Charles Michael 1114 Avenue of the Americas New York. NY 10036 August , 2016 By E-Mail Eric Rayman Miller Korzenik Sommers Rayman LLP 488 Madison Avenue New York, New York 10022 Re: Jeffrey Epstein Dear Eric: Steptoe $TIPTOE S JOHNSON Ur As you know, our firm represents Jeffrey Epstein. I write further to our correspondence concerning the book that your client, Hachette Book Group, intends to publish about him. We recently received an email (a copy of which is attached as Exhibit A) from Steven Hoffenberg claiming to be on the "book writing team" for your client's book. If true, this would be a disturbing development. There are a number of aspects regarding Mr. Hoffenberg's history and reported behavior that cause us to question the veracity of any information he may provide. Under the circumstances, we believe it would be recklessness for your client to publish any information he provides without first vetting that information as we have offered to do in our previous correspondence. In case the name Steven Hoffenberg may not be familiar to you, he was convicted in the 1990s for perpetrating the Towers Financial Ponzi scheme. Mr. Hoffenberg was sentenced to 20 years in prison, and ordered to pay almost $500 million in restitution. At his sentencing, Judge Sweet described Mr. Hoffenberg as an "unstable individual with manic tendencies and a sense of grandiosity." (Ex. B at *14.) Judge Sweet found that Mr. Hoffenberg's acts caused "devastating economic, psychological, and even physical effects" on "over 3,000 individuals, companies, trust funds and pension plans," including "working people, the elderly, the disabled, single parents and their children, and police officers and firefighters whose lives were forever altered when their life savings, retirement and college funds were destroyed as a consequence of Hoffenberg's acts." (Id. at *13.) EFTA00583735