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1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
2 SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA
3 WEST PALM BEACH DIVISION
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8 IN RE: OPERATION LEAP YEAR
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12 Grand Jury #07-103 (WPB)
13 West Palm Beach, Florida
14 Tuesday, February 6, 2007
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16 TESTIMONY
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21 APPEARANCE:
22 , ASSISTANT U. S. ATTORNEY
23 , COURT REPORTER , FOREPERSON
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1 P R O C E E D I N G S
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3 The sworn testimony of was taken
4 before the Federal Grand Jury, West Palm Beach Division,
5 701 Clematis Street, West Palm Beach, Palm Beach County,
6 state of Florida, on the 6th day of February, 2007.
7 , Registered Merit Reporter and Notary
8 Public was authorized to and did report the sworn
9 testimony.
10 Thereupon,
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12 a witness of lawful age, having been first duly sworn by
13 the foreperson, testified on her oath as follows:
14 BY MS.
15 Q Special Agent , please state and
16 spell your name for the record.
17 A It is , and I work for
18 the FBI in Palm Beach County.
19 Q Can you spell your last name, please.
20 A I'm sorry, it is
21 Q And I know we have some people in the back
22 having trouble hearing you. You said that you work for
23 the FBI. Can you tell the Grand Jury what particular
24 group you are employed with?
25 A I am with the Violent Crimes Squad here in
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1 Palm Beach County, I work primarily crimes against
2 children, but have been an agent for the last
3 approximately 10 years.
4 Q Have you received specialized training in the
5 area of crimes against children?
6 A Yes, I have.
7 Q As part of your employment with the FBI have
8 you been involved in an investigation of Jeffrey
9 Epstein?
10 A Yes, I have.
11 Q And can you tell us who Jeffrey Epstein is?
12 A Jeffrey Epstein is an investment advisor who
13 has a part-time residence in the town of Palm Beach, he
14 has got multiple residences across the country to
15 include a ranch in New Mexico, an island in the Virgin
16 islands, and multiple aircrafts, two airplanes and a
17 helicopter to be exact, and --
18 Q And where is his primary residence?
19 A His primary residence, he has an office in New
20 York, but his primary residence I believe is the island.
21 Q In the Virgin Islands?
22 A Yes.
23 Q He also has a home in New York, correct?
24 A Yes.
25 Q How is it that you started investigating
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1 Mr. Epstein?
2 A The Palm Beach Police Department in March of
3 2005 initiated an investigation on Mr. Epstein involving
4 multiple underage females that had visited Mr. Epstein's
5 residence and had performed sexual massages or massages
6 for Mr. Epstein of a sexual nature.
7 Mr. Epstein paid the underage females anywhere
8 from 200 to $400, that investigation was around an 8 to
9 10-month investigation, and at that point we became
10 involved in about July of 2006.
11 Q And once the case was presented to you by the
12 Palm Beach Police Department did the FBI open its own
13 investigation?
14 A Yes, yes, we initiated our investigation in
15 July of 2006, we took a look at focusing in on the
16 underage minors and in our investigation we interviewed
17 many of the girls that were underage and we did an
18 independent investigation issuing Grand Jury subpoenas
19 as well as administrative subpoenas getting different
20 documents of financial records, telephone analysis,
21 flight manifests, looking to see if Mr. Epstein engaged
22 in sexual activity with these females.
23 Q All right. And just so the Grand Jury is
24 clear, were some of the girls who went to Mr. Epstein's
25 house 18 or older?
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1 A Yes.
2 Q And then there were some that were under the
3 age of 18, correct?
4 A Yes.
5 Q And as part of the federal investigation did
6 you have to investigate what we call the interstate
7 nexus aspect of the case?
8 A Yes.
9 Q And can you explain to the Grand Jury what
10 that is?
11 A We looked at -- Mr. Epstein, as I mentioned
12 earlier, has two aircrafts, and we focused in on the
13 year 2004, 2005, he took approximately 60 trips to his
14 residence in Palm Beach, the majority of that time
15 focusing in on his assistant's cell phone, which his
16 assistant's name is , we took a look at her
17 cell phone records and the majority of the times that
18 Mr. Epstein would fly into Palm Beach Mrs. -- Ms.
19 would contact many of our underage victims either prior
20 to coming into Palm Beach, the day of, the day before,
21 even the day after, and certainly throughout the time
22 that Mr. Epstein was at his residence in Palm Beach.
23 Q And from the interviews of the girls that have
24 been conducted, what was the subject of those telephone
25 calls?
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