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Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE Document544 Filed 12/14/21 Page1of9 Haddon, Morgan and Foreman, P.C Jeffrey S. Pagliuca My 150 East 10th Avenue Denver, Colorado 80203 PH 303.831.7364 FX 303.832.2628 www.hmflaw.com [email protected] HADDON MORGAN FOREMAN December 13, 2021 VIA Email The Honorable Alison J. Nathan United States District Court Southern District of New York 40 Foley Square New York, NY 10007 Re: — United States v. Ghislaine Maxwell, 20 Cr. 330 (AJN) Dear Judge Nathan, I write to alert the Court to the questions Ms. Maxwell anticipates asking Attorneys Jack Scarola, Brad Edwards, and Robert Glassman, and to explain why none of the answers they will offer are protected by the attorney client privilege. “The attorney-client privilege protects from disclosure (1) a communication between client and counsel that (2) was intended to be and was in fact kept confidential, and (3) was made for the purpose of obtaining or providing legal advice.” Jn re County of Erie, 473 F.3d 413, 419 (2d Cir. 2007). “The burden of establishing the attorney-client privilege, in all its elements, always rests upon the person asserting it.” United States v. Schwimmer, 892 F.2d 237, 244 (2d Cir. 1989). The burden here falls on the government. None of the questions Ms. Maxwell intends to ask these witnesses implicates the attorney-client privilege. Indeed, none calls for an attorney to reveal confidential communications with his client at all, let alone a communication made for the purpose of obtaining or providing legal advice. Rather, all the questions concern interactions between the DOJ-OGR- 00008364
Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE Document544 Filed 12/14/21 Page2of9 The Honorable Alison J. Nathan December 13, 2021 Page 2 attorneys themselves and agents of the government, and all are relevant to show how and why Ms. Maxwell’s accusers came to cooperate with the prosecution and testify against Ms. Maxwell. The questions are relevant to motive and bias, and because the answers are not privileged…
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