From: Subject: FW: Epstein and SDNY in 2016 Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2020 15:14:30 +0000 Stephen Brown at the Daily News is working on a story for next Tuesday about Epstein, Maxwell, and pitches made by victims' lawyers to in 2016 that "went nowhere." His email below explains further. His actual questions are at the end of his email. He has no expectations about guidance, but would appreciate any. Don't know if we should be forwarding this to presumably Stephen could contact her on his own. From: Brown, Stephen <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 8, 2020 4:40 PM To: Margolin, Subject: Epstein and SDNY in 2016 H= Here's a rundown of the story I'm working on. Am seeking guidance from SDNY on the office's thinking at the time, if FBI was looped in, and who the decision-maker was on this. Apologies for the long email but I figure better to provide as much detail as possible. My editors are pretty interested in this one. On Feb. 29, 2016, Epstein victims' attorneys Stan Pottinger, Brad Edwards and Peter Skinner met with then-AUSA and pitched her on an investigation of the Epstein scheme. I'm told Kramer had questions about establishing venue, the South Florida NPA, statute of limitations issues and the general Dal tradition of not second-guessing another US Attorney. She wondered if the attorneys were proposing an investigation of new conduct, or rather a re-do of the South Florida case. (This is all from sources familiar). According to Edwards's book, the team of attorneys left the meeting feeling hopeful. The AUSA acted confident that a case would be brought against Epstein for crimes committed against Virginia and others in New York. Of course, first she had to have facts, witnesses, evidence, and victims of a New York crime. We assured the prosecutor that the number of victims in New York far exceeded those discovered in Florida. The group walked out excited that New York was finally going to bring a case against Epstein. I said to D