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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 1:20-cr-00330-AJN Document 93 Filed 12/10/20 Page 71 of 91 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 are appearing today on behalf of the United States Attorney's Office of the Southern District of New York. Our presentation of the defendant's conduct is detailed in an indictment that was returned by a grand jury in this court. These are 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 Turning to the about the defendant's facts we have prof finances, defendant's conduct in hiding, face of the indic and conclude that that is chilling tment, your Honor. Fered to the court and particularly about the it appears, is undisputed that the defendant was your Honor, that it living in hiding and took those actions. There cannot be any spin or characterization of this spin. Those are the facts that appear to be undisputed. SOUTHERN DISTR CT REPORTERS, (212) 805-0300 P a Gs DOJ-OGR-00001948