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Case 1:19-cr-00830-AT Document35 Filed 04/24/20 Page 7 of 34 policies which relate to the “much larger context” at the BOP (Mot. 6, 7, 9, 10). AS an initial matter, the Government has satisfied its Rule 16, Brady, and Giglio obligations and is not in possession of the additional materials that Thomas seeks. More importantly, Thomas is not entitled to compel the Government to collect the additional records for at least four separate reasons. First, the records are not “material” to preparing a defense because they are wholly irrelevant to the false statement charges against Thomas and are intended to prompt jurors to nullify the charges against him. Second, the BOP records Thomas seeks are not in the “possession” of the prosecution team, and there is no legal basis for compelling the Government to collect materials from other agencies or components of the Department of Justice who are not and were not part of the criminal investigation that led to the charges against Thomas. Third, there is no legal basis to require the Government to produce a draft of the report being prepared by the DOJ- OIG, which is subject to the deliberative process privilege. Fourth, Thomas is not entitled to discovery relating to what happened to other MCC employees when they “falsif[ied] the same documents,” (Mot. 6), because he has utterly failed to identify evidence that the decision to prosecute him had a discriminatory effect and was motivated by a discriminatory purpose. Thomas’s motion should be denied in all respects. STATEMENT OF FACTS I. The Indictment Indictment 19 Cr. 830 (AT) (the “Indictment’) was filed on November 19, 2019, charging defendants Tova Noel and Michael Thomas in six counts: (i) conspiring to defraud the United States and to make or use a false writing or document, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371 (Count One); and (ii) five counts of making or using a false writing or document, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1001(a)(3) and 3 (Counts Two through Six). DOJ-OGR-00022069