EFTA00032104.pdf

From: " )" To: ' (USANYS)" Subject: RE: Epstein search warrant documents Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2020 20:44:36 +0000 So the estimate from BRG was for less than 30 days, and that was to do everything - extraction plus processing, and I think extraction is the longer part of that. One we get an estimate from PAE, if it's longer than a few weeks to process, we can go back to BRG and get an estimate on just processing (without extraction) and see what they say. I would guess it would be something like a couple weeks. (As you can probably tell, I'm trying to catch up on emails from earlier this week!) From: (USANYS) Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2020 18:29 To: Subject: RE: Epstein search warrant documents Do we know how long it would take BRG to do the processing? From: Sent: Wednesday, July 8, 2020 5:56 PM To: (USANYS) Subject: RE: Epstein search warrant documents That's partially right but not completely — the BRG estimate is for dumping the devices but *also* processing all the data. That is, converting all the Word, Excel, PDF, JPEG, BMP, PPT, etc etc files into a loadable file set for Relativity (specifically, converting to TIFF and load files that can be uploaded). That intermediate step is something that the FBI had told us they would do, but now are not doing, because they screwed it up so badly last time. So ordinarily we have PAE do the processing, but if they say it will take, say, three months, we can do it faster through BRG. Either way we'll review in Relativity, though. From: (USANYS) Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2020 17:52 To: Subject: RE: Epstein search warrant documents I thought the role we wanted BRG to play was the dumping of the devices — I had thought, perhaps incorrectly, that we always planned to use Relatively to review once we were into them. Is that not the case? From: Sent: Wednesday, July 8, 2020 5:26 PM To: ( USANYS) Subject: RE: Epstein search warrant documents EFTA00032104 =will hopefully be able to tell us within a few days whether it's very obviously incorrectly formatted. Then the next test will be once it's on Relativity, and that will be an estimate by PAE (or BRG, if they can do it much faster). From: (USANYS) c Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2020 16:40 To: Subject: Re: Epstein search warrant documents I think probably not if it seems like we're now ,etting what we need from FBI. When will we know if what FBI gave us today is correctly formatted - will be able to tell us? Sent from my iPhone On Jul 8, 2020, at 3:48 PM, > wrote: Hey, I held off on this after we got the update from FBI, but would it still be useful to do? Totally happy to if so, just wanted to check — thanks. From: (USANYS) Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2020 19:15 To: Cc: (USANYS) Subject: RE: Epstein search warrant documents Have you run this budget/project by Ed yet? If not, would you mind doing so tomorrow or when you next can. Please copy me and make clear it is on Epstein/Maxwell. Thanks. From: < Sent: Thursday, July 2, 2020 5:11 PM To: (USANYS) Cc: (USANYS) > Subject: RE: Epstein search warrant documents Following up on the below, I think we've given this our absolute best efforts with FBI —they are now well over a month later than their estimate from April on when we would get the New York materials, they're also past their estimate of getting us the New York materials from just this Monday, and we don't have anything close to an estimate on the USVI materials, which constitute the overwhelming majority of the data and are vastly more voluminous than the New York devices. We have kept pushing the timeline back for this option, hoping that CART will finalize, but I think at this point we should have a vendor do it. Attached is an estimate we got from BRG, which would get everything to us in under a month, and in Relativity-friendly format, in a range of $85-135K. BRG has done this for our office multiple times in the past and are very effective and efficient, and they get the materials we need. And most importantly, they estimate they can do it all in less than a month. May we have approval to seek funding for this? The estimate is attached. Thanks very much. EFTA00032105 From: Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2020 16:23 To: '-. (NY) (FBI)' a; (USANYS) [Contractor] Cc: (USANYS) < > (NY) (FBI) <->, I >; < (NY) (FBI) `.>; (USANYS) Subject: RE: Epstein search warrant documents > Checking in for the estimate of when we can expect to get all the USVI materials? thanks, From: Sent: Monday, June 29, 2020 13:00 To: (NY) (FBI) < >; (USANYS) [Contractor] <E> Cc: (USANYS) c > . (NY) (FBI) < >; (NY) (FBI) (USANYS) Subject: RE: Epstein search warrant documents Okay thanks — good luck with the cardiologist! And if you can let us know tomorrow that would be great. Thanks again. From: . (NY) (FBI) <> Sent: Monday, June 29, 2020 12:59 To: (USANYS) [Contractor] < Cc: (USANYS) (USANYS) Subject: RE: Epstein search warrant documents . (NY) (FBI) < (NY) (FBI) When Pm in the office tomorrow, I will be better able to estimate. Pm at my cardiologist right now. NY CART Coordinator Senior Forensic Examiner cell desk On Jun 29, 2020 12:56 PM, " < > wrote: Great, thanks. Is there even a rough estimate of when we will get the USVI materials? Or an estimate of when you'll be able to see how many items to export, so we'll have a better sense of when we'll get those? From: . (NY) (FBI) <> Sent: Monday, June 29, 2020 12:55 To: (USANYS) [Contractor] < Cc: (USANYS) . (NY) (FBI) < EFTA00032106 ) <->; ) czi; (NY) (FBI) >, (USANYS) <7; Subject: RE: Epstein search warrant documents Yep NY CART Coordinator Senior Forensic Examiner cell desk On Jun 29, 2020 12:52 PM,' < > wrote: Okay, and I'm sorry to ask again, but to make sure, in this production, you're sending us new versions of what you previously sent? From: . (NY) (FBI) <> Sent: Monday, June 29, 2020 12:50 To: (USANYS) [Contractor] <>; Cc: (USANYS) ) se M>; (USANYS) Subject: RE: Epstein search warrant documents . (NY) (FBI) < (NY) (FBI) You are getting both NY and USVI. The biggest stumbling block are the newer Mac items that are in APFS (there are a bunch from the Island,) so it is difficult to estimate how long those will take until I see how many items I have to export. NY CART Coordinator Senior Forensic Examiner cell desk On Jun 29, 2020 12:40 PM,' y. < > wrote: Okay thanks, and just to clarify, a few days to finalize the New York materials, and then what about the USVI materials? I think that is quite a bit more. Just looking for an estimated completion date for everything. And on my other question — does this mean you're giving us a new, complete copy of everything from both NY and USVI? thanks, From: . (NY) (FBI) <> Sent: Monday, June 29, 2020 12:34 To: (USANYS) [Contractor] <:,; Cc: (USANYS) (NY) (FBI) c >; (NY) (FBI) (USANYS) Subject: RE: Epstein search warrant documents EFTA00032107 I am in the process ofAtoorting the materials (documents, spreadsheets, emails, etc) for your review as per my discussions with =. Most of the NY stuff is done, just Mac items left. This might take a few days as 1 item in particular has over 500,000 emails. We will be able to provide discovery once Defense Council has provided drives for us to copy items over to. This goes quicker as there is no processing involved. I'll let you know when everything is complete. NY CART Coordinator Senior Forensic Examiner cell desk On Jun 29, 2020 11:03 AM, ' > wrote: Following up on this, I understand from that she was able to provide you with a 12 TB drive last week — could you please let us know when we will be able to get the materials? I expect a judge will ask us about discovery as early as this week. Also, the related critical question that I don't think we have clarity on is whether you're giving us a copy of everything that was collected (including reproducing the m