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From: a" a > To: (USANYS)" Subject: transcripts Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2019 15:54:23 +0000 Attachments: 2019-07-09,_initial_conference.pdf; 2019-07-15,_bail_hearing.pdf 2019-07-09 initial conference: p. 7-8: "The allegation that this is some kind of a conspiracy within the Department of Justice is just false. There is no evidence to support that. The investigation was begun and conducted entirely separate from any other district. It began in the Southern District of New York p. 12: "[C]ertainly this investigation was not shoveled to the Southern District of New York from anywhere else, including the Department of Justice." 2019-07-15 bail hearing: p. 62 "[T]he issue of whether the case was brought to us, whether this was funneled to the Southern District of New York from anywhere else, your Honor, it was not. It was not brought to us by anyone else. We opened the case. We investigated the case. By 'we; I mean the FBI, CBP, the NYPD, and of course the U.S. Attorney's Office. We opened the case. We investigated the case. And I can tell you that not one of the prosecutors sitting at this table has spoken with anyone at the Southern District of Florida." Assistant U.S. Attorney Southern District of New York EFTA00022621