Violent Criminal Threat (VCT) Branch Significant Weekly Report July 3, 2020 MAJOR OPERATIONAL MATTERS: Squad C-20: SSA C-20. 50D-NY-3027571 • Jeffrey Epstein; Child Sex Trafficking; SDNY; C/A(s) SA On 712/2020, FBI NY and FBI Boston arrested Ghislane Maxwell at her residence in Bradberry, NH. Maxwell will make her initial appearance in District of New Hampshire. On 06/29/2020, Maxwell was indicted in SDNY on six counts of: enticing minors to engage in illegal sex acts, transportation of a minor to engage in sexual activity, two conspiracy related charges, and two counts of perjury. Maxwell helped Jeffrey Epstein recruit, groom, and ultimately abuse multiple girls, as young as 14 years old. Det. C-20; 305D-NY-3273542; Joshua Fried a/k/a Empireforeverl; Brooklyn, NY; Possessors of Child Pornography; IINI-NY; EDNY; C/A SA Mike Buscemi: On 6/30/2020, FBI NY executed a search warrant, authorized by the EDNY, on Joshua Fried's cell phone in Brooklyn, NY. Agents seized Fried's cell phone and he confessed to Agents he had viewed child pornography in Kik group chats. By way of background, in May 2020, FBI Milwaukee identified Kik user "Empireforeverl" as Joshua Fried. Fried has been in communication with a FBI OCE as part of a Milwaukee Group 1 investigation. The user empireforeverl was a member of the Kik group "teeny tiny tots," which has been established as a child sexual abuse material sharing group on Kik Messenger. Within this group, the user received multiple images and videos of child sexual abuse material. In a private message conversation with the user empireforever1, the user told two OCE's he has two daughters. The user then sent several images of two prepubescent females approximately 3 to 6 years old claiming they were his daughters. The user went on to tell the OCEs that he has had multiple men ask him to come over and engage in sexual activities with his daughters. The investigation is ongoing. C-20; 305A-NY-2180576; Craig Roffman A