EFTA Document EFTA01681961

EFTA01681961 Harold Webb Personal US Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York One St. Andrews Plaza New York, NY 10007 Dear Mr December 18, 2020 When Martin Weinberg disclosed in open court during the bail hearing in July 2019 that Main Justice was responsible for the Epstein, et al "Sweetheart Deal of the Century", that fact has been "obscured" ever since. (I can only find one report of that day that disclosed the Weinberg revelations and that was done by Daniel Bates in an article for the Dailymail.com dated July 15, 2019. Attempts to reach him have been futile.) Perhaps because of this news blackout OPR of DOJ in its November 2020 report could be so brazen in maintaining the twelve year old lies about the Epstein case. So many powerful men are involved that anything is possible. One thing I do know, is that Michael Bloomberg has told his news staff not to generate original news on the Epstein case. So it may come as no surprise, that these influential men got to DOJ under the Trump regime in which anything goes. Having lived through the Watergate era while at DOJ I believe that the Epstein saga is larger in scope. Sincerely, ei;c, EFTA01681962 NON PUBLIC RECENT DOJ REPORT OF FORMER US ATTORNEY ALEX ACOSTA ACTIONS IN THE EPSTEIN, CO-CONSPIRATOR CASE PROVIDES YET ANOTHER LAYER OF CONCEALMENT Firstly the plea was signed by five DOJ Officials including Deputy AG Mark Filip, Alice S. Fisher, Assistant AG in charge of the Criminal Division and Sigal Mandelker, Deputy Assistant AG, among others. This means that these DOJ officials participated in the plea deal negotiations and were satisfied with the provisions in signing their names. Thus DOJ chose that the state prosecute Epstein and the co-conspirators should be removed from the case. This also meant that Epstein and his co-conspirators were given a Non Prosecution Agreement (NPA) which immunized them from federal prosecution. DOJ determined this resolution, despite the recommendation by Acosta and his staff that Epstein and co-conspirators should be charged with sex trafficking in minor females. In that connection, there had been prepared a fifty-three page federal indictment backed up by an FBI investigation report and an eighty-two page analysis of the case in support thereof. Epstein was facing life imprisonment if convicted and the co-conspirators serious consequences as well. Therefore, this was not the product of "poor judgement" by Acosta in providing NPAs to Epstein and his co-conspirators but the willful actions of DOJ officials in opting for deferred prosecution in a state court, Florida. There, Epstein would plead guilty to two counts of solicitation of prostitution, one with a minor. He would be sentenced to eighteen months EFTA01681963 in a West Palm Beach stockade, but is released after serving thirteen months. Epstein is required to register as a sex offender. (see unsealed plea agreement). Later Assistant AG Fisher would state that she did not "play a decision making role in the Epstein matter". (see Pogo story on Monsanto dated August 28, 2019) In a misguided attempt to obscure her involvement, Fisher makes mention of the Epstein case in her biographical data found in Wikipedia. In that regard and under "Major Cases" Fisher noted the following: "the lawyers for Epstein's unsuccessfully (emphasis added) lobbied Fisher and other DOJ officials to stop the sex crimes prosecution". That was the Florida State charges which she was referring to that were devoid of any reference to the co-conspirators. Therefore, one must conclude that the defense lawyers representing Epstein and the co-conspirators were successful in "lobbying" Fisher and her associates because the co-conspirators were no longer in the case. By the same token Fisher and her cohorts were successfully "lobbied" in causing an NPA for Epstein and co-conspirators to be filed, instead of federal criminal charges alleging sex trafficking. Finally there is the obligation of the government to notify victims under the Criminal Victims Rights Act (CVRA). This Act provides that victims are to be notified of all significant aspects of a case such as indictments, NPA's, plea agreements and sentencing so as to permit victims to make impact statements or take legal action they deem necessary. On December 4, 2007 US Attorney Acosta sent a letter to Kenneth Starr, then with the Kirkland, Ellis LA office and principal negotiator for the Defense Team. Acosta informed Starr in that letter that he (Acosta) EFTA01681964 intended to send a victims notification letter out by mid-December. However, this was not to be because Alice Fisher intervened and the letters did not go out. (See unsealed letter dated 12/04/2008 from Kenneth Starr to Sigal Mandelker in which Starr notes that it was his eleventh hour appeal to Fisher that caused the victim letters not to be sent.) Fisher however in her Wikipedia biography said "her office did not make any decisions related to victim notification, a decision ultimately made by US Attorney's office". However, this presupposed the fact that a US Attorney had an option of not sending out such letters. That would be in violation of the CVRA. Thus Fisher's statement was an untruth. But let us presuppose for argument's sake that Acosta of his own accord failed to send out the letters. Then Fisher and Mandelker who were aware that the victim letters had not been sent as of April 28, 2008 should have caused Acosta to send the letters as required and thus protect the victims. That would have given the victims ample time to prepare and appear in State Court in June 2008 when Epstein was pleading out and being sentenced. The victims would have also been notified of the plea agreement giving them time to attack the provisions. But Fisher and Mandelker didn't do so because they were confederates in a plot to subvert justice and concealment was paramount. Finally, it should be noted that it is highly unusual for DOJ to interject themselves in a case developed by a US Attorney as well as reject the recommendations of a US Attorney. Considering all the facts, circumstances and contrary to a general belief that Acosta gave Epstein and the co-conspirators the "Sweetheart Deal of EFTA01681965 the Century", it was DOJ, in an unprecedented and precipitous move that took control of the case to insure and shape its dissolution all done to benefit Epstein and his VIP friends. To recap, Acosta intended to indict and also send out victims notification letters but was overruled by DOJ in each instance (make no mistake that Acosta was complicit because he did not speak up to power). CONJECTURE Given the circumstances, including letting a hideous sex trafficker of children get off with token punishment and his co-conspirators removed from the case; can only mean that the White House was involved in directing such a result. It is believed that Jay Lefkowitz, a defense lawyer from Kirkland, Ellis's NY office played a significant role in this enterprise. For one thing, Lefkowitz stands out as the one lawyer of eight or so attorneys on the defense team who did not have any criminal defense credentials since he was and is a civil litigator. However, Lefkowitz had other attributes, inasmuch as he had worked in the administration of Bush 41 and also the administration of Bush 43. In this latter capacity he had been General Counsel to OMB, Special Envoy in the State Department and lastly, as Deputy Director of Domestic Policy. That last position gave him an office in the West Wing of the White House and personal contacts with the President on a daily basis. As a result they became friends. So that after 2003, when Lefkowitz left the White House, he still maintained a friendship with the President. For instance, in 2008 Bush invited Lefkowitz to join him in a delegation going to Israel to celebrate that country's 60th Anniversary. To put that in perspective, at the same time Lefkowitz was EFTA01681966 deeply involved in the Epstein co-conspirator case. So it would seem that Lefkowitz played a significant role in bringing the case to the attention of the White House and also act as a go between DOJ, the lawyers and Presidents' representatives. In conclusion, Kenneth Starr would comment that he played a "significant" role in obtaining the favorable plea deal in negotiating with "higher-ups" at DOJ. And Epstein would give a total of $1 million to two of Lefkowitz' favorite charities. EFTA01681967