EFTA00038270.pdf

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U.S. Department of Justice 
Office of Professional Responsibility 
950 Pennsylvania Avenue. N.W., Suite 3266 
Washington, D.C. 20530 
September 2, 2020 
CONFIDENTIAL / VIA EMAIL 
Federal Bureau of Investigation 
935 Pennsylvania Ave., NW 
Washington, D.C. 20535 
Re: The Office of Professional Responsibility's Draft Report of 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 
Dear Mr. 
The Office of Professional Responsibility has been investigating allegations that 
prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida improperly resolved 
a federal criminal investigation of Jeffrey Epstein by negotiating and executing a federal non-
prosecution agreement (NPA) in 2007, and into judicial criticism of the government for failing to 
consult with the victims of Epstein's crimes before the NPA was signed and by misleading them 
regarding the status of the federal investigation after the NPA was signed. 
OPR has completed its investigation and has drafted a report setting forth its findings and 
conclusions and the bases for them. Because of the congressional, victim, and public interest in 
the investigation, OPR plans to release its final report to Congress and expects that its report will 
be released to the public. Because the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was the investigating 
agency and some of its work and special agents are mentioned in the report, OPR is providing you 
with its draft report for a sensitivity review. 
Please advise OPR if you have objections to the public release of information contained in 
the draft report. Please note that the sourcing citations in the footnotes will be removed from the 
final report. Therefore, names that appear in those footnotes, but which are otherwise not 
identified in the text of the report, will not appear in the …

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