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Generosity to Employees and Others. While it might be commonplace to say that a particular business person treats his employees as family, Jeffrey’s history clearly reflects this fact on both financial and emotional levels. Jeffrey is a wealthy man who is quick to share his largesse. But he is also a man who engages personally and emotionally those who work for him and those he knows. Once he learns of and determines through conversation a need or an aspiration of an employee, he explores this with the employee, treats it in almost mathematical terms as a problem in search of a solution, and then sees to it that, without strings attached, the solution happens. The issues may be accommodations that an employee needs to address pressing personal or family problems; tuition payments that an employee or employee family member needs to better himself or herself; or assistance, both financial and professional, an employee needs to address the vexing and often tragic problems that life presents human beings. In this capacity, he is a benefactor but quite often also a mentor. Examples abound. One particularly poignant one was recounted by Darren K. Indyke, general counsel to Jeffrey: Two years ago, a building workman approached Jeffrey with news that the workman's wife needed a kidney transplant and that the workman’s sister- in-law was a willing donor. Unfortunately, the sister-in-law was a citizen of Colombia and the workman did not have the financial resources or know how to get the sister-in-law into the country for the surgery. Jeffrey arranged for immigration counsel to expedite a visa for the sister-in-law and sponsored and purchased the plane tickets for the sister-in-law’s visit to the United States. The surgery was a success and both patients recovered completely. The sister-in-law flew back to Colombia at Mr. Epstein’s expense. Last year, the workman and his wife celebrated the high school graduation of their oldest daughter, whose college education is now being funded by Mr. Epstein. There have been many instances of accommodations Jeffrey has made for employees so that they could address significant issues of their personal lives. Several examples follow: A father of one of Jeffrey’s employees in the Virgin Islands was recently diagnosed with cancer. Jeffrey is personally paying the medical bills for the father’s treatment and has given the employee financial support and complete flexibility to take time off from work whenever required in order to fly to Florida to attend to the employee’s father. 11 Public Records Request No. 19-372 DOJ-OGR- 00033231