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123a earlier proposed draft federal plea agreement.!”? Lefkowitz also again included the sentence precluding the government from requesting, initiating, or recom- mending immigration proceedings against the two assistants who were foreign nationals. At this point, Lefkowitz again sought to speak to Acosta, who replied by email: “I am happy to talk. My caveat is that in the middle of negotiations, u try to avoid[] undermining my staff by allowing ‘interlocutor[y appeals so to speak so I'd want [Mlarie on the call[.] Pl have her set something up.” Villafafa sent to Lefkowitz her own revised NPA, telling him it was her “attempt at combining our thoughts,” but it had not “been approved by the office yet.” She inserted solicitation of minors to engage in prostitution, a registrable offense, as the charge to which Epstein would plead guilty; proposed a joint recommendation for a 30-month sentence, divided into 18 months in the county jail and 12 months of community control; and amended the § 2255 provision.'”* Villafafia’s revision retained the provision suspending the investigation and holding all legal process in abeyance, and she incorporated the non- prosecution provision while slightly altering it to apply 1 The language in the USAO’s draft federal plea agreement stated, “This agreement resolves the federal criminal liability of the defendant and any co-conspirators in the Southern District of Florida growing out of any criminal conduct by those persons known to the [USAO]....” 8 Villafafia noted that she had consulted with a USAO employee who was a “former corporate counsel from a hospital” about the § 2255 language, and thought that the revised language “addresses the concern about having an unlimited number of claimed victims, without me trying to bind girls who I do not represent.” DOJ-OGR-00000186