tli S.J. QUINNEY COLLEGE OF LAW , THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH The Honorable Pam Bondi Attorney General U.S. Department of Justice Washington, DC 20530 Via email: PAUL G. CASSELL Ronald N. Boyce Presidential Professor of Criminal Law and University Distinguished Professor of Law S.J. Quinney College of Law University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT 841 12 (institutional address for identification purposes only and not to imply institutional endorsement) February 28, 2025 Re: URGENT - Preventing the Release of the Names and Identifying Information of Jeffrey Epstein's Sexual Assault Victims Dear Attorney General Bondi: We write on behalf of our clients, multiple sexual assault victims of notorious sex abuser and trafficker, Jeffrey Epstein. We have seen media reports indicating that the Justice Department has (quite properly in our view) released to the public various Epstein files—including media reports showing release of "The Epstein Files: Phase 1." We write to raise with you a concern that many documents and other materials in the various phases of this important transparency project will undoubtedly contain names and other identifying information of Epstein's sexual assault victims. We would like to work with you to ensure that those documents are properly redacted to avoid the devastating harm that would be caused if any of Epstein's victims' names were to be inadvertently released. By way of introduction, all three of us specialize in crime victims' rights, one of us (Cassell) as a law professor working in this field and two of us (Edwards and Henderson) as the founding partners of the Crime Victim Law Firm. Collectively, we have represented over two hundred Epstein victims over the last sixteen years. For example, working together, we were lead counsel in the federal Crime Victims' Rights Act case, which sought to invalidate Epstein's secret non- prosecution agreement as well as to obtain the release of information so that the victims