From: ' (l'SAFLS)".cl To: Paul "Brad Edwards ( Cc: lai . USAFLS"<[ Subject: RE: Motion to Compel and S.J. Briefing Schedule Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 22:56:18 +0000 Importance: Normal (USAFLS)" Dear Paul, As an initial matter, let me assure you that you are not being stonewalled. As you know, we informed you and Brad early on that we believed that some of your supplemental discovery requests were overbroad and objectionable on various grounds, but that we were willing to search for and believed that we would be able to provide substantive responses to some of the requests. Indeed, after a telephonic discussion in which you and Brad narrowed the scope of some of the requests, we informed you that we would undertake a search for materials responsive to your requests for FBI emails regarding possible business, social, or other relationships between Alex Acosta, , and on the one hand and Jeffrey Epstein on the other; whether Epstein had offered opportunities, employment prospects, future clients, or other benefits of any kind to any federal prosecutor prior to his plea in June of 2008; and whether federal prosecutors had obtained benefits from Epstein. As part of that process, the FBI initially gathered emails belonging to Special Agents and the case agents in the Epstein investigation, for our review. then reviewed the more than 2,100 emails that had been gathered by the FBI in a painstaking process that had to be conducted in a secure FBI facility and that took several days over a period spanning several weeks. No emails whatsoever regarding the requests discussed above were located. We also interviewed Special Agents and concerning any communications that they may have had regarding federal prosecutors obtaining benefits from Epstein. They informed us that, at about the time left the U.S. Attorney's Office, they discussed between themselves that Mr. had gone to work for a law firm that represented clients engaged in the same industry