U.S. Department of Justice United States Attorney Southern District of Florida 500 S Australian Avenue, Suite 400 West Palm Beach, FL 3340! (561) 820-8711 - Telephone (561) 820-8777 - Facsimile July 2016 VIA HAND DELIVERY do Brad Edwards, Esq. Farmer, Jaffe, Weissing, Edwards, Fistos & Lehrman, P.L. Re: Jane Doe #1 and Jane Doe #2 I. United States, Case No. 08-80736-Civ-Marra (S.D. Fla.) Dear Ms. Wild: Pursuant to the Settlement Agreement in the above-referenced matter, I write on behalf of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida (the "Office") to express my sincere regret that you feel that the Office did not adequately confer with you prior to entering into a Non-Prosecution Agreement ("NPA") with Jeffrey Epstein and did not treat you fairly during the course of the Epstein investigation. Although I was not the U.S. Attorney at the time of the events addressed in this letter, I think that an explanation of the events that occurred will help you to understand why the Office believed that it was resolving the investigation in a way that considered the interests of all identified victims and why it exercised its discretion as it did. In approximately May 2006, an officer from the Town of Palm Beach Police Department approached the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI") and the Office about opening an investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. There was concern that Epstein had been charged only with a single state violation of solicitation of prostitution, without any reference to the ages of the females involved in his crimes. A conviction for this offense would not require any jail time and would not require Epstein to register as a sex offender. Based on these circumstances, the Palm Beach Police Department asked the FBI and the Office to consider charging Epstein federally. The FBI and the Office decided to open an investigation into possible federal violations. The investigation revealed that Epstein was paying