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July 12, 2019
VIA ECF
The Honorable Richard M. Berman
United States District Court
Southern District of New York
United States Courthouse
500 Pearl Street
New York, New York 10007
Re:
United States v. Jeffrey Epstein, 19 Cr. 490 (RMB)
Dear Judge Berman:
The Government respectfully submits this letter in response to the defendant’s Motion for
Pretrial Release (the “Release Motion”), dated July 11, 2019 (Dkt. 6), and in further support of its
Memorandum in Support of Detention (the “Detention Memo”), submitted to Magistrate Judge
Pitman on July 8, 2019, which is attached hereto and incorporated herein (Ex. A).
PRELIMINARY STATEMENT
The defendant is a serial sexual predator who is charged with abusing underage girls for
years. A grand jury has returned an indictment alleging that he sexually exploited dozens of
minors, including girls as young as 14 years old, in New York and Florida. To this day, he is a
registered sex offender designated by New York State in the highest category of risk to reoffend,
despite unsuccessfully attempting to have that classification lowered. And any doubt that the
defendant is unrepentant and unreformed was eliminated when law enforcement agents discovered
hundreds or thousands of nude and seminude photographs of young females in his Manhattan
mansion on the night of his arrest, more than a decade after he was first convicted of a sex crime
involving a juvenile.
The defendant also faces substantial evidence of his guilt, founded on the corroborated
testimony of numerous victims, and this case presents the very real possibility that he will go to
prison for the rest of his life. The defendant has at his disposal a vast fortune, the details of which
remain largely concealed from the Court. He also has a history of obstruction and manipulation
of witnesses, including, as detailed herein, as recently as within the past year, when media reports
about his conduct reemerged. And he continues to show a shocking lack of understanding of the
gravity of the harm he has perpetrated, including through the minimization of his conduct and
casual disparagement of victims in his arguments.
Against this backdrop of significant—and rapidly-expanding—evidence, serious charges,
and the prospect of a lengthy prison sentence, the defendant proposes to be released on conditions
that are woefully inadequate. The Release Motion misconstrues and misunderstands the relevant
The Silvio J. Mollo Building
One Saint Andrew’s Plaza
New York, New York 10007
U.S. Department of Justice
United States Attorney
Southern District of New York
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