From: "Roy BLACK" < To: "Michele Dargan" < Subject: Re: Alexander Acosta's published letter Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:16:20 +0000 Attachments: PB_daily_news.wpd Inline- Images: unnamed; unnamed(1); unnamed(2); unnamed(3); unnamed(4) Dear Ms. Dargan: Please find attached my response to your request. Roy Black, Esq. BLACK SPEBNICK KOPNSPAN STUMPF /Ow. AT /04.1.1.v) ********************************************* The information in this email transmission is privileged and confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, nor the employee or agent responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination or copying of this transmission (including any attachments) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender b email re I . Thank you. >>> "Michele Dargan" < > 3/28/2011 4:16 PM >>> Hi Mr. Black, I am following up on Alexander Acosta's letter, dated March 2011 that was published on Friday in the Daily Beast. In the letter, Mr. Acosta makes references to you and the other attorneys representing Mr. Epstein regarding felony charges in 2007-2008 and the events surrounding Mr. Epstein's eventual guilty plea. I have attached a copy of the letter to this e-mail. I would like a written response from you as to the allegations contained in Mr. Acosta's letter that were directed at Mr. Epstein's defense team. Specifically, Mr. Acosta writes: Over the next several months, the defense team presented argument after argument claiming that felony criminal proceedings against Epstein were unsupported by the evidence and lacked a basis in law, and that the office's insistence on jail-time was motivated by a zeal to overcharge a man merely because he is wealthy. They bolstered their arguments with legal opinions from well- known legal experts. One member of the defense team warned me that the office's excess zeal in forcing a good man to serve time in jail might be th