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On April 10, 2020, four months after the December memorandum promised one, the SDNY U.S. Attorney's Office sent a separate prosecution memorandum up the chain. The subject was Ghislaine Maxwell. The charged period was 1994 to 1997. The memo sought two counts. Maxwell was arrested less than three months later.
Four months after Jeffrey Epstein died in federal custody, the Southern District of New York U.S. Attorney's Office delivered to Geoffrey Berman an 86-page memorandum on the investigation into potential co-conspirators. The Analysis section evaluated five subjects for criminal charges. Only two are visible in the indexed record.
The draft federal indictment of Jeffrey Epstein was scheduled to go to the grand jury on Tuesday, September 25, 2007. The Non-Prosecution Agreement was signed on Monday, September 24. The draft beat the agreement by one day, the wrong way.
A federal immunity deal signed in 2007 and binding by January 2008 went unfiled and unreviewed by any court for 12 years. The identified victims were not told. A clause inside it extended federal immunity to named and unnamed co-conspirators in a category prosecutors never closed.
On March 20, 2015, Epstein's staff picked up Noam Chomsky and his wife Valeria from a Santa Fe spa and drove them to Zorro Ranch. The next day, Epstein's personal pilot flew Chomsky out toward a Monday Harvard commitment. The logistics were coordinated by physicist Lawrence Krauss and sit in three indexed emails in the 2025 DOJ release.
In September and October 2018, as Arizona State University investigated sexual-misconduct allegations against physicist Lawrence Krauss, Krauss and Jeffrey Epstein traded drafts of Krauss's institutional response. Epstein was editing the document. The chain is dated 9 months before Epstein's own arrest.
On October 15, 2017, 8 years after the Non-Prosecution Agreement and 21 months before his arrest, Jeffrey Epstein received a tax question from Noam Chomsky. Epstein's reply was 7 words. The exchange sits in a single email in the 2025 DOJ release.
On Sunday April 28, 2013, Leon Black flew to Jeffrey Epstein's Zorro Ranch in New Mexico on his private plane. Epstein arranged a helicopter for Black's transport from the Santa Fe airport to the property. The coordination sits in two indexed emails between Black's Apollo Global Management assistant and Epstein's executive assistant.
In August 2012, the office of former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson coordinated with Jeffrey Epstein's executive assistant Lesley Groff about a possible Richardson visit to Zorro Ranch. Groff noted that Richardson had been to the ranch before. The thread is one of the cleanest documentary records of a named former governor's office managing direct contact with Epstein 4 years after the Non-Prosecution Agreement.
On February 25, 2013, Jeffrey Epstein met Elon Musk for lunch at SpaceX headquarters. Epstein's executive assistant had told the SpaceX team that Epstein would arrive with three non-US-citizen "assistants": two Russian and one South African. Passport clearance was coordinated four days in advance.