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• R;ch Kahn 
From: 
Carolyn Cohen 
Sent: 
Tuesday. October 21, 2008 9:44 P 
To: 
Rich Kahn 
Subject: 
Dershowitz payment to lawyers 
Dear Rich — 
Alan has asked me to go back through the files to summarize payments made to other lawyers from the lolta 
account. Here's what I have found so far. 
In 2005 on 12/7/05 $20,000 was sent to Jean Baker. 
In 2006 the following amounts were sent: 
To Dershowitz and Eiger: 
2/7/06 
$25,000 
6/19/06 
$9,545 
10/20/06 $11,690 
11/14/06 $26,836 
11/28/06 $29,622 
12/22/06 $11,801 
TOTAL: 
$114,494 
To James Greene: 
8/06 
$20,000 
10/06 
$6,395 
TOTAL: $26,395 
To Mitch Webber: 
3/1/06 
$933
4/5/06 
$410 
5/16/06 
$385 
8/8/06 
$10,000 
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i0/25/06 $10,000 
TOTAL: $21,728 
To Marty Weinberg: 
8/30/06 
$4,901.14 
TOTAL: $4,901.14 
In 2007 the following amounts were sent: 
To Dershowitz and Eiger: 
2/1/07 
$19,540.18 
5/10/07 
5100,000 
6/12/07 
$19,440.20 
7/14/07 
$39,797.33 
9/13/07 
$38,281.86 
1/16/07 
$26,548.16 
TOTAL: 
$243,606. 
In 2008 the following amounts were sent: 
Dershowitz and Eiger: 
1/9/08 510,38.78 
4/8/08 $58,800.95 
TOTAL: 569,338 
This comes to a total of $480,462.14 paid out to other lawyers that I have found so far. If you need any 
further information, please let me know and I will look for it. 
Sincerely, 
Carolyn Cohen 
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ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ 
1575 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE 
CA5111 
62138 
October 16,2007 
VIA EMAIL 
Judge Herbert J. Stern 
Stern & Kilcullen, LLC 
75 Livingston Avenue 
Roseland, New Jersey 07068 
Re: 
Jeffrey Epstein 
Dear Herb: 
As you and I discussed on Friday, I would like to retain you to provide an expert 
opinion with regard to the propriety or impropriety of certain conduct of the Office of the United 
States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida with respect to its handling ofthc Jeffrey Epstein 
matter. 
As the press has reported, the matter becamo a subject of federal interest when a 
disgruntled detective from the Palm Beach Police Department —unhappy with the State's proposed 
resolution of the matter — turned investigatory materials over to the press. The matter was then 
picked up by the United States Attorney's Office. That Office then threatened Mr. Epstein — a 
prominent supporter of the Democratic Party —with prosecution under a number of federal statutes 
notwithstanding the fact that the federal statutes had never been used to prosecute the kind of 
conduct at issue. 
The conduct at issue was Epstein's receiving massages from various young women 
at his Palm Beach, Florida home. Some of the massages, for which the women were paid, had a 
consensual sexual component. Mr. Epstein made efforts to insure that all of the women involved 
were over 18 but, it appears, a few of them lied about their age. Several whose statements were 
taken were 17, and one appears to have been under 16 but, with her, the conduct was limited to 
touching; there was no penetration. The notion that Mr. Epstein went to Florida for purposes of 
engaging in illicit sexual conduct is, farfetched. Mr. Epstein went to Florida because he has a home 
there. Since he also has a home in New York, where the age of consent is 17, there would be no 
reason for him to go to Florida to engage in conduct that would have been legal had it occurred in 
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New York but proscribed by State law in Florida. In any event, that which occurred iu Palm Beach 
was 'local, local, local," and thus there was no legitimate federal interest in the matter. 
The government now claims that there were 40 girls "identified" as being underage, 
but, even now, the prosecutors have only spoken to 20 or so of them, and they have indicated an 
Intention to make a smaller subset (approximately 12 - 17 of them) the subject of federal charges. 
We did extensive submissions on the inapplicability of the federal criminal statutes 
which the prosecutors had mentioned as a basis of their investigation — specifically 18 U.S.C. 
2422(b) and 2423(b) — and the government itself came to the preliminary conclusion that some or 
all of the statutes were inapplicable. Nevertheless, they subsequently threatened prosecution under 
federal criminal laws, including the money laundering statute, knowing that these statutes were at 
best of questionable applicability in order to pressure Mr. Epstein to plead to state offenses carrying 
higher penalties that those the Mato prosecutor had determined appropriate. The federal prosecutors 
are also insisting that Mr. Epstein be subject to Megan's Law registration requirements, though the 
State prosecutors believed that was unnecessary and inappropriate given the circumstances. 
The principal questions on which we would like your views is whether a responsible 
federal prosecutor would have brought charges for the conduct at issue and, if not, is it appropriate 
fora federal prosecutor to threaten to prosecute Mr. Epstein on federal charges in order to get him 
to plead to a more serious state law offense. There is other prosecutorial conduct that we believe 
overstepped ethical bounds. For example, the prosecutors have insisted that, to resolve the matter, 
Mr. Epstein must write 40 checks, each in the amount of S150,000, to compensate the "victims" 
though it will not identify to whom the checks will go. 
It is on these, and related questions, that we seek your views, in part, so that we may 
determine whether, and how, to approach Assistant Attorney General Alice Fisher or others in the 
Department of Justice, with our concerns. 
As we discussed, I will provide a retainer in the amount of $100,000, against which 
you would charge your time. For purposes of 11111 disclosure, although I am retaining you, you 
should understand that it is Mr. Epstein, who is providing the money to pay your fee. 
As you know, Victoria Eiger has been part of the defense team, and she will be 
available to provide you with factual and legal materials that we have, and to assist you in any other 
way you might deem useful. We are hoping that you can complete your review and provide an 
opinion within two to three weeks. 
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I look forward to hearing your views. 
Very truly yours, 
AMD:iba 
cc: 
Mr. Jeffrey Epstein 
Victoria B. Eiger, Esq. 
Alan M. Dershowttz 
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