EFTA00215238.pdf

UNITED STATES vs. JEFFREY EPSTEIN PLEA PROFFER On August 21, 2007, FBI Special Agents traveled to the home of to serve her with a federal grand jury subpoena in connection with an investigation pending in the Southern District of Florida. works as the personal assistant of the defendant. began speaking with the agents and then excused herself to go upstairs to check on her sleeping child. While upstairs, telephoned the defendant, Jeffrey Epstein, and informed him that the FBI agents were at her home. Mr. Epstein instructed not to speak with the agents and reprimanded her for allowing them into her home. Mr. Epstein applied pressure to keep from complying with the grand jury subpoena that the agents had served upon her. In particular, Mr. Epstein warned against turning over documents and electronic evidence responsive to the subpoena and pressured her to delay her appearance before the federal grand jury in the Southern District of Florida. This conversation occurred when Mr. Epstein was aboard his privately owned civilian aircraft in Miami in the Southern District of Florida. His pilot had filed a flight plan showing that the parties were about to return to Teterboro, New Jersey. After the conversation with Mr. Epstein became concerned that the FBI would try to serve his traveling companion, with a similar grand jury subpoena. In fact, the agents were preparing to serve with a target letter when the flight landed in Teterboro. Mr. Epstein then re-directed his airplane, making the pilot file a new flight plan to travel to the U.S. Virgin Islands instead of the New York City area, thereby keeping the Special Agents from serving the target letter on EFTA00215238 During the course of that flight, the defendant verbally harassed III I, harassing and pressuring her not to cooperate with the grand jury's investigation, thereby hindering and dissuading her from reporting the commission of a violation of federal law to a law enforcement officer, namely, Special Agents of the FBI. EFTA00215239