DOJ-OGR-00000536.pdf

--- Page 1 --- **Document Extraction** **Case Number:** 1:19-cr-00490-RMB **Document Number:** 36 **Filed Date:** 07/24/19 **Page Number:** 26 of 74 **Text:** head of the first assistant, Mr. Sloman. THE COURT: In New York. MR. WEINBERG: Right. In the Southern district, there were six or seven prosecutors, including New York City prosecutors, in what was either the largest or second largest U.S. Attorney's Office. I don't know how the manpower compares to the Southern District of New York. This was well thought through. Again, it was with consultation of the Department of Justice before September 24 and then again after where the government continued to investigate. THE COURT: Is Mr. Filip the highest level official in the Department of Justice? MR. WEINBERG: Yes. He was just one step below the Attorney General. THE COURT: He was Deputy Attorney General? MR. WEINBERG: Deputy Attorney General. In May or June of 2008, he approved the discretion to enter the NPA and to essentially endorse the decision and implicitly endorsed that there was some federal interest in this case because we were contesting whether or not this was a case that warranted the weight of the federal government which required Mr. Epstein to go to the state which had returned an indictment for solicitation and actually urged the state of Florida to bring a second charge that would subject Mr. Epstein to bring a second charge that would subject Mr. Epstein SOUTHERN DISTRICT REPORTERS, P.C. (212) 805-0300 DOJ-OGR-00000536