DOJ-OGR-00019984.pdf
epstein-archive court document Feb 6, 2026
Case 21-58, Document 39-2, 04/01/2021, 3068530, Page125 of 200
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her. Well, when the bank drops you, you have to transfer your
funds out. That's true. That's what happened. So there is
nothing in there that's sinister, there is nothing in there
that shows an intent to evade, an intent to evade, and nothing
there that we think warrants detention.
One last point on the financial stuff, your Honor, if
I might. In the reply brief, we get a new allegation that an
SDAR, a foreign filing was made in 2018 and 2019, disclosing
that our client had a foreign bank account. Let's stop there.
Our client makes a legally required filing with the Treasury
Department, obeys the law, and discloses a foreign bank
account, and the government is claiming that's evidence of
hiding. This is all upside-down, your Honor. These are not
factors to be considered in exercising your discretion under
3142.
Let me turn very quickly to the other two factors that
are relevant for today's purposes because, as your Honor has
pointed out, the government is not proceeding on a
dangerousness claim. That is the (g)(1) and (g)(2) factors,
the nature and circumstances of the case, and the weight of the
evidence.
Here, I think we -- if you bear with me a moment, your
Honor, here, one thing to keep in mind is an observation
Judge Raggi made in the Sabhnani case, at page 77, where she
said, "The more effectively a court can physically restrain the
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