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August 5, 2019 Ms. Assistant U.S. Attorney Southern District of New York One St. Andrew's Plaza New York, NY 10007 THE JEFFREY E. EPSTEIN/ GUY ALAN LEWIS CONNECTION Dear Madam, As the AUSA assigned to the prosecution of Jeffrey E. Epstein, you should be aware of the contents of the enclosed documents. They were previously sent to Mr. Geoffrey S. Berman, the FBI and many other Congressional authorities. They speak for themselves. Sincerely, McRae Correctional Facility P. O. Drawer McRae Helena, GA 31055 EFTA00074105 July 8, 2019 United States Attorney Southern District of New York One St. Andrew's Plaza New York, NY 10007 RE: JEFFREY E. EPSTEIN Dear Sir/Madam, Congratulations on the indictment of Jeffrey E. Epstein! His prosecution will definitely open a Pandora's Box which will surely include Mr. Guy Alan Lewis, ESQ., who orchestrated Mr. Epstein's "sweetheart deal" many years ago. His name is hardly ever mentioned in the media but an often-used stock photo shows him escorting Mr. Epstein and seated with him in court. This is my complaint against Mr. Lewis when he served as the First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida. Mr. Guy Alan Lewis is personally responsible for my wrongful conviction and more than 24 years of wrongful imprisonment. I am both actually and legally innocent but was framed by the DEA. Details of my more than 289-month-long ordeal can be seen on PACER.gov at www.flsd.uscourts.gov, and www.call.uscourts.gov, Case No.: tionally, my FOIA cases are published at EFTA00074106 In summary, two different persons were erroneously assigned the exact same NADDIS number: former Senior Radar ontroller/Supervisor from Nassau, Bahamas. (See Exhibit A.) The other person is rom Belleville, Illinois, a member of The Wolf Pack, a family of drug dealers. (See Exhibit B.) Rather than admit this obvious internal DEA bureaucratic error, Guy Alan Lewis personally engineered my malicious prosecution and wrongful conviction. Now that Mr. Epstein is in your crosshairs, I am certain that he will cooperate and divulge the secrets of how he was able to elude justice for the past two decades. I am also very confident that he will disclose that Guy Alan Lewis, and others, were very handsomely paid to make it happen, just like he fabricated a case against me and needlessly destroyed my life. I trust that you will ensure that this matter is brought to the attention of the appropriate authorities. Please be advised that this complaint will also be widely distributed to the media. Sincerely McRae Correctional Facility P. O. Drawer McRae Helena, GA 31055 2 EFTA00074107 EFTA00074108 THE NEW YORK TIMES, TUESDAY, JULY 1, 2008 GOY ALAN LEWIS UMA SANGHVI/THE PALM BEACH POST Jeffrey E. Epstein, left, was in Florida court on Monday after flying from his 78-acre Caribbean island over the weekend. A Billionaire's Move from Paradise to County Jail EFTA00074109 Jeffrey Epstein: About the sex trafficking case & accusations I Miami Herald Page 13 of 31 "There is n a such thing as a child prostitute. Under federal law, it's called eif i 11119alak _i The series v king — whether Epstein pimped them out to others or not. It's still a commercial sex act — and he could have been jailed for the rest of his life under federal law," she said. It would be easy to dismiss the Epstein case as another example of how there are two systems of justice in America, one for the rich and one for the poor. But a thorough analysis of the case tells a far more troubling story. A close look at the trove of letters and emails contained in court records provides a window into the plea negotiations, revealing an unusual level of collaboration between federal prosecutors and Epstein's legal team that even government lawyers, in recent court documents, admitted was unorthodox. Acosta, in 2011, would explain that he was unduly pressured by Epstein's heavy-hitting lawyers — Lefkowitz, Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz, Jack Goldberger, Roy Black, former U.S. Attorney Guy Lewis, Gerald Lefcourt, and Kenneth Starr, the former Whitewater special prosecutor who investigated Bill Clinton's sexual liaisons with Monica Lewinsky. `AVOID THE PRESS' PLAN That included keeping the deal from Epstein's victims, emails show. "Thank you for the commitment you made to me during our Oct. 12 meeting," Lefkowitz wrote in a letter to Acosta after their breakfast meeting in West Palm Beach. He added that he was hopeful that Acosta would abide by a promise to keep the deal confidential. "You ... assured me that your office would not ... contact any of the identified individuals, potential witnesses or potential civil claimants and the respective counsel in this matter," Lefkowitz wrote. https://www.miamihcrald.cominews/local/article220097825.html 12/4/2018 EFTA00074110 Why Judge Denied a Financier His `Gilded Cage' .1ULV QC, aO19 By BENJAMIN WEISER A federal judge on Thursday denied Jeffrey Epstein's request for bail pend- ing his trial on sex-traf licking charges in Manhattan. As a result, Mr. Epstein, 66, a wealthy financier who owns a private jet, luxury homes around the world and a private island in the Caribbean, will have to spend months In a Manhattan jail that typically holds accused mob- sters, drug dealers and terrorists. Thejudge, Richard M. Berman of Fed- eral District Court, agreed with prosecu- tors that Mr. Epstein was not only a flight risk,but posed a threat to others-- particularly teenage girls — if released. The judge's strong rebuke of Mr. Ep- steiirsconduct and request tobeallowed house arrest stood in sharp contrast to how the authorities in Florida had treated the financier in 2007. That year, he reached a widely criti- cized deal that let him avoid federal prosecution on charges he sexually abused and trafficked minors. Instead, he pleaded guilty to state charges of so- liciting a minor for prostitution and ended up serving 13 months in Jail. He was allowed to leave the facility six a days a week, ostensibly to work. Here are five takeaways from Judge Berman's opinion. Bottomless Checkbook Unlike so many people charged In state and federal courts, affording bail was not a problem for Mr. Epstein. He had offered to post a gargantuan bond, secured by his S56 million mansion on East 71st Street in Manhattan and his private jet. 'I am authorized to say to the court," one of Mr. Epstein's lawyers told Judge Berman, "that whatever bond you want Mr. Epstein to sign — whether it's S100 million or an amount close totheamount of the assets that we have provided — Mr. Epstein Is prepared to sign it7 Mr. Epstein provided the court with a one-page summary of his assets that placed their value as of June 30 at $559 million. His lawyers said he would even pay for 24-hour private security to assure that he did not flee. The government ar- gued he was seeking special treatment, a "gilded cage: as one prosecutor put it in court. A Threat to Girls Judge Berman's decision portrayed Mr. Epstein as sex offender who could not be trusted to curb his sexual fixation with teenagers. He pointed to the nature of Mr. Epstein's alleged crimes and his propensity to commit them. "The crimes Mr. Epstein has been charged with are among the most heinous in the law principally, in the court's view, because they involve minor girls," the judge wrote. A federal indictment charged that be- tween 2002 and 2005, Mr. Epstein and his employees paid dozens of underage girls — at least one as young as 14 years old — to give him massages while nude or topless at his residences in Manhat- tan and Palm Beach, Fla. During the massages, he engaged in various sex acts with them, the indict- ment said. Ile also used some of the teen- agers to recruit other girls to abuse, pay- ing the "victim-recruiters" hundreds of dollars for each girl they brought to him, the indictment said. "Mr. Epstein's alleged excessive at- traction to sexual conduct with or in the presence of minor girls — which is said to include his soliciting and receiving -massages from young girls and young women perhaps as many as four times a day — appears likely to be uncontrolla- ble," Judge Berman wrote. It seems fair to say that Mr. Epstein's future behavior will be consistent with past behavior, the judge added. Flight Risk Given Mr. Epstein's wealth, the risk of flight was "exceptionally high, the of- fice of Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States attorney in Manhattan, told the judge in court papers. Besides his New York mansion, Mr. Epstein's asset summary listed multi- million-dollar properties in New Mexico, Palm Beach, Paris and the Caribbean. Prosecutors have said Mr. Epstein's pri- mary residence is a private island in the United States Virgin Islands. Mc. Epstein's assets also included $56 million in cash and more than $300 mil- lion in securities and other financial in- struments. Prosecutors also said his sex registration documentation (stemming from his 2008 guilty plea in Florida) listed no fewer than 15 motor vehicles, including seven Chevrolet Suburbans, a cargo van, a Range Rover, a Mercedes- Benz sedan, a Cadillac Escalade and a Hummer. Then there was a safe that the authori- ties said they searched in Mr. Epstein's mansion in Manhattan, in which they found more than $70,000 in cash, 48 loose diamonds ranging in size from ap- proximately one to 2.38 carats, and a large diamond ring. The judge concluded that Mr. Epstein was 'a serious risk of flight" and "no con- ditions can be set that will reasonably assure his appearance at trial." Troubling Safe Contents Inside that safe, the authorities also found an Austrian passport bearing Mr. Epstein's photograph but another per- son's name, the judge noted. The judge's opinion made it clear that prosecutors and Mr. Epstein's lawyers disagreed sharply over the passport's significance. Prosecutors said the passport showed Mr. Epstein knew how to obtain false travel documents or assume other Iden- tities. Defense lawyers told the judge that Mr. Epstein, whom they described as "an affluent member of the Jewish faith," acquired the passport in the 1980s "when hijackings were prevalent," in connection with Middle East travel. The passport expired 32 years ago, the de- fense wrote, and "was for personal pro- tection in the event of travel to danger- ous areas, only to be presented to poten- tial kidnappers, hijackers or terrorists should violent episodes occur." In the back and forth, prosecutors noted that the passport included numer- ous stamps showing it was used to enter France, Spain, Britain and Saudi Arabia in the 1980s. The defense said Mr. Ep- stein was given the passport by a friend, the trips were not his and he had never used it.. The passport was not the only unusual item found inside Mc Epstein's mansion. The authorities said they found hun- dreds and perhaps thousands of sexu- ally suggestive photographs of fully or partially nude females, including photos that appeared to be of underage girls. Some of the photos were discovered In the locked safe. Protecting Witnesses Judge Berman also made it clear he thought Mr. Epstein might seek to si- lence witnesses against him if he were granted pretrial release. "Mr. Epstein's dangerousness is considerable and in- cludes sex crimes with minor girls and tampering with potential witnesses," the judge wrote. The judge highlighted the govern- ment's argument that Mr. Epstein had tried to influence possible witnesses against him when he wired $350,000late last year to two people close to him, shortly alter The Miami Herald started publishing an expose about him. The Herald's series quoted his accusers, de- scribed how he had sexually abused teens for years, and laid out the lenient plea agreement he had negotiated with the United States attorney In Miami. The judge also cited evidence from prosecutors that Mr. Epstein or his rep- resentatives had harassed or intimi- dated witnesses in civil suits. For instance, he quoted a Palm Beach police report in 2006 about a threat made to one of Mr. Epstein's accusers. The re- port said the accuser had claimed that one of Mr. Epstein's associates had told her that those who helped Mr. Epstein "will be compensated" and those who hurt him "will be dealt with." In another case, a parent of one of Mr. Epstein's al- leged victims had reported that Mr. Ep- stein's private investigator had driven the parent's car off the road. "A court may order detention if there is a serious risk that the defendant will attempt to threaten, injure or intimidate a prospective witnessorjuror," thejudge noted. SAMOWNALNI aEOH ran. NA ASSOCIATTO Ina Jeffrey Epstein appearing in court in West Palm Beach, Fla., in 2008. A judge on Thursday denied his request for bail. EFTA00074111 Page I 01'6 STOP Indifference And Injustice BEFORE The Next Victim Is YOU! Innocent In Prison Project International NEW WEB ADDRESS Your Letter possibly Innocent In U.S.A. (Florida) i=m Federal Correctional Complex P. 0. Box 1031 Coleman, FL 33521-1031 USA DOB THE CASE In 1991 citizen and resident of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, volunteers o ecome a con en is informant for the Drug Enforcement Administration in NasSau, Bahamas. I was a Senior Radar Controller at the Nassau International Airport. I was instrumental in the seizures of several large shipments of drugs, for which I was paid by the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration). I soon became acquainted with the owners and operators of a seafood company in South Florida, two brothers, one of whom was a drug-trafficker. As a confidential informant, I sought to but was never able to cause a seizure with his organization, which I was to later learn was a tightly knitted family enterprise. When I eventually learnt that he and several family members had gotten arrested, my efforts came to a stand-still. I then told Agent Shelton that I did not know of any other drug traffickers and I dedicated my free time to solely searching for venture capital. I eventually secured U53$ MILLION from "Bancor of Asia/Asian Bancor", in Manila, the Philippines, for "Daybreak Enterprises", my start-up, commercial crawfishing business. • In 1995, I was suddenly arrested by agents of the DEA and FBI in Florida, as I visited with my girlfriend, son and niece. I was shocked beyond belief! To my amazement, I had been indicted along with eighteen others, in a conspiracy that imported 908 kilograms of cocaine into Fort Lauderdale via Belize! Unbelievable! During twenty months awaiting trial, I repeatedly rejected "plea bargains" that began at 30 years, then 12 years, then 6 years, finally to a proposed dismissal of the indictment if I pled guilty to using a telephone Illegally, which carried a maximum of 48 months. hup://www.iippi.org,/inmates/florida/j ul 1/9/2007 EFTA00074112 Jesse Dean Page 2 of 6 I alone went to trial, was convicted and sentenced to 30 years! Everyone else pleaded guilty and received lesser sentences. I vigorously professed my innocence then and continuously throughout the next ten years, to now. How could I possibly be charged and convicted for something I knew absolutely nothing about? I was a confidential informant for the DEA! A terrible mistake must have been made! My "trial" was a complete "rail-road"! The leader of the conspiracy (the drug-trafficker at the seafood company) "testified" (in order to reduce his 30-year sentence and free his wife) that I was his partner from 1987! No matter that when he was arrested, his statements, comprising 33 names, made no mention of me whatsoever! His brother, who was only charged with money-laundering, gave statements which made no mention of any drug-trafficking activities on my behalf. A DEA Special Agent "testified" that I was given instructions which I vigorously denied, whereupon the government magically produced a document, allegedly signed by me, that I had never seen in my life, nor since "trial"! My defense was known as "entrapment by estoppel, innocent intent or public authority". Simply put, as a confidential informant, I was authorized to engage in activities which would otherwise be criminal; exactly what I had always done! To my surprise, I learnt at trial that I had allegedly been "deactivated" but not informed - a gross violation of the Department of Justice's own "Guidelines Regarding the Use of Confidential Informants-. To add insult to injury, in 2002, five years after my "trial", I learnt for the first time that the government had supressed information which further exonerated me I had berm reviously cleared by a joint U.S./Bahamian investigation; I had been misidentified with one I f Belleville, Illinois, and the mysterious document that had been used against me at "trio' , bUUUCIIIy URI not exist! How convenient! Despite these very detailed showings of both my actual and legal innocence and the fraud that was perpetrated upon me and the court, I remain imprisoned; each and every court that has reviewed my claims has denied me relief, ignoring their own laws, the facts and the truth! Since 1999, I have been representing myself. I need an attorney to add credibility and supplement my pleadings. Intp://www.iippi.org/inmates/floridi ht nil 1/9/2007 EFTA00074113