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 IN THE SUP.ERJOR COURT
  OFTHE VIRGI ISLAND



  FILED
 September 22, 2020

 TAMARA CHARLES
CLERK OF THE COURT




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September 15, 2020

By E-Filing

Honorable Carolyn P. Hermon-Percell
Superior Court of the U.S. Virgin Islands
Magistrate Division
Barbell Plaza South
St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands

        Re:      Estate of Jeffrey E. Epstein
                 Probate No. ST-19-PB-80

Dear Magistrate Hermon-Percell:

We write on behalf of the Estate in response to the Government’s September 10, 2020 letter. The
Government’s letter, as well as the Government’s August 18, 2020 letter, is yet further confirmation
that the Attorney General is improperly usurping the roles of the Court and the Co-Executors in this
probate proceeding. Although the Attorney General’s liens are invalid, she is unfairly making use of
the fact that there is no assigned judge in that case to rule on the Co-Executors’ motions to vacate
those liens and dismiss that action. Just as Your Honor directed the Attorney General in February
2020 to lift her liens to allow the Estate to operate, the Court should do so again here, where the
Attorney General is crippling the administration of the Estate.

The Attorney General’s suggestion in her August 18 Letter1 that the Co-Executors seek to conceal
information about the administration of the Estate is not only unfounded, unfair, and misleading, it is
squarely at odds with reality. By making those accusations, the Attorney General not only suggests
that the Government is entitled to such information -- it is not -- but also pretends that the
Government does not already have that information and that the Co-Executors are improperly seeking
to withhold it. That is false: the Attorney Gener

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