Albert Bryan

What this page does not contain

He is not a judge, and nothing here is a ruling. A search of the released files for “Judge Bryan”, “Chief Judge Bryan”, “Honorable Albert”, “Albert V. Bryan” and “Albert Bryan, District Judge” returns nothing at all, against a control on the same query shape that returned 371 documents. He holds an elected executive office, and the documents record him signing one instrument, being telephoned, being met, and being deposed.¹ Nothing any complainant said appears here in any form: not quoted, not summarised, not characterised, not counted. Nineteen documents in the population this page was scoped on are classed in this project’s index as depositions, hearing transcripts or Bureau forms, and not one of them was opened. Where a party’s court filing describes what he said under oath, this page uses the filing and says whose it is.²

Named on the documents as	Albert Bryan, Jr., Chairman, read as printed type at the page image; Governor Bryan; and, in an e-mail subject line of December 2018, A. Bryan, whose body calls him Albert345
The one instrument he subscribed	An Economic Development Commission Certificate issued to Southern Trust Company, Inc. Read at the page image: a cursive mark in blue ink above the rule, over the printed Albert Bryan, Jr., Chairman and Economic Development Commission, with a manuscript date beside it3
What the certificate says he was doing	Issuing it himself: Pursuant to the authority vested in me as Chairman of the Virgin Islands Economic Development Commission3
The two dates on that sheet	Jeffrey Epstein, President 1/24/14 on the acceptance line; the Chairman’s own date line 2/5/14. Both manuscript ink, both read at the image. Twelve days apart3
What it granted	A ten-year package commencing 1 February 2013 and terminating 31 January 2023: USVI Income Taxes: 90% percent exemption and USVI Gross Receipt Taxes: 100% percent exemption, among others36
Arranged, before the office	30 and 31 December 2018, Epstein’s Virgin Islands office manager to Epstein: Erika would like to have you speak with Albert tomorrow. Reachable by no form of his full name5
Arranged, after it	5 February 2019: JE has a 2PM meeting on Thursday, February 7th at Erika Kellerhals' St. Thomas office with Governor Bryan. Five printings carry it; four more carry the appointment in an itinerary47
What his own Government said of his testimony	14 August 2023, in the Virgin Islands’ own filing: he denied that those contributions "bought favor" and never provided special treatment to Epstein8
What the bank said of another witness’s testimony about him	The same day, in JPMorgan’s brief: the former Attorney General testified she received what she viewed as improper communications from thenGovernor Bryan urging her to act on Epstein's request to reinstate the loosened sex offender monitoring restrictions9
Not established here	A date on which he took office · what was said at any meeting or call · whether either took place · what his deposition says, as opposed to what two parties say it says10
Covered elsewhere on this wiki	Denise George, whom he appointed and removed · Southern Trust Company, the certificate’s beneficiary · Cecile de Jongh · Erika Kellerhals · JPMorgan Chase · Jeffrey Epstein

Albert Bryan is the Governor of the United States Virgin Islands. Five years before the papers in this release begin calling him that, he held another office, and it is the office that put his signature on a document here: he was Chairman of the Virgin Islands Economic Development Commission, and on 5 February 2014 he signed a certificate granting Southern Trust Company, Inc. a ten-year package of exemptions from Virgin Islands taxes. Jeffrey Epstein had signed the same sheet twelve days earlier, as that company’s president.³⁹

That is the only instrument in the material read for this page that he put his hand to. Everything else the released files record about him is other people arranging to reach him, or lawyers in a federal courtroom arguing about what he said under oath. Both are worth having, and this page keeps them apart. What he signed is a documented fact, read at the page image. What he said in a deposition reaches this page only through two parties’ descriptions of it, filed on the same day in the same case and pointing in opposite directions.⁸⁹

The sequence is the part a reader should hold on to. He certifies the tax benefits in 2014. At the end of 2018, before any paper read for this page calls him Governor, Epstein’s office is arranging a telephone call with him about a cabinet appointment. In February 2019 Epstein has a two o’clock appointment with him, and it is at the office the sheets name rather than at Government House. In 2023 his Government’s suit against a bank puts his sworn testimony in issue, and the bank answers by pointing at the testimony of the Attorney General he had by then removed. No document read for this page joins those events to one another, and this page does not join them either.

5 February 2014: the certificate

The document is an Economic Development Commission Certificate of the Government of the Territory of the Virgin Islands of the United States, eleven sheets as this project’s index holds it, the certificate’s own sheets numbered out of ten. Its beneficiary is Southern Trust Company, Inc.³

It is written in the first person, and the person is the Chairman:

Pursuant to the authority vested in me as Chairman of the Virgin Islands Economic Development Commission (“Commission”) by V.I. CODE ANN. tit. 29, §§ 701-726 and in the name of the Government of the Virgin Islands of the United States, I do hereby issue this certificate to Southern Trust Company, Inc. (“Beneficiary”)

The business it certifies is described on the same sheet: The Beneficiary's services include the development of financial and biomedical informatics. Information will be kept on servers located in the U.S. Virgin Islands. All of the Beneficiary's clients will be located outside the U.S. Virgin Islands.³ The terms of the grant, the conditions attached to it and the appendices are set out at the company’s own page, which this page does not repeat. What belongs here is the first appendix’s headline figures, because they are the measure of what the signature was worth: USVI Income Taxes: 90% percent exemption and USVI Gross Receipt Taxes: 100% percent exemption, commencing February 1, 2013 and terminating January 31, 2023.⁶

The certificate is not his alone, and it says so. Its closing recital places the grant above him:

THEREFORE, pursuant to the public hearing on this Beneficiary’s application on November 15, 2012, and the Commission meetings held January 23, 2013, and based upon the representations of the Beneficiary made orally and in writing and as agreed to herein, the Commission, with the prior approval of the Governor of the Virgin Islands of the United States herein enters into this Benefits Certificate with the Beneficiary

So the Commission acts with a Governor’s prior approval, and on this instrument he is the Chairman and not the Governor. His act is the subscription, and the subscription is real.³

What the execution block carries

Read at the page image at the served file’s native 96 pixels per inch, the execution block of this printing is complete. Under the words IN WITNESS HEREWITH, the parties hereunto set their hands and seals on the dates noted below: there are two columns. On the right, above a rule, a cursive mark in blue ink, and beneath the rule the printed type Albert Bryan, Jr., Chairman over Economic Development Commission. The mark is ink and not type: the stroke width varies along its length, it loops well above and below the rule, and it leaves the baseline the printed block sits on. Beside it, on the printed Date: rule, 2/5/14 in the same blue ink.³

Below that stands Southern Trust Company, Inc., an Accepted by: rule carrying a large cursive mark, and on the Name and Title: Date: rule, in blue manuscript ink, Jeffrey Epstein, President 1/24/14. The document uses month-day-year: the 24 in Epstein’s date can only be a day. On the left, four Witness rules each carry a mark in ink. The foot of the sheet prints Page 6 of 10, which is the certificate’s own folio and not the served page.³¹¹

The date is carried twice over, independently. The certificate’s first sheet is a log, and its typed entries read Sent to Chairman for Signature and Received from Chairman, each against February 5, 2014. Both lines were read at the page image. A manuscript date beside a signature and a typed date on an administrative log are two different kinds of record, and here they agree.³

One thing the certificate settles that is easy to miss: the benefits were already running. The package commences February 1, 2013, and the Chairman subscribes on 5 February 2014, a year and four days later.³⁶

30 and 31 December 2018: Call with A. Bryan

At the end of 2018 Epstein’s Virgin Islands office manager and Epstein exchanged messages under the subject line Re: Call with A. Bryan. This page found the thread only by searching the initial form. No form of his full name reaches any of its printings, and no page on this wiki had cited it.⁵¹

The message the rest of the thread hangs from is dated to the evening of Sunday 30 December 2018 on the sheets that quote it:

Good evening Jeffrey,

Erika would like to have you speak with Albert tomorrow. It looks like they are going to offer JP the DPNR commissionership. What time can you speak with Albert tomorrow?

The answers, in the order the thread’s own quoting establishes, are Anytime, then Can't john help?, then, from the office manager, Good morning, / Erika is speaking with Albert this morning and John will reach out to him as well., and then, from Epstein, What do we know.⁵¹²

JP and john are as the sheets print them, and this page does not identify either. Erika is named in full on other sheets cited here, and has her own page. The sheets print DPNR and do not expand it; a Virgin Islands Department of Planning and Natural Resources is named in one of the 2023 filings cited below.⁴⁸

What ties A. Bryan to Albert is the thread itself, not anything this page supplies: one subject line, one forename in the body, one subject matter. And nineteen days later the same correspondent, writing to the same recipient, sends a news link headed Governor Bryan Signs Medicinal Marijuana Bill Into Law.¹³

No document read for this page records whether the call happened or what was said. The arrangement is documented. The event is not.¹⁰

7 February 2019: the appointment

Five weeks after the thread, the arrangement is firmer and the language has changed. On the morning of 5 February 2019 the same office manager wrote:

JE has a 2PM meeting on Thursday, February 7th at Erika Kellerhals’ St. Thomas office with Governor Bryan.

Five printings of that message are in the released files.⁴ Four further documents, kept as itineraries and calendars, carry the appointment itself. The printing quoted here gives the entry for Thursday 7 February 2019 as 2:00pm Appt w/Erika Kellerhals and Governor Bryan at Erika's STT office, and names the building on the line beneath: Royal Palms Professional Building, at 9053 Estate Thomas Suite 101 St. Thomas, VI.⁷

The venue is the detail worth recording. The meeting is not at Government House and not at a department of the territory. It is at an office the sheets name for Erika Kellerhals, and she is down to be at it.⁷

Again, no document read for this page records whether the meeting took place or what was said at it.¹⁰

14 August 2023: two filings, one day

By 2023 he had been deposed in Government of the United States Virgin Islands v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., No. 1:22-cv-10904-JSR in the Southern District of New York. The transcript of that deposition is not among the documents read for this page, and no quotation here comes from it. What this page uses is two filings of 14 August 2023 that describe it, and it names whose each one is.⁸⁹

His own Government’s account

The first is the Government of the United States Virgin Islands’ Response to Defendant’s Local Civil Rule 56.1(b) Counterstatement of Additional Material Facts, Document 282, eighteen sheets. It is the Virgin Islands’ own filing, and it answers the bank’s assertions about payments by Epstein to officials and entities of the territory. In doing so it characterises its own sitting Governor’s testimony:

Similarly, Epstein’s companies were required to make donations pursuant to their Economic Development Commission (“EDC”) certificates. Governor Bryan testified: (i) that he would offer suggestions to permit the companies to meet that contractual obligation and denied that those contributions “bought favor”; (ii) that he was unaware whether Epstein’s companies ever made any donation to Junior Achievement; and (iii) that his response to Ms. de Jongh stated only that it would have been “self-serving” for Governor Bryan to recommend a donation to Junior Achievement.

The first clause of that passage reaches back to the instrument at the top of this page. The donation obligation the Government describes is a condition of the Economic Development Commission certificates, and the certificate he subscribed in 2014 carries such conditions.⁸³

A second list follows on the next sheet, and it runs across a sheet boundary. On its own sheet the filing reads Governor Bryan further testified (i) that he never provided special treatment to Epstein; (ii) that; the next sheet continues he had no knowledge of any contribution from Epstein to his campaign; (iii) that he was not involved at all in fundraising for his inaugural events; and (iv) that the inaugural effort was not undertaken by his campaign. The two spans are quoted separately because the sheets are separate, and nothing is joined across the break.⁸¹⁴

The bank’s account of a different witness

The second filing is JPMorgan’s brief, Document 284-1, forty-six sheets, filed the same day. Its use of him is not his own testimony but the former Attorney General’s:

Any remaining doubt as to whether there are disputed facts underlying JPMC’s affirmative defenses is removed by former USVI’s Attorney General Denise ⟦—⟧ testimony that, when she took office in 2019, she received what she viewed as improper communications from thenGovernor Bryan urging her to act on Epstein’s request to reinstate the loosened sex offender monitoring restrictions originally granted by Attorney General Frazer.

The brief goes on that she testified that Epstein was "flexing his political influence over or with the Governor in an effort to get a favorable result in ... a law enforcement issue," that this was a "red flag," and that, when she refused, her career as Attorney General was adversely impacted because she was "doing [her] job without respect to political interference." And then, in its own voice: To repeat: the USVI Attorney General who filed this lawsuit testified under oath that she received improper communications from the current USVI Governor relating to Epstein. That alone suffices to preclude summary judgment.⁹

Three things about that passage, in order of how much weight they can carry. It is an adverse party’s characterisation of a third person’s deposition testimony, which is two removes from the events described. The surname is absent from the released text at the point marked ⟦—⟧, and nothing is supplied. And thenGovernor is how the released text renders the sheet at a line break; it is not mended inside the quotation marks.⁹

Her removal from office is set out at her own page, with the newspaper account, his prepared statement and the four separate refusals of a reason. This page does not repeat it. What this page adds is that the same conduct reaches the record in a second and stronger form than the one that page rests on: there, an account that page dates to October 2023 and attributes to an interview with an FBI agent; here, an adverse party’s description of what she said under oath, in a federal filing.⁹

What the brief says about the subsidies, and a footnote

The same sheet carries the bank’s figure for the whole programme:

For twenty years, USVI subsidized the operation of these two companies and ensured they kept their operations in USVI by granting them (and by extension Epstein) between 100% and 90% reductions in income taxes. CSMF ¶¶ 367, 369. Both before and after his conviction, USVI officials took sworn testimony regarding Epstein’s operations and then voted to allow him and his companies to avoid paying taxes. CSMF ¶ 390. These tax breaks amounted to $300 million in direct benefits to Epstein.

The range is the certificate’s own. The instrument he subscribed grants a 90 per cent income-tax exemption and a 100 per cent gross-receipts exemption, which is where between 100% and 90% comes from.⁹⁶

A footnote to that passage adds an assertion about a member of his household. This page records that the assertion was made, in the brief’s own words, and goes no further. The brief states that Governor Bryan's wife was a "business ambassador" for the same government entity that extended the $300 million in tax breaks to Epstein's companies, and quotes a letter as saying Ms. Bryan is available to assist you with any challenges you may encounter as you do business in the U.S. Virgin Islands. She is not named here, no forename is supplied, nothing further about her is reproduced, and this page makes no allegation against her.⁹

What this page does not say

• It does not say he is a judge, or that he ever sat in any court. Every judicial form tested returns nothing, against a firing control on the same query shape.¹
• It does not state what he said in his deposition. The transcript was not opened. Two parties’ descriptions of it are quoted, each attributed to the party that filed it, and they do not agree.⁸⁹
• It does not say that the certificate he signed is the grant the Virgin Islands later recovered. The territory’s settlement with the Epstein estate returned economic development tax benefits, and that is recorded at Denise George; no document read for this page connects that recovery to this certificate, and the connection is not asserted.
• It does not date his taking office. No document read for this page gives one. What the documents show is that correspondence of December 2018 calls him Albert and correspondence of 19 January 2019 onward calls him Governor Bryan.⁵¹³
• It does not say that any call or meeting happened. It says they were arranged, and gives the sheets.⁵⁴⁷¹⁰
• It does not reproduce anything a complainant said, or any detail about any complainant. One document reached by a damaged spelling of his name is a newspaper page whose other columns carry such material; it is not cited on this page at all, and nothing was taken from it.²
• It makes no allegation and records none. Where the record holds his own words, or a filing’s account of them, they are printed as they stand.

How this page is scoped

Measured against the released files on 4 November 2026. The size of the index was checked before every run, and a control was printed and read in the same invocation: the phrase richard m berman returned 371 documents / 885 sheets, matching this project’s standing figure, and a freshly generated token that occurs nowhere returned 0.¹

The phrase albert bryan returns 111 documents / 177 sheets. Adding the short forms a bryan, a. bryan, al bryan and the inverted bryan, albert takes the union to 120 documents, of which 9 are reachable only by a short form. Those nine were read individually. Five are the December 2018 thread and belong to him; four are other people who happen to carry the surname or the forename.¹

The 120 is a floor and not a count, and the gap is not small. Three further live forms reach documents outside it: governor bryan reaches 16 documents the 120 does not, bryan jr reaches 9, and a damaged newspaper spelling reaches 1. The union over every live form measured is 146 documents. Everything this page relies on from February 2014 and from February 2019 lies outside the 120, including the certificate itself.¹

The surname alone was not mined, and the reason is on the record. Bryan is also a forename in these files, and this wiki has a published page for a person who carries it that way. Of the eight documents reached by a bryan and a. bryan, three are an artefact of the index: a fragment of mark-up ending in a sits immediately before a different person’s forename Bryan, and the tokeniser reads the two as one phrase. A population built on the bare surname would have been a population of several different men.¹

A classification in this project’s index is not the producer’s record, and on this set it is wrong on the document this page is built on. Counted by that label, the 120 divide as 43 e-mail headers averaging two sheets each and 38 court filings averaging forty; that figure is an estimate from a label, not a measurement of the documents. The certificate is labelled a travel itinerary. Sorted by what the documents are rather than by what they are labelled, and over the 146, the material this page rests on is one instrument he subscribed, fourteen documents arranging access to him, and two filings describing his testimony.¹

The act count this page believes is real is one. One signature, in ink, on one certificate, read at the page image. Everything else is other people acting, or other people describing him.

Related

• Denise George, the Attorney General he appointed in 2019 and removed in January 2023, whose page carries the removal, the statements and the refusals
• Southern Trust Company, the beneficiary of the certificate he subscribed, whose page carries the application, the conditions and the appendices
• Cecile de Jongh, who arranged the call and the meeting
• Erika Kellerhals, at whose office the February 2019 appointment was set
• JPMorgan Chase, the defendant in the action in which he was deposed
• Stacey Plaskett, named in the same filing on a different question
• Jeffrey Epstein, who subscribed the certificate twelve days before him

Notes

Footnotes

1. Measured against the released files on 4 November 2026. The size of the index on disk was asserted before every run and matched its recorded value; the return code of every query was read, and no empty result was converted into a zero. Controls, printed and read in the same invocations as the counts: the phrase richard m berman returned 371 documents / 885 sheets, matching this project’s standing figure; the standing high-frequency control returned 567,984 documents / 752,295 sheets, also matching; and freshly generated tokens verified unused returned 0. An aim control was run as well, because a firing control proves an instrument runs and not that it is pointed at the right thing: governor bryan, GOVERNOR BRYAN and Governor Bryan each returned 28 documents, so the counts are not an artefact of casing. Forms and returns, in documents: albert bryan 111 · albert bryan, jr. 29, every one inside the 111 · governor albert bryan 29 · governor bryan 28 · bryan jr 38 · a bryan 8 · a. bryan 8, the same eight · bryan, albert 1, inside the 111 · al bryan 1 · a damaged newspaper spelling 1 · an adjacent spelling 1. Returning nothing: judge bryan, chief judge bryan, honorable albert, hon. albert, albert bryan, district judge, albert v. bryan, albert v bryan, albert a. bryan, albert a bryan, albert bryan iii, albert bryan, governor, albert bryan, jr., governor, bert bryan, albie bryan, and eleven damaged spellings of the surname and forename tested for the substitutions this corpus is known to make. A signature-shape arm was run and read: the index returns six documents for /s/ albert, and on reading not one of them carries that string, because the index discards the punctuation and matched a different token sequence. No electronic subscription in his name was found anywhere. The one subscription that exists is manuscript ink and was read at the page image. The union of the full name and the four short and inverted forms is 120 documents, of which 9 are reachable only by a short form. All nine were read. Five are the December 2018 thread and are his; four are not: one is an office manager of another firm whose own signature block carries the surname, and three are an artefact of the index, where a fragment of mark-up ending in a stands immediately before a different person’s forename Bryan and the tokeniser reads the two as one phrase. The union over every live form measured is 146 documents, 26 of them outside the 120. The bare surname, which returns documents in the thousands, was not mined: Bryan is a forename as well as a surname in these files, this wiki publishes a page for a person who carries it that way, and the reading above shows the token reaching several different men. Act shape by this project’s own classification of each document, over the 120: e-mail headers 43 documents / 88 sheets; court filings 38 / 1,510; depositions 8 / 162; hearing transcripts 5 / 172; news clippings 4 / 172; and fifteen smaller classes. That is an estimate from a label and not a measurement of the documents, and on this set the label is wrong on the one instrument this page is built on. Sorted by what the documents are: one instrument he subscribed, fourteen documents arranging access to him, two filings describing his testimony, and the remainder other people’s papers that name him. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸

2. Documents refused by their classification in this project’s index, and not opened. Over the union of 146 documents, nineteen carry a label of transcript.deposition, transcript.hearing, fbi.302a or fbi.ec. They are EFTA00128750, EFTA00129035, EFTA01123102, EFTA02808259, EFTA02810159, EFTA02812179, EFTA02812304, EFTA02812344, EFTA02812387, EFTA02812402, EFTA02812412, EFTA02813457, EFTA02813497, EFTA02813607, EFTA02814286, EFTA02814543, EFTA02815009, EFTA02815134 and EFTA02815662. Refusal here is by classification. It is not a claim about what those documents contain. A label-based refusal can leak, because the same paper is produced more than once and the labels disagree between printings, so the admitted set was screened for same-paper printings of anything refused. Grouping the 146 by sheet count and keeping only groups that mix a refused label with an admitted one gave six groups; four sit at two, four, six and seven sheets, where equal length among short documents is coincidence rather than evidence. The two groups at a distinctive length were measured by the method this project uses for the purpose: text normalised and compared as overlapping five-word runs at the same sheet offset, sheets under 200 normalised characters excluded, and the median taken. At forty-three sheets, the three refused transcripts return a median of 0.970 against one another and 0.000 and 0.008 against the admitted court filing of the same length. At eighteen sheets, the admitted filing cited on this page returns 0.008 against the refused deposition of that length, while two other admitted filings return 0.861 against each other. The calibration pair this project keeps for the purpose returned 0.720 in the same invocation, matching its recorded figure. So no admitted document used on this page is a printing of a refused one, and the exclusion did not leak. A planted negative control of two different short e-mails returned 0.449 and is disclosed as unusable: short messages share a long confidentiality footer that dominates the measure. The zero and near-zero rows within the test are the negative evidence relied on instead. The first sheets of every pair in the forty-three-sheet group fall under the 200-character floor and were not compared; that is a bound and not a confirmation. One further document, reached only by a damaged newspaper spelling of the name, was examined and is not cited on this page: its other columns carry material about complainants, and nothing was taken from any part of it. A fourth document reached by an adjacent spelling, a 2013 opinion survey naming a Commissioner of Labor Albert Bryant among possible candidates for Governor, was read and is not assigned to him: the spelling differs and no document read for this page corroborates the office. It is recorded here as examined, not as evidence. ↩ ↩²

3. Economic Development Commission Certificate of the Government of the Territory of the Virgin Islands of the United States, beneficiary Southern Trust Company, Inc., eleven sheets as this project’s index holds it, the certificate printing its own pagination Page 1 of 10 to Page 10 of 10. EFTA01166297. This document is in none of this project’s four local stores; the three-way test was run and a known-present asset returned a regular file in the same run, so the test can say present. It was fetched read-only from the site’s own per-document path on 4 November 2026: HTTP 200, 1,352,473 bytes, a file beginning %PDF- of eleven pages matching this project’s index, against a negative control fetched in the same call that returned HTTP 403 and 111 bytes. pdfimages -list reports the served file’s native resolution as 96 pixels per inch, and the readings below are taken from the native raster at that resolution, not from an upsampled render. Served sheet 7 (the certificate’s own page 6 of 10) was read at the image, and from it this page takes: the printed attestation IN WITNESS HEREWITH, the parties hereunto set their hands and seals on the dates noted below:; the printed type Albert Bryan, Jr., Chairman over Economic Development Commission; the cursive mark in blue ink above the rule over that block; the manuscript 2/5/14 on the printed Date: rule; the printed Southern Trust Company, Inc. and Accepted by: lines; the manuscript Jeffrey Epstein, President 1/24/14, in a hand, on the printed Name and Title: Date: rule; four Witness rules each carrying a mark in ink; and the printed folio Page 6 of 10. Five of those readings are not available in the released text at all, which is why the sheet was fetched: the released text of this sheet carries neither manuscript entry, renders Accepted by: with a character missing, and opens the attestation with a different first word. The paper governs, and the released text’s forms are not quoted anywhere on this page. The marks are ink and not type: stroke width varies along each one, they loop above and below the rules, and they leave the baseline the printed blocks sit on. Served sheet 1 was also read at the image, and from it this page takes the typed log lines Sent to Chairman for Signature and Received from Chairman, each against February 5, 2014. A manuscript entry by a compliance officer on that sheet is not reproduced; she is administrative staff with no investigative bearing on this page. The quoted recital beginning Pursuant to the authority vested in me and the sentences beginning The Beneficiary's services include are at served sheet 2 and were read in the released text; served sheets 4 to 6 carry the certificate’s general, standard and special conditions, among them a minimum annual charitable contribution, which is the obligation the 2023 filing quoted below describes, and they were read in the released text; the recital beginning THEREFORE, pursuant to the public hearing is at served sheet 7 and was read in the released text. Foot bands were measured pixel by pixel against a within-sheet body control before any statement about a stamp: on this document no claim about a printed Bates stamp is made. The business description on served sheet 2 renders the category as Category HA in the released text and is not quoted here for that reason. The terms, conditions and appendices of this certificate are set out at Southern Trust Company, which cites a different printing, one enclosed with a covering letter. No comparison between printings was made or is reported. Four further printings of the execution block stand at EFTA00809204, EFTA02808181, EFTA02812293 and EFTA02814123; none of the four was opened for this page, nothing here rests on them, and no comparison between any two printings was made or is reported. This document is typed in this project’s index as a travel itinerary, which it is not. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹ ↩¹² ↩¹³ ↩¹⁴

4. A message of Feb 5, 2019, at 6:47 AM from Epstein’s Virgin Islands office manager, quoted on each of five printings. This page cites EFTA00490539 p. 1. Released text only; this sheet was not read at the page image. The quoted span is JE has a 2PM meeting on Thursday, February 7th at Erika Kellerhals' St. Thomas office with Governor Bryan. The further printings are EFTA00490540, EFTA02274458, EFTA02274532 and EFTA02630839. None of the four was opened for this page and no comparison between printings was made or is reported. A contact value on these sheets is not reproduced, described or located. Producer’s marks fall on these sheets; nothing under them is read, supplied or described, and this page does not say what any of them covers. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵

5. A thread of 30 and 31 December 2018 under the subject line Re: Call with A. Bryan, between Jeffrey Epstein and his Virgin Islands office manager. Five printings were found and all five are reachable only by the initial form of the name. This page cites EFTA01009903, two sheets. Served sheet 1 was read at the page image, fetched read-only from the site’s own per-document path on 4 November 2026: HTTP 200, 83,846 bytes, a file beginning %PDF-, against a negative control fetched in the same call returning HTTP 403 and 111 bytes; pdfimages -list reports the native resolution as 96 pixels per inch. From that sheet this page takes, at the image: the subject line Re: Call with A. Bryan; the zoned header Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2018 09:26:05 +0000; the body What do we know; and, in the quoted matter beneath it, Good morning, / Erika is speaking with Albert this morning and John will reach out to him as well., Can't john help?, and Good evening Jeffrey, / Erika would like to have you speak with Albert tomorrow. It looks like they are going to offer JP the DPNR commissionership. What time can you speak with Albert tomorrow? Producer’s marks fall on this sheet. Nothing under any of them is read, supplied or described, this page does not say what any of them covers, and no value of any kind is taken from this sheet other than the spans listed above. The order of the messages is taken from the thread’s own quoting structure and from nothing else. No interval is derived anywhere on this page: the printings carry times in two different forms, an Outlook Sent: preamble and an RFC Date: header, and two timestamps in different forms are two different clocks. Foot bands on both sheets were measured against a within-sheet body control: served sheet 2 returns zero dark pixels at minimum grey 255 and served sheet 1 returns eight, which resolve at the image to the e-mail’s own -- separator. This document carries no printed Bates stamp on either sheet, and none is named. The further printings are EFTA01009911, EFTA02606495, EFTA02606515 and EFTA02606832. No comparison between printings was made or is reported. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶

6. The same certificate, Appendix A, served sheet 8 (its own page 7 of 10). EFTA01166297. Released text only; this sheet was not read at the page image. From it this page takes USVI Income Taxes: 90% percent exemption, USVI Gross Receipt Taxes: 100% percent exemption, and the commencement and termination dates February 1, 2013 and January 31, 2023. A telephone number and a fax number are printed in the same block and are not reproduced, described or located here; nothing on this page turns on either. The business address printed on that sheet is likewise not reproduced here, because the company’s own page carries the company’s particulars. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴

7. Itinerary and calendar documents carrying the appointment. This page quotes one printing, EFTA00490374 p. 1, and takes from it the entry 2:00pm Appt w/Erika Kellerhals and Governor Bryan at Erika's STT office, the line Royal Palms Professional Building beneath it, and the address 9053 Estate Thomas Suite 101 St. Thomas, VI. The quotation stops before the two characters the sheet prints after office, and nothing is completed or bracketed. Released text only; this sheet was not read at the page image. The address is a professional building’s, printed on a scheduling line, and the owner’s standing ruling places street addresses in scope. The further printings are EFTA00285740, EFTA00490380 and EFTA02277887; none was opened for this page, nothing here rests on them, and no comparison between any two printings was made or is reported. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴

8. Government of the United States Virgin Islands’ Response to Defendant’s Local Civil Rule 56.1(b) Counterstatement of Additional Material Facts, Government of the United States Virgin Islands v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., No. 1:22-cv-10904-JSR (S.D.N.Y.), Document 282, filed 14 August 2023, eighteen sheets whose own headers read Page 1 of 18 to Page 18 of 18. EFTA02814983. Released text only; no sheet of this document was read at the page image. The quoted passage beginning Similarly, Epstein's companies were required is at served sheet 2, and the quotation stops before the record citation that follows it. The span Governor Bryan further testified (i) that he never provided special treatment to Epstein; (ii) that is at served sheet 3. The caption and party identification are taken from served sheet 1. This filing is the plaintiff Government’s own, and the characterisations of testimony in it are that party’s characterisations, not findings of any court and not quotations from any transcript. The deposition transcript this filing describes was not opened for this page. Other paragraphs of this filing concern named third parties on questions this page does not reach; nothing from them is reproduced beyond the spans named above. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷

9. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.’s brief, Government of the United States Virgin Islands v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., No. 1:22-cv-10904-JSR (S.D.N.Y.), Document 284-1, filed 14 August 2023, forty-six sheets whose own headers read Page 1 of 46 to Page 46 of 46. EFTA02815181 served sheet 40. Released text only; this sheet was not read at the page image. From it this page takes the passage beginning Any remaining doubt as to whether there are disputed facts, the sentences beginning testified that Epstein was "flexing his political influence and To repeat:, the passage beginning For twenty years, USVI, and the footnote beginning Governor Bryan's wife was a "business ambassador". The former Attorney General’s surname is absent from the released text at one point in the first passage, and ⟦—⟧ marks that absence and nothing else: nothing is supplied from context, no claim is made about what the printed sheet carries, and that is an image question this page did not put. thenGovernor is how the released text renders the sheet where a line break falls, and it is not mended inside the quotation marks. CSMF is the filing’s own abbreviation for the counterstatement it answers, and the record citations are omitted from the quotations. This is an adverse party’s characterisation of a third person’s deposition testimony. The transcript was not opened and is not quoted. The footnote’s assertion concerns a member of the subject’s household. She is not named on this page, no forename is supplied, no further detail about her is reproduced, and this page makes no allegation against her. The same sheet argues about sex-offender tier classification and about a third party’s communications; nothing from those passages is reproduced beyond the spans named above, and no detail about any complainant is taken from this document. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰

10. What was searched for and not found, scoped to the search that was run. No document read for this page records: a date on which he took office; what was said on any call or at any meeting, or whether either took place; any ruling, order or judicial act of any kind; any electronic subscription in his name; or the content of his deposition otherwise than through the two parties’ filings quoted above. Each of those is a statement about the material read for this page and about the forms listed in the scope note, and none is a claim about what the release holds. Unmeasured, and therefore not a negative: whether he appears in these files under a title or role phrase that never spells the name; whether printings of the certificate’s execution block exist beyond the five found; whether any page image corroborates the released text of the documents read here only in that form; and what his deposition says, as distinct from what each party says it says. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴

11. Page 6 of 10 is the certificate’s own internal pagination and is not the served page number, which is 7. No mapping between the two is derived, and the same sheet is addressed in this note by the document’s identifier and its served page. ↩

12. EFTA02606832, a single sheet, for the one-word reply Anytime. Read at the page image, fetched read-only in the same call as the negative control recorded above: HTTP 200, 64,252 bytes, native 96 pixels per inch. From this sheet this page takes, at the image: the subject line Re: Call with A. Bryan, the body Anytime, and the fact that the quoted message beneath it is the one of Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 8:51 PM. The foot of this sheet carries a printed Bates stamp in a different numbering series from the identifier that addresses the document; the two are not converted into one another and the stamp is not used as an address. Measured against a within-sheet body control, the foot band returns 357 dark pixels at minimum grey 0 where a blank band on a sibling sheet returns 0 at minimum grey 255. The sheet also carries a machine-generated trailer of identifiers and an epoch value. None of it is reproduced here. The body text of the quoted message is taken on this page from the printing cited above, and this page takes from this sheet only the three things listed. No comparison between printings was made or is reported. ↩

13. A message of Saturday 19 January 2019 from Epstein’s Virgin Islands office manager to him, carrying the subject line Governor Bryan Signs Medicinal Marijuana Bill Into Law and a link to a Virgin Islands news site. EFTA02627540 p. 1. Released text only; this sheet was not read at the page image. This page takes from it the subject line and the date, and nothing else. The page uses it for one fact only: that nineteen days after the December thread the same correspondent, writing to the same recipient, used the title. This page does not state that the bill was signed, or when; that is the headline of a news item quoted inside a message, and no instrument recording it was read. ↩ ↩²

14. The same filing, served sheet 4, for the continuation he had no knowledge of any contribution from Epstein to his campaign; (iii) that he was not involved at all in fundraising for his inaugural events; and (iv) that the inaugural effort was not undertaken by his campaign. Released text only. This span and the span at served sheet 3 are printed on this page as two separate quotations because they stand on two separate sheets. They are not joined, and no sentence is reconstructed across the break. ↩