DOJ-OGR-00000547.pdf

--- Page 1 --- **Document Extraction** **Case Number:** 1:19-cr-00490-RMB **Document Number:** 36 **Filed Date:** 07/24/19 **Page Number:** 37 of 74 **Text:** of attention by the FBI. He didn't flee. This was all before the NPA while he was facing the very same 1591 and even additional statutes that carried additional potential federal penalties, interstate travel, interstate communications. Again, we have to infer from the past what the future conduct would be. I think it's important that he hired lawyers to defend him. He didn't run away. Despite the fact there was no bail, no conditions, he didn't have the publicity he has now, he could have, if he was a fleer, left at that time and done what the government fears he would do today if released under an enormous set of conditions that I will ask to supplement. Two is the next period was the NPA period. Again, he signed up to go to state jail, county jail. He went to county jail. He got out in 2010. He was subject to the registrations. And if I can go back in to try and answer your Honor's questions on registration. He has not reapplied challenging the New York Appellate Division or the New York Supreme Court decision. There was a legal dispute. Mr. Epstein's counsel at the time believed that the classification in New York should be restricted to the offense of conviction. And the Court determined that it would rely instead on an affidavit that it SOUTHERN DISTRICT REPORTERS, P.C. (212) 805-0300 **Note:** The text is presented in its original format, with no changes or edits made. The extraction includes all visible text, including headers, footers, and page numbers.