Copr. (C) West 1998 No Claim to Orig. U.S. Govt. Works Not Reported in F.Supp. (Cite as: 1998 WL 67676 (S.D.N.Y.)) UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff, v. Jeffrey E. EPSTEIN and Ivan S. Fisher, Defendants. No. 96 Civ. 8307(DC). United States District Court, S.D. New York. Feb. 19, 1998. Mary Jo White, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, by Serene Nakano, Assistant United States Attorney, New York City, for the United States. Gage & Pavlis, by G. Robert Gage, Jr., Ellen J. Casey, New York City, for Ivan S. Fisher. MEMORANDUM DECISION CHIN, J. *1 In this case, the United States (the "Government") seeks to evict defendants Jeffrey E. Epstein and Ivan S. Fisher from a building formerly used as a residence by the Deputy Consul General of the Islamic Republic of Iran ("Iran"). After diplomatic and consular relations with Iran were severed in 1980, the Office of Foreign Missions ("OFM") of the United States Department of State took possession of the building pursuant to the Foreign Missions Act, 22 U.S.C. s 4301 et seq. OFM leased the building to Epstein in 1992. Epstein eventually sublet the premises to Fisher, purportedly without the Government's consent. Fisher, in turn, sublet a portion of the premises to several other lawyers. In 1996, the Government purported to terminate Epstein's lease and brought this action to evict Epstein and Fisher. The other sub-tenants were later added as defendants. The Government also seeks to recover back rent from Epstein and Fisher. During discovery, the Government requested production of Fisher's 1996 tax return to verify the amount of rent that he had collected from his subtenants. Fisher objected to the request. At a conference on December 10, 1997, I overruled the objection on the condition that the return be protected by an appropriate confidentiality order, which the parties were to negotiate. Fisher and the Government, however, were unable to agree on the terms of a prote