Case 1:17-cv-03956-PGG Document 64 Filed 06/25/24 Page 1 of 20 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK RADAR ONLINE LLC and JAMES ROBERTSON, Plaintiffs, -against- FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION, Defendant. ORDER 17 Civ. 3956 (PGG) PAUL G. GARDEPHE, U.S.D.J.: Plaintiffs Radar Online LLC and James Robertson bring this action under the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA"), seeking records related to the FBI's investigation and prosecution of financier Jeffrey Epstein for child sex trafficking crimes. ( Am. Cmplt. (Dkt. No. 12)) Plaintiff Radar Online is an online investigative news outlet and Plaintiff Robertson is one of its senior editors. (Id. ¶¶ 2-3) Plaintiffs submitted their FOIA request to the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI") on April 20, 2017. (Id.¶ 10) Plaintiffs received no response, and filed this action on May 25, 2017. (Cmplt. (Dkt. No. 1)) The Amended Complaint was filed on August 28, 2017. (Am. Cmplt. (Dkt. No. 12)) After an initial case management conference on September 7, 2017, the FBI agreed to begin producing documents at a rate of 500 pages per month. The FBI has now processed 11,571 responsive pages, most of which were redacted in part or withheld in full based on certain exemptions to disclosure under FOIA. (Second Seidel Decl. (Dkt. No. 58)1 3) In July 2019, Jeffrey Epstein was arrested and charged with new Federal offenses, at which point the FBI asserted Exemption 7(A) to FOIA — the exemption for "records or information compiled for law enforcement purposes[,] .. . [the disclosure of which] could EFTA00038652