EFTA00284613.pdf

7. BACKGROUND INFORMATION APPENDICES EFTA00284613 APPENDIX 45 APPENDIX 46 7. Background Information The information which follows is in response to Items 7(C) and 7(D) of the application, and is identified as Appendices 45 and 46: Following a local investigation commenced in 2005 by the Palm Beach Police and Palm Beach County State Attorney, Jeffrey E. Epstein, the sole shareholder of the applicant, was arrested and charged with one count of solicitation of prostitution in 2006. An investigation was conducted by the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida and the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 2007 relating to the same local matters investigated by the Palm Beach authorities. The federal investigation was discontinued in 2008 without the issuance of any charges. On June 30, 2008, before the Florida Circuit Court for the 15th Judicial Circuit located in Palm Beach, Florida, Mr. Epstein plead guilty to the above-mentioned charge of one count of soliciting prostitution and a related offense. Nothing investigated or to which Mr. Epstein plead guilty had any relation to the business or industry of the applicant or to the ownership, management or operation of the applicant. EFTA00284614 APPENDIX 47 The information which follows is in response to item 7(E) of the application and is identified as Appendix 47: - An Action was commenced in New York Supreme Court by the liquidating trustee of a limited partnership to recover from a limited partner distributions made to the limited partner on the basis of audited financial statements, claiming that, although audited, the net asset value of the partnership was overvalued at the times the distributions were made over three years earlier. Mr. Epstein was the trustee of the limited partner. The case against Mr. Epstein as trustee was dismissed with prejudice this year on appeal. - In 2004, Mr. Epstein settled a Pennsylvania state court case with an artist involving a dispute over the performance of a personal service contract. - In 2006 Mr. Epstein settled a Florida Circuit Court case with an artwork consignor involving a dispute of ownership among the consignor, the dealer to whom the artwork was consigned and Mr. Epstein, to whom the artwork was sold and delivered. - In 2005, Mr. Epstein and the applicant settled a dispute with Citibank brought in separate fora in New York and in the Virgin Islands involving two failed investments aggregating $20 Million. -. In 2008, a number of civil tort actions were commenced in federal District Court for the Southern District of Florida or the Florida state court in Palm Beach County seeking to recover damages from Mr. Epstein personally for matters alleged to have occurred exclusively in Palm Beach, Florida. These cases remain pending. They have no relation to the business or industry of the applicant or to the ownership, management or operation of the applicant. EFTA00284615