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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
‘SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA
WEST PALM BEACH DIVISION

IN RE: OPERATION LEAP YEAR

Grand Jury #07-103 (wPB)
West Palm Beach, Florida
Tuesday, February 6, 2007

TESTIMONY

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PROCEEDINGS

the sworn testimony of |. HNN WEEE 2s taken

before the Federal Grand Jury, West Palm Beach Division,
701 clematis Street, west Palm Beach, Palm Beach County,
state of Florida, on the 6th day of February, 2007.

HEINE Registered Merit Reporter and Notary
public was authorized to and did report the sworn
testimony.
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a witness of lawful age, having been first duly sworn by

the foreperson, testified on her oath as follows:
gy Ms. [HENNE :
Q special Agent | NIE. riease state and

spell your name for the record.

are is I. [HEE DEERE and 1 work for

the FBI in Palm Beach County.

Q can you spell your last name, please.
a rn osorry, it is [EE
Q and T know we have some people in the back

having trouble hearing you. You said that you work for
the FBI. Can you tell the Grand Jury what particular
group you are employed with?

A I am with the violent Crimes Squad here in

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Palm Beach County, I work primarily crimes against
children, but have been an agent for the last
approximately 10 years.

Q Have you received specialized training in the

area of crimes against children?

A Yes, I have.

Q As part of your employment with the FBI have

you been involved in an investigation of Jeffrey

Epstein?
A Yes, I have.
0 And can you tell us who Jeffrey Epstein is?
A Jeffrey Epstein is an investment advisor who

has a part-time residence in the town of Palm Beach, he
has got multiple residences across the country to
include a ranch in New Mexico, an island in the virgin
Isles, and multiple aircrafts, two airplanes and a
helicopter to be exact, and --

Q And where is his primary residence?

A His primary residence, he has an office in New
York, but his primary residence I believe is the island.
In the virgin Islands?

Yes.
He also has a home in New York, correct?

Yes.

2 0 2 PF DOD

How is it that you started investigating

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Mr. Epstein?

A The Palm Beach Police Department in March of
2005 initiated an investigation on Mr. Epstein involving
multiple underage females that had visited Mr. Epstein's
residence and had performed sexual massages or massages
for Mr. Epstein of a sexual nature.

Mr. Epstein paid the underage females anywhere
from 200 to $400, that investigation was around an 8 to
10-month investigation, and at that point we became
involved in about July of 2006.

Q And once the case was presented to you by the
Palm Beach Police Department did the FBI open its own
investigation?

A Yes, yes, we initiated our investigation in
July of 2006, we took a look at focusing in on the
underage minors and in our investigation we interviewed
many of the girls that were underage and we did an
independent investigation issuing Grand Jury subpoenas
as well as administrative subpoenas getting different
documents of financial records, telephone analysis,
flight manifests, looking to see if Mr. Epstein engaged
in sexual activity with these females.

Q A11 right. And just so the Grand Jury 1s
clear, were some of the girls who went to Mr. Epstein's

house 18 or older?

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A Yes.

Q And then there were some that were under the
age of 18, correct?

A Yes.

Q And as part of the federal investigation did
you have to investigate what we call the interstate

nexus aspect of the case?

A Yes.

Q And can you explain to the Grand Jury what
that is?

A we looked at -- Mr. Epstein, as I mentioned

earlier, has two aircrafts, and we focused in on the
year 2004, 2005, he took approximately 60 trips to his
residence in Palm Beach, the majority of that time
focusing in on his assistant's cell phone, which his
assistant's name is [J] J. we took a look at her
cell phone records and the majority of the times that
Mr. Epstein would fly into palm Beach mrs. -- Ms. [ER
would contact many of our underage victims either prior
to coming into Palm Beach, the day of, the day before,
even the day after, and certainly throughout the time
that Mr. Epstein was at his residence in Palm Beach.

Q And from the interviews of the girls that have

been conducted, what was the subject of those telephone

calls?

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telephone

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can you restate the question?

Sure. From the interviews of the girls that

conducted, what was the subject matter of the

calls from [IN HN:
[ he would schedule the underage gir

to come and work, perform the massages for Mr. Epstein

so she was responsible, she as well as another

assistant

) they were his personal

assistants who would set up appointments for Mr. Epstein

for the girls to come and perform their sexual massages.

Q

all right. 1s | HI 21s0 considered

target of this investigation?

A

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Yes, she 1s.

And I will just -- I will spell I

BE for the Grand Jury. The first name is

BE the last name is spelled
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name?

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Yes, she does, she is married and her name 1

Q ] Is Ms, Be at least a subject of

this investigation, in other words, you are

investigating her activity?

A

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we are looking at that.

In addition to those two assistants, from th

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interviews of the girls, is there anyone else who is
associated with Mr. Epstein who is thought to be
involved in this activity?

A BE BE has been referred to as his
companion, girl friend, personal assistant, she through
the testimony of the girls has engaged in sexual
activity with at least three of the underage minors.
BE is also at least a subject of the

investigation, correct?

A Yes, she is.

Q Now, as part of this investigation you
mentioned that subpoenas were issued on behalf of either
the old Grand Jury or this Grand Jury.

Can you run through what subpoenas have been
issued and what documents have been received in response
to that?

A Sure. We issued a Grand Jury subpoena to
Colonial Bank and we received financial records on
credit card accounts and individuals.

We subpoenaed washington Mutual and they did a
search and were unable to locate records at this time,
we issued a Grand Jury subpoena for Capital One and
served that and that is still unresolved at this time as

far as them providing documents to us.

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we have subpoenaed Chase Credit Card and we
have received documents from Chase. We have subpoenaed
two businesses that Mr. Epstein has at least partial
ownership or associated to, Hyperion Air, Inc. and JEGE,
Inc., they were issued subpoenas and they have provided
documentation to us.

we have subpoenaed Mr. || NG. vho is a
pilot of Mr. Epstein's, and we have received
documentation from Mr. I we have subpoenaed DTG

Operations, who is doing business as Dollar Rent-A-Car,

and we have received car rental agreements and financial
records from that business,

we have subpoenaed Royal Palm Beach High
school and have received documentation regarding the

students’ records. We have subpoenaed three or four of

the victims, I being the first, and we have
received a bathing suit from I
we issued a Grand Jury subpoena to

Co] we actually have issued [| three subpoenas,
and we are still working on resolving her Grand Jury
material as well as testimony.

we have issued ne ne a subpoena, we
have issued -- she also is one of our underage victims.
We've issued Reimer Employment Agency a Grand Jury

subpoena and we have received documentation, that is an

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employment agency located on the island of Palm Beach.
we have subpoenaed the Palm Beach Police
Department for their evidence in this case and we have

received that. By the way, that is the only thing that

I did not bring with me today, I brought everything
else, but it is rather a lot of evidence, so we will
probably be bringing that to you another time.

we have issued the Clerk of Courts of the
state of Florida for Grand Jury transcripts in the state
matter and we have received those. we have issued the
Good Samaritan Hospital for billing records and we have
received those.

We have issued a Grand Jury subpoena to the
Dalton School located in New York and at this time they

do not have the records we have requested or could not

locate those.

We have issued a Grand Jury subpoena to Extra
Touch Flowers located here in west Palm Beach and we
have received documentation from them. we issued a
Grand Jury subpoena to Bill Hammond, another pilot for

Mr. Epstein, we have spoken with him.

We have issued a Grand jury subpoena to [Jl
BE :rother one of Mr. Epstein's pilots, and we

have received documentation as well as spoken to him.

We have issued a Grand Jury subpoena to [JN

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HEI who is the property manager currently for
Mr. Epstein at his Palm Beach residence, and we have
received documentation as well as spoken to him, and we
have issued a Grand Jury subpoena to ns [|] ]
and have received some documentation and are still
awaiting a response,

Q Now, you mentioned that you didn't bring with
you the evidence that you received from the Palm Beach
police Department, but did you bring with you all of the

other evidence that was received in response to the

subpoenas?
A I have.
Q and is that evidence in the two boxes that are

here in the front?

A Yes.

Q we will bring all of this back to you when we
present the indictment, but would anyone like to look at
any of the documentation today?

A GRAND JUROR: What does the documentation
constitute, basically, the subpoenas?

THE WITNESS: It is primarily business
records, flight manifests, stuff that came from him
traveling to and from palm Beach, credit card
records, the businesses as far as the rental

agreement which involves some of the underage girls

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with the rental cars, and flower shop, you know.

A GRAND JUROR: Will we have an opportunity
later to go through these if we need to?

MS. I: Yes. we will bring them when
we present the indictment. Yes, ma'am.

A GRAND JUROR: If I should hold this for
later let me know, she mentioned the hospital
records were subpoenaed, could more information

about why they were subpoenaed be provided at this

time?
By Ms. HEEEEDENN
Q You can answer that.
A One of the girls that was an underage -- that

was underage at the time that is involved with
Mr. Epstein has had a baby and we were interested and
wondering if possibly he was the father of that baby,
which at this time we do not believe he was.
A GRAND JUROR: Thank you.
MS. |: ~ question?
A GRAND JUROR: Did the flight manifest show
passengers on the plane?
THE WITNESS: Yes, they do.
A GRAND JUROR: were any of the passengers the
underage girls that were a target of the

investigation?

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THE WITNESS: At this time we have not
associated any of these underage girls as being the
passengers. The flight manifests, sometimes the
pilot if they did not know who the passenger was
would put one passenger or one female, one male,
these were private planes and they, you know, may
not have felt like they can go up and ask, but we
don't have any evidence at this time to believe
that they were any of our victims.

MS. HIN any follow-up? Any other
questions from the Grand Jury? Yes, ma'am.

A GRAND JUROR: The records that you
subpoenaed from the high school, what were they
used for or why were they instrumental in the
investigation?

THE WITNESS: Those are the girls' school
records and we are just looking at the girls’
records.

A GRAND JUROR: Absenteeism?

THE WITNESS: Just looking at some of their
grades and performances and how they did in school.

vs. BB: .adies and gentlemen, before
we continue, the witness has mentioned a few names
of the minors and that is confidential information,

obviously everything that you hear within these

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Q Now, Special Agent I after -- in

addition to issuing the subpoenas, you mentioned that
one of the subpoenas was to the Palm Beach Police
Department. Did you review any of the evidence that
they collected?

A Yes.

Q And can you, for example, did the Palm Beach
Police Department interview any girls?
A Yes, they did, they interviewed several of the
girls, most of the girls, they took taped statements
from the girls either in the form of a tape-recorder or |

through video. |

Q And you have reviewed some of those

interviews, correct?

A Yes, we have.
Q And has the FBI performed any interviews?
A Yes, we have, we have performed interviews of

past and current employees of Mr. Epstein as well as
focusing in on the girls, the girls that were underage
at the time of the sexual activity, we wanted to
determine with these girls, again, the sexual activity
that took place with Mr. Epstein as well as how old they

were at the time, if they traveled with Mr. Epstein, any

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gifts that they may have gotten, so we did reach out to
several of the underage minors and gathered more
information from them.

Q and through the FBI's investigation has the
FBI identified additional victims that perhaps the state
police officers did not know about?

A ves, we are still trying to identify, get
first names of girls and going back and looking through
school yearbooks and attempting to try to locate friends
of friends, so we are still in the process, when you
interview one of the girls and you ask if any of their
friends went, they sometimes will give you other names,
so we are in the process of still uncovering victims and
reaching out and interviewing additional girls that we
believe possibly were underage at the time of this
sexual activity.

Q If I could ask you to step outside.

(The witness was excused from the Grand Jury
room.)

(Questions posed by the Grand Jury.)

(The witness was recalled to testify before

the Grand Jury.)
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coercion.
A When talking to the girls they were told that
they may have to -- they were going there to perform a

massage, possibly model lingerie, they went there

sometimes on multiple occasions and they may start off

wearing their clothing and then he would instruct them

ar as coercion, they were paid $200 to $400 to perform

these massages.
They are not trained in performing massages,

they don't -- they are not masseuses, but yet if vou ask

if they were coerced, they were paid quite a bit of

money for 30 to 45 minutes work.
Some of the girls, being that they were minors

going to his residence, got in over their heads and did

not always return or come back, some of our victims did

not come back after, you know, they did go down to

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Q and was there one instance where Mr. Epstein
actually engaged in vaginal intercourse with a gir]

against her will?

0] A Grand Juror asked how old Mr. Epstein is.

A He was 45 at the time that we are looking at
him at that time period.

Q A Grand Juror asked if you know the proportion
of girls who were underage Versus 18 or older.

A The majority of the girls that we are Tooking
at are victims, well, all of our victims that we are
looking at were under the age of 18.

As far as all of the girls that have been
interviewed, the majority definitely were under 18. To
give you a number, I would have to go and count, but I

would say in the state investigation there were over 25

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girls identified and more than a majority would have
been under the age of 18.

Q A Grand Juror asked whether we have obtained
Mr. Epstein’'s DNA and whether there was any DNA testing
of the baby that you spoke of earlier.

A No, we have not.

Q A Grand Juror asked how Mr. Epstein would make

contact with the girls, was this done via computer or in

some other method?

A I am sorry, lll HM. his personal
assistant, would contact, or on some occasions HilN
BE ould also contact the girls via their cell
phone and we have message pads from the residents that
also indicate the girls calling the home in response to
some of those phone calls, so they would call, In
BB vould call, the majority of the calls were made
by Ill] HE to the girls arranging for these, you
know, can you come at this time, can you come at that
time.

Q And is the cellular telephone a facility of
interstate commerce?

A Yes, 1t 1s.

Q And then one of the Grand Jurors asked whether
the assistants knew that the girls were underage or

committed sex acts.

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pid anybody, have you interviewed anybody who
affirmatively told you that they told SEN BE heir
age or what was going on behind closed doors?

A No, no, not at this time, not at this time.

Q and what leads you to believe that she, for
example, JI SEE knew or should have known what was
going on?

A There are so many girls that | EN EE
contacted to give Mr. Epstein massages that have no
training in massages, and that [HII BE vas aware
that girls were bringing other girls, you know, their
friends to do these massages.

BEE BE 2s also making appointments for
legitimate massages for Mr. Epstein from legitimate
masseuses that would come and give him massages, so the
number of girls, their appearances at the time would
lead us to believe that [IN BE ad knowledge that
these girls were underage.

Q A11 right. Thank you very much. Those were
all the questions from the Grand Jury.

A GRAND JUROR: Actually, I have two more,

but.

vs. [IINBEEE: okay.

A GRAND JUROR: what was the actual age range

of these girls?

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THE WITNESS: 14 to I mean.

A GRAND JUROR: The other one was, how did Ms.
BE :ctually originally get these girls, how
were they brought in, I mean how were they, you
know, because you said she called them when he was
arriving, but how did these girls come into this in
the first place?

A GRAND JUROR: Could she speak louder?

MS. HEE: scecial Agent EEN. v-
Just had a request that you speak louder.

A GRAND JUROR: 14 and what?

THE WITNESS: Our victims were 14 to 17, but
we have girls that are 18, we have girls that are
20, we have girls that are in their early 20s, and
your question was?

A GRAND JUROR: How did she originally get
them in in the first place?

THE WITNESS: We are focusing in on 2004,
2005, we have some evidence to show that this
activity was taking place even earlier than that,
certainly to include 2003 if you look at the
message pads, but focusing in on 2004, 2005, the
chain started with one of our minors and from that
minor who goes to the house, Mr. Epstein tells

her -- sees that she is maybe not comfortable with

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doing the massage the way he would like it and
tells her that she could bring other girls to do
the massages and she in fact if she brought another
girl she would be paid $200 for just bringing
another girl, so there starts the chain, and

Mr. Epstein would ask the girls or Bl vould ask
the girls for their phone numbers so each time, you
know, if one of the girls brought a girl and he
liked her he would ask for her phone number, ask

her to leave the phone number, or | IN HEH

would get the phone number and then that girl would

maybe bring, because if you brought somebody you
didn't have to do the massage, but you also got /
paid for bringing a new person, so not only if you

did the massage would you get anywhere from 200 to

400, but if you brought a new female you would
receive 200 or $400.

A GRAND JUROR: Do you know how she solicited
that original minor?

THE WITNESS: I don't. well, I know that
minor was approached by two individuals and we have
interviewed one of those individuals who we can
connect back to Mr. Epstein four years, possibly,
prior to this, and stated that his job was actually

to drive some of the girls to the residence and

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that's pretty much where we start off,

MS. YEE: vould the Grand Jury like
Special Agent HEED to maintain the records

that we received in response to the subpoenas?

A GRAND JUROR: Maintain versus what?

A GRAND JUROR: what is our choice?

MS. | Ok I don't know that there is.
guess I could maintain them, but I don't believe
have secure storage in here,

Would you Tike Special Agent CH] IT] to
maintain custody?

A GRAND JUROR: Yes.

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MS.  k You should have something to

swear her in as a custodian.

(The witness was sworn in as the custodian of

records.)
MS. JH: Thank you, ladies and
gentlemen, I am the last person for today, so you
guys are free to go and we will see you probably

a couple of weeks, we will be seeing a lot of you

in

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room.)

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before the Grand Jury.)

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CERTIFICATE OF REPORTER
I certify pages 2 through 21 are a true
transcript of my shorthand notes of the testimony of
5 EE BEER bcfore the Federal Grand Jury,
west palm Beach, Florida on the 6th day of February,
2007.
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commission pr
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