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George Mitchell

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tagsperson, politics, us-senate, dla-piper, scheduling, calendars, day-sheets, correspondence, draft
aliasesGeorge J. Mitchell, Senator George Mitchell, Sen. George Mitchell, Senator Mitchell, Mitchell, George

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Named on the documents as”Senator Mitchell” in the subject line of six separate messages between his office and Epstein’s; “senator Mitchell”, lower case, in a note written by Epstein’s assistant and again in an instruction written by Epstein himself; “Sen. George Mitchell” in a column of dinner invitees; “Senator George Mitchell” in a day sheet; “George Mitchell” on a weekly list headed “PEOPLE TO SEE”; “Mitchell, George” in the From field of a message answered from his own handheld1234567
What a document in the release calls him”former Democratic Senate leader”, in a magazine profile of Epstein carried in the production1
Where a document places him professionallyBack at his law firm by July 2012: a message to Epstein reports that he “is no longer there, he is back with Piper”8
Range of documents cited hereA magazine profile of Epstein with no date printed on the sheet read, then dated material from September 2011 to December 2018149
How he appears in the fileAlmost entirely as a scheduling object. The documents cited here are overwhelmingly messages between two offices — Epstein’s assistants on one side, Mitchell’s on the other — about whether he was in New York, whether he could come, and when. Two sheets carry words attributed to Mitchell himself: a quotation in the magazine profile, and one message answered from his own device17
Not the same person asDavid J. Mitchell of Mitchell Holdings LLC. One day sheet in the release puts appointments with both men ninety minutes apart6
Covered elsewhere on this wikiHis name on a list of people Epstein named for a 2009 programme of conferences, read and quoted from the sheet at Lisa Randall, which this page does not restate. His name among the questions put to Epstein at an October 2009 deposition, where Epstein asserted the Fifth Amendment, and in a printed encyclopaedia article held as an exhibit: Ben Goertzel. The house at which the dinner was to be held: 9 East 71st Street

Former Democratic leader of the United States Senate. A magazine profile of Jeffrey Epstein held in the released files quotes George Mitchell calling him “a friend and a supporter”, and says Epstein “wrote the senator a bunch of checks”.1

Sixteen further documents record what the two offices did about each other. Messages between Mitchell’s staff and Epstein’s, Epstein’s day sheets and his guest lists cover four years of arranged and attempted meetings, from September 2011 to September 2015. They show one appointment fixed to the quarter-hour in New York, two invitations declined with a travel itinerary supplied instead of an answer, a lunch entered in the calendar with Mitchell’s attendance as an open question, a dinner at which his acceptance was to be used to draw two other guests, and an occasion on which Epstein’s office telephoned the United States State Department looking for him. Twice the approach runs the other way: Mitchell telephones to offer a weekend call, and replies in his own hand, over his own name, with his schedule and “Best regards to Jeffrey”.107

A search of the released files, as they stood when this page was written on 21 October 2026, finds the words “Senator Mitchell” on 169 sheets of 166 documents, and “George Mitchell” on 397 sheets of 369 documents, out of 1,425,556 documents in all.11 Those are counts of pages on which the name is printed, not counts of meetings: a message quoted back inside a reply is counted twice, and a document released twice is counted twice. This page cites seventeen of them.

What this page is, and what it is not

Every quotation below is taken from the released text of the document, and this project holds no page image of any of these seventeen documents. So no quotation here has been checked against a picture of the paper, and none is presented as though it had been.12 Where the released text is damaged, this page says so and quotes less rather than guessing more.

Where a sender’s name is blacked out or unreadable, this page does not supply it from context, even where the content of the message makes the office obvious. Five of the messages below are therefore attributed to the document and to no person.

Every quotation below was checked, character by character, against the released text of the sheet it is credited to. Long quotations run across the line breaks of the original, as any quotation from a typed page does. Where a quotation would have joined two separate parts of a document (a sign-off to the sentence above it), it is given as two quotations rather than run together. One quotation on this page is in that position and is split.

Where a sheet sets names in one column and responses in another, this page does not pair them. The released text of a two-column table arrives as two separate lists of unequal length, and matching a name to a position in a run of a different length would be arithmetic rather than reading. One sheet below is in exactly that position. Where another sheet of the same document gives an answer in prose, this page reads that instead, and says whom it names.2

This page makes no allegation and records none. It does not cover the allegations that have been made against Mitchell, by anyone, in any forum. It does not cover any document whose subject is a complainant or a survivor, it does not cover his public statements, and it does not cover anything that happened after the documents close. Those are outside its scope, and their absence here is a limit on this page and not a statement about the record. Nothing below is a finding of wrongdoing.

Identity numbers, account numbers, dates of birth, telephone numbers and e-mail addresses that appear on documents cited here are not reproduced here. Several quotations below are cut short, and every cut is disclosed at the point it is made. Where a sheet carries a mark, this page records that nothing has been supplied into it and does not say what it covers.

The two Mitchells, and the day they shared

The release holds correspondence with two unrelated men named Mitchell, and the distinction is not an inference drawn here: one document draws it on a single sheet. The day sheet for Wednesday 6 November 2013 in New York runs, in consecutive lines, 9:00am Appt w/David Mitchell … 10:30am Appt w/Senator George Mitchell.6 A mark follows each of the two names on that sheet, and nothing is supplied into either.

The same pairing recurs on a March 2013 calendar, where a 9:30 appointment with “David Mitchell, AdFin CEO” sits above a lunch entry naming the senator, both on Friday 1 March.13

The same day-sheet line is read from the other side at David J. Mitchell, where the distinction between the two men is stated in terms; this page does not re-derive that reading. The documents cited here concern the senator only.

”A friend and a supporter”

A magazine profile of Epstein carried in the production describes his cultivation of public figures and offers Mitchell as its example. The sheet reads: “Epstein brings a trophy-hunter’s zeal to his collection of scientists and politicians.”1 It continues: “Like former Democratic Senate leader George Mitchell, for example.”1 On Epstein’s estimate of him the sheet says, “In Epstein’s mind, Mitchell is the world’s greatest negotiator, based on his work in Ireland and the Middle East”, and then: “So he wrote the senator a bunch of checks.”1

Those are the journalist’s words. The sheet then gives Mitchell’s, introduced “Says Mitchell:” and closed with a quotation mark, so the passage ends where this page ends it:

“He has supported some philanthropic projects of mine and organized a fund-raiser for me once. I would certainly call him a friend and a supporter.”1

That is the only money in this page’s documents and it is not quantified anywhere in them. The profile gives no sum, no date and no instrument, and no document cited here supplies one. “A bunch of checks” is the journalist’s characterisation; “supported some philanthropic projects of mine and organized a fund-raiser for me once” is Mitchell’s.

A dinner invitation, and a name used as a draw

A set of sheets planning a Yom Kippur break-fast dinner at Epstein’s New York house, on a Saturday 18 September, carries a long list of invitees and a separate block of answers.2 “Sen. George Mitchell” stands fourteenth in a run of seventeen names on that sheet, between “Jay Lefkowitz” and “Michael Ovitz”. A second run of twenty entries follows, most of them beginning with the word “No”. This page does not say which of them was his, and no reader should take one from it. The released text of the sheet gives its two columns as two separate lists; they are not even the same length, one entry in the second run is plainly another invitee’s name and two are plainly annotations rather than answers, so pairing them by position would be arithmetic rather than reading. The document does answer the question for other guests, and that is the better reason his own answer is unknown: a later sheet sets out replies in prose and names nine respondents individually, three of them standing in this same run of seventeen, and he is not among the nine.

What the next sheet does settle is what his acceptance would have been worth. A note on it reads:

“Je said if senator Mitchell confirms, then invite Larry Summers and Ehud Barak and tell them both that senator Mitchell will be coming.”3

The sentence ends at that full stop; the lower case on “senator” and the initials “Je” are the sheet’s. Read for what it does rather than what it says, the instruction is conditional and sequenced: Mitchell’s confirmation was to be obtained first and then used as the inducement to two other invitations. It also establishes that at the moment of writing he had not confirmed.

September 2011: the meeting that was kept

On Saturday 10 September 2011 Epstein’s assistant wrote to three of Mitchell’s staff by first name. The message prints “Lesley Groff” in its sender field and is signed “Lesley / Assistant to Jeffrey Epstein / Sent from my iPhone”.4 It opens “Hello Julia, Janice and Maher.” and continues:

“Jeffrey Epstein is in New York this weekend and was wondering if senator Mitchell might be as well. Jeffrey would love to see him tomorrow, Sunday sept 11th, if had some time.”4

The missing word in “if had some time” is the sheet’s, and nothing is inserted. The message closes “Sorry to bother you on a saturday!”4

Two days later the appointment was fixed. A message to Epstein on Monday 12 September 2011, under the subject line “Senator Mitchell”, reads:

“Senator Mitchell will come more about 4:15…he says he must leave at 10 or 5 minutes to 5:00…I told him 4:15 or a bit earlier is just fine.”14

The sender’s name is not readable on that sheet and this page does not name a sender for it. The internal ellipses are the sheet’s own. The sentence ends at “just fine.” A mark follows it and nothing is supplied into it.

Eight days later the second half of the same effort failed. On Tuesday 20 September 2011, again under the subject line “Senator Mitchell” and again over the sender name “Lesley Groff”:

“Senator Mitchell is in London now and not coming back to NY until Saturday. He says he would like to meet Jes at another time…Senator Mitchell sends his best.”15

“Jes” is James E. Staley, then at Barclays and elsewhere in this release a correspondent of Epstein’s. The sentence that carries the declination is reported speech (the assistant reporting what Mitchell said), and this page does not upgrade it to a statement by Mitchell.

A weekly list in these files, which carries no year, puts his name on the week’s own agenda. A list headed “PEOPLE TO SEE” carries “George Mitchell” as an entry in a run of names, immediately above “Barnaby Marsh” and below three entries carrying dates.5 The sheet gives weekdays and a September but no year, and this page does not supply one. His own entry carries no date, where several others do, and this page does not infer from the list that a meeting took place; what the sheet establishes is that he was on the list. Barnaby Marsh, Ehud Barak and Terje Rød-Larsen are among the other entries, and all three recur in the 2015 correspondence below.

July 2012: a call to the State Department, and a call back

On Tuesday 24 July 2012, under the subject line “Senator Mitchell”, a message to Epstein reports two things. The first is an answer:

“Senator Mitchell is not in NY at the moment. Ann, his assistant will let the Senator know you were asking if he might like to have tea or get together today or tomorrow however…”8

The trailing ellipsis is the sheet’s. The second is how the answer was obtained:

“FYI- I called the State Dept. looking for Senator Mitchell and was told he is no longer there, he is back with Piper. Ann Ungar is his assistant again.”8

The quotation is cut there, and the remainder of the message is not reproduced on this page. The sender’s name is not readable on this sheet and no sender is named here; the message describes its own author as the person who telephoned the State Department, and this page does not supply a name into that.

Mitchell had left the office the caller rang. Read for its mechanics rather than its content, the message records that Epstein’s office tracked him across institutions by telephoning a federal department, found him moved, and was corrected by whoever answered.

The following day the traffic reversed. On Wednesday 25 July 2012, same subject line:

“Senator Mitchell called to let you know he is spending the summer in Maine. He is chairing a conference today and tomorrow but says if you would like to catch up to give him a call this Friday or Saturday on his cell. I will remind you Friday to call him!”10

The quotation ends at the exclamation mark, where the sheet’s sentence ends; a mark follows it and nothing is supplied into it. This is the first of the sheets cited here in which the initiative is recorded as Mitchell’s, and the message’s own grammar is what carries it: “called to let you know”, not returned a call.

February and March 2013: an invitation declined, and a lunch left open

On Saturday 23 February 2013, over the sender name “Lesley Groff”:

“LM for Senator Mitchell asking if he might be available to meet with you and Bill Gate late Wed. Feb. 27th evening”16

“LM” is the office’s abbreviation for a message left. The spelling “Bill Gate” is the sheet’s (see Bill Gates), and the sheet prints no full stop at the end of that line, so none is added here. A mark follows the line and nothing is supplied into it.

The answer came back the same day, again over the sender name “Lesley Groff”:

“Senator Mitchell has a busy week of traveling. He very much appreciates you inviting him.. He is in Washington Monday, tues night NY, wed fly to London, Thursday fly to ft Myers not back home until Sunday. He hopes you are doing well.”17

The doubled full stop after “him” is the sheet’s and is left as printed. The itinerary is the assistant’s account of Mitchell’s week, not Mitchell’s own.

A schedule sheet for Friday 1 March 2013 shows how the office logged the uncertainty. Under a reminder that “Bill Gates in NY”, the entry reads TBD Possible Lunch w/Bill Gates (maybe Senator Mitchell?) as the released text gives it; and the question mark is the sheet’s own.13 That is a question mark in the record, not a meeting: the office entered the lunch as possible and Mitchell’s attendance as an open question, and no document cited here records what happened.

September 2015: his own words

The 2015 exchange is the only one in this page’s documents that runs end to end: an instruction from Epstein, a message out to Mitchell, a reply from Mitchell, and an acknowledgement.

On Tuesday 22 September 2015 Epstein wrote an instruction, over a sender field printing “Jeffrey E.”. No recipient is named here; on the message’s own evidence it gives a task to a member of his staff and speaks of Mitchell in the third person:

“as senator mitchell if he woudl like to have a coffee with terje and ehud this week. or chomsly onver the weekend.”18

The spellings “as”, “woudl”, “chomsly” and “onver” are the document’s own and nothing is corrected; the message continues with an unrelated question, which is not reproduced here. The three names are Terje Rød-Larsen, Ehud Barak and, on the evidence of the message that went out the same afternoon, Noam Chomsky.

Later the same day the office wrote to Mitchell directly. The sheet’s To field prints “Senator George Mitchell”:

“Hello Senator Mitchell. Hope you are well…Jeffrey is asking if you would like to have coffee with Terje Rod Larsen and Ehud Barak next week… or with Noam Chomsky Sat. Oct 3 or 4…Might you be in NY coming up and available?”19

That ends as a question, which is its mood and its function; the internal ellipses are the sheet’s. The quotation stops there, and a further line, “Please let me know…”, stands on its own below the question and above the sign-off. The message is signed “Assistant to Jeffrey Epstein”, and the sender’s name is not readable, so no sender is named here.

On Wednesday 23 September 2015 Mitchell answered himself. The sender field prints “Mitchell, George” and the message is signed “Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.”, so the words are his and not his office’s. The message opens “Thanks”, on a line of its own. The line that follows it is legible but for a single word, which this page neither reproduces nor reconstructs:

“but … traveling for most of the next couple of weeks, in Houston tonight then Aspen for 4 days, then Maine and DC parts of next week. I think I will see Ehud Barak at a conference in Aspen and in NY where I’ll be for a 1 day conference where we’re both speaking.”7

On the next line of the sheet, as a sign-off of its own, it closes: “Best regards to Jeffrey and to you.”7 The two are quoted separately here because they stand on separate lines, and the sheet’s sentence ends at “to you.” Read for what it does, this is a declination that supplies more than a declination asks for: an opening “Thanks”, a four-city itinerary, a note that he expects to see one of the two men he had been offered a coffee with, and a closing salutation to Epstein by first name. The reply is to the assistant, and the regards are sent to both.

The office answered the same afternoon: “Wow! What a schedule! Thank you for letting me know and I will pass along to Jeffrey. Hopefully next time we can put something together.”20 The quotation stops before the sign-off. That sender’s name, too, is not readable, and no sender is named here.

September 2015 is the latest dated contact in any document cited on this page.

December 2018: a claim about him, not by him

The last sheet cited here is not correspondence with Mitchell at all. It is one message in a chain recovered from a device, timestamped 20 December 2018. The message is attributed on the sheet to the device’s own account, and it reads:

“Sen George Mitchell a very close friend when senate majority leader. Said a budget deal is never done earlier than 11 55 pm on the eve of a shutdown”9

The sheet prints no full stop at the end, and none is added. The other party to the exchange is withheld on the sheet and is not identified here, and nothing else in the chain is reproduced.

This is a claim by the sender about the closeness of the relationship, and about something Mitchell is said to have said. It is evidence of what the sender was telling someone in December 2018; it is not evidence of a conversation, and the “Said” is reported at an unstated remove. It is also more than three years after the last message on this page that Mitchell is recorded as having answered, and it describes a period (his time leading the Senate majority) that no document cited here dates.

The shape of the record, read as a whole

Set end to end, the eighteen sheets have a consistent architecture and it is worth stating plainly.

The channel is office-to-office almost throughout. Epstein’s assistants write; Mitchell’s assistants answer; Mitchell himself appears over his own name on one sheet in the set, and Epstein over his own name on one other, instructing his office. In the seventeen documents read for this page, neither principal writes to the other: Epstein’s one message over his own name is an instruction to a member of his staff, and Mitchell’s one message over his own name is a reply to an assistant.

The content is almost entirely availability. Is he in New York, can he come, when must he leave, where is he this week. Across the dated items the documents record an appointment fixed to a time in September 2011, an appointment entered on a day sheet in November 2013, two invitations declined (February 2013 and September 2015, each with an itinerary supplied in place of an answer), a lunch entered as an open question in March 2013, an entry on a weekly list that carries no year, and an invitation to a dinner whose answer this page does not read.

The initiative is recorded as Mitchell’s twice. Once when he telephoned and left word that he was in Maine and offered a weekend call (July 2012), and once when he replied in his own hand with his schedule and his regards (September 2015). Everything else in the set is Epstein’s office approaching his.

And his name had a use beyond his attendance. The clearest single instruction in these documents is not an invitation to him but an instruction about him: obtain his confirmation, then tell two other men he is coming.3

What these documents do not settle

This page’s documents are scheduling records, and they are silent on nearly everything a reader would want next. They do not record what was discussed at any meeting, including the one fixed for 4:15 in September 2011 and the one entered for 10:30 on 6 November 2013; no note, minute or follow-up for either appears among the sheets read here. They do not quantify the money. They do not say whether the March 2013 lunch happened. They do not record any contact after September 2015 other than the December 2018 message, which is about him rather than to him.

Where a sender is blacked out or illegible, this page has left it blank rather than fill it. Where a sheet’s two columns cannot be paired by reading, it has left them unpaired. And because this project holds no page image of any of these seventeen documents, every quotation above comes from the released text alone, which means that where the text is damaged, this page cannot tell damage from something the government blacked out. That is why four quotations above are cut short, and why one carries an ellipsis in place of a word the released text does not give.12

Footnotes

Footnotes

  1. Magazine profile of Jeffrey Epstein, nine sheets — EFTA00013640, the Mitchell passage on p. 6. The passage runs from “Epstein brings a trophy-hunter’s zeal” to the closing quotation mark after “a friend and a supporter.” The line breaks inside it fall where a justified magazine column wraps, not between separate parts of the article, and the quotations above are read as continuous prose on that basis. This project holds no page image of this document, so this page could not look at the printed article. This page takes its quotations from the released text, and rests on no other reading. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9

  2. Planning sheets for a Yom Kippur break-fast dinner at 9 East 71st Street on a Saturday 18 September, five sheets — EFTA00298379, the column containing “Sen. George Mitchell” on p. 2. The released text of that sheet gives seventeen names as one list and twenty further entries as a second; the runs are of different lengths and the second is not homogeneous — one of its entries is plainly another invitee’s name and two are plainly annotations rather than answers. The two lists are not matched up on this page, and matching a name to a position across runs of different lengths would be arithmetic rather than reading. Its p. 4 sets out invitees’ replies in prose and names nine respondents individually — three of them standing in the run of seventeen on p. 2 — and he is not among the nine, so his answer is not established on the document’s own evidence and this page does not supply one. Two of those prose replies restate, almost word for word, two of the twenty entries on p. 2, which is why this page treats that run as answers while pairing none of them to a name. The same sheet prints the address as “9 East 71.1, Street between 5th and Madison”, the stray digits being the released text’s own, and prints the date as a “Saturday 18 September” with no year; this page does not supply a year for it. Quoted from the released text; this project holds no page image of this document. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  3. Note on the dinner planning sheets, five sheets — EFTA00298379 p. 3, carrying “Je said if senator Mitchell confirms, then invite Larry Summers and Ehud Barak and tell them both that senator Mitchell will be coming.” Reported speech, declarative, and the sentence ends at the printed full stop. The lower-case “senator” and the initials “Je” are the sheet’s. Quoted from the released text; this project holds no page image of this document. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  4. “Jeffrey Epstein”, Saturday 10 September 2011, sender field printing “Lesley Groff” — EFTA00428638 p. 1. Opens “Hello Julia, Janice and Maher.”; signed “Lesley / Assistant to Jeffrey Epstein / Sent from my iPhone”. The three salutation names are given as the sheet prints them and no surnames are supplied. A mark covers part of the sender field and nothing is supplied into it. Declarative throughout; the quoted sentences end where this page ends them. Quoted from the released text; this project holds no page image of this document. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  5. Weekly schedule and list, three sheets — EFTA00314269, the list headed “PEOPLE TO SEE” on p. 3, carrying “George Mitchell” immediately above “Barnaby Marsh” and below three entries that carry dates. The sheet carries no year, and neither does any other sheet of the document; this page therefore supplies no year for it. No inference is drawn from the absence of a date against his entry beyond what is stated in the text. Quoted from the released text; this project holds no page image of this document. ↩ ↩2

  6. Day sheets, early November 2013, seven sheets — EFTA00284786 p. 1, the entries for Wednesday 6 November 2013 in New York reading 9:00am Appt w/David Mitchell … 10:30am Appt w/Senator George Mitchell. A mark follows each of the two names and nothing is supplied into either; the ellipsis marks the cut. The same two lines are quoted from the other side at David J. Mitchell, and this page does not re-derive that reading. Quoted from the released text; this project holds no page image of this document. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  7. “Re: Jeffrey Epstein”, Wednesday 23 September 2015, sender field printing “Mitchell, George” and signed “Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.” — EFTA00339592 p. 1. The message opens with the word “Thanks” standing on a line of its own, which is why it is quoted on its own here. The line below it is legible except for one word, which the released text does not give; that word is not reproduced and not reconstructed, and the ellipsis inside the quotation above stands in its place. The rest of that line is legible and is quoted in full. The closing salutation stands on a line of its own on the sheet, between the body of the message and the device signature, so it is given as a second quotation rather than run on to the first — joining them would have presented two lines as one sentence. Checked against the released text of the sheet: the full stop after “to you” is printed, and an exclamation mark in its place is not. Mitchell’s own words, declarative. This page does not reconstruct the damaged words. From the released text alone, damage cannot be told apart from words the government blacked out. Quoted from the released text; this project holds no page image of this document. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  8. “Senator Mitchell”, Tuesday 24 July 2012 — EFTA00408507 p. 1, carrying “Senator Mitchell is not in NY at the moment…” and “FYI- I called the State Dept. looking for Senator Mitchell and was told he is no longer there, he is back with Piper. Ann Ungar is his assistant again.” The second quotation is cut at that point and the remainder of the message is not reproduced. The sender’s name is not readable on the sheet and this page names no sender. Declarative; both quoted spans end at printed full stops. Quoted from the released text; this project holds no page image of this document. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  9. Message chain recovered from a device, 20 December 2018, seventeen sheets — EFTA00508979, the message on p. 10, attributed on the sheet to the device’s own account and reading “Sen George Mitchell a very close friend when senate majority leader. Said a budget deal is never done earlier than 11 55 pm on the eve of a shutdown”. The sheet prints no terminal full stop and none is added. Declarative, and a claim by its sender rather than a record of a conversation. The other party to the chain is withheld on the sheet and is not identified here, and no other message in the chain is reproduced. Quoted from the released text; this project holds no page image of this document. ↩ ↩2

  10. “Senator Mitchell”, Wednesday 25 July 2012 — EFTA00408367 p. 1, carrying “Senator Mitchell called to let you know he is spending the summer in Maine. He is chairing a conference today and tomorrow but says if you would like to catch up to give him a call this Friday or Saturday on his cell. I will remind you Friday to call him!” The quotation ends at the exclamation mark, which is where the sheet’s sentence ends; a mark follows it and nothing is supplied into it. The sender’s name is not readable on the sheet and this page names no sender. Reported speech, declarative. Quoted from the released text; this project holds no page image of this document. ↩ ↩2

  11. Word searches of the released files, run for this page on 21 October 2026: “Senator Mitchell” appears on 169 sheets of 166 documents; “George Mitchell” on 397 sheets of 369 documents; an invented two-word phrase, searched as a check that the search itself was working, appears on none. The files searched hold 1,425,556 documents across 2,925,025 sheets in all. Both figures count sheets on which the words are printed, not meetings — a message quoted back inside a reply is counted twice, and so is a document released twice. The figures carry a date because they describe the files as they stood that day. ↩

  12. Checked on 21 October 2026 and again on 24 October 2026 for all seventeen documents cited on this page: this project holds no page image of any of them, and none could be found among this project’s stored images, while the same search did turn up images for other documents, so the search was working. No sheet quoted on this page has therefore been compared with a picture of the paper. That is a statement about what this project holds, and not about what was or was not released. ↩ ↩2

  13. Schedule covering 21 February to 27 March 2013, seven sheets, sent to Epstein by Lesley Groff on Thursday 21 February 2013 under the subject line “Priv & Con£ Feb. 21-March 27” — the stray character is the released text’s own — EFTA00395264, the Friday 1 March 2013 entries on p. 4: a reminder that “Bill Gates in NY”, a 9:30 appointment line naming “David Mitchell, AdFin CEO, Eyal Manor (guy from Google) and Jonathon”, and the line “TBD Possible Lunch w/Bill Gates (maybe Senator Mitchell?)”. The question mark is the sheet’s and the entry is read as an open question, not a meeting. A mark follows the 9:30 line and nothing is supplied into it. Quoted from the released text; this project holds no page image of this document. ↩ ↩2

  14. “Senator Mitchell”, Monday 12 September 2011 — EFTA00428166 p. 1, carrying “Senator Mitchell will come more about 4:15…he says he must leave at 10 or 5 minutes to 5:00…I told him 4:15 or a bit earlier is just fine.” The sender’s name is not readable on the sheet and this page names no sender. Declarative; the sentence ends at “just fine.” A mark follows it and nothing is supplied into it. Quoted from the released text; this project holds no page image of this document. ↩

  15. “Senator Mitchell”, Tuesday 20 September 2011, sender field printing “Lesley Groff” — EFTA00427635 p. 1, carrying “Senator Mitchell is in London now and not coming back to NY until Saturday. He says he would like to meet Jes at another time…Senator Mitchell sends his best.” Reported speech by the assistant, declarative; the sentence ends at “his best.” The internal ellipsis is the sheet’s. Quoted from the released text; this project holds no page image of this document. ↩

  16. “Senator Mitchell”, Saturday 23 February 2013, sender field printing “Lesley Groff” — EFTA00395024 p. 1, carrying “LM for Senator Mitchell asking if he might be available to meet with you and Bill Gate late Wed. Feb. 27th evening”. The sheet prints no terminal full stop on that line and none is added here. The spelling “Bill Gate” is the sheet’s. A mark follows the line and nothing is supplied into it. Quoted from the released text; this project holds no page image of this document. ↩

  17. “Senator Mitchell”, Saturday 23 February 2013, sender field printing “Lesley Groff” — EFTA00395031 p. 1, carrying “Senator Mitchell has a busy week of traveling. He very much appreciates you inviting him.. He is in Washington Monday, tues night NY, wed fly to London, Thursday fly to ft Myers not back home until Sunday. He hopes you are doing well.” The doubled full stop after “him” is the sheet’s and is not altered. The assistant’s account of Mitchell’s week, declarative; the quotation ends at “doing well.” Quoted from the released text; this project holds no page image of this document. ↩

  18. Instruction written by Epstein, Tuesday 22 September 2015, sender field printing “Jeffrey E.” — EFTA00339490 p. 1, carrying “as senator mitchell if he woudl like to have a coffee with terje and ehud this week. or chomsly onver the weekend.” The spellings are the sheet’s and nothing is corrected. The message then continues with an unrelated question, which is not reproduced here; the quotation is cut at that point. Imperative in function; the quoted span ends at the printed full stop. Quoted from the released text; this project holds no page image of this document. ↩

  19. “Jeffrey Epstein”, Tuesday 22 September 2015, To field printing “Senator George Mitchell” — EFTA00339499 p. 1, carrying “Hello Senator Mitchell. Hope you are well…Jeffrey is asking if you would like to have coffee with Terje Rod Larsen and Ehud Barak next week… or with Noam Chomsky Sat. Oct 3 or 4…Might you be in NY coming up and available?” Interrogative: the span ends at the question mark, and it is an invitation put as a question, not a record that anything was agreed. The sheet carries a further line, “Please let me know…”, on its own below it, and the quotation is cut before it. Signed “Assistant to Jeffrey Epstein”; the sender’s name is not readable on the sheet and this page names no sender. Quoted from the released text; this project holds no page image of this document. ↩

  20. “Re: Jeffrey Epstein”, Wednesday 23 September 2015 — EFTA00339594 p. 1, carrying “Wow! What a schedule! Thank you for letting me know and I will pass along to Jeffrey. Hopefully next time we can put something together.” The quotation is cut before the signature block. The sender’s name is not readable on the sheet and this page names no sender. Declarative; the quoted span ends at “together.” Quoted from the released text; this project holds no page image of this document. ↩

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