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Michael E. Horowitz

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tagsperson, department-of-justice, office-of-the-inspector-general, metropolitan-correctional-center, non-prosecution-agreement, congressional-correspondence, 2019-2023
aliasesMichael E. Horowitz, Michael Horowitz, Inspector General Horowitz, Horowitz, Michael E., IG Horowtiz

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Named on the documents asMichael E. Horowitz, Michael Horowitz, Inspector General Horowitz, and, in the mailbox field of the one document he sent, Horowitz, Michael E.(OIG). That mailbox form is the only one of its kind in the release, and it is the reason a search on his name does not return the document1
⭐ The one document in this release that he sentSaturday 10 August 2019, 23:38:10 UTC, the day Epstein was found dead. An e-mail from "Horowitz, Michael E.(OIG)" to "Berman, Geoffrey (USANYS)", subject You free for a call on Epstein matter?. ⛔ Below the header rule the sheet carries no body. It is a header-only production, and whether a call followed is not established by it2
⭐ What he is recorded as having answered29 January 2019. Six Members of Congress, writing to the Attorney General seven months later, recite that his response stated that his Office lacked the authority to conduct such an investigation of the 2008 plea deal, and that exclusive jurisdiction lay with the Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility. His letter itself is not in this release3
How Epstein learned of itThursday 31 January 2019. His own business manager forwarded him a Politico item headed DOJ WATCHDOG WON'T BITE ACOSTA, over the line I am sure you saw this but in case you didn't4
The night of 10 August 2019An account circulated inside the FBI that evening opens I received a call tonight IG Michael Horowitz, who had agents at the MCC today with the FBI. ⚠ The stamp on that message carries no time-zone offset, so this page does not place it before or after the e-mail above5
Who wrote to him, by nameA Member of Congress (13 August 2019)6 · six Members, by copy (29 August 2019)3 · a retired Bureau of Prisons warden, disputing a draft finding about himself (April 2023)7 · counsel acting for survivors (2 May 2023)8
The two documents over his nameJune 2023. A press release announcing the report in the third person, and a video transcript opening Hello, I'm Michael Horowitz, Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Justice.910
⛔ What is not hisThe office’s 128-sheet report on the death carries his name on no sheet. Counted on the filed copy: horowitz 0, against epstein 102 and inspector general 8 on the same 128 sheets11
Covered elsewhere on this wikiDeath of Jeffrey Epstein · Prosecution of the MCC officers · Congressional oversight · William Barr · Geoffrey Berman · Alex Acosta

Michael E. Horowitz was the Inspector General of the United States Department of Justice from 2012, and his office conducted the investigation into the Bureau of Prisons’ custody of Jeffrey Epstein. This page is not about that investigation. Its findings belong to Death of Jeffrey Epstein and are not restated here.

This page is about the man, and it is narrow on purpose. The release holds about ninety documents attributable to him, and most of them are press clippings in Departmental and Bureau news digests on subjects that have nothing to do with this case. Under that bulk sit the twelve documents this page is built from: one he sent; two issued over his name by his own office; four addressed to him by name; one carrying his answer of January 2019 to Epstein himself; one recording a telephone call attributed to him on the night of the death; one recording that a document he referred to was obtained the next morning; one naming him among three officials announcing an indictment; and one alleging a refusal by his office. ⚠ Twelve is a judgement about what counts as an instrument here. It is not a count of anything, and no figure of that kind is offered as a measurement on this page.

⚠ Two of the most substantial of those are invisible to a search on his name, because one prints the name surname-first inside a mailbox field and the other calls him DOJ's top watchdog and then uses the bare surname.1

⛔ The surname is not a way to find him. It is carried by 2,214 documents in this release, of which 1,267 carry the phrase adam d horowitz alone: a Florida plaintiffs’ lawyer who acted for claimants against Epstein. Nothing on this page is attributed from a bare surname, and every identification below rests on a full name, a title, or both on the same sheet.1 ⛔ Sheets in this file also carry material about survivors and about private third parties. None of it is reproduced, described, counted or located here, and each footnote states positively what was taken from its sheet and what was not.

January 2019: he was asked to review the plea deal, and answered that he could not

The answer is not in this release. The record of it is.

On 29 August 2019 six Members of Congress wrote to Attorney General William Barr asking that the Department permit the Office of the Inspector General to investigate the whole Epstein case rather than only the death. Their third paragraph recites what had happened when they asked before:

Members of Congress made a similar request for an independent investigation of this potentially illegal plea deal last year (see attached item 1, dated Nov. 30, 2018). Regrettably, we were denied. The subsequent response from Inspector General Michael Horowitz (see attached item 2, dated Jan. 29, 2019) stated that his Office lacked the authority to conduct such an investigation, and that Congress in Sec 8E(b)(3) of the Inspector General Act had delegated exclusive jurisdiction into such matters to the DOJ’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR). The Inspector General has requested authority from the Department on several other occasions to investigate issues related to attorney misconduct and every time that authority has been denied.3

Three distinct claims sit in that paragraph and they do not carry the same weight.

  • ✅ Documented fact: that six Members of Congress wrote this, on 29 August 2019, to the Attorney General, and copied it to him. The copy line is printed on the signature sheet: CC: Mr. Michael Horowitz, Inspector General, U.S. Department of Justice.3
  • ⚠ Credible allegation: what his letter of 29 January 2019 actually said. It is described by its recipients, in advocacy correspondence, and the letter itself was not located in this release. The same is true of the request of 30 November 2018 and of the several other occasions on which the Members say he sought authority over attorney misconduct.312
  • ➡ Question: whether the statutory position the Members describe is a complete account of why the plea deal was reviewed by the Office of Professional Responsibility rather than by the Inspector General. No document read for this page settles it, and nothing here adopts either the Members’ characterisation or the answer they attribute to him.

⚠ Read the sentence after the recital, because it is the Members conceding the point: “While we understand his concerns regarding the limitations on the statutory independence of the OIG, there are no legitimate legal barriers to an independent investigation of the circumstances surrounding this plea deal.”3 They do not say he was wrong about his authority. They say the Department should give him more of it.

⛔ What the Department did with that letter is already written up, in full, at congressional oversight, from the Executive Secretariat control sheet filed in front of it. That analysis is not restated here.3

31 January 2019: Epstein was sent the news

Two days after the date the Members give for his answer, Epstein’s own business manager forwarded it to him. The covering line is one sentence, I am sure you saw this but in case you didn't, and below it a Politico item, printed in the sheet’s own emphasis:

DOJ WATCHDOG WON’T BITE ACOSTA: DOJ’s top watchdog said Tuesday that it won’t investigate a 2007 plea deal that Labor Secretary Alex Acosta cut with billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein following a chorus of requests from both Republican and Democratic lawmakers, POLITICO’s Matt Dixon reports.4

and, four sentences later:

In a letter sent Tuesday, Horowitz said his office lacked jurisdiction over the matter.4

⚠ This is a news item’s account of a letter, at second hand, and the tier is credible allegation rather than documented fact. What is documented is narrower and is the reason the sheet matters: by 31 January 2019 the refusal had reached Jeffrey Epstein personally, in his own inbox, sent by his own business manager. 29 January 2019 was a Tuesday, which is consistent with the date the Members give, and the two accounts of the letter agree with each other while neither is the letter.43 ⚠ The characterisations of Epstein and of the plea deal in the quoted item are the newspaper’s. See Alex Acosta and the 2008 non-prosecution agreement.

10 August 2019: the question he asked

The document is four lines long and it is the only one in this release over his name. The header prints:

From: "Horowitz, Michael E.(OIG)" · To: "Berman, Geoffrey (USANYS)" · Subject: You free for a call on Epstein matter? · Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2019 23:38:10 +00002

The Inspector General of the Department of Justice, to the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, on the day Epstein was found dead in federal custody.

⛔⛔ And there is nothing else on the sheet: below the rule that closes the header, no text is printed. This is a header-only production, and it establishes exactly one thing: that at 23:38:10 UTC on 10 August 2019 he asked that question. ⛔ It does not establish that a call took place, that it was answered, or what either man said. The subject line is a question, and this page reports it as a question asked.2 See Geoffrey Berman.

The same night, a call attributed to him

A separate document, in a separate production, records an account of a call. At 01:16:04 UTC on 11 August 2019 a message went out over the block Assistant Director in Charge / FBI New York Office, under the subject Fwd: FW: Epstein, with one line of its own:

We were tracking same. IG agent has been out there with us.5

Inside it, a message stamped Aug 10, 2019 9:03 PM, printed in blue on the sheet and introduced FYSA, from SDNY:, opens:

I received a call tonight IG Michael Horowitz, who had agents at the MCC today with the FBI.5

The words are as printed; the sheet does not print from between tonight and IG.5

⚠⚠ This page does not say that this is the call the e-mail asked for, and it does not say which came first. The e-mail’s stamp carries an explicit +0000. The inner message’s stamp carries no offset at all, and read as Eastern time it falls after the e-mail while read as UTC it falls before it. ⛔ Nothing on either sheet settles that, the two documents are addressed to different offices, and no interval is computed here. ➡ The sequence raises a question this page does not answer.25

⚠ What the inner message goes on to say about a named officer and what she is said to have admitted belongs to the prosecution of the MCC officers and is not reproduced here. The one further sentence taken from it is the office’s, not the man’s: “We are opening an 18 USC 1001 investigation on the guard’s submission of a false report, which investigation will be worked on by agents from OIG and FBI.”5

11 August 2019: the report he referred to is chased down

The next morning the Southern District went looking for what he had mentioned. In a thread answering the United States Attorney’s written questions, timed On Aug 11, 2019, at 11:48 AM and opening Hi Geoff, and The answers to your questions are below., the first answer contains this clause:

We also received the report that Michael Horowitz referenced last night, which was written by a supervisor13

Berman answered at 11:52:46 AM EDT: This is great. Thanks.13

⛔ The rest of that answer, and the whole of the second sheet, concern the conduct of named correctional officers, the camera system and the autopsy. None of it is reproduced here, and all of it belongs to Death of Jeffrey Epstein and the prosecution of the MCC officers.13

➡ What this clause adds under his name is small and checkable: on the night of 10 August he referred the prosecutors to a document, and by the following morning they had it. It is the only sheet read for this page in which something he is said to have said produced a traceable consequence.

13 and 29 August 2019: two letters addressed to him

13 August 2019. A Member of Congress wrote jointly to him and to the Director of the FBI, on House letterhead, addressed Michael E. Horowitz / Inspector General / Department of Justice, opening Dear Inspector General Horowitz and Director Wray:. The letter asks that the inquiry into the facility be widened beyond the death, and it ends its first page:

Given his notoriety, I understand that your respective agencies will investigate the events leading to the death of Mr. Epstein. This review is wholly appropriate, and I thank you for conducting it.6

⛔ The letter’s list of earlier incidents at the facility concerns other detainees, including allegations of sexual abuse against them. None of it is reproduced, described or counted here.6 ⚠ This letter, in another copy, is already written up at congressional oversight, which explains why it has no Departmental control sheet. This page adds only that he was one of its two named addressees.

29 August 2019. The six Members’ letter set out above was addressed to the Attorney General and copied to him.3

⚠⚠ No reply by him to either letter was located in this release, and this page says that it was not located rather than that none exists.12

19 November 2019: a press release naming him, which reaches the record as a draft

The Southern District announced the indictment of two correctional officers, and named him among the three officials announcing it. The release, marked FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE and Tuesday, November 19, 2019, opens:

Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Michael Horowitz, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) Inspector General, and William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced today the unsealing of an indictment14

⚠⚠ The sheet cited here is a draft, and the page says so because the sheet says so. The judge’s name is an unfilled rule, the release number at the foot is the placeholder 19-XXX, and the identities of the prosecuting Assistant U.S. Attorneys are likewise unfilled. The United States Attorney’s quotation is written in and runs to nine lines. The line DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz said: is followed by no quotation, and so is the line for the FBI Assistant Director.14

⛔ This page does not say what the issued release contained. It says what this sheet prints. Three sheets in this release carry this document and no comparison between them was made or is reported.14 ⛔ The conduct charged, the indictment and its disposition belong to the prosecution of the MCC officers and are not restated here.

27 August 2019: an allegation against his office, in a filing of its own kind

A pro se applicant moved to intervene in the Southern District prosecution of Epstein. Under FACTUAL BACKGROUND the motion states:

The complaint was escalated to Michael Horowitz’s office of the Inspector General (OIG; See EXHIBIT A Case 1:19-CR-00490-RMB hereby attached by Declaration). OIG refused to investigate the complaint.15

⚠⚠ The tier here is the whole point, and the surrounding document sets it. The applicant says he was a licensed engineer and bridge inspector who filed a whistleblower complaint with a state auditor in 2012 or 2013. The same sheet’s stated relief is Relator/ Intervenor requests seizure of the politically corrupt organization USDOJ, and the same page alleges that a state government concealed information so that two named political parties could launder seventy billion dollars through his own former attorneys.15

➡ A first-person account of what an office did with one’s own complaint is the kind of thing its author would know. ⛔ It is also untested, unverified, uncorroborated by anything read for this page, and set in a filing whose other assertions are extraordinary on their face. This page records that the allegation was made, in that document, and nothing more. ⛔ The applicant is a private individual and is not named here.

⚠ No response by him or by his office to this allegation is recorded on this page. That is a statement about what was located, not about what exists.12

April to June 2023: the draft, the announcement, and the two sheets in his own voice

The draft went out to the people it was about

A retired warden of the facility wrote to him by name. The memorandum’s address block, subject line and opening are:

MEMORANDUM FOR MICHAEL E. HOROWITZ, INSPECTOR GENERAL, DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

SUBJECT: Response to Draft for the Office of Inspector General Investigation (OIG) of Jeffrey Epstein Suicide

On Wednesday April 5, 2023, I reviewed the OIG draft report for the suicide of Jeffrey Epstein at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in New York, New York.7

It closes Thank you for your time and consideration in reviewing my response. and Respectfully submitted,, and no signature is printed on the sheet.7

➡ What this establishes is a process, and the process is what is new here: nearly three months before publication, a subject of the investigation had the draft, disputed a finding about himself in writing, and addressed his dispute to the Inspector General personally. ⛔ The finding he disputes, and his answer to it, are about the Bureau’s handling of the cell assignment and belong to Death of Jeffrey Epstein. They are not argued here.7 ⛔ His name is not printed on the sheet and none is supplied.

2 May 2023: counsel for survivors wrote to him

Eight weeks before publication, counsel acting for survivors wrote jointly to the Director of the FBI, to him, and to the Attorney General. He is addressed on the sheet as Michael E. Horowitz / Inspector General / U.S. Department of Justice, and the salutation reads Dear Director Wray, Inspector General Horowitz, and Attorney General Garland:. The opening sentence is the whole of what this page takes from the letter’s argument:

As counsel to many survivors of the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking conspiracy, we write regarding the failure of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to properly, adequately, or timely investigate the sex trafficking of hundreds of girls and young women.8

⛔⛔ This is a fifty-seven sheet letter about identified clients, and nothing below that sentence is read into this page, reproduced, summarised, counted or characterised. ⛔ The law firm and the individual attorney named on the letterhead are not named here. What the sheet establishes, and the only thing this page takes from it, is that on 2 May 2023 counsel acting for survivors addressed him by name and title as one of three recipients, and said in their own opening words what they were writing about.8

⚠ No reply by him was located.12

27 June 2023: the press release, and the transcript in the first person

The announcement is over his name. Under the Office of the Inspector General’s letterhead, dated June 27, 2023:

Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz announced today the release of a report of investigation regarding the Federal Bureau of Prison’s (BOP) custody, care, and supervision of Jeffrey Epstein while detained at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York, New York (MCC New York).9

The accompanying video transcript is the only document in this release written throughout in his own voice. It is headed "A Message from the Inspector General: Investigation and Review on the BOP's Custody, Care, and Supervision of Jeffrey Epstein at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York, New York," June 2023, and it opens:

Hello, I’m Michael Horowitz, Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Justice.

Today my office released a report on the Federal Bureau of Prisons, or BOP’s, custody, care, and supervision of inmate Jeffrey Epstein at the MCC New York.10

It ends Thank you for joining me today.10

⛔ The findings recited in both documents are the report’s, and they are set out at Death of Jeffrey Epstein. They are not restated here. ⚠ One observation about the transcript is new and is recorded without re-arguing it: William Barr establishes that the report’s concluding sentence about the conditions in which Epstein was left occurs three times in two wordings. The video transcript carries a fourth wording of it, spoken in the first person. That page quotes and frames the sentence, and this one does not.10

”The office acted” is not “he acted”, and here it is measurable

The Inspector General’s office produced a 128-sheet report on the death. His name is on none of those sheets.

the filed copy of report 23-085sheets
sheets in the document128
sheets matching horowitz0
control: sheets matching epstein102
control: sheets matching inspector general8
control: sheets matching an invented token0

The zero is a measurement, because the same query returns 102 and 8 on the same 128 sheets and returns nothing on a token that is not there.11

➡ That is the boundary this page keeps. The report is the office’s instrument and its contents are worked out at Death of Jeffrey Epstein. The press release and the video transcript are his, by name and in the first person, and they are the reason those two documents appear above.

Identification, and why his name is not the way to find him

The bare surname reaches 2,214 documents across 4,217 pages, and almost none of them are his. The single heaviest bearer is a Florida plaintiffs’ lawyer who acted for claimants against Epstein: the phrase adam d horowitz alone reaches 1,267 documents. mr horowitz reaches 145 documents across 708 pages and is overwhelmingly that lawyer being addressed in depositions and hearings. ⛔ Any transcript line beginning MR. HOROWITZ: or BY MR. HOROWITZ: is that lawyer unless the sheet says otherwise, and no line of that shape is used anywhere on this page.1

Two forms are productive and precise. michael horowitz reaches 67 documents across 74 pages; inspector general conjoined with horowitz reaches 80 documents. Their union is 90 documents, and that union is the population from which this page was built.1

⚠⚠ The union does not contain the two documents this page most depends on.

  • EFTA00088582, the one he sent, prints the name surname-first inside a mailbox field. The phrase horowitz michael e returns exactly one document in the whole release, and it is that one.12
  • EFTA01028566, the item that reached Epstein, calls him DOJ's top watchdog and then uses the bare surname, so neither form of the screen sees it.14

⚠ A misspelling is productive, and it is on the sheet rather than in the extraction. The transposition horowtiz reaches 5 documents, and none of the five carries any correct spelling of the surname anywhere, so none of them is inside the 2,214. Four are daily news digests carrying the sentence IG Horowtiz's report describing Comey's actions, printed that way on the one of the four that was opened at 400 dpi; the other three were read from the text layer only. ⛔ All four carry that sentence in an item about a different report on a different subject, and none of them is used for anything on this page.1

⛔ horowitz report is a trap and is used nowhere on this page. The phrase reaches 16 documents across 24 pages, and not one of them concerns this subject or this case.1

⛔ Several other bearers of the surname were removed by identifier and none is cited here: a venture firm whose name is the surname, reached by andreessen horowitz in 89 documents; a theatre director; a pianist; a political scientist who shares the forename and differs in the middle initial; a New York Times correspondent; and account holders of the surname in bank records, including one whose middle initial matches. ⛔ A middle initial is not an identity, and no financial record is cited or characterised on this page.1

What this page does not establish

  • That a call took place on the night of 10 August 2019 between him and the United States Attorney. He asked You free for a call on Epstein matter? at 23:38:10 UTC. The sheet has no body, no reply was located, and the question is all the document carries.212
  • That the call an FBI message attributes to him that evening is the same call. The two documents are in different productions, addressed to different offices, and the second stamp carries no time-zone offset. This page computes no interval and asserts no order.25
  • What his letter of 29 January 2019 said. It is described by six Members of Congress who received it and reported by a news item Epstein was sent. The letter itself, and the congressional request of 30 November 2018 it answered, were not located in this release.3412
  • Whether he replied to any of the letters addressed to him. Four are cited above. No reply by him to any of them was located, and that is a statement about what was searched, not about what exists.12
  • Anything about the truth of the allegation that his office refused a whistleblower complaint. A pro se applicant asserted it in a motion to intervene. The document establishes the assertion and nothing else, and no response to it is recorded on this page.1512
  • What the issued Southern District press release of 19 November 2019 contained. The sheet cited is a draft with unfilled fields. This page describes that sheet and makes no claim about any other.14
  • Anything about his conduct, his judgment, or his office’s performance. ⛔ No document read for this page contains a finding about him by anyone. The Members of Congress disagreed with a jurisdictional position they attribute to him; that is a disagreement recorded in a letter, and it is not a finding.312
  • Anything about his life, career or other work outside these documents. ⛔ This page is built entirely from the released record and imports nothing from anywhere else.

Footnotes

  1. Counts are of distinct documents and of matching pages in the full-text index of the release, each form run as an exact FTS5 phrase and counted as count(distinct efta_number) and count(*), measured 2026-10-01 against a read-only local copy of the corpus. horowitz bare 2,214 documents / 4,217 pages; adam d horowitz 1,267 / 1,743; mr horowitz 145 / 708; michael horowitz 67 / 74; inspector general AND horowitz 80 documents; the union of those last two 90 documents; michael e horowitz 14 / 14; inspector general horowitz 8 / 8; horowitz michael e 1 / 1; horowtiz 5 / 5; horowitz report 16 / 24; andreessen horowitz 89 / 141; ig horowitz 0 / 0. Controls, run on the same route in the same session: zzq horowitz 0, michael zzorowitz 0, horowitz zzqfoo 0, so a zero from this route is a measurement and not a failed query. The 90 is a population, not a finding: how many of the 90 are this subject is a judgement about who each sheet names, it was not counted, and no such figure is given on this page. The horowtiz claim was verified at the image: https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01658203 printed page 12 (database page 11; the sheet’s own Bates stamp is EFTA01658214), read at 400 dpi, prints IG Horowtiz's report describing Comey's actions in a Departmental daily news digest. The five documents that phrase returns are excluded from the 2,214 by measurement, not by inference: the query that finds them and the query that finds the correct spelling share no document. The other bearers named in the body were separated by the full name, the middle initial or the citation form on the sheet, never by the surname, and no identifier for any of them is cited anywhere on this page. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10

  2. E-mail, one sheet, header only. From: "Horowitz, Michael E.(OIG)", To: "Berman, Geoffrey (USANYS)", Subject: You free for a call on Epstein matter?, Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2019 23:38:10 +0000. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00088582 p. 1 (the sole sheet; the database numbers it page 0; the sheet’s own Bates stamp is EFTA00088582). VERIFIED AT THE IMAGE at 400 dpi. From this sheet this page takes the two mailbox display names, the subject line and the date field, and nothing else. Below the rule that closes the header the sheet carries no text whatever, which is why this page reports a question asked and not a call held. ⛔ The address values in the two mailbox fields are not reproduced. This document is typed email.header in the corpus and its sender field reads Michael Horowitz; the classification is recorded here as an observation and nothing on this page rests on it. No other copy of this document was located and none is relied on. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  3. Letter of August 29, 2019 from six Members of the House of Representatives to The Honorable William Barr, U.S. Attorney General, filed behind a Department of Justice Executive Secretariat control sheet. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00175131 p. 2 for the recital and the sentence following it (database page 1; the sheet’s own Bates stamp is EFTA00175132), and p. 3 for the signatures and the copy line (database page 2; Bates EFTA00175133). BOTH SHEETS VERIFIED AT THE IMAGE at 400 dpi, together with the control sheet at p. 1. The signatures were counted at the image and there are six: the text layer of that sheet renders only five and drops one signatory entirely, which is why the count is stated from the image. The copy line prints CC: Mr. Michael Horowitz, Inspector General, U.S. Department of Justice; the text layer renders the surname as I4orowitz, and that damage is the extraction’s and is not on the sheet. Two further extraction errors on the recital sheet were checked and corrected against the image: the text layer renders DOJ's Office of Professional Responsibility as DOD's and the blackletter masthead as Congress of the Iliniteb aides. From these sheets this page takes the date, the addressee, the recital paragraph, the sentence that follows it, the copy line and the fact that six Members signed. Nothing else is reproduced. ⚠ The attachments the recital refers to, attached item 1, dated Nov. 30, 2018 and attached item 2, dated Jan. 29, 2019, were not located behind this document in the sheets read. The Executive Secretariat control sheet at p. 1, and what the Department did with this letter, are enumerated and framed at congressional oversight from the same identifier; that work is not repeated here and no part of it is restated. ⛔ Values on the control sheet are withheld by the producer and nothing is said about them. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11

  4. Richard Kahn to Jeffrey Epstein, Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 13:11:34 +0000, no subject line, one sheet, carrying a Politico item under the covering line quoted. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01028566 p. 1 (the sole sheet; database page 0; Bates EFTA01028566). VERIFIED AT THE IMAGE at 400 dpi. The item’s headline is set in bold on the sheet and the emphasis above is the sheet’s, not this page’s. Three words in the item are set as hyperlinks on the sheet, Republican, letter and here; the links are not followed and nothing is taken from them. From this sheet this page takes the date field, the covering line, the item’s first sentence and its sentence about the letter. The covering line is printed with a trailing ellipsis which is not reproduced above. ⚠ The identification of Horowitz in the item rests on the item’s own antecedent, DOJ's top watchdog, and on the independent recital at EFTA00175131, not on the bare surname. ⛔ The recipient’s address is printed in the header, and a street line, a telephone label, a fax label and a cell label are printed in the signature block. None of them is reproduced. No other copy of this document was located and none is relied on. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  5. Forward within the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Subject: Fwd: FW: Epstein, Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2019 01:16:04 +0000, Importance: Normal, one sheet, carrying two nested messages. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00165281 p. 1 (the sole sheet; database page 0; Bates EFTA00165281). VERIFIED AT THE IMAGE at 400 dpi. The innermost message is printed in blue on the sheet, which distinguishes it from the covering line above, and is introduced FYSA, from SDNY:; that is a fact the text layer cannot carry. From this sheet this page takes the subject line, the outer date field, the covering line, the two lines of the sender’s block that give a title and an office, the inner date stamp Aug 10, 2019 9:03 PM, the innermost message’s first sentence, and its last paragraph about the opening of an investigation. ⚠ The inner stamp carries no time-zone offset and the intermediate stamp On Aug 10, 2019 21:05, carries none either, which is why this page places the message neither before nor after EFTA00088582 and computes no interval. ⛔ The remainder of the innermost message concerns a named correctional officer and what she is said to have admitted; none of it is reproduced, and it belongs to the prosecution of the MCC officers. ⛔ No name, address or telephone value from this sheet is reproduced. Two further sheets in the release carry the same forward, https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00165279 and https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00165282; neither was opened, neither is relied on, and no comparison between copies was made or is reported. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  6. Letter of August 13, 2019 on House of Representatives letterhead from Representative Nydia M. Velazquez, addressed jointly to Michael E. Horowitz / Inspector General / Department of Justice and to Christopher A. Wray / Director / Federal Bureau of Investigation, forwarded into the Bureau by its Office of Congressional Affairs. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00175117 p. 2 (database page 1; Bates EFTA00175118). VERIFIED AT THE IMAGE at 400 dpi. From this sheet this page takes the date, the two address blocks, the salutation and the paragraph quoted, which is the last paragraph printed above the footnote rule on that sheet. Nothing else is reproduced. ⛔ The four bulleted items on the same sheet describe earlier incidents at the facility involving other detainees, two of them allegations of sexual abuse. None of them is reproduced, summarised, counted or characterised here. ⛔ The covering sheet at p. 1 carries a mail handle and a telephone line, and the letter’s own foot carries three office addresses and three telephone lines; none of them is reproduced. A second printing of this letter is at https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00175120 and is cited, with its covering e-mail and the Bureau’s handling of it, at congressional oversight; that copy was not opened for this page, no comparison between the two was made, and the analysis on that page is not restated here. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  7. Memorandum addressed MEMORANDUM FOR MICHAEL E. HOROWITZ, INSPECTOR GENERAL, DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, from a retired warden, subject Response to Draft for the Office of Inspector General Investigation (OIG) of Jeffrey Epstein Suicide, set in a monospaced typeface. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00035913 p. 1 (database page 0; Bates EFTA00035913). VERIFIED AT THE IMAGE at 400 dpi. From this sheet this page takes the address block, the subject line, the first sentence, the closing sentence and the words Respectfully submitted,, below which the sheet prints nothing further. Nothing else is reproduced. ⛔ The body of the memorandum sets out the author’s answer to a draft finding about the assignment of a cellmate; that subject matter belongs to Death of Jeffrey Epstein and is neither quoted nor argued here. ⛔ The author’s name is withheld on the sheet and none is supplied; this page names him by the role the sheet prints, Warden (Retired). The second sheet of this document carries the Bates stamp EFTA00035914 and nothing else. A second printing is at https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00064564; it was not opened, it is not relied on, and no comparison between copies was made or is reported. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  8. Letter of May 2, 2023 from counsel acting for survivors of the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking conspiracy, addressed jointly to the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, to Michael E. Horowitz / Inspector General / U.S. Department of Justice, and to the Attorney General; fifty-seven sheets. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00144344 p. 1 (database page 0; Bates EFTA00144344). VERIFIED AT THE IMAGE at 400 dpi, first sheet only. ⛔⛔ From this sheet this page takes the date, the three address blocks, the salutation and the letter’s first sentence, and nothing whatever else. The rest of the sheet, and all fifty-six sheets after it, concern identified clients of the firm and were not read into this page. ⛔ The firm and the individual attorney printed on the letterhead are not named here, because naming them on a page about a federal official would connect this letter to other filings in the release in which those clients are identified, and nothing on this page requires it. ⛔ The letterhead and the three address blocks carry values withheld by the producer and nothing is said about them. This document is typed image.scan in the corpus and its documents.total_pages field agrees with the fifty-seven rows in the page index; both are recorded as observations and nothing rests on either. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  9. Press release of the Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General, dated June 27, 2023, headed DOJ OIG Releases Report on the BOP's Custody, Care, and Supervision of Jeffrey Epstein at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York, New York, three sheets. https://epstein-data.com/DOJ-OGR-00023489 p. 1 (database page 0; Bates DOJ-OGR-00023489). VERIFIED AT THE IMAGE at 400 dpi. From this sheet this page takes the date, the headline and the opening paragraph’s first sentence. Nothing else is reproduced, because everything that follows it on the sheet is a summary of the report’s findings, which are set out at Death of Jeffrey Epstein. ⚠ The text layer of this sheet renders DOJ OIG as DO} OIG in the headline and DOJ as DO] in three places in the body; the sheet prints DOJ and the reading above is the image’s. ⚠ The third page of this document is not a sheet of the press release: its row in the page index begins [VISION] and is a vision model’s description of an image, not an extraction of text. Nothing is quoted from it and it is not cited. This document is typed fbi.report in the corpus, which it is not. Two further printings are at https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02847760 and https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00035824; neither was opened, neither is relied on, and no comparison between copies was made or is reported. ↩ ↩2

  10. Transcript of a video message of the Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General, headed "A Message from the Inspector General: Investigation and Review on the BOP's Custody, Care, and Supervision of Jeffrey Epstein at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York, New York," June 2023, two sheets. https://epstein-data.com/DOJ-OGR-00023492 pp. 1-2 (database pages 0 and 1; the two sheets’ own Bates stamps are DOJ-OGR-00023492 and DOJ-OGR-00023493, and the second sheet carries the printed folio 2). BOTH SHEETS VERIFIED AT THE IMAGE at 400 dpi. From these sheets this page takes the heading, the first two paragraphs and the closing line. Nothing else is reproduced, because the six paragraphs between them recite the report’s findings, which are set out at Death of Jeffrey Epstein. The observation about a fourth wording of the report’s concluding sentence is made against the treatment at William Barr, which quotes and frames that sentence; the sentence is not re-quoted here and the wordings are not set against one another on this page. A production credit for stock music is printed on the second sheet and is not reproduced. This document is typed fbi.report in the corpus, which it is not. A second printing is at https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02847763; it was not opened, it is not relied on, and no comparison between copies was made or is reported. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  11. Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General, Investigation and Review of the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Custody, Care, and Supervision of Jeffrey Epstein at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York, New York, report 23-085, June 2023. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01656708 . TEXT LAYER ONLY, NOT OPENED, and deliberately so: this page cites the document for a count of what is not in it and quotes nothing from it. Method: the rows of the page index for this identifier were counted and matched case-insensitively with LIKE. Results, measured 2026-10-01: rows in the page index 128; rows matching horowitz 0; rows matching epstein 102; rows matching inspector general 8; rows matching the invented token zzqfoo 0. The two positive controls fire on the same identifier and the negative control returns nothing, so the zero is a measurement and not a failed query. ⚠ The count is of sheets containing the string, not of occurrences, and it was run against the text layer; a name broken across a line break by a hyphen would not be found by it, and no such search was run. The documents.total_pages field for this identifier also reads 128 and agrees with the row count; that agreement is recorded rather than relied on. The report’s own contents, its findings and its recommendations are set out at Death of Jeffrey Epstein and at the prosecution of the MCC officers, and the page-numbering convention for this report is established at William Barr; none of that is restated here. ↩ ↩2

  12. Statements of absence on this page are bounded to the documents read and returned for it and to the full-text index of this release, measured 2026-10-01. They are not assertions that no such document exists anywhere. Specifically: no letter or other writing of his of 29 January 2019 was located; no congressional request of 30 November 2018 was located; no reply by him to the letters of 13 August 2019, 29 August 2019 or 2 May 2023 was located; no reply by him or by his office to the allegation in the motion to intervene was located; no finding about him by any court, agency or body was located; and no document was located that establishes whether a telephone call followed his e-mail of 10 August 2019. ⚠ The search forms used to reach this file are listed in the identification footnote above and are not exhaustive: the surname population was not swept document by document, no edit-distance enumeration was run, and one misspelling is already known to reach documents that no correct spelling reaches, so assume a second. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9

  13. Thread within the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, outermost message Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 15:05:14 +0000, subject RE: Re:, two sheets. The innermost exchange is timed On Aug 11, 2019, at 11:48 AM and the reply from "Berman, Geoffrey (USANYS)" is timed August 11, 2019 at 11:52:46 AM EDT. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00027936 p. 1 (database page 0; Bates EFTA00027936). VERIFIED AT THE IMAGE at 400 dpi. From this sheet this page takes the two inner stamps, the salutation Hi Geoff,, the line The answers to your questions are below., Berman’s three-word reply, and the single clause about the report. Nothing else is reproduced. ⚠ The clause is quoted to the end of the word supervisor; what follows it on the sheet identifies that supervisor and then recounts what two named officers are said to have admitted, and none of that is carried here. ⛔ The second sheet of this document concerns the camera system, the cell assignment and the autopsy, and is not used on this page. ⚠ No interval is computed between the answer and the reply: the first stamp is bare and the second is marked EDT, and this page gives both as printed rather than differencing them. ⛔ No name, mailbox or address value from this sheet is reproduced; the sheet attributes the answer to no named person and none is supplied. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  14. Press release of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, Tuesday, November 19, 2019, three sheets. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00017912 p. 1 (database page 0; Bates EFTA00017912). VERIFIED AT THE IMAGE at 400 dpi. From this sheet this page takes the release marking, the date, the opening paragraph’s naming of the three officials, and the two lines that introduce quotations without carrying one. The sheet is a draft and the page says so on the evidence of the sheet itself: after The case is assigned to Southern District of New York U.S. District Judge the sheet prints a fill-in rule and no name; the third sheet of the same document prints the release number as 19-XXX and leaves the prosecuting attorneys unnamed; and the two lines DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz said: and FBI Assistant Director William F. Sweeney Jr. said: stand at the foot of the sheet with no quotation after either of them, while the U.S. Attorney’s quotation above them is set out in full. ⛔ Nothing is said here about the contact block at the head of the sheet. ⛔ The second and third sheets of this document set out the allegations of the indictment against two named correctional officers; none of that is reproduced here and all of it belongs to the prosecution of the MCC officers. This document is typed court.indictment in the corpus, which it is not; the field is recorded here as an observation and nothing rests on it. Two further sheets in the release carry this document, https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00065061 and https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00106012; neither was opened, neither is relied on, and no comparison between copies was made or is reported. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  15. Motion to intervene, United States v. Epstein, Case 1:19-cr-00490-RMB (S.D.N.Y.), Document 51, filed 08/27/19, the sheet bearing the internal folio MOTION TO INTERVENE - 2. https://epstein-data.com/DOJ-OGR-00000633 p. 2 (printed Page 2 of 4; database page 1; the sheet’s own Bates stamp is DOJ-OGR-00000634). VERIFIED AT THE IMAGE at 400 dpi. From this sheet this page takes the case number, the filing date, the two sentences quoted about the Office of the Inspector General, the applicant’s own description of himself as a licensed engineer and bridge inspector, the stated relief, and the fact that the same page alleges a seventy-billion-dollar laundering scheme. Nothing else is reproduced. ⛔ The applicant’s name and street address are printed at the foot of the sheet and neither is reproduced; he is a private individual and this page uses his role only. ⛔ The exhibits the motion refers to were not located behind it in the sheets read and nothing is said about them. This filing is described here as a motion to intervene because that is what the sheet calls itself; an earlier desk reading called it a declaration. A second printing is at https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02824511; it was not opened, it is not relied on, and no comparison between copies was made or is reported. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

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