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Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE Document 204 _ Filed 04/16/21 Page 37 of 239 The privilege log also does not establish that the USAO-SDFL involved other U.S. Attorney’s Offices in plea negotiations with Epstein. Grasping at straws, the defendant points to a notation in the privilege log, which contains an entry for handwritten notes, reflecting that the prosecutor in the USAO-SDFL spoke with an Assistant U.S. Attorney in New York. (Def. Mot. 1 at 22). The notes referenced in the privilege log are attached hereto as Exhibit 1. As the notes reflect, the prosecutor at the USAO-SDFL reached out to an Assistant U.S. Attorney at the USAO- SDNY to ask about a civil lawsuit relating to Epstein that was handled by the Civil Division of this Office in the 1990s. The Government is producing to defense counsel today emails that confirm that this was the nature of the contact. One of those emails is attached hereto as Exhibit 2 for the Court’s reference. Put simply, those communications provide no indication that the USAO-SDNY was involved in plea negotiations with Epstein. Rather, the USAO-SDFL asked about an old civil case involving Epstein that an AUSA at the USAO-SDNY happened to handle years earlier. In sum, the privilege log in no way establishes that other districts were involved in negotiating the NPA, much less that Epstein was promised that the NPA would bind other districts. The defendant proffers no other documentary evidence beyond the privilege log. Instead, without any citation, she broadly alleges that “senior levels of Main Justice were directly involved in the negotiation and approval of the NPA.” (Def. Mot. 1. at 22). This vague and unsworn allegation is not evidence. Moreover, any contacts between the USAO-SDFL and Main Justice > In response to the allegations raised by the defense’s motion, the Government identified the underlying notes referenced in the privilege log. The Government is producing those underlying notes, as well as the relevant emails, to defense counsel today. The Government has also been informed by a human resources representative that payroll records reflect that the Assistant U.S. Attorney referenced in the privilege log left the USAO-SDNY on or about April 29, 2007, months before the NPA was executed. Although the Government has been informed that Human Resources records do not contain information regarding a division transfer, the Government understands from colleagues that the Assistant U.S. Attorney worked in the Civil Division in the 1990s and worked in the Criminal Division in the 2000s. 10 DOJ-OGR-00002971