From: Lesley Groff <I

From: Lesley Groff

STATEMENT OF

STATEMENT OF IN RESPONSE TO APRIL 2, 2019 LETTER FROM JEFFREY R. RAGSDALE To the extent possible, I have provided all information relevant to your inquiry, including applicable documents. Due to the passage of time, updates to various software and hardware, and the crash of my work laptop several years ago, I no longer have every piece of relevant material and my memory may be imperfect.' I have organized the response to conform with the April 2, 2019 letter from Jeffrey R. Ragsdale to Jonathan Biran. Please note that there were numerous oral and written communications between others at the U.S. Attorney's Office and the Justice Department with counsel for Mr. Epstein. While in some cases I was told of the communications or cc'ed on emails or letters summarizing the communications, for many conversations, meetings, and emails, I do not have knowledge of what occurred. Introduction The investigation of Jeffrey Epstein and I series of co-conspirators, named "Operation Leap

EPSTEIN INVESTIGATION TIMELINE

EPSTEIN INVESTIGATION TIMELINE Date To From Re: Exhibit # 5/1/2006 State Attorney Barry E. ICrischer Michael S. Reiter, Chief of Police for Town of Palm Beach Letter urging State Attorney to proceed with probable cause affidavits and case filing packages or to recuse himself 5/23/2006 File Opening Documents for Operation Leap Year 7/24/2006 Michael S. Reiter, Chief of Police for Town of Palm Beach Letter noting that Palm Beach Police Chief was unhappy with State Attorney's handling of case and was referring matter to the FBI for investigation 7/26/2006 South Florida Sun-Sentinel Article Regarding Chief Reiter's referral of case to FBI 8/2/2006 Subpoena to Colonial Bank (return date 8/18/06) 8/2/2006 Subpoena to Washington Mutual (return date 8/18/06) 8/2/2006 Subpoena to Capital One (return date 8/18/06) 8/2/2006 Subpoena to Chase (return date 8/18/06) 8/2/2006 Subpoena to Hyperion Air, Inc. (return date 8/18/06) 8/2/2006 Subpoena to JEGE, Inc. (

From: Lesley Groff

06/01/2007 10:24 FAX 5618021787

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