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2 STATEMENT Following a jury trial in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, petitioner was convicted on one count of conspiring to transport minors with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 371; one count of transporting a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 2423(a); and one count of sex trafficking of a minor, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1591(a) and (b)(2). Pet. App. 3a, 39a-40a. The district court sen- tenced petitioner to 240 months of imprisonment, to be followed by five years of supervised release. /d. at 41a- 42a. The court of appeals affirmed. Jd. at la-23a. 1. From about 1994 to 2004, petitioner “coordinated, facilitated, and contributed to” the multimillionaire fi- nancier Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of numerous young women and underage girls. Pet. App. 4a. The abuse followed a pattern. Petitioner and Epstein would identify vulnerable girls living under difficult cireum- stances; isolate them from their friends and families, gaining their trust by giving them gifts and pretending to be their friends; normalize the discussion of sexual topics and sexual touching with the girls; and then “transition[] to sexual abuse, often through the pretext of [a girl] giving Epstein a massage.” Gov’t C.A. Br. 5; see Pet. App. 4a, 94a. Petitioner and Epstein paid vic- tims large amounts of cash to provide Epstein with sex- ualized massages, and after a victim had begun giving massages, they would offer her additional money to re- eruit other girls. Gov't C.A. Br. 5-6. Petitioner and Epstein carried on those activities at, among other locations, Epstein’s residences in Palm Beach, Florida, and New York City. See Gov’t C.A. Br. DOJ-OGR-00000225