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126a evidence of “any other potential co-conspirators. So, . . . we wouldn’t be prosecuting anybody else, so why not include it? ... I just didn’t think that there was anybody that it would cover.” She conceded, however, that she “did not catch the fact that it could be read as broadly as people have since read it.” K. The USAO Rejects Defense Efforts to Eliminate the Sexual Offender Registration Requirement On the afternoon of Friday, September 21, 2007, State Attorney Krischer informed Villafafia that Epstein’s counsel had contacted him and Epstein was ready to agree “to all the terms” of the NPA—except for sexual offender registration. According to Krischer, defense counsel had proposed that registration be deferred, and that Epstein register only if state or federal law enforcement felt, at any point during his service of the sentence, that he needed to do so. Krischer noted that he had “reached out” to Acosta about this proposal but had not heard back from him. Villafafiia responded, “I think Alex is calling you now.” Villafana told OPR that, to her knowledge, Acosta called Krischer to tell him that registration was not a negotiable term.!”° Later that afternoon, Villafafia emailed Krischer for information about the amount of “gain time” Epstein would earn in state prison. Villafafia explained in her email that she wanted to include a provision in the NPA specifying that Epstein “will actually be in jail at least a certain number of days to make sure he doesn’t try to ‘convince’ someone with the Florida prison 6 Krischer told OPR that he did not recall meeting or having interactions with Acosta regarding the Epstein case or any other matter. DOJ-OGR-00000189