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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
20 Cr. 330 (AJN)
V.
GHISLAINE MA
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
20 Cr. 330 (AJN)
Vv.
GHISLAINE MAXWELL, NOTICE OF
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Nor does § 3283 apply to extend the statutes of limitations under Counts Three and Four.
Those counts arise under 18 U.S.C. § 2423(a),
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by statutes whose retroactive application, while not the equivalent of criminal ex post facto,
nevertheless would run afoul of ‘famili
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In the civil context, the Second Circuit has acknowledged a distinction between
retroactively applying an extended limitations period
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typically give it great weight in interpreting federal statutes. See, e.g., Food & Drug Admin. v.
Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., 52
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
20 Cr. 330 (AJN)
V.
GHISLAINE MAXWELL,
Defendant
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
20 Cr. 330 (AJN)
Vv.
GHISLAINE MAXWELL, NOTICE OF
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VI. ORGANIZATION OF THE REPORT
The Report is divided into three chapters. In Chapter One, OPR describes the relevant
federal, state
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investigate, litigate, or provide legal advice.” OPR also has jurisdiction to investigate allegations
of misconduct against Departme
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carefully considered the comments and made changes, or noted comments, as OPR deemed
appropriate; OPR did not, however, alter its fin
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Secretary of Labor. In a brief oral statement, Acosta explained that continued media attention on
his handling of the Epstein investi
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abuse of minors. The Miami Herald report led to public outrage and media scrutiny of the
government’s actions.*
On February 21, 2019
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NPA required Epstein to plead guilty in state court to the then-pending state indictment against
him and to an additional criminal in
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IN RE:
INVESTIGATION OF
JEFFREY EPSTEIN
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ADDENDUM TO THE NON-PROSECUTION AGREEMENT.
IT APPEARING that the pa
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sentenced not later than October 26, 2007. The United States has no
objection to Epstein self-reporting to begin servi
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By signing this agreement, Epstein asserts and certifies that each of these terms is
material to this agreement and is
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proposed agreements with the State Attomey’s Office prior to entering
into those agreements,
Ti The United States sh
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IN RE:
INVESTIGATION OF
JEFFREY EPSTEIN
/
NON-PROSECUTION AGREEMENT
IT APPEARING that the City of Palm Beac
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COMPOSITE EXHIBIT A
NON-PROSECUTION AGREEMENT AND
ADDENDUM
DOJ-OGR-00002612
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contract arising out of commercial negotiations among private parties, we believe the court did
not correctly apply the standards that
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ambiguities are construed, as they must be, against the government as drafter. In the alternative,
however, the NPA and the circumstan
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Attorney’s Office.” NPA at 2. The latter investigation, in turn, encompasses not only “offenses”
from the 2001-07 time period, but als
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drafted and executed by the government’s agents in the SDFL, and because Epstein performed
under the contract by entering a plea in a
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articulated in Annabi “really has no analytically sound foundation [in Second Circuit case law].
It just keeps replicating itself each
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defendant’s plea agreement explicitly stated that it “is binding on the United States only in [the
Eastern] district”), aff'd, 774 F.2
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Here, we understand that senior levels of Main Justice were directly involved in the
negotiation and approval of the NPA, and the NPA
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provision as to Epstein. See, e.g., LaSalle Bank Nat’l Ass’n v. Nomura Asset Capital Corp., 424
F.3d 195, 206 (2d Cir. 2005) (“In inte
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moved to dismiss a subsequent indictment in this District as barred by what they claimed was an
earlier “plea agreement” in the Easter
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offenses at issue will be “instituted in this District.” NPA at 2 (emphases added). In addition,
the use of the term “the United State
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parties to the NPA clearly intended to confer immunity on potential co-conspirators of Epstein,
such as Ms. Maxwell.
B. The NPA’s Pro
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provider], employees of [its] subsidiaries, and subsidiary corporations of [the
cargo provider and a related foreign airline].
Id.
A
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Contrary to the government’s position here, courts applying these traditional contract
principles to non-prosecution agreements have r
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A. Ms. Maxwell Has Standing to Enforce the NPA.
The Second Circuit has long recognized that plea agreements may include promises of
l
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that the facts and circumstances of the negotiation of the NPA are consistent with the parties’
intent to provide potential co-conspir
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agreement is not simply a party to a contract. The Government is required to observe high
standards of integrity and honorable conduct
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Id. Thus, the NPA limits the benefit to Epstein to immunity “in this District.”
Next, the NPA sets forth 13 provisions labeled “Terms
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ES . :
As the NPA reflects, Epstein’s objective in negotiating the NPA was to obtain a global
resolution that would, among other thin
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prosecuted. Nor does the NPA contain any language limiting its binding effect on other USAOs,
as standard agreements typically do.
B.
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the NPA’s language and structure, as well as the manner in which it was negotiated, were highly
atypical. The result was a one-off agr
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United States v. Annabi, 771 F.2d 670, 672 (2d Cir. 1985). Annabi supports dismissal here by
confirming that where, as here, both the
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the NPA clearly intended to confer a benefit on any and all of Epstein’s potential co-conspirators
in explicitly giving them immunity.
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not expired, would be punishable by up to three months in prison — /ess time than Ms.
Maxwell has already spent in pretrial detention.
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Epstein’s equal—if not his superior—and baselessly caricatured as a villain of near-mythical
proportions. Only at this time did the gov
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plead guilty to a single-count Florida state indictment.' Epstein did so in 2008 and went to
prison for 13 months. At that time, the go
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PRELIMINARY STATEMENT
Ghislaine Maxwell respectfully submits this Memorandum in Support of her Motion to
Dismiss the Superseding Indic
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
20 Cr. 330 (AJN)
v.
GHISLAINE MAXWELL,
Defendant
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
20 Cr. 330 (AJN)
Vv.
GHISLAINE MAXWELL, NOTICE OF
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case and use her own words against her. 594 F.2d at 294. The Fifth Amendment would mean
nothing if an individual were told by a distri