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Document	Volume	Page	Context
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	21	. Villafaña’s Emails with Defense Attorney Lefkowitz during the NPA Negotiations Do Not Establish That Villafaña, or Other Subjects, Intended to Give ...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	42	aña on child exploitation cases—and who is referred to in this Report as “the case agent”—mentioned to Villafaña in “casual conversations” having lear...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	43	Villafaña nor the case agent had heard of Epstein or had any knowledge of his background. According to Villafaña, during this meeting, the Detective e...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	45	o make sure that they know about it so they don’t get . . . a call from out of the blue.” According to Villafaña, she told Acosta and Sloman that the ...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	49	e fact that Lewis had already made contact with the USAO on Epstein’s behalf, Sanchez sent a letter to Villafaña on November 15, 2006, in which she as...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	50	ut meeting with defense counsel. They perceived Lourie to be dismissive of their views.35 According to Villafaña, Lourie believed that a meeting with ...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	51	r told OPR that she viewed the case as prosecutable, but recognized that the case was complex and that Villafaña would need co-counsel. In his OPR int...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	53	d to Lourie with an email stating that the memorandum was “exhaustive” and “well done” and noting that Villafaña “has correctly focused on the issues ...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	55	29 Lourie followed up his email to Villafaña with one to Menchel, in which Lourie reiterated the potential benefits of a pre-indictment plea,
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	56	Acosta and Menchel believed Villafaña’s timeline was unrealistic from the start. Acosta told OPR that Villafaña was “very hard charging,” but her time...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	60	the proposed indictment and asking again for feedback. During his OPR interview, Lourie observed that Villafaña’s request for feedback reflected her d...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	61	ey obviously did not persuade” the USAO because “we . . . didn’t drop the investigation.” According to Villafaña, Lourie, and Menchel, during a short ...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	62	ent that had been taken from Epstein’s residence before the October 2005 state search warrant and that Villafaña had been requesting from the defense ...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	66	action was ultimately decided by Alex Acosta.” He referenced, among others, his May 14, 2007 email to Villafaña informing her that Acosta was deciding...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	68	he email, Menchel went on to explain the circumstances of his conversation with Sanchez and respond to Villafaña’s complaints: Lilly Sanchez called me...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	71	refrain from raising her concerns with Acosta, Sloman, or Lourie, and he did not believe his email to Villafaña foreclosed her from meeting with Acost...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	72	video that might have corroborated victim statements about visiting Epstein’s home. More generally, in Villafaña’s experience, individuals involved in...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	75	equipment. Regardless of exactly how Acosta’s decision regarding the two-year term was communicated to Villafaña and the FBI agents, and regardless of...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	77	mail message for Menchel. During their OPR interviews, neither Villafaña nor Menchel could recall what Villafaña said in that message. On July 30, 200...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	78	eement” came from Acosta, although Menchel may have communicated that terminology to her. According to Villafaña, she asked that it include a mechanis...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	82	56 Menchel made several substantive changes to Villafaña’s draft letter. He specified that “a two-year term of state imprisonment” was the minimum sen...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	87	erests of the prosecution team,” and that he was in favor of going forward with the case. According to Villafaña, during his review of the file, Ooste...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	91	her Krischer nor Belohlavek expressed concern about proceeding as the USAO was proposing. According to Villafaña, Belohlavek explained that a plea to ...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	95	i, where the press “in general does not care about what happens in Palm Beach.” Lefkowitz responded to Villafaña with a revised version of her latest ...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	97	ould be forwarding to Lefkowitz “our last version of the Non-Prosecution Agreement.” Acosta asked that Villafaña “make sure they know it[’]s only a dr...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	98	lea to Federal Charges Negotiations continued the next day, Tuesday, September 18, 2007. Responding to Villafaña’s revised draft of the NPA, Lefkowitz...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	99	“talk to Epstein and close the deal.”118 Within moments, Lourie replied to the manager, with a copy to Villafaña, reporting that he had just spoken wi...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	102	ill do.” He also forwarded to Acosta the latest version of the USAO draft “hybrid” plea agreement that Villafaña had sent to Lefkowitz the previous da...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	103	only go forward if the trial team supports and signs this agreement.”121 Lourie forwarded the email to Villafaña with a transmittal message simply rea...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	105	e arising from the ongoing federal investigation. This language had evolved from similar language that Villafaña had included in the USAO’s earlier pr...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	107	cussions about it. He speculated that if he read the non-prosecution provision, he likely assumed that Villafaña and Lourie had “thought this through”...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	109	llafaña discussed the matter in a conference call. Lefkowitz also sent a revised version of the NPA to Villafaña that omitted identification of the ch...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	110	PTEMBER 24, 2007: ACOSTA MAKES FINAL EDITS, AND THE NPA IS SIGNED The contemporaneous emails show that Villafaña continued to update Acosta as the par...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	113	A whom Villafaña was dating. The defense subsequently raised this as a misconduct issue, alleging that Villafaña was “closely associated” with the ind...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	114	procedure for selecting an attorney representative. Lefkowitz objected to this proposal in a letter to Villafaña, pointing out that the NPA did not pr...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	116	reakfast meeting, but he speculated that the meeting may have been prompted by defense complaints that Villafaña had recommended “her boyfriend’s part...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	117	Lefkowitz a revision to the Addendum language they had been negotiating and who also later reported to Villafaña that Lefkowitz’s “suggested revision ...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	118	ilable to him, including but not limited to gain time and work release. Sloman forwarded the letter to Villafaña, commenting, “Wait [until] you see th...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	119	nd Sanchez signed the NPA addendum.148 Villafaña’s name was printed as the USAO representative, but at Villafaña’s request, Sloman signed the addendum...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	121	component” of the NPA. After Lourie sent to Sloman a copy of the Starr letter, Sloman forwarded it to Villafaña, asking her to prepare a chronology of...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	131	ein’s position, Mr. Epstein shall have one week to abide by [the NPA].” Sloman forwarded this email to Villafaña, who responded, “Why would we possibl...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	134	me day, Sloman sent Lefkowitz a letter asking that all further communication about the case be made to Villafaña or her immediate supervisor, and reit...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	140	diate supervisor met with a Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office official to discuss work release. According to Villafaña, the official told them, “Epstein wou...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	141	NPA] unless Mr. Epstein immediately ceases and desists from his breach of this agreement. According to Villafaña, the FBI case agent spoke with the St...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	143	Epstein’s activities on a day-to-day basis. The Sheriff’s Office neither acknowledged nor responded to Villafaña’s letter. In March 2009, Sloman met i...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	144	olutely no cooperation here or in New York, from what they told me.” 188 Black later wrote a letter to Villafaña claiming that Epstein had “specific a...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	173	8. He later opined to Acosta and Menchel that “there is some risk on some of the statutes [proposed in Villafaña’s prosecution memorandum] as this is ...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	174	ayed a significant role in Acosta’s decisions as reflected in the term sheet. 220 Sloman told OPR that Villafaña “always believed in the case.”
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	179	rview, Sloman did not recall making such a remark, although he could not rule out the possibility that Villafaña, for whom he repeatedly expressed gre...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	181	ing with Epstein’s attorneys and voiced her concerns to her supervisors, but was overruled by them. In Villafaña’s view, the significance of the early...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	189	. Villafaña’s Emails with Defense Attorney Lefkowitz during the NPA Negotiations Do Not Establish That Villafaña, or Other Subjects, Intended to Give ...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	190	not accept a plea to a conspiracy charge that required dismissal of numerous substantive counts. As to Villafaña’s offer to meet with Lefkowitz “off c...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	191	gation of Epstein. The documentary record, as well as witness and subject interviews, establishes that Villafaña consistently advocated in favor of pr...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	192	d OPR credits them. OPR finds, therefore, that the emails in question do not themselves establish that Villafaña (or any other subject) acted to impro...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	193	n’s longtime relationship with a close female friend who was a well-known socialite, but, according to Villafaña, in 2007, they “didn’t have any speci...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	204	e court might have precluded production of the computers. However, OPR saw no evidence indicating that Villafaña or her supervisors were concerned tha...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	210	had also reached that same conclusion.” Several subjects pointed to this statement as indicating that Villafaña in fact supported the NPA. In her OPR ...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	229	. in the same universe as to how I think about this.” Menchel also observed that on the very day that Villafaña criticized him for engaging in settlem...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	230	om Epstein.” 290 In commenting on OPR’s draft report, Menchel’s counsel reiterated his contention that Villafaña’s claim about a meeting involving Men...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	233	op When the Case Agent Becomes Concerned about Potential Impeachment In transmitting the signed NPA to Villafaña on September 24, 2007, defense attorn...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	234	208 involved in such notifications. According to Villafaña, Sloman then directed her to have the case agents make the victim notifications. Accordingl...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	235	tion of Epstein. In addition, the case agent spoke to two other victims and relayed their reactions to Villafaña in an email: Jane Doe #14 asked me wh...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	239	to review these options with your client.” In the letter, Acosta also refuted defense allegations that Villafaña had acted improperly by informing the...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	240	Sloman approved and signed the letter, but she was the primary author of the document. OPR notes that Villafaña was the principal author of most corre...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	241	arguments against the federal investigation and the NPA’s use of 18 U.S.C. § 2255. Sloman responded to Villafaña’s request with an email instructing h...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	243	tify victims [in an unrelated matter]. We seem to be in a Catch 22.”321 OPR did not find a response to Villafaña’s email. In their December 14, 2007 m...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	247	osecutors or FBI agents told her that she was entitled to receive money from Epstein. See Exhibit 9 to Villafaña June 2, 2017 Declaration: Deposition ...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	248	ters until they were collected for the CVRA litigation, sometime after July 2008. Rather, according to Villafaña, “The decision to issue the letter an...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	251	riminal investigation I was cooperating in. If I had been told of a[n NPA], I would have objected.” In Villafaña’s 2017 declaration in the CVRA litiga...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	252	claims or completely making up claims in order to increase their damages amount.” Rather, according to Villafaña, she told the three victims that “an ...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	255	oe #2. Although OPR focuses on Villafaña’s communications with Edwards in this section, OPR notes that Villafaña
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	256	nswer his questions because the matter “was an on-going active investigation[.]” Edwards attested that Villafaña gave him “the impression that the Fed...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	258	a list of all our victims to the State Attorney’s Office.” In his 2009 deposition, Reiter stated that Villafaña sent him a letter “around the time of ...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	260	ctim list and Notification. If I face resistance on that front, I will let you know.” 362 According to Villafaña, either Acosta or Sloman made the dec...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	262	B. July 7, 2008: The CVRA Litigation Is Initiated On July 3, 2008, victims’ attorney Edwards spoke to Villafaña by telephone about the resolution of t...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	285	t recall any discussions about informing the victims about the terms of the NPA or any instructions to Villafaña that she not discuss the NPA with the...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	286	ions with her supervisors about notifying victims, her supervisors did not, and Menchel contended that Villafaña’s recollection is inaccurate. Assumin...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	287	igned and “ask[ing] them how they wanted the case to be resolved.” FBI interview reports indicate that Villafaña was present with FBI agents for some ...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	288	either FBI case agent reviewed any of the letters sent by the FBI’s Victim Specialist.411 According to Villafaña, “The decision to issue the letters a...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	289	According to the 2017 affidavit filed by Wild’s CVRA-case attorney, Edwards, the pro bono counsel that Villafaña secured assisted Wild in “avoiding th...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	290	ave advised victims of the actual status of the investigation. Nonetheless, OPR found no evidence that Villafaña or her supervisors participated in dr...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	296	ified during the federal investigation. OPR located a draft letter to the State Attorney’s Office that Villafaña prepared and forwarded to Acosta in D...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	298	entity would be able to accomplish the notification that Acosta expected to happen. 429 OPR notes that Villafaña contacted Reiter soon after the state...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	299	h Wild disputed that she was informed of the resolution of the federal case, the case agent’s email to Villafaña from this time period reflects that a...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	300	people don’t understand what that means.” Instead, with respect to the three victims who, according to Villafaña, had been informed by the FBI about t...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	301	ot answer his questions because the matter “was an on-going active investigation.” Edwards stated that Villafaña gave him “the impression that the Fed...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	302	led state plea hearing.436 In his 2017 affidavit prepared for the CVRA litigation, Edwards stated that Villafaña “gave the impression that she was cau...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	303	mission amounted to a knowing false statement or misrepresentation. One difficulty is determining what Villafaña actually said during conversations th...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	304	n of relevant facts, are not always treated as false statements. Here, the evidence does not show that Villafaña knowingly made an affirmative false s...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	305	part of a global resolution that would end the federal investigation, the evidence does not show that Villafaña acted for the purpose of deceiving Edw...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	306	mention the NPA. Just before Epstein’s June 30, 2008 state court plea, 445 OPR notes that, similar to Villafaña, Sloman interacted with a victim’s att...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	307	ing confused and believing she had been misled. OPR did not find evidence supporting a conclusion that Villafaña, Acosta, Sloman, Menchel, or Lourie o...
2020.11 DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility Report.pdf	-	313	igation and the CVRA litigation. The records included, but were not limited to, boxes of material that Villafaña updated and maintained through the co...