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U 7,4 THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH December 2, Am PAUL G. CASSELL S.J. QUINNEY COLLEGE OF LAW Wilfredo A. Ferrer U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida U.S. Attorney's Office 99 N.E. 4th Street Miami, FL 33132 Re: Jeffrey Epstein's Sexual Assault Victims in Jane Does 1 & 2 v. United States Dear Mr. Ferrer: My co-counsel, Brad Edwards, and I are writing with a simple request: That your Office continue to view Jane Does 1- 33 as "victims" of Jeffrey Epstein's sexual assaults against them. Since 2007, this has been the position of your Office. Indeed, in 2007-08, your Office extracted hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments from Epstein based on representations that these girls were "victims" of his crimes. Recently, however, attorneys in your Office have suggested that these girls might have somehow been "complicit" in their own sexual abuse and therefore not "victims" of Epstein's crimes under the Crime Victims' Rights Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3771. This suggestio