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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK x UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, v. GHISLAINE MAXWELL, Defendant. x S2 20 Cr. 330 (AJN) OMNIBUS MEMORANDUM OF GHISLAINE MAXWELL IN SUPPORT OF HER SUPPLEMENTAL PRETRIAL MOTIONS RELATING TO THE S2 SUPERSEDING INDICTMENT Christian R. Everdell COHEN & GRESSER LLP 800 Third Avenue New York, NY 10022 Phone: Jeffrey S. Pagliuca Laura A. Menninger HADDON, MORGAN & FOREMAN P.C. 150 East 10th Avenue Denver, Colorado 80203 Phone: Bobbi C. Stemheim Law Offices of Bobbi C. Stemheim 33 West 19th Street - 4th Floor New York, NY 10011 Phone: Attorneys for Ghislaine Maxwell EFTA00103758
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Page PRELIMINARY STATEMENT SUMMARY OF NEW ALLEGATIONS IN THE S2 INDICTMENT 4 ARGUMENT 5 I. The NPA Bars Ms. Maxwell's Prosecution on Counts One, Three, Five, and Six. 5 A. Counts Five and Six Allege the Same Offenses that Were Part of the Florida Investigation and Are Covered by the Plain Terms of the NPA 6 B. The NPA Binds the Southern District of New York as to Counts Five and Six. 11 C. Counts One and Three Must Also Be Dismissed 17 II. Prosecuting Ms. Maxwell on Counts Five and Six Would Violate Her Rights Under the Double Jeopardy Clause 18 III. Counts Five and Six Are Time-Barred. 20 IV. The Court Should Dismiss Count Five and Either Count One or Count Three as Multiplicitous 21 V. The Court Should Dismiss the S2 Indictment for Pre-Indictment Delay. 22 VI. The Court Should Order a Bill of Particulars as to Counts Five and Six. 22 VII. The Court Should Order the Government to Produce Accuser-4's Prior Statements as Brady Material 24 VIII. Ms. Maxwell Incorporates All of the Arguments Raised in Her Initial Pretrial Motions and Reasserts Them as to the S2 Indictment. 26 CONCLUSION 26 EFTA00103759
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TABLE OF AUTHORITIES Page(s) Cases Clemmons v. Delo, 124 F.3d 944 (8th Cir. 1997) 25 Jones v. Jago, 575 F.2d 1164 (6th Cir. 1978) 25 Ex Parte Lange, 85 U.S. (18 Wall.) 163 (1873) 18 North Carolina v. Pearce, 395 U.S. 711 (1969) 18 United States v. Annabi, 771 F.2d 670 (2d Cir. 1985) United States v. Bortnovsky, passim 820 F.2d 572 (2d Cir. 1987) 22, 23 United States v. Brown, No. 99-1230(L), 2002 WL 34244994 (2d Cir. Apr. 26, 2002) 16 United States v. Cambindo Valencia, 609 F.2d 603 (2d Cir. 1979) 20 United States v. Carter, 454 F.2d 426 (4th Cir. 1972) 17 United States v. Garcia-Gonzalez, 714 F.3d 306 (5th Cir. 2013) 21 United States v. Gebbie, 294 F.3d 540 (3rd Cir. 2002) 14, 15, 16, 17 United States v. Gonzalez, 93 F. App'x 268 (2d Cir. 2004) 14, 16 United States v. Harvey, 791 F.2d 294 (4th Cir. 1986) 15 United States v. Korfant, 771 F.2d 660 (2d Cir.1985) 19 EFTA00103760
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United States v. Lopez, 356 F.3d 463 (2d Cir. 2004) 18, 19, 20 United States v. Rooney, 37 F.3d 847 (2d Cir. 1994) 17, 18 United States v. Salameh, 152 F.3d 88 (2d Cir. 1998) 14, 16 United States v. Torres, 719 F.2d 549 (2d Cir. 1983) 25 United States v. Van Thournout, 100 F.3d 590 (8th Cir. 1996) 15 White v. Helling, 194 F.3d 937 (8th Cir. 1999) 25 Statutes 18 U.S.C. § 371 21 18 U.S.C. § 1591 18 U.S.C. § 2422 passim 4 18 U.S.C. § 2423(a) 4 18 U.S.C. § 3282 20 18 U.S.C. § 3283 20, 21 Other Authorities Fed. R. Crim. P. 7(f) 22 U.S. Const., Amend. V 18 iii EFTA00103761
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PRELIMINARY STATEMENT
Ghislaine Maxwell respectfully submits this Omnibus Memorandum in Support of her
Supplemental Pretrial Motions Related to the S2 Superseding Indictment ("Motion"). For the
reasons set forth below, Ms. Maxwell moves the Court to:
I. Dismiss Counts One, Three, Five and Six for breach of the Non-Prosecution
Agreement;
2. Dismiss Counts Five and Six for violation of the Double Jeopardy Clause;
3. Dismiss Counts Five and Six as time-barred under the statute of limitations;
4. Dismiss Count Five and Either Count One or Count Three as multiplicitous;
5. Dismiss the S2 Indictment for pre-indictment delay;
6. Order a Bill of Particulars as to Counts Five and Six;
7. Order the government to produce Accuser-4's prior statements as Brady material.
The S2 Superseding Indictment ("S2 Indictment") demonstrates just how far the
government is willing to go to "get" Ms. Maxwell and disingenuously blame her for the crimes
of Jeffrey Epstein. No longer content to charge a 25-year-old case based on purported conduct in
the 1990s, the government now sweeps in the 2000s through the allegations of one person—
Accuser-4.1 But Accuser-4 is not a new witness; she first levied her accusations more than a
decade ago. The Palm Beach FBI and the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern
District of Florida ("USAO-SDFL") interviewed Accuser-4 in or around 2007 during their three-
year investigation of Epstein's alleged sexual abuse (the "Florida Investigation"). And
remarkably, although interviewed just a few years after she claims any misconduct occurred,
Accuser-4 never implicated Ms. Maxwell. Instead, she reported that Epstein's primary assistant
Accuser-4 is identified in the S2 Indictment as Minor Victim-4.
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at the time, Sarah Kellen, facilitated her sexual abuse, and it was Kellen or Epstein himself—not
Ms. Maxwell—who purportedly called her to schedule massage appointments, sent her gifts, and
encouraged her to recruit other young females to provide massages to Epstein. Indeed, even
after interviewing Accuser-4, the USAO-SDFL never found "any specific evidence against" Ms.
Maxwell related to the subject of their investigation and thus determined she was not a target of
the Florida Investigation.2
Epstein, himself, was never charged with federal crimes in connection with the Florida
Investigation; nor was Kellen. Instead, Epstein entered into a Non-Prosecution Agreement
("NPA") in order to "resolve globally" his own criminal exposure and to immunize Kellen and
any other "potential co-conspirators.s3 As part of the NPA, Epstein agreed to plead guilty to
state prostitution offenses and register as a federal sex offender. He also agreed, in a novel
arrangement, to pay for attorneys to represent his victims in civil lawsuits against him and to
waive his right to contest damages up to an agreed-upon settlement amount. Accuser-4 took full
advantage of the NPA; she received both the benefit of experienced counsel and $446,000 to
resolve her claims against Epstein and his "potential co-conspirators."
Now, over 13 years later, Accuser-4 has surfaced again, except this time with apparently
brand-new allegations against Ms. Maxwell. Seemingly unconcerned with the gaping
inconsistency in Accuser-4's prior (and near contemporaneous) recollections, the government
has added two new counts charging Ms. Maxwell with sex trafficking offenses under 18 U.S.C. §
1591 (Counts Five and Six) and has dramatically expanded the timeframe of the Mann Act
2 Ex. A (Dep't of Justice, Office of Professional Responsibility, Investigation into the U.S. Attorney's Office for the
Southern District of Florida's Resolution of its 2006-2008 Federal Criminal Investigation of Jeffrey Epstein and Its
Interactions with Victims during the Investigation, November 2020) ("OPR Report") at 167 (internal quotations
omitted).
3 A copy of the NPA is attached hereto as Exhibit B.
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conspiracies (Counts One and Three) to 2004 based entirely on Accuser-4's allegations. But
these offenses are the exact same offenses that were the subject of the Florida Investigation and
resolved by the NPA, which covers "any potential co-conspirators of Epstein," including Ms.
Maxwell.
The Court ruled unequivocally that the NPA covers "any involvement of [Ms.] Maxwell
in offenses committed by Epstein from 2001 to 2007, other offenses that were the subject of the
FBI and U.S. Attorney's Office investigation, and any offenses that arose from the related grand
jury investigation." (Dkt. 207 at 7). Yet Counts Five and Six fall squarely within all three
categories of offenses for which the NPA immunizes Ms. Maxwell:
•
The allegations of Accuser-4 fall within the 2001-2007 timeframe and the new
counts charge violations of 18 U.S.C. § 1591, a statute specifically
enumerated in the NPA.
•
The Palm Beach FBI and the USAO-SDFL thoroughly investigated Accuser-
4's allegations as part of the Florida Investigation.
•
Accuser-4's allegations were presented to the grand jury in that District and
formed the basis for a conspiracy charge and a sex trafficking charge in a
proposed 60-count federal indictment of Epstein that was dropped pursuant to
the terms of the NPA.
Because Counts Five and Six are based on the exact same evidence investigated and presented to
the SDFL grand jury in 2008, and are the exact same crimes included in the proposed SDFL
indictment against Epstein later abandoned pursuant to the NPA, the government cannot now
charge Ms. Maxwell with these offenses.
Further, the NPA binds the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of
New York ("USAO-SDNY") as to the newly-indicted counts. We understand that the Court
previously ruled that under United States v. Annabi, 771 F.2d 670 (2d Cir. 1985) and its progeny,
the language and drafting history of the NPA does not "affirmatively appear" to bind this District
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as to the SI Indictment counts. However, Annabi, by its own terms, is inapposite to the circumstances of this case, where one federal district has agreed that "the United States" will abandon certain offenses as part of a negotiated agreement and then a second federal district later seeks to charge those very same offenses based on the exact same conduct. Counts Five and Six of the S2 Indictment are therefore barred by the NPA. The Court must dismiss these counts, as well as the expanded Mann Act conspiracies charged in Counts One and Three, which incorporate the same conduct charged in Counts Five and Six for which Ms. Maxwell has immunity. In addition, because the USAO-SDNY is seeking duplicative punishment for the same offenses that were resolved by the NPA, prosecuting Ms. Maxwell on Counts Five and Six violates her rights under the Double Jeopardy Clause. The Court should also grant the other relief Ms. Maxwell seeks for the reasons set forth below. SUMMARY OF NEW ALLEGATIONS IN THE S2 INDICTMENT Like the S1 Indictment, Counts One and Three of the S2 Indictment allege that Ms. Maxwell conspired to violate two separate provisions of the Mann Act, 18 U.S.C. §§ 2422, 2423(a). Count One alleges that Ms. Maxwell conspired to entice "one and more individuals" to travel in interstate and foreign commerce to engage in "sexual activity for which a person can be charged with a criminal offense" in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2422. (S2 Indictment q¶ 11-13). Count Three alleges that Ms. Maxwell conspired to transport "an individual" in interstate and foreign commerce to engage in "sexual activity for which a person can be charged with a criminal offense" in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2423(a). (Id. ¶¶ 16-19). In the SI Indictment, these counts were based on conduct that occurred at unspecified times between 1994 and 1997. The S2 Indictment expands the date range of these conspiracies into the 2000s based on the 4 EFTA00103765
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allegations of Accuser-4, alleging conduct that occurred "[f]rom at least in or about 1994, up to and including in or about 2004." (Id. ¶¶ II, 17). The S2 Indictment also adds two new counts—Counts Five and Six—alleging that Ms. Maxwell violated and conspired to violate the federal sex trafficking statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1591. Count Five alleges that Ms. Maxwell conspired with Epstein and others to recruit "a person" knowing that the person "had not attained the age of 18 years and would be caused to engage in a commercial sex act" in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1591(a). (Id. ¶¶ 23-24). Count Six charges Ms. Maxwell with a substantive violation of § 1591(a), claiming she "did recruit, entice, harbor, transport, provide, and obtain by any means" individuals who were under the age of 18, including Accuser-4, "who were then caused to engage in at least one commercial sex act with Jeffrey Epstein." (Id.1 27). Both counts are based on the allegations of Accuser-4 and allege conduct that purportedly occurred "[f]rom at least in or about 2001, up to and including in or about 2004." (Id. ¶¶ 23, 27). ARGUMENT I. The NPA Bars Ms. Maxwell's Prosecution on Counts One, Three, Five, and Six. The NPA bars any prosecution of Ms. Maxwell for the offenses charged in Counts One, Three, Five, and Six of the S2 Indictment. The Court has already concluded that the NPA bars prosecution for "three specific categories of offenses" deriving from the Florida Investigation: 'the offenses set out on pages 1 and 2' of the NPA; namely, `any offenses that may have been committed by Epstein against the United States from in or around 2001 through in or around September 2007' including five enumerated offenses; (2) 'any other offenses that have been the subject of the joint investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the United States Attorney's Office'; and (3) 'any offenses that arose from the Federal Grand Jury investigation.' 5 EFTA00103766
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(Dkt. 207 at 6 (quoting NPA)). The Court has further concluded that the NPA's co-conspirator provision covers "any involvement of [Ms.] Maxwell" in any of these same three categories of offenses. (Id. at 7). There can be no serious dispute that the sex trafficking offenses charged in Counts Five and Six were investigated as part of the Florida Investigation and fall squarely within the three categories of immunized offenses that are covered by the NPA. Moreover, because Counts Five and Six are based on the exact same allegations from the vet); same accuser that were previously investigated and presented to the grand jury as part of the Florida Investigation, Annabi and its progeny do not apply and the NPA is binding on the USA0-SDNY as to these offenses. Accordingly, Counts Five and Six must be dismissed. Moreover, because Counts One and Three incorporate the same conduct from Counts Five and Six for which Ms. Maxwell cannot be prosecuted under the NPA, they must also be dismissed. A. Counts Five and Six Allege the Same Offenses that Were Part of the Florida Investigation and Are Covered by the Plain Terms of the NPA. The plain terms of the NPA preclude Ms. Maxwell's prosecution on Counts Five and Six because they allege conduct that falls within the date range specified in the NPA and charge specifically enumerated offenses that were part of the Florida Investigation. Count Five alleges that "[f]rom at least in or about 2001 up to and including in or about 2004," Ms. Maxwell conspired with Epstein to violate 18 U.S.C. § 1591(a), the law prohibiting sex trafficking of minors. (S2 Indictment ¶¶ 22-25). Count Six alleges that during the same time period, Ms. Maxwell committed a substantive violation of the same statute. (Id. ¶¶ 26-27). The NPA bars prosecution for Ms. Maxwell's involvement in "any offenses that may have been committed by Epstein against the United States from in or around 2001 through in or around September 2007 including five enumerated offenses." (Dkt. 207 at 6 (internal quotations omitted); see also id. at 7 (NPA covers, among other things, "any involvement of Maxwell in offenses committed by 6 EFTA00103767
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Epstein from 2001 to 2007")). Thus, the time period alleged in both Counts Five and Six falls squarely within the date range covered by the NPA for which Ms. Maxwell is immunized. Moreover, 18 U.S.C. § 1591(a) is one of the five enumerated offenses in the NPA. (Ex. B at 2 of 7). As such, Counts Five and Six are clearly offenses covered by the NPA. Ms. Maxwell also cannot be prosecuted on Counts Five and Six because they are based on the exact same allegations that were already thoroughly investigated by the Palm Beach FBI and USAO-SDFL and were presented to a grand jury in the Southern District of Florida in connection with the Florida Investigation. The allegations underlying Counts Five and Six (and the expanded date range for Counts One and Three) come from a single accuser—Accuser-4— who alleges that Epstein sexually abused her from approximately 2001-2004 and that Ms. Maxwell allegedly facilitated that abuse. (S2 Indictment¶¶ 9d, 22-27). Based on our review of the prior statements of non-testifying witnesses, which the government only recently produced to the defense on April 13, 2021, we know that FBI Special Agent Elizabeth Nesbitt Kuyrkendall interviewed the person we believe to be Accuser-4 in connection with the Florida Investigation. (Ex. C at 22:1-17).4 We also know that Special Agent Kuyrkendall presented her allegations— the very same allegations that form the basis for Counts Five and Six—to the grand jury in the Southern District of Florida in support of a proposed 60-count federal indictment of Jeffrey Epstein and Sarah Kellen. (Id. at 22:17-31:6). The indictment included a conspiracy count and a substantive count alleging a sex trafficking offense involving Accuser-4. (Id. at 28:3-15 (Accuser-4's allegations formed the basis for "Overt Acts One through 18" and Count Two of the proposed indictment charging Epstein and Sarah Kellen with "procur[ing] [Accuser-4] to Exhibit C is a transcript of the March 18, 2008 grand jury testimony of Special Agent Kuyrlcendall, the lead case agent in charge of the Florida Investigation, in which she summarizes her interview of Accuser-4 and other related evidence. 7 EFTA00103768
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engage in commercial sex acts knowing that [Accuser-4] was under 18")).5 Pursuant to the terms of the NPA, the proposed indictment was never returned, and the USAO-SDFL did not pursue it further, once Epstein pled guilty on June 30, 2008 to Florida state law charges of solicitation of prostitution and procurement of minors to engage in prostitution. (Ex. A, OPR Report at i-ii). The similarity of the allegations presented to the SDFL grand jury and those alleged in Counts Five and Six of the S2 Indictment is striking and self-evident. The same overt acts, including the allegations that form the basis for jurisdiction in SDNY over the crimes charged in Counts Five and Six, were presented to both grand juries. Furthermore, the proof offered to corroborate Accuser-4's allegations—e.g., cell phone records, FedEx records, message pad notes, etc.—was identical. (See Ex. C at 56:21-57:10). The chart below highlights these similarities: S2 Indictment SDFL Grand Jury Testimony Sexual Massages Sexual Massages "On multiple occasions between approximately 2001-2004, [Accuser-4] provided nude massages to Epstein at the Palm Beach Residence, during which Epstein engaged in multiple sex acts with [Accuser-4]." (S2 Indictment ¶ 9d; see also id. at ¶ 25a). "[F]rom 2001 to 2004, [Accuser-4] provided Mr. Epstein with ... over 100 massages and all but three of the massages were sexual[] in nature." (Ex. C at 23:19-22). The massages took place in Epstein's Palm Beach residence and Accuser-4 was either nude or partially nude. (Ex. C at 22:20-24:6). Payment Payment "Epstein or one of his employees ... paid [Accuser-4] hundreds of dollars in cash" for each massage. (S2 Indictment ¶ 9d; see also id. "[Accuser-4] was paid between $200 and $400" for each massage. (Ex. C at 23:25- 24:10). 5 The government previously denied Ms. Maxwell's request that it produce copies of the proposed 60-count SDFL indictment and the related 82-page prosecution memo to the defense. To resolve any ambiguity about the charges in the proposed SDFL indictment and the evidence underlying the counts related to Accuser-4, Ms. Maxwell requests the Court to order the government to produce both of these documents to the defense. 8 EFTA00103769
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at ¶ 25a). Recruiting Others "Epstein ... encouraged [Accuser-4] to recruit other young females to provide sexualized massages[.]" (S2 Indictment ¶ 9d; see also id. at ¶ 25b). Recruiting Others "Mr. Epstein asked [Accuser-4] if she had any friends that would be interested in performing these massages ... that she could bring to him[.]" (Ex. Cat 26:12-16). Gifts to Accuser-4 "On multiple occasions between approximately 2001 and 2004, Epstein's employees ... sent [Accuser-4] gifts, including lingerie, from an address in Manhattan, New York to [Accuser- 4's] residence in Florida." (S2 Indictment ¶ 9d; see also id. at' 25c). Gifts to Accuser-4 "Mr. Epstein provided [gifts] to [Accuser-4].... Epstein would provide her with lingerie.... He would also send her [gifts] via FedEx packages to her residence." (Ex. C at 28:20-29:10) (describing subpoenaed FedEx records). Scheduling Massage Appointments "Epstein's employees ... called [Accuser-4], including from New York, to schedule appointments for [Accuser-4] to massage Epstein." (S2 Indictment ¶ 9d; see also id. at ¶ 25d). "For example, in or about April of 2004 and May of 2004 another employee of Epstein's called [Accuser-4] to schedule such appointments." (S2 Indictment ¶ 25d). Scheduling Massage Appointments "[S]ometimes Sarah [Kellen] would be ... in New York and scheduled [Accuser-4] to come and work, but Sarah Kellen's primary role was to schedule ... [Accuser-4] to come and perform the massages." (Ex. C at 25:2-6). "[O]n or about April 23th, 2004, Defendant Sarah Kellen placed a telephone call to a telephone used by [Accuser-4]." (Ex. C at 17:18-19:4; see also id. at 56:24-25 (subpoenaed cell phone records "indicate telephonic contact with Sarah Kellen")). The one critical difference between the a legations in the S2 Indictment and the allegations presented to the SDFL grand jury is this: Accuser-4 never implicated Ms. Maxwell in the Florida Investigation. Ms. Maxwell is not mentioned even once in the grand jury testimony concerning Accuser-4. Instead, the grand jury testimony reflects that Accuser-4 implicated Epstein himself and Sarah Kellen, who was Epstein's primary assistant during the 2001-2004 timeframe charged in Counts Five and Six. According to Accuser-4, it was Kellen, not Ms. 9 EFTA00103770
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Maxwell, who called Accuser-4 from New York to schedule massage appointments. (Ex. C at 17:18-22, 25:1-6). It was Epstein, not Ms. Maxwell, who encouraged Accuser-2 to recruit her friends to give him massages. (Id. at 25:25-26:18). And it was Epstein, not Ms. Maxwell, who provided lingerie and other gifts to Accuser-4 and sent FedEx packages to her residence. (Id. at 28:19-29:10). Furthermore, Accuser-4 alleged that Kellen led Accuser-4 upstairs to Epstein's bedroom the first time she gave him a massage by herself (id. at 25:7-15) and that Kellen paid Accuser-4 $500 to take nude photographs of her at the Palm Beach residence at Epstein's request (id. at 27:1-10). Ultimately, the proposed SDFL indictment sought to charge Epstein and Kellen, not Ms. Maxwell, with a sex trafficking offense involving Accuser-4. (Id. at 28:11-14 (the evidence relating to Accuser-4 formed "the basis for the allegation [in Count Two of the proposed SDFL indictment] that Jeffrey Epstein and Sarah Kellen procured [Accuser-4] to engage in commercial sex acts knowing that she was under 18")). This is entirely consistent with the language of the NPA, which names Kellen, and not Ms. Maxwell, as one of the four named "potential co- conspirators." (Ex. B at 5 of 7). In fact, the USAO-SDFL conceded that it never found "any specific evidence against" Ms. Maxwell related to the subject of their investigation. (See Ex. A, OPR Report at 167 (internal quotations omitted)). Hence, it would not only be impermissible under the NPA to prosecute Ms. Maxwell for the offenses charged in Counts Five and Six of the S2 Indictment because they were "the subject of the Florida Investigation and "the related grand jury investigation." (Dkt. 207 at 7). It would also be entirely unjust to base a prosecution in this District on the same offenses related to the same accuser who never mentioned Ms. Maxwell—and instead implicated Sarah Kellen—when she first reported the allegations that form the basis of Counts Five and Six over thirteen years 10 EFTA00103771
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ago when the events were still recent.6 Accordingly, because the USAO-SDNY is bound by the terms of the NPA as to the offenses charged in Counts Five and Six for the reasons discussed below, Ms. Maxwell cannot be prosecuted for those counts. B. The NPA Binds the Southern District of New York as to Counts Five and Six. Although the Court ruled that the NPA does not bind the USAO-SDNY as to the charges in the S 1 Indictment (Dkt. 207 at 4-6), the NPA does bind the USAO-SDNY as to the sex trafficking offenses charged in Counts Five and Six that were added to the S2 Indictment. United States v. Annabi, 771 F.2d 670 (1985) and its progeny, which the Court relied upon in its earlier ruling, do not mandate a different result. In its prior ruling, the Court noted that Annabi established "something akin to a clear statement rule" that a plea agreement binds only the U.S. Attorney's Office for the district in which the plea is entered "unless it affirmatively appears that the agreement contemplates a broader restriction." (Dkt. 207 at 4 (quoting Annabi, 771 F.2d at 672). That interpretive rule, however, only applies in situations where the district bringing the second prosecution charges offenses different from the offenses resolved by the plea agreement in the first prosecution. Annabi itself specifically noted that it was not addressing a situation where the charges in the follow-on prosecution are "identical to the dismissed charges." Annabi, 771 F.2d at 672. Accordingly, the Court is not bound by the rule in Annabi because Counts Five and Six are identical to the charges presented to the SDFL grand jury that were resolved by the NPA. When examined without the overlay of Annabi, the terms and the drafting history of the NPA indicate that the agreement should be read to preclude other districts, including the USAO- 6 Accuser-4's statements to the FBI, and any other prior statements in which she did not mention Ms. Maxwell, are exculpatory Brady material that the government should immediately produce to the defense. (See Section VII infra). 11 EFTA00103772
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SDNY, from prosecuting Epstein's "potential co-conspirators" for the offenses covered by the NPA.' In Annabi, the defendants were arrested at Kennedy Airport on November 23, 1982, in possession of four kilograms of heroin and were charged in a three-count indictment in the Eastern District of New York with (I) conspiracy to import heroin into the United States, (2) a substantive offense of importing heroin, and (3) possession of heroin with intent to distribute. Id. at 671. All three charges arose out of the defendants' arrest and the charged conduct was limited to November 23, 1982. Id. The defendants agreed to plead guilty to the substantive importation charge (Count Two) to resolve the case. Id. At the time of the plea, the prosecutor stated on the record that "the only agreement that exists between the defendants and the Government is that at the time of the imposition of sentence on Count Two, the Government would move to dismiss the two open remaining counts as to each defendant." Id. Counts One and Three were dismissed at sentencing. Id. Approximately two-and-a-half years later, the defendants were charged in the Southern District of New York in a multi-count indictment that included one count of conspiracy to distribute heroin (Count One) and one count of engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise (Count Three). Id. Both counts alleged a broader period of criminal conduct occurring from October 1982 until March 15, 1985. Id. The defendants argued that their plea agreement with the Eastern District of New York barred their prosecution on Counts One and Three of the 7 As argued in our initial motion, Ms. Maxwell maintains that, even if the Court applies Annaba, the NPA precludes the USAO-SDNY from prosecuting Ms. Maxwell for any offense she allegedly committed with Epstein. (See Dkt. 142 at 18.25; Dkt. 223 at 7-13). We preserve that argument and reassert it with respect to Counts One through Six of the S2 Indictment. However, in light of the Court's prior ruling that the NPA does not bind the USAO•SDNY as to the charges in the SI Indictment, we argue here that the Court need not, and should not, apply Annabi to determine whether the NPA bars the USAO-SDNY from charging the offenses in Counts Five and Six of the S2 Indictment. 12 EFTA00103773
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Southern District of New York indictment because they arose out of "the same conspiratorial
agreement that underlay the charges dismissed in the Eastern District." Id. at 672.
The Second Circuit rejected this argument finding that, as a general rule, a plea
agreement only binds the prosecutor's office that entered into the agreement, unless it
"affirmatively appears that the agreement contemplates a broader restriction." Id. However, the
Court highlighted the apparent anomaly of this rule, noting that an agreement with "the
Government" to dismiss counts of an indictment "might be thought to bar the United States from
reprosecuting the dismissed charges in any judicial district unless the agreement expressly limits
the scope of the agreement to the district in which the dismissed charges are initially brought."
Id. The Court further explained that application of the "affirmative appearance" rule was
nevertheless appropriate because it had not been presented with a situation where the counts in
the second prosecution were identical to the dismissed counts. Id. Although the defendants had
argued that the charges in Counts One and Three of the SDNY indictment "result[ed] from the
same conspiratorial agreement" as the dismissed counts in the EDNY indictment, the Court
found that the SDNY charges covered conduct "extending more than two years beyond the date
of the period covered by the dismissed charges," are were therefore "not the same as the charges
that were dismissed." Id. As a result, the Court found that the default rule could be applied in
that case. Id. ("[T]he new charges are sufficiently distinct at least to warrant application of the
... rule concerning construction of plea agreements.").
Annabi, therefore, did not hold that the "affirmative appearance" rule of construction
applies in cases, like this one, where one federal district has agreed that "the United States" will
abandon certain offenses as part of a negotiated agreement, and then a second federal district
later seeks to charge those very same offenses based on the exact same conduct. By its own
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reasoning, Annabi does not apply in these circumstances, nor do subsequent Second Circuit cases that applied the Annabi rule. See, e.g., United States v. Salameh, 152 F.3d 88, 118-20 (2d Cir. 1998) (defendant pled guilty in EDNY to using the passport of another person to enter the United States and later charged in SDNY with related, but distinct terrorism offenses); United States v. Gonzalez, 93 F. App'x 268, 269-70 (2d Cir. 2004) (defendant pled guilty in the District of New Mexico to drug conspiracy and later charged in the Western District of New York with related, but distinct weapons possession offense). The Court should not apply them here. Instead, the Court should follow the Third Circuit's approach in United States v. Gebbie, 294 F.3d 540 (3nd Cir. 2002), which involved a situation like this one where the charges in the second prosecution were identical to the dismissed charges. In Gebbie, the defendants were charged in a multi-count indictment in the Southern District of Ohio charging them with various offenses related to a scheme to make false statements to the U.S. Postal Service. 294 F.3d at 542. As part of their plea agreement, the defendants pled guilty to misprision of a felony in exchange for dismissal of the counts in the indictment. Id. at 543. The plea agreement further provided that the agreement did not protect the defendants from prosecution for "other crimes or offenses" which "the United States" discovers by independent investigation. Id. at 545-46. A few months after entering their plea, the defendants were charged in the Western District of Pennsylvania with "the same crimes and offenses that were at issue" in the Ohio prosecution. Id. at 546 (emphasis in original). Because the plea agreement barred "the United States" from prosecuting the defendants for the same crimes covered by the agreement, the question for the Court was: "who is bound when a plea agreement refers to `the United States' or 'the Government'?" Id. In other words, did the use of the term "the United States" in the Ohio plea 14 EFTA00103775
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agreement bind the Western District of Pennsylvania and bar it from charging the same offenses
in a subsequent prosecution? The Court held that it did:
We hold, therefore, that when a United States Attorney negotiates
and contracts on behalf of "the United States" or "the
Government" in a plea agreement for specific crimes, that attorney
speaks for and binds all of his or her fellow United States
Attorneys with respect to those same crimes and those same
defendants.
Id. at 550 (emphasis added); see also United States v. Van Thournout, 100 F.3d 590, 594 (8th
Cir. 1996) ("Absent an express limitation, any promises made by an Assistant United States
Attorney in one district will bind an Assistant United States Attorney in another district.");
United States v. Harvey, 791 F.2d 294, 303 (4th Cir. 1986) ("It is the Government at large—not
just specific United States Attorneys or United States `Districts'—that is bound by plea
agreements negotiated by agents of Government.").
This case presents the exact set of circumstances carved out by Annabi and directly
addressed in Gebbie. Here, the co-conspirator provision of the NPA provides that if Epstein
abides by the terms of the agreement, "the United States" will not institute any criminal charges
"against any potential co-conspirators of Epstein," which immunizes Ms. Maxwell for the
offenses covered by the NPA. (Ex. B at 5 of 7; see also Dkt. 207 at 7). As set forth above,
Counts Five and Six of the S2 Indictment are based on the same alleged conduct involving
Accuser-4 from 2001-2004 that was presented to the SDFL grand jury and formed the basis for
several overt acts of a conspiracy charge and a substantive sex trafficking offense against Epstein
in the proposed SDFL indictment. The prosecution of those offenses was abandoned as part of
the bargain struck in the NPA, which Epstein fully performed and from which Accuser-4
benefitted. In sum, the USAO-SDNY is trying to prosecute Ms. Maxwell in Counts Five and Six
for the identical charges that were resolved by the NPA. In these circumstances, Annabi and its
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progeny do not control.8 The Court should instead follow Gebbie and find that NPA precludes the USAO-SDNY from charging Counts Five and Six. This result is consistent with the terms and the drafting history of the NPA. As noted in our previous motion, the use of the phrase "the United States" in the co-conspirator immunity provision of the NPA stands in stark contrast to Epstein's immunity provision, which is expressly limited to the SDFL. (Dkt. 223 at 9-10). The broad language of the co-conspirator provision reflects Epstein's desire, which his attorneys communicated to the USAO-SDFL, that he would be "the only one who takes the blame for what happened" (Ex. A, OPR Report at 167 (internal quotations omitted)). Furthermore, it is consistent with Epstein's goal "to resolve globally his state and federal criminal liability," which is set forth in the factual recitals of the NPA. (Ex. B at 2 of 7; see also Ex. D ¶ 5 (declaration of AUSA A. Marie Villafaiia noting that Epstein "sought a global resolution of the matter"). Epstein and his counsel were clearly aware that the investigation had extended beyond the SDFL and involved New York-based witnesses. Indeed, we now know from discovery recently produced by the government that the government interviewed at least three New York-based witnesses in connection with the Florida Investigation, two of whom implicated other potential co-conspirators of Epstein. (Exs. E-G). Hence, these provisions of the NPA reflect Epstein's desire to ensure that he would not become embroiled in subsequent prosecutions of his "potential co-conspirators" in any other districts. (Dkt. 223 at 11). Moreover, this result is consistent with fundamental fairness. Allowing a federal district to prosecute a defendant for an offense that is identical to one that was already resolved as part of 8 For the same reasons, the Court is not bound by subsequent Second Circuit decisions interpreting Annabi, which have found that the use of phrases like "the United States" or "the government" in a plea agreement does not create an "affirmative appearance" to bind other districts. See Salameh, 152 F.3d at 120; Gonzalez, 93 F. App'x at 270; United States v. Brown, No. 99-1230(L), 2002 WL 34244994, at •2 (2d Cir. Apr. 26, 2002). 16 EFTA00103777
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