Epstein Speaker Series Questions This was a very complicated investigation with numerous witnesses and lots of documentation, plus the FBI's ongoing investigation into the death. Describe some of the major challenges you faced in conducting the investigative work. to address. and I were not involved at the onset of this investigation. However, from what we can surmise, we believe the overall major challenge occurred at the start of the investigation, due to the extreme interest with both the press and the public, the high-profile nature of the case, and the desire to get answers as to what happened before those answers were available. Due to the high-profile nature of the investigation, the assigned AUSAs were involved with the initial interviews along with GIG and FBI special agents. Multiple interviews were being conducted by multiple people at the same time. There were a lot of people working the investigation in the beginning, and evidence was also being collected at the same time. Agents and AUSAs needed to communicate with one another about what was being learned during their interviews immediately after the interviews were conducted. However, oftentimes the interviewing agents wouldn't have the most current information during their respective interviews, because the information needed during those interviews was later learned to have been received when the simultaneous interviews were being conducted. Therefore, many people had to be interviewed twice, and sometimes three times, due to information flow and information discovery. In sum, there was a lot to do in what originally seemed like a short period of time, a lot of people gathering that information, and the information being learned wasn't always known by everyone involved at the time they needed to know it. In addition, the MCC was an active BOP facility that needed to keep its operation going. The people being interviewed were the people that needed to make that happen. So we ha