Re: OCA Tasking - Questions for the Director
Good afternoon VCACS,
This is a tasking from OCA - The director has an upcoming engagement with a member of congress where they believe the member will ask about the Epstein Flight Logs. They want to make sure the Director has a solid response when this question comes up and have asked us to send the latest information on an answer to the below questions. If your section could answer the questions below, please let me know. If your section believes that we shouldn't be providing any specifics or confirming any information, please let me know as well.
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o What specifically has the FBI done to investigate the claims that Epstein's and others participated in produced, possessed, and distributed to CSAM?
o Is there any information that can be provided on requests for Epstein's flight logs?
This is a time sensitive request, so please provide a response by COB Today if possible.
*For some reference on recent Epstein conversations w/ Congress - during Director Wray's Senate Appropriations (June 4tH) hearing the question regarding Epstein came up. The interaction can be found attached in the PDF and below:
JOHN KENNEDY:
OK. Here's my second question. We know that Jeffrey Epstein, who is now deceased and Ms. Maxwell, his associate who is in prison were engaged in a conspiracy of sex trafficking with minors. So were others. It's been widely reported. What's the FBI doing to investigate the other people that were involved in these sex trafficking rings?
CHRISTOPHER WRAY:
Well, I'm not sure that I can, um, confirm any specific individual being investigated.
JOHN KENNEDY:
Well, let me put it this way. Let me give you some facts. Widely reported. Jeffrey Epstein had video surveillance in all of his homes and on his private island. And there has been -- there -- there have been articles after articles from witnesses who have said he videotaped sex acts with prominent people because he was trying to cur -- with young girls that he had procured to try to incur favor with those prominent people and potentially for what? To be able to blackmail them. Now that's a fact. And -- and the FBI and other federal agencies have raided his houses. Do you have those tapes?
CHRISTOPHER WRAY:
Again, I can't discuss the specifics of our law enforcement operations related to Mr. Epstein or Ms. Maxwell, but obviously, we had very active investigation related to both of them. But whether it extends to other people, I'm not sure that's something that I can comment on.
Management & Program Analyst
Criminal Investigative Division
Federal Bureau of Investigation
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Good afternoon VCACS,
Thank you for the information below regarding the Epstein flight logs. The Director's Office asking if they could get a timeline of the whole investigation as well as a summary of what we investigated (and when). They said it would be just for the Director's Office as background. It will not be for public dissemination.
Please provide a timeline as well as the summary by COB Thursday, July 11, 2024.
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Thank you,
I cut some of it down before I sent it over and left out a lot of the victim information. Would you agree this is FOUO or LES? I would argue the one piece about the cell mate may be considered LES but most of the rest appears to be FOUO? Let me know your thoughts.
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Thank you very much,
Could we get classification & markings on this? We'd like to know if its UNCLASSIFIED//FOUO? Or LES?
Yes I agree with that, pretty much all is FOUO with the exception of the information related to his cellmate which is LES.
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FBI New York
Child Exploitation/Human Trafficking
There is a reference to MDC, I believe should say MCC. Should we also add in about Epstein changing his will before the suicide?
Follow up: what does MCC stand for?
Respectfully,
Unit Chief
Crimes Against Children & Human Trafficking Unit
Criminal Investigative Division
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Subject: Re: OCA Tasking - Questions for the Director
Thank you!
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