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Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE Document 457 _ Filed 11/13/21 Page3of8 Page 3 Guestrooms).” See Government Exhibit 606 at 7; see also id. at 10 (“JE and GM telephone directories [are] placed to the right of telephone” in “check off list” for “pre-arrival preparations” for the master bedroom); id. at 22 (“JE and GM telephone directories” in Vehicles and Bicycles section); id. at 23 (“JE and GM telephone directories placed to the right of the telephone” for “Ms Maxwell’s desk’). Employee-1 has examined Government Exhibit 52 in preparation for trial and recognizes it to be the defendant’s contact book, copies of which were maintained in Epstein’s Palm Beach residence, among other locations. Employee-1 recognizes the shape, color, and binding of the book, and recognizes the formatting and style of the entries as consistent with the manner in which the defendant’s book was organized and the way in which entries appeared. Employee-1 also recognizes several of the contacts listed in Government Exhibit 52 as friends of the defendant and Epstein. The entries include, among others, the defendant’s family members. See GX 52E. II. Discussion A. Authenticity As a general matter, “an item of evidence must ‘be authenticated through introduction of evidence sufficient to warrant a finding that the item is what the proponent says it is.”” United States v. Corley, 679 F. App’x 1, 4 (2d Cir. 2017) (summary order) (quoting Crawford v. Tribeca Lending Corp., 815 F.3d 121, 126 (2d Cir. 2016)). “Under Rule 901 of the Federal Rules of Evidence, ‘[t]he requirement of authentication . . . as a condition precedent to admissibility is satisfied by evidence sufficient to support a finding that the matter in question is what its proponent claims.’” United States v. Jackson, 345 F.3d 59, 65 (2d Cir. 2003) (quoting Fed. R. Evid. 901(a)). This bar for authentication “is ‘not particularly high.’” United States v. Bout, 651 F. App’x 62, 63-64 (2d Cir. 2016) (summary order) (quoting United States v. Gagliardi, 506 F.3d 140, 151 DOJ-OGR-00006965