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spreadsheet with a confirmed designation for those three items. Additionally, please note that there is one item
about which we plan to provide you with a letter later this week.
• These spreadsheets also indicate where each item will be made available for the defense to review. As you will see,
we have now learned that one item (consisting of shredded paper) is currently at FBI headquarters and will not be
available for review next week. Please let me know if you believe you need to review that item, and I will inquire as
to whether and how it can be relocated to New York. Additionally, all 1D items consist of electronic data (as
opposed to 18 items, which are physical items). As is noted in the spreadsheets, the electronic data that constitute
the 1D items in this case have either already been produced to you in discovery (e.g., pen register data, GPS data,
and aerial footage), or are digital recordings of interviews that will be produced as non-testifying witness
statements. Because these 1D items are data files stored in the FBI system, there is no corresponding physical item
to produce for you to review.
Please let me know when you would like to schedule a time for a smaller group from the defense team to review evidence
at the Bronx warehouse.
Best,
Assistant United States Attorney
Southern District of New York
St. Andrew% Plaza
New York, NY 10007
From:
Sent: Monday, April 5, 2021 10:48 PM
To: Laura Menninger <Imenningerj@hmflaw.com>;
(USANYS)
Cc: Jeff Pagliuca <jpagliucaPhmflaw.com>; Christian R Everdell - Cohen & Gresser LLP (ceverdell@cohengresser.com)
<ceverdell@cohengresser.com>• 'BOBBI C STERNHEIM' <bcsternheim@mac.com>
Subject: RE: US v. Maxwell - 20 Cr. 330 (AJN) - Request to view evidence, highly confidential materials, scenes
Laura,
Thank you for your email and for your understanding as we work through the logistics of arranging this review. Your
modifications and clarifications are acceptable to us. Below I address each specifically:
• The FBI can arrange for a lawyer, investigator, and paralegal to inspect and photograph the precluded items at the
Bronx warehouse either next week or the week after. Please let us know what day you would like to arrange for
that inspection, and I will coordinate with the FBI accordingly. I would suggest trying to schedule this visit early
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next week if possible so that if there are items that you believe need to be produced to 500 Pearl Street, we will
have time to do so during a subsequent day of review at 500 Pearl if the FBI agrees to transport the item(s).
• Tomorrow, I will send you evidence spreadsheets with annotations of which items the FBI will not be producing to
500 Pearl Street, and which items we are designating under the Protective Order. Please note that certain items
will be designated "Confidential," in which case they may be photographed, but the photographs should be treated
as Confidential under the Protective Order. Other items will be designated "Highly Confidential," in which case they
may not be photographed, absent specific authorization from an AUSA. I note the possibility of authorization to
photograph this latter category because some Highly Confidential evidence items include both nude and non-nude
portions, in which case we would permit photography of the non-nude portions.
• In light of our decision to produce non-testifying witness statements beginning on April 12, 2021, we are no longer
segregating any electronic media that contain witness statements during this review. This is because all of the
witness statements on the electronic media in the FBI's possession are from witnesses whom the Government does
not expect to call at trial in this case. Please note that we intend to produce digital audio files to you containing the
contents of the electronic media with these non-testifying witness statements, but you are of course welcome to
review the original recordings themselves.
• In terms of space, I have been informed that we will not be permitted to conduct this review in a courtroom and
will instead be required to do so in the proffer rooms. I have reserved the two largest proffer rooms available at
500 Pearl. We can use the largest proffer room for evidence review, and the slightly smaller proffer room as a
private meeting space for the defense team.
• Confirmed, I will ask the FBI to bring all electronic highly confidential images to 500 Pearl Street, including the
2,100 that were not previously reviewed and the electronic images that were previously provided for review at the
MDC.
• Confirmed, I will ask the FBI to bring the 7 hard-copy highly confidential materials to 500 Pearl Street.
As I mentioned earlier today in a separate email, the FBI and AUSAs are prepared to facilitate this review beginning April
13th and continuing every day thereafter until your review is complete. I have also formally requested that the Marshals