Event Details
February 01, 2007
Description
A meeting was scheduled for Epstein's defense team (Sanchez, Lefcourt) to meet with the USAO (Lourie).
Participants (3)
| Name | Type | Mentions | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lourie | person | 286 | View Entity |
| Lilly Ann Sanchez | person | 150 | View Entity |
| Gerald Lefcourt | person | 142 | View Entity |
Source Documents (1)
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This legal document details communications in late 2006 and early 2007 between Jeffrey Epstein's defense attorneys, Lilly Ann Sanchez and Gerald Lefcourt, and prosecutors at the U.S. Attorney's Office. The defense sought a meeting to "make a pitch," leading to an internal disagreement between prosecutors Villafaña, who opposed the meeting without first receiving documents, and Lourie, who granted the meeting believing it was strategically valuable to hear the defense's theories. Ultimately, a meeting was scheduled for February 1, 2007, despite Villafaña's objections and her belief that the defense would not provide the requested evidence and would only use the meeting to discredit victims.
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