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From: ' (NY) (FBI)" ala> To: ' (NY) (FBI)" la Subject: Re: USA TODAY media request! Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2021 21:43:01 +0000 Importance: Normal Thanks! From: (NY) (FBI) < Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2021 3:15 PM To: (NY) (FBI) Subject: Fwd: USA TODAY media request! > I sent this to USAO. Haven't heard back from them yet - will let you know if I do. From: (NY) (FBI) <=e* Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2021 1:48:59 PM To: (USANYS) [Contractor) •: >; Subject: Fwd: USA TODAY media request! (USANYS) I think our inclination is to decline based on the fact check below that we got yesterday. Seems the reporter is aiming for the same information. Happy to discuss further if you need to. From: (NY) (FBI) < Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2021 12:56:03 PM To: -. (NY) (FBI) Cc: . (NY) (FBI) < Subject: FW: USA TODAY media requestl FYI > From: NPO < > Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2021 12:36 PM To: NY-OPA <->; . (NY) (FBI) < 1; (NY) (FBI) (OPA) (FBI) <-> Cc Subject: FW: USA TODAY media requestl Importance: High +NY/NPO FYSA CID EFTA00161814 SSA Federal Bureau of Investigation National Press Office From: Kochi, Sudiksha Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2021 12:00 PM To: NPO < Subject: [EXTERNAL EMAIL) - USA TODAY media request! Importance: High Hi, My name is Sudiksha Kochi and I am a fact-check reporter for USA TODAY. I am fact-checking a claim that says the FBI destroyed all of the evidence seized in Jeffrey Epstein's safe. This narrative is spreading widely in various posts on Twitter and Facebook liked and shared tens of thousands of times. I understand from reporting elsewhere that the FBI searched Epstein's safe in early July, but I was looking for a bit more detail than I saw in the testimony from Kelly Maguire. Hoping you can help me out so we're able to write up a response to this claim and attach it to the posts spreading it on social media. 1. Did the FBI destroy any or all of the evidence seized in Epstein's safe? 2. If not, where are the contents of that safe now? I hope to file this fact check by today at 6 p.m. ET. I look forward to hearing from you. Thanks so much! Sincerely, Sudiksha Kochi EFTA00161815