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TAB 1
HOUSE OVERSIGHT 012197
First Assistant U.S. Attorney
DELIVERY BY FACSIMILE
Jay P. Lefkowitz, Esq.
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Citigroup Center
153 East 53rd Street •
New York, New York 10022-4675
Re: Jeffrey Epstein
U.S. Department of Justice
United States Attorney
Southern District of Florida
99 PIE. 4 Street
Miami, FL 33132
(305) 961-9100
May 19, 2008
Dear Mr. Lefkowitz,
I am in receipt of your e-mail dated May 19, 2008 to the United States Attorney. The U.S.
Attorney would like me to advise you that all communications and inquiries related to the Epstein
matter, will be handled by AUSA Marie Villafana and/or her supervisor, Karen Atkinson, so he does
not intend to respond to your e-mail or calls unless AUSA Villafana and/or her supervisors advise
him otherwise. Furthermore, you make reference to "our July 8 deadline." Respectfully, the United
States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida ("SDFL") has never agreed to any such
deadline. Should you decide to provide the SDFL with any additional information, please do so
through AUSA Villafana, and, in her absence, AUSA Atkinson.
On September 24, 2007, your client, Jeffrey Epstein, in consultation with Gerald Lefcourt,
Esq. and Lilly Ann Sanchez, Esq., as well as numerous other nationally-renowned lawyers, including
but not limited to Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, former Independent Counsel and
Solicitor General of the United States Kenneth Starr, just to name a few, entered into a global
resolution of state and federal liabilities faced by your client ("the Agreement") with the SDFL.
Although you and other members of the defense team have since claimed that the Agreement was
the product of adhesion, the following facts demonstrate that Epstein knowingly and voluntarily
entered into the Agreement in order to avoid a federal indictment regarding his sexual conduct
involving minor victims. Despite the fact that by signing the Agreement, Epstein gave up the righ
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