EFTA00164742.pdf

From: " To: ' (FBI)" Cc: Subject: Date: Importance: (NY) (FBI)" (CID) (FBI)" . (CID) (FBI)" . (NY) (FBI)" < VII (IMD) (FBI)" FW: Videos Fri, 21 Mar 2025 01:12:09 +0000 Normal (CID) Hello all - During the call today with Director Patel, DD Bongino and S we/NY were asked about the content of videos seized, in specific sexual acts/massages. Below is response provided. Thx From: . (NY) (FBI) Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2025 9:10 PM To: Bongino, Daniell. (DO) (FBI) •z: > Cc: (OGC) (FBI) < >; Subject: Videos Good evening DD Bongino- (NY) (FBI) < > To follow-up and provide a response to questions regarding the content and nature of videos in evidence. We are currently in the process of reviewing all digital media from the 50D case. Due to the massive quantity of data, we foresee continuing to review as noted in the timeline. Per an email response from SDNY AUSa dated 3/11/2025, (I provided the email in its entirety to earlier today) portions of her email are applicable to our discussions regarding live sex tapes. AUSA Comey notes the nature and content of the videos, and there were no videos of any sexual abuse identified at any point in the investigation. Below are the relevant portions. "The case agents and AUSAs ensured that all videos and images from the case file and from Epstein's residences and devices were reviewed for evidence of a crime. Those reviews revealed no evidence from any of the searches we conducted or any of the files we reviewed that any videos or other images exist of any victims in this case being sexually abused. Nor did those reviews reveal any evidence that anyone other than Epstein and Maxwell participated in the sexual abuse of victims in this case. We are aware of the theories circulated in the media and online that Epstein video recorded the abuse of his victims, including by other men, but we have found no evidence to support that theory. Indeed, had we found such videos, we certainly would have used them as evidence in the criminal cases we investigated and prosecuted and would have pursued any leads they generated. We did not, however, locate any such videos. Below please find more details about the video evidence gathered during this investigation. • During the searches of Epstein's New York residence and USVI residence in 2019, the FBI searched for videos and surveillance cameras. My understanding from the case agent is that there were no cameras found inside any bedrooms or living areas of either residence. I understand that surveillance cameras were located near the entrances of the residences. I also understand that the surveillance systems only retained video for a limited period of days, and that the only recordings available were very recent surveillance from 2019 and would thus not have depicted anything relevant to our investigation, which focused on the 1990s and early 2000s. Accordingly, those surveillance videos were not seized because they were not responsive to the warrants allowing the EFTA00164742 FBI to seize only certain evidence from those premises. The FBI had no legal authority to seize recent surveillance videos from 2019 under the warrants issued by SDNY and USVI courts. • During the searches of Epstein's residences in 2019, the FBI seized a large number of CDs, some hard copy photographs, and at least one videotape containing nude images of females, some of whom appeared to possibly be minors in their late teens. The case agents reviewed all of those images, and they were all made available to Maxwell's counsel for review in discovery. None of the images depicted sexual abuse, and none depicted any males with any of the nude females. • Some of these images included nude photographs of victims who were the focus of Maxwell's trial, and we marked some of those photographs as sealed exhibits for trial. The victims are alone in these photos. Because those images contained sensitive photos of victims of sexual abuse, they have never been released publicly. • As I referenced in my email to you this morning, the FBI and SDNY undertook a full review of all electronic devices seized from Epstein's residences and incident to his arrest in 2019. As part of that review, a team of FBI agents, FBI analysts, SONY AUSAs, and SDNY paralegals divided up the review of over one million images and videos that FBI CART extracted from Epstein's devices. The reviewers all followed the same protocol for the review, which involved at least one member of the review team personally reviewing each image and video extracted from each device and determining whether the image or video was responsive to the search warrants in the case. In an effort to be as broad as possible, the protocol directed reviewers to identify as responsive, among other things, any image or video depicting any female who appeared to be under the age of 30. • As result of that review, any image or video on any of Epstein's devices depicting any potential victim was identified as responsive and saved. • The case agent collected and maintained a copy of all images and videos identified responsive through this search. Attached please find the index detailing how many images and videos were identified responsive to the warrants and what designation they received under the Protective Order in the Maxwell case. Note that materials designated Highly Confidential contained nudity. Please also note that this index does not include Epstein's iPhone and six iPads, which were reviewed on Cellebrite using the same protocol for videos and images described above. • Although that review identified many images and videos that were responsive to the warrants in our criminal investigation, none depicted the sexual abuse of any victim, and none revealed any perpetrator(s) of sexual abuse other than Epstein and Maxwell. • If you need additional documentation for this review, please let me know. • The Palm Beach Police Department video recorded interviews of victims at their police station, video recorded parts of their search of Epstein's Palm Beach residence, and also seized a small number of videos from Epstein's Palm Beach residence. • All of those videos were transferred to the FBI's custody, are part of the case file, and were reviewed by the AUSAs and case agents during our investigation. None of these videos depict the abuse of any victims or provide evidence suggesting anyone other than Epstein and Maxwell participated in the abuse of victims. • SONY introduced the video recording of the search of Epstein's Palm Beach residence as an exhibit at Mat None of the videos identified above contained potential CSAM. As noted above, there were no videos of any sexual abuse identified at any point in the investigation. There were, however, approximately a dozen photographs containing CSAM found on one of Epstein's devices. Those images were identified by the case agent as CSAM that Epstein obtained over the Internet, not CSAM depicting any of Epstein's victims or produced by Epstein. A copy of those images was maintained by the case agent in the case file with the other images and videos seized and identified responsive during the review of Epstein's devices detailed above." I am available any time for any questions. EFTA00164743 Thank you, I Acting Assistant Director in Charge Federal Bureau of Investigation I New York 26 Federal Plaza I New York, NY EFTA00164744