fbi_intelligence case

FBI Criminal Enterprise Intelligence — Human Trafficking Intel Products (804I-NY-304798)

Docket 804I-NY-304798
Court FBI New York Field Office, Intelligence Division (Section 13)
Filed 2022
Status Active intelligence file (no public closure; cross-filed with the SDNY trafficking case 50D-NY-3027571 INTELPRODS sub-file through at least April 2022)
Category fbi_intelligence
A standalone FBI New York Intelligence Division case file under classification 804I (Criminal Enterprise Intelligence Products), used as the analytical home for Human Trafficking intelligence work tied to the Epstein and Maxwell investigations. Two EFTAs surface the file in the public production: a Tactical Intelligence Report cluster cross-filed with the SDNY trafficking case (EFTA00261437) and a formal Intelligence Note assessing recruitment tradecraft used by wealthy traffickers (EFTA00172536).
2EFTA pages linked
0linked emails
2must-read docs
2sampled for briefing

Background

Case 804I-NY-304798 is an FBI New York Intelligence Division file opened under the Bureau's 804I classification — Criminal Enterprise Intelligence Products. Unlike a 50D (Sex Trafficking) or 31E (Crimes Against Children) criminal investigative file, an 804I file is not opened to make a criminal case; it is opened by an Intelligence Division squad to produce analytical products — Tactical Intelligence Reports (TIRs) and Intelligence Notes (INs) — for the Bureau's internal consumption and for the broader Intelligence Community. The handling unit identified on the documents in this set is FBI New York's ID-13 (Intelligence Division, Section 13), the squad that supplied the Special Operations Specialist who testified at the Maxwell trial on December 6–7, 2021 and that authored serials inside the parallel 50D-NY-3027571 INTELPRODS sub-file (see EFTA01683846).

The case number first surfaces in the corpus on March 24, 2022, when serial 10 of the 50D-NY-3027571 INTELPRODS sub-file is dual-captioned "50D-NY-3027571-INTELPRODS + 804I-NY-304798-INTELPRODS" — a TIR identifying a person of interest. Serials 11 and 12 (both March 31, 2022) carry the same dual caption and are TIRs researching potential Maxwell-trial defense witnesses. Two weeks later, on April 6, 2022, ID-13 issued a standalone 8-page Intelligence Note filed solely under 804I-NY-304798-INTELPRODS — the document that gives the case its caption: "Wealthy, Influential Individuals Involved in Sex Trafficking Likely Rely Primarily on Referrals and Career Enhancement Promises to Entice Victims." The IN names Epstein, Peter Nygard, R. Kelly, Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby, and Allison Mack as exemplars and assesses, with medium confidence, that the use of wealth and influence to recruit victims represents an expansion of traditional sex-trafficking techniques.

The 804I framework was being used contemporaneously by other field offices for Epstein-adjacent matters (e.g., 804I-AQ-2482314, an unrelated August 2020 Albuquerque intelligence product about a missing church artifact possibly housed at Zorro Ranch). What distinguishes 804I-NY-304798 is that it sits at the intersection of the New York criminal case and the Bureau's intelligence-side analytical machinery: it is the case number under which the Intelligence Division packaged its post-Maxwell-conviction analytical work for retention and reuse outside the criminal-case discovery stream.

What the corpus shows

Only two EFTAs in the corpus carry the 804I-NY-304798 case number directly, but those two documents anchor a substantial body of analytical work product. Together they include three Tactical Intelligence Reports cross-filed with the SDNY criminal case and one standalone Intelligence Note.

EFTA00261437 (47 pages, Dataset 9) is captioned at its opening page as a 50D-NY-3027571 INTELPRODS Serial 6 toll-records TIR dated October 24, 2019, but the back half of the document contains four additional TIRs from 2022 — serials 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 of the INTELPRODS sub-file. Serials 10 (page 34, dated March 24, 2022), 11 (page 39, dated March 31, 2022), and 12 (page 43, dated March 31, 2022) are the three TIRs cross-filed under the 804I-NY-304798 case number. Each follows the same template: biographical research on a named individual (TECS encounter records, Accurint comprehensive searches, passport and DOB pulls, flight-log cross-references, references to Epstein's "black book" via the public site epsteinsblackbook.com), a synopsis identifying the individual as a person of interest (POI) or potential Maxwell-defense witness, and an "Investigative/Intelligence Gaps" section posing questions about the individual's relationship to Maxwell and Epstein. The TIRs are classified UNCLASSIFIED//LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE or UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY — not classified national-security material — and rely primarily on FBI databases, TECS, and open-source reporting.

EFTA00172536 (8 pages, Dataset 9) is the April 6, 2022 Intelligence Note filed solely under 804I-NY-304798-INTELPRODS. It applies formal Intelligence Community analytical tradecraft — Expressions of Likelihood, Confidence in Assessments, a Source Summary Statement, and an Appendix on analytic standards — to the question of how wealthy and influential offenders recruit trafficking victims. The IN's named exemplars include Peter Nygard (Bahamas "pamper parties," mall and Times Square recruiting through girlfriends, modeling-career promises), Harvey Weinstein, R. Kelly, Bill Cosby, and Allison Mack. It cites five victim FD-302s, one victim's court testimony, two FD-302s of individuals with direct access, and open-source reporting from USA Today, BBC News, NPR, NYT, NBC News, the National Labor Organization, Polaris, and the National Prevention Tool Kit. The collection window runs July 17, 2019 through September 27, 2021. The IN explicitly addresses FBI New York's FY2022 Human Trafficking Priority Collection Gap and Band III Threat — Human Trafficking, situating the analytical product within the Bureau's threat-prioritization architecture.

The corpus does not show the underlying 804I-NY-304798 case-opening document, any opening communication identifying the squad or supervisor of record, or any further analytical products beyond April 2022. The three cross-filed TIRs are heavily redacted at the identity of each POI — names, DOBs, passport numbers, phone numbers, and email addresses are blacked out — but the structural template, the database citations, and the Maxwell-trial-prep framing of serials 11 and 12 are visible. The Intelligence Note's source FD-302s are referenced in endnote citations to FBI case 50D-NY-3184048 (a Peter Nygard sex-trafficking file) but are not themselves in this case file.

Must-read documents

EFTA00172536 page 1
EFTA00172536
FBI New York Intelligence Note — 804I-NY-304798-INTELPRODS, ID-13, April 6, 2022 (Wealthy Traffickers Recruitment Tradecraft Assessment)
The only standalone Intelligence Note filed under the 804I-NY-304798 case number. An 8-page formal IC-tradecraft analytical product assessing with medium confidence that wealthy, influential traffickers — Epstein, Nygard, R. Kelly, Weinstein, Cosby, Mack — rely primarily on referrals and career-enhancement promises to entice victims. Cites FBI New York's FY2022 Human Trafficking Priority Collection Gap as the requirement it addresses.
EFTA00261437 page 1
EFTA00261437
INTELPRODS sub-file binder — 47 pages spanning 50D-NY-3027571 Serials 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 (10/24/2019 → 3/31/2022); Serials 10–12 cross-filed under 804I-NY-304798-INTELPRODS
The single corpus document that establishes the 804I-NY-304798 case number's investigative footprint. Pages 34, 39, and 43 carry the three Tactical Intelligence Reports cross-filed under 804I-NY-304798 — a March 24, 2022 person-of-interest identification (Serial 10) and two March 31, 2022 Maxwell-defense-witness identifications (Serials 11 and 12), each built from TECS encounter records, Accurint comprehensive searches, flight-log review, and epsteinsblackbook.com cross-references.

Full evidence inventory

No additional documents linked to this case beyond the must-reads above.

Briefing AI-generated on a stratified sample of 2 documents and iteratively fact-checked against source EFTAs. Each linked document opens in epstein-data.com. Verify all claims against the linked sources before citing.