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FBI VOL00009
EFTA00179301
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff, vs. COPY JEFFREY EPSTEIN, SARAH KELLEN, ADRIANA ROSS, a/k/a Adriana Mucinska, and NADIA MARCINKOVA, Defendants. TESTIMONY OF SPECIAL AGENT Federal Grand Jury 07-103 Federal Building U.S. Courthouse West Palm Beach, Florida Tuesday, March 18, 2008 APPEARANCES: Assistant United States Attorney Foreperson OFFICIAL REPORTING SERVICE, LLC (954) 467-8204 EFTA00179301
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/ / 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 I. The sworn testimony of SPECIAL AGENT was taken before the Federal Grand Jury, West Palm Beach Division, Federal Building, U.S. Courthouse, Palm Beach County, State of Florida, on Tuesday, March 18, 2008. , Certified Court Reporter and Notary Public, State of Florida, Official Reporting Service, LLC, 524 South Andrews Avenue, Suite 302N, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 33301 , was authorized to and did report the sworn testimony. OFFICIAL REPORTING SERVICE, LLC (954) 467-8204 EFTA00179302
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3 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 (Witness enters the Grand Jury Room.) THE FOREPERSON: You do solemnly swear that the testimony you give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God? THE WITNESS: I do. THE FOREPERSON: seated. BY Thank you. Please be EXAMINATION Q Good afternoon, Special Agent Would you just remind the grand jury of your name and for whom you work? A I am My official name is and I work for the FBI here in West Palm Beach. Q All right. And you are still one of the case agents on Operation Leap Year? A Yes, I am. Q Have additional subpoenas been issued on behalf of this grand jury regarding Leap Year? A Yes, they have. Q And have documents been received in response to those subpoenas? A Yes, they have. OFFICIAL REPORTING SERVICE, LLC (954) 467-8204 EFTA00179303
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4 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Q What subpoenas were issued and what items were received? A The items that are received are in this box for your review at a later time, but starting with the first subpoena that we had received documents back for would be from American Express. The subpoena was issued and we received credit card account information. Q Okay. A Do you want me just to -- Q You can just go through them. A A subpoena was issued to J. Epstein Virgin Island Foundation, Inc., J. Epstein and Company, Epstein Interests, Financial Trust Company, Inc., and we received documents on all three of those except for -- all four of those except for Jeffrey Epstein and Company -- J. Epstein and Company, which we received a letter of no response. The next subpoena was issued to the Palm Beach County School Board and we received transcript request forms. The next grand jury subpoena was issued to Dan Tishler, Airport Executive, Town Car Services. We received a verbal that there were no records from Mr. OFFICIAL REPORTING SERVICE, LLC (954) 467-8204 EFTA00179304
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5 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Tishler. We issued a grand jury subpoena to the custodian of records for Majestic Theater, which we received ticketing records for. We issued a grand jury subpoena or you issued a grand jury subpoena for the custodian of records at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts and we received ticketing records. We issued a subpoena for the custodian of records for the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts and received a letter of no records response. We issued a subpoena for the custodian of records for Live Nation Theatrical Broadway Across America. Again, received a response letter of no records. We issued another subpoena for the custodian of records from Live Nation Theatrical Broadway Across America and that we did receive some ticketing records. We issued a subpoena to Bear Sterns and Company, Inc., and we received personnel files and account information. We issued a grand jury subpoena for Wolf Camera and we received transaction records. OFFICIAL REPORTING SERVICE, LLC (954) 467-8204 EFTA00179305
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6 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 We have issued a grand jury subpoena to Amazon.com and received order records. We issued a grand jury subpoena to Federal Express and received shipping records, and all that is contained in this box. Q All right. BY And at the end of our preservation, you will be welcome to look through any of those records and we also will bring them to the next session. A GRAND JUROR: I have a question. Yes. A GRAND JUROR: We subpoenaed information from theaters. I heard you say ticketing information or records from a few of them. Did we subpoena that information to establish location of the defendant or I guess he's not a defendant yet? THE WITNESS: Just as corroborating evidence of testimony provided by the girls. Their statements provided to us. A GRAND JUROR: Okay. Q Okay. Special Agent , each OFFICIAL REPORTING SERVICE, LLC (954) 467-8204 EFTA00179306
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7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 member of the grand jury has before them a copy of a chart. Do you also have a copy of this chart entitled Revised Indictment Summary Chart (by victim)? A Yes. Q And then you also provided to everyone a list of Jane Does with photographs? A Yes, I did. Q Okay. Can you just explain to the grand jury how -- which Jane Does we are going to be talking about today? A We are going to talk about Jane Does One through Six and Nine and Ten, and what you have here is a Jane Doe list of One through 19. We will be going through the first Six and Nine and Ten. As you can see, if you look at these two columns you'll see in the indictment we have before you is going to have the new Jane Doe numbers and the column to the right of that shows you what their Jane Doe number used to be. So Jane Does Nine and Ten, when we spoke about those two before, and we will go through that a little bit later, we referred to those as Jane Does Six and Seven. From here on out, we OFFICIAL REPORTING SERVICE, LLC (954) 467-8204 EFTA00179307
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8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 will refer to them as Jane Does Nine and Ten. A GRAND JUROR: I have a question about Jane Doe Number One, and Amy pointed this out. The date of birth is August 1983. The range of activity dates is 1988 to 2003? THE WITNESS: That's a typo. That should be 1998. Thank you for catching that. A GRAND JUROR: I was about ready to have a problem here. I was having a real problem. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. A GRAND JUROR: I was about to take the law into my own hands. THE WITNESS: Let there be noted on the summary chart, there is a typo correction for Jane Doe Number One. The range of activity for her is 1998 to 2003. This chart is a chart that we put together because I have testified in the past as well as you may have heard other testimony regarding some of the Jane Does, and we are going to be talking about them today and in a later session. OFFICIAL REPORTING SERVICE, LLC (954) 467-8204 EFTA00179308
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9 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 We want -- we provided this to you sort of as an aid so that you can go back and access the grand jury transcripts and go to the date that the testimony was provided. If you look at the last column where it says, Grand Jury Transcript Pages, on this form it will tell you the date of the grand jury, who provided that testimony, and the page number where you can find testimony related to those specific Overt Acts and substantive counts. So the two columns next to that -- let's just take Jane Doe Number Two and run through that real quick. Jane Doe Number Two, we have not testified about before. So that is her number and will always remain her number. Her date of birth is January of 1987. The range of activity and that reflects the range of activity that we have her connected to Mr. Epstein and his assistants. The next two columns are the Overt Acts and the associated substantive counts. The Overt Acts support those substantive counts and again the last column you would at that point go to my testimony on May 8th, 2007, OFFICIAL REPORTING SERVICE, LLC (954) 467-8204 EFTA00179309
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10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 and look on the transcript on Pages Six and Seven, and that would be my testimony for the Overt Acts, the supporting evidence and testimony for Overt Acts One through 18. BY Q But, Special Agent just so that it is clear, when you testified back in May, you weren't testifying specifically about Jane Doe Number Two, but her name came up in with respect to one of the other Jane Does? A Exactly. Q Okay. So any information related to those Jane Does would be in the transcript pages? A Yes. BY Does that make sense to everyone how we have organized that? Q Now Special Agent , if you could look at the proposed indictment, and I'm looking at the Background section of the indictment specifically Paragraphs One through Nine, which deal with Mr. Epstein's background and who he employed. Have you testified about that material. OFFICIAL REPORTING SERVICE, LLC (954) 467-8204 EFTA00179310
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11 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 in the past? A Yes, I have. Q And let me just direct you to Overt Two, which is at the top of Page Two. There is a reference to L.G., and I don't believe we have talked about L.G. before. Can you tell the grand jury who that is? A L.G. is Lesley Groff and she is a personal assistant or an assistant for Mr. Epstein in his New York office. Q All right. And just for the court reporter, Lesley is L-I-S-L-M-Y, and Groff is G-R-O-F-F; is that correct? A Yes, it is. Q Then Paragraph Three talks about three individuals, ., and . Can you tell the grand jury who those persons are? A is Tatum Miller. . is is Anthony Figueroa. Q And if you look at the summary chart on the second page, there are columns for . and Do you see those at the bottom of Page Two? A Yes, I see them. Q And those refer to Tatum Miller and Anthony Figueroa where you have testified about OFFICIAL REPORTING SERVICE, LLC (954) 467-8204 EFTA00179311
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12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 them before or where III. was who testified about them? A Yes. Q I know that you have testified about Mr. Epstein's residence here in Palm Beach, but if you could look at Paragraph Five of that introductory section, which is on Page Two. Are you -- can you provide the grand jury with the location of Mr. Epstein's New York residence? A Mr. Epstein currently has a property located at 9 East 71st Street, New York, New York. Q If I could direct you to Page Five of the proposed indictment in Paragraphs 18 through 25 of the introductory section. Can you tell the grand jury about where the various victims in this case attended high school? A I can. Starting with Paragraph 18. Would you like me to just run through them? Q Sure. A Jane Doe Number Four attended Wellington High School and Palm Beach Central High School. Jane Doe Number Five attended Wellington High School. Jane Doe Numbers Six, Eight, and 12, OFFICIAL REPORTING SERVICE, LLC (954) 467-8204 EFTA00179312
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13 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 attended Palm Beach Central High School. I should state that all of these high schools are located in Palm Beach County. Jane Doe Number Seven attended William T. Dwyer High School in Palm Beach County. Jane Doe Numbers Nine, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, and 19 attended Royal Palm Beach High School in Palm Beach County. Jane Doe Number Ten attended Lake Worth High School in Palm Beach County. Jane Doe Number 11 attended the Professional Performing Arts School, a public high school located in the New York area; New York, New York. Jane Doe Number 13 attended John I. Leonard High School in Palm Beach County, and the Jane Does attended these high schools during some point of the contact with Mr. Epstein. Q Now Special Agent , I know that not each and everyone of the Jane Does is listed in this. Did some of the Jane Does leave school before they began their relationship with Mr. Epstein? A Yes, they did. Q Now everyone was handed a copy of a document entitled, Merged Flight Manifests. If I OFFICIAL REPORTING SERVICE, LLC (954) 467-8204 EFTA00179313
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14 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 could ask you to take a look at that, and in the proposed indictment if you could turn to Page 32. Special Agent , I'm going to ask you about Overt Acts 191 through 225. Can you tell the grand jury what the basis is for the allegations set forth in 191 through 225? A We received through the issuance of a grand jury subpoena the flight manifest from Mr. Epstein's pilot and that is our evidence to show the travel that Mr. Epstein did, which is displayed in Overt Acts 191 through 225. Q And the chart that is entitled Merged Flight Manifests, what does that include? A This chart will show the grand jury that in January 2004 through -- basically, Mr. Epstein's travel in '04 and '05 on his two personal aircrafts, which would be the Boeing 727 and the*Gulfstream. If you look at this chart, the first column is the date of departure, the date that he left, and you'll see airport codes in the next column that tells you the airport that he left and what time he left would be the next time, the departure time. It will tell you what airport he was OFFICIAL REPORTING SERVICE, LLC (954) 467-8204 EFTA00179314
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15 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14. 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 arriving in and what time he arrived at that airport, and the last would be the actual aircraft itself, which aircraft he was traveling on, and just to remind the grand jury, Hyperion is the Gulfstream and JEGE is the Boeing 727. Q And who created this chart, the Merged Flight Manifests Chart? A The FBI. Q And where did they gather this information from? A We subpoenaed or the grand jury issued a subpoena to the pilot and pilots of Mr. Epstein and through counsel the pilots gave us a copy of the flight manifest for those two years and I have here a set of the flight manifests that were provided to us by the grand jury subpoena and have marked each of the Overt Acts from 191 to 225. So that if any time the grand jury would like to come and look at the actual manifest the pilots gave us, you'll be able to see the data that this form was taken from. Q Okay. Thank you. : Before I go on, does anyone have any questions about those Overt Acts and where this information came from? OFFICIAL REPORTING SERVICE, LLC (954) 467-8204 EFTA00179315
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Yes, sir. A GRAND JUROR: Is there something that ties in these travel itineraries to the actual fact that there was a meeting or something planned? I mean, where does that tie together? Traveling is not against the law. Right. The way that we had the indictment organized before was an attempt to do this in chronological order, which seems to be more confusing rather than less confusing. So when you look at the -- when you hear the testimony from Special Agent and when you look at the Overt Acts related to the victims and when he went to see them, you'll see that the dates of travel relate to the dates of his meeting with the victims. Does that make sense? A GRAND JUROR: Yes. BY Q Is there anything else, Special Agent , that I should add to that? A No. It will become clear once we testify about the travel count. OFFICIAL REPORTING SERVICE, LLC (954) 467-8204 EFTA00179316
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17 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 A GRAND JUROR: Can I just ask which airport is ISM? THE WITNESS: You know, I can in the next session, I would be happy to bring the airport codes. A GRAND JUROR: Okay. THE WITNESS: Obviously, we focused in on his times when he traveled into the Palm Beach County area and that would be PBIA PBI, but I can certainly provide all the airport codes at our next session. BY Ol Q All right. Now throughout the Overt Acts portion where there are discussions of various Jane Does, there will be mentioned a telephone call. So, for example, if you look at Page Ten, Paragraph 17, it says on or about April 23rd, 2004, Defendant .Sarah Kellen placed a telephone call to a telephone used by Jane Doe Number Two. Do you see that? A Yes. Q And Special Agent , what is the evidence that we have related to the telephone calls that are mentioned in the Overt Acts? OFFICIAL REPORTING SERVICE, LLC (954) 467-8204 EFTA00179317
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18 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 A We have issued administrative subpoenas to telecommunication companies for cell phone records for Mr. Epstein's assistants as well as many of the Jane Does. These specific Overt Acts are reflected in those telephone records and we have also prepared for the grand jury -- I brought with me today, and I will bring with me next time, all of the telephone records for -- that we have received via administrative subpoenas. Today I brought the ones pertaining to the Overt Acts and what we have done is we have taken those cell phone records and we have marked for the grand jury all the Overt Acts that are listed in the indictment. You'll note when you go to that page, there will be a little mark by the telephone call that we are specifically talking about in the Overt Acts. Q And can ydu just remind the grand jury what information will be on those records? A It will be telephonic contact between Sarah Kellen, Nadia Marcinkova, Adriana Ross or Mucinska, telephonic contact between his assistants and the Jane Does. OFFICIAL REPORTING SERVICE, LLC (954) 467-8204 EFTA00179318
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19 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Q It will show the telephone number that was called and the dates and time and length of the call? A Yes, it will. Q All right. Any questions before we start talking about the sexual activity between the defendant and the victims? Okay. No questions. BY Q Let's talk first about Jane Does One and Two. They are grouped together in Overt Acts One through 18. Who is Jane Doe Number One? A Jane Doe Number One is a white female. Her name is Virginia. She was born in August of 1983 and she lived in the Palm Beach County area during the time that she had contact with Mr. Epstein. Q Has she been interviewed? A Statements have been provided to the FBI by Jane Doe Number One. Q In addition to her statements, who else has provided information regarding Jane Doe Number One? A Jane Doe Number Two and Jane Doe Number OFFICIAL REPORTING SERVICE, LLC (954) 467-8204 EFTA00179319
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20 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 One's boyfriend at the time she had contact with Mr. Epstein, which is Anthony Figueroa. Q Who is referred to as in the indictment? A Yes. Q During what period of time, did Jane Doe Number One have contact with Mr. Epstein? A Jane Doe Number One met Mr. Epstein when she was 15. So that would be in the last half of 1998 until 2003 that we are aware of. Q How did she meet Jeffrey Epstein? A She met Mr. Epstein at age 15 and according to her boyfriend when she was 20, Mr. Epstein sent her to Thailand for massage therapy school. So she -- the time frame that she was with Mr. Epstein was from the age of 15 until we are aware of is age 20. Anthony Figueroa never saw Jane Doe Number One again after she went to Thailand. She would contact him by telephone, but she never returned back. He stated he inherited her dog. She never came back that he is aware of. So the time frame that we had Jane Doe Number One with Mr. Epstein is from age 15 to 20. OFFICIAL REPORTING SERVICE, LLC (954) 467-8204 EFTA00179320
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