📧 Communication

This document is a lengthy email chain between the US Attorney's Office (SDNY) and the FBI's NY CART team regarding the forensic processing of digital evidence seized from Jeffrey Epstein's properties in New York and the Virgin Islands. The correspondence highlights significant technical difficulties, including issues with Mac APFS formatting, the volume of data (one item with 500k emails), and friction between the agencies regarding the format of data for the 'Relativity' e-discovery platform. The USANYS expresses frustration with FBI delays and errors, eventually seeking budget approval ($85k-135k) to hire an outside vendor (BRG) to process the data instead of the FBI. The documents also mention a previous 2007 search and the deletion of 400TB of old FBI network data during a system upgrade in Feb 2020.