From: " (USANYE)" To: (USAFLS)" Cc: (USANYE)" Subject: Jeffrey Epstein Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:07:13 +0000 Importance: Normal JSANYE)" We're the prosecutors in US v Cioffi & Tannin (the Bear Stearns case) which is going to trial on October 13. We saw the below article from the New York Post and wanted to ask you about this defendant, Epstein, who we had never heard of until this morning. We've since learned that he is pretty unsavory. Please give us a call when you have a moment. Thanks. NY Post PAGE SIX Out of Prison July 23, 2009 -- JEFFREY Epstein is a free man. Yesterday, the massage-loving billionaire financier was released six months early from his 18-month prison sentence in Florida because he's cooperating with federal prosecutors. Epstein, who pleaded guilty to procuring teenage girls for prostitution, is helping the feds prosecute Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin, the Bear Stearns hedge fund managers who allegedly took him for $67 million. Cioffi and Tannin are set to go on trial in Brooklyn federal court on Sept. 28 on charges of misleading investors in their subprime mortgage investment fund, which went bust last year. Epstein was given work release from his dorm at the Palm Beach County sheriff's 17-acre, 967-bed stockade. "He's been visiting the offices of his lawyer, Jack Goldberger,12 hours a day, six days a week," said one source. "He was supposedly working on his personal charity, but he was really working with the feds." Epstein, 56, who used to hobnob with the likes of Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew, has a mansion in Palm Beach, a ranch in Santa Fe, the largest private house in Manhattan and his own private island in the Bahamas he calls "St. Jeffs." Investigative reporter John Connolly told Page Six that Epstein was so happy with Goldberger, who negotiated his plea deal, he gave the lawyer a brand-new black BMW. EFTA00213190