EFTA00031176.pdf

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Summary

This document contains a chain of emails between the FBI (NY CART) and the US Attorney's Office (SDNY) regarding the processing of digital evidence seized from Jeffrey Epstein's New York mansion and Virgin Islands property. The correspondence details technical challenges in transferring terabytes of data, specifically issues with file formats compatibility (Relativity vs. forensic raw data) and the need to link emails to attachments, with the US Attorney explicitly mentioning the inability to link 'flight records' to emails as a critical failure. The emails also highlight the urgency of the investigation, with prosecutors needing evidence from July and September searches to pursue 'possible additional charges' and listing specific hardware identifiers (Dell servers, Sony laptops, loose hard drives) seized.

People (5)

Name Role Context
[Redacted] NY CART Coordinator / Senior Forensic Examiner
FBI employee responsible for processing digital evidence from Epstein's properties, coordinating with USANYS.
[Redacted] Assistant U.S. Attorney
USANYS prosecutor seeking evidence for review and potential additional charges.
[Redacted] Contractor
Contractor for USANYS assisting with data logistics and physical transfer of hard drives.
Maddie Courier/Assistant
Mentioned as someone who can bring drives across the street.
Jeffrey Epstein Subject of Investigation
Deceased; subject of the search warrants and seized devices.

Timeline (2 events)

2020-02-23
Review of search warrant returns indicating approx 40 devices from NY mansion and 25+ from USVI.
New York / USVI
USANYS
2020-06-19
Coordination for physical transfer of hard drives (12 TB vs 2 TB) containing digital evidence.
New York
USANYS FBI

Relationships (1)

FBI NY CART Inter-agency cooperation / Friction USANYS
Emails show ongoing coordination but also frustration regarding data formats, delays, and technical compatibility between FBI forensic tools and USANYS review platforms like Relativity.

Key Quotes (7)

"I just had positive conversations... [Redacted] had understood that FBI was getting their own hard drive to transfer the data."
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"The key question then will be whether what we get from him this time is actually usable."
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"We desperately need to get the results from the July and September searches before moving forward with possible additional charges in the case."
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"So if an email says, 'see the attached flight records,' for example, we have no way of linking that up with the records themselves."
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"Relativity is NOT a forensic tool."
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"They are tearing out our old network and giving us a new one, they mandated we delete old stuff (about 400 TB worth)."
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"There were 9 IDE hard drives found in the Manhattan apartment, they turned out to be 3 copies of 3 drives (9 drives in total) from a July 2007 search on one of his properties."
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