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Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE Document 285 Filed 05/20/21 Page 7 of 34 Wang v. Reno, 81 F.3d 808, 821 (9th Cir. 1996). For the reasons given below, the exercise of this Court's supervisory authority is called for here. I. The Facts Pressed into some minimal measure of candor, the government now admits the following facts are true: - On February 29, 2016, AUSA , the Human Trafficking Coordinator and Project Safe Childhood Coordinator for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, Ex. J, p 1, met with Peter Skinner of Boies Schiller, Stan Pottinger, and Brad Edwards, who represented Virginia Giuffre, Ex. K, p 1. - The meeting concerned Giuffre's allegations of sexual abuse and trafficking by Jeffrey Epstein and Maxwell. Ex. J, pp 1-3. - At the meeting, Giuffre's attorneys told AUSA the following: - That Maxwell was Epstein's "head recruiter" of underage victims. Id. at 2. - That Giuffre was underage when she was brought to New York "for training by Maxwell and Epstein [in] how to service men." Id. at 3. - That Giuffre had a pending civil lawsuit against Maxwell for defamation alleging that Maxwell had recruited Giuffre to be trafficked and abused by Epstein. Id. at 4, 7. - That Maxwell was asserting truth as a defense to Giuffre's defamation claim. Id. at 4, 7. - That Maxwell had photos of naked underage girls on her computer. Id. at 6.1 1 No such photos were found on or produced from any computers associated with Maxwell. 2