also alerted Lourie that she had spoken that morning to Lefkowitz, who “was waffling” about Epstein pleading to a state charge that required sexual offender registration, and she noted that she DOJ-OGR-00000184