From: jessica banks c l Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 5:23 PM To: Jeffrey Epstein Subject: Re: oops didn't see this before - sorry for delay in response: have=A0had a hectic week trying to find a place to live, =o wasn't checking in real time. so i=got a name / intro from a friend last week for an SEC guy. i was going =o reach out to him but i wanted to talk to you first about how to frame=the project...( we just didn't get a chance to discuss when i saw you =ast.) can we have phone convo about how i should proceed with=him? or would you like to contact him directly? again... this is a referral...i can dig deeper into more people and i =hink having a game plan would be a good idea. (I am in the middle of fl=shing out a bunch of other thoughts to you regarding the interviews whi=h I will send you later today which may help on this google front). also, i have a feeling that in this case, Mike (i thi=k that was his name) was a pretty good person to lead the tech side (Al ma=e him out to seem like a pretty big player and that the reason things went=south was b/c of a kind of perfect storm of a computer/payment problem tha= coincided with a Google sweep). But of course, you spoke to the guy =A0and have much longer history with (and more info about) all these cat=. What was your instinct about Mike (if you can separate that from your=current Al outlook). And, if you think Mike was good, is that relations=ip still in tact at all or is it easier to just start tabula rasa? finally: what is happening w the conference on the isla=d? is that something that you think i really should be at and if so wha= are the dates or who should i contact about it? (another friend of mine f=om LA is coming to NYC in early January (jan 7-11) to build a ma=hine that he would like me to collaborate on and i want to make sure there=are no conflicts before i commit to him. =div> On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at =:34 AM, Jeffrey Epstein <[email protected] <mailto:jeevacatio=@