Alleged Attorney Manipulation of Jeffrey Epstein's Sentencing and Plaintiff Coordination

3: 36. 37. 38. a 40. KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP Sloman’s demand, other than to protect prospective plaintiffs from being interviewed prior to their retaining an attorney (including, as it tumed out, Mr. Sloman’s former law partner) to bring civil lawsuits against Epstein. Mr. Sloman also demanded that Epstein “begin his term of incarceration not later than January 4, 2008,” id., which tumed out to be just three weeks before the first civil lawsuit would be filed against Epstein. Contrary to the express agreement of United States Attorney Acosta that the federal government would not interfere in the administration of any state sentence, Mr. Sloman tried to limit gain time and or work release by stating that Mr. Epstein must “make a binding recommendation that the Court impose a sentence of 18 months of continuous confinement in the county jail.” Jd. (This followed Mr. Sloman’s position that the Office would consider a state sentence ordering probation in lieu of incarceration to be a breach of the deferred-prosecution agreement.) Shortly thereafter, Mr. Sloman sent the FBI to meet with the state sex-crimes prosecutor in an attempt to secure her commitment to oppose work release. Mr. Sloman insisted that Mr. Epstein not learn the identities of the government’s list of alleged “victims” until after Epstein was sentenced and incarcerated. We have reason to believe that, around this same time, Mr. Sloman’s former law partner, Jeffrey Herman, had met with the father of one of the prospective plaintiffs, Saige Gonzalez.> At the same time (and until as recently as March of 2008), the Official Florida Bar website continued to identify Mr. Sloman as a named partner in Mr. Herman’s firm. See Tab 31, Florida Bar Website page. Mr. Herman, who is the named pariner in the former firm of Herman, Sloman, & Mermelstein, filed five lawsuits, each asking for $50 million, against Mr. Epstein. Each lawsuit is entitled “Jane Doe # vs. Jeffrey Epstein,” despite the fact that each of the plaintiffs is an adult and not entitled to plead anonymously. See Tab 32, Examples of Federal Complaints. Mr. Herman convened press conferences contemporaneously with filing three of the suits. In the most recent press conference, he admitted that all of the plaintiffs lied to Epstein about their ages. See Tab 33, Herman Public Statement. One of the supposedly traumatized “victims” actually pled in her complaint that she returned to Epstein’s house “on many occasions for approximately three years.” Another of these supposedly traumatized “victims” herself acted to introduce her friends and acquaintances to Mr. The Justice Department rules disqualify employees from working on matters in which their former employers have an interest: “an employee shall be disqualified for two years from participating in any particular matter in which a former employer is a party or represents a party if he received an extraordinary payment from that person prior to entering Government service. The two-year period of disqualification begins to run on the date that the extraordinary payment is received.” 5 C.F.R. § 2635.503(a) (emphasis added). HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012167