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From: ' To:' Subject: Fwd: Epstein search warrant documents Date: Tue, 12 May 2020 17:13:56 +0000 Could ou lease give me a call when you have a moment? Not an emergency but when you have a chance. I'm at . Thanks. Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: From: ' Date: Nlav 12. 2020 at 13:02:53 EDT To:' C Subject: Re: Epstein search warrant documents Just to be clear. The US Attorney's Office (or it's contractors) are not "processing" anything. You are taking files that I will be extracting from processed evidence and putting them into an E-Discovery tool (Relativity) to do a taint review. Relativity is NOT a forensic tool. It is incapable of dealing with many things that are found forensically on a computer like free space, slack space, and system files to name a few. When we started this, and you insisted you do the taint review in Relativity, I warned you that it was adding months worth of work on top of what was already done, and that Relativity was incapable of viewing everything. You insisted we do it this way. So now and I have come up with a way to fit this round peg into this square hole. We will get it done. Sorry it has taken so long, but we are talking about terabytes worth of data over multiple forms of digital evidence. Phones, tablets, loose media, cameras, DVRs, servers, laptops, and desktop computers. We have gotten past encryption on multiple devices. When we review devices on such large cases, we usually do it piece by piece as things are processed, I was unaware that you didn't want to review as things were processed, that you wanted to do it "all at once", so that added to the delay. Sorry for that. Just a differentiation of methodology I suppose. and I feel confident that the method we have come up with will be more consistent and preserve the attribution of files to devices and links of e-mails to attachments that the load file generation that I did a while back was lacking. EFTA00025482 From: ) Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2020 11:33 AM To: Cc: Subject: RE: Epstein search warrant documents Okay, so just to check, you both think that there is not a need to do a test run? You're both comfortable with just basically sending us copies of everything? I don't totally understand why we couldn't have done that eight months ago, but regardless of the passage of time, I want to make sure we understand so we can report to our supervisors. I assume that means that we (at the U.S. Attorney's Office and through contractors) will therefore need to do all the processing ourselves, correct? And thanks again to you both. From: Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2020 11:30 To: Cc: Subject: RE: Epstein search warrant documents it Like said in his earlier email. It will be the raw data and it will be marked so it is easier to attribute it to a particular device. Problem now is how to get the data to since he is teleworking. cell desk On May 12, 2020 11:15 AM, " yi < I have no doubt you do, but can you please tell us what that plan is? Thanks! From: Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2020 11:11 To: Cc: <En Subject: RE: Epstein search warrant documents > wrote: I will use the spreadsheet, no problem. and I ironed out all the details. We've got a good plan moving forward that will meet your needs. cell desk On May 12, 2020 10:34 AM,' < > wrote: it would be very helpful for us if you could please use the attached spreadsheet in transmitting that info so we make sure we get all the info we need. I think you had previously sent us a list of certain information that unfortunately EFTA00025483 wasn't helpful for us, so we want to make sure we're all on the same page. In terms of data transfer, are you just sending a literal copy of all the raw data, and we'll process and upload it on our end? I ask to make sure we don't lose any searchability — when FBI sent versions before, it had already been processed. I think what we talked about on the phone a month ago was getting, for example, data from one device to make sure it transfers correctly, before sending over literally everything — is that still the plan? thanks, From: Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2020 10:27 To: Cc: Subject: RE: Epstein search warrant documents Hello M, Me and just finished our phone call regarding the data. will put together a list of the all of the data and where the data was collected. I will work to send some hard drives to so he can begin to copy the data and send it to us. I will need to figure out a way to get the data off of the hard drives. Please let us know if there are any questions. Thank you. From: Sent: Friday, May 8, 2020 2:15 PM To: (USANYS) < Cc: (USANYS) Subject: RE: Epstein search warrant documents Okay thanks — please do let us know if at any point that changes, otherwise we'll look forward to being able to review the returns in early June. Thanks again. From: Sent: Friday, May 08, 2020 14:14 To: (USANYS) Cc: (USANYS) Subject: RE: Epstein search warrant documents C >; There has been talk of us returning to normal soon, so I don't think it will effect the timeline I initially gave you. If it does, I'll let you know. EFTA00025484 cell desk On May 8, 2020 1:58 PM, " < > wrote: Understood, thanks—it will be great to get that list on Thursday. As a refresh, the info we are looking for is in the attached spreadsheet template. On the returns themselves, do the changes you mentioned mean that the estimate of a month from now for complete transmission of the search warrant returns is no longer likely? If so could you please let us know what the current estimate would be, so we can factor that in? Thanks very much. From: Sent: Friday, May 08, 2020 13:50 To: (USANYS) Cc: (USANYS) Subject: RE: Epstein search warrant documents < ; Sony for the delay, they reduced us to 1 day a week, so things have been stretched out by a factor of 5. I will be back in the office on Thursday and will be able to get you the list then as I have to access some of our systems to do so. Also, , please reach out to me at one of the numbers below so we can brain storm. Thanks. cell desk On May 8, 2020 12:10 PM, " II < > wrote: Following up on the below, I think you had said you expected to be able to get us a list of the devices seized from the search warrants at Epstein's residences in New York and the USVI, as well as from his person upon arrest, in about a month (during our conference call a month ago) — so wanted to check if we can still expect that very soon? We're waiting on that list to be able to do an updated search warrant on all of those devices. Please let us know the current timeline — and also the current timeline on producing the results from those August and September searches? I think you and were going to coordinate on that, and you had mentioned you expected we'd have it a couple months from our call, which would be about a month from now. Wanted to make sure we're still on track. thanks, From: Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2020 15:27 EFTA00025485 To: > (USANYS) (USANYS) Cc: Subject: RE: Epstein search warrant documents Ok let's plan on 11am tomorrow morning, I am trying to get an FBI line with a larger capacity but I won't know until tomorrow am. I will push it out when confirmed. Thanks From: ) [mailto: Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2020 3:15 PM To: Cc: (USANYS) < >; (USANYS) >; Subject: RE: Epstein search warrant documents Yes, I can do anytime tomorrow, and can also join anytime tomorrow. So whenever is good on your end. Also, we can host a conference call, but only up to six lines at a time — so if FBI has larger capacity than that let us know, otherwise I'd propose we do: From: Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2020 14:13 To: (USANYS) Cc: <C> (USANYS) Subject: RE: Epstein search warrant documents Are available tomorrow for a conference call to discuss this issue? NNW On Apr 7, 2020 1:55 PM, ' wrote: EFTA00025486 Following up on