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Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE Document 204-3 Filed 04/16/21 Page 248 of 348 We will make our best efforts to ensure you are accorded the rights described. Most of these rights pertain to events occurring after the arrest or indictment of an individual for the crime, and it will become the responsibility of the prosecuting United States Attorney’s Office to ensure you are accorded those rights. You may also seek the advice of a private attorney with respect to these rights. The FBI case agent informed Villafafia that the Victim Specialist sent the letters and would follow up with a phone call “to offer assistance and ensure that [the victims] have received their letter.” A sample letter is shown on the following pages. Villafafia told OPR that she did not recall discussing the content of the letters at the time they were sent to the victims, or reviewing the letters until they were collected for the CVRA litigation, sometime after July 2008. Rather, according to Villafafia, “The decision to issue the letter and the wording of those letters were exclusively FBI decisions.” Nevertheless, Villafafia asserted to OPR that from her perspective, the language regarding the ongoing investigation “was absolutely true and, despite being fully advised of our ongoing investigative activities, no one in my supervisory chain ever told me that the case was not under investigation.” Villafafia identified various investigative activities in which she engaged from “September 2007 until the end of June 2008,” such as collecting and reviewing evidence; interviewing new victims; re-interviewing victims; identifying new charges; developing new charging strategies; drafting supplemental prosecution memoranda; revising the charging package; and preparing to file charges. Similarly, the FBI case agent told OPR that at the time the letters were sent the “case was never closed and the investigation was continuing.” The co-case agent stated that the “the case was open . . . it’s never been shut down.” Victim Courtney Wild received one of the January 10, 2008 FBI letters; much later, in the course of the CVRA litigation, she stated that her “understanding of this letter was that [her] case was still being investigated and the FBI and prosecutors were moving forward on the Federal prosecution of Epstein for his crimes against [her].”°” 329 CVRA petitioner Jane Doe #2 also received a January 10, 2008 FBI letter that was sent to her counsel. 222 DOJ-OGR-00003424