EFTA00087827.pdf

US. Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General REPORT OF FORENSIC EXAMINATION SUBMITTER DATE SUBMITTED CASE NUMBER Special Agent New York Field Office August 13, 2019 2019-010614 OFFICE CONDUCTING EXAMINATION CYBER II) SUBJECT(S) Cyber Investigations Office 0384 Correctional Officer Michael Thomas, Federal Bureau of Prisons, Metropolitan Correctional Center, New York, NY DIGITAL DEVICE(S) EXAMINED 1. Samsung Galaxy S9 IMEI: 355028093551622 (Device 1— BOP issued to 2. Samsung Galaxy S9 IMEI: 355028093486118 (Device 2 — BOP issued to 3. Samsung Galaxy S9 IMEI: 355028093495721 (Device 3 — BOP issued to Synopsis On August 22, 2019, U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General (OIG), Cyber Investi ations Office (CYBER) Special Agent (SA) and Assistant Special Agent in Charge received and manually reviewed Devices 1-3 at the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Metropolitan Correctional enter, located in New York, NY. M and were assisted by OIG Washington Field Office SA a and OIG Fraud Detection Office SA . Devices 1-3 were BOP issued mobile devices which were provided to CYBER in order to determine whether or not they contained any unauthorized communication related to the suicide of Jeffery Epstein. OIG New York Field Office SA was investigating alleged BOP employee misconduct related to Epstein's suicide, and sought the review of Devices 1-3 out of an abundance of caution. There were no allegations of misconduct against the BOP employees to whom Devices 1-3 had been issued. Accordingly, CYBER personnel elected to perform only manual reviews of the phones to limit the disruption of service and to minimize the intrusiveness of the review. In order to fully analyze the BOP devices with forensic tools, CYBER would have had to have manipulated settings on each phone which would have resulted in a loss of data and the need to wipe and reissue each one. The manual review did not limit the data CYBER would have been able to recover using forensic tools for this model phone. On December 7, 2019, submitted an OIG Digital Forensics Examination Request form seeking a review of Devices 1-3 for the aforementioned data. The CYBER manual review consisted of a search for communication capable applications on each device, excluding email. Onl aid mtive device messaging application on each device was found to meet the criteria of the search. and reviewed all messages within the application that occurred after Epstein's suicide SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED EXAMINER NAME AND TITLE: SA REVIEWER NAME AND TITLE: ASAC . • Digitally signed by ION SIGNATURE: Dab c=U5,4=US.Govemment, Digitally signed by oteD of Jusbce, ote0IG, DN:c=US, o.US.Government, . otmDept of tn JustIce,ou=01G,cn . 0.9.2342.19200300.100.1.1=15001002 0.9.2342.19200300.100.1.1.15031001073402 300273 Date: 2020.02.20 21:37A1 -05'00' Dale 2020.0221074244-0500 016 Fermin-23Sn (02/10/17) Tins &women, contains neither rccommentianons nor conclusions elthe IC. his the property of the 1G and is loaned to paw agency: it and in reforms are noi to lie disitibured ouiside ofyour agency. EFTA00087827 on the morning of August 10, 2019. The search did not reveal any messages that appeared to contain inappropriate or unauthorized communication related to Epstein's death. Only one message, located on Device I, was found to relate to the topic of Epstein. The message appeared to be an appropriate exchange that served to reiterate the staffs instructions not to comment on the ongoing matter. A copy of the message can be viewed by clicking this link. All documentation related to this forensic request will be retained by CYBER on the Archive Network Attached Storage located in the New York City lab under this case number. A LIMA forensic case management system report containing all examiner process notes, photos, tool details and forms associated with this request is incorporated by reference, and has been provided to the requestor in electronic format with this report. The analysis result file provided to is also included in electronic format with this report. SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED Page 2 Case Number: 2019-010614 EFTA00087828