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DOJ Attorney Coordinated with Epstein's Counsel on Victim Attorney Selection and Civil Claim Management

The passage reveals a concrete email from Assistant U.S. Attorney Marie Villafafia to Epstein's counsel discussing a special master to select attorneys for alleged minor victims, indicating direct fed Email dated Oct 3 2007 from Assistant U.S. Attorney Marie Villafafia to Epstein counsel Jay Lefkowit Discussion of a special master to select attorneys for young women filing civil claims under 18 U.

Date
November 11, 2025
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House Oversight
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House Oversight #013323
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The passage reveals a concrete email from Assistant U.S. Attorney Marie Villafafia to Epstein's counsel discussing a special master to select attorneys for alleged minor victims, indicating direct fed Email dated Oct 3 2007 from Assistant U.S. Attorney Marie Villafafia to Epstein counsel Jay Lefkowit Discussion of a special master to select attorneys for young women filing civil claims under 18 U.

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6. At all relevant times Edwards has had a good faith basis to believe and did in fact betieve that, more specifically, Epstein's attorneys knew of Epstein's scheme to recruit minors for Sex and also knew that these minors had civil actions that they could bring against him. In fact, there was much communication between Epstein's attorneys and the United States Prosecutors in a jgint attempt to minimize Epstein's civil exposure. For example, on October 3, 2007, Assistant U.S. Attorney Marie Villafafia sent an email (attached hereto as Exhibit “D’’) to Jay Lefkowitz, counsel for Epstein, with attached proposed letter to special master regarding handling numerous expected civil claims against Epstein. The letter reads in pertinent part, "The undersigned, as counsel for the United States of America and Jeffrey Epstein, jointly write to you to provide information relevant to your service as a Special Master in the selection of an attorney to represent several young women who may have civil damages claims against Mr. Epstein. The U.S. Attorney's Office and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (jointly referred to as the "United States") have conducted an investigation of Jeffrey Epstein regarding his solicitation of minor females in Palm Beach County to engage in prostitution. Mr. Epstein, through his assistants, would recruit underage females to travel to his home in Palm Beach to engage in lewd conduct in exchange for money. Based upon the investigation, the United States has identified forty (40) young women who can be characterized as victims pursuant to 18 USC 2255. Some of those women went to Mr. Epstein's home only once, some went there as much as 100 times or more. Some of the women's conduct was limited to performing a topless or nude massage while Mr. Epstein-masturbated himself. For other women, the conduct escalated to full sexual intercourse. As part of the resolution of the case, Epstein has agreed that he would not contest jurisdiction in the Southern District of Florida for any victim who chose to sue him for damages pursuant to 18 USC 2255. Mr. Epstein agreed to provide an attorney for victims who elected to proceed exclusively pursuant to that section, and agreed to waive any challenge to liability under that section up to an amount agreed to by the parties. The parties have agreed to submit the selection of an attorney to a Special Master..." 7. At all relevant times Edwards has had a good faith basis to believe and did in fact believe that L.M. was, in fact, a victim of Epstein’s criminal abuse because L.M. was one of the 5

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