filename,text
IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013282.txt,"Virgil “Fire” Trucks, 95. Hurled two no-hitters in 1952 for
Major League Baseball’s Detroit Tigers. Died March 23.

Anthony Lewis, 85. Former New York Times reporter and columnist,
who won two Pulitzer Prizes and transformed coverage of the U.S.
Supreme Court. Died March 25 of renal and heart failure.

Guillermo Luksic Craig, 57. Chairman of Chilean holding company
Quinenco SA, and a member of Chile’s richest family. Died March
27 of lung cancer.

Ralph Klein, 70. The premier of Alberta, Canada’s oil-rich
province, from 1992 to 2006. Died March 29 of dementia and lung
disease.

Mal Moore, 73. He was part of 10 national championship college
football teams as a player, coach and athletic director at the
University of Alabama. Died March 30 of pulmonary disease.

April

Jack Pardee, 76. The All-American linebacker at Texas A&M
University, who played in the NFL and then coached the league’s
Chicago Bears, Washington Redskins and Houston Oilers. Died
April 1 of gall bladder cancer.

Barbara Piasecka Johnson, 76. The Polish-born cook and
chambermaid who married Johnson & Johnson heir J. Seward
Johnson, won $350 million in a legal battle with his children
over his will, and wound up a billionaire art collector and
philanthropist living in Monaco. Died April 1 in Poland.

Calvert Crary, 69. A Wall Street lawyer whose newsletter,
“Litigation Notes,” predicted the outcome of corporate court
battles for an audience of hedge fund managers and institutional
investors. Died April 6.

Margaret Thatcher, 87. The U.K. prime minister from 1979 to

1990, known as the “lron Lady” for her strong will, who helped
end the Cold War and revived Britain’s economy by deregulating

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012822.txt,"come back to a critical point in this chapter: areas that evolved for one function are readily recruited for
others, especially in a promiscuous brain like ours. As long as something makes us feel good, whether it
is winning, eating, social comparison, or harming another, the reward areas of the brain turn on.

Schadenfreude is one of the mind’s ambassadors, enabling us to journey from a state of inferiority
to superiority. It enables “imaginary revenge” in the words of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.
Like envy, it is highly adaptive, focusing our attention on inequities. Like envy, it is also maladaptive,
rewarding us when the inequity is not only addressed, but results in another’s failure and misery. If failure
is associated with violence, including death, so be it. The brain is poised to inspire our desire to harm or

witness harm in order to feel good.

An appetite for violence

Billions of people, perhaps all humans, have had vivid fantasies about sex, violence, or sexual violence.
Are these fantasies like food fantasies, cravings that need to be satisfied? Or, as some theories would have
it, are sexual and violent fantasies satisfying on their own, playing a cathartic role, releasing energy and
thus, reducing the need to act out?

Seung-Hui Cho was born in South Korea and then moved to the United States with his parents.
During his first three years in college, both students and professors in his literature and theatre courses
described his writings as disturbing and disgusting, and his actions toward other students as ominous and
frightening. One professor noted that his creative pieces “seemed very angry,” while another demanded
that he be removed from the class. A classmate noted that his plays were “really morbid and grotesque...I
remember one of them very well. It was about a son who hated his stepfather. In the play, the boy threw a
chainsaw around and hammers at him. But the play ended with the boy violently suffocating the father
with a Rice Krispy treat.” Cho was advised to seek counseling. He didn’t. No one followed up. A
professor aware of his often inappropriate comments and behavior contacted members of the
administration. No response. Several women alerted the campus police after Cho stalked them. No
disciplinary action was taken despite his repeated offenses. As in the SEC’s tin ear to the alarms
surrounding Madoff’s dubious securities, so too was everyone at Cho’s university deaf to his alarming
behavior in class and out.

During his senior year, Cho wrote an essay describing his anger toward rich kids, the unfairness
of life, and his own misery. He also described a revenge fantasy, packed with images of retaliation
toward those who had what he lacked. He sent his reflections along with excessively violent photographs
and videotapes to the New York headquarters of NBC news. Under a photograph of bullets he provided
the caption “All the [shit] you've given me, right back at you with hollow points.""

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Penetrating the NSA and getting access to files from its stove-piped computers was a far
more difficult challenge for the SVR. Approaching CIA officers, such as Nicholson, was relatively
easy because it was part of the CIA officer’s job to meet with their adversaries. NSA officers, on
the other hand, did not engage in “dangles” or even attend diplomatic receptions. They had not
reason, other than a sinister one, to meet with a member of the Russian intelligence service.
Furthermore, unlike CIA officers who, like Nicholson, are often posted in neutral countries where
they can be approached in a social context, NSA officers worked at well-guarded regional bases
and are not part of the diplomatic life. Since a known employee of a foreign diplomatic mission
could not even approach a NSA officer without arousing suspicion, the SVR would need to use
an intermediary, called an “access agent,” whose affiliations with it were not known to the FBI.
Such an operation would require establishing a network of illegals in the America, as the SVR did
after Putin became President. Even them, the intermediary would have to find a plausible pretext
to approach the target with revealing his actual interest.

The emergence of computer networks in the 1990s greatly expanded the SVR’s recruiting
horizon. It offered an opportunity to penetrate a new layer at the NSA employees: civilian
technologists working under contract for the US government. Many of these civilians at the
NSA, especially the younger ones, had been drawn from the hacking and game-playing culture.
Some had even taken courses abroad on hacking techniques. They presented the SVR was
inviting targets for recruitment. As was previously mentioned, Russian intelligence had
considerable experience in Germany with hacktavists who tended to be anarchists. There were
also supporters of the Libertarian movement. The common denominator was often their
resentment expressed in their postings s of the United States and its allies attempting to limit the
downloading of copy-righted music, movies and software on the Internet, all of which went under
the rubric of “freedom of the Internet.” They also vocally objected to the NSA using built-in
backdoors in their software to read their encrypted messages. They were not difficult to find on
the Internet. The donors to Ron Paul’s Libertarian election campaign (including Snowden) were
a matter of public record, for example.

Even if there was no shortage of hacktavists who believed the surveillance of the Internet by
the NSA was an evil worth fighting, the SVR still had to find a plausible way of approaching
members of this counterculture without offending them. Clearly, the SVR could no longer use
out- of-date Communist and anti-capitalist ideology as a lure. Russia was far more authoritarian
than the U.S, when it came to the Internet. One viable alternative for the SVR was custom-
tailoring false flags to appeal to hacktavists.

For this purpose the Internet provided a near perfect realm for false flags. Since it is a place
where true identities cannot easily be verified, intelligence services could employ a protean kit of
disguises to assume false identities to entice potential dissidents into communicating with them.
The KGB’s earlier efforts to use hacktavist groups in Germany had produced little, if any,
intelligence because of the “stove-piping” the NSA used to isolate its computers from networks

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TEXT-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033263.txt,"From: Thomas Jr., Landon 
Sent: 12/7/2017 6:13:54 PM 
To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Subject: Interesting on Barrack/Trump/Russia 
Importance: High 
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/in-2016-tom-barrack-too-said-we-needed-to-become-
friends-with-russia  
Landon Thomas, Jr. 
Financial Reporter 
New York Times 
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/t/landon jr thomas/index.h  
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MR. TEIN: Certify it.
MR. LEOPOLD: Please.

55

BY MR. TEIN:
Q. You asked your co-workers --
MR. LEOPOLD: [t's vague and ambiguous.
BY MR. TEIN:
Q. You asked your co-workers at the
ae lie for you, didn't you?
A. No. | informed my boss about what was

going on and he told me that he would help in any way
that he can.

Q. Okay. You got your friend J to lic
by switching name tags with you, correct?

A. Incorrect. It was a coincidence that same
night she was not wearing her name tag; she was wearing
mine. But | was also not wearing -- | was wearing my
name tag. Everyone switches name tags. It just so
happens it was a coincidence that same night the people
came with the papers.

MR. TEIN: Will you put up Exhibit 18-001?

MR. GOLDBERGER: And mark 18-001 for
identification purposes to this deposition.

MR. LEOPOLD: None of them have been marked
yet. Can we mark them and put them as attachment
to the depositions? Because | think you've shown

three photos now. And this is the only one that

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Date: July 13, 2016 at 6:26:21 AM EDT

To: ""Gary H. Baisc"" as

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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025875.txt,"Date: Tuesday, March 31 2015 03:23 PM 
Subject: fact checking questions for New York Magazine story 
From: Yablon, Alex 
To: jeevacation@gmail.com; 
Hi Jeffrey, 
Sorry for the phone tag. In case it's easier to respond by email, I have put my questions below. I'm at my desk and should be 
here until 5, and should be free on my cell phone after 6:30. 
Best, 
Alex 
office: 
cell:• 
-what is the square footage of your Manhattan home? 
-do you work on a laptop from your dining room, with a large white board for notes and several pairs of reading glasses close at 
hand? Is the dining room windowless? 
-do paparazzi often camp outside your home? 
-did Michael once visit on the same day as a head of state who'd had a police escort? 
-did you tell Michael about a dinner you'd hosted for six tech entrepreneurs who had a combined worth of several hundred 
billion dollars? When was this meal? 
-Do you believe that there are now more people who possess Roosevelt or Carnegie-levels of wealth, the sort that can rival 
governments in influence? That these people face unusual challenges when entering philanthropy due to the sheer size of 
their fortunes? That the rich may know the business that made them rich, but not money itself? 
-are you interested in what will happen to the $4.2 trillion possessed by the super-rich in 40-odd years once they have mostly 
died? 
-Do you believe no superrich people want to give their entire fortunes to their children for fear of how it might affect them? 
-do you advise the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on how to convince other billionaires to join their initiatives? 
-did you volunteer to invest $20 million dollars in Michael's attempt to buy New York Magazine in 2004? 
-do you believe the recent claims about Alan Dershowitz and Prince Andrew in relation to you are ""ludicrous"" ? 
-When you met Michael for lunch in the West Village, was it the first time in 10 years you'd gone to lunch at a restaurant? 
-Do you have a support staff of young women in their 20s and 30s? Have some of them worked for you for many years, through 
their own marriages and as they raise families? Have any of these employees been romantically involved with you? When 
Michael came to your home, had one of these women recently gone on an around the world honeymoon, which you 
arranged? Do they often travel with you to your other homes — in New Mexico, Paris, Palm Beach, and in the Caribbean? Do 
you maintain there is no quid-pro-quo in the relationships with these women? Do these women often socialize with the policy 
makers and businessmen with whom you often meet? 
-Is your current girlfriend a dental student you met four years ago at a dinner party in New York? 
-Did you date Eva Andersson Dubin? Have you known her for 30 years? Did you pay for her to go to medical school? 
-when you take meetings in your Manhattan dining room, do you take your guests out to a Sabrett hot dog cart? Will the 
women who work for you accompany you? 
-Did you invite Michael to sit in on a presentation by a group of quants? Are you looking for a group of quants who have 
developed promising investing algorithms, and do you plan to invest $5 million with each? 
-during U.N. Week in late September, did you host a Sunday night discussion with Bill Gates, Mort Zuckerman, and Peter Thiel? 
Was anyone else in attendance? Were you discussing a possible Gates Foundation donor advised fund? 
-Did you host Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim and several others from Qatar? Do you know if the Sheikh has a home across the street 
from you in Manhattan? Did they talk to you about bribery compromising their bid for the World Cup? When was this? Did 
they bring a gift of chocolate made with pistachios grown on the Sheikh's farm? 
-The morning after the Qataris came over, did you have a 9 AM breakfast with the attorney Reid Weingarten? Did you discuss 
his defense of CT governor John Rowland, the Qatari visit, and who controls ISIS? Did Weingarten believe Turkey was using ISIS 
as a proxy against the Kurds? 
-After this, did you meet with Brock Pierce to discuss bitcoin? Did Larry Summers join this meeting? 
-That evening, did you host Australian PM Kevin Rudd and Thorborn Jagland for a cocktail party? Did Jagland critique US 
foreign policy? Did you offer to fly him back to Europe on your jet? 
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-The following morning, did Ehud Barack come over for breakfast? Did he have an omelet? Did he defend both Putin and 
Obama? 
-Was this followed by a senior White House official, whose name you don't want mentioned? 
-Did you then meet with Elisa New to discuss supporting a poetry series and other sources of funding? Did you forcefully 
critique her proposed budget? 
-After meeting with New, did you meet with the following: Hardeep Purie, Kairat Kelimbetov, Nathan Myhrvold, Martin 
Nowak, Richard Axel, Ron Baron, Josh Harris? Have you funded Nowak's program at Harvard with $30 million? 
-did Michael join a lunch at your home with Bill Richardson? 
-do you believe powerful people seek your advice because you're not affiliated with any institution, so you have no ulterior 
motives when giving them advice? 
-is your Paris home a 10,000 sq ft apartment on Avenue Foch? Does it have a stuffed baby elephant in its living room? Is it 
meant as a reminder that elephants have 23 copies of tumor suppressor genes? 
-Is the only book on your bedside table Lolita? Are you a fan of Nabokov? 
-Did you tell Michael that he should make a particular $100k investment in early September? What was it? 
-Were you born on 1953 in Coney Island? Was your father a Parks dept employee? Was your mother a housewife? 
-were you the captain of the math team at Lafayette High School? 
-did you study at Cooper Union for two years before beginning classes at NYU's Courant classes? After this, did you teach math 
at Dalton? Was this your first exposure to wealthy people? Did this teach you the rich had just as many problems as the 
working class, only theirs were caused by too much money rather than too little? 
-Did Punch Sulzberger try to convince you to join the NYT from Dalton? Did you once drive with Sulzberger to his country 
estate in a wood paneled station wagon, while he talked on a phone to his chaffeur? 
-did you meet Ace Greenberg through his children at Dalton? 
-Did he say that given your reputation for intelligence and Jewish heritage, you should be working at Bear Stearns? Was this in 
the late 70s? 
-Did you soon move to a penthouse at 66th St. and 2nd Avenue? 
-During this time did you regularly attend Studio 54? 
-Have you ever drank or taken drugs? 
-Do you believe that in the 50's, finance was governed by personal relationships, but in the 70's, with the rise of derivatives 
trading, math began to dominate the field? 
-Did you never want to get married to maintain your freedom? 
-Did you become close to Jimmy Cayne? 
-Did you leave Bear Stearns in 1982? Why? Did you take clients including Marvin Davis and Herb Siegel? 
-Were you then dating Morgan Fairchild? 
-During the 80s, did you frequently go to England where you befriended Robin Reach and attended country shooting parties 
and black tie dinners? 
-Were you mainly interested in meeting smart people rather than amassing a personal fortune? 
-do you think that billionaire-level worth creates worries that millionaires don't face? Does traditional wealth management 
not work for billionaires? 
-Did you help governments that came after corrupt dictators reclaim stolen assets? Which governments? 
-Did you begin advising and representing wealthy people and families regarding philanthropy during this period? 
-Did you advise Steven Hoffenberg? 
-Did you attend the 1994 Serpentine Gallery gala? Did you socialize with Princess Diana at that event? 
-Did you meet Bill Clinton after he left the White House? Did this change the arc of your life? 
-did you buy your Manhattan home from Les Wexner? 
-Did you meet with Larry Page and Sergey Brin during your 2002 trip to the TED conference? Did they describe a plan to market 
Google bras with the o's as cups? Did they believe Google was a good company name because men would be drawn to the oo? 
-Soon after this, did you have an assistant schedule a meeting with Michael for advice about the media as both Vanity Fair and 
New York Magazine were profiling you? Did you also ask Graydon Carter for advice, expressing doubts about increased public 
profile, to which Carter said you should have moved to a Queens 2 bedroom if you wanted to avoid publicity? 
-Have you had a daily massage for several years? When you got your daily massage in Palm Beach, did the masseuses often 
come from parlors your termed ""Jack Shacks"" ? Did they sometimes have ""happy endings"" ? Would there be many different 
masseuses, recommended by word of mouth? 
-After Palm Beach police started investigating you, did you ask Alan Dershowitz to come to Florida to provide you with legal 
help? 
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A. Yes.

Q. Why did you finally post your true age on

your MySpace profile --
A. Uh --
Q. -- four days before you were scheduled to

testify before the Grand Jury?

A. | honestly don't know which MySpace,
because I've had like a bazillion MySpaces and in that
year, | had two, that one and another one and that one's

been deleted. So | don't know which one you're referring

to.

A. No.

Q. You don't remember that.

A. No.

Q. Do you remember Detective Recarey? Did you

ever meet a Detective Recarey?

72

As, | don't know the names.

Q. How many different detectives have you met
with on this case from Palm Beach?

A. Probably a good six or seven, maybe.

Q. Did one of the detectives tell you before
you testified in the Grand Jury that you should take your
MySpace age and put your true age?

A. No.

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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031210.txt,"Epstein building compound on Great St. James | News | virginislandsdailynews.com 5/7/19, 9:15 AM

Nielsen could not say what specifically the unauthorized
work consists of, but said DPNR Commissioner nominee
Jean-Pierre Oriol would be available by phone today to
answer questions about the situation.

Documents on file at the Coastal Zone Management division

of DPNR show that Epstein used “Great St. Jim, LLC,” a shell

company organized by St. Thomas attorney Erika Kellerhals,

to purchase three parcels totaling 80.1 acres from the Danish
Kjaer family for $17.5 million on Jan. 18, 2016.

The remainder of the island — 12 parcels totaling 81.22 acres
— was transferred from another St. Thomas company, GSJ
Properties Corp., to Great St. Jim LLC for $5 million on Jan.
21, 2016.

While it’s long been rumored that Epstein had purchased
Great St. James, for years his name appeared nowhere on
publicly available documents listing property ownership of
the island.

The Daily News requested access to documents contained in
Coastal Zone Management permit application files for the
island on April 18, and was provided access to those records
Monday.

The documents show that in 2011, Kellerhals, another
attorney in her firm, Gregory Ferguson, and business
consultant Brett Geary organized the St. Thomas company
Poplar Inc.

A certificate of incumbency contained in the file lists Epstein
as president of Poplar Inc., his longtime lawyer Darren
Indyke is listed as vice president and secretary, and another
longtime associate, Richard Kahn, is listed as treasurer.

The Daily Beast reported in April that Kellerhals, Indyke, and
Kahn are listed as the only officers of other defunct
nonprofits run by Epstein, including the C.0.U.Q.
Foundation, J. Epstein Virgin Islands Foundation, and Epstein
Interests. They’re also listed as officers for Gratitude America
Ltd., anonprofit formed in the Virgin Islands in 2012 through
which Epstein has made financial contributions to various

organizations.

The certificate specifically states that those individuals are
authorized to act on behalf of the corporation with respect to
all transactions, “including but not limited to transactions
related to permitting matters submitted on behalf of Great
St. Jim, LLC.”

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012836.txt,"conscious awareness, exert greater self-control, plan ahead, develop fears, feel pleasure, and erupt into
rage. Subjects also provided their personal opinions on which individual, within the pair, they liked most,
wanted to make happy or destroy, was most deserving of punishment, and most likely had a soul.

I assume that everyone reading about the design of this study has already formed an opinion
about some of the comparisons. Presumably everyone believes that a living adult is more consciously
aware than a dead person, fetus, dog, and robot. Presumably everyone believes that all animals feel more
pain than a dead human or a robot. And presumably everyone would rather make a dog happy than a
frog, and would be more likely to allocate souls to fetuses, babies, and adult humans than to robots and
frogs. But are we more conscious than God? Does a chimpanzee feel more embarrassed than a baby? Can
a person in a vegetative state feel more pleasure than a frog or robot? What dimensions, if any, cause us
to lasso some things together but not others? What things cluster together and why? As a reminder: this
study is about our intuitions, not about what scientists have discovered about the minds and emotions of
these different things.

Adding up the large set of responses produced a map or landscape defined by two dimensions:
experience and agency. Experience included properties such as hunger, fear, pain, pleasure, rage, desire,
consciousness, pride, embarrassment, and joy. Agency included self-control, morality, memory, emotion
recognition, planning, communication and thinking. Experience aligned with feelings, agency with
thinking. With these dimensions, we find God at one edge, high in agency and low in experience. On the
opposite side, huddled together on the landscape, defined by low agency and high experience, we find
fetuses, frogs, and people in a vegetative state. High in both agency and experience were adult men and
women. Robots and dead people were low on experience and in the middle for agency, whereas dogs,
chimpanzees, and human kids were high on experience and middling on agency. This landscape not only
helps us understand how people classify these different entities, but also plays a more active role in
guiding individuals’ judgments to punish, provide pleasure, and avoid harm. If you have to harm
something, pick an entity low in experience, such as dead people and robots who can’t suffer. If you have
to punish something, pick an entity high in agency, such as living adults who recognize the difference
between right and wrong and have the capacity for self-control.

What this work shows is that people have strong intuitions about which things are morally
responsible as agents and which are deserving of our moral concerns as patients. Moral patients are high
in experience, and can thus suffer as victims, innocent or not. This is why many countries have created
laws against harming nonhuman animals, including restrictions on which animals can serve in laboratory
experiments, what can be done to them, and how they should be housed. This is also why we don’t do
experiments on fetuses, newborns, adults in a vegetative state, or humans with neurological disorders that

knock out aspects of their experience and agency. Once something enters the arena of moral patients, we

Hauser Chapter 3. Ravages of denial 90

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TEXT-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033277.txt,"From: Richard Kahn 
Sent: 3/30/2018 5:50:50 PM 
To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Subject: Dershowitz On Special Counsel: The Investigation Should End « CBS Dallas / Fort Worth 
Importance: High 
http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2018/03/29/dershowitz-trump-special-counsel-investigation-should-end-soviet-union/ 
Richard Kahn 
HBRK Associates Inc. 
575 Lexington Avenue, 4th Floor 
New York, NY 10022 
HOUSE OVERSIGHT 033277 
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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030221.txt,"more than finisher to do it. | have high hopes, than this time Mr. Epstein will like the work. If he accepts finishing this
way, | will finish it may be even this coming week, providing, | can work 10-12 hours a day. | do not want to work even
longer hours, because you are not sharp and still you can spoil delicate balance required for this finish.

> Do you want me to send you some photos? | will be glad to. The column still, has to be viewed from all sides.

> Kindly,

>

> Brandon

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IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011639.txt,"July 1, now less than 36 hours away. Having moved the passengers off the plane
to one of the terminal buildings, they were threatening to start killing them
unless we freed a list of 53 Palestinians and PLO supporters, forty of them held
in Israel and the rest in a number of European countries, and paid a ransom of
five million dollars.

Well past midnight, we started looking at our options. One which seemed —
briefly — to hold promise drew on suggestions from Ido Ambar and Mookie.
Ido’s almost rhapsodic description of the capabilities of our C-130 Hercules
transport planes convinced us we could parachute in a Sayeret Matkal team, as
well as vehicles for them to use on the ground. Mookie and I agreed that to
ensure surprise, we would disguise the commandos as Ugandan troops, in
“Ugandan” Jeeps. The final twist came with the arrival of the reserve air force
officer who had been on training duty in Entebbe. He brought a reel of 8mm
film from an official ceremony at the airport. At the start, a Ugandan army
general could be seen arriving in a black Mercedes. “That’s it!” Mookie said.
“The Mercedes. Every top Ugandan military officer has one.” We decided to
swap one of our Jeeps for a jet-black limousine.

Yet by daybreak on Wednesday, when I went up to brief Motto, we'd set
aside the option of a parachute drop. Any initial surprise would be outweighed
by the risk of exposure from the very start of the assault. We’d also gone cold
on a second option, to infiltrate sayeret teams along the shore of Lake Victoria
from across the nearby border in Kenya. I doubted we had enough time to
navigate all the operational and diplomatic obstacles before the deadline
expired. That left option three: having the SEALs, along with a core team from
the sayeret, parachute onto Lake Victoria with rubber dinghies and attack the
airport from on foot. We arranged to do a test parachute assault off the Israeli
coast in Haifa later in the day, but if that went well, it seemed the only practical
alternative.

Motta and I went met Peres around 8:30am. Shimon had no first-hand
military experience, having played a political role alongside Ben-Gurion from
Israel’s early years. So he was not really interested in the details. But he was
keen to hear our assurances that a military option did exist. He was even more
intrigued when we were joined by the head of the air force, Benny Peled.
Unaware of the airborne parachute drop we had been discussing overnight,
Peled suggested something far more ambitious. Rather than using a single
Hercules, he proposed using four of the giant transport planes to ferry in a larger
force, some 200 men in all, land them on one of the runways and take over the

168
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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013296.txt,"company’s financial problems. Died Sept. 21 of cancer.

Richard T. McSherry, 77. The co-founder, along with James

Elkins, of New York-based Elkins/McSherry LLC, which pioneered a
way to crunch data to assess trading costs and help

institutional investors maximize profits. Died Sept. 26 of

prostate cancer.

L.C. Greenwood, 67. The four-time NFL Super Bowl champion, who
played defensive end on the Pittsburgh Steelers’ defensive line
known as the “steel curtain” in the 1970s. Died Sept. 29.

October

Tom Clancy, 66. The U.S. author of “The Hunt for Red October”
and “Patriot Games,” he became one of the world’s best-known
writers by infusing espionage thrillers with technical details
about military weaponry and intelligence agencies. Died Oct. 1.

Karen Strauss Cook, 61. In 1975, she became the first woman
hired in Goldman Sachs’s equities division, and the firm’s first
female trader. Died Oct. 2 of a degenerative brain disease in
New York, where she lived.

Amy Dombroski, 26. The U.S. bicyclist who was a three-time
national cyclo-cross champion. Died Oct. 3 when struck by a
vehicle while training in Belgium.

Sergei Belov, 69. He played guard on the Soviet Union’s
basketball team that beat the U.S. to win a gold medal in the
1972 Olympics. Died Oct. 3.

Vo Nguyen Giap, 102. The North Vietnamese general whose fighters
drove the French out of Vietnam in 1954, then served as
commander-in-chief against U.S. forces during the Vietnam War.
Died Oct. 4.

Ovadia Yosef, 93. An ultra-Orthodox rabbi who galvanized

Israel’s Jews of Middle Eastern and North African descent into a
political force with the Shas Party. Died Oct. 7.

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IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_010527.txt,"TOWN OF PALM BEACH
POLICE DEPARTMENT

ANATIONAL AND STATE ACCREDITED LAW ENFORCEMENT AS ENCY

July 24, 2006

HAND DELIVERED |

Dear Mr

Your daughter @SBBEB was the victim of a crime which has been investigated by the Patm
Reach Police Deparment and subsequently referred far prosecution lo the Paim Beach
County State Attorney's Office. You may be aware that Jeffrey Epstein was indicted on
charges of solicitation for prostitution by a State of Fionda grand jury last week and turned
himself in at the Palm Beach County jail on July 23, 2006. While I do not spee% for them,
it ig my understanding that is the full context in which Ihe Paim Beach County Stele
Attornay's Office intands to address the cha‘ges that involved the crime in which your 5

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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029770.txt,"look at his nine-hour deposition about the investigation.

¢ Earlier versions of the U.S attorney’s charges, including a sealed 53-page indictment, could have landed
Epstein in prison for 20 years.

* Victims alleged that Epstein molested underage girls from South America, Europe, and the former Soviet
republics, including three 12-year-old girls brought over from France as a birthday gift.

¢ The victims also alleged trips out of state and abroad on Epstein’s private jets, which would be evidence of
sex trafficking—a much more serious federal crime than the state charges Epstein was convicted of.

* Epstein’s attorneys investigated members of the Palm Beach Police Department, while others ordered private
investigators to follow and intimidate the victims’ families; one even posed as a police officer.

¢ Then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales told The Daily Beast that he “would have instructed the Justice
Department to pursue justice without making a political mess.”

Film director Roman Polanski is not the only convicted pedophile to walk free this month and return to a life of
privilege. On Wednesday, hedge fund manager Jeffrey Epstein completes his one-year house arrest in Palm
Beach, which has been even less arduous than Polanski’s time at a Swiss ski chalet.

Watch Jeffrey Epstein Storm Out of a Deposition When Asked About His Penis

During Epstein’s term of “house arrest,” he made several trips each month to his New York home and his
private Caribbean island. In the earlier stage of his sentence for soliciting prostitution with a minor—13
months in the Palm Beach Stockade—he was allowed out to his office each day. Meanwhile, Epstein has settled
more than a dozen lawsuits brought by the underage girls who were recruited to perform “massages” at his
Palm Beach mansion. Seven victims reached a last-minute deal last week, days before a scheduled trial; each
received well over $1 million—an amount that will hardly dent Epstein’s $2 billion net worth.

* Conchita Sarnoff: Epstein Faces Sex Traffic Probe

* The Billionaire Pedphile's Sex Den

With that, the known victims of Epstein’s sexual compulsion have been officially silenced, and the case against
him is closed unless new ones come forward. According to banking sources, he has been moving assets out of
the U.S. and may well follow Polanski into a luxurious exile.

But the question remains: Did Epstein’s wealth and social connections—former President Bill Clinton; Prince
Andrew; former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak; New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson; and former Treasury
Secretary Larry Summers were just a few of the prominent passengers on his private jets—allow him to receive
only a slap on the wrist for crimes that carry a mandatory 20-year sentence? Was he able, with his limitless
assets and heavy-hitting lawyers—Alan Dershowitz, Gerald Lefcourt, Roy Black, Kenneth Starr, Guy Lewis,
and Martin Weinberger among them—to escape equal justice?

Epstein Faces Sex-Traffic Probe
http://www.thedailyb...obref=obnetwork

The Justice Department is investigating Jeffrey Epstein for child trafficking, The Daily Beast has learned—and
has widened the scope of its probe to include a famous modeling agency.

Hedge- fund manager Jeffrey Epstein completed his sentence for soliciting prostitution with a minor last week.

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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017867.txt,"802

Prince Turki is also alleged to have at-
tempted to protect Saudi Arabia from ter-
rorism and to have implemented the King-
dom’s foreign relations with the Taliban
and Osama bin Laden. In determining
whether these were discretionary func-
tions, the Court must decide whether the
actions involved an element of choice or
judgment based on considerations of public
policy. See Callahan v. United States, 329
F.Supp.2d 404, 408 (S.D.N.Y.2004) (inter-
preting FTCA); Berkowitz v. United
States, 486 U.S. 531, 536, 108 S.Ct. 1954,
100 L.Ed.2d 531 (1988) (construing FTCA).

[29,30] There can be little doubt that,
as the chairman of the Supreme Council of
Islamic Affairs, charged with making rec-
ommendations to the Council of Ministers
regarding requests for aid from Islamic
organizations located abroad, and as the
head of the Special Committee of the
Council of Ministers, charged with decid-
ing which grants should be made to Islam-
ic charities, Prince Sultan’s decisions were
made at the planning level of government,
Kline, 685 F.Supp. at 392, and “grounded
in social, economic, and political policy,”
Varig Airlines, 467 U.S. at 814, 104 S.Ct.
2755. Similarly, as the head of DGI,
Prince Turki’s decisions regarding the
treatment of the Taliban and Osama bin
Laden were judgments based on consider-
ations of public policy. See Callahan v.
United States, 329 F.Supp.2d at 408; see
also Burnett If, 292 F.Supp.2d at 20-21
({TJhis conclusion would be nearly self-
evident: Prince Turki, as director of intel-
ligence, taking acts to protect Saudi Arabia
from terrorism, and Prince Sultan, as
chairman of the Supreme Council, making
recommendations to the Council of Minis-
ters about requests for assistance from
Islamic organizations outside Saudi Arabia
or, as head of the Special Committee, de-
ciding what disbursements should be made

29. The consolidated complaints are Ashton,

349 FEDERAL SUPPLEMENT, 2d SERIES

to Islamic charitable organizations, were
clearly making ‘decisions grounded in so-
cial, economic, and political policy, ”)
(quoting Varig Airlines, 467 U.S. at 814,
104 S.Ct. 2755).

Accordingly, to the extent that Plaintiffs
allege acts Prince Sultan and Prince Turki
performed in their official capacities,
Prince Sultan’s and Prince Turki’s motions
to dismiss the certain consolidated com-
plaints and the Federal complaint are
granted. The Court denies Plaintiffs’ re-
quest for jurisdictional discovery because
Plaintiffs have not presented any factual
basis for believing that discovery might
reasonably be expected to result in evi-
dence that would overcome the discretion-
ary function exception. See 28 U.S.C.
§ 1605(a)(5)(A) (exception not applicable to
“any claim based upon the exercise or
performance or the failure to exercise or
perform a discretionary function regard-
less of whether the discretion be abused.”)
The Court will consider the appropriate-
ness of exercising personal jurisdiction
over Prince Sultan’s and Prince Turki’s
personal acts in Part II below.

b. Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

There is no dispute that the Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia is a foreign state within the
meaning of the FSIA. Federal Complaint
163. The Federal Plaintiffs have the
“burden of going forward with evidence
that, under exceptions to the FSIA, immu-
nity should not be pranted.” Virtual
Countries, 300 F.3d at 241 Gnternal quota-
tions omitted). As explained above, the
only possible applicable exception is the
torts exception under 28 U.S.C.
§ 1605(a)(5).

[31,32] The Federal Plaintiffs’ allega-
tions arise “predominantly from miscon-

Barrera, Burnett, Salvo, and Tremksy.

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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031576.txt,"managed to collect some 20% of the votes cast in the state. Indeed, after
the BJP and Congress, it got the most votes nationally of any party in the
election. Yet it failed to win a single constituency. By contrast the BJP not
only collected a huge tally of votes but also turned those efficiently into
seats. With 31% of the national vote-share, they captured nearly 52% of
the seats in parliament.

That suggests an important shift in Indian politics. The BJP did
extraordinarily well because it approached the election in a far more
professional, strategic and efficient way than its rivals. The methods it
employed were modern, and the skill at which Mr Modi and his fellow
leaders conducted their campaigns rivalled the sort of performances put in
by American presidential contenders (and with similar quantities of money
to spend). Rahul Gandhi of Congress, in the end, proved to be a hopeless
amateur, poorly advised without even decent media-management skills or
the ability to present a strong campaign message. Many regional figures
proved similarly out of date in their campaigning. The BJP’s roadshows
and rallies, the door-knocking by volunteers, the influence on India’s press
and television channels, the ability to set the agenda of discussion, all went
to making the election a remarkably one-sided affair. The chief minister of
Bihar, Nitish Kumar, tendered his resignation on May 17th, after his party
was flattened by the BJP in the state. (Assam’s chief minister, from
Congress, has also offered to quit.) That was not because of anti-
incumbency—voters in Bihar are happy with the work Mr Kumar has
been doing—but because the BJP’s campaign was vastly superior.

Mr Modi in his first speeches after his victory has sounded magnanimous
and made the right noises about running the country for all, bringing
everyone along. He also mentioned, only partly accurately, that the BJP’s
success transcended caste politics and religious appeals. If that were
entirely true, 1t would be another reason to call this election result historic.
In fact the BJP did make some use of caste and religion, as when Mr Modi
played up his “other backward classes” background while campaigning in
Uttar Pradesh, or when he criticized Bangladeshi (read: Muslim)
infiltrators in Assam and West Bengal. It is troubling, too, that the new
parliament will have the fewest Muslim members of any since 1952, while

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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024936.txt,"employees who do not have roles to play during this situation. I am not sure why people are expecting a peak in
the coming months. The whole process is a restructuring course that was well received by all Dubai Holding
employees.

Al Hayat Newspaper - Shafiq Al Asadi

Your Highness, Dubai was accused in the media that laid-off Arabs descend from a
specific nationality, what is the reality?

Rumors feed on human emotion. Verifiable facts, and even simple common sense, have little or nothing to do
with the way a rumor spreads. I would say that due to the steep global crisis effect on domains such as PR and
advertising, which employ by coincidence a large number from a particular nationality, or the construction
sector which also employs a large number of architects from one nationality, there is absolutely no focus on
laying off any Arab or non-Arab nationality.

Al Hayat Newspaper - Shafiq Al Asadi

Your Highness, your recent visit to Russia complements your strategy in visiting the
strong economic countries worldwide such as Germany and China last year. Do you
think that these visits are still useful nowadays? Are you planning to20continue this
approach and what is the objective of those visits? What was the outcome of your last
visit to Moscow?

This is a strange question. We are pretty sure that this crisis will not last forever, and that it will end. The UAE
has always had good relations with all countries around the world and especially the weighty economic
countries. Our duty is to work toward developing and enhancing those relationships. In fact, during global
crisis countries should broaden those visits and enhance their bilateral relations especially since this crisis may
result in forming a new economic and political world construct.

Al Hayat Newspaper - Shafiq Al Asadi

Your Highness, do you think that the current crisis would impose new changes on the
federal and local levels in the UAE as rumors are spreading regarding a change in
progress in the cabinet?

It is obvious that things do change. Whoever does not take up the new situation and cooperate positively with it
for the benefit of the nation and nationals would be incompetent. However, it is you who’s saying that there are
rumors that a change in the cabinet is under way.

Al Hayat Newspaper - Shafiq Al Asadi

Your Highness, people who are aware of the relationship between Dubai and Abu Dhabi
say that there is no need to worry about the effect of the crisis on Dubai because it relies at
the end of the day on the financial strength of Abu Dhabi, which owns the biggest
sovereign fund in the world. What would you say?

Those people know well that they can’t bracket the relationship between both Emirates into just a financial
relation. The money element is a very minimal component in a superior relationship built on family ties with a
unity soul, with “tolerance” essence and foundation concurred by both Sheikh Zayed and Sheikh Rashid on 18

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expecting that, but they told Jeffrey that, you know,

47

they were comfortable with it. If anything, you know,
maybe they were scared and they felt like otTigated, “Vike
they didn't want to say. I was thinking that they didn't
want to say like no, you know, I don't want to do that,
so who knows. I wasn't up there with them, so I couldn't
tell you.
BY AGENT RICHARDS:

Q. Who were the ladies who mentioned that to you
who were kind of shocked?

A. Usually, the girls that I would bring like one
time and I wouldn't even see them again.

Q. Can you help me out with some names, though?

A. Huh-uh, no. I can't remember her name. She's
on the top of my -- oh, my God, I don't remember. I
can't remember.

BY MS. BILAFONIA

Nobody was that upset that called you or

spoke to you that was upset with what had happened to the

point that they wanted to report it?

BY AGENT RICHARDS:

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IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027876.txt,"of State George C. Marshall — recommended abandoning or at least delaying the
declaration of an Israeli state. Yet Ben-Gurion feared that any delay risked the
end of any early hope of statehood. After he managed to secure a one-vote
majority in his de facto cabinet, the state was declared on May 14, 1948.

And hours later, the armies of five Arab states crossed into Palestine.

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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030671.txt,"On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 5:19 PM Weingarten, Reid -  — § wrote:

And?

Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.

From: jeffrey E.
Sent: Wednesday, November 1, 2017 2:14 PM

To: Weingarten, Reid
Subject: Re:

Notice the date of the email

On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 5:05 PM Weingarten, Reid Fe wrote:

Just landed in san fran...at the airport...let's talk when | get settled...

Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.

From: jeffrey E.

Sent: Wednesday, November 1, 2017 2:04 PM
To: Weingarten, Reid

Subject: Re:

number ?

On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 5:02 PM, Weingarten, Reid -—  §§ wrote:

Charlie rose is next

Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.

From: jeffrey E.

Sent: Wednesday, November 1, 2017 10:07 AM
To: Weingarten, Reid

Subject:

brett ratner now. oy

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A couple girls when they did come out
of there, they're like oh, my God, I wasn't expecting all

of that, but he always asked them and I asked them.

Maybe they
were scared, who knows. But yeah, they came out of there
like oh, my God, that was kind of weird, you know, yeah.
Q. were any of them upset about it?
A. Do they like regret it or something?
BY AGENT RICHARDS:
Q. Just shaken up, you know, just kind of shocked?
A. A couple of girls -- well, see, we were so
young and Jeffrey didn't know that. Like the whole thing

was shooken up when 1 brought them there. And see, IE

don’t know.

ae But and afterwards like if he climaxed or
whatever, if they were like shooken up, I'm like it's
okay, you know. And they were like oh, I wasn't

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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013460.txt,"From: Boris Nikolic 
Sent: 3/23/2012 7:10:58 PM 
To: Jeffrey Epstein (jeeyacation@gmail.com) [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Subject: FW: World Bank Nominee 
Attachments: image005.jpg; image006.jpg 
Importance: High 
The Atlantic Home  
Friday, March 23, 2012 
• Politics 
Alk 
Massoud Hayoun - Massoud Hayoun writes for and produces The Atlantic's International channel. 
How Jim Yong Kim, Obama's World Bank Pick, 
Changed Global Health Aid 
By Massoud Hayoun 
Mar 23 2012, 2:04 PM ET 
The international public health work that made Kim, now the president's nominee for World Bank head, such a 
respected figure. 
President Obama introduces Jim Yong Kim as his nominee to be the next president of the World Bank /Reuters 
President Obama announced today that he will nominate Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim to head 
the World Bank. Although Kim is a physician by training, officials have observed that Kim's role as a key 
player in global health and development, notably with his role in the organization Partners in Health (PIH), 
makes him a key candidate to change the attitudes of developing-world nations. 
HOUSE OVERSIGHT 013460 
The following excerpts from Tracy Kidder's Mountains Beyond Mountains, a biography of anthropologist and 
physician Paul Farmer, detail Kim's bold efforts to combat international HIV and tuberculosis epidemics with 
PIH: 
Some months after the official founding of PIH, [co-founder] Paul Farmer expanded the group, adding a fellow 
Harvard anthropology and medical student, a Korean American named Jim Yong Kim... Farmer offered what 
for Jim Kim was a convincing vision of the new organization. The reality was less impressive -- a charity with a 
board of advisers and no hired staff... 
They talked about issues such as political correctness, which Jim Kim defined as follows: ""It's a very well-
crafted tool to distract us. A very self-centered activity. Clean up your own vocabulary so you can show 
everybody you have the social capital of having been in circles where these things are talked about on a regular 
basis."" (What was an example of political correctness? Some academic types would say to Jim and Paul, ""Why 
do you call your patients poor people? They don't call themselves poor people."" Jim would reply: ""Okay, how 
about soon-dead people?"") 
They talked about the insignificance of ""cultural barriers"" when it came to the Haitian peasant's acceptance of 
modern Western medicine: ""There's nothing like a cure for a disease to change people's cultural values""... 
By now Peru was taxing PIH's resources severely. On average, the drugs to treat just one patient cost between 
fifteen and twenty thousand dollars. And the number of patients kept growing. Already there were about fifty 
Carabayllanos in treatment. Their average age was twenty-nine. They were students, unemployed youths, 
housewives, street vendors, bus drivers, health workers. The actual numbers seemed small, but those fifty MDR 
[a form of tuberculosis that does not respond to standard treatment] cases represented about 10 percent of all 
active cases of TB in the slum, about ten times more than might have been expected. No telling how many 
others they had been infecting as they'd traveled around Lima, coughing. No telling either how many people in 
other parts of the city already had MDR, but [there were] reports of hundreds in other neighborhoods. In 
Carabayllo itself, the Socios workers found entire families sick and dying with what turned out to be genetically 
related strains of the disease--a phenomenon common enough that the health workers gave it a name, familias 
tebeceanas, tuberculosis families. 
Kim's organization confronted Peru's MDR-form tuberculosis epidemic with what some have called unorthodox 
practices -- borrowing and cajoling its way into medicine for its patients. 
Howard Hiatt, a friend of Jim Yong Kim's and a former dean at the Harvard School of Public Health, said he 
was concerned about how PIH was getting medicine to combat the epidemic: 
""Sure enough. Paul and Jim would stop at the [Harvard-affiliated] Brigham pharmacy before they left for Peru 
and fill their briefcases with drugs. They had sweet-talked various people into letting them walk away with the 
drugs."" [Hiatt] was amused, all in all. ""That's their Robin Hood attitude."" In fact, they'd only borrowed the 
drugs... 
Then one day the president of the Brigham stopped Hiatt in a corridor. ""Your friends Farmer and Kim are in 
trouble with me. They owe this hospital ninety-two thousand dollars."" Hiatt looked into the matter. ""Sure 
enough. Paul and Jim would stop at the Brigham pharmacy before they left for Peru and fill their briefcases with 
drugs. They had sweet-talked various people into letting them walk away with the drugs."" He was amused, all in 
all. ""That's their Robin Hood attitude."" 
To many seasoned managers of public health projects, what Farmer and Kim were doing would have looked 
quite reckless--like a stunt, as some would later insinuate. They didn't have a guaranteed supply of drugs, only 
the determination to obtain the drugs and the charm to get away with borrowing. They were borrowing their 
laboratory services, too, from Massachusetts. They lacked proper institutional support. The weight of expert 
opinion stood against them. Their organization was small and it had other projects, in Haiti and Boston and 
elsewhere, and Peru put a strain on everyone. Jim had to travel to Carabayllo at least once a month. Farmer had 
to go there slightly more often. 
Kim's audacious 'Robin Hood attitude' won him and PIH acclaim for their role in changing global health and 
development. 
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In June 2002 ... the WHO adopted new prescriptions for dealing with MDR-TB, virtually the same as PIH had 
used in Carabayllo. For Jim Kim this marked the end of a long campaign. ""The world changed yesterday,"" he 
wrote from Geneva to all of PIH. The prices of second-line antibiotics continued to decline, and the drugs now 
flowed fairly smoothly through the Green Light Committee to, among other places, Peru, where about 1,000 
chronic patients were either cured or in treatment. About 250 were receiving the drugs in Tomsk, and, largely 
because of the efforts of WHO, the Russian Ministry of Health had finally agreed to the terms of the World 
Bank's TB loan--150 million dollars to begin to fight the epidemic throughout the country. 
The twin pandemics of AIDS and tuberculosis raged on, of course, magnifying each other, in Africa and Asia, 
Eastern Europe and Latin America. Mathematical models predicted widening global catastrophe--100 million 
HIV infections in the world by the year 2010. Some prominent voices, some in the U.S. government, still 
argued that AIDS could not be treated in desperately impoverished places. But this view seemed to be fading. 
The prices of antiretrovirals were falling, even more dramatically than the prices of second-line TB drugs. 
This was thanks to a growing worldwide campaign for treating AIDS wherever it occurred. Jim Kim had often 
said that the world's response to AIDS and TB would define the moral standing of his generation. In 2003, a 
new director general took over at WHO, and he asked Jim to serve as his senior adviser. Meanwhile, the 
example of Zanmi Lasante [PIH's Haiti-based project] was growing, and Cange had become a favorite 
destination for global health policy makers and American politicians. 
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children? Being left out terrorizes children. Why do we allow this to
happen by creating places that foster this behavior?

Stifling of curiosity: Isn't it obvious that learning is really about
curiosity? Adults learn about things they want to learn about. Before
the age of 6, prior to school, one kid becomes a dinosaur specialist,
while another knows all about dog breeds. Outside of school, people
drive their own learning. Schools eliminate this natural behavior.

Subjects chosen for you: Why algebra, physics, economics,
and U.S. history? Because those subjects were pretty exciting to the
president of Harvard in 1892. And, if you are interested in something
else—psychology, business, medicine, computers, design? Too bad.
Those subjects weren’t taught at Harvard in 1892. Is that nuts or
what?

Classrooms: If you wanted to learn something and had the
money, wouldn’t you hire someone to be your mentor, and have
them be there for you while you tried out learning the new thing?
Isn’t that what small children have, a parent ready to teach as needed.
Classrooms make no sense as a venue for learning unless, of course,
you want to save money and have 30 (or, worse, hundreds of) students
handled by one teacher. Once you have ratios like that, you have to
teach by talking and then hoping someone was listening, so then you
have to have tests. Schools cannot work as places of learning if they
employ classrooms. And, of course, they pretty much all do.

Grades: Any professor can tell you that students are pretty much
concerned with whether what you are telling them will be on the
test and what they might do for extra credit. In other words, they
want a good grade. If you tell them that 2 + 2 = 5 and it will be on
the test, they will tell you that 2 + 2 = 5 if it means getting a good
grade. Parents do not give grades to children and employers do not
give grades to employees. They judge their work and progress for sure,
but not by assigning numbers to a report card.

Certification: We all know why people attend college. They do so

primarily to say they are college graduates so they can get a job or go
on to a professional school. Most don’t care all that much about what

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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032066.txt,"From: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]

Sent: 4/28/2016 4:25:55 PM
To: Darren Indyke
Subject: Fwd: Reuters / lawsuit against Jeffrey Epstein

Attachments: katie johnson v trump complaint.pdf

---------- Forwarded message ----------

From: Martin Weinberg

Date: Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 12:20 PM

Subject: Fwd: Reuters / lawsuit against Jeffrey Epstein
To: Jeff Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com>

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Begin forwarded message:

From:

Date: April 28, 2016 at 12:14:37 PM EDT

To:

Subject: RE: Reuters / lawsuit against Jeffrey Epstein

Sorry, the suit is attached to this email.

From: Ingram, David (Reuters News)

Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2016 12:14 PM

To: ‘Martin G. Weinberg’

Subject: Reuters / lawsuit against Jeffrey Epstein

Hi Marty,

The attached lawsuit was filed this week in federal court in California alleging that Jeffrey Epstein and another
man, Donald Trump, raped her in 1994. We’re planning to publish a story on the suit this afternoon, and we
want to make sure it is fair. Is Mr. Epstein available to speak? Or do you want to offer a comment on this
behalf?

My number y | and I’m available any time. I also just tried your cell phone.

Thank you in advance.

David Ingram
Correspondent

Reuters News

Thomson Reuters

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TEXT-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032616.txt,"From: 
Sent: 
To: 
Subject: 
9/13/2017 6:46:36 PM 
jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Re: 
Importance: High 
msg from touchline 
We have media platform in the region called philanthropy age with gates foundation. 
The guys who are working with us is 
Kofi Rashid Gates foundation advisor who report dirctly to bill 
This is the link 
http://www.philanthropyage.org 
Please ask him not to focus on philanthropy age ... As its is one aspect of the over all deliverables 
thnx 
Sent from my iPhone 
On Sep 13, 2017, at 4:07 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
Wed at 2? 
On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 12:26 AM wrote: 
hi habebey i m in new york .. the sooner we meet the faster i go back to be with my son on his first week in a 
new school.. 
if you bussy dont worry i can wait until thursday 
thnx again 
Sent from my iPhone 
On Sep 9, 2017, at 7:43 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
see you then :) 
On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 6:42 PM 
wrote: 
thursday at 6 pm? is that ok? 
Sent from my iPhone 
On Sep 9, 2017, at 7:40 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
when is good for you? late thurs? fri lunch whatever you prefer. 
On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 6:35 PM 1_____________________________wrote: 
very well .. plz when you have a minute send me the date and the time .. i know the house by now Ii 
Sent from my iPhone 
On Sep 9, 2017, at 7:31 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
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of course 
On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 6:30 PM, wrote: 
000 
are we meeting in new york? 
Sent from my iPhone 
On Sep 9, 2017, at 7:16 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
is this some sort of perverted question :) 12 american. of course 
On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 5:40 PM, wrote: 
what is your shoes size if you dont mind me asking? 
Sent from my iPhone 
On Sep 9, 2017, at 4:30 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
I think trump cut the legs off your guy. He would like to take all the credit. If there is a deal or be seen to 
be strong on terror 
On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 2:34 AM jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
See you I in. Ew york thurs? 
On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 11:48 PM wrote: 
tamem just called mbs .. he want to sit and talk .. breakthrough 
Sent from my iPhone 
On Sep 8, 2017, at 1:33 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
I will get larson to call you 
On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 12:26 PM, _________________________ wrote: 
i will bring you some kuwaiti gifts but not food° 
Sent from my iPhone 
On Sep 8, 2017, at 11:52 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
what is your schedule in new york how long will you be there? 
On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 9:09 AM, wrote: 
things look very bad in the gulf.. my feeling trump do not want to end it 
Sent from my iPhone 
On Sep 8, 2017, at 2:28 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
your man did well. congragulations 
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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011277.txt,"From: Ens, Amand 
Sent: 12/9/2016 3:46:19 PM 
To: jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com]; Rich Kahn 
Subject: RE: Financials: buy XLF call spreads 
Attachments: image001.png 
a 
Importance: High 
We continue to see further upside in financials. 
• Erika Najarian, BAML financials research analyst, just returned from a marketing trip. Bottom line: North 
American investors are very bullish the banks (long only AND hedge funds AND macro funds), but then conclude ""I don't 
own enough"". Note that high touch flows have slowed down significantly since Thanksgiving and where the buying has 
been concentrated in XLF (every client sector we have has been a better buyer of XLF). 
• Client focus: 
1) Regulation: Excitement, with the base case that it's not getting worse. 
2) Sentiment on rates: Cautiously bullish 
3) Sentiment on growth: Also bullish 
4) Sentiment on corporate tax rate cuts: buyside more bullish than sellside. In 1986, bank stocks exploded upward 
(outperforming the S&P) after Reagan's tax reform bill passed the Senate; and 2) in 2003, the last time we saw personal 
tax cuts, loan growth industry wide accelerated in 2003 and 2004. 
• Biggest Pushback on owning sector at current levels: Too far too fast: BKX +18.00% post election: Valuation 
coming into question and 04 has typically been a seasonally weak qtr. Bulls defend valuation on '18ests with potential 
upside to 2018 [PS from —25-40% and stocks still cheap vs. discretionary. 
• Price action and sentiment keeps us constructive, we like the long and would expect US financials to benefit 
from any beta chase into year end. 
• How to play it? We still like ""appearing"" call spreads on XLF 
o Buy a 6 month 105% call with a short 110% call that knock in if XLF trades above 115% during the life of the 
trade for 1.75% premium cost 
• Gross max payoff if knock-in is triggered: 2.8x (5.0%/1.75%) 
• Gross max payoff if knock-in is not triggered: 5.6x (9.9%/1.75%) — you have upside up to 114.9% 
Regards, 
Amanda 
Amanda Ens 
Director Global Equities 
Bank of America Merrill Lynch 
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated 
One Bryant Park 15th Floor New York, NY 10036 
Phone: Mobile 
From: Ens, Amanda 
Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2016 2:15 PM 
To: 'jeffrey E.'; Rich Kahn 
Subject: Financials: buy XLF call spreads 
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Underweight positioning, buybacks resuming, positive momentum and strong fundamentals all indicate that there is still 
further upside potential in financials (more details below). Our financials sector specialist thinks XLF could have another 
20-25% upside given the many levers to the Trump Trade: less regulation, higher interest rates, higher vol, economic 
growth, loan growth, etc. The asset sensitive regional banks are more of a pure play on a rates move but we view the 
larger cap banks as having multi-pronged upside given the aforementioned points. 
That said, given the velocity and magnitude of the recent move and uncertainty around the impact and timing of 
Trump's policies, we believe options offer better risk-reward than being outright long financials stocks here. With flat 
call skew, ""appearing"" call spreads with upside knock-ins price well. 
Buy a 1 year XLF call spread for 2.6% premium 
• Buy a 110% call 
• Sell a 117.5% call with an at-expiry knock-in at 125% (call is not active unless XLF is 125% or higher at expiry) 
o Total premium is 2.6% 
o Gross max payoff if knock-in is triggered: 2.9x (7.5%/2.6%) 
o Gross max payoff if knock-in is not triggered: 5.7x (14.9%/2.6%) — you have upside up to 124.9% 
Post Election Flow Skews - Buyers of Health Care (via ETFs) and Financials (mainly ETFs) 
• US Buyback Flows 
• Cons Disc, Technology and Financials are the largest 3 sectors for US buybacks (over 70% of execution). We 
are seeing a seasonal increase in buybacks as we come out of the low seasonal month of the year (October) and should  
see increased buyback executions until year-end, another source of upside for the Cons Disc, Technology and Financials  
sectors.  
Global Positioning, Nigel Tupper, 11/14. Large long-only funds are more underweight Financials than any other sector 
and are UW this sector in all regions. 
Future of Financials conference hosted 90 public and private companies at our Future of Financials conference. We are 
raising our price objectives across most of our names. Three primary reasons why we think there is upside remaining 
after the recent rally: 1) an improved outlook on both activity levels and interest rates, driving revenue upside; 2) 
potentially lower regulatory burden, particularly as new supervisory leadership can come with the new administration; 
and 3) relatively lighter positioning in US financials vs. other sectors. (Erika Najarian) 
Trades Gaining Momentum: Finance-Related Assets vs. S&P 500 
In the period since the US presidential election, the three top-performing S&P sectors and industry groups have all been 
finance-related (Banks, Financials, Diversified Financials) 
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Source: Kensho Technologies 
The Flow Show, Michael Hartnett, 11/18. Violent rotation: record equity ETF inflow, record financials inflow, biggest 
bond outflow in 3.5 yrs, record EM debt outflow. 
Regards, 
Amanda 
Amanda Ens 
Director 1 Global Equities 
Bank of America Merrill Lynch 
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated 
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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029769.txt,"Department, and in return was given PBPD baseball hats to put on the dashboard of his various cars to avoid
being stopped or ticketed by local police. Retired Police Chief Michael Reiter, in his own deposition,
acknowledged that, in addition to earlier donations to the police department (which are fairly common in well-
heeled Palm Beach), Epstein had recently given the department $100,000 for some sophisticated equipment.
The police were still researching the purchase when Epstein came under suspicion, and Reiter ordered the
money returned. (Guy Frostin, one of Epstein’s local attorneys, told police that Epstein also gave $100,000 to
the Florida Ballet for massages, because he was “very passionate” about massages being “therapeutically and
spiritually” beneficial. Yet victims told police they had no massage training.)

Perhaps most disturbing, in terms of possible sex trafficking, was Epstein’s relationship with Jean Luc Brunel,
owner of the MC2 modeling agency. According to a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern
District of Florida, an alleged victim said that Epstein, Maxwell, Brunel, Rodriguez, and Marcinkova
“deliberately engaged in a pattern of racketeering that involved luring minor children through MC2, mostly
girls under the age of 17, to engage in sexual play for money.” (Which would amount to trafficking.)

Brunel is a 50-plus French playboy who was formerly part owner of Karin, a Paris-based modeling agency. He
lives in New York and South Beach, Florida, and owns 85 percent of MC2, which has offices in New York,
Miami, and Tel Aviv. (The remaining 15 percent is owned by his partner, Jeff Fuller.) Brunel has been
observed as a house guest at Epstein’s Palm Beach home and may well have had contact with him also in New
York, where Epstein owns a lavish home, and in Paris, where Epstein keeps an apartment on elegant Ave. Foch.
CBS reporter Craig Pyes, who investigated Brunel for a 60 Minutes broadcast many years ago, is quoted in
Michael Gross’ book about the modeling industry, Model: The Ugly Business _of Beautiful Women. Pyes told
the author that Brunel “ranks among the sleaziest people in the fashion industry. We’re talking about a
conveyor belt, not a casting couch. Hundreds of girls were not only harassed but molested.” Now The Daily
Beast has learned that Epstein had made a $1 million wire transfer to Brunel’s offshore bank account in
September 2004, just as he was setting up MC2. Whether this was a gift or a loan or a backdoor investment in
the new venture is unknown. A French citizen who managed to avoid giving evidence in the Epstein
investigation, Brunel declined to comment on any of this, as does Fuller. Asked in April of Brunel’s activities,
Epstein said “I’m 100 percent convinced that he doesn’t traffic children.” (Brunel has never been charged.)
An American fashion designer who booked her girls through MC2 says they were very young and very
beautiful; many were from Eastern Europe and spoke little English. A former bookkeeper in the agency’s
Miami office, who also arranged visas for girls traveling to the U.S., confirmed that MC2 girls became
frequent guests on Epstein’s private jets.

Pilot logs obtained in the civil suits show that some of the named plaintiffs were on the flight manifests. Other
times, the pilot would just list the other passengers plus ""female.”

Posted 02 August 2010 - 12:47 AM

Jeffrey Epstein, Jew Billionaire Pedophile, Child Trafficker Goes Free..WoW! 20 year old Hearsay is enough to destroy catholic priest. What happened here to the justice

system?

Conchita Sarnoff

http://www.thedailyb...hile- goes-free/

Conchita Sarnoff has developed multimedia communication programs for Fortune 500 companies and has
produced three current events debate television programs, The Americas Forum, From Beirut to Kabul, and a
segment for The Oppenheimer Report. She is writing a book about child trafficking in America.

Hedge fund mogul and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who went free this week, lived in a depraved world of
thrice-daily massages, pornographic artwork, and hush money—that’s only now being revealed. Conchita
Sarnoff follows up on her investigation of the legal wrangling that saved him from a long prison term and
reports on the sordid details in part two of her exclusive exposé. Also:

* Palm Beach’s police chief objected to Epstein’s “special treatment” and gave The Daily Beast an exclusive

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TEXT-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033508.txt,"From: Jessica Cadwell 
Sent: 8/11/2009 6:55:54 PM 
To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
CC: Robert D. Critton Jr.__________________________ 
Subject: FW: Jane Doe 
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feJgca &dwelt, eg; cia' 
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515 N. Flagler Drive 
Suite #400 
West Palm Beach, FL 33401 
From: Jacquie Johnson [mailto 
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 2:55 PM 
To: Jessica Cadwell 
Subject: RE: Jane Doe 
Yes — we are still trying to get the details though 
From: Jessica Cadwell [mailto:j__________________________________ 
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 2:27 PM 
To: Jacquie Johnson 
Subject: RE: Jane Doe 
Does this mean you have service on Maxwell 
feJgca eadaieff, eg; cia' 
Certified Paralegal 
Florida Registered Paralegal 
BURMAN CRITTON LUTTIER & COLEMAN, LLP 
515 N. Flagler Drive 
Suite #400 
West Palm Beach, FL 33401 
From: Jacquie Johnson [mailto: 
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 2:30 PM 
To: Jessica Cadwell 
Subject: RE: Jane Doe 
From: Jessica Cadwell [mailto 
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 11:28 AM 
To: Jacquie Johnson 
Subject: RE: Jane Doe 
HOUSE OVERSIGHT 033508 
Do you have service on Maxwell or still trying to subpoena her?? 
frJaca &dazeEE e9), Yccia' 
Certified Paralegal 
Florida Registered Paralegal 
BURMAN CRITTON LUTTIER & COLEMAN, LLP 
515 N. Flagler Drive 
Suite #400 
West Palm Rparh Fl 11401 
From: Jacquie Johnson [mailto: 
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009______________11:28 AM 
To: Jessica Cadwell 
Subject: RE: Jane Doe 
Please notice the deposition of Ms. Maxwell has been rescheduled from 8/17 to 9/23. A re-Notice of Taking Deposition 
will follow. Mr. Trump's deposition is scheduled for August 18, 2009. 
From: Jessica Cadwell [mailto:_____________ 
Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 3:31 PM 
To: Jacquie Johnson 
Subject: RE: Jane Doe 
No not likely. They just filed an emergency protective order 
frJaca &dazeEE eY, Yccia' 
Certified Paralegal 
Florida Registered Paralegal 
BURMAN CRITTON LUTTIER & COLEMAN, LLP 
515 N. Flagler Drive 
Suite #400 
West Palm Beach FL 33401 
From: Jacquie Johnson [mailto 
Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 3:18 PM 
To: Jessica Cadwell 
Subject: RE: Jane Doe 
Jessica — is the depo 01 going forward on Friday 
From: Jessica Cadwell [mailto 
Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 12:10 PM 
To: Jacquie Johnson 
Subject: RE: Jane Doe 
I didnt forget about this... 
Still working on it. 
frJaca eY, Yccia' 
Certified Paralegal 
Florida Registered Paralegal 
BURMAN CRITTON LUTTIER & COLEMAN, LLP 
HOUSE OVERSIGHT 033509 
515 N. Flagler Drive 
Suite #400 
West Palm Beach Fl 33401 
From: Jacquie Johnson [mailto 
Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 10:47 AM 
To: Jessica Cadwell 
Subject: RE: Jane Doe 
Jessica — I need a date for the deposition of Mr. Epstein. Can you provide me with one please? 
From: Jessica Cadwell [mailto 
Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 10:20 AM 
To: Jacquie Johnson 
Subject: RE: Jane Doe 
Great thank you. Do you have your Stays signed yet? 
frJaca &dazeEE e9), Yccia' 
Certified Paralegal 
Florida Registered Paralegal 
BURMAN CRITTON LUTTIER & COLEMAN, LLP 
515 N. Flagler Drive 
Suite #400 
West Palm Beach, FL 33401 
From: Jacquie Johnson [mailto 
Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 9:59 AM 
To: Jessica Cadwell; Bradley J. Edwards 
Cc: Robert D. Critton Jr. 
Subject: RE: Jane Doe 
Brad is out of the office until this afternoon — I will ask him then. 
From: Jessica Cadwell [mailto: 
Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 9:51 AM 
To: Bradley J. Edwards 
Cc: Jacquie Johnson; Robert D. Critton Jr. 
Subject: Jane Doe 
Brad — 
In your answers to ROGS, you list Milton Center for girls as facility that Jane Doe attended. Milton Center is a 
Department of Juvenile Justice facility; therefore I will need to get her records from DJJ. DJJ will not release the records 
without a signed release by Jane Doe. I have attached a general HIPPA release for your review. Would you please have 
Jane Doe sign it? DJJ does not have a standard form. 
Also, will you agree to one more week on Responses to Net Wirth ROGS?? 
Please let me know. 
Jess — 
HOUSE OVERSIGHT 033510 
frJge..a e9), Yccia' 
Certified Paralegal 
Florida Registered Paralegal 
BURMAN CRITTON LUTTIER & COLEMAN, LLP 
515 N. Flagler Drive 
Suite #400 
West Palm Beach, FL 33401  
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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030238.txt,"From: Faith Kates
Sent: 8/14/2012 1:05:43 PM

To: Faith Kates

Subject: Fwd: Public work vs private AMAZING

> This is crazy please read it and pass it on!!!
>

>

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>

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> From: John Connolly cd
> Date: August 4, 2012 3:54: PM_GMT+02:

>

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President & CEO

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From: ed thompson [mailto:

Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 6:03 PM

To: ;

Subject: Fw: Public work vs private AMAZING

To: RALPH BERNSTEIN < Morad Tahbaz (qy- » “Joseph Bernstein
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IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011620.txt,"to-air missiles to the bank of the Suez Canal after the truce in the War of
Attrition, the Egyptians had created an effective no-fly zone a dozen miles into
the Sinai. After the failed counter-attack, with the commander of the air force
warning that we were nearing our minimum “red line” number of fighter jets,
Golda contacted the Americans to propose a cease-fire in the south. But having
retaken the Suez Canal and pushed into the Sinai, President Sadat was in no
mood to call a halt to the fighting. The only way we were going to end the war
was to retake the canal and defeat the even larger Egyptian forces on the other
side.

To the extent that my part in war was different from other junior officers, it
was because of my history in Sayeret Matkal. Other Israeli sayerets were
attached to specific fighting forces. Sayeret Golan, for instance, was part of the
Golani infantry brigade in the north; Sayeret 7zanhanim, was part of the
paratroopers. But “matkal” is the Hebrew word for the general staff, since it was
the generals in military headquarters who had allowed Avraham Arnan to create
the unit. From the start, we had answered directly to the kirva, which ultimately
had to approve our operations. When I rushed back from Stanford at the start of
the war, I was still just a 31-year-old lieutenant-colonel. I had spent two years in
command of the equivalent of an infantry battalion. But I knew, and in many
cases had worked with, the men at the very top of the armed forces, including
Dado, the chief of staff. So while other young reservists were reporting to their
former units for assignment, my first port of call was the command bunker,
where Dado himself, aware that I’d done intensive tank training before taking
command of the sayeret, ensured that I would play my part in trying to turn
back the Egyptian advances. I also knew, or at least had met, many of the
generals plotting the counteroffensive in the command bunker in the south:
Shmuel Gonen, known as “Gorodish’’, who was head of the southern command;
Arik Sharon, who had left the same job for politics a few months earlier, but
was now commanding a division near the canal; and Chaim Bar-Lev, the former
chief-of-staff whom Golda had called back into emergency service. I even knew
the bunker. It was Um-Hashiba, the command and intelligence post from which
we had run Sayeret Matkal operations into Egypt after 1967.

So during the last, decisive 10 days of the war, I would witness first-hand the
tension among our top commanders in the Sinai, especially between Sharon and
Gorodish, since Arik wasted few opportunities to suggest, rightly but not always
helpfully, that his successor was woefully out of his depth. I would lead my
company back across the canal with one of the other main armored brigades in
the Sinai; take out Egyptian missile sites and help restore our jets’ command of

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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020443.txt,"From: Steve Bannon x

Sent: 8/27/2018 6:11:26 PM
To: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Fw: The ‘Deplorables’ Called Into Battle Again - WSJ

Importance: — High
Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T

From: Alexandra Preate <

Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2018 10:37:29 -0400

To: Steve Bannon

Subject: The ‘Deplorables’ Called Into Battle Again - WSJ

https:/Awww.wsj.com/articles/the-deplorables-called-into-battle-again-1535376353?mod=mh

The ‘Deplorables’ Called Into Battle Again

As midterms near, President Trump’s former political guru Steve Bannon rallies the
troops

Gerald F. SeibAug. 27, 2018 9:25 a.m. ET

By
Gerald F. Seib

Steve Bannon doesn’t do subtle. So it’s no surprise that there’s nothing subtle about the new movie President Trump’s

onetime political guru has produced to energize the Trump base for this year’s midterm elections.

It’s entitled “Trump at War,” and it’s an hour and 15 minutes of pure Trumpian adrenaline. It opens with a series of shots
of Trump supporters being attacked by angry opponents, shifts to outtakes of Trump supporters proudly accepting the
“deplorables” label bestowed by Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential campaign, runs through a long series of
angry ripostes at Trump detractors and praise of administration policy moves, and closes with dire warnings of the need to

vote for Republicans in 2018 to head off efforts by liberals to impeach the president.

Mr. Bannon previewed the film for some Republican supporters in Dallas recently, but the big premiere is scheduled for
Sept. 9—chosen because it is the second anniversary of the speech in which Mrs. Clinton used the “basket of deplorables”
phrase. The location? The very club in Manhattan where Mrs. Clinton made the speech, which has been rented for the

occasion.

Aside from what they say about Mr. Bannon as a political provocateur, the film and its unveiling also reveal a lot about
how people in the president’s circle increasingly see this year’s midterm election: Its importance is growing every day;
Republican success starts with turning out core Trump supporters; and the best way to motivate them is by brandishing the

fear of impeachment proceedings if Democrats win control of Congress.

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IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011146.txt,"acceleration, measured as thrift —Ac, and ex post acceleration Ag at the same

moment. Otherwise we don’t have the clearest test between free growth and thrift
theories. Both agree that consumption can keep pace with output and capital over

time. Free growth theory asserts that they keep pace continuously.

Correlations tell the same story. Tables show that coefficients between r and g
run about 1, as with the free growth index, while correlations between f and g run

about zero.

I do not claim that anyone but Mill and | has actually proposed free growth theory,
nor that anyone at all has proposed thrift theory as here defined. It is my impression,
not assertion, that modern consensus fits thrift theory given Harrod’s qualifier that
attempted (ex ante) net saving (thrift) must not exceed the technological growth

rate (warranted growth path). My impression is that Solow and modern tradition
agree, but blunt Harrod’s knife edge. Free growth theory counters that the same
growth arrives costlessly when ex ante net saving/investment is held at zero. Nor do
I claim that data shown in my charts and tables prove free growth theory. Rather

they demonstrate that all growth has proved free wherever measured to date.

Saving /Investment

Unlike Lord Keynes and modern tradition, I define saving and investment as
synonymous from the start. | don’t strictly need either term. My “transfer in”,
“unrealized output” and “plowback” arrive at the same thing. But | know I must do
my best to write in a language already understood. | will usually say “investment” to

mean saving/investment, and will use Keynes’ notation I for both.

Keynes did not explicitly recognize human capital, although he very probably

understood it. He treated investment in physical capital only. I notate this I(K). I also
treat investment in total capital, to be notated I(K,). Each, as in Keynes, sums
depreciation recovery and “net investment”. The latter, in my treatment, is

APPENDIX A: The Argument in Notation 3/7/16 20

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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020325.txt,"173

mid 1960s, who was caught in a sting operation by the FBI and sentenced to 18 years in a federal
prison. Ronald Pelton, an NSA analyst, was recruited after he retired from the NSA. After he
was betrayed by a KGB double agent in 1985, was sentenced to life imprisonment, Finally, there
was David Sheldon Boone, a NSA code clerk, who between 1988 and 1992, provided the KGB
with NSA documents in return for $60,000. Boone, sentenced to 24 years in prison, was the last
known KGB recruitment of the Cold War.

During the Cold War, Russian Intelligence Service officers operated mainly under the cover of
the embassies, consulates, United Nations delegations and other diplomatic missions of the Soviet
Union. As “diplomats,” they were protected from arrest by the terms of the 1961 Vienna
Convention on Diplomatic Relations. Their diplomatic cover greatly limited, however, their
universe for finding potential recruits outside of their universe of international meetings,
diplomatic receptions, UN organizations, scientific conferences and cultural exchanges. They
therefore tended to recruit their counterparts in adversary services.

In this regard, the successful entrapment of Harold Nicholson in the 1990s is highly instructive.
From his impressive record, he seemed an unlikely candidate for recruitment. He had been a super-
patriotic American who had served as a captain in Army intelligence before joining the CIA in
1980. In the CIA, he had an unblemished record as a career officer, serving as a station chief in
Eastern Europe and then the deputy chief of operation in Malaysia in 1992. Even though his
career was on the rise and he was a dedicated anti-Communist, he became a target for SVR when
he was assigned to the CIA’s elite Russian division. Since the job of this division was to recruit
Russian officials working abroad as diplomats, engineers and military officers, its operations
brought its officers in close contact with SVR officers. Nicholson therefore was required to meet
with Russian intelligence officers in Manila, Bucharest, Tokyo and Bangkok and “dangle” himself
to the SVR by pretending disloyalty to the CIA. As part of these deception operations, he
supplied the Russians with tidbits of CIA secrets, or “chickenfeed,” that had been approved by his
superiors at the CIA. What his CIA superiors did not fully take into account in this spy versus
spy game was the SVR’s ability to manipulate, compromise, and convert a “dangle” to its own
ends. As it turned out, Russian intelligence had been assembling a psychological profile on
Nicholson since the late 1980s, and found vulnerability: his resentment at the failure of his
superiors to recognize his achievements in intelligence. It played on this vulnerability to
compromise him and then converted him to becoming its mole inside the CIA. He worked for the
SVR first in Asia then at the CIA headquarters at Langley, where he was given a management
position. Among other secret documents, he provided the SVR with the identities of CIA officers
sent to the CIA’s special training school at Fort Peary, Virginia, which opened up the door for the
SVR to make other potential recruitments. Meanwhile, it paid him $300,000 before he was finally
arrested by the FBI in November 1996. (After his conviction for espionage, he was sentenced to
23 years in Federal prison.) The CIA post mortem on Nicholson, who was the highest-ranking
CIA officer ever recruited (as far as is known), made clear that even a loyal American, with no
intention of betraying the United States, could be entrapped in the spy game.

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IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021283.txt,"of many contingencies and challenges.
This leads Aquinas to develop his
theology of marriage as a way of
consolidating and stabilizing parental
commitment, especially paternal
commitment, to their dependent
children. *°

Although neither Aristotle nor
Aquinas presented the full
intergenerational scope of Cacioppo’s
interpretation of kin altruism and
inclusive fitness — that it must extend to
our children’s children and not just our
own — both perspectives comprehended
the interlocking nature of kin altruism
and the well-spring of care, long-term
human commitment, and hence some of
the rudimentary energies of human
morality.

Of course, Aquinas and those
who followed him supplemented these
naturalistic observations with additional
epistemological presuppositions that
may seem strange to scientists. These
included the idea that God works
through nature as well as grace, hence
God is present in the kin altruistic
inclinations of parents and grandparents.
He also assumed that in order for kin
altruism to be stable, the additional
social reinforcements of institutional
marriage and God’s strengthening grace
and forgiveness were also needed. In
addition, he held - and Christianity has
always taught - that Christian love
includes more than kin altruism and the
care of our familial offspring; it must
include the love of neighbor, stranger,
and enemy, even to the point of self-
sacrifice. For the Christian, this was
made possible by the idea that God was
the creator of all humans and hence each
person was a child of God and made in
God’s image (imago dei). For this
reason, as Kant would say on different
grounds, each individual should be

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treated “always as an end and never as a
means only.” °° In Aquinas’s view,
acting on this belief, and with the
empowering grace of God, made it
possible for Christians to build on yet
analogically generalize their kin
altruism to all children of God, even
those beyond the immediate family, their
own children, and their own kin. These
wider assumptions may be beyond the
competence of science to assess. They
entail a step toward metaphysical
speculation of the kind science would do
better to avoid. Nonetheless, in the view
of Christian love developed in Aquinas,
the seeds of a religious humanism — in
this case a Christian humanism —began
to form.

I have tried to illustrate how
insights from Aristotle and Aquinas can
join with insights from evolutionary
psychology and social neuroscience to
refine the Christian understanding of
love. In pursuing this course, I join the
work of Stephen Pope and others in
presenting this option. ”” The kind of
Christian humanism found in Aquinas
makes it possible for Christianity to be
enriched by the modern sciences of
human nature. Aquinas’s view is
strikingly different from Nygren’s
representation of Paul and Luther when
Nygren contends that Christian love does
not build on our own natural energies,
but “has come to us from heaven.”** Or
again, it is very different from Nygren’s
view when he writes that the Christian is
“merely the tube, the channel through
which God’s love flows.”” The
complete discontinuity in this statement
between the downward love of God and
the natural extension to nonkin of human
kin-altruistic impulses is stunning. And
such a view as Nygren’s precludes the
possibility of a religious humanism of
the kind I have been describing. And it

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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031209.txt,"Epstein building compound on Great St. James | News | virginislandsdailynews.com

5/7/19, 9:15 AM

http://www. virginislandsdailynews.com/news/epstein-building-compound-on-great-st-james/article_a4926 1 e9-40f0-57b1 -950 1-605e26e74cf3.html

Epstein building compound on Great St. James

By SUZANNE CARLSON Daily News Staff 6 hrs ago

NOTES/ TASK LEGEND

@ worrenenes

A schematic filed with the Department of Planning and Natural Resources shows development plans for Great St.
James island.

ST. THOMAS — Wealthy sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has been
quietly working for years to construct anew compound on
Great St. James island off the East End of St. Thomas, adding
to a massive real estate portfolio that also includes
neighboring Little St. James island, which has been his
primary residence for decades.

V.I. Department of Planning and Natural Resources
spokesman Jamal Nielsen confirmed Monday that at least
some of that construction activity has been taking place
without permission from the government — the third time

in as many years that Epstein has gone beyond the scope of

Jeffrey Epstein
HOGP permitted building plans.
“We have confirmed that there’s unauthorized work going on
at Great St. James, we have been in touch with the owners
and we are setting up to have a meeting with them soon, to
rectify this,” Nielsen said.
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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_014817.txt,"aes Case 1:15-cv-07433I RWS. Derseni ene PSsEx FlaveeRa goes /ERAPM Page 2 of 3

Daily Telegraph

The Prince, a paedophile
and the sex slave teen

Sharon Churcher and Chelsea White, DailyTelegraph
February 28, 2011 6:00am

A MOTHER of three living in Australia has revealed she was a teenage prostitute flown all over the world
by a convicted sex offender to meet Prince Andrew.

The revelations have rocked Buckingham Palace as the woman, Virginia Roberts, 27, confessed

she was the minor identified in FBI and subsequent civil proceedings against wealthy financier

and registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

A photo of Epstein and the Duke of York, Prince Andrew, together last week compelled Ms
Roberts to come forward.

First employed as a 15-year-old as Epstein's masseuse, she alleges he groomed her to become a
prostitute, paying her for sex with him and his influential friends.

While Ms Roberts said there was never any sexual relationship between the Prince and herself,
she claims that as a 17-year-old she met the Prince on three occasions - at one of which she was
told to sit on his knee while he touched another woman's breast.

Pictures: Prince Andrew and Virginia Roberts
Latest from Mail on Sunday

Ms Roberts told London newspaper The Mail on Sunday she was first flown to England on a
private jet to meet the Prince in March 2001.

The 17-year-old was told to dance with the Prince and even posed for a photograph.
For her time with Epstein and the Prince on that trip, Epstein paid her $US15,000.

When she next met the Prince in the US, a 21-year-old woman who was working for Epstein
was sitting on Prince Andrew's knee. Ms Roberts said she was instructed to do the same while
the Prince touched the older woman's breast as a ""joke"".

http:/Avww.dailytelegraph.com .au/the-prince-a-paedophile-and-the-sex-slave-teen/news-story/8cdeee961 a486febf459eafe00a7f710?sv=68c529bb044b9fdaSbi4f3... 1/2

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IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021297.txt,"Sultan (who had studied psychology)
and his “lie-detecting” donkey. Lore has
it that the Sultan was missing a valuable
vase from his estate and suspected that
one of his servants had stolen the piece.
To identify the culprit, the Sultan
gathered his servants in front of a dark
room in which a donkey was tied, and
then asked each of his servants if they
had stolen the item. Each said “no”. The
Sultan explained that inside the room
was a magical donkey, specially trained
to detect liars, who would bray when
slapped by someone who had lied. The
servants were sent into the room, one by
one, and were instructed to close the
door, slap the donkey and return. “When
the donkey brays,” the Sultan
proclaimed, “I will have my culprit”.
The first servant was sent into the room
and returned shortly thereafter--
tremendously relieved as the donkey had
not brayed. One by one, the remaining
servants entered the room and returned.
The donkey had not brayed and all the
servants looked quite relaxed. The
Sultan was sanguine -- he knew this
donkey never brayed under any
circumstances. The Sultan asked the
servants to show him their hands. He
then pointed to one of them and declared
“we have our thief,” instructing the
guards to take him away. How had he
identified the culprit? Rather than
relying on a magical donkey, the Sultan,
who recall was a student of psychology,
took a more rational approach.
Understanding the impact of beliefs on
behavior, the Sultan had surreptitiously
infiltrated powdered charcoal into the
donkey’s hair. When the servants
slapped the donkey, the charcoal marked
their hands—with the exception of the
guilty servant who had not slapped the
donkey, out of a belief and associated
fear that the donkey could detect a liar!

Page |51

Power of Beliefs

Beliefs may be potent
determinants of behavior, but can they
kill? And if so, how? How can these
invisible, intangible entities impact
health? In a now classic article published
in the American Anthropologist in 1942,
Walter Cannon, a leading Harvard
physiologist and expert on the
autonomic nervous system, proposed an
answer (1). Investigating phenomena
such as voodoo practices of the Haitians
and “bone-pointing” among Australian
aborigines, Cannon found a common
feature among the victims of such rituals
was a strong belief in the curse and an
associated morbid fear of the outcome.
That fear, he argued, could trigger a
“fight-or-flight reaction” (a phrase he
had earlier coined), characterized by
powerful and exaggerated activation of
the sympathetic nervous system. The
resulting vascular constriction
diminishes blood flow to critical tissues
(i.e., ischemia), with consequent hypoxia
(decreased oxygen) and disturbances in
normal metabolism and cellular
function. These reactions may be
exacerbated by the lack of food and
water as the victim “pines away.”
Cannon argued that these reactions could
become life-threatening—fulfilling the
gruesome legacy of the ritual—based on
a belief in the supernatural, the veracity
of which is largely irrelevant. More
relevant is the emotion triggered by the
belief, specious as it may be.

Beliefs and emotions have
consequences, both behavioral and
physiological. A recent example comes
from the contemporary medical
literature. There is now a well-
documented condition, sometimes
triggered by something as innocuous as a
spousal argument or a surprise birthday
party, which entails the hallmark clinical

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_014803.txt,"Case 1:15-cv-07433-RWS Document 751-1 Filed 03/17/17 Page 2 of 2

From: <ross@acuityreputation.com>

Date: 2 January 2015 at 20:38

Subject: Ghislaine Maxwell

To: Rossacuity Gow <ross@acuityreputation.com>
bec: martin.robinson@mailonline.co.uk,
P.Peachey@independent.co.uk,
nick.sommerlad@mirror.co.uk,
david.brown@thetimes.co.uk,
nick.alway@bbc.co.uk,

jo-anne.pugh@bbc.co.uk

To Whom It May Concern,
Please find attached a quotable statement on behalf of Ms Maxwell.

No further communication will be provided by her on this matter.
Thanks for your understanding.

Best

Ross

Ross Gow
ACUITY Reputation

Jane Doe 3 is Virginia Roberts - so not a new individual. The allegations made by Victoria
Roberts against Ghislaine Maxwell are untrue. The original allegations are not new and have
been fully responded to and shown to be untrue.

Each time the story is re told it changes with new salacious details about public figures and
world leaders and now it is alleged by Ms Roberts that Alan Derschowitz is involved in having
sexual relations with her, which he denies.

Ms Roberts claims are obvious lies and should be treated as such and not publicised as news, as
they are defamatory.

Ghislaine Maxwell's original response to the lies and defamatory claims remains the same.
Maxwell strongly denies allegations of an unsavoury nature, which have appeared in the British
press and elsewhere and reserves her right to seek redress at the repetition of such old

defamatory claims.

Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device

GM_00068

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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025878.txt,"From: Ehud Barak 
Sent: 4/23/2015 1:34:41 PM 
To: Epstein Jeffrey [Jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Subject: Fwd: What Iran nuke deal means for Israel: Ehud Barak 
Importance: High 
Hi Jeff 
Bill Clinton 1994. 
Food for thought. 
EB 
http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=30003 69298  
Sent from my iPhone 
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IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011152.txt,"into physical capital holdings. That can be notated z, . I don’t allow transfer from
physical to human capital in adults, which would mean invested consumption C,
afforded from property cash flow, because I see so little adult C, (adult education)
on which to spend it. That’s why I model 7, aS Zero. Meanwhile realized
decapitalizaiton is decomposed into its human and physical components D(H), and

D(K), . This adapts (A4.4) to

K,=H+K=W.+P. + p({K),,+2,-D(H),-D(K),, ifage >=A, (A10.6)

and specifically

H=W,-D(H), and K=z,+P+p(K),—D(K),, ifage >=A.

(A10.7)

Next Generation Theory

The period of production, as defined by Jevons and Boehm Bawerk, gave the
reciprocal of rate of production (rate of return Y/K,, ) if growth were zero. Output Y

equals growth plus cash flow. Then Jevons and Boehm Bawerk really meant the

period needed for output to make up for losses to cash flow. I call this the “cash flow

period” T, , equal to the reciprocal of cash flow rate f. That is,

(A11.1)

Both modeled at the collective scale, where cash flow under the Y=I+C equation
both would have accepted simplifies to consumption C. Adjustment to the Y rule

corrects this to pure consumption C, . That would specify (A11.1) as

APPENDIX A: The Argument in Notation 3/7/16 26

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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020331.txt,"179

messages which would allow it to trace the path of messages that passed through them. Through
this technology, it could tag and follow TOR users as their communications travelled across the
Internet. It could even borrow their Internet identities. To be sure, the NSA also had such a
capability. The Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht discovered to his distress that his TOR software
did not make his computer server in Iceland invisible. According to a former top official in the
Justice Department, the NSA was able to locate it by cracking the TOR software, (Ulbricht is
currently serving a life prison sentence for his Silk Road activities.). Unlike adversary services,
however, the NSA needs a warrant to investigate US citizens who use TOR.

Even the NSA is not immune from an attack of its own computers. CIA deputy director
Morell, who served on the committee evaluating the NSA’s vulnerability in the Snowden affair
after retiring from the CIA in 2013, wrote in his 2015 book “The Great War of our Times,” that
many financial institutions have “better cyber security than the NSA.” If nothing else, the
Internet helped make the activities of US intelligence workers visible to the SVR.

Even if the SVR theoretically had opportunities, it still had to find at least one disgruntled
civilian contractor inside in the NSA who had access to the sealed-off computer networks. Did it
find its man? If so, was it before or after Snowden arrived in Hong Kong with the Level 3 NSA
files?

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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018876.txt,"09/06/06

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Title and Character of Case:

EPSTEIN, JEFFREY

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Date

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Property Acquired: Source from which Property Acquired:
DET.
08/28/2006 345 SOUTH COUNTY ROAD

PALM BEACH FL 33480

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Anticipated Disposition: nequize’ ae Case a

Description of Property:

Date Entered

1B 1

1) ONE PHONE MESSAGE BOOK PBPD05-1024 (1)

2) THREE PHONE MESSAGE BOOKS..........-.0ccccecececece (2)

3) ONE FILE FOLDER WITH TWO FILES...............02000- (3)

4) SHREDDED PAPER... ... cc cece ce ee cece cece ee eee eee ee ees (4)

5) ONE FILE FOLDER - ORANGE (5)

6) BEIGE MASSAGE TABLE........ cc ee cee ee ee ee ee eee ee eee (6)

7) BROWN MASSAGE TABLE............6. eee eee eee e eee (7)

8) BLACK FRAMED PHOTO OF NUDE GIRL....... 2. eee eee eee eee (8)

9) NINE PICTURES IN FRAMES (9)

10) EIGHT PHOTOS FROM OFFICE (10)

11) TWO PHOTOS - SITTING ROOM (11)

12) TWO PHOTOS - TABLE.... 2... ccc ce ee ee eee cee eee eee eee (12)

13) TWO VHS TAPES - POOL AREA (13)

14) TWO CDS - MARKED ""HAPPY BIRTHDAY"" (14)

15) THREE FRAMED PHOTOS - CABANA (15)

16) ONE MESSAGE PAD - 1ST FLOOR (16)

17) ONE MESSAGE PAD - DESK (17)

18) THREE CDS - DESK (18)

19) ONE 8MM - DESK (19)

20) UNFRAMED PHOTOS - DESK (20)

21) TWO FRAMED PHOTOS - DESK (21)

22) TWO FRAMED PHOTOS - TABLE (22)

23) THREE SOAPS ON A ROPE (23)

24) TWO VIBRATORS - ""TWIN TORPEDO! (24)

25) TWO SOAPS ON A ROPE (25)

26) ONE LARGE FRAMED PICTURE - MASTER BEDROOM (26)

27) ONE HIGH SCHOOL TRANSCRIPT -[___]| (27)

28) ONE BOTTLE OF JOY JELLY - MASTER BEDROOM (28)

29) THREE VIDEO TAPES - MASTER BEDROOM (29)

30) SIX FRAMED PHOTOS - MASTER BEDROOM, BATHROOM (30)

Barcode: Location: 09/05/2006

Case Number: 31E-MM-108062
Owning Office: MIAMI
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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032072.txt,"Social Security costs. For industries focused on late-life care and creating products that cater to the
aging demographic; however, this population shift represents a major opportunity.

Read the full article

Walk to Remember? A National Academy of Sciences Study Says Yes

February 13, 2011 - In healthy adults, the hippocampus — a part of the brain important to the
formation of memories — begins to atrophy around 55 or 60 and even sooner to an even greater
degree if one contracts Alzheimer’s. Now psychologists are suggesting that the hippocampus can
be modestly expanded, and memory improved, by nothing more than regular walking.

Read the full article

GTX's New Patent...Smart Shoe Has Heart In Its Sole (GPS)

Satnews Daily - February 09, 2011 - GTX Corp (OTCBB: GTXO) has a big heart that is
manifested in their sole. GTX, known for customizable, 2-way GPS Personal Location Services
(PLS) solutions, was granted its ninth patent for their innovative and potentially life saving GPS
Smart Shoe technology.

By the year 2050, there will be 16 million adults with Alzheimer’s in the U.S. alone. The multi
patent GPS Smart Shoe™ will afford millions of caregivers the means to remotely monitor those
afflicted with Alzheimer’s that become lost due to wondering.

Read the full article

GPS Shoes — Footsteps to the Future...
World Market Media - Brittney Barrett - February 7, 2011

Every 70 seconds, someone in America develops Alzheimer’s, according to the Alzheimer’s
Association 60% will wander away from their homes or care facilities at some point during their
affliction with the disease. Worse, it’s even more difficult to find a missing senior citizen than a
missing child, as fewer people will take note of older person walking alone than they would a
small child.

Read the full article

GPS Tracking Technology — How it works

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IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011634.txt,"place in the Airya. | realized I was the only available replacement with a similar
background, and sayeret experience. But I was still gaining brigade command
experience. And I couldn’t help feeling the role was intended as a kind of rest-
and-recovery cure because of my illness, not too different from the reason Uzi
had been given the job. Still, I did need rest and recovery. Even if fully healthy,
I’m not sure I could have convinced Motta to change his mind. In my weakened
state, I had no chance.

Skeptical though I was about the job, it opened up a new world to me. The
kirya itself was not new territory. But now, I became exposed to how how the
huge range of intelligence information we gathered was collated, evaluated,
assessed and ultimately applied. Helping with this process was my new
assignment. There were, in fact, two of us. We were both colonels and together
we provided the intelligence background for military operations. I had the post
on inside the military intelligence department. My opposite number was in the
operations department — the more senior role, in a way, because he had a more
direct link to the people actually doing the operations. He was a friend from
officers’ school: Dovik Tamari’s younger brother, Shai. Once a week, Shai and
I put together an assessment report. Then, we’d join Motta’s operations meeting
with the general staff, often attended by the man who’d followed Dayan as
defense minister, Shimon Peres.

The analysis of military intelligence included separate teams for Egypt and
Syria, Jordan and Lebanon, Iraq and other neighboring states, as well as other
countries and superpower relations. It relied on all our raw intelligence material,
from both military intelligence and Mossad, as well as academic and specialist
literature. Each desk dealt not just with military issues, but political and
economic developments. I was responsible, along with Shai and a few others,
for bringing all this together. This meant frequent meetings with members of the
analysis teams. For the first six months or so, I barely uttered a word in these
sessions. I listened, not just absorbing the information but getting to understand
the way the analysts worked and thought.

Our whole intelligence department was responsible for drafting an annual
strategic assessment for the army and the government. The final report was
written by Shlomo Gazit, who had succeeded Eli Zeira as head of military
intelligence. Before we sent it to print, he held a long meeting, inviting the
views of all the military intelligence officers. The focus in 1976, just three years
after the war, was on the risks of a new surprise attack. At the end of the
discussion, however, he said: ““We know we run a real danger for the country if

163
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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020457.txt,"Confucius Institutes, should be subjected to the usual procedures of faculty
oversight.

e US governmental and nongovernmental sectors should disclose financial and other
relationships that may be subject to foreign influence.

Integrity

Foreign funding can undermine the independence of American institutions, and various
types of coercive and covert activities by China (and other countries) directly contradict
core democratic values and freedoms, which must be protected by institutional vigilance
and effective governance.

e¢ Openness and freedom are fundamental elements of American democracy and
intrinsic strengths of the United States and its way of life. These values must be
protected against corrosive actions by China and other countries.

e Various institutions—but notably universities and think tanks—need to
enhance sharing and pooling of information concerning Chinese activities,
and they should promote more closely coordinated collective action to counter
China’s inappropriate activities and pressures. This report recommends that
American institutions within each of the above two sectors (and possibly others)
formulate and agree to a “Code of Conduct” to guide their exchanges with Chinese
counterparts.

e When they believe that efforts to exert influence have violated US laws or
the rights of American citizens and foreign residents in the United States, US
institutions should refer such activities to the appropriate law enforcement authorities.

e Rigorous efforts should be undertaken to inform the Chinese American community
about potentially inappropriate activities carried out by China. At the same time,
utmost efforts must be taken to protect the rights of the Chinese American
community, as well as protecting the rights of Chinese citizens living or studying in
the United States.

e Consideration should be given to establishing a federal government office that
American state and local governments and nongovernmental institutions could
approach—on a strictly voluntary basis—for advice on how best to manage Chinese
requests for engagement and partnership. This office could also provide confidential
background on the affiliations of Chinese individuals and organizations to party and
State institutions.

Policy Principles for Constructive Vigilance

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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030665.txt,"please note
The information contained in this communication is
confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may
constitute inside information, and is intended only for
the use of the addressee. It is the property of
JEE
Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this
communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited
and may be unlawful. If you have received this
communication in error, please notify us immediately by
return e-mail or by e-mail to jeevacation@gmail.com, and
destroy this communication and all copies thereof,
including all attachments. copyright -all rights reserved

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IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020837.txt,"* From 1965 to 2005 (a period chosen to exclude abnormal trends related to the recent
recession), annual revenue growth (3%) has been roughly in line with GDP growth, but
corporate income taxes have grown 2% a year. Social insurance taxes grew 5% annually and
represented 37% of USA Inc. revenue, compared with 19% in 1965. An expert might ask:

o What level of social insurance or entitlement taxes can USA Inc. support without reducing
job creation?

o Are low corporate income taxes important to global competitive advantage and stimulating
growth?

* Entitlement spending has risen 5% a year on average since 1965, well above average annual
GDP growth of 3%, and now absorbs 51% of all expenses, more than twice its share in 1965.
Defense and non-defense discretionary spending (including infrastructure, education, and law
enforcement) is up just 1-2% annually over that period. Questions for shareholders:

o Do USA Inc.’s operations run at maximum efficiency? Where are the opportunities for cost
savings?

o Should all expense categories be benchmarked against GDP growth? Should some grow
faster or slower than GDP? If so, what are the key determinants?

o Would greater investment in infrastructure, education, and global competitiveness yield
more long-term security for the elderly and disadvantaged?

With expenses outstripping revenues by a large (and growing) margin, a turnaround expert
would develop an analytical framework for readjusting USA Inc.’s business model and strategic
plans. Prudence would dictate that our expert assume below-trend GDP growth and above-trend
unemployment, plus rising interest rates — all of which would make the base case operating
scenario fairly gloomy.

This analysis can’t ignore our dependence on entitlements. Almost one-third of all
Americans have grown up in an environment of lean savings and heavy reliance on
government healthcare subsidies. It’s not just a question of numbers — it’s a question of
our responsibilities as citizens...and what kind of society we want to be.

Some 90 million Americans (out of a total population of 307 million) have grown accustomed to
support from entitlement programs; so, too, have 14 million workers in the healthcare industry
who, directly or indirectly, benefit from government subsidies via Medicare and Medicaid. Low
personal savings and high unemployment make radical change difficult. Political will can be
difficult to summon, especially during election campaigns.

B
GB www.kpcb.com USA Inc. xiv

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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023977.txt,"On a nine-mile stretch of Playa Blanca, just 20 minutes from downtown
Zihuatanejo, Hotel Las Palmas is unique escape between lush rain
forest and the open Pacific Ocean. All 10 suites were individually
designed by Enrique Zozaya in a sleek, modern-tropical style and
capture the unspoiled views on private terraces and balconies. With the
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true barefoot hideaway in a quintessentially Mexican setting.

Click here to visit sale

Minimalism to the Max in Long Beach

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IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_010502.txt,"ATTERSON

‘person and that involved a num-

1 would say in his deposition for

y Epstein. “That it was of a sexual
ve had not reached all of the vic-
at this point. I told him that I felt
ly become aware of the investiga-
should probably expect some con-
ers. And I told him that I wanted
don this and that I hoped that he
we would have to have more cone
dled responsibly, intelligently, and
vard.”

tein’s name did not seem to ring a
But shortly afterward, the chief
1 powerful circles his investigation
yorably. “I had many people-related
tail-party circuit that suggested we
vast necessary,” he would say.
cop. A good man. But he was about

ie to men with the power and influ-
ss under the law was a relative, mal- ;

CHAPTER 41

Detective Recarey: February 2006

or months, Joe Recarey’s been interviewing girls who'd

been brought to Epstein’s house, subpoenaing telephone

and car-rental records, conducting surveillance. Ultimatel
according to a source within the Palm Beach PD, the evatnmenr

would identify forty-seven underage girls who'd been molested

4 on El Brillo Way.

Recarey i i
ey interviewed one of Epstein’s pilots, a man named

avid Rogers, as well as Epstein’s houseman, Alfredo Rodriguez

"" Healso s
: poke to a woman who really was a massage therapist

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turned out that Epstein paid just one hundred dollars for

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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030204.txt,"having the grand jury actually name the specific indictable crimes for which there was clear
evidence of guilt was important: “This fundamental conclusion [of criminal guilt] should not
be allowed to be lost in a recitation of facts or sources of evidence that omits the basic
judgment involved or leaves it open to public (and Congressional) speculation and debate.”

The memo also noted that the president could be named an unindicted co-conspirator in the
indictment of the other conspirators, the course ultimately chosen by Jaworski.

4. The June 21, 1974, Reply Brief for the United States in US v. Nixon. The U.S. District
Court for the District of Columbia refused Nixon’s motion to expunge his inclusion as an
unindicted co-conspirator in the Watergate indictment. Nixon asked the Supreme Court to
reverse that decision. His lawyers argued that since a sitting president could not be indicted,
neither should he be implicated as an unindicted co-conspirator.

In this filing on behalf of the United States, Jaworski rejected Nixon’s premise that a
president could not be indicted, stating that “It is an open and substantial question whether
an incumbent President is subject to indictment.” The brief argues for indictability before
concluding that it is unnecessary to decide that question in order to resolve whether to permit
his inclusion as an unindicted co-conspirator.

(Despite the filing’s origin in Jaworski’s office, it would be a mistake to argue that this filing
was not in some sense the position of the Department of Justice. Leon Jaworski and his
attorneys were officers of the Department of Justice assigned by the attorney general the
responsibility for advancing the legal positions of the United States, including in
representations to the U.S. Supreme Court.)

The Jaworski filing notes how critical it is to identify the president as one of the criminal
accused: “the identification of each co-conspirator — regardless of station — is a
prerequisite to making his declarations in furtherance of the conspiracy admissible against
the other conspirators.”

Although the brief concludes that “it is by no means clear that a President is immune from
indictment” during his term, the special prosecutor chose not to indict the sitting president
on the basis of “practical arguments.” Those arguments, however,

cannot fairly be stretched to confer immunity on the President from being identified as an
unindicted co-conspirator, when it is necessary to do so in connection with criminal
proceedings against persons unquestionably liable to indictment.

Naming the president as an unindicted co-conspirator was necessary for the grand jury to
return a “true bill,” Jaworski argued, and “required here to outline the full range of the
alleged conspiracy.” There exists, moreover, “a legitimate public purpose in reporting the
fact that serious criminal charges against a government official have been made.”

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available, they'd, you know, he said, the chef or you
know, whoever, said Jeffrey will get back to you. Yeah,
f made the appointments.

Q. So when you were calling to talk to Jeffrey,
you were calling the house phone over in Palm Beach?

A. Uh-huh, yeah.

Q. And how often would you talk to Jeffrey on the
phone as opposed to talking to one of his assistants?

A. Me and Jeffrey hardly ever talked on the phone.
He was always busy. It was mostly [ie we'd talk when

Z would get there, you know. So it was like hey, do you

33

want to come in? Yes, cool, you know. Come there, no,
cool, bye.

Q Do you know someone who works for Jeffrey named
a

A. I think I met her one time.

Q. And what do you know about her?

A. She was there. And the person ne, I think,
I'm not positive, okay. I'm pretty sure she said that
she’s from New York and she travels with Jeffrey, but I
think I met her one time, if that's the girl that rings
the bel], you know, in my head. Nadia I think is that
one person I met one time.

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IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026595.txt,"40
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—<——
See Reg. 301.7701-2(c)(2)(iii)(B), Example 2.

See Regs. 1.1361-4(a)(6)(ii), Example 2, and 1.856-9(b), Example 2.

45
See id.

46
CCA 199930013.

TEFRA (codified as Sections 6221 through 6234),
SL

Reg. 301.6231(a)(1)-1(a)(2).
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Section 6231(a)(9).

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CCA 200250012; Rev. Rul. 2004-88, 2004-2 CB 165.

54
Reg. 1.752-2(b)(6).
ES)

TD 9289, 10/11/06. These disregarded entity rules apply to liabilities incurred or assumed by a
partnership on or after 10/11/06, other than liabilities incurred or assumed pursuant to a binding
written contract in effect prior to that date. See Reg. 1.752-2(\).

56

These rules do not apply to an obligation of a DRE to the extent that its owner is otherwise
required to make a payment with regard to the obligation of the DRE. See Reg. 1.752-2(l). In
addition, the specific DREs cited in the applicable Regulations do not expressly include grantor
trusts.

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IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027853.txt,"The challenge now, I told my exhausted team, was to make sure we were
prepared for this new reality. Part of the spadework was already in place. Much
as I’d hoped that Arafat and I could turn a new page in Middle East history, I
had directed our army chief-of-staff, nine months before the summit, to draw up
contingency plans for the likelihood of an unprecedentedly deadly eruption of
Palestinian violence if we were to fail.

Now, I felt we had to go even further, and to prepare a proactive alternative
to the negotiated deal we’d been unable to secure. I proposed considering a
unilateral Israeli pullout from the West Bank and Gaza. The territorial terms
would, necessarily, be less far-reaching than the proposal Arafat had rejected.
But I felt we should still withdraw from the great majority of the land we had
captured in 1967, still leaving the Palestinians an area which the outside world
would recognize as wholly sufficient for them to establish a viable, successful
state.

And crucially, this would finally give Israel, our country, a delineated, final
border with the territory captured in the Six-Day War.

Gili, clearly uneasy about accepting the idea that the chances for a negotiated
peace were definitively gone, left to try to get some sleep on the long flight
ahead. Danny and Shlomo Ben-Ami as well. Within an hour or so, the plane
was full of irregularly slumped bodies, the silence broken only by the drone of
the 707’s engines and the occasional sound of snoring.

I sat, wide awake, in one of the seats at the front.

My sleeping habits were another inheritance from Sayveret Matkal. During
those years, nearly everything of significance which I did had happened after
sundown. The commando operations were, of course, set for darkness whenever
possible. The element of surprise could mean the difference between success
and failure, indeed life and death. But all of my planning, all my thinking,
tended to happen at night as well. The quiet, and the lack of distractions, helped
to discipline my mind. I found that it helped to free my mind as well, sometimes
only to discover that it went off in unexpected directions.

It did so now. Perhaps even I was still reluctant to accept that Camp David
meant that the opportunity for a transformative deal with Arafat was finished.
Yet whatever the reason, I began thinking back to the first time that my path and
his had crossed. It was in the spring of 1968, nearly a year after Israel had
defeated the armies of our three main Arab enemies — Egypt, Syria and Jordan.
Israeli forces were advancing on a Jordanian town called Karameh, across the

5
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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023787.txt,"What Can’t You Teach? 47

If you have a character trait, say, honesty, you have had to come
to grips over the years with its upside and its downside. People ap-
preciate you for being honest, but not when they ask you if they look
good after they have spent an hour dressing (I speak from experience
here). People dislike dishonesty but not when it helps get a deal closed
because you said you loved a restaurant that you really hated. We have
mixed feelings about honesty, as we do about any personality charac-
teristic. We like friendly people but we dislike overly friendly people.
Who decides which is which is anybody’s guess. Teenagers often try
to be all things to all people, but as adults they soon realize that they
simply will have to be themselves and they will try to find work and
friends that suit the personalities that they happen to have.

Personality features are not conscious. We don’t decide which
ones to have and we may not even be aware of how others perceive
us. We do what we feel comfortable doing and we push on. And then
we meet integrity and compliance officers.

They tell us to read every detail of a contract to make sure we are
in compliance, and those who are detail-oriented and fearful of mak-
ing errors and introverted and sensitive do it without question, and
those people who are gregarious and confident and aggressive figure
they can get by without it. What is an integrity and compliance officer
to do?

Here is what not to do:

e Don’t try to tell people who naturally act one way to act
differently.

e Don’t make a movie of the idiot who did it wrong and
say, See, look how dumb that guy was and look what
trouble he got into.

e Don’t lecture on the benefits of behaving the way the
company wants you to behave.

e Don’t write a manual with correct behavior that no one
will read.

e Don’t build an e-learning course with multiple choice
answers where one of them is the right thing to do.

The mind is organized around experiences. We remember our experi-

ences and we index our remembered experiences so that we can find
them later. Individuals don’t know how they do this, but cognitive

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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030895.txt,"From: Lawrence Krauss

Sent: 4/6/2011 9:31:19 PM
To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Fwd: Statement in the Daily Beast?

Importance: — High

Just so you know.. you can read from bottom up.. you may be mad that I was blunt... haven't heard from you..
hope all is well.

Begin forwarded message:

From: Rebecca Watson
Date: April 6, 2011 10:28:36 AM MST

To: Lawrence Krauss iii

Subject: Re: Statement in the Daily Beast?
Okay, will do.

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Lawrence Krauss EY wrote:
ok.. I just sent an additional email which moderates this.. everyone was a victim, including Jeffrey here.. and
there was no happy resolution.. please add.. ""probably everyone was a victim, with no happy resolution or
consequences of these activities"", after ""was the victim in this case."".

On Apr 6, 2011, at 10:18 AM, Rebecca Watson wrote:

Okay, thanks for this statement . . . I'll print it in full along with the article, probably today. I very, very
strongly disagree with your position and hope you eventually reconsider, but I do appreciate you taking the
time to respond.

-R

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Lawrence Krauss otc:

jeffrey apparently paid for massages with sex... I believe him when he told me he had no idea the girls were
underage, and I doubt that people normally are asked for or present a driver's license under such
circumstances... Moreover, I also believe that Jeffrey is an easy target for those who want to take advantage of
him... Moreover, I can say with great honesty that Jeffrey's time in prison led him to seriously examine his
life in very positive ways and I don't believe in blanket condemnations of people. He served time for
something that was determined was inappropriate. I honestly don't know who was the victim in this case. I
fully expect that these masseuses knew what they were doing, and were not swayed to do anything with
Jeffrey that they were not already doing. That is not to approve of the whole behavior, but lots of peoplel
know and like have behavior I don't entirely approve of.. I know it is not politically correct to say that,
because in general this is a very sensitive issue and all other things being equal one should take the side of the

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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016584.txt,"Code Enforcement Board Meeting Minutes 07/17/08

on Tuesday. The Town recommends administrative costs in the amount of
$150.00 and a fine of $250.00 a day to start on June 19, 2008 if compliance is not
achieved by tomorrow.

Mr. Ballentine asked for clarification on the motion and was advised by Mr.
Randolph that it would be a finding of non-compliance of Chapter 10, Section 10-
6, administrative costs of $150.00 and a compliance date of July 18, 2008 with a
fine to be considered at the next meeting if compliance was not achieved.

Ms. Duemler said she believed that the dog, besides being a nuisance, is a threat to
society and she hoped that by Tuesday the dog did not break loose from Dr. Lynn
and maul some child, that she believed it is a disgrace and she supports the Town.

(applause from the audience)

MOTION BY MR. FRIED TO FIND DR. LYNN IN VIOLATION OF
CHAPTER 10, SECTION 10-6, ASSESS ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS IN
THE AMOUNT OF $150.00 AND REQUIRE HIM TO COME INTO
COMPLIANCE BY JULY 18, 2008

MOTION SECONDED BY MR. BALLENTINE

MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY

Mr. Randolph asked if a motion could be made to defer the consideration of
violation of Chapter 10, Section 10-45 (i) until the August 21, 2008 meeting and
Ms. Greenberg advised she would make that motion. Mr. Fried asked Mr.
Randolph if he would explain the reason for this. Mr. Randolph said the argument
had been made that 10-45 should not apply because the dog has already been
deemed dangerous by the County and pursuant to the Town’s Code. Mr.
Randolph said he believed the argument was going to be made in court on Tuesday
that it is not appropriate for the Town to move forward with regard to 10-45 (i)
because that only applies to any incident that occurs after the dog has been
declared dangerous. The argument has been made that Dr. Lynn has done
everything he is required to do. Mr. Randolph said he hesitated to explain further
if the matter was going to be deferred. Mr. Randolph said the position of Staff is
that item (i) stands on its own merits, that it is not connected to 10-45 (a) through
(h). It is also the position of Staff that it is appropriate to bring a violation of (i) to
the Code Enforcement Board even though it does not specifically state that in 10-
45 because Section 2-439, which is the citation fine schedule, sets forth all of the
sections of the Code of Ordinances which can be brought before the Code
Enforcement Board and 10-45 is listed. Code Enforcement has the right to bring a
violation directly to the Code Enforcement Board instead of issuing the fine set
forth in the fine schedule. Mr. Randolph said the Board could move forward in
considering 10-45 instead of deferring it to the next meeting.

Mr. Fried commented that based on the egregious nature of what they had been
presented with, he believed the Board should do everything they could to put

11

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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022499.txt,"CONTENTS

Cigar aT le ao ee

The Costs of Corruption... 2... ee 2
Historical Background... 2... 2. ee 3
National Landscape: Interagency Efforts... 2... 0... ee 4
Departmentof Justices; ss mj sma Me SSM EER ERAS AE AER EMER EERE ER EEG EERE EH 4
Securities and Exchange Commission... 2... 4
Law Enforcement Partners. 2... 5
Departments of Commerce and State... 1. 5
International Landscape: Global Anti-Corruption Efforts... 2... ..002 00002 ee ee 7
OECD Working Group on Bribery and the Anti-Bribery Convention... 2.2... 2. ee ee 7
U.N. Convention Against Corruption . 2. 6 ee 8
Other Anti-Corruption Conventions... 6... ee 8

Chapter 2: THE FCPA: ANTI-BRIBERY PROVISIONS .................... 10

Who Is Covered by the Anti-Bribery Provisions?... 2.2... 2. ee 10
Issuers—15 U.S.C. § 78dd-1. 0 0 10
Domestic Concerns—15 U.S.C. § 78dd-2. 2. 1 11
Territorial Jurisdiction—15 U.S.C. § 78dd-3. 2... 11

What Jurisdictional Conduct Triggers the Anti-Bribery Provisions?............0-.. 0000 eee eee 11

What Is Covered?—The Business Purpose Test... 2.2... 2. ee 12

What Does ""Corruptly” Mean?... 2... ee 14

What Does ""Willfully’ Mean and When Does It Apply? ........0..0...0 0.000 ee 14

What Does “Anything of Value” Mean?. .. 2... ee 14
Gash: essa wes 48 LEME B ROEM EME ME MEMES LOWE WEBER EME EM ES CE Ewe wa we wes 15
Gifts, Travel, Entertainment, and Other Things of Value... 1 1. ee 15
Charitable Contributions ; sss: ms He Hem EE OEE AR MER EW EH SH ERE ES OE HERE MEME MED 16

Who Is a Foreign Official?. . 2... ee 19
Department, Agency, or Instrumentality of a Foreign Government... 2... 0. ee 20
Public International Organizations... 6... 21

How Are Payments to Third Parties Treated? .. 2.2... ee 21

What Affirmative Defenses Are Available?.. 2... 2... ee 23
The Local Law Defense .. 1... 23
Reasonable and Bona Fide Expenditures... 1. 1. 24

What Are Facilitating or Expediting Payments?.. 2.2... 0. ee 25

Does the FCPA Apply to Cases of Extortion or Duress? .. 2... 2 ee 27

Principles of Corporate Liability for Anti-Bribery Violations ..........0.00. 0000 eee ee 27
Parent-Subsidiary Liability; 3 sm sms es BER EH ERG OE ER RRS EHS HER ER EE OS BEM SME Ew 27
Successor Liability. 2... 28

Additional Principles of Criminal Liability for Anti-Bribery Violations: Aiding and Abetting and Conspiracy. . . . 34

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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031553.txt,"megann feels if he stays he risks indicment

On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 10:05 AM, Weingarten, Reid i wrote:

And...2??? Trump stopped them? He cannot stand mcgahn

From: jeffrey E. [mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2018 10:02 AM

To: Weingarten, Reid

Subject:

megann and memasters tried to resign

please note

The information contained in this communication is
confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may
constitute inside information, and is intended only for
the use of the addressee. It is the property of

JEE

Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this
communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited
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communication in error, please notify us immediately by
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please note
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confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may
constitute inside information, and is intended only for
the use of the addressee. It is the property of
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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017842.txt,"IN RE TERRORIST ATTACKS ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2001

7717

Cite as 349 F.Supp.2d 765 (S.D.N.Y. 2005)

of action for trespass under New York law
pursuant to concerted action theory.

86. Damages €757.14, 57.27

In New York, a plaintiff may establish
negligent infliction of emotional distress
under the bystander or direct duty theory.

87. Damages €°57.27

Under the bystander theory for prov-
ing negligent infliction of emotional dis-
tress under New York law, a defendant’s
conduct is negligent as creating an unrea-
sonable risk of bodily harm to a plaintiff,
and such conduct is a substantial factor in
bringing about injuries to the plaintiff in
consequence of shock or fright resulting
from his or her contemporaneous observa-
tion of serious physical injury or death
inflicted by the defendant’s conduct on a
member of the plaintiff's immediate family
in his or her presence.

88. Damages €-57.14

Under the direct duty theory for
proving negligent infliction of emotional
distress under New York law, a plaintiff
suffers emotional distress caused by defen-
dant’s breach of a duty which unreason-
ably endangered the plaintiff's own physi-
cal safety.

89. Negligence ¢=202

To establish a claim for negligence
under New York law, a plaintiff must show
that the defendant owed the plaintiff a
cognizable duty of care, that the defendant
breached that duty, and that the plaintiff
suffered damages as a proximate cause of
that breach.

90. Negligence <=210

The most basic element of a negli-
gence claim under New York law is the
existence of a duty owed to plaintiffs by
defendants.

91. Banks and Banking <-100

Under New York negligence law,
banks do not owe non-customers a duty to
protect them from the intentional torts of
their customers.

92. Damages €757.18

Negligence <=210

Survivors of victims of September 11,
2001 attacks failed to state causes of action
in complaint against alleged supporters of
terrorists for negligence and negligent in-
fliction of emotional distress, inasmuch as
they failed to allege or identify duty owed
to them by defendants.

93. War and National Emergency <=50

In light of extreme nature of charge of
terrorism, fairness required extra-careful
scrutiny of allegations by survivors of vic-
tims of September 11, 2001 attacks as to
any particular defendant, to ensure that
he, or it, had fair notice of claims, includ-
ing claims under Antiterrorism Act (ATA).
18 U.S.C.A. § 2331 et seq.

94. Banks and Banking ¢=226

Allegations in complaint by survivors
of victims of September 11, 2001 attacks,
that Saudi Arabian bank aided and abetted
terrorists by donating to charities and act-
ing as bank for charities, failed to state
cause of action under Antiterrorism Act
(ATA) against bank, in that survivors of-
fered no facts to support conclusion that
bank knew of charities’ alleged support for
terrorism, and failed to allege relationship
between Hamas, with which bank allegedly
had ties, and September 11 terrorists. 18
U.S.C.A. § 2331 et seq.

95. Conspiracy 1.1

Torts 21

Under New York law, concerted ac-
tion liability, pursuant to a conspiracy or
aiding and abetting theory, requires gener-
al knowledge of the primary actor’s con-
duct.

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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031235.txt,"° You told her to come up to your room first because you needed to finish some work.

° In your hotel room, you seemed in no rush to leave. You ordered a cheese plate, and later champagne,
despite her suggestion that you go down to dinner.

° You then made a comment about her eye makeup, getting very close to her face.

° You then lifted her by her arms, and pushed her onto the bed beneath you, forcibly kissing her and
trying to pull down the crotch of her tights.

° She struggled to push you off her.

° You said, “When | was in college | could never get a girl that looked like you.”

° When you pulled out a condom, she got out from under you. She said “I have to go,” and rushed out of
the room.

Incident 2:

° In an incident that occurred in fall of 2007 while you were a physics professor at Case Western Reserve

University, a student tried to talk to you about her plans after graduation. You mentioned to her how tough it
must be to have all the other physics majors asking her out on dates.

° In a second incident in December of 2007, while you were still at Case Western, the same student
visited your office to interview you for a student science journal. You closed the door behind her, and ignored
the questions she had prepared. Then you made a casual comment about taking her out for dinner.

° Later, in a regular column for the school paper, she described her experiences with you, without
mentioning you by name. “There was even one particular creep of a professor who once told me he thought
differently of me compared to other students and asked me to dinner: a situation so disturbing that it left me
upset for weeks afterward,” she wrote.

° She was then approached by a dean at the university, who suspected that she was referring to you,
based on a previously reported incident with another student. He encouraged her to make a complaint, and
she did.

° University investigators interviewed both you and the student.

° On September 4, 2008, Susan Nickel-Schindewolf, the university’s associate vice president for student
affairs, wrote to the student, telling her that the investigation was complete. She wrote that you had been told:
“This type of behavior could constitute sexual harassment in violation of the university’s sexual harassment
policy.”

° The letter also stated that you were prohibited from making contact with the student as long as she
remained at Case.

° The letter also stated that you are required to get approval from the dean or the chair of the physics
department before setting foot on the campus again.

° The letter also stated, “Dr. Krauss expressed regret about having a negative impact on you, and also
his willingness to use this complaint as an opportunity to reflect and improve on his future interactions with
students.”

° By then, you had already left Case, taking up your current position at Arizona State University the
month before.

° “The opportunities being offered at ASU are simply too great to turn down at this stage in my career,”
you told Case colleagues, in an email announcing your departure on April 16, 2008.

Incident 3:

° A former Case Western physics department administrator confirmed that she had reported a previous

incident involving a student who had confided in her about your inappropriate behavior towards her.

Incident 4:

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and may be unlawful. If you have received this
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IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012473.txt,"—

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91

Q. Now you told me -- again, | don't want to
know what was said.

A. Uh-huh.

Q. You told me that you met with Mr. Leopold
this morning to prepare for your deposition, right?

A. Yes.

Q. When did you set up that meeting with
Mr. Leopold to take place this morning?

A. Gee, like, like five days ago, four days
ago.

Q. So you're aware that Mr. Leopold told us
that he could not start the deposition this morning
because he had a court appearance, correct?

MR. LEOPOLD: Don't answer that question.

Calls for attorney/client communications.

BY MR. TEIN:

Q. Have you seen the letter that Mr. Leopold

wrote to us stating that he -- an e-mail that Mr. Leopold

wrote to Mr. Goldberger stating that he could not be here
this morning because healed a court appearance? Did you
see that e-mail?
MR. LEOPOLD: You can answer that question.
THE WITNESS: No.
BY MR. TEIN:

Q. Have you listened to your tape-recorded

92

statement to the police?

A. Yes.
Q. Where did you listen to that?
A. In, | think, this building. 1 don't know.

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alleged that USIS employees often “flushed,” or ended cases before completing a full
investigation, to meet corporate-imposed quotas for getting bonuses. One employee said in an
email cited in the government’s complaint “Flushed everything like a dead goldfish.” As a result,
some of information specialists entering the NSA through the back door of outside contractors
were not fully vetted. (On August 20, 2015 USIS agreed to forfeit $30 million in fees to settle
the law suit.)

USIS was also opened to sophisticated hacking attacks by outsiders. For example, in August
2014, the Department of Homeland Security’s counterintelligence unit discovered such a massive
and persistent breach in USIS that it shut down its entire exchange of data with USIS. The
intrusion into USIS records in this case was attributed to hackers in China most likely linked to
the Chinese intelligence service. Such massive intrusions dated back to 2011. USIS’ lack of
security in its website left a gaping hole through which outside parties, including Chinese and
Russian hackers, could learn both the identity and background of information specialists applying
for jobs at the NSA.

These private companies had one further security weakness. They did sufficiently protect the
personal data of their off-premise employees working at the NSA. Consider, for example, the
successful 2011 attack on the Booz Allen Hamilton servers. The previously-mentioned hackers'
group “Anonymous” took credit for it. It not only breached the security of Booz Allen servers
but cracked the algorithms it used to protect its employees. It next injected so-called Trojan-
horse viruses and other malicious codes on Booz Allen servers that allowed it to have future
entry. Presumably, if amateur hackers such as Anonymous could break into the computers of the
NSA’s largest contractor, so could the state espionage services with far more advanced hacking
tools such as those of Russia and China. From these sites, an adversary intelligence service
could obtain all the job applications and personal resumes submitted to contractors such as Booz
Allen. It could then compile a list of the candidates looking to work at the NSA.

These deficiencies in the private sector were compounded by the failure of security in the
government’s own Office of Personnel Management. It used a computer system called E-QIP in
which intelligence employees with security clearances, including outside contractors, updated
their computerized records to maintain or upgrade their security clearances. For example,
Snowden updated his clearance in 2011. To do so, these employees constantly updated their
financial and personal information. As it turned out, there was a major hole in the E-QIP system.
It was repeatedly hacked since 2010 by unknown parties. In 2015, the US government told
Congress that China was most likely responsible but Russia and other nations with sophisticated
cyber services could have also participated in the hacking. In any case, the records of over 19
million employees, including intelligence workers, became available to a hostile intelligence
service. This breach would allow hostile services a great deal of information about independent
contractors working at the NSA. They could then use this data to follow the movements of
movement of any of these intelligence workers they deemed of interest.

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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018686.txt,"actually involves. Although it is increasingly accepted as an alternative sexual
orientation, BDSM remains surrounded by stigma, scandal and occasional legal action.
This presentation covers the basics of BDSM (however, it's not a how-to lecture -- you
aren't going to learn how to use a whip, though you'll learn where to go to find out!). I
prefer to poll the audience to see what they want to cover on top of that -- BDSM history?
cultural landmarks? BDSM & feminism? legal issues? I've got it all! I have given this
lecture more than any other. It can be squished into an hour, but I prefer two hours.

* Sex-Positivity for Everyone! Including the Mens! What is masculinity or male
advocacy as a movement, and how is it in dialogue with contemporary feminism? Can it
be incorporated into feminism, or can the values of the sex-positive feminist community
speak to its concerns? What does positive, productive talk about masculinity sound like? I
talk about all this in a short lecturette and then facilitate small discussions on kinky male
sexuality, men in the pickup artist community, and men who buy sex. This workshop was
originally requested by the University of Chicago, and based on feedback from that
experience and others, I have been adapting it. It should take about 90 minutes.

* The Sex+++ Film Series at Jane Addams Hull-House Museum and related film
screenings. I have now overseen many many screenings of sex-positive documentaries,
and facilitated followup discussions afterwards. In the past I have done this primarily to
accomplish my own activist educational goals or to raise funds for deserving institutions,
but I'd be happy to run a screening or two upon request. Please note, however, that I don't
own the rights to all the films I've screened, and so if you want me to run a screening for
you, you may need to budget extra in order to cover the rights. I started the Sex+++ Film
Series at Chicago's Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, and as I write this in 2012, the
film series is in its fourth year. You can look at the film series calendar here:

I would certainly be willing to design a new workshop or lecture upon request -- in fact,
two of the above events were created at the request of the institutions that invited me.

te OK ok

Footnotes

All these links were last checked in early 2012.

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Section 1: The Basics

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S&M: Love Bites: An S&M Coming-Out Story

1. Kink Aware Professionals: https://ncsfreedom.org/resources/kink-aware-professionals-
directory/kap-directory-homepage.html -- [back]

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TEXT-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033252.txt,"From: 
Sent: 
To: 
Subject: 
Attachments: 
Robert Lawrence Kuhn 
9/25/2017 7:06:34 AM 
jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Radical Breakthroughs - Kuhn 
BBC World News - Kuhn - China, North Korea Bomb, BRICS Summit - 09_03_17.pdf; Untitled attachment 
485043.htm; BBC World News - Kuhn - Mynamar Rohingya Refugees - China-Mynamar - 09_14_17.pdf; Untitled 
attachment 485046.htm 
Importance: High 
Dear Jeffrey: 
Trust all is well. We are in full pre-production of our ""Radical Breakthroughs"" series/season for Closer To 
Truth. We expect to have a complete production plan, with contributors, locations and schedule, by mid/late 
November - when (coincidentally) I will be back in NY. 
My next email will add detail, including first (rough) outlines of the first two episodes. I'll be copying the 
producer/director of Closer To Truth, as I will from now on with all reports/communications related to the 
content of the series. Whenever we want to communicate privately, about the series/grant or anything else, 
please use a separate email (or respond to this one). 
I am in Santa Monica for two weeks, then Beijing for the big Party Congress. I may need to stay until after 
Trump's (supposed) visit. Attached are my two recent BBC commentaries on China (N.Korea bomb and 
Myanmar refugees). 
Always available to Skype. 
I am truly excited about the series - nothing like it, could have impact - and I deeply appreciate your 
generosity/support, confidence and trust. 
Take care and warm regards, 
Robert 
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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026381.txt,"From: jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Sent: 3/31/2016 10:23:07 AM 
To: Richard Kahn 
Subject: Re: bad 
im told people think it is done on purpose so he does not win 
On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 4:27 AM, Richard Kahn < > wrote: 
Agreed. Trump appears to be losing momentum in polls even before that crazy comment. Think it may be 
beginning of the end of him... 
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/ 
Richard Kahn 
HBRK Associates Inc. 
575 Lexington Avenue, 4th Floor 
New York, NY 10022 
Tel 
Fax 
Cell 
On Mar 30, 2016, at 5:05 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
http ://www. nytimes. com/2016/03/31/us/p o litics/donald-trump-ab ortion.html?ribb on-ad-
idx=3 &rref=homepage&module=Ribb on&version=origin&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection= 
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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029033.txt,"that’s one of the fuels of this populist revolt that we’re seeing as the tea party. So I think
there are many, many measures, particularly about getting the banks on better footing,
making them address all the liquid assets they have. I think you need a real clean-up of the
banks balance sheets.

In addition, I think you really need to go back and make banks do what they do:
Commercial banks lend money, and investment banks invest in entrepreneurs and to get
away from this trading — you know, the hedge fund securitization, which they’ve all
become basically trading operations and securitizations and not put capital back and really
grow businesses and to grow the economy. So I think it’s a whole area that just — and I
will tell you, the underpinning of this populist revolt is the financial crisis of 2008. That
revolt, the way that it was dealt with, the way that the people who ran the banks and ran
the hedge funds have never really been held accountable for what they did, has fueled
much of the anger in the tea party movement in the United States.

Questioner: Thank you.

Bannon: Great question.

Questioner: Hello, Mr. Bannon. I’m Mario Fantini, a Vermonter living in Vienna,
Austria. You began describing some of the trends you're seeing worldwide, very dangerous
trends, worry trends. Another movement that I’ve been seeing grow and spread in Europe,
unfortunately, is what can only be described as tribalist or neo-nativist movement — they
call themselves Identitarians. These are mostly young, working-class, populist groups, and
they’re teaching self-defense classes, but also they are arguing against — and quite
effectively, I might add — against capitalism and global financial institutions, ete. How do
we counteract this stuff? Because they’re appealing to a lot of young people at a very
visceral level, especially with the ethnic and racial stuff.

Bannon: I didn’t hear the whole question, about the tribalist?

“One of the committees in Congress said to the Justice Department, 35 [bank] executives,
I believe, that they should have criminal indictments against — not one of those has ever
been followed up on.”

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012813.txt,"someone else’s subjective experience to guide our chosen experiences.

Orgasms and eating are two of the great pleasures in life, whether you live in Tokyo, Toronto,
Toulouse, Tehran or Timbuktu? I doubt any healthy human adult would debate this. What can be debated
is what counts as the ultimate orgasm or food experience. It can be debated both among friends and
inside our own minds, influenced by personal experience and our knowledge of what else is available, or
might be.

Consider potato chips. As a snack, potato chips generate a revenue in the United States of about
$6-7 billion dollars each year, relying on the slicing and frying of about 2 billion pounds of potatoes.
These facts make clear that most Americans love potato chips, and are motivated to consume them. Like
other salty snacks, it is hard to eat just one. The American psychologist Carey Morewedge and his
collaborators ran an experiment to find out how much people love potato chips, and whether their
anticipated fondness for this delicious crisp changes in the face of other options. Subjects sat at a table in
front of a bowl of potato chips and an alternative food that was visible, but out of reach. The alternative
was either a highly undesirable snack such as sardines, or a highly desirable one such as Godiva
chocolate. After subjects contemplated what it would be like to eat each of these foods, they then rated
how much they would enjoy them. This is like the study I described in the pleasure section where subjects
rated how much they would enjoy different vacation destinations, but without the comparison between
one clearly good and one clearly bad spot. Both focus on the anticipation of a pleasurable experience.

Subjects’ ratings of potato chip deliciousness soared when sardines were on offer, and plummeted
in the presence of chocolate. Context matters. What is clearly delicious when there is nothing else on the
table, loses or gains in deliciousness when the table fills up with other delectable or disgusting
alternatives.

What’s happening to our pleasure detector, and especially our anticipated reward system, in the
potato chip experiment? Are we incapable of understanding what makes us happy, unable to figure out
what is or is not delicious, or are we fickle? What Morewedge’s experiment reveals is that deliciousness,
like ugliness, stubbornness, and obsequiousness, is a judgment, judgments are always relative or
comparative, and as such, based on some standard that is either present in the moment, stored away in
our memories, or anticipated in the future. When Estelle Reiner uttered her famous line, she was using
Meg Ryan’s orgasmic expression of delight as a comparative metric. When we compare food items or
wine or pretty faces or sporty cars, we recruit our brain’s resources, especially the circuitry involved in
attention, emotion and memory. Whether we say that potato chips are the best snack, or better than
sardines, we have made a comparison that requires our attention, our capacity to keep at least two items in
memory, and a way of emotionally tagging each of the items. This comparison-shopping taxes our

mental resources, recruiting them away from the job of evaluating one snack, and leading to a distorted

Hauser Chapter 2. Runaway desire 67

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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019598.txt,"110 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS

tary, the hero of the 2016 Hollywood movie Snowden (directed by
Oliver Stone), and a consultant to the 2015 season of the televi-
sion series Homeland. He would be nominated for the Nobel Peace
Prize in 2014. He would attract over one million followers to his
tweets in 2015. “For me, in terms of personal satisfaction, the mis-
sion’s already accomplished. I already won,” he informed the Post
in his first live interview in Moscow in December 2013. It was a
mission that involved a very high-stakes enterprise: taking not only
domestic surveillance documents but America’s military and foreign
intelligence secrets abroad.

Whistle-blowers do not ordinarily steal military secrets. Nor do
they flee to the territory of America’s principal adversaries. A fugi-
tive, especially one lacking a Russian visa, does not wind up in Mos-
cow by pure accident. It’s hard to imagine that a Russian president
with the KGB background of Putin would give his personal sanction
for a high-profile exfiltration from Hong Kong without weighing
the gain that might proceed from it. Whatever else may be said of
Putin, his actions show him to be a calculating opportunist. Part of

© his calculus would be that the defector from American intelligence ©
had taken possession of a great number of potentially valuable docu-
ments from the inner sanctum of the NSA and, aside from these
documents, claimed to hold secrets of great importance in his head.
To be sure, the practical value of this stolen archive would require
a lengthy evaluation by Russia’s other intelligence services. But it
is hard to believe that a defector who put himself in the hands of
the FSB, the successor to the KGB, and other Russian intelligence
services wouldn't be expected to cooperate with them. Even if such
a defector did not carry these files with him to Moscow, intelligence
services have the means to recover digital files, even after they are
erased from a computer or if they are sent to the cloud. Moreover,
once secret documents are taken, they are compromised. Yet for
much of the American public, Snowden remained a hero.

| | Epst_9780451494566_2p_all_r1.z.indd 110 ® 9/29/16 5:51PM | |

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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018692.txt,"http://bitchmagazine. org/post/feminist-coming-out-day-blog-carnival -- [back]

2. My sex-positive documentary film series:
http://clarissethorn.com/blog/2011/03/17/the-sex-positive-documentary-film-list-2011-
2012/ -- [back]

3. Pamphlet on making a group egalitarian but well-organized:

http://struggle.ws/hist_texts/structurelessness.html -- [back]
4. Chicago's Rape Victim Advocates: http://www.rapevictimadvocates.org/ -- [back]

5. Kink Aware Professionals: https://ncsfreedom.org/resources/kink-aware-professionals-
directory/kap-directory-homepage.html -- [back]

6. My advice on activism in Africa: http://clarissethorn.com/blog/2010/01/3 1/clarisses-
advice-column-arises-again-masculinity-african-activism/ -- [back]

7. An general overview I wrote of housing co-ops: http://www.rolereboot.org/sex-and-
relationships/details/2012-04-housing-co-ops-arent-just-for-hippies -- [back]

8. North American Students of Cooperation: http://nasco.coop/ -- [back]
ok oe

Activism: Interview with Richard Berkowitz, Star of Sex Positive and Icon of Safer
Sex Activism

1. My original review of the film: http://clarissethorn.com/blog/2009/02/1 1/sex-positive-
documentary-report-2-sex-positive/ -- [back]

2. Gay Male SM Activists was one of the first S&M advocacy organizations ever: http://
www.gmsma.org/ -- [back]

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Abuse: Social Responsibility Within Activism

1. Problems of prisons:

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2012/01/30/120130crat_atlarge_gopnik?
currentPage=all -- [back]

KOK ok

Masculinity: Questions I Want To Ask Entitled Cis Het Men

1. Thomas MacAulay Millar on masculinity:
http://vesmeansyesblog.wordpress.com/2009/05/27/things-cis-het-men-are-afraid-to-talk-

about/ -- [back]

2. ""Precarious Manhood"" paper: Vandello et al. ""Precarious Manhood."" Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 95, No. 6, 1325 — 1339. 2008. -- [back]

3. Men's Rights Activists: the ""most discriminated against"" quotation came from Kuster,
Elizabeth. Exorcising Your Ex. Fireside, 1996. Also, long after the publication of my blog

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TEXT-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033246.txt,"From: 
Sent: 9/6/2017 5:08:21 AM 
To: jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Subject: WoW 
Importance: High 
Jeffrey look at you. how great you are 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/5991532ae4b0dOef9f1c129d  
Private Donor Helps Fund Scientists After 
Trump's Proposed ""Anti-Science"" Budget 
Cuts 
www.huffingtonpost.com 
The famous American Astrophysicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson, 
once said, ""The good thing about science is that it's true, 
whether or not you believe in ... 
greetings from mexico city...its so trashy, i wanna leave :/ 
Kind regards/Cordialement, 
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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029027.txt,"reach that you have and then could you say a little bit about the current dynamic of what’s
going on at the moment in the States.

Bannon: Outside of Fox News and the Drudge Report, we’re the third-largest
conservative news site and, quite frankly, we have a bigger global reach than even Fox.
And that’s why we’re expanding so much internationally.

Look, we believe — strongly — that there is a global tea party movement. We've seen that.
We were the first group to get in and start reporting on things like UKIP and Front
National and other center right. With all the baggage that those groups bring — and trust
me, a lot of them bring a lot of baggage, both ethnically and racially — but we think that
will all be worked through with time.

The central thing that binds that all together is a center-right populist movement of really
the middle class, the working men and women in the world who are just tired of being
dictated to by what we call the party of Davos. A group of kind of — we’re not conspiracy-
theory guys, but there’s certainly — and I could see this when I worked at Goldman Sachs
— there are people in New York that feel closer to people in London and in Berlin than
they do to people in Kansas and in Colorado, and they have more of this elite mentality
that they’re going to dictate to everybody how the world’s going to be run.

I will tell you that the working men and women of Europe and Asia and the United States
and Latin America don’t believe that. They believe they know what’s best for how they will
comport their lives. They think they know best about how to raise their families and how
to educate their families. So I think you're seeing a global reaction to centralized
government, whether that government is in Beijing or that government is in Washington,

DC, or that government is in Brussels. So we are the platform for the voice of that.

“Putin’s ... very, very very intelligent. I can see this in the United States where he’s
playing very strongly to social conservatives about his message about more traditional
values, so I think it’s something that we have to be very much on guard of.”

Now, with that, we are strong capitalists. And we believe in the benefits of capitalism. And,
particularly, the harder-nosed the capitalism, the better. However, like I said, there’s two

strands of capitalism that we’re quite concerned about.

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012807.txt,"that the parasitic enemy shouldn’t be exterminated. This is where scientific explanation gains
considerable interest, helping us understand how we develop anticipatory pleasures and past-oriented
regrets, struggle to change from habitual rewards, and acquire irrational desires for experiences we no
longer enjoy — a problem that appears to maintain most forms of addiction.

Humans go to restaurants and bees to flowers because both are associated with food. Within these
broad categories, there are good restaurants and flowers, as well as bad ones, where good and bad are
determined by experience. The experience can be direct, as when food 1s actually consumed, or indirect
as when humans listen to an animated friend describe a restaurant’s menu and bees watch a hive mate
dance, providing a description of the flower’s location and quality. Once the association between food
and location is established, simply seeing the restaurant or flower triggers a cascade of neural and
chemical activity in the brain linked to reward and the anticipation of pleasure. The restaurant and
flower are cues that predict food. If you walked into your favorite restaurant and found that they sold
fertilizer rather than food, you would be heartbroken. If you haven’t been to the restaurant in a long time,
but memorialized your previous experience as a gastronomic high, you will be deeply disappointed if
your first bite doesn’t live up to the standards you anticipated. This mismatch between anticipated and
experienced reward will lead to a cascade of brain activity — indicative of an error. The primary engine
driving the experience of reward, including predicting when it will occur and with what kind of intensity,
is the dopaminergic system, a network of brain areas that releases dopamine in most invertebrates and
vertebrates, including the human vertebrate.

Many natural behaviors trigger dopamine, including male songbirds singing to attract females,
rhesus monkeys seeing a red light that has been associated with a soon to be delivered shot of juice, and
humans cooperating with each other. Many unnatural behaviors and objects can also trigger dopamine.
Animals trained to press a switch for food, will often become obsessively attracted to the switch,
caressing and biting it even in the absence of food; humans with addictions to cigarettes, food and
gambling, will often obsessively fondle an empty cigarette carton, fork, and deck of cards, respectively.
But these correlations leave open the question of whether dopamine causes the anticipation or experience
of reward, or flows from these experiences.

To tackle the causality problem requires experiments, either directly changing dopamine
concentration or comparing individuals who, due to genetic differences, show differences in dopamine
levels. We know from studies of rodents and monkeys that selectively increasing dopamine with drugs
results in heightened wanting of food if there are cues to foraging, or sex if opportunity knocks. The
Israelian cognitive neuroscientist Tali Sharot pursued a similar approach with healthy humans subjects.
She first asked individuals to rate how happy they would be if they vacationed in 80 possible destinations.

Then, some subjects took a placebo while others took L-dopa, a drug that selectively increases the release

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TEXT-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032158.txt,"From: Jeffrey Epstein [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Sent: 7/1/2011 11:18:25 AM 
To: Peggy Siega 
should you point out to Ariana Huff, that the same type of person, same as strauss Kahn i s Andrews accuser, 
,long criminal record. total liar. Ariana should champion the dangers of false allegations. send a reporter or 
reporters to investigate,., the palace would love it, the girl in the photo , was nothing more than a telephone 
answerer„ she was never 15, according to her version she worked for trump , first at that age, at MAra lago. ITs 
ridiculous. but the press like strauss kahn is afraid to question women. 
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IMAGES-012-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032590.txt,"return e-mail or by e-mail to jeevacation@gmail.com, and

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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031221.txt,"From: BARBRO EHNBOM

Sent: 8/21/2012 9:12:11 AM
To: jeevacation@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Program & Attendee list

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She is the one! Now SALSS 4 days...will get back toe you next week...

Kram BE.

Barbro C. Ehnbom =20

Chairman, Swedish-American Life Science Summit

----- Original Message-----

From: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com>
To: Barbro c Ehnbom \j—_—an

Sent: Mon, Aug 20, 2012 2:32 pm

Subject: Re: Program & Attendee list

who is you r wife choice this year?

On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Barbro c Ehnbon xy wrote:

Dear Jeffrey,

I am sorry I did not call back Yesterday-I was exhausted from a crazy week =

and fell asleep

as soon as I came home! Anyway, here is the full program and attendee list =

attached, this

is the Globalization Summit I invited Bill Clinton to when I met him in Sto=
ckholm last Summer-

But he is a bit busy I gather!

Anyway, hope SMM got hold of you re search service? Also, I did=
see your mail

about possibly coming here end of September-however, I am supposedly arrang=
ing a fund-

raiser for Congress Woman Diana deGette of Colorado on Sept 27 in NYC; she
is the only one with a scientific agenda and she is just super-if anything
I am hoping on your involvement?

How about going to Stockholm mid or end november..albeit a bit dark and may=
be cold..?

Let me know what you think!

Also, I just heard from my friend Jeff Kriendler in Miami and guess who was=
just walking in there -our friend Goldsamt! First prize for perseverance!
Also, Sofia and the prince is on every magazine here, I think it is wonderf=

ul!=20
Marcus has two big concerts in Stockholm this coming week. Me - SALSS!

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Q. What do you know about the dea! that John
Connolly has with your father?

A. | only know they spoke on the telephone
once. | don't know anything else.

Q. When was that?

A. This was a while ago, a year or two or a
year ago. 1 honestly don't know.

Q. Did John Connolly the Vanity Fair reporter
offer any money to your father?

A. i don't know.

Q. Did John Connolly, the Vanity Fair
reporter, give you any money?

A. No, sir.

Q Did he offer you any money?

A No, sir. Never spoke to him.

Q. What reporters have you spoken to?

A Zero.

Q. What about your fem Iy members? What
reporters have they spoken to?

A. The whole Palm Beach County, obviously, as

you can see in that newspaper.

Q. Tell me -- let's go through each one that
you remember. OQther than the Vanity Fair reporter, John
Connolly, what other reporters have any member of your

family spoken to?

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A. i don't know. And | know my mom has spoken
to zero. My sister spoke to zero. My father and
stepmother, | wouldn't know. You'd have to ask them. |

don't contact them.
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IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026581.txt,"""Antigua is still a very limited economy,"" Mendel said.

As recently as Friday, the U.S. and Antigua were still talking about settlement options, Nkenge
Harmon, a spokeswoman for the U.S. government, told me in an email. And, she wrote:

...lf Antigua does proceed with the unprecedented plan for its government to authorize the theft
of intellectual property, it would only serve to hurt Antigua's own interests. Government-
authorized piracy would undermine chances for a settlement. It also would serve as a major
impediment to foreign investment in the Antiguan economy, particularly in high-tech industries.

With warm regards,

Cecile

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Q. Okay. But when the massage was over however it
ended, you would just get dressed and go downstairs by
yourself or did take you downstairs?
A. Yeah. The chef would make us food and it'd be
great. And Jeffrey would get dressed and he'd come down

with us sometimes or, you know, it wasn't -- we had fun.

Q. Okay. How many massages do you think that you
gave jeffrey?

I can't tell

you.
Q. And how many times -- would you see him weekly

or more than once a week?

A. Yeah.

Q. More than once a week?

A.

Q. Okay. But either you would or either a girl

that you brought?

A. Yeah, uh-huh.

Q. Okay.

A. But after a while, it wasn't me anymore. I had
brought girls, but I got paid $200 to bring girls.

Q. Okay. So let's talk just about when you were

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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030659.txt,"From: Weingarten, Reid as

Sent: 11/2/2017 5:36:25 PM
To: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Re:

Importance: — High
Trump is going to fire mueller and republicans on hill won't do a thing

Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.

From: jeffrey E.

Sent: Thursday, November 2, 2017 10:04 AM
To: Weingarten, Reid

Subject: Re:

told you so
On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 12:58 PM, Weingarten, Reid hy wrote:
Bannon won...tax code fucks rich people

Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.

From: jeffrey E.

Sent: Wednesday, November 1, 2017 3:06 PM
To: Weingarten, Reid

Subject: Re:

Number? I have s truly funny one

On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 5:19 PM Weingarten, Reid ht wrote:
And?

Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.

From: jeffrey E.
Sent: Wednesday, November 1, 2017 2:14 PM

To: Weingarten, Reid
Subject: Re:

Notice the date of the email

On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 5:05 PM Weingarten, Reid es wrote:
Just landed in san fran...at the airport...let's talk when | get settled...
Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.

From: jeffrey E.

Sent: Wednesday, November 1, 2017 2:04 PM
To: Weingarten, Reid

Subject: Re:

number ?

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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024907.txt,"COWEN
COLLABORATIVE INSIGHTS February 25, 2019

Epidiolex appeared to be well tolerated in the trial. 94% of patients on 20 mg/kg
Epdiolex and 84% of patients on 10 mg/kg Epidiolex had an adverse event, compared to
72% of placebo patients. 88% of 20 mg/kg patients and 89% of 10 mg/kg patients
deemed their adverse events to be mild or moderate. The most common AEs on 20
mg/kg were somnolence, decreased appetite, diarrhea, upper respiratory infection,
pyrexia, vomiting and nasopharyngitis. For L1Omg/kg the most common AEs were
somnolence, decreased appetite, upper respiratory infection, diarrhea, and status
epilepticus. None of the cases of status epilepticus on 10 mg/kg were deemed
treatment-related. Thirteen patients on 20 mg/kg Epidiolex had an SAE, of which five
were considered treatment related; and 13 patients on 10 mg/kg Epidiolex had an SAE,
of which 2 were considered treatment related, compared to 8 patients on placebo.
Elevations in ALT/AST levels were observed in 11 patients in the 20mg/kg group and 2
patients in the 1Omg/kg group; 10 of the 13 patients were also on valproic acid. Five
Epidiolex patients withdrew due to the elevations, but none of the patients met the
criteria for drug-induced liver injury. GW noted that overall 10 mg/kg seemed to be
somewhat better tolerated; 6 patients on 20 mg/kg Epidiolex and 1 patient on 10
mg/kg Epidiolex discontinued treatment due to adverse events, compared with 1
patient on placebo. There were no deaths in the trial. The results of the trial were
published in NEJM in May 2018.

2

Following the release of Phase III datasets from 1 Dravet and 2 LGS trials, a key area of
controversy among investors (though not physicians) had been the drug-drug
interaction between Epidiolex and clobazam, and in particular whether Epidiolex was
effective in patients who were not also taking clobazam. This was put to rest at AES
2017 when GW presented a pooled analysis of the two Phase Ill LGS trials evaluating
Epidiolex’s efficacy with and without concomitant clobazam. Even without clobazam,
Epidiolex produced solid placebo-adjusted response rates. Response was characterized
in terms of “25% responders”, “50% responders”, and “75% responders”, meaning the
proportion of patients who had a 25%, 50%, or 75% decrease in seizure frequency. For
patients randomized to Epidiolex’s 20mg/kg dose, the placebo-adjusted 50% response
rate was 22% for patients on Epidiolex without clobazam, compared to 33% for patients
on Epidiolex and clobazam. We believe that investors had been hoping for a 12-15%
placebo-adjusted 50% response rate for patients on Epidiolex without clobazam in order
to be satisfied that Epidiolex was active without clobazam, and therefore the results
cleared this bar. For patients randomized to 10 mg/kg Epidiolex, the placebo-adjusted
50% response rate was 25% for patients on Epidiolex without clobazam, compared to
27% for patients on Epidiolex with clobazam. The results for other thresholds of seizure
frequency reduction were also generally solid. For 25% responders, the placebo-
adjusted response rate was 9% for patients on 20 mg/kg Epidiolex without clobazam,
compared to 24% for patients on 20mg/kg Epidiolex with clobazam. At the 75%
responder threshold, the placebo adjusted response rate was 8% for patients on
20me/kg Epidiolex without clobazam, compared to 30% for patients on 20mg/kg
Epidiolex with clobazam. In addition to the pooled Phase III data, there were also
abstracts from the compassionate use experience of Massachusetts General Hospital
and the University of Alabama Birmingham. The analyses from these two institutions
also concluded that Epidiolex does not need to be combined with clobazam to be
effective.

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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023793.txt,"Twelve Cognitive Processes That Underlie Learning 47

transfer across domains but not that much. (Learning to buy an air-
plane ticket is somewhat related to eating in a restaurant, but not that
closely. You might use a credit card in each, for example, and might be
refused service because you are rude.)

2. Modeling: Building a conscious model of a process

We need to learn how things work. A citizen knows, presumably,
how voting works. Someone looking for venture capital should know
how fund raising works. Processes need to be learned in order to ef-
fectively participate in them and in order to propose changes in them.
Building a conscious model of a process matters a great deal if you
want to make the process work for you. If you want to get into col-
lege, you need to understand how the process works. This cannot be
learned from experience in a serious way because one may do it only
once and may not be able to experience the entire process. Having
the process explained to you may not work that well either because
this will not bring an operational understanding of it (as opposed to
a more superficial understanding of it). Designing it, modifying it,
and participating in simulations of it work much better as learning
methods.

3. Experimentation: Experimentation and replanning based on
success and failure

This is probably the most important learning process we engage
in while living our lives. We make life decisions and we need to know
when we need to change something. There are big decisions—like
getting married or how to raise a child or whether to change jobs—
and little decisions, such as changing your diet or your sleep habits.
We make our decisions on the basis of what has worked before and
what has failed to work. We tend to make life decisions without much
knowledge. We don’t know how our bodies work all that well and we
don’t really know how the world works or what it has in store for us.
Thinking about these issues and learning from failure is a pressing
need all through life. Learning to analyze what has worked out and
what has not and why is part of living a rational life. These things can
be learned by living and talking about our experiences, thus creating a
database of stories that we can rely on later. We learn by talking with

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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016590.txt,"Code Enforcement Board Meeting Minutes 07/17/08

without a permit and they know they need a permit. That is a very dangerous
thing in a multi-family dwelling and it should be egregious.

MOTION BY MR. OCHSTEIN TO GRANT AN EXTENSION OF TIME
UNTIL AUGUST 8, 2008 TO COME INTO COMPLIANCE AND TO
ASSESS A FINE OF $250.00, RETROACTIVE TO JULY 17, 2008 IF
COMPLIANCE WAS NOT ACHIEVED

SECONDED BY MS. GREENBERG

MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY

VIII. Fine Reduction:

A. Case # 08-2301, 167 E. Inlet Drive, The Landfall Group,
Violation of Chapter 18, Section 18-242, Subsection 104.5.1.6, medium projects,
all new or remodel construction projects 4000 sq. ft, to 8,999 sq. ft. under roof be
allowed 22 months

Lead Code Enforcement Officer Walton said in October, 2007, Ajax Equity LLC
was found in violation of going over the construction time limits. On November
15, 2008 they still were not in compliance and a daily fine of $250.00 started
running. The final inspection was obtained in March, 2008. The fine ran for 137
days prior to compliance being achieved and the accumulated fine due is $34,
250.00 and the have $150.00 hearing costs have not been paid.

Frank Lynch advised he was the attorney for both The Landfall Group and

Ajax. He said when they appeared before the Board in October, Lazslo Wagner,

the principal of The Landfall Group, who has built homes throughout the Town of
Palm Beach for 26 years acknowledged that he was unaware of this particular

Code provision. Had he been, they would have applied for an extension of time to

complete the construction. At the hearing, Mr. Koeppel made a motion to allow

them an additional sixty (60) days to complete the construction, find them in non-
compliance and assess the $150 fee. After a significant amount of discussion, that

motion went to a vote and failed 4-3. A second motion was made and Ms.

Duemler thought the $250.00 fee was significant and she believed the fine should

be $125.00 a day. Mr. Lynch gave Mr. Walton a copy of that transcript to put in

the record. As part of their request, they are asking the Board to consider what

Ms. Duemler suggested at the meeting. At the same time, Mr. Lynch said he would

like them to consider that The Landfall Group is a good corporate citizen and

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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030881.txt,"From: SS

Sent: 9/22/2013 2:08:00 PM
To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Re:

Importance: — High

Bruno Le Maire criticizes the French PM for failing to present efficient solutions to the crisis in Syria. Instead
the PM has been merely following the course of Obama, who, according to Bruno, does not know what he
wants. Such an approach has weakened the influence of France on the international arena and has undermined
its sovereignty.

Also watched some other videos of him - Bruno attacks Hollande for his tax policy and excuses him for ""not
knowing what he is doing"".

On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 7:39 AM, Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:

http://video. lefigaro.fr/figaro/video/echange-muscle-entre-le-maire-et-fabius/2664796316001/

BS DIS DIC 2k DIS ik 24S BIS DIS 54S iS DIS IC 24S BIS DIR 2S 2k DIS IC 24K BIS DIS DIC DC DIS IC 24S BIC DIS 2S DC DIS IC DIC IS DIS FIC Dk DIC iC DIC IS OIC 51S Df OIC 2k OIC DS OIC IC 24 OIC 2k OIC i 2k ic

The information contained in this communication is
confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may
constitute inside information, and is intended only for
the use of the addressee. It is the property of

Jeffrey Epstein

Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this
communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited
and may be unlawful. If you have received this
communication in error, please notify us immediately by
return e-mail or by e-mail to jeevacation@gmail.com, and
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including all attachments. copyright -all rights reserved

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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017856.txt,"IN RE TERRORIST ATTACKS ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2001

791

Cite as 349 F.Supp.2d 765 (S.D.N.Y. 2005)

(1) whether the foreign state created
the entity for a national purpose; (2)
whether the foreign state actively super-
vises the entity; (3) whether the foreign
state requires the hiring of public em-
ployees and pays their salaries; (4)
whether the entity holds exclusive rights
to some right in the [foreign] country;
and (5) how the entity is treated under
foreign state law.

Id. at 217 (citing Kelly v. Syria Shell
Petroleum Dev. B.V., 213 F.3d 841, 846-47
(th Cir.2000) (alteration in  original)).
The Second Circuit held that the KDIC
was an organ of Korea because it was
formed by statute and presidential decree;
it performs the governmental functions of
protecting depositors and promoting finan-
cial stability; its directors are appointed
by the Ministry of Finance and Economy;
its president is appointed by the President
of the Republic of Korea; and many of its
operations are overseen by the Ministry of
Finance and Economy. I[d.

The banks argued that once the court
determined KDIC was an organ of the
foreign state, the banks automatically be-
came instrumentalities or agencies of the
state because KDIC owned a majority of
their stock. Id. The Second Circuit reject-
ed this argument, finding such a holding
would “permit an infinite number of sub-
sidiaries to enjoy sovereign immunity, ...
would be incompatible with the purpose of
the FSIA, which is to grant governmental,
not private corporate immunity, and ...
would reflect infidelity to the Supreme
Court’s reasoning in Dole Food.” Id. at
218. Accordingly, it reiterated that “‘a
subsidiary of an instrumentality is not it-
self entitled to instrumentality status’ ...
and that ‘only direct ownership of a major-
ity of shares by the foreign state satisfies
the statutory requirement.” Jd. (quoting
Dole Food, 5388 U.S. at 473-74, 123 S.Ct.
1655).

The Second Circuit determined the
KDIC was an organ of Korea by consider-
ing whether it was created and supervised
by a foreign state and whether public em-
ployees were performing public functions.
Id. at 217. Under its reasoning, it would
appear the PIF is also an organ. It was
created by royal decree, it is supervised by
the Kingdom’s Council of Ministers and
staffed with government employees. See
PIF Charter.

Yet, under the “legal characteristics”
test, the PIF could qualify as a political
subdivision. See Hyatt, 945 F.Supp. at
680. In Hyatt, a court in this district
reasoned that a statutory requirement of
an agency or instrumentality, as opposed
to a political subdivision, is that it is a
“separate legal person ... that can func-
tion independent of the state.” Jd. at 684.
If an entity could sue and be sued, own
property, and contract in its own name, it
would be considered an agency or instru-
mentality and not a political subdivision.
Id. at 685. NCB submits the PIF sues
and is sued as, and generally holds proper-
ty on behalf of, the Ministry of Finance.
Al-Wohaibi Aff. 199, 12.

NCB argues the Court should employ
the “core functions” test outlined in Tran-
saero, Inc. v. La Fuerza Aerea Boliviana,
30 F.3d 148 (D.C.Cir.1994), to find that the
PIF is the equivalent of the Kingdom.
Under this test, if the entity’s core func-
tions are governmental, it is considered
the state itself. Jd. at 153. If its functions
are commercial in nature, it is considered
an instrumentality. /d. This Court is gov-
erned by Second Circuit precedent and
finds Filler and Hyatt to be controlling.
Even if it were to adopt Transaero, howev-
er, the Court finds on the record before it
that the PIF’s emphasis on commercial
projects precludes a finding that its core
functions are governmental in nature. See
PIF Charter 12 (noting the PIF’s primary

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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031547.txt,"From: Weingarten, Reid ay

Sent: 1/16/2018 5:37:47 PM
To: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: RE: Re:

Importance: — High
Stevie boy should obviously take the fifth in response to the grand jury subpoena....and | be he doesn’t

From: jeffrey E. [mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2018 1:08 PM

To: Weingarten, Reid

Subject: Re:

megann feels if he stays he risks indicment

On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 10:05 AM, Weingarten, Reid i. wrote:

And...2???? Trump stopped them? He cannot stand mcgahn

From: jeffrey E. [mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2018 10:02 AM

To: Weingarten, Reid

Subject:

megann and memasters tried to resign

please note

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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022695.txt,"From: Kathy Ruemmler 
Sent: 1/31/2015 2:46:14 AM 
To: jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Subject: Re: 
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Importance: High 
Well, I think, but not because of me. The existential crisis thing is not a PMS or menopausal pose. 
On Jan 30, 2015 9:16 PM, ""jeffrey E."" <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
how did musk call go? 
On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 2:05 PM, Kathy Ruemmler < > wrote: 
On Jan 30, 2015 2:04 PM, ""jeffrey E."" <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
number? 
On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 1:26 PM, Kathy Ruemmler 
Did you see this? Privileged - Redacted 
L. 
From: < 
Forwarded message 
Date: Jan 30, 2015 12:25 PM 
Subject: 
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Cc: _______________________________ 
> wrote: 
Plenty Of Innuendo, But No Hard Evidence Of New 
Clinton Sex Scandal 
Much-discussed documents in Jeffrey Epstein affair don't live up to the hype. 
posted on Jan. 28, 2015, at 10:53 p.[ 
Ken Bensinger 
BuzzFeed News Reporter 
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters 
Over roughly the past month, coverage of Bill Clinton's travels with financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein have made 
their way from a thick stack of court documents into something approaching political mythology, propelled by a string of 
innuendo-laced reports hinting that the former president must have been in some way complicit when he voyaged with a 
billionaire known for preying on underage girls. 
It's a story with plenty to gape at, from horrific and excruciatingly detailed allegations against Epstein to the frequent presence of 
a former president who was, after all, nearly chased from office for a (consensual) affair with an intern. 
But sometimes stories that seem too good to be true —just might be. A detailed review by a team of BuzzFeed News reporters of 
more than 2,000 pages of pleadings, depositions, affidavits, police reports, flight logs, and other documents filed in state and 
federal court found that many of the most provocative allegations about Clinton have little to no factual foundation and are 
exaggerated at best; that the documents — which appear to be the source for nearly all current reporting on this subject — 
themselves never suggest that Clinton was doing more than using his wealthy friend as a kind of global taxi service; and that 
many of the most lurid insinuations have been floated without any visible support from verifiable information. 
While it's still possible that some Rosetta stone of Clintonian depravity will surface from a pair of ongoing lawsuits involving 
Epstein, the fact that nothing even close to that has been dug up over the course of a half-dozen years of heated litigation should 
not be encouraging for Republican operatives and other Clinton critics hotly anticipating the very worst. 
One sign that the connection is a bit weak: The lawyers who have used the Clinton link to help publicize their cases have been 
markedly vague on details. 
When asked to present actual proof, Jack Scarola, the Florida attorney responsible for filing some of the most attention-grabbing 
documents that have come to light in recent weeks, warned darkly in an email of ""extortionate threats, power, wealth or political 
pressure."" 
""The time will come when all your questions will be answered,"" said Scarola, who represents another trial attorney suing Epstein in 
Palm Beach County Court. ""But that time is not now."" 
Unwilling to wait, perhaps, publications on both sides of the Atlantic have gleefully dipped into those documents to publish 
of Epstein's ""black book,"" which contains a host of Clinton phone numbers (along with just about every 
other powerful figure in the Western world); dissections of handwritten flight logs for the financier's private 727 aircraft that 
frequently capture Bubba at 30,000 feet; and extensive allegations from a woman, Virginia Roberts, who claims she was Epstein's 
sex slave as a teenager and whose recollection places the former commander-in-chief on ""Orgy Island"" in 2002 to participate in a 
sexual romp, possibly with women who were not yet of age. 
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National Enquirer 
Tellingly, many of those articles — which have notably increased in tempo in recent weeks following Roberts' late December 
accusation that noted attorney Alan Dershowitz was one of the men she was forced to have sex with — contain language 
underscoring the fact that none of this proves anything. ""It should at this stage be stressed that the Mail has no evidence to 
corroborate this and other claims made by Virginia Roberts,"" the Daily Mailwrote in April. ""Though her LinkedIn page claims a 
certificate in Swedish massage, there is no evidence that she ever actually treated Epstein to one,"" Gawker (in the 
straightforward and clearest reporting on the documents to date) wrote last week. And the National Enquirer did not appear to 
rely on the court record for its conclusions, instead to the interpretation of an unnamed source who noted that ""Bill's name is all 
over the legal papers, which are chock-full of sordid claims."" 
Clinton's discretion on matters of sexual restraint has attained permanent notoriety, so maybe it's natural to assume that particular 
leopard doesn't change his spots. But at this point, there is simply nothing to back those sordid claims up. 
Here's what we do know: 
Jeffrey Epstein is a secretive billionaire financier and Democratic donor who says he never attended college but whose 
""background is in physics."" He owns properties in New York, Florida, New Mexico, London, and Paris and also owns an island in 
the U.S. Virgin Islands. He has at least two private jets, including the 727. 
He has known Bill Clinton since about 1995, and his relationship with him grew stronger after he left office. There is no question 
they were friendly. Epstein's so-called ""black book,"" which is less like something out of the Heidi Fleiss affair and more what most 
people would call a ""phone directory,"" contains 21 numbers for getting in touch with Clinton, as well as emails and addresses. 
But that 92-page directory also contains exactly the range of eye-poppingly famous and powerful contacts one might expect of an 
incredibly rich, connected person who owns Manhattan's largest private residence, from Tony Blair to Elie Wiesel to Courtney 
Love. 
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Epstein was long rumored to be a sexual libertine; ""It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do,"" real estate 
personality Donald Trump once said of his old friend. ""And many of them are on the younger side."" 
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In 2006, that reputation caught up with him, when he was arrested by the Palm Beach Police on charges of sexually molesting 
numerous underage girls. Police reports in the court record show that detectives found Epstein regularly paid very young women 
to give him massages that he turned into sexual encounters. He allegedly had a preference for very young women, whom he 
carefully groomed into increasingly extreme situations, including what some, including Roberts, allege to be sexual slavery. 
In total, 40 women were identified as possible victims of sexual abuse by Epstein, many of them teenagers at the time, including 
some younger than 14 years old. Epstein was originally charged with a variety of crimes, including sexual assault, rape, and 
witness tampering. 
He avoided most of those charges as well as federal prosecution in late 2007 by agreeing to plead guilty in Florida court, a deal 
that Dershowitz, who was one of Epstein's lawyers, helped negotiate along with an all-star legal lineup that interestingly also 
included famed Clinton-hunter Ken Starr. 
In the end, Epstein got 18 months in prison for a single count of soliciting an underage prostitute, of which he served 13 months. 
He is now a registered sex offender who lists his primary residence as the U.S. Virgin Islands. 
In a pleading late last month in federal court, attorneys for Roberts allege that ""Dershowitz helped negotiate an agreement with a 
provision that provided protection for himself against criminal prosecution."" Dershowitz has denied these charges vigorously, 
calling them ""salacious and false"" and, possibly more importantly, ""completely irrelevant"" in a Jan. 12 filing. 
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Despite what some called among the most exhaustive investigations in Palm Beach Police history — which dug up such evidence 
as an Amazon receipt for Epstein's purchase of titles including ""Training With Miss Abernathy: A Workbook for Exotic Slaves and 
Their Owners"" — there is nothing in the police record suggesting any other men were involved in Epstein's predatory behavior. 
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with more than two dozen of them. One firm bringing some of those cases employed a young lawyer named Bradley 
Edwards, who managed some of the cases. In 2009, a founding partner at the firm, Scott Rothstein, fled the country before 
ultimately returning to plead guilty of running a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme built around recruiting investors to buy stakes in 
litigation settlements that turned out to be phony. 
As details of the fraud emerged, Epstein sued Rothstein and Edwards in Palm Beach County Court for racketeering, alleging, 
among other things, that they dangled Bill Clinton's association with Epstein as a lure to investors, implying that settlements would 
be fast and sizable. Epstein ultimately dropped his suit in 2012, but by that time, Edwards had countersued for malicious 
prosecution and abuse of process. 
, along with a claim by Virginia Roberts against the federal government over the 2007 prosecution deal in district court 
(which she filed as a ""Jane Doe"" in 2008), are still pending and are the source of most of the scant information about Clinton that 
has appeared. Scarola, who in the past sued Chiquit over payments to violent leftist Colombian rebels and won a $1.45 billion 
verdict over Morgan Stanley (that was later overturned), is the lawyer bringing the suit in county court in West Palm Beach, while 
Paul Cassell, a former federal judge known for his critical take on mandatory-minimum sentences, mans the federal case four 
blocks away. 
Neither Cassell nor Edwards responded to requests for comment. 
It is primarily from pleadings in those cases that the press has been getting a glimpse inside the lifestyle of Epstein, and, by 
extension, Clinton. ""Edwards had sound legal basis for believing former President Clinton had relevant and discoverable 
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information,"" part of one pleading reads. Roberts, in her case, alleges that Epstein forced her ""to be sexually exploited by 
Defendant's adult male peers, including royalty, politicians, academicians, businessmen, and/or other professional and personal 
acquaintances,"" which, Edwards elsewhere claims, are ""categories Clinton and acquaintances of Clinton fall into."" 
Police reports entered into the record go into stomach-wrenching detail about Epstein's alleged exploits with the girls and women 
he recruited and paid for massages that became sexual acts, and mention other women participating as well. Epstein's longtime 
friend, the socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, is accused of taking part, while his personal assistant, Sarah Kellen, is described procuring 
young woman for him. 
But neither of those women has ever said a word about Clinton being involved. Maxwell, for her part, has never been deposed. 
She canceled a deposition in 2010, claiming she had to return to England indefinitely due to family illness, but was soon thereafter 
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pleaded the Fifth, refusing to even say if she'd ever even met the former president. 
Epstein's much-discussed flight logs show fairly conclusively that she has. 
A review of the handwritten documents shows Clinton taking 13 trips in Epstein's specially outfitted Boeing 727, including a much-
discussed trip to Africa with Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker. In every single instance, the logs show, Kellen was also on the plane, 
as was Epstein. That may sound suspicious, except for the fact that Kellen has been described as Epstein's right hand, profoundly 
involved in his professional activities as well as personal ones. Indeed, Doug Band, Clinton's personal aide, was on all but one of 
the flights the former president took on Epstein's jet. 
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another Epstein assistant and a former model. The logs also show him flying with former advisor Ira Magaziner, ex-Transportation 
Secretary Rodney Slater, and fashion model Naomi Campbell. 
The pilots' documents also leave numerous and — understandably — intriguing questions unanswered: Clinton was on four flights 
with women identified as only ""Janice"" and ""Jessica,"" who have not been identified; he once flew with a person identified only as 
""one female"" and also, during part of the trip throughout Africa, a young woman named Chauntae Davies, who appears in 
Epstein's phone directly under the massage category and whose expertise in Swedish massage was described in Gawkey's story 
mentioning her last week. And because the entries are hand-written in a very cramped log form, it's impossible to know if 
important names ended up illegible or left out altogether, nor if there are other logs that have not been revealed. 
But based on what's in the court files, there are no further clues about those flights, other than the testimony and public 
statements of Roberts, who has described the airplane as a kind of high-altitude Gomorrah. What is on the record is a deposition 
of Larry Visoski, one of Epstein's former pilots, who recalls having Clinton on his plane as many as 20 times. When asked, ""Do you 
remember him being on the airplane with younger girls?"" Visoski replies, simply, ""No."" 
Clinton flew literally around the world with Epstein, traveling from New York to London, to Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, 
Morocco, Portugal, Russia, and throughout Africa. In almost every case, according to cross-referenced information on his speaking 
engagements, Clinton was apparently traveling for professional reasons, and, according to the logs, he never flew with his wealthy 
friend anywhere near the U.S. Virgin Islands. 
That does little to bolster statements by Roberts, who in a 2011 conversation with her lawyers (which both New York Posts Page 
Sixand Radar Online described as an ""interview"") claimed Clinton traveled to Epstein's infamous retreat on Little St. James Island 
in 2002. 
Earlier this month, it was reported that Roberts is writing a ""tell-all"" memoir about her experiences. In a sworn affidavit filed in 
court last week, she claimed to have had sex with Epstein, Dershowitz, England's Prince Andrew, and several other men on 
numerous occasions, and portrayed a three-year period ending in 2002 when Epstein passed her off to his friends continually. But, 
she added, ""I have never had sexual relations with Clinton, nor have I claimed to have had such relations. 
have sexual relations with anyone."" 
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terribly long before he was arrested, ""perhaps because of events related to Epstein's sexual abuse of children."" The implication is 
that Clinton may have known trouble of the worst kind was coming and decided to get out while he could. In fact, the logs show 
all of Clinton's flights came in 2002 and 2003, with not a single appearance aloft recorded in 2004 or 2005. 
The closest potential link to Clinton in the period closer to Epstein's fall, the public record suggests, comes from one of his 
longtime confidants, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers. 
The flight logs indicate Summers flew on Epstein's jet as far back as 1998, but also on April 15, 2004, September 14, 2005, and 
December 21, 2005. The final trip came 10 days after Summers got married, and the log for the flight — from Bedford, 
Massachusetts, to the Virgin Islands — shows what appears to be his new bride on board, as well as Ghislaine Maxwell, but not 
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Epstein was a significant donor to Harvard University, of which Summers was president at the time. According to a spokesperson 
for Summers, on a few occasions when Epstein was flying to where Summers was also traveling, he accepted rides on the 
billionaire's jet. 
Attorneys in the two cases have attempted to get the court to permit discovery from Clinton himself, but have been stymied by 
motions from Epstein's lawyers. Court records show they have also tried unsuccessfully to depose Donald Trump, former New 
Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, former Sony Music head Tommy Mottola, and magician David Copperfield. Notably, a list of 73 
proposed witnesses in Roberts' trial does not include Clinton. 
The tale of Epstein and his sexual activities is undoubtedly a fascinating, and harrowing, one. But with the star witness in one case 
swearing under oath that she has no such evidence, and everyone else in a position to know keeping their mouths firmly shut, it is 
at this point extremely difficult to draw even a hazy, crooked, dotted line between Epstein's depredations, in the bedroom or aloft, 
and William Jefferson Clinton. 
BuzzFeed News reporters Alex Campbell, Kyle Blaine, and Megan Apper contributed to this report. 
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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029741.txt,"from ""one-offs"" to a deal flow. The zero
returns for savers from U.S. monetary
policy can make infrastructure
investments attractive.

In addition to offering financing, the
private sector can improve the design,
operation and maintenance of
infrastructure. As the state of Indiana has
shown, the federal government could
profitably use public-private partnerships
for its infrastructure, too.

The administration has talked about some
of these topics. But it is oddly passive, as
if 1t were hesitant to lead. State
Department speeches are not enough. To
carve out an international economic
strategy, the new secretary of the
Treasury needs to choreograph policies
across all U.S. departments and with
multilateral economic institutions. The
U.S. had better wake up: International
economic strategy is the new foreign
policy.

Mr. Zoellick has served as president of
the World Bank Group, U.S. trade
representative and deputy secretary of
state. He is now a fellow at the Belfer
Center at Harvard and the Peterson
Institute for International Economics.

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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030210.txt,"The arrival of a new assistant to the president for national security affairs is an ideal opportunity to restore best practices
to the national security apparatus. To her credit, Susan Rice appears to be reaching out with this very much in mind. If
changes are made that better serve the president by forcing people to think through policy options in the context of
objectives and strategies, those changes should not reflect poorly on the stewardship of her predecessor. The president
gets precisely the national security system he mandates and deserves. He is, as JFK noted in the immediate wake of the
Bay of Pigs fiasco, ""the responsible officer of government.""

In the end it is the president, and not the Blackberry or some other device, who will drive the direction and processes of
foreign policy and diplomacy. It is up to him to tell his national security advisor that he wants the interagency to stop
tweeting and start thinking; to tell him how he should be evaluating US national security objectives with respect to Syria
(for example) and strategy options aimed at accomplishing them. This kind of deliberative process will not require people
to wear powdered wigs and inscribe talking points on parchment with quill pens. It will not even oblige them to disconnect
electronically.

Perhaps the biggest obstacle to an orderly national security process that is deliberative is the sheer brainpower of the
people sitting atop the bureaucratic pyramid. Barack Obama and Susan Rice are among the very brightest people to
serve in the US government. They may think they can figure Syria out themselves, within a small circle of trusted political
advisers. They may think they can handle Syria without reaching beyond their own national security staff, without probing
deeply into the Departments of State, Defense, the intelligence community, and elsewhere where additional expertise
resides. They will outsmart themselves if that is the approach they choose.

Blackberry diplomacy is a choice, not a device decision and certainly not a fact of life. Even in this day and age, it is
possible to figure out what one wants and how to go about getting it: even in government work.

dentons.com

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                    Chief Deputy Whip
                    Diana DeGette


About Diana DeGette
Chief Deputy Whip Diana DeGette is a 8th term member of Congress, representing Colorado’s 1st Congressional district. In her eight terms serving the Denver metro region, Diana has established herself as a leader for progressive change on health care, reproductive rights, food safety, consumer protection and the environment. 


DeGette is the most senior legislator in Colorado’s House delegation, and in the 111th Congress she held a large amount of power as the House Democratic chief deputy whip and the vice chair of the influential House Energy and Commerce Committee. 

With the Republicans taking control of the House in 2010, DeGette lost her vice chair position, but she is still a chief deputy whip and the ranking member of the Energy and Commerce Committee’s subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.

In January, 2011, Rep. DeGette was elected the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.

DeGette is best known for championing increased federal funding for stem-cell research. In 2006, the congresswoman pushed President George W. Bush to issue the very first veto of his presidency when she teamed up with then-Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.) to pass the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act through a GOP-controlled Congress.

In summer 2008, DeGette published ""Sex, Science, and Stem Cells: Inside the Right Assault on Reason,"" a book that condemns the politicization of science and argues that legislation on issues like abortion, birth control and funding for education programs should be based on science rather than religion. ""Too many of our elected officials are simply incapable of thinking rationally about sex,"" she writes.

Diana is married to attorney Lino Lipinsky. They have two daughters and a dog.


Health care
Diana believes that it is critical that all Americans have access to the health care they need. Diana has led the way for health care reform in Congress and played a central role in expanding coverage for low-income children and families. 

Diana is a leading voice on health care reform in Congress. Her efforts were critical to the passage of a health reform bill earlier this year that will expand access to health care to millions of Americans and lower costs for those that previously enjoyed coverage. In particular, she was the leader of a broad coalition of representatives that were successful in resisting efforts to limit a woman’s right to choose under the new legislation. Diana’s top health care reform initiatives include access to high quality, affordable care for all children, prevention and wellness, strengthening the health care workforce, and expanding primary care and community health center services.
Diana has led efforts to expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), which provides health insurance to low-income children up to age 18. In the 111th Congress, Diana was a leader in the expansion of SCHIP that was signed into law by President Obama in February of 2009.


Stem Cell Research
U.S. Rep. DeGette was the chief architect of legislation to expand stem cell research, which was passed twice with broad, bipartisan support in Congress. The measure was vetoed twice by President George W. Bush – including his very first presidential veto. In March of 2009, President Barack Obama signed an executive order reversing former President Bush’s restrictions on embryonic stem cell research. Standing next to the President as he signed the order, U.S. Rep. DeGette is working with the Obama Administration on codifying the order into law. In March 2010, Diana introduced bipartisan stem cell research legislation that would do just that. The Stem Cell Research Advancement Act would ensure a lasting ethical framework overseeing stem cell research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and will provide stability to the scientists and individuals who are on the quest for live-saving cures.



Reproductive rights
As the co-chair of the Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus, Diana has fought for common-sense family planning and reproductive rights. She is a lead sponsor of the Prevention First agenda, which is a comprehensive, bi-partisan approach to reducing unintended pregnancies and the need for abortion. Most recently, Diana led the fight against the Stupak-Pitts Amendment – a dangerous restriction on women’s reproductive rights. 





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IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011608.txt,"from the SEALs in getting ashore, only one required direct co-ordination with
us. This was an attack on a DFLP building a mile or so away in southern Beirut,
led by Amnon Lipkin, the friend whose unit had faced one of the toughest
battles at Karameh. Amnon’s paratroop force would land with us and also pile
into Mossad rental cars. Our attacks would begin at the same time, with the
maximum prospect of retaining the advantage of surprise. When and if we both
completed the operations and got away safely, we would meet up again on the
seafront.

From our first meeting, the morning after Dado gave me the go-ahead, I
realized I would have to make at least one change to the plan to rely on the core
Sabena team. There was no way, after his exclusion from the hijack rescue
mission, that I could refuse Yoni when he pressed to be included. I added him to
Mookie Betzer’s force. I put the other two attack teams under a pair of young
officers named Amitai Nachmani and Zvika Gilad. Both were self-confident,
natural leaders. Both had other qualities I also knew we’d need: focus, and
calm. I would take charge on the street outside the targeted apartments, along
with Amiram Levin. With us would be Dov Bar, a Shayetet 13 officer, and our
medic, Shmuel Katz.

In the hangar at the sayeret base, we made mock-ups of the layout of the
apartments, using bedsheets for the walls and adjusting the dimensions as
further bits of intelligence came in from Mossad. But the real work involved
simulating the whole operation, from the moment of our landing on jet-black
rubber dinghies piloted by the SEALs. We found a new building development
in north Tel Aviv with a pair of apartment blocks under construction. For two
nights, we ran through the whole thing: setting off in the dinghies from a missile
boat off the Israeli coast before midnight, meeting up with our Mossad drivers
on shore, making our way through the center of Tel Aviv to the apartment
complexes and simulating the attack. I wanted to ensure we could pull off the
whole thing without anyone raising an alarm. The one problem came during the
second run-through. A policeman drove by as we were “attacking” the
apartments. Dado managed to convince him that reporting us to his superiors
would not be an especially good idea.

In our debriefing discussions after that exercise, Dado identified a major
problem I’d overlooked. We would be entering Beirut dressed as civilians. Once
we got to the top end of Rue Verdun, we planned to approach the apartments as
if we were party-goers returning from a night on the town. “It doesn’t look
right,” Dado said. “More than a dozen party people walking, all men?” Mookie

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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026123.txt,"From: Nicholas Ribis i

Sent: 6/3/2017 12:39:33 AM
To: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Re:

Importance: — High
U know he lies only when his month is moving!

Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.

From: jeffrey E.

Sent: Friday, June 2, 2017 8:19 PM
To: Nicholas Ribis

Subject: Re:

On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 8:14 PM Nicholas Ribis [i > wrote:

What's ur #1 will call u

Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.

From: jeffrey E.
Sent: Friday, June 2, 2017 8:10 PM

To: Nicholas Ribis
Subject: Re:

Nick , Donald has recently said that I betrayed him 15 years ago , he said there was a lawsuit that he asked me
to get involved and help and I refused . Do you have any insight ??

On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 7:22 PM Nicholas Ribis (i wrote:

At wake now. Is AM ok - what is #

Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.

From: jeffrey E.
Sent: Friday, June 2, 2017 7:20 PM

To: Nicholas Ribis
Subject: Re:

can you call my cell

On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 8:35 PM, Nicholas Ribis (i wrote:

Ok

Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.

From: jeffrey E.

Sent: Monday, May 29, 2017 8:34 PM
To: Nicholas Ribis

Subject: Re:

You can come earlier if you like?

On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 8:14 AM Nicholas Ribis ii, wrote:

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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029972.txt,"From: RNA

Sent: 10/13/2015 6:48:37 PM
To: Jefffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject:

Importance: — High

below from

Hi Lesley,

I'm helping a friend at the doctors and should be available between 5 and 630p if we can talk then. Or anytime
tomorrow before 5pm. Going to Trump speech tomorrow night - think he's going to get the nomination....

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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019201.txt,"‘ERSON

srovide a massage. He knew
and were of high school age.
ssages. He felt there was a lot
2s.
Epstein’s bedroom after the
liscover massagers/vibrators
floor. He also said he would
+ toys and put them away in
> armoire as a small wood
close to Epstein’s bed. On one
guez to go to the Dollar rent a
girl he brought the roses to, so
| Epstein’s house without inci-
always needed rides to and

en folder which contained doc-

Epstein’s stationery with direc-

's to [Mary’s] High School after

nance....

investigation, subpoenas were
ome phone records from several
with the cell phone records of
if these records was conducted
hone calls were made between

ms. These records indicate the
re consistent with the dates and
stated they were contacted. Spe-

showed Kellen called [Wendy
times and dates when [name
ent occurred. Kellen also coordi-

Firtyy Ric

nated the encounters with [name redacted] during the time
frame the girls stated they occurred.

Pursuant to a lawful subpoena I obtained Epstein’s pri-
vate plane records for 2005 from Jet Aviation. The plane
records show arrival and departure of Epstein’s plane at
Palm Beach International airport. These records were com-
pared to the cell phone records of Sarah Kellen. This compar-
ison found that all the phone calls Kellen made to [Dobbs]
and the victims were made in the days just prior to their
arrival or during the time Epstein was in Palm Beach.

Therefore, as Jeffrey Epstein, who at the time of these

incidents was fifty one years of age, did have vaginal inter-
course either with his penis or digitally with [names
redacted], who were minors at the time this occurred, there
is sufficient probable cause to charge Jeffrey Epstein with
four counts of Unlawful Sexual Activity with a Minor, in vio-
lation of Florida State Statute 794.05(1), a second degree fel-
ony. As Epstein, who at the time of the incident was fifty two
years of age, did use a vibrator on the external vaginal area
of [name redacted], a fourteen year old minor, there is suffi-
cient probable cause to charge him with Lewd and Lascivi-
ous Molestation, in violation of Florida State Statute 800.04
(5), a second degree felony.

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Cannabis Investment Report | December 2017

for the issuance of separate licenses for cultivation and processing. It also contemplates that permits will
be available under Colombia’s export laws for the export of lawful cannabis products to jurisdictions
where importation is legal. Colombia issued the first processing license in 2016 and the first cultivation
license in 2017.

In 2017, Argentina enacted regulations permitting the use of cannabis oil and other derivatives
either by qualifying patients or for scientific and medical research. Under the new legislation, the gov-
ernment will oversee cultivation and production of cannabis and its derivatives for research purposes
and for patient consumption, establish a national registry of qualifying patients and make cannabis
products available to those patients, free of charge. The government expects to import cannabis sup-
plies until they can be produced domestically.

Other Latin American nations that have taken recent steps to increase medical cannabis access
include Chile, Brazil, Mexico and Peru. In 2015, Chile changed its laws to allow medical cannabis use
by patients and to authorize the sale of cannabis-based medicines through pharmacies. In 2016, Brazil
approved. a resolution authorizing the prescription and importation of cannabis products, including
THC and CBD, for use in treating certain qualifying medical conditions. In June 2017, Mexico
enacted a law directing its Ministry of Health to prepare regulations for the research, production and
medicinal use of “pharmacological derivatives” of cannabis. In November 2017, Peru adopted a bill
legalizing the production, commercialization and importation of cannabis oil to be used for medical
purposes.

In the Caribbean region, Puerto Rico, the Cayman Islands and Jamaica have taken measures to
decriminalize cannabis or increase access for medical use. In 2015, the governor of Puerto Rico signed
an executive order that legalized use of cannabis derivatives (but not cannabis flower) for medical
purposes. Jamaica passed a law in 2015 that decriminalizes possession of small amounts of cannabis,
permits an individual to cultivate no more than five cannabis plants, establishes a medical cannabis
regulatory agency and allows tourists with foreign medical cannabis prescriptions to purchase small
amounts of cannabis. A 2016 law enacted in the Cayman Islands legalized the use of cannabis extracts
for medical purposes and authorized the creation of import regulations and the sale through licensed
pharmacies.

Australia and New Zealand

Australia amended its Narcotic Drugs Act in 2016 to authorize a regulated medical cannabis industry
in the country. The amendment establishes licenses to cultivate cannabis, produce cannabis resin and
other products for medicinal purposes, manufacture medicinal cannabis products and conduct canna-
bis research. A license-holder is required to secure a permit that places conditions on the license and
identifies specific activities allowed within the scope of the license. Cannabis products for medicinal
use that are either legally manufactured in Australia or legally imported can be prescribed to qualify-
ing medical patients. The amendment defines medicinal cannabis products broadly as a product that
includes, or is produced from, any part of the cannabis plant and is intended for the purpose of “cur-
ing, or alleviating the symptoms of a disease, ailment or injury.”

98 © 2017 Ackrell Capital, LLC | Member FINRA/SIPC

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| Another suit alleges
sex during massage

By LARRY KELLER
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
| WEST PALM BEACH
— Another woman filed a
federal lawsuit against Jef-
frey Epstein on Wednesday,
‘alleging that he turned a
massage she gave him at his
Palm Beach mansion into a
sexual episode when she was
16 years old.

Identified as “Jane Doe
No. 3,” she is seeking more
than $50 million, the same
as two other “Jane Does” who
filed similar lawsuits in the
past six weeks, All three suits
were filed by Miami lawyer
Jeffrey Herman. .

Herman subsequently
“withdrew the first Jane Doe’s.
lawsuit because of squabbling
by her parents over the litiga-
tion. The girl may refile the
suit after she turns 18 in May
and can make her own deci-
sions, Herman said.

Other alleged victims also
have contacted him, Herman
, ' said. “I do anticipate more

cases,” he:said.

In the latest litigation, Jane

Doe No. 3 alleges that she

was recruited by a former col-

lege student, Haley Robson,
to give Epstein a massage for
money at his waterfront home

late in 2004 or early in 2005.

The lawsuit alleges that,
while on the massage table,

Epstein sexually touched

Jane Doe No. 3, then mas-

turbated. She is suing on

grounds of sexual assault and
intentional infliction of emo-

tional distress.

“She felt intimidated. She
felt scared,” Herman said.
Jarie Doe No. 3-made only the
one visit to Epstein’s home,
he said.

“Its just another copycat
lawsuit filed by the same
lawyer who appears less
interested in the truth than
in grandstanding with these
press conferences,” said Jack
Goldberger, one of Epstein’s
attorneys. “We now have
sworn testimony that girls
lied about their age to Jeffrey
Epstein, and they were care-

ful in being convincing that.

they were over the age of 18.”
Herman said Robson
instructed Jane Doe No. 3,
“When he asks how old you
are, tell him 18 or 19 years
old.” But he said it doesn’t
matter. “They were underage
girls,” Herman said. “They
were sexually assaulted.”

In addition to the civil law-
suits, Epstein was indicted
on a single count of felony
solicitation of prostitution
in July 2006 after a lengthy
Palm Beach Police Depart-
ment investigation into his
activities with underage girls
at his home. A resolution has
been delayed continually. The
case is on Monday's court
docket but is expected to be

_ rescheduled once again.

“One of the reasons (Jane
Doe No. 3) came forward is
she is tired of waiting for jus-
tice,” Hérman said.
@larry_keiler@pbpost.com

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(Indicate page, name of
newspaper, city and state.)
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West Palm Beach, FL

Date: 3/6/2008
Edition
Title: Another suit alleges

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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024017.txt,"and growth stage investors attractive conditions for both new investments and exits
from existing investments for the foreseeable future.

The Fund Managers view this alignment of critical market factors as unprecedented. Each of
these factors individually has a direct impact on the level of risk and the potential for returns in
the healthcare technology sector. However, the positive trends in all of them occurring at the
same time should create a uniquely positive environment to execute NLV-II]’s targeted strategy
within the sector.

INVESTMENT STRATEGY

New Leaf’s investment strategy is differentiated in the venture capital industry in terms of its
sector focus, specific approaches within each sector, and the depth of experience and long-term
track record that supports each element of the strategy. The Fund’s primary focus will be on
investments in the Biopharmaceutical and Information Convergence sectors, with a secondary
focus on Medical Devices and Biological Research Tools & Infrastructure. Investments will
be predominantly in the U.S., but could include a small number of investments in other parts of
the world (e.g., Western Europe or Canada). The focus within each sector will be the following:

Biopharmaceuticals: As in NLV-I and NLV-II, biopharmaceutical investments will be the core
focus for NLV-III and will comprise approximately 50% - 60% of the Fund. The Fund will
typically invest in development stage and commercial stage private companies and in publicly
traded small capitalization companies where the investments will be made mostly through
structured transactions. The portfolio will emphasize companies developing targeted
therapeutics that address molecular mechanisms of disease, where validated biomarkers can be
utilized to positively bias probabilities of success and reduce time and cost of development
compared to historical averages. These companies exemplify some of the key characteristics the
Fund Managers seek across the portfolio - namely large, unmet medical needs, strong science,
well differentiated technologies and high quality pre-clinical and clinical development
programs led by experienced management teams.

The Fund Managers believe that NLV-III will have the opportunity to invest in compelling
biopharmaceutical opportunities and that these will have attractive risk-return profiles for a
number of reasons, including the following:

e For the past decade, biopharmaceutical companies have been shifting their research and
development focus towards products that target mechanisms of disease at the molecular
level. Clinical programs for these types of products are typically smaller, more capital
efficient and have higher probabilities of success. These improvements are achievable
because precise biomarker testing enables a focus on only those patients where the
specific molecular mechanism is known to play an important role in the disease process.
By including only these patients in the clinical programs for these targeted products, the
probability of detecting critical efficacy signals is significantly increased, even with
relatively small numbers of patients;

e Targeted development programs are benefiting from an improving regulatory
environment, as the FDA is demonstrating clear interest in working constructively with

companies to bring these types of high-impact therapeutics to market more quickly and
efficiently. This spirit of cooperation was covered thoughtfully in a recent New England

6 CONTROL NUMBER 257 - CONFIDENTIAL

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embedded in the intrinsic nature of the Chinese state, they cannot be abandoned unless
the nature of the Chinese state fundamentally changes. This is very unlikely.

NOTES

1 “Singapore Government Statement,” Government of Singapore, May 15, 1971, http://www.nas.gov.sg
/archivesonline/data/pdfdoc/SGPress_3_15.5.71.pdf.

2 Jermyn Chow, “SAF Armoured Vehicles Seized in Hong Kong Port, Mindef Expects Shipment to Return
to Singapore ‘Expeditiously,’” Straits Times (Singapore), November 24, 2016, accessed October 11, 2018,
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/9-saf-armoured-vehicles-seized-at-hong-kong-port.

3 “Cancellation of Singapore Permanent Residence (SPR) Status— Huang Jing and Yang Xiuping,”
Singapore Ministry of Home Affairs, August 6, 2017, accessed October 11, 2018, https://www.mha.gov.sg
/newsroom/press-release/news/cancellation-of-singapore-permanent-residence-(spr)-status—huang-jing
-and-yang-xiuping.

4 Shannon Teoh and Eunice Au, “KL Wants Chinese Envoy to Explain Remarks,” Straits Times (Singapore),
October 2, 2015, accessed October 11, 2018, https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/kl-wants-chinese
-envoy-to-explain-remarks.

UNITED KINGDOM

Unlike the United States, Australia, and New Zealand, the United Kingdom has had
no significant all-encompassing debate over Chinese influence operations. When
they have occurred, the debates tend to be confined to specific areas such as the
media, academia, or the economy. But so far, no one institute has attempted to bring
to light the full gamut of Chinese United Front and influence-peddling operations. As
such, Britain’s response to China’s attempts to insinuate itself within Britain’s critical
infrastructure, universities, civil society, political system, and think tanks has been
scattershot at best.

The United Kingdom has a complex political, economic, and historical relationship
with China, which is a significant trading partner and an increasingly significant
source of investment.' Especially since the official elevation of UK-China relations to
Golden Era status in 2014 and the result of the 2016 Brexit referendum, the United
Kingdom has become more open to Chinese influence.” Areas of vulnerability

to improper interference include political and civil society actors as well as the
media. Chinese firms are involved in strategic parts of the British economy, including
telecommunications and nuclear power. Improper interference activities can be difficult
to distinguish from acceptable influence via civil society exchange, public diplomacy,
and commerce. Problem cases include not only Chinese cyberattacks on political
organizations and think tanks but also willing collaboration and reluctant complicity.
A report by GPPi and Merics characterized the most important areas for Chinese

Appendix 2

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015274.txt,"Swimming in the Dead Pool

When Ken Kesey’ s son Jed was killed in an accident--the van

carrying his University of Oregon wrestling team had skidded off a cliff--I
immediately flew to Oregon. “You were his favorite,” Kesey said as we
embraced, sobbing. “I feel like every cell in my body is exploding,”

A few days later, several of us old friends were sitting around the
dining-room table there, and someone mentioned that the Dead
Kennedys were on tour.

“| wonder if Ted Kennedy is gonna go see’ em,” | remarked.

Kesey, standing in the kitchen, responded, “That’ s not funny.”

“You' re right. | apologize. It’ s not very abstract right now.”
“It' s never abstract.”

| recalled that little dialogue as | began to explore The Game, now in
its 34th year [2004], the longest-running dead pool in America, currently
with 125 players. Before January 1st everyone submits 68 names of people
who might die that year. (Dr. Death, co-founder of The Game, liked to
work on a legal pad--34 lines, two columns, hence 68 names.) Points are
awarded according to the age of each dead person--anybody in their 50s

is worth five points; 60s, four; 70s, three.

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IMAGES-012-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033103.txt,"From: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]

Sent: 7/18/2018 2:58:35 PM
To: LHS
Subject: Re:

november now a toss up

On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 8:51 PM, LHS <> wrote:

Just tried back. Now here

Sent from my iPhone

Please direct all scheduling inquiries to my office at: I

Follow me on twitter @lhsummers
www.larrysummers.com

On Jul 17, 2018, at 8:33 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:

Just tried

On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 8:12 PM, LHS <q > wrote:

Just tried u. Am at

Sent from my iPhone

Please direct all scheduling inquiries to my office at: 3 I 7

Follow me on twitter @lhsummers
www.larrysummers.com

On Jul 17, 2018, at 5:09 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:

a

On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 8:01 AM, LHS > wrote:
Will call later. What number?

Sent from my iPhone

Please direct all scheduling inquiries to my office at: Ps

Follow me on twitter @lhsummers
www.larrysummers.com

On Jul 17, 2018, at 7:42 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:

my email is full with similar comments . wow

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2007 Utah L. Rev. 861, *903

The amendment seeks to protect the interests of the victim without unfair prejudice to the defense. It permits the defense to
seek judicial approval of the subpoena ex parte, because requiring the defendant to make and support the request in an
adversarial setting may force premature disclosure of defense strategy to the government. The court may approve or reject the
subpoena ex parte, or it may provide notice to the victim, who may then move to quash. In exercising its discretion, the court
should consider the relevance of the subpoenaed material to the defense, whether giving notice would prejudice the defense,
and the degree to which the subpoenaed material implicates the privacy and dignity interests of the victim. 774

Having seen the Advisory Committee proposal and accompanying note, I am concerned that the limits on subpoenas found in
the United States Supreme Court's decision in United States v. Nixon 734 might be vitiated by a broad rule. To ensure courts
consistently apply Nixon's substantive and procedural standards to victim-related subpoenas, I am modifying my earlier
proposal to require a court determination of specificity, relevance, and admissibility at trial, as well as notice to the victim, as
follows (new language italicized):

Rule 17(c)(3) - Subpoena for Personal or Confidential Information About Victim. After a complaint, indictment, or information
is filed, no record or document containing personal or confidential information about a victim may be subpoenaed without a
finding by the court that the information is specifically described, relevant to and admissible at trial, and that compliance
appears to be reasonable. If the court makes such a tentative finding, notice shall then be given to the victim, through the
attorney for the government or for the victim, before the subpoena is served. On motion made promptly by the victim, the court
may quash or modify the subpoena if compliance would be unreasonable or oppressive and may ask the court to revisit any
tentative findings. A subpoena shall not be used for discovery purposes or to obtain information for impeachment at trial.

Discussion:

The issues involved in the Rule 17 amendments are complicated and very important. It is useful to divide the discussion into
three parts: (1) the problem the proposals address; (2) the procedural flaws in the Advisory Committee's proposal [*904]
allowing ex parte subpoenas; and (3) the general lack of authority for subpoenas seeking crime victim information.

(1) The Problem of Subpoenaing Confidential Victim Information

The existing rules governing subpoenas are flawed because they allow the parties to subpoena personal or confidential
information about a victim from third parties without the victim knowing. This issue was highlighted recently in the notorious
Utah state criminal proceedings involving the kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart. 7° Attorneys for Elizabeth's alleged kidnapper
subpoenaed class records from her high school (class and teacher lists, report cards, and disciplinary and attendance records)
and medical records from her hospital. 75° The school turned over the requested records without notice to the Smart family,
while the hospital refused to turn over the requested records. When Elizabeth's father learned that her school records had been
turned over to defense counsel, he filed a motion to have the records returned to the school. Prosecutors in the case also
objected that they were not given an opportunity to file a motion to quash prior to the production of the records. 737 The matter
is apparently still under review in the state courts.

The problem that occurred in the Smart case under the Utah state rules could occur under the federal rules, as the attorney for
Elizabeth Smart pointed out to the Advisory Committee in a letter. 73° The federal rules currently permit an objection from the

233 Td,

234 418 U.S. 683, 700-01 (1974).

235 See generally Ed Smart & Lois Smart with Laura Morton, Bringing Elizabeth Home: A Journey of Faith and Hope (2003) (discussing the
Smart Case).

236 Stephen Hunt, Defense Blasted for Obtaining Smart's School Records, Salt Lake Trib., Jan. 14, 2005, at B2.
237 Pat Reavy, Quash Smart Subpoenas, DA Says, Deseret Morning News, Feb. 1, 2005, at B3.
238 See Letter from Gregory G. Skordas, attorney for Elizabeth Smart, to Judge Susan Bucklew (May 23, 2005) (on file with author).

DAVID SCHOEN

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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023778.txt,"32 Teaching Minds
Effective teaching makes .. .

students develop questions to which they then will seek
answers

students look for answers from people other than the teacher

students confused and less certain than they were before

students think about how the teacher is behaving and causes
the students to wonder about whether copying this behavior
would be a good idea

students think about what works and what doesn’t in the adult
world

students think about the stories the teacher tells

students believe that their teacher is not a phony, so they can
take what is said seriously

students think about what it means to put oneself on the line for
one’s own beliefs

students look more carefully at the work that they themselves
have produced

students believe that their teacher is their personal mentor

students look at what the teacher does and see how they can
imitate it in a way that is consonant with who they are

students trust their own intuitions

students trust their teacher’s advice

students understand how to begin a process

students understand what you tell if you constantly demonstrate
the value of what you tell them

students understand where they fit in the world in which they live

students understand how to get ahead in the world in which
they live

students understand the roles of those around them

Now, taking my own advice about starting with the data and then clas-
sifying it, let’s look at these rules as a group. What exactly are they sug-
gestions about? Broadly speaking, they fall into the following categories:
Helping students think:
students develop questions to which they then will seek

answers
students look for answers from people other than the teacher

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WC: 191694

block and was a local hero. It was a shared tragedy and Moshe’s death—combined with my
mother’s reaction to it—had a profound and lasting effect on my 9 year old psyche.

My friends and I formed a “club’”—teally just a group of kids who played ball together. We
named it “The Palmach”—after the Israeli strike force that was helping to win the war. We
memorized the Palmach Anthem “Rishonin, Tamid Anachnu Tamid, Anu, Anu Hapalmach.” (
“We are always the first, we are the Palmach”). Recently, I spoke to a Jewish group in Los
Angeles and among the guests were Vidal Sassoon (the style master) and David Steinberg (the
comedian). Steinberg mentioned to me that when Sassoon was a young man, he had volunteered
to fight for the Palmach (If you think that seems unlikely, consider that “Dr. Ruth” Westheimer
served as a sniper in the same war). I challenged Sassoon to sing the Palmach Anthem and before
you knew it, Sassoon and I were loudly belting out the Hebrew words to the amusement of the
other surprised guests.

Israel declared statehood in May of 1948, when I was nine and a half years old. Following its
bold declaration that after 2,000 years of exile, there arose a Jewish state in the Land of Israel,
(supported by the United Nations, the United States, the Soviet Union and most western nations),
the nascent state was attacked by the armies of the surrounding Arab countries. That summer I
went to a Hebrew speaking Zionist summer camp called “Massad.” During my summer at Camp
Massad (where the counselor of an adjoining bunk was a young Noam Chomsky, then a fervent
left-wing Zionist) we heard daily announcements over the loudspeaker regarding the War of
Independence. We sang Israeli songs, danced the hora and played sports using Hebrew words (a
“strike” was a “Shkeya,” a “ball” a “kadur”.) The announcement I remember most vividly was
“Hatinok Rut met hayom’”—the “babe” Ruth died today. But I also remember several
announcements regarding the death or wounding of Israelis who were related to the people in the
camp. One out of every hundred Israeli men, women and children were killed—some in cold
blood, after surrendering—while defending their new state. Many of those killed had managed to
survive the Holocaust.

We also learned of Stalin’s campaign against Jewish writers, politicians and Zionists. After the
end of the war, Stalin became the new Hitler as we read about show trials, pogroms and
executions of Jews. We hated communism almost as much as we hated fascism.

These early memories—relating to the America’s war against Nazism, Israel’s War of
Independence, and Stalin’s war against the Jews—contributed significantly to my emerging
ideology and world views.

I grew up in a home with few books, little music, no art, no secular culture and no

intellectualism. My parents were smart but had no time or patience for these ""luxuries."" Our
home was modest--the ground floor of a two and half family house. (The finished basement was
rented to my cousin and her new husband). Our apartment had two small bedrooms, the smaller
of which I shared with my brother. We ate in the kitchen. The living room, which had the
mandatory couch covered with a plastic protector, was reserved for special guests (who were
rare). The tiny bathroom was shared by the four of us. The foyer doubled as a dining area for
Friday night and Shabbat meals. The total area was certainly under __ square feet. But we had
an outside—and what an outside it was! In the front there was a small garden and a stoop. In the

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Fig. 4 The Coordination
Game. In our applications, A
stands for punish, and B

stands for don’t punish

attention or do not have enough time to react with better judgment (DeScioli
et al., 2011). Relative to the example of the tennis player with the allergy
described above, it is usually hard to distinguish between a competitor who does
not notice his opponent orders the dish with the allergen versus one who notices
but does not care. In contrast, transgressions of commission must be intended
almost by definition.

4. Suppose the witness knows an omission was intentional: In the above example,
the tennis player’s opponent’s allergy is widely known, and the witness saw the
player watch his opponent order the offending dish, had time to react, thought
about it, but did not to say anything. The witness suspects that others do not
know the competitor was aware his opponent ordered the dish, but believes the
tennis player should be condemned for purposely withholding information from
his competitor. However, since the witness does not wish to be the sole con-
demner, she is unlikely to condemn. In contrast, when a witness observes a trans-
gression of commission (e.g., the player recommends the dish), the witness is
relatively confident that others present interpret the transgression as purposely
harmful, since his recommendation reveals that the player was obviously paying
attention and therefore intended to harm his opponent. So, if all other individuals
present condemn the tennis player when they observe the commission, each does
not anticipate being the sole condemner.

For the above result to hold, all that is needed is the following: (1) The more the costs
of punishment decrease, the more others punish and (2) omissions are usually unintended
(Dalkiran, Hoffman, Paturi, Ricketts, & Vattani, 2012; Hoffman et al., 2015).*

*Tn fact, even if one knows that others know that the transgression was intended, omission will still
be judged as less wrong, since the transgression still won’t create what game theorists call common
p-belief, which is required for an event to influence behavior in a game with multiple equilibria.

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a young boy and seeing religious Jews walking through the streets of the Old City.
I don’t know whether those stories were true. But the point was that while he had
no problem with Jews in their long coats and black hats praying in the holy city,
Jews exercising authority or sovereignty, or a Jewish state, was something else
entirely. Camp David had made it clear it was something he was not prepared to
accept.

The question which I now had to confront was what to do next.

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Islamic caliphate.
The concept of the state

Today’s debate within Hamas over the concept of the state is more
concrete than theoretical. The political conditions in the Palestinian
territories do not allow for dreaming about unrealistic grand theories being
promoted by some Islamist movements. Hamas is facing real-world
problems that require real-world solutions. The Palestinian state being
envisioned by Palestinian, Arab, and world politicians is based on the June
1967 borders. But does that fit Hamas’s political vision and intellectual
orientation? Generations of Islamists have been raised on the concept of
the “Islamic state,” which is synonymous with the Islamic caliphate. But
Hamas’s situation is a little different. Israel’s occupation of all Palestinian
territories is a political and concrete obstacle to the dream of an Islamic
state and it forces the consideration of more realistic options. So we have
started hearing, from Hamas, statements about establishing a Palestinian
state on the June 1967 borders. There is no doubt that this development is
an intellectual and political shift by Hamas. More than 20 years ago,
Hamas founder Sheik Ahmed Yassin proposed a long truce with Israel.
But today, such a proposal is more realistic and is attributed to Hamas’s
current leader Khaled Meshaal. Hamas in 2013 is different than Hamas in
1993. Hamas is now an influential player and its statements and stances
are taken into account by regional and international decision-making
circles.

Recognition and commitment

The shuttle diplomacy by Western officials between Gaza, where Hamas’s
domestic leadership is located, and the Arab capitals of Doha, Cairo and
Amman have only one objective: getting Hamas to agree to the conditions
that would allow it to be embraced by the international community. In
other words, they want Hamas to agree to the two-state solution. And that,
explicitly or implicitly, essentially means that Hamas has recognized
Israel’s right to exist! Those who have been following Hamas’s course
since it was founded 25 years ago notice that every once in awhile there is

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eleased from custody for further 
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viewed by an agent familiar with 
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eighteen months. 
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did not ask for, or receive, permi5-
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Prince Andrew: 2011 
p rince Andrew also fares poorly in the wake of Epstein's 
imprisonment. 
The two men are old friends. They have been ever since 
Ghislaine Maxwell introduced the prince to her then-beau, some-
time in the 1990s. In 2000, Epstein had been invited to Windsor 
Castle to celebrate the queen's birthday. Six months later, Epstein 
flew to Sandringham, the queen's estate in Norfolk, England, for 
a party Prince Andrew threw for Ghislaine's thirty-ninth birthday. 
The prince had also visited Epstein on several occasions, in 
Palm Beach as well as in New York. And if allegations Virginia 
Roberts made in her 2015 declaration are to be believed, Epstein 
asked her to give the prince whatever he required, then report 
back with the details. 
According to the Guardian, Epstein and the prince had par-
tied together at Windsor Castle, in Saint-Tropez, and in Thailand, 
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FiL 
where ""Andrew was pictured on a yacht surrounded by topless 
women."" 
According to Roberts's lawsuit, Epstein had forced her into 
the prince's bed on Little Saint Jeff's. 
After Epstein's conviction, the British press were using another 
name for Little Saint Jeff's: Sex Island. The Guardian reported 
that the manager of two Virgin Islands—based corporations owned 
by Epstein happened to be the wife of the governor of the Virgin 
Islands. There were allegations involving a million-dollar dona-
tion that Epstein had made to the governor's reelection cam-
paign. And then there was Roberts's claim that she had been 
forced to have sex with the prince on the island as well as in 
New York and in London. 
Invariably, the photograph of Prince Andrew with his arm 
around the bare midriff of a very young-looking Virginia Rob-
erts ran with stories that appeared in the tabloids. 
""It is emphatically denied that the Duke of York had any form 
of sexual contact or relationship"" with Roberts, Buckingham 
Palace spokespersons would say. ""The allegations made are false 
and without any foundation."" 
The prince's ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, 
while on a skiing trip with the prince and their daughter Euge-
nie in Switzerland, told reporters, ""He is the greatest man there 
is. It was the finest moment of my life in 1986 when I married 
him. He is a great man, the best in the world."" 
""I won't stand by—because I know what it feels like to have 
salacious lies made up about you—and not support him so pub-
licly because they are just shockingly accusatory allegations, 
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which I don't think is right,"" 5 
viewed by Today host Matt La 
and as a great father and a h. 
work he does for Britain I w( 
character defamed to this leve 
But at the same time, a c( 
good man's fall from grace, a 
out of the woodwork to dish t( 
""I've seen him treat his st 
said a former aide to the princ( 
personal protection officers, 
ground and demanding they ' 
graces at all. Sure, if you're a la 
then I bet he's utterly charminl 
Despite all this, the prince had 
a photo, frequently trotted out I 
strolling in Central Park. 
Some few months before it 
businessman had secretly tap( 
five hundred thousand pounds 
""If you want to meet him ir 
""look after me, and he'll look aft 
""Once again,"" she said aft 
Pounded and rebounded and a1! 
most in the world: the Duke."" 
Prince Andrew had had hi! 
real estate deals, sticky roman. 
merit dumps (courtesy of Julia' 
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in a yacht surrounded by topless 
suit, Epstein had forced her into 
Jeff's. 
British press were using another 
x Island. The Guardian reported 
.slands—based corporations owned 
wife of the governor of the Virgin 
; involving a million-dollar dona-
o the governor's reelection cam-
oberts's claim that she had been 
irince on the island as well as in 
of Prince Andrew with his arm 
iery young-looking Virginia Rob-
ared in the tabloids. 
hat the Duke of York had any form 
ship"" with Roberts, Buckingham 
ay. ""The allegations made are false 
h Ferguson, the Duchess of York, 
.e prince and their daughter Euge-
ters, ""He is the greatest man the 
)f my life in 1986 when I marri 
st in the world."" 
se I know what it feels like to have 
Tou —and not support him so pub-
thockingly accusatory allegations, 
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which I don't think is right,"" she said a few days later when inter-
viewed by Today host Matt Lauer. ""It's a defamation of character, 
and as a great father and a humongously good man and all the 
work he does for Britain I won't stand by and let him have his 
character defamed to this level."" 
But at the same time, a certain schadenfreude attended the 
good man's fall from grace, and former associates kept coming 
out of the woodwork to dish to the press. 
""I've seen him treat his staff in a shocking, appalling way,"" 
said a former aide to the prince. ""He's been incredibly rude to his 
personal protection officers, literally throwing things on the 
ground and demanding they 'fucking pick them up.' No social 
graces at all. Sure, if you're a lady with blond hair and big boobs, 
then I bet he's utterly charming."" 
Despite all this, the prince had stuck by Epstein. There was even 
a photo, frequently trotted out by the tabloids, of the two of them 
strolling in Central Park. 
Some few months before it was taken, a reporter posing as a 
businessman had secretly taped Sarah Ferguson's demand for 
five hundred thousand pounds in return for access to the prince. 
""If you want to meet him in your business,"" she'd said then, 
""look after me, and he'll look after you. You'll get it back tenfold."" 
""Once again,"" she said afterward, ""my errors have corn-
pounded and rebounded and also impacted on the man I admire 
most in the world: the Duke."" 
' Prince Andrew had had his troubles already—with shady 
real estate deals, sticky romances, highly embarrassing docu-
ment dumps (courtesy of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks), and 
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!{, 
At 
questionable ties to Tunisian oligarchs, corrupt presidents of 
former Soviet republics, and Mu'ammar Gadhafi, among other 
entanglements, many of which were explored in a Vanity Fair 
article headlined THE TROUBLE WITH ANDREW. 
""The duke has a record of being loyal to his friends,"" a ""royal 
source"" told Vanity Fair's Edward Klein. ""Take his feelings for 
Sarah Ferguson. If you are a prince and you bring a woman into 
the royal life and, for whatever reasons, she's spit out, you might 
have feelings of debt toward her. The duke feels that she's been 
spattered and rejected. His close relationship with the Duchess 
of York is problematic, and there have been many problems over 
the last 5 to 10 years, all of which stem from the duchess. Some 
of the behavior of the duchess is inconsistent with being mar-
ried to, or an ex-wife of, the duke. There's no question but that 
Sarah's been a financially self-destructive element in the -duke's 
life."" 
""The same kind of loyalty manifested itself last December, 
when the duke visited Epstein at his home in New York,"" said a 
spokesperson for Buckingham Palace. ""Epstein was a friend of 
the duke's for the best part of 20 years. It was the first time in 
four years that he'd seen Epstein. He now recognizes that the 
meeting in December was unwise."" 
""Don't expect to see a photo of the two of them together,"" 
another ""royal source"" would say. 
But one more story about the prince's dealings with Jeffrey 
Epstein had already emerged. 
At a dinner party at Epstein's town house, the prince dished 
about the wedding of his nephew Prince William to Kate 
Middleton. 
""He was amused that his dinner companions were so inter 
-
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ested in every detail,"" a g 
gossip columnist. ""Wha 
Queen wear, would his e; 
Other guests in atten( 
dler, George Stephanopo 
Woody Allen. 
At around the same t 
Post, ""I'm not a sexual pi 
ence between a murderer 
Was it so remarkable that 
in Epstein's company? Ai 
fodder for years. Randy A 
the circles that Jeffrey E 
seen as a vice. Epstein cat 
lation took hold on Wall $. 
were charging ten thousai 
you'd see things that wot 
that would make Nero hi 
guisher. When the urge 
didn't have to swap wives. 
They could simply swa 
By the same token, wa; 
like the prince would ha, 
insofar as reality is even a 
odd that he thought it wa5 
raphers strolling through 
offender—when at the tin 
ing, and trading industri 
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oligarchs, corrupt presidents of 
Au'ammar Gadhafi, among other 
h were explored in a Vanity Fair 
ITH ANDREW. 
wing loyal to his friends,"" a ""royal 
Tard Klein. ""Take his feelings for 
rince and you bring a woman into 
• reasons, she's spit out, you might 
ter. The duke feels that she's been 
)se relationship with the Duchess 
re have been many problems over 
hich stem from the duchess. Some 
;s is inconsistent with being mar-
Juke. There's no question but that 
'-destructive element in the .duke's 
y manifested itself last December, 
n at his home in New York,"" said a 
:n Palace. ""Epstein was a friend of 
)f 20 years. It was the first time in 
stein. He now recognizes that the 
wise."" 
low of the two of them together,"" 
say. 
t the prince's dealings with Jeffrey 
em's town house, the prince dished 
nephew Prince William to Kate 
3 dinner companions were so inte 
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ested in every detail,"" a guest in attendance told a New York Post 
gossip columnist. ""What would Kate wear, what would the 
Queen wear, would his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson be invited?"" 
Other guests in attendance that night included Chelsea Han-
dler, George Stephanopoulos,. Charlie Rose, Katie Couric, and 
Woody Allen. 
At around the same time, Jeffrey Epstein told the New York 
Post, ""I'm not a sexual predator, I'm an 'offender.' It's the differ-
ence between a murderer and a person who steals a bagel."" 
Was it so remarkable that Prince Andrew would have been seen 
in Epstein's company? Andrew's philandering had been tabloid 
fodder for years. Randy Andy, they called him in the UK. And in 
the circles that Jeffrey Epstein moved in, philandering wasn't 
seen as a vice. Epstein came of age just as industrywide deregu-
lation took hold on Wall Street. Junk bonds were king. Call girls 
were charging ten thousand dollars a night. And in the shadows, 
you'd see things that would have made Caligula blush. Sights 
that would make Nero himself reach for the nearest fire extin-
guisher. When the urge presented itself, the new super rich 
didn't have to swap wives. 
They could simply swap harems. 
By the same token, was it so very strange to think that a man 
like the prince would have grown so detached from reality—
insofar as reality is even a word that applies to a prince? Was it 
odd that he thought it was absolutely fine to be seen by photog-
raphers strolling through Central Park with a registered sex 
offender—when at the time large swaths of the financial, bank-
ing, and trading industries were characterized by their very 
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detachment from day-to-day concerns such as morality, ethics, 
and appearances? 
As for Jeffrey Epstein, one question that might be worth ask-
ing is, if he's in fact a narcissist and megalomaniac, could he 
actually believe that he's innocent? Then again, that might be the 
wrong question. Epstein did plead guilty, after all. But what if he 
simply doesn't see what he pleaded to as a crime? What if he's 
proud of his lifestyle? And if that's the case, why wouldn't Prince 
Andrew be proud to be seen in public with his dear friend Jeffrey 
Epstein? 
What if, for people like Epstein and the prince, it's just ser-
vants and masters, the way of the world? They're natural winners — 
aristocrats, after all—and if life were fair, well, how would we 
know who the real winners are? 
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Anna Salter: Novemb( 
hy do powerful 
and Prince And 
Dr. Anna S2-
sionally. Educated at Harv: 
psychology, she spoke, wit] 
Epstein and others like him 
""Consider a car,"" says : 
are brakes. We all have se? 
be a good idea to act on. I\ 
behavior. We have good br 
""Sexual offenses and in. 
times the result of a bad r 
prepubescent children or e 
children as opposed to pw 
always the result of bad bra 
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oncerns such as morality, ethics, 
luestion that might be worth ask-
Ast and megalomaniac, could he 
nt? Then again, that might be the 
ead guilty, after all. But what if he 
.aded to as a crime? What if he's 
tat's the case, why wouldn't Prince 
public with his dear friend Jeffrey 
)stein and the prince, it's just ser-
e world? They're natural winners — 
ife were fair, well, how would we 
e? 
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Anna Salter: November 2015 
hy do powerful men do the things that Jeffrey Epstein 
and Prince Andrew have been accused of doing? 
Dr. Anna Salter studies child sex offenders profes-
sionally. Educated at Harvard, with a graduate degree in clinical 
psychology, she spoke, with the benefit of hindsight, about Jeffrey 
Epstein and others like him from her office in Madison, Wisconsin. 
""Consider a car,"" says Dr. Salter. ""There's a motor, and there 
are brakes. We all have sexual impulses we don't think it would 
• be a good idea to act on. Most of us have good control over our 
behavior. We have good brakes. 
""Sexual offenses and inappropriate sexual behavior are some-
times the result of a bad motor—for example, an attraction to 
prepubescent children or eleven-to-fourteen-year-old pubescent 
children as opposed to postpubescent individuals. But they are 
always the result of bad brakes. 
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on young girls delude ther 
will not harm the child. TI 
medicated it with thinking 
pathic and simply don't cai 
can't say anything about Ei 
but narcissism and psychop; 
look at concerning anyone 
bescent individuals but wh 
teens. 
""Psychopaths are often st 
seekers who are bored if not 
manipulate. They do not esu 
""They are callous and rt 
don't feel bad about harming 
""Rules don't apply to th 
They are sure they won't get 
""Antisocial psychopaths don't have brakes at all."" 
Dr. Salter has never met Epstein, but she's followed his case 
closely and finds him a familiar type. She's especially struck by 
the singular nature of the relationship between powerful, wealthy 
men and vulnerable, underage women. 
""[The men] are more impressive to a fourteen-year-old [girl] 
than to, say, an adult young woman who is self-supporting and 
feels more sure of herself,"" she explains. 
""They are attracted to what they call freshness—barely bud-
ding sexuality and lack of sexual experience. The difference 
between them and their victims feeds their ego. 
""Great wealth and access are generally factors that make men 
feel they are entitled to whomever and whatever they want. Some 
have narcissistic personalities with inflated self-images. And of 
course, great wealth and status make such men think they can 
get away with it. Too often, they're right."" 
On the other hand, Dr. Salter believes that certain condi-
tions, such as the ones exhibited by Jeffrey Epstein, might be an 
inborn character trait. 
Personality can be influenced, sometimes quite heavily, by 
genetics. 
""Virtually no one believes anymore that humans are born a 
totally blank slate,"" she explains. 
""We arrive with temperamental and personality variations 
that, of course, the environment can often, but not always, influ-
ence. We arrive with baggage."" 
Is Epstein a born psychopath, then? 
""Psychopathy is the umbrella term for individuals who do not 
have a conscience. Pyschopaths are often narcissistic, but nar-
cissists are often not psychopathic. Some individuals who prer. 
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it have brakes at all."" 
Istein, but she's followed his case 
x type. She's especially struck by 
)nship between powerful, wealthy 
women. 
.>,ssive to a fourteen-year-old [girl"" 
roman who is self-supporting and 
explains. 
t they call freshness—barely bud-
exual experience. The difference 
as feeds their ego. 
ire generally factors that make men 
ever and whatever they want. Some 
s with inflated self-images. And of 
us make such men think they can 
ley're right."" 
Salter believes that certain condi-
ited by Jeffrey Epstein, might be an 
enced, sometimes quite heavily, by 
es anymore that humans are born 
ains. 
:amental and personality variatio 
nent can often, but not always, inflty 
;.e."" 
)path, then? 
a-ella term for individuals who do n 
paths are often narcissistic, but 
iopathic. Some individuals who 
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on young girls delude themselves into thinking that the abuse 
will not harm the child. They have a conscience, but they have 
medicated it with thinking errors. Others are flat-out psycho-
pathic and simply don't care if it hurts the young girl or not. I 
can't say anything about Epstein, as I have not evaluated him, 
but narcissism and psychopathy are concepts an evaluator would 
look at concerning anyone who was sexually attracted to postpu-
bescent individuals but who then began to focus on younger 
teens. 
""Psychopaths are often superficially charming, high-stimulus 
seekers who are bored if not doing something. They lie, con, and 
manipulate. They do not establish deep affective ties. 
""They are callous and remorseless individuals who simply 
don't feel bad about harming someone. 
""Rules don't apply to them because they are exceptional. 
They are sure they won't get caught."" 
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Jeffrey Epstein: July 2010 
Jeffrey Epstein was done with jail, but he wasn't done settling 
suits brought by his victims. Under the conditions of his 
non-prosecution agreement, he's even paid for the victims' 
lawyers. Still, Epstein's NPA seemed to ensure that he would not 
be prosecuted again for his crimes. Double jeopardy was work-
ing in Epstein's favor. But in July of 2010, reports began to appear 
in the press: federal investigators were following other leads—
leads that could result in child-trafficking charges and a 
twenty-year sentence. 
The Florida attorney general's office refused to comment. It 
was against policy to confirm or deny the existence of an ongo-
ing investigation. One of Epstein's lawyers told the Daily Beast 
that he had no knowledge of such an investigation. ""Jeffrey 
Epstein has fully complied with all state and federal require-
ments that arise from the prior proceedings in Palm Beach,"" jack 
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Goldberger said. ""There ; 
not and should not be 
Epstein's complete fulfillm 
agreement with the feder 
If there was an invest 
the moment, Epstein was 
to intellectual pursuits. 
Science.com, that featur( 
with Jeffrey Epstein,"" ""T1 
Jeffrey Epstein,"" ""Why 
Epstein,"" and ""An Under 
Jeffrey Epstein."" The lam 
Epstein takes you to the 
knowledge to explore am 
the subtle, simple, and hic 
universe."" 
""Jeffrey doesn't know shit 
art collector who has know 
""Does he like to act like he 
these academic scientists—
have any money."" 
Other friends of Epstei 
liant mind for science. AnC 
than sponsor individual sc 
ences on Little Saint Jeff's. 
ference called Mindshift at 
theoretical physicist Murra 
geons, engineers, and futi 
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th jail, but he wasn't done settling 
ms. Under the conditions of his 
it, he's even paid for the victims' 
emed to ensure that he would not 
times. Double jeopardy was work-
ily of 2010, reports began to appear 
itors were following other leads — 
child-trafficking charges and a 
office refused to comment It 
or deny the existence of an ongo-
stein's lawyers told the Daily Bea 
of such an investigation. ""Jeffr
. 
with all state and federal requif 
or proceedings in Palm Beach, 
„ 
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Goldberger said. ""There are no pending civil lawsuits. There are 
not and should not be any pending investigations, given Mr. 
Epstein's complete fulfillment of all the terms of his non-prosecution 
agreement with the federal government."" 
If there was an investigation, nothing had come of it yet. For 
the moment, Epstein was free—free to turn his attention, again, 
to intellectual pursuits. He launched a website, JeffreyEpstein-
Science.com, that featured blog posts such as ""Conversations 
with Jeffrey Epstein,"" ""The Value of Quantum Computation to 
Jeffrey Epstein,"" ""Why Evolutionary Biology Intrigues Jeffrey 
Epstein,"" and ""An Understanding of Theoretical Physics from 
Jeffrey Epstein."" The latter post began: ""This is where Jeffrey 
Epstein takes you to the very cutting edge of the frontiers of 
knowledge to explore and discuss our basic understanding of 
the subtle, simple, and hidden [qualities] that lie beneath ... our 
universe."" 
""Jeffrey doesn't know shit about science,"" says Stuart Pivar, the 
art collector who has known Epstein for more than three decades. 
""Does he like to act like he does? Yes. But he doesn't. But as far as 
these academic scientists—without people like him they wouldn't 
have any money."" 
Other friends of Epstein's say that he truly did have a bril-
liant mind for science. And in any case, Epstein had done more 
than sponsor individual scientists. He'd also sponsored confer-
ences on Little Saint Jeff's. On his website, he announced a con-
ference called Mindshift at which Nobel laureates, such as the 
theoretical physicist Murray Gell-Mann, would mix with sur-
geons, engineers, and futurists and where professors would 
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discuss cognitive neuroscience, artificial intelligence, systems of 
encryption and decryption, and other topics. 
Epstein had been hosting get-togethers like this for years. 
Toward the end of Chief Reiter's investigation, in March of 2006, 
Epstein had hosted twenty top physicists—including three Nobel 
Prize winners as well as the celebrity physicist Stephen Hawking—
at a Saint Thomas symposium called ""Confronting Gravity,"" 
which was advertised as ""a workshop to explore fundamental 
questions in physics and cosmology."" 
""This is a remarkable group,"" one of the Nobel Prize winners 
told a reporter for the St. Thomas Source. 
""There is no agenda except fun and physics, and that's fun 
with a capital F,"" Epstein said. 
Epstein had been especially interested in Stephen Hawking. 
Someday, Hawking had theorized, the universe would stop 
expanding and collapse, at which point time would begin to run 
backwards. Hawking believed that computer viruses were living 
things. He thought that given the size of the universe, alien life 
forms existed. He did not believe in God. But he had a vast appre-
ciation for the inner workings of the universe, and this is why 
Epstein gave Hawking a tremendous gift. He paid to have a sub-
marine modified so that it could fit Hawking and his wheelchair 
and give the scientist his first glimpse of an actual alien world—
the one that lies under the waves of the ocean. 
It was one of the most romantic, generous gestures that Jef-
frey Epstein had ever made. 
dih 
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Al Seckel: January 20E 
Epstein's partner in the 
Al Seckel, was knowi 
were said to have incl 
clan James ""the Amazing"" : 
founder Elon Musk, as we: 
Epstein would court in the c 
ladder. 
In certain Los Angeles cil 
to know. But, like Jeffrey Eps 
According to Mark Oppenhe 
and followed his career for fi 
by selling rare books and ix 
academic connections. 
""A number of these trans. 
lawsuits,"" Oppenheimer woi 
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, artificial intelligence, systems of 
other topics. 
get-togethers like this for years. 
's investigation, in March of 2006, 
3hysicists —including three Nobel 
brity physicist Stephen Hawking — 
m called ""Confronting Gravity,"" 
iorkshop to explore fundamental 
.ology."" 
p,"" one of the Nobel Prize winners 
Las Source. 
A fun and physics, and that's fun 
.ly interested in Stephen Hawking. 
orized, the universe would stop 
-Lich point time would begin to run 
I that computer viruses were living 
the size of the universe, alien life 
eve in God. But he had a vast appre-
p of the universe, and this is why 
iendous gift. He paid to have a sub-
uld fit Hawking and his wheelchair 
glimpse of an actual alien world—
ayes of the ocean. 
mantic, generous gestures that jef-
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Al Seckel: January 2012 
Epstein's partner in the Mindshift conference, a man named 
Al Seckel, was known for throwing fabulous parties that 
were said to have included the actor Dudley Moore, magi-
cian James ""the Amazing"" Randi, and future Tesla and SpaceX 
founder Elon Musk, as well as many of the scientists Jeffrey 
Epstein would court in the course of his own climb up the social 
ladder. 
In certain Los Angeles circles, Al Seckel was a very good man 
to know. But, like Jeffrey Epstein, Seckel was a sort of illusionist. 
According to Mark Oppenheimer, a journalist who knew Seckel 
and followed his career for fifteen years, Seckel made his money 
by selling rare books and papers, often through his social and 
academic connections. 
""A number of these transactions resulted in accusations and 
wsuits,"" Oppenheimer would write. ""In speaking to former 
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Seckel acquaintances, I kept hearing variations on a scheme Mrs. 
Pearce Williams believed he perpetrated against her late hus-
band, the man Seckel said was his mentor. Seckel took books 
and promised money, or he took money and promised a book; 
but somehow, the promised party lost money."" 
""He was charming, erudite, humorous,"" one of Seckel's marks 
told the reporter. ""I lent him $75,000. When the time came to 
pay it back he didn't want to do it."" 
Oppenheimer found several people whom Seckel had stiffed 
and uncovered dozens of lawsuits he'd been involved in. In 2007, 
Seckel settled a libel lawsuit against a man who'd edited his Wiki-
pedia page. Years later, Oppenheimer spoke with Seckel's lawyer, 
Nicholas Hornberger. 
""Hornberger confirmed that he'd reached a settlement for the 
case, a favorable one,"" the journalist wrote. ""Hornberger added 
that Seckel has still not paid him for his services."" 
He also interviewed Seckel's wife, Isabel Maxwell. 
Al and Isabel met on a blind date and married in Malibu in or 
""around"" 2007 (""I don't keep the dates in my head,"" Seckel 
explained). A few years later, they moved to the South of France, 
where Seckel continued to trade in rare books and papers. While 
living in France, he was sued by a Virgin Islands company that 
accused him and Isabel of fraudulently attempting to sell rare 
books and a seventeenth-century portrait of Isaac Newton. 
Seckel had also been trying to sell papers belonging to Isa-
bel's father. 
Isabel is Ghislaine Maxwell's sister and the daughter of Rob-
ert Maxwell. 
* * * 
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It was an odd thing, Epste: 
PhD who, on closer inspec 
But the Mindshift confer 
in the Virgin Islands di( 
Mann was there, along wit 
coauthored books with St 
expert on artificial intell 
attended the conference, 
about it. 
""We had scientific disci 
he said vaguely. 
When Mark Oppenheir 
Seckel, Sussman ""got testy"" 
""I have had some dealir 
want to say what it's abot 
it, okay?"" 
Today, Epstein's websites — 
JeffreyEpsteinScience.corn—
long since expired. Several r 
tributions, including New Yc 
Palm Beach, announced tha 
gifts. 
""The further I can keep 
better,"" said Ballet Palm Beac 
But in 2012, Epstein held 
Jeff's. Once again, three Nobe 
Stephen Hawking was also th 
twenty-one physicists—from 
If• 
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FILTHY RICH 
:aring variations on a scheme Mrs. 
perpetrated against her late bus-
ts his mentor. Seckel took books 
)ok money and promised a book; 
fly lost money."" 
, humorous,"" one of Seckers marks 
$75,000. When the time came to 
o it."" 
al people whom Seckel had stiffed 
uits he'd been involved in. In 2007, 
;ainst a man who'd edited his Wiki-
heimer spoke with Seckers lawyer, 
at he'd reached a settlement for the 
irnalist wrote. ""Hornberger added 
Lim for his services."" 
Irs wife, Isabel Maxwell. 
id date and married in Malibu in or 
To the dates in my head,"" Seckel 
they moved to the South of France, 
ide in rare books and papers. While 
1 by a Virgin Islands company that 
raudulently attempting to sell rare 
tury portrait of Isaac Newton. 
ing to sell papers belonging to Isa-
ell's sister and the daughter of Rob-
* 
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It was an odd thing, Epstein's association with this self-professed 
PhD who, on closer inspection, turned out to be a bit of a grifter. 
But the Mindshift conference that Epstein and Seckel hosted 
in the Virgin Islands did take place, in 2010. Murray Gell-
Mann was there, along with Leonard Mlodinow, a physicist who 
coauthored books with Stephen Hawking. Gerald Sussman, an 
expert on artificial intelligence who taught at MIT and also 
attended the conference, said that he didn't remember too much 
about it. 
""We had scientific discussions, talked about various things,"" 
he said vaguely. 
When Mark Oppenheimer asked him if he'd given money to 
Seckel, Sussman ""got testy"" with the reporter. 
""I have had some dealings with him,"" Sussman said. ""I don't 
want to say what it's about, because I don't feel good about 
it, okay?"" 
Today, Epstein's websites— JeffreyEpsteinFoundation.com and 
JeffreyEpsteinScience.com —are down. Their domain names have 
long since expired. Several recipients of Epstein's charitable con-
tributions, including New York's Mount Sinai Hospital and Ballet 
Palm Beach, announced that they would not be accepting new 
gifts. 
""The further I can keep myself from anything like that the 
better,"" said Ballet Palm Beach founder Colleen Smith. 
But in 2012, Epstein held one more conference on Little Saint 
Jeff's. Once again, three Nobel Prize winners were in attendance. 
Stephen Hawking was also there. All in all, Epstein had gathered 
twenty-one physicists—from Princeton, Harvard, MIT, and CERN 
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(the European Organization for Nuclear Research) — to ""deter-
mine what the consensus is, if any, for defining gravity."" 
According to a press release issued by Epstein's foundation, 
the consensus that did emerge was that space is ""not quite 
empty."" 
Jeffrey Epstein: Februar 
It's Groundhog Day, and c 
ting the peak of his fame 
sode of Law & Order: SV 
own legal history. 
The setup for this episod 
girl. One who's been flown tc 
vate jet, then flown back— cc 
On the plane, she has a fn 
guy sitting next to her is try 
police get involved. 
""It was just a birthday ix 
cops via videoconference frau 
The cops ask: Whose pres 
""The billionaire. The one 1 
Does the French girl knom 
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or Nuclear Research) — to ""deter-
any, for defining gravity."" 
se issued by Epstein's foundation, 
7ge was that space is ""not quite 
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CHAPTER 62 
Jeffrey Epstein: February 2, 2011 
It's Groundhog Day, and once-reclusive Jeffrey Epstein is hit-
ting the peak of his fame in a ripped-from-the-headlines epi-
sode of Law & Order: SVU that tracks, eerily well, with his 
own legal history. 
The setup for this episode is the rape of a very young French 
girl. One who's been flown to New York on a very rich man's pri-
vate jet, then flown back—coach class— to Paris. 
On the plane, she has a freak-out. She thinks the middle-aged 
guy sitting next to her is trying to rape her. In Paris, the local 
police get involved. 
""It was just a birthday party,"" the tearful girl tells the SVU 
cops via videoconference from France. ""We were his present."" 
The cops ask: Whose present? 
""The billionaire. The one who owns the jet."" 
Does the French girl know his name? 
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FT 
""Jordan. He wanted a massage. But I had to take off my 
clothes. He climbed on top of me. It hurt. I started to bleed, and 
it wouldn't stop. The doctor came."" 
""Dominique,"" the cops say. ""We're going to arrest this man. 
But we need you to return to New York so you can testify."" 
""Non,"" says the girl. ""Non! Jamais! Jamais!"" 
For Epstein, there are other embarrassments, many of which 
have to do with his royal friends. The wedding of Prince Wil-
liam and Kate Middleton is approaching, and the ongoing trou-
bles of Prince William's uncle Prince Andrew keep threatening 
to derail the festivities. On March 6, a spokesperson for Sarah 
Ferguson confirms that Epstein paid off part of the seventy-eight 
thousand pounds that the duchess borrowed from a man who 
was once her personal assistant. 
The next day, headlines appear in the Telegraph and other 
British papers: DUKE OF YORK ""APPEALED TO JEFFREY EPSTEIN TO HELP 
DUCHESS PAY DEBT."" 
""I personally, on behalf of myself, deeply regret that Jeffrey 
Epstein became involved in any way with me,"" Prince Andrew's 
ex-wife tells journalists. ""I abhor paedophilia and any sexual 
abuse of children and know that this was a gigantic error of 
judgment on my behalf. 
""I am just so contrite I cannot say. Whenever I can I will 
repay the money and will have nothing ever to do with Jeffrey 
Epstein ever again."" 
That week, as part of the ongoing civil lawsuits against 
Epstein, Sarah Kellen and Nadia Marcinkova are both asked 
about Prince Andrew's relations with Epstein. 
238 
""Would you agree with 
Epstein used to share under; 
len is asked. 
""On the instructions of 
invoke my Fifth Amendmeni 
""Have you ever been m; 
Andrew?"" lawyers ask Marci: 
""Fifth"" is Nadia's simple, 
That same week, the gover 
role as Great Britain's royal t 
tenacious, and in the Telegr 
stories appear on a daily basi; 
• The Duke, His Paedophi 
Use of an RAF Base 
• Andrew's Secret Love Lifi 
• Royal Connections: Princ 
Suddenly the Talk of Nev 
• Time to Show This Right 
• An Odd Trio: The Royal 
seuse and the Fixer 
• No. 10 Struggles to Cont 
• From Royal Asset to Nati, 
• Royal Blush 
• Duke Could Be Called to' 
• It's the Company You Keep. 
• Nothing Grand About Thi 
• The Royal Family Has 1 
Choice of Friends For Yea 
• Our Less-Than-Grand Olc 
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FILTHY RICH 
ssage. But I had to take off my 
me. It hurt. I started to bleed, and 
me."" 
. ""We're going to arrest this man. 
Few York so you can testify."" 
famais! Jamais!"" 
embarrassments, many of which 
:nds. The wedding of Prince Wil-
)proaching, and the ongoing trou-
: Prince Andrew keep threatening 
larch 6, a spokesperson for Sarah 
m paid off part of the seventy-eight 
tchess borrowed from a man who 
at. 
appear in the Telegraph and other 
""APPEALED TO JEFFREY EPSTEIN TO HELP 
if myself, deeply regret that Jeffrey 
.ny way with me,"" Prince Andrew's 
abhor paedophilia and any sexual 
that this was a gigantic error of 
cannot say. Whenever I can I will 
we nothing ever to do with Jeffrey 
.he ongoing civil lawsuits against 
Nadia Marcinkova are both asked 
3ns with Epstein. 
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""Would you agree with me that Prince Andrew and Jeffrey 
Epstein used to share underaged girls for sexual relations?"" Kel-
len is asked. 
""On the instructions of my lawyer,"" Kellen replies, ""I must 
invoke my Fifth Amendment privilege."" 
""Have you ever been made to perform sexually on Prince 
Andrew?"" lawyers ask Marcinkova. 
""Fifth"" is Nadia's simple, succinct reply. 
That same week, the government downgrades Prince Andrew's 
role as Great Britain's royal trade envoy. But the British press is 
tenacious, and in the Telegraph, the Guardian, and elsewhere, 
stories appear on a daily basis: 
ii 
• The Duke, His Paedophile Guest, and the Most Unusual 
Use of an RAF Base 
• Andrew's Secret Love Life Revealed 
• Royal Connections: Prince Andrew and the Paedophile Are 
Suddenly the Talk of New York 
• Time to Show This Right Royal Clown the Door 
• An Odd Trio: The Royal Trade Envoy, the Teenage Mas-
seuse and the Fixer 
• No. 10 Struggles to Contain Row Over Prince 
• From Royal Asset to National Liability 
• Royal Blush 
• Duke Could Be Called to Two Epstein Trials 
• It's the Company You Keep . . . The Duke's Dangerous Liaisons 
• Nothing Grand About This Old Duke of York 
• The Royal Family Has Feared a Blow-Up Over Duke's 
Choice of Friends For Years 
• Our Less-Than-Grand Old Duke of York 
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On March 11, a devastating undersea earthquake and tsu-
nami move Japan's main island by several feet, shifting the earth 
on its axis. The destruction is horrific and unprecedented. But 
on March 13, the Daily Mail devotes four pages and seven sepa-
rate articles to Prince Andrew. That same day, the Telegraph runs 
three pieces, and the Sunday Times runs a two-page spread head-
lined GUN SMUGGLER BOASTS OF SWAY OVER ANDREW. 
On March 14, the Guardian runs one more piece about 
Andrew's troubles. 
PRINCE ANDREW DOMINATES HEADLINES DESPITE THE EARTHQUAKE, 
the headline reads. 
Alan Dershowitz: Septen 
If the ongoing lawsuits ar 
millions left to spare. Mea 
whether Epstein trafficked 
seems to be going nowhere. 
fling to look as if Epstein is flu 
But for Epstein's friend an 
itz, things are about to get ver 
At the start of 2008, Brad 
lawyer, had filed a motion in 
of two unnamed women accth 
showitz of participating direct 
Prince Andrew had had nc 
itz had objected to the accu. 
terms. 
""There's absolutely no kern 
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rig undersea earthquake and tsu-
1 by several feet, shifting the earth 
; horrific and unprecedented. But 
.evotes four pages and seven sepa-
That same day, the Telegraph runs 
Imes runs a two-page spread head-
JAY OVER ANDREW. 
iian runs one more piece about 
HEADLINES DESPITE THE EARTHQUAKE, 
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Alan Dershowitz: September 2014 
If the ongoing lawsuits are costing Epstein millions, he has 
millions left to spare. Meanwhile, the FBI's investigation into 
whether Epstein trafficked underage women across state lines 
seems to be going nowhere. As 2014 draws to a close, it's begin-
ning to look as if Epstein is finally free and clear of the case. 
But for Epstein's friend and sometime lawyer Alan Dershow-
itz, things are about to get very unpleasant. 
At the start of 2008, Bradley Edwards, the Fort Lauderdale 
lawyer, had filed a motion in a West Palm Beach court on behalf 
of two unnamed women accusing Prince Andrew and Alan Der-
showitz of participating directly in Epstein's illegal activities. 
Prince Andrew had had no comment to make, and Dershow-
itz had objected to the accusations in the strongest • possible 
terms. 
""There's absolutely no kernel of truth to this story,"" he'd said. 
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Alan Dershowitz also 
are part of a plot to extol 
Edwards and Cassell have 
he's ever seen. 
""They manipulated a y 
interested in money,"" Den 
offense, and they will be d: 
ever made this false charge 
But then, the allegations m 
15, 2015, in a declaration 
attempt to overturn Jeffrey 
are highly disturbing. 
""I don't know this woman. I've never been in the same place with 
her. She's made the whole story up out of whole cloth."" 
Bradley Edwards had already become involved in lawsuits 
against Epstein. In 2007, working with a former federal judge 
and University of Utah law professor named Paul Cassell, he had 
filed a lawsuit on behalf of another unnamed woman. Six years 
later, that case is still pending, and now, Edwards and Cassell 
petition to have the two suits combined. 
All in all, four Jane Does take part in the lawsuit. 
Jane Doe 3 is Virginia Roberts, the girl who says that Ghis-
laine Maxwell recruited her for Epstein at Trump's resort, 
Mar-a-Lago. 
Epstein had ""lent"" her and other young girls to prominent 
businessmen, important politicians, world leaders, and other 
powerful men in order ""to ingratiate himself with them for busi-
ness, personal, political, and financial gain, as well as to obtain 
blackmail information,"" Roberts claims. 
She says that Epstein forced her and other underage girls to 
take part in an orgy in the Virgin Islands. 
She names Prince Andrew and Alan Dershowitz as two of the 
men she'd been forced to have sex with and claims that Der-
showitz had been ""an eyewitness to the sexual abuse of many 
other minors by Epstein and several of Epstein's co-conspirators."" 
This time, Prince Andrew does respond to the allegations. 
""This relates to longstanding and ongoing civil proceedings 
in the United States, to which the Duke of York is not a party,"" 
Buckingham Palace says in a short statement. ""As such we would 
not comment on the detail. However, for the avoidance of doubt, 
any suggestion of impropriety with underage minors is categori-
cally untrue."" 
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• never been in the same place with 
y up out of whole cloth."" 
:ady become involved in lawsuits 
icing with a former federal judge 
3fessor named Paul Cassell, he had 
'other unnamed woman. Six years 
Lg, and now, Edwards and Cassell 
combined. 
ake part in the lawsuit. 
berts, the girl who says that Ghis-
r for Epstein at Trump's resort, 
id other young girls to prominent 
iticians, world leaders, and other 
Jratiate himself with them for busi-
financial gain, as well as to obtain 
.rts claims. 
2ed her and other underage girls to 
•rgin Islands. 
v and Alan Dershowitz as two of the 
ave sex with and claims that Der-
itness to the sexual abuse of many 
several of Epstein's co-conspirators."" 
v does respond to the allegations. 
ding and ongoing civil proceedings 
ch the Duke of York is not a party,"" 
short statement. ""As such we would 
However, for the avoidance of doubt, 
ty with underage minors is categ0ri-
242 
Alan Dershowitz also goes on the attack. Virginia's claims 
are part of a plot to extort him, he claims. The motion that 
Edwards and Cassell have filed is ""the sleaziest legal document"" 
he's ever seen. 
""They manipulated a young, suggestible woman who was 
interested in money,"" Dershowitz says. ""This is a disbarrable 
offense, and they will be disbarred. They will rue the day they 
ever made this false charge against me."" It's a vehement denial. 
But then, the allegations made by Virginia Roberts, on January 
15, 2015, in a declaration filed against the government in an 
attempt to overturn Jeffrey Epstein's non-prosecution agreement, 
are highly disturbing. 
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24. I also had sex 
Ranch in New Mexico I 
pool area, which was st 
25. We also had se 
U.S. Virgin Islands. 
26. Another sexual 
itz happened on Epstein 
on the plane with its. 
27. I have recently 
calling me a ""liar."" He i 
with me. The man I've a 
mer law professor, is th, 
least six times. Dershow 
with other underage girl 
but he is lying and denyii 
28. After years of ab 
look for a way to escape. 
hold because I wanted to) 
taken me into his clutches 
some time I believed him. 
trol, regardless of my doul 
29. I kept asking Epsi 
education. Epstein finally 
to go to Chiang Mai to h 
like my chance to escape. 
bags for good. I knew this 
break away. 
30. On September 27, 2 
to Chiang Mai, Thailand. I 
my training. But Epstein 14 
CHAPTER 64 
Declaration of Virginia Roberts Giuffre, filed on 
January 19, 2015 by attorneys representing Jeffrey 
Epstein's victims (continued) 
20. Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz was around 
Epstein frequently. Dershowitz was so comfortable with the 
sex [that] was going on that on one occasion he observed me 
in sexual activity with Epstein. 
21. I had sexual intercourse with Dershowitz at least six 
times. The first time was when I was about 16, early on in 
my servitude to Epstein, and it continued until I was 19. 
22. The first time we had sex took place in New York in 
Epstein's home. It was in Epstein's room (not the massage 
room). I was approximately sixteen years old at the time. I 
called Dershowitz ""Alan."" I knew he was a famous professor. 
23. The second time that I had sex with Dershowitz was 
at Epstein's house in Palm Beach. 
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CHAPTER 64 
oberts Giuffre, filed on 
rneys representing Jeffrey 
Led) 
r Alan Dershowitz was around 
witz was so comfortable with the 
t on one occasion he observed me 
em. 
iurse with Dershowitz at least six 
vhen I was about 16, early on in 
d it continued until I was 19. 
ad sex took place in New York in 
Epstein's room (not the massage 
y sixteen years old at the time. I 
knew he was a famous professor. 
at I had sex with Dershowitz was 
3each. 
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24. I also had sex with Dershowitz at Epstein's Zorro 
Ranch in New Mexico in the massage room off of the indoor 
pool area, which was still being painted. 
25. We also had sex at Little Saint James Island in the 
U.S. Virgin Islands. 
26. Another sexual encounter between me and Dershow-
itz happened on Epstein's airplane. Another girl was present 
on the plane with us. 
27. I have recently seen Alan Dershowitz on television 
calling me a ""liar"" He is lying by denying that he had sex 
with me. The man I've seen on television, described as a for-
mer law professor, is the same man that I had sex with at 
least six times. Dershowitz also knows that Epstein had sex 
with other underage girls and lent me out to other people, 
but he is lying and denying that. . . . 
28. After years of abuse and being lent out, I began to 
look for a way to escape. I had first gone into Epstein's house-
hold because I wanted to be a massage therapist. Epstein had 
taken me into his clutches through promises and talk and for 
some time I believed him. But once he had me under his con-
trol, regardless of my doubts and fears, I felt trapped. 
29. I kept asking Epstein for my promised training and 
education. Epstein finally got me a plane ticket to Thailand 
to go to Chiang Mai to learn Thai massage. This sounded 
like my chance to escape. In September 2002, I packed my 
bags for good. I knew this would be my only opportunity to 
break away. 
30. On September 27, 2002, I flew from JFK in New York 
to Chiang Mai, Thailand. I arrived around September 29 for 
my training. But Epstein was going to get something out of 
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this trip as well. I was supposed to interview a girl and bring 
her back to the United States for Epstein. 
31. [Left blank in the original] 
32. I did the massage training in Chiang Mai. While I 
was there, I met a great and special guy and told him hon-
estly what I was being forced to do. He told me I should get 
out of it. I told him that the people I was working for were 
very powerful and that I could not walk away or disobey 
them without risking serious punishment, including my life. 
He told me he would protect me. I had confidence [in] him 
and I saw his love and help as my opportunity to escape and 
to be with someone who truly loved me and would protect 
me. I married him and flew to Australia. 
33. I called Epstein and told him I was not coming back. 
He asked why? I said ""I've fallen in love."" Epstein basically 
said ""good luck and have a good life."" I could tell he was not 
happy. I was afraid of what he was going to do to me. I 
thought he or one of his powerful friends might send some-
one to hurt me or have me killed. 
34. From that point onward, out of concern for my safety 
and general well-being, I stayed in Australia with my hus-
band. I was in Australia from late 2002 to October 2013. To 
be clear, I was never in the United States during these years, 
not even for a short trip to visit my mother. And my absence 
from the United States was not voluntary —I was hiding 
from Epstein out of fear of what he would do to me if I 
returned to the United States. 
35. In around 2007, after not hearing from anyone for 
years, out of the blue I was contacted by someone who identi-
fied himself with a plain sounding name and claimed he was 
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Fr 
with the FBI. It seemed vf 
cial criminal investigatiot 
that. I hadn't heard Epste 
who this person was and t 
tell what was going on. 
36. This man said he 
The man asked if I had be 
instinct was to say nothii 
really with the FBI or any c 
questions, telling him that 
met him at a young age. Bu 
This man never offered to t 
Instead, he asked me right 
practices. I thought it woulc 
ment officer to behave tho 
uncomfortable and suspicit 
ing me. 
37. I told the man nothi 
versation probably didn't 
immediately triggered all of 
erful friends that had calls( 
If the call accomplished an: 
state of fear and told me ti• 
and had nobody officially pi 
38. I suspected that the; 
for Epstein or one of Epstein': 
if this was really an agent 14 
would have known who I wa 
ual crimes in many differet 
viewed me in a way that woul 
PATTERSON 
osed to interview a girl and bring 
for Epstein. 
riginail 
training in Chiang Mai. While I 
id special guy and told him hon-
:ed to do. He told me I should get 
ie people I was working for were 
could not walk away or disobey 
us punishment, including my life. 
ct me. I had confidence [in] him 
) as my opportunity to escape and 
ruly loved me and would protect 
v to Australia. 
d told him I was not coming back. 
fallen in love."" Epstein basically 
good life."" I could tell he was not 
hat he was going to do to me. I 
owerful friends might send some-
killed. 
ward, out of concern for my safety 
stayed in Australia with my hus-
rom late 2002 to October 2013. To 
United States during these years, 
P visit my mother. And my absence 
,as not voluntary —I was hiding 
of what he would do to me if I 
tes. 
Iter not hearing from anyone for 
contacted by someone who identi-
)unding name and claimed he was 
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FILTHY RICH 
with the FBI. It seemed very odd for someone doing an offi-
cial criminal investigation to just call up on the phone like 
that. I hadn't heard Epstein's name for years. I didn't know 
who this person was and what it was really about. I couldn't 
tell what was going on. 
36. This man said he was looking into Jeffrey Epstein. 
The man asked if I had been involved with Epstein. My first 
instinct was to say nothing because I wasn't sure he was 
really with the FBI or any authorities. I answered a few basic 
questions, telling him that I knew Jeffrey Epstein and had 
met him at a young age. But the conversation didn't feel right. 
This man never offered to come and meet with me in person. 
Instead, he asked me right off the bat about Epstein's sexual 
practices. I thought it would be strange for a true law enforce-
ment officer to behave that way, so I became increasingly 
uncomfortable and suspicious about who was actually call-
ing me. 
37. I told the man nothing more about Epstein. The con-
versation probably didn't even last three minutes, but it 
immediately triggered all of the fears of Epstein and his pow-
erful friends that had caused me to escape in the first place. 
If the call accomplished anything, it only put me bath in a 
state of fear and told me that I could be found quite easily 
and had nobody officially protecting me. 
38. I suspected that the man who called me was working 
for Epstein or one of Epstein's powerful friends. I believed that 
if this was really an agent who was investigating Epstein, he 
would have known who I was and how I fit into Epstein's sex-
ual crimes in many different places. He would have inter-
viewed me in a way that would have established his credentials 
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that i f I didn't say what 
I might get hurt. 
42. I promised Epste 
quiet. They seemed hap 
to [be the] way to keer 
what Epstein and his Ica 
This declaration, stria 
victims' lawsuit against t 
events that led to Dershow 
involved in spectacular lay 
Dershowitz that these all€ 
him, and a complaint by E. 
against him were false and 
and would have shown how he could provide potential protec-
tion from Epstein. That never happened. 
39. Getting a call from this supposed FBI agent made me 
scared all over again. I had left the old life of sexual slavery 
behind me and started a new life in a new country in hopes 
that the powerful people whose illegal activities I knew all 
about would never find me. 
40. Shortly after this purported FBI call, I was contacted 
by telephone by someone who appeared clearly to be working 
for Epstein. The caller told me about an investigation into 
Epstein and said that some of the girls being questioned were 
saying that Epstein had had sexual contact with them. After 
they made these allegations, the man said they were being 
discredited as drug addicts and prostitutes, but in my case, if 
I were to keep quiet, I would ""be looked after."" The fact that 
this call was made shortly after the supposed FBI call rein-
for[c]ed my concern that the man I had talked to earlier was 
not really working for the FBI but for Epstein. I didn't think 
that the FBI and Epstein would both be working together and 
would both get my phone number at almost exactly the same 
time. I played along and told this person that I had gotten a 
call from the ""FBI"" but that I didn't tell him anything. The 
person on the phone was pleased to hear [that]. 
41. A short time later, one of Epstein's lawyers (not Alan 
Dershowitz) called me, and then got Epstein on the line at 
the same time. Epstein and his lawyer basically asked again 
if I was going to say anything. The clear implication was that 
I should not. The way they were talking to me, I was afraid of 
what would happen if I didn't keep quiet. My thought was 
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FILTHY RICH 
te could provide potential protec-
• happened. 
us supposed FBI agent made me 
left the old life of sexual slavery 
v life in a new country in hopes 
tose illegal activities I knew all 
-ported FBI call, I was contacted 
o appeared clearly to be working 
me about an investigation into 
f the girls being questioned were 
sexual contact with them. After 
the man said they were being 
tnd prostitutes, but in my case, if 
I ""be looked after."" The fact that 
after the supposed FBI call rein-
man I had talked to earlier was 
BI but for Epstein. I didn't think 
Aid both be working together and 
mber at almost exactly the same 
d this person that I had gotten a 
t I didn't tell him anything. The 
•ased to hear [that]. 
vie of Epstein's lawyers (not Alan 
I then got Epstein on the line at 
his lawyer basically asked again 
g. The clear implication was that 
'ere talking to me, I was afraid of 
in't keep quiet. My thought was 
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that if I didn't say what they wanted me to say, or not to say, 
I might get hurt. 
42. I promised Epstein and his lawyer that I would keep 
quiet. They seemed happy with that and that seemed to me 
to [be the] way to keep me and my family safe. And I did 
what Epstein and his lawyer told me. I kept quiet. 
This declaration, stricken from the record by the judge in the 
victims' lawsuit against the government, also set in motion 
events that led to Dershowitz's and Roberts's lawyers becoming 
involved in spectacular lawsuits, which included a complaint by 
Dershowitz that these allegations were false and had defamed 
him, and a complaint by Edwards that Dershowitz's accusations 
against him were false and defamatory. 
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Alan Dershowitz: October 2015 
About fifteen minutes into the ripped-from-the-headlines 
episode of Law & Order: SVU that was inspired by the Jef-
frey Epstein saga, the plot takes an interesting turn: before 
officers have a chance to arrest him, Jordan, the character mod-
eled on Epstein, shows up at SVU headquarters. 
The twelve-year-old French girl raped him, Jordan says. 
Wearing a monogrammed fleece pullover like the ones favored 
by Jeffrey Epstein, he describes an evening at home. 
""The party was in full swing,"" he explains. ""A friend said she 
wanted to give me a special present. Told me to wait in my mas-
sage room—"" 
An SVU guy interrupts: ""Guy has a massage room?"" 
""I suffer. from chronic back pain,"" Jordan says. 
""While I was waiting, I fell asleep. Now, at first I thought I 
must be dreaming. I was aroused. I felt myself being manually 
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manipulated. Then I reme: 
enjoy myself. But then it gc 
eyes."" 
""What did you see?"" 
""A woman. A woman 
""A woman? Dominique 
""It was dark. I just wan. 
""But the twelve-year-o1( 
""No. She threatened me. 
she was going to scream `1Z 
""And there was nothin4 
years and a hundred pound 
""The party was going on: 
was going to look. I was nake 
It was a brilliant plot tw: 
dan to get off scot-free. 
But the plot twist that 
on the day of Alan Dershow 
Florida, courthouse was eve 
""There was a criminal extort 
Edwards and Paul Cassell's 1 
2015. 
""Your clients were involv 
Bradley and Cassell had s 
for defamation—payback fo 
law professor had made in th 
Dershowitz had counters 
and he had come armed for b 
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r2015 
ito the ripped-from-the-headlines 
SVU that was inspired by the Jef-
lot takes an interesting turn: before 
st him, Jordan, the character mod-
ATIU headquarters. 
h girl raped him, Jordan says. 
fleece pullover like the ones favored 
an evening at home. 
ng,"" he explains. ""A friend said she 
resent. Told me to wait in my mas-
:illy has a massage room?"" 
k pain,"" Jordan says. 
ell asleep. Now, at first I thought I 
'used. I felt myself being manually' 
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manipulated. Then I remembered it was my present. I started to 
enjoy myself. But then it got rough, and that's when I opened my 
eyes."" 
""What did you see?"" 
""A woman. A woman I'd never seen before."" 
""A woman? Dominique Moreau was twelve!"" 
""It was dark. I just wanted her off of me. I tried to stop her."" 
""But the twelve-year-old overpowered you?"" 
""No. She threatened me. She said if I didn't let her ... continue, 
she was going to scream 'Rape."" 
""And there was nothing that you could do? You've got forty 
years and a hundred pounds on the girl."" 
""The party was going on right outside the door. I knew how this 
was going to look. I was naked. She was naked. What could I do?"" 
It was a brilliant plot twist—one that ultimately allowed Jor-
dan to get off scot-free. 
But the plot twist that Epstein's own story ended up taking 
on the day of Alan Dershowitz's deposition at a Broward County, 
Florida, courthouse was even more surprising. 
""There was a criminal extortion plot,"" Alan Dershowitz told Brad 
Edwards and Paul Cassell's lawyer, Jack Scarola, on October 15, 
2015. 
""Your clients were involved."" 
Bradley and Cassell had sued Dershowitz in Broward County 
for defamation—payback for extremely negative comments the 
law professor had made in the media. 
Dershowitz had countersued. His reputation was on the line, 
and he had come armed for battle. 
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""I'm thrilled they sued me,"" he'd told reporters. ""In the end, 
someone will be disbarred. Either it will be me or the two 
lawyers."" 
But if Dershowitz was swinging for the fences in his struggle 
to keep his hard-earned reputation afloat, he still had a bomb-
shell to drop. When deposed by Scarola, he proposed his own 
theory about why Virginia Roberts had named him, along with 
Prince Andrew, as one of the men who had sexually abused her 
at Epstein's New Mexico ranch, in New York City, and in Palm 
Beach. 
A theory that implicated the lawyers who were suing him in a 
much larger conspiracy. 
According to Dershowitz, Brad Edwards pressured Virginia 
Roberts into identifying Dershowitz as one her assailants. 
Dershowitz said that Edwards did this so that they could 
blackmail Jeffrey Epstein's patron Leslie Wexner for one billion 
dollars. 
Roberts lied about him, Dershowitz maintained, to give 
Wexner an idea of what would, happen to him if Edwards's 
demands weren't met. 
Furthermore, Dershowitz said, he had proof. 
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Excerpts from the Deposi 
October 15, 2015 
9:46 a.m. 
Q: In an interview with Hala 
broadcast on CNN Live, yo 
Do you acknowledge havir 
A: I have a superb memory, se 
My mother had an extraorc 
college and I was on the de 
to debate on the Sabbath, m 
the condition that I not tak 
I discovered that I have a 
to—generally didn't have 
ously, at the age of seventy 
have a very good memory, 
ETERSON 
he'd told reporters. ""In the end, 
:her it will be me or the two 
ing for the fences in his struggle 
ion afloat, he still had a bomb-
Scarola, he proposed his own 
:rts had named him, along with 
who had sexually abused her 
in New York City, and in Palm 
lawyers who were suing him in a 
rad Edwards pressured Virginia 
witz as one her assailants. 
.rds did this so that they could 
on Leslie Wexner for one billion 
)ershowitz maintained, to give 
.1d . happen to him if Edwards's 
aid, he had proof. 
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CHAPTER 66 
Excerpts from the Deposition of Alan Dershowitz: 
October 15, 2015 
9:46 a.m. 
Q: In an interview with Hala Gorani on January 5 of this year, 
broadcast on CNN Live, you said, ""I have a superb memory."" 
Do you acknowledge having made that statement? 
A: I have a superb memory, so I must have made that statement. 
My mother had an extraordinary memory, and when I was in 
college and I was on the debate team, my mother allowed me 
to debate on the Sabbath, which was Jewish rest day, only on 
the condition that I not take notes or write. And at that point 
I discovered that I have a very good memory and don't have 
to—generally didn't have to take notes. My memory, obvi-
ously, at the age of seventy-seven has slipped a bit; but do I 
have a very good memory, yes. 
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Which of my clients are you swearing under oath encour-
aged Virginia Roberts to include allegations of an encounter 
with you at the New Mexico ranch? 
A: Both of them—both of your clients, both Judge Cassell 
and Mr. Edwards—were both involved in encouraging 
[their] client to file a perjurious affidavit that they knew or 
should have known was perjurious recently when they 
sought to file another defamatory allegation in the federal 
proceeding. 
Was the arrangement such that what you are charging Brad-
ley Edwards and Professor Paul Cassell with doing was sub-
orning perjury? 
A: Absolutely. If you ask me the question, I am directly charging 
Judge Cassell and Bradley Edwards with suborning perjury. I 
have been advised that Virginia Roberts did not want to 
mention me, told her friends that she did not want to men-
tion me. And was, quote, pressured by her lawyers into 
including these totally false allegations against me. Yes, your 
clients are guilty of suborning perjury. 
Who told you that Bradley Edwards pressured Virginia Rob-
erts into falsely identifying you? 
A: A friend of Virginia Roberts who called me out of the blue 
and told me that she was horrified by what was happening to 
me and that she recently had meetings with Virginia Roberts 
and Virginia Roberts had told her that she never mentioned 
me previously. That the lawyers pressured her into mention 
-
10:18 a.m. 
Q: 
JAMES PATTERSON 
* * * 
Q: 
Q: 
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ing me. And mentioni 
me, yes. 
10:20 a.m. 
Q: What was the name of 
A: Her name is—her first 
Q: Yes. 
A: I don't know the last no 
Q: Did you attempt to find 
A: I have her last name wr 
Q: Where? 
A: It's in my—in my notes 
Q: When did you write Ret 
A: When she—when she f 
since you've asked me tf 
At first her husband 
would not give me their n 
had a series of phone cc 
please, to tell me their na 
they told me the story in g 
her name. She asked me 
her identity without her r 
her. Called her as recently 
I want to recall—I cic 
I called her twice last ni 
reveal her complete name 
and I will be happy to givi 
top of my head. 
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FILTHY RICH 
* * 
Du swearing under oath encour-
dude allegations of an encounter 
) ranch? 
our clients, both Judge Cassell 
both involved in encouraging 
rious affidavit that they knew or 
perjurious recently when they 
.matory allegation in the federal 
that what you are charging Brad-
Paul Cassell with doing was sub-
e question, I am directly charging 
dwards with suborning perjury. I 
irginia Roberts did not want to 
is that she did not want to men-
pressured by her lawyers into 
allegations against me. Yes, your 
.ng perjury. 
Edwards pressured Virginia Rob- • 
you? 
ts who called me out of the blue, 
)rrified by what was happening tot 
d meetings with Virginia Roberts 
old her that she never mentione 
Tyers pressured her into mention 
254 
ing me. And mentioning me over her desire not to mention 
me, yes. 
10:20 a.m. 
Q: What was the name of the person? 
A: Her name is—her first name is Rebecca. 
Q: Yes. 
A: I don't know the last name. 
Q: Did you attempt to find out her last name? 
A: I have her last name written down, but — 
Q: Where? 
A: 
Q: 
A: 
It's in my—in my notes. And I could get it for you... 
When did you write Rebecca's name down? 
When she—when she first called me—let me be very clear, 
since you've asked me the question. 
At first her husband and she called me on the phone. They 
would not give me their names. But they told me [the] story. We 
had a series of phone conversations in which I asked them, 
please, to tell me their names. And after a period of time, after 
they told me the story in great detail, she was willing to give me 
her name. She asked me to promise that I would not disclose 
her identity without her permission. I have been trying to call 
her. Called her as recently as this morning and last night. 
I want to recall—I don't think I called her this morning. 
I called her twice last night to try to get her permission to 
reveal her complete name and identity. But I have the name, 
and I will be happy to give it to you. I just don't have it off the 
top of my head. 
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* * * 
10:23 a.m. 
Q: Would you tell us how many phone conversations [you had] 
with this person Rebecca? 
A: More than six. Probably between six and ten, maybe closer 
to ten. The first few [times] she called me, and after I got 
their number I called her a number of times. 
Q: What is her husband's name? 
A: Michael. Different last name from hers, but again. 
Q: Where do they live? 
A: Palm Beach. Or West Palm Beach, in the Palm Beach area. They 
have been friends of Virginia Roberts since she was a young child. 
Q: Were there any witnesses to any of these phone conversa-
tions other than Rebecca, Michael, and you? 
A: Yes. 
Q: Who? 
A: My wife. 
Q: When did the first conversation occur? 
A: I can probably get you specific information about that. But it 
was months ago. When the story was in the newspapers, she 
called and related the entire story to me and related to me 
that it was part of a massive extortion plot. 
10:25 a.m. 
Q: Did you take contemporaneous notes of those phone conver-
sations? 
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A: No. I took note of nal 
stance, no. 
Q: Have you ever made n 
any communications t 
and/or Michael? 
A: I didn't ""allegedly"" haw 
versations. And I don't 
tions. 
10:44 a.m. 
Q: How many phone calls d 
before she informed yoi 
ing you? 
A: She informed me the firs. 
Q: The very first conversati. 
A: Yes. 
Q: How many phone calls vv 
A: She never asked me for n 
Q: How many phone calls N 
for money? 
A: I was never asked for mo 
Q: Do you know how it is t 
tact you? 
A: They told me they went 
and left a message for me 
Oh, no; they sent me— tt 
an e-mail and asked me-
but a way to respond. A: 
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FILTHY RICH 
Ly phone conversations [you had] 
:tween six and ten, maybe closer 
s] she called me, and after I got 
number of times. 
e? 
e from hers, but again. 
3each, in the Palm Beach area. They 
Roberts since she was a young child. 
to any of these phone conversa-
vlichael, and you? 
ation occur? 
cific information about that. But it 
e story was in the newspapers, she 
ire story to me and related to me 
Te extortion plot. 
rieous notes of those phone conver-
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A: No. I took note of names, but not really notes of the sub-
stance, no. 
Have you ever made notes with regard to the substance of 
any communications that you allegedly had with Rebecca 
and/or Michael? 
A: I didn't ""allegedly"" have these conversations. I had these con-
versations. And I don't recall taking notes of those conversa-
tions. 
10:44 a.m. 
Q: 
Q: 
How many phone calls did you have with this person Rebecca 
before she informed you as to the reason why she was call-
ing you? 
A: She informed me the first time. 
Q: The very first conversation. 
A: Yes. 
Q: 
A: 
A: 
How many phone calls was it before she asked you for money? 
She never asked me for money. 
How many phone calls was it before her husband asked you 
for money? 
I was never asked for money, ever. 
Do you know how it is that these people knew how to con-
tact you? 
A: They told me they went to my website and got my number 
and left a message for me to call. Yeah, that's what happened. 
Oh, no; they sent me—they went on my website and sent me 
an e-mail and asked me—and the e-mail had a blank name 
but a way to respond. And so I responded with my phone 
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number and they called, is my recollection. That's my best 
recollection. 
10:45 a.m. 
Q: 
So from the very first conversation that you had with this 
person, you had information indicating that this person was 
informing you that Bradley Edwards had engaged in unethi-
cal conduct, correct? 
A: Let me just be very clear what she said to me. She said to me 
that she had been told directly by her friend Virginia Rob-
erts, who stayed with her overnight for a period of time, that 
she never wanted to mention me in any of the pleadings. And 
that her two lawyers in the pleadings, or her lawyers who 
filed the pleadings, pressured her into including my name 
and details. 
Did Rebecca ever suggest to you that the details sworn to by 
Virginia Roberts were false? 
She certainly suggested that, yes. She mentioned to me that 
Virginia Roberts had never, ever mentioned [me to her], 
among any of the people that she had had any contact with, 
until she—until she was pressured into doing so by her law-
yers, yes. 
So from the very first conversation, the impression you had 
was that this was a witness who could provide information 
that Bradley Edwards and Paul Cassell had acted unethically 
and dishonestly, correct? 
A: I wasn't sure she could provide the information because she 
was very reluctant to come forward. She didn't want to be 
Q: 
A: 
Q: 
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involved. But I knew shf 
yes, but I didn't know, 2 
prepared to be a witne. 
question. 
11:08 a.m. 
Q: Was any request made bs 
A: Yes. 
Q: Let me back up then, if 
you to do, based upon yc 
much detail as you poss 
said.... 
A: I'm not sure the request f 
or the second call.... Th 
like to talk to your wife [1 
down. I'm happy to talk 
that they would think —• 
her to think about it. An 
few days and find out 
were. 
Q: Where were you when 
when you made this phon 
A: I think I was in New York 
Q: Do you know whether t1-. 
phone or a landline? 
A: I don't remember. 
Q: Have you attempted to gat 
poses of responding to dis 
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my recollection. That's my best 
'ersation that you had with this 
a indicating that this person was 
Edwards had engaged in unethi-
la she said to me. She said to me 
:ctly by her friend Virginia Rob-
vernight for a period of time, that 
n me in any of the pleadings. And 
Le pleadings, or her lawyers who 
red her into including my name 
o you that the details sworn to by 
:? 
at, yes. She mentioned to me that 
'er, ever mentioned [me to her], 
hat she had had any contact with, 
Iressured into doing so by her law-
versation, the impression you had 
ss who could provide information 
Paul Cassell had acted unethically 
ovide the information because she 
ne forward. She didn't want to 
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involved. But I knew she had provided me with information, 
yes, but I didn't know, and I still don't know, whether she is 
prepared to be a witness. I don't know the answer to that 
question. 
11:08 a.m. 
Q: Was any request made by you for a meeting? 
A: Yes. 
Q: Let me back up then, if I could, please. Because what I want 
you to do, based upon your superb memory, is to tell us in as 
much detail as you possibly can recall everything that was 
said.... 
A: I'm not sure the request for the meeting came in the first call 
or the second call.... The first call was basically, I'd really 
like to talk to your wife [Rebecca] about this. I'm happy to fly 
down. I'm happy to talk to you on the phone. And we left it 
that they would think—that she would—that he would ask 
her to think about it. And that I could call back in a—in a 
few days and find out what her—what her current feelings 
were. 
Q: Where were you when you received this phone call—or 
when you made this phone call? Sorry. 
A: I think I was in New York. 
Q: Do you know whether that phone call was made on a cell 
phone or a landline? 
A: I don't remember. 
Q: Have you attempted to gather your telephone records for pur-
poses of responding to discovery requests in this case? 
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A: I left that to my lawyers. I know that we did produce tele-
phone records during the relevant periods of time when Vir-
ginia Roberts knew Jeffrey Epstein, and those telephone 
records established that I could not have been at the loca-
tions and at the times that Virginia Roberts claimed to have 
had—falsely claimed to have [had] sexual contact with me. 
Q: I promise you we're going to get to those. 
A: Good. 
Q: Promise you. Along with all the flight logs that you claim 
exonerate you. 
11:11 a.m. 
Q: Let's go to the very second contact that you had with either 
Michael or Rebecca. Who initiated the second contact? 
A: I think I did. I called and got Michael on the phone. 
Q: Where did you call from? 
A: I think New York. 
Q: Tell me in as much detail as your superb memory allows you 
to recall everything that was said during the course of that 
phone conversation. 
[Dershowitz's lawyer]: Let's object to the form and the continued 
use of the word superb. He's described his memory. That's 
your characterization. Go ahead. 
Q: No, I think that that was Mr. Dershowitz's characterization, 
which I have adopted. 
[Lawyer]: Okay. Go ahead. 
A: I called, spoke to Michael. I asked Michael if he had spoken to 
his wife. She said yes, and she was still reluctant to talk to me. 
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F1 
Q: I'm sorry—she said yes 
spoken to his wife? 
A: He said yes. And that sh 
suggested to him that p, 
just so that she hears wh 
and remain on the phone 
wanted. And there cam 
when she did get on the 
She said she had grown I 
were very, very close frie 
Roberts came to stay wit' 
was over Halloween, and 
just the two of them. An 
Roberts confided in Reb( 
mention me in any of th( 
by her lawyer into doing 5 
the object of this effort. TI 
aire who lives in Columb 
Secret and Limited Too. I 
the name of that billionai 
yers hoped to get one billi 
dollars, or half of his net NA 
had improperly engaged ii 
Roberts. That money woul 
it to Virginia Roberts, a ti 
her lawyers were setting u 
of it to the lawyers. 
She then told me that 
to interview Virginia Robe 
order to pressure the billic 
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FILTHY RICH 
know that we did produce tele-
:levant periods of time when Vir-
y Epstein, and those telephone 
:ould not have been at the loca-
Virginia Roberts claimed to have 
ye [hadl sexual contact with me. 
) get to those. 
al the flight logs that you claim 
contact that you had with either 
litiated the second contact? 
)t Michael on the phone. 
5 your superb memory allows you 
as said during the course of that 
lect to the form and the continued 
e's described his memory. That's 
ihead. 
4r. Dershowitz's characterization, 
asked Michael if he had spoken to 
he was still reluctant to talk to me. 
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Q: I'm sorry—she said yes when you asked Michael if he had 
spoken to his wife? 
A: He said yes. And that she was still reluctant to talk to me. I 
suggested to him that perhaps she could talk to me briefly 
just so that she hears what I have to say. And he could listen 
and remain on the phone, and she could stop at any time she 
wanted. And there came a time during that conversation 
when she did get on the phone, and here's what she told me. 
She said she had grown up with Virginia Roberts. That they 
were very, very close friends as young people. That Virginia 
Roberts came to stay with her for a number of days, I think it 
was over Halloween, and they had gone out and had dinner, 
just the two of them. And that she confided in her; Virginia 
Roberts confided in Rebecca that she had never wanted to 
mention me in any of the pleadings, but she was pressured 
by her lawyer into doing so. Rebecca then said that I was not 
the object of this effort. The object of the effort was a billion-
aire who lives in Columbus, Ohio, and who owns Victoria's 
Secret and Limited Too. Rebecca told me she did not know 
the name of that billionaire, but that Virginia and her law-
yers hoped to get one billion dollars, b-i-l-l-i-o-n, one billion 
dollars, or half of his net worth, from him by alleging that he 
had improperly engaged in sexual misconduct with Virginia 
Roberts. That money would be divided three ways: a third of 
it to Virginia Roberts, a third of it to a charity that she and 
her lawyers were setting up for battered women, and a third 
of it to the lawyers. 
She then told me that they were trying to get ABC News 
to interview Virginia Roberts so as to give her credibility in 
order to pressure the billionaire from Columbus, Ohio, into 
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A: 
Q: 
A: 
JAMES PATTERSON 
paying a large sum of money. And that I was named as an 
effort to try to show the billionaire what could happen to 
somebody if they were accused of sexual misconduct. And 
that would encourage him to settle a lawsuit or pay money in 
exchange for his name not being mentioned or revealed. I 
had no idea about this. And I didn't —I didn't ask about this. 
She just stated this. And I then corroborated the fact that she 
was absolutely correct in everything she had said to me. 
You corroborated the fact that she was absolutely correct in 
everything that she had said to you? 
That's right. 
How? 
Okay. Let me answer that question. I was very—I wasn't sure, 
so I called Leslie Wexner. I got his wife on the phone, Abigail 
Wexner. Obviously I knew that the only billionaire in Colum-
bus, Ohio, who owned Limited Too and who owned Victoria's 
Secret was Leslie Wexner. I had met Leslie Wexner on two 
occasions, I think, and his wife. I called Abigail on the phone 
and I said, ""I think you ought to know that there is an extor-
tion plot being directed against your husband by unscrupu-
lous lawyers in—in Florida."" And she said, ""Oh, we're aware 
of that; they've already been in contact with us,"" which sur-
prised me. But [her statement] was confirmation of that. 
then also—I can't give you the chronology of that. I then was 
in touch with ABC and found out she was absolutely correct 
about her efforts to try to get interviewed on ABC television. 
In fact, I learned that your client, Brad Edwards, had sent a 
communication to people in the area urging them to watch 
her interview that was scheduled to be on three television 
programs. If I'm not mistaken, it was [the] Good Day Show; 
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Flu] 
the evening news, and th 
communication with ABC 
they would be putting fal 
allowed Virginia Roberts t 
to corroborate that. I then 
had never mentioned me 
television and publicly stai 
me in any of her descriptio 
contact with. So I was then 
was telling me the complete 
was an extortion plot direct 
nal extortion plot directed 
your clients were involved i: 
11:30 a.m. 
Q: Let's see if we can make su 
another, sir. Do you recol 
between Virginia Roberts ha 
ally abused by you on multi' 
name you as opposed to VU 
you and never having been 
those two things different in 
A: Not in the context of this cas 
that she was going to seek j-
abused her. And if she didn' 
inference is inescapable that 
that she had had any sexual 
tainly the inference I drew... 
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FILTHY RICH 
y. And that I was named as an 
ilionaire what could happen to 
sed of sexual misconduct. And 
settle a lawsuit or pay money in 
being mentioned or revealed. I 
i didn't—I didn't ask about this. 
!..ri corroborated the fact that she 
rything she had said to me. 
at she was absolutely correct in 
to you? 
tstion. I was very—I wasn't sure, 
ot his wife on the phone, Abigail 
iat the only billionaire in Colum-
xl Too and who owned Victoria's 
had met Leslie Wexner on two 
ife. I called Abigail on the phone 
it to know that there is an extor-
.nst your husband by unscrupu-
"" And she said, ""Oh, we're aware 
. in contact with us,"" which sur-
mt.] was confirmation of that. I 
he chronology of that. I then was 
id out she was absolutely correct 
t interviewed on ABC television. 
:Rent, Brad Edwards, had sent a 
1. the area urging them to watch 
tduled to be on three television 
en, it was Ethel Good Day Show, 
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the evening news, and the show Nightline. . I then was in 
communication with ABC and helped to persuade them that 
they would be putting false information on the air if they 
allowed Virginia Roberts to tell her false story. So I was able 
to corroborate that. I then also corroborated the fact that she 
had never mentioned me when her boyfriend appeared on 
television and publicly stated that she had never mentioned 
me in any of her description[s] of people who she had sexual 
contact with. So I was then completely satisfied that Rebecca 
was telling me the complete truth. And that in my view, there 
was an extortion plot directed against Leslie Wexner, a crimi-
nal extortion plot directed against Leslie Wexner, and that 
your clients were involved in that extortion plot. 
11:30 a.m. 
Q: Let's see if we can make sure that we're understanding one 
another, sir. Do you recognize that there's a distinction 
between Virginia Roberts having met you, having been sexu-
ally abused by you on multiple occasions, but not wanting to 
name you as opposed to Virginia Roberts never having met 
you and never having been sexually abused by you ... ? Are 
those two things different in your mind? 
A: Not in the context of this case. Because Virginia Roberts said 
that she was going to seek justice from everybody that had 
abused her. And if she didn't want to name me, I think the 
inference is inescapable that I was not among those people 
that she had had any sexual contact with. So that was cer-
tainly the inference I drew.... 
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11:35 a.m. 
Q: 
A: 
Q: 
A: 
Q: 
* * * 
Who are the people that Rebecca says Virginia had previ-
ously told her that Virginia was abused by? 
I never asked her that question. 
Did you ask her was Les Wexner one of the people that 
abused Virginia? 
I told you I never asked her the question. 
Are you aware that years before December of 2014, when the 
CVRA pleading was filed, that your name had come up 
repeatedly in connection with Jeffrey Epstein's abuse of minors, 
correct? 
A: I am aware that never before 2014, end of December, was it 
ever, ever alleged that I had acted in any way inappropriately 
with regard to Virginia Roberts, that I ever touched her, that 
I ever met her, that I had ever been with her. I was completely 
aware of that. There had never been any allegation. She 
claims under oath that she told you that secretly in 2011, but 
you have produced no notes of any such conversation. You, 
of course, are a witness to this allegation and will be deposed 
as a witness to this allegation. I believe it is an entirely false 
allegation that she told you in 2011 that she had had any sex-
ual contact with me. I think she's lying through her teeth 
when she says that. And I doubt that your notes will reveal 
any such information. But if she did tell you that, she would 
be absolutely, categorically lying. So I am completely aware 
that never—until the lies were put in a legal pleading at the 
end of December 2014, it was never alleged that I had any 
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sexual contact with Vi 
alleged that I was a witn 
and that was false. I w, 
Epstein's sexual abuse. 
that you have falsely de] 
record is clear that I ha 
witness to any abuse, th 
anybody. And—and thi 
talk to Jeffrey Epstein w 
Virginia Roberts, which 
geous, so preposterous, 
lawyer associated with t 
ens] said he couldn't beli 
12:24 p.m. 
Q: You engaged in a mass, 
world that Bradley Edwai 
unethical lawyers who h 
you, correct? 
A: No, that's not correct. I r( 
ing the truth. My goal w 
ginia Roberts's allegatiol 
These two stories appeare 
newspaper in the world al 
of their plot and the plan 
absurdly mentioned Prin 
absurd way—that they rr 
ing to lobby prosecutors ti 
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FILTHY RICH 
...becca says Virginia had previ-
vas abused by? 
on. 
Wexner one of the people that 
the question. 
Fore December of 2014, when the 
that your name had come up 
Jeffrey Epstein's abuse of minors, 
-e 2014, end of December, was it 
acted in any way inappropriately 
erts, that I ever touched her, that 
I- been with her. I was completely 
never been any allegation. She 
told you that secretly in 2011, but 
:s of any such conversation. You, 
us allegation and will be deposed 
on. I believe it is an entirely false 
in 2011 that she had had any sex-
nk she's lying through her teeth 
doubt that your notes will reveal 
if she did tell you that, she would 
lying. So I am completely aware 
were put in a legal pleading at the 
was never alleged that I had any 
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sexual contact with Virginia Roberts. I know that it was 
alleged that I was a witness to Jeffrey Epstein's alleged abuse, 
and that was false. I was never a witness to any of Jeffrey 
Epstein's sexual abuse. And I wrote that to you, something 
that you have falsely denied. And I stand on the record. The 
record is clear that I have categorically denied I was ever a 
witness to any abuse, that I ever saw Jeffrey Epstein abusing 
anybody. And—and the very idea that I would stand and 
talk to Jeffrey Epstein while he was receiving oral sex from 
Virginia Roberts, which she swore to under oath, is so outra-
geous, so preposterous, that even David Boies [a prominent 
lawyer associated with the firm representing Virginia Rob-
erts] said he couldn't believe it was true. 
12:24 p.m. 
Q: You engaged in a mass-media campaign to convince the 
world that Bradley Edwards and Professor Paul Cassell were 
unethical lawyers who had fabricated false charges against 
you, correct? 
A: No, that's not correct. I responded to press inquiries by tell-
ing the truth. My goal was to let the world know that Vir-
ginia Roberts's allegations against me were totally false. 
These two stories appeared, as far as I can tell, in every single 
newspaper in the world and on every media, which was part 
of their plot and the plan of your clients, which is why they 
absurdly mentioned Prince Andrew, claiming in the most 
absurd way—that they mentioned him because he was try-
ing to lobby prosecutors to get a reduced sentence for Jeffrey 
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JAMES PATTERSON 
Epstein; they obviously put Prince Andrew in there in order 
to get massive publicity around the world. And every media 
in the world, practically, called me, from the BBC to CBS to 
ABC to CNN, and I responded to lies with the truth. 
And the truth that you attempted to convey was that Bradley 
Edwards and Professor Paul Cassell were unethical lawyers 
who fabricated false charges against you, right? 
A: The truth that I intended to convey was that the charges 
against me were false and fabricated, that I never had any 
sexual contact—
Fabricated by whom, sir? 
Please don't interrupt me.... that I never had any sexual con-
tact with Virginia Roberts. Because Professor Cassell insisted 
on conveying to the public that he was a former judge and 
that he was a professor and that he was using—improperly, 
in my view— the stationery and name of his university to 
add credibility to his claims, I felt that it was imperative for 
me to indicate that he was engaging in improper and unethi-
cal conduct. It would have been improper for me to have 
allowed his use of his credibility as a former federal judge, as 
a professor who uses, Misuses, his university imprimatur—
it was very important for me to attack the credibility of the 
messengers of the false information. And it was important 
for me to also remind the public that Bradley Edwards was a 
partner of [Scott] Rothstein, a man who is spending fifty 
years in jail for fraudulently creating a Ponzi scheme to sell 
Jeffrey Epstein cases that didn't exist. 
Q: 
A: 
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Scott Rothstein: 2009 
Scott Rothstein was a Ha 
parked his collection c 
house, kept a copy of 1 
portrait of Al Pacino as Mich 
of his nicknames was TPOF 
Darkness,"" and in private, he 
the repercussions of engagin 
Understand that I am capabl 
imagination could ever conju 
Rothstein hosted receptioi 
McCain, Bobby Jindal, Arno 
out hundreds of thousands 
contributions. He gave millio 
the Joe DiMaggio Children' 
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Prince Andrew in there in order 
and the world. And every media 
Jed me, from the BBC to CBS to 
ed to lies with the truth. 
opted to convey was that Bradley 
Cassell were unethical lawyers 
; against you, right? 
to convey was that the charges 
fabricated, that I never had any 
. that I never had any sexual con-
3ecause Professor Cassell insisted 
that he was a former judge and 
that he was using—improperly, 
y and name of his university to 
LS, I felt that it was imperative for 
.ngaging in improper and unethi-
e been improper for me to have 
bility as a former federal judge, as 
ises, his university imprimatur — 
ne to attack the credibility of the 
formation. And it was important 
)ublic that Bradley Edwards was a 
in, a man who is spending fifty 
ly creating a Ponzi scheme to sell 
iidn't exist. 
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Scott Rothstein: 2009 
Scott Rothstein was a flashy Fort Lauderdale ex-lawyer who 
parked his collection of cars in an air-conditioned ware-
house, kept a copy of the Torah on his desk, and hung a 
portrait of Al Pacino as Michael Corleone outside his office. One 
of his nicknames was TPOFD, short for ""the Prince of Fucking 
Darkness,"" and in private, he'd say things like: ""Understand that 
the repercussions of engaging me could open the gates of hell. 
Understand that I am capable of evil far beyond anything your 
imagination could ever conjure up."" 
Rothstein hosted receptions for prominent politicians—John 
McCain, Bobby Jindal, Arnold Schwarzenegger— and handed 
out hundreds of thousands of dollars at a time in campaign 
contributions. He gave millions more to charitable institutions: 
the Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital; the American Heart 
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Association. By all outward appearances, he could afford it: sev-
enty lawyers worked in his firm, which had offices in Florida, 
New York, and Venezuela. But Rothstein's millions actually 
came from a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme he'd been running since 
2005. 
In April of 2009, Bradley Edwards joined Rothstein's firm. 
The lawyer brought his papers along, and Rothstein showed 
those pertaining to Epstein to potential investors. In exchange 
for a lump sum up front, Rothstein said, investors would receive 
a far larger chunk of money later, which Epstein would pay in 
future settlements. 
Edwards and Rothstein both say that Edwards had no knowl-
edge whatsoever of the Ponzi scheme. (Prosecutors, and the 
Florida Bar, agree.) Edwards left as soon as he caught wind of the 
scheme, in November of 2009. But the few months he spent in 
Rothstein's company gave Dershowitz the opening he needed to 
pry open Virginia Roberts's accusations. 
It was at Edwards's insistence, Dershowitz would say, as well 
as Paul Cassell's, that Virginia Roberts added Dershowitz's name 
to the list of men she claimed had abused her. 
According to Dershowitz, he'd been pulled into a billion-dollar 
extortion plot Edwards had hatched. And for Edwards and Cas-
sell, there had been a secondary benefit: Dershowitz had helped 
to work out Epstein's confidential non-prosecution agreement 
with the government. By implicating him directly in Epstein's 
abuse of underage women, Dershowitz claimed, Edwards and 
Cassell were trying to ""open up"" that agreement. 
It might have been a Hail Mary pass on the part of Alan 
Dershowitz. 
But the argument had its own internal logic. 
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The idea that Bradley Edw 
blackmail Leslie Wexner — 
no less—sounds highly ir 
that Edwards had worked 
running his own billion-dc 
Edwards may not have 
files on Jeffrey Epstein al 
Edwards's proximity to Roth 
been as damaging as Dersh 
but it was damaging noneth 
he needed to make his argu 
argument was that it wasn't 
plot to blackmail Wexner. 1 
after was the idea that a 1 
non-prosecution agreement 
erts. That would give Edwa 
agreement open. And in that 
pressuring Virginia Roberts 
Perhaps it wasn't, in thi5 
felt reluctant to mention De 
matter of the three hundred 
she would stand to gain. Ar 
that goes to set up a charity 
Dershowitz had thrown out 
genius move on Edwards's pa 
whole psychological picture: 
for lying about Dershowitz, s 
battered women she'd end up 
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:arances, he could afford it: sev-
.1, which had offices in Florida, 
t Rothstein's millions actually 
;cheme he'd been running since 
dwards joined Rothstein's firm. 
3 along, and Rothstein showed 
potential investors. In exchange 
em n said, investors would receive 
cer, which Epstein would pay in 
say that Edwards had no know!-
scheme. (Prosecutors, and the 
as soon as he caught wind of the 
But the few months he spent in 
howitz the opening he needed to 
usations. 
ce, Dershowitz would say, as well 
Zoberts added Dershowitz's name 
Lad abused her. 
been pulled into a billion-dollar 
tched. And for Edwards and Cas-
y benefit: Dershowitz had helped 
ntial non-prosecution agreement 
licating him directly in Epstein's 
ershowitz claimed, Edwards and 
p"" that agreement. 
1 Mary pass on the part of Alan 
wn internal logic. 
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FILTHY RICH 
* * * 
The idea that Bradley. Edwards and Paul Cassell were trying to 
blackmail Leslie Wexner—blackmail him for one billion dollars, 
no less—sounds highly improbable. But we do know for a fact 
that Edwards had worked with Rothstein— a man who'd been 
running his own billion-dollar con. 
Edwards may not have known that Rothstein was taking his 
files on Jeffrey Epstein and showing them to investors. But 
Edwards's proximity to Rothstein didn't look good. It may not have 
been as damaging as Dershowitz's close friendship with Epstein, 
but it was damaging nonetheless. It gave Dershowitz the opening 
he needed to make his argument. And the genius of Dershowitz's 
argument was that it wasn't necessarily predicated on an actual 
plot to blackmail Wexner. Maybe the thing Edwards was really 
after was the idea that a lawyer who helped work out Epstein's 
non-prosecution agreement was also having sex with Virginia Rob-
erts. That would give Edwards leverage in trying to crack the 
agreement open. And in that case, was it so hard to imagine him 
pressuring Virginia Roberts to add Dershowitz's name to the list? 
Perhaps it wasn't, in this scenario. Virginia would have still 
felt reluctant to mention Dershowitz. If she was, there was the 
matter of the three hundred million dollars, and then some, that 
she would stand to gain. And the three hundred million or so 
that goes to set up a charity for battered women? If the scenario 
Dershowitz had thrown out was true, that would have been a 
genius move on Edwards's part—the sort of detail that helps the 
whole psychological picture fall into place. If Virginia felt guilty 
for lying about Dershowitz, she could think of the thousands of 
battered women she'd end up helping. 
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All these possibilities seemed bizarre. And yet everything 
connected with Epstein's story seemed to be bizarre. 
Bill Clinton got the use of a jet out of Epstein— a trip to 
Africa. But he and Epstein weren't bosom buddies. 
As for Prince Andrew, we already know how he feels about 
women. 
But what did Dershowitz get out of Epstein, aside from 
Epstein's wise counsel on all the books he'd written? 
One advantage Dershowitz had, as he laid out his argument, 
was that when it came to Jeffrey Epstein, all bets were off. He 
didn't have to establish his innocence. All he had to do was make 
sure that the waters stayed muddy. The more complicated things 
seemed to be, the better they were for Dershowitz. 
Thanks to Jeffrey Epstein's actions, and the endlessly compli-
cated cycle of suits and countersuits those actions inspired, 
those waters were very muddy indeed. 
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Scott Rothstein 
On October 27, 2009, Floric 
Rothstein a voice-mail mess 
""Hey, Scott,"" the goveri 
Greek governor. Hope you'i 
touch base and let you knoN 
twenty-fourth, and it is gc 
brother.... Really enjoyed 
watch[ing] a little football a 
me. We love you. Take care. 
That same day, Rothstei 
Casablanca, Morocco. For a 
running. But a few days la( 
Fort Lauderdale. The Ponzi 
The moment he did, he s 
for a lenient sentence. Roths 
the list included people at hi 
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bizarre. And yet everything 
:emed to be bizarre. 
a jet out of Epstein— a trip to 
:t bosom buddies. 
ready know how he feels about 
;et out of Epstein, aside from 
books he'd written? 
lad, as he laid out his argument, 
Epstein, all bets were off. He 
-.:ence. All he had to do was make 
dy. The more complicated things 
:re for Dershowitz. 
ctions, and the endlessly compli-
tersuits those actions inspired, 
ndeed. 
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Scott Rothstein 
On October 27, 2009, Florida's governor, Charlie Crist, left Scott 
Rothstein a voice-mail message. 
""Hey, Scott,"" the governor said. ""It's Charlie, your favorite 
Greek governor. Hope you're doing well, buddy. Just wanted to 
touch base and let you know I'm working Versace for November 
twenty-fourth, and it is going amazingly well—unbelievable, 
brother.... Really enjoyed again seeing you and Kimmie and 
watch[ing] a little football and best to you guys from Carol and 
me. We love you. Take care. Bye-bye."" 
That same day, Rothstein took a chartered Gulfstream V to 
Casablanca, Morocco. For a while, it seemed as if Rothstein was 
running. But a few days later, the same Gulfstream returned to 
Fort Lauderdale. The Ponzi king had decided to turn himself in. 
The moment he did, he started to sing like a canary in return 
for a lenient sentence. Rothstein gave up dozens of associates — 
the list included people at his law firm, law enforcement officers, 
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and his own wife, Kimmie, who was arrested for hiding more 
than one million dollars' worth of jewelry. 
All in all, more than thirty people involved in Rothstein's 
schemes were arrested and sentenced. 
Thanks, in part, to his cooperation with the feds, his was the 
only Ponzi scheme in history in which all the victims recovered 
their money. In return, Rothstein was put into a witness protec-
tion program and is serving his fifty-year sentence anonymously, 
in an undisclosed prison location. 
Alan Dershowitz 
On November 10, 2015, Alan Dershowitz arrived at Shriver Hall, 
on the campus of Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, to talk 
about the Arab-Israeli conflict. 
""The outlines for peace are so obvious,"" he said. ""There has 
to be a two-state solution."" 
Fifteen minutes into the talk, a group of women—students 
belonging to a group called Hopkins Feminists—stood up in 
protest. Dressed all in black, with duct tape over their mouths, 
they held up a sign and marched out of the hall. 
YOU ARE RAPE CULTURE, the sign read. 
Afterward, a reporter for the student paper asked Dershowitz 
about Jeffrey Epstein and Epstein's victims. Wasn't it true that Der-
showitz had implied that one of those victims was ""asking for it?"" 
""I'm a defense attorney,"" Dershowitz replied. ""I have an obliga-
tion under the Constitution to provide a full and zealous defense to 
my clients. If I have failed to do all the things you had just listed, I - 
could be disbarred. I could be found incompetent as counsel."" 
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He asked the reporter, 
on the websites, look on 
woman who was accusing 
disprove many of the cha 
prove the charges against 
rape is a heinous thing to d 
person who has been fals 
rape victims because it rm 
money. Our country, unlit 
defended, and I'm going to 
ents are guilty or innocent 
have been guilty. They dese 
else. I'm very proud of wh 
don't like the fact that I got 
The suits and countersuits 
Dershowitz filed against eac 
2016—reaching a crescend 
the plot to blackmail Les 
involved agreed to settle, i 
""Edwards and Cassell ackn( 
filed sexual misconduct acci 
sexual misconduct accusatic 
ing all exhibits) are hereby 
draws his accusations ti 
unethically. Neither Edward 
intention of repeating the 
Dershowitz also hired form( 
an independent investigatior 
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FILTHY RICH 
to was arrested for hiding more 
of jewelry. 
r people involved in Rothstein's 
:.ration with the feds, his was the 
which all the victims recovered 
in was put into a witness protec-
fifty-year sentence anonymously, 
n. 
nshowitz arrived at Shriver Hall, 
s University, in Baltimore, to talk 
so obvious,"" he said. ""There has 
k, a group of women—students 
opkins Feminists—stood up in 
ith duct tape over their mouths, 
d out of the hall. 
n read. 
!. student paper asked Dershowitz 
s victims. Wasn't it true that Der-
those victims was ""asking for it?"" 
showitz replied. ""I have an obliga-
ovide a full and zealous defense to 
all the things you had just listed, I 
und incompetent as counsel."" 
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He asked the reporter, ""Would any defense lawyer not look 
on the websites, look on social networks, find out what the 
woman who was accusing my client was doing? We were able to 
disprove many of the charges, just like how I was able to dis-
prove the charges against me. Falsely charging somebody with 
rape is a heinous thing to do. First of all, it creates horrors for the 
person who has been falsely accused. Second, it so hurts real 
rape victims because it makes it clear that some women lie for 
money. Our country, unlike others, requires that everybody be 
defended, and I'm going to continue to do that whether my cli-
ents are guilty or innocent. Let me tell you, most of my clients 
have been guilty. They deserve a zealous defense just as anybody 
else. I'm very proud of what I did for Jeffrey Epstein. If people 
don't like the fact that I got a 'good deal,' that's the job I do."" 
The suits and countersuits Paul Cassell, Bradley Edwards, and 
Dershowitz filed against each other dragged on into the spring of 
2016 —reaching a crescendo with Dershowitz's argument about 
the plot to blackmail Les Wexner. But on April 8, all the parties 
involved agreed to settle, issuing a joint statement that read: 
""Edwards and Cassell acknowledge that it was a mistake to have 
filed sexual misconduct accusations against Dershowitz; and the 
sexual misconduct accusations made in all public filings (includ-
ing all exhibits) are hereby withdrawn. Dershowitz also with-
draws his accusations that Edwards and Cassell acted 
unethically. Neither Edwards, Cassell, nor Dershowitz have any 
intention of repeating the allegations against one another."" 
Dershowitz also hired former FBI director Louis J. Freeh to do 
an independent investigation. Freeh concluded that the evidence 
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his team reviewed refuted the accusations of sexual misconduct 
against Dershowitz. 
For Alan Dershowitz, the long nightmare he'd had to endure as a 
result of his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein finally seemed to be over. 
Ghislaine Maxwell 
Trying to put her troubles with Epstein behind her, Ghislaine 
Maxwell took up a new calling. 
""She's doing something to save the oceans now,"" a socialite says 
over the din of cocktail-party chatter at a private Palm Beach Club. 
Maxwell's nonprofit, the TerraMar Project, describes itself as 
""a platform for citizenship and transformation of the high seas."" 
Its focus is on cleaning up the eight million metric tons of plastic 
debris —garbage— that are dumped into the world's oceans 
each year. (Sources say that an earlier enterprise, the Seed Media 
Group, was funded by Jeffrey Epstein in 2005 to the tune of two 
million dollars.) 
""Is anybody here staying awake at night because they're 
frightened about the ocean?"" she asks in 2014 at a TEDx talk in 
Charlottesville, Virginia. ""Are you scared about what could hap-
pen? Are you trying to think about what could you do that would 
help the ocean and all its myriad of troubles?"" 
But although her efforts on behalf of the environment are sin-
cere and articulate, Ghislaine still appears in the society pages. 
In 2010, she attends Chelsea Clinton's wedding in Rhine-
beck, New York. 
In 2014, New York journalist Richard Johnson reports that 
she's newly back from running in an Iditarod dogsled race in 
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Alaska. ""It's hard to top C 
department,"" he writes. 
Upon her return, the r 
International hosts Maxv 
chef for Madame Chiang I 
Sources say that Max\ 
ship with the Clintons. Sh 
Maxwell has repeatedly di 
Roberts—and continues 
Maxwell says she's had no ( 
involving Virginia Roberts 
frey Epstein. She claims th 
as a ""sex slave"" has change 
each telling, Virginia adds s 
figures. Nevertheless, legal 
In 2015, Virginia Robe' 
woman she says recruited he 
Way. In January of 2016, Rc 
that a defamation suit filed al 
predator, was directly relevan 
Maxwell filed an answer in ci 
and accusing Roberts of fabri( 
As of this writing, the si 
Prince Andrew 
In January of 2016, Sunningh 
that Sarah Ferguson and I 
English county of Berkshire. 
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FILTHY RICH 
iccusations of sexual misconduct 
g nightmare he'd had to endure as a 
7 Epstein finally seemed to be over. 
1h Epstein behind her, Ghislaine 
ve the oceans now,"" a socialite says 
atter at a private Palm Beach Club. 
rraMar Project, describes itself as 
transformation of the high seas."" 
tight million metric tons of plastic 
.umped into the world's oceans 
earlier enterprise, the Seed Media 
7..pstein in 2005 to the tune of two 
awake at night because they're 
he asks in 2014 at a TEDx talk in 
you scared about what could hap-
)out what could you do that would 
ad of troubles?"" 
behalf of the environment are sin-
ill appears in the society pages. 
.sea Clinton's wedding in Rhine 
list Richard Johnson reports that 
ig in an Iditarod dogsled race in 
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Alaska. ""It's hard to top Ghislaine Maxwell in the globe-trotting 
department,"" he writes. 
Upon her return, the president of the China Arts Foundation 
International hosts Maxwell at a dinner cooked by the former 
chef for Madame Chiang Kai-shek. 
Sources say that Maxwell still maintains her warm relation-
ship with the Clintons. She was never charged with a crime. And 
Maxwell has repeatedly denied all allegations made by Virginia 
Roberts—and continues to do so today. Through her lawyer, 
Maxwell says she's had no connection to any criminal misconduct 
involving Virginia Roberts (or any other young woman) and Jef-
frey Epstein. She claims that Virginia's story about her experience 
as a ""sex slave"" has changed, significantly, over time— that with 
each telling, Virginia adds salacious details and names new public 
figures. Nevertheless, legal troubles for Maxwell recently began. 
In 2015, Virginia Roberts filed a defamation suit against the 
woman she says recruited her to work at Epstein's house on El Brillo 
Way. In January of 2016, Roberts filed additional papers, claiming 
that a defamation. suit filed against Bill Cosby, another alleged sexual 
predator, was directly relevant to her case against Maxwell. In March, 
Maxwell filed an answer in court denying all of Roberts's allegations 
and accusing Roberts of fabricating them for financial gain. 
As of this writing, the suit is ongoing. 
Prince Andrew 
In January of 2016, Sunninghill Park—the twelve-bedroom estate 
that Sarah Ferguson and Prince Andrew once shared in the 
English county of Berkshire—was bulldozed. 
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Prince Andrew had long since sold the home, which he and 
Sarah had received as a gift after their 1986 wedding. He got into 
hot water when it was revealed that the buyer, a Kazakh billion-
aire named Timur Kulibayev, had paid three million pounds 
more than the home's asking price. 
For her part, Sarah Ferguson announced that she was mov-
ing into a thirteen-million-pound ski chalet in Switzerland. 
It was a fitting end to the long, sometimes sordid story of the 
prince's marriage. But it was not the end of the scandals that 
seemed always to be swirling around the prince. 
On January 2, 2015, Virginia Roberts's allegations about her 
relationship with the prince—and the photo of him with his 
arm around Roberts's waist—appeared in the press. Prince 
Andrew was forced to cut short a skiing holiday to confer with 
his mother, the queen, and to issue a statement denying Rob-
erts's allegations—a step that was widely seen as being without 
precedent for a member of the royal family. 
That same month, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, 
Switzerland, the prince was again forced to ""reiterate and to reaf-
firm"" the repeated denials made by Buckingham Palace that he 
had any sort of sexual relationship with Roberts, who had 
announced in papers filed at the start of the year that Prince 
Andrew has a ""sexual interest in feet."" 
""My focus is on my work,"" Prince Andrew said at the time. 
Asked by a reporter, ""Will you be making a statement?"" the 
prince refused to answer. 
A few days later, Virginia Roberts signed a sworn statement in 
which she said, ""I did have sexual contact with him as I have 
described here—under oath. Given what he knows and has seen, 
I was hoping that he would simply voluntarily tell the truth about 
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everything. I hope my ati 
under oath about the corm 
According to several r 
to .the prince, asking him 
Reportedly, Buckingham F 
""I knew he was a men 
just called him 'Andy,"" Ro 
news from Maxwell that I 
day, Epstein told me I was 
me 'to exceed' everything I 
whatever Prince Andrew w 
Signing her name to th( 
under penalty of perjury th 
That spring, Prince An( 
in South Florida ordered tl 
stricken from civil-court n 
ceedings, these lurid detai 
cluded. Once again, Buckin 
prince's involvement in any 
taming to Roberts. But tha. 
BBC program Panorama wa: 
tion into the prince's dealinf 
As of this writing, the in 
Barry Krischer 
""I have no intention of beir 
Barry Krischer said in 2016 
asked about Jeffrey Epstein. 
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c'x sold the home, which he and 
their 1986 wedding. He got into 
.hat the buyer, a Kazakh billion-
had paid three million pounds 
.ce. 
n announced that she was mov-
Ld ski chalet in Switzerland. 
sometimes sordid story of the 
Lot the end of the scandals that 
ound the prince. 
[a Roberts's allegations about her 
-and the photo of him with his 
- appeared in the press. Prince 
a skiing holiday to confer with 
issue a statement denying Rob-
vas widely seen as being without 
royal family. 
Vorld Economic Forum in Davos, 
lin forced to ""reiterate and to reaf-
le by Buckingham Palace that he 
ionship with Roberts, who had 
the start of the year that Prince 
in feet."" 
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everything. I hope my attorneys can interview Prince Andrew 
under oath about the contacts and that he will tell the truth."" 
According to several reports, Roberts's lawyers had written 
to .the prince, asking him to respond to her allegations in court. 
Reportedly, Buckingham Palace refused delivery of the letter. 
""I knew he was a member of the British royal family, but I 
just called him 'Andy,"" Roberts had said in her statement. ""I got 
news from Maxwell that I would be meeting a prince. Later that 
day, Epstein told me I was meeting a 'major prince.' Epstein told 
me 'to exceed' everything I had been taught. He emphasized that 
whatever Prince Andrew wanted, I was to make sure he got."" 
Signing her name to the document, Roberts wrote, ""I declare 
under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct."" 
That spring, Prince Andrew got a rare break: a federal judge 
in South Florida ordered that the allegations Roberts made be 
stricken from civil-court records. ""At this juncture in the pro-
ceedings, these lurid details are unnecessary,"" the judge con-
cluded. Once again, Buckingham Palace vehemently denied the 
prince's involvement in any activities, sexual or otherwise, per-
taining to Roberts. But that same year, reports leaked that the 
BBC program Panorama was working on an in-depth investiga-
tion into the prince's dealings with Epstein and Roberts. 
As of this writing, the investigation has yet to air. 
Barry Krischer 
""I have no intention of being dragged into that conversation,"" 
Barry Krischer said in 2016 when contacted via telephone and 
asked about Jeffrey Epstein. 
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JAMES PATTERSON 
More than a decade had passed since Epstein's case first 
landed on the state attorney's desk. 
""The New York Times has called me,"" said Krischer. ""The 
British papers. I'm not interested in being pulled into that con-
versation. I know that the police chief didn't think the case was 
handled right, but that's why he's a cop and I'm a prosecutor."" 
Krischer, who left the state attorney's office in 2009, is still a 
member of the Criminal Justice Commission in Palm Beach 
County. Since his retirement, he's volunteered one morning a 
week at the office of the state attorney and two mornings a week 
at the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office. 
He still remains active in child welfare issues, working with 
the Florida Department of Children and Families. 
Despite his continued involvement with local law enforce-
ment, he hasn't spoken to Michael Reiter in years. 
Bradley Edwards 
In December of 2009, Jeffrey Epstein filed suit, under Florida's 
RICO act, against Scott Rothstein, the jailed Ponzi king; Bradley 
Edwards, the lawyer who'd worked, briefly, in Rothstein's law 
firm, RRA, and represented several of Epstein's victims; and one 
of those victims, an individual referred to in the lawsuit as 
""Upon information and belief,"" the suit stated, ""EDWARDS 
knew or should have known that ROTHSTEIN was utilizing 
RRA as a front for the massive Ponzi scheme and/or were selling 
an alleged interest or investment in the Civil Actions (and other 
claims) involving Epstein."" The suit also claimed that, ""By using 
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Civil Actions against EP! 
ments regarding same, RC 
investors into ROTHSTEI1 
dollars which, in turn, w 
EPSTEIN for the sole pur 
scheme."" 
Moreover, the suit claii 
sex with Epstein; worked a 
prostitute and call girl; h; 
painkillers, Xanax, Ecsta5 
Amendment during her de 
relevant but problem ques. 
claims about two other vic. 
said only good things abo 
FBI in 2007, while being 
story ""changed dramaticall 
the hands of EDWARDS an 
In a motion for summar 
Edwards denied all of thesi 
frivolous for two separate• 
claimed, Epstein was seel 
asserting his own Fifth An 
covery of relevant facts. (An 
dozens of times, when dep 
On the other hand, Epstein 
by all of the record evidence 
""The truth in the record 
support Epstein's claims an 
roborative of Edwards's swor 
stated. 
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FILTHY RICH 
;sed since Epstein's case first 
lied me,"" said Krischer. ""The 
in being pulled into that con-
chief didn't think the case was 
a cop and I'm a prosecutor."" 
torney's office in 2009, is still a 
Commission in Palm Beach 
es volunteered one morning a 
)rney and two mornings a week 
F's Office. 
Id welfare issues, working with 
ren and Families. 
vement with local law enforce-
el Reiter in years. 
.pstein filed suit, under Florida's 
in, the jailed Ponzi king; Bradley 
)rked, briefly, in Rothstein's law 
'eral of Epstein's victims; and one 
al referred to in the lawsuit as 
lief,"" the suit stated, ""EDWARDS 
that ROTHSTEIN was utilizing 
Ponzi scheme and/or were selling 
;nt in the Civil Actions (and other 
e suit also claimed that, ""By using 
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Civil Actions against EPSTEIN as 'bait' and fabricating settle-
ments regarding same, ROTHSTEIN and others were able to lure 
investors into ROTHSTEIN'S lair and bilked them of millions of 
dollars which, in turn, was used to fund the litigation against 
EPSTEIN for the sole purpose of continuing the massive Ponzi 
scheme."" 
Moreover, the suit claimed, L.M. had ""testified she never had 
sex with Epstein; worked at numerous strip clubs; is an admitted 
prostitute and call girl; has a history of illegal drug use (pot, 
painkillers, Xanax, Ecstasy); and continually asserted the 5th 
Amendment during her depositions in order to avoid answering 
relevant but problem questions for her."" (The suit made similar 
claims about two other victims.) According to the suit, L.M. had 
said only good things about Epstein when interviewed by the 
FBI in 2007, while being represented by another lawyer. Her 
story ""changed dramatically,"" the suit claimed, once she was ""in 
the hands of EDWARDS and RRA."" 
In a motion for summary judgment filed by Bradley Edwards, 
Edwards denied all of these allegations, calling Epstein's claims 
frivolous for two separate reasons: On the one hand, Edwards 
claimed, Epstein was seeking damages from Edwards while 
asserting his own Fifth Amendment privilege to block the dis-
covery of relevant facts. (And, in fact, Epstein did plead the Fifth, 
dozens of times, when deposed by the lawyers of his victims.) 
On the other hand, Epstein's claims were ""directly contradicted 
by all of the record evidence. 
""The truth in the record is entirely devoid of any evidence to 
support Epstein's claims and is completely and consistently cor-
roborative of Edwards's sworn assertion of innocence,"" the motion 
stated. 
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JAMES PATTERSON 
Put simply, Epstein has made allegations that have no basis 
in fact. To the contrary, his lawsuit was merely a desperate 
measure by a serial pedophile to prevent being held account-
able for repeatedly sexually abusing minor females. Epstein's 
ulterior motives in filing, and prosecuting this lawsuit are 
blatantly obvious. Epstein's behavior is another clear demon-
stration that he feels he lives above the law and that because 
of his wealth he can manipulate the system and pay for law-
yers to do his dirty work—even to the extent of having them 
assert baseless claims against other members of the Florida 
Bar. Epstein's Complaint against Edwards and LM is nothing 
short of a far-fetched fictional fairy-tale with absolutely no 
evidence whatsoever to support his preposterous claims. It 
was his last ditch effort to escape the public disclosure 
by Edwards and his clients of the nature, extent, and sordid 
details of his life as a serial child molester. Edwards's 
Motion for Summary judgment should be granted without 
equivocation. 
Edwards filed a counterclaim for malicious prosecution. ""He 
sued me with knowingly made up, falsified facts,' Edwards says. 
And his sole motivation was to extort me into abandoning 
the legitimate cases I was pursuing against him on behalf of 
the victims, including the CVRA suit. He ultimately had to 
dismiss that case, literally on the morning our Summary 
Judgment was to be heard. I then sued him. We were set for 
trial. The judge granted me punitive damages in my claim. 
And then, in a separate case in Florida, one of the appellate 
280 
courts basically abolisl 
in Florida. My case wa! 
our district ruled that 
stand and the tort is ni 
back to the trial court 
the State Supreme Cour 
Sarah Kellen 
""She said her name was C 
tion,"" says a real estate a, 
much later that I realized s 
In April of 2009, that al 
Beach. For Clara, that 111th 
Epstein's big house on El Br: 
as Sarah Kellen. But not suc 
pay four thousand dollars a 
2009,"" says a Palm Beach re 
market. ""But she stayed a lot 
round-the-world trip for at h 
Kellen had been a prime 
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Marcinkova as potential ci 
charges as part of the plea (I( 
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pleaded to something, he cout 
slapping her, once, on his jet. 
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111egations that have no basis 
Nsuit was merely a desperate 
o prevent being held account-
using minor females. Epstein's 
prosecuting this lawsuit are 
tavior is another clear demon-
'90ve the law and that because 
e the system and pay for law-
n to the extent of having them 
other members of the Florida 
st Edwards and LM is nothing 
fairy-tale with absolutely no 
irt his preposterous claims. It 
escape the public disclosure 
the nature, extent, and sordid 
al child molester. Edwards's 
nt should be granted without 
a for malicious prosecution. ""He 
ip, falsified facts,' Edwards says. 
to extort me into abandoning 
•suing against him on behalf of 
RA suit. He ultimately had to 
n the morning our Summary 
hen sued him. We were set for 
'unitive damages in my claim. 
n Florida, one of the appellate 
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courts basically abolished the tort of malicious prosecution 
in Florida. My case was dismissed. I then appealed that. And 
our district ruled that my malicious prosecution claim can 
stand and the tort is not abolished in Florida. They sent it 
back to the trial court and Jeffrey Epstein appealed that to 
the State Supreme Court, and that's where that stands. 
Sarah Kellen 
""She said her name was Clara something on the rental applica-
tion,"" says a real estate agent in Palm Beach. ""It wasn't until 
much later that I realized she was associated with Epstein."" 
In April of 2009, that agent rented Clara a bungalow in Palm 
Beach. For Clara, that little home was a step down from Jeffrey 
Epstein's big house on El Brillo Way and from the life she'd known 
as Sarah Kellen. But not such a step down. ""She signed a lease to 
pay four thousand dollars a month from April 18 through July 18, 
2009,"" says a Palm Beach resident familiar with the local housing 
market. ""But she stayed a lot longer. And by the way, she went on a 
round-the-world trip for at least a month while she had the lease."" 
Kellen had been a prime suspect in Chief Reiter's investigation. 
Prosecutors had considered charging her, Wendy Dobbs, and Nadia 
Marcinkova as potential coconspirators. They'd avoided those 
charges as part of the plea deal that Epstein had struck—a deal in 
the course of which it was suggested that if Epstein had to have 
pleaded to something, he could have pleaded to striking Kellen—or 
slapping her, once, on his jet. Assault, they'd have called it. 
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JAMES PATTERSON 
Kellen might have gone along with that. But in the end she 
didn't need to. Sources say she found another rich man as Epstein 
whiled away his hours in and out of the Palm Beach Stockade. 
She reinvented herself, and when her relationship with the 
wealthy man fell apart, she played the field until she met and 
married a race-car driver named Brian Vickers. Along the way 
she reinvented herself yet again, changing her name to Sarah 
Kensington. 
Nadia Marcinkova 
Nadia Marcinkova changed her surname to Marcinko and, after 
training at a Palm Beach flight school, became a commercial 
pilot and certified flight instructor. Calling herself Gulfstream 
Girl on Facebook, she cultivated her social media presence until 
2013, when the Gulfstream company filed a trademark infringe-
ment lawsuit against her. When the suit was settled out of court, 
in 2014, Marcinko changed ""Gulfstream"" to ""Global."" 
""As a child,"" she wrote for the ""About Me"" page on her web-
site, ""Nadia channeled her entrepreneurial spirit by selling invi-
sible pets to neighboring kids. She continued on to manage a 
successful family marketing business and soon she was disco-
vered by a modeling agency and immersed into the marketing 
and advertising world as a spokesperson and international fash-
ion model."" 
There is no mention of Jeffrey Epstein. But on her YouTube 
channel, Marcinko appears in the cockpit of a Gulfstream II that 
looks very much like Epstein's Gulfstream, sitting beside a man 
who looks much like Larry Visoski, a pilot for Epstein. 
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Marcinko's Manhatte 
Jeffrey Epstein's brother, 
Sarah Kensington us( 
The Girls 
One of the girls who gave 
Angeles and became an 
opera and appearing in 
career in country music. 
Several girls have bee 
other nonviolent crimes. 
One girl is dead— m 
that had nothing to do wi 
One of the girls who ( 
is now a successful real e5 
Mary moved back in 
and attended college for 
along the way. In 2010, 
Mary, who was born in 1 
young for a man of Jeffrey 
ahead of her. 
Wendy Dobbs studied 
tender and waitress. ""I m 
[utilize] my communicatil 
others,"" she wrote on Lin 
can make a difference in s( 
encourage others to make 
reaching for the stars then 
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with that. But in the end she 
.d another rich man as Epstein 
of the Palm Beach Stockade. 
n her relationship with the 
d the field until she met and 
Brian Vickers. Along the way 
changing her name to Sarah 
trname to Marcinko and, after 
>chool, became a commercial 
)r. Calling herself Gulfstream 
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my filed a trademark infringe-
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y Epstein. But on her YouTube 
cockpit of a Gulfstream II that 
ulfstream, sitting beside a man 
ki, a pilot for Epstein. 
Marcinko's Manhattan address belongs to a building where 
Jeffrey Epstein's brother, Mark, owns the majority of apartments. 
Sarah Kensington uses the same address in New York. 
The Girls 
One of the girls who gave Jeffrey Epstein massages moved to Los 
Angeles and became an actress, starring for a time in a soap 
opera and appearing in several films. She is now pursuing a 
career in country music. 
Several girls have been arrested for drugs, prostitution, and 
other nonviolent crimes. 
One girl is dead—murdered by her boyfriend for reasons 
that had nothing to do with Epstein. 
One of the girls who claimed to have been raped by Epstein 
is now a successful real estate broker in South Florida. 
Mary moved back in with her parents, finished high school, 
and attended college for a while. She had her ups and downs 
along the way. In 2010, she was arrested for shoplifting. But 
Mary, who was born in 1990, is still in her midtwenties —still 
young for a man of Jeffrey Epstein's age—with many good years 
ahead of her. 
Wendy Dobbs studied nursing in college and became a bar-
tender and waitress. ""I want to fill a position in which I can 
[utilize] my communication and customer service skills to help 
others,"" she wrote on LinkedIn. ""I feel I am at my best when I 
can make a difference in someone's life. My goal is to inspire and 
encourage others to make positive changes daily. If you are not 
reaching for the stars then your dreams are not big enough."" 
283 
JAMES PATTERSON 
The Cops 
Michele Pagan is now a sergeant for the Palm Beach Police 
Department. 
In early 2012, at a reception at Mar-a-Lago, Detective Joe 
Recarey received the first Palm Beach Police Foundation Police 
Officer of the Year award—one of several honors he received in 
the course of his twenty-three-year career in Palm Beach. Two 
years later, he left the department and took a job as director of 
loss prevention for the Gold Coast Beverage company. 
""I've been [at the Palm Beach Police Department] longer than 
my children have been alive,"" he told a reporter for the Palm 
Beach Daily News when he left. ""I'm going to miss a majority of 
the people I've worked with, and, obviously, I'm going to miss 
the work. This is my extended family. Like many families, you 
have disagreements with some family members. But you over-
look that, and you work together and you're a team. I'm going to 
look back and miss a lot of the people I've worked with."" 
Palm Beach police chief Michael Reiter left the department in 
2008 after twenty-eight years on the job. He now runs his own 
security company in Palm Beach. 
Jean-Luc Brunel 
In January of 2015, Jean-Luc Brunel sued his old friend Jeffrey 
Epstein, claiming that Epstein's fall from grace had cost him mil-
lions of dollars in business and caused him ""severe emotional stress."" 
The lawsuit claimed, ""Plaintiff Brunel is emotionally destroyed 
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as a result of Epstein's actic 
ness. He has been on medic 
It continues: ""Defendar 
distress on Plaintiff Brun( 
under-aged girls, which wa 
gal conduct was extreme ar 
The suit went on to qu 
modeling scout had gone ii 
sense of depression related 
in his modeling agency as a 
business."" Brunel had go 
Rivotril— as a result. 
The fashion world had fr. 
ship with Jeffrey Epstein had 
ble for him to find the ""fresh 
Brunel acknowledged E 
own involvement. ""Epsteir 
and extreme; they involved 
aged girls while the girls w 
of the girls with a finger or ( 
When the Daily Beast r( 
Brunel for a comment, the v 
is not in town; he's in South 
Brunel's agency, MC2, is 
Jeffrey Epstein 
As of this writing, Jeffrey El 
women at his Manhattan tov 
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t for the Palm Beach Police 
at Mar-a-Lago, Detective Joe 
:ach Police Foundation Police 
several honors he received in 
ir career in Palm Beach. Two 
• and took a job as director of 
Beverage company. 
olice Department] longer than 
: told a reporter for the Palm 
m going to miss a majority of 
, obviously, I'm going to miss 
mily. Like many families, you 
•mily members. But you over-
Ind you're a team. I'm going to 
pie I've worked with."" 
el Reiter left the department in 
the job. He now runs his own 
nel sued his old friend Jeffrey 
1 from grace had cost him mil-
ml him ""severe emotional stress."" 
Brunel is emotionally destroyed 
as a result of Epstein's actions and the resulting effects on his busi-
ness. He has been on medications to deal with the effects of this."" 
It continues: ""Defendant Epstein recklessly inflicted emotional 
distress on Plaintiff Brunel by engaging in illegal conduct with 
under-aged girls, which was falsely linked to Plaintiff.... This ille-
gal conduct was extreme and outrageous by any standard."" 
The suit went on to quote Bruners doctor, who said that the 
modeling scout had gone into psychotherapy ""due to a subjective 
sense of depression related to what he believes is a loss of business 
in his modeling agency as a result of slander published against his 
business."" Brunel had gone on prescription drugs— Prozac, 
Rivotril— as a result. 
The fashion world had frozen him out, he said, after his relation-
ship with Jeffrey Epstein had become public. It had become impossi-
ble for him to find the ""fresh faces"" he needed for his agency, MC2. 
Brunel acknowledged Epstein's alleged crimes but denied his 
own involvement. ""Epstein's illegal activities were outrageous 
and extreme; they involved receiving massages from the under-
aged girls while the girls were nude or nearly nude; penetration 
of the girls with a finger or object; or full intercourse."" 
When the Daily Beast reported the story and reached out to 
Brunel for a comment, the website's reporter was told, ""Jean-Luc 
is not in town; he's in South America."" 
Bruners agency, MC2, is still in business. 
Jeffrey Epstein 
As of this writing, Jeffrey Epstein continues to entertain young 
women at his Manhattan town house. 
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EPILOGUE . 
When John Connolly, Tim Malloy, and I began work on 
this book, I had hoped to interview Jeffrey Epstein 
myself: to look directly into the eyes of the man we'd 
be writing about. Epstein declined to sit for an interview. Many 
of his friends and associates did speak with us on the condition 
that they not be quoted. Several of them still liked Epstein and 
made a point of telling us what a loyal friend he was—although, 
like Icarus, he seemed to have a fatal flaw. 
If Epstein had agreed to an interview, these are the questions 
I would have asked him: 
• You pleaded guilty to a single felony count of soliciting 
prostitution from a minor. Do you believe in your heart 
that you were guilty? 
• In 2011 you told the New York Post, ""I'm not a sexual 
predator, I'm an 'offender.' It's the difference between a 
murderer and a person who steals a bagel."" Do you 
stand by that statement today? 
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• Do you believe th; 
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n Malloy, and I began work on 
d to interview Jeffrey Epstein 
/ into the eyes of the man we'd 
:d to sit for an interview. Many 
speak with us on the condition 
of them still liked Epstein and 
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atal flaw. 
terview, these are the questions 
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• Do you feel you were treated fairly by the criminal jus-
tice system? 
• What effect did your conviction have on your business? 
• Do you believe that you've done psychological harm to 
the women—especially the underage girls—you've 
been involved with? 
• Are you still in touch with Ghislaine Maxwell? 
• Are you in touch with Prince Andrew? 
• You've spent time with Bill Clinton as well as Donald 
Trump. How would you characterize the two men? 
• Several people have described you as a very loyal friend. 
Is that a fair characterization? 
• I've heard that Leslie Wexner removed all photographs 
• of you from his home. Given how close you once were, 
have you reconciled or tried to repair the relationship? 
• Did the thirteen months you spent in jail change you in 
any way? 
• After your stay in prison, have you continued to seek 
pany of very underage women 
• You were ordered to undergo psychological treatment 
as part of your sentence. Are you under treatment 
today? 
• Do you regard yourself as having a sex addiction, and, 
if so, have you been treated for it? 
• What is your greatest regret? 
• What do you look for in a woman? 
• Last question. How well do you sleep at night? 
ABOUT THE AUTHORS 
James Patterson received the Literarian Award for Outstand-
ing Service to the American Literary Community at the 2015 
National Book Awards ceremony. He holds the Guinness World 
Record for the most number one New York Times bestsellers, and 
his books have sold more than 325 million copies worldwide. 
John Connolly has been an investigative reporter for twenty-five 
years, the last twelve of them with Vanity Fair. He has written 
scores of nonfiction pieces for numerous national magazines. ' 
Tim Malloy is a thirty-year veteran of print and television jour-
nalism. He has won eight Emmys as an investigative reporter, 
documentary maker, and war correspondent. He appears in 
print, on the Web, and on TV as a political analyst. 
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could not have been more different, but Palm Beach, 
where we both live, is small and tightly knit, and we 
knew some of the same people. So I had followed 
Epstein's case in the media and talked about it over 
dinners with friends. I wondered why it had taken 
so long for the Palm Beach police to catch up with 
Epstein. And, once they did, why he had served so 
little jail time. Those were the obvious questions, but 
there were others: How had Epstein made his money, 
possibly billions? No one seemed to know. 
Epstein had poweifitl friends. Were  his connec-
tions the reason that Epstein was now a free man? 
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making the request, he lessened the likelihood that it would arouse
undue suspicion when he departed for Hong Kong with stolen docu-
ments on May 18. This brief window left him some four weeks to
take the lists that he coveted.

Snowden carried out the heist with precision reminiscent of a
Mission: Impossible movie caper. First, he needed to get passwords to
up to twenty-four compartments at the National Threat Operations
Center that he had not been read into. Even in the “open culture”
of the NSA, this was not an easy challenge. He would be asking
one or more intelligence professionals to break strict NSA rules
that not only prohibited them from disclosing their passwords to an
unauthorized party such as himself but required them to report any
unauthorized person who asked to use their passwords. Remarkably,
he accomplished this incredible feat. He gained access to twenty-four
compartments containing the NSA’s most closely guarded secrets in
a matter of a few weeks.

Next, he had to find the lists he was seeking in a vast ocean of

© data. For this task, he used software applications called spiders to ©
crawl through the data and find the files he was after. He deployed
these robotic spiders, which presumably had been programmed in
advance, soon after he began working at the center. According to the
subsequent NSA damage assessment, Snowden’s spiders indexed
well over one million documents. Many of those that he copied and
moved were from Level 3 sensitive compartmented information,
according to the NSA analysis. The spiders also made his penetra-
tion relatively safe. As previously mentioned, the Hawaii base did
not have a real-time auditing system. So alarm bells did not go off in
the security office when he indexed documents.

Finally, Snowden had to find a way to transfer this data to a com-
puter with an opened USB port. This task was complicated by a secu-
rity precaution. Most of the computers at the center had had their
ports sealed shut to prevent unauthorized downloads. Making the
transfer even more difficult, he was working as an analyst in train-
ing in an open-plan office with closed-circuit security cameras. But it
was not impossible. System administrators sometimes used service
computers that had unsealed ports to back up data before they did

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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018679.txt,"to go into therapy, but I wanted a Kink Aware therapist who wouldn't shame me for my
S&M preferences. The specific therapist I preferred was out-of-network for my health
insurance, which meant I needed help paying for it. My dad was cool with it, but he didn't
say much. My mother paused when I told her... and then she explained that S&M is part
of her sexuality, too.

I was shocked. I was also incredibly relieved. If my brilliant, independent mother was
into S&M, then suddenly I felt much more okay about being into it myself. It turned out
that she had explored S&M late in life -- and she went through the same anxiety about
feminism and S&M that I'd felt. ""You're not giving up your liberation,” she told me.

Mom also acknowledged the stereotype that S&M arises from abusive experiences. ""I
once worried that being raped made me into S&M,"" she said. ""But I remember having
S&M feelings in my childhood and early teens, long before I was raped. I was like this all
along."" When she said that, I caught my breath in recognition.

This is another topic I often repeat myself about, but that's because it's important. As it
happens, the biggest and best-designed study on S&M found that there is no correlation
between abusive experiences and being into S&M. There's also plenty of anecdotal
evidence within the S&M community that a lot of S&Mers, though not all, feel our S&M
identities to be innate (sometimes described as an ""orientation""). This is not to say that
there's anything wrong with understanding or processing abuse through consensual S&M.
The psychologist Peggy Kleinplatz once published a scholarly article called ""Learning
From Extraordinary Lovers: Lessons From The Edge,"" which discusses how therapists
can help their clients by studying alternative sexualities. Kleinplatz included a case study
of a couple whose S&M experiences helped them process their histories of abuse.
However, abusive experiences should not be seen as the usual ""creator"" of S&M desires.
(For more on this, check out my article on S&M and the psychiatric establishment.)

The stereotype that S&M ""comes from"" abuse is another reason I worried about writing
this article. Basically, this is a prettily-wrapped gift to Internet commentators who enjoy
writing posts or hate mail about how fucked up I am, or about how dysfunctional S&M

is. I guess there's no help for that.

KK Ok

""I'm fascinated that you've adopted feminism so thoroughly,"" my mother told me once. ""I
never felt like I was into feminism like you are.""

""What?"" I said. ""Are you serious?”

""Well, feminism shaped my life,” she said. ""I really had my consciousness raised by
some of my experiences. Not just being raped, but by other things, like seeing the anger
and resentment among my mother and her sisters. Feminism helped me understand how
women compete and put each other down because we're put in that position by men who
have power over us. Sometimes, we're like animals who have been starved into fighting
for scraps.

""But,"" my mother continued, ""I've never been sure about calling myself a feminist. There
have always been a lot of feminist areas I didn't feel welcome. Your dad was a card-

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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031616.txt,"From: jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Sent: 4/28/2016 7:03:16 PM 
To: Michael Wolff 
Subject: Re: Reuters / lawsuit against Jeffrey Epstein 
no , obviously somoene who is deranaged, but lets see, it will be released by reuters this 
afternoon supposedly 
On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 3:00 PM, Michael Wolff< > wrote: 
Well, I guess if there's anybody who can wave thus away, it's Donald. Let me know if there's anything I can 
do. 
On Thursday, April 28, 2016, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
here we go 
----------Forwarded message---------- 
From: Martin Weinberg 
Date: Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 12:20 PM 
Subject: Fwd: Reuters / lawsuit against Jeffrey Epstein 
To: Jeff Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com> 
Reporter said 1994 claim fed ct California 
Will go to press in several hrs 
Sent from my iPhone 
Begin forwarded message: 
From: < 
Date: April 28, 2016 at 12:14:37 PM EDT 
To: <MNIMI> 
Subject: RE: Reuters / lawsuit against Jeffrey Epstein 
Sorry, the suit is attached to this email. 
From: Ingram, David (Reuters News) 
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2016 12:14 PM 
To: 'Martin G. Weinberg' 
Subject: Reuters / lawsuit against Jeffrey Epstein 
Hi Marty, 
The attached lawsuit was filed this week in federal court in California alleging that Jeffrey Epstein and 
another man, Donald Trump, raped her in 1994. We're planning to publish a story on the suit this afternoon, 
and we want to make sure it is fair. Is Mr. Epstein available to speak? Or do you want to offer a comment on 
this behalf? 
My number i ______________ and I'm available any time. I also just tried your cell phone. 
Thank you in advance. 
HOUSE OVERSIGHT 031616 
David Ingram 
Correspondent 
Reuters News 
Thomson Reuters 
Office: _ 
Mobile: 
david.ingram@thomsonreuters.com 
Reuters.com  
please note 
The information contained in this communication is 
confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may 
constitute inside information, and is intended only for 
the use of the addressee. It is the property of 
JEE 
Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this 
communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited 
and may be unlawful. If you have received this 
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return e-mail or by e-mail to jeevacation@gmail.com, and 
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including all attachments. copyright -all rights reserved 
please note 
The information contained in this communication is 
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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019573.txt,"Escape Artist | 85

focus on him as the sole perpetrator of the leak so that no one else at
the NSA would be suspected.

Poitras and Gellman were not the only journalists involved in
the news event. Poitras also asked Appelbaum to help her interview
Snowden about the NSA’s operations. She later said that she needed
someone with technical expertise in government surveillance to test
the bona fides of Citizen Four. She believed that Appelbaum, who
had participated in her anti-NSA presentations in 2012, qualified for
the position.

Snowden previously had contact with Appelbaum. Appelbaum
had communicated with Snowden under his Oahu CryptoParty alias
about an obscure piece of software just a few weeks after Snowden
had met with Runa Sandvik in Hawaii in December 2012. Appel-
baum, in fact, had worked with Sandvik as a core developer of Tor
software. Snowden allowed Appelbaum to put detailed questions to
him concerning the secret operations of the NSA before he met with
Poitras and Greenwald in Hong Kong. Indeed, Poitras joined him
in asking Snowden via encrypted e-mails such questions as “What

© are some of the big surveillance programs that are active today ®
and how do international partners aid the NSA?” “Does the NSA
partner with other nations, like Israel?” and “Do private companies
help the NSA?” Snowden answered all the questions to the satis-
faction of Appelbaum and Poitras. (The interview was published on
July 8, 2013, with Snowden’s approval on the website of Der Spie-
gel, the German weekly, which had also published the WikiLeaks
documents.)

As the days ticked away while Snowden was waiting for Green-
wald in Hong Kong, Greenwald was awaiting a green light to go
there from Janine Gibson, the editor of the Guardian website, who
was based in New York. Under Gibson’s leadership, The Guardian's
website had effectively “gone into the business of publishing gov-
ernment secrets,” as the Guardian columnist Michael Wolff pointed
out. Most of the documents had been supplied by Bradley Man-
ning via WikiLeaks. Few if any of these previous documents The
Guardian published were highly classified, and none were SCI top
secret documents. The NSA documents Greenwald had received

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012620.txt,"From:Jay Lefkowitz

Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 11:46 AM

To: Villafana, Ann Marie C. (USAFLS)

Cc: Martin Weinberg; Lourie, Andrew

Subject: Re: Epstein agreement as reviewed by the U.S. Attomey

Marie - Here are what I hope are final edits to the agreement. I will call in 15 min.
thanks -- Jay

""Villafana, Ann Marie C.
\(USAFLS\)"" To ""Jay Lefkowitz"" Po

cc

09/24/2007 10:13 AM

Subje Epstein agreement as reviewed by the U.S.
ct Attorney

Hi Jay — Here is the agreement with Alex’s edits. Thank you.

<<070924 Epstein Non-Prosecution Agreement w Acosta edits v2.pdf>>
A. Marie Villafatia

Assistant U.S. Attorney

900 S. Australian Ave, Suite 400

West Palm Beach, FL 33401

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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030508.txt,"Date: Wednesday, November 3 2010 02:53 PM 
Subject: Re: Quick question 
From: Jeevacation <jeevacation©gmail.com> 
To: 
I will ask after he is officially gone 
Sorry for all the typos .Sent from my iPhone 
On Nov 3, 2010, at 3:43 PM, 
> Maybe in May? 
>------Original Message------ 
> From: Uncle F Jeffrey Epstein 
> To:____________________ 
> Subject: Re: Quick question 
> Sent: Nov 3, 2010 10:40 AM 
> He couldn't for a few months , too hot 
> Sorry for all the typos .Sent from my iPhone 
> On Nov 3, 2010, at 3:36 PM, 
>> Hey Unc, 
>> Quick Question...do u think Larry Summers 
government in general, etc? 
>> Sent via BlackBerry from T- Mobile 
> Sent via BlackBerry from T- Mobile 
wrote: 
wrote: 
would come to Trinity to speak about Obama, the economy, the 
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The case for the FC2 female condom
 the female health company
                    
                    
                    
                    







Overview







• Commodity Context
• Contextual overview
• Debunking myths through evidence
                    
                    







                    www.femalecondom.com
Get Inspired

https://fc2femalecondom.com/get-inspired/
https://youtu.be/O0V-KYyTza8
                    
                    







ASK
Due to the funding decrease UNFPA is experiencing as the US pulled all their funding under president Trump, and the European countries have re-directed their funding to deal with the migrant influx, there is a funding shortfall leading to Female Condom stock outs in countries. 

The Female Health Company is looking for donors who are willing to donate money to UNFPA, and earmark that money for purchase of the FC2 female condom only, so that they can purchase the FC2 female condom for the following countries:
Uganda : 3 million units		Ghana: 1 million units
Botswana: 1 million units		Tunesia: 1 million units
Sierra Leone: 500,000 units		Bolivia: 500,000 units
Tanzania: 1 million units		Haiti: 500,000 units
Ethiopia: 1 million units		Congo DR: 2 million units

                    
                    







                    
                    
The Female Health Company provides the FC2 female condom.  

FC2 is the only product currently available:

▪ Under a women’s control 
▪ Offering triple protection:
     ▪ Against HIV/AIDS
     ▪ STIs (as well as ZIKA)
     ▪ Unplanned pregnancy
▪ Approved by the FDA and WHO, as well as other international and national health agencies

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Widest possible choice
FC2 falls under Reproductive Health Supply commodities with UNFPA Supplies:

• Contraceptives
- Combined low dose OC Pills		- Implantable Contraceptives
- Emergency Contraceptives		- Injectable Contraceptives
- Female Condoms			- Intrauterine Device (IUD)
- Lubricants			- Male Condoms
- Progestogen only Pills

• Diagnostic Test Kits
• Kits
• Medical Devices
• Pharmaceutical Devices

                    
                    







Male and female condom markets
Male Condom Market Global Public sector:  10 billion
Male Condom Market FP2020, 69 countries: 1-1,6 billion
Female Condom Market: 30-60 million
FC is 3%-6% of FP2020  condom market and 0,3%-0,6% of global condom market

                    
                    







Customers and Distribution
Key purchasers:
▪ Global agencies




▪ Government/ Ministries of Health 
▪ State and local health departments/agencies
▪ NGOs and CBOs/IPPF/MSI
▪ Distributors who hold registration for FC2
▪ Social marketing organizations such as PSI and DKT
▪ Commercial partners that promote to consumers

                    
                    







Why Female condoms?
The female condom is the only female initiated method that provides triple protection against STIs including HIV and Zika and against unplanned pregnancy
Introduction of male and female condoms in the same market leads to more overall protected sex acts
Cost effective, positive return on investment

                    
                    







HIV/AIDS global overview
• No. 1 cause of death globally for women age 15-44
• 80% of female cases contracted via heterosexual transmission
• Male and female condoms are the only prevention products available

                                        Worldwide, women represent >50% of new  
                                        Adult HIV/AIDS infections
                    
                    







The social case for FC2
Empowering women as a development tool by decreasing maternal mortality & fewer unwanted pregnancies and protecting from HIV-infection, and other STIs

  ▪ Worldwide 215 million women who like to plan or limit number of children have no access to contraception
  ▪ Worldwide 21.6 million unsafe abortions cause 5 million women hospitalized each year, and account for 13 % of maternal deaths
  ▪ Worldwide women and girls account for slightly more than half of all HIV infections
  ▪ In sub-Saharan Africa 23 million people live with HIV/AIDS: over 12 million are women and nearly 2.5 million are children

                    
                    







The product case for fc2
Only FDA and WHO approved Female Condom and as a result approved for bulk procurement by UNFPA and USAID
The strong preference for FC2 due to its non allergenic material nitrile and long standing reputation
FC2 is has been distributed to 144 countries. 
The backup support, materials, training provided by FHC

                    
                    







The product case for fc2 (2)
5) The FC2 female condom, as opposed to the latex male condom, is made out of Nitrile which holds many benefits: 
- Three times stronger than latex, 
- Can be used by people who are latex sensitive, or allergic
- Can hold both water and oil based lubricants (latex tears with oil)
- Can be inserted hours in advance 
- Transfers body heat ensuring a more natural sensation

6) The FC2 is hormone free, which means that it does not have the side effects of  some hormone based contraceptives.

7) Preferable alternative to a male condom, according to males
▪ Men don’t have to wear it
▪ Not tight/restricting
▪ Can be inserted in advance of sexual activity



                    
                    







Debunking myths & Misconceptions
Certain Myths and Misconceptions among decision still exist today, even though the evidence tells otherwise

It is too expensive
There is no demand
We already have male condoms and LARCs so the FC is not necessary
Men do not like the product, and without them it will never succeed
                    
                    







1) It is too Expensive: false
                    “The Business Case for Female Condoms” 
                    (Global Health Visions, 2014)

Return on investment of female condom procurement for governments through 2 ways:
Cost savings to the health system, by focussing on prevention instead of treatment
Economic productivity losses averted, as more women are able to join the workforce. 

                    
                    







The business case for female condoms (2)
	The Business case for female condoms found that for every $1,- invested in buying female condoms in Kenya a return of $1,94 is made. In Nigeria for every $1,- invested a return of $3,20 is made. See table below for health benefits. 

                    
                    







2) There is no demand: False
Uruguay Study, UNFPA Uruguay and MOH Uruguay (2017):
- 77% of average women said the FC2 was good or very good
Study participants cited greater comfort and practicality and greater protection and safety as the two main advantages of the FC2
- 81% said they would continue using the FC2 in the future
- 64 % said they experienced no difficulties at all

South Africa National Female Condom Program 
Evaluation (2017)
- 80% of women feld the FC put them in charge
- The level of unprotected sex declined from 43,3 % at baseline
 to 8,4 % at 12 months after the introduction of the FC

                    
                    







3) We already have other commodities: False
AIGHD Research on the Female Condom in Mozambique (2017)
                    The increase in female condom use was not accompanied by an
                    off-setting decrease in ever or current use of alternative methods.
                    If anything, current use of male condoms and other modern
                    contraceptives increased slightly in the treatment group. Female condoms thus seemed to complement the existing choice set of regular contraceptives

South Africa National Female Condom Program Evaluation (2017)
                     Of the current FC users 73,4% reported using condoms in general more often than before they started using the female condom. 



                    
                    







4) Men do not like the product: false
South Africa National Female Condom Program Evaluation (2017)


- At their one month interview 58% of men said that the FC was better or much better than the MC and at 12 months this rose to 74%
- At six months into the research 97% of women reported that their partners were supportive of using the FC

                    
                    







In summary
Female Condoms provide a return on investment
Female Condoms are in high demand with both men and women, average and key populations
Female Condoms increase the overall use of barrier methods and contraceptives, enforcing  decrease in overall number of unprotected sex acts


                    
                    





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1,000,000 female 
condoms  Cameroon  Kenya  Myanmar  Nigeria 
# DALYs averted  9,292  9,713  4,122  9,488 
# of unintended 
pregnancies 
averted  1,939  1,939  1,939  1,939 
#of HIV infections 
averted  108  125  62  100 
#of maternal 
deaths averted  8  4  2  7 
#of infant deaths 
averted  53  39  14  77 
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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025358.txt,"Honorable Mark Filip
May 19, 2008
Page 6

¢ Federal prosecutors made the unprecedented demand that Mr. Epstein pay a
minimum of $150,000 per person to an unnamed list of women.they referred to as
minors and whom they insisted required representation by a guardian ad litem, Mr.
Epstein’s counsel later established that all but one of these individuals were actually

- adults, not minors. Even then, though demanding payment to the women, the
USAO eventually asserted that it could not vouch for the veracity of any of the
claims that these women might make.

s Federal prosecutors made the highly unusual demand that Mr. Epstein pay the fees
of a civil attorney chosen by the prosecutors to represent these alleged “victims”
should they choose to bring any civil litigation against him. They also proposed
sending a notice to the alleged “victims,” stating, in an underlined sentence, that
should they choose their own attorney, Mr. Epstein would not be required to pay
their fees. The prosecutors further demanded that Mr. Epstein waive his right to
challenge any of the allegations made by these “victims.”

« The Assistant U.S. Attorney involved in this matter recommended for the civil
attorney, a highly lucrative position, an individual that we later discovered was
closely and personally connected to the Assistant U.S. Attorney’s own boyfriend.

« Federal prosecutors represented to Mr. Epstein’s counsel that they had identified
‘(and later rechecked and re-identified) several alleged “victims” of federal crimes
that qualified for payment under 18 U.S.C. § 2255, a civil remedy designed to
provide financial benefits to victims. Only through state discovery provisions did
we later learn that many of the women on the rechecked “victim list” could not
possibly qualify under § 2255. The reason is that they, themselves, testified that
they did not suffer any type of harm whatsoever, a prerequisite for the civil recovery
under § 2255. Moreover, these women stated that they did not, now or in the past,
consider themselves to be victims.

e During the last few months, Mr. Herman, First Assistant Sloman’s former law
pariner, has filed several civil lawsuits against Mr. Epstein on behalf of the alleged
“victims.” It is our understanding that each of Mr. Herman’s clients are on the

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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017117.txt,"4.2.12
WC: 191694

My mother was summoned to my high school so often that some of the students thought she
worked in the principal’s office. One day, after I had done something especially egregious—I
threw a “dummy” dressed like me off the roof of the building, after threatening to “jump off the
roof’ when my teacher threw me out of the class'*—the principal demanded of my mother “what
are we going to do with your son?” Without any hesitation my mother responded, “I don’t know
what you’re going to do, but as for me, I’m going to keep him.” The principal threatened to send
me to another school called “R.J.J.,” which we always said, stood for “Reformatory for Jewish
Juveniles,” because some of the tougher kids—the disciplinary “problems”—went there. (The
initials really stood for “Rabbi Jacob Joseph’). Ultimately I was suspended for a few weeks on
the ground of “lack of respect” and spent them at the local library and museum, where I learned
considerably more than I was learning in my classes.

It was not my first suspension, nor would it be my last. Nor would it be my first encounter with
my principal, Rabbi Zuroff, who in my senior year, when he was finally resigned to my remaining
in the school until graduation, called me to his office for some career advice. This is what he told
me: “You have a good mouth, but not much of a ‘Yiddisher Kup,’” which means ‘Jewish head’
or brain, as distinguished from a Goyisher (non-Jewish) Kup”—a slightly bigoted concept
suggesting that Jews are endowed with special mental qualities or capacities.’* He continued:
“You should do something where you use your mouth, not your brains.” I asked him what he
would suggest. He replied: “You should become either a lawyer, or a Conservative Rabbi.” (He
was an Orthodox Rabbi who held his Conservative colleagues in utter contempt.) To make sure
the latter part of his advice was followed, he urged Yeshiva University, which trained Orthodox
Rabbis, to reject me, which it did.

My classmates as well valued my verbal over my intellectual skills. The first draft of my high
school yearbook description said that I have “a mouth of Webster, but a head of clay.” (My
mother made them change it!)

Rabbi Zuroff’s career advice was actually better than the choices given to me by the New York
City Department of Employment, to which my mother turned in desperation. After reviewing my
high school record, and administering an aptitude test, the counselor told my mother that I could
aspire to work in an advertising firm or a “funeral parlor.” My mother asked whether I could be a
lawyer, to which the counselor replied, “Mrs. Dershowitz, I’m afraid you have to go to college to
be a lawyer, and your boy just isn’t college material.”

Many years later, following a talk I gave at a temple in Los Angeles, a man about my age came up
to me and asked whether I was “related to a guy I went to high school with named Avi
Dershowitz.” “Avi” was the Hebrew nick-name by which I was known all through high school. I
began to use my “real” name, Alan, when I started Brooklyn College, though my old friends and
family still call me Avi.

I decided to put the questioner on, so I said, “yeah, yeah, we are related.”

” For a fuller account of this episode, see The Best Defense at ff__

8 The classic Jewish joke reflecting this xenophelia is about Moishe who says to his wife, “It’s too hard to be a
Jew. I’m converting to Christianity.” He goes to church, converts and goes home to sleep. Next morning his wife
wakes up and sees Moishe wearing his Talit (Jewish prayer shawl) while davening (praying in Hebrew). “What
are you doing Moishe,” she asks, “You’re a Christian.” Moishe replies, “I forgot! Goyisher Kup.”

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015506.txt,"294 M. Hoffman et al.

Karpoff’s survey, another dictate of participants’ (and the judges’) property rights
intuitions was who owned the land on which the lost item was found.

Also like animals, our sense of property rights is influenced by who created or
invested in the resource, another uncorrelated asymmetry. In locales that sometimes
grant property rights to squatters—individuals who occupy lands others have pur-
chased—a key determinant of whether the squatters are granted the land is whether
they have invested in it (Cone vs. West Virginia Pulp & Paper Co., 1947; Neuwirth,
2005). Locke also intuited that investment in land is part of what makes it ours:
In Second Treatise on Civil Government (1689), Locke wrote, “everyman has a
property in his person; this nobody has a right to but himself. The labor of his body
and the work of his hand, we may say, are properly his.”

If the Hawk—Dove model underlies our sense of property rights, we would expect
to see psychological mechanisms that motivate us to feel entitled to an object when
we possess it or have invested in it. Here are three such mechanisms, which can be
seen by reinterpreting some well-documented “biases” in the behavioral economics
literature. The first such bias is the endowment effect: We value items more if we are
in possession of them. The endowment effect has been documented in dozens of
experiments, where subjects are randomly given an item (mug, pen, etc.) and
subsequently state that they are willing to sell the mug for much more than those
who were not given the mug are willing to pay (Kahneman, Knetsch, & Thaler,
1990). In the behavioral economics literature, the endowment effect has sometimes
been explained by loss aversion, which is when we are harmed more by a loss than
we benefit from an equivalent gain. However, the source of loss aversion is not
questioned or explained. When it is, loss aversion is also readily explained by the
Hawk—Dove game (Gintis, 2007).

A second bias that also fits the Hawk—Dove model is the IKEA effect: Our valu-
ation of an object is influenced by whether we have developed or built the resource.
The IKEA effect has been documented by asking people how much they would pay
for items like Lego structures or IKEA furniture after randomly being assigned to
build them or receive them pre-built. Subjects are willing to pay more for items they
build themselves.

A third such bias that fits the Hawk—Dove model is the sunk cost fallacy (Mankiw,
2007; Thaler, 1980), which leads us to “throw good money after bad” when we
invest in ventures simply because we have already put so much effort into them,
arguably because our prior efforts lead us to value those ventures more.

Possession and past investment are not the only uncorrelated asymmetries that
can dictate rights. Rights can be dictated by a history of agreements, as happens
when one party sells another deed to a house or car, or, as in our taxicab example,
by whether a service was provided. There are also countless examples in which
rights were determined by perhaps unfair or arbitrary characteristics such as race
and sex: Black Americans were expected to give up their seat for Whites in the Jim
Crow South and women to hand over their earnings or property to their husbands
throughout the ages.

Hawk-—Dove is not just a post hoc explanation for our sense of rights; it also leads
to the following novel insight: We can formally characterize the properties that

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IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021254.txt,"The science of the mind is not
unique in this regard. As the historian
Daniel Boorstin (1983, /) noted:

Nothing could be more obvious
than that the earth is stable and
unmoving, and that we are the
center of the universe. Modern
Western science takes its
beginning from the denial of this
commonsense axiom...
Common sense, the foundation
of everyday life, could no longer
serve for the governance of the
world. When “scientific”
knowledge, the sophisticated
product of complicated
instruments and subtle
calculations, provided
unimpeachable truths, things
were no longer as they seemed.”

(p. 294)

And just as the observation that we roam
on stable ground led to the incorrect
inference that we are the center of the
universe, so too is the modern notion
that the human brain is a solitary,
autonomous instrument whose
connections with other brains is a matter
of deliberate choice and of no real
import.

The human brain, the organ of
the mind, is housed deep within the
cranial vault, where it is protected and
isolated from others, so it may seem
obvious that the brain is a solitary
information processing device that has
no special means of connecting with
other brains. But we are fundamentally
a social species. Faces, expressive
displays, and human speech receive
preferential processing in neonate as
well as adult brains. When a person
feels rejected by others, their brain
shows the same pattern of activation as
when they are exposed to a physically

painful stimulus. Permit a person to
cooperate with others, and their brain
shows the same pattern of activation as
when they are given a rich reward such
as delicious food or drink. We may not
be aware of it, but human evolution has
sculpted a human need for social
connection, along with neural circuits
and hormonal processes that enable and
promote communication and connection
across brains. As we shall see in the
chapters to follow, our sociality is an
important part of who we are as a
species and it plays an important though
often invisible role in the operations of
our brain and our biology. Among the
questions we examine is whether our
social brain also contributes to the
ubiquitous human quest for spirituality.

The Chicago Social Brain Network

For hundreds of years, theology
and philosophy were the hub disciplines
of scholarship, and other fields of
inquiry orbited around this dyad and
were tightly constrained by it. Over the
past three centuries, the sciences have
come into their own, displacing theology
and philosophy at the center of the
academic universe. In so doing, they
have produced extraordinary advances in
everyday life. People may reminisce
about the good old days, but thanks to
science and technology the amount of
total income spent on the necessities of
food, clothing, and shelter dropped from
80% in 1901 to 50% in 2002/2003. Yet
there remains an inchoate sense that
something is missing in our lives,
something intangible and elusive.
Science has improved our material lives,
but improvements in material life may
not be enough to optimize human well
being.

Can these two very different
ways of seeing the world be used

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IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028235.txt,"/ BARAK / 101

what would constitute a fair agreement. He was presenting it on a take-it-or-leave-
it basis. If either side said no, he would withdraw it, and it would not be binding on
President Bush.

He proceeded to lay out his proposal. It now envisaged the Palestinians ending
up with between 95 and 97 percent of the West Bank. Israel’s military presence in
the Jordan Valley would be for a maximum of six years, after which our soldiers
would be replaced by an international force. On refugees, the solution Clinton
proposed would “make it clear there is no specific right of return to Israeli itself”
but recognize “the aspiration of the Palestinian people to return to the area.” He
proposed a joint endorsement by Israel and the Palestinians of the right of refugees
to return to a new Palestinian state. In Jerusalem, Arafat would have sovereignty
over the entirety of the Old City except for the Jewish Quarter and, of course, the
Western Wall and the “holy space of which it is a part.” Finally, the President said,
this would be a final peace: an end of conflict and, once implemented, an end to
any further claims. He wanted replies from Israel and the Palestinians within five
days. Dennis added that, while both sides could come back with reservations, if
any of these fell outside the substantive limits of President Clinton’s parameters,
the response would be interpreted as a “no” and our search for an agreement would
be over.

Clinton’s latest proposals went beyond even what I was willing to have him
keep in his pocket at Camp David. Opposition politicians in Israel, and even a few
of our cabinet ministers, promptly objected to the formula for Jerusalem. I told the
critics — as I knew I’d have to argue to the country in a referendum, in the
vanishingly unlikely event we actually reached an agreeement — that making peace
was not like making love. It was something you did with enemies. I, too, would
have preferred to say no to Clinton’s ideas on Jerusalem. But to reject them would
have placed Israel in the position of rejecting the entire Clinton paper, something I
was not prepared to do.

I sent word to the President that we accepted his ideas. We did raise
reservations — twenty-eight in all, about how various parts of the agreement would
work on the ground. But none fell outside his parameters for a peace agreement. At
first Arafat asked the Americans for more time. Then he went to Washington to see
Clinton. There, he presented his “reservations”. They were not just outside the
Clinton parameters. They rejected two key elements. Arafat said there could be no

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IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027106.txt,"enrichment. And yet Iran also chose to convert some of its stockpile of
highly enriched uranium for medical use rather than approach the amount
needed for a bomb, leading Israeli authorities to predict that Iran wouldn't
be able to build a bomb before 2015 or 2016. Last week, Ali Akbar
Velayati, Khamenei's foreign policy advisor, publicly criticized officials
who have treated the negotiations dismissively. Presumably, he was
thinking of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has compared Iran's
nuclear program to a train without brakes.

Iran is now at the outset of what promises to be a raucous presidential
election, and may be no more capable of serious negotiations between now
and June than the United States was in 2012. But what is clear is that the
sanctions have moderated Iranian behavior and rhetoric. At the same time,
as the Times also noted, the economic pressure is not nearly great enough
to compel concessions that the regime would view as a blow to national
pride. In short, Iran might -- might -- be more willing to accept a face-
saving compromise than they were a year or two ago, but will need serious
inducements to do so.

What would that entail? Virtually all the proposals that have come from
outside experts suggest that the P5+1 begin with modest confidence-
building measures, especially in the period before the election. A recent
report by the Arms Control Association enumerates several of them.
Western diplomats, for example, could take up Ali Akbar Salehi, Iran's
foreign minister, on his proposal to limit the ""extent"" of enrichment -- 1.e.,
well below 20 percent -- in exchange for fuel rods for the research reaction
and a recognition of Iran's ""right to enrich,"" a notional concept the United
States already supports under specified conditions. Or Iran could suspend
20-percent enrichment in exchange for a suspension of new sanctions. But
Iran is unlikely to accept even such small steps unless it felt that additional
moves would win additional explicit concessions.

Beyond that, the outlines of what in Middle East peacemaking is known as
""final status"" are clear enough: Iran agrees to verifiable inspections to
ensure that it does not enrich uranium beyond 3.5 percent and does not
pursue a nuclear weapons program, while the West accepts Iran's ""right to
enrich"" and dismantles sanctions. Of course, the outlines of a Middle East

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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025663.txt,"﻿Investment Management Division
An Overview of the Current State of Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain
Technology
November 15, 2017
Investment Strategy Group
Today’s Discussion
Investment
Management
Division
I. The Cryptocurrency Marketplace
II.
III.
IV.
Blockchain Technology and Potential Uses
How Cryptocurrencies Work
Is Bitcoin a Viable Currency?
V. Is Bitcoin a Viable Asset?
VI.
Cryptocurrency Risks
VII. Key Takeaways
Source: Investment Strategy Group
1
Cryptocurrencies Have Received Enormous Attention
Investment
Management
Division
1. Bitcoin Currency Value – Through November 14, 2017
2. Cryptocurrencies with Market Capitalization over US$1 Billion
$120
7000
6000
6,590
592%
YTD
$100
107.5
$80
USD per Bitcoin (XBT)
5000
4000
3000
$60
$40
30.2
2000
$20
22.6
1000
0
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
$0
Bitcoin Ethereum Bitcoin
Cash
7.8
3.4 3.3
1.8 1.8 1.7 1.7 1.6
Ripple Dash Litecoin Monero NEO NEM IOTA Ethereum
Classic
• Bitcoin was conceived in 2008 by an anonymous inventor who is known by the pseudonym, Satoshi Nakamoto.
• Since then, an estimated 2,000+ cryptocurrencies have come into existence, with a combined market cap of over $200bn. 1
• There are an estimated 129 focused hedge funds 2 and 121 cryptocurrency exchanges globally. 3
(1) Coinranking.com, (2) https://next.autonomous.com/thoughts//how-many-crypto-hedge-funds-can-you-count, (3) https://cryptocoincharts.info/markets/info
Source: Investment Strategy Group, Cryptocompare.com.
2
Cryptocurrencies have Garnered Diverging Views
Timeline of Statements and Measures over Recent Months
Investment
Management
Division
Japanese
government
recognizes
Bitcoin as
legal tender
Apr. 1, 2017
China
bans
ICOs
Sept. 4, 2017
“It’s a
fraud…worse than
tulip bulbs” 1
–J. Dimon
Sept. 12, 2017
South
Korea
bans
ICOs
Sept. 28, 2017
Japan’s FSA
approves 11
operators of
cryptocurrency
exchanges
Sept. 29, 2017
“Still thinking about
#Bitcoin. No
conclusion - not
endorsing/rejecting” 3
- Lloyd Blankfein
Oct. 3, 2017
“Bitcoin is 'a ponzi
scheme’”
- DBS Group
(David Gledhill)
Nov. 14, 2017
Sept. 11, 2017
Sept. 17, 2017
July 24, 2017
US CFTC
approves
Bitcoin futures
trading
China bans
cryptocurrency
exchanges
BIS publishes
report weighing
risks and
benefits of
cryptocurrencies
Sept. 27, 2017
“[Bitcoin is]
certainly more than
just a fad” 2
– MS CEO, Gorman
Sept. 29, 2017
SEC
charges two
ICOs with
fraud
Oct. 13, 2017
“Index of money
laundering.”
- Blackrock CEO
Larry Fink
(1) Barclays Investor Conference, September 12, 2017. (2) Wall Street Journal Event, September 27, 2017. (3) Twitter, October 3, 2017. (4) CNBC, November 14, 2017.
Source: Investment Strategy Group, public news sources.
3
What is Blockchain Technology?
Investment
Management
Division
Illustrative Schematic: Centralized Network versus Distributed Network
Centralized Network
Distributed Network
• Blockchain is the critical and differentiating infrastructure that underlies cryptocurrencies.
• Unlike most networks today, which rely on a centralized hub, a blockchain is a public distributed network whose
complete database can be accessed and maintained by each member of the network.
• The blockchain is a shared and continually reconciled database. As new transactions occur, data is quickly
disseminated to, verified, and incorporated across all nodes on the network.
• Because it has no single maintainer, the blockchain’s history is resistant to editing by a malicious actor.
Source: Investment Strategy Group, http://cryptocurrencyfacts.com/how-does-cryptocurrency-work-2/ .
4
Blockchain Technology Holds Potential for a Range of
Applications
Investment
Management
Division
1. Financial Market Transactions
2. Identity Validation and Security
Client XYZ
Current
State
T+ 2
DMV
Blockchain-
Enabled
Settlement
T+ 0
Credit Card Issuer
US Dept. of State
Online Retailer
Mortgage Lender
Secure Digital Identity
• Banks are focused on blockchain technology for post-trade
settlement and clearing, with aims to:
� Streamline equities settlement from T+2 to T+0.
• Potential to securely link identity and payment credentials to
a unique individual.
� Benefit peer-to-peer businesses reliant on counterparty
trust.
� Streamline compliance and anti-money laundering
surveillance.
• Goldman Sachs Global Investment Research expects limited blockchain adoption over the next 2-5 years, and broader
acceptance after 5-10 years.
─
Capital market adoption may take over 10 years, given regulatory oversight and the multitude of participants.
Source: Investment Strategy Group, GS Investment Research, Profiles in Innovation: Blockchain: https://360.gs.com/gs/portal/?st=1&action=action.binary&d=21760456&fn=/document.pdf.
Goldman Sachs & Co LLC, Blockchain, The New Technology of Trust, http://www.goldmansachs.com/our-thinking/pages/blockchain/index.html 5
What is a Cryptocurrency and
Why is Blockchain Technology Important?
Investment
Management
Division
Common Features of Cryptocurrencies
Common Features of
Cryptocurrencies
� Digital
Attributes
• Coin ownership is represented by entries on a digital
ledger, not by a physical token.
� Decentralization • No single entity controls the currency.
� Open Source • All source code is available freely online.
� Distributed
Consensus
� Pseudonymity
� Cryptography
(computerized encoding)
• Each cryptocurrency uses a method for obtaining
consensus on ownership without a central arbiter.
• Coin ownership is not linked to real-world identities
within the blockchain.
• Several cryptographic techniques are used to verify
transactions, protect identities, and limit supply.
• A cryptocurrency is a decentralized digital coin. It allows users to make transactions and store money in a secure and
pseudonymous manner.
• All cryptocurrency transactions are recorded chronologically on a blockchain, which acts as the critical infrastructure
underlying a cryptocurrency.
• The process of verifying transactions and ensuring the validity of the blockchain is called “mining.”
• Mining solves the “double-spending” problem that had plagued previous attempts to implement a digital currency.
Source: Investment Strategy Group, http://cryptocurrencyfacts.com/how-does-cryptocurrency-work-2/ .
6
How Do Miners Process Individual Transactions?
Investment
Management
Division
Step 1: Bob wants to pay Alice 0.5 BTC
Illustrative Schematic of a Bitcoin Transaction
Step 2: Miners Verify the Transfer Request and add
it to the next block
Step 3: Block Containing Bob and Alice’s
Transaction is Added to the Blockchain
Bob
Alice
Miner
B
Bob owns 1BTC
Previous transaction
in which Bob was
paid 1 BTC
New transaction
Miner
A
Bob wants to pay
Alice 0.5BTC
Does Bob have
0.5BTC??
Yes!
Miner
C
1) Before sending any bitcoins, Bob must hold bitcoins
in his wallet from a previous transaction (or by
solving a block to earn the mining reward).
2) Bob creates a new transaction in which he pays 0.5
BTC (of his 1 BTC) to Alice.
3) Bob broadcasts this transaction to the network for
validation and inclusion in the blockchain.
Bob has 1BTC
Bob wants to pay
Alice 0.5BTC
Does Bob have
0.5BTC??
Yes!
Record Bob’s
0.5BTC Transfer
to Alice
Record Bob’s
0.5BTC Transfer
to Alice
Bob owns 1BTC
Bob wants to pay
Alice 0.5BTC
Does Bob have
0.5BTC??
Yes!
Record Bob’s
0.5BTC Transfer
to Alice
1) Miner B happens to be the first to solve this block
and adds it to the blockchain. Miner B collects 12.5-
bitcoin reward.
2) If Bob’s transaction is included the block, Alice
becomes the owner of 0.5 BTC, which will register
in her wallet.
• Consensus transaction validation creates a book of record for all transactions that have ever occurred.
– Transactions may only occur if they are supported by evidence from previous transactions.
– To send bitcoins, an owner’s wallet uses its private key to prove ownership of the referenced bitcoins.
• Transaction processing typically take 10-20 minutes, but can take up to 18 hours if the network is congested.
Source: Investment Strategy Group. 7
What is Mining?
Investment
Management
Division
ASIC Mining Computer and a Mining Rig
6.2”
13.8”
5.3”
• Miners use highly specialized computers designed to run an algorithm that attempts to solve a cryptographic puzzle in order
to add a new block on the blockchain. By design, a bitcoin block is created once every ten minutes.
• The computing power required to solve the cryptographic puzzle is high and expensive; bitcoin mining consumes an
estimated $1.3bn worth of electricity annually 1 —equivalent to Ireland’s annual electricity consumption.
• In order to incentivize mining, the first miner to complete a block is rewarded 12.5 bitcoins. The global supply of bitcoins is
capped at 21mil (currently ~16.5m) and follows a predetermined growth rate—the miners’ rewards halve every four years.
• Given ~1-1.5m mining units globally, the likelihood of any one miner solving a block is low. Many miners join “mining
pools,” which are cooperatives which share block rewards proportionate to contributed mining power.
– Mining pools are highly concentrated; the top four pools represent over 50% of total mining power.
(1) Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index: https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption
Source: Investment Strategy Group, http://cryptocurrencyfacts.com/how-does-cryptocurrency-work-2/.
8
ICOs Fund the Development of New Currencies
Investment
Management
Division
1. Approximate Funds Raised by ICOs by Calendar Year (US$ Milllions)
2. Total Funds Raised by Month (US$ Millions): Angel and Seed Stage
Internet VC versus ICO
$4,000
900
Angel & Seed VC Funding (Internet)
ICO Fundraising
839
Approximate Annual Funds Raised Through ICOs ($mil)
$3,500
$3,000
$2,500
$2,000
$1,500
$1,000
$500
$0
$3,461
$222
$26 $14
2014 2015 2016 2017 YTD
Total Funds Raised ($Mn)
800
700
600
500
400
300
200
100
0
369
346
298
262 271
256
259 268 278
235
235
207
190
80
638
572
397
319
230 237
2 12 12 12 21
5 15 25 19
7/16 8/16 9/16 10/16 11/16 12/16 1/17 2/17 3/17 4/17 5/17 6/17 7/17 8/17 9/17
• New blockchain-related projects are funded via an Initial Coin Offering (ICO). This process raises capital through token sales.
• In an ICO, the object offered is either a new digital coin or a yet-undeveloped concept in search of funding. ICO investors
purchase an ownership percentage of a future money supply or functionality.
• While many ICOs support legitimate use cases, Autonomous Research asserts, “unfortunately, many ICOs are fraudulent.” 1
• Rather than raising fiat currency, ICOs primarily raise capital in the form of Bitcoin and Ether, driving additional demand for
the cryptocurrencies.
(1) #Token Mania, Autonomous Research, July 2017.
Source: Investment Strategy Group, Bloomberg, Goldman Sachs Global Investment Research, Cryptocompare.com.
9
Why Have Cryptocurrencies Rallied So Much?
Investment
Management
Division
1. Bitcoin Supply Over Time (Million Tokens)
2. Currency Composition of Bitcoin Purchase Volume
25
100%
US Dollar Japanese Yen South Korean Won Chinese Renminbi Euro Polish Zloty British Pound
90%
20
80%
Bitcoin Supply (Million)
15
10
5
Current Supply
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0
2009
2014
2019
2024
2029
2034
2039
2044
2049
2054
2059
2064
2069
2074
2079
2084
2089
2094
2099
2104
2109
2114
2119
2124
2129
2134
2139
0%
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
• In addition to speculation, which has been the biggest driver of cryptocurrency appreciation, other drivers include:
• Perceived Scarcity: Bitcoin’s 21 million token cap is expected to be reached in 2140 (16.5 million today). Many of the
over 2,000 other cryptocurrencies, however, do not have a capped supply. Further, while unlikely, bitcoin’s token cap
could be raised if a consensus of programmers decided so.
• Desired Safe-haven: Increased global participation reflects desire for an asset independent from governments or central
banks (“digital gold”). Many governments from which investors have sought diversification, however, have recently
banned domestic crypto-exchanges.
Source: Investment Strategy Group, Bloomberg, Cryptocompare.com.
10
As Bitcoin Ownership is Not Anonymous, Illicit Use has Fallen
Investment
Management
Division
Larry Fink on Bitcoin’s Illicit Use
""Bitcoin just shows you how much demand for money
laundering there is in the world. That’s all it is. It’s an
index of money laundering.”
– BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, October 13, 2017
• Because bitcoin is pseudonymous, not anonymous, users’ real-world identities are ascertainable once the individual
converts bitcoin to fiat currency.
• Digital intelligence companies continually scan the blockchain to identify suspicious transaction activity.
• The Blockchain Intelligence Group estimates that illegal transactions in bitcoin fell from ~50% of total volume in 2015
to ~20% in 2016, and represent “significantly less than that” today.
• As law enforcement has become better able to track bitcoin ransom, cybercriminals have begun to favor currencies that
allow anonymity, such as Monero and Zcash, and even Ether.
Source: Investment Strategy Group, Blockchain Intelligence Group, https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/29/dark-web-finds-bitcoin-increasingly-more-of-a-problem-than-a-help-tries-otherdigital-currencies.html.
11
Sovereign Currencies Meet Three Criteria
Investment
Management
Division
1) They are used as a medium of exchange.
– To represent a medium of exchange, an instrument must facilitate the transaction
of goods or services between parities (US$ are used to buy a barrel of oil).
2) They serve as unit of account.
– A unit of account is a measurement which allows value to be accounted and
compared (a barrel of WTI is worth ~$55).
3) They are a store of value.
– A store of value is an asset that can be saved, stored, and exchanged in the future
for a predictable stable value (with 2% annual inflation, a nominal dollar today
will be worth 82¢ in 10 years).
Source: Investment Strategy Group, Do Digital Currencies Pose a Threat to Sovereign Currencies and Central Banks?, Daniel Heller, PIIE.
12
Do Cryptocurrencies Meet the Criteria for Currencies?
1) Bitcoin is an Inefficient Medium of Exchange
Investment
Management
Division
Average Transaction Fees (US$ Monthly Average)
6
5
4
$ Per Transaction
3
2
$3.4
$2.1
1
0
Jan-17 Mar-17 May-17 Jul-17 Sep-17 Nov-17
• Processing is expensive. The average transaction cost is ~$3.40, rendering transfer of small fund balances uneconomical.
• Processing is slow. Transaction processing typically takes a minimum of 10-20 minutes, but can take up to 18 hours if
the network is congested (Visa and Mastercard authorize transactions in ~20 milliseconds).
• Bitcoin is not broadly accepted. A mere 9k merchants accept bitcoin, compared to the 37mil that accept Visa and
MasterCard, and the billions of merchants and people globally that accept US dollars. 1
• Further, the IRS considers all cryptocurrency gains a taxable event (including for de minimis purchases).
(1) Do Digital Currencies Pose a Threat to Sovereign Currencies and Central Banks?, Daniel Heller, PIIE.
Source: Investment Strategy Group, Bloomberg, Cryptocompare.com. 13
Do Cryptocurrencies Meet the Criteria for Currencies?
2) Bitcoin is an Unreliable Unit of Account
Investment
Management
Division
Illustrative Pricing: US$ vs. Bitcoin as a Unit of Account
January 2nd 2017:
1 Bitcoin =
$1,012 =
1 Bosch Dishwasher ($1,079)
November 14th 2017:
1 Bitcoin =
$6,590 =
6 Bosch Dishwashers ($6,474)
• Bitcoin’s rapid appreciation makes it an unsatisfactory candidate as a unit of account.
• In January, one could have purchased a dishwasher for one bitcoin. Today, it would cost 1/6 th a bitcoin to buy the
unit, implying severe deflation over the past several months.
• In deflationary environments, people hoard their money in order to buy goods more cheaply at a later date, which has
prompted most people to hoard their bitcoin.
Source: Investment Strategy Group, Bloomberg, Cryptocompare.com. 14
Do Cryptocurrencies Meet the Criteria for Currencies?
3) Bitcoin is an Unstable Store of Value
Investment
Management
Division
1. Volatility: Bitcoin versus Most Volatile EM Currencies
2. Bitcoin, Ether and Ripple versus S&P 500 Historical Drawdowns
100%
95.0%
60
Bitcoin Ether Ripple S&P 500 (Over Bitcoin's History) S&P 500 (Since 1945)
47
47
5Y Annualized Volatility
75%
50%
40
20
0
-20
33
1
22
-19%
0%
-30%
25%
0%
11.7% 11.9% 12.9%
Turkey
(TRY)
Mexico
(MXN)
Colombia
(COP)
15.6% 16.1% 16.7%
South Africa
(ZAR)
Brazil
(BRL)
Argentina
(ARS)
20.6%
Russia
(RUB)
Bitcoin
(XBT)
-40
-60
-80
Count of Drawdowns of 15% or More
(Left Axis)
-69%
-67%
-63%
-57%
Worst Historical Drawdown
(Right Axis)
-60%
• Bitcoin’s annualized volatility of 95% dwarfs even the most volatile of EM currencies.
• Bitcoin’s volatility is 8x the volatility of US equities. In terms of both count and magnitude, Bitcoin, Ether and Ripple have all
experienced more severe drawdowns over their short histories than the S&P 500 has since 1945.
• Bitcoin exchanges have thin liquidity, which plays a role in driving enormous price movement—so far to the upside, but which
could cause a flash crash upon a large sell order. A ~$30 million sell order would likely move the market by 5%.
• A store of value should predictably preserve wealth. Bitcoin is unable to do so, as it neither generates income nor grows with
earnings.
Source: Investment Strategy Group, Bloomberg, Coindesk.com. 15
Compared to Commodities, Bitcoin’s Market Price is Dislocated
Relative to its Marginal Production Cost
Investment
Management
Division
Oil, Gold and Bitcoin: Marginal Production Cost versus Current Market Price
8000
7000
Marginal Production Cost
Current Market Price
(% above marginal production cost)
$6,517
(+350%)
6000
5000
4000
3000
2000
$1,278
(+50%)
$1200-1700
1000
0
$57
(+8%)
$52.5
$850
Crude Oil (WTI) Gold Bitcoin
• Bitcoin tokens possesses no physicality, a criteria for traditional commodities.
• Compared to other commodities, Bitcoin’s market price stands far above its marginal production cost.
– Gold miners’ and oil drillers’ revenues stand 50% and 8% above their marginal production costs, respectively.
– Bitcoin miners’ revenue per bitcoin stands approximately 350% above their electricity expenditures.
(1) Peter C.B. Phillips, Shu-Ping Shi and Jun Yu, “Testing for Multiple Bubbles: Historical Episodes of Exuberance and Collapse in the S&P 500,” International Economic Review, Oct 28, 2015.
Source: Investment Strategy Group, Bloomberg. 16
Bitcoin’s Market Cap is Dislocated Relative to that of Payment
Processors
Investment
Management
Division
Relative Transaction Volume and Market Cap
$10
12m Transaction Volume ($Trillion)
Market Cap as % of 12m Transaction Volume (Right)
96.8%
100%
$9
$8.9
$8
$7
75%
$6
$5
$4.8
50%
$4
$3
$2
25%
$1
$0
2.8% 3.3%
$0.1
Visa Mastercard Bitcoin
0%
• Traditional payment processors, Visa and Mastercard, each processed several trillion worth of transaction volumes in
2016. Bitcoin has processed $111 billion of transactions over the last 12 months.
– Bitcoin’s slow transaction time precipitated its recent “hard fork” in attempt to enhance processing capacity.
• Whereas traditional payment processors’ market cap represents ~3% of their transaction volume, Bitcoin’s represents
97%, suggesting its valuation is dislocated from its fundamental value and that speculation has driven its price.
(1) “Future of Finance Payment Ecosystems,” Goldman Sachs Global Investment Research, August 3, 2017.
Source: Investment Strategy Group, Bloomberg, Corporate Annual Reports, Cryptocompare.com. 17
(1) Peter C.B. Phillips, Shu-Ping Shi and Jun Yu, “Testing for Multiple Bubbles: Historical Episodes of Exuberance and Collapse in the S&P 500,” International Economic Review, Oct 28, 2015.
Source: Investment Strategy Group, Bloomberg. 18
Bitcoin’s Historical Risk Premium is Unexplainable
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1. Bitcoin Factor Exposures and Unexplained Premium 2. Tactical Hedge Funds’ Factor Exposures and Unexplained Premium
1.2%
Annual Risk Premium
1.0%
0.8%
0.6%
0.4%
0.2%
Equity
Term
Funding
Liquidity
Exchange Rate
Emerging Market
0.0%
Tactical Trading Hedge Funds
7.0%
6.0%
~341pp
Annual Risk Premium
5.0%
4.0%
3.0%
2.0%
2.8pp
Factor Risk Premium
Historical Risk Premium
1.0%
0.0%
Tactical Trading Hedge Funds
2.8%
± 3.6%
• Bitcoin’s 300%+ historical annual risk premium is idiosyncratic and cannot be explained by ISG’s multi-factor model.
• An inability to understand sources of risk and return makes one incapable of predicting when performance will reverse.
• For tactical hedge funds, half of the historical risk premium is explained by the factor model.
(1) Peter C.B. Phillips, Shu-Ping Shi and Jun Yu, “Testing for Multiple Bubbles: Historical Episodes of Exuberance and Collapse in the S&P 500,” International Economic Review, Oct 28, 2015.
Source: Investment Strategy Group, Bloomberg. 19
Bitcoin’s Recent Performance is Suggestive of Bubble Territory
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Bitcoin Performance in the Context of ISG Bubble Indicator
• A bubble-detection test that measures explosive price behavior based on the S&P 500’s price-to-dividend ratio 1
suggests only a 16% probability that the US stock market is currently in a bubble.
• Bitcoin’s price performance, on the other hand, suggests the asset has been in bubble territory since early this year.
Key Cryptocurrency Risks
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• In addition to their extreme volatility, cryptocurrencies are vulnerable to:
– Hacking of Exchanges
– Unintentional Coding Error
– Government Regulation
– Central Bank Disruption
– Developments in Quantum Computing (which would increase success of private key hacking)
Source: Investment Strategy Group.
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The Cryptocurrency Infrastructure is Young and
Susceptible to Hacking
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Timeline of Major Cryptocurrency Hacks and Amount Stolen
2011
- Allinvain – 25,000 BTC
2012
BitFloor – 24,000 BTC - - Bitcoin Savings and Trust – 46,703 BTC
2013
BIPS – 1,295 BTC - - Inputs.io – 4,100 BTC
- Picostocks – 6,000 BTC
2014
Mt Gox – 75,000 BTC - - Flexcoin – 1,000 BTC
Poloniex – undisclosed BTC -
- Bitcurex – undisclosed BTC
Canadian Bitcoins – undisclosed BTC -
2015
Coinapult – 150 BTC - - BitStamp – 18,866 BTC
Bitfinex – 1,500 BTC - - BTER – 7,170 BTC
Scrypt.CC – undisclosed BTC - - Purse.io – 10,235 BTC
2016
Bitfinex – $65mil -
Gatecoin – $2mil -
- Cryptsy – 13,000 BTC
- Cointrader – undisclosed BTC
- DAO – $55mil
2017
æternity blockchain – undisclosed - - CoinDash – $7mil
Edgeless Casino – undisclosed -
Parity (Ethereum) – ~$350mil -
- Swarm City – $32.6mil
- Bithumb – $1mil
- Veritaseum – $8.4mil
• Although cryptocurrencies cannot be spent without control of the corresponding private keys, care must be taken to
protect those private keys. Many bitcoin owners allow exchanges to custody their private keys, which leaves them
vulnerable:
– If hackers are able to access owners’ private keys, they can deplete owners’ digital wallets.
– As of August 2016, Reuters reported that a third of bitcoin exchanges had been hacked. 1
– Ethereum’s recent Parity hack is the first time a coding error has resulted in a loss of funds.
• Estimates vary but suggest that hackers have stolen at least several hundred million dollars of cryptocurrencies.
(1) http://fortune.com/2016/08/29/risk-of-bitcoin-hacking-is-real/
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Cryptocurrencies’ Legal and Regulatory Status Remains Uncertain
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Country
Illustrative
Acceptance of
Cryptocurrencies’ Status Key Regulator
Cryptocurrencies 1
Switzerland Assets, not Securities • FINMA
Singapore Assets, not Securities • Monetary Authority of Singapore
Japan Recognized as legal tender (Bitcoin only) • Financial Services Agency
United Kingdom Private Currency • Financial Conduct Authority
United States
− Commodities, potentially securities
(SEC has not yet made determination)
− IRS treats as property for tax purposes
(Exchanges, however, are not required to
create 1099s).
• SEC
• CFTC
• OCC
• 50 States
Russia Financial instruments, not currency • Central Bank of Russia
• Russian Finance Ministry
China Non-monetary digital asset • People’s Bank of China
• The cryptocurrency world operates across geographic and jurisdictional borders, creating ambiguity as to its legal
status.
• Individual countries have taken differing views on cryptocurrencies.
(1) Data according to Autonomous NEXT #Token Mania (July 2017)
Source: Investment Strategy Group, Cryptocompare.com. 22
Central Banks Have Begun Exploring Cryptocurrency Options
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1. Central Bank Current State 2. Illustrative Potential State: Central Bank Cryptocurrencies
• Sovereign central banks have begun exploring cryptocurrency options.
• A retail central bank cryptocurrency would effectively give the public access to accounts at the central bank with the
ability to transfer payments peer-to-peer.
• Cryptocurrency proposals are being considered by several central banks, including Singapore’s MAS, China’s PBOC,
Russia’s Central Bank, Sweden’s Riksbank and Ecuador’s Banco Central.
• A successful central bank cryptocurrency could substantially reduce fraud and tax evasion.
Source: Investment Strategy Group, “Central Bank Cryptocurrencies,” Morten Bech, Rodney Garratt, Bank of International Settlements.
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Central Bank Cryptocurrencies Could Substantially Reduce Fraud
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“Say there’s a grant to Nigeria for health stuff—if it’s digital money, they can track that it
was paid to a certain person and when it was paid out. Then you can audit later and say,
‘Did that really happen?’ You don’t want to tell donors that three percent went astray. Now
that there’s digital traceability in a place like Nigeria, where corruption is a huge problem,
we can bring that down. A lot of the optimism we have at the foundation about disease,
education and financial services is because we’re sitting on top of a digital miracle.”
– Bill Gates, September 25, 2017
Source: Investment Strategy Group, “Brain Trust: A Rare Joint Interview with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Bill Gates,” The Wall Street Journal, September 25, 2017.
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• Blockchain technology, which underlies cryptocurrencies, is revolutionary, and likely
to have many applications.
• Cryptocurrencies are currently too volatile to be a medium of exchange, unit of
account, or store of value, and have many vulnerabilities.
• The cryptocurrency ecosystem will evolve substantially over time.
• The current incarnation of cryptocurrencies is unlikely to persist, but we expect
central bank digital currencies to prevail.
Source: Investment Strategy Group.
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Economics Monitor
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US Labor Market Data Period Actual Survey Prior Revised European PMI Data Period Actual Survey Prior Revised
JOLTS Job Openings (k) Sep 6,093 6,075 6,082 6,090 Markit Eurozone Composite PMI Oct F 56.0 55.9 55.9 --
Initial Jobless Claims (k) 4-Nov 239 232 229 -- Markit/BME Germany Composite PMI Oct F 56.6 56.9 56.9 --
Continuing Claims (k) 28-Oct 1,901 1,885 1,884 -- Markit France Composite PMI Oct F 57.4 57.5 57.5 --
Markit/ADACI Italy Composite PMI Oct 53.9 54.3 54.3 --
US Consumer Sentiment Period Actual Survey Prior Revised Markit Spain Composite PMI Oct 55.1 54.6 56.4 --
U. of Mich. Sentiment Nov P 97.8 100.8 100.7 --
U. of Mich. 5-10 Yr Inflation Nov P 2.5% -- 2.5% -- European Activity Data Period Actual Survey Prior Revised
Eurozone Retail Sales YoY Sep 3.7% 2.8% 1.2% 2.3%
China Activity Data Period Actual Survey Prior Revised Italy Retail Sales YoY Sep 3.4% 0.5% -0.5% -0.1%
Foreign Reserves Oct 3,109 3,110 3,109 -- Germany Industrial Prod. WDA YoY Sep 3.6% 4.5% 4.7% 4.6%
Exports YoY Oct 6.9% 7.1% 8.1% 8.0% France Industrial Production YoY Sep 3.2% 3.1% 1.1% 1.0%
Imports YoY Oct 17.2% 17.0% 18.7% 18.6% Italy Industrial Production WDA YoY Sep 2.4% 4.8% 5.7% 5.8%
CPI YoY Oct 1.9% 1.8% 1.6% -- Spain Industrial Output SA YoY Sep 3.4% 3.1% 1.8% 1.9%
• The US labor market continues to tighten; the small miss in claims is largely explained by Puerto Rico.
• Chinese trade growth moderated; deals announced during President Trump’s visit are unlikely to reduce trade deficit.
• Eurozone data came in mixed relative to consensus expectations, but still points to above-trend growth in the region.
Source: Investment Strategy Group, Bloomberg.
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Markets Monitor
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1Y Price Range 11/14/2017 WTD Last Week¹ YTD 1Y Price Range 11/14/2017 WTD Last Week¹ YTD
S&P 500 2,579 -0.1% -0.2% 15.2% MSCI AC World 573 -0.4% -0.4% 14.6%
Cons Disc 738 0.4% 0.7% 13.9% MSCI EAFE 1,148 -0.8% -1.1% 10.7%
Cons Staples 564 0.9% 2.1% 6.0% TOPIX 1,779 -1.2% 0.4% 17.1%
Energy 503 -2.1% 1.1% -9.3% FTSE 100 7,414 -0.2% -1.7% 3.8%
Financials 433 0.1% -2.7% 12.0% DAX 13,033 -0.7% -2.6% 13.5%
Health Care 936 -0.3% -0.5% 17.4% IBEX 35 9,990 -1.0% -2.6% 6.8%
Industrials 596 -0.9% -1.1% 10.7% Euro Stoxx 50 3,556 -1.0% -2.6% 8.1%
Info Tech 1,106 -0.2% 0.0% 36.9% MSCI EM 60,154 -0.7% 0.2% 26.2%
Materials 362 -0.6% -1.2% 15.9% MSCI China 88 -0.7% 2.4% 50.7%
Real Estate 209 0.1% 3.2% 9.8% MSCI India 1,214 -1.3% -1.6% 23.5%
Telecom 142 -1.7% -1.3% -19.8% MSCI Brazil 240,688 -1.9% -2.3% 15.4%
Utilities 288 2.4% 0.4% 16.6% MSCI Russia 969 -0.3% 5.4% -3.0%
NASDAQ 6,738 -0.2% -0.2% 25.2% USD Trade Weighted 81.16 -0.3% -0.5% -7.0%
VIX 11.59 0.30 2.15 (2.45) EUR 1.1798 1.1% 0.5% 12.2%
2yr Yield 1.69% 0.03% 0.04% 0.50% JPY 113.46 0.1% 0.5% 3.1%
10yr Yield 2.37% -0.03% 0.07% -0.07% GBP 1.3165 -0.2% 0.9% 6.7%
30yr Yield 2.83% -0.05% 0.07% -0.24% EM Currencies² -0.2% 0.0% 7.6%
30yr AA Yield 3.83% -0.05% 0.14% -0.33% CNH 6.6357 0.4% -0.4% 5.1%
HY Spread (bps) 360 0 21 -49 WTI Crude Oil 55.70 -1.8% 2.0% 3.7%
LIBOR 1.42% 0.00% 0.02% 0.42% Gold Spot Price 1,280 0.4% 0.5% 11.1%
1Y Low
1Y Avg.
Current
1Y High
• Equities were softer as concerns around tax reform outweighed a mostly positive Q3 earnings season. Bond yields
rose globally and the dollar weakened, while oil continued to rally on geopolitical concerns.
* Based on the MSCI EM Currency index.
Source: Investment Strategy Group, Bloomberg.
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Appendix & Disclosures
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• Allinvain - https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2011/06/17/bitcoin-the-first-500000-theft/#68fa3f5929b3
• BitFloor - https://www.theverge.com/2012/9/5/3293375/bitfloor-bitcoin-exchange-suspended-theft
• Bitcoin Savings and Trust - https://www.theverge.com/2012/8/27/3271637/bitcoin-savings-trust-pyramid-scheme-shuts-down
• BIPS - https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-payment-processor-bips-attacked-1m-stolen/
• Inputs.io - https://www.coindesk.com/hackers-steal-bitcoins-inputs-io-wallet-service/
• Picostocks - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=576337#post_toc_58
• Mt. Gox - https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2014/02/25/bitcoins-price-plummets-as-mt-gox-goes-dark-with-massive-hack-rumored/#5b7199ffce1f
• Poloniex - https://www.coindesk.com/poloniex-loses-12-3-bitcoins-latest-bitcoin-exchange-hack/
• Canadian Bitcoins - https://news.vice.com/article/over-100k-in-bitcoin-was-stolen-in-a-ridiculously-low-tech-heist
• Flexcoin - https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-bank-flexcoin-close-600000-bitcoin-theft/
• Bitcurex - https://www.coindesk.com/polish-bitcoin-exchange-bitcurex-targeted-hacking-attack/
• Coinapult - https://bravenewcoin.com/news/bitcoin-exchange-bitfinex-integrates-bitgo-following-recent-hack/
• Bitfinex - https://cointelegraph.com/news/breaking-bitfinex-hot-wallet-hacked-bitcoins-stolen
• Scrypt.CC - http://insidebitcoins.com/news/cloud-mining-provider-scrypt-cc-drains-bitcoin-from-user-balances/34500
• BitStamp - http://www.zdnet.com/article/bitstamp-bitcoin-exchange-suspended-amid-hack-concerns-heres-what-we-know/
• BTER - https://www.coindesk.com/bter-bitcoin-stolen-cold-wallet-hack/
• Purse.io - https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/purse-io-users-are-targeted-by-hackers-10-235-btc-stolen/
• Bitfinex - http://fortune.com/2016/08/03/bitcoin-stolen-bitfinex-hack-hong-kong/
• Gatecoin - https://siliconangle.com/blog/2016/05/17/cryptocurrency-exchange-gatecoin-hacked-2m-in-bitcoin-and-ethereum-stolen/
• Cryptsy - https://www.coindesk.com/cryptsy-bankruptcy-millions-bitcoin-stolen/
• Cointrader - https://www.pymnts.com/news/bitcoin-tracker/2016/obama-declares-bitcoin-a-national-currency/
• DAO - https://www.coindesk.com/dao-attacked-code-issue-leads-60-million-ether-theft/
• Aeternity blockchain - http://www.businessinsider.com/report-hackers-stole-32-million-in-ethereum-after-a-parity-breach-2017-7
• Edgeless Casino - http://www.businessinsider.com/report-hackers-stole-32-million-in-ethereum-after-a-parity-breach-2017-7
• Parity (Ethereum) - https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ywbqmg/parity-multi-signature-wallet-vulnerability-300-million-hard-fork
• CoinDash - https://www.coindesk.com/coindash-ico-hacker-nets-additional-ether-theft-tops-10-million/
• Swarm City - https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/20/32-million-worth-of-digital-currency-ether-stolen-by-hackers.html
• Bithumb - http://www.livebitcoinnews.com/south-korean-government-investigates-latest-bithumb-hack/
• Veritaseum - https://www.coindesk.com/veritaseum-founder-claims-8-million-ico-token-stolen/
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fies other PVPA requirements may apply for and receive a certificate of plant variety protection issued
by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Such a certificate establishes a breeder's right, for a
period of time and subject to certain exceptions, to exclude others from selling the variety, offering it
for sale, reproducing it, importing or exporting it, or using it in producing a hybrid or different variety.
A breeder's rights under the certificate last for 20 years (25 years in the case of a protected tree or vine)
from the certificate’s issue date.

It is not clear whether the USDA has issued any certificate of plant variety protection for a can-
nabis variety. The USDA website provides a searchable database of certificates issued since February
2013, as well as a schedule of crop categories for which certificates have been issued. A search of these
USDA materials indicated that no certificates for varieties of cannabis, marijuana or hemp have been
issued. The PVPA defines “variety” as “a plant grouping within a single botanical taxon of the lowest
known rank” with certain defining and distinguishing features. Given the disagreement among bota-
nists regarding cannabis taxonomy noted in Chapter I, Cannabis Science 101, it may be challenging
to demonstrate that a cannabis variety satisfies PVPA criteria for protection.

Trademark Act

A trademark is a word, name, symbol or device used by a person to identify and distinguish the person's
goods or services from the goods and services of others and to indicate the source of the goods or ser-
vices. Trademarks take many forms, including logos, slogans, symbols, colors and sounds. Under com-
mon law and through registration under state and federal statutes, a trademark owner can be afforded
certain legal protections against unauthorized use of the trademark by others.

Trademark protection under federal law is provided primarily by the Trademark Act, also known
as the Lanham Act, which provides for registration of trademarks with the USPTO. The holder of a
federally registered trademark receives certain rights and protections under federal law, including the
right to use the “®” symbol, evidence and nationwide notice of a claim of ownership, access to federal
courts for dispute resolution, the ability to prevent importation of foreign goods that infringe on the
trademark, and the right to recover certain statutory damages and attorneys’ fees. Generally, federal
registration is the most comprehensive trademark protection available in the United States.

Federal trademark registration requires “lawful” use of the trademark in commerce. Thus, trade-
marks used to identify, distinguish or indicate the source of cannabis or related products or services
that are illegal under federal law are not eligible for federal registration. However, federal registration is
available for trademarks used in connection with federally legal cannabis-related products or services,
such as a recipe for food intended to be infused with cannabis or a cannabis-related clothing line.

Alternatives to federal trademark registration include protections available under common law and
through registration under state trademark statutes. Common law protections vary across jurisdictions
and generally extend only to geographical regions where a trademark has first been used in commerce.
State trademark registration generally provides protection within the entire state but, like federal regis-
tration, may not be available for trademarks used in connection with unlawful subject matter.

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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025105.txt,"From: Robert Kuhn [ 
Sent: 4/8/2017 6:28:05 AM 
To: jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Subject: Re: Kuhn - The Science of Sleep and Dreams 
Importance: High 
Just arrived NY, here for —10 days. 
Now with the Trump-Xi Summit over (utterly overwhelmed by Syria strike), back to Closer To Truth. 
When good to meet? 
Robert 
On Mar 23, 2017, at 4:23 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
Look forward to seeing you 
On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 3:54 PM Robert Kuhn < wrote: 
Hi: Just returned from a month in China. Attached is my summary of recent politics (in South China Morning 
Post), and pics of moderating (at request of govts of China and Israel) the PM's discussion with leading 
Chinese technologist (Baidu CEO, dominant Chinese search engine). The PM was in China for 25th 
anniversary of diplomatic relations 
Back to CTT, my 'true love'... Love to discuss Science of Sleep & Dreams project. I'm in LA for week and 
then NY April 8-18. 
Warm regards, Robert 
On Feb 15, 2017, at 1:29 PM, Robert Kuhn 1> wrote: 
501 (c) (3) - private operating foundation - The Kuhn Foundation, which I set up in 1999 to support Closer To 
Truth. IRS letter attached. 
Thank you. 
<Kuhn Foundation IRS Tax Exempt Determination Letter 1999, 2015.pdf> 
On Feb 15, 2017, at 4:17 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
is it a charity that received the funding? 
On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 1:27 AM, Robert Lawrence Kuhn <1> wrote: 
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Pardon the formality below - I want to approach your very legitimate questions / concerns in a serious 
manner. 
Attached and below the same. 
Dear Jeffrey: 
As requested, the following addresses your two questions / concerns about our proposed Closer To Truth TV 
series ""The Science of Sleep and Dreams"": 
(i) Have there been sufficient breakthroughs in Sleep and Dreams (significantly beyond traditional 
understandings) to justify a major TV series? 
(ii) Even if 'yes' to (i), is now the proper time for such a foundational series, or are more years needed for 
corroborative studies and further research to solidify the breakthroughs? 
In preparing this response, my primary source is Professor Patrick McNamara, Department of Neurology, 
Boston University School of Medicine, with whom CTT Producer/Director Peter Getzels and I spoke with at 
length today. Patrick is one of the leading sleep and dream researchers (he himself more dreams). More 
importantly, he is perhaps the leading chronicler of the field, with many publications (including 26 entries in 
related encyclopedias). He is co-editor-in-chief of the ""Encyclopedia of Sleep and Dreams"" (2012) and 
the sole author of the forthcoming ""An Introduction to the Neuroscience of Sleep and Dreams"" (Cambridge 
University Press, 2018), which intends to present the latest science and to become a main textbook for 
graduate courses/seminars. Patrick is a CTT contributor and colleague. 
When we asked Patrick, his first response — ""This is the ideal time to tell the sleep-and-dreams story"" — and he 
cited (in essence) your two questions, in that (i) the multiple breakthroughs are now sufficiently well 
corroborated by numerous independent labs such that a substantial foundation for the new, deeper 
understanding of sleep and dreams is now for the first time (over the past few years) confirmed and 
established, and (ii) there are now interesting application and critical clinical questions to pose, explore and 
pursue, such as for the treatment of various mental-related illnesses that have known sleep-related syndromes 
(e.g., PTSD and Depression). 
To understand the significance of recent breakthroughs, a defining characteristic of sleep and dreams is that 
there are two distinct kinds of sleep — REM (rapid-eye-movement) Sleep and NREM (non-rapid-eye-
movement) Sleep. Most dreams are associated with REM sleep (though complex). The eye movement 
gives the eponymous name, but a more important designation defines the two stages in terms of brain waves 
(electroencephalograph — EEG): REM is Fast-Wave Sleep (similar to the waking state) and NREM Sleep is 
Slow-Wave Sleep (very different from the waking state). This difference between REM and NREM sleep has 
been known since 1953 (different EEGs since 1937), but its deep significance has only been discovered and 
confirmed in very recent years (as explained below). 
Following are the key areas of breakthrough in sleep and dreams (from Patrick). Patrick states that these are 
now reproducible, non-controversial, and well-accepted among experts, although still not appreciated by the 
public - hence the high value of our CTT TV series. The organizing idea is why and how are sleep and dreams 
essential for normal memory consolidation and bodily health / well-being. 
Memory Consolidation. There is a fundamental difference between REM and NREM Sleep for memory 
consolidation: REM is for emotional memories, whereas NREM is for declarative and procedural memories. 
Hence, understanding and dealing with REM emotional memories can lead to treatment for the many 
neuropsychiatric illnesses that have sleep/dream-related disorders or syndromes (Parkinson's Disease, 
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Anxiety, Substance Abuse, many sleep disorders such as Nightmare Disorder, etc., in addition to PTSD and 
Depression). Research shows bi-directional causality between neuropsychiatric disorders and sleep disorders. 
This is a superb example of how fundamental science breakthroughs lead to clinical breakthroughs. This fact 
that REM is associated with emotional memories is nicely consistent with the apparent psychotic nature of 
dreams, because in REM Sleep the frontal cortex is 'down-regulated' (and the frontal cortex is associated with 
rational planning, reflection, controlling impulses), while in REM Sleep the limbic system is 'up-regulated"" 
(and the limbic system is associated with emotions and feelings) — see Neuroimaging below. This is 
why dream states flood the ego with emotional fantasies without rational control. However, it is also true that 
the limbic system enables creative ideas, thus grounding in science the long-suspected idea that sleep and 
dreams can enhance creativity. 
As Dr. Robert Stickgold, our other advisor on the series, wrote: ""It would be nice if we could talk about sleep 
and memory as if there were only one type of memory and one type of sleep. But this is far from the case. 
Sleep and memory each comes in many forms, and furthermore, memories can go through multiple forms of 
post-encoding processing that must be individually addressed."" 
Immunity / Immune System. Strengthening the immune system is now a proven product of NREM sleep. 
Discerning the evolutionary basis for this is a key research project (i.e., it seems counter-intuitive 
that sleeping facilitates fitness for survival in that predators lurked in the jungles and on the plains so that 
going unconscious during sleep does not, at first glance, seem especially adaptive). Studies of sleep in various 
non-human animals reveals a direct relationship between longer periods of NREM (Slow-Wave) Sleep and a 
stronger immune system, especially in fighting parasites. NREM Sleep releases molecules that 
fight inflection; NREM Sleep works for the maintenance, repair and activation of the immune system. (This 
gives scientific rationale for the need or desire to sleep during illnesses.) Related are ""genetic conflict"" studies 
with respect to REM and NREM, showing differences in heredity between material and paternal lines, and 
differences between males and females in which genes get ""imprinted"". 
Neuroplasticity. Exciting recent research has reversed the century-long conventional wisdom that new 
neurons are never created in adult animals/humans. The development of new neurons — neuronogenesis — is a 
vital part of maintaining normal brain and mental functioning. New neurons are being created, importantly, in 
the hippocampus (brain organ where new memories are encoded) — but, remarkably, the neuronogensis in 
the hippocampus occurs only/largely during REM Sleep — a stunning finding. This is another reason why 
REM sleep is needed for emotional memory consolidation (normal functioning). 
Dream-Content. Although dreams have sparked human fascination and fantasy for thousands of years, only 
in very recent years, have large-scale surveys been conducted with rigorous design, classifications and 
statistical analysis. Literally hundreds of thousands of dreams are enabling statistically significant theories, 
including cross-cultural analyses (similarities and differences). Dream-posting sites have revolutionized size 
and structure of dream data sets. This enables, for the first time, longitudinal studies of dreams over time. 
Patterns are repeated. For example, in general, the dreams of males and females differ in fundamental ways. 
Males will engage in fighting with other males; females with both males and females. Male dreamers 
are often the initiator of fights and the fights are usually physical. Females fight verbally. Aggressiveness 
by the dreamer is almost always in REM Sleep, rarely in NREM Sleep. (Why is a continuing question.) 
""Lucid Dreaming"" is a new area of fascinating research. Lucid Dreaming is where the dreamer ""knows"" that 
he/she is dreaming while dreaming (a talent that a small minority possesses but more can be 
trained/developed). Lucid dreamers, while sleeping, can now communicate with experimenters by altering 
their brain activity and thus becoming detectable by neuroimaging techniques (see below). 
Neuroimaging. Finally, neuroimaging technology has enabled many of these breakthroughs. As such, it is 
itself a methodological breakthrough that has enabled these other content breakthroughs. Neuroimaging now 
enables detailed location of the neuroanatomy and neurophysiology of REM and NREM Sleep. In 
REM Sleep, the dorsolateral, frontal cortex is ""down-regulated"", whereas the limbic system is ""up-regulated"", 
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showing the physiological basis for the emotional, wild-fantasies of dreams (see above). (Neuroimaging will 
enable good visual images for the TV series without extra costs.) 
Patrick stresses that while these breakthroughs form, for the first time, a solid foundation for understanding 
sleep and dreams, they also open opportunities to dig deeper into the ""purpose"" of sleep and dreams, as well 
as engender a new series of questions and directions (e.g., clinical treatments of illnesses). 
Attached is Patrick's quick compiling of summaries of a few recent leading research papers (2009 — 2017, 
especially 2015-2017). 
You'd enjoy speaking with him, if you want. 
Love to do this series together with you. 
Much appreciate and warm regards, 
Robert 
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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024003.txt,"NEW LEAF VENTURES III, L.P.

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IMAGES-012-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033117.txt,"° President Trump attacked Google for liberal bias, and claimed Google, Facebook,
and Amazon represent “a very antitrust situation”.

° Attorney General Jeff Sessions convened a meeting of Republican state
attorneys general to discuss whether tech giants “may be hurting competition and
intentionally stifling the free exchange of ideas on their platforms.”

° Facebook, Twitter, and Google were called to testify in front of the House and Senate
about election interference, political bias, etc. Google declined to attend.

. The FTC has begun a series of hearings on Digital Age antitrust, the first such
hearings since the 1990s.

° The FTC revealed the hiring of Lina Kahn—heralded for authoring a groundbreaking
antitrust argument against Amazon—as an advisor. (See section 5 for more.)

. Republican Senator Orrin Hatch asked the FTC to reopen a 2013
antitrust case against Google.

. Democratic Senator Mark Warner released a six-point policy proposal on regulating
the tech industry.

° Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders proposed the “BEZOS Act”, which would tax
corporations one dollar for every dollar low-wage workers receive in government health-
care benefits or food stamps.

. The E.U. Parliament voted 438 to 226 to back a draft proposal of
copyright reformsthat will impose unprecedented liability on information platforms.

° France is pushing to have “Right to be Forgotten” laws applied globally,
which Google is now fighting in court.

° Reports emerged that the E.U. is considering investigating Google’s location-
tracking practices on data privacy grounds.

We will continue to watch each development in the U.S. and E.U. closely to understand if
and when debate turns to action. For now, we agree with the analysis of NYU Stern
professor Scott Galloway, who told CNBC last week after the congressional hearings:

I don't see anything meaningful coming out of this panel, much less Washington...D.C.
lacks the domain expertise or the will to go after big tech. Where you may
see it is, one, out of Brussels and, two, out of [the FTC, the DOJ, or] a red
state whose attorney general sees the brightest path between the AG’s mansion and the
governor’s mansion is a populist argument against big tech.

Evidence of fundamental weakness could exacerbate the investor reaction to escalating
regulatory news. By all accounts, Facebook has continued to bleed

users. According to Pew Research poll results released earlier this month, more than a
quarter of U.S. Facebook users claim to have deleted the app from their phones over the
past year:

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015260.txt,"House cocktail party—as though | had transformed dimensions and stood
amongst them. Not recognizing anyone, | frantically asked, ‘Who are
these people?’

‘ ""They’ re not people, and this isn’ t a space ship,’ Bennett
said. As he spoke, the holographic scene changed ever so slightly until the
people appeared to be lizard-like aliens. ‘Welcome to the second level of
the underground. This level is a mere reflection of the first, an alien
dimension. We are from a trans-dimensional plane that spans and
encompasses all dimensions. | have taken you through my dimension as a
means of establishing stronger holds on your mind than the earth’ s
plane permits. Being alien, | simply make my thoughts your thoughts by
projecting them into your mind. My thoughts are your thoughts.’ If this
were so, why did he have to audib/y tell me?”

Aha! A touch of skepticism from Cathy. And yet part of me still
hopes that was all true, if only because of Bill Bennett’ s personal maxim:
“Hypocrisy is better than having no values at all.”
kok #
How could | distinguish truth from lies if truth was cross-fertilized

with greed, the need for attention, false memory, speculation, fantasy, self-

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of trial and that failure to obtain such inspection may tend unreasonably to delay the trial; and (4) that the application 1s made in
""279

good faith and is not intended as a general ""fishing expedition.
Because of this governing law, I proposed that Rule 17 should itself identify restrictions on a defendant's ability to subpoena
confidential information. My proposal incorporates specificity, relevancy, and admissibility components - conforming with,
rather than altering, existing law. My current proposal 7°° requires the information be specifically described and admissible at
trial - and it bars evidence sought for impeachment purposes only. In contrast, the Advisory Committee seemingly enlarges the
substantive rights of defendants by failing to reference even a single Nixon factor in its proposal. Thus, unless a court takes it
upon itself to ensure the relevancy, specificity, and admissibility of the subpoenas, [*912] the Advisory Committee proposal
might provide the defendant with license to conduct the very ""fishing expedition"" that Nixon forbids.

The proposed Advisory Committee Note adds to this confusion. The Note indicates that in considering whether to issue the
subpoena, the court should consider ""the relevance of the subpoenaed material to the defense."" 78! But this is an overly broad
formulation. The court should only consider the relevance of the material to the defense at trial, since this is the only
permissible basis for a subpoena.

Current law clearly limits Rule 17 subpoenas to evidence that is admissible at trial. 2°? The reason for Nixon's limitations of
relevance, admissibility, and specificity is that subpoenas are ""not intended to provide a means of discovery for criminal cases""
but only to ""expedite the trial by providing a time and place before trial for the inspection of subpoenaed materials."" 78? With
regard to admissibility, Nixon explained that ""generally, the need for evidence to impeach witnesses is insufficient to require its
production in advance of trial."" 784 In other words, documents sought for the narrow purpose of impeachment are not
evidentiary for the purposes of Rule 17. 7°° In Nixon, only because the prosecutor made a sufficient preliminary showing that
the subpoenaed tapes contained ""evidence admissible with respect to the offenses charged in the indictment"" and that the
evidence could be validly used as nonimpeachment evidence, did the Court find the evidence to be subpoenable. 78°

Courts apply Nixon's admissibility test strictly, rejecting, for example, subpoenas for hearsay evidence that would be
inadmissible at trial. 78” The cases have recognized that broad subpoenas run afoul of these limitations - including subpoenas
seeking information about crime victims. 7°* For example, in United States v. Hang, the Eighth Circuit affirmed the district

279 Id. at 699-700 (citing United States v. Iozia, 13 F.R.D. 335, 338 (S.D.N.Y. 1952)).

280 My earlier proposal specifically required that no subpoena would issue ""without a finding by the court that the information is relevant to
trial."" Cassell, Proposed Amendments, supra note 4, at 875 (emphasis added). In view of the importance of the Nixon factors, it now seems
desirable to spell them all out, as my current proposal does.

281 Proposed Amendments, supra note 71, R. 17, at 8.

282 Nixon, 418 U.S. at 699-700.

283 Td. at 698-99 (emphasis removed).
284 Id_at 7Ol.

285 See United States v. Cherry, 876 F. Supp. 547, 553 (S.D.N.Y. 1995).

286 Nixon, 418 U.S. at 700-702.

287 See, e.g., Cherry, 876 F. Supp. at 553 (rejecting subpoenaed prosecutors’ investigative files as inadmissible hearsay).
g (pp. J g subp Pp 8 ry.

288 Cf. United States v. Alexander, No. 94-10568, 1996 U.S. App. LEXTS 1662, 16-17 (9th Cir. Jan. 18, 1996) (quashing subpoenaed records
from rape center because nothing warranted disclosure prohibited by Victims of Crimes Act); United States v. Cherry, No. 90-5784, 1991
U.S. App. LEXTS 18192, 11-13 (4th Cir. Aug. 12, 1991) (quashing subpoenaed police files because they were in part irrelevant); Ams/er v.
United States, 38] F.2d 37, 51 (9th Cir. 1967) (holding subpoena of Frank Sinatra, regarding ransom money, an oppressive and unreasonable
use of the court).

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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026137.txt,"value of USD 19.3 billion). The debt profile has become more favorable with the
increase of the share of official debt, a decline in the foreign currency debt share

and the very low share of short term debt. This should effectively make easier the
refinancing of the debt in 2019 and 2020.

The synthesis of the current parliament allows the government to push for reforms
in 2017 and early 2018 before they turn to populist measures just before elections.
Leading the country off-track with the IMF program will surely limit even further
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Source: Bloomberg, Morgan Stanley Research; See Ukraine Economics and Strategy: Kyiv Trip Takeaways,
April 7, 2017.

Politics

EU has verified its support by (1) lifting its visa requirements to Ukrainian citizens
for traveling, a long awaited move that embeds symbolism of support and (11)
following the vote by the Dutch parliament to support Ukraine’s Association
Agreement, it is expected that the ratification of the Association Agreement,
including the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area component will be ratified
in the Ukraine-EU Summit on July 13.

NATO has also shown strong support to Ukraine by providing various forms of
assistance through advice and training to strengthen its defence by building
stronger security structures. The Ukrainian defence industry may also get
permission to participate in tenders for the supply of goods and services for NATO.

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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029966.txt,"Those arguments seem to have made an impression, because government officials repeated many of
them at this week's hearings. The Homeland Security Committee invited representatives of three
federal agencies to testify before the committee this week. Jennifer Shasky Calvery represented the
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, which enforces the nation's laws against money laundering.
Mythili Raman spoke on behalf of the Justice Department, whose enforcement activities have
included the shuttering the Bitcoin-based drug marketplace Silk Road. And Edward Lowery spoke for
the Secret Service, which (along with the Justice Department) was involved in shutting down e-Gold
and Liberty Reserve, two virtual currencies that the government alleged had become vast money-
laundering operations. Calvery also testified before the Senate Banking committee on Tuesday.
""Virtual currencies have yet to overtake more traditional methods to move funds internationally"" for
""criminal purposes,"" Calvery said. She pointed out that the Bitcoin network has processed only about
$8 billion worth of transactions over the last year, compared to an estimated $1.6 trillion in ""global
criminal proceeds"" in 2009. Clearly, the vast majority of those transactions are using some other
financial network.

""We are attuned to the criminal use"" of Bitcoin, Raman said. But ""there are many legitimate uses.
These virtual currencies are not in and of themselves illegal.""

Calvery agreed. ""Innovation is a very important part of our economy,"" she said, cautioning that
premature regulation could stifle Bitcoin innovation.

The personal touch

Regulators are busy people. They're more likely to pay attention to flesh-and-blood advocates than to
anonymous Internet commenters. Murck and Andresen's trip to Washington proved to be crucial to
building productive relationships with policymakers.

Calvery was a keynote speaker at the June conference. Murck and Calvery met in the speakers' room
at the conference and had a conversation that would later lead to the closed-door August meeting
between regulators and Bitcoin advocates. The day after the June conference, Murck was introduced
to staffers on the Senate Homeland Security Committee, beginning a conversation that culminated in
this week's hearings.

Murck says that not everyone in the Bitcoin community was happy about his engagement with
Washington. The Bitcoin community has a strong libertarian streak, and many Bitcoin devotees
wotried that conversations with federal regulators could help to legitimize and encourage regulation.
But to the surprise of many, the Bitcoin advocates’ charm offensive actually changed the minds of
many D.C. insiders. Winning over Allen was a particular coup for the Bitcoin community. Allen's
warnings against the dangers of premature regulation were particularly effective coming from a long-

time activist against child pornography.

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013258.txt,"342 A Glossary

grounded by images of cats, experiences of interactions with cats, imaginations of being a
cat, etc.

e Symbolic: Pertaining to the formation or manipulation of symbols, i.e. mental entities that
are explicitly constructed to represent other entities. Often contrasted with subsymbolic.

e Syntax-Semantics Correlation: In the context of MOSES and program learning more
broadly, this refers to the property via which distance in syntactic space (distance between
the syntactic structure of programs, e.g. if they’re represented as program trees) and se-
mantic space (distance between the behaviors of programs, e.g. if they’re represented as
sets of input/output pairs) are reasonably well correlated. This can often happen among
sets of programs that are not too widely dispersed in program space. The Reduct library
is used to place Combo programs in Elegant Normal Form, which increases the level of
syntax-semantics corellation between them. The programs in a single MOSES deme are
often closely enough clustered together that they have reasonably high syntax-semantics
correlation.

e System Activity Table: An OpenCog component that records information regarding
what a system did in the past.

e Temporal Inference: Reasoning that heavily involves Atoms representing temporal in-
formation, e.g. information about the duration of events, or their temporal relationship
(before, after, during, beginning, ending). As implemented in CogPrime, makes use of an
uncertain version of Allen Interval Algebra.

e Truth Value: A package of information associated with an Atom, indicating its degree
of truth. SimpleTruthValue and IndefiniteTruthValue are two common, particular kinds.
Multiple truth values associated with the same Atom from different perspectives may be
grouped into CompositeTruthValue objects.

e Universal Intelligence: A technical term introduced by Shane Legg and Marcus Hutter,
describing (roughly speaking) the average capability of a system to carry out computable
goals in computable environments, where goal/environment pairs are weighted via the length
of the shortest program for computing them.

e Urge: In OpenPsi, an Urge develops when a Demand deviates from its target range.

e Very Long Term Importance (VLTI): A bit associated with Atoms, which determines
whether, when an Atom is forgotten (removed from RAM), it is saved to disk (frozen) or
simply deleted.

e Virtual AGI Preschool: A virtual world intended for AGI teaching/training/learning,
bearing broad resemblance to the preschool environments used for young humans.

e Virtual Embodiment: Using an AGI to control an agent living in a virtual world or game
world, typically (but not necessarily) a 3D world with broad similarity to the everyday
human world.

e Webmind AI Engine: A predecessor to the Novamente Cognition Engine and OpenCog,
developed 1997-2001 — with many similar concepts (and also some different ones) but quite
different algorithms and software architecture

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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019215.txt,"as MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” NBC's “Meet the Press,” and “Charlie Rose.” He has
argued that Obamacare was basically an expansion of insurance coverage and did not

emphasize patient health enough.

In an interview with The Washington Post in November, he said his office had already

been in touch with Trump's transition team offering help.

“We're really talking about replace and repair, rather than repeal. But we haven’t seen
a full approach yet from the administration. Personally, this is me speaking. ... We’re

basically optimistic we can create a better system together,” Noseworthy said.

In a statement issued by his office shortly after the meeting began, Noseworthy said
the invitation from Trump was to ""share his perspective on the future of healthcare

delivery, research and excellence” and that he was ""pleased for the opportunity.”

Rothman is chief executive of Johns Hopkins Medicine and several years ago found
himself in the awkward position of criticizing physician Ben Carson, who at the time
was head of pediatric neurology for the institution, after he made disparaging remarks
about same-sex marriage. Carson later apologized publicly for his “poorly chosen
words.” Carson, a onetime political rival of Trump's, has been tapped to lead

the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Torchiana is chief executive of Partners HealthCare, based in Massachusetts — a state
that has long been at the forefront of health-care reform. Partners operates two of the
most well-regarded hospitals in the world, Massachusetts General and Brigham and
Women's Hospital, which are affiliated with Harvard Medical School. But in recent
months, Partners has been under fire from some policymakers because of what they
describe as a large gap between what Partners charges and what other providers

charge.

Cosgrove, a heart surgeon and Vietnam veteran who is chief executive of the Cleveland
Clinic, may be a candidate for the head of the Department of Veterans Affairs,
according to Bloomberg News. Cosgrove has met with Trump several other times. He's
on an advisory panel of 16 executives for the president-elect on jobs and the economy,
has been spotted in Trump Tower recently and was in Palm Beach meeting with

Trump last week.

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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030856.txt,"From: Daniel Sabba |

Sent: 1/9/2015 1:53:22 AM
To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Fw: EOD Commodities Note - 8 Jan [C]

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Importance: — High

Classification: Confidential

Vol in crude continues to collapse

From: Prateek Jain
Sent: 01/08/2015 09:15 PM GMT
Subject: EOD Commodities Note - 8 Jan

Oil

A relatively quiet day in Crude today. We hovered around unchanged for most of the day before selling off in the
afternoon and testing 50S BRE again. However, we failed to break it and rallied towards unchanged for the close,
perhaps off the back of some index buying. Newswise, Feb Azeri BTC loadings will be up a whopping 11% m/o/m to
821kbd. Interestingly, there is apparently some floating storage interest happening as well, as some major phys trading
firms have booked long term tankers for this as long term charter rates are cheaper and thus make the economics of
storage look good. The window was again weak with ekofisk and brent offered down a bit. In other news, RTRS cites GCC
“sources” saying that there is no chance of OPEC cut even though oil has dipped to 50S...Stateside, we learned yesterday
that the Seaway Twin is moving 100% heavy crude. Furthermore, USGC diffs weakened again, with LLS now trading 1S
above WTI. In the morning WTI spreads were quite bid, but that abated towards the end of the day. The arb did
however stay bid throughout the day, as the fact that LLS/WTI is tight at 15 means that there is more room BRE to
discount vs LLS so as to place those Jan and Feb overhang cargoes in the US. In politics land, the Senate committee voted
13-9 to have Keystone “bypass” presidential approval. So if the Senate passes this bill (which it should as it has 60 co
sponsors), Obama may have to veto it. It is not clear that the Senate has 67 votes needed to overturn the veto, so this
should be interesting to follow...In products land, distillate bounced back a bit after yesterday’s post stats ugly showing,
perhaps off the realization that the stats didn’t add up along with the extremely cold weather giving NG a (rare) bid as
well...

Oil Vols

Another day of carnage in oil vols today. Early morning NY vols were down 0.4-0.5 through the curve, but a one way
selling streak started just before the open and all the bids out there started getting hit. As an example Dec5 atm
straddles started the day 1465/1505, were 1405/1450 at 9am, and were 1350/1390 later in the day. Within 2 hours of
open, vols were down about 3 vols across the curve..and stayed there for most of the day till about 1:30pm when
futures took a quick leg lower.. prompt vols traded 1.5% higher than close at that time and Jun5 was up 2% from the
lows. However, with a quick rally back vols started fading again and ended 1.5-2.5 lower.

Wings got smashed again and put skew collapsed quickly. 8000 lots of S4Q0puts in WTI Mar15 were sold on the screen,
which is quite an impressive volume outside floor trading..

WTI (/change) BRE (/change)
G15 50.40% -1.60% 44.00% -2.60%
H15 45.50% -2.40% 43.70% -1.10%
M15 41.40% -2.10% 38.20% -2.60%
Z15 35.15% -1.60% 33.10% -2.15%
216 28.60% -2.00% 28.50% -1.80%

Index
No rhyme or reason to flat price action today.

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103 Minn. L. Rev. 844, *913

important kinds of crimes within states’ jurisdictions. This federalism-based model of enforcement redundancy is a distinctive if

188 Cassia Spohn & Julie Horney, Rape Law Reform: A Grassroots Revolution and Its Impact 77 (1992) (describing expectations that legal
reforms would improve prosecution rates); id. at 100 (""Legal changes did not produce the dramatic results that were anticipated by reformers.
The reforms had no impact in most of the jurisdictions."").

189 Jennifer L. Truman & Rachel E. Morgan, Bureau Justice Statistics, U.S. Dep't of Justice, Criminal Victimization, 2015, at 2 tbl.1 (2016),
hittps://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/cvl5.pdf (reporting that the National Crime Victimization Survey estimated 431,840 rapes/sexual
assaults in 2015); Crime in the United States by Volume and Rate Per 100,000 Inhabitants, 1996 -2015, Fed. Bureau Investigation,
hittps://ucr fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/201 5/crime-in-the-u.s.-20] S/tables/table-] (last visited Oct. 30, 2018) (reporting 124,047 rape reports
under the ""revised definition"").

199 Cf. Jack M. Balkin & Reva B. Siegel, Principles, Practices, and Social Movements, /54 U. Pa. L. Rev. 927, 946-50 (2006) (arguing that
social movements significantly shape the application of constitutional principles); Reva B. Siegel, Text in Contest: Gender and the
Constitution from a Social Movement Perspective, /50 U. Pa. L. Rev. 279, 328-44 (2001) (arguing that the history of the Nineteenth
Amendment and the Equal Rights Amendment show that the U.S. Constitution is amenable to contestation by social movements).

°! Violence Against Women Act of 1994, Pub. L. 103-322 (1994) (codified at 34 U.S.C.§8$/2291-12511) (2017) (establishing a broad set of
policies directed at violence against women that creates no federal criminal offenses).

°2 Dripps, supra note 149, at 46-49, app. I. For an earlier proposal along the same lines, see Kim, supra note 149, at 304-09.

3 E.g., Office on Violence Against Women, supra note 178 and accompanying text.

°4 The statutory authority is 42 U.S.C. § 1/414] (2016).

°° See Harmon, Policing Reform, supra note 21 (discussing structural reform aimed at police violence without noting any instances of
targeting sexual assault offenses).

°° Leading observers view this structural reform as insufficient to address the scope of the police-misconduct problems. See id. at 59-61
(describing injunctive relief under 42 U.S.C. § /4/4/, noting limits on data about police misconduct, and explaining how insufficient data
limits the effectiveness of reform efforts). On the prospect of reduced federal commitment to this strategy in the Trump administration, see
U.S. Attorney Gen., supra note 24; Horwitz et al., supra note 24.

197 See Dripps, supra note 149, at 19 & n.100 (citing five federal actions under § 14141 addressing local agencies' responses to sexual assault
crimes).

198 That is, federal criminal law is effective at successful prosecutions, if not at reducing the underlying social problem targeted by criminal
law. See generally, e.g., Steven B. Duke & Albert C. Gross, America's Longest War: Rethinking Our Tragic Crusade Against Drugs (1993)
(examining and critiquing American drug policies).

199 See, e.g., 18 U.S.C. § 241 (2012) (criminalizing conspiracy); id. § 242 (criminalizing willful deprivation of federal rights while acting
under color of law); id. § 249 (criminalizing willful bodily injury because of victim's race, religion, sexual orientation, or gender identity).
Federal prosecutors focus on other serious direct-victim crimes as well, such as human trafficking and child pornography. See U.S. Dep't of
Justice, supra note 145 (describing prioritization of such cases). But federal involvement in that realm is presumably motivated not so much
by a need for oversight of untrustworthy state prosecutors as by the greater resources, expertise, and interstate jurisdictional advantages that
federal prosecutors bring to such cases. Criminal prosecution is only one aspect of federal policies to reduce custodial deaths and improper
uses of force by police. Other strategies include investigating abuse and corruption in local police agencies and using civil injunctive
remedies against those agencies to change patterns of wrongdoing, as well as gathering data on custodial deaths and police uses of force. See
Harmon, Policing Reform, supra note 21; Simone Weichselbaum, Policing the Police: As the Justice Department Pushes Reform, Some
Changes Don't Last, Marshall Project (May 26, 2015), https:/Avww.themarshallproject.org/2015/04/23/policing -the-police (describing the
difficulties in achieving lasting reforms in local police departments through federal consent decrees).

200 See 18 U.S.C. § 242 (liability for an official who ""willfully subjects any person ... to the deprivation of any [federal] rights""); United
States v. Screws, 325 U.S. 91, 103 (1945) (interpreting § 242's willfulness term to require ""specific intent to deprive a person of a federal
right"").

201 The prosecution of South Carolina police officer Michael Slager provides an example. State prosecutors charged Slager with murder;
federal prosecutors charged him with criminal violation of civil rights under 18 U.S.C. § 242. For an example of this contrast between state
and federal charges for the same offense, see Blinder, supra note 52; Michael S. Schmidt & Matt Apuzzo, Officer Is Charged with Murder of

a Black Man Shot in the Back, N.Y. Times, Apr. 8, 2015, at Al.
DAVID SCHOEN

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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024708.txt,"ACKRELL
CAPITAL Cannabis Investment Report | December 2017

Rohrabacher-Farr Amendment

The Rohrabacher-Farr amendment, first passed by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President
Obama in 2014, prohibits the DOJ from using federal funds to prevent a state from “implementing”
state laws that authorize the use, distribution, possession or cultivation of medical marijuana.

Following the amendment’s initial 2014 enactment, the DOJ indicated that it did not plan to arrest
state regulators for “implementing” a state’s medical marijuana laws but would continue to prosecute
individuals involved in state-law compliant medical marijuana activity because, in the DOJ’s view, the
amendment did not apply to prosecutions against individuals.

The DOJ’s interpretation of the Rohrabacher-Farr amendment was rejected by a Ninth Circuit
District Court in its 2015 ruling in United States v. Marin Alliance for Medical Marijuana, and again by
the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in its 2016 ruling in United States v. McIntosh. The Ninth Circuit
Court of Appeals held the Rohrabacher-Farr amendment prohibits DOJ from spending funds subject
to the amendment on the prosecution of individuals who fully comply with state medical marijuana
laws. The court noted a state’s “implementation” of medical marijuana laws necessarily involves “giving
practical effect” to those laws, and that DOJ prosecution of individuals complying with those laws
prevents the state from giving the laws practical effect.

The Rohrabacher-Farr amendment generally applies only to DOJ funds made available pursu-
ant to the federal budget legislation in which the amendment is included, and therefore must be
renewed periodically with budget legislation to remain effective. The Rohrabacher-Farr amendment
was recently renewed in December 2017 as part of an emergency aid package that remains effective
until mid-January 2018. (With the retirement of Representative Samuel Farr from the U.S. Congress
in 2016, the Rohrabacher-Farr amendment is now also referred to as the Rohrabacher-Blumenauer
amendment; we use this name elsewhere in this report.)

Agricultural Act of 2014

The Agricultural Act of 2014 (Farm Bill) authorizes institutions of higher education and state depart-
ments of agriculture to cultivate industrial hemp, CSA controls notwithstanding, if (i) the industrial
hemp is cultivated for purposes of research conducted under an agricultural pilot program or other
agricultural or academic research and (ii) the cultivation is allowed under the laws of the state in which
such institution of higher education or state department of agriculture is located and such research
occurs.

The Farm Bill defines “industrial hemp” as the cannabis plant and any part of such plant, whether
growing or not, with a THC concentration of not more than 0.3 percent on a dry weight basis.
Industrial hemp, like any cannabis plant, may comprise both marijuana (as defined in the CSA) and
non-marijuana. But the Farm Bill creates an exception to CSA controls on marijuana, so cultivation in
accordance with the Farm Bill of marijuana that qualifies as industrial hemp does not violate the CSA.

The following table summarizes the legal relationship between marijuana (as defined in the CSA)
and industrial hemp (as defined in the Farm Bill).

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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031590.txt,"is no evidence showing that the CCP is purposefully becoming more
assertive in its foreign policy towards the West.

Napoleon said two-hundred years ago that, when China wakes “she will
shake the world.” It may not be time to start shaking yet.

Adrien Morin is a postgraduate student of International Affairs at Peking
University.

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Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this
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years was reasonable). Prince Mohamed
correctly submits that his position as an
officer of DMI, IICG, and FIBS would not
be a basis for jurisdiction over him even if
the Court had personal jurisdiction over
these entities. See Keeton v. Hustler
Magazine, Inc., 465 U.S. 770, 781 n. 18,
104 S.Ct. 1478, 79 L.Ed.2d 790 (984)
(“Each defendant’s contacts with the fo-
rum State must be assessed individually.”).
Finally, Prince Mohamed argues that the
conclusory allegation that he participated
in a terrorist conspiracy, without specific
facts, is insufficient to create personal ju-
risdiction over him.

[60] The Court agrees that Plaintiffs
have not presented a prima facie case of
general jurisdiction over Prince Mohamed.
In the ten years before the attacks, Prince
Mohamed’s contacts with the United
States consist of one speech and a handful
of investments in the United States
through the banks with which he is affiliat-
ed. These contacts are not sufficiently
“systematic and continuous” to maintain
general jurisdiction over a defendant in
this action.** See Helicopteros, 466 U.S. at
416, 104 S.Ct. 1868 (holding that purchas-
ing in forum, sending personnel for train-
ing in forum, and negotiating a contract in
forum were not sufficient to establish gen-
eral jurisdiction).

[61,62] Plaintiffs have alleged that
DMI and FIBS might have been involved
in the financing of terrorism. See, ¢.g.,
Ashton Complaint 19 274-75; Ashton Opp.
at 25. Even assuming that the Court has
personal jurisdiction over these entities,
“[t]he mere fact that a corporation is sub-
ject to jurisdiction ... does not mean that
individual officer may be hauled before
New York courts without any showing that
the individuals themselves maintained a

36. There is no allegation that Prince Mo-
hamed’s investments in the United States are

349 FEDERAL SUPPLEMENT, 2d SERIES

presence or conducted business in New
York.” Family Internet, 1999 WL 796177,
at *4. Plaintiffs have not alleged that
Prince Mohamed had any knowledge or
involvement in any al Qaeda accounts at
any of the banks he chaired. FIBS’ rela-
tionship with Al Shamal Islamic Bank,
which purportedly knowingly opened ac-
counts for al Qaeda operatives, including
Osama bin Laden, is too remote in time
and proximity to implicate Prince Mo-
hamed. To make a prima facie case of
personal jurisdiction, Plaintiffs must either
allege personal acts by Prince Mohamed
by which he purposefully directed his ac-
tivities at the United States by supporting
Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda, or their ter-
rorist agenda, or demonstrate that the acts
of the banks he chaired can be imputed to
him. Plaintiffs have not met their burden.
Thus, Prince Mohamed’s motions to dis-
miss the Ashton and Federal complaints as
against him for lack of personal jurisdic-
tion are granted.

4, Estate of Mohammad Abdullah
Aljomaih

On May 2, 2003 by Second Addition and
Removal of Defendants Pursuant to Case
Management Order No. 1 imposed by
Judge Robertson, the Burnett Plaintiffs
added a defendant “Mohammed Bin Ab-
dullah Al-Jomaith.” To date, no specific
allegations have been added to the com-
plaint with respect to Mr. Aljomaih.

In anticipation of what the claims
against him might be, before his death Mr.
Aljomaih prepared a declaration in support
of his motion to dismiss. He was born in
Saudi Arabia in 1915 and lived in Riyadh
for most of his life. Aljomaih Decl. 13. He
and his family began a company in the
1940s that now supplies automobiles, soft
drinks, construction equipment, and other

related to any alleged conspiracy or to al
Qaeda’s activities.

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IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026556.txt,"DURING THE RULE OF WESTERN-ORIENTED autocrat Mohammad Reza Shah
Pahlavi, Tehran was a rapidly evolving society that deceptively appeared to be crossing
into the modern age. My own family history is perhaps representative of Iran's urban
middle-class trajectory during the 20th century: My devout paternal grandmother, born in
1907, wore a chador and wasn't formally educated beyond elementary school; three of her
four daughters attended university, and all eschewed the veil. All of their daughters grew
up in a Tehran in which miniskirts were the trend, and Googoosh -- Iran's pre-
revolutionary J. Lo (but remarkably modest by today's standards) -- was their main

""source of emulation.""

Khomeini's opposition to the shah was fueled in part by the latter's enfranchisement of
women, which the ayatollah deliberately conflated with sexual decadence. In his 1970
book Islamic Governance(Hukumat-e Islami) -- which would later provide the ideological
and political template for post-revolutionary Iran -- Khomeini hyperventilated that
""sexual vice has now reached such proportions that it is destroying entire generations,
corrupting our youth, and causing them to neglect all forms of work! They are all rushing
to enjoy the various forms of vice that have become so freely available and so

enthusiastically promoted.""

Khomeini nonetheless reassured his liberal revolutionary compatriots -- just months
before the revolution, while in Paris exile -- that ""women [would be] free in the Islamic
Republic in the selection of their activities and their future and their clothing."" Much to its
retrospective dismay, a sizable chunk of Iran's liberal intelligentsia -- both male and
female -- lined up behind Khomeini, some even referring to him as an ""Iranian Gandhi.""
Shortly after consolidating power, however, Khomeini and his disciples swiftly moved to
crush opposing views and curtail female social and sartorial freedoms. ""Islam doesn't
allow for people to [wear swimsuits] in the sea,"" he proclaimed shortly after becoming

supreme leader. We ""will skin their hide!""

Women who resisted the mandatory veil were met with violence and intimidation,
including lyrical taunts of ""Ya roosari, ya toosari!"" (‘Cover your head or be smacked in
the head!""). As Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi recently wrote,

""Although the 1979 revolution in Iran is often called an Islamic revolution, it can actually

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015248.txt,"‘ ‘But the reason I’ m calling—this an unofficial call—is to warn
you when you talk about corruption and government, most people in
government couldn’ t care less, they don’ t care, they’ re corrupt and
they know it and you know it, so what are you gonna do about it? But
when you talk about the Church and religious institutions in this country,
what you’ re doing is you are messing with organized crime at its highest
level. The highest levels of organized crime in this country are the religious
institutions. We’ re talking about a lot of money. We’ re talking about
the control of men’ s minds, about the dream of absolute total
domination. This makes the Mafia look like child’ s play.’ ”

Another speaker, Len Horowitz, author of Emerging Viruses: AIDS
and Ebola, explains that “Non-lethal warfare is where you don’ t kill
populations like with a bomb or a gunshot, but you make them sick. You
make them dependent on pharmaceuticals which are actually a military-
pharmaceutical complex run by the same players—the global elite—and
then ultimately these populations become enslaved to the pharmaceuticals
and economically debilitated along with their nation states.”

Now, like the Blues Brothers, he on a mission from God: “Bust the
Illuminati. Bust the cryptography code. The darkest time in our history is

just beginning. Revelation tells you in God’ s word that you and | should

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IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020604.txt,"APPENDIX 2

Chinese Influence Activities in
Select Countries

This report has focused on the range of challenges the United States faces in an era

of accelerating Chinese influence activities on multiple fronts. But this issue is hardly
unique to the United States—indeed, China’s influence activities now occur all around
the world. In some instances, notably Australia, these activities appear to have proceeded
much further than they have so far in the United States. In general, they seem more
advanced in Asia and Europe, but there is also evidence of such activities in Africa and
Latin America as well.

In order to explore some of the wider patterns that have emerged, this appendix offers
brief summaries of the effects of such activities in eight countries: Australia, Canada,
France, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, and the United Kingdom. In each
of these settings, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has refined its efforts through
trial and error in order to exploit a critical asymmetry: China’s Communist party-state
has established barriers to external political influence at home while, at the same time,
seizing upon the openness of democratic systems overseas.

China seeks to make itself more palatable to democratic societies by using many of
the customary vehicles of soft power—such as state-funded research centers, media
outlets, university ties, and people-to-people exchange programs. These programs
mimic the work of independent civil society institutions in a democracy, cloaking

the extent to which the party-state controls these activities and genuine civil society
is tightly repressed inside China. In conjunction with the dramatic expansion of
Chinese economic interests abroad, the Chinese government has focused its influence
initiatives on obscuring its policies and suppressing, to the extent possible, voices
beyond China’s borders that are critical of the CCP.' Targeting the media, academia,
and the policy community, Beijing seeks to penetrate institutions in democratic states
that might draw attention or raise obstacles to CCP interests, creating disincentives for
any such resistance. Chinese economic activity is another important tool in this effort.
Beijing is particularly skilled at using economic leverage to advance political goals in
the realm of ideas, working through indirect channels that are not always apparent
unless one examines Chinese business activities in conjunction with Beijing’s other
influence efforts.

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2007 Utah L. Rev. 861, *894

defendants are treated fairly - even in the absence of an overarching statutory command to that effect - while not doing the

same for crime victims, even where the CVRA directly commands that victims be treated ""with fairness."" !°®

In any event, the Advisory Committee's proposal is decidedly unfair. The Committee proposes a two-pronged approach:

If the government intends to rely on a victim's testimony to establish the defendant's presence at the scene of the alleged
offense and the defendant establishes a need for the victim's address and telephone number, the court may:

[*895] () order the government to provide the information in writing to the defendant or the defendant's attorney; or

(ii) fashion a reasonable procedure that allows the preparation of the defense and also protects the victim's interests. 187

Notice that the court can order disclosure of the victim's address upon a mere showing by the defendant of ""a need,"" by
proceeding under subparagraph (1) of the proposed rule; the requirement to protect the victim's interests is triggered only if the
court chooses to proceed under paragraph (ii). And the proposed rule fails to give any guidance on when the court should
proceed under paragraph (ii) as opposed to paragraph (i).

The Advisory Committee's provision for two ways in which the court can avoid the requirements of withholding a victim's
name seems unnecessary. Subsection (d) of Rule 12.1 already allows a court to grant an exception to any of the requirements of
the rule for ""good cause."" '88 This exception has been used to justify the government's nondisclosure of its witnesses in
situations where their safety might be jeopardized. !®° There is, accordingly, no need to add ""wiggle room"" language in Rule
12.1.

More important, the Advisory Committee's approach is fundamentally flawed. It makes no sense to require that the victim's
interests be considered only half the time - i.e., only where the court proceeds under paragraph (ii) but not under paragraph (1).
More important, since the Advisory Committee appears to agree that disclosing a victim's address raises obvious safety
concerns, allowing disclosure without any consideration of the victim's interests violates the CVRA's command that the victim
must be ""reasonably protected from the accused."" !°° A court proceeding under paragraph (i) would be under no obligation to
""protect[] the victim's interests"" (as paragraph (11) specifically provides), since it is a standard rule of construction that expressio
unius est exclusio alterius (the expression of one thing implies the exclusion of the other). !9! At a bare minimum, the CVRA
requires redrafting the rule so that the court always considers victims' interests before 1t can order production of a victim's
address.

Also interesting are the choices that the Advisory Committee specifically lists for a judge. The options given are (i) ""order the
government to provide the information in writing"" or (ii) ""fashion a reasonable procedure that allows the preparation of the
defense and also protects the victim's interests."" The listing of these two (and only these two) options seems to mmply that the
court does not have [*896] a third option - Le., (iii) decline to order a victim's address be turned over. It is simply not the case
that every time the defendant can establish a ""need"" for information - no matter how trivial or how remotely connected to the
case - the court should either disclose a victim's address or fashion some other procedure toward the same end.

86 18 U.S.C. § 3771(a)(8) (2006).

87 Proposed Amendments, supra note 71, R. 12.1(b)(1)(B), at 3-4 (footnote omitted).

88 Fed. R. Crim. P. 12(d).

89 See, e.g., United States v. Causev, 834 F.2d 1277, 1282 (6th Cir. 1987) (noting that, in light of Rule 12(d), any penalty for violating the
tule is ""neither mandatory nor absolute"" (quoting United States v. Carter, 756 F.2d 310, 311 (3d Cir. 1985))).

9 18 U.S.C. § 3771(a)(1) (2006).

°! See, e.g., Swanson v. United States, 224 F.2d 795, 798 (9th Cir. 1955) (applying the principle of expressio unius est exclusio alterius
when constructing Fed. R. Crim. P. 46(/)(1)).

DAVID SCHOEN

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how to make decisions, understand how to approach a problem, or
otherwise live sensibly. Teachers are never shocked to be asked to pro-
vide personal or professional advice to a student having a problem—
any problem. If one takes one’s job seriously, teaching means being
available to help. But this important advisory job is confused by lesson
plans, and class hours, and lectures, none of which matter very much.

Why do I say that these things don’t matter very much? This is the
essence of what this book is about—the move from content-based in-
struction to cognitive-based learning, assisted by good teaching. This
means we will have to define this “new” kind of learning (it’s not re-
ally new, of course, just new to schools) and the “new” kind of teach-
ing that is a natural consequence of using this new learning method.

Most teachers understand and appreciate that delivering the re-
quired material is not their real job, at least it is not the reason they
signed on in the first place. The employers of teachers, on the other
hand—administrators, governments, department heads, and so on—
expect certain material to be covered. Exciting students is not on their
worry list. This is a big problem for teachers and for students, and one
that we will address here.

But my more serious concern is our conception of learning, not
teaching. Teaching follows one’s conception of learning so getting
learning right is of prime importance. When I said earlier that outsid-
ers to the learning profession wouldn’t get the real point, I was being
ironic. There is no learning profession. Why not?

In 1989, I moved from Yale to Northwestern to establish a new
institute, funded by Andersen Consulting, devoted to issues of chang-
ing training and education by the use of new technologies. I needed a
name for the institute and came up with The Institute for the Learning
Sciences. I made up the term learning sciences. There was no such field
in academia. Most people thought I meant we were planning to work
on how people learned science. The only academic fields that “stud-
ied” learning were psychology and education. Psychology, being an
experimental field, allows faculty to work only on experiments about
learning that provide data in a controlled environment. Education
faculty study how schools work and very rarely think about learning
outside of the school context or in a way different from the paradigm
already extant in schools. I wanted to create a learning profession. In
1989, there certainly didn’t seem to be one.

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IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027890.txt,"first aptitude tests. I finished among the top two dozen results in the country.
“How can you throw your gifts away? For what,” he asked me. “If you leave
that school, and give up on going to university, it will be like betraying
yourself.” At one point, he walked me out to the patch of hard-packed soil
where we parked the tractors and farm machinery. “What do you want to do
with your life,” he asked. “Do you want to be a farmer?”

I thought about it before answering. “I don’t know what will happen in the
future,” I said. “But if you ask me now, I would say I want to drive one of the
kibbutz trucks.”

I could see the shock and disappointment in his eyes. But it was the truth. I
did imagine that at some point I might want to make a life outside the kibbutz.
But I’d never lived anywhere else. If I was going to remain a part of it, I could
think of no better way than to join our little corps of drivers. Though they lived
on the kibbutz, they spent most of their time delivering or picking up goods in
places like Tel Aviv, Holon or Ashkelon. As the US Marines might have put it,
I guess I figured I’d join the truck-drivers and see the world.

The deeper reason I said no to my father, as I am sure he suspected, was that
I felt a need to take control of my own life. That was simply a part of growing
up, a process which probably happened more quickly for 1950s kibbutz children
than for town or city kids. We loved and respected our parents. But we were
living with other teenagers. We weren’t just residents of the kibbutz. We were
part of the economic collective, working in the fields or orchards, the garage
and the metal shop. This bred a sense of independence. I listened to my father’s
arguments. But this was a decision about my future. I felt I had to make it for
myself. I cared about my education. But I’d reached a stage where my life
outside the classroom, and my circle of friends, mattered more. I am sure that
the same impulse drove me in my continuing freelance forays into lockpicking
and petty larceny with Ido and Moshe.

So I returned to the kibbutz school. The level of teaching was nowhere near
the regional school’s. But we did begin studying new subjects like economics
and politics. There were two other welcome surprises as well. The first was the
arrival of a new history teacher. Knowledgable, enthusiastic and eloquent, he
had a rare gift for igniting excitement in his students. We studied the French
Revolution. He brought it to life with insights into Montesquieu, Rousseau and
John Locke, Louis XVI and Mary Antoinette, Robespierre and Napoleon. He
traced the dynamics that led to the revolution, and the way its ideals descended
into the bloodshed and terror that followed. He presented history as a human

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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028488.txt,"Ed Mezvinsky?

Well, he is a former Democrat congressman who represented lowa's
1st congressional district in the United States House of
Representatives for two terms, from 1973 to 1977.

He sat on the House Judiciary Committee that decided the fate of
Richard Nixon.

He was outspoken saying that Nixon was a crook and a disgrace to
politics and the nation and should be impeached.

He and the Clintons were friends and very politically intertwined for
many years.

Ed Mezvinsky had an affair with NBC News reporter Marjorie Sue
Margolies and later married her after his wife divorced him.

In 1993, Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky, then a freshman Democrat in
Congress, cast the deciding vote that got President Bill Clinton’s

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He is Edward ""Ed"" Mezvinsky, born January 17, 1937. And so who is
controversial tax package through the House of Representatives.

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IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022013.txt,"Firtuy Ric

fraudster named Arnold Prosperi, whose own prison sentence
had been commuted by Bill Clinton on the day before Clinton
left office.

Sheriff Bradshaw wants to be clear: none of these visits was
conjugal.

But even US attorney Acosta, who negotiated Epstein’s unusual

7 ___ agreement with the government, would say that Epstein’s arrange-
CHAPTER o4 ""ment was highly irregular.

“Epstein appears to have received highly unusual treatment
while in jail,” Acosta would say in a letter addressed to the gen-
eral public. “Although the terms of confinement in a state prison
are a matter appropriately left to the state of Florida and not fed-
eral authorities, without doubt, the treatment that he received
while in state custody undermined the purpose of a jail sentence.”

And, of course, Epstein’s Stay at the Stockade was subsidized
by taxpayers.

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013270.txt,"Clients always want
their aircraft to be

modern and up-to-date,

while maintaining an
understated, luxurious
aesthetic

n a 50,000-square-foot hangar at Long Island’s MacArthur Airport, an aircraft interiors
project has its designer “fired on all cylinders”. Tasked to modify and refurbish a

Global 5000 for the sports entertainment giant, World Wrestling Entertaiment (WWE,
formerly WWF), New York-based International Jet Interiors is putting a progressive spin
on cabin design. While the livery boasts WWE’s corporate colours, the interiors use
“hand-woven carpets, custom-made metal finishes including a spun black pearl finish,
custom-dyed leathers and bespoke seating from Italy”, says Eric Roth, the designer at
International Jet Interiors’ helm.

But the highlight is in the high-tech facilities: studio-grade equipment that enables on-the-
fly editing of feeds from live sports entertamment shows, which are transmitted via on-board
satellite. Meanwhile, specially programmed iPad minis control the cabin functions. “It will be
the ultimate couture craft when completed in January 2014,” says Roth.

No stranger to special client requests, Roth says he loves the challenge — the more unusual
the request, the more he and his team seem to excel in delivering the solution. His clients
come from around the world with a varied wish-list, ranging from entertamment systems with

satellite TV and high-speed WiFi to 24-karat gold-plated fixtures throughout the craft. >>

THE MORE UNUSUAL THE REQUEST, THE MORE ROTH AND
HIS TEAM SEEM TO EXCEL IN DELIVERING THE SOLUTION

"
IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032099.txt,"January 25, 2007 - GPS-integrated shoes - now why didn't I think of that? The Xplorer line of
Smart GPS shoes from GTX Corp. come with an integrated GPS tracking device which helps
parents keep tabs on their children. In addition, parents are able to set up a virtual boundary, where

they will be duly noted via SMS should the shoes leave beyond the designated area.
GPS Shoes Let Mommy Know Where You Are

January 25, 2007 - Good news for worried parents. These GTX GPS Xplorer Smart Shoes will let
you keep track of your kids no matter where you are. Here's how it works.

Define a ""safe"" area around your house or school that it's safe for your kids to wander around.
When the GPS signal goes outside of the area, an SMS will be sent to your phone alerting you of

the situation. Then you're free to call your wife, the police, or Chloe from 24.
The GTX GPS shoes have a small GPS tracking device inside the shoe actually
communicates the location to a central location tracking service

ESATO NEWS - Jan 26, 2007 - Xplorer, the next generation of smart GPS shoes, incorporates the
smallest, most powerful and robust GPS tracking device on the market today. Drawing on a long
history of patented embedded GPS technology for footwear and other consumer products, GTXC
has been in development on the Xplorer line for the past three years. The new line advances the
state of GPS tracking technology considerably, utilizing several groundbreaking innovations

currently in the patent process.
GTX Corp. announces the Xplorer line of Smart GPS shoes

Thu, 25 Jan 2007 - The GTX GPS shoes have a small GPS tracking device inside the shoe actually
communicates the location to a central location tracking service. So you could get your kids these
GPS sneakers and define an area where it is safe for the kid to wander around. When leaving the
defined area an SMS would be sent to your mobile phone notifying you of the situation. GTX calls

this feature GeoFencing. The batteries powering the GPS unit inside the shoes last several days.

""With Liberty and Surveillance for All: Person-to-person Surveillance Gets Green Light
from Public

Survey research from Boston University graduate students shows that Americans are more willing
to engage in surveillance of loved ones than one might expect given our love for independence.

Half of Americans are comfortable with being electronically monitored by a loved one for safety

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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029796.txt,"So, although the Peres vision of peace is
a positive legacy, he has also taught us
less helpful lessons. The settlements are a
supremely negative inheritance, but I
would argue that the anti-democratic
rejection of the concept of a
parliamentary opposition is an even more
harmful bequest handed down to us by
President Shimon Peres.

Daniel Gavron, who lives in Israel, is a
former journalist and the author of nine
books, the most recent of which is Holy
Land Mosaic, stories of cooperation and
coexistence between Israelis and
Palestinians (Rowman & Littlefield,
2008).

Article 4.

NYT

India vs. China vs. Egypt

Thomas L. Friedman

February 5, 2013 -- New Delhi -- It’s
hard to escape a visit to India without
someone asking you to compare it to
China. This visit was no exception, but I
think it’s more revealing to widen the
aperture and compare India, China and
Egypt. India has a weak central
government but a really strong civil
society, bubbling with elections and

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IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011807.txt,"/ BARAK / 50

My own negotiating team, not to mention the Americans, assumed I would now
turn my attention to the Palestinians. Arafat was pressing for us to go ahead with
phase-two of the Wye redeployments. In fact, he now wanted us to add the transfer
of three Arab villages on the edge of east Jerusalem: Eizaria, El-Ram and, most
importantly, Abu Dis, since from there you could see the golden dome of the
mosque above the Western Wall in the Old City. I understood why the villages
were politically important for him. But in practical terms, I also knew I’d have to
secure the support of the cabinet and the Knesset for what the Likud, and the main
religious parties too, would interpret as a first step toward “handing back
Jerusalem.”

For me, this underscored the problem at the heart of Oslo. We were transferring
land to Arafat, yet still without any serious engagement from the Palestinians on
the “permanent-status” questions, like the furture of Jerusalem, that were critical to
the prospects for real peace. They were critical, in fact, even to reaching a
framework agreement, or a declaration of principles, as a basis for a final treaty. I
probably should have seen the crisis-ridden spring of 2000 as a harbinger of the
difficulties when we finally got to that stage. I did make a first major effort to find
compromise ground on the main issues. I sent Gilead Sher and Shlomo Ben-Ami to
begin back-channel talks with a Palestinian team led by Abu Ala’a and Hassan
Asfour, the architects of Oslo. But as I prepared to seek Knesset approval for
returning the three additional villages to the Palestinians, my main Orthodox
coalition partners, Shas and the National Religious Party, as well as Sharansky’s
Yisrael ba’Aliyah, all threatened to walk out of the government. I did manage to
keep them on board, but only by getting the Knesset vote classified as a no-
confidence motion. That meant that if we lost, the government would fall and there
would be new elections. That was something none of them wanted. They feared
that Arik and the Likud would do better this time around, and they would end up
with fewer seats.

Still, even that didn’t avert a different kind of crisis. The vote was on May 15.
For the Palestinians, this was also A/-Naqgba Day, the annual marking of the 1948
“catastrophe” of the founding of the State of Israel. Danny Yatom told me the night
before there were intelligence reports of large protests planned for the West Bank
and in Gaza. President Clinton immediately got the American consul to deliver a
message to Arafat, saying that the President expected him to intervene against any
sign of violence. But Arafat’s reply was that, while he’d do what he could, he

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Ms Ghislaine Maxwell
Staff

Michelle Campos
Jennifer

House Managers

Joseph & Florena Rueda
Joseph

Florena

358 El Brilla Way, Palm Beach
Florida 33480

Mr. Jeffrey Epstein
Ms Ghislaine Maxwell

Stalf
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Jerome Pierre (Gardner) M- F

Alan Stopeck Landscape designer, Checks the garden
Francis & Pastora House cleaning service

Francis Peadon handles all cleaning/laundry

Bil Peadon

Nicole Hessey

Cherie Lynch 7
Nicole and Cherrie are well versed in supervising and shopping for PB, when necessary
Pilots

Larry Visusky
David Rogers

Dave

Car phones
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Michael Wolff 
5/23/2019 12:24:11 AM 
J [jeevacation@gmail.com] 
Re: 
Importance: High 
Where are you tomorrow? 
On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 8:23 PM J <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
Why had no one interviewed some of trump classmates at wharton ? Deutsh bank papers very bery bad 
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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013516.txt,"the knee jerk of the standard neurological examination. Such phenomena were
already well known in the late 1930’s in what W.R. Hess and later John Flynn,
following electrical stimulation of cats in the lateral hypothalamus, called
“hypothalamic rage.” In the late 1940’s and 1950’s, work by National Institutes of
Mental Health’s Paul MacLean attributed it to the actions of parts of the emotional
“limbic” brain, particularly the fear-rage-attack coloring of experience by the
temporal lobe’s amygdaloid nucleus. Modern imaging studies in man have shown
that this source of emotional coloring is activated by new information, even before
the more rational parts of the neocortical brain processes it. How we feel about
something new arises before what we think about it. These survival-oriented states
of fight or flight are known to be biologically universal and demonstrable in even
single cell organisms.

A greater contribution to my brain metaphysics followed observations that
after several seconds of stimulation of other brain stem sites, the cats became alert
but quiet, staring into space for several minutes. Then, they circled slowly and
curled up on the ground. This was followed by several minutes of grooming and
loud purring. Difficult to handle cats became transiently tame, some coming close
for petting. | found that these same sites also increased the amplitude and reduced
the threshold for the cat’s knee jerk reflex. Responsiveness increased with
calmness. Particularly interesting was the finding that electrical induction of this
purring state could immediately stop on-going stimulation-induced episodes of
hissing rage. | referred to these experiments with my friends as my
neurophysiological studies of Old Testament vengeance and New Testament
forgiveness. It seemed that the hissing rage would produce eye for an eye and a
tooth for a tooth hypertension, the talon principle of the Old Testament and Koran.
New Testament forgiveness would yield low blood pressure health and Jesus was a
healer. It was about this time in the early 1950’s that Northwestern University social
psychologist, Jim Olds, found that rats could be trained to push levers to obtain
current delivery via electrodes in various parts of their brains. Shortly after, Joseph
Brady, then of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, showed that squirrel

monkeys would do the same. With depth electrodes attached to wires running to a

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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018645.txt,"thinking.”

KOK ok

I've been practicing BDSM for a while, now, and it has been amazing. I've had a lot of
very intense sexual experiences and I feel incredibly confident about my sexuality. I feel
very far away from my younger self, who realized that she was into BDSM and
completely freaked out. However, I used to keep a very detailed (albeit sporadic)
personal journal, and this allows me to look into the head of 20-year-old Clarisse. Here's
something I wrote only a couple of weeks after I met Richard, my first serious BDSM
partner:

On the surface I have a hard time understanding why this has shocked me so much -- the
fact that I wanted him to hurt me, the fact that even as I was facing down my demons and
crying and incoherent I wanted him to keep biting me, scratching me, bruising me, and
God, it was bad, but even now I wish it had been far worse... on some level I want to
have been physically scarred. He stopped finally because I started saying ""no,"" and
couldn't formulate a coherent answer through my tears when he asked me if I was
serious. But, of course, although I was serious, I also didn't want him to stop. Of course.
Of course I wanted him to hear me saying no and keep going, to be protesting and
overridden. And the reason I couldn't formulate a coherent answer wasn't even that I
didn't know the answer was, ""Yes, keep going."" It was that I knew the answer was yes,
and when I faced it I started crying so hard I couldn't speak, and he... sensitively, I
guess... decided it was time to stop.

How cliche I am. (God, I'm sounding like some naive ingenue from a random de Sade
play or something, just discovering my sexuality or whatever.) How self-conscious. And
how humiliated and ashamed. Of all the things I think I expected from myself for this, if it
ever came true that this was what I wanted -- I never really actually expected to be
ashamed.

What I think is especially interesting about those paragraphs is that I felt a certain
recognition for my BDSM identity, I felt a certain inevitability about learning what I
needed. It made sense to me. ""Of course,"" I wrote, over and over. And at the same time I
acknowledged that I had considered BDSM before -- but that I hadn't really known what
that meant, and I'd had no idea how I would feel if I found it. I knew what I was thinking,
I knew what I had been thinking, and yet at the same time I didn't know. I had no idea. I
was completely confused.

I'm not so confused anymore. These days.... There are a lot of things I don't know, but
there are an awful lot of things I do know, too. I have gotten pretty good at knowing what
I want, even when it's hard to figure it out. And I have a very good sense of my
boundaries.

But I also keep trying to figure out how to expand them. This isn't just true with BDSM.
Arguably, my urge to go to Africa and put myself through extreme culture shock was
similar to the urge I feel to expand my head with BDSM. Some of the things I want to do
with my life and my body and my self seem almost opaque; totally irrational; a little
scary -- even to me. I love experiencing and analyzing emotions; experiencing and

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012608.txt,"08/16/2007 17:97 FAX 5618021787 USAO WPB FL : 007

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA

INRE FEDERAL GRAND JURY SUBPOENA
OLY-65/2
ADDRESSED TO NES, LLC

CERTIFICATION REGARDING DOMESTIC RECORDS

OF REGULARLY CONDUCTED ACTIVITY
1, the undersigned... ; declare that lam employed by

NES, LLC in the position of, ___, and, by reason of my position,
i authorized and qualified to make this declaration.
Ls Inmy carp Joyment with NES, LLC, I am familiar with the business records it
maintains.
2s I certify that the records attached to this certification:
(a) | were made at or near the time of the occurrence of the matters set forth
therein, by or from information transmitted by, a — with knowledge of —
those matters;
(b) were kept mm the course of regularly conducted business activity; sre
(c) were made by the regularly conducted activity as a regular practice.
2. Among the records so maintained are the attached zecords itemized in Appendix A
(Document Inventory). |
3. I further certify that the documents attached hereto ate responsive to Grand Jury

Subpoena 65/2 served upon NES, LLC.

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016027.txt,"Free Will

morse message 00000

my photon

your photon

Decoded1l

Decoded2

10100
11011

random

01111
0

titi
10101
01010

opposite

1

00000
01001
00101

random

01100
0

337

tigi
01000
LOTTI

opposite

11111
1

Quantum Morse Machine

A Simple Free Will Theorem

In the quantum Morse machine, I do transmit information faster than the
speed of light. But the information I have transmitted is useless as it is, in
effect, encrypted using a one-time pad. The only person in possession of
a copy of this one-time pad is me: the sender.

Claude Shannon proved a one-time pad is unbreakable during the
Second World War. Yet the British succeeded in breaking it. How was
this possible?

The fatal weakness in the German one-time pads was the random
numbers used to code the messages were generated by a machine, and
were therefore not truly random. The numbers followed a sequence,
and it was possible for Allied code breakers to work out the sequence
and decode the messages. It follows that if we believe no message can
propagate faster than the speed of light, my sequence of numbers must
be non-computable. There must be no algorithm or computation that
could generate it. Otherwise it would be liable to the same sort of
decryption attack that the one-time pads suffered. If sequences of random
measurements taken in the universe are non-computable it follows the
Universe as a whole must be non-computable.

There are a few holes you could pick in this argument. Would it
be sufficient if it were impossible to decrypt the message in the age of
the Universe? What if there was an algorithm, but it was practically
unknowable? But, I am talking here of principle. In principle, the
Universe must be non-decryptable.

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TEXT-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033291.txt,"From: Michael Wolff 
Sent: 4/29/2016 4:41:30 PM 
To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Subject: Well... 
Importance: High 
Hardly a whimper. Must be nice to be Donald Trump. 
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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023022.txt,"From: Darren Indyke Po

Sent: 10/18/2013 11:25:53 PM
To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Fwd: Request for comment from The Mail on Sunday with noon ET Saturday deadline re Mr Bradley Edwards vs Mr

Jeffrey Epstein

Importance: — High

Sent from my iPhone

Begin forwarded message:

From: Tonja Haddad Coleman i i.

Date: October 18, 2013 at 6:38:16 PM EDT
To: Darren Indyke qq, Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com>, yO

Ce: Debbie Fein
Subject: Fwd: Request for comment from The Mail on Sunday with noon ET Saturday deadline re Mr
Bradley Edwards vs Mr Jeffrey Epstein

Tonja Haddad Coleman, Esq.
Sent from my iPhone

Begin forwarded message:

From: Sharon Churcher
Date: October 18, 2013 at 6:32:28 PM EDT

Ce: Nick Pyke 7 Harty TT

Subject: Request for comment from The Mail on Sunday with noon ET Saturday deadline re Mr Bradley
Edwards vs Mr Jeffrey Epstein

Dear Sirs:
We are preparing an article about the calendaring today of Mr Edwards' claim against Mr Epstein for jury trial
and the witness list which names ee . other young women who allege they were underage

victims of Mr Epstein.

Mr Edwards claims that Mr Epstein maliciously attempted to intimidate him and his clients into retracting their
claims.

Msi further has stated to us that she intends to testify that she was flown to London by Mr Epstein and
instructed to have sex at age 17 with Prince Andrew. She alleges that she was paid $15k for this encounter.

She claims that on another occasion, Mr Epstein flew two young women to a dinner for the purpose of
entertaining President Clinton. She claims she herself was sex trafficked to several other men, whose contact

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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025893.txt,"From: Ehud Barak [1] 
Sent: 8/9/2015 10:54:41 PM 
To: jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: 
Importance: High 
Hi Jeff 
66th I meant. 
Thx again. It was really great. 
Best 
EB 
Sent from my iPhone 
On Aug 10, 2015, at 01:51, Ehud Barak <_____________________> wrote: 
Hi Jeff 
I really find it amusing. I don't agree with everything he says. But it is fascinating. BB is making ""historic 
mistakes""(as he likes to blame others) both vis-a-vis Obama as well as in regard to the American Jewry. And 
causes a direct damage to IL. 
Noam is so sharp and focused. Really impressive. 
I did not fully understand how the fallacy he sees in the attitude to the Ants example is related to Big Data 
illusions. An area (deep learning) I spent some time recently trying to better penetrate. 
Btw, the series of cubic differences should look 7,19,37,61 (not 21). 
We greatly enjoyed staying in 62nd. 
We plan to be back in the last week of Aug. for several weeks (having some speeches to make) 
will you still be in NM? 
If positive we might come over for few days. 
PI let us know. 
Best 
From Nil as well. 
Regards 
EB 
Sent from my iPhone 
On Aug 8, 2015, at 22:05, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
thought you might find amusing 
----------Forwarded message---------- 
From: Noam Chomsky <_________________ 
Date: Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 11:57 PM 
Subject: RE: Re: 
To: ""jeffrey E."" <jeevacation@gmail.com> 
Neat indeed. 
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I'm writing about the Iran deal. So far have only sent a form paragraph in response to requests. Below. 
Noam 
On Iran, as usual, I'm a gloomy contrarian. I'm glad the treaty was signed, and it's kind of fun to watch the 
Republican lunatics shrieking hysterically as they try to kill it (as they may). And Israeli hypocrisy has gone 
well beyond being comical. But in fact the whole thing is farcical, in my opinon. In the US, Iran is ""the 
greatest threat to world peace"", intoned constantly from on high, in the media, everywhere. There is also such a 
thing as world opinion, as measured by such ultra-radicals as Gallup. It turns out that the greatest threat to 
world peace is the US, by a very wide margin, no one else even close, and Iran barely mentioned. The 
American population is protected from these unwanted facts by the Free Press: not reported. There is an 
organization called US intelligence. They brief Congress regularly on the international security situation, all 
quite public. On Iran, they point out that it has very limited military power, even by regional standards (a small 
fraction of Saudi Arabia, for example). Its strategic doctrine is defensive. If— a big If— it has plans for nuclear 
weapons, that would be part of its deterrent strategy. Now who would be opposed to Iran having a deterrent 
strategy? Answer is clear: the rogue states that rampage violently in the region and don't want any impediment: 
the US and Israel, also lesser ones like UK and France. One simple way to reduce the threat of nuclear weapons 
would be to establish a nuclear-weapons free zone in the region, as has been done elsewhere (over US 
objections). That's been advocated by the Arab states for 20 years, with very wide global support, including 
Iran. It comes up regularly at the 5-year review meetings of the Nonproliferation Treaty, at the UN, again a few 
months ago, when, again, it was blocked by the US to protect its Israeli client, which has a huge nuclear 
weapons arsenal and wants to keep it. Again, the population is protected from such facts by the Free Press 
(though in this case there are some fringe exceptions, and of course the Arms Control literature). Same with the 
rest of the litany. Reading the US and UK press is like living in some lunatic asylum. I'm wondering whether 
to write about it — again; have done so repeatedly. It's like talking to a wall. Iran has an awful government, 
though by the standards of such US allies as Saudi Arabia, it's practically heaven. 
Nevertheless, better to have the treaty than not to, given the nature of the asylum. 
Noam 
From: jeffrey E. [mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, August 07, 2015 3:36 PM 
To: Noam Chomsky < 
Subject: Re: Re: 
the mathematical model. is quite beautiful, though the basic rules are simple , once they have run over and 
over again, and produced a result you cannot tease them out by any form of reductionism. or 
algorithm, just like the series 7- 21 -37... cannot be found by alogrithm, it is simply the difference of 
cubes, . Have you written about the iran deal? 
On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 12:55 PM, Noam Chomsky < > wrote: 
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What you suggest is very much the model that has been current in the behavioral sciences for many years. It has a 
record of colossal failure, and for good reasons, I think. It's disproven, but keeps coming back, most recently with Big 
Data illusions. 
A child doesn't grow arms and legs rather than wings, or a mammalian vs insect visual system, the way an ant searches 
for food. Rather, the path of development is sharply restricted (and evolution follows constraints too). Acquisition of 
language (and other cognitive achievements) seems very much like physical growth. 
Highly contentious in the field, but in my opinion that's a comment on the failures of the field. 
From: jeffrey E. [mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, August 07, 2015 12:44 PM 
To: Noam Chomsky 
Subject: Re: Re: 
ants and evolution work by trying things and finding the best solution. math and physics works by 
algorithms. Im suggesting that maybe just as a child sends out many connections and then discards the unused 
might be a better template for biological thinking. 
On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 10:33 AM, Noam Chomsky <IMMEME wrote: 
There were plenty of warnings about one currency. Not heeded, unfortunately. 
Appreciate the invitation, but leisure time? Is that an English phrase? 
OK for ants, but don't see how it helps us. 
Noam 
From: jeffrey E. [mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2015 10:28 AM 
To: Noam Chomsky <.> 
Subject: Re: 
bad for them , good for you. no need to have only one currency, its old fashioned. . you are of course 
welcome to use apt in new york with your new leisure time, or visit new Mexico again. 
ants find the shortest route to food, by trying many and discarding what doesn't work, no algorithm. , no input 
or output, only a goal. . sounds closer to our probem 
On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 8:15 AM, Noam Chomsky < 
> wrote: 
Bad news. We decided not to go. I was invited to talk at the Parliament, but what can one say? That aside, they've 
got plenty of people giving them bad advice. 
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From: jeffrey E. [mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2015 7:48 PM 
To: Noam Chomsky < 
Subject: 
Only go to Greece if you feel well , I just had to send my plane to bring another lefty friend back from 
Athens to see a Jew doctor in New York. 
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IMAGES-012-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032547.txt,"From: Kathy Rue ler ie
Sent: 6/13/2017 1:25:
To: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]

Subject: Re:

Importance: — High
Maybe Trump wants to get impeached. Going after Mueller is declaring holy war.
Sent from my iPad

On Jun 12, 2017, at 8:09 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:

lower right side excrutiating

On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 5:56 AM, Kathy Rumn (_ iii wrote:

All week. How do you know if you have appendicitis?

=
Sent from my iPad

On Jun 12, 2017, at 7:54 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:

Fun? When are you in New York this week

On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 7:53 AM Kathy Rucmm|cr SS w cote:
Yes

Sent from my iPad

On Jun 11, 2017, at 10:36 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:

We're you on tv today?
On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 10:35 PM jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
Navigate wash views on intl law and sanctions

On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 8:18 PM Kathy Ruemmler Po wrote:

Why does he need counsel?

Sent from my iPad

On Jun 11, 2017, at 10:12 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:

I assume you do not want to represent. Hamad bin jassim? Qatar. Hired Ashcroft. ? Silly, Anyone
you would like to suggest for him?
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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_014630.txt,"Latest reports: Tales from the road (Dec 1, 2016); Speculation builds over
Payara (Dec 19, 2016)

1Q17 risks: We expect a supportive commodity backdrop, spending clarity and
confirmed return to growth all punctuated by a steady stream of large scale exploration
news flow to support relative performance for Hess in 1Q17. Greatest risk to the
broader energy sector comes from adherence of the OPEC agreement to support oil
prices through coordinated production cuts; With this backdrop note that Hess retains
one of the most resilient balance sheets in the sector, with adjusted net debt / cap of
just 14% and $2.9bn of net cash on the balance sheet at end 3Q16.

Company Description: Hess Corp (HES) is a mid-sized oil & gas company with 1.0bn
boe of proved reserves at end 2015. E&P operations are focused in the US onshore,
deep water GOM, North Sea, Guyana, West Africa, and Asia.

MGM Resorts International (MGM)

Shaun Kelley +1 646 855 1005
Research Analyst, MLPF&S

Buy, PO $33

1Q investment thesis

MGM is a levered play to improving/accelerating US economic growth. The US makes up
80% of EBITDA (70% Vegas, 20% Macau, 10% US regional) and the company has 4-5x
net debt/EBITDA which is high, but coming down to under 4x by end of 2017 which
could allow for a possible upgrade to investment grade by the end of 2017 or early
2018.

MGM has high operating leverage (50%+ flow through of revenues) and should benefit
from any macroeconomic improvement as well as already healthy/strong Las Vegas
fundamentals (visitation +3% YTD, RevPAR +6% which is one of best hotel markets in
the US). MGM benefits from both consumer (80%) and business (20%) travel. There is
zero supply growth in Las Vegas the next 2-3 years and virtually no Airbnb/disruption
risk as staying at integrated casino resorts on the Strip is key to the experience.

MGM should see accelerating growth in 2017 to a very high +24% Y/Y on an organic
basis. We think this is some of the highest growth we will see in the Gaming, Lodging &
Leisure industries. MGM should also see a meaningful free cash flow inflection in 2017
as capex falls off dramatically after its 2 new property openings in Washington DC and
Cotai/Macau.

Table 1: MGM key stock data

Industry Gaming
Market Cap (mn) $11,993
Price $28.50
P/E (2017) 21.6x
% of sell-side rated Buy 95.7%
Short interest % of float 2.94%

Source: Bloomberg and BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research estimates

Bankof America <>
Merrill Lynch Top 10 US Ideas Quarterly | 03 January 2017 9

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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023036.txt,"To: Brett D. Jaffe
Subject: Ghislaine Maxwell

Dear Brett Jaffe,

I left you a telephone message earlier. The Mail on Sunday newspaper is running a story on Ghislaine
Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein, Prince Andrew and others this weekend.

We urgently require responses from Ms Maxwell to the following questions. Our deadline is noon
tomorrow. My telephone numbers are Pe

Annette Witheridge
On behalf of the Mail on Sunday

1 fs says Ghislaine Maxwell offered her a job as a masseuse with Jeffrey Epstein when she was
aged 15. Ms Maxwell led] upstairs on her first visit to him at his Palm Beach house. Mr Epstein was
naked on massage table.

Ms Maxwell initiated a bisexual encounter during which Ms Maxwell rubbed her own breasts on Mr Epstein

and directed HE to copy her.
Please respond to these allegations and all others in the original Jane Doe 102 complaint.

2. Ms Maxwell took part in numerous other sexual encounters involving her assistant
and Mr Epstein.

3. Ms Maxwell kept sex toys and costumes in the Palm Beach mansion and dressed IEE prior to sex
sessions with Mr Epstein. S Maxwell herself wore black vinyl during sex sessions with Mr Epstein.

4. 2s paid between US $200 and $ 5000 US sex, depending on whether it involved travel and other
men.

5, BE «was required to have sex with friends of Ms Maxwell and Mr Epstein, including Glenn Dubin, Les
Wexner, Ehud Barak, former Senator George Mitchell and Stephen Kosslyn.

6. Ms Maxwell introduced | to Prince Andrew in 2001 at Ms Maxwell's London house where [ll
had sex with him. subsequently was directed to meet him at Mr Epstein's New York house where Ms
Maxwell directed to sit on Andrew's knee with EEE Andrew groped both girls. Ms
Maxwell directed after this to have sex with Andrew.

Ms Maxwell and Mr Epstein subsequently travelled with HEM to Little St James where she was directed
to stage an orgy for Andrew and Mr Epstein during which she performed oral sex on
them.

fe | | was paid extra by Mr Epstein or his employees for these sexual encounters.
8. Ms Maxwell knew age and laughed about it when she introduced her to Andrew.
9. Ms Maxwell and Mr Epstein tried to persuade [J to bear his child.

10. After sexual encounters with male friends of Mr Epstein and/or Ms Maxwell, Ms Maxwell and Mr Epstein
would ask WE explicit questions about what went on.

11. Mr Epstein’s residences in Florida and New York had surveillance cameras that taped the sex sessions and
taped even in the bathroom.

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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018218.txt,"invasion by striking targets in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, North
Korea presumably plans to defend itself, should war erupt on the
peninsula, by threatening U.S. regional allies and targets in the United
States.

North Korea's mission requires small, lightweight warheads, and missiles
that work -- and the only way to know that they work is to test them. So
far, the weapons have proved unspectacular. The country's first nuclear
test, conducted in 2006, was an embarrassment. Pyongyang had told the
Chinese that the device would generate four kilotons of explosive power,
but it ended up producing less than one. The second test in 2009 fared
slightly better, producing between one and eight kilotons, although it is
not known what size of a blast the North Koreans had sought. Moreover,
Pyongyang has much more work to do before it can boast weapons that
will actually fit on its missiles (which have been, themselves, a series of
humiliating failures).

Observers in the West who presume that North Korea's behavior must be
about signaling should remember NATO and the United States' own
experience during the Cold War. The United States understood then that
the ability to conduct nuclear operations was the very foundation of a
credible deterrence strategy. Today, a sound strategy for dealing with
North Korea should not ascribe ulterior motives to acts that the United
States once considered rational and routine.

The view that nuclear weapons are merely political instruments -- suitable
for sending signals, but not waging wars -- is now so common in
Washington, London, and Berlin that it is hard to find anyone who
disagrees. Yet those comforting assumptions are not shared by leaders
everywhere. Beyond North Korea, Russia is cutting down its arsenal,
modernizing the nuclear forces it plans to keep, and increasing its reliance
on nuclear weapons in national defense strategy. China is slowly
expanding its own arsenal, while substantially improving its weapons.
And Iran seems so committed to going nuclear that it has been ready to
endure crippling sanctions and risk foreign attack.

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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025364.txt,"Message: This is sophisticated op

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Message: Add to it , I was in an office building before I left and mooch got in. I
never met him. Never! he asked that I step out and began I tirade about you . And
why would I have anything to do . Blah blah. . odd

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Message: More fun note, miro is here. , lots to talk about

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Message: My hula skirt. Is wilting having to dance and ride the bike for pols

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Message: I did : fuck it : like the last scene in 'the wild bunch'

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_014624.txt,"Aetna (AET)

Kevin Fischbeck +1 646 855 5948
Research Analyst, MLPF&S

Buy, PO $149

1Q investment thesis

Based on past precedence, our view is that the AET/HUM deal is more likely than not to
be approved by the courts (ruling likely to come in January 2017). PF 2018 earnings
should be close to $11.50 (vs $9.70 consensus), even before taking into account the
upside from tax reform (+15% to EPS} and rising interest rates (+5%). In the event that
the deal breaks, we see little downside and potential upside in 1Q17 in the form of
capital deployment (AET remains underlevered and in the absence of a deal could look to
aggressively repurchase stock}. Current estimates do not include share repurchase and
based on its history of repurchasing shares using free cash flow and its balance sheet
capacity, we expect AET to repurchase a significant amount (~10%) of its shares in
2017 post deal break, providing initial downside support and ultimately driving upside to
Street estimates.

Table 1: Aetna key stock data

Industry Managed Care
Market Cap (mn) $44,657
Price $124.45
P/E (2017) 14.4x
% of sell-side rated Buy 70.0%
Short interest % of float 2.25%

Source: Bloomberg and BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research estimates

Deregulation/Gov't Legislation: Repeal and Replace of the ACA creates some
uncertainty, but neither AET nor HUM derive a significant amount of EPS from the ACA.
Meanwhile, Republicans have historically supported Medicare Advantage (80% of HUM’s
revenue}, and we expect a stronger rate environment under this Administration than
over the past 8 years.

Tax Policy: As a domestic only company with a relatively high tax rate (est. 35% in
2017), AET would benefit from tax reform. We believe that some benefit would be lost
to minimum MLR rebates or competition, but if taxes are lowered 15%, then we assume
that they keep about 2/3 of the benefit (19% to EPS).

Catalysts: Deal resolution, capital allocation update, tax reform, rising interest rates.

Latest report: MCO rally has just begun; beneficiaries of the non-Health
Care upside from Trump

1Q risks: Risks to the downside are courts not approving the HUM acquisition, lower-
than-expected membership growth and higher than expected cost trend. CMS will issue
the rate update for 2018 for Medicare Advantage in late February, a reg which we
expect to be benign, but which could be worse than expected.

Company Description: Aetna is one of the nation's largest managed care organizations,
covering roughly 23 million members. The company focuses on three main business
segments: Health Care (health insurance, dental, behavioral health and pharmacy benefit

Bankof America <>
Merrill Lynch Top 10 US Ideas Quarterly | 03 January 2017 3

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IMAGES-012-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032553.txt,"Sent: 7/21/2017 12:06:24 PM
To: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Re:

Importance: — High
Just tried you
On Jul 21, 2017, at 7:43 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:

call me if you get the chance.

On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 8:03 PM, Kathy Rucmnicr it wrote:

Trump is truly stupid.

please note
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IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028209.txt,"/ BARAK / 75

stake. I didn’t know whether peace was within reach. I was still deeply skeptical.
But if it was, we had to accept that Jerusalem would be key. And if the summit
failed, for whatever reason, what inevitably awaited us was “confrontation.”

Israel Hasson, the Shin Bet veteran, spoke first. He saw two choices. Either we
could retain Isrsaeli sovereignty over a “united Jerusalem” with functional, day-to-
day autonomy for the Palestinians in their neighborhoods, or we could in effect
divide the city. “Divide sovereignty.” He didn’t say which he favored, only that it
was essential that we made the decision now if we could, however difficult or
reluctant Arafat was as a negotiating partner. If we waited, we’d end up having to
deal with Islamists: Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Oded Eran, the career diplomat
whom I'd put in charge of frustrating, formal talks with the Palestinians in the
months preceding the summit , said he was convinced that we should give the
Palestinians full sovereignty over at least the “outer” Arab neighborhoods in East
Jerusalem, which had become part of the city only when we’d expanded the city
boundaries after 1967. He said that was in Israel’s own interest. We had no historic
connection to these Arab villages, and something like 130,000 Palestinian lived
there. “Why should we want to annex them,” he asked. It would be like accepting
the “right of return” through the back door.

Dan Meridor’s voice, for me, was especially important. I knew he was as
determined as I was to try to get a peace agreement with the Palestinians. But he
was also a former Likudnik, and a native Jerusalemite. “I’m against any
concessions when it comes to Israeli sovereignty,” he said. “Any attempt to divide
Jerusalem would be a serious blow, and not just for Jews in Israel.” For centuries,
Jewish communities all over the world, had looked to Jerusalem, prayed for
Jerusalem. The yearly Seder meal, on Passover, ends with the Hebrew phrase:
Shanah haba b’Yerushalaim. Next year, in Jerusalem. “What we decided here in
Camp David,” Dan said, “also affects Jews in New York. In Moscow. In
Johannesburg.” He urged us to focus instead on offering Arafat as attractive as
possible a package of concessions on all the other issues. “Then let him decide.
But even if sovereignty over Jerusalem means that the deal collapses, I’m not
willing the pay that price.”

No voices were raised. It was the rarest of political discussions. People offered
their views, and listened to others’. Amnon Lipkin pointed out that a large area of
what was now came inside the boundaries of Jerusalem was not part of the city
he’d known before 1967. Echoing Oded Eran, he said: “It’s in our interest for as

361
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IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021268.txt,"individuals who violate group norms;
and doing all this across time frames that
stretch from the distant past to multiple
possible futures (9). Consistent with
this hypothesis, measures of sociality in
troops of baboons have been found to be
highly correlated with infant survival,
and cross-species comparisons have
shown that the evolution of large and
metabolically expensive brains is more
closely associated with social than
ecological complexity (9).

Our survival depends on our
connection with others. Born to the
most prolonged period of utter
dependency of any animal, human
infants must instantly engage their
parents in protective behavior, and the
parents must care enough about their
offspring to nurture and protect them. If
infants do not elicit nurturance and
protection from caregivers, or if
caregivers are not motivated to provide
such care over an extended period of
time, then the infants will perish along
with the genetic legacy of the parents
(J0). Our developmental dependency
mirrors our evolutionary heritage.
Hunter/gatherers did not have the benefit
of natural weaponry, armor, strength,
flight, stealth, or speed relative to many
other species. Human survival depended
on collective abilities, not on individual
might.

Selfish Genes, Social Brains

It is the gene that is obligatorily
selfish, not the human brain. Genes that
promote behaviors that increase the odds
of the genes surviving are perpetuated.
One implication of this simple insight is
that evolution can be viewed as the
competition between genes using
individuals and social structures as their
temporary vehicles. The genetic
constitution of Homo Sapiens in the long

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run derives not solely from the
reproductive success of individuals, but
also from the success of their children to
reproduce. Hunter/gatherers who did not
form social connections and who did not
feel a compulsion to return to share their
food or defense with their offspring may
have been more likely to survive to
procreate again, but given the long
period of dependency of human infants
their offspring may have been less likely
to survive to procreate. The result is
selection that strongly favors the ability
to process information that could
contribute to the formation and
maintenance of social capacities and
connections — that is, a social brain.
These social capacities evolved hand in
hand with genetic, neural, and hormonal
mechanisms to support them because the
resulting social behaviors helped humans
survive, reproduce, and care for
offspring sufficiently long that they too
survived to reproduce (//-1/3). Relative
to other animals, the striking
development of and increased
connectivity within the human cerebral
cortex, especially the frontal and
temporal regions, are among the key
evolutionary developments in this
regard. The cerebral cortex is a mantle
of between 2.6 to 16 billion neurons with
each neuron receiving 10,000 to 100,000
synapses in their dendritic trees (e.g.,
14). The expansion of the frontal
regions in the human brain contributes to
the human capacities for reasoning,
planning, performing mental
simulations, theory of mind, and
thinking about self and others. The
temporal regions of the brain, in turn, are
involved with aspects of social
perception, memory, and
communication. The means for guiding
behavior through the environment
emerged prior to neocortical expansion.

HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021268
"
TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026356.txt,"From: jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Sent: 4/23/2015 7:44:25 PM  
To: Martin Weinberg 
Subject: Re: ATTORNEY-CLIENT PRIVILEGE 
Importance: High 
Privileged - Redacted 
L._ 
On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 3:43 PM, Martin Weinberg wrote: 
Privileged - Redacted 
MGW 
Martin G. Weinberg, Esq. 
20 Park Plaza, Suite 1000 
Boston, MA 02116 
This Electronic Message contains 
information from the Law Office of 
Martin G. Weinberg, P.C., 
and may be privileged. The 
information is intended for the 
use of the addressee only. If you 
are not the addressee, please note 
that any disclosure, copying, 
distribution, or use of the 
contents of this message is 
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HOUSE OVERSIGHT 026356 
On Thu, 4/23/15, Martin Weinberg P wrote: 
Subject: ATTORNEY-CLIENT PRIVILEGE 
To: ""Jeffrey Epstein"" <jeevacationAgmail.com>, ""Kathy Ruemmler"" 
Cc: ""Martin Weinberg"" ""dkiesq"" 
Date: Thursday, April 23, 2015, 2:31 PM 
Privileged _ Redacted 
L._ 
Martin G. Weinberg, Esq. 
20 Park Plaza, Suite 1000 
Boston, MA 02116 
This Electronic Message contains 
information from the Law Office of 
Martin G. Weinberg, P.C., 
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information is intended for the 
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are not the addressee, please note 
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distribution, or use of the 
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• • 
contents of this message is 
prohibited. 
--- On Thu, 4/23/15, Cathy Alexander < 
wrote: 
> From: Cathy Alexander -IIIII 
> Subject: Miles and Cathy Alexander and Little St 
James island 
> To: 
> Cc: ""Miles Alexander"" , 
> Date: Thursday, April 23, 2015, 2:21 PM 
> 
> To: Martin Weinberg, Esq. 
> 
> Dear Mr. Weinberg: 
> 
> I understand that you are looking for 
> information regarding whether former President Clinton 
and 
> former Vice President Gore and his then wife, Tipper, 
ever 
> visited Little St. James. I was the Island's 
manager 
> from 1999 through 2007 and lived on the Island with my 
wife 
> during that entire period. Regarding President 
> Clinton, I will sign a sworn affidavit that I never met 
the 
> man. As far as I know President Clinton was never on 
> the Island. He was never there while I was present 
on 
> the Island. If he had come to the Island while I was 
> on holiday, my staff would have told me that President 
> Clinton was on the Island while I was away. While I 
> worked on Little St. James, I had been called back 
from 
> holiday many times to help when any guests visited the 
> Island. So, if President Clinton had come to the 
> Island while I was away, I would have been called back 
to 
> the Island for such a visit, and I never was. 
> The same is true for Vice President Gore and his wife 
> Tipper. I never met them and as far as I am 
> aware were never on Little St. James during the entire 
> period that I was the Island manager. 
> 
> Sincerely, 
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> 
> Miles Alexander 
> 
> 
> Sent from my iPad 
please note 
The information contained in this communication is 
confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may 
constitute inside information, and is intended only for 
the use of the addressee. It is the property of 
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Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this 
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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013502.txt,"Table of Contents

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Chapter 2: Doesn’t Everybody ............... 0.0... ccc cc cee e cece ee ee ee eneeeenens 22
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Chapter 4: Sensual In-Between Entropies .........................2.eceeeee ees 64
Chapter 5: Some Entheogenic Entropies .........................cceeeee ee ee ee 87
Chapter 6: Pentecostal Phase Transitions ..........................ccseeee eee 122
Chapter 7: Amphetamine Roll-Up And Splitting ..........................008 144
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Appendix: An Intuitive Guide to the Ideas and

Methods of Dynamical Systems for the Life Sciences ............... 186

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016033.txt,"The Free Will
Theorem

Theorem. The paper received huge press attention and has been widely

discussed in the scientific community. Their theorem states that;
provided experimenters are free to run their experiment as they choose,
the behavior of the particles they experiment upon is not determined in
advance. Particles have free will!

If we go back to the Bell Test experiment, this proved twin particles
do not carry around a parcel of information telling them what to do.
Perhaps they get their marching orders from some outside influence.
There are two possibilities. A particle is either told what to do by its
environment or it gets its information from some data source. Can we
use the laws of physics to test these possibilities? We don't need to know
how the influence works, just that it might exist in principle.

Conway and Kochen prove there can be no external influence, and
when a particle reveals its spin, that spin was not known beforehand. It
is independent of any information in the history of the Universe up to
that point.

Conway and Kochen’s proof is elegant and involves some mental
gymnastics, but it is no harder than Archimedes’ proof of the infinity of
primes we looked at earlier. Let us start with our twin particles. We are
going to pick bosons, which have whole number spin. If you measure the
spin, you will always get a reading of -1, 0 or +1. ‘Spir’ is one of those
words physicists use to explain quantum things. It does not necessarily
denote rotation but, if your mental model is a spinning top, that’s not too

[: 2006, John Conway and Simon Kochen published The Free Will

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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018651.txt,"* Acknowledging past use of violence.

* Admitting being wrong.

* Communicating openly and truthfully.

TRUST AND SUPPORT:

* Supporting her goals in life.

* Respecting her right to her own feelings, friends, activities, and opinions.

All these things ought to be present ina BDSM relationship! Some people do heavy role-
play situations where they have specific personas that they don't want to break out of...
and they still can make sure that all those elements are included. For example, they can
keep simultaneous journals about the relationship, and thereby keep up with each others’
feelings and consent without breaking out of their roles.

I also think that the list is especially useful in that it highlights places where non-
consensual control is likely to happen... and therefore, places where BDSMers
should be especially careful. For example, failing to support a partner's life goals would
be okay in the middle of an intense BDSM encounter. But afterwards, it might be good to
give extra support, just because that can be such an important genuine danger spot.

Just like vanilla people, BDSMers have a lot of unspoken elements of our relationships.
For example -- the partner I mentioned earlier, who held me in place when I gave him a
hug on the street. We didn't negotiate that particular act ahead of time. But we have an
established relationship, and we've done similar things before; I knew that if I wanted to
talk about it -- or ask him not to do it -- then he'd listen. And, even more importantly, the
rest of our relationship lines up with the Equality Wheel.

te Ok ok

This can be found on the Internet at:

COMMUNICATION:
[theory] What Happens After An S&M Encounter ""Gone Wrong""

I wrote this in late 2011. At the time, I didn't mention another factor that makes it
important to talk about S&M screwups: we should do it because talking openly about
honest mistakes makes it harder for actual abusers to hide in the S&M community. As I
note at the end of this piece, sometimes a miscommunication is a real miscommunication,
but sometimes it's a ""miscommunication"" that's covering for abuse. The only way we can

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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027048.txt,"From: Weingarten, Reid_______________________________________ 
Sent: 1/23/2012 3:16:01 PM 
To: 'jeevacation@gmail.com' [jeevacation@gmail.com] 
Subject: Re: 
Importance: High 
Don't believe it 
From: Jeffrey Epstein [mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 07:54 AM 
To: Weingarten, Reid 
Subject: 
dershowiz tells me obama called him to ask him what was going on in israel. ? we should discuss. 
*********************************************************** 
The information contained in this communication is 
confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may 
constitute inside information, and is intended only for 
the use of the addressee. It is the property of 
Jeffrey Epstein 
Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this 
communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited 
and may be unlawful. If you have received this 
communication in error, please notify us immediately by 
return e-mail or by e-mail to jeevacation@gmail.com, and 
destroy this communication and all copies thereof, 
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"
TEXT-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033285.txt,"From: Richard Kahn 
Sent: 2/29/2016 4:35:11 PM 
To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Subject: Hillary could lose to Trump in Democratic New York I New York Post 
Importance: High 
http://nypost.com/2016/02/28/hillary-could-lose-to-trump-in-democratic-new-york/ 
Sent from my iPhone 
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"
TEXT-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032825.txt,"From: Weingarten, Reid 
Sent: 10/27/2018 1:40:35 PM 
To: J [jeevacation@gmail.com] 
Subject: Re: 
Importance: High 
Just called...on my way to atlantic city...my nj client developer bought trump's casino there and there is a big 
event tonight...my tablemates are fat chris christie, Bo dietl and pitbull...I will have some stories...feels like I 
have not had contact with you for a long time 
Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone. 
From: J 
Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2018 8:57 AM 
To: Weingarten, Reid 
Subject: Re: 
mbs? girl? call 
On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 8:53 AM Weingarten, Reid 
You go first 
Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone. 
From: J 
Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2018 7:06 AM 
To: Weingarten, Reid 
Subject: 
news? 
please note 
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confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may 
constitute inside information, and is intended only for 
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wrote: 
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constitute inside information, and is intended only for 
the use of the addressee. It is the property of 
JEE 
Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this 
communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited 
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IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022007.txt,"CHAPTER $2

Jeffrey Epstein: June 30, 2008

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west side of Lake Worth Lagoon, which separates West
3 Palm Beach from the island of Palm Beach. Epstein’s

home on El Brillo Way is five miles to the east. Mary’s high

"" school is several miles to the west.
It's fitting, somehow, that this jail—which is the jail Epstein
'ends up in, after turning himself in to the local sheriff—lies in
7 between the two points.
The detention center’s inmates, their families, and their law-
ers call it the Gun Club, a reference not only to the jail’s address,
on Gun Club Road, but also to its population of hustlers, bur-
glars, drug dealers, rapists, and murderers. There’s the occa-
sional hooker as well. And, from time to time, Haitian refugees
fe lodged there.
There are three thousand inmates in all.

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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019229.txt,"Honorable Mark Filip
May 19, 2008
Page 6

e Federal prosecutors made the unprecedented demand that Mr. Epstein pay a
minimum of $150,000 per person to an unnamed list of women.they referred to as
minors and whom they insisted required representation by a guardian ad litem. Mr.
Epstein’s counsel later established that all but one of these individuals were actually
adults, not minors. Even then, though demanding payment to the women, the
USAO eventually asserted that it could not vouch for the veracity of any of the
claims that these women might make.

e Federal prosecutors made the highly unusual demand that Mr. Epstein pay the fees
of a civil attorney chosen by the prosecutors to represent these alleged “victims”
should they choose to bring any civil litigation against him. They also proposed
sending a notice to the alleged “victims,” stating, in an underlined sentence, that
should they choose their own attorney, Mr. Epstein would not be required to pay
their fees. The prosecutors further demanded that Mr. Epstein waive his right to
challenge any of the allegations made by these “victims.”

e The Assistant U.S. Attorney involved in this matter recommended for the civil
attorney, a highly lucrative position, an individual that we later discovered was
closely and personally connected to the Assistant U.S. Attorney’s own boyfriend.

e Federal prosecutors represented to Mr. Epstein’s counsel that they had identified
‘(and later rechecked and re-identified) several alleged “victims” of federal crimes
that qualified for payment under 18 U.S.C. § 2255, a civil remedy designed to
provide financial benefits to victims. Only through state discovery provisions did
we later learn that many of the women on the rechecked “victim list” could not
possibly qualify under § 2255. The reason is that they, themselves, testified that
they did not suffer any type of harm whatsoever, a prerequisite for the civil recovery
under § 2255. Moreover, these women stated that they did not, now or in the past,
consider themselves to be victims.

e During the last few months, Mr. Herman, First Assistant Sloman’s former law

partner, has filed several civil lawsuits against Mr. Epstein on behalf of the alleged
“victims.” It is our understanding that each of Mr. Herman’s clients are on the

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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026430.txt,"From: jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Sent: 11/29/2016 12:27:23 AM 
To: Melanie SpineIla 
Subject: so there is no misunderstanding 
Importance: High 
I have told the brads and barry,- I am done. its not a negotiation, out!! - fyi given my carlyn joslin 
castrucci, admonishments,- though my involvement in those - in one instance only gave a name - in 
another only given an dictated choice btween two 250k preparers. and for castrucci, I actually sent 
emails that i take no responsiblity for his being hired. - however you felt strongly that I should be saddled 
with their outcomes .even with brad wechsler, i again said two months in, Leon, he doesnt get it. I tell you 
this so that you will understand that I will not interview, recommend or vet any new hire. 
A story - In 1993 trump and I had a friend that kept telling his pilots how to fly, and when to fly, he couldnt 
help himself from hiring morons as co pilots, and maintenance people based on cheapest rates. Donald and I 
tried and tried to talk some sense into him, to no avail. Donald and I were in aspen, sitting at little 
nells. when the friends plane crashed into the side of aspen mountain , klliing him and all on board,- Trump 
looked at me and said without a blink , I guess NOW he wishes he would have listened to us.- a metaphor for 
your office. . . had we not waited to the very last hour having had a six month window and tens of 
unasnwered text and emails re decisions needed including the 1031. you would have saved way more than 
you often feel obliged to argue about. . silly but i reallize you are stressed. 
Barry will need to sit with brad for months, to absorb all the co's , structures. cash flow, financial statments 
etc. I will present barry my thoughts on the overall redo , it will be the exact same email that i presented to 
you and brad two years.ago . accurate numbers first. and foremost. . ( last week gaming report stil 
funky). IT etc I pointed out some of the more glaring errors to barry to give him a flavor of what is to come. 
Tuesday if you like we should discuss Giacometti , and pesner . difficult to finesse him if they are 
filing documents that you won't. these ridiculous conversations with tons of people on the phone , removes 
any claim you might have to not be considered a WILLFUL NON-FILER. ( after youve been told by attnys 
and pwc that you should file in writing , you have NO choice ) .. worst possible result - including 
serious penalties up the kazoo. 
please note 
The information contained in this communication is 
confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may 
constitute inside information, and is intended only for 
the use of the addressee. It is the property of 
JEE 
Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this 
communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited 
and may be unlawful. If you have received this 
communication in error, please notify us immediately by 
return e-mail or by e-mail to jeevacation@gmail.com, and 
destroy this communication and all copies thereof, 
including all attachments. copyright -all rights reserved 
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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029782.txt,"the Palestinians, including Israel’s
continued settlement construction in the
West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Israel’s military occupied those
territories, along with Gaza, in the 1967
Arab-Israeli war. Palestinians view them
as the key territorial elements of their
future state.

In a June 2009 address in Cairo, a speech
that asked for a “new beginning” with the
Islamic world, Obama said: “The United
States does not accept the legitimacy of
continued Israeli settlements.” He also
did not stop in Israel on that trip, instead
visiting Saudi Arabia, Egypt and
Germany, where he emphasized the
horror of the Holocaust and the moral
imperative of defending Israel. Romney,
among others, made the omission a
campaign issue.

But on regional security issues, Obama
and Netanyahu have deepened
cooperation amid rising U.S. military aid
to Israel. Obama has agreed with
Netanyahu that Iran must not be allowed
to use its uranium-enrichment program to
develop a nuclear weapon, an issue that
the two will discuss during Obama’s
visit.

Netanyahu’s Likud party emerged from
elections last month as the largest bloc in
Israel’s parliament, meaning that he will
serve another term as prime minister. But

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IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011813.txt,"/ BARAK / 56

Clinton felt we would need a draft document with broad areas of agreement before
a diplomatic ““endgame”’ could begin. I disagreed on that. I argued that 1f we tried
to produce such a document, there would never be a summit. In fact, we’d never
get a draft document worth anything. “Neither side is going to commit itself on
issues like borders, refugees, or Jerusalem,” I said, pointing out that even in our
back-channel talks, the only forum in which there had been a hint of progress,
those issues had barely been touched.

He did accept that “pre-negotiation” would never crack the main issues. But he
still said that before he could contemplate a summit, he would need Madeleine
Albright and Dennis Ross to talk in detail with us and the Palestinians. “There had
to be a firm basis to work on,” he said. Even then,m he said, he was almost sure
Arafat would resist the idea of a summit. And on that last point, he proved right. I
spoke to the President by phone after Arafat’s trip to Washington. “He thinks
you’re trying to trap him into a summit, and that when it fails, Il blame him,” he
told me.

The very next day, the stakes increased dramatically. For months, military
intelligence had been warning of the potential for violence if we couldn’t find a
long-term political resolution of the Palestinian conflict. But the report which
landed on my desk on June 16, 2000 was more specific. It said Arafat had called in
his security people and said: “My strategic understanding is that Israel is not
interested in reaching a deal. Therefore, we are preparing ourselves for a violent
and prolonged confrontation.” A few days later, we got an even more worrying
report, saying the security officers had been told to begin “intensive training.”
Arafat was quoted as saying: “The Palestinian Authority is confronted by a strong
and dangerous Israel, headed by a Prime Minister who is not interested in real
peace. The proof of that is that when he was Chief of Staff, he was the only senior
officer to oppose the Oslo Agreement.” I summoned my security team: Mofaz as
chief of staff; the heads of military intelligence, Mossad and the Shin Bet. I told
them that Arafat was wrong. My inalterable “red line” would always be Israel’s
national and security interests. But as long as those were protected, I wasn’t just
interested in reaching an agreement with the Palestinians. I was determined to do
everything possible to try to get one. But I also said that we had to make sure we
were fully prepared for responding to “Palestinian violence and, at some stage,
full-blown terror.”

342
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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016553.txt,"From: CN=Anne Boyles/O=PalmBeach

To: Cheryl Kleen

Subject: Items for August 11 Town Council Meeting.
Date: Thursday, July 24, 2008 11:51:14 AM

FYI

From: Kathleen Ruderman/PalmBeach

To: Anne Boyles/PalmBeach@PalmBeach

Date: 07/24/2008 11:49 AM

Subject: Re: Items for August 11 Town Council Meeting.

Anne,
| have approved SPR 14-2007 and 5-2008. The Larkin item is OK. The appeal by Brindell re 144 Wells
Road should not be on the agenda. The sod/seed item is an item that Tim Frank is working on but | don't

think it's an agenda item. We need to check with Peter on that one. The infrastructure of large homes is
not an agenda item. Neither is the Trump appeal for 515 North County Road.

Two things that will be added though are: EAR Amendments and Zoning Study Items.

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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030842.txt,"market thoughts

The great rotation

There is an awful lot being written about the next bursting
bubble, which, according to pundits, is fixed income. The

fear is either that inflation very quickly begins to
reaccelerate because of monetary policy and central banks
will need to aggressively slam on the policy brakes, or that
investors are going to begin a Great Rotation out of fixed
income.

The Great Rotation scare being talked about argues that
individual investors will apparently all wake up one day and
collectively sell their bonds to buy stocks. For individual
investors, it’s very unlikely that we will see selling of core
bonds until investors actually lose money—and we don’t
expect that to happen soon. In our portfolios next year, we
envision owning more world equity markets, and owning
less cash and short-duration fixed income. So | agree with
the risk rotation, but a mad dash by individual investors out
of fixed income seems unnecessary and unlikely.

The balancing act for central banks is to try to stimulate
growth without provoking inflation. There is enough excess
capacity in labor markets that the greater policy concern
remains disinflationary pressure. While we are keeping a
close eye on inflation expectations, which have been
rising, our economics team continues to believe inflation
comes after growth and therefore isn’t a threat to this
cycle of easy monetary policy. We expect the Fed,
European Central Bank and Bank of Japan will continue to
promote “easy money.”

There is going to be an inflation shock that will come with
accelerating growth—we just don’t see it next year. But in
preparation for that scenario, our team has already begun to
do work on the theme of inflation protection.

Inflation expectations remain stable
5Y5Y forward breakeven inflation

4%
3%
2%
1%

2009 2010 2011 2012

Source: Bloomberg. Data as of November 2012.

U.S. inflation is not yet troubling
U.S. CPI YoY NSA

4%
3%
2%
1%
0%
-1%
-2%
-3%
2009 2010 2011 2012

Source: Bloomberg, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Data as of November 2012.

Now what?

We invest with a 12-month outlook, but also take advantage
of short-term trading opportunities. But to borrow a phrase
from my daughter, patience is the key to joy. Into year-end,
markets face higher uncertainty and weaker activity. We are
going to see more headlines, unfortunately with less real
news. In the short term, both issues will extract a higher risk
premia from risk assets, which should create some
interesting opportunities.

For where we believe the macro cycle is right now, we
want to be increasing our allocation to equities as we look
into 2013. We continue to barbell those equity allocations
between the United States, which continues to lead the global
recovery, and emerging markets, where we see significant
growth potential. While we have added to our exposure in
Europe and continue to see scope for investment opportunity
ahead, we don’t feel it’s a market that is gapping away from us.

We are also doing tactical work in our hedge fund allocations.
We are looking to be more directional in our risk taking
next year, particularly looking at long/short and event-
driven strategies. In fixed income, we continue to like
credit, but need to be more selective. We are looking at
total and absolute return fixed income strategies that can be
more nimble in how they invest duration. We expect to hold
less short-duration and cash next year across portfolios.

AS a last mention, for anyone looking for a timely read, | just
finished William Silber’s book about Paul Volcker. It is great
context for how we got to where we are today and a
reminder that while the past doesn’t ever exactly repeat
itself, it does rhyme. It’s also a subtle reminder of why
strong leadership and bipartisan counsel are essential for
effectively navigating the road ahead.

| very much look forward to our ongoing investment
dialogue with you.

Richard Madigan
November 2012

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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025139.txt,"From: Robert Trivers 
Sent: 6/24/2018 6:11:37 PM 
To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com] 
Importance: High 
Jeffrey 
finally landed 
very unpleasant journey 
you had nothing to do with how Chapman acted and i apologise for suggesting it might be otherwise 
it was entirely against me, partly motivated by a spiteful ex-friend 
consulted two lawyers that Gordon recommended but they were very discouraging 
the basic problem is simple—i am going against a strong national trend—well-known man after well-known man is being brought low for alleged his 
misbehaviour toward women—in some case well-deserved prison time (Cosby and perhaps Weinstein) in many other cases, simply being run out of 
institutions—exactly my fate 
furthermore in he say/she say confrontations the evidence has shifted—in University settings at least—from 'beyond a reasonable doubt' to a 
'preponderance of evidence' to 'more positive than negative' 
the loss is huge, on the order of a half million to a million dollars, meant to keep me alive (they were going to offer a five-year contract) while i let 
my 'inheritance' be spent on children and grandchildren while also growing 
i have no choice but to work 
i will get my revised Wild Life to an agent later this week—have added 5 new chapters and a few sections—much stronger for the inclusion of my 
major scientific work-1. social theory based on natural selection and 2. selfish genetic elements selected within organisms 
then i have Honour Killings set to roll, as well as another one 
hope you are thriving—and also hope Trump will stop this international trade nonsense—a lose/lose war—especially as it affects the stock market or 
so it seems to me 
best wishes 
bob 
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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023988.txt,"With 285 rooms, Crete's Candia Maris beachfront resort is large by Starting Friday
Greek hotel standards. It shares the space between the large and airy 20/7 at 8pm BST

guestrooms, a choice of restaurants and a host of activities, whatever

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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022656.txt,"From: Thomas Jr., Landon 
Sent: 1/9/2015 6:17:14 PM 
To: jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Subject: Re: off the record 
Importance: High 
Lets have a chat -- you do need to fight back some how. Present evidence that she is lying AND show 
the world that you are no longer that guy. You have made changes -- and that this is the past. My 
sense is that its TV type thing where you just talk honestly about this/present evidence that its not 
true/ and focus on what you have been doing for past five years. Charlie Rose? 
But you cant just sit there taking punches like this -- especially wen the British tabs are driving this. 
Maybe you go on British TV.... 
Call me any time. 
On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 1:08 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
Landon. the story teller , crafted much of it out of whole cloth. . part of her story, is that 
she was at multiple orgies with clinton and speciifically, the minute details of a dinner had on the island with 
him, "" he sat on my left. came by black. heli. flown by ghislaine. clinton was NEVER EVER 
there, never, it punches a hole in the dershowitz , andrew allegation. making it all apparent that it was 
fantasy. and delusional. thoughts. who should break the story. 
please note 
The information contained in this communication is 
confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may 
constitute inside information, and is intended only for 
the use of the addressee. It is the property of 
JEE 
Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this 
communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited 
and may be unlawful. If you have received this 
communication in error, please notify us immediately by 
return e-mail or by e-mail to jeevacation@gmail.com, and 
destroy this communication and all copies thereof, 
including all attachments. copyright -all rights reserved 
Landon Thomas, Jr. 
Financial Reporter 
New York Times 
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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017895.txt,"830

leged conduct is sufficiently extreme and
outrageous enough to permit recovery.
Stuto, at 827. The attacks on September
11, 2001 were undoubtedly extreme and
outrageous. The Court finds that if the
Ashton and Burnett Plaintiffs’s allegations
sufficiently allege that Defendants sup-
ported, aided and abetted, or conspired
with the September 11 terrorists, they will
have also stated a claim for intentional
infliction of emotional distress. See Bur-
nett I, 274 F.Supp.2d at 107-08 (analyzing
claims under New York law).

7. Trespass

[85] The Federal Plaintiffs bring a
claim for trespass on the theory that De-
fendants assisted and encouraged those
who intentionally entered the World Trade
Center property. New York courts de-
scribe this cause of action as “the interfer-
ence with a person’s right to possession of
real property either by an unlawful act or
a lawful act performed in an unlawful man-
ner.” N.Y. State Nat'l Org. for Women v.
Terry, 886 F.2d 1839, 1361 (2d Cir.1989)
(citing Ivancic v. Olmstead, 66 N.Y.2d 349,
352, 497 N.Y.S.2d 326, 488 N.E.2d 72
(1985)). To the extent that the Federal
Plaintiffs sufficiently plead that Defen-
dants acted in concert with the September
11 hijackers, they may proceed with this
claim. Wantanabe Realty Corp. v. City of
New York, 01 Civ. 10187(LAK), 2003 WL
22862646, at *4 (S.D.N-Y. Dec. 3., 2003)
(citing Pittman, 149 F.3d at 122-28).

8. Negligence

[86-88] In New York, a plaintiff may
establish negligent infliction of emotional
distress under the bystander or direct
duty theory. Baker v. Dorfman, 239 F.3d
415, 421 (2d Cir.2000). Under the by-
stander theory, “a defendant’s conduct is
negligent as creating an unreasonable risk
of bodily harm to a plaintiff and such

349 FEDERAL SUPPLEMENT, 2d SERIES

conduct is a substantial factor in bringing
about injuries to the plaintiff in conse-
quence of shock or fright resulting from
his or her contemporaneous observation of
serious physical injury or death inflicted
by the defendant’s conduct on a member of
the plaintiff's immediate family in his or
her presence.” Bovsun v. Sanper, 61
N.Y.2d 219, 223-24, 473 N.Y.S.2d 357, 461
N.E.2d 848 (1984). Under the direct duty
theory, a plaintiff suffers emotional dis-
tress caused by “defendant’s breach of a
duty which unreasonably endangered
[plaintiffs] own physical safety.” Mortise
v. United States, 102 F.8d 693, 696 (2d
Cir.1996).

[89-92] To establish a claim for negli-
gence under New York law, “a plaintiff
must show that the defendant owed the
plaintiff a cognizable duty of care, that the
defendant breached that duty, and that the
plaintiff suffered damages as a proximate
cause of that breach.” King v. Crossland
Savings Bank, 111 F.3d 251, 259 @d Cir.
1997). The most basic element of a negli-
gence claim is the existence of a duty owed
to plaintiffs by defendants. Palsgraf v.
Long Island R.R. Co., 248 N.Y. 339, 342,
162 N.E. 99 (1928); see also Burnett I, 274
F.Supp.2d at 108 (dismissing negligence
claims against Defendant Al Haramain Is-
lamic Foundation because complaint failed
to allege or identify any duty owed to
Plaintiffs). Banks do not owe non-custom-
ers a duty to protect them from the inten-
tional torts of their customers. Renner v.
Chase Manhattan Bank, No. 98 Civ.
926(CSH), 1999 WL 47239, at *13
(S.D.N.Y. Feb. 3, 1999) (citing cases);
Burnett [, 274 F.Supp.2d at 109 (“Plaintiffs
offer no support, and we have found none,
for the proposition that a bank is liable for
injuries done with money that passes
through its hands in the form of deposits,
withdrawals, check clearing services, or
any other routine banking service.”). The

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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031584.txt,"negotiations have been underway, with significant progress attained on the
majority of the chapters of the Cyprus problem as a result of the intensive
efforts put forward by the two sides in reaching convergences.
Furthermore, with the recent agreement on the Joint Declaration of
February 11, 2014, an important milestone in the negotiations has been
reached, which clearly provides for the broad outline of a solution and the
main principles upon which the new partnership will be established.
Hence, the announcement of the Joint Declaration triggered a very
positive atmosphere that was further fostered by the support of a wide
spectrum of actors on both sides as well as the extensive espousal received
by the international community.

The Far-Reaching Consequences of the Problem

In light of this promising political climate on the island, combined with
the existence of some external factors that are currently at play, there is an
historic opportunity that should not be missed in bringing the long-
overdue Cyprus problem to a closure. The recent developments in our
region strongly signal a pressing need in this direction. It is beyond doubt
that the Cyprus problem holds back the potential of cooperation in a
broader context. Since its conception, the relations between Turkey and
Greece have been negatively affected by it. A full-scale rapprochement
between the two countries has been held hostage to the chronic status quo
on the island. In the course of time, this has been exploited as an excuse to
oppose Turkey’s bid for EU membership through the blocking of some
chapters in her accession talks. EU-NATO strategic cooperation has also
been hampered in a similar fashion due to the non-existence of diplomatic
relations between South Cyprus and Turkey. As a NATO member, Turkey
has proven to be an indispensable strategic partner of the Transatlantic
cooperation since the inception of the Cold War. Although a NATO
Council decision in late 2002 enabled the participation of the non-EU
members of NATO in the European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP),
the Greek Cypriot side has been blocking Turkey’s involvement both in
the ESDP and her prospective membership in the European Defense
Agency (EDA). As a result, no meaningful dialogue can practically be
established between the EU and NATO, creating a situation whereby the

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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023548.txt,"From: Lesley Groff I_____________________________ 
Sent: 3/7/2013 5:32:30 PM 
To: Epstein Jeffrey [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Subject: Fwd: INVITE NY OBSERVER 25TH ANNIVERSARY 
Importance: High 
Begin forwarded message: 
From: 
Subject: INVITE NY OBSERVER 25TH ANNIVERSARY 
Date: March 7, 2013 7:31:14 AM EST 
To: 
Reply-To 
Dear Mr. Jeffrey Epstein 
Jared Kushner, New York's youngest powerhouse publisher, is celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the New York 
Observer on Thursday, March 14th. 
Mayor Michael Bloomberg will be by his side to toast you all. 
The Observer is honoring those who have defined and shaped New York since 1987. They are celebrating the cities 
best, brightest and most influential in culture,media and finance. The salmon pink pages are revered among New 
York's elite as the preeminent voice on power. 
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parameter region. CWL is supported as an equilibrium in a strictly smaller parameter
region, a > a* = (1—w)-c,. Neither CWOL nor CWL emerge in the parameter regions

where they are not supported in equilibrium.

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5 Greg Sheridan, “Malcolm Turnbull’s Chinese Double: Dishonour and Defeat,” Australian (New South Wales),
March 30, 2017 (requires subscription), https://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/columnists/greg-sheridan
/turnbulls-chinese-double-dishonour-and-defeat/news-story/55fbe920041a5f5ff 7ec04b818085631.

6 Primrose Riordan, “China’s Veiled Threat to Bill Shorten on Extradition Treaty,” Australian (New South Wales),
December 4, 2017 (requires subscription), https://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/foreign-affairs
/chinas-veiled-threat-to-bill-shorten-on-extradition-treaty/news-story/ad793a4366ad2f94694e89¢92d52a978.

7 “Power and Influence: The Hard Edge of China’s Soft Power,” Australian Broadcasting Corporation,
June 5, 2017, expires December 7, 2018, accessed October 11, 2018, http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/power
-and-influence-promo/8579844.

8 Nick McKenzie and James Massola, “Andrew Robb’s Secret China Contract: Money for Nothing,” Sydney
Morning Herald, December 6, 2017, accessed October 11, 2018, https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal
/andrew-robbs-secret-china-contract-money-for-nothing-20171205-gzzaq5.html.

9 Malcolm Turnbull, “Speech Introducing the National Security Legislation Amendment (Espionage and
Foreign Interference) Bill 2017,” December 7, 2017, accessed October 11, 2018, https://www.malcolmturnbull
.com.au/media/speech-introducing-the-national-security-legislation-amendment-espionage-an.

10 The debate in Australia has evolved considerably since 2009, when Prime Minister Kevin Rudd proposed
campaign finance reform legislation that would have rendered foreign-sourced political donations illegal,
and Turnbull (as opposition leader in parliament) declined to support the legislation. Rudd has argued that
this legislation would have mitigated some of the more problematic behaviors regarding foreign influence
that have since occurred. Others, however, maintain that the ban would not have stopped the bulk of
CCP-backed donations, which are channeled through Australian residents and citizens, and that the more
important reform was to ensure greater transparency in identifying foreign agents. For Rudd’s critique, see
his February 24, 2018 column in the Australian, http://kevinrudd.com/portfolio-item/kevin-rudd-writes-in-
the-australian-chairman-mals-new-mcecarthyism.

11 Simon Benson, “Chau Chak Wing Identified by FBI in UN Bribery Case, Andrew Hastie Says,” Australian
(New South Wales), May 23, 2018, accessed October 11, 2018, https://www.theaustralian.com.au/national
-affairs/chau-chak-wing-identified-by-fbi-in-un-bribery-case-andrew-hastie-says/news-story/e062198el1d
3d7ec76b3a7a394c3b2543.

12 Simon Benson, “Crack Unit to Ward off Spy Attacks,” Australian (New South Wales), April 25, 2018
(subscription required), https://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/ national-security/crack-unit
-to-ward-off-threats-from-espionage/news-story/8409b24c8595beelbc27e9927f05fbd5.

CANADA

Canada has a long history of engagement with the PRC dating back to 1970.
Substantial and rapidly expanding connections with China at multiple levels include
human flows (migrants, tourists, students), trade (with a major and recurring
imbalance in China’s favor), and diplomatic interactions. There are roughly

160,000 PRC students in Canadian schools, about 70 percent of them in universities
and colleges. Per capita, this is about three times as large as in the United States and
roughly on par with Australia.

Canadian experiences with Chinese interference are less intense than those documented
in Australia and New Zealand. As early as 1997, a leaked report by Canada’s RCMP-SIS

Appendix 2

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IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027884.txt,"I was intrigued by the mechanical puzzle and managed to locate two slightly
rusted locks. One was a Yale, the other an Israeli-made lookalike called a
Nabob. One evening after dinner, I searched the ground around the kibbutz
garage for shards of metal that looked like they might fit into the key slot, and
spent the next half-hour or so propped against a tree, trying and failing to coax
either lock to open. I realized I would need to discover how the locks worked.
But how to get inside to see?

Saturday afternoons in Mishmar Hasharon were a quiet time, like the old
Jewish neighborhoods and shtetls back in Europe but minus the religious
trappings. The next day, I waited until mid-afternoon and walked past the
bakery towards the garage. Its roll-down, corrugated door was locked. So was
the structure next to it, where the blacksmith and metalwork shop were. But
attached to the blacksmith’s was a hut where our scrap metal was dumped. I
doubted it would be locked, and it wasn’t. Pausing to let my eyes get used to the
dark, I made my way into the metalwork area. I crossed to the cabinet where the
tools were kept. I took out a steel jigsaw used for cutting through metal and,
hiding it under my shirt, made my way out again.

Fortunately, the saw was up to the task of cutting into the softer alloy that
made up the body of the locks. Once I’d cut inside them, I saw they shared the
same basic construction. There was a series of springs and shafts which, in
response to the indentations of a key, aligned in such a way to allow the lock to
open. I sneaked back into the metalwork shop five or six times. By trial and
error, I managed to shape one of jigsaw blades into a pick tool that seemed like
it should do the job. For days, I manipulated it into each of the padlocks. I knew
I had the principle right, but I still couldn’t get it to work. Blisters formed on my
thumb and fingers. Then, finally, the Yale sprung open! With each successive
try I got better at knowing how to put the blade in, when and where to rotate it
and how much pressure to apply. After fashioning a half-dozen other tools, each
slightly different in width and shape, I reached a point where I could get the
mechanism to work on my first try. Other locks — doors, trunks, closets — were
even easier after I made picks for them as well.

I couldn’t resist sharing my newly acquired skill with a couple of the boys in
my class, and word gradually spread. There was a handful of slightly older boys
who we referred to as the “rogues”. They weren’t delinquents. They were free
spirits, bridling at the uniform expectations and rules of kibbutz life. Over the
next few years, as co-conspirators more than close friends, I found myself
drawn to two of them. Ido and Moshe were 18 months older than me. Though

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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023750.txt,"q Teaching Minds

There are subjects that are school subjects and there are subjects
that are life subjects and teenagers can tell the difference. They
work harder at the life subjects.

And, what is the difference between these two kinds of subjects? Goals.
It is as simple as that.

Instead of simply saying what is wrong with schools and what
teenagers are really like in school, I want to take a different tack.

Some teenagers wake up in the morning wanting to learn history
or algebra but they are a very small minority of the school population.
There is no minority, however, when it comes to dating or driving for
teenagers. They all want to do these things. So the question I want to
ask is:

Are there other things that all teenagers want to do and are those
things connected in some way with learning?

Or, to put this another way, if school had been designed around
something other than subjects, what would it have been designed
around? Driving and dating, which we know are winners in a teenager’s
world, could be seen as subjects, or they could be seen as instances
of something else, and that something else might be something
important to learn.

Students everywhere might want to learn whatever that is and they
would work hard to learn it. If we can turn the question around in that
way, maybe we can design better learning situations for everybody.

So, the question is:

What are driving and dating instances of, with respect to learning?
Or, to address this from the cognitive science point of view:

What is it that students are doing when they learn to drive

and date that they might be getting better at while doing those

things?

Can we view whatever it is they are getting better at as an example

of the kinds of things we should want to teach and that students
should want to learn? Answering these questions will allow us to

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Instead it says 200k in todays dollars and when he was 8 he had a million

Instead had Fred put 2k dollar in treassuries it would be worth 1 m today

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IMAGES-012-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032962.txt,"Landon Thomas, Jr.
Financial Reporter
New York Times

http://topics.nytimes.com/to

html

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IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021081.txt,"PEP / Pease (Tax Policy) - PEP is Personal
Exemption Phase-out designed to eliminate
personal income exemptions for high
earners; 3) Pease is a similar phase-out, but
instead of applying to personal exemption, it
applies to most of the itemized deductions of
a taxpayer’s claims (mortgage interest,
charitable gifts, state & local taxes paid,
etc.); Pease is named after Representative
Donald Pease (D-OH) who pushed for its
enactment in 1990.

Present Value - A single number that
expresses a flow of current and future
income (or payments) in terms of an
equivalent lump sum received (or paid)
today. The present value depends on the
rate of interest used (the discount rate). For
example, if $100 is invested on January 1 at
an annual interest rate of 5 percent, it will
grow to $105 by January 1 of the next year.
Hence, at an annual 5 percent interest rate,
the present value of $105 payable a year
from today is $100.

Patient Protection and Affordable Care
Act (PPACA) — A federal statute as the
result of the healthcare reform. Signed into
law on 3/23/10, the PPACA aims to expand
Medicaid eligibility, incentivize businesses to
provide health care benefits, prohibit denial
of coverage/claims based on pre-existing
conditions, establish health insurance
exchanges, and support for medical
research. The costs of these provisions are
offset by a variety of taxes, fees, and cost-
saving measures, such as new Medicare
taxes for high-income brackets, taxes on
indoor tanning, improved fairness in the
Medicare Advantage program relative to
traditional Medicare, and fees on medical
devices and pharmaceutical companies.

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Ise) www.kpcb.com

Productivity - Average real output per unit
of input. Labor productivity is average real
output per hour of labor. The growth of labor
productivity is defined as the growth of real
output that is not explained by the growth of
labor input alone. Total factor productivity is
average real output per unit of combined
labor and capital services. The growth of
total factor productivity is defined as the
growth of real output that is not explained by
the growth of labor and capital. Labor
productivity and total factor productivity differ
in that increases in capital per worker raise
labor productivity but not total factor
productivity.

Tax Expenditures - Losses to the U.S.
treasury from granting certain deductions,
exemptions, or credits to specific categories
of taxpayers. Tax breaks are one method
Congress uses to promote certain policy
objectives. For example, deductions for
mortgages encourage home ownership,
while credits for childcare expenses allow
single parents to work. Tax expenditures are
an alternative to direct government spending
on policy programs.

Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) -
A program that permits the Secretary of the
Treasury to purchase or insure troubled
financial assets. Authority for the program
was initially set by the Emergency Economic
Stabilization Act of 2008 at $700 billion in
assets outstanding at any one time and
remains in effect until October 3, 2010. The
TARP’s activities have included the
purchase of preferred stock from financial
institutions, support to automakers and
related businesses, a program to avert
housing foreclosures, and partnerships with
the private sector.

USA Inc. xxiv

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EXHIBIT 1

To
JANE DOE NO. 1 AND JANE DOE NO. 2’S RESPONSE IN OPPOSITION TO
MOTION FOR LEAVE TO FILE SUPPLEMENT TO REPLY IN SUPPORT OF
MOTION FOR LIMITED INTERVENTION BY ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ

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TEXT-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032372.txt,"From: Thomas Jr., Landon 
Sent: 11/14/2016 2:59:28 PM 
To: jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Subject: Re: Trump 
Importance: High 
yeah, but that was a smart move -- made him look presidential. everything he has done so far suggests 
to me he is going to do what you told me months ago: appoint competent people beneath him who he 
trusts AND who will not fuck things up. Christie was not one of those people. 
On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 9:56 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
no, they dont have many loyal people that have gravitas. . it will be somewhat random but he is 
being advised to do as you suggest but he doesnt like advice in general. he has no 
loyalty ZERO tossed christie after being his best friend, in four seconds flat 
On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 9:54 AM, Thomas Jr., Landon 
do you agree with my thesis? 
On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 9:53 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
no intel but lots of profits 
wrote: 
On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 9:51 AM, Thomas Jr., Landon_________________________wrote: 
Any further intel on Treasury? Priebus choice suggests to me that he may go for a bigger name in 
treasury than Mnuchin. Someone to underscore/push forward this notion that he is Reagan 2.0 
(as some are suggesting). I am just not sure who that person would be. The Trump trade certainly 
seems to have legs -- all the Hillary loving hedgies I am talking to are congratulating themselves 
for making so much money last week. They are all Trump lovers now! 
Landon Thomas, Jr. 
Financial Reporter 
New York Times 
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/t/landon jr thomas/inde  
x.html  
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.html  
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tml 
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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021808.txt,"From: 
Sent: Friday, January 9, 2015 6:56 PM 
To: jeffrey E. 
Subject: Re: we'll see 
Importance: High 
Yes, let's do it. I like most of it. Would like less personal attacks and more reasons why allegations are ridiculous.. 
Love the fact checking story. Just a few days ago, I toyed with the idea of posting a photo of me doing a preflight inspection and saying I wished other professions 
would have that requirement before putting innocent people's lives at risk. 
From: jeffrey E. <jeevacation©gmail.com> 
To:I______________________________________ 
Sent: Friday, January 9, 2015 1:44 PM 
Subject: Re: we'll see 
I only met Jeffrey Epstein, after I was adult. ( over 18). I was never, ever, his "" sex slave "" 
. obviously a lurid chauvenistic categorization, which in my opinion could only have been 
made by some loser of a repressed male reporter. He was always kind , funny and generous to me 
. These fantasy fabrications made by a delusional thief. ( charged with stealing from the burger place 
and which she worked, though she claimed to paid thousands of dollars in cash and held at the beck 
and call of the genious tycoon. ) . Her story telling had it been done while sleeping would have been 
called dreaming, if awake, hallucinaitons but to the English press they are referred to as allegations 
. She claimed in the minutest of detail , her dinner with President Clinton on the Caribean 
Island, How he arrived. ( by black heli). where he sat. ,(on jeffreys left.) a 21st century tale 
of power, sex, money. The fact is that this story is total make believe , fabricated on purpose to 
gain tabloid attention ,and easily refuted by readily availalble travel records of a former 
president. . it defies belief that any person would take seriously such a preposterous story. little 
different than her telling her father that she met the queen, whoops- he believed her though her 
mother at the relevant time complained that she must have been engaging in satan worship and 
asked that she be put her in a drug home. cmon. I am currenty a professional pilot with a spotless 
record. I have a checklist that I follow before every flight to verify that things are what they are 
supposed to be, checking her story which the presss has refused to do would serve the public well. 
In this case human error is merely a euphmisn for hijacking the truth, 
On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 2:10 PM, wrote: 
Apparently.. 
They are now asking how my parents bought a building in town...implying it was all the money they got for selling me 
Getting ugly.. 
From: jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> 
To: 
Sent: Friday, January 9, 2015 12:50M 
Subject: Re: we'll see 
1 
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notable? 
On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 1:44 PM, 
wrote: 
Definitely not gonna talk to the reporters. It doesn't feel 
right. Xoxoxo 
They called my friend today and told her they are writing a story about notable people from the east and would like to talk to her about me. She didn't fall 
for it.. Slovakian press is going crazy now. 
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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013933.txt,"> Motivational Fulfillment ( www.mfpsinc.com_)
The secret backend to campaigns from HBO, PBS, Comic Relief, Body by Jake, and more.

> Innotrac ( www.innotrac.com )

They are currently one of the largest DR marking companies.

> Moulton Fulfillment ( www.moultonfulfillment.com )

200 ,000-square-foot facility with real-time online inventory reports.

Call Centers (per-minute and/or per-sale fees)
There are generally two classes of call centers: order takers and commissioned reps. Interview each
provider you consider to understand the options and costs involved.

The former is a good option if you give the product price in an advertisement (hard offer), are offering
free information (lead generation), or don’t need trained salespeople who can overcome objections. In
other words, your ad or website is pre-qualifying prospects.

The latter would more appropriately be called “sales centers.” Operators are commissioned and trained
“closers” whose sole goal is to convert callers to buyers. These calls are often in response to “call for
information/ trial/sample” ads that don’t feature a price (soft offers). Expect higher costs per sale.

» LiveOps ( www.liveops.com )

Pioneer in home-based reps, which often ensures more calls are answered. Provides comprehensive
service with agents, [VR, and Spanish. Often used for one-step order taking instead of soft offers.

= West Teleservices ( www.west.com )

29,000 employees worldwide, processes billions of minutes per year. All the high-volume and low-price
players use them for lower-priced products or higher-end products with free trials and installment plans.

> NexRep ( www.nexrep.com )

Highly skilled home-based sales agents that specialize in B2C and B2B, inbound and outbound
programs. If performance, speed to respond, Internet integration, and quality customer experience are
your priorities, this is a strong option to consider.

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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020127.txt,"General Motors, 88

Georgia (post-Soviet), 226

Gingrich, Newt, 177

Giuliani, Rudy, 16, 30, 86-87, 210, 242, 279
Glover, Juleanna, 78

Glover Park Group, 203

Goldman Sachs, 55—56, 81-82, 119, 143-49, 174, 179, 184, 270, 305
Goldman Sachs Foundation, 82

Goldwater, Barry, 127

Gore, Al, 123

Gorka, Sebastian, 129

Gorsuch, Neil, 85-87, 133

Grimm, Michael, 310

Guardian, 276

Guilfoyle, Kimberly, 223, 272-73, 284
H-1B visas, 36

Haberman, Maggie, 91-92, 206-7, 277
Hagin, Joe, 186, 229

Hahn, Julia, 236

Haig, Alexander, 27

Halberstam, David, 53-55

Haldeman, H. R., 27

Haley, Nikki, 305-6

Hall, Jerry, 19

Halperin, Mark, 217

Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, king of Bahrain, 231
Hanley, Allie, 127, 139

Hannity, Sean, 68, 195-96, 222-24, 309
Harder, Charles, 308

Haspel, Gina, 157

Health and Human Services Department (HHS), 166
Hemingway, Mark, 38

Heritage Foundation, 162

Heyer, Heather, 293

Hicks, Hope, 13, 26, 109, 150-54, 158, 160, 185, 188, 198-201, 203-9, 213, 216-17, 229, 235, 247, 258-59, 261-62,

271, 277, 279, 281, 297, 307
Hiltzik, Matthew, 203-4, 207
Hitler, Adolf, 127
HNA Group, 269
Hogan, Hulk, 22, 308

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or was not privileged. We don't take jury evidence on that,
you know, Judge Marra's ruling, and therefore, that should be
excluded. So that is item number 19.

Let me turn then to item 20, and I'm handling that.

This is essentially a hearsay exercise. We want information to

b xcluded regarding Rebecca Boylan. Why? Because Rebecca

Boylan has not been deposed and is not going to be a witness in
the case.

As we understand what the defendant is planning to do,
she's planning to call Mr. Dershowitz. Mr. Dershowitz is going

to say Ms. Boylan told him that Ms. Giuffre told him something,

and so we have the classic hearsay within a hearsay situation.

The problem, of course, is that Boylan is not here.

The defendant's pleadings say, ah-hah, but this is an

admission by Ms. Giuffre, and it would be if Ms. Boylan were on
the stand so we could ask her questions about, well, did

Ms. Giuffre really say that? And what did she mean? And

wasn't she saying that she's been abused by Ms. Maxwell? But

they want to skip over that intermediate stuff, have Dershowitz

describe what Boylan describes Ms. Giuffre said, and that's

obviously -- and then I'm assuming Dershowitz is going to put

his spin on what Ms. Boylan allegedly said to him. There are

no set of circumstances in which that hearsay within hearsay

could be admissible because Ms. Boylan has not been deposed,

and is not here, it's rank multiple hearsay.

SOUTHERN DISTRICT REPORTERS, P.C.
(212) 805-0300

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eventually Ms. Maxwell says, you know, I'm not really sure what

he went to jail for. It had something to do with, she

thinks -- Ms. Maxwell teenage prostitution or under-age

prostitution or something like that. That certainly doesn't

give you the ability then to ram in 400 pages of uncorroborated

hearsay under the idea that somehow this is notice to somebody.
And I think there is one other factual claim that they
make about, you know, what Ms. Maxwell should have known, which

is not the standard. It is not incumbent upon an individual

defendant to go investigate things. That's not the standard.

It seems to me that they have conceded that these

documents are hearsay because they're saying, we're not

offering them for the truth of the matter asserted; we want to

offer it for this knowledge theory that we have.

So I've briefed the issue about business records,

which they are not. I've briefed the issue about government
police records, which they are police records, but essentially
the same tests for business records applies to police records,
which is, you have to be under a business duty to record the

information, and court after court after court after court,

across the country, has said, people in police reports, like

witnesses, are not under a business duty as part of the police
department. So all of those statements, the second- and

thirdhand hearsay statements, are inadmissible, either as

government records or police records or whatever you want to

SOUTHERN DISTRICT REPORTERS, P.C.
(212) 805-0300

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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028675.txt,"From: Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]

Sent: 2/15/2013 12:42:34 AM

To: Larry Summers
Subject: as you asked

rticle 1.

The Washington Post

In State of the Union

address, Obama lays out
his second-term agenda

Editorial

February 13, 2013 -- TWO DOMESTIC
concerns towered above all others as
President Obama addressed a joint session
of Congress on Tuesday night on the state
of the union. One was stubbornly slow
economic growth. The other was the long-
term threat to prosperity posed by the
structural mismatch between the federal
government’s projected revenue and its
spending commitments. A successful
second term for Mr. Obama will require
both credible proposals for overcoming

those related challenges and the

determination to carry them through.

The president addressed the deficit and
debt first, and at some length. This was
fitting, giving that the most pressing piece
of business facing Washington is what to
do about the impending $85 billion across-
the-board spending cut. He was forthright

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TEXT-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032414.txt,"From: Sultan Bin Sulayem 
Sent: 1/6/2017 11:28:17 AM 
To: jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Subject: Re: Presidential inauguration 
Importance: High 
Do you think it will be possible to shake hand with trump 
Sent from my iPhone 
On Jan 6, 2017, at 3:13 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
very many people going. it will be very crowded. but if you can meet some before or after in either wash or 
ny, it might be worth it. . but unlikely 
On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 4:08 AM, Sultan Bin Sulayem 
Should I accept the invitation sent by Tom barrack 
Sent from my iPhone 
please note 
The information contained in this communication is 
confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may 
constitute inside information, and is intended only for 
the use of the addressee. It is the property of 
JEE 
Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this 
communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited 
and may be unlawful. If you have received this 
communication in error, please notify us immediately by 
return e-mail or by e-mail to jeevacation@gmail.com, and 
destroy this communication and all copies thereof, 
including all attachments. copyright -all rights reserved 
wrote: 
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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032264.txt,"From: Thomas Jr., Lando iii Ti iii

Sent: 6/1/2016 3:25:15 PM
To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: The book on you...

Importance: — High

Keep getting calls from that guy doing a book on you -- John Connolly. He seems very interested in
your relationship with the news media. I told him you were a hell of a guy:) One oddity: he said he had
been told that that quote from Trump about you in the original NY Mag story had been manufactured.
ie, that I did not actually speak to Donald. Which is bull shit of course. I am sure that is what Trump
told him as they have been getting a lot of questions from reporters about you.

He actually seemed to be a sensible guy/solid reporter -- just from the few conversations I had with
him. I think he is close to finishing up.

Did you ever speak to him?

Landon Thomas, Jr.
Financial Reporter
New York Times

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/t/landon jr thomas/index.h
tml

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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025833.txt,"The information contained in this communication is
confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may
constitute inside information, and is intended only for
the use of the addressee. It is the property of

JEE

Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this
communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited
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IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026973.txt,"If you’ve been released from the waitlist it means that the university has decided you are no
longer a viable candidate. That means you have two choices:

The first choice is...

Read More »

How is life in Texas different from life in the rest of the US?

Stephan Lindgren, lived in Killeen, TX (2005-2009)

As a veteran who has lived all over the country, but was stationed in Texas, this is what I noticed

about Texas:
Texans are more Texan than American. Texans will have plaque...

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How is Chris Kyle viewed among the Navy SEAL community?

"" eee”

Chris Henry

T’ll throw my two cents in since I did meet him when I was in the teams and know several guys
that worked with him. One of his actual best friends was in a platoon with me...

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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016962.txt,"Peter Galison’s focus as a science historian is—speaking roughly—on the intersection of
theory with experiment.

“For quite a number of years I have been guided in my work by the odd
confrontation of abstract ideas and extremely concrete objects,” he once told me, in
explaining how he thinks about what he does. At the Washington, Connecticut, meeting
he discussed the Cold War tension between engineers (like Wiener) and the
administrators of the Manhattan Project (like Oppenheimer: “When [Wiener] warns
about the dangers of cybernetics, in part he’s trying to compete against the kind of
portentous language that people like Oppenheimer [used]: ‘When I saw the explosion at
Trinity, I thought of the Bhagavad Gita—I am death, destroyer of worlds.’ That sense,
that physics could stand and speak to the nature of the universe and airforce policy, was
repellent and seductive. In away, you can see that over and over again in the last
decades—nanosciences, recombinant DNA, cybernetics: ‘I stand reporting to you on the
science that has the promise of salvation and the danger of annihilation—and you should
pay attention, because this could kill you.’ It’s a very seductive narrative, and it’s
repeated in artificial intelligence and robotics.”

As a twenty-four-year old, when I first encountered Wiener’s ideas and met his
colleagues at the MIT meeting I describe in the book’s Introduction, I was hardly
interested in Wiener ’s warnings or admonitions. What drove my curiosity was the stark,
radical nature of his view of life, based on the mathematical theory of communications in
which the message was nonlinear: According to Wiener, “new concepts of
communication and control involved a new interpretation of man, of man’s knowledge of
the universe, and of society.”’ And that led to my first book, which took information
theory—the mathematical theory of communications—as a model for all human
experience.

In a recent conversation, Peter told me he was beginning to write a book—about
building, crashing, and thinking—that considers the black-box nature of cybernetics and
how it represents what he thinks of as “the fundamental transformation of learning,
machine learning, cybernetics, and the self.”

159

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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031779.txt,"From: paul krassner

Sent: 3/29/2019 11:28:13 PM
Subject: IMPORTANT

Attachments: matt-wilstein-author.jog; LRG_DSCO02899_fvmyha.jpeg; 190321-wilstein-sarah-silverman-tease_tjmvn0. jpeg;
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trailer-tease_qSy2es.jpeg; SM_4_gq9fyv.jpeg

Importance: — High

Sarah Silverman on Al
Franken, Louis C.K., Losing
Her Hulu Show and More

In the premiere episode of ‘The Last Laugh’ podcast, Sarah Silverman speaks out for the first
time about her Hulu show’s cancelation and goes to bat for her friend Al Franken.

Matt Wilstein

03.26.19 4:12 AM ET

Subscribe to The Last Laugh on Apple Podcasts

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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025827.txt,"Date: Saturday, September 20 2014 12:17 AM
Subject: Re: Fwd:

To: jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com>;

I have so much more info to tell you on Sunday.

On Sep 19, 2014 8:16 PM, ""jeffrey E."" <jeevacation@gmail.com > wrote:

how much and who pays now?
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 5:35 PM, Kathy Ruemmler Ts 00%:

I will. The rent on the apartment is significantly more than the monthly salary.

On Sep 19, 2014 5:34 PM, ""jeffrey E."" <jeevacation@gmail.com > wrote:

no need to. call eric and get a data point

On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 5:23 PM, Kathy Ruemm|er i otc:

I don't want to give up my apartment in NY.

On Sep 19, 2014 5:18 PM, ""Kathy Ruemmler"" i wrote:

Good advice.
On Sep 19, 2014 5:15 PM, ""jeffrey E."" <jeevacation@gmail.com > wrote:

lets see how you feel sunday

On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Kathy Ruemmler i rote:

I think I should do it.

On Sep 19, 2014 4:12 PM, ""jeffrey E."" <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:

free now

On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Kathy Ruemmler EE 0%:

Correct. One time, maybe. Twice, no way.
On Sep 19, 2014 3:45 PM, ""jeffrey E."" <jeevacation@gmail.com > wrote:
of course not , he wouldnt have been so stupid.

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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016976.txt,"Caroline A. Jones’ interest in modern and contemporary art is enriched by a willingness
to delve into the technologies involved in its production, distribution, and reception. “As
an art historian, a lot of my questions are about what kind of art we can make, what kind
of thought we can make, what kind of ideas we can make that could stretch the human
beyond our stubborn, selfish, ‘only concerned with our small group’ parameters. The
Philosophers and philosophies I’m drawn to are those that question the Western
obsession with individualism. Those are coming from so many different places, and

they re reviving so many different kinds of questions and problems that were raised in the
1960s.”

She has recently turned her attention to the history of cybernetics. Her MIT
course, “Automata, Automatism, Systems, Cybernetics,” explores the history of the
human/machine interface in terms of feedback, exploring the cultural rather than
engineering uptake of this idea. She begins with primary readings by Wiener, Shannon,
and Turing and then pivots from the scientists and engineers to the work and ideas of
artists, feminists, postmodern theorists. Her goal: to come up with a new central
paradigm of evolution that’s culture-based—“communalism and interspecies symbiosis
rather than survival of the fittest.”

As a historian, Caroline draws a distinction between what she has termed “left
cybernetics” and “right cybernetics”: “What do I mean by left cybernetics? In one
sense, it’s a pun or a joke: the cybernetics that was ‘left’ behind. On another level, it’s a
vague political grouping connoting our Left Coast: California, Esalen, the group that
Dave Kaiser calls the ‘hippie physicists.’ It’s not an adequate term, but it’s away of
recognizing that there was a group beholden to the military-industrial complex,
sometimes very unhappily, who gave us the tools to critique it.”

173

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our witness list is AH, who is in the report and she testified
in this case.

THE COURT: Well, that's a different issue. And you

said you're going to present her.

MS. McCAWLEY: Yes.

=

THE COURT: Well, all right. That's a different

question. But in other words, you could show her the report
and ask her if she's aware of these reports. I assume what her
answer is going to be. And that's the end of it.

MS. McCAWLEY: Well, your Honor, I mean, obviously

we'd like to enter the reports under the business record

exception through Recarey and through the residual hearsay --

THE COURT: But even if you do that, I don't see how

you avoid eliminating the hearsay.
Well, okay. All right.
MR. PAGLIUCA: Your Honor, could I have one final

comment on this. If they're not being offered for the truth of

the matter asserted, they're really not relevant to this case

is my final point, because if they're not being offered for the

truth of the matter asserted, at best it's a neutral as to

whether these things did or didn't happen. If they didn't

happen, they would certainly be supportive of Ms. Maxwell's

state of mind if she knew about them. If they're not being

offered for the truth of the matter --

=

THE COURT: Well, it might be material that she knew

SOUTHERN DISTRICT REPORTERS, P.C.
(212) 805-0300

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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028661.txt,"on a motorbike parked on the sidewalk outside the Tehran home of
Masoud Alimohammadi; the nuclear physicist was killed when it was
detonated by remote control.

In the broadcast, Fashi accurately described the Mossad campus north of
Tel Aviv. He said he had been given a laptop equipped with a second
operating system and used it to communicate through online drop boxes.
He was impressed by his handlers’ thoroughness. At one point Fashi
described studying a scale model of Alimohammadi’s street. “It was an
exact copy of the real one,” Fashi said. “The tree next it, the street curb,
the bridge.” In a later broadcast, he was seated across from
Alimohammadi’s widow, who glared at him as he bowed his head and
wept. Mossad officials were “pissed off and shocked” seeing their agent
on television, the intelligence official said.

Fashi was executed in May 2012. About the same time, Iran’s intelligence
minister announced the arrest of 14 more Iranians, eight men and six
women dubbed members of the “Terror Club” in the subsequent_prime-
time broadcast of that name. Filmed in shadow, and rich in atmospherics,
the Aug. 5 program recreated Alimohammadi’s death and four subsequent
attacks: they started with the Nov. 29, 2010 nearly simultaneous attempts
on Majid Shariari and Fereydoun Abbasi, nuclear scientists driving to
work when magnetic “sticky bombs” were attached to the side of their cars
from passing motorcycles. Abbasi managed to escape before it detonated,
saving his wife as well. Shariari was killed — a significant setback for the
Iranian nuclear program where he was the top scientist, according to a
Western intelligence official.

The confessed agents offered absorbing detail — they were aboard a Bajaj
Pulsar, wearing helmets, when the magnet bomb stuck on the right front
panel of Shariari’s car exploded. The riders scrambled into the “trail car”
assigned to follow the target and disappeared into the traffic of the Imam
Ali Autobahn. Already gone was the car assigned to cut off and slow the
car carrying the scientist. They claimed to have rehearsed on a practice
track inside Israel. None of the details could be confirmed, but an
intelligence official acknowledged: “Another network was taken.”

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013099.txt,"10.6 Conclusion 183

Correspondence Principle tells us something about what this ""tuning"" should involve — namely,
making a system possessing mind-state sequences that correspond meaningfully to world-state
sequences. CogPrime’s overall design and particular cognitive processes are reasonably well
interpreted as an attempt to achieve this for everyday human goals and environments.

One way of extending these theoretical ideas into a more rigorous theory is explored in Ap-
pendix ??. The key ideas involved there are: modeling multiple memory types as mathematical
categories (with functors mapping between them), modeling memory items as probability dis-
tributions, and measuring distance between memory items using two metrics, one based on
algorithmic information theory and one on classical information geometry. Building on these
ideas, core hypotheses are then presented:

® asyntax-semantics correlation principle, stating that in a successful AGI system, these
two metrics should be roughly correlated

e a cognitive geometrodynamics principle, stating that on the whole intelligent minds
tend to follow geodesics (shortest paths) in mindspace, according to various appropriately
defined metrics (e.g. the metric measuring the distance between two entities in terms of the
length and/or runtime of the shortest programs computing one from the other).

® acognitive synergy principle, stating that shorter paths may be found through the com-
posite mindspace formed by considering multiple memory types together, than by following
the geodesics in the mindspaces corresponding to individual memory types.

The material is relegated to an appendix because it is so speculative, and it’s not yet clear
whether it will really be useful in advancing or interpreting CogPrime or other AGI systems
(unlike the material from the present chapter, which has at least been useful in interpreting
and tweaking the CogPrime design, even though it can’t be claimed that CogPrime was derived
directly from these theoretical ideas). However, this sort of speculative exploration is, in our
view, exactly the sort of thing that’s needed as a first phase in transitioning the ideas of the
present chapter into a more powerful and directly actionable theory.

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IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_010728.txt,"Honorable Mark Filip
May 19, 2008
Page 6

e Federal prosecutors made the unprecedented demand that Mr. Epstein pay a
minimum of $150,000 per person to an unnamed list of women.they referred to as
minors and whom they insisted required representation by a guardian ad litem. Mr.
Epstein’s counsel later established that all but one of these individuals were actually
adults, not minors. Even then, though demanding payment to the women, the
USAO eventually asserted that it could not vouch for the veracity of any of the
claims that these women might make.

e Federal prosecutors made the highly unusual demand that Mr. Epstein pay the fees
of a civil attorney chosen by the prosecutors to represent these alleged “victims”
should they choose to bring any civil litigation against him. They also proposed
sending a notice to the alleged “victims,” stating, in an underlined sentence, that
should they choose their own attorney, Mr. Epstein would not be required to pay
their fees. The prosecutors further demanded that Mr. Epstein waive his right to
challenge any of the allegations made by these “victims.”

e The Assistant U.S. Attorney involved in this matter recommended for the civil
attorney, a highly lucrative position, an individual that we later discovered was
closely and personally connected to the Assistant U.S. Attorney’s own boyfriend.

e Federal prosecutors represented to Mr. Epstein’s counsel that they had identified
‘(and later rechecked and re-identified) several alleged “victims” of federal crimes
that qualified for payment under 18 U.S.C. § 2255, a civil remedy designed to
provide financial benefits to victims. Only through state discovery provisions did
we later learn that many of the women on the rechecked “victim list” could not
possibly qualify under § 2255. The reason is that they, themselves, testified that
they did not suffer any type of harm whatsoever, a prerequisite for the civil recovery
under § 2255. Moreover, these women stated that they did not, now or in the past,
consider themselves to be victims.

e During the last few months, Mr. Herman, First Assistant Sloman’s former law

partner, has filed several civil lawsuits against Mr. Epstein on behalf of the alleged
“victims.” It is our understanding that each of Mr. Herman’s clients are on the

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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032270.txt,"The information contained in this communication is
confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may
constitute inside information, and is intended only for
the use of the addressee. It is the property of

JEE

Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this
communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited
and may be unlawful. If you have received this
communication in error, please notify us immediately by
return e-mail or by e-mail to jeevacation@gmail.com, and
destroy this communication and all copies thereof,
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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029219.txt,"As nearly two dozen Secret Service agents and members of the military were
punished or fired following a 2012 prostitution scandal in Colombia, Obama
administration officials repeatedly denied that anyone from the White House was
involved.

But new details drawn from government documents and interviews show that senior
White House aides were given information at the time suggesting that a prostitute was
an overnight guest in the hotel room of a presidential advance-team member — yet
that information was never thoroughly investigated or publicly acknowledged.

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_014090.txt,"Case 9:08-cv-80736-KAM Document 319-1 Entered on FLSD Docket 03/24/2015 Page 7 of 34

EXHIBIT 1

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TEXT-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032366.txt,"From: Deepak Chopra______________________________ 
Sent: 11/14/2016 1:13:43 PM 
To: Jeff Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com] 
Subject: Deepak Chopra shared a link: The Real Cause - and Cure - of Trump Anguish - SFGate 
Importance: High 
The Real Cause - and Cure - of Trump Anguish - SFGate from Deepak Chopra's Tweet 
Download the Twitter app 
Deepak Chopra 
New Book: Radicalbeauty.com 
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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029298.txt,"HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH 
Barker Center - 12 Quincy Street - Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 
ELISA NEW 
Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature 
November 25, 2018 
Dear Ms. Knowles-Carter, 
Tel: 
Fax: 
I am writing now to invite you to be a featured guest of Poetry in America 
(poetryinamerica.org). Poetry in America's first season's guests included Bill Clinton, 
Joe Biden, Cynthia Nixon, Shaquille O'Neal, Yo Yo Ma, Samantha Power, Herbie 
Hancock, John McCain, Nas, Angela Duckworth, Bono, Regina Spektor, Frank Gehry, 
Stuart Weitzman, E.O. Wilson, and many others. Seasons Two and Three will feature just 
as distinguished a line up. The series airs on public television stations everywhere, 
streams via Amazon Prime and other streaming services, and it is now also airing on a 
variety of domestic and international airlines. 
The poem we'd read and interpret together is by the contemporary poet Evie Shockley, 
and it's called ""you can say that again, billie."" It's a brilliant and beautiful poem that 
speaks back to Billie Holiday's ""Strange Fruit"" and evokes a whole history of gender and 
race in the American South. You are the ideal reader for this poem. We would use what 
we filmed together in an upcoming season of Poetry in America. We would also use the 
content in materials that we are creating for K-12 classrooms in partnership with Harvard. 
Everything we create would be educational and non-commercial. 
Thank you for considering this request. I would be very honored to work with you. 
Sincerely, 
Elisa New 
Director and Host of Poetry in America 
Powell M. Cabot Professor, Harvard 
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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013927.txt,"Phase II: >10 Units Shipped Per Week

Add the extensive FAQ to your website and continue to add answers to common questions as received.
Find local fulfillment companies in the yellow pages under “fulfillment services” or “mailing services.”
If you cannot find one there or at www.mfsanet.org, call local printers and ask them for
recommendations. Narrow the field to those (often the smallest) who will agree not to charge you setup
fees and monthly minimums. If this isn’t possible, ask for at least 50% off both and then request that the
setup fee be applied as an advance against shipping or their other fees.

Limit the candidates further to those who can respond to order status e-mail (ideal) or phone calls
from customers. The e-mail from your “customer service” folder will be provided as copy-and-paste

responses, especially those related to order status and refund requests.4

To lower or eliminate miscellaneous fees, explain that you are a start-up and that your budget is small.
Tell them you need the cash for advertising that will drive more shipments. If needed, mention the
competitive companies that you are considering and pit them against one another, using lower pricing or
concessions from one to get larger discounts and bonuses from the others.

Before making your final selection, ask for at least three client references and use the following to
elicit the negatives: “I understand they’re good, but everyone has weaknesses. If you had to point out
where you’ve had some issues and what they’re not the best at, what would you say? Can you please
describe an incident or a disagreement? I expect these with all companies, so it’s no big deal, and it’s
confidential, of course.”

Ask for “net-30 terms’—payment for services 30 days after they’re rendered—after one month of
prompt payment for their services. It is easier to negotiate all of the above points with smaller operations
that need the business. Have your contract manufacturer ship product directly to the fulfillment house
once you have decided on one and put the fulfillment house’s e-mail (you can use an e-mail address at
your domain and forward it) or phone number on the online “thank you” page for order status questions.

Phase III: >20 Units Shipped Per Week

Now you will have the cash flow to afford the setup fees and the monthly minimums that bigger, more
sophisticated outsourcers will ask for. Call the end-to-end fulfillment houses that handle it all—from
order status to returns and refunds. Interview them about costs and ask them for referrals to call centers
and credit card processors they’ve collaborated with for file transfers and problem solving. Don’t
assemble an architecture of strangers—there will be programming costs and mistakes, both of which are
expensive.

Set up an account with the credit card processor first, for which you will need your own merchant
account. This is critical, as the fulfillment house can only handle refunds and declined cards for
transactions they process themselves through an outsourced credit card processor.

Optionally, set up an account with one of the call centers your new fulfillment center recommends.
These will often have toll-free numbers you can use instead of purchasing your own. Look at the
percentage split of online to phone orders during testing and consider carefully if the extra revenue from
the latter is worth the hassle. It often isn’t. Those who call to order will generally order online if given no
other option.

Before signing on with a call center, get several 800 numbers they answer for current clients and make
test calls, asking difficult product-related questions and gauging sales abilities. Call each number at least
three times (morning, afternoon, and evening) and note the make-or-break factor: wait time. The phone
should be answered within three to four rings, and if you are put on hold, the shorter the wait the better.
More than 15 seconds will result in too many abandoned calls and waste advertising dollars.

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TEXT-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033078.txt,"From: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com] 
Sent: 3/24/2018 12:26:50 PM 
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Subject: Re: 
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but -accurate 
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-close-is-donald-trump-to-a-psychiatric-breakdown?ref=home 
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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018045.txt,"From: Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com] 
Sent: 9/10/2010 4:01:03 PM 
To: Lesley Groff 
Subject: Re: List of Events from Siegel 
I only wanted what peggy was hositng 
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Lesley Groff < 
> wrote: 
From: Margaux Rogers [mailto 
Sent: Friday, September 10, 2010 11:53 AM 
To: Lesley Groff 
Subject: RE: List for JE only from now till Sept 23111111 
Calendar of Major Events, Openings, and Fundraisers 
Saturday, September 11, 2010 
Kids Fashion Week 
Petite Parade Opening Day. Childrens fashion shows. (Continues through September 13.). Metropolitan Pavilion. New York. Contact: Sale 
Stojanovic. sale@funkshion.com. (305) 673-2756. 
Event address: 125 West 18th St., New York. Event web address:www.kidsfashionweekny.com. 
Tags: Children Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail Fashion Event Fashion Show. 
Couture Fashion Week 
Couture Show. 8:00 am. Couture fashion show, cocktails, and after party. Benefiting the NYC Affiliate of Susan G. Komen For the Cure. Elegant 
chic. Honoring Dara Richardson-Heron. Tickets from $75.00. Waldorf=Astoria. New York. Contact: Andres 
Aquino. newyorkfashionshowsAyahoo.com. (917) 749-8421. 
Waldorf=Astoria: Grand Ballroom. Event address: 301 Park Avenue, New York. Sponsored by Couture Fashion Week. Fax: (212) 202-
4604. Event web address:www.couturefashionweek.com/susankomennyc.htm. 
Tags: After party Cocktail party Fashion Show Fundraiser Arts Patron Collector Exclusive Mix Food and Wine Lover Industry Fashion Social Patron 
Health Cancer Medical Research. 
New York City - Office of the Mayor 
Official Memorial Ceremony and Remebrance 2010. 8:46 am. Zuccotti Park. New York. (212) 442-8953. 
Event address: Liberty Street between Broadway and Church Streets, New York. 
Tags: Reception Children Family Industry Diplomatic Industry Government Relations Industry Media Industry Military Industry 
Political/Government Social Patron Civic. 
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Norman Ambrose 
Fashion Week Presentation. 9:00 am. Spring/summer 2011 collection. Invitation only. The Pierre Hotel. New 
York. info @normanambro se. com. 
Event address: 2 East 61st St., New York. Event web address: normanambrose.com. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Yuna Yang 
Fashion Week Presentation. 9:30 am. Spring/summer 2011 collection. Invitation only. Hudson Hotel. New York. pressAyunayang.com. 
Event address: 356 West 58th St., New York. Event web address: yunayang.com. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 
Lacoste Show. 10:00 am. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Lincoln Center Plaza. New York. 
Event address: West 65th St. and Broadway, New York. Event web address:www.wiseandcomp.com/lacoste. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Showtime Networks 
Third Annual Showtime House Opening Day. 10:00 am. (Continues through October 27.) Featuring rooms inspired by Dexter, Nurse Jackie, 
Weeds, United States of Tara, The Big C, The Borgias, and Californication. Tickets from $15.00. Cassa Hotel and Residences. New 
York. Contact: Johanna Fuentes. johanna.fuentes@showtime.net. (212) 708-1590. 
Event address: 70 West 45th Street, New York. Sponsored by CNET,Lonny Magazine,The New Yorker,Wired Magazine. Event web 
address: www.sho.com/showtimehouse. 
Tags: Designer Showcase Festival Tour Industry Design Industry TV Social Patron. 
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 
Cynthia Rowley Show. 11:00 am. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Lincoln Center Plaza. New York. Contact: Michelle 
Finocchi. finocchi@cynthiarowley.com. (212) 242-0847. 
Event address: West 65th St. and Broadway, New York. Event web address:www.cynthiarowley.com. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
September Concert Foundation 
Various Performances. 11:00 am. Tribute concerts around the city. Various venues. New York. 
Event address: , New York. Event web address: www.septemberconcert.org. 
Tags: Benefit Performance Concert Children Family Industry Music Social Patron Civic. 
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United Bamboo  
Fashion Week Show. 11:00 am. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Hosfelt Gallery. New York. ub@kruppgroup.com. 
Event address: 531 West 36th Street, New York. Event web address: unitedbamboo.com. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Catholic Big Sisters & Big Brothers of New York 
Second Annual Family Polo Day. 12:00 pm. Polo match, lunch, cocktails, designer showcase, silent auction and children's activity field. Tickets 
from $50.00. Haviland Hollow Farm. Patterson. Contact: Anna Bruning. (212) 475-3291. 
Event address: 815 East Branch Road, Patterson. Event web address:www.cbsbb.org/events/fundraising-events/family-polo-event. 
Tags: Equestrian Fundraiser Luncheon Children Family Lifestage Kids Social Patron Child Advocacy. 
Ohne Titel 
Fashion Week Show. 12:00 pm. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Exit Art. New York. Contact: Stephen 
Courter. stephenAohnetitel.com. (646) 243-1887. 
Event address: 475 10th Ave., New York. Event web address: www.ohnetitel.com. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 
Prabal Gurung Show. 1:00 pm. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Lincoln Center Plaza. New York. Contact: Kristen 
Roller. kristen(&,prabalgurung.com. 
Event address: West 65th St. and Broadway, New York. Event web address:www.prabalgurung.com. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Juan Carlos Obando 
Fashion Week Show. 2:00 pm. Spring/summer 2011 collection. Invitation only. Milk Gallery-Studios. New York. Contact: Dominique 
Lafaurie. dominiqueAjcobando.com. 
Event address: 450 West 15th St., New York. Event web address: jcobando.com. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 
Adam Show. 2:00 pm. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Lincoln Center Plaza. New York. Contact: Alex Neff. an@adamlippes.com. 
Event address: West 65th St. and Broadway, New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
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Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 
Yoana Baraschi Presentation. 2:30 pm. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Lincoln Center Plaza. New York. requests@laforce-
stevens.com. 
Event address: West 65th St. and Broadway, New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 
Mik Cire By Eric Kim Presentation. 3:00 pm. Spring 2011 men's collection. Invitation only. Lincoln Center Plaza. New York. Contact: 
Brynne. brynneAmaopr.com. 
Event address: West 65th St. and Broadway, New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Alexander Wang 
Fashion Week Show. 5:00 pm. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Pier 94. New York. request@kcdworldwide.com. 
Event address: 711 12th Avenue @ 55th St., New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Isabella Tonchi 
Fashion Week Presentation. 6:00 pm. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Milk Gallery-Studios. New 
York. itonchi@kaleidescopepr.net. 
Event address: 450 West 15th St., New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 
Charlotte Ronson Show. 6:00 pm. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Lincoln Center Plaza. New York. requestAseventhhousepr.com. 
Event address: West 65th St. and Broadway, New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
French Institute/Alliance Francaise 
Skyroom Project and Sans-titre. 6:30 pm. Dance theater workshop. French Institute Alliance Francaise. New 
York. jkutsher@fiallorg. (646) 388-6677. 
Event address: 22 E 60 St., New York. Event web address: www.crossingtheline.org. 
Tags: Performing Arts Supporter Social Patron Arts Performing Arts. 
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A Detacher Collection 
Fashion Week Show. 7:00 pm. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Pier 59 Studios, Art and Fashion Group. New 
York. info @adetacher. com. 
Event address: Pier 59, at Chelsea Piers, New York. Event web address: adetacher.com. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Cocktails and Couture  
Bi-annual Event. 7:00 pm. Discussions, light fare, shopping and product preview. Invitation only. Ted Gibson Salon & Spa. New York. 
Event address: 184 5th Avenue, New York. Sponsored by HTC,Ralph Lauren,Stila Cosmetics,Suave,Tarte Cosmetics,Unilever,Visine. Noted 
attendees: Ted Gibson,Zoe Saldana,Robert Verdi. Event web address: www.cocktailsandcouture.net. 
Tags: Industry Fashion Industry Media Cocktail party Fashion Event Fashion Show Artist Industry Beauty. 
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 
Z Spoke by Zac Posen Show. 7:00 pm. Spring 2011 collection. Lincoln Center Plaza. New York. info@zacposen.com. 
Event address: West 65th St. and Broadway, New York. Event web address:www.zacposen.com. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Robert Geller  
Fashion Week Show. 7:00 pm. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Exit Art. New York. Egrsvp@laforce-stevens.com. 
Event address: 475 10th Ave., New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Suno NY  
Fashion Week Presentation. 7:00 pm. Spring/summer 2011 collection. Invitation only. Milk Gallery-Studios. New York. sunoAbpcm.com. 
Event address: 450 West 15th St., New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Altuzarra 
Fashion Week Show. 8:00 pm. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Milk Gallery-Studios. New York. coline@altuzarra.com. 
Event address: 450 West 15th St., New York. Event web address: altuzarra.com. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Elle Mnazine 
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Opening Day. 8:00 pm. Featuring Kardashians for Beach Bunny Swimwear and Joonbug. com after-party. Griffin. New York. 
Event address: 50 Gansevoort Street, New York. Event web address:www.elle.com/Runway/Fashion-Week-Style-360-Schedule3. 
Tags: After party Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Manuel de la Cruz 
Fashion Week Presentation. 8:00 pm. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Metropolitan Pavilion. New York. Contact: Press: Daniella 
Asantewaa. mdlc.prAgmail.com. 
Event address: 125 West 18th St., New York. 
Tags: Industry Media Industry Retail Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion. 
September Concert Foundation 
Second Annual Gala. 8:00 pm. Cocktails, and dinner. Olympic Tower Atrium. New York. Contact: 
Jeaninne. rsvp@septemberconcert. org. (212) 333-3399. 
Event address: 645 Fifth Avenue, New York. Event web 
addres s: www. septemberconcert. org/index .php ?option=com_content&view=article&id=105% 3Aour-2nd-annual-gala-even. 
Tags: Gala Industry Music Social Patron Civic. 
Whitney Eve 
Fashion Week Presentation. 8:00 pm. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Industria - Studio 6. New York. Contact: Caitlin 
Kelly. caitline@alisonbrodpr.com. 
Event address: 89 Jane Street, New York. Event web address: whitneyeve.com. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
John Varvatos 
Tenth Anniversary Party. 9:00 pm. Cocktails and entertainment. Invitation only. John Varvatos Boutique. New York. 
Event address: 315 Bowery, New York. 
Tags: Cocktail party Fashion Event Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media. 
Sunday, September 12, 2010 
Susan G. Komen for the Cure 
20th Annual Komen NYC Race for the Cure. 9:00 am. 5k run/walk. Tickets from $30.00. Central Park. New 
York. info@komennyc.org. (212) 560-9590. 
Event address: , New York. Event web address: www.komennyc.org. 
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Tags: Walks Social Patron Sports Supporter Sports-Athlete Health Cancer Fundraiser Run. 
ASD 
2010 New York Expo Opening Day. 9:30 am. Exhibits and shopping. (Continues through September 14.). Jacob K. Javits Convention 
Center. New York. registrationAasdonline.com. (800) 748-5058. 
Event address: 655 West 34th St., New York. Event web address:www.asdonline.com/september. 
Tags: Consumer Shows Industry Conference Industry Retail. 
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 
Derek Lam Fashion Show. 10:00 am. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Lincoln Center Plaza. New 
York. request@kcdworldwide.com. 
Event address: West 65th St. and Broadway, New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 
Timo Weiland Presentation. 10:30 am. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Lincoln Center Plaza. New York. rsvpAmaguiresteele.com. 
Event address: West 65th St. and Broadway, New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Elle Mnazine 
Second Day. 11:00 am. Featuring: Gudnitz Couture; Belle Parish by Ali Landry; WALTER presented by Sebastian; followed by Sebastian 25th 
Anniversary Party at the Griffm. Invitation only. Metropolitan Pavilion. New York. 
Event address: 125 West 18th St., New York. Event web address:www.elle.com/Runway/Fashion-Week-Style-360-Schedu1e3. 
Tags: After party Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 
Lela Rose Fashion Show. 11:00 am. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Lincoln Center Plaza. New York. lelarose@kruppgroup.com. 
Event address: West 65th St. and Broadway, New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Simon Spurr Inc 
Fashion Week Show. 11:00 am. Spring 2011 men's collection. Invitation only. Exit Art. New York. Contact: Chris 
Martinelli. simonspurrAstarworksny.com. 
Event address: 475 10th Ave., New York. 
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Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
VPL by Victoria Bartlett 
Fashion Week Show. 11:00 am. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Pier 59 Studios, Art and Fashion Group. New 
York. vplAcompanyagenda.com. 
Event address: Pier 59, at Chelsea Piers, New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Broadway League  
Broadway on Broadway 2010. 11:30 am. Concert. Times Square-43rd and 7th Avenue. New York. 
Event address: 43rd Street and 7th Avenue, New York. Sponsored by Continental Airlines,Hue Leggings,New York Times. Event web 
address: www.ilovenytheater.com. 
Tags: Benefit Performance Concert Industry Music Industry Theater Performing Arts Supporter Social Patron Arts Performing Arts. 
Preen by Thornton Bregazzi 
Fashion Week Show. 11:30 am. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Milk Gallery-Studios. New York. preenAbpcm.com. 
Event address: 450 West 15th St., New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
DKNY 
Fashion Week Show. 1:00 pm. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Stephan Weiss Studio. New York. guestrequestsAdkintl.com. 
Event address: 711 greenwich st, New York. Event web address: dkny.com. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media. 
Marlon Gobel 
Fashion Week Presentation. 1:30 pm. Spring 2011 men's collection. Invitation only. Four Seasons Restaurant. New 
York. marlongobal(&,gmail.com. 
Event address: 99 East 52nd St., New York. Event web address: www.marlongobel.com. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Elise Overland  
Fashion Week Show. 2:00 pm. Spring/summer 2011 collection. Invitation only. Exit Art. New York. rsvpAmaguiresteele.com. 
Event address: 475 10th Ave., New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
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Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 
Rebecca Taylor Show. 2:00 pm. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Lincoln Center Plaza. New York. requestsAlsagency.com. 
Event address: West 65th St. and Broadway, New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 
Rebecca Ilinkoff Presentation. 2:30 pm. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Lincoln Center Plaza. New York. Contact: Meredith 
Viollis. meredith@rebeccaminkoff.com. 
Event address: West 65th St. and Broadway, New York. Event web address:www.rebeccaminkoff.com. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 
Herve Leger by Max Azria Show. 3:00 pm. Spring 2010 collection. Invitation only. Lincoln Center Plaza. New York. 
Event address: West 65th St. and Broadway, New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Antonio Azzuolo 
Fashion Week Show. 3:30 pm. Spring 2011 men's collection. Invitation only. Jack Studios - Studio 6. New 
York. nicole@bradburylewis.com. 
Event address: 601 West 26th Street, New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Desimier's Collective 
Fashion Week Show. 4:00 pm. Spring/summer 2011 collection. Invitation only. Skylight Studios - West. New 
York. collectiveAs3Opr.com. (212) 252-2529. 
Event address: 500 West 36th St, New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art 
Auction Preview Reception. 4:00 pm. Books of Wonder. New York. (413) 658-1100. 
Event address: 18 West 18th Street, New York. Event web address: www.carlemuseum.org. 
Tags: Reception Artist Arts Patron Collector Industry Publishing Social Patron Arts Museums Arts Visual Arts. 
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Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 
Diane Von Furstenberg Show. 4:00 pm. Spring/summer 2011 collection. Invitation only. Lincoln Center Plaza. New 
York. request@kcdworldwide.com. 
Event address: West 65th St. and Broadway, New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Araks 
Fashion Week Presentation. 5:00 pm. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. 303 Gallery. New York. araksAsirenpr.com. 
Event address: 525 West 22nd St., New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Carmen Marc Valvo 
Fashion Week Show. 5:00 pm. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. NASDAQ Building. New York. prAlcel.com. 
Event address: 4 Times Square, New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Cynthia Steffe  
Fashion Week Show. 5:00 pm. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Eyebeam. New York. sstiles@cynthiasteffe.com. 
Event address: 540 West 21st St., New York. Event web address: cynthiasteffe.com. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 
Trias Show. 5:00 pm. Spring/summer 2011 collection. Invitation only. Lincoln Center Plaza. New York. triasAlindagaunt.com. 
Event address: West 65th St. and Broadway, New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Y-3 
Fashion Week Show. 5:00 pm. Spring 2011 men's and women's collection. Invitation only. Park Avenue Armory. New York. 
3@adidas.com. 
Event address: 643 Park Avenue, New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Staerk 
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Fashion Week Presentation. 6:30 pm. Spring 2010 collection. Invitation only. Milk Gallery-Studios. New 
York. julissa@bradburylewis.com. 
Event address: 450 West 15th St., New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Tom Ford  
Cocktail Party. 6:30 pm. Invitation only. Private Location. 
Event web address: tomfordinternational.com. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion. 
Boudoir D'huitres 
Fashion Week Show. 7:00 pm. Spring/summer 2011 collection. Invitation only. Exit Art. New York. request@acicognani.com. 
Event address: 475 10th Ave., New York. Event web address: boudoir-dhuitres.com. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Food and Wine Lover Industry Fashion Industry Media. 
Erickson Beamon 
Fashion Week Presentation. 7:00 pm. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Milk Gallery-Studios. New 
York. requestAseventhhousepr.com. 
Event address: 450 West 15th St., New York. Event web address:www.ericksonbeamon.com. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Erin Fetherston 
Fashion Week Show. 7:00 pm. Spring/summer 2011 collection. Invitation only. Milk Gallery-Studios. New 
York. erinfetherston@bpcm.com. 
Event address: 450 West 15th St., New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 
Custo Barcelona Show. 7:00 pm. Spring 2011 men's and women's collections. Invitation only. Lincoln Center Plaza. New York. Contact: 
Press: Minerva Arboleya. miniAasi-mkt.com. 
Event address: West 65th St. and Broadway, New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 
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Tommy Hilfiger Show. 8:00 pm. Spring/summmer 2011 collection. Invitation only. Lincoln Center Plaza. New 
York. request@kcdworldwide.com. 
Event address: West 65th St. and Broadway, New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Pamela Love 
Fashion Week Preview. 8:00 pm. Spring/summer 2011 collection. Invitation only. Milk Gallery-Studios. New 
York. grace.healy(&,peoplesrevolution.com. 
Event address: 450 West 15th St., New York. Event web address: www.pamelalovenyc.com. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Design Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Peter Jensen 
Fashion Week Presentation. 8:00 pm. Spring/summer 2011 collection. Invitation only. Milk Gallery-Studios. New 
York. peterjensonAkruppgroup.com. 
Event address: 450 West 15th St., New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Green Shows 
Fashion Week: Opening Night Party. 9:00 pm. Cocktails and green fashion. Metropolitan Pavilion. New York. ryan@statepr.com. (646) 714-
2520. 
Event address: 125 West 18th St., New York. Event web address:www.thegreenshows.com. 
Tags: Cocktail party Designer Showcase Fashion Event Fashion Show Opening Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Design Industry Fashion 
Industry Media Industry Retail Environmental. 
Monday, September 13, 2010 
Broadcasters Foundation of America 
Celebrity Golf Fundraiser. Siwanoy Country Club. Bronxville. info@thebfoa.org. (212) 373-8250. 
Event address: Pondfield Road, Bronxville. Event web address:www.broadcastersfoundation.org. 
Tags: Fundraiser Golf Industry Media Association. 
AI-IRC - Association for the Help of Retarded Children 
Margiotta Memorial Golf Outing. 8:00 am. Tickets from $400.00. Lake Success Golf Club. Lake Success. Contact: Marcia 
Pulewitz. (516) 626-1075. 
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Event address: 318 Lakeville Road, Lake Success. Event web address:www.ahrc.org/events.O.html. 
Tags: Fundraiser Golf Social Patron. 
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 
William Tempest Presentation. 8:30 am. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Lincoln Center Plaza. New York. (212) 242-9353. 
Event address: West 65th St. and Broadway, New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 
Jenny Packham Show. 9:00 am. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Lincoln Center Plaza. New York. prAjennypackham.com. 
Event address: West 65th St. and Broadway, New York. Event web address:www.jennypackham.com. 
Tags: Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty. 
HELP USA 
12th Annual Golf Tournament & Auction. 10:00 am. Brunch, competition, cocktails, and dinner. Chaired by Kenneth Cole. Co-chaired by Neil 
Cole,David Simon. Tickets from $3,000.00. The Golf Club of Purchase. Purchase. Contact: Elizabeth 
Litsch. elitsch@innovativephilanthropy.net. (212) 867-1117. 
Event address: 10 Country Club Drive, Purchase. Sponsored by Kenneth Cole Productions Inc.,Risk Strategies Company. Fax: (212) 867-3720. 
Tags: Cocktail party Dinner Fundraiser Golf Social Patron. 
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 
Carolina Herrera Show. 10:00 am. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Lincoln Center Plaza. New York. 
Event address: West 65th St. and Broadway, New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Richard Chai 
Fashion Week Show. 10:00 am. Spring 2011 men's collection. Invitation only. Milk Gallery-Studios. New 
York. request@kcdworldwide.com. 
Event address: 450 West 15th St., New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Elle Mnazine 
Third Day. 11:00 am. Featuring: Malan Breton presented by Rado; Rajvi Mohan presented by New Era; and Indashio. Metropolitan 
Pavilion. New York. 
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Event address: 125 West 18th St., New York. Event web address:www.elle.com/Runway/Fashion-Week-Style-360-Schedu1e3. 
Tags: Industry Media Industry Retail Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion. 
Essence Magazine 
""Fierce & Fabulous Awards"" Luncheon. 11:00 am. Program. Honoring Beverly Bond,Esi Eggleston Bracey,Roslyn M. Brock,Dr. Wafaa El-
Sadr,Valerie Jarrett,Sheryl Lee Ralph, Susan Rice, Faith Ringgold, Anika Noni Rose,Cicely Tyson,Kerry Washington,Wendy Williams. Mandarin 
Oriental New York. New York. Contact: Dana Baxter. dbaxterAessence.com. 
Event address: 80 Columbus Circle, New York. Sponsored by Buick,Clinique. Noted attendees: Gayle King, Gabrielle Union. Event web 
address: essence.com. 
Tags: Awards/Awards Shows Luncheon Social Patron Women. 
Graeme Armour 
Fashion Week Presentation. 11:00 am. Spring/summer 2011 collection. Invitation only. Milk Gallery-Studios. New 
York. graemearmour@exposure.net. 
Event address: 450 West 15th St., New York. Event web address: www.graemearmour.com. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Lulu Frost 
1 Fashion Week Presentation. 11:00 am. Spring 2011 jewelry collection. Invitation only. Milk Gallery-Studios. New 
York. SandraAlulufrost.com. 
Event address: 450 West 15th St., New York. Event web address: lulufrost.com. 
Tags: Designer Showcase Fashion Event Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Design Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Malan Breton Collection  
Fashion Week Show. 11:00 am. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Metropolitan Pavilion. New York. Springll@malanbreton.com. 
Event address: 125 West 18th St., New York. Event web address: malanbreton.com. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 
Carlos Miele Show. 11:00 am. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Lincoln Center Plaza. New York. Contact: Emilia 
Cima. emilia@carlosmiele.com. 
Event address: West 65th St. and Broadway, New York. Event web address:www.carlosmiele.com. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Zero + Maria Cornejo 
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Fashion Week Show. 11:00 am. Spring/summer 2011 collection. Invitation only. Hosfelt Gallery. New 
York. zeromariacomejo(&,prconsulting.net. 
Event address: 531 West 36th Street, New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Reem Acra  
Fashion Week Presentation. 11:30 am. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Reem Acra. New York. rsvp@reemacra.com. 
Event address: 730 Fifth Avenue, New York. Event web address: reemacra.com. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Diesel - Black Gold  
Fashion Week Show. 12:00 pm. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Pier 92. New York. 
Event address: 51st Street at 12th Avenue, New York. Event web address: diesel.com. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Marisol Henriquez 
Fashion Week Show. 1:00 pm. Spring/summer 2011 collection. Invitation only. Skylight Studios - West. New 
York. marisolhenriquezAs3Opr.com. 
Event address: 500 West 36th St, New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 
Tracy Reese Show. 1:00 pm. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Lincoln Center Plaza. New York. requests@lsagency.com. 
Event address: West 65th St. and Broadway, New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Donna Karan Collection 
Fashion Week Show. 2:00 pm. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Donna Karen's Studio. New York. slaneAdkintl.com. 
Event address: 711 Greenwich Street, New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Jenni Kayne 
Fashion Week Presentation. 3:00 pm. Spring/summer 2011 collection. Invitation only. Industria Superstudio. New 
York. brendanAbradburylewis.com. 
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Event address: 775 Washington St., New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 
Monique Lhuiller Show. 3:00 pm. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Lincoln Center Plaza. New York. Contact: Melissa 
Duren. melissa@starworksny.com. 
Event address: West 65th St. and Broadway, New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Linda Rowe Thomas  
Fashion Week Show. 4:00 pm. Spring/summer 2011 collection. Invitation only. Skylight Studios - West. New York. romasAs3Opr.com. 
Event address: 500 West 36th St, New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Chris Benz 
Fashion Week Presentation. 4:30 pm. Spring/summer 2011 collection. Invitation only. David Rubenstein Atrium. New 
York. chrisbenz@kruppgroup.com. 
Event address: 61 West 62nd Street, New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 
Alexandre Herchcovitch Show. 5:00 pm. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Lincoln Center Plaza. New York. ahshowAbpcm.com. 
Event address: West 65th St. and Broadway, New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Temperley London 
Fashion Week Presentation. 5:00 pm. Spring/summer 2011 collection. Invitation only. Milk Gallery-Studios. New 
York. scarlett@starworksgroup.com. 
Event address: 450 West 15th St., New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Asia Society 
Benefit Dinner. 6:00 pm. Cocktail reception, exhibition viewing of ""Yoshitomo Nara: Nobody's Fool"" and dinner. Asia Society and 
Museum. New York. Contact: Wenxiao Guo. wguoAasiasociety.org. (212) 327-9247. 
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Event address: 725 Park Avenue, New York. 
Tags: Dinner Fundraiser Arts Patron Collector Ethnic Asian American Social Patron Arts Libraries. 
Chado Ralph Rucci  
Fashion Week Show. 6:00 pm. Spring 2010 collection. Invitation only. 536 Broadway. New York. rsvp@chadoralphrucci.net. 
Event address: 536 Broadway, New York. Event web address: chadoralphruccknet. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Harper's Bazaar 
Accessories Bazaar Cocktail Party. 6:00 pm. Invitation only. Lincoln Center-Avery Fisher Hall. New York. bazaarrsvpAhearst.com. 
Event address: 10 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York. Sponsored by Willow Club. 
Tags: Awards/Awards Shows Cocktail party Fashion Event Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Publishing 
Industry Retail. 
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 
Betsey Johnson Show. 6:00 pm. Spring/summer 2011 collection. Invitation only. Lincoln Center Plaza. New York. Contact: Katelyn 
Brehony. katelyn@betseyjohnson.com. (212) 244-3400. 
Event address: West 65th St. and Broadway, New York. Event web address:www.betseyjohnson.com. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Food Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Michael Bastian 
Fashion Week Show. 6:00 pm. Spring/summer 2011 men's collection. Invitation only. Exit Art. New 
York. eugeniaAmichaelbastiannyc.com. 
Event address: 475 10th Ave., New York. Event web address: michaelbastiannyc.com. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Vogue Magazine  
Cocktail Party. 6:00 pm. Book preview of ""Ruben Toledo's Fashion Almanac"". Invitation only. Private Location. 
Noted attendees: Ruben Toledo. 
Tags: Cocktail party Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Publishing. 
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 
Perry Ellis Show. 7:00 pm. Spring 2011 men's collection. Invitation only. Lincoln Center Plaza. New York. persvpAlsagency.com. 
Event address: West 65th St. and Broadway, New York. 
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Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Marc Jacobs  
Fashion Week Show. 8:00 pm. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. 69th Regiment Armory. New York. request@kcdworldwide.com. 
Event address: 68 Lexington Ave., New York. Event web address: marcjacobs.com. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Tuesday, September 14, 2010 
Adweek Magazine 
Marketer of the Year Event. Cocktails, dinner and program. Museum of Arts & Design. New York. 
Event address: 40 West 53rd St., New York. Event web address:www.adweekmedia.com/aw/events/index.html. 
Tags: Awards/Awards Shows Cocktail party Dinner Industry Marketing Industry Media. 
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 
Elie Tahari Show. 9:00 am. Spring 2011 men's and women's collections. Invitation only. Lincoln Center Plaza. New York. Contact: Carrie 
Drazan. carriedAelietahari.com. 
Event address: West 65th St. and Broadway, New York. Event web address: elietahari.com. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Karen Walker  
Fashion Week Show. 10:00 am. Spring/summer 2011 collection. Invitation only. Exit Art. New York. nicole@bradburylewis.com. 
Event address: 475 10th Ave., New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 
Badgley Mischka Show. 10:00 am. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Lincoln Center Plaza. New York. Contact: Tara Levy. (212) 730-
0030. 
Event address: West 65th St. and Broadway, New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Elle Magazine 
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Closing Day. 10:30 am. Featuring: Bobi / Boy Meets Girl / Caravan presented by Starbucks Frappuccino; SACHIKA presented by Alisa Maria; 
bebe and bebe after party at Griffm. Invitation only. Metropolitan Pavilion. New York. 
Event address: 125 West 18th St., New York. Event web address:www.elle.com/Runway/Fashion-Week-Style-360-Schedu1e3. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 
Vera Wang Show. 11:00 am. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Lincoln Center Plaza. New York. verawand(&,prconsulting.net. 
Event address: West 65th St. and Broadway, New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Hudson Union Society  
Discussion Event. 1:00 pm. Speaker(s): Bill OReilly. Private Location. 
Event web address: www.runmyclub.com/hudson/eventcalendar.asp?id=206108. 
Tags: Discussion Industry Government Relations Industry Media Social Patron. 
Matthew Ames 
Fashion Week Show. 1:00 pm. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Milk Gallery-Studios. New York. infoAfashionhaus.com. 
Event address: 450 West 15th St., New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 
Rosa Cha Show. 1:00 pm. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Lincoln Center Plaza. New York. Contact: TJ 
Allers. tallers(&,greatpress.com. 
Event address: West 65th St. and Broadway, New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Film Supporter Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 
Bibhu Ilohapatra. 1:30 pm. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Lincoln Center Plaza. New York. 
Event address: West 65th St. and Broadway, New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Mulberry 
Fashion Week Presentation. 1:30 pm. Spring/summer 2010 rtw collection. Invitation only. Soho House New York. New 
York. requestAkcdworldwide.com. 
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Event address: 29-35 Ninth Ave., New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 
Max Azria Show. 2:00 pm. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Lincoln Center Plaza. New York. Contact: Patrick McGregor. 
Event address: West 65th St. and Broadway, New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 
Dennis Basso Show. 3:00 pm. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Lincoln Center Plaza. New York. dennisbassoAbpcm.com. 
Event address: West 65th St. and Broadway, New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
TSE 
Fashion Week Presentation: Jason Wu for Tse. 3:00 pm. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Industria Superstudio. New 
York. request@tse-us.com. 
Event address: 775 Washington St., New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Marc by Marc Jacobs  
Fashion Week Show. 4:00 pm. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. 69th Regiment Armory. New York. 
Event address: 68 Lexington Ave., New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Pamella Roland  
Fashion Week Presentation. 5:30 pm. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Whitney Museum of American Art. New York. 
Event address: 945 Madison Ave., New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Hunter College 
Wedding Contracts 101. 6:00 pm. Discussions and workshops. Tickets from $50.00. Hunter College. New York. Contact: Tye 
Robertson. events@efyp.com. (917) 597-7343. 
Event address: 71 East 94th Street, New York. Fax: (516) 616-5053. Event web address:www.hunter.cuny.edu/ce. 
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Tags: Discussion Lecture Networking Weddings Industry Marketing Industry Meetings and Events. 
Jones Magazine 
Inaugural Jones Awards. 6:00 pm. Program. Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. New York. Contact: Media: Marie 
Dasaro. mdasaroAthinkpublicrelations.com. (212) 343-3920. 
Event address: 405 West 55th St., New York. Sponsored by My Black is Beautiful. Event web address: jonesmag.com. 
Tags: Awards/Awards Shows Industry Media Industry Publishing Social Patron. 
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 
Luca Luca Show. 6:00 pm. Spring/summer 2011 collection. Invitation only. Lincoln Center Plaza. New York. rsvp@lucaluca.com. 
Event address: West 65th St. and Broadway, New York. Event web address: lucaluca.com. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Yigal Azrouel 
Fashion Week Show. 6:00 pm. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Exit Art. New York. yigalazrouel@lindagaunt.com. 
Event address: 475 10th Ave., New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
American Friends of the Hebrew University - President's Council 
Maimonides Award Dinner. 6:30 pm. Cocktails and program. Honoring George Barrett. Location to be determined. iglodsteinAathu.org. 
Event address: More information to come shortly,. Event web address:www.athu.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=l&id=76. 
Tags: Awards/Awards Shows Dinner Fundraiser Industry Diplomatic Religious Jewish Social Patron Faith Jewish. 
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art 
Lecture. 6:30 pm. ""Promise Me"", book signing and q&a. Speaker(s): Honorable Nancy Goodman Brinker. Cooper Union's Great Hall. New 
York. (212) 353-4195. 
Event address: 7 East 7th St., New York. Event web address: www.cooper.edu. 
Tags: Book Launch Party Lecture Reception Industry Media Social Patron Health Cancer. 
Maimonides Medical Center 
Annual Award Dinner. 6:30 pm. Cocktails and program. Honoring George Barrett. Chaired by Marc N. Casper, Phillip Frost, MD,Harvey M. 
Krueger,Lee Perlman, Marvin Samson, Abigail Wexner, Leslie Wexner, Shlomo Yanai. Tickets from $500.00. Tables from $10,000.00. The 
Pierre Hotel. New York. nsmookAathu.org. (212) 607-8517. 
Event address: 2 East 61st St., New York. Event web address:www.athu.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=l&id=76. 
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Tags: Awards/Awards Shows Dinner Fundraiser Religious Jewish Social Patron Association Civil/Human Rights Education University Faith Jewish 
Health Clinics/Health Care. 
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 
Sophie Theallet Presentation. 6:30 pm. Spring/summer 2011 collection. Invitation only. Lincoln Center Plaza. New 
York. sophietheallet@cmmediapr.com. 
Event address: West 65th St. and Broadway, New York. 
Tags: Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail Fashion Event Fashion Show. 
G-Star  
Fashion Week Show. 7:00 pm. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Pier 94. New York. g-star@hlgrp.com. 
Event address: 711 12th Avenue @ 55th St., New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 
TIBI Show. 7:00 pm. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Lincoln Center Plaza. New York. Contact: Press: Liz 
Walker. liz.walkerAtibi.com. 
Event address: West 65th St. and Broadway, New York. Event web address: tibi.com. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 
Narciso Rodriguez Show. 8:00 pm. Spring/summer 2011 collection. Invitation only. Lincoln Center Plaza. New 
York. narcisorodriguezprconsulting.net. 
Event address: West 65th St. and Broadway, New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 
Toni Francesc Show. 8:00 pm. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Lincoln Center Plaza. New York. requestsApeoplesrevolution.com. 
Event address: West 65th St. and Broadway, New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Style.com  
Tenth Anniversary Party. 9:00 pm. Invitation only. Private Location. info styleAstyle.com. 
Event web address: style.com. 
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Tags: Cocktail party Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Publishing. 
Rachel Roy 
Fashion Week Presentation. 9:30 pm. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. New 
York. rachelroyAhlgrp.com. 
Event address: 10 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Wednesday, September 15, 2010 
MM Online 
Integrated Marketing Awards. Program. Grand Hyatt New York. New York. Contact: Saun 
Sayamongkhun. saunAaccessintel.com. (301) 354-1610. 
Event address: Park Ave. at Grand Central Terminal, New York. Event web address:www.minonline.com/awards/ima2010.html. 
Tags: Awards/Awards Shows Industry Media Industry Publishing. 
Business Development Institute 
Mobile Social Communications Conference. 8:00 am. Discussions and networking. Speaker(s): BJ Emerson, Kevin Lee, Nihal Mehta, Rick 
Wion. The Graduate Center, City University of New York. New York. Contact: Maria Feola. mfeola@bdionline.com. (800) 830-6687. 
Event address: 365 Fifth Ave., New York. Sponsored by KIT Digital,PR Newswire,Tasti D-Lite,Yelp. Event web 
address: guest.cvent.com/EVENTS/Info/Summary.aspx?e=d2a52a68-23a0-4e2e-9028-ed9b039 04ce2. 
Tags: Discussion Industry Conference Networking Panel Industry Internet Industry Marketing. 
The Economist 
""Ideas Economy: Human Potential"" Conference Opening Day. 8:00 am. Discussions, workshops and networking. (Continues through September 
16.). Speaker(s): David Brooks, Jordi Canals,Chancellor Joel I. Klein, Jeff Lehman, Paul Romer,John Sexton,Dr. Shirley M. Tilghman, Vijay 
Vaitheeswaran, Adrian Wooldridge. Tickets from $1,595.00. Chelsea Piers. New York. humanpotentialeventAeconomist.com. 
Chelsea Piers: Pier Sixty. Event address: 23rd St. at the Hudson River, New York. Sponsored by Innocentive,Society for Human Resource 
Management. Event web address:ideas.economist.com/content/programme. 
Tags: Discussion Industry Conference Networking Panel Industry Financial Industry Marketing Industry Media Industry Meetings and Events 
Industry Publishing. 
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 
Bill Blass Presentation. 8:30 am. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Lincoln Center Plaza. New York. 
Event address: West 65th St. and Broadway, New York. 
HOUSE OVERSIGHT 018067 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 
Tory Burch Presentation. 9:00 am. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Lincoln Center Plaza. New York. vring2011@toryburch.com. 
Event address: West 65th St. and Broadway, New York. Event web address:www.toryburch.com. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 
Michael Kors Show. 10:00 am. Spring 2011 men's and women's collections. Invitation only. Lincoln Center Plaza. New York. 
Event address: West 65th St. and Broadway, New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 
Nanette Lepore Show. 11:00 am. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Lincoln Center Plaza. New York. nanettelepore@lindagaunt.com. 
Event address: West 65th St. and Broadway, New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center 
Tenth Annual Celebrity Golf & Tennis Classic. 11:30 am. Tournament, cocktails and dinner. Tickets from $400.00. North Hempstead Country 
Club. Great Neck. Contact: Joyce Leiz. KJMCFdnAkingsbrook.org. (718) 604-5479. 
Event address: 75 N Station Plaza, Great Neck. Event web address: www.kingsbrook.org. 
Tags: Cocktail party Dinner Fundraiser Golf Tennis Health Clinic Health Hospitals. 
Douglas Hannant  
Fashion Week Show. 12:00 pm. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. The Plaza Hotel. New York. runwayshow@douglashannant.com. 
Event address: 770 Fifth Ave, New York. Event web address: douglashannant.com. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Jeremy Scott 
Fashion Week Show. 1:00 pm. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Milk Gallery-Studios. New York. requestsApeoplesrevolution.com. 
Event address: 450 West 15th St., New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
HOUSE OVERSIGHT 018068 
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 
General Idea Show. 1:00 pm. Spring 2011 men's collection. Invitation only. Lincoln Center Plaza. New York. jess@williamsonpr.com. 
Event address: West 65th St. and Broadway, New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 
Vittadini Presentation. 1:00 pm. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Lincoln Center Plaza. New York. vittadiniAcompanyagenda.com. 
Event address: West 65th St. and Broadway, New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
3.1 Phillip Lim 
Fashion Week Show. 2:00 pm. Spring 2011 women's collection. Invitation only. Park Avenue Armory. New 
York. requestAkcdworldwide.com. 
Event address: 643 Park Avenue, New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 
Gottex Show. 2:00 pm. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Lincoln Center Plaza. New York. gottex@atelierpr.com. 
Event address: West 65th St. and Broadway, New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Yi2a1 Azrouel 
Fashion Week Show. 2:00 pm. Spring 2011 men's collection. Invitation only. Pier 59 Studios, Art and Fashion Group. New York. 
Event address: Pier 59, at Chelsea Piers, New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 
Milly by Michelle Smith Show. 3:00 pm. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Lincoln Center Plaza. New York. requests@laforce-
stevens.com. 
Event address: West 65th St. and Broadway, New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Marches a 
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Fashion Week Presentation. 3:30 pm. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Chelsea Art Museum. New York. 
Event address: 556 West 22nd St., New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Eva Milme  
Fashion Week Show. 4:00 pm. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Exit Art. New York. requestsApeoplesrevolution.com. 
Event address: 475 10th Ave., New York. Event web address: www.evaminge.com. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Loris Diran Couture  
Fashion Week Presentation. 5:00 pm. Spring/summer 2011 collection. Invitation only. Audi Forum. New York. pr@lorisdiran.com. 
Event address: 250 Park Ave., New York. Event web address: lorisdiran.com. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 
Odd Molly Show. 5:00 pm. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Lincoln Center Plaza. New York. requestAseventhhousepr.com. 
Event address: West 65th St. and Broadway, New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Cosmetic Executive Women 
Newsmaker Forum. 5:30 pm. Cocktails and discussion. Tickets from $175.00. Harmonie Club. New York. Contact: Tara 
Russo. trusso@cew.org. (646) 929-8026. 
Event address: 4 East 60th St., New York. Event web 
address:www.cew.org/eweb/DynamicPage.aspx?webcode=EventInfo&Reg_evt_key=AD2B92A4 -1 18C-4A7A-94A7 -7241FOBFF 81F F. 
Tags: Discussion Networking Industry Beauty Industry Marketing. 
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 
Anna Sui Show. 6:00 pm. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Lincoln Center Plaza. New York. requestAkcdworldwide.com. 
Event address: West 65th St. and Broadway, New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
United Cerebral Palsy Association of Nassau County 
Annual Taste & Toast the Town. 6:00 pm. Tastings. Chaired by Joe Mandaro,Kathy Wilson. Tickets from $100.00. Chateau Briand. Carle 
Place. Contact: Michelle Gevirtz. mgevirtzAucpn.org. (516) 377-2063. 
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Event address: 440 Old Country Road, Carle Place. Event web address:www.ucpn.org/index.php/site/events_detail/2010_taste_toast_the_town/. 
Tags: Fundraiser Tasting Industry Medical Profession Social Patron Health Neurological. 
Village Alliance 
A Taste of the Village 2010. 6:00 pm. Wine and culinary tastings. Tickets from $40.00. Washington Square Park. New 
York. bid@villagealliance.org. (212) 777-2173. 
Event address: , New York. Event web address: www.villagealliance.org. 
Tags: Festival Tasting Wine Tasting Family Food and Wine Lover Industry Food Industry Restaurant Social Patron Association Economic 
Development. 
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 
Mackage Presentation. 6:30 pm. Spring 2011 women's rtw and men's and women's outerwear. Invitation only. Lincoln Center Plaza. New 
York. prAmackage.com. 
Event address: West 65th St. and Broadway, New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
United Cerebral Palsy of New York City 
Volunteer Appreciation Event ""Celebrating 65 Years of Volunteerism"". 6:30 pm. Cocktails and awards program. Speaker(s): Donna Hanover, 
Timothy Mandala. Prince George Ballroom. New York. Contact: James Grant. James@michaelrussellgroup.com. (917) 626-1300. 
Event address: 15 East 27th St., New York. Noted attendees: John Lombardo, Edward R. Matthews. 
Tags: Awards/Awards Shows Reception Social Patron Civic Health Misc. 
Althea Harper 
Fashion Week Presentation. 7:00 pm. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Red Bull Space. New York. pressAaltheaharper.com. 
Event address: 40-42 Thompson St, New York. Event web address: altheaharper.com. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Stanley Adams Couture 
Fashion Week Show. 7:30 pm. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Jimmy Crystal. New York. pr(&jimmycrystal.com. 
Event address: 260 West 35th Street, New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Adrienne Zernich 
Fashion Week Show. 8:30 pm. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. National Arts Club. New York. aazinnycAaol.com. 
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Event address: 15 Gramercy Park South, New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Imitation  
Fashion Week Show. 9:00 pm. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Milk Gallery-Studios. New York. request@seventhhousepr.com. 
Event address: 450 West 15th St., New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 
Zang Toi Show. 9:00 pm. Spring 2010 collection. Invitation only. Lincoln Center Plaza. New York. zangtoiAhouseoftoi.com. 
Event address: West 65th St. and Broadway, New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Thursday, September 16, 2010 
POSSIBLE THREATS: 84th Annual San Gennaro Fest: Mulberry St 
New York Botanical Garden  
Lillian and Amy Goldman Stone Mill Grand Opening. New York Botanical Garden. Bronx. (718) 817-8700. 
Event address: Bronx River Parkway at Fordham Road, Bronx. Event web address:www.nybg.org. 
Tags: Opening Social Patron Environmental. 
Latin Vision Media  
Marketing to Latinos: Travel & Hospitality. 8:00 am. Conference and business networking. TBD. info@latinvision.com. 
Event address: T BD,. Event web address: www.latinvision.com/conference/travel. 
Tags: Discussion Industry Conference Networking. 
Feast of San Gennaro 
84th Annual Festival. 9:00 am. Light fare, concerts, ceremonies and parade. (Continues through September 26.). Mulberry Street between Canal 
and Houston. New York. (212) 768-9320. 
Event address: 125 Mulberry St., New York. Event web address: sangennaro.org. 
Tags: Concert Festival Children Ethnic Italian American Family Lifestage Kids Faith Catholic. 
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Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 
JNIendel Show. 9:00 am. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Lincoln Center Plaza. New York. jmendel@lindagaunt.com. 
Event address: West 65th St. and Broadway, New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Ralph Lauren 
Fashion Week Show. 10:00 am. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Skylight Studios. New York. Contact: Melanie 
Fisher. fashionshow(&,poloralphlauren.com. (212) 857-2584. 
Event address: 275 Hudson St., New York. Event web address: www.poloralphlauren.com. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Helen Yarmak 
Fashion Week Presentation. 10:30 am. Spring 2011 collections. Invitation only. Helen Yarmak Penthouse Showroom. New York. Contact: 
Sandy Blye. sandyblyeAhelenyarmak.com. 
Event address: 730 Fifth Avenue, New York. Event web address: helenyarmak.com. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Jeremy Laing 
Fashion Week Show. 11:00 am. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Milk Gallery-Studios. New York. rsvp(&jeremylaing.com. 
Event address: 450 West 15th St., New York. Event web address: www.jeremylaing.com. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 
Andy & Debb Presentation. 11:30 am. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Lincoln Center Plaza. New 
York. requestAseventhhousepr.com. 
Event address: West 65th St. and Broadway, New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 
Isaac Illizrahi Show. 12:00 pm. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Lincoln Center Plaza. New York. Contact: Meghan 
Horstmann. meghan@isaacmizrahiny.com. 
Event address: West 65th St. and Broadway, New York. Event web address:www.isaacmizrahiny.com. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
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Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 
Davidelfin Show. 1:00 pm. Spring 2011 men's and women's collection. Invitation only. Lincoln Center Plaza. New 
York. requests (&,peoplesrevolution. com. 
Event address: West 65th St. and Broadway, New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Alma Sanchez 
Fashion Week Presentation. 2:00 pm. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. 148 West 37th Street. New York. rsvpAangelsanchez.com. 
Event address: 148 West 37th Street, New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 
Consulate General & Promotion CTR. of Argentina in NY 2:00 pm. Spring 2011 collections. Invitation only. Lincoln Center Plaza. New 
York. pressAacicgnani.com. 
Event address: West 65th St. and Broadway, New York. 
Tags: Designer Showcase Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Diplomatic Industry Fashion Industry Government 
Relations Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Stephen Burrows 
Fashion Week Presentation. 2:00 pm. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. 209 West 38th Street. New 
York. kendraAcitygirlconcepts.com. 
Event address: 209 West 38th Street, New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Joanna Mastroianni 
Fashion Week Presentation. 2:30 pm. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. 230 West 38th Street. New York. joannMST@aol.com. 
Event address: 230 West 38th Street, New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Calvin Klein  
Fashion Week Show. 3:00 pm. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Calvin Klein. New York. womensrunwayshow@ck.com. 
Event address: 205 West 39th Street, New York. Event web address: www.ck.com. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
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Elene Cassis 
Fashion Week Show. 5:00 pm. Spring 2011 collection, followed by after-party. Invitation only. Exit Art. New 
York. elenecassis@lapresspr.com. 
Event address: 475 10th Ave., New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Oscar de la Renta  
Fashion Week Show. 5:00 pm. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. 583 Park Avenue. New York. 
Event address: 583 Park Ave., New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
New York Times 
T _Magazine Cocktail Reception. 6:00 pm. Invitation only. Location to be determined. Contact: Leslie Johnson. leslieAkarlaotto.com. 
Event address: More information to come shortly,. 
Tags: Cocktail party Industry Media Industry Publishing. 
New York Times 
Cocktail Reception. 6:30 pm. Invitation only. Location to be determined. 
Event address: More information to come shortly,. 
Tags: Cocktail party Fashion Event Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Publishing. 
New-York Historical Society  
Nueva York VIP Opening. Invitation only. El Museo del Barrio. New York. bbotwinickAnyhistory.org. (212) 873-3400. 
Event address: 1230 Fifth Ave., New York. Event web address: www.nyhistory.org. 
Tags: Opening Reception Artist Arts Patron Collector Social Patron Arts Museums. 
Nexus Showroom 
Press & Buyers Cocktail Reception. 6:30 pm. Invitation only. Nexus Showroom. New York. Contact: Sasha 
Wolfe. info @nexusshowroom. com. 
Event address: 39 West 56th Street, New York. Event web address: nexusshowroom.com. 
Tags: Cocktail party Industry Beauty Industry Design Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 
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Naeem Khan Show. 7:00 pm. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Lincoln Center Plaza. New York. 
Event address: West 65th St. and Broadway, New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Dom Perignon  
Celebration. 8:00 pm. Invitation only. Private Location. ursulaAnadinejohnson.com. 
Tags: Fashion Event Reception Exclusive Mix. 
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 
L.A.111.B. Show. 8:00 pm. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Lincoln Center Plaza. New York. 
Event address: West 65th St. and Broadway, New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Calvin Klein  
Post-Show Dinner. 9:00 pm. Invitation only. Private Location. 
Tags: After party Dinner Fashion Event Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 
Ivana Helsinki. 9:00 pm. Spring 2011 collection. Invitation only. Lincoln Center Plaza. New York. Contact: Keni 
Ingvarsson. ivanahelsinki@thekingcollective.com. 
Event address: West 65th St. and Broadway, New York. 
Tags: Fashion Event Fashion Show Exclusive Mix Industry Beauty Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Retail. 
Saturday, September 18, 2010 
Women's Health Magazine 
Are You Game? Festival. 10:00 am. Featuring workout classes, virtual kayaking, cooking demonstrations, a makeover cabana, mechanical bull, 
one-on-one golf instruction, and reception. Hudson River Park at Pier 46. Contact: Shay Pantano. Shay.Pantano@Coburnww.com. (212) 730-
7277. 
Event address: 46 Charles Street,. 
Tags: Festival Reception Social Patron Sports Supporter Sports-Athlete Health Misc. Social Services Food Banks. 
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Opportunities for a Better Tomorrow 
Second Annual ""Battle of the Badges"" Charity Softball Game. 11:00 am. Tournament, family activities, K-9 demonstrations, health screenings, and 
performances. Tickets from $10.00. MCU Park - Coney Island. Contact: Deborah Roman. info@obtjobs.org. (718) 869-6772. 
Event address: 1904,. Fax: (718) 369-1518. Event web address:www.obtjobs.org/index.php/101. 
Tags: Competition Fundraiser Reception Children Family Social Patron Civic. 
Sunday, September 19, 2010 
Actors Fund 
Special Performance. 8:00 pm. ""Promises, Promises"". Tickets from $61.50. Broadway Theatre. New York. Contact: Stephen 
Joseph. sjoseph@actorsfund.org. (212) 221-7300. 
Event address: 1681 Broadway, New York. Event web address: wwww.actorsfund.org. 
Tags: Benefit Performance Fundraiser Social Patron Arts Performing Arts Arts Visual Arts Civil/Human Rights Family/Social Services Gay Rights 
Health Aging Health AIDS Health Clinic Health Misc. Social Services Counseling. 
Monday, September 20, 2010 
POSSIBLE THREATS: UN Summit: Midtown 
New York Public Library 
President's Council Dinner. Cocktails and program. Invitation only. New York Public Library. New York. klainoAnypLorg. (212) 930-
0553. 
Event address: Fifth Ave. & 42nd St., New York. Event web address: www.nypl.org. 
Tags: Dinner Lecture Arts Patron Social Patron Arts Libraries. 
United Nations 
Millenium Development Goals Summit Opening Day. Discussions. (Continues through September 22.). Speaker(s): Sec. Gen. Ban Ki-
Moon. United Nations. New York. 
Event address: First Avenue at 46th Street, New York. Event web address:www.un.org/en/mdg/summit2010/. 
Tags: Discussion Lecture Industry Diplomatic Industry Political/Government Child Advocacy Civic Civil/Human Rights Health Misc. 
SHARE - Self Help for Women with Breast or Ovarian Cancer 
Seventh Annual ""A Second Helping of Life'. 7:00 am. Cocktails, dinner, silent and live auction. Honoring Joanne Minieri,Muriel Siebert. Tickets 
from $300.00. Tables from $5,000.00. Pier 60. Contact: Beth Kling. bklingAsharecancersupportorg. (212) 719-0364. 
Event address: Westside Highway between 19th and 20th Streets,. Noted attendees: Alex Guarnaschelli, Julie Reiner. 
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Tags: Auction Cocktail party Dinner Fundraiser Food and Wine Lover Industry Food Industry Restaurant Social Patron Health Cancer. 
Molteni&C  
Reception. 6:00 pm. Cocktails. Invitation only. Molteni&C Dada Unifor - Flagship Store. New York. rsvp@moltenidada.com. 
Event address: 60 Greene Street, New York. Event web address: www.moltenidada.com. 
Tags: Opening Reception Industry Design Industry Fashion Industry Media Industry Real Estate/Architecture. 
Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts 
Seventh Annual Award Dinner. 6:30 pm. Cocktails and program. Business attire. Speaker(s): William J. Higgins. Honoring David W. 
Levinson. Tickets from $200.00. Tables from $5,000.00. Location to be determined. infoAfriends-ues.org. (212) 535-2526. 
Event address: More information to come shortly,. Fax: (212) 535-2155. Event web address:www.friends-ues.org/events. 
Tags: Awards/Awards Shows Dinner Fundraiser Social Patron Association. 
Rosie O'Donnell's Broadway Kids Foundation 
Annual Building Dreams for Kids Gala. 6:30 pm. Reception and program. Honoring Neil Friedman,Michael Goldstein. Co-chaired by Robert A. 
Eckert, Jim Fogarty, Curt Forsythe,James M. Nederlander,James L. Neederlander,Eileen Newman,Arthur Newman, Catherine Oppenheimer,Lee 
Perlman,Ruthe Ponturo,Tony Ponturo,Marva Smalls,Reuven Spiegel. Tickets from $500.00. Tables from $10,000.00. New York Marriott 
Marquis. New York. (914) 579-1000. 
Event address: 1535 Broadway, New York. Event web address:www.rosiesbroadwaykids.org. 
Tags: Awards/Awards Shows Gala Industry Theater Performing Arts Supporter Social Patron. 
New York Television Festival 
Sixth Annual Festival Opening Night. 7:30 pm. ABC's ""Detroit 1-8-7"" screening. (Festival continues through September 25.). SVA 
Theatre. New York. (718) 350-8519. 
Event address: 333 West 23rd St., New York. Event web address: www.nytvf.com. 
Tags: Festival Opening Screenings Industry Film Industry Media Industry TV Arts Visual Arts. 
Tuesday, September 21, 2010 
AccessoriesTheShow 
2010 Show Opening Day. 9:00 am. Exhibits and shopping. (Continues through September 23.). Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. New 
York. (212) 686-4412. 
Event address: 655 West 34th St., New York. Event web address:www.accessoriestheshow.com/contact.html. 
Tags: Consumer Shows Industry Conference Industry Beauty Industry Fashion. 
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ENK International Trade Events 
I Sole Commerce 2010 Show Opening Day. 9:00 am. Exhibits, discussions, fashion previews, shopping. (Continues through September 23.). Jacob 
K. Javits Convention Center. New York. enkshows@enkshows.com. (212) 759-8055. 
Event address: 655 West 34th St., New York. Event web address:www.enkshows.com/acic/. 
Tags: Consumer Shows Industry Conference. 
ENK International Trade Events 
Coterie Show Opening Day. 9:00 am. Presentations and exhibits. (Continues through September 23.). Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. New 
York. coterieAenkshows.com. (212) 759-8055. 
Event address: 655 West 34th St., New York. Event web address: enkshows.com/coterie. 
Tags: Consumer Shows Fashion Event Industry Conference Industry Design Industry Fashion Industry Retail. 
Capsule 
Capsule Show. 10:00 am. Women's summer and spring 2011 collections. Continues through September 22. Angel Orensanz Foundation for the 
Arts. New York. info@capsuleshow.com. (212) 206-8310. 
Event address: 172 Norfolk St., New York. Event web address: www.capsuleshow.com. 
Tags: Discussion Shopping/Sample Sale Trade Shows Industry Beauty Industry Fashion. 
Appeal of Conscience Foundation 
2010 Dinner. 6:00 pm. Reception and program. Speaker(s): Rabbi Arthur Schneier. Honoring John Elkann,Stephen Schwarzman,Hon. Dr. 
Manmohan Singh. Waldorf=Astoria. New York. hcannonArubenstein.com. (212) 843-8072. 
Waldorf=Astoria: Grand Ballroom. Event address: 301 Park Avenue, New York. 
Tags: Awards/Awards Shows Dinner Fundraiser Industry Diplomatic Industry Government Relations Industry Political/Government Social Patron 
Civil/Human Rights. 
Institute of International Education 
2010 International Awards Gala. 6:00 pm. Cocktail reception, dinner and awards. Cocktail attire. Honoring Denise Benmosche, Amy 
Brandt,Chuck Close, Pamela S. Passman,Hon. Kapil Sibal. Chaired by Mark A. Angelson,Maryam Panahy Ansary, Judy Beraka, George Beraka, 
Neica Goldberg, Peter M. Gottesegen,Ruth Hinerfeld,S.A. Ibrahim,Henry G. Jarecki,Thomas S. Johnson, Henry Kaufman,Laya Khadjavi, Linda R. 
Meier, Sam Pitroda, Thomas A. Russo, Tom Sandall. Tickets from $1,250.00. Tables from $12,500.00. Mandarin Oriental New York. New 
York. Contact: Ashleigh Troccoli. ashleighAbradleyevents.com. (914) 834-2868. 
Event address: 80 Columbus Circle, New York. 
Tags: Awards/Awards Shows Gala Industry Diplomatic Social Patron Education K-12. 
Food and Beverage Association of America 
Reception and Dinner. 6:15 pm. Cocktails and cruise. Tickets from $85.00. Bateaux New York/Spirit City Cruises. New York. Contact: 
Hermann Reiner. officeAfbassoc.com. 
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Event address: Chelsea Piers, Pier 61, Suite 200A, New York. Event web address:www.fbassoc.com. 
Tags: Cruise Ship Dinner Reception Industry Food Industry Hospitality Industry Restaurant Association. 
American Federation of Arts 
Art Talks Series. 6:30 pm. Lecture and Q&A. Tickets from $10.00. Christie's Rockefeller Center. New 
York. arttalks@afaweb.org. (212) 988-7700. 
Event address: 20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York. Event web address: www.afaweb.org. 
Tags: Discussion Lecture Reception Artist Arts Patron Collector Social Patron Arts Visual Arts. 
Day One 
Seventh Annual Benefit to End Dating Violence Among Youth. 6:30 pm. Cocktails and dinner. Honoring Cyrus R. Vance, Jr. Co-chaired by 
Wendy Amstutz, Martin B. O'Connor, II Esq., William C. Silverman, Esq. Tickets from $200.00. Puck Building. New 
York. benefitAdayoneny.org. 
Event address: 295 Lafayette St., New York. Event web address:www.dayoneny.org/dayone/2010_benefit/. 
Tags: Cocktail party Dinner Fundraiser Social Patron Social Services Counseling. 
New Yorkers for Children 
Eleventh Annual Fall Gala. 6:30 pm. Cocktails, dinner, live Auction. Black tie. Tickets from $1,000.00. Tables from $12,500.00. Cipriani 
42nd Street. New York. Contact: Jennifer Houston. jhouston@innovativephilanthropy.net. (212) 867-1117. 
Event address: 110 East 42nd Street, New York. 
Tags: Cocktail party Dinner Fundraiser Social Patron Child Advocacy. 
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center 
Opening Night Celebration. 7:30 pm. Concert followed by a champagne and dessert reception. Business or cocktail attire. Tickets from 
$250.00. Alice Tully Hall. New York. Contact: Fred Murdock. fmurdockAchambermusicsociety.org. (212) 875-5216. 
Event address: 65th and Broadway, New York. Noted attendees: David Finckel,Wu Han,Gil Shaham. Event web 
address: chambermusicsociety.org. 
Tags: After party Benefit Performance Cocktail party Concert Fundraiser Reception Arts Patron Industry Music Performing Arts Supporter Social 
Patron. 
Wednesday, September 22, 2010 
DCCC-Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee  
Fundraising Dinner. Location to be determined. (202) 863-1500. 
Event address: More information to come shortly,. Noted attendees: Pres. Barack Obama,Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Event web address: decc.org. 
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Tags: Dinner Fundraiser Industry Government Relations Industry Political/Government Politics Democratic. 
Latin Vision Media 
Investing in Latin America and in the U.S. Hispanic Market. 8:00 am. Conference, discussion, and business networking. Speaker(s): Gabriel 
Abaroa,Maria Teresa Arnal,Mario L Baeza,Lucia Ballas-Traynor,Don Browne,Chiqui Cartagena,Tomas Cookman,Patrick Dolan,Janet 
Robinson. TBD. info@latinvision.com. 
Event address: TBD,. Event web address: www.latinvisionfinance.com/conference. 
Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation 
Hope on the Horizon: New Drugs for Alzheimer's Disease. 11:00 am. Inaugural fall luncheon. Tickets from $350.00. Tables from 
$7,500.00. The Pierre Hotel. New York. Contact: Pat Steele. psteele@alzdiscovery.org. (212) 901-8008. 
Event address: 2 East 61st St., New York. Fax: (212) 935-2408. Event web address:www.alzdiscovery.org. 
Tags: Fundraiser Luncheon Social Patron Health Alzheimer's. 
BOMA/NY 
Annual Membership Event. 5:30 pm. Cocktails and entertainment. 230 FIFTH. New York. Contact: Maria 
Kaminskiy. mariaAbomany.com. (212) 239-3662. 
Event address: 230 Fifth Ave., New York. Event web address:www.bomany.org/i4a/calendar/index.cfm?category=5. 
Tags: Cocktail party Fundraiser Industry Real Estate/Architecture Social Patron. 
New York Philharmonic 
Opening Night Celebration of the I 69th Season. 6:00 pm. Reception, concert, including performances by Wynton Marsalis, followed by dinner in 
the tent. Black tie attire. Co-chaired by Judith M. Carson,Russell L. Carson,Carol Sutton Lewis, William M. Lewis, Jr. Tickets from 
$1,500.00. Tables from $15,000.00. Lincoln Center-Avery Fisher Hall. New York. Contact: Courtney Ford. fordc@nyphil.org. (212) 875-
5757. 
Event address: 10 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York. Sponsored by BNY Mellon,Credit Suisse. Event web address: nyphil.org/gala. 
Tags: Benefit Performance Fundraiser Gala Opening Performing Arts Televised Event Arts Patron Music Supporter Performing Arts Supporter 
Social Patron Arts Performing Arts. 
World Yacht Cruises 
Chinese Moon Festival. 6:00 pm. Cocktails, light fare and festivities. (Also taking place on September 23.). World Yacht. New York. Contact: 
Alyssa Carroll. Alyssa@rcourihaycpr.com. 
Event address: World Yacht Marina, Pier 81, West 41st St. at the Hudson River, New York. Event web address: www.worldyacht.com. 
Tags: Concert Festival Reception Ethnic Chinese American Social Patron. 
Thursday, September 23, 2010 
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WGirls 
Fourth Annual Bachelor and Bachelorette Auction. Cocktails. Location to be determined. 
Event address: More information to come shortly,. Event web address: wgirls.org/what-we-do/upcoming-recent-events. 
Tags: Auction Cocktail party Fundraiser Lifestage Young Professional Social Jr. Committee Social Patron Association. 
New York Building Congress 
34th Annual Transportation & Construction Luncheon. 11:45 am. Reception and program. Hon. chair: Dominick Servedio. MC, Otis 
Livingston. Honoring Husam Ahmad,Janette Sadik-Khan,Jay H. Walder,Richard Wood. Chaired by Thomas E. Diana. Co-chaired by Majid 
Hedayati,Gregory A. Kelly, Ira A. Levy, Bernard London, Frank T. MacInnis. Cipriani Wall Street. New 
York. jcarloAmarchofdimes.com. (212) 353-1143. 
Event address: 55 Wall St., New York. Event web address: www.buildingcongress.com. 
Tags: Awards/Awards Shows Luncheon Industry Real Estate/Architecture Industry Technology Health Pediatrics. 
Sotheby's 
Art of Farming Auction Opening Day. (Continues through September 24.). Sotheby's. New 
York. molly@mollymiddletonevents.com. (646) 483-6721. 
Event address: 1334 York Ave., New York. 
Tags: Auction Arts Patron Collector. 
Vanidades Magazine 
50th Anniversary Gala. 7:00 pm. Cocktails, dinner, entertainment and dancing. Honoring Oscar de la Renta,Carolina Herrera,Narciso 
Rodriguez. Trump SoHo Hotel. New York. Contact: Alexandra Akshar. aaksharAtelevisapublishing.com. (305) 871-6400. 
Event address: 246 Spring St., New York. Sponsored by Continental Airlines,Moet & Chandon,Sprint,Tansitions,TechnoMarine,The Estee Lauder 
Companies Inc. Event web address: www.vanidades.com. 
Tags: Gala Industry Media Industry Publishing Social Patron. 
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return e-mail or by e-mail to jeevacation@gmail.com, and 
destroy this communication and all copies thereof, 
including all attachments. 
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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020133.txt,"PayPal, 21

Pelosi, Nancy, 78

Pefia Nieto, Enrique, 77-78, 228

Pence, Karen, 124, 209

Pence, Mike, 92, 95, 106-7, 123-24, 171, 209, 218, 240
Pentagon, 7, 55

Perelman, Ronald, 73, 141

Perlmutter, Ike, 141

Petraeus, David, 263-64

Pierce, Brock, 56-57

Planned Parenthood, 117

Playbook, 171

Podesta, John, 27

Politico, 171

Pompeo, Mike, 49, 51, 157, 306

populists, 6, 24, 31, 100, 113, 118, 142, 174-75, 177, 276, 301
Powell, Dina, 81-82, 145-46, 176-77, 184-88, 190, 192-94, 229, 235-36, 258, 261, 265-67, 276, 279, 285, 296, 306
Preate, Alexandra, 1, 32, 130, 207-8, 238, 249, 275, 278-79, 299
Pre-Election Presidential Transition Act (2010), 24

Price, Tom, 165-66, 171, 291

Priebus, Reince, 77, 86, 144, 146, 150, 166, 171-73, 176, 203, 205, 207, 209, 229, 238, 257, 296, 304

business councils and, 89

campaign and, 9-10, 13, 18, 112-13

chief of staff appointment and, 26, 32-34, 60, 64-65, 67-70, 109-10, 117-24, 243-44, 305
CPAC and, 127, 130-34

Flynn and, 95, 106

inauguration and, 45, 52
Obama wiretapping story and, 159-60
resignation of, 282-85, 307
Russia investigation and, 171, 211-14, 216-17, 232-34, 261-62
Scaramucci and, 270-72, 282-85
Prince, Erik, 265, 267

Private Eye magazine, 74

Producers, The (film), 15-16

Pruitt, Scott, 21

Putin, Vladimir, 7, 8, 24, 37-38, 99-102, 153, 155

Qatar, 230-31

Raffel, Josh, 142, 207, 258-59, 279

Reagan, Ronald, 26, 27, 34, 58, 90, 126—27, 144, 201, 222
Remnick, David, 154

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Complaints"", because Ms. Maxwell says she's preparing a press

complaint in the UK, in other words a legal action, the third
page, your Honor, is the document that was attached that was
produced over a year ago.

How this document reads at the top, ""Drafted by

Ms. Maxwell. I have copied direct lines and quotes from

articles, and my comments are in orange after the quote. Th

relevant article that the quotes came from is listed below the

last quote. Below, I think, are some of the irrefutable

contradictions and interesting additional details that can be

used in the letter to the mail and in the following press

complaints. In addition, this article on Rothstein you may

find helpful.

""What is the number one lie that Ms. Maxwell points

to? Number 1. Bill Clinton identified in lawsuit against his

former friend and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein who had regular
ongres...™

And then Ms. Maxwell's commentary directly afterwards,
in a quotation, ""Huge problem is that Clinton never came to the

island.""

Your Honor, in plaintiff's respons xcuse m
reply brief, they claim Ms. Maxwell had no knowledge in early

January, 2015 that Bill Clinton had never been to the island.

Obviously, she had knowledge of that because she was claimed to

have been there with him and claimed to have flown on a

SOUTHERN DISTRICT REPORTERS, P.C.
(212) 805-0300

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IMAGES-012-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032976.txt,"all the best

Envoyé : mercredi 15 février 2017 18:15
A: Darren Indyke
Objet : RE: TR: update

Thanks Darren
Good news!

I'm under the impression that checks will be exceptional (they are more cumbersome to handle), and we will
use mostly wires.

Considering the time difference, my heavy travel and my own propension to do things at night and on week-
ends | would much prefer having an internet code and be able to organize everything online when | need to.

When | use Interaudi (my US bank), they can do that, store the recurring beneficiaries, and do wires in
multiple currencies, but | am not familiar with DB.

Of course, you could also have the same access and help me when needed.
Also, your point about bookkeeping is mitigated by the fact that, in any case, | will also need to have
someone keeping track of the receipts and inventory, before shipping proofs to you. In any case there will be

need for some work on my side before final filing is done.

On the other hand, if there is a ""checks and balances"" control issue, there could be a cap to my wiring powers
(like the 10 K we discussed), that would be absolutely fine for me if this is the intent.

Please do let me know.

We can also talk about it (in Hawai now, free after 2 PM your time)

In any case, this is good and happy news. I'll review the first list of payments over the week-end.
Etienne

De : Darren Indyke

Envoyé : mercredi 15 février 2017 13:00:07
A: Etienne Binant

Objet : Re: TR: update

There is Simm in the bank account. We can prepare checks or wires for you to sign upon request. This way
book keeping gets done at same time. Just send back up with each request. How does that sound?

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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025199.txt,"From: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]

Sent: 3/2/2018 12:47:41 PM
To: Jonathan Farkas (a)
Subject: Re:

funn /. its a wild time

On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 5:58 AM, Jonathan Farkas <> wrote:

Hi Jeffrey do you think this is Smoot Hawley 2 which topped us into the depression Bloomberg just quoted
trump trade wars are good and easy to win thanks jf Somers is going to mar a lago lunch Saturday fund raiser

for djt

Sent from my iPhone

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IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021095.txt,"globeandmail.com: Nature memoir is anything but a snooze file://localhost/Users/Lborth/Heinrich %20Book%20Review html

2 of 2

Bernd's chapters here are earnest and humorous, and offer a window into the making of a scientist. But it is the early chapters on Gerd's life that captivate.

Heinrich skillfully recreates his father's story, through correspondence, an unpublished memoir and remembrances, to create a nuanced portrait - at times generous, at

other times hostile.

Gerd never celebrated his son's success as a scientist - at least not outwardly. The conflict between old science and new tainted their relationship, and Gerd's struggle
for recognition in science made him resentful. On the other hand, Bernd struggled for years to see the value in his father's science and to understand his motivations.
The memoir documents this struggle and builds to an ardent defence of his father's choices and of specimen-collecting biology: ""There was a purpose, an ethic, even

a morality to what naturalists of his time practised""; ""Biology is

history, and no amount of chemistry can explain how or why the different ichneumon wasps came

into being, or what role they play in different ecosystems""; ""Naming before knowing.""

Importantly, The Snoring Bird reminds us that science itself evolves, and that scientists are a product of their time and culture. Bernd Heinrich leaves us with no
doubt that in Gerd's youth, ""the naturalists' reputation shone brightly,"" and that taxonomy has provided biologists with a framework for thinking about the natural

world, upon which modern biology is built.

But he glosses over the fact that biology is in the midst of a new - some would say revolutionary - effort to catalogue Earth's biological diversity, using a short
sequence of each organism's DNA called DNA barcodes. They have verified past species divisions - those determined by taxonomists such as Gerd - and clarified
others; and, they represent another tool with which to understand and protect this bounty. In barcoding, an old science has become new again - albeit transformed.
But it is proof that to most of us, nature is still ""a magic show of the highest order,"" and that the values of naturalists such as Bernd and Gerd Heinrich live on.

Lindsay Borthwick is a science journalist living in Toronto. She first encountered Bernd Heinrich's work as an editor at the science/culture magazine, Seed.

© Copyright 2007 CTVglobemedia Publishing Inc. All Rights

Reserved. CTVglobemedia

globeandmail.com and The Globe and Mail are divisions of CTVglobemedia Publishing Inc., 444 Front St. W., Toronto, ON Canada M5V 2S9

Phillip Crawley, Publisher

6/12/07 4:24 PM

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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029231.txt,"From: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]

Sent: 3/19/2015 9:43:40 PM
To: Kathy Ruemmler
Subject: Fwd: Fw: Fwd: Mr. Clinton and Mr. Epstein

Attachments: image001.gif

Importance: — High

lo eaarrerarennrever eran to enero REY reTe TT

From: Martin Weinberg
Date: Thursday, March 19, 2015
Subject: Fw: Fwd: Mr. Clinton and Mr. Epstein

To: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com>, Po

Martin G. Weinberg, Esq.

20 Park Plaza, Suite 1000

Boston, MA 02116

This Electronic Message contains

information from the Law Office of

Martin G. Weinberg, P.C.,

and may be privileged. The

information is intended for the

HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029231
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TEXT-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033050.txt,"From: 
Sent: 
To: 
Subject: 
Attachments: 
schwartman 
jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
12/2/2017 5:13:28 PM 
Richard Kahn 
Re: 
IMG_4779.jpg 
On Sat, Dec 2, 2017 at 11:52 AM, Richard Kahn wrote: 
Trump in your neighborhood today. Looks like he is going to 740 Park for a fundraiser. 
Richard Kahn 
HBRK Associates Inc. 
575 Lexington Avenue, 4th Floor 
New York, NY 10022  
Phone 
Fax 
Cell 
HOUSE OVERSIGHT 033050 
please note 
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confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may 
constitute inside information, and is intended only for 
the use of the addressee. It is the property of 
JEE 
Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this 
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and may be unlawful. If you have received this 
communication in error, please notify us immediately by 
return e-mail or by e-mail to jeevacation@gmail.com, and 
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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019942.txt,"OOK Ok

The fact that Trump and his son-in-law had many things in common did not mean they
operated on a common playing field. Kushner, no matter how close to Trump, was yet a
member of the Trump entourage, with no more ultimate control of his father-in-law than
anybody else now in the business of trying to control Trump.

Still, the difficulty of controlling him had been part of Kushner’s self-justification or
rationalization for stepping beyond his family role and taking a senior White House job: to
exercise restraint on his father-in-law and even—a considerable stretch for the
inexperienced young man—to help lend him some gravitas.

If Bannon was going to pursue as his first signature White House statement the travel
ban, then Kushner was going to pursue as his first leadership mark a meeting with the
Mexican president, whom his father-in-law had threatened and insulted throughout the
campaign.

Kushner called up the ninety-three-year-old Kissinger for advice. This was both to
flatter the old man and to be able to drop his name, but it was also actually for real advice.
Trump had done nothing but cause problems for the Mexican president. To bring the
Mexican president to the White House would be, despite Bannon’s no-pivot policy from
the campaign’s harshness, a truly meaningful pivot for which Kushner would be able to
claim credit (although don’t call it a pivot). It was what Kushner believed he should be
doing: quietly following behind the president and with added nuance and subtlety
clarifying the president’s real intentions, if not recasting them entirely.

The negotiation to bring Mexican president Enrique Pefia Nieto to the White House
had begun during the transition period. Kushner saw the chance to convert the issue of the
wall into a bilateral agreement addressing immigration—hence a tour de force of
Trumpian politics. The negotiations surrounding the visit reached their apogee on the
Wednesday after the inaugural, with a high-level Mexican delegation—the first visit by
any foreign leader to the Trump White House—meeting with Kushner and Reince Priebus.
Kushner’s message to his father-in-law that afternoon was that Pefia Nieto had signed on
to a White House meeting and planning for the visit could go forward.

The next day Trump tweeted: “The U.S. has a 60 billion dollar trade deficit with
Mexico. It has been a one-sided deal from the beginning of NAFTA with massive numbers
...” And he continued in the next tweet ... “of jobs and companies lost. If Mexico is
unwilling to pay for the badly needed wall, then it would be better to cancel the upcoming
meeting ...”

At which point Pefia Nieto did just that, leaving Kushner’s negotiation and statecraft as
so much scrap on the floor.

OOK Ok

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against her because they don't like her actions in that

particular circumstance as opposed to the merits of the case.

And by the way, we are going to strongly contest that

she's a tax cheat, so your Honor is going to have, I guess,

competing tax information, and jury instructions on whether

personal injury returns have to be reported on your return, all

of which is going to deflect the jury's time and attention, not
to mention the Court's and counsel's, away from the fundamental
issue of did Ms. Maxwell defame Ms. Giuffre. So that's our

response to the initial overview regarding 405, and I'm going

to turn the time over to my colleague now to dive into some

specifics.

MS. McCAWLEY: Thank you, your Honor. I'm going try
to keep this very brief and just touch on some of the
highlights quickly.

So we were talking initially at the beginning about

the issue of various pieces of different witnesses, whether

their information would come in, and we hit on the issue --—
they brought up the issue of Mr. Freeh, and actually gave

you -- told you that he was going to be just somebody who was

going to sit on the stand and validate the FOIA response.

Well, very clear from the documents they've produced
in this case, if I could hand them up, your Honor, this is the
pages that they produced with respect to Mr. Freeh. And you'll

see on the first page, he gives his conclusion and he says,

SOUTHERN DISTRICT REPORTERS, P.C.
(212) 805-0300

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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018484.txt,"consent. Not a partner who says, ""Okay, I guess,"" in a bored tone, but doesn't actively
say ""no."" Not a partner who is silent and non-reactive, but doesn't actively stop you when
you start having sex with them. Not a partner who seems hesitant, or anxious, or
confused. Enthusiastic consent means an enthusiastic partner: one who is responding
passionately, kissing you back, saying things like ""Yes"" or ""Oh my God, don't stop”... or
a partner who talks to you ahead of time about what will happen, as many BDSMers and
sex workers do, and knows how to safeword or otherwise get out of the situation if you do
something they don't like.

It's worth noting that there are critiques within feminism of the concept of enthusiastic
consent. For example, some feminist sex workers point out that when they have sex for
money, their consent is not exactly ""enthusiastic,"" but they still feel that their consent is
real consent, and that their choices must be respected. The same goes for some asexual
people. Asexuality is commonly defined as ""not feeling sexual attraction to others,"" but
some asexual people have romantic relationships with other people in which they have
sex entirely to satisfy their partner, and some of them have said that they don't feel
included by feminist discussions of enthusiastic consent.

Hey, even some of my non-asexual, non-sex worker friends have problems with the idea
that they aren't ""really"" consenting unless they're super-enthusiastic about the sexual act
at hand. A married friend once commented wryly that if she and her husband always
demanded 100% enthusiastic consent from each other, then the marriage would fall apart.
But as we continued to discuss it, she and her husband both agreed that they have zero
problem with the situation as it stands.

I don't want to sweep those critiques under the rug. I figure that as long as everyone's
communicating about the situation openly, and working to keep things relatively low-
pressure, then consent is likely to happen, even if it's not perfectly “enthusiastic.” I've had
extensive debates on the topic with other feminists, though, and I often seek more,
because honing consent theory is one of my favorite things!

All this having been said: the concept of enthusiastic consent has been very helpful for
me personally. I know that it's also been helpful for an enormous number of other people
who are trying to understand boundaries in their sexual relationships. I absolutely believe
that enthusiastic consent is an important and useful standard, and I do my best to observe
that standard as much as I can in my own relationships. So, while I think some critiques
are reasonable, I also think that the idea of enthusiastic consent is the best baseline
assumption to start these conversations... if not to end them.

7) In practice, as long as everyone involved is having consensual fun, criticism is
secondary. Practically speaking, consent is the most important thing; from a pragmatic
standpoint, the question of whether sexuality arises from biology or culture doesn't matter
nearly as much. (I find the question of whether BDSM can be categorized as a sexual
orientation to be more politically and theoretically interesting than practically important.)

Understanding sexual biology or culture may help us grasp some of the complexities of
consent. For example, people often have trouble saying ""no"" to things directly: when was
the last time you explicitly said ""no"" when you didn't want to do something? Which of
the following exchanges is more likely:

HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018484
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IMAGES-012-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033498.txt,"From: Jessica Cadwell

Sent: 8/11/2009 7:00:05 PM
To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: RE: FW: Jane Doe

fesstca Cadwell, CP, FRI

Certified Paralegal

Florida Registered Paralegal

BURMAN CRITTON LUTTIER & COLEMAN, LLP
515 N. Flagler Drive

Suite #400

West Palm Beach, FL 33401
Tel: / Fax:
Email:

From: Jeffrey Epstein [mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 3:01 PM

To: Jessica Cadwell

Subject: Re: FW: Jane Doe

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Jessica Cadwell . 4 wrote:

Privileged - Redacted !

fpesstca Cadwell, CP, FRS

Certified Paralegal

Florida Registered Paralegal

BURMAN CRITTON LUTTIER & COLEMAN, LLP
515 N. Flagler Drive

Suite #400
West Palm Beach, FL 33401

From: Jacquie Johnson [mailto
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 2:55 PM

To: Jessica Cadwell
Subject: RE: Jane Doe

Yes — we are still trying to get the details though

From: Jessica Cadwell [mailto
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 2:27 PM

HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033498
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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015937.txt,"Software 247

denotes a set of sequential steps we can apply to demonstrate this fact.
These steps must have meaning and obey the rules of mathematics, but
what are these rules? Are they written down in a text book?

It turns out there is no way to find this set of rules; it is a super-
infinite task. We would need to reach into our infinite bag of numbers
and pull out rule after rule, turning each into a mathematical model
that explains numbers and logic and what can be done with them to
form mathematical statements. The number of ways to do this is not just
infinity, but two to the power of infinity. This is the number of ways to
permute all possible mathematical rules.

Your mind may be rebelling at this. Surely, if I have an infinite
set of numbers I can just pluck all the numbers from my bag and then
I am certain to have the solution. Unfortunately, it turns out there is
no complete, consistent set of rules; no valid dictionary that maps all
numbers to all of mathematics. That is Gédel incompleteness theorem.

Despite a fundamental limit on mapping all numbers to all of
mathematics, there might still have been an algorithm which could
practically find solutions for a given arbitrary problem. Turing proved
this is not the case.

The Wiles Paradox
Turing showed us there can be no general purpose, mechanical procedure
capable of finding solutions to arbitrary problems. A computer program
cannot discover mathematical theorems nor write programs to do so. Yet
computers regularly solve problems and generate programs. That’s what
software compilers do. This seems to be contradiction.

The solution to this apparent contradiction is to propose a boundary:
a ‘logic limit’ above which computers may not solve problems. With a
high boundary a general-purpose machine could solve most problems
in the real world, though some esoteric mathematical puzzles would be
beyond it. But if the boundary were low, many activities in our daily life
would need some sort of alternative, creative thinking. It is crucial to
know where the logic limit lies.

The Logic Limit

Amazingly, in many branches of science it is possible to pinpoint the exact
location of the logic limit, but finding that boundary in mathematics has
taken forty years work from some of the greatest mathematicians of the
20"" century.

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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031037.txt,"EKERKEKEKREREREREREREREREREEEREERERERERERERERERE KERR REREEEEER

The information contained in this communication is
confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may
constitute inside information, and is intended only for
the use of the addressee. It is the property of

Jeffrey Epstein

Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this
communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited
and may be unlawful. If you have received this
communication in error, please notify us immediately by

return e-mail or by e-mail to jeevacation@gmail.com, and

destroy this communication and all copies thereof,
including all attachments. copyright -all rights reserved

De ee ee eee ee i ee ee ee i ee a

The information contained in this communication is
confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may
constitute inside information, and is intended only for
the use of the addressee. It is the property of

Jeffrey Epstein

Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this
communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited
and may be unlawful. If you have received this
communication in error, please notify us immediately by
return e-mail or by e-mail to jeevacation@gmail.com, and
destroy this communication and all copies thereof,
including all attachments. copyright -all rights reserved

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IMAGES-012-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032786.txt,"On Jul 16, 2018, at 9:17 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:

wed presidnt of united nations , interesting person for you

On Sun, Jul 15, 2018 at 6:28 PM, LHS iS otc:

Unsure. What is up

Sent from my iPhone

Please direct all scheduling inquiries to my office at: Po

Follow me on twitter @lhsummers
www.larrysummers.com

On Jul 15, 2018, at 6:09 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:

new york soon?

please note
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please note
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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031751.txt,"From: Darren Indyke [dkiesq@aol.com]

Sent: 5/3/2018 9:44:08 PM

To: jeevacation@gmail.com

cc: Darren Indyke

Subject: Fwd: Google Alert - Jeffrey Epstein

Importance: — High

DARREN K. INDYKE

DARREN kK. INDYKE, PLLC
575 Lexington Avenue, 4th Floor
New York, New York 10022

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The information contained in this communication is confidential, may be attorney-client
privileged, and is intended only for the use of the addressee. It is the property of

Darren K. Indyke, PLLC. Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this communication
or any part thereof is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this
communication in error, please notify us immediately by return e-mail, and destroy this
communication and all copies thereof, including all attachments.

Copyright of Darren K. Indyke, PLLC - © 2018 Darren K.

Indyke, PLLC — All rights reserved.

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Begin forwarded message:

From: Google Alerts <googlealerts-norepl oogle.com>
Subject: Google Alert - Jeffrey Epstein
Date: May 3, 2018 at 4:38:01 PM EDT

Jeffrey Epstein

NEWS

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IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027489.txt,"Is Invitation: No

GUID: ECS6D5BC-E328-4B8 6-AB40-2B9E551096D1

Message: Green jack and goatee/beard , guy on wall to your left as you looked forward

Sender:

Time: 11/18/18 03:27:00 AM (564233220)
Flags: 1060865
Is Read: Yes

Is Invitation: No

GUID: 27A42F8C-2A18-47B1-BO3C-AB9BA7CCEA6A

Message: I think they were livestreaming the riot outside gate that we had to go back
thru to see when we could exit

Sender: e:jeeitunes@gmail.com

Time: 11/18/18 03:31:13 AM (564233473)
Flags: 1085445

Is Read: No

Is Invitation: No

GUID: 76083772-5296-4D1D-948F-A9F144371949

Message: 3 things. 1. No excuses. As It was in the beginning of your talk , not
relevant. And the most dangerous time. 2. In the streets your guys want sunglasses
or glasses. As people throw liquids at their faces and it protects the eyes. 3 and

during your talks scanning the crowd.

Sender: e:jeeitunes@gmail.com

Time: 11/18/18 03:31:45 AM (564233505)
Flags: 1085445

Is Read: No

Is Invitation: No

GUID: B9CC56C5-6F9F-437A-A853-4E4923CE4537

Message: Need to keep you for the next rounds

Sender: Po

Time: 11/18/18 03:31:46 AM (564233506)
Flags: 1060865

Is Read: Yes

Is Invitation: No

GUID: SOB8COE6-0E88-4D9A-A724-ECB724DD268C

Message: Got it

Time: 11/18/18 03:31:57 AM (564233517)
Flags: 1060865

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had asked him, hey, what do you Know about Jeffrey
Epstein? And, again, off the top of my head, you want
to know what I can remember right now.

What I can remember right now is that in the
Vanity Fair article, the -- in the Vanity Fair article,
Mr. Dershowitz said, I've written 20-some odd books.
There's only one person outside my immediate family with
whom I share drafts and that's Jeffrey Epstein.

So I took that as indicating a very close
personal association that, you Know, among the people
that obviously he's sharing these kinds of things that
he wants evaluated before he shares them with the
broader world. There's his immediate family and then
there's Jeffrey Epstein.

There was also another similar quote in the
article that indicated that -- that Mr. Dershowitz said
that he wasn't interested in Epstein just because he has
a lot of money. I mean, Epstein was identified as a
billionaire -- billionaire with a B, so the record is
clear.

But he said, look, if Epstein wants all his
money, and I'm paraphrasing here, I will be happy to
walk down, you know, the Coney Island Boardwalk with him
and discuss things with him, even if he didn't have any

money .

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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031989.txt,"How did this happen? Mr. Ferguson is no conspiracy theorist; nor is he inclined toward structural or
systemic explanations. Markets are not like tectonic plates, shifting on their own. Visible hands write
laws and make deals, and in this case a combination of warped values and groupthink seems to have driven
very intelligent men (and they were mostly men) toward folly. In addition to business and government, Mr.
Ferguson aims his critique at academia, suggesting that the discipline of economics and more than a few
prominent economists were corrupted by consulting fees, seats on boards of directors and membership in
the masters of the universe club.

when he challenges some of these professors, in particular those who held positions of responsibility in
the white House or in the Federal Reserve, they are reduced to stammering obfuscation — Markets are
complicated! who could have predicted? I don’t see any conflict of interest -— and occasionally provoked
to testiness. Mr. Ferguson, for his part, cannot always contain his incredulity or rein in his sarcasm.
Occasionally his voice pipes up from off camera, saying things like, “You can’t be serious!”

But it is hard to imagine a movie more serious, and more urgent, than “Inside Job.” There are a few
avenues that might have been explored more thoroughly, in particular the effects of the crisis on
ordinary, non-wall-Street-connected workers and homeowners. The end of the film raises a disturbing
question, as Mr. Damon exhorts viewers to demand changes in the status quo so that the trends associated
with unchecked speculation of the kind that caused the last crisis -— rising inequality, neglect of
productive capacity, endless cycles of boom and bust -— might be reversed.

This call to arms makes you wonder why anger of the kind so eloquently expressed in “Inside Job” has been
so inchoate. And through no fault of its own, the film may leave you dispirited as well as enraged. Its
fate is likely to be that of other documentaries: praised in some quarters, nitpicked in others and
shrugged off by those who need its message most. which is a shame.

“Tnside Job” is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). Some drug and sex references and pervasive
obscenity, though not the verbal kind.

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had audio and/or video surveillance? We'll start with
audio.

A. 1 don't have a specific recollection of
every place ] had video and audio, but it was in -- ]
had it set up so that in all of the common areas,
including our shareholder's lounge, we had -- J had
audio and video capabilities.

Q. When you say ""capabilities,"" does that mean
you didn't always turn it on or you just turned it on
when you felt like it?

A. J turned it on when J felt like it, when 1
felt like seeing what was going on. | sometimes left
the screen up because | had four computer screens on
my desk, I sometimes left the screen on with the video
of the reception area and some other general areas.
But unless ] wanted to see what was going on or listen
to what was going on, ] didn't turn it on. It would
have been too distracting.

Q. Did the attorneys know that this
surveillance existed?

A. You can see it in the -- it wasn't hidden,
you can see it. There were globes up in the ceiling
al] over the office.

Q. Did you have -- you said -- you didn't
answer this, you said you didn't recall. Did you have
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any surveillance in the conference rooms? :
A. No.
Q. Other than the common areas you just went :
over, in the hallways and the reception -- did you i
have it in the hallways, is that a common -- do you :
deem that a common area? :
A. All the hallways pretty much with the :
exception of a few blind spots, J can see all the :
hallways. '
Q. And this was on all three floors?
A. Yeah. For some reason | think we might :
have taken some space on a fourth floor, but ] could :
be mistaken. But yes, on the three floors that we :
actively had a significant amount of space on, } tried i
to have surveillance on al] the common areas of al]
that space. :
Q. And what floor was Mr. Edwards' office on? =|
A. | don't recall. :
Q. Did you have the tort group all together or |
was it divided up? i
A. Except for Adler, Adler was on with -- near |
me, down the hall from me. The rest of the group was |
all together. I think they were on -- let's see. i
There were people up on 22. | was on 16. He must
have been on the other floor that we were building
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out, because ] remember building out space and |
remember Jaffe and all those guys moving into that
space.

Q. If you were building up that space, do you
recall when you put the surveillance in there?

A. It would have been while they were building
it out or shortly thereafter.

Q. During 2009 it seems that you hired lots of
former law enforcement people to work at the firm.
Why were they people you wanted to hire?

A. Severalfold. J had a significant amount of
illegal activity going on with various law enforcement
agencies throughout South Florida and hiring people
from former law enforcement assisted me in engendering
support and camaraderie with the law enforcement that
} was actually utilizing in illegal activities.

Q. So you are saying --

A. Secondarily, ] wanted to have a very strong
investigative team, ultimately, to do both legitimate
and illegitimate things for the law firm, and hiring
former Jaw enforcement was the best way to do that. ]
was hoping to actually ultimately create a group. Ken
Jenne and I had talked about that extensively.

Q. Why did you hire Ken Jenne?

A. Prior to Ken going to prison, he and ] were
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very friendly and he was extremely friendly with
someone that was very close to me, Grant Smith.
During the time that he was down in FDC Miami, I went
down to visit him. And after speaking to him and
after speaking to Grant, ] told him, because he was
talking to me about how many people had tumed on him
and abandoned him. And ] told him that when he got
out of jail that he had no worries, that ] would give
him a job.

Q. And what --

A. And that was the primary reason -- that was
my primary reason for hiring him.

Q. What was it you were hiring him to do
exactly?

A. Ultimate the goal was to head up on
investigative arm within RRA, within the RRA entities.

Q. Well, while he was there, since that didn't
happen, what was his obligation to the firm
day-to-day?

A. He handled firm security issues and he did
handle overseeing certain investigative things. We
had an alcohol and beverage group that was forming and
he was overseeing that. He was helping me find new
people to staff it, that kind of thing.

Q. Did you have a lot of interaction --
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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023585.txt,"Chart 23: Steep put skew in FXB, the ETF underlying GBP, favors buying
downside protection via cheap put spreads against the odds of a hung
parliament outcome in the UK general election The UK general election is scheduled to take place on Thu, 8-

Jun-17. When the election was called on 18-April, the polls

50% 4% oa ; .

45% pointed to a landslide victory for the Conservative Party. This

40% 3% boosted the UK’s currency as investors assumed that such an

a outcome would lead to a “smoother” Brexit. Indeed, on that day

75% 2% the Sterling (GBPUSD} recorded its third best daily performance

20% over the past 8 years.

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10% 1% However, while official polls still suggest an outright majority
5% ; for the Conservative Party, the odds of a hung parliament have
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+m Sete Le ingle wel 289 and FX markets complacent with prevailing opinion poll data,
‘1m Sterling (FXB) ATMf implied vol (B) there clearly could be a significant near-term correction in the
Curent sterling if the probability of a hung parliament becomes reality.

Source: BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research. Daily data from 5-Jun-16 to 6-Jun-17. Hence we favor hedging downside risk in sterling via cheap FXB

put spreads to lever steep put skew (3m 95%-ATMf implied vol
spread at its 1-yr 90"" %-ile).

Table 2: Current S&P500 volatility and correlation measures relative to the prior two year of historical daily data

1-week change Over 2-year historical period
2Jun17 26May17 Change ar Minimum 25% Median 75% = Maximum

1-month ATM implied volatility 14% 16% -0.2% 0.1% 14% 10.0% 11.8% 14.5% 31.8%
1-year ATM implied volatility 13.8% 13.9% -0.1% 2.5% 13.4% 15.4% 16.2% 17.3% 22.5%
1-week intraday realized volatility 6.2% 6.1% 0.1% 3.7% 5.2% 8.5% 10.7% 14.0% 53.7%
1-year minus 1-month term structure 6.3% 6.3% 0.0% 97.8% -12.0% 2.1% 43% 5.4% 10%
3-month 90 minus 110 skew 79% 8.7% -0.8% 47% 71% 9.5% 11.3% 11.8% 13.8%
1-year top 50 implied correlation 45 42 45 85 -0.44 6.7% 42.03 49.79 54.34 57.14 65.55
3-month top 50 realized correlation 27.15 30.72 297 24.4% 12.57 27.90 37.28 48.45 60.41
VIX 1-month ATMf implied vol 16.5% 15.9% 0.6% 20.4% 61.2% 17.9% 85.0% 95.2% 162.2%
VIX 1-month 110 minus 90 skew 28.4% 28.5% -0.1% 96.2% 9.3% 18.6% 21.5% 23.8% 30.3%
Source: BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research

Bankof America Global Equity Volatility Insights | 06 June 2017.11

Merrill Lynch

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015089.txt,"A Sneak Preview of Richard Nixon’ s Memoir

An old friend approached us with a thick sheaf of what was

purported to be a photocopy of the autobiographical manuscript on which
former President Richard M. Nixon was still at work. Our first reaction was
skepticism. While most of the contents dealt predictably with
contemporary history as it has already been recorded, there were enough
surprises to shock even our own jaded psyche.

Just to be sure, we employed the services of a reputable private
investigative firm. Their report veritied that our source did indeed know an
individual inside the San Clemente hideaway. The next step was to hire a
professional graphologist. who determined the authenticity of Mr.
Nixon’ s handwritten notes on the typed transcript. Finally, our attorneys
assured us that there was no violation of copyright laws involved, because
it was unlikely that Nixon had submitted such unfinished material for
copyright protection.

The book, as yet untitled, is dedicated “To Patricia Ryan Nixon, who
has been named the most admired women in the country, and deservedly

so, for your loyalty has been a continuing inspiration, not only to your

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IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026797.txt,"The US: Washington’s 2015-2016 agenda - what to
expect and why it will be important

¢ Despite the contrary and dramatic press accounts,
Washington has been getting things done, a positive
for the political process and the nation. It may have
been messy but here is what they have gotten done
so far this year:

o Trade Promotion Authority (TPA)
A federal budget

lran nuclear deal

Debt ceiling

Medicare Payment & CHIP funding
Homeland Security funding

Debt ceiling raise

O00 0 0 0

But big policy items are unfinished:

Appropriations (by December 11)
Repealing oil export ban

Highway bill

Corporate Tax reform

The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP)

O00 0 0

Deutsche Bank Francis J. Kelly
Global Public Affairs francis.j.kelly@db.com 3

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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022843.txt,"destroy this communication and all copies thereof,
including all attachments. copyright -all rights reserved

Landon Thomas, Jr.
Financial Reporter
New York Times

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communication in error, please notify us immediately by
return e-mail or by e-mail to jeevacation@gmail.com, and
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IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012117.txt,"Edwards adv. Epstein
Telephone interview with Virginia Roberts
Page 11 of 23

V: In a roundabout way, yes. In so many ways, Jeffrey really really had to train me, and that
was why Ghislaine said that she and Jeffrey enjoyed me so much was because they never
really had to speak much to me to tell me what they wanted me to do. You know, I
wasn’t waiting for you know, their directions. Jeffrey would tell me to go give an erotic
massage to friends. He wouldn’t give me much detail about it, but he would say to treat
them like you treat me.

JS: Did he refer to it as an erotic massage or are those your words?

V: Erotic massage is my words. That’s exactly what it was, but he would tell me to treat
them how he wanted it, so I'd do what he wanted without having to say to me words
more. I mean, I complied with what he wanted because it was somewhat of a, I don’t
know, I don’t know how to say it, it was just very mindboggling how I let him have so
much control or power over me basically. The massages would be routine to what Jeffrey
wanted with my so called new clientele, and with their own words would ask me to
provide them with sexual pleasure after the massage.

JS: Did you ever report back to Jeffrey about what happened when you provided massages to
his friends?

V: Of course, of course, and I knew that his friends were reporting back to him as well
because there were times where he would instigate conversation by saying you know, so
and so had a great time, you did wonderful, you know so and so gave me a call and told
J.E how it went_...

JS: Did Jeffrey ever elicit details from you? “Tell me what happened, describe in detail what
went on?”

V: No, but he would have a laugh, he had a laugh with me a few times about some of their
different mannerisms, I guess you would say, like some of them, one guy had a foot
fetish and that was really weird and I mentioned it to Jeffrey, and we would have a laugh
over it. He didn’t want to know details. He wasn’t asking me “so tell me what did you
guys do exactly.” No, he just basically gave me a slap on the back and said, you know,
good job. And we had some kind of conversation about it. I can’t recall any conversation
off the top of my head. I really don’t know one. It’s been that long. But yeah, we did
talk about it briefly.

JS: Can you give me an estimate as to the number of friends for whom Jeffrey provided and
paid for your services?

V: There was about, you know, I don’t know, 8 guys possibly.

JS: | And are you able to name those people for me?

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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030006.txt,"From: US GIO [us.gio@jpmorgan.com]

Sent: 6/14/2011 11:54:12 AM
To: Undisclosed recipients:
Subject: Eye on the Market, June 14, 2011

Attachments: image001.png; 06-14-11 - EOTM - The Stratford Inn.pdf

Eye on the Market, June 14, 2011 (attached PDF is easier to read)

Market update: for better or worse, this is the kind of year we were expecting. We were surprised at the market’s
unbridled optimism in April*, since the tug-of-war between private sector profits and public sector problems has a long
way to go. We chose the charts on the front page of our 2011 Outlook carefully; they were designed to show that equity
markets were priced inexpensively, but were likely to stay that way, given too much stimulus in the East, and ineffective
stimulus in the West **. We expect a modest second half recovery, based primarily on US capital spending increases,
easy credit conditions everywhere, and a pick-up in industrial production in Japan. But the world’s structural problems
are weighing on the private sector, and our portfolios are positioned for a single-digit year in credit, equities and hedge
funds.

* The Osama Bin Laden episode marked the equity market peak. Some commentators saw this event as a basis for further optimism,
but unsurprisingly, the positive glow lasted for only around 2.5 hours the subsequent Monday. According to the Congressional
Research Service, over the last decade, the US has spent at least $1.1 trillion in war funding operations, surpassing the
constant-dollar cost of the Korean and Vietnam Wars combined. This highlights the disproportionately large pain that small,
non-sovereign entities can inflict in the modern era.

** So far, the large growth and employment multipliers from deficit spending estimated by Christina Romer (former Chair of the
President’s Council of Economic Advisers) have not materialized. John Taylor and John Cogan from Stanford have been closer to the
mark: an initial boost, but then a rapidly fading benefit

Something different this week. I was on the road seeing clients last week, and was asked “what should be done about
job growth”. We are investors and not politicians, so my ideas [a] are not relevant. However, it seems to me that anyone
involved in the jobs debate should be required to read the article below, written after the prior deep US recession
(1990-1991). It’s from George McGovern, one of the most liberal politicians [b] ever to hold office and run for
President. His epiphanies after leaving office and running the Stratford Inn are worth considering as legislators
contemplate additional job creation measures, and the broader regulatory environment in which the private sector
operates.

“A Politician's Dream Is a Businessman's Nightmare”, by George McGovern, June 1992 [c]

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. (Justice Felix
Frankfurter). It's been 11 years since I left the U.S. Senate, after serving 24 years in high public office. After
leaving a career in politics, I devoted much of my time to public lectures that took me into every state in the
union and much of Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America.

In 1988, I invested most of the earnings from this lecture circuit acquiring the leasehold on Connecticut's
Stratford Inn. Hotels, inns and restaurants have always held a special fascination for me. The Stratford Inn
promised the realization of a longtime dream to own a combination hotel, restaurant and public conference
facility--complete with an experienced manager and staff. In retrospect, I wish I had known more about the
hazards and difficulties of such a business, especially during a recession of the kind that hit New England just
as I was acquiring the inn's 43-year leasehold. I also wish that during the years I was in public office, I had
had this firsthand experience about the difficulties business people face every day. That knowledge would
have made me a better U.S. senator and a more understanding presidential contender.

Today we are much closer to a general acknowledgment that government must encourage business to expand
and grow. Bill Clinton, Paul Tsongas, Bob Kerrey and others have, I believe, changed the debate of our
party [d]. We intuitively know that to create job opportunities we need entrepreneurs who will risk their
capital against an expected payoff. Too often, however, public policy does not consider whether we are
choking off those opportunities.

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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028649.txt,"The international community is unlikely to concede to either more
sanctions or the use of force until Iran's objections are taken into full
consideration. As such, a grand deal that is supposed to provoke a moment
of clarity is likely to be enmeshed in the existing, protracted arms-control
process.

Another complication is the advent of public opinion and critical
constituencies in Iran devoted to the perpetuation of the program. The
growing public sentiment is that Iran has a right to acquire a nuclear
capability. As the program matures, it is becoming a source of pride for a
citizenry accustomed to the revolution's setbacks and failures.

Also emerging is a bureaucratic and scientific establishment with its own
parochial considerations for sustaining the nuclear investment. A clerical
leadership that is dealing with a restive population and empowered
security services cannot easily dispense with its nuclear trump card.

All this suggests that the best means of addressing Iran's nuclear challenge
is to mitigate its most dangerous dimensions. The focus should remain on
Iran's high-grade enrichment and its underground nuclear facility nestled
in mountains outside Qom. Tehran seems to have conceived an ingenious
path to nuclear advancement, one that involves increasing the size and
sophistication of its civilian atomic apparatus to the point where it can
quickly surge into a bomb. While staying within the rules of the
International Atomic Energy Agency's inspection process, Iran is
essentially expanding its capabilities while shielding them under the
veneer of legality. Given the fact that much of civilian nuclear technology
can easily be misappropriated for military purposes, Iran can construct an
elaborate nuclear infrastructure while remaining within IAEA guidelines.

The diplomatic challenge is to derail this path to a nuclear weapon by
imposing significant restraints on its program. And this can still be done
through a process that proceeds incrementally and sequentially.

USS. officials would be wise to get out of the crisis mode and put some
time back on the clock. The Iran issue always seems urgent, and yet
somehow there is always time to deal with it. Washington should
acknowledge the obvious, namely, that given Iran's gradualist approach, it

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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031399.txt,"From: 
Sent: 
To: 
Subject: 
Lilly Sanchez 
3/5/2019 11:08:12 PM 
jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Herald 
Importance: High 
Miami U.S. Attorney's Office recuses itself from Jeffrey Epstein case 
Play Video 
DurationA 3:51 
AG nominee Barr pledges to look into handling of Epstein case 
Sen. Ben Sasse questioned attorney general nominee William Barr about the Jeffrey Epstein case on January 15, 
2019, getting the nominee to commit to having the Department of Justice look into the handling of that case if 
confirmed. C-SPAN Meta Viers 
BY JULIE K. BROWN 
jbrown@miamiherald.corn 
• 
• 
• 
R REPRINT OF THIS STORY 
Just days before a Friday deadline, the Justice Department has reassigned the Jeffrey Epstein victims' rights case to 
the U.S. Attorney's Office in Atlanta, the attorneys representing Epstein's victims' attorneys said Tuesday. 
Miami federal prosecutors, in letter to attorneys for the victims's lawyers on Monday, said they had recused 
themselves from the case, according to Brad Edwards and Jack Scarola, representing Epstein's victims. 
The reassignment means that the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, Byung J. ""BJay"" Pak, will 
oversee the case for the government. Pak, a former Georgia lawmaker, was appointed Atlanta's chief federal 
prosecutor by President Trump in October 2017. 
The Justice Department is still under a Friday deadline for prosecutors to confer with the victims' attorneys in an 
effort to settle the case. On Feb. 22, U.S. District Judge Kenneth A. Marra in Palm Beach ruled that federal 
prosecutors, under former Miami U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta, broke the law when they concealed a plea 
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agreement from more than 30 underage girls in Palm Beach who had been sexually abused by Epstein, a 
multimillionaire New York hedge fund manager. 
Marra stopped short of voiding the agreement, which granted Epstein and an untold number of accomplices 
immunity from federal prosecution for sex trafficking crimes, provided Epstein plead guilty to minor charges in state 
court. At the time of the plea deal, federal prosecutors had gathered enough evidence against Epstein to write a 53-
page federal indictment, court records show. 
Play Video 
DurationA 
12:20 
The story behind a Palm Beach sex offender's remarkable deal 
The story behind a Palm Beach sex offender's remarkable deal 
Emily Michot 
An investigation by the Miami Herald, ""Perversion of Justice,"" found that after Acosta met privately with one of 
Epstein's lawyers, the government agreed to seal the plea agreement so that no one — not the victims, not even the 
state court judge who sentenced Epstein — would know the full extent of his crimes. Epstein, now 66, was allowed 
to plead guilty to prostitution charges and served 13 months in the Palm Beach County jail, where he was given 
liberal work release, and allowed to travel to New York and his private island in the Caribbean during his 
subsequent house arrest. He was released in 2009, and now divides his time between New York, Palm Beach and the 
U.S. Virgin Islands. 
The Herald interviewed four of Epstein's victims, who were as young as 13 at the time they were abused by Epstein. 
They said they felt betrayed by state and federal prosecutors, who treated them like prostitutes instead of victims. 
Two of them sued the federal government in 2008 under the Crime Victims' Rights Act, which grants crime victims 
the right to be informed about plea deals and to confer with prosecutors. 
Marra, in a 33-page opinion, said prosecutors not only intentionally violated the Crime Victims' Rights Act, but they 
misled the girls into believing that the FBI's sex trafficking case against Epstein was ongoing — when, in fact, 
prosecutors had secretly closed it after sealing the plea bargain from the public record. 
Marra, noting that he reviewed affidavits, depositions and interrogatories, said ""Epstein worked in concert with 
others to obtain minors not only for his own sexual gratification, but also for the sexual gratification of others."" 
The victims' attorneys — Edwards, Scarola and Paul Cassell — have asked the Justice Department to throw out 
Epstein's plea agreement and reopen the criminal investigation. 
Edwards, who brought the victims' rights case against the government, said transferring the case to another 
jurisdiction is a prudent decision. 
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""I think it's good that we're going to get fresh eyes and a fresh opinion on the way the case was handled,"" Edwards 
said Tuesday. ""We were obviously in an adversarial posture with the U.S. Attorney's Office in Miami because they 
handled the case to begin with."" 
Miami's new U.S. Attorney, Ariana Fajardo Orshan — who was appointed by President Trump in September — did 
not respond to a request for comment. 
Play Video 
DurationA 
5:29 
Jeffrey Epstein apologizes, but not to his victims 
Jeffrey Epstein apologizes, but not to his victims 
Emily Michot 
Edwards predicted that it would take some time for Pak's office to review the case, which includes more than 500 
docket entries and thousands of documents. He said If the sides can't agree on a resolution, then Marra would likely 
have to come up with one. The case is being closely watched by crime victims' rights advocates, as it will likely set 
a precedent. 
Acosta, who was appointed by Trump as the U.S. secretary of labor in 2017, is the focus of a separate Justice 
Department investigation into whether there was any prosecutorial misconduct in the Epstein case. That probe, by 
the DOJ's Office of Professional Responsibility, was initiated in response to demands from a bipartisan group in 
Congress, led by Republican Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska and Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of 
Florida. 
In the meantime, a court hearing will be held at 4 p.m. Wednesday in New York in another Epstein-related case. A 
federal appeals court will hear oral arguments in a motion by the Miami Herald, supported by 32 other news 
organizations, asking the court to unseal documents that could reveal details about the extent of Epstein's crimes and 
any other people who may have been involved. 
Three of Epstein's former attorneys — who helped negotiate his plea deal in 2008 — wrote a letter published in the 
New York Times on Monday, defending the plea bargain cut with Acosta as a fair deal. The letter was in response to 
a Times editorial that called on Congress and the Trump administration to hold Acosta and others involved in the 
case accountable. 
Epstein's lawyers said the editorial's conclusions were ""in profound conflict with the reality,"" noting that there was 
no evidence that Epstein committed federal sex trafficking offenses. The letter was signed by former Epstein lawyers 
Kenneth Starr, Jack Goldberger and Lilly Ann Sanchez, as well as Epstein's current attorney, Martin G. Weinberg. 
Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article227136459.html#storylink=cpy 
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Lilly Ann Sanchez 
The LS Law Firm 
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TEXT-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032428.txt,"From: Kathy Ruemmler 
Sent: 1/12/2017 2:52:17 PM 
To: jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Subject: Re: 
Importance: High 
When I go to Dubai on Emirates, do I need to go first or is business class good enough given that I only care 
about slepeping? 
On Jan 12, 2017, at 9:22 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
nice 
On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 9:21 AM, Kathy Ruemmler wrote: 
Got hired by Apple this week to do a patent trial. 
On Jan 12, 2017, at 9:13 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
i understand the fear. thats why we will condition the close on how the others sell 
On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 9:12 AM, Kathy Ruemmler 
What if I get it and can't resell? 
On Jan 12, 2017, at 6:35 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
wrote: 
im happy to negotiate with developer on your behalf . or just give your talking points. allowances 
. commisions fees. free maintence etc 
On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 9:02 PM, Kathy Ruemmler wrote: 
Not to disturb you, but I am struck by the similar mannerisms between Trump and McGyver 
Sent from my iPad 
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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029557.txt,"""Greenspan is someone | know and like,"" Keating says. “But if you are so naive to believe that institutions with a
balance sheet with assets geared at 45 to one is not an accident waiting to happen then you don't deserve to be
chairman of the Federal Reserve.""

He praises Obama for seeking a return to the “liberal internationalism"" that, in Keating's view, made the US great in
the post-World War Il age. This is the US he loves but it is still in retreat.

Asked about the nature of leadership, Keating reveals what lies within his heart: ""| believe there is a poetic strand to
life that doesn't exist in an economics textbook.

""This is not to say that rationalism isn't important and good. It is. But left to itself without the guidance of higher
meaning and a higher concept, rationalism can be mean and incomplete. | say if you simply live on rational policy

and briefing notes you are not sufficiently informed.

""You need a higher calling or some inner system of belief - here | mention Kant and the inner command that tells
you what is true, what is right, what is good. The inner command must be the divining construct in what you do.

""Music has always been a large part of what makes me tick. You listen to a great work . . . you hear the majesty of
these works and your head and soul gets caught up in them. When that happens you are in for bigger things and

you will strike out to be better.

""When | was listening to music | would always have the pad out to write the ideas down.""

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destroy this communication and all copies thereof,
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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028891.txt,"weak, and there will be no second
opportunity for those who don't defend
themselves. Every year, new threats
arise. And the old ones: Hezbollah, Iran,
terrorism —are all ""alive and kicking"" and
erowing even stronger.

But there is good news too. Israel is the
strongest country in the region, from
Tripoli in Libya to Tehran. It's the
strongest militarily, strategically, and
economically, and if we know act
wisely—diplomatically too. Equally
important: Israel will continue to be the
strongest country in the region in the
foreseeable future — especially if we
manage to identify and cultivate these
sources of empowerment and advantage
— including:

¢ Armed Forces capable of defeating
any outside combination of threats,
including terrorism.

e A strong and growing economy in
an open relationship with global
markets.

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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026829.txt,"From: Richard Kahn 
Sent: 12/24/2015 12:52:15 AM 
To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com] 
Subject: Fwd: Alert: FIRPTA and REIT Reform Provisions in the New Tax Law Open Door to Increased Foreign Investment in 
U.S. Real Property Interests 
Importance: High 
Richard Kahn 
HBRK Associates Inc. 
575 Lexington Avenue, 4th Floor 
New York, NY 10022 
Tel 
Fax 
Cell 
Begin forwarded message: 
From: Sadis & Goldberg Tax Group < 
Date: December 23, 2015 at 3:02:13 PM EST 
To 
Subject: Alert: FIRPTA and REIT Reform Provisions in the New Tax Law Open Door to Increased 
Foreign Investment in U.S. Real Property Interests 
Reply-To: 
TAX ALERT 
DECEMBER 23, 2015 
FIRPTA and REIT Reform Provisions in 
New Tax Law Open Door to Increased 
Foreign Investment in U.S. Real 
Property Interests 
For further information about this Alert, 
please contact: 
Steven Etkind 
Partner 
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212.573.8412 
setkind@sglawyers.com 
Alex Gelinas 
Partner 
212.573.8159 
agelinas@sglawyers.com 
Please feel free to discuss any aspect of 
this Alert with your regular Sadis & 
Goldberg contact or with any of the 
partners whose names and contact 
information can be found at the end of 
the Alert. 
On December 18, 2015, President Obama signed into law a bill that significantly reforms the provisions 
of the Internal Revenue Code that were originally added 35 years ago by the Foreign Investment in 
Real Property Tax Act of 1980 (FIRPTA). The Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act of 2015 (the 
""PATH Act"") also includes extensions of a number of tax relief provisions that expired at the end of 
2015. The PATH Act makes foreign capital investment in U.S. real estate, energy and infrastructure 
assets more attractive by expanding certain exemptions from FIRPTA and clarifying the application of 
certain FIRPTA provisions to REITs and their shareholders. 
I. FOREIGN PENSION FUNDS EXEMPTED FROM FIRPTA TAXATION 
One of the most significant provisions of the PATH Act is the addition of a complete exemption from 
FIRPTA for ""qualified foreign pension funds"" and ""entities"" wholly owned by such funds, effective on 
the date of enactment. A foreign pension fund is ""qualified"" if it is subject to government regulation 
and certain reporting requirements in its home jurisdiction, is established to provide retirement or 
pension benefits to participants or beneficiaries that are current or former employees, has no greater 
than 5 percent beneficiaries, and enjoys tax benefits on either contributions or investment income in 
its home jurisdiction. The new exemption applies to direct investments and investments made 
through partnerships (including private equity funds). The PATH Act provides for certain details to be 
addressed by Treasury Regulations. It appears that the ""entities"" eligible for the FIRPTA exemption 
could include a U.S. or foreign ""blocker"" corporation that is wholly owned by a qualifying foreign 
pension fund. This exemption will, for the first time, permit foreign pension funds, including some 
governmental funds, to hold control positions in REITs without losing their FIRPTA exemption. 
Note that the regular rules of the Internal Revenue Code other than FIRPTA still would apply to the 
foreign pension fund. Therefore, a foreign pension fund that invested in a partnership that was 
engaged in a U.S. business (real estate or non-real estate) would still be subject to U.S. federal income 
tax on its share of the partnership's ""effectively connected"" U.S. business income in the same manner 
as other non-U.S. persons making an investment in a U.S. business partnership. 
Here are some examples of what can be done in light of the changes made by the PATH Act: 
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A. Raw Land Investment. A qualifying foreign pension fund invests in a partnership that buys raw land 
in the United States. (This could be a vacant lot, timberland, oil and gas or mineral property, or other 
property interests that qualify for treatment as real property for federal income tax purposes.) The 
investment is a capital asset, as the partnership is not engaged in business. The partnership later sells 
the property to a developer, or the pension fund sells its partnership interest. Under prior law, the 
foreign pension fund's non-business capital gain would automatically be subject to US federal income 
tax because of FIRPTA. Under the new law, the foreign pension fund's long-term or short-term capital 
gain is exempt from U.S. income tax and FIRPTA withholding because FIRPTA does not apply. 
B. Equity Kicker Mortgage Loan Investment. A foreign pension fund acquires an ownership interest 
in a mortgage loan secured by U.S. real property. The loan includes stated interest plus an equity 
kicker (e.g., additional interest equal to a share of gain realized on sale of the property). Such an 
equity kicker loan is treated as a U.S. real property interest under FIRPTA. Under prior law, gain 
realized by the foreign pension fund upon sale of the loan would automatically be subject to U.S. 
income tax under FIRPTA. Under new law, the gain realized on the sale of the mortgage loan would 
be exempt from U.S. income tax. (This conclusion is based on the assumption that the foreign pension 
fund is a mere investor and not engaged in an active lending business in the U.S.) 
C. U.S. Blocker Corp. Investment. A foreign pension fund wants to make an equity investment in a 
U.S. real estate business that is organized as a partnership. The foreign pension fund forms a U.S. 
corporation to acquire the partnership interest and the corporation is capitalized with a mix of equity 
and debt held by the shareholder. The corporation is subject to U.S. income tax on its net income, but 
gets to deduct interest paid or accrued on the debt held by the shareholder. The foreign corporation 
later sells the stock of the corporation. Under prior law, the gain on sale of the stock would be subject 
to U.S. income tax because the corporation was a ""U.S. real property holding corporation"" under 
FIRPTA. Under new law, FIRPTA does not apply to the foreign pension fund, so the capital gain on sale 
of the stock is exempt from U.S. income tax. Note that the U.S.-source interest paid to the foreign 
shareholder could be subject to U.S. withholding tax under the regular rules of the Code, but if the 
pension fund is organized in a jurisdiction that has a tax treaty with the U.S. (e.g., UK, Germany, 
France, China, Japan, etc.), these interest payments could be exempt from U.S. withholding under such 
tax treaty. 
2. FIRPTA EXEMPTION FOR INVESTMENTS IN PUBLICLY TRADED REIT STOCK INCREASED FROM 5 
PERCENT to 10 PERCENT 
For publicly traded REITs, the PATH Act opens the door to increased investment by expanding the 
current statutory exemption from FIRPTA for small portfolio investments by non-U.S. persons. The Act 
provides all foreign investors (not just pension funds) can now own up to 10 percent of the stock of a 
publicly traded REIT without triggering FIRPTA tax. Under prior law, FIRPTA tax would apply upon the 
foreign investor's sale of stock of the publicly traded REIT or the receipt of certain distributions from 
such REIT if the foreign investor holds more than 5 percent of the REIT's stock. 
3. CLARIFICATION OF THE EXEMPTION FOR INVESTMENTS IN DOMESTICALLY CONTROLLED REITS 
The PATH Act includes important clarifying presumptions that will allow publicly traded REITs and their 
shareholders to rely with greater confidence on the current law FIRPTA exemption for gains realized 
on sales of stock in ""domestically controlled"" REITS. In determining whether a REIT is domestically 
controlled, the REIT is now permitted to presume that any owner of less than 5 percent of any publicly 
traded shares of the REIT is a U.S. person, unless the REIT has actual knowledge to the contrary. 
4. REVENUE RAISING PROVISIONS RELATING TO FIRPTA AND REITs 
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The PATH Act includes certain revenue raising provisions to offset, in part, the tax revenue loss 
anticipated to result of the above-described tax reform provisions of the Act. Such revenue raisers 
include (among other technical changes) the following provisions: 
A. Increase in FIRPTA Withholding Rate. The purchaser of a U.S. real property interest from a non-
U.S. person was previously required to withhold 10 percent of the purchase price under FIRPTA. The 
PATH Act increases this rate to 15 percent for dispositions occurring after the 60th day following 
enactment, but maintains the 10 percent rate for sales of residential property for between $300,000 
and $1,000,000. This provision is not a tax increase but is designed to ensure that FIRPTA withholding 
collects a sufficient portion of the taxes owed. 
B. Restriction on REIT Spin-offs. In recent years, it has become increasingly common for large 
corporate taxpayers to reduce their tax bills by contributing real estate used in their businesses to a 
subsidiary, spinning off the subsidiary in a tax free transaction under Code section 355, and then 
having the spun-out corporation making a REIT election. The PATH Act curtails such activity by (i) 
providing that neither the distributing corporation nor the spun-out corporation can make a REIT 
election for ten years after that corporation was involved in a Section 355 transaction and (ii) denying 
tax-free treatment to spin-offs in which the distributing corporation or spun-out corporation (but not 
both) is a REIT. 
5. CONCLUSION 
The revisions to the FIRPTA and REIT rules discussed above represent a potentially large expansion of 
the incentives for foreign investment in U.S. real property interests, especially for foreign pension 
funds. Sponsors of U.S. real property investment funds and foreign investors with interests in U.S. real 
estate assets should review the new provisions to determine whether such persons could benefit from 
such U.S. tax law changes. 
Sadis & Goldberg LLP 
Please feel free to discuss any aspect of this Alert with your regular Sadis & Goldberg contact or with 
any of the partners, whose names and contact information are provided below. 
Alex Gelinas, 212.573.8159, 
Daniel G. Viola, 212.573.8038,  dviola@sglawyers.com  
Danielle Epstein-Day, 212.573.8416, depstein@sglawyers.com  
Douglas Hirsch, 212.573.6670, dhirsch@sglawyers.com  
Erika Winkler, 212.573.8022, ewinkler@sglawyers.com  
Jamie Kim, 212.573.8034, jkim@sglawyers.com  
Jeffrey Goldberg, 212.573.6666, jgoldberg@sglawyers.com  
Jennifer Rossan, 212.573.8783, kossan@sglawyers.com  
John Araneo, 212.573.8158, jaraneo@sglawyers.com  
Lance Friedler, 212.573.8030, Ifriedler@sglawyers.com  
Mitchell Taras, 212.5738417,  mtaras@sglawyers.com  
Paul Fasciano, 212.573.8025, pfasciano@sglawyers.com  
Ron S. Geffner, 212.573.6660, rgeffner@sglawyers.com  
Sam Lieberman, 212.573.8164, slieberman@sglawyers.com  
Steven Etkind, 212.573.8412, setkind@sglawyers.com  
Steven Nuttier, 212.573.8424, shuttler@sglawyers.com  
Yehuda Braunstein, 212.573.8029, ybraunstein@sglawyers.com  
Yelena Maltser, 212.573.8429, ymaltser@sglawyers.com  
agelinas@sglawyers.com 
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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030012.txt,"Eye on the Market | June 14, 2011 J.P Morgan

Topics: On lessons learned running the Stratford Inn

In short, “one-size-fits-all” rules for business ignore the reality of the market place. And setting thresholds for
regulatory guidelines at artificial levels--e.g., 50 employees or more, $500,000 in sales--takes no account of other
realities, such as profit margins, labor intensive vs. capital intensive businesses, and local market economics.

The problem we face as legislators is: Where do we set the bar so that it is not too high to clear? I don't have
the answer. I do know that we need to start raising these questions more often.

So, there you have it, one of the more remarkable epiphanies in American politics: a paean to entrepreneurship and
government restraint from one of its most progressive members. Public epiphanies like this are rare, but there have been
others. Last year, Al Gore conceded that first-generation ethanol was “not good policy” given its low energy conversion ratios,
and said he had supported ethanol out of “a certain fondness for the farmers in the state of lowa because I was about to run for
president.""* In 2008, former Fed Chair Greenspan conceded that his Ayn Rand philosophies regarding regulations and
shareholder self-interest were flawed. Perhaps the most famous epiphany was from Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense
and one of the principal architects of the Vietnam War. In 1995, he conceded that he was “wrong, terribly wrong” about the
war. George McGovern was one of the war’s fiercest opponents, saying on the floor of the Senate, “I'm tired of old men
dreaming up wars for young men to fight”.

There may be no magic elixir of policies to speed the adjustment the US faces. Look at it this way: the US is trying the mega-
stimulus route, while the UK has accelerated its fiscal austerity program. Yet both countries are struggling with below-trend
growth and employment. Perhaps after a debt binge, there are no easy answers, other than time. What to do next? McGovern’s
article suggests that an overly interventionist public sector may be the wrong answer, given the unintended consequences.

US and UK still searching for answers
Total household , non-financial corporate, federal and municipal debt,

percentof GDP
300%

280%
260%
240%
220% US
200%
180%
160%

140%
1987 1990 1993 1996 1999 2002 2005 2008
Source: Federal Reserve, Office for National Statistics. UK Data as of 2009.

UK

Michael Cembalest
Chief Investment Officer

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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029543.txt,"HARVARD UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
Barker Center - 12 Quincy Street - Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

ELISA NEW Tel:
Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature Fax

Dear Woody,

As I know Jeffrey has told you, I really enjoyed our conversation on the plane last spring about William
Carlos Williams’s “This Is Just to Say.” You offered a reading of the poem that seemed to me
completely persuasive and plausible and, yet, also, one that is not strictly dictated or delimited by the
lines themselves. These are lines that seem to me unusually open to divergent readings-- including, for
instance, a reading much more coaxing and seductive; another, much more defensive and manipulative;
another, much more about language itself as a mode of sharing. I left our conversation wanting to
explore with you the aggressive (or maybe mock aggressive) reading you gave, as well as the way this
poem, perhaps more than many, sustains so many readings. You helped me think about Williams’s
poem as it seems in some ways more like a “script” than a poem, a poem written in such a way as to be
turned by different voices in different directions, a poem that might even be “directed” by the reader. I'd
love to hear you read the poem again and, if you are willing, to discuss it a bit with me on camera for my
upcoming Massive Open Online Course on American poetry.

To remind you, the course I’m working on is Poetry in America, one of three Humanities courses that
will be launched internationally by edX in the next 18 months. This free course will allow students of all
ages around the world to immerse themselves in the history, the art, and the interpretation of American
poetry. Using state of the art tools, the course will combine text, video, audio, archival materials, on site
historical narrative and interactive features, and it will have a companion book that docks with it. (I'm
writing that book now.)

As I’m asking you here, I am inviting other distinguished Americans to do short cameo readings and,
when they are willing, short discussions of the poem with me. Those who have already done tapings, or
have agreed to participate, include Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, Harvard President Drew

Faust, performer and activist Eve Ensler, journalist Michael Pollan, Tour de France champion Greg
Lemond, professor and PBS personality Henry Lewis Gates, (my husband!) Larry Summers, Rabbi
Moshe Waldoks, poet Martin Espada, playwright Tony Kushner, and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino.
We are now reaching out to Bill Clinton, Matt Damon, Natalie Portman, and John McCain, among
others, and feel confident that many will agree. I'm very much hoping that you will agree to join this
distinguished group.

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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028885.txt,"footage is developed, and these courses will have as their centerpiece the WGBH episodes, and so this

funding will make all the rest possible.

I can polish this narrative and or edit it, if there are things you think I have wrong.

And I can attach a draft budget based on real Harvard numbers (what my Harvard video editor, producer,
media manager cost) as well as a draft WGBH budget I'll now go an negotiate with them. Or we can do that at

a second stage.

Let me know what you think? And when are we reading Whitman together. Why don't we set a date for Feb
when Poetry in America 3: Whitman is running online and we could screen a little video and then have a

discussion around your table with you and some friends?

please note
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apnews.com / ELAINE KURTENBACH and FOSTER KLUG,
Associated Press OSAKA, Japan (AP) — World leaders attending a
Group of 20 summit in Japan that began Friday are clashing over values
that have served for decades as the...

House passes $4.6 billion border bill as
leaders cave to moderate Democrats
and GOP

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question.
MR. SCAROLA: Wonderful. We are on the same
page.
BY MR. SIMPSON:
Q. Mr. Cassell, you mentioned that you had
something that you had prepared --

A. Yes.

Q. -- that would summarize --

A. Right.

Q. -- your knowledge.

A. Right.

Q. And now that you have exhausted your

recollection, could you produce that and let's just mark
it as an exhibit?
A. Sure.

MR. SIMPSON: We are up to Exhibit 3, I
believe. Cassell 3?

THE WITNESS: Right. Now, there are two
parts to this --

MR. SIMPSON: Can we mark it first?

THE WITNESS: Yeah. I just want the record
to be clear, there's a pre-December 30th section
and a post-December 30th section, so the top part
is the what I was working off of.

BY MR. SIMPSON:

ROUGH DRAFT ONLY

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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023591.txt,"Chart 34: The SX5E DED2 future (currently SX5E Dec18 div future) is the Chart 35: The DED2 div future (122.4) is not heavily discounted vs
highest in 9-years relative to DED1 BofAML fundamental bottom-up forecasts (only 1.5% upside potential
440 400% versus forecasts)
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130 90% ; Saag Bal Rad realised dividends
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Source: BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research. Data from 5-Jun-09 to 5-Jun-17. Historical values of DED1

are fixed at its current level of 116.6 and historical levels of DED2, DED3, DED4 and DED5 are re- Source: BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research. Data as of 2-Jun-17
scaled using historical their historical ratios to DED1 (DED2/DED1, DED3/DED1, DED4/DED1 and

DED5/DED1) as a multiplying factor.

Table 3: Volatility measures of major equity indices in the EMEA region (data as of 02-Jun-17)

Equity

3Mth ATM implied volatilit 10D realised volatili 12Mth-3Mth ATM i-vol spread 3Mth 90-110 skew index

Weekly Weekly Weekly Weekly Weekly

Current change 2Yrpercentile Current change 2Yrpercentile Current change 2Yrpercentile Current change 2Yrpercentile return
ESTX50 3.0% 0.4% 0% 6.1% -3.9% 3% 3.6% 0.4% 100% 7.1% 0A% 18% 0.4%
FTSE 0.6% 0.4% 4% 4.2% -3.6% 3% 2.8% -0.1% 87% 5.3% 0.4% 2% 0.0%
DAX 2.2% 0.7% 0% 7.1% -0,8% 8% 3.8% 0.4% 100% 7.1% 0.6% 22% 1.8%
CAC 2.9% 0.3% 0% 6.1% -3.9% 3% 2.7% 0.3% 100% 7.2% 0.2% 18% 0.1%
SMI 1.5% 0.1% 4% 6.5% -4.6% 6% 2.1% 0.0% 94% 6.2% 0.1% 19% 0.0%
RDXUSD 24.7% 1.2% 14% 21.7% -7.3% 35% 14% -1.0% 80% 4.8% 0.1% 19% -3.3%
TOP40 5.19% 1.0% 5% 93% 3.9% 9% 2.3% -0.4% 65% 7.2% 0.5% 15% -2.1%
ISE30 9.6% -0.2% 1% 12.9% 0.6% 16% 3.5% -0.1% 86% 6.7% 0.1% 64% 1.4%

Source: BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research

European volatility: Sector snapshot

Table 4: Volatility measures and indicative option prices for major European sector indices (data as of 02-Jun-17)

Bearish — <<<< ------------------e-nnnnnnnenncneanecnenncnnnnens >>>> Bullish

3Mth ATMf implied 3Mth 90%-110% risk Equity

volatility Real vol* 3Mth 95%-85% put spread 3Mth 100%-110% call spread** reversal™* index

Current Current Current
price Weekly Max price Weekly Max price™* Weekly

Weekly 2Yr (%of change 2Yr payout (%of change 2Yr payout (%of change 2Yr Weekly

Current change %-ile Current spot) (bps) %-ile ratio spot) (bps) %-ile ratio spot) (bps) %-ile — return

SX3P (Fd&Bv) 0.5%  -02% 1% 85% 0.6% -3 1% 7 2.0% -4 1% 49 -0.2% 2 85% 0.6%
SX6P (Utils) 1.7% = -0.2% = 1% 0.4% 0.7% -] 1% 13.8 2.3% 3 2% 44 -0.3% 1 100% — -0.2%
SX7E (Banks) 23.0% 0.9% 3% 20.9% 9% 8 4% 53 3.6% 12 13% 28 -0.5% -/ 40% — -3.1%
$X7P (Banks) 98% 1.2% 12% 14.0% 6% nm 13% 64 3.3% 15 17% 3.0 -0.5% -8 60% — -2.1%
SXAP (Auto) 73% = -0.2% 2% 3.5% 3% -] 2% 74 3.1% = 2% 3.2 -0.4% 0 54% 0.9%
SXDP (Health) 3.1%  -0.6% 2% 86% 0.9% -/ 2% 115 24% -14 2% 4] -0.2% 10 = 82% = 1.6%
SXEP (Oil&Gas) 54%  =—-0.2% = 1% 2.5% 2% -] 2% 85 2.8% -1 1% 3.6 -0.3% -] 94% — -2.2%
SXIP (Insur) 5.1% -03% 2% 86% 1% =2 3% 9.0 2.8% 3 6% 35 -0.5% 3 64% 0.8%
SXKP (Telecom) 49% -20% 1% 1.5% 1% -21 1% 94 2.7% -20 1% 37 -0.2% 2 98% — -1.0%
SXNP (Indust) 6.1%  -0.1% 6% 9.1% 2% 0 14% 83 2.8% =| 6% 3.6 0.0% 2 100% 1.5%
SXPP (Basic) 25.1% -04% 5% 8.5% 2.1% -3 6% 48 3.6% “I 9% 28 -0.2% -2 58% — -1.4%
SXQP (Prsnl&HH Gds) 3.9% 3.2% 22% 64% 0.9% 34. 21% = 11.2 2.6% 53 25% 38 -0.5% 24 41% = 0.7%
SXRP (Retail) 27% 0.1% 7% 78% 0.8% ] 5% 13.2 2.3% 3 6% 44 0.1% 3 96%  -0.4%
SXTP (Trvl&Lsre) 3.7%  -13% 6% 85% 0.9% -18 6% 10.8 2.6% -14 6% 3.9 -0.2% -4 55% = 1.9%

Source: BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research *Real vol = EWMA (Exponentially Weighted Moving Average) volatility, which measures historical price volatility but assigns greater importance to recent returns. Sigma(t)*2 =
0.94*Sigma(t- 1)*2+(1-0.94)*r(t}*2, where r(t) is the return on day t. “Indicative mid prices; strikes as % of forward ***Negative values indicate that the bullish risk reversal takes in a credit.

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Merrill Lynch Global Equity Volatility Insights | 06 June 2017 17

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IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012103.txt,"JEFFREY EPSTEIN,

Plaintiff,
VS.

SCOTT ROTHSTEIN, individually,
BRADLEY J. EDWARDS, individually,

and L.M., individually,

Defendants.

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE
FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND
FOR PALM BEACH COUNTY, FLORIDA

CASE NO.: 502009CA040800XXXXMBAG

NOTICE OF FILING

COMES NOW the Defendant/CounterClaimant, BRADLEY EDWARDS, by and

through his undersigned counsel, and hereby files the attached transcript of the telephone

interview of Virginia Roberts to supplement the proffer made in support of Counter-Claimant’s

Motion for Leave to Amend to Assert Punitive Damages.

I HEREBY CERTIFY that a true and correct copy of the foregoing has been furnished by

U.S. Mail to all Counsel on the attached list on this [7 day of May 2011.

Jack Scarola
Florida Bar No.: 169440

Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley, P.A.
2139 Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard

West Palm Beach, Florida 33409

Phone: (561) 686-6300

Fax: (561) 383-9451

Attorney for Defendant/CounterClaimant
Edwards

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IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026783.txt,"One of the major tax raising provisions in the Tax Act is a one-time tax imposed on the accumulated
earnings held in foreign subsidiaries of US companies. This provision is broader that it may first
appear. Under the Tax Act, any 10% US shareholder of a foreign corporation (determined on December
31, 2017) will be required to include in income, for the taxable year 2017, its proportionate share of the
foreign corporation's undistributed earnings, if the foreign corporation is either a controlled foreign
corporation (CFC) or has at least one 10% US shareholder that is a corporation.

This law change could generate significant phantom income with respect to 10%-or-greater owned
foreign portfolio companies both (i) for US taxable investors (including the general partner and its
owners) in partnership funds organized in the United States and/or for US sponsors of non-US
funds. The Tax Act provides for reduced tax rates on such income for corporate investors of 8% (for
earnings invested in tangible business assets) and 15.5% (for cash and cash equivalents), and 9.05% and
17.54% for investors taxed as individuals.

5. Tax-Free Section 1031 Like Kind Exchanges Eliminated Except for Real Property Transactions

The Tax Act eliminates the ability to qualify for tax-free exchange treatment under Code section 1031 if
the property being exchanged is personal property. Consequently, for transactions occurring after
December 31, 2017, exchanges of artwork, equipment, vehicles or other personal property held for
investment or for use in a business, including Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies, for like kind property
will not eligible for Section 1031 tax treatment. Exchanges of real property continue to be eligible for
Section 1031 exchange treatment.

6. Certain Tax Accounting Rules Have Been Revised

Under prior law, net operating losses (NOLs) could be carried back two years and carried forward for
twenty years. Under the Tax Act, NOLs arising in tax years ending after December 31, 2017 generally
cannot be carried back, but can be carried forward indefinitely. However, only 80% of a company's
taxable income is permitted to be offset by NOLs. The remainder of the unused NOLs will carry forward.

The Tax Act also expands the category of corporations and partnerships that are eligible to use the cash
method of accounting. Certain businesses may derive a tax benefit by switching from the accrual
method to the cash method of accounting.

7. Deferred Compensation

The Tax Act generally leaves the current tax rules for deferred compensation intact. However, the Act
also includes a new deferral provision for certain types of broad-based employee equity, which may
apply to certain private companies.

8. Estate and Gift Tax Changes

In 2017, an individual could give or transfer at death up to $5,490,000 without paying gift or estate taxes.
The Tax Act doubles the federal estate and gift tax unified exemption amount for estates of decedents
dying and gifts made after December 31, 2017, and inflation adjustments will continue to
apply. Therefore, in 2018, an individual has approximately an $11.2 million exemption, and a married
couple has approximately $22.4 million of available shelter from federal gift and estate taxation. Note
that the large exemption which applies to gifts may be useful in federal income tax planning. For
example, large lifetime gifts of appreciated securities, artwork and other personal property (including
possibly, a carried interest) to relatives who are in lower income tax brackets, or who reside in states
with lower, or no state income taxes could save the family substantial federal income and/or state
income taxes when such property is sold by the recipient of the gift.

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015923.txt,"Silver Bullets
Can't be Fired

uman brains are wonderfully creative things. We can compose
H music, play golf, write novels, and turn our hands to all manner

of problems. Many people use their brains to write software. In
our modern-day lives we use software all the time: when we access the
web, type on a word processor or play a computer game. Software also
inhabits many apparently dumb devices. Modern cars contain dozens
of computers quietly working away; providing entertainment and
navigation, controlling the engine, and helping the car brake safely. In
my living room I count over a hundred computers. Many are tiny, like
the one in my TV remote control, while others are hidden as parts of
larger machines. The laptop on which I write has over twenty computers
inside it, besides the main Intel processor.

One thing all these computers have in common is that a human
being sat for many hours writing their software. Software is formal logic
written in something resembling English.

If I go to my ATM and try to withdraw cash, a programmer will
have written out the logic for the transaction as a set of rules.

When I put my bankcard in the slot, and type in my PIN, a line of
software will ask: If the bank balance of ‘James Tagg’ is less than twenty
dollars and I have pressed ‘withdraw for an amount in excess of twenty
dollars, then display, “We are sorry we cannot process the transaction at
this time.” and return the card. There seems to be an unwritten rule that
the things a computer says should be accurate but unhelpful!

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8 May, 2011

Article 1.	NYT
End of Mideast Wholesale
Thomas L. Friedman	
Article 2.	Le Monde diplomatique
Is This the End of the Assad Dynasty?
Patrick Seale	
Article 3.	NYT – Books
Mohamed ElBaradei, the Inspector
Leslie H. Gelb	
Article 4.	Vanity Fair
Hillary Clinton - Woman of the World
Jonathan Alter	
Article 1.

NYT

End of Mideast Wholesale

Thomas L. Friedman



May 7, 2011 -- If you look into the different “shop” windows across the Middle East, it is increasingly apparent that the Arab uprisings are bringing to a close the era of “Middle East Wholesale” and ushering in the era of “Middle East Retail.” Everyone is going to have to pay more for their stability. Let’s start with Israel. For the last 30 years, Israel enjoyed peace with Egypt wholesale — by having peace with just one man, Hosni Mubarak. That sale is over. Today, post-Mubarak, to sustain the peace treaty with Egypt in any kind of stable manner, Israel is going to have to pay retail. It is going to have to make peace with 85 million Egyptians. The days in which one phone call by Israel to Mubarak could shut down any crisis in relations are over. 

Amr Moussa, the outgoing head of the Arab League and the front-runner in polls to succeed Mubarak as president when Egypt holds elections in November, just made that clear in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. Regarding Israel, Moussa said: “Mubarak had a certain policy. It was his own policy, and I don’t think we have to follow this. We want to be a friend of Israel, but it has to have two parties. It is not on Egypt to be a friend. Israel has to be a friend, too.” 

Moussa owes a great deal of his popularity in Egypt to his tough approach to Israel. I hope he has a broader vision. It is noteworthy that in the decade he led the Arab League, he spent a great deal of time jousting with Israel and did virtually nothing to either highlight or deal with the conclusions of the 2002 U.N. Arab Human Development Report — produced by a group of Arab scholars led by an Egyptian — that said the Arab people are suffering from three huge deficits: a deficit of freedom, a deficit of knowledge and deficit of women’s empowerment. 

The current Israeli government, however, shows little sign of being prepared for peace retail. I can’t say with any certainty that Israel has a Palestinian partner for a secure peace so that Israel can end its occupation of the West Bank. But I can say with 100 percent certainty that Israel has a huge interest in going out of its way to test that possibility. The Arab world is going through a tumultuous transition to a still uncertain destination. Israel needs to do all it can to get out of their story, because it is going to be a wild ride. 

Alas, though, the main strategy of Iran, Syria, Hezbollah and Hamas will be to drag Israel into the Arab story — as a way of deflecting attention away from how these anti-democratic regimes are repressing their own people and to further delegitimize Israel, by making sure it remains a permanent occupier of Palestinians in the West Bank. 

Have no illusions: The main goal of the rejectionists today is to lock Israel into the West Bank — so the world would denounce it as some kind of Jewish apartheid state, with a Jewish minority permanently ruling a Palestinian majority, when you combine Israel’s Arabs and the West Bank Arabs. With a more democratic Arab world, where everyone can vote, that would be a disaster for Israel. It may be unavoidable, but it would be insane for Israel to make it so by failing to aggressively pursue a secure withdrawal option. 

The second group that will have to pay retail for stability is the Arab monarchies — Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan, Morocco. These governments have for decades bought stability with reform wholesale — by offering faux reforms, like reshuffling cabinets, that never amounted to real power sharing — and by distracting their people with shiny objects. But these monarchies totally underestimate the depth of what has erupted in their region: a profound quest for personal dignity, justice and freedom that is not going away. They will have to share more power. 

The third group I hope will have to pay retail is Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood. Under Mubarak, in an odd way, the Brotherhood had it easy. Mubarak made sure that no authentic, legitimate, progressive, modern Egyptian party could emerge between himself and the Muslim Brotherhood. That way, Mubarak could come to Washington once a year and tell the president: “Look, it’s either me or the Muslim Brotherhood. We have no independent, secular moderates.” 

Therefore, to get its votes, all the Muslim Brotherhood had to say was that “Mubarak is a Zionist” and “Islam is the answer.” It didn’t have to think hard about jobs, economics or globalization. It got its support wholesale — by simply being the only authentic vehicle for protest against the regime. Now the Muslim Brotherhood is going to have to get its votes retail — I hope. 

This is the key question: Will a united, legitimate, authentic, progressive, modern, nationalist alternative to the Muslim Brotherhood get its act together and challenge the Islamists in the Egyptian elections, and then rule effectively? Woody Allen famously pointed out that 80 percent of life is showing up. Wrong. Eighty percent of life is getting stuff done. The Egyptian centrists from Tahrir Square now need to show that they can form parties to get good stuff done. Nobody pays wholesale anymore. 






Article 2.

Le Monde diplomatique

Is This the End of the Assad Dynasty?

Patrick Seale

  

2011-05-06 -- The disturbances started in mid-March in Daraa, a southern city on the border with Jordan, when a dozen children were manhandled, arrested and carried off to Damascus for scribbling hostile graffiti on a wall. Distraught parents came down into the street to vent their anger at such heavy-handed brutality. They were soon joined by others. The uprising had begun and soon spread across the country. No doubt it was inspired, in part at least, by the display of people power which has leapt with contagious speed from one country to another, shaking the foundations of Arab autocracy and giving a great jolt to the immobile political order in the Middle East.

In Syria, the authorities then made what may prove to be a fatal mistake. In a move that looked like panic, the security forces used live fire against the protesters -- and have continued to do so. By the end of April, over 550 people had been killed in different locations around the country, while many more were wounded and possibly two thousand arrested. With little reliable information coming out of Syria it is impossible to be certain of the figures. The state used particular violence against Daraa, a poor city in an agricultural region which has suffered from government neglect and crippling drought in recent years. As if to punish it for initiating the troubles, tank fire was used to quell the protests and something like a siege put in place. Electricity and water were cut off and food became scarce.

The deaths in Daraa and elsewhere -- and the emotional funeral processions that followed -- have clearly aroused great rage in the population and a thirst for revenge. President Bashar al-Assad’s legitimacy has been eroded. A strident call is ringing out increasingly for the fall of the regime. The president is now fighting for his political life and for that of the regime put in place in 1970 by his father, the late President Hafez al-Assad.

Forty-one years in power

The rule of the Assads, father and son, has now lasted 41 years, a score comparable to that of other long-lasting Arab autocrats, each apparently determined to be a président-à-vie. In no other part of the world have so many rulers clung so assiduously to power. Bashar appears genuinely to have believed that the Arab nationalist ideology he inherited, his opposition to Israel and his support for resistance movements such as Hizbullah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza, gave him immunity from popular discontent. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal on 31 January, he claimed that Syria could not be compared to Egypt. “Why is Syria stable,” he asked, “although we have more difficult conditions? Egypt has been supported financially by the United States, while we are under embargo by most countries of the world. We have growth although we do not have many of the basic needs for the people. Despite all that, the people do not go into an uprising. So it is not only about needs and not only about reform. It is about the ideology, the beliefs and the cause that you have. There is a difference between having a cause and having a vacuum.”

Unfortunately for Bashar, this analysis has proved wrong. As if caught unawares, his first public speech on 30 March was a public relations disaster. It was delivered to an obedient parliament, which interrupted him repeatedly with acclamation and crass plaudits. In an aside, he seemed to concede that external crises had distracted him from making the reforms he had intended when he first took office. In a second speech on 16 April to his newly appointed cabinet, he announced the lifting of the hated state of emergency, in force since the Ba’ath Party seized power in 1963, and the abolishing of the dreaded Special State Security Court. But even these moves came to seem half-hearted when it emerged that demonstrations could only be held with prior permission from the interior ministry.

The difficult and perilous task Bashar now faces is nothing less than the profound restructuring -- under great popular pressure -- of a fossilised system of governance inherited from his father, but which is no longer appropriate to the modern age, and no longer tolerated by the bulk of the population. Like other Arabs, Syrians want real political freedoms, the release of political prisoners, an independent judiciary, the punishment of corrupt bigwigs, a free press, a new law on political parties allowing for genuine pluralism (and the cancellation of article 8 of the constitution which enshrines the Ba’ath Party as “the leader of state and society”), and an end, once and for all, to arbitrary arrest, police brutality and torture.

Can Bashar meet these demands? Does he have the will and ability to do so? Can he hope to prevail over the entrenched interests of his extended family, of his intelligence and army chiefs, of powerful figures in his Alawite community, of rich Sunni merchants of Damascus traditionally allied to the Assad family, and of the small but powerful “new bourgeoisie,” made rich by the transition from a state-controlled to a market-oriented economy, over which he has himself presided in the past decade? All these disparate forces want no change in a system which has brought them privilege and wealth. Above all, can Bashar change the brutal methods of his police and security forces? Could anyone in just a few weeks hope to change habits of repression ingrained over half a century, and indeed far longer? (For autocracy is not an Assad invention.)

The Bashar years

Until the outbreak of the crisis, Bashar al-Assad had little or nothing of the menacing pose of a traditional Arab dictator. His manner was modest and, at 45, he looked astonishingly young. His tall willowy frame has none of the robustness of a fighter, while his gaze, questioning and often perplexed, has none of the certainties of a man born to power. He was a young doctor studying ophthalmology in London when the accidental death in 1994 of his elder brother, Basil, an altogether tougher character who was being groomed for the succession, propelled him somewhat reluctantly onto the political scene.

The country he came to rule in 2000 seemed backward in an increasingly globalised and technologically advanced world. His first reforms were therefore financial and commercial. Mobile phones and the internet were introduced. Private schools and universities proliferated. In 2004 private banks and insurance companies were allowed to operate for the first time, and a stock exchange was opened in March 2009. A political and economic alliance was forged with Turkey (and visas abolished), which allowed trade to grow along that border, benefiting Aleppo. The Old City of Damascus was revitalised, ancient courtyard houses restored and hotels and restaurants opened to cater for the growing number of tourists. Before the crisis erupted, Syria was negotiating to join the World Trade Organisation and conclude an association agreement with the European Union.

But Bashar’s years in power seem to have hardened him. He developed a taste for control -- control over the media, over the university, over the economy (through cronies such as his exorbitantly rich cousin Rami Makhlouf), control over society at large. Free expression is not allowed. Political decision-making is restricted to a tight circle around the president and security services. Like his father, Bashar clearly does not like to be pushed around or to seem to yield to pressure. Even so, many Syrians still support him in the belief that, as an educated, modern and secular ruler, he is better placed than most to bring about necessary change.

At the time of writing, Bashar still seems to have a chance, if a slim one, of stabilising the situation and perhaps earning a further spell in power -- but only if he calls a halt to the killing of protesters and takes the lead of the reform movement, and in effect carries out a silent coup against the hardliners.

But it may well be too late for that. Indeed, Bashar may already have lost authority to men like his brother, Maher al-Assad, commander of the regime’s Republican Guard, who seems to advocate crushing the protests by force. If the army and the security services remain loyal, it will be difficult for the opposition to unseat the regime. But there have been ominous rumours of army defections as well as reports that some members of the Ba’ath Party have resigned.

It needs to be recognised that the Assad regime does have determined enemies, at home and abroad, who conspire against it in the neighbouring countries -- Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and also Israel -- and among Syrian exiles in London, Paris and the US. These enemies have smelled blood. Riding on the turbulent wave of popular dissent, they will not easily give up. According to US diplomatic cables, released by WikiLeaks and published in mid-April in The Washington Post, the State Department secretly financed a London-based network of Bashar’s opponents to the tune of $12m between 2005 and 2010.

A continuous whole

It is probably fair to view Bashar al-Assad’s term of office and that of his father as a single continuous whole. Not only did Hafez al-Assad decide that Bashar should succeed him, but he also bequeathed to him an autocratic system based on an all-powerful centralising presidency, and a set of principles and external allies and opponents which together determine Syria’s foreign policy. Bashar’s whole career -- like that of his father before him -- has been shaped by Syria’s contest with Israel. Syria has had to live, fight and survive in a hostile Middle East environment shaped by Israel’s overwhelming victory over the Arabs in the 1967 war, its seizure of extensive Arab territories including Syria’s Golan Heights and its subsequent close alliance with the United States, which put in place a sort of dual US-Israeli regional hegemony from which Syria and its allies have sought to free themselves ever since. The 1973 war waged by Egypt and Syria to recover lost territories and force Israel to negotiate a global peace had some initial success but failed to realise its objectives. Instead, Egypt made a separate peace with Israel in 1979 and was removed from the Arab line up. The rest of the region was then exposed to the full force of Israeli power.

Looking to its defences, Syria established a partnership in 1979 with the newborn Islamic Republic of Iran. And once Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982 in a bid to expel Syrian influence, destroy the PLO and bring Lebanon into its orbit, Syria found local allies among the Shia resistance movements of South Lebanon -- of which Hizbullah became the most prominent. Waging a guerrilla war, and benefiting from logistical support and weapons from Iran and Syria, Hizbullah managed to force Israel out of South Lebanon in 2000, after an 18-year occupation. From this was born the Tehran-Damascus-Hizbullah axis, which over the years grew into the principal regional challenger of the United States and Israel.

Both the United States and Israel have done their utmost to disrupt this axis and prevent it acquiring any effective deterrent capability: Iran has faced constant demonisation, sanctions and threat of military attack because of its nuclear programme, while Israel has made repeated attempts to destroy Hizbullah, including its war on Lebanon in 2006. Syria, in turn, has faced intimidation, isolation, US sanctions and an Israeli attack in 2007 on its alleged nuclear facility.

Bashar has had to wrestle with his own crises. He survived George W. Bush’s “global war on terror” after 9/11, then faced the greater ordeal of the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq and the long occupation that followed. Had the United States been successful in Iraq, Syria would have been the next target, as pro-Israel neocons, the main architects of the Iraq war, had intended. Syria was then confronted by the 2005 Lebanese crisis, triggered by the assassination of former prime minister Rafik Hariri. Syrian forces were ousted from Lebanon and the Assad regime threatened with extinction by the combined pressures of the United States and France.

There is also a much older memory that still hangs like a dark cloud -- that of the massacres at Hama in central Syria in 1982. It was then that Hafez al-Assad put down, with great violence, an armed insurrection by the Muslim Brothers. Beginning in 1977, this Islamic group had launched a series of terrorist attacks against the regime, murdering several of the president’s close associates and eventually seizing control of Hama, where they killed Ba’ath Party and government officials. The regime regained control of the town, but only after a bloodbath in which between 10,000 and 20,000 people lost their lives.

Thirty years later, some Islamists still dream of revenge, while minorities such as the Alawites fear that if the regime were to fall, they would be massacred in turn. Emerging from underground, the Muslim Brothers have now called on the people to join the protests. The cry for freedom risks being drowned by sectarian strife.

Such has been Bashar al-Assad’s harsh apprenticeship. He has had to surmount a series of regime-threatening crises much like those his father confronted in his time. Both Assads felt some satisfaction at managing to survive them and thus provide Syria with a measure of stability and security, especially compared with Iraq and Lebanon. There was, however, a price to pay. Having to live and survive in a hostile environment inevitably conferred great powers on the security services, guardians of the regime -- to the increasing resentment of ordinary Syrians. A dialogue of the deaf ensued. The Assads’ intense preoccupation with external crises led them to neglect the internal scene. Who would need political freedoms, they no doubt thought, if given the benefits of security and stability? As the regime’s official daily newspaper Tishrin wrote on 25 April: “The most sublime form of freedom is the security of the nation.”

The recent explosion of popular anger has evidently taken Bashar by surprise, as it did other Arab autocrats. He has had to wrench his attention away from the perils and excitements of foreign policy to urgent challenges at home. To devise and implement far-reaching domestic reforms, as the present situation urgently demands, will require a radical change of focus. It will not be easy, and a favourable outcome is far from certain. Bashar now faces an internal threat to his regime at least as dangerous as any of the external threats he and his father confronted so successfully.



Patrick Seale is a leading British writer on the Middle East. His latest book is The Struggle for Arab Independence: Riad el-Solh and the Makers of the Modern Middle East (Cambridge University Press).


Article 3.

NYT – Books

Mohamed ElBaradei, the Inspector

Leslie H. Gelb



                    THE AGE OF DECEPTION

                    Nuclear Diplomacy in Treacherous Times

                    By Mohamed ElBaradei

                    340 pp. Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Company. $27.



May 6, 2011 -- The Nobel laureate Mohamed ElBaradei has stated his intention to “nominate myself” to be president of Egypt, but this memoir will not improve his election prospects. In personal terms, it’s hard to imagine anything less thrilling to Egypt’s street revolutionaries than ElBaradei’s accounts of his meals (“The food was very basic, with few choices: noodles, meat and kimchi; no fruit or salad”) and accommodations (“a worn, drab-colored suite consisting of a bedroom and a salon”) in places like North Korea. Nor will his fellow Egyptians be much intrigued by the details of his battles against nuclear proliferators. At the moment, the protestors have other priorities. 

On the other hand, foreign policy leaders and wonks everywhere will find plenty in this memoir to stir debates about the most vital task for global survival — the need to stop the spread of nuclear weapons, especially to rogue states and terrorists. 

That quest is ElBaradei’s story. For decades he was an intimate participant in dramatic nuclear proliferation confrontations that dominated headlines. He served as a senior official at the International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nations nuclear watchdog and inspection arm, for 13 years (1984-97) before rising to its director-generalship in 1997. He resigned in 2009 after completing his third term and announced his interest in running against President Hosni Mubarak in the election scheduled for this year. In 2005, he and the agency were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their nonproliferation endeavors. Doubtless the Norwegian selectors, always ready to needle American hawks, also sought to reward his bold critique of the American-led war against Iraq, especially since they drew ill-tempered ripostes from top officials in the Bush administration, particularly “Dick Cheney and his faction.” 

In many ways, this David-Goliath confrontation over Iraq both drove ElBaradei in his years atop the I.A.E.A. and also inspired this memoir. The Iraq story is well known. The Bush team insisted that Saddam Hussein — who had cheated on nukes and chemical weapons once before and been caught — had or was on the verge of acquiring nuclear weapons, and they demanded I.A.E.A. inspections of Iraq to confirm it. The agency conducted 247 inspections at 147 sites in Iraq from November 2002 until March 2003 and found no violations and no nuclear weapons. Nonetheless, the United States insisted on its own “evidence” and went to war. There can be no exaggerating the negative effects of this experience on world opinion toward the United States and upon ElBaradei himself as I.A.E.A. chief. 

ElBaradei’s self-proclaimed mission became preventing another Iraq-type war. To this end, he significantly upgraded the agency’s inspection capabilities, building on the work of his predecessor, Hans Blix. At the same time, ElBaradei decried American counterproliferation efforts as warmongering. These campaigns provided the three themes of his memoir: the need to strengthen the mandate and standing of the I.A.E.A., to restrain sword-waving by the great powers (read the United States), and to emphasize diplomacy and collective security instead. 

First, and not surprisingly, ElBaradei is well aware of the atomic energy agency’s handicaps. For one, its inspections are generally restricted to Non-Proliferation Treaty members and only to those sites declared by those members. Extending this limited mandate to other sites requires a strong push from the United Nations Security Council. The agency has only some 2,300 employees, a very tight budget of about $450 million and limited intelligence-gathering resources. Of course, ElBaradei wants to buttress inspection authority and capabilities. He wants more intelligence-sharing from the big powers. He is particularly angry at Washington for not disclosing its intelligence that Syria was building a nuclear facility, and then for doing nothing to stop Israel from bombing that facility in 2007. He also pushes for tougher safeguards for nuclear material and for moving control of the developmental stages of the “fuel cycle” from national to international hands. 

This is all sensible but probably not attainable. While the United Nations does a number of things quite well, it is not very adept or courageous when it comes to sensitive political matters and national prerogatives. Take, for example, the curious fact that the members of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights elected Libya to its chairmanship in 2003, despite its appalling record, because it was “Africa’s turn.” If this is how business is done, it is unlikely that the I.A.E.A.’s board of governors and the Security Council will ever endow the agency with the common-sense powers and capabilities ElBaradei wants. 

Beyond this, ElBaradei insistently describes the United States and other great powers as more the problem than the solution. In a “new era, one characterized by clandestine activity and the willingness of some countries to blatantly deceive,” the Iraq experience showed “that this deliberate deception was not limited to small countries ruled by ruthless dictators.” ElBaradei goes on to fault the United States for offering direct dialogue with North Korea while refusing talks with Iran “without preconditions.” 

He goes on to say that Washington does not seem to understand the actual causes of proliferation, which he writes “were rooted much deeper, in the extreme economic and social inequalities that prevailed between North and South . . . and the conflicts and tensions that continued to fester in specific regions.” Those tensions certainly lead to proliferation, but “economic and social inequalities” have no detectable bearing on why Libya, North Korea, Pakistan, India, Iran, Syria and Israel have pursued nuclear programs. 

ElBaradei passionately advocates making diplomacy the main recourse in counterproliferation — and he’s right to do so. But when he argues that “the increasing distrust between different cultures” form the barrier to “an enduring and collective security” he’s on shaky ground. 

His credo is diplomacy above all else, for however long it takes and whatever the risk that nuclear weapons will be built in the meantime. He exhibits more sympathy for non-Western proliferators and their needs than for the major powers and their security and political concerns. At times, his narrative comes close to condoning the motives of states that seek nuclear weapons. “Iran’s goal is not to become another North Korea — a nuclear weapons possessor but a pariah in the international community — but rather Brazil or Japan, a technological powerhouse with the capacity to develop nuclear weapons if the political winds were to shift, while remaining a nonnuclear weapons state,” he writes. As for Iran’s concealing its nuclear program at Natanz, he says Iran “was not intending to ‘hide’ it per se.” 

And he adds his voice to those who contend that the fight against proliferation can’t succeed unless the established nuclear powers (above all, America and Russia) reduce their stockpiles and move toward nuclear disarmament. It will be many moons and unerringly effective inspections before leaders in Washington and Moscow contemplate such a course. Surely ElBaradei knows this. 

Nonetheless, “The Age of Deception” provides the grist for serious debate even as it helpfully chronicles the International Atomic Energy Agency’s journey and tribulations as it evolved from a relatively obscure group of technicians into an organization with growing international clout. But if those following in ElBaradei’s path think they can combat proliferation without the major powers — particularly the United States — assuming a central role, they are wrong. Checking proliferation will require more innovative and tighter cooperation between the agency ElBaradei loves and the United States, of which he no longer seems especially fond. 



Leslie H. Gelb is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, a former senior official in the State and Defense Departments, and a former New York Times columnist.




Article 4.

Vanity Fair

Hillary Clinton - Woman of the World

Jonathan Alter



June 2011 -- It was four a.m. when Hillary Clinton’s plane touched down at Andrews Air Force Base, and by midmorning she was in the Oval Office conferring with President Obama. The night before, as her plane was en route from Tunis, they had agreed that the vote of the United Nations Security Council to impose a no-fly zone on Libya meant that it was now decision time on launching a third American war in the Middle East, though no one in the U.S. government dared call it that. Muammar Qaddafi was ramping up his genocidal threats, pledging to show “no mercy” toward his own people (whom he described as “rats”) in the eastern city of Benghazi. Inside the White House, the president quickly settled on an American bombing campaign, but he and the secretary of state thought strongly that Great Britain and France should be seen as taking the lead. They agreed that there was no choice but for Hillary to sit down in person with both British prime minister David Cameron and French president Nicolas Sarkozy. “I’m sorry, Hillary, but you’re going to fly over the Atlantic again,” said Obama, who was about to leave on his own foreign trip, to Brazil. So only hours after landing from Tunis, she was headed back to Paris.

By then it was clear that the “Arab Spring” of 2011 was creating tumult not just in the Middle East but inside the Obama administration. Not since the fall of Communism, in the late 80s, has a U.S. administration faced a chain reaction of foreign crises that seemed so much out of its control.

At first, Hillary looked clairvoyant: in January, when the street protests were still small in Tunisia, she lectured decrepit dictatorial regimes at a conference in Qatar that “the region’s foundations are sinking into the sand.” Within days, demonstrators filled Cairo’s Tahrir Square, a vibrant plea for greater freedom that swiftly spread to Jordan, Yemen, Bahrain, Oman, Libya, and eventually even Syria. But if Madam Secretary could be ahead of the curve, she was also sometimes behind it, caught in a dizzying series of upheavals that left her both exhilarated and exhausted. In early February, Hillary said the regime of Hosni Mubarak was “stable”; he was gone 17 days later. When she felt White House officials were pushing too hard in public statements for Mubarak to resign, Hillary complained to President Obama, who was unmoved. Yet on the big picture, especially the need to isolate the menacing regime in Tehran, the president and his secretary of state fully agreed. They understood immediately that, for all the facile accusations of inconsistency and hypocrisy, a one-size-fits-all foreign policy wouldn’t work. Doctrines, they felt, were for the doctrinaire.

Hillary had been one of the first in the administration to privately raise the issue of a no-fly zone. But she retreated when her main ally in the Cabinet, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, loudly and publicly said a no-fly zone would mean attacking ground positions, and it was a bad idea to get involved in Libya. The White House was searching for a way to arm the rebels—a strategy Hillary found problematic—but also resisted a no-fly zone. “Lots of people throw around phrases like no-fly zone. They talk about it as though it’s just a video game,” White House chief of staff Bill Daley said dismissively.

Hillary decided to push her case on March 12, after the Arab League voted to request action from the U.N. Security Council—an extraordinary decision to break Arab ranks and ask the nations they had for so long denounced as colonialists to help. “Their statement moved her,” said a close aide, adding that two meanings of “moved” applied.

A myth quickly arose that the women in the administration—Clinton, U.N. ambassador Susan Rice, and national-security aide Samantha Power, whose Pulitzer Prize–winning book on genocide was influential in Obama’s thinking—drove the debate. “The idea that the girls pushed the boys into war is ludicrous,” says Anne-Marie Slaughter, who until recently served as director of policy planning at State. “We were dismissed for months as soft liberals concerned about ‘peripheral’ development issues like women and girls, and now we’re Amazonian Valkyrie warmongers. Please.” In truth, the president, as usual, was not persuaded by anyone to change his mind. He was always a reluctant warrior and decided to intervene only when imminent atrocities in Benghazi made sitting on his hands even riskier.

What the women policymakers did do was help mobilize the alliance. Rice worked hard for the broadest possible language in U.N. Resolution 1973, to allow maximum allied flexibility, while Hillary made sure that China and Russia abstained instead of vetoing the resolution.

Hillary already spends much of her life on her plane, but for six crucial days in March she might just as well have used her seat belt as a fashion accessory, flying nearly 20,000 miles on the Washington-Paris-Cairo-Tunis-Washington-Paris-Washington route. On March 14 and 15, she met with Nicolas Sarkozy. The French president was gung-ho to attack Qaddafi, who by then was reversing rebel advances and regaining the offensive. After taking the measure of Mahmoud Jibril, recognized as one of the leaders of Libya’s transitional government, Hillary agreed to U.S. intervention if the U.N. backed it. Viewing television images of the dictator’s brutality from her quarters at the U.S. ambassador’s residence strengthened her resolve. She took to seconding her husband’s much-repeated line that the biggest mistake of his presidency was doing nothing to prevent genocide in Rwanda.

Hillary’s personal connection to Sarkozy helped cement the coalition. In 2010, Sarkozy had gallantly steadied her after a shoe had come off her foot as she climbed the stone steps of the Élysée Palace. (“I may not be Cinderella but you’re certainly my Prince Charming!” Hillary inscribed a photo, which sits in his office.) Now, over mixed fruit and chocolate, the French president took the normal diplomatic flattery a step further in their “bilat” (diplo-speak for bilateral talks). “Hillary, I always like being with you,” he told her. “You are tough. You are smart. You are a good person.”

From Paris, on the 15th, she went with some trepidation to Cairo, where many young protesters still angry about her support for Mubarak refused to meet with her. Others vented to her face in a Four Seasons conference room before the mood changed and they talked about democracy building. Her 10 to 15 minutes in Tahrir Square the next day (where she was greeted cordially) and drop-by in Tunisia on March 17 left her small security detail jittery; the local authorities, her guards felt, had no clue what they were doing. She arrived back in Washington early on March 18 before heading across the Atlantic again. She arrived in Paris at six a.m. on March 19 and set to work rounding up support from other allies.

The rollout of the “kinetic military action” (the ridiculous euphemism used to avoid the word “war”) was botched and misleading. Hillary had little warning before Sarkozy announced that French planes were in the skies over Libya. At her Paris press conference she made it seem, with her frequent references to “they” and “them”—with the U.S. providing “assistance”—that someone else was leading the intervention. Hillary was safely on her plane en route back to Washington on the evening of March 19 when the world would learn that the core of the attack—112 cruise missiles directed at Libyan targets—was largely American. It would be another 10 days before she would go to London to arrange for the military campaign to be handled by nato. Whatever the burden-sharing logistics, the United States was in deep now, on a course that no one could predict.

Madam Secretary

For Barack Obama, the Arab Spring and its aftermath will shape just one critical piece of his record. But, for Hillary Clinton, the swirling challenges of the region are likely to determine her legacy. Many diplomats remain anxious; the world they knew has been upended. Yet they also understand that the months ahead will be Hillary’s moment to help turn those ripples into a permanent tide of reform and renewal.

But Hillary’s intense diplomatic efforts to forge a coalition to go to war in Libya came at the exact worst time, only two months after WikiLeaks, the whistle-blowing Web site run by Julian Assange, began posting thousands of classified State Department cables online. Candid descriptions of foreign leaders (e.g., Putin is the “alpha dog” of a “virtual mafia state”) were published around the world and have already led to the departure of U.S. ambassadors in Mexico and Ecuador, with more fallout on the way. Hillary told staff that she could not fathom how an army private, Bradley Manning, with psychological problems and a drag-queen boyfriend could single-handedly cause the United States unprecedented embarrassment just by labeling massive downloads as Lady Gaga songs.

Several allies needed little comfort. “Don’t worry about it,” one leader told Hillary. “You should see what we say about you.” Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi wasn’t so forgiving. In 2008 the loutish media baron and billionaire had described Barack Obama as “young, handsome and bronzato (bronzed),” but after WikiLeaks he chose to play the victim. It wasn’t clear whether he was genuinely upset about a cable describing him as “physically and politically weak” or merely projecting his anger over allegations in the Italian press about his relationship with a teenage Moroccan belly dancer suspected of prostitution. Either way, he unloaded on Hillary during an awkward one-on-one in Astana, Kazakhstan.

According to a firsthand account I heard an hour afterward in a hallway near the conference room, Berlusconi told Hillary, “The press is all over me. They think the U.S. is saying that I’m vain and stay out all night. I’m tired, Hillary, very tired. I had such a good relationship with ‘Beel,’ ‘George,’ and ‘Barack’—how can they say this about me?” Hillary explained that, as Berlusconi knew perfectly well, the cables were written by mostly lower-level people. “Look, Silvio, you and I have been friends for 15 years. I’ve been there. Nobody has had more things alleged—true or untrue—than me.” Mostly she let him vent. Her background as a politician and long history with Berlusconi and others wounded by the cables helped ease the tensions.

Even as she navigates these choppy waters, Hillary’s own vessel is solid and surprisingly leakproof. One of the least-noticed changes in American public life is how she has been transformed from a subject of constant gossip and calumny into a figure of consequence and little controversy. There are structural reasons: secretaries of state always exist in a zone slightly above grubby politics, which is meant—in theory, at least—to stop at the water’s edge. The right-wing attack machine can apparently concentrate only on one or two villains at a time, and since 2008 it has been Obama’s and Nancy Pelosi’s turn in the barrel, not Hillary’s. I tried for months to find people willing to lace into her. None would, not even politicians and TV blowhards who had once catalogued her distortions and dined out on despising her.

Hillary Clinton is now in her ninth straight year as the Gallup poll’s “America’s Most Admired Woman,” but being a great secretary of state requires more than energy, brains, and celebrity. Dean Acheson helped rebuild Europe after World War II. Henry Kissinger, who acted like the secretary of state for Richard Nixon even before he got the job, engineered the opening to China. But does anyone think Colin Powell left State with a better reputation than he had before becoming secretary? Madeleine Albright and Condoleezza Rice broke the gender barrier and were competent enough, but left no historic imprint. The State Department isn’t called “Foggy Bottom” for nothing.

For any secretary of state, the prerequisite for success is a strong relationship with the president. “He’s hard for her to connect with,” admits one of her top people. “It’s hard for her to break through to the more-than-polite level.” That isn’t meant to suggest chilliness or dysfunction. “Is it Bush-Baker?” the aide continues, referring to the relationship between the first President Bush and James Baker, who was so tight with his boss that he felt obliged to resign as secretary of state to run Bush’s ill-fated re-election campaign in 1992. “No. But there’s a lot of mutual respect, and she feels like she’s always got a shot with him.” Imagine how it feels to be a supplicant, looking for her “shot” at impressing the president. It was only four years ago that Hillary said her main opponent in the Democratic primaries was “irresponsible and frankly naïve” when he promised to meet with the leaders of Iran, North Korea, and other rogue regimes without preconditions during his first year in office. She hasn’t forgotten who turned out to be right on that one.

One day I asked Hillary point-blank how she gets along with Obama, with whom she meets a few times a week when neither is on the road. She gave me a predictable answer, that her relationship is “not only very good professionally but very warm personally.” Of course, “warm” is just another term of art in Washington, where the advice to anyone looking for a friend has long been to get a dog. When I ask for examples, she has to pause before recalling a very public moment: a spring day in 2009 when the weather was so good that the president suggested they go outside, where they were photographed chatting at a picnic table on the South Lawn. “It was exactly what I could have hoped for. It was spontaneous and heartfelt, and we had a good time,” she says. Her second example is a full hug she and the president shared in the Situation Room after the health-care bill finally passed.

She accepted the post, in November of 2008, only after President-Elect Obama—in an inspired move over the objections of many on his campaign staff—twisted not just her arm, she informed friends, but her fingers, toes, and every other bone in her body. The president, for his part, is proud of himself for choosing her. He knows that she represents the United States better than anyone but him and is—to the surprise of many Obama veterans—refreshingly low-maintenance. When budget season arrived this year and the departments all faced drastic cuts, Hillary used a Cabinet meeting to offer tips on how to avoid making cuts that would affect vulnerable people—children, the elderly—and look bad politically. (She recalled that Newt Gingrich’s effort to slash the school-lunch program, which put Gingrich on the defensive, was the real turning point in the 1995 budget debate.) Several second-tier Cabinet members thought it one of the most useful White House meetings they had ever attended.

I’ve interviewed Hillary numerous times since she was First Lady of Arkansas, and it’s usually frustrating. She’s terrific off the record: blunt, ironic, and incisive about people, including her husband. When she cuts to the nub of something and laughs infectiously, you can see why her friends consider her such good company. On the record is tougher, especially when she’s in a job where a single misplaced word can turn into an international incident. It’s not that she doesn’t trust at least some reporters; otherwise she wouldn’t risk private candor. But the distrust for the news media as a species—the sense of being burned and burned again—long ago made her wary and sometimes defensive.

Up, Up, and Away

As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton has flown more than half a million miles to 80 countries in her two and a half years on the job. Her plane looks like Air Force One on the outside, but isn’t as grand on the inside. It’s one of four Boeing 757s that the military fitted with 15 ordinary coach seats for reporters in the rear, a business-class staff workspace with tables in the middle that seats about 25, and Clinton’s quarters up front near an area jammed with communications gear. She spends most of her time in a small private room with a desk, a modest pullout sofa bed, and a flat-screen for secure videoconferencing. The intimacy of the quarters intensified an already awkward trip at the end of February when Samantha Power, who had been forced to resign from the Obama campaign in 2008 after calling Hillary a “monster,” traveled with the secretary of state to a U.N. Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva. Some months before he died, Richard Holbrooke, the legendary special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, had brokered peace between them, but now no one knew what would happen en route. “It was uncomfortable, but everyone was extremely professional,” said one official aboard.

For most of her thousands of hours in the air, Hillary changes out of her trademark pantsuit (yellow is her favorite color for clothes and in the décor of her homes) into a fleece top and sweats. Meals consist largely of fruit and vegetables (she has a special taste for hot peppers) and maybe a scotch or Bloody Mary. “Don’t bring me the dessert!” she loudly tells the flight attendants only moments before sauntering into the staff cabin, brownie already in hand: “I know—I’ve been bad.” Occasional cupcakes with candles are also exempt because Hillary is religious about observing staff birthdays. She resists movies (despite a weakness for anything with Meryl Streep, especially Out of Africa), reads yet more briefing papers than she’s already consumed in Washington, scans news on an iPad, and sometimes manages a few pages of a mystery, but mostly she sleeps, without any pills, often right through landing. “If she couldn’t sleep most of the way,” says Philippe Reines, her longtime press secretary, “she wouldn’t be able to function.”

Some of her best road stories involve Holbrooke, her close friend, a maestro of diplomacy for more than four decades. (Holbrooke was meeting with Hillary in her office last December when he collapsed and was rushed to the hospital, where he later died from a ruptured aorta.) At his Kennedy Center memorial service, which played more like a roast, she recalled that Holbrooke was once, in Pakistan, so insistent on making a point that he followed her all the way into the ladies’ room. On boarding her plane, he would test every seat to see which was the most comfortable, then hound whichever official was assigned to it to trade with him. Hillary especially enjoyed when he would disappear into the airplane restroom and emerge like an oversize Easter bunny in his bright-yellow sleeping suit. “On hearing Winston Churchill’s motto, ‘Never, never, never, never give up,’ [Richard] called Churchill halfhearted,” she said. Hillary thinks this also perfectly captures her own theory of persistence.

Aloft, the secretary of state can often be found with a black binder clip in her hair instead of fastened onto classified documents. It helps. Her stylist, Isabelle Goetz, does her hair in Washington, but on the road—unless the ambassador’s wife can recommend someone good—she takes care of herself. For years she’s routinely done her own makeup, which is easier because she has good skin. And her genes seem unusually strong. Dorothy Rodham, Hillary’s mother, is 92 but looks more like 80. Hillary is 63 but seems a bit younger. She is one of those lucky people who look better—or at least not worse—with age.

All of this is relevant politically because it means that in 2016, when she’s 68, she is unlikely to be written off as too old to run for president. Since the beginning of the year, Hillary has said repeatedly that she will leave office no later than early 2013 and retire from public life. In Bahrain, just before the Middle East upheaval, I heard her be more direct than ever before on the subject: “I’ve had a fascinating and rewarding public career .... I think I will serve as secretary of state as my last public position and then I’ll probably go back to advocacy work, particularly on behalf of women and children, and probably around the world.”

Hillary isn’t as calculating as her public image. The 2000 Senate race, for instance, was practically serendipitous. But it’s hard to believe “Clinton” and “ambition” have been fully sundered. In 2016, the Democrats are unlikely to have anyone better or more acceptable to different parts of the party. The nearer-term options are far-fetched. When Bob Woodward said on CNN last fall that Hillary’s switching jobs with Joe Biden was “on the table,” the reaction inside both the White House and State Department was to scoff. Neither has an incentive to switch. With the Iraq portfolio already in his pocket, Biden gets plenty of foreign-policy action. His bigger concern is staying on good terms with Hillary. In late 2009, he worried that their long and friendly relationship was in jeopardy over Af-Pak policy. He wanted few troops and heavy reliance on Predator drones; she wanted an open-ended, hugely expensive counter-insurgency commitment. The president ended up sending many more troops than Biden wanted—a total commitment of 100,000—but with withdrawal deadlines beginning this year that Clinton, siding with the Pentagon, opposed. To ease the tensions, Biden and Hillary stepped up their breakfasts and lunches where they call each other “dear.”

Uncommon Ground

Hillary has often said that this is the hardest job she’s ever had. It’s not just the constant travel but also the speed and range of the issues she must master. She finds being secretary of state even more taxing than the 2008 campaign, where she could go on autopilot and give the same speech six times in a day, and had heard all the questions before. “With each month there’s more wear and tear,” says Jake Sullivan, a young lawyer and former Rhodes scholar, who has emerged as one of her closest advisers. “But she also gets more energized and comfortable.” A half-dozen of her friends agree that they have never seen her more in her element. “She seems engaged, happy, focused, determined, and very tired from all the travel,” observes Tom Vilsack, an early supporter from his days as governor of Iowa, who is now the secretary of agriculture. “I can’t remember her ever working this much,” says Dr. Irwin Redlener, who has advised her for many years on children’s issues.

Despite running against each other, the president and secretary of state have a lot in common in the way their minds work—more, arguably, than either has in common with Bill Clinton. Staffers have noticed that both Obama and Hillary are methodical, secure, and human-scale when you talk to them; they’re deductive thinkers who drill down into a problem. The former president, by contrast, is discursive, needy, and larger-than-life; he’s an inductive thinker with a connective mind.

Of course, the sense of order and discipline that Obama and Hillary share belies significant differences that may yet re-emerge. Hillary long ago instructed staffers not to look back to the bitter 2008 primaries or criticize Obama, and for the most part they don’t. But late at night, when they’re safely distant from “the seventh floor” (the mahogany-lined part of the State Department where Hillary and the other power players work), aides complain that Hillary’s creative ideas are often stymied by an inexperienced White House that doesn’t understand the role of drama and stagecraft in diplomacy. They say that Hillary is the daring, decisive risktaker, while the president is hampered by slow reflexes and an overly cautious and unimaginative approach. Not surprisingly, Obama hands insist this is wrong. The only significant policy difference between the two principals, they note, was over Afghanistan, where the president’s policy hardly lacked boldness. On Egypt, it was Hillary who early on recommended caution and Obama who insisted that U.S. policy should be to push for an immediate transition. And they offer a domestic example for good measure: had Hillary been president, she would likely have sided with Rahm Emanuel and compromised much earlier on health-care reform, which would have meant a less ambitious bill.

Where the risktaking point might apply is in critical personnel decisions. Hillary likes the challenge of handling big, talented, difficult individuals; it’s what attracted her not just to Bill but also to advisers like Richard Holbrooke. Obama (through then national-security adviser Jim Jones) almost fired Holbrooke. Although Hillary told the White House about her own exasperation with Holbrooke (a position she didn’t advertise after his death), Obama’s treatment of the envoy rankled both Clintons. “I never could understand people who didn’t appreciate him,” Bill Clinton said in his eulogy at Holbrooke’s Kennedy Center memorial service. This was a not-so-veiled shot at people like Obama, who was sitting onstage nearby—the president’s no-drama impatience with certain protean characters extends to his strained relationship with the former president. Hillary is caught in the middle, but doesn’t appear to be making efforts to bring the two most important men in her life closer.

Even so, she works hard to keep the hatchet with Obama buried. This requires staying on good terms with his White House. Hillary has known Tom Donilon, the national-security adviser, since 1978, when he was a 23-year-old political operative. They have lunch once a week, where sometimes—as on the details of Af-Pak escalation—they cordially disagree but know the president will decide anyway. Donilon believes you have to go back to George H. W. Bush’s era to find such “alignment” among national-security principals. “She’s a great team player,” he says.

The biggest problem between State and the White House used to be that Cheryl Mills, Hillary’s chief of staff, clashed with Denis McDonough, the deputy national-security adviser, who is close personally to the president. Now the two remind staffers of an old married couple that quarrel harmlessly. A more significant source of tension is that Hillary has long wanted the president to do more outreach to heads of state. If she had her way, the White House would have held three times as many state dinners and bilateral meetings with foreign leaders in the last two years. That might have helped with all the fence-mending and coalition-building to come.

Smart Power

Being secretary of state isn’t as much fun as it sounds. Imagine having to spend your days saying things like “We must also renew our efforts toward a settlement in Nagorno-Karabakh based on basic principles elaborated under the auspices of the Minsk Group.” That’s Hillary’s life.

Once she accepted the post, she consulted all the living secretaries of state and lots of experts on what she could get done at Foggy Bottom. I ask her what they advised, hoping to get a little closer to how she defines success. “They told me, ‘You can either concentrate on a few big issues that will really make your mark, like China policy, or you can try to better manage the State Department and USAID’”—the United States Agency for International Development, the department’s famously dysfunctional development arm that administers civilian foreign aid—“‘so that everything that’s done is more in line with what you’re trying to achieve over time,’” she recalls. “And I said, ‘I don’t know how you do one without the other.’”

Hillary has already had some successes, most conspicuously her use of American diplomatic leverage in the U.N. Security Council to get China and especially Russia to help isolate Iran and North Korea. She and the president have convinced the Russians that proffering military hardware to Iran isn’t in their national-security interest—a tough sell. And ever since Obama bollixed up his relations with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in 2010, Hillary has worked overtime to soothe Bibi. “She’s indispensable—the only one trusted on all sides [of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict],” says Sandy Berger, who served as Bill Clinton’s National Security Council adviser.

Most conspicuously, Hillary has championed what has come to be known as “civil society.” In practice that means moving beyond the usual contacts between the United States and foreign governments to forge ties with the non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that are essential to stability and development. Like her husband, she’s deployed her international stature for “convening power,” bringing together governments and NGOs on a dizzying array of significant projects that would otherwise lack support.

Always a generalist, Hillary thinks concentrating too much on one area is hazardous. “We’ve got a big world out there, and [if] you ignore some part of it, it comes back to bite you,” she tells me. So she has tried to strike a balance between hot spots and the more mundane management decisions that she thinks are necessary to elevate diplomacy and development to the level of defense. That way, the United States would have a more sophisticated, “3-D” foreign policy, looking short-term and long-term, top-down and people-up. Hillary herself shies away from the Cineplex imagery in favor of the notion of “smart power.”

“‘Smart power’ is the use of American power in ways that would help prevent and resolve conflict—not just send our military in,” she says. “‘Smart power’ is closer cooperation between our development experts, our diplomats, our military leaders.” Hillary offers an example: in Afghanistan, the Pentagon has a fund that allows a young American officer to take $100,000 in discretionary funds and rebuild a school on his own authority. By contrast, a diplomat or development expert trying to rebuild a school would spend months filling out forms, Hillary says, and probably still wouldn’t get the money out of Congress. “We need a more agile civilian power,” she concludes.

Hillary draws a distinction between focusing on relations with governments (the locus of diplomacy for hundreds of years) and stimulating change in societies, where the results are less controllable but ultimately more profound. She clearly wants to try both at once, but that intention can break down under the stress of a crisis. In the debate over the bombing of Libya, the “society” policymakers were the hawks. Their argument was caricatured by critics as purely humanitarian but was in fact strategic. The thinking here was that the U.S. must “get on the right side of history” and connect to the aspirations of young people in the region. By contrast, the Old Guard focused on nervous allies like Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Jordan. Seeing the upheaval through the lens of stability, they were doves on the question of bombing Libya, which they thought might detract from the larger aim of containing Iran. Their mantra was “Beware unintended consequences.”

While the Pentagon was clearly opposed beforehand, the other power centers in the government were more conflicted. It wasn’t State versus White House, much less women versus men or old versus young. And this is true moving forward. Some men in the White House are on the “society” side; some women in the State Department are on the “government to government” side. And many officials switch sides (and can switch back again) amid the long hours of debate. The most common sentiment among foreign-policy veterans reflects another familiar Bill Clinton line: “It sure was simpler during the Cold War.”

For Hillary, the crisis mentality must eventually give way to the more mundane realities of running the department. She is midway through a five-year plan to increase the size of the State Department’s foreign-service staff by 25 percent and double USAID. And she’s taken a leaf from the Pentagon playbook and launched a “Q.D.D.R.”—Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review. The idea is to ask all the agencies housed at Foggy Bottom the larger questions—like whether they are even focused on the right things. It’s a huge structural project.

Hillary prides herself on sweating the small stuff, too. She’s big on feedback—an intranet “Secretary’s Sounding Board” is bringing the suggestion box into the modern age. She gets high marks from the high-tech community for “21st-century statecraft” like using texting to raise money for Haiti-earthquake victims and an Internet freedom agenda she is pushing aggressively. She’s popular with State Department employees for practical changes like providing full benefits for same-sex partners (“Fix it!” she scolded bureaucrats who were dragging their feet) and building showers to accommodate people who cycle or run to work. In the past, meetings with foreign ministers featured nothing more than bottled water. Hillary was incredulous: “You can get coffee, tea, nuts all over the world, and in Washington you get a bottle of water?” She was told, “That’s the way we do it here.” Her chilly retort: “Not anymore.”

The secretary runs a brisk, no-nonsense meeting. “We present and she interrogates, in the best sense of the word,” says Patrick Kennedy, the undersecretary for management. Received wisdom gets eviscerated. “Jeff, you’ve got to do better than that,” she told Jeffrey Feltman, the assistant secretary for Near Eastern affairs, one day when he presented a shopworn idea. With USAID undergoing an overhaul, she listens to every reform report, down to the details of how chlorine tablets for clean drinking water can be transported by truck in Honduras. “She’s looking at the guts of how we work,” says Dr. Raj Shah, who runs USAID.

According to old State hands, Hillary represents some of the better qualities of her predecessors. She has Baker’s obsession with preparation, reaches out like Colin Powell (who advised her to resist the efforts of bureaucrats to strip her of her BlackBerry), and offers continuity with Condi Rice’s policy on aids and Africa. But she might most resemble Ronald Reagan’s second secretary of state, George Shultz, a canny pragmatist who made significant progress in several areas without being associated with a single momentous event. Shultz was known for valuing the “career people” (foreign-service officers) and casting a wide net for advice. Hillary does that, too, though she’s still surrounded by a Praetorian Guard of loyalists from her Senate office who are too political for the taste of some diplomats in the building. (They preferred the military veterans around Powell or academics around Rice.) Her great weakness over the years was too often choosing subordinates based more on loyalty than competence. She has been better about this since moving to State, but still slow to extend her trust.

When she travels, Hillary manages to be simultaneously remote from the media (joint press conferences with foreign ministers are limited to two questions for each) and accessible to the public. Unless a crisis obliterates her schedule, she routinely subjects herself to what Reines infelicitously calls “townterviews,” a combination of university town meeting and television interview featuring a group of effusive local journalists, students, and faculty. The format allows her to promote civil society and human rights without getting in the face of the country’s leaders. Often a questioner will refer to her in fractured English as “President Clinton.” In Asia, this can be especially mortifying for the shy audience. She’ll cheerfully reply “I wish!” or “Almost!” to disarm the situation, before going on to explain how her serving in the government of the man who defeated her is a sign of democracy’s strength. Almost every trip includes meeting with leading women from local NGOs, many of whom line up to tell Hillary with what little English they can muster how inspirational she has been to their efforts. “She has almost singular recall from years back,” says Kurt Campbell, assistant secretary for East Asian and Pacific affairs, who recounts being amazed at what she remembered about a group of Chinese women from a path-breaking trip in 1995. “Not just names, but obscure details about people she’s met only once and hadn’t been briefed on.”

State of the Union

No one abroad seems interested in a subject that continues to fascinate Americans—the state of the Clintons’ marriage. The truth, at present, is hardly momentous. “They’ve been in good shape as a couple for way longer than people realize,” says one friend in a position to know. “When things are not good, they’re not good at hiding it.” Wherever Bill’s behavior took the relationship, the friend continues, there remains “a profound level of forgiveness and attachment between them.” Despite heart problems, Bill is in good health, but his weight loss—thanks to a vegetarian diet—has left him looking shrunken in person. The rumors of straying have subsided.

Aides to both claim, implausibly, that the Clintons talk on the phone every day. The former president doesn’t use e-mail (Hillary, by contrast, is a BlackBerry fiend), which makes it hard to be in constant touch.

Chappaqua remains a place for them to spend time together. On weekends, when both are off the road, she often takes the shuttle up from Washington—no government plane—on Friday night and returns to her house on Whitehaven Street in Northwest Washington on Sunday night. They’ll take long walks with their dog Seamus, a chocolate Labrador and the great-nephew of their White House dog, Buddy, who was struck by a car and killed in Chappaqua in 2002. Sometimes they go house-hunting in suburban New York for fun, which leads to unfounded rumors they are about to move. Frequent guests include close staff and old friends like Terry McAuliffe and investors Alan Patricof and Marc Lasry and their families.

Only a few staffers were invited to Chelsea’s wedding, last July in Rhinebeck, New York, including the tiny village of women around Hillary who helped raise her: Maggie Williams, Melanne Verveer, Cheryl Mills, Capricia Marshall (now head of protocol for the government), and Huma Abedin, Hillary’s indispensable “body woman” and surrogate daughter, whose marriage to New York congressman Anthony Weiner the same month as Chelsea’s nuptials made Hillary feel as if she had two weddings in the family at the same time. “Her best friends are work and Chelsea, and now Marc,” a close family associate says, referring to Marc Mezvinsky, Chelsea’s new husband. Shortly before the wedding ceremony began, Bill, Hillary, Chelsea, and Marc went into a room together at the Astor Courts estate for a few minutes with no one else, not even Mezvinsky’s (divorced) parents. “They were three and now they’re four,” one friend says. (Contrary to rumors, Hillary’s aides say that Chelsea’s marriage is going well.)

Never, Never, Never, Never Give Up

When a young man at a town-hall meeting in Kyrgyzstan asks Hillary which designers she wears, she answers immediately: “Would you ever ask a man that question?” The crowd of young people laughed and applauded. Hillary and Bill like to vacation at Oscar de la Renta’s Punta Cana resort, in the Dominican Republic, but she wasn’t about to mention that, or venture that Vera Wang designed Chelsea’s wedding dress. Like Albright and Rice, Hillary wants women’s issues to be substantive. “All the young men on our staff don’t seem to think they’re important,” Hillary remarked archly one day in 2009, an early sign of the schisms to come. To reinforce the message she named Verveer, her former chief of staff in the White House, to be the first ambassador-at-large for global women’s issues. Even amid the Sturm und Drang of the Middle East and North Africa, she’s liable to leave her imprint in the same areas that brought her into public life in the first place—helping women and children and strengthening civil society. It’s a straight line from the Children’s Defense Fund, where she worked as a young law-school graduate, to Foggy Bottom. From micro-credit to food assistance to education, Hillary knows that women in underdeveloped villages usually spend aid money on their families, while men more often spend it on themselves, which is a polite way of saying on liquor and prostitutes.

Seemingly minor changes can yield huge benefits. “As we meet … as many as three billion people are gathering around open fires or old and inefficient stoves in small kitchens in poorly ventilated houses,” Hillary tells a New York philanthropic audience. “As the women cook, smoke fills their lungs and toxins begin poisoning them and their children,” she explains before noting that the World Health Organization estimates that nearly two million people a year—half of them children—die from pneumonia and other ailments that are likely connected to this problem, more than twice the number of deaths from malaria. She has been involved in this cause for years, but now has a much bigger platform to push the idea of new cookstoves that cost as little as $25 each. “This could be as transformative as bed nets or even vaccines,” she says, the excitement in her voice palpable. “We are excited because we think this is actually a problem we can solve.”

That’s rare. Development challenges and global conflicts often seem intractable, and that has to be a little discouraging at three in the morning in the skies over Kabul or Cairo. “You can’t just look at these conflicts and issues and say, ‘O.K., that’s been solved,’” Hillary says to me at the end of an interview, starting to chuckle. “Because most of these problems are never solved.” Now she’s back in dutiful, dogged mode, which happens to be the mode that best fits today’s Hillary—the one almost everyone seems to like. “You know,” she says, “you just keep working at them and working at them and working at them.” Who can argue with that?


Jonathan Alter is an award-winning columnist, television analyst and author. Since 1991, Alter has written a widely-acclaimed Newsweek column that examines politics, media and social and global issues. His 2010 book ""The Promise. President Obama, Year One,"" a New York Times bestseller, offers the first inside look at Obama's difficult debut after his historic election.



























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IMAGES-012-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032792.txt,"From: Alireza Ittihadieh

Sent: 7/24/2018 7:57:33 PM
To: JEFF EPSTEIN [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Re:

Importance: — High

Let's keep our friendship and talk politics, you are after free information and I NO longer provide free

information.

V-BR
Alireza ITTIHADIEH

From: jeevacation@gmail.com
Sent: 24 July 2018 21:54

To:

Subject:

if you can, send me the spec on the bbj, with calendar dates for next few checks.

now said he wants a deal with iran. nuts

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as you can see trump

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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031023.txt,"know and like have behavior I don't entirely approve of.. I know it is not politically correct to say that,
because in general this is a very sensitive issue and all other things being equal one should take the side of
the young women. But all things are not equal in this case, from my point of view. It is a judgement call,
and I will not turn my back on a good friend so easily.

On Apr 6, 2011, at 9:57 AM, Rebecca Watson wrote:

Thanks for getting back to me. I was asking because I found the quote shocking . . . the evidence against
Epstein is overwhelming and he's even pled guilty to paying for sex with a minor. It's in no way scientific or
rational to assume that because you never saw him with an underage girl he must actually be innocent. It is
possible for a person to be kind and generous with his friends but still a criminal paying for sex with
underage girls in his private life.

I'm going to write about the topic on Skepchick, and I'll include any additional statement you'd like if you
want to provide more context or if you've changed your mind.

-R

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Lawrence Krauss rote:
yes it is.. Based on my direct experience with Jeffrey, which is all I can base my assessment on, he is a
thoughtful, kind, considerate man who is generous to his friends, and all of the women I have known who
have been associated with Jeffrey speak glowingly in the same words..

why are you asking?

On Apr 6, 2011, at 9:41 AM, Rebecca Watson wrote:

Dear Professor Krauss,

We met briefly after your talk in Ithaca a few months ago — I'm the girl on The Skeptics’ Guide to the
Universe podcast. I've really enjoyed your talks and books, but I was surprised to see you quoted in the
Daily Beast recently defending Jeffrey Epstein:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-04-01/bill-clinton-katie-couric-woody-allen-jeffrey-

epsteins-society-friends-close-ranks/2/

Can you confirm if the following quote is accurate?

""If anything, the unfortunate period he suffered has caused him to really think about what he wants to do
with his money and his time, and support knowledge,” says Krauss. ""Jeffrey has surrounded himself with
beautiful women and young women but they're not as young as the ones that were claimed. As a scientist I
always judge things on empirical evidence and he always has women ages 19 to 23 around him, but I've
never seen anything else, so as a scientist, my presumption is that whatever the problems were I would
believe him over other people."" Though colleagues have criticized him over his relationship with Epstein,
Krauss insists, ""I don't feel tarnished in any way by my relationship with Jeffrey; I feel raised by it.”

Thanks,
Rebecca Watson

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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029225.txt,"From: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]

Sent: 2/10/2015 5:22:52 PM

To: Mortimer Zuckernan
Subject: time to publish this instead of the trite.

ore

15 of 141,013

Fwd: Statement for Press

From: Carolyn Cohen a >
Date: February 10, 2015 at 10:40:57 AM EST

To: Aln Deshowit7,

Subject: Statement for Press

Alan Dershowitz’s Statement: We can now prove that Jane Doe #3 has no credibility and lied
about Clinton, the Gores and Dershowitz.

Dershowitz’s lawyers have filed a detailed reply to Jane Doe #3 false charges. In it they definitively
respond to all of the alleged evidence presented by Jane Doe #3 and her lawyers. Since that filing Mr.
Dershowitz’s lawyers have uncovered additional evidence that Jane Doe #3 has lied about her
alleged contacts with former President Clinton and former Vice President Gore and the then Mrs.
Gore. In her first affidavit to the court she repeats the claim that she had earlier sold to a British
tabloid: namely that “former President Bill Clinton was present on the island [Jeffrey Epstein’s
private island] at a time when [Jane Doe #3] was also present on the Island.”

This statement, sworn under oath, summarizes a far more elaborate fantasy that she sold to a British
tabloid which has since been repeated by the international media. In neither statement, does she
provide any specific dates or times, but she does weave an imaginative fantasy about her fictional
meeting with former President Clinton. She “describes” how Mr. Clinton’s Secret Service detail
allowed Ghislaine Maxwell, then a novice helicopter pilot, to fly the former President to Epstein’s
private island on a large black helicopter —an obvious lie. She then purports to “describe” specific
seating locations at a fictional dinner party that included her, Mr. Clinton, Jeffrey Epstein and two
other underage “olive-skinned brunettes” whose identities she could not provide:

“I flew to the Caribbean with Jeffrey and then Ghislaine Maxwell went to pick up Bill in a huge black
helicopter that Jeffrey had bought her. She’d always wanted to fly and Jeffrey paid for her to take
lessons, and I remember she was very excited because she got her licence around the first year we
met. I used to get frightened flying with her but Bill had the Secret Service with him and I remember
him talking about what a good job she did. I only ever met Bill twice but Jeffrey had told me that
they were good friends. I asked, “How come?” and he laughed and said, “He owes me some
favours.” Maybe he was just joking but it constantly surprised me that people with as much to lose as
Bill and [Prince] Andrew weren't more careful. She said that when dining that night, Maxwell sat at

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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019956.txt,"Yates now told the White House that Flynn’s conversation with Kislyak had actually
been captured as part of an “incidental collection” of authorized wiretaps. That is, a
wiretap had presumably been authorized on the Russian ambassador by the secret Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Court and, incidentally, picked up Flynn.

The FISA court had achieved a moment of notoriety after the Edward Snowden
revelations briefly made it a béte noire for liberals who were angry about privacy
incursions. Now it was achieving another moment, but this time as the friend of liberals,
who hoped to use these “incidental” wiretaps as a way to tie the Trump camp to a wide-
ranging conspiracy with Russia.

In short order, McGahn, Priebus, and Bannon, each with prior doubts about Flynn’s
reliability and judgment—“a fuck-up,” according to Bannon—conferred about the Yates
message. Flynn was asked again about his call with Kislyak; he was also told that a
recording might exist. Again he scoffed at any suggestion that this was a meaningful
conversation about anything.

In one White House view, Yates’s tattling was little more than “like she found out her
gitlfriend’s husband flirted with somebody else and, standing on principle, had to tell on
him.”

Of more alarm to the White House was how, in an incidental collection wherein the
names of American citizens are supposedly “masked”—with complicated procedures
required to “unmask” them—had Yates so handily and conveniently picked up Flynn? Her
report would also seem to confirm that the leak to the Post about these recordings came
from the FBI, DOJ, or Obama White House sources—part of the growing river of leaks,
with the Zimes and the Post the leakers’ favored destinations.

The White House in its assessment of the Yates message ended up seeing this as less a
problem with an always hard-to-handle Flynn than as a problem with Yates, even as a
threat from her: the Justice Department, with its vast staff of career and Obama-inclined
prosecutors, had ears on the Trump team.

7 OK Ok

“It’s unfair,” said Kellyanne Conway, sitting in her yet undecorated second-floor office
while representing the president’s hurt feelings. “It’s obviously unfair. It’s very unfair.
They lost. They didn’t win. This is so unfair. So POTUS just doesn’t want to talk about
it.”

There was nobody in the White House who wanted to talk about—or even anyone who
had been officially delegated to talk about—Russia, the story that, evident to most, even
before they entered the White House, was certain to overwhelm the first year of the Trump
administration at the very least. Nobody was prepared to deal with it.

“There’s no reason to even talk about it,” said Sean Spicer, sitting on the couch in his

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TEXT-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033044.txt,"From: jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Sent: 9/30/2017 9:46:50 PM 
To: Larry Visoski 
Subject: Re: SIT 
no hes going to pr only maybe pence on fri 
On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 1:43 PM, Larry Visoski ‹> wrote: 
Jeffrey 
I hear Pres Trump arrives in St Thomas on Tuesday FYI 
Thx 
Larry 
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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018490.txt,"and came to the ending, where Sir Stephen loses interest in O and tells her to kill herself.
I can also remember being furious with the way Nine And A Half Weeks (the book, not
the movie) ends. The submissive woman has a public breakdown. She begins to cry
hysterically, and is abandoned by her master, so that strangers have to obtain help for
her. One of the cruelest stereotypes of S/M people is that we don't love each other, that
there is something about our sexual style that makes our relationships mutually
destructive and predisposes us to suicide.

This quotation came to mind during a conversation I had a few days ago: I was talking to
a gitl who really likes BDSM sex but referred to non-BDSM sex as ""love sex."" Because,
you know, love is just not an ingredient in BDSM sex. ""Everyone knows"" that -- the same
way ""everyone knows"" that BDSM always arises from childhood abuse, or dominant
sadism is for villains, or everyone who likes BDSM is damaged and miserable and
irresponsible, or....

Not to put too fine a point on it: fuck that.

I'm not saying there's no BDSM smut out there with love in it. Anne Rice's Beauty series
ends with Beauty riding off into the sunset with her loving sadomasochistic partner
(although of course the characters deal with all kinds of uncaring brutality first). But even
nuanced BDSM erotica seems to fall into this trap more often than not -- for example,
Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Dart, which is so consciously written that it includes
safewords, also portrays a main character whose most compelling BDSM relationships
are with her enemies and whose love relationship is with a man who can't stand to hurt
her. (Carey took a very different tack later in the series, with other characters; I've always
wondered whether she did so as a reaction to criticism.)

It's easier to criticize than create. And all my porn critiques could come back and bite me
soon, because I plan on releasing my own BDSM smut sometime... and I'm sure that what
I produce won't even be close to perfect. Yet one thing I really want to ensure I represent
in whatever I write is love. There are plenty of BDSM fantasies that partly operate on the
absence of love -- that even demand it, perhaps because the fantasy is all about a vicious
and emotionally distant dominant, or because much of the erotic tension is derived from
how much the partners hate each other, or for lots of other reasons. And yeah, they're hot
in their own way....

But it'd be so great if those weren't the standard.

te OK ok
This can be found on the Internet at:

http://clarissethorn.com/blog/2011/02/22/ladypornday-bdsm-can-be-love-sex-too/

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Hill, and all of them say the same thing: there are a bunch of letters of interest or intent, but not contracts. Many

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Trump perfected during his time in the business world.

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Filing # 22956396 E-Filed 01/26/2015 12:26:55 PM 
IN THE ELEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT OF FLORIDA 
IN AND FOR DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA 
CIVIL DIVISION 
JEAN-LUC BRUNEL, individually, 
and MC2 MODEL & 
TALENT MIAMI, LLC 
Civil Action No.: 14-21348 CA 01 
Plaintiffs, 
VS. 
JEFFREY EPSTEIN, 
TYLER MCDONALD, TYLER 
MCDONALD D/B/A/ YI.ORG 
Defendants. 
/ 
AMENDED VERIFIED COMPLAINT FOR LEGAL & EQUITABLE RELIEF AND  
DAMAGES  
COME NOW the Plaintiffs, Jean-Luc Brunel and MC2 Model & Talent Miami, LLC, by 
and through undersigned counsel, and sues Defendants Jeffrey Epstein, Tyler McDonald, and 
Tyler McDonald d/b/a/ Yi.Org for legal relief, equitable relief and defamation, and states as 
follows: 
1. Venue is proper in Dade County, Florida as Defendants Tyler McDonald and Tyler 
McDonald d/b/a Yi.Org do business in Dade County, Plaintiff Jean-Luc Brunel resides in Dade 
County, Florida, and Plaintiff MC2 Model & Talent Miami, LLC, has an office in Dade County. 
The causes of action and damages against Defendant Jeffrey Epstein accrued in Dade County, 
Florida, due to specific acts by Epstein there, and accordingly, venue is appropriate there. 
Florida Statute 47.011. 
2. Florida Statute 48.193(1)(a)(1) (""long-arm"") authorizes service on both out-of-state 
Defendants (Tyler McDonald, and Tyler McDonald d/b/a/ Yi.Org). 
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3. Jurisdiction is proper in the Circuit Court as this action seeks relief in excess of fifteen-
thousand dollars ($15,000). 
FACTUAL ALLEGATIONS AS TO DEFENDANT JEFFREY EPSTEIN  
4. Plaintiff Jean-Luc Brunel is the owner of Plaintiff modeling agency known as ""MC2 
Model & Talent Miami"" (""MC2""). MC2 began operations in October 2005 and has offices in 
New York, Miami, and Tel Aviv. 
5. Defendant Jeffrey Epstein (""Epstein"") is a hedge-fund manager with a residence in Palm 
Beach County, Florida. Defendant has been the subject of significant media coverage due to 
charges brought against him involving sexual contact with minors. (Composite Exhibit A 
attached). 
6. Plaintiff Brunel and Epstein have known one another since the inception of Plaintiff 
MC2. 
7. Plaintiff Brunel operated his modeling agency, Plaintiff MC2, without incident until 
Epstein was first charged in Palm Beach County with unlawful sexual contact with a minor in 
2006. He was convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor and sentenced to eighteen 
months in prison, of which he served thirteen months. He remains a registered sex offender in 
Florida as of this day. 
8. First, after the initial criminal charges against Epstein were filed in Palm Beach County, 
Plaintiffs were widely implicated in the media as being ""linked"" to Epstein. These false stories 
caused both Plaintiffs a tremendous loss of business. 
9. Plaintiffs lost multiple contacts and business in the modeling business as a direct result of 
Epstein's illegal actions. For example, several photographers will not work with MC2 due to the 
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adverse publicity surrounding Epstein and his illegal activities, and the publicity falsely linking 
Plaintiffs with those activities; namely, sex trafficking. (Composite Exhibit A). 
10. One example of such a photographer was Michael Avedon, who worked with MC2 on 
photo shoots. Avedon stopped answering Plaintiffs' emails and phone calls after having known 
Plaintiff for some time. Upon meeting Avedon out one night, Avedon stated to Plaintiff Brunel 
he had ""found out some information"" from some friends of his and that he could not associate his 
name with MC2. 
11. This statement by Avedon was no doubt a reference to the alleged and false links 
between Plaintiffs and Epstein's illegal activities with under-aged girls. This incident clearly 
illustrates an example of lost business on Plaintiffs' behalf. 
12. The second example of a business relationship that was terminated due to Epstein's 
intentional and illegal activities was a very recent one, involving an overseas agency, Modilinos 
Model Agency. The owner stated that the model to be placed with MC2 ""found some article in 
Internet, which changed her position and she preferred to be placed with another agency."" This 
was relayed to Plaintiff Brunel by e-mail dated October 15, 2014. This amply demonstrates that 
Epstein's intentional & illegal activities continue to cost Plaintiffs' business income. (Exhibit B 
attached). 
13. A third example of a lost business relationship can be found in an e-mail dated October 
17, 2014 (Exhibit C attached). The director of the 1 Mother Agency, Vladmir Yudashkin, states 
that a specific model will not sign with Plaintiff MC2 due to her fear that Plaintiffs' will force 
her into illegal activities. The model bases her fears upon the stories on the intemet falsely 
implicating Plaintiffs as being involved with illegal activities with young models. This is 
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another example of a false link between Epstein and Plaintiffs, costing Plaintiffs' business 
income. 
14. A fourth example of a lost business relationship can be found in a second e-mail dated 
October 17, 2014 (Exhibit D attached). Manuela Martinez of Mega Partners, a Brazilian 
modeling agency, states to Plaintiff Brunel that her agency has been unable to work with Plaintiff 
MC2 for the past five to six years because of the sex trafficking allegations against Plaintiffs. 
This reference is clearly to the false allegations online regarding sex trafficking that were based 
in the false link between Epstein and Plaintiffs. 
15. A fifth example of a lost business relationship can be found in an e-mail dated 
on Plaintiff's behalf was an e-mail dated August 27, 2010 from Michelle Stockman of Agence 
France Presse. (Exhibit E attached). Agence France Presse is a newswire service with a world-
wide reach. Stockman wanted to meet with Plaintiff Brunel to arrange a model shoot with MC2. 
However, due to the adverse publicity surrounding Plaintiffs as a result of Epstein's illegal 
activities, Plaintiff Brunel was forced to forego (and lose) this business opportunity because he 
needed to keep a low-profile at this time. 
16. A sixth example of lost business due to Epstein's intentional and illegal activities can be 
found in an e-mail dated December 12, 2014. (Exhibit F attached). Michael Sanka, a talent 
scout who had worked with Plaintiffs for a number of years, informed Plaintiff Brunel that he 
cannot sign any new models for Plaintiff Brunel's MC2 agency due to the false sex trafficking 
allegations online. Sanka goes on to state that Plaintiff Brunel's MC2 agency will not attract any 
new models if Plaintiff Brunel does not clear up the false allegations. 
17. A seventh example of lost business due to Epstein's intentional and illegal activities can 
be found in an e-mail from Fox Fashion Agency (Exhibit G attached). This e-mail clearly states 
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that Fox has placed models with Plaintiff MC2 in the past with absolutely no problems. 
However, because of the false internet trafficking links between Plaintiffs and Epstein, Fox states 
that it cannot place anymore models with Plaintiff MC2 until the allegations are cleared up. 
18. Before the false links between Plaintiff and Epstein surfaced, Plaintiff Brunel was 
earning a great deal of revenue from MC2 Miami. 
19. The false links between Plaintiffs and Epstein began to surface online in about 2005-
2006. Then, in 2006, Plaintiffs received a letter of credit from Epstein at 5% interest. Plaintiffs 
then made an investment totaling one-million dollars with Elite Paris, to start a company. 
20. Next, Plaintiff Brunel started the company, ""E Management"", to work with Elite Models 
in Paris, Plaintiff had to close it almost immediately, because Elite didn't send any models to 
Plaintiff MC2 for fear of being linked to Epstein. 
21. Because the false links between Plaintiffs and Epstein began to gain strength online, Elite 
Paris severed the agreement due entirely to these false links. Plaintiff Brunel lost his investment 
of one-million dollars because of this loss of business. 
22. Plaintiffs lost potentially ten-million dollars in profits due to this initial one-million dollar 
loss. 
23. Additionally, a former financial controller of MC2, Maritza Vasquez, stated in a 2012 
deposition that Plaintiff Brunel had never done anything inappropriate or illegal with any under-
age model. (Exhibits HI & H2 -Transcript of Deposition of Maritza Vasquez). 
24. Maritza Vasquez was fired from her job at Plaintiff MC2 for embezzling company funds, 
and had criminal charges filed against her (Composite Exhibit I attached). She was also the 
source of the false information linking Plaintiffs to sex trafficking in the articles written by 
Conchita Sarnoff of the website Jezebel (Composite Exhibit A. p.2-7). 
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25. The deposition testimony of Maritza Vasquez referred to above clearly demonstrates that 
Plaintiff Brunel has clean hands and was never involved in sex trafficking. All of Plaintiffs' 
damages came solely from Epstein's conduct. 
26. Additionally, Plaintiff Brunel has had significant delays in obtaining his visa to come to 
the U.S. These delays were also the result of the false link between Plaintiffs and Epstein. As a 
result of these delays, Plaintiffs lost a considerable amount of time & money. International 
travel is a significant component of Plaintiff Brunel's MC2 modeling business. Plaintiff Brunel 
has been forced to cancel his latest visa application as a result of the delays. (Exhibit J — 
Composite Visa Does). 
27. As a result of the notoriety and tremendous publicity surrounding Epstein's criminal 
charges, and the media linkage of Epstein to Plaintiffs regarding illegal activities, Plaintiffs lost a 
tremendous amount of business and revenue. 
28. Plaintiff Brunel's agency MC2 has lost millions of dollars in revenue since the media 
revealed that Plaintiffs and Epstein were associated. In fact, Plaintiff MC2 was worth millions of 
dollars; now, due to the illegal actions of Epstein, MC2 is almost worthless. 
29. At no time did Epstein ever publicly state that Plaintiffs had no role whatsoever in the 
Epstein's illegal activities. 
30. As a result of Epstein's illegal activities and his association with Plaintiffs, Plaintiffs 
continue to lose money and suffer damages to this day. (Exhibit K attached, Jeff Fuller email, 
11-12-14). 
31. Plaintiff Brunel will need to spend millions of dollars in order to restore his business to 
what it was once worth — money that the Plaintiff Brunel does not have. 
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32. Plaintiff Brunel continues to own and operate Plaintiff MC2 to this day, their names 
never having been cleared from the massive and totally negative media coverage involving 
Epstein and his illegal activities. Plaintiffs have been, and continue to be, irreparably harmed by 
these false internet-based links to Epstein. (Exhibits R & S attached). 
33. Second, Plaintiff Brunel was also told by Epstein to leave the Palm Beach area in 
anticipation of a deposition of Plaintiff Brunel in a criminal case against Epstein. On the direct 
advice of Epstein, Plaintiff Brunel went to Europe and Asia for a period of time. This was done 
for the sole purpose of delaying Plaintiff Brunel's deposition. 
34. As a direct result of Plaintiff Brunel's travels, his deposition was delayed twice. When it 
was finally scheduled for November 2009, Plaintiff Brunel was in fact available (Exhibit L 
attached). However, a medical emergency in the family of his attorney further delayed this 
deposition (Exhibit M attached). It was never rescheduled and he was never deposed. 
35. This was a blatant example of obstruction of justice in the criminal case. Epstein was 
solely responsible for telling Plaintiff Brunel to leave the area. Plaintiff Brunel lost a huge 
opportunity to clear his name, and that of his agency, Plaintiff MC2. 
36. Third, as a result of all of the facts stated above, Plaintiff Brunel was under tremendous 
psychological pressure throughout this period of time. 
37. This psychological pressure resulted in Plaintiff Brunel avoiding business contacts as set 
forth above. This pressure also directly caused Plaintiff Brunel to avoid certain social contacts 
during this period of time. 
38. Plaintiff Brunel became extremely withdrawn and anxious at this time. 
39. Epstein's conduct was the direct cause of Plaintiff Brunel's psychological state. The 
press was reporting extensively on the lurid details of Epstein's illegal activities with the under-
aged girls. 
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40. As stated above, the press reports were erroneously connecting both Plaintiffs to 
Epstein's illegal activities. (Composite Exhibit A attached). 
41. Epstein's illegal activities were outrageous and extreme; they involved receiving 
massages from the under-aged girls while the girls were nude or nearly-nude; penetration of the 
girls with a finger or object; or full-intercourse. 
42. These activities described above caused Plaintiff Brunel severe emotional distress. In 
fact, Plaintiff Brunel has recently undergone psychotherapy with a local psychologist, Dr. Royce 
N. Jalazo, as a result of Epstein's actions and the negative results on his business. (Exhibits N & 
0 attached). 
43. Plaintiff Brunel is emotionally destroyed as a result of Epstein's actions and the resultant 
effects on his business. He has been on medications to deal with the effects of this. (Composite 
Exhibit P — Medical History). 
44. Plaintiffs have been damaged by the conduct of Defendant Epstein, and have accordingly 
retained undersigned counsel to represent him in this matter, and are obligated to pay counsel a 
reasonable fee for his services. 
FACTUAL ALLEGATIONS AS TO DEFENDANTS TYLER MCDONALD & TYLER 
MCDONALD D/B/A YI.ORG  
45. Defendant Tyler McDonald (""McDonald"") is the owner/operator of Yi.Org and also does 
business as Yi.Org — Defendant Tyler McDonald d/b/a Yi.org (""McDonald d/b/a Yi.Org""). 
Defendant McDonald resides in the state of Washington. Yi.Org is a website hosting service 
based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. 
46. In about 2009, Yi.org, by and through the actions of its owner, McDonald, began hosting 
websites that contained hyperlinks that contained blatantly false and extremely disparaging 
information about Plaintiffs. (Exhibit Q attached - hyperlink screenshot). 
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47. These links clearly and falsely associated Plaintiffs with illicit escort services in the state 
of Florida; information which Defendants McDonald and McDonald d/b/a Yi.Org knew, or 
should have known, was false. 
48. These links have damaged Plaintiff Brunei's reputation as an owner of a well-established 
modeling agency with offices in New York and Miami, Plaintiff MC2. 
49. These links have also damaged the reputation of both Plaintiffs. 
50. The combined damage to the reputation to both Plaintiffs has resulted in a significant loss 
of revenue to Plaintiff MC2, and accordingly, to Plaintiff Brunel. 
51. Plaintiff MC2's revenues have fallen to a mere fraction of what they were before the 
appearance of the links on Yi.Org. 
52. Both Defendants McDonald d/b/a Yi.Org and McDonald assisted in the dissemination of 
the false and negative information that damaged Plaintiffs' reputation and directly caused 
damages to Plaintiffs. 
53. Plaintiff Brunel continues to own and operate Plaintiff MC2 to this day, both names still 
harmed by the false and negative association with escort services in Florida. 
54. Accordingly, Plaintiffs have been severely damaged by information on websites hosted 
by Yi.Org, which is maintained, owned and operated by Defendants McDonald d/b/a Yi.Org and 
McDonald. 
55. The information disseminated by the websites hosted by Defendants McDonald d/b/a 
Yi.Org and McDonald was false and defamatory to the extreme regarding Plaintiffs alleged 
involvement with escort services in the state of Florida. 
56. Defendants McDonald d/b/a Yi.Org and McDonald have made no attempt to clear the 
names of Plaintiffs with regard to the false and defamatory information disseminated by the 
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websites they hosted. 
57. Plaintiffs continue to do business to this day, their names never having been cleared from 
the negative information disseminated by Defendants McDonald d/b/a Yi.Org and McDonald. 
58. Plaintiffs have been damaged by the conduct of Defendants McDonald d/b/a Yi.Org and 
McDonald, and have accordingly retained undersigned counsel to represent him in this matter, 
and are obligated to pay counsel a reasonable fee for his services. 
COUNT I — EQUITABLE RELIEF FOR LOSS OF BUSINESS AND REVENUE - AS TO  
DEFENDANT JEFFREY EPSTEIN  
59. The allegations contained in paragraphs 1 through 44 above are re-alleged and 
incorporated herein by reference. 
60. Plaintiffs have lost a significant amount of business revenue because of the actions of 
Defendant Epstein set forth above. 
61. Plaintiffs have no adequate legal remedy to make him whole as a result of the damages 
suffered in the form of lost business revenue due to the actions of Defendant Epstein. 
62. Accordingly, Plaintiffs seeks to become whole by the payment of damages by Defendant 
Epstein to compensate him for his losses. 
WHEREFORE. PLAINTIFFS request judgment against DEFENDANT as follows: 
A. Damages in excess of fifteen-thousand dollars; trial by jury and 
B. Grant other such relief as is appropriate. 
COUNT II — OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE — EQUITY - AS TO DEFENDANT 
JEFFREY EPSTEIN  
63. The allegations contained in paragraphs 1 through 44 above are re-alleged and 
incorporated herein by reference. 
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64. Plaintiff was forced to commit illegal acts by traveling away from the sight of the 
deposition and during the time period of the deposition. 
65. Defendant Epstein attempted to subvert justice and this attempt contributed to the 
destruction of Plaintiff's business, Plaintiff MC2. Plaintiff Brunel lost substantial time away 
from his business and incurred expenses in following Epstein's commands. 
66. Plaintiffs were substantially damaged as a direct result of Epstein's actions. 
WHEREFORE, PLAINTIFFS request judgment against DEFENDANT as follows: 
A. Damages in excess of fifteen-thousand dollars; trial by jury and 
B. Grant other such relief as is appropriate. 
COUNT III — INTENTIONAL INFLICTION OF EMOTIONAL DISTRESS UPON  
PLAINTIFF BRUNEL - AS TO DEFENDANT JEFFREY EPSTEIN  
67. The allegations contained in paragraphs I through 44 above are re-alleged and 
incorporated herein by reference. 
68. Defendant Epstein recklessly inflicted emotional distress upon Plaintiff Brunel by 
engaging in illegal conduct with under-aged girls, which was falsely linked to Plaintiffs. 
69. This illegal conduct was extreme and outrageous by any standard. 
70. This extreme and outrageous conduct was the direct cause of extreme emotional distress 
in Plaintiff Brunel. 
WHEREFORE, PLAINTIFF BRUNEL requests judgment against DEFENDANT as follows: 
A. Damages in excess of fifteen-thousand dollars; trial by jury and 
B. Grant other such relief as is appropriate 
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COUNT IV — EQUITABLE RELIEF FOR LOSS OF BUSINESS AND REVENUE - AS 
TO DEFENDANTS TYLER MCDONALD AND MCDONALD D/B/A YI.ORG  
71. The allegations contained in paragraphs I through 3 & 45 through 58 above are re-
alleged and incorporated herein by reference. 
72. Plaintiff, through his agency MC2, has lost a significant amount of business revenue 
because of the actions of Defendants McDonald d/b/a Yi.Org and McDonald set forth above. 
73. Plaintiffs have no adequate legal remedy to make him whole as a result of the damages 
suffered in the form of lost business revenue due to the actions of both Defendants. 
74. Accordingly, Plaintiffs seek to become whole by the payment of damages by both 
Defendants to compensate him for his losses. 
WHEREFORE, PLAINTIFFS request judgment against DEFENDANTS as follows: 
A. Damages in excess of fifteen-thousand dollars; trial by jury and 
B. Grant other such relief as is appropriate. 
COUNT V — DEFAMATION AGAINST PLAINTIFFS — AS TO DEFENDANTS TYLER 
MCDONALD AND MCDONALD D/B/A YLORG  
75. The allegations contained in paragraphs 1 through 3 & 45 through 58 above are re-
alleged and incorporated herein by reference. 
76. Defendants McDonald d/b/a Yi.Org and McDonald published or caused to be published, 
false statements about Plaintiffs using their domain hosting service. 
77. Defendants McDonald d/b/a Yi.Org and McDonald knew, or should have known, that the 
statements about Plaintiffs were false. 
78. These published statements were read by the internet users who viewed the false 
statements. 
79. Plaintiffs' business reputations were severely damaged as a result. 
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WHEREFORE, PLAINTIFFS request judgment against DEFENDANTS as follows: 
A. Damages in excess of fifteen-thousand dollars; trial by jury and 
B. Grant other such relief as is appropriate. 
COUNT VI — EQUITABLE RELIEF FOR REPAIR OF BUSINESS REPUTATION - AS  
TO DEFENDANTS TYLER MCDONALD & TYLER MCDONALD D/B/A/ YLORG  
80. The allegations contained in paragraphs 1 through 3 & 45 through 58 above are re-
alleged and incorporated herein by reference. 
81. Plaintiffs have also suffered a significant loss of their business reputations as a direct 
result of the actions of Defendants McDonald d/b/a Yi.Org and McDonald. 
82. Plaintiffs have no adequate legal remedy to make them whole as a result of the damages 
suffered in the form of lost business reputations due to the actions of both Defendants. 
83. Accordingly, Plaintiffs seeks to restore their business reputations by the payment of 
damages by both Defendants to compensate them for their loss of reputations. 
WHEREFORE, PLAINTIFFS request judgment against DEFENDANTS as follows: 
A. Damages in excess of fifteen-thousand dollars; trial by jury and 
B. Grant other such relief as is appropriate. 
Is/ Joe Titone 
Joe Titone 
Attorney 
FL BAR #: 203882 
621 S.E. 5th Street 
Pompano Beach, Florida 33060 
(954) 729-6490 
(954) 941-2232 (FAX) 
Joetitone708@comcast.net 
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/07/29/jeffrey-epstein-feds-probe-possible-child-
trafficking-charge.html 
Epstein Faces Sex-Traffic Probe 
The Justice Department is investigating Jeffrey Epstein for child trafficking, The Daily Beast has 
learned—and has widened the scope of its probe to include a famous modeling agency. 
Hedge-fund manager Jeffrey Epstein completed his sentence for soliciting prostitution with a 
minor last week. But it appears his problems may not be over. Now The Daily Beast has learned 
that: 
• Federal investigators continue to investigate Epstein's activities, to see whether there is 
evidence of child trafficking—a far more serious charge than the two in his non-
prosecution agreement, the arrangement between Epstein and the Department of Justice 
allowing him to plead guilty to lower-level state crimes. Trafficking can carry a 20-year 
sentence. 
• The FBI is also investigating Epstein's friend Jean Luc Brunel, whose MC2 modeling 
agency appears to have been a source of girls from overseas who ended up on Epstein's 
private jets. 
Because Epstein's predatory habits stretch back many years and involved dozens of young-
looking girls, there may well be more evidence to uncover. 
Under the concept of double jeopardy, Epstein can no longer be prosecuted for any of the 
charges covered by his non-prosecution agreement, in which he agreed to serve a short term of 
incarceration, fund the civil suits of named victims, and register as a sex offender. The victims 
who accepted cash settlements in these civil suits agreed not to testify against him or speak 
publicly about the case. However, new evidence developed by the Department of Justice on other 
offenses not covered by the agreement, including allegations by additional victims who come 
forward, could lead to new charges. There is no statute of limitations in the federal sex-
trafficking law, which was also enacted by the state of Florida in 2002. Because his predatory 
habits stretch back many years and involved dozens of young-looking girls, there may well be 
more evidence to uncover. (Several young women who claim to be Epstein victims have recently 
contacted a Ft. Lauderdale lawyer, but to date no new civil complaints have been filed.) 
• Conchita Sarnoff: The Billionaire Pedphile's Sex Den  
• Billionaire Pedophile Goes Free 
These new developments come one week after the publication of two articles in The Daily Beast 
about Epstein's pattern of sexual contact with underage girls, which Palm Beach police began 
investigating in 2005 and the U.S. Attorney's office then settled in a 2007 plea deal. The first 
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article quoted a deposition by then-Palm Beach Chief of Police Michael Reiter, in which he 
stated that Epstein, a billionaire with many powerful friends, had received special treatment in 
both his plea deal and the terms of his incarceration. Although federal investigators at one point 
produced a draft 53-page indictment against Epstein, he was eventually allowed to plead guilty 
to only two relatively minor state charges and receive a short term of incarceration: 13 months in 
the county jail, during which he went to the office every day, and one year of community control, 
during which he traveled frequently to New York and his private island in the Virgin Islands. 
The Daily Beast has now discovered another instance in which Epstein apparently received 
special consideration: As a convicted sex offender, he is required by law to undergo an impartial 
psychological evaluation prior to sentencing and to receive psychiatric treatment during and after 
incarceration. This is because child molesters tend to be repeat offenders with high rates of 
recidivism. According to a source in law enforcement, however, Epstein was allowed to submit a 
report by his private psychologist, Dr. Stephen Alexander of Palm Beach, Florida, whose phone 
has since been disconnected with no forwarding information. 
The Daily Beast's second article provided details about Epstein's systematic abuse of underage 
girls at his Palm Beach mansion, where members of his staff allegedly recruited and paid a 
parade of teenagers, most of them 16 or younger, to perform daily massages that devolved into 
masturbation, groping, and sometimes full-blown sexual contact. It also revealed a monetary 
relationship between Epstein and Jean Luc Brunel, a frequent visitor to whom he gave $1 million 
around the same time that Brunel was starting his MC2 modeling agency. Some of the young 
girls MC2 recruited from overseas—often from Eastern Europe and South America—are known 
to have been passengers on Epstein's private jets. 
The U.S. Attorney General's Office in Florida says that it is against policy to confirm or deny the 
existence of an investigation. Jeffrey Epstein's lawyer, Jack Goldberger, says he has no 
knowledge of an ongoing probe, and he told The Daily Beast, ""Jeffrey Epstein has fully 
complied with all state and federal requirements that arise from the prior proceedings in Palm 
Beach. There are no pending civil lawsuits. There are not and should not be any pending criminal 
investigations, given Mr. Epstein's complete fulfillment of all the terms of his non-prosecution 
agreement with the federal government."" 
Conchita Sarnqff has developed multimedia communication programs.for Fortune 500 
companies and has produced three current-events debate TV programs, The Americas Forum, 
From Beirut to Kabul, and a segment for The Oppenheimer Report. She is writing a book about 
child trafficking in America 
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,http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/07/22/ieffrey-epstein-pedophile-billionaire-and-
his-sex-den.html  
The Billionaire Pedophile's Sex Den 
Hedge fund mogul and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who went free this week, lived in a 
depraved world of thrice-daily massages, pornographic artwork, and hush money—that's only 
now being revealed. Conchita Sarnoff reports on the sordid details in part two of her exclusive 
exposé. 
Hedge fund mogul and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who went free this week, lived in a 
depraved world of thrice-daily massages, pornographic artwork, and hush money—that's 
only now being revealed. Conchita Sarnoff reports on the sordid details in part two of her 
exclusive expose. Also: 
• Nude images of young girls were scattered around the house and the bathroom soap was 
shaped like sex organs 
• Staff trolled for fresh recruits to make sure Epstein had two or three massage 
appointments each day 
• The house manager has been sentenced to a longer prison term than Epstein—for trying 
to sell notes regarding massage appointments 
• Epstein gave $1 million to his friend Jean Luc Brunel when he was starting the modeling 
agency MC2 
• According to a former bookkeeper, young girls were brought to the U.S. by MC2—often 
from Eastern Europe—then traveled on Epstein's private jets 
Jeffrey Epstein's loyal friends say that his prosecution was unduly harsh, rather than 
outrageously lenient. They insist that his sexual habits, although obsessive and unusual, were 
mostly legal and essentially harmless. As the police records attest, the girls brought to El Brill° 
Way were routinely told they could ""say no"" at any time during a massage as Epstein escalated 
contact in a step-by-step assault that was remarkably similar in every victim's statement: First 
she would be asked to remove her shirt, then her pants. He would attempt to fondle her buttocks 
and breasts as he masturbated, then bring out a large vibrator. There was sometimes digital 
penetration, and the more willing girls were lured into full-blown sexual relations with both 
Epstein and Nadia Marcinkova, who was referred to in press accounts and police reports as 
Epstein's live-in ""sex slave."" 
A former bookkeeper in the Miami office, who also arranged visas for girls traveling to the U.S., 
confirmed that MC2 girls became frequent guests on Epstein's private jets. 
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It's true that some underage girls may have lied about their age, and some came to the house 
voluntarily several times—although, according to Florida statutes, none of that has any bearing 
on the criminality of the contact, particularly if the girl was 16 or younger. But what is 
particularly disturbing about this case—judging by arrangements at the Palm Beach house—is 
that Epstein, a billionaire hedge-fund manager, organized his life around this sexual compulsion 
in an open and methodical way that suggests he felt he was beyond the law. 
- Conchita Sarnoff: Epstein Faces Sex Traffic Probe  
• Billionaire Pedophile Goes Free  
According to police who executed a search warrant, the house was decorated with large, framed 
photos of nude young girls, and similar images were found stashed in an armoire and on the 
computers seized at the house (although police found only bare cables where other computers 
had been). Some bathrooms were stocked with soap in the shape of sex organs, and various sex 
toys, such as a ""twin torpedo"" vibrator and creams and lubricants available at erotic specialty 
shops, were stowed near the massage tables set up in several rooms upstairs. 
Epstein also enlisted his staff in the predatory activity, and four—Sarah Kellen, Adriana Ross, 
Lesley Groff, and Marcinkova—figured in the FBI investigation. The Non Prosecution 
Agreement stipulated that they would not be charged. According to police reports and sworn 
statements in the civil suits, all four women, among their other duties, worked to ensure that an 
appointment book for twice- or thrice-daily ""massages"" was stocked with fresh recruits. 
Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of the late Czechoslovakian-born press baron Robert Maxwell, who 
was for many years Epstein's live-in partner, also recruited young girls. 
Since his 13-month sentence for soliciting prostitution with a minor, Epstein has settled more 
than a dozen lawsuits brought by underage girls. Seven victims reached a last-minute deal last 
week, days before a scheduled trial; each received well over $1 million—an amount that will 
hardly dent Epstein's $2 billion net worth. 
The victims told police they waited in the kitchen to be called upstairs for a massage, and the 
house chef often gave them a bite to eat. House manager Alfredo Rodriguez said in his sworn 
statement that a maid named Lupita, who was a devout Catholic, wept when she complained to 
him about cleaning up after the massage sessions, picking up soiled towels and putting away the 
sex toys. And she was upset that a photo of Epstein with the pope hung next to one of him with a 
young girl. 
Ironically, Rodriguez, who ran the house on El Brillo Way in 2004 and 2005, ended up being 
sentenced to more jail time than his boss as a result of the complex investigation into Epstein's 
activities. He was fired, he says, for inadvertently drawing police attention to one of the girls 
when she arrived at the house unannounced to collect money. He saw an unfamiliar ""beater"" in 
the driveway one evening and called 91!. When he left Epstein's employ, Rodriguez took away 
some notes and emails about massage appointments as ""protection"" against his own prosecution, 
and failed to produce them during the Palm Beach Police Department's initial investigation. 
Unable to get work as a house manager elsewhere in South Florida, he says, Rodriguez later tried 
to sell this ""golden nugget""—his term—for $50,000, to be used in the victims' civil suits. 
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Unfortunately, he made the offer to an undercover cop, and was subsequently charged with 
""obstruction of official proceedings"" for withholding information that could have advanced the 
criminal investigation of Epstein—which by that point had been settled in a plea deal. Rodriguez 
was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison (Epstein was allowed to serve 13 months in the 
Palm Beach county jail), and now awaits an additional sentence on Aug. 24 in federal court in 
Miami for transporting firearms, another deal he says he made to pay the bills after he lost his 
job. 
In a deposition given for the civil suits, Rodriguez testified that he was instructed to always have 
$2,000 in cash on hand, so that he could pay both the girls who gave massages and recruiters 
such as Haley Robson who brought them to the house. He also testified that Epstein made large 
contributions to the Palm Beach Police Department, and in return was given PBPD baseball hats 
to put on the dashboard of his various cars to avoid being stopped or ticketed by local police. 
Retired Police Chief Michael Reiter, in his own deposition, acknowledged that, in addition to 
earlier donations to the police department (which are fairly common in well-heeled Palm Beach), 
Epstein had recently given the department $100,000 for some sophisticated equipment. The 
police were still researching the purchase when Epstein came under suspicion, and Reiter 
ordered the money returned. (Guy Frostin, one of Epstein's local attorneys, told police that 
Epstein also gave $100,000 to the Florida Ballet for massages, because he was ""very passionate"" 
about massages being ""therapeutically and spiritually"" beneficial. Yet victims told police they 
had no massage training.) 
Perhaps most disturbing, in terms of possible sex trafficking, was Epstein's relationship with 
Jean Luc Brunel, owner of the MC2 modeling agency. According to a complaint filed in the U.S. 
District Court for the Southern District of Florida, an alleged victim said that Epstein, Maxwell, 
Brunel, Rodriguez, and Marcinkova ""deliberately engaged in a pattern of racketeering that 
involved luring minor children through MC2, mostly girls under the age of 17, to engage in 
sexual play for money."" (Which would amount to trafficking.) 
Brunel is a 50-plus French playboy who was formerly part owner of Karin, a Paris-based 
modeling agency. He lives in New York and South Beach, Florida, and owns 85 percent of MC2, 
which has offices in New York, Miami, and Tel Aviv. (The remaining 15 percent is owned by 
his partner, Jeff Fuller.) Brunel has been observed as a house guest at Epstein's Palm Beach 
home and may well have had contact with him also in New York, where Epstein owns a lavish 
home, and in Paris, where Epstein keeps an apartment on elegant Ave. Foch. 
CBS reporter Craig Pyes, who investigated Brunel for a 60 Minutes broadcast many years ago, is 
quoted in Michael Gross' book about the modeling industry, Model: The Li:5.g). Business of 
Beatitifid fPnnen. Pyes told the author that Brunel ""ranks among the sleaziest people in the 
fashion industry. We're talking about a conveyor belt, not a casting couch. Hundreds of girls 
were not only harassed but molested."" Now The Daily Beast has learned that Epstein had made a 
$1 million wire transfer to Brunel's offshore bank account in September 2004, just as he was 
setting up MC2. Whether this was a gift or a loan or a backdoor investment in the new venture is 
unknown. A French citizen who managed to avoid giving evidence in the Epstein investigation, 
Brunel declined to comment on any of this, as does Fuller. Asked in April of Bruners activities, 
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Epstein said ""I'm 100 percent convinced that he doesn't traffic children."" (Brunel has never been 
charged.) 
An American fashion designer who booked her girls through MC2 says they were very young 
and very beautiful; many were from Eastern Europe and spoke little English. A former 
bookkeeper in the agency's Miami office, who also arranged visas for girls traveling to the U.S., 
confirmed that MC2 girls became frequent guests on Epstein's private jets. 
Pilot logs obtained in the civil suits show that some of the named plaintiffs were on the flight 
manifests. Other times, the pilot would just list the other passengers plus ""female."" 
Editor's Note: An earlier version of this article misidentified the subject of Craig .Pyes ' 
investigation and the title of Michael Gross' book. The Daily Beast has corrected the subject and 
title and regrets the error. 
Read Conchita Sarnoff's oriuinal report on Epstein. 
Conchita Sarnqff has developed multimedia communication programs for Fortune 500 
companies and has produced three current events debate television programs, The Americas 
Forum, From Beirut to Kabul, and a segment for The Oppenheimer Report. She is a contributor 
to The Heington Post. She is writing a book about child trafficking in America. 
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http://fashioncopious.typepad.com/fashioncopious/2010/08/mc2-modeling-agency-involved-in-sex-
trafficking.html 
MC2 Modeling Agency Involved In Sex Trafficking 
August 11,2010 
On August 4th Jezebel ran the following story: The Sex-Trafficking Model Scout. 
Perhaps most disturbing, in terms of possible sex trafficking, was Epstein's relationship with Jean 
Luc Brunel, owner of the MC2 modeling agency. According to a complaint filed in the U.S. 
District Court for the Southern District of Florida, an alleged victim said that Epstein, [assistant 
and girlfriend Ghislaine] Maxwell, Brunel, [house manager Alfredo] Rodriguez, and Marcinkova 
'deliberately engaged in a pattern of racketeering that involved luring minor children through 
MC2, mostly girls under the age of 17, to engage in sexual play for money. 
The previous paragraph in the story read: 
and making [speaking of Jeffrey Epstein] frequent $100,000 donations to the Palm Beach Police 
Department would insulate him from prosecution for his various depravities. 
Which included, for the record: buying a 14-year-old Yugloslavian named Natalia Marcinkova 
from her parents in order to keep Marcinkova as his ""sex slave""; paying a retinue of women to 
trawl Palm Beach for teenagers economically desperate enough to agree to give Epstein 
""massages"" that often led to sexual contact; receiving two 12-year-old French girls as a ""birthday 
present""; and befriending Michael Wolff. 
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http://bettyfokker.wordpress.com/2010/08/20/hes-helping-others-get-away-with-child-sex-
trafficking/ 
He's helping others get away with child-sex trafficking 
Posted on August 20, 2010 by Betty Fokker 
Let's discuss that billionaire douche-face child-rapist, Jeffrey Epstein for a moment shall 
we? He's someone who likes to have sex with venerable underage girls, including 12 year old 
girls who are trafficked into the US under the guise that they will become models. His partner in 
crime was Jean Luc Brunel, owner and 'talent scout' of the MC2 ""modeling agency"". Epstein 
coincidently invested a million bucks in the MC2 ki.€14ie-pefn-Fifig modeling agency and let 
Brunel use his privet jet. 
The FBI thinks Epstein has assaulted/molested about 40 or so young girls. So he's going to 
prison for the rest of his life right? Wrong. 
When faced with the best defense lawyers money could buy, the prosecutors wimped out and 
made a plea bargain so light it boggles the mind. This kid-raping bastard only had to please 
guilty to two MINOR charges and gets a private cell, a cell he gets to leave on a ""work release 
program"" by the way. 
Now, I am not blaming his defense attorneys. They were doing their job and, under our 
constitution, a festering anus like Epstein has the right to the best attorneys he can afford. 
I am livid with the prosecuting attorneys. It was their job to do everything in their power to bring 
this vomit-inducing shit-sack to justice. Instead, they decided to gutlessly pander to his wealth, 
privilege, and powerful defense team. They rolled over and did everything but send in another 
kid to give this fucker a hand-job. So this vermin got away with raping 12 year old girls because 
the prosecuting attorneys couldn't find a single testicle/ovary to share among them. 
And do you know what their chicken-shit kowtowing to Epstein has wrought? It's opened the 
door for other child-sex traffickers to get lighter sentences for their crimes too. Why should they 
have to pay when he didn't? After all, it was just girls they were trafficking for sex with 
disgusting older males (I refuse to call something like Epstein a ""man""; it insults men) ... they 
weren't harming anything of any value in our culture! 
I'm a feminist because I think girls & women have value. What a crying, fucking shame there 
wasn't one feminist in the prosecutors office to go after this monster and punish him. What a pity 
other hell-spawn might get away with trafficking girls for sex more easily because of the shit-
for-brains attorneys who let Epstein get away with his crimes. 
My eyeballs are melting with rage. 
Never mind. They aren't melting. It's just tears of helpless and despairing rage against an unjust 
legal system and the cultural devaluation of women and girls. 
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Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire Bill Clinton pal who just left jail after completing a sentence for 
soliciting sex with a minor, may be headed back soon: The Daily Beast reports that the Justice 
Department is investigating him for child trafficking. 
Epstein, famous for being rich, being friends with Bill Clinton, having an egg-shaped penis, and 
being a vindictive pervert, can't be prosecuted again for the charges he copped to in his plea deal. 
But according to The Daily Beast's Conchita Sarnoff, new charges might be coming: 
As we learned in Vanity Fair yesterday, Bill Clinton has spent his post-presidential life...Read 
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Federal investigators continue to investigate Epstein's activities, to see whether there is evidence 
of child trafficking-a far more serious charge than the two in his non-prosecution agreement, the 
arrangement between Epstein and the Department of Justice allowing him to plead guilty to 
lower-level state crimes. Trafficking can carry a 20-year sentence. 
Since there's no statute of limitations for sex-trafficking, and Epstein's predatory adventures 
apparently date back more than a few years, it's likely there's more women who could come 
forward. (Apparently some have contacted a lawyer, but nothing's been filed yet.) 
It's not just Epstein, either—his buddy Jean Luc Brunel, head of the MC2 modeling agency, is 
also being investigated, and some of the models he represented (many from overseas) may have 
been enlisted as companions on Epstein's private jet. 
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/20 I 4/06/03/j e ffrey-e pste in_n_5439407.html 
MIAMI (AP) — Nearly a decade ago, a wealthy financial guru came under FBI investigation, 
suspected of sexually abusing dozens of underage girls at his Palm Beach mansion. Then, 
abruptly, the investigation was dropped and Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to a single state 
charge of soliciting prostitution. He served just over a year in jail. 
Now, two women who say they were among his victims have won a precedent-setting appeals 
court ruling entitling them to see all the documents from the plea bargain discussions between 
Epstein's high-powered lawyers and federal prosecutors. 
Their goal: use those tiles to undo the agreement. reopen the investigation and subject Epstein to 
more charges. 
The women's lawyers contend Epstein got special treatment because of his wealth and 
connections. His attorneys deny that. 
Epstein. 61, made hundreds of millions of dollars managing funds for rich clients. Shortly after 
his 2008 guilty plea. it came to light that his lawyers had secretly reached a non-prosecution 
agreement months earlier with the U.S. Justice Department that spared him a potentially heavier 
punishment. 
""Our complaint alleges that. prodded by Epstein. the federal prosecutors deliberately concealed 
the sweetheart plea deal they made with him to avoid public criticism,"" said Paul Cassell. a 
University of Utah law professor who is representing the two women. 
The U.S. attorney's office in Miami would not comment. But the U.S. attorney at the time, R. 
Alexander Acosta, said in a 2011 letter defending his office that more evidence came to light 
after Epstein made his deal. 
""Many victims have spoken out, tiling detailed statements in civil cases seeking damages. 
Physical evidence has been discovered,"" Acosta wrote. ""Had these additional statements and 
evidence been known, the outcome may have been different."" 
Epstein has settled lawsuits for undisclosed amounts with many of the women who say they were 
underage when they were paid for sex. 
The case represents the first time a federal appeals court has ruled that the Crime Victims' Rights 
Act of 2004 guarantees victims the right to be informed about the details of how a plea bargain 
was reached. according to legal experts and lawyers involved in the case. The law marked the 
culmination of efforts begun in the 1960s to give crime victims more of a say. 
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""I hope that the case will ultimately set an important precedent that federal prosecutors can't keep 
victims in the dark about the plea deals that they reach."" Cassell said. 
Epstein served 13 months of an 18-month sentence on the prostitution charge, sold his Palm 
Beach home in 2011 and now divides his time between a New York City home, a Caribbean 
island and an apartment in Paris. according to court documents. He also has a large New Mexico 
ranch. 
He donates huge sums each year, particularly toward projects involving new medical treatments 
and artificial intelligence. His foundation established a Harvard University program that uses 
mathematics to study evolutionary biology, viruses and disease. 
According to lawsuits filed by some of his accusers. Epstein relied on assistants to recruit 
underage girls to give him massages and perform sex acts. They were usually paid about $200. 
Some girls were notified about the investigation beginning in 2006. But they weren't told about 
the negotiations with federal prosecutors for at least nine months, despite a requirement in the 
Crime Victims' Rights Act that they be kept informed. The two women — who were 13 and 14 
when the alleged assaults occurred — sued for the files and won. 
""Although plea negotiations are vital to the functioning of the criminal justice system, a 
prosecutor and target of a criminal prosecution do not enjoy a relationship of confidence and 
trust when they negotiate."" the appeals court said. 
Federal prosecutors have begun turning over the documents. 
Epstein's attorney. Roy Black, the celebrity lawyer who is also representing Justin Bieber in his 
DUI and resisting-arrest case in Miami Beach, declined to comment but has asked that the 
documents be kept from public view, and so far they have been. 
In a May 23 court filing. Black said that there was no conspiracy between prosecutors and 
Epstein's team to violate the victims' rights law and that the non-prosecution agreement 
contained many provisions Epstein strongly opposed. such as registering as a sex offender and 
agreeing not to contest certain lawsuits. 
""This was no sweetheart deal by any stretch of the imagination,"" Black said in court papers. 
Even if a judge invalidates the plea deal, it will still be up to federal prosecutors to decide what 
to do. 
""The court can't force the prosecutors to bring charges,"" said Matt Alexrod, a former federal 
prosecutor now in private practice in Washington. 
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/conehita-s-sarnoff/ehild-trafficking_b_1269748.html 
Conchita Sarnoff 
Communications expert 
Regulating Modeling Agencies to Help 
Prevent Child Sex Trafficking 
Posted: 02/10/2012 8:49 pm 
In 2010, Jezebel, an online site, nublished ""The Sex Trafficking Model Scout"" warning about the 
dangers of deregulated modeling agencies in the U.S. 
Given the growing number of modeling agencies that transport underage teenagers from foreign 
countries into the United States and the growing sex trade of underage girls in the U.S. why does 
this industry remain deregulated? 
Since the advent of this business, modeling agencies have had free reign to scout teenagers from 
every state in the country as well as every nation in the world. Many of these teenage girls come 
from economically disadvantaged families and are offered none to very limited protection while 
traveling and working as ""models."" 
Jezebel reported that Jean Luc Brunel, one of the cast of characters involved in the ongoing 
Jeffrey Epstein (a level 3 registered sex offender), eight-year-long case, has been working for 
over two decades with a succession of agencies in New York and Paris. According to media 
reports, Diane Sawyer produced a segment for CBS's 60 Minutes featuring a sex scandal that 
eventually led Eileen Ford (founder of renowned Ford modeling agency) to stop working with 
Brunel. 
Brunelts latest venture is the modeling agency MC2 based in South Beach, Fla. with satellite 
offices in New York and Tel Aviv. Since his agency is deregulated and ""no criminal charges 
have been filed by any of his accusers"" — although many have tried to serve him including 
lawyers representing Epstein's victims, Brunel continues to hide behind his French citizenship to 
prevent depositions. ""Trawling for 511"" underage teenagers to work for his agency. MC2, or 
anyone else who requests, Brunel is free to scout for very young girls without limitations."" Given 
his citizenship he also successfully avoided deposition in Epstein's sex related cases. 
Like so many other reporters who have tried to report his side of the story when Jezebel 
contacted Brunel, ""he did not respond to our interview request."" According to Jezebel: 
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we spoke to a number of people who worked with his agency and while MC2 isn't considered a 
major industry player, it isn't exactly bottom-shelf, either... Brunel isn't involved with the 
business on a day-to-day basis, although he owns an 85 percent stake in MC2. Instead, he does 
scouting for the agency and takes care of the international relations with other agencies, reports 
one source. Scouts scour the world for unrepresented teenage girls who could make it as models. 
They work largely unsupervised and are generally paid a headhunting fee for every girl an 
agency signs. Even when affiliated with an agency, as Brunel obviously is with MC2, scouts 
operate mostly independently and with little oversight. The company blog refers to Brunel as a 
'scouting tsunami' and MC2 is fairly well known for the strength of its international scouting. 
Model, Michael Gross's 1995 book, describes Bruners activities in Paris from the late 1970s 
onwards, when he worked for, and eventually owned, the modeling agency Karin. ""Jean-Luc is 
considered a danger,"" says Jerome Bonnouvrier. ""Owning Karin was a dream for a playboy. His 
problem is that he knows exactly what girls in trouble are looking for. He's always been on the 
edge of the system."" 
John Casablancas, founder of Elite modeling agency said: 
I really despise Jean-Luc as a human being for the way he's cheapened the business. There is no 
justice. This is a guy who should be behind bars. There was a little group, Jean-Luc, Patrick 
Gilles, and Varsano. They were very well known in Paris for roaming the clubs. They would 
invite girls and put drugs in their drinks. Everybody knew they were creeps."" Casablancas was a 
professional rival who was pushed out of his agency for questionable concerns. 
Katie Ford human trafficking abolitionist and Eileen Ford's daughter, talked to the Wall Street 
Journal magazine. In that stor‘ ""A Model Trade Union,"" Ford describes herself as a ""roving 
ambassador"" to help stop human trafficking. Ford sold her stake in the family business in 2007 to 
the private equity firm Stone Tower Equity. ""In her new life as a nearly full-time, unpaid, roving 
ambassador for the cause her job is an outgrowth of her former work, rather than a repudiation of 
it, or an atonement. 
Her interest in human trafficking began when a representative of the United Nations called to ask 
if she would participate in a women's leadership group that was studying the issue of trafficking. 
""I said, 'I can't come talk about it, because I don't know anything about it!"" Ford recalls. ""But 
went, and after two hours, I knew why I was there. The way people traffic across borders is 
parallel to the way we recruit models. According to Ford ""the target age is 14 to 24, and so it's 
similar to modeling."" I knew how to reach that market"" she said, ""It was the feeling of: There but 
for the grace of God... The girls who came to us could have been those girls."" 
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The Sex-Trafficking Model Scout 
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xpand 
Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire financier who the FBI believes molested around 40 underaged 
girls, was assisted by a prominent modeling agent and scout. Here's what we know about Jean 
Luc Brunel. 
Jeffrey Epstein, you will no doubt recall, is the man who thought ferrying Bill Clinton on his 
private jet, lawyering up with superstar Alan Dershowitz, and making frequent $100,000 
donations to the Palm Beach Police Department would insulate him from prosecution for his 
various depravities. 
Say you're not as famous or celebrated as Roman Polanski and you want to sexually 
assault...Read more 
Which included, for the record: buying a 14-year-old Yugloslavian named Natalia Marcinkova 
from her parents in order to keep Marcinkova as his ""sex slave""; paying a retinue of women to 
trawl Palm Beach for teenagers economically desperate enough to agree to give Epstein 
""massages"" that often led to sexual contact; receiving two 12-year-old French girls as a ""birthday 
present""; and befriending Michael Wolff. 
But as Conchita Sarnoff wrote at The Daily Beast: 
Perhaps most disturbing, in terms of possible sex trafficking, was Epstein's relationship with Jean 
Luc Brunel, owner of the MC2 modeling agency. According to a complaint filed in the U.S. 
District Court for the Southern District of Florida, an alleged victim said that Epstein, [assistant 
and girlfriend Ghislaine] Maxwell, Brunel, [house manager Alfredo] Rodriguez, and Marcinkova 
'deliberately engaged in a pattern of racketeering that involved luring minor children through 
MC2, mostly girls under the age of 17, to engage in sexual play for money.' 
The FBI investigated Epstein, and identified around 40 underaged victims. Sarnoff reports that 
the FBI is also investigating MC2 and Brunel for possibly engaging in child sex trafficking. 
Since pleading guilty to reduced charges of soliciting sex with a minor and serving 13 months of 
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part-time jail, Epstein has become the focus of numerous civil lawsuits from his victims. He has 
so far settled a dozen. 
These same civil complaints allege that young girls from South America, Europe, and the former 
Soviet republics, few of whom spoke English, were recruited for Esptein's sexual pleasure. 
According to a former bookkeeper, a number of the girls worked for MC2, the modeling agency 
owned by Jean Luc Brunel, a longtime acquaintance and frequent guest of Epstein's. 
Brunel, along with numerous young models, was a frequent passenger on Epstein's private jet, 
according to flight manifests. The agency owner also allegedly received $1 million from Epstein 
in 2005, when he founded MC2 with his partner, Jeffrey Fuller; although Fuller and Brunel 
denied any such payment from the billionaire pervert in 2007, when rumors started swirling, 
Sarnoff got confirmation from a former bookkeeper at the agency. Whether the money was a 
secret investment in MC2, or a payment for Brunel's services as a procurer, is unknown. Brunel 
also visited Epstein in jail. 
So who is Jean Luc Brunel? Although he did not respond to our interview request, we spoke to a 
number of people who have worked with his agency. While MC2 isn't considered a major 
industry player, it isn't exactly bottom-shelf, either: MC2 in New York most recently launched 
the career of Latvian editorial star Ginta Lapina (Brunel ""discovered"" Lapina via an MC2  
scoutina competition for young teens) and currently represents Vogue China covergirl Liu Dan. 
Worldwide, MC2 represents such stars as Sessilee Lopez in Miami, and top models Candace 
Swanepoel, Marina Lynchuk, Natalia Chabanenko, and Elisa Sednaoui in Tel Aviv. 
Brunel isn't involved with the business on a day-to-day basis, although he owns an 85% stake in 
MC2. Instead, ""Right now he does scouting for [the] agency and takes care of the international 
relations with other agencies,"" reports one source. Scouts scour the world for un-agented 
teenaged girls who could make it as models; they work largely unsupervised and are generally 
paid a headhunting fee for every girl an agency signs. Even when affiliated with an agency, as 
Brunel obviously is with MC2, scouts operate mostly independently and with little oversight — 
even relative to the almost totally unregulated modeling industry itself. ""He travels a lot,"" says 
another person who has worked with Brunel. (The company blog refers to Brunel as a ""scouting 
tsunami."" and MC2 is fairly well-known for the strength of its international scouting.) 
Models we spoke to report mostly positive experiences with Brunel — one praised his sense of 
humor and said he is ""lovely to all of his models,"" and another described him as highly 
intelligent and cultured, adding, ""he knows a lot about the opera and he paints"" — although it 
should be noted that none of the models whom we spoke to had been told of either his 
connections with Epstein, or his past. 
And what a past it is. These accounts from Michael Gross' 1995 book Model describe Brunel's 
activities in Paris from the late 1970s onwards, when he worked for, and eventually owned, the 
modeling agency Karins, now known as Karin Paris: 
""Jean-Luc is considered a danger,"" says Jerome Bonnouvrier. ""Owning Karins was a dream for a 
playboy. His problem is that he knows exactly what girls in trouble are looking for. He's always 
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been on the edge of the system. John Casablancas gets with girls the healthy way. Girls would be 
with him if he was the butcher. They're with Jean-Luc because he's the boss. Jean-Luc likes 
drugs and silent rape. It excites him."" 
""I really despise Jean-Luc as a human being for the way he's cheapened the business,"" says John 
Casablancas. ""There is no justice. This is a guy who should be behind bars. There was a little 
group, Jean-Luc, Patrick Gilles, and Varsano...They were very well-known in Paris for roaming 
the clubs. They would invite girls and put drugs in their drinks. Everybody knew they were 
creeps."" 
It should be noted that aside from being a professional rival, Casablancas, the founder of the 
agency Elite, was eventually drubbed out of the industry for his own modelizing. How pervy do 
you have to be for John Casablancas to call you a perv? 
Pervy enough to drug and rape numerous teenagers, according to 60 Minutes and Diane Sawyer, 
who investigated Brunel in 1988. The program interviewed nearly two dozen models who said 
they had been sexually assaulted by Brunel andJor by his fellow agent, Claude Haddad. Even at 
that time, Brunel had a reputation as a man one could go to to procure a ""date"" with a young 
model. CBS spoke to five models who said that Brunel and/or his friends had drugged and raped 
them. Said producer Craig Pyes, ""Hundreds of girls were not only harassed, but molested."" 
When Gross interviewed Brunel, this is what he had to say for himself: 
""You get laid tonight with a model, is that a crime? I don't understand why people go into your 
personal life, what you do yourself, and to yourself, and they don't look at things that are really 
important."" 
Since then, Brunel has been involved with a succession of agencies in New York and Paris. 
Although the 60 Minutes scandal eventually led Eileen Ford to stop working with him, he 
continued his involvement with Karins. In 1988, when powerhouse agency Next opened its 
doors, Brunel took an ownership stake. He also ""discovered"" Christy Turlington when she was 
14. MC2 is only his latest venture. Because no criminal charges were ever filed by any of his 
accusers, and because the industry has a short memory — most models working today weren't 
even born when Sawyer and Pyes started looking into Brunel's activities — Brunel has been free 
to continue as he pleases. A French citizen, he even avoided testifying in his friend Epstein's 
trial. 
And so Brunel is still criss-crossing the globe, trawling for 5'10"" 13-year-olds from Eastern 
Europe and (the NA, h iter parts of) South America. And apparently taking the occasional ride with 
them on Epstein's private jet. Is there any better argument for the regulation of the modeling 
industry? 
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Jeffrey Epstein's Level 3 sex offender status 
upheld by NY appeals court 
By Dareh Gregorian  
November 18, 20111 5:00am 
Multimillionaire pery Jeffrey Epstein may not consider his Florida conviction for soliciting a 
minor a big deal, but New York does. 
A state appeals court yesterday upheld the financier's status as a Level 3 sex offender — 
meaning he's considered ""a threat to public safety"" and a ""high risk"" to offend again. 
Epstein, 58, did 13 months in a Florida jail for soliciting a minor to perform a sex act on him 
during a ""massage."" 
Although he was never indicted or convicted for hiring any other underage girls, the state 
Appellate Division found there was ""clear and convincing evidence"" he had indeed done so, 
making the Level 3 designation appropriate. 
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http://pagesix.com/2007/10/06/model-shop-denies-epstein-tie/ 
MODEL SHOP DENIES EPSTEIN TIE 
By PageSix.com Staff- October 6, 2007 1 9:00am 
THE owners of MC2 models are denying industry speculation that massage maven Jeffrey 
Epstein is a secret financial backer of the agency being run by scandal-scarred Jean-Luc 
Brunel, who was once accused of taking advantage of underage models. 
Epstein, who this week agreed to plead guilty to soliciting underage prostitutes at his Florida 
mansion in a deal that will send him to prison for about 18 months, reportedly gave ""millions"" to 
start MC2, which opened in October 2005 with offices in New York, Miami and Tel Aviv. One 
of the girls Epstein, 54, was accused of soliciting massages from was described in court 
documents as being just 14. 
""E equals MC squared . . . get it, like the equation? E equals Epstein. He just thinks everyone is 
too dumb to figure it out,"" said a model industry insider. ""He's a desperate old man that 
fantasizes and takes advantage of young girls."" 
The trouble doesn't stop there. 
Karins Models founder Brunel, who's currently a partner in MC2, denied allegations in a 1997 
""60 Minutes"" segment that he took advantage of young models who were high on drugs. Brunel 
also reportedly left his Trump Tower digs in 1999 after complaints of night carousing, which he 
also denied. 
Disgraced former Elite models exec Gerald Marie is also involved with MC2, says our source. 
Marie was accused of having sex with underage models in a 1999 BBC documentary where he 
was filmed saying he hoped to seduce contestants in a modeling contest in which the average age 
of participants was 15. He also dated Linda Evangelista when she was a teen. 
""He's also involved in the agency,"" said the source. ""Gerald and Jean-Luc like the same things. 
They hang out because they have young girls in common, like two guys who enjoy the same 
wine."" 
MC2 president Jeffrey Fuller confirmed Brunel was a partner in the company, but denied any 
working relationship with either Epstein or Marie. 
""We have no relationship business-wise with Gerald Marie. Jeffrey Epstein has no ownership or 
involvement in our company and never has. Jean-Luc Brunel and 1 are the only two partners and 
owners of MC2 Model Management,"" Fuller said. 
Epstein's rep said he was not involved in the agency. ""He has no business relationship with 
them,"" said Howard Rubenstein. 
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http://www.palmbeachdailynews.cominews/news/lawsuit-doeuments-link-jeffrey-epstein-
to-modeling/nMGzHi 
Lawsuit documents link Jeffrey Epstein to 
modeling agency owner Jean Luc Brunel 
By Michele Daman  
Daily News Staff Writer 
New court filings in a civil case filed by billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein link Epstein and 
Jean Luc Brunel, owner of modeling agency MC2. 
The documents say MC2 employees told attorney Brad Edwards that Epstein's condos at 301 E. 
66th St. in New York City were used to house young models. 
Edwards, who has sued Epstein on behalf of several women claiming to be victims of sex abuse 
by Epstein, was told MC2 brought underage girls in from all over the world, promising them 
modeling contracts. 
""Epstein and Brunel would then obtain a visa for these girls, then would charge the underage 
girls rent,"" the documents say. 
Through the investigation of his lawsuits against Epstein, Edwards learned Brunel ""runs the 
modeling agency MC2, a company for which Epstein provides financial support,"" the documents 
say. 
They also allege Epstein tried to thwart Edwards from taking depositions of Brunel, Epstein's 
companion Guislaine Maxwell, and other high-profile names such as President Bill Clinton. 
Details are listed in more than 62 pages filed by attorney Jack Scarola on behalf of Edwards in 
the lawsuit Epstein filed against Edwards. Edwards represents four of Epstein's minor victims, 
three of whom have settled their cases with Epstein under a confidential agreement. 
Epstein attorneys Christopher Knight and Joseph Ackerman declined to comment Friday on the 
court filings. 
Edwards deposed Brunel, but his attorney delayed it and then said he was back in France with no 
plans to return. But according to the court papers, Brunel was staying with Epstein in Palm 
Beach during that period. 
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The court filings describe Brunel as one of Epstein's closest pals. 
Regarding Maxwell, the documents refer to sworn testimony by Epstein's former house 
manager, Alfredo Rodriguez, explaining how Maxwell took photos of girls without the girls' 
knowledge, ""kept the images on her computer, knew the names of the underage girls and their 
respective phone numbers and other underage victims."" 
According to the documents: Maxwell allegedly lied about her mother being ill and having to fly 
back to England one day before a scheduled deposition in Edwards' case against Epstein. 
Despite that assertion, Maxwell was captured in a photo for OK magazine, attending the wedding 
of Chelsea Clinton two days later. 
Epstein has settled more than two dozen lawsuits and claims against him by young women who 
say they were lured to his El Brillo Way mansion as teens to give him sexually charged massages 
and/or sex in exchange for money. The terms of all settlements are confidential. 
Rodriguez took a journal from Epstein's computer that listed the names of his underage victims 
from around the country and the world. Calling it the ""Holy Grail,"" Rodriguez tried to sell the 
journal for $50,000 to victims' attorneys. He pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and is 
serving 18 months in federal prison. 
Epstein, 57, served 13 months of an 18-month state sentence. He ended his one-year probation in 
July on state charges of soliciting prostitution and soliciting a minor for prostitution. 
According to flight logs from Epstein's private planes, Clinton flew several times on Epstein's 
planes, many times with Maxwell, Palm Beach resident Sarah Kellen and Adriana Mucinska — 
""all employees and/or co-conspirators of Epstein's,"" according to the court papers. 
The documents show that Clinton flew with Epstein, ""then suddenly stopped — raising the 
suspicion that the friendship abruptly ended ... 
""Epstein's personal phone directory from his computer contains e-mail addresses for Clinton 
along with 21 phone numbers for him ... and what appears to be Clinton's personal numbers,"" the 
court papers say. 
Allegations in the documents say Epstein threatened victims — including Edwards' client Jane 
Doe — despite no-contact orders in effect. 
Epstein had Doe tailed by a private investigator as her trial date neared, the court filings say. One 
time, Doe was so frightened that she fled her home in the company of a retired police officer and 
was taken to a hiding place, according to the court papers. 
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regulation-for-agencies-to-stop-child-sex-trafficking/ 
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That Gorgeous Underage Model May Be A 
Slave: Regulation For Agencies To Stop Child 
Sex Trafficking 
First came the knowledge that slaves still existed and were present in larger numbers than ever 
before. Then the realization that a human being could be purchased within a few hours of my 
home for under $100. Now only a few miles away. In the following years I've been learning the 
myriad forms, places and types of slavery. The list keeps lengthening and with each new form 
(to me), I learn about, it knocks me down, one more time. 
Slavery 
Debt Bondage 
Sexual Slavery 
Child Brides 
Forced Labor 
Child Soldiers 
Adoption Trafficking 
Organ Trqfficking 
Trafficked Athletes 
And now a new one I should have seen coming. 
Those very young, foreign models you see? Some of them were trekked by model scouts who 
literally trawled through some of the most destitute and vulnerable people on earth for them. The 
same methods as other predatory trekkers; Go to politically or economically unstable areas; 
locate 5'l1"" beautiful young girls; buy them, import them, own them, use them. 
Horrible irony to have images that portray us to the world possibly be of slaves. 
It's hard to think of an area of our society that doesn't admire seeing it's most vaunted members 
with a model on their arm. While this observation does not imply that those people were 
trafficked, imagine how simple that makes it to approach a child or it family anywhere in the 
world and offer them this in return for absolute control. 
All the traffickers have to do is pull out a magazine or phone with videos on it. 
I'm not shocked at traffickers using this method of promises to lure unsuspecting girls into 
slavery, I've seen it, read about it, studied it. I'm in shock that it flourishes in the most visible, 
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glaring spotlight of our culture, the part that worhips and presents our current idea of beauty in 
almost everything we touch. 
These victims are on the most prominent slave block ever, emulated by our children, coveted by 
our culture-makers and our society, and standing in the brightest global spotlight in the 
world. In plain sight, reported on in numerous stories for decades and yet only escalating in 
usage until they've become the golden mean. 
We can quietly ignore the ones resold daily in our town, who made our clothes, chocolate, 
housewares, provided the gold on our fingers and necks, electronics in our hands, labor in our 
fields. Here, finally, are slaves we fantasize about being, emulating, allow our society to be 
shaped by, consider trophies. 
What will this say about us if we don't drastically change it? All of it. 
Katie Ford walked away from an empire the first time she learned about slavery. she 's working 
to change with this thing she recognized to be permeating the industry. That is courage. 
Regulating Modeling Agencies to Help Prevent Child Sex Trafficking 
Conchita Samoll 
Posted: 02/10/2012 8:49 pm 
In 2010, Jezebel, an online site, published ""The Sex Trafficking Model Scout"" warning about the 
dangers of deregulated modeling agencies in the U.S. 
Given the growing number of modeling agencies that transport underage teenagers from foreign 
countries into the United States and the growing sex trade of underage girls in the U.S. why does 
this industry remain deregulated? 
Since the advent of this business, modeling agencies have had free reign to scout teenagers from 
every state in the country as well as every nation in the world. Many of these teenage girls come 
from economically disadvantaged families and are offered none to very limited protection while 
traveling and working as ""models."" 
Jezebel reported that Jean Luc Brunel, one of the cast of characters involved in the ongoing 
Jeffrey Epstein (a level 3 registered sex offender), eight-year-long case, has been working for 
over two decades with a succession of agencies in New York and Paris. According to media 
reports, Diane Sawyer produced a segment for CBS's 60 Minutes featuring a sex scandal that 
eventually led Eileen Ford (founder of renowned Ford modeling agency) to stop working with 
Brunel. 
Brunel's latest venture is the modeling agency MC2 based in South Beach, Fla. with satellite 
offices in New York and Tel Aviv. Since his agency is deregulated and ""no criminal charges 
have been filed by any of his accusers"" — although many have tried to serve him including 
lawyers representing Epstein's victims, Brunel continues to hide behind his French citizenship to 
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prevent depositions. ""Trawling for 5'11"" underage teenagers to work for his agency, MC2, or 
anyone else who requests, Brunel is free to scout for very young girls without limitations."" Given 
his citizenship he also successfully avoided deposition in Epstein's sex related cases. 
Like so many other reporters who have tried to report his side of the story when Jezebel 
contacted Brunel, ""he did not respond to our interview request."" According to Jezebel: 
we spoke to a number of people who worked with his agency and while MC2 isn't considered a 
major industry player, it isn't exactly bottom-shelf, either... Brunel isn't involved with the 
business on a day-to-day basis, although he owns an 85 percent stake in MC2. Instead, he does 
scouting for the agency and takes care of the international relations with other agencies, reports 
one source. Scouts scour the world for unrepresented teenage girls who could make it as models. 
They work largely unsupervised and are generally paid a headhunting fee for every girl an 
agency signs. Even when affiliated with an agency, as Brunel obviously is with MC2, scouts 
operate mostly independently and with little oversight. The company blog refers to Brunel as a 
'scouting tsunami' and MC2 is fairly well known for the strength of its international scouting. 
Model, Michael Gross's 1995 book, describes Brunel's activities in Paris from the late 1970s 
onwards, when he worked for, and eventually owned, the modeling agency Karin. ""Jean-Luc is 
considered a danger,"" says Jerome Bonnouvrier. ""Owning Karin was a dream for a playboy. His 
problem is that he knows exactly what girls in trouble are looking for. He's always been on the 
edge of the system."" 
John Casablancas, founder of Elite modeling agency said: 
I really despise Jean-Luc as a human being for the way he's cheapened the business. There is no 
justice. This is a guy who should be behind bars. There was a little group, Jean-Luc, Patrick 
Gilles, and Varsano. They were very well known in Paris for roaming the clubs. They would 
invite girls and put drugs in their drinks. Everybody knew they were creeps."" Casablancas was a 
professional rival who was pushed out of his agency for questionable concerns. 
Katie Ford human trafficking abolitionist and Eileen Ford's daughter, talked to the Wall Street 
Journaimagazine. In that story ""A Model Trade Union,"" Ford describes herself as a ""roving 
ambassador"" to help stop human trafficking. Ford sold her stake in the family business in 2007 to 
the private equity firm Stone Tower Equity. ""In her new life as a nearly full-time, unpaid, roving 
ambassador for the cause her job is an outgrowth of her former work, rather than a repudiation of 
it, or an atonement. 
Her interest in human trafficking began when a representative of the United Nations called to ask 
if she would participate in a women's leadership group that was studying the issue of trafficking. 
""I said, 'I can't come talk about it, because I don't know anything about it!"" Ford recalls. ""But I 
went, and after two hours, I knew why I was there. The way people traffic across borders is 
parallel to the way we recruit models. According to Ford ""the target age is 14 to 24, and so it's 
similar to modeling."" I knew how to reach that market"" she said, ""It was the feeling of: There but 
for the grace of God... The girls who came to us could have been those girls."" 
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http://slaverytoday.org/that-gorgeous-underage-ad-model-may-be-trafficked-and-owned-
regulation-for-agencies-to-stop-child-sex-trafficking/ 
That Gorgeous Underage Model May Be A 
Slave: Regulation For Agencies To Stop Child 
Sex Trafficking 
First came the knowledge that slaves still existed and were present in larger numbers than ever 
before. Then the realization that a human being could be purchased within a few hours of my 
home for under $100. Now only a few miles away. In the following years I've been learning the 
myriad forms, places and types of slavery. The list keeps lengthening and with each new form 
(to me), I learn about , it knocks me down, one more time. 
Slavery 
Debt Bondage 
Sexual Slavery 
Child Brides 
Forced Labor 
Child Soldiers 
Adoption Trafficking 
Organ Trekking 
Trqfficked Athletes 
And now a new one I should have seen coming. 
Those very young, foreign models you see? Some of them were trafficked by model scouts who 
literally trawled through some of the most destitute and vulnerable people on earth for them. The 
same methods as other predatory trqffickers; Go to politically or economically unstable areas; 
locate 5 '1 I"" beautiful young girls; buy them, import them, own them, use them. 
Horrible irony to have images that portray us to the world possibly be of slaves. 
It hard to think of an area of our society that doesn't admire seeing it's most vaunted members 
with a model on their arm. While this observation does not imply that those people were 
trqfficked, imagine how simple that makes it to approach a child or it's family anywhere in the 
world and offer them this in return for absolute control. 
All the traffickers have to do is pull out a magazine or phone with videos on it. 
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I'm not shocked at trqffickers using this method qfprornise.s to lure unsuspecting girls into 
slavery, I've seen it, read about it, studied it. I'm in shock that it .flourishes in the most visible, 
glaring spotlight of our culture, the part that worhips and presents our current idea of beauty in 
almost everything we touch. 
These victims are on the most prominent slave block ever, emulated by our children, coveted by 
our culture-makers and our society, and standing in the brightest global spotlight in the 
world. In plain sight, reported on in numerous stories for decades and yet only escalating in 
usage until they've become the golden mean. 
We can quietly ignore the ones resold daily in our town, who made our clothes, chocolate, 
housewares, provided the gold on our fingers and necks, electronics in our hands, labor in our 
fields. Here, finally, are slaves we fantasize about being, emulating, allow our society to be 
shaped by, consider trophies. 
What will this say about us if we don't drastically change it? All of it. 
Katie Ford walked away from an empire the first time she learned about slavery. she 's working 
to change with this thing she recognized to be permeating the industry. That is courage. 
Regulating Modeling Agencies to Help Prevent Child Sex Trafficking 
Conchita Samar 
Posted: 02/10/2012 8:49 pm 
In 2010, Jezebel, an online site, published ""The Sex Trafficking Model Scout"" warning about the 
dangers of deregulated modeling agencies in the U.S. 
Given the growing number of modeling agencies that transport underage teenagers from foreign 
countries into the United States and the growing sex trade of underage girls in the U.S. why does 
this industry remain deregulated? 
Since the advent of this business, modeling agencies have had free reign to scout teenagers from 
every state in the country as well as every nation in the world. Many of these teenage girls come 
from economically disadvantaged families and are offered none to very limited protection while 
traveling and working as ""models."" 
Jezebel reported that Jean Luc Brunel, one of the cast of characters involved in the ongoing 
Jeffrey Epstein (a level 3 registered sex offender), eight-year-long case, has been working for 
over two decades with a succession of agencies in New York and Paris. According to media 
reports, Diane Sawyer produced a segment for CBS's 60 Minutes featuring a sex scandal that 
eventually led Eileen Ford (founder of renowned Ford modeling agency) to stop working with 
Brunel. 
Brunel's latest venture is the modeling agency MC2 based in South Beach, Fla. with satellite 
offices in New York and Tel Aviv. Since his agency is deregulated and ""no criminal charges 
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have been filed by any of his accusers"" — although many have tried to serve him including 
lawyers representing Epstein's victims, Brunel continues to hide behind his French citizenship to 
prevent depositions. ""Trawling for 5'11"" underage teenagers to work for his agency, MC2, or 
anyone else who requests, Brunel is free to scout for very young girls without limitations."" Given 
his citizenship he also successfully avoided deposition in Epstein's sex related cases. 
Like so many other reporters who have tried to report his side of the story when Jezebel 
contacted Brunel, ""he did not respond to our interview request."" According to Jezebel: 
we spoke to a number of people who worked with his agency and while MC2 isn't considered a 
major industry player, it isn't exactly bottom-shelf, either... Brunel isn't involved with the 
business on a day-to-day basis, although he owns an 85 percent stake in MC2. Instead, he does 
scouting for the agency and takes care of the international relations with other agencies, reports 
one source. Scouts scour the world for unrepresented teenage girls who could make it as models. 
They work largely unsupervised and are generally paid a headhunting fee for every girl an 
agency signs. Even when affiliated with an agency, as Brunel obviously is with MC2, scouts 
operate mostly independently and with little oversight. The company blog refers to Brunel as a 
'scouting tsunami' and MC2 is fairly well known for the strength of its international scouting. 
Model, Michael Gross's 1995 book, describes Brunel's activities in Paris from the late 1970s 
onwards, when he worked for, and eventually owned, the modeling agency Karin. ""Jean-Luc is 
considered a danger,"" says Jerome Bonnouvrier. ""Owning Karin was a dream for a playboy. His 
problem is that he knows exactly what girls in trouble are looking for. He's always been on the 
edge of the system."" 
John Casablancas, founder of Elite modeling agency said: 
I really despise Jean-Luc as a human being for the way he's cheapened the business. There is no 
justice. This is a guy who should be behind bars. There was a little group, Jean-Luc, Patrick 
Gilles, and Varsano. They were very well known in Paris for roaming the clubs. They would 
invite girls and put drugs in their drinks. Everybody knew they were creeps."" Casablancas was a 
professional rival who was pushed out of his agency for questionable concerns. 
Katie Ford human trafficking abolitionist and Eileen Ford's daughter, talked to the Wall Street 
Journaimagazine. In that story ""A Model Trade Union,"" Ford describes herself as a ""roving 
ambassador"" to help stop human trafficking. Ford sold her stake in the family business in 2007 to 
the private equity firm Stone Tower Equity. ""In her new life as a nearly full-time, unpaid, roving 
ambassador for the cause her job is an outgrowth of her former work, rather than a repudiation of 
it, or an atonement. 
Her interest in human trafficking began when a representative of the United Nations called to ask 
if she would participate in a women's leadership group that was studying the issue of trafficking. 
""I said, 'I can't come talk about it, because I don't know anything about it!"" Ford recalls. ""But I 
went, and after two hours, I knew why I was there. The way people traffic across borders is 
parallel to the way we recruit models. According to Ford ""the target age is 14 to 24, and so it's 
41 
similar to modeling."" I knew how to reach that market"" she said, ""It was the feeling of: There but 
for the grace of God... The girls who came to us could have been those girls."" 
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http://files.wallstreetfolly.com/wordpress/2007/10/jeffrey-
epstein-doesnt-want-to-be-branded-as-a-sex-offender-for-
life-and-no-hes-not-a-m odeling-agency-secret-sugar-daddy-
or-so-its-owners-say/ 
Jeffrey Epstein doesn't want to be branded as a ""sex  
offender"" for life, and no, he's not a modeling agency secret 
sugar daddy (or so its owners say) 
Posted by WSF On October - 9 - 2007 
\ 
inerrelftECI 
arty-Ham 
Jeffrey Epstein, Epstein, the billionaire money manager who's agreed to plead guilty to soliciting 
underaged hookers and go away for 18 months, doesn't want to be branded a ""sex offender"" for 
life. Page Six says his lawyers are thinking about asking prosecutors to drop that requirement 
from his plea agreement: 
In a letter drafted, but not sent, to U.S. 
Attorney Alexander Costa and obtained by Page Six, Epstein's lawyer, Gerald 
Lefcourt, writes, ""Doing so will have a profound impact [on Epstein] both 
immediately and forever after. Not only will he be restricted to a wholly 
inappropriate penal facility, but he will be required for the rest of his life 
to account for his whereabouts."" 
Meanwhile, over the weekend Page Six said that owners of MC2 modeling, run by Jean-Luc 
Brunel — who's also been accused of favoring underaged models in the past — claim that 
Epstein is not the secret deep pockets behind the firm, no matter what others say or speculate. 
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Epstein, __reportedly gave 
""millions"" to start MC2, which opened in October 2005 with offices in 
New York, Miami and Tel Aviv. One of the girls Epstein, 54, was accused of 
soliciting massages from was described in court documents as being just 14. 
""E equals MC squared. . . get it, 
like the equation? E equals Epstein. He just thinks everyone is too dumb to 
figure it out,"" said a model industry insider. ""He's a desperate old 
man that fantasizes and takes advantage of young girls."" 
""Jeffrey Epstein has no ownership or involvement in our company and never has. Jean-Luc 
Brunel and I are the only two partners and owners of MC2 Model Management,"" [Jeffrey] Fuller 
said. [MC2 President] 
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http://www.washingtonpost.comincws/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/04/21/eleventh-circuit-rules-
that-discovery-can-move-forward-on-my-crime-victims-rights-act-case/ 
The Volokh Conspiracy  
Eleventh Circuit rules that discovery can 
move forward on my Crime Victims' Rights 
Act case 
By Paul Cassell April 21 
On Friday,the Ilth Circuit ruled that discovery can move forward in an important Crime 
Victims' Rights Act case that my co-counsel, Brad Edwards, and I are pursuing. The narrow 
issue before the court was whether prosecutors and defense attorneys could assert some sort of 
""privilege"" to prevent crime victims from reviewing the correspondence that lead to a plea 
bargain. More broadly, the ruling means that the victims will have a chance to return to the 
district court and seek to invalidate a plea agreement that (we alleged) was consummated in 
violation of their rights. I hope that the case will ultimately set an important precedent that 
federal prosecutors can't keep victims in the dark about the plea deals that they reach. 
Here are the important facts, taken from the 11th Circuit's opinion: The case arose in 2006, the 
FBI began investigating allegations that wealthy investor Jeffrey Epstein had sexually abused 
dozens and dozens of minor girls. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida 
accepted Epstein's case for prosecution, and the FBI issued victim notification letters to my two 
clients, minors Jane Doe No. 1 and Jane Doe No. 2, in June and August 2007. Extensive plea 
negotiations ensued between the prosecutors and Epstein. On Sept. 24, 2007, the prosecutors 
entered into a non-prosecution agreement with Epstein in which they agreed not to file any 
federal charges against Epstein in exchange for his guilty plea to minor Florida offenses (e.g., 
solicitation of prostitution). Not only did the prosecutors neglect to confer with the victims 
before they entered into the agreement with Epstein, they also concealed its existence for at least 
nine months. For example, the prosecutors sent post-agreement letters to the victims reporting 
that the ""case is currently under investigation"" and explaining that ""[t]his can be a lengthy 
process and we request your continued patience while we conduct a thorough investigation."" 
On June 27, 2008, the prosecutors informed my co-counsel, Brad Edwards, that Epstein planned 
to plead guilty to the Florida charges three days later. But the prosecutors failed to disclose that 
Epstein's pleas to those state charges arose from his federal non-prosecution agreement and that 
the pleas would bar a federal prosecution. As a result, the victims did not attend the state court 
proceedings. 
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On July 7, 2008, Edwards and I filed a petition alleging that Jane Doe No. 1 was a victim of 
federal sex crimes committed by Epstein and that the United States had wrongfully excluded her 
from plea negotiations. We also alleged that the federal prosecutors had violated her rights under 
the Crime Victims' Rights Act (CVRA) — specifically her rights to confer with the government, 
to be treated with fairness, to receive timely notice of relevant court proceedings, and to receive 
information about restitution. The United States responded by claiming that it used its ""best 
efforts"" to comply with the rights afforded to victims under the CVRA, but that the act did not 
apply to pre-indictment negotiations with potential federal defendants. 
After Jane Doe No. 2 joined the initial petition, the district court (Marra, J.) found that both 
women qualified as ""crime victims"" under the CVRA. The district court later  rejected the  
government's argument that the act only applies after the filing of a federal criminal 
indictment. (I've written a law review article about the issue of how early crime victims' rights 
attach in the criminal process, which can be downloaded here.) 
Among other relief, we sought rescission of the non-prosecution agreement as a remedy for the 
violation of the victims' rights. To make the case for such a remedy, we moved for discovery of 
the correspondence between the U.S. and Epstein's attorneys during the plea negotiations. 
Epstein's attorneys intervened, arguing that Federal Rule of Evidence 410 and Federal Rule of 
Criminal Procedure 11 create a privilege for plea negotiations, barring release of the 
correspondence. They also argued that the court should find that the materials were protected 
under the work product doctrine or, alternatively, should be protected under a new ""common-
law privilege for plea negotiations."" 
The district court first ruled that rescission of the plea agreement was a possible remedy under 
the act. The court then ruled that we were entitled to review the correspondence, rejecting all of 
Epstein's arguments. 
On Friday, the 11th Circuit affirmed the district court's ruling that we could review the plea  
correspondence. At pp. 18-22 of its published opinion, the court concluded that there was no 
basis for restricting access to such correspondence when crime victims have a legitimate need to 
review it. The court rejected, for example, the work product argument because plea discussions 
are not confidential: 
Disclosure of work-product materials to an adversary waives the work-product privilege. See, 
e.g., In re Chrysler Motors Corp. Overnight Evaluation Program Litig., 860 F.2d 844, 846 (8th 
Cir. 1988); In re Doe, 662 F.2d 1073, 1081-82 (4th Cir. 1981). Even jilt shared the common 
goal of reaching a quick settlement, the United States was undoubtedly adverse to Epstein during 
its investigation of him for federal offenses, and the intervenors' disclosure of their work product 
waived any claim of privilege. 
The court also declined to recognize a new privilege for plea bargaining, finding the relationship 
between prosecutors and defense attorneys did not need special protection: 
As a last-ditch effort, the intervenors contend that ""[i]f more is needed in addition to the plain 
language of Rule 410 to preclude disclosure of the correspondence to plaintiffs, it can be found 
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in the conjunction of Rule 410, the work-product privilege, and the Sixth Amendment right to 
the effective assistance of counsel in the plea bargaining process,"" but this novel argument fails 
too. As explained above, Rule 410 does not create a privilege and the intervenors waived any 
work-product privilege. The intervenors concede too that the right to counsel under the Sixth 
Amendment had not yet attached when the correspondence was exchanged. Lumley v. City of 
Dade City, Fla., 327 F.3d 1186, 1195 (11th Cir. 2003) (""111he Sixth Amendment right to 
counsel ordinarily does not arise until there is a formal commitment by the government to 
prosecute,"" such as a ""formal charge, preliminary hearing, indictment, information, or 
arraignment.""). The ""conjunctive"" power of three false claims of privilege does not rescue the 
correspondence from disclosure. . . . 
The Supreme Court has identified several considerations relevant to whether a court should 
recognize an evidentiary privilege—the needs of the public, whether the privilege is rooted in the 
imperative for confidence and trust, the evidentiary benefit of the denial of the privilege, and any 
consensus among the states, Jaffee v. Redmond, 518 U.S. 1, 10-15 (1996)—but none of these 
considerations weighs in favor of recognizing a new privilege to prevent discovery of the plea 
negotiations. Although plea negotiations are vital to the functioning of the criminal justice 
system, a prosecutor and target of a criminal investigation do not enjoy a relationship of 
confidence and trust when they negotiate. Their adversarial relationship, unlike the confidential 
relationship of a doctor and patient or attorney and client, warrants no privilege beyond the terms 
of Rule 410. See Jaffee, 518 U.S. at 10. But the victims would enjoy an evidentiary benefit from 
the disclosure of plea negotiations to prove whether the United States violated their rights under 
the Act. 
Moving forward, this case raises the important issue of what kinds of remedies are available for 
violations of the Crime Victims' Rights Act. Our complaint alleges that, prodded by Epstein, the 
federal prosecutors deliberately concealed the sweetheart plea deal they had reached with him to 
avoid public criticism of the deal. I am hopeful that in future district court proceedings, we will 
be able to prove that clear violation of the CVRA and then obtain the remedy of invalidating the 
illegally-negotiated plea deal. 
Paul G. Cassell teaches criminal law, criminal procedure, and crime victims' rights at the S.J. 
Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah. Before coming to Utah, he was President of 
the Stanford Law Review, a law clerk for then-Judge Antonin Scalia on the D.C. Circuit and for 
Chief Justice Warren Burger of the Supreme Court, an Associate Deputy Attorney General with 
the U.S. Justice Department (1986-88), and an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of 
Virginia (1988 to 1991). Cassell joined the faculty at the University of Utah College of Law in 
1992, where he taught full time until he was sworn in as a U.S. District Court Judge for the 
District of Utah in 2002. In 2007, he resigned his judgeship to return full time to the College of 
Law, to teach, write, and litigate on issues relating to crime victims' rights and criminal justice 
reform. 
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--------Original message-------- 
From: Jolanta MOD1LINOS 
Date:15/10/2014 4:46 PM (GMT+02:00) 
To: Jean Luc Brunel 
Subject: 
Dear Jean Luc, 
Hope that you stay fine. 
As per our conversation about placement of her with you in NYC and Miami, she said she found 
some article in internet , which changed her position and she preferred to be placed with another 
agency.. 
I am so sorry, but people believes in media more than in us sometimes, what is sad! 
Warmest regards 
Jolania Sadauskiene 
owner 
MODILINOS model agency MODILINOS models 
Parodos 7-4, Kaunas Sv.Stepono 7, Vilnius 
tellfax:+37037323257 cell:+37069816103 
iolantaAmodilinos.coni Thfo4modilinos.corn  
www.modilinos.corn 
EXHIBIT B 
From: ""Vladimir Yudashkin © 1 MotherAgency"" 
Date:17/10/2014 10:46 AM (GMT+02:00) 
To: Jean Luc Brunel 
Subject: The situation with Liza Zazdravnih 
Dear JeanLuc, 
Unfortunately I need to announce that Liza Zazdravnih rejected signing the contract with MC2 in United 
Sates. Initially she intended to sign the contract, but later on she came across that article in internet about 
you involved in illegal activities with young models. This information somehow changed her intentions 
completely. she is ready to be a model and consider contracts with other agencies, but she has 
suspicions that you will force her to illegal activities and she made the decision to don't put her self in risk. 
Lets keep in touch. I will be happy to work with you next time if we have another right model for you. Im 
upset that it didn't work out with Liza 
Sincerely, 
Vladimir 
Vladimir Yudashkin 
Director 
EXHIBIT C 
-------- Original message-------- 
From: Manuela - Mega Partners 
Date:17/10/2014 9:36 PM (GMT+02:00) 
To: Jean Luc Brunel 
Subject: MC2 
Dear Jean Luc, 
I'm very happy to hear you're coming to the agency with Vini so we can talk about us working 
with MC2 again. 
I don't need to remind you that the sex trafficking allegations have stopped us from working with • 
your agency for the past 5-6 years — but as Vinicius is my friend, I will try to find a girl that 
already knows and trusts him to place with you. 
Thank you very much for the lovely bag and we'll see each other on fashion week. 
Kisses, 
Manuela 
rn 
MEGA 
PARTNERS 
MANUELA W MARTINEZ 
International Relations 
Phone: +5611 3818.4800 
Direct: +55 11 3818.4827 
Cell.: +5511 98668.0090 
megainodelbrasil.corn.br 
EXHIBIT D 
Original Message----- 
From: Lorraine <lorraine@mc2mm.com> 
Organization: MC2 MM 
Reply-To: <lorraine@mc2mm.com> 
Date: Friday, August 27, 2010 at 8:49 PM 
To: <jeff@mc2mm.com>, Jean Luc Brunel <jeanluc@mc2mm.com>, Pink 
<pink@mc2mm.com> 
Subject: FW: Press Inquiry from AFP (Agence France Presse) 
Videographer--Michelle Stockman 
-----Original Message----- 
>From: Michelle STOCKMAN [mailto:Michelle.Stockman@afp.conn] 
>Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010 11:03 AM 
>To: lorraine@mc2mm.com 
>Subject: Press Inquiry from AFP (Agence France Presse) 
>Videographer--Michelle Stockman 
>My name is Michelle Stockman and I am a video journalist for Agence France 
>Presse, the French newswire. We produce 1.5 to 2 min. videos that are 
>distributed internationally to broadcast clients in Europe and Asia, and 
>Internet clients worldwide. In preparation for Fashion Week, my print 
>colleague and I are interested in doing a piece on trends in casting 
>models 
>of color. I was wondering if you could refer me to a model of color and a 
>casting director who can comment on her experience. 
>My deadline is next week, so I would like to set something up for Monday 
>or 
>Tuesday. I can come to you as I am a one-person camera crew. When you 
>have 
>a moment, please let me know. I'd be happy to discuss with you over the 
>phone ahead of time. 
>Best regards, 
>Michelle Stockman 
>Michelle Stockman 
>747 Third Avenue, 35th Floor 
>New York, NY 10017 
EXHIBIT E 
>917-533-3261 
>www.youtube.com/AFP 
>Agence France-Presse is the world's oldest newswire with journalists in 
>165 
>countries. We publish worldwide in English, French, Spanish, German, 
>Portuguese and Arabic. AFP delivers the news to thousands of media outlets 
>worldwide from newspapers to magazines, radio and TV stations and online 
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>This e-mail, and any file transmitted with it, is confidential and 
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EXHIBIT E 
Sent from Samsung Mob.le 
------ Original message From: Michael Sanka 
Date:12/12/2014 12:48 (GMT-05:00) 
To: Jean Luc Brunel 
Subject: Scouting 
Jean Luc, 
How are you? 
After so many years scouting for you and having a great network of agencies all around the world who 
enjoy to work with us, i wanted to let you know that we are on the way to lose everything we build and we 
are gonna have big problem now. 
Agencies, still want to work with us but parents don't want their daughters to come to us, because when 
they google your name and the agency name the only things they see is ""Sex Trafficking""!!! 
It's impossible to sign a new girl and if nothing it's done i can tell you that in 3 months we we will not get 
any new girls and i don't see how the agency will work without new faces. 
All the agencies who know you don't have any problems with you since they all told me ""We know Jean 
Luc for more than 20 years and all those years we had so many girls place with him who had better 
experience than in any other agencies who were representing them as well and we never had any 
problems whatsoever, all our girls had great carriers as a model when he represented them"". 
I understand those agencies because it's hard for them to talk to parents and explain that it's not the truth 
when it's all over the internet. 
You need to have it stop and have the people write an official letter to say that it's not the truth... 
I will keep you posted of course but it's really bad for us and the scouting. 
Best regards 
- 
Michael Sanka 
3104021028 
EXHIBIT F 
FOX 
r sH infq GLCv 
Ann: Scouting division MC2 
We took notes of your comments and the girls that you like on our website. 
We know Jean Luc Brunel and we always work with him since more than 10 years all 
those years and never had any problems. 
All the girls he represented from us never had any problems, they were working have 
great book work with good clients in editorial and campaigns and were well represented 
models. 
Now for all the new faces we have, we needed to talk to their parents to discuss about 
mc2 and you interest to represent their daughters and of course they google it and saw all 
the had articles about sex trafficking they were scared and I was myself speechless since 
we know that it's not true but it was hard for us to explain to the parents. 
So of course for the moment till all is clarified we can't place any new faces with you 
because the parents will refuse and it makes us look had to propose the girls to your 
agency. 
We are sorry but you really need to clarify everything, till then we will have to cease any 
collaboration and we will have to refuse to let you represent any of our models. 
Sure you understand. 
Sandra Petkanic 
Fox Fashion Agency 
Beograd 11000. Svetogorska 35 v. Stan 12 
www.foxmodetcom 
e-mail: foxaffice@sezampro.si 
EXHIBIT G 
Tel +381 11 3346414, tel +381 11 3226202 
1 Q As part of your employment with MC Square 
2 did you live in New York, for a time? 
3 A I'm sorry, but I take the Fifth. 
4 Q Have you ever heard any model of MC Square 
5 who at the time of being a minor, that means under 
6 the age of eighteen, made an accusation that 
7 
8 A Never. And that is something that I will 
9 not answer. And I said never because even when 
10 peoples come and ask me I will always say the truth 
11 regarding that. 
12 I know Mr. Brunel for the longest --
13 maybe eight years. And I always said what I know. 
14 I never saw and I never knew that he did anything. 
15 So I know that. And that's the truth. 
16 Never. I never heard anybody accusing Mr. Brunel 
17 
18 Q That means -- that means at any time no 
19 model, no minor model came to you and said, you 
20 know, ""Maritza, look what just happened to me"", that, 
21 
22 
23 
24 ""I don't have a place to live"". Or, ""Look, I didn't 
25 get my ticket"", or whatever. 
EXHIBIT H-1 
Jean-Luc Burnel acted inappropriate with her? 
or complaining about Mr. Brunel. Nothing. 
""something bad happened to me"". 
A Maybe a model came and told me, ""Maritza, 
look what happen to me. I don't have any money,"" or 
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1 a--
2 MR. OBRONT: Well, I would object, because 
3 of circumstances. 
4 BY MR. DAVID: 
5 Q But you said before that you never heard 
6 anything that would indicate that Jean-Luc Burnel 
7 behaved inappropriately with -- with any models, 
q especially any minor models that MC Square may have 
9 had. 
0 Is that correct? 
1 A Yeah, I said what is the truth. Nobody 
2 complain to me. Nobody -- your question was very 
3 clear, has any girl came to you and complain about 
4 sexually, you know, involved with Mr. Brunel. 
5 Q Right. 
6 A And my answer was no. Nobody came to tell 
7 me. I never saw. I never knew. His personal life 
8 was not my problem. 
Do you have any actual knowledge, that is 
0 to say were you present or did you see with your own 
1 eyes, any minor models go with Jean-Luc Burnel to 
2 Jeffrey Epstein's home, or any party of his? 
3 MR. OBRONT: Objection. 
4 THE WITNESS: I'm sorry, but I take the 
5 Fifth. 
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SUPPORTING DOCUMEPOS  
EXHIBIT 1 Several press and media articles documenting the rise of South 
Beach as one of the United Slates' main fashion capitols. 
EXHIBIT 2 Press articles regarding the models and actresses who were both 
discovered by and careers were launched by the beneficiary. Jean 
Luc Brunei. 
EXHIBIT 3 Several articles regarding the prestigious reputation of Kann tviadets 
as formerty one of the world's leading agencies. 
EXHIBIT 4 A list of all of tiAC2's clients, including several high-profile campaigns 
featuring some of MC2's fashion models. as well as several press 
clippings regarding this prestigious and reputable modeling agency. 
EXHIBIT 5 The beneficiary's. Jean Luc Brunel. impressive curriculum vitae, 
verifying his tremendous accomplishments in both the fashion and 
modeling industries. 
EXHIBIT 6 Several articles regarding the 2004 Models New Generation Contest 
(including translations) as we as the beneficiary's leading role within 
this prestigious modeling event. 
EXHIBIT 7 Several press orlicles regarding the prestigious 2006 Models New 
Generation Competition (including franslatiansl, as well as the 
beneficiary's Jean Luc Brunel, leading role within Illt event. 
EXHIBIT 8 Letter of Claudia tviiiaolo, President of Modetwork. a renowned 
modeling agency. 
EXHIBIT 9 Letter of Alia Amonlova. Director of Faro International 
Management. 
EXHIBIT 10 Several press articles reflecting the prestige and high circuiarian rates 
of the mentioned mngazines and periodicals which have featured 
and covered the modeling events which the beneficiary. Jean Luc 
Brunel, hos Organized throughout the year. 
EXHIBIT 11 Information regarding the extremely successful and prestigious 
modeling and fashion association, International Model Taieni 
Association (IMTA), 
M C 
NIODELSMIAtvil 
July 25. 2014 
Department of Homeland Security 
United Stales Citizenship and Immigration Services 
Vermont Service Center 
30 Houghton Street 
Saint Albans. VT 05478 
RE: 1-129, Petition for a Nonimmigrant Worker 
0-1 Extraordinary Ability as an Art Director and Talent Coordinator 
Petitioner: MC2 Models Miami, U.0 
Beneficiary: Jean-Luc Didier Henri-Rene BRUNEL 
Dear Sir I Madam: 
The present fetter and its enclosures are submitted in support of the 
attached 0-1 petition of MC2 Models Miami. LIC, on behalf of Mr. Jean Luc 
Brunel. The petition is based upon Mr. Brunel's standing as an ""Alien of 
Extraordinary Ability in Art Direction and Talent Coordination."" Kindly note that 
Mr. Brunel currently holds 0-1 status with our organization. 
The South Florida area and Miami Beach in particular have become a 
mecca for the fashion and modeling industries. As a result many of the largest 
international modeling agencies such as Ford. Elite, and MC2 have opened 
offices in South Beach and the area has become one of the most important in 
the modeing industry In foci, Miami Beach has become second only to New 
York City in terms of employment opportunities for fashion models in the United 
States. Attached as EXHIBIT 1, please find several press and media articles 
documenting the rise of South Beach as one of the United States' main fashion 
capitals. 
In 1996. our company, MC2 (formerly Karin Models}, established an office 
in lhe heart of the historic Art Deco District of Miami Beach. ""South Beach' has 
truly become one of the world's modeling capitals and we are pleased to be a 
Pcirf of il Our agency has developed a highly distinguished reputation in the 
modeling industry. We specialize in representing numerous moaels of 
infernailanal acclaim. Having discovered faces such as Christy Tixlington, and 
molded the careers of celebrities such as Sharon Stone, Estella Warren. Milo 
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Jovovich. Jerry Hall and Rebecca Romiin who is currently starring in the award-
winning ABC television series. Ugty Betty; MC2 models are among the most 
sought after in the industry, as evidenced by the caliber of their commercial and 
editorial bookings. Many of our fashion models have graced the pages of 
leading fashion magazines of the United States, Europe„ Latin AMeriCO. Africa. 
and Australia such as Vogue. Teen Vogue. ale. W, Glamour. V. Mane Claire. 
Surface and Cosmopolitan as well as many more throughout the world. In 
addition to our Miami Beach office. MC2 Models has offices in New York City 
and Tel Aviv. Israel. 
As Artistic Director and Talent Coordinator tot MC2 Models Miami. (IC. Mr. 
Brunet will be responsible for overseeing the artistic aspects of the agency. By 
overseeing the art department in the agency. Mr. Brunel will direct the visuar 
marketing of the models to clients. focusing on the images placed on both the 
model's composite cards and their portfolios. Both of these marketing tools are 
crucial in marketing fashion models to their appropriate catalog, editorial, or 
media clients. As Artistic Director and Talent Coordinator, Mr. Brunei will also 
,:oorciinate the pairing of fashion models with a particular photographer. Clients 
for the agency include a myriad of fashion pubfications, retail stores, consumer 
oracluct companies, and fashion houses lo name but a few. Recruitment of 
talented artistic photographers who have an exceilent understanding ot the 'ins 
and outs"" of the modeling and fashion industry is cnbcal to the successful 
running of a top-modeling agency such as MC2 Models. Mr. Brunel will also 
continue with his amazing track record of discovering the world's greatest 
talents and beauties in order to sign them with MC2 Moclet.. Mr. Brunel will 
continue to travel around the works looking for new talents, and to agencies 
around the world in order to establish relationships with those agencies and 
allow MC2 Models Miami. Li.0 io represent them in the United Slates. 
Mr. Bruners impressive Qualifications as an Art Director and Talent 
Coordinator, establish eligibility as to the regulatory standards for such 
classification as a top professional in his field. Mr. Brunel meets the 0-1 criteria as 
an individual of extraordinary ability in the Arts and Entertainment field as well as 
a business entrepreneur. MC2 Models Miami. 1,1C is presently seeking a 
cophisticated art director and latent coordinator. After reviewing his experience 
and accolades, we ore confident that the beneficiary, Mr. Jean Luc Brunel, will 
perform said function with outstanding kiii and professionalism. 
J. MR, BRUNEL'S QUALIFICATIONS AS TbE RENEFICIARY 
In addition tc, Jean Luc Brunei's extensive business Qualifications, his 
-weer as art individual with artistic vision and creative talents Qualifies him as an 
0-1 alien in the Arts and Entertainment Field His all- encompassinin experience 
as art Art D'ector, Talent Coordinator. international entrepreneuo and business 
leader in the modeling, fashion, entertainment, public relations, restaurant. and 
tourism industries has made Mr. Brunel internationally renowned in Those fields. 
Among his various accomplishments throughout his career are the successful 
modeling agencies he has founded both in Europe and in the United States. For 
example. in 1978. Mr. Brunel founded and grew Karin Models Paris from the 
ground up to become a lead-market agency with a world-wide presence. 
Capturing a strong market share in Paris, Mr. Brunel successfully created Karin 
Models as a platform for marquee clients to obtain sophisticated public relations 
services and important modeling contract opportunities. Mr. BruneI's success 
was so great with Karin Paris that in the next ten years. he founded Next Model 
Management in Los Angeles. California in 1980. Next Model Management in 
Miami, Florida in 1982, Mode/ Management Group also in Miami. Florida in 1966. 
and Rebecca Commercial Casting in New York City. in 1988. The loiter one was 
opened as a talent and casting agency for performers. offering services such as 
voice-overs, television, and cinema advertising work. again. successfully carving 
out a niche by which to make his mark and achieve bold commercial 
performance results. 
Although Mr. Brunel later sold his rights to Next Management to Faith Kates 
in 1989, who partnered with Joel Wilkenfelcl a couple of years later; NEXT 
represents some of the most prestigious women and men in the fashion world 
today. Star talent includes renowned fashion models Molly Sims, Daniela 
Pesiova. Audrey Quock. Yamila Diaz. and Malgosia Bela. NEXT continues to 
maintain an influential international force in the fashion and modehng industry 
through its fully operational offices in New York. Los Angeles, Miami. Sao Paolo, 
Montreal, Landon. and Paris, as well as its affiliates in Milan and Australia. 
Because of strong revenue growih and successful business performance. 
as a result of his ariislic vision as an artistic director and talent coordinator. Mr. 
Brunel founded the very successful Karin Models of America in New York City 
and Karin Models USA in Miami Beach. Mr. Bruners commercial ventures in 
opening Karin agencies in Paris. New York. and Miami have been extremely 
successful, generating combined annual revenues of twenty five (25) milion 
dollars. Eventually, Mr. Brunel hcensed the Karin name to agencies In Israel, 
Denmark. Germany. and Spain. Mr. Bruners extraordinary talents are not only 
limited to launching successful modeling businesses. but also in discovering and 
launching the careers of some of the world's most successful models. Mr. Brunel 
has launched the extremely successful careers of supermodels such as Christy 
Turtingion. Rachel Hunter, Sharon Stone. Monica Bellucci, Estella Warren, and 
Christina Semonnovskaya. These women all proceeded to become some of the 
most photographed international cover models in the world, appearing on 
Thousands of magazine covers woirictwide and spanning many years. As a result 
of his reputation as a highly visible, strategic networker who cultivates and 
conducts business in a global environment and bookers lucrative cleats, mory 
lop players in the fashion and entertainment field requested that Mr. Brunel 
function as their exclusive agent and representative. Some of these top former 
and present professional supermociels in the fashion field include. Naomi 
Campbell. Christy Turiington. Rebecca Romijn, Mia Jovanovich, Inez Sastre, 
Melanie Thierry. and Jerry Hall. Attached as EXHIBIT 2, please find press articles 
regarding the models and actresses who were both discovered by and careers 
were launched by the beneficiary. Jean Luc Brunel. Additionally, attached as 
EXHIBIT 3, please find several articles regarding the prestigious reputation of 
Karin Models as formerly one of the world's leading agencies. 
Most recently in October 2005. and after his reign with Karin Models, Mr. 
Brunel launched the prestigious MC2 Model Management worldwide with 
offices in New York. Miami and Tel Aviv. Mr. Brunel storied the high-profile MC2 
Model Management in order to represent high fashion models in a boutique 
agency setting. MC2 Model Management is already being lauded by fashion 
insiders as ""one of ihe hottest agencies in North America"" as well as 
""prominently positioned to be one of the major players of the Zeros because of 
its insider relationships with the most influential photographers around."" We invite 
you to visit www.m_c2rnm.cpm in order to view the high-caliber of models. MC2 
represents Some of Hs most recent successful bookings include Liu Dan'', 
exclusive contract as the face of the Fall 2007 Guess Campaign and Sammy 
Jo's cover story for Cosmopolitan Magazine. Attached as EXHIBIT 4, please find 
a list of all of MC2's clients, including several high-profile campaigns featuring 
some of MC2's fashion modes, as well as several press clippings regarding this 
prestigious and reputable modeling agency. 
Jean Luc Bruners entrepreneurial spirit is not only contained to the field of 
arts, beauty. and fashion. In 1970. as a result of his business insight, Mr. Brunel 
founded and grew Jean Luc Relations Public:we, which specialized in press and 
promotions for tour operators and restaurants in France. During his work through 
Jean Luc Relation) Public:we. Mr. Brunel represented various key clients and 
collaborated on numerous prestigious events. Some of the prestigious events 
include.. Air Tour and Daro Voyages. Jean Luc Relations Fubliaue also promoted 
and marketed La Tour D'Argent, a three-star restaurant owned by Claude Terrait 
and. ""The Go-Between"", a motion picture by George Losey. Other projects 
token on by Mr. Brunei through his public relations company was his work as 
product agent for Jean Claude Kitty. 1968 Winter Olympic Gold Medalist skier, to 
promote Vail. Colorado in France for tourism potential arid also directed all of 
the promotion for Finland's Ministry of Tourism. In 1975, Mn Brunel further invested 
in the Food and Hospitality market by creating and developing ""El Mono 
Desnudo""- a legendary, high-end bar on the Iberian Peninsula. This bar was 
known throughout the peninsula as extremely exclusive and attracted a 
celebrity clientele that included actress, Ursula Andress, and lhe Duchess 
D'Alba. Attached as EXHIBIT S. please find the beneficiary's. Jean Luc Brunel. 
impfessive curriculum vitae. verifying his tremendous accomplishments in both 
the fashion arid modeling industries. 
II. ELIGIBILITY FOR CLASSIFICATION AS AN ALIEN OF EXTRAORDINARY ABILITY  
THE ARTS 
Under the Miscellaneous and Technical immigration and Nationality 
Amendments of 1991, petitions for classification as an Alien of Extraordinary 
Ability in the Arts must be supported by evidence of ""distinction"". According to 8 
CFR §214.2(o) (Mil), ""distinction"" means a high level of achievement in the field 
of arts as evidenced by a degree of skill and recognition substantially above 
That ordinarily encountered to the extent that a person described as prominent 
Is renowned, leading, or well-known In the fields of arts, This evidence may 
consist of proof that the alien must be recognized as being prominent in his field 
ot endeavor as demonstrated by the following according to 8 CFR 
§214.2(0)(3) (iv): 
A. Evidence that the 05en has been nominated for or has been the recipient 
of significant national or inlernational awards or prizes in the particular field such 
as an Academy Award, an Emmy, a Grammy. Of a Director's Guild Award, or 
B. At least three of the following forms of documentation: 
(1) Evidence that the alien has performed, and will perform, services as a 
lead or starring participant in productions or events, which have a 
distinguished reputation as evidenced by critical reviews, advertisements, 
publicity releases, publications contracts, or endorsements; 
(2) Evidence that the alien has achieved national or International 
recognition for achievements evidenced by critical reviews or other 
published materials by or about the Individual in major newspapers. trade 
journals, magazines, or other publications: 
(3) Evidence that the alien has performed, and will perform, In a lead, 
starring, or critical role for organizations and establishments that have a 
distinguished reputation evidenced by articles in newspapers, trade 
,journals, publications, or testimonials: 
(4) Evidence that the alien has a record of major commercial or critically 
acclaimed successes as evidenced by such Indicators as title, rating. 
standing In the field, box office receipts, motion picture or television 
ratings, and other occupational achievements reported in trade Journals, 
major newspapers, or other publication'', 
(5) Evidence that the alien has received significant recogntHon for 
achievements from organizations, critics, government agencies, or other 
recognized experts In the field in which the alters Is engaged. Such 
testimonials must be In a form, which clearly Indicates the author's 
authority, expertise, and knowledge of the alien's achievements; or 
(6) Evidence that the alien has either commanded a high salary or will 
command a high salary or other substantial remuneration for services in 
relation to others In the field, as evidenced by contracts or other reliable 
evidence; or 
C. If the criteria In paragraph (o)(3)(1v) of this section do not readily apply to 
the beneficiary's occupation, the petitioner may submit comparable 
evidence In order to establish the beneficiary's eligibility. 
EVIDENCE THAT THE BENEFICIARY MEETS  AT LEAST THREE Of THE PRONGS OF THE 
CRITERIA UNDER $VBSECT1ON 0  
The afg_mitng that the beneficiary satisfies is gl CPR 4214,2foX3IfirOf8)(1), 
which requires evidence that the alien has performed, and will perform, services 
as a lead or starring participant In productions or events which have a 
distinguished reputation as evidenced by critical reviews, advertisements, 
publicity releases, publication contracts, or endorsements. 
As a result of Mr. Brunei's combined expertise in fashion and tourism, he 
decided to create Latin Model Pageants, now known as Models New 
Generation- to cross promote these key industries with international business and 
investment opportunities. Mr. Brunel has promoted and judged various modeling 
contests throughout South America including modeling contests staged in 
countries such as Peru. Ecuador, Brazil, Argentina. and Chile. Conceived in 1987, 
the Latin Model of the World event was a high-end modeling and entertainment 
product that appealed to upscale international audiences. reaching nearly 400-
million television viewers worldwide. Throughout his history as a major 
infernalionai event promoter and artistic and talent co-ordinator, Mr. Brunel has 
orchestrated multi-faceted public relations. advertising and media campaigns 
that incorporated television, magazines, programs. newsletters, and promotions. 
becoming notably lucrative for various major brands as a promotional tool. Mr. 
Bruners acute knowledge of marketing and promoting skills has turned his 
various international events into highly successful artistic and business ventures 
tar various major brands Latin Model Pageants attracted major brands as 
sponsors, such as American AfrOnes, Ray-Ban, Coca-Cola, Proctor & Gamble. 
and Revlon. 
Mr. Brunei's has continued his ventures as both a promoter and panel 
judge when he founded and created the international modeling contest, 
Models New Generation !hat took place in Guayaquil, Ecuador in 2004. Mr. 
Brunei sat on a panel with three other professionals in the fashion industry and 
judged over forty-nine young women from over North and South America. Asia, 
and Europe. After len days of harsh competition, Jean Luc Brunel crowned the 
winner, Alyne Weber. a fifteen year old from Brazil, whom as a result of coming in 
lust place was awarded over three hundred thousand dollars worth of modeling 
contracts. The city of Guayaquil. Ecuador was also thrown into the international 
spotlight as the host city for the modeling contest. The Models New Generation 
was broadcasted on numerous television network channels including. Fashion 
TV, which transmits to over 202 countries throughout the globe, the entire 
Association of Television Channels in Ecuador, National Television of China, and 
Recle Globo. Brazil's largest and most popular television network. Attached as 
EXHIBIT 6, please find several articles regarding the 2004 Models New 
Generation Contest as well as the beneficiary's leading role within this 
prestigious modeling event. 
As a result of the tremendous success of the first Models New Generation 
that look place in Guayaquil. Ecuador in 2004, Mr. Brunel organized the second 
Model New Generation Contest which was held in 2006 in the Ecuadorian 
capitol of Quito. In order to select only the very best new models, several 
Preliminary. qualifying shows were held in different countries of Latin America 
including Bolivia. Panama and Peru. The final conies: was held in Quito, Ecuador 
at the historical Plaza San Francisco. Mr Brunel sot on a panel with three other 
professionals in the fashion industry and judged over forty-eight young women 
iron' twenty-eight different countries from North and South America. Asia, and 
Europe. After ten days of harsh competition, Jean Luc Brunel crowned the 
winner. Gird° Lapina, an eighteen year-old. from Latvia, whom as a result of 
coming in first place was awarded over three hundreo thousand dollars worth of 
modeling contracts. 
The city ot Quito. Ecuador was also thrown into the international spotlight 
as the host city for the modeling contest. Again. just like the immense media 
exposure given to the first Models New Generation competition of 2004, the 
2006 Models New Generation competition was broadcast on numerous 
television network channels including, Fashion TV. which transmits to over 202 
different countries throughout the globe, the entire Association of Television 
Channeh, in Ecuador, National Television of China. and Rede Globo. Brazil's 
largest and most popular tetevision network. Attached as EXHIBIT 7, please find 
several press articles regarding the prestigious 2006 Models New Generation 
Competition, as wel as the beneficiary's Jean Luc Brunel. leading role within the 
event. The 2006 Models New Generation program was broadcast in over 202 
countries throughout the world. Mr. Brunel has performed and will most definitely 
continue to perform services as a leading participant in modeling events, which 
have a distinguished reputation and wilt bring more public international light to 
MC2 Models. 
For the above-rnentinneOr.m.r1,ns,, 131uriel Satisfies INA §214.2(a)(3)tivi (B1( I ). 
The second prong that the beneficiary satisfies is 8 SJI 
fa14,2(03)fiv)fBn. which requires evidence that the alien has achieved 
national or International recognition for achievements evidenced by critical 
reviews or other pubtisned materials by or about the Indlvidvol In major 
newspapers, trade journals, magazines, or other pubecations. 
Mr. Brunel holds an international reputation as ci visible. strategic 
rietworket who is able to cultivate expert relationship management skills in cider 
to conduct business in a global environment and broker lucrative deals. Mr. 
Brunel has a long history in marketing and advertising maim fashion campaigns. 
throughout his twenty-five year career in the fashion business, Mr. Brunel has 
developed vvotidwide exclusive modeing and cosmetic campaigns. Some of 
these major cosmetic campaigi% include: Bio Therm with supermadel Etle 
McPhersor., PeAS with Rebecca Rornijn, Christian Dior with Christina 
Semonnovskaya. Margret Astor with Monica Bellucci. Chanel with Patricia Von 
Rickenheim. Angel Perfume with Thierry Mugler. and Cacharei Perfume with 
Aida BaHestia. Mr. Brunet has also developed major fashion campaigns and has 
developed campaigns and exclusive contracts with some of the waticrs top 
fashion designers such as Yves Saint Laurent. Chanel. Christian Dior. Gucci, 
Nada and Marc Jacobs Please see the enclosed letter of Claudia fvtidolo, 
President of Moctetwork, a renowned modeling agency. EXHIBIT B. 
As a talent coordinator, Mr Brunei's success can arid should also be 
measured with me 3ucce55fu1 careers the models. whose careers he launched. 
have achieved As slated above. Mr Brunel has discovered and represented 
various ruper models throughout his career. Christy Turlington. who was 
discovered by Mr. Brunel, has personified unaffected beauty- representing 
Calvin Klein's fragrances since 1987 Turtington. as well as another model 
represented by Mr Br unel. Naomi Campbell, becarnt- one of the few 
superrnocie6, who managed to make on easy transition from the haute glamor 
of th 19BO's to the relaxed simplicity of the following decade. Throughout hei 
extensive career, arid as a result of Mr. Brunet's ""Fashioii- Savvy Eye"", Christy 
Turiington tio graced the cover of hundreds of fashion magazines. surf*, as 
Casmopotital ,, W. vogue, Shape, Fitness, Elle. Bazaar. mcirie Claire. Harpers. 
Esquire, and even Time Magazine. Please see the enclosed letter of Alla 
Amantova, Director of Figaro International Management. EXHIBIT 9. 
In (addition. the modeling events that Mt. Brunel has been organizing 
throughout the years receive not only national, but also international attention 
and appear in multiple publications around the world. One of the most recent 
events he organized. the Models New Generation contest, which took place in 
Ecuador was publicized and transmitted by various television networks and 
appeared on multiple newspapers and magazines, among them Globo 
Television Networks in Brazil. Fashion TV which is broadcast into 202 countries 
throughout the world, El Univers°, Cows, La Razon, El Diario. El Telegrafo. 
Notinorfe, Extra. Hoy. El Gran Guayaquil El Comercio. Semana. and 8 Lideres. to 
name a few. These major publications have a large subscription rote which 
numbers in the many millions of readers. Attached as EXHIBIT 10, please find 
several press articles reflecting the prestige and high circulation rates of the 
above-mentioned magazines and periodicals which have featured and 
covered the modefing events in which the beneficiary. Jean Luc Brunel. has 
organized throughout the years. 
Hence the beneficiary satisfies NA §214.2{031(iv)(13)(2) for having 
achieved not only national but also international recognition for achievements 
in the modeling industry, by having his work published in major newspapers and 
magazines throughout the world. 
The third prong that the beneficiary satisfies is 8 CFR 4214.26,1(310001f4), 
which requires evidence that the alien has a record of major commercial or 
critically acclaimed successes as evidenced by such Indicators as title, rating, 
standing in the field, box office receipts, motion picture or television ratings, and 
other occupational achievements reported in trade journals, major newspapers, 
or other publications. 
One of the main reasons that Mr. Brunel has been able to not only survive, 
but also be extremely successful in the ever-changing world of fashion is his 
ability to identify and recruit star-quality talent, As a result of his ability to scout 
major talents, Mr. Brunel was invited to become a member in one of the fashion 
industry's most elite and important associations, the International Model Talent 
Association (hereinafter IMTA). The MIA is an international association of training 
centers for models and talent. IMTA gives aspiring models. actors, singers. and 
dancers spectacular opportunities to showcase their potential talents in front of 
too fashion and talent agents from the major markets of the international 
fashion industry. IMTA also provides its association members valuable marketing 
tips and networking events with agents and scouts from around the world. 
Several of todays up and corning actors arid models have been discovered at 
IMTA; some of these discoveries include world-renowned actors such as. Elijah 
Woods, Ashton Kutcher, Katie Holmes, Eva Longoria. Jessica Biel, and Sean 
William Scott, Attached as EXHIBIT 11, please find information regarding the 
extremely successful and prestigious modeling and fashion association, IMTA. 
Additionally, please find several pages from IMTA's official website documenting 
their discovery of the above-mentioned Mist actors and actresses, whose 
membership in IMTA proved to be the launching pad for very successful and 
highly profitable careers in the film industry. 
Furthermore, as previously mentioned. Mr. Brunei has launched the 
successful careers of many internationally renowned models, who have been 
featured and still are in many international and nalional fashion magazines. In 
addition, his commercial ventures. especially MC2 Models. formerly Karin 
Models, have been extremely successful generating combined annual revenues 
of twenty live 125) million dollars. Currently MC2 is one of the most successful and 
well-known modeling agencies in the world. Mr. Brunel is one of few people in 
the modeling business that have achieved a similar standing and have been 
able to maintain it for over twenty-five years. 
For the above-mentioned reasons, Mr. Brunel satisfies INA §2144.2(o)(3)fiv)(8)(4). 
EVIDENCE THAT THE BENEFICIARY MEETS 8 CFR B2141(01f3IfIv)fC) 
The petitioner has submitted a plethora of evidence regarding Mr. Bruners 
experience in the fashion modeling industry. Mr. Bruners has established MC2 
Models, formerly Karin Models, which is presently one of the major international 
modeling agencies. with combined annual revenues of twenty five miDion 
dollars. Only someone with Mr. Brunei's expertise and strong strive for success 
can achieve such international acclamation in the industry and been able to 
maintain his status for over twenty-five years. Mr. Brunel is the one responsible for 
the launch of numerous supermodels' careers, which hove been maintained in 
the spotlight for several years. He has worked with renowned fashion designers 
and photographers, who have trusted his work and intuition. In addition, Mr. 
Brunel has orchestrated many international and national successful fashion 
events that have received international acclamation. 
For the above-mentioned reasons, Mr. Brunel in addition to meeting at least 
three of the criteria of 8 CFR §214.2(0)(3){1v)(8). he also qualifies under 8 CFR 
§214.2(0)13)(1v)(C) 
Ill. CONCLUSION 
It is clear from the evidence that Mr. Brunel is eligible for classification as 
Lin Alien of Extraordinary Ability in An Direction and Talent Coordination based 
upon his meeting the eligibility requirements under the Immigration and 
Naturalization Act 101(a)(15)(0)(1) and 8 CFR 2)4.2(o). Mr. Brunei's successful 
career proves that he is a prominent. leading. and well-known person in the field 
of arts. Mr. Brunel's extraordinary ability in the field of arts, in which he witl 
continue to work in the United States, has been demonstrated by sustained 
national and international acclaim. Based on the foregoing, we respectfully 
request your kind consideration and favorable determination of this petition, in 
order to accord Mr. Brunel the classification as an Allen of Extraordinary AbIlity in 
Art Direction and Talent Coordination. Again, kindly hate that the beneifciary, 
Mr. Jean Luc Srunei, has held 0-i status In the past 
Wherefore, for the above-stated reasons, we respectfully request your 
favorable adjudication of the 0-1 nonimmigrant visa petition submitted by MC2 
Models Miami. LLC on behalf of Mr. Brunel. If you should have any questions or 
requie any additional documentation, please do not hesitate to contact our 
office. 
Thank you very much for your kind attention regarding this matter. 
Truly Yours. 
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Henri•Itene Brunel 
I write this letter in t.trong sup;x,rt of Mr. Jean LUC Bruner:, applicAton for 
A non-inunigrard Visa to this oountry. I am currently Aninalnistratorr 
Unice, In Studio Pp. I ha,,x: been asked to review the professional 
credentials of Ma Brunei, and it i5 my profest,ional opinion that Ms. Brunel 
is an Art Director and Tak-nt Coordinator of ettinerdibary ability who 
ranks among the mnIIparentage of foreign people at 'red. top oaks field. 
I have seen first-hand Mr. Jean Wes special expertise in the field. 
intbding entity. production. coordination. and art direction for shoota. 
Ur. Brunel is considered by those in our Wintry to bean extraordinary 
creative director talent, particularly for the fashion and related indostrie:i. 
In zny personal dealings with Mr. Jean Luc Brunel, I found him to he 
thoroughly professional and capable of being utilised in connection with a 
wide range of creative subject matter on any ainivinient. He has liw 
intuitive ability to provide just what's needed in connection with any 
particular cmtive process and possesses excellent artkic ossmuternent 
and operational skills that come from his years of experience. 
Many people do not understand that behind every IncOessfut ad‘ertis.ing 
campaign and fashion shoot there are creative wen and wants who are 
making sure that the business operates efficiently by coordinating different 
tasks between models, photographers, and managing avative team. I can 
honestly say that Mr. Brunei continually prom, himself as an 
extraordinary talent its his field, 
offer an unmitigated endorsement for Mr. Jean the Brtinet regarding his. 
dart application asi a person of extraordinary ability. Th'pre is no doubt in 
my mind that his popularity and ability in the field will only =time to 
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a position to conanrad sizable conipanastion for his wars as comperes to 
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diginguished himself es oar of SE leading fashion an director in the 
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Kt AIM Lae ilinasi enjoys an extraordias Ft. IlltatiOnSteiri to the acittstw, 
This gadfly manifests Itself through the besutiful work hr createN. Wee 
Id* time. Therefore. Jan We Brunei la dauy ens f tiw MOO tabard 
professionals working is the worki today I look forward to seeing rn.,re' of 
his work in the future. 
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USCIR 
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RE- 0.1 titten.inursgrani ,a.a Patton on being of Alan Luc (Mod 
Omer tieovMsir 
1 would Mei* Wend req tifil end unqualified support for the OXIMONlinelY gtatV 04 Wes 
POW INAMIted b tAz Jaen LW ate* ea the Oen* reknit Produces fee 
tiortalrorn, I ent quailed to ley that M. Jean Leo Dural It 01 art ditoint ocl Want 
feted11.21 of the highest caber whose Wyk* emotional end creed* *ice how 
NNW tots fav no hie prafeeelen 
Ilmoughote Mt Man ILuc emigre detinguilluei career, he hoe recov, ad a lughti 
ininnsolvo let of woresstangs POWS end 10ch1evonantli Ni grilk Pelt WO WM riff 
efamill ties atm kid beautiful citadels that haw appearod ins bat =tanned oraffir.ls in 
seeta efts nod enthont publicatkina in the Iti. v4110 saves as a tounant ha 
WNW 
I ant e awoke' wens* to the ezaaiwo and operational skits of many cmvo wean"" 
puck loniuding art direness and Want coonlInelora, ft la Virsloni irg plenum so 
risoogolvs Ternentable talon sect achievements of Mr. Jeer Lug lir uml. Hs OVUM 
ito etal lave I* Amp* mai* from the meet cared"" deveiopod creatconcepts and 
idea I Is hie very unique ability to COMIrruicalsk, via award anal**. WM intended 
altiee hump of his chants, II is ober that Pk demi LW erlitid*I*41011C1 far beyond 
evii swami levels lor SUS inetistly by S Wunrili15 Mt% loth lahtili 11* Voprit 
considanel. Indeed he has worxedsiSi sone of 111710 beit4UVAVII ATM, %Wrt o 
house.. end eisquinee vt wade; is tr. maw tio.obt met 1 polo 1071 the c'erika 
111a vvey bad Is fda prolgastan 
1 am 0311fillindy int* Outi tk. Ash Luc ewers repidellon ties a‘chinvsit ingsmeganei 
staink. tie hss reached a level vitiate toasty leaders me descidet hill, as a 
Ain Lie Swat's voreanidhwy weer Is at a pert vete dues Is ne taming bee* 
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Recommendation Lmter 
22/09/ 
USCIS 
Vermont Sew= Center 
75 Lower WeIdea Street 
St. /dhows. VT 05479-0001 
RE: 0-1 Non-immigrant Visa Petition on behalf of Jean Luc Brunel 
Dear Sir or Madam: 
It is an extreme pleasure to write a letter of recommendation for Mr. Jean 
Luc Brunel. I provide this recommendation based on my knowledgr and 
experience in the field of modling, due to my established reputation and 
work in the field as the Vladimir Yudashkin, director of I Mother Agency. 
Kiev. Ukraine 
I have known Jean Luc Brunel pmfeanongilly for 5everr4 years thmugh 
our wink together and, in my opinion, he is an ext*mely talented 
Individual with superb profettsional reputation. He is an !extraordinarily 
able coordinator who strives for and attains a level of merit in his wnrk 
that only a few of his contemporaries meet. He has the abilit3. to 
recognize the creative vision of his client within the time and budget 
through hbi careful and thoughtful choice, of model casting combined 
imktig his meticulous ability in the field. Jean Luc Brunel is a true find to 
our indusuy. 
Mere are plenty of or, directors out there, but none with: the depth and 
quality that Mr. Dninel possesses He is unlike anyone in this industry. 
sod I expect to see him continue to find great models in his successful 
career. Someone overflowing with talent as Jean Luc Brine] should be 
given every opportunity to work in the United States, where he will have 
the proper venues to showcase his extraordinary talents. 
Please do not hesitate tv contact me should you he :any questions 
regarding Ohs matter. Thank you for ynur time and:r6nsideration. 
'A. 
Sincerely, 
Vladimir Yudash 
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United Stales Cibzeriship and IrrmigRrion Services 
Vermont Service Cer 
30 ri,c•Jghtor Screer 
AlbOnS. sir 05478 
Re: 0-1 Extraordinary At.iily OS Om Ar- Dircc 4 Or and ""alert CQ,crchnotcr 
behdf of Jear-Li.c Didier .4enn-Renc Brunei 
To Whom rt 
AS 0 President .7f Niv_;.c-crk. Mil) *Her submitted in support at rAC2 
MOdets Miami, _LC or behalf or Mr Jean Luc Brunel -o work as a* Art 
Director and gaient Cpowatinotc,. 
M. &tonal okj jii irtVrTatiOr rc.LIpiftl1i0M, as 0 w;ibio, shategit 
networker who ""-k able -o cultivate expert relationshio management sk tf.s 
order to conducy tautness in a global ervirorwreng and &inter tucrarive 
deals. Mr. Brunel nas a long nit2r,, marketrig and adiertic;ng craw 
fashion campaigns. Inrougtio-it INT twenftf-tive year coreertinn trie fair vi 
business. Mr. Brune' has developed worcide. exc.usive odelircj 
COIMOliC campaigns. Some of 1-pese 'rtaior cowneTic campo'cn$ 
60 Therm iNitrl sugierrnader toe A..i..-,wrierw.n. t'HA5 VAM kebecca 11017,17-.. 
CNIStiOri 0101 g'ith Christina Ser........ftrwi(a.?a xitr.Tet Asia! with Mora 
Belucci, Chanel wylti oirk i VcIf. Ar;., Perf.yjcie 
mugoor. and CoUc Pertune - P4116010 . s has 
developed rnaior fashiar, -L:rn-,..)trT3r onct rIfiS Oe., r.pecl cOrnpaigrti Ird:1 
elitChnitle cc -mac is r5i the wø tap'5 deSiOr+E.,5 t• 4-h in% 
Yves Sole aufent. Ctv Chro-4 Dior. GL:c: 
JOCOlu. 
In addilion to Mr. Jean Luc brunel cecensive business 
career os an 4f1CitvAUCli with artistic vision ono crealpve to 
turn find top fashion models to remesent ir tho United Slat 
Shmde yap have any questor °boy' tioli ;ear BfL 
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United States Olitenerip and lierricration Sertioes 
VernOnfService Can* 
4ouoni0n Street 
Saint Atm% Sef OSSIS 
Re; 0-1 bdroordinary Mils as an NI Dec) and Tasont Coolrinatof on 
behalf ar lean•Iluc Dicsev Iriend.Rene Brunel 
vinlam maw Concern: 
As a Proildent of Natalie Model Management. The letter is t..orritteci in 
surrOart of han models mharTt C. on behalf of Mi. Joon Lt.ic MAW tiC 
work as an kr Director and IOW Coordnufou 
Stuns( hoot on interno""onot reputaflon 01 via*. silrotegiC 
rsenvalter solo Is We to culfkalle expert retallaswiip rnanapernent sials 
alderto candUct business in a global soviarvneni and broker liJaarrest 
deals. hir. Brunet has a tong history in rnartotft and adveers,r9 fricVcc 
carossceons Throughouttik inienly-ave yew career in .the fashion 
bsilianO14, Mr. &Wei has devolopod worilwida. 110C4filve.:Zilireg end 
covnetic compotes. Sarre 01i these molar =Work rr Includs4 
Rio Them w4Wt supentiodel Ele mcfnerscr_ Pi4AS nth Rebeoco Ron*. 
Ovidian olor %Intl Civisfina SOITXXvIOOkato. Marcel Airor welt] Monica 
kW* Civonel Min PaillititlVanhiletenheke. An Peffunlewith Merl 
Mogkze. and Cacharei Perfume vtith Aldo Bollestia.Mr. Wel hat also 
artrelaped magi, fashion campaigns and not developed campaigns and 
iseciudve Catteocis wilt) some of the *NOW, fOO kehiart (*honors PJCh 05 
Yves Sarni tautest. Chanel. Chtistion Dior Gucci, Prada. ;and 'AOC 
.00:001. 
.3R9Prit1r2, WAIN a' wourtgaroa -4% .:J/1 133riav 11011 
Iltr Ert Pi 1 Jti. • 1 lJ J41,11111, pasta nadriallitapplaalr. 
fleg ""‘it- PARLIQ5 uxis PSOAIVII -WO •J'APJ XIDG 810 
es Walton to M. Jtar. Luc lituner's extensive &Anew wul kaftam. 
Meet as on individt.id with °diet AMA and creative latent hat helped 
hirn 11nd to models '12 woment in the tinied Slates. 
MOW yeu have any quesions about , *on Luc bunsl luatriiccitions 
teal free to contact me. 
SirtrAtitv. 
Erik Melsons 
Mem. September re. 2014 
USW 
vermoot Service Cente,,r 
75 Lower welder, street 
St. Albans, Vr osetkosetot 
RE 0-a Non-immigrant Mae Prtitloo on Wolf of Jean Lac Didier 
Henri-Ilene Brunel 
I write this letter in strong support of Mr. Ann Lae Droners applieaton for 
non-immigrant Visa to this country. I VII currently iiiitittilnIstraitore 
Unica in Studio It. I have been asked to review the prufeqz,lonal 
credential; of Ma Brunel, and it is my professional opiniori that Ma Brunet 
is an Mt Director and Talent Coordinator of eltreOrdinary ability who 
ranks among the small percentage of !amigo people at yeti top of his field. 
I have gnu first-hand Mr. Jean Lue's special exper;ise in the 
including casting. production, comdinatinn, and art direction for &Gott 
Mr. Brunel is ecnsidered by those its our industry to helan extraordinary 
creative director talent, particularly for the (add= and related 
In my personal dealings with Mr. Jean toe Brunel, I found him to be 
thoroughly pmfe.ssional aid capable of being utilised in connection with. 
wide range of crestive .aibietl matter on any itailatin$erit. He has the 
intuitive ability to provide just what's needed In esortTection with any 
particular creative prom-,3 and possees excellent tic management 
and operational skills that toner from bis years of experience_ 
Many people do riot understand that behind MT, sneressful advertising 
campaign and fashion shoot there me emative men and women who ate 
making sure that the bvsmess operates efficiently by *Do tdi n 3ti ng different 
tasks between models. photographers. and managing croative teams. I can 
honestly say that Mr. Brunel oanlinclaly Roves, himself as an 
extraordinary Went in hi., field. 
I offer an unmitigated endorsement for Mr. JIMA Luc Brimel regarding his 
Visa application as a ixtoon of extraordinary ability. Th'ere is no doubt in 
my mind that Ma popularity and ability in the field will aid, continue to 
p per In .ielrs to come 
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I wee due tilt"" se sums support at Ur Aeon Lie Brunets 4tiplickrion So a non 
latie leatioeri am ceirrints *larking en an Aisait eit Tutu Mtinegime-i, ii 
lein Angeles. awn epee may ottioduigI the OM f tlx) Wham Im1us1r I ati% rreqn:h 
01114 einkeilif* the ciodaratida of olhor mlrettccual4 m the Wel I furl hem asked ea 
Mg** die psmamJ aredeatede at Mr uteAn l niest It is es, prettattstiol optrliL u. 
tiegief van iny pateenei atpiabillanet linaeriethleof We lir,Inete taterm. thin 
WWII **Man director of ractreordanatry abate who ranks einem the prata41 pierettlem at 
keetin ottitaioionW3 at Ten top of be field. 
VIII* admire Joan 'tat elnend and 'and vo a rioasumr * war:. terai tkrio a tairtaad 
pittann. Judatrig b, the high great Inliterlin of the taelperates with s.h.411 he rtaguial: 
soda. demety I ow not the gully WO into apporiatica his tallow Hia irxhusi sow ell 
in ow at the iletiego Most putiatif pubficationa reaching litotarly asillians 3i adiatteis tie 
Ii pI*IICII*ttj binentO for Ms rat ot advvrrnall-4 and rd,iixleti went Nor 
cantilinittrin hope diem, siitis asWein Intin, 0004 Christian Dii+ haw orcund 
hint yoliticei as one of the issiting, 11*-Alt Wanton an dervictora *aria* vid3y. Jean Ler 
Brunet is the consuatunate geldnagoata Iwo it tomes to the an at Illabion and hie walk a 
aeon ttlec4ayeal U. emits towns Mei esearierics A true wise, be as alistoritteal Co the 
lealliaattaors of est ebnIni an ow,"" *ovation. ditheatih Mr Oramai cummunt.is the bobtail 
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Ur Jan LW MUM IngturAwmitity an .nitIvIduAl of eatroardsnan nem,, 
iatoratatiorsd anittawvenent and ogitmewiledispient. !ma how soy giaesiitegeas tripluktule 
tk bun& e entireeetinen abtarv, oteaa* feel bet to tortUttt me 
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eittradimity obi* *kw otovs to o:Intinue taexpaiad vim los alritady mammals& moot fie tbe 
wcetdidde ttahtes indostrj. I ari tbo Ptothavtion Manager at Gm ;Wel Sirtodlos, its1 wand 
ifititiltaCkaitato ILS VOvitle Raga, MIMArti, hthoureto. Vogue Chronvoi, irStigrei atzl Alum 
Jaen i410 *mei Iwo booms tocivos mil, mil dem in Our fielf at 601011011 .4110 %IS Irtfalilht, 
=rasa arml dfrect kaki= models fir clients, phottgriphoms, sit M. host Luc Smog hot o tilde ed 
el* to aelixt the moat appropriex models to be urriccl. T1-aA athsatikeing eamytalsp, maul aditerruemfly haa 
the nutria:adios akility to manage all stages of the compirrz ;:ittoreas of product:1i the Tit moda frIr 2 
job. Thergfora, guar): otr bkv vs irt 
mik erottible as tic la We o btsetill I mash, Ma 
mat he hhot betemoing one of the profestictruils of choice for the fashion m4iy aact atketcream.* 
athaetri re. 
rn iny opie Joke Leer Band. is emotya hotilvithol el itStriardloary uhili‘ in the fled of art, sod 
tbs pamitiela be will anaume in the Ward States dearly =gums am ilaclividuaI oi extrzaariEllgrf ilbraity tn 
tiilLSea Mt rumel tin Imo inoozotimodly ham Mid iseognized foc; his tudque tab* lad 
esperdoe. the malelp lis findo neduir wane bk the mot prookkee, hzhion publicati,os amubd 
*ti worI4 melt to Sao Mworisot, Clasompoltion, Mario, Needuttas bit 114-14era eretribetioon to 
ata)or dieult iiorye secured km a positioo ow of So leadiog dreftotshdUnit econSzeocrsi 
weeithig today, ft is aho minim that the reapontataities anti digitsM&n inteMiltintill art &Tartar, 
-orb° colithumes with the met dietiAgakchett magnum* and siimadoi &obi, rewire an sndivid.tal 
af estraordiaali Ability and tOffiRvethntiovis aorit /0 Mr. Jeep LUC BMA 
Iltrooted 0-veboi to *ark it the United eltaiea. Jam Lag Bound grill moo* bring him pbee 
Was tborAzoodoui nutria_ 
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75 Lower Walden Street 
Sr. 4)baaa VT ofieakcpoot 
0-1 biondtranignmt Vise Petition co hdialf ethers We Emil 
Mot Mr Of Madam: 
Sly roam is, Nadia Ceram end I am Ploadeint of Montage Mrxicis.1 I haw 
3o years of cAperienc* and I am con itantty to coma vvith professionals all 
CIVier the mrld. A few ok my Clients irwlufir Elie Magazine, :A MOWN 
Ramos, Laura Shop. Oglivii`s.71w ila; Store' —and sti on. A6 Audi, I 
am tpialified to ammo on Mr. Jean Lc Brunei's weer as 1St 
director of tnrtraaedioset, ebditl 
Itissenemly because of his act lunation' or his hopeomioe WO; af work 
that babies **earthing mid publishing szecutiess mound the: world 
damns to abbe Mr. Brinier, greet Wan for their lesluvrileti accanrits. Mr. 
Jeen Log Brunel is also an absolute apart et Webbing his chaps with 
e: wily the image of their deals*. My ptirtonutl appreciation of Ur. Brunel 
mem fe meg foe or to compn-hend his acclamations. Proien my 
they MITT certainly well conibund Meardiewiy, Mr Brunel le In 
to connared liaatsie compennetion for hie WO rk es compares to 
in the buslacee 
Itr. *ir! reputatIon ala fonnidable ;nibs: with a perstxtabla deaior 
precedes him. He in constantly researriting end developing stintu tingly 
rw alaSipti for his disco sad I h4we come to My on and trustMm and 
his ability. Ow the coarse of his celebrated meet. Jean Luc Brunel lhaa 
ablinguidted himself as tor of the Wats tednon art dixeetorsi in the 
inanery. 
Mt. hut Lot Snail er,Juys soexbaordioar, relationship to the 
This quality resoliesb itseN *mash the bamatifid work ar ereittets, time 
afttx Woe. Therefore, Joao bat Sruad is dimly otse of thr most talented 
peafestiaanis working in the world today. I look forward to meek* vorr of 
ILiaw the future. 
glinenteb• own, 
Media Como' 
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Ssatember 17. 2014 
MSC* 
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OM Sir it Madam 
tumid gm IQ *Mid mri NA and tirigusalled supped for the adrasidinaly *bay Gil visa 
Podflort itidneid 11,V Ms, Joan Lua Wand Am the UM? NOM Piadister &iv 
$ocdWom I am uwidnord to say the Mt AMP Luc finaid is an art *edits( and talent 
scsadinailar at P4 highsv Whose Isclintain excalionce and creation vista have 
Wald hall tit the lap ri his peolassion. 
Thropohnia Mr .liam L une* dei5nguisihed resi, he n riicolvoti a high17 
hiptiklahlel id al ainfessiono‘ WW1 nr4 ediwriremeni* i Pie Peg tOw YeiniPh 
Braid Us *tot, Ind beautiful modals that haw appeared Ins list accfittir,en projects in 
Mina at Ile oast tenkvaid publications in the wtd, which swats as a tommunt to ids 
I arta aoratieni ninon ba the amine and aperalianal skits of iftley C171ankiV dnecbori 
people, imbibe an diactirs and talent catatilnassta. It is Shirsdora tiv piestais se 
micalantwe tha nensaliabis %dant and adVavarrisots of Mr. Joan Luc HT WWI 1, Kt 1111•40011 
fiGhierkae the slitanaest wails Mate the teed cared*, dwireioped creative -concepts aril 
MN* 111 is his *rely unique abilityto eennuriCele„ me lareiii analysis, the intended 
=eft onSids90 of he onsets. Si. obier that M. Jim Luc ening* teicastoo fly onYclId 
the swags Mods trx this Industry by it* slum** MOM VIM wt& Ns work 
consiciered Initssd, no hill IVOrkta 110010 Of me bootiutorm wows Won 
11011.01L Sad insgatinse In es wand it is wIllitaA a doubt thst I blisos an Op the -Ro& ce 
fat way bat in his prolasstin 
I an tallfidaltily Mit* that Mr. Assn Luc Owner's %lavish:in nu unwed inisinalkend 
*dirs. iirt his reactod s level where industry Indere now describe hilit as a ""star. 
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Recommendation Leiter 
22/09114 
USCIS 
Vermont Service Center 
73 Lower VieMen Street 
St. ,Albtoss. VT 05479-0001 
RH. 0-1 Non-immigrant Visa Petition on behalf of Jean 1.1w Brunel 
Dear Sir or Madam: 
It is an extreme pleasure to write a letter of recommendation for Mr. Jean 
Luc Brim'. I provide this recommendation based on my knowledge and 
experience in the field of modeling, due to my established reputation and 
work In the field as the Vladimir leurtashkir, director of I Mother Agency. 
Kiev. Ukraine 
I have known Jean Luc Brunel profelmonally for several, years through 
cur work together and, an my opinion, he is an extr,inely talented 
Individual with superb proiesstonal reputation. Hi s an :extraordinarily 
able coordinator who strives for and attains a level of merit in his work 
that only a few of his contemporaries meet. He has the ability to 
recognise the creative vision of his client within the ton and budget 
through his careful and thoughtful choice of model caning combined 
with his meticulous ability in the field. Jean Luc Brunel si true find in 
our industry. 
There are plenty of ar directors out there, but none with the depth and 
quality that Mr. Brunei possesses He is unlike anyone in this industry, 
and I expect to see him continue to find great modes in his auccessilli 
career. Someone overflowing with talent as Jean lAre Brunel should be 
given every opportunity to work in the. United States where he will have 
the proper venues t.,1 showcase his extraordinary talents. 
Please do not hesitate to contact me should yists have any questions 
regarding this matter. Thank you tor rout tinge and c6nsideration. 
Sincerely, 
Vladimir Yudat h 
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30 H.D3.,ightorl Street 
S4011 Albans. VI 05478 
Re: 0-1 Extraordinary Atitily as an Ar Dire cc and 'latent Cocrdinatcr :n 
behalf of Jr-Luc Didier -.enri-Reno bum! 
To Whom 'I May Conce—i 
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U S Department of Homeland Security 
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Nonce ot Action 
Page I of 4 
Applicant/PetItioner A # 
Appncation /Pent ;on 
Petition For A Nontninitp,rarit Worker Minn 'a 
Notice Date 
August /6 1014 
Response due by 
November 21, 2014 
MC2 MODELS MIAMI LL( 
LUIS FONT 
FONT LAW GROUP PA 
.1440 HOLLYWOOD Ita 511 41j 
HOLLYWOOD IL ,1,1021 
1-4 At. I 4Z. Z55(iN().-1 
-EAC14/255u803 
Applicant/Pelitiotier 
MC2 MODELS MIAMI LLC 
beneficiary 
BRUNEL JEAN LUC 
Receipt Number 
EACI4//550803(II 19) 
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but no later than the date provided on the request You will not be granted an extension of time to submit the requested 
evidence 
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consider it a request for a decision on the record [8 ('FR 103 2ib1t II ii 
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I. I d9 0- Ili Extraordinary Ability in the Arts 
1 ou MCZ Models Miami LLC hied Form I 1Z9 Fetilion lor Nonintringrant Worker seeking 0 lit MII)Ift11111gRI11 
classification liar Jean Luc Brunel as an Art Director / 'latent Coordinator 
The 0 .113 classification applies to individuals with extraordinary ability in the arts The individual must have sustained 
national or international acclaim His or her achievements must be in the tiekl of expertise and show a record 01 
prominence in his or her lipid 
1G process your pennon and determine ml the beneficiary is eligible additional information is required 1 his request 
provides suggested evidence that you may submit to satisfy each requested nern You may 
Submit one some or all ol these alenis 
Submit none at the suggested items and instead submit other evidence to sa1is4 the request 
Explain how the evidence in the record already establishes eligibility 
Request a decision based on the Ter071 
Note poweveLthal, yQUIff ff5PPMfble lqr PrOviding evidence thatlksi  shows thaLyo  and the pIrtie ipstin_pplitigh 
meet all requirements Evidence must show that all parties were eligible for the requested benefit when you filed Form 
I 149 
General Requirements Inr All 0 Nomintrugrant Petitions 
In general petitions seeking 0 nonimmigrant classification must include 
Copies of ontracts 
A description ol the competitionts) event (st or pertormance(s) and 
At least one consultation 
To saint, these requirements you submitted 
- Your letter in support ol the petition and 
Peer letters in support al the beneficiary trom Claudia Muloto and Alla Amaniova 
Beneficiary s Previous 0 - 1 Status 
Petitions involving an extension al status lor a beneticiary that has previously been gt al.te (I 0 1 nommringrant status 
may he given deference however U S Citizenship and Immigration Services (USC1S) is authorized to question 
extension petitions when a substantial change in circumstances occurs when relevant lads change lrom one petition to 
another or when the prior approval may have been based on gross USCIS error 
)ou militate that the benenciary was previously granted 0.1 nonimmigrant status with your company The details of 
the beneliciary s previous employment with your company are not documented in the instant petition A review of the 
evidence submitted indicates that it the beneficiary's role within your organization has remained unchanged the 
previous petition may have been approved in error. as the list ol duties you provided do not appear to descnbe a 
FOR oFFKI USE ONLY 
Form I 797 (8/03/90) Y 
U $ DeparlInciit of HOrrtland Security 
U S Citizenship and Immigration Servic es 
Notice of Acnoti 
Page 3 of 4 
MC14/4550803(1 I Z91 
position in the arts 
In addition DO evidence has been submitted to support your claim that the beneficiary is an individual who has 
extraonlinary ability In the ails that has been demonstrated by sustained national or international acclaim Yu have 
documented the beneficiary s past success in the business of tot ming and operation modeling agencies but this evidence 
points to the benetiriarys ability on the field of business not the arts Therelore you are asked to comply with the 
following 
Contracts 
Pennons seeking 0 nonimmigrant classiftratton must include a copy ol a contract between the beneficiary and either the 
petitioner or the Pmpioyer II a wniten contract does not exist you may submit a detailed summary of the terms 01 the 
oral agreement between the beneficiary and either the petitioner or the employer 
You did not submit any evuleme lot this requitement You may still submit evidence to satisfy it 
Wniten COniraciS or the summary of the Innis of an oral agreement must specilv the terms and conditions ol the 
employment or services They must 
Specify the wage altered antl explain the terms and conditions under which the benetictary will pertorm these 
services, and 
- Detail any additional services provided 
Nature of the Event or Engagement 
'Jou must provide an explanation of the competition event or pertomiance in which the N./IMP-My will participate 
An event means an activity surh as a scientific project conlerenre convention lecture senes academic year or 
engagement during the requested validity period 
The description you submitted is insufficient In your latter you list the duties at the proffered position as 
10'SpOnS11)1e 101 overseemg the artistic aspects at the agency (select the images placed on the model, 
business cards ,:nd in their porilohos) 
Coordinate the pairing of models with photographers 
Direct the marketing of models to chents 
Travel around the world 10 tint-Over new Ulm( and 10 sign them with MC Z Models and 
Establish relationships with agencies around the world and negotiate representation agreements 
The duties you descnbe appear to relate exclusive!) to the maintenance ot business cpvrations of a modeling agency As 
previously stated you have thxumented the beneficialy s past success in forming arid operating modelmg agencies 
however this e kicience points to the beneficiary s ability in the held 01 business not the ails It is not evident therelore 
that the 0 18 noturturagrant classification is appropriate In the inSlanl case 
Regulations define the 'arts"" as any held of creative activity or endeavor such as but not limited to line arts visual arts 
culinary arts and perfomung arts Ahens engaged in the held of arts include not only the princtpal motors and 
performers but other essential persons such as hut not limited 10 directors Set designers lighting designers sound 
designers choreographers choreologists conductors orchestrators coaches arrangers musical supervisors costume 
FOR LARK £ US/ ()NIA 
Form I 797 (/O3/9O) /* 
If 11 Deo twin of Homeland Sr-runty 
U S Citizenship (ind immigration Servii es 
Notice of Action 
Page 4 of 4 
MC14 a 550803(11/9) ___________________________________________________________________________________ 
designers makeup artists flight masters, stage technicians. and animal trainers 
The duties you describe correspond to business anti management fUTIMOTIS DOI to a position In the arts Before 
adiuthcation of your petition can proceed this discrepancy must be resolved 
You may still submit evidence to sanity this requirement 
The desknplion must include 
An explanation of the nature of the events or activities. 
Beginning and ending dates at the events or activities. and 
A copy of any itinerary that shows dates name(s) ot the employer (s) and location of the event (s) 
You mot establish that the proffered position qualifies as a position in the arts as described above Any and all claims 
must be Why supported by documentary evidence 
FUR ,FFP.. I USE uNLI 
Form 1797 (8/03/90) Y 
FONT LAW GROUP, P.A. 
3440 Hollywood Boulevard, Suite 415 
Hollywood, FL 33021 
Tel.: (954) 241-4271 Fax: (954) 241-4272 
November 3. 2014 
Director 
United States Citizenship& Immigration Services 
Vermont Service Center 
75 Lower Welden Street 
Saint Albans. VT 05479 
RE. NOTIFICATION OF WITHDRAWAL OF 1-129 PETITION 
WITHOUT PREJUDICE BY PETITIONER 
EAC-14-225-50803 
Petitioner: MC2 MODELS MIAMI LI.0 
Beneficiary: JEAN LUC DINER HENRI RENE BRUNEL 
Dear Sir/Madam: 
Please be advised that this office represents the above referenced petitioner and beneficiary in 
this immigration matter and a G-28 from our office is on file. 
THE PETITIONER, MC2 MODELS MIAMI LLC HEREBY NOTIFIES USC1S THAT IT 
WISHES TO WITHDRAW 1-129 0-1 PETITION #EAC-14-225-50803. The petitioner requests 
withdrawal of this 1-129 petition without prejudice. Please note this request for the record in the 
above referenced case. 
We respectfully request that you send us verification of this withdrawal pursuant to the 
regulations contained in 8 C.F.R. Sec. 103.2 (h) (15). 
Kindly send our office a written verification of this withdrawal located at: 
Font Law Group. P.A. 
3440 Hollywood Boulevard. Suite 415 
Hollywood. FL 33021 
Thank you tbr your attention to this matter. 
---- Original message From: Jeff Fuller 
Date:11/12/2014 11:49 (GMT-05:00) 
To: Jean Luc Brunel 
Subject: RE: New York 
Jean Luc, 
I am really sorry you feel so bad and I know it has been a mental and psychological frustration. As you 
know I chose to partner with you due to your reputation in the business for being a top scout and 
developing a couple world class agencies in the past. I knew what you could bring and I knew what I 
could bring and contribute and I thought it would be a great partnership. Clearly, I never expected to 
have the level of challenges we have had recruiting new models over the last several years. I could have 
never foreseen the problem of your friendship with Jeffrey Epstein turning into the situation it has 
where you are seen as guilty by association when you have never done anything or even been convicted 
of a crime. Frankly, I don't understand the necessity for Conchita Sarnoff or anyone else to continue to 
defame your name and MC2 by association. 
It is true that we constantly have to justify ourselves when recruiting new models. The industry is 
extremely competitive and as a parent myself if faced by the same information and having to make a 
tough decision between too agencies I would not pick MC2 if I saw the article online about you. You 
have to read closely to see there is not a charge against you but the implication is strong and of course 
now days everyone believes everything they read online even more than the traditional newspapers of 
the past. 
I know you are now feeling like a liability to MC2. But you personally are not a liability to MC2 but this 
published information online is a liability. We are not a large enough company, nor do we have the 
capacity to fight this on a global level. On a google search in America we have put enough information 
online to not have it popping up so blatantly but we have no controls over the rest of the world or the 
finances to control this situation and we are affected as every major model agency recruits it's best 
models from all the various countries abroad. This has stunted our growth and our billing over the past 
6 or 7 years. In fact, we do not even know who avoids us based on finding this information. I have been 
surprised how challenging it is for us to grow due to this problem. 
I have also had a tremendous amount of worries from our clients that we are vendors for that are large 
American corporations likes Kohls, JC Penney, Sears, Nordstrom, Target, Neiman Marcus, Macys, Saks, 
Belk, and so forth that require vendor agreements and for us to be considered an upstanding 
company. It really worries me as some of those companies have disassociated themselves from what 
EXHIBIT K 
they believe to be questionable companies. So far that has not been a problem but it could come up in 
the future. 
The fact that you are requested for so many scouting events in various countries and cannot promote 
yourself properly to promote MC2 in the press due this problem has it's own sent of repercussions in 
terms of our global branding. In short, it has had a terrible effect on MC2 all around. I really urge you 
to solve this problem and get this removed from the internet so we can grow for the future. I've fought 
for MC2 and been extremely loyal but I must confess that I have even been feeling inadequate and 
questioning my ability as the leader of the organization. I can only attribute the fact that we have 
scraped by in the recession and barely survived in the past to your hard work, my hard work, and the 
tenacity of both of us combined. 
I can only imagine that if I am feeling inadequate and frustrated over a lack of growth of our company 
that you must feel even worse as you have had much greater success in your career and have operated 
at much higher standards in our industry in all areas from reputation, respect, admiration and monetary 
gains. I can even surmise you are probably feeling a level of depression and I have seen it in your highs 
and lows and when you have voiced your frustration. While I know you well and recognize you don't 
really go for the kind of advice I will offer; however, I think you should at least speak to someone neutral 
such as a therapist or a counselor to let your frustrations out and if you don't feel better and are still 
feeling down or depressed to see a medical doctor for your condition. You are such a positive person I 
hate to see you fighting what you feel is a hopeless battle. It is not hopeless you just need find a way to 
get that information offline and begin to repair your reputation. In the end I am afraid the damages are 
a lot more than you realize but let's keep fighting and moving forward as we have no choice. 
Thanks, 
Jeff 
Jeff Fuller 
President 
MC2 Model Management USA 
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FROM: JACQUIE JOHNSON <.J.JOIINSONaiRRA-LAW.( 'OM> 
DATE: SEPTEMBER 18, 2009 3:57:44 PM EDT 
TO: ""'TAMAQTKUDNIANLAW.COM"" <TAM.VerTKUDMANLAW.COM> 
CC: ""BRADLEY J. EDWARDS"" <BEDWARDS4RRA-LAW.CONI> 
SUBJECT: EPSTEIN - DEPO OF JEAN WC BRITHNEL 
We have confirmation for Mr. Bruhners deposition on 11/3. We will commence at 10:00 a.m. if that is ok 
with you. 
Jacquie Johnson 
Legal Assistant to 
Brad Edwards, Esq. 
Partner 
Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler 
401 East Las Olas Blvd. 
Suite 1650 
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301 
Telephone 954 315 7264 
Fax 954 527 8663 
JiohnsonOrra-law.com  
EXHIBIT L 
---Original Message—
From: Tama Beth Kudman <tama@tkudmanlaw.corn> 
Date: Monday, November 16, 2009 at 7:48 PM 
To: Jean Luc Brunel <2jeanluc@gmail.com> 
Subject: Re: Hi 
>All depos are cancelled for now. A letter confirming this is being 
>Sent out today. We have no idea how long this shall delay things. I'll 
>let Michael know. 
> 
>Sent from my iPhone 
>Tama Beth Kudman 
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From: ""Dr. Royce Jalazo"" <dynamicbeh@gmail.com> 
To: joetitone708@comcast.net 
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2014 2:40:59 PM 
Subject: Jean Luc Brunel 
Mr. Titone, 
Please accept this email as my formal notification that Mr. Jean Luc Brunel attending an 
outpatient individual psychotherapy session with me on 12/12/14. 
Thank you, 
Royce N. Jalazo, Psy.D. 
Licensed Psychologist 
Dynamic Behavioral Consulting 
a DBA of Dr. Royce Jalazo, P.A. 
1975 E. Sunrise Blvd., Suite 532 
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33304 
Direct (With Voicemail): 954-232-7092 
Toll Free Fax: 888-236-6979 or 954-208-3400 
E-mail: DvnamicBeh@qmail.com 
Website: www.DynamicBeh.com  
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http://www.politico.com/blogsiunder-the-radar/2014/12/court-filing-levels-sex-claims-at-
alan-dershowitz-200495.html 
Woman who sued convicted billionaire over 
sex abuse levels claims at his friends 
By JOSH GERSTEIN I 
12/31/14 6:38 PM EST 
A woman allegedly kept as a sex slave by politically-connected billionaire investor Jeffrey 
Epstein, who went to jail for having sex with underaged girls, is accusing several prominent 
friends of the financier of having taken part in the debauchery, according to a new court filing. 
The woman—referred to in court papers as Jane Doe #3—leveled the allegations Tuesday 
against Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz and Britain's Prince Andrew, as well as 
British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell and French model scout Jean Luc Brunel. 
Dershowitz flatly denied the claims about him Wednesday in an interview with POLITICO. 
It's totally, unequivocally and completely false,"" the celebrated attorney said. 
A spokesman for Prince Andrew denied the allegations Friday, while a lawyer who handled 
related matters for Maxwell did not respond to an e-mail seeking comment. Representatives of 
Brunel's modeling firm also did not reply to e-mail messages. 
The accusations came in a long-running lawsuit charging federal prosecutors in Florida with 
violating a victims-rights law by failing to consult with Epstein's victims before signing off on a 
plea deal. That pact ruled out any federal prosecution of the investor, who agreed to plead guilty 
to two state prostitution-related felony charges. Lawyers for the victims have described the 
arrangement as a sweetheart deal the well-connected Epstein and his high-powered legal team 
achieved by putting pressure on prosecutors. 
Epstein served 13 months of an 18-month sentence on the two state charges before being 
released in 2009. He's now a registered sex offender. 
The new court filing, submitted by Florida lawyer Brad Edwards and former federal judge Paul 
Cassell in a federal court in West Palm Beach, Fla., asked that Jane Doe #3 and another woman 
be allowed to join the pending case over the victims' rights claim. 
""Epstein...trafficked Jane Doe #3 for sexual purposes to many other powerful men, including 
numerous prominent American politicians, powerful business executives, foreign presidents, a 
well-known Prime Minister, and other world leaders. Epstein required Jane Doe #3 to describe 
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the events that she had with these men so that he could potentially blackmail them,"" the court 
filing said. 
""One such powerful individual that Epstein forced then-minor Jane Doe #3 to have sexual 
relations with was former Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, a close friend of Epstein's 
and well-known criminal defense attorney. Epstein required Jane Doe #3 to have sexual relations 
with Dershowitz on numerous occasions while she was a minor, not only in Florida but also on 
private planes, in New York, New Mexico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands,"" the legal pleading 
added. 
Dershowitz called the allegations ""totally made up and totally fabricated from beginning to end."" 
He said he was not in the places described in the filing at the relevant times, with one exception: 
he did visit Epstein's private island in the Caribbean on one occasion. 
""I was there with my family,"" the renowned law professor said. 
Dershowitz said in a follow-up interview after this post first appeared Wednesday that he's 
planning to file bar complaints against Edwards and Cassell for inadequately vetting their client's 
story. 
""I'm planning to file disbarment charges against the two lawyers who signed this petition without 
even checking the manifests of airplanes or travel itineraries, et cetera,"" he said. ""I'm also 
challenging the young woman and the lawyers to level those charges against me outside of the 
courtroom, so that I can sue them for defamation.....Finally, I'm challenging the woman to file 
criminal charges against me because the filing of false criminal charges is a crime."" 
The motion accuses Prince Andrew of similar actions, asserting that ""Jane Doe #3 was forced to 
have sexual relations with this Prince when she was a minor in three separate geographical 
locations: in London (at Ghislaine Maxwell's apartment), in New York, and on Epstein's private 
island in the U.S. Virgin Islands (in an orgy with numerous other under-aged girls)."" 
Previous press accounts have reported on Prince Andrew's friendship with Epstein, who was 
known as a philanthropist and supporter of scientific research before the criminal investigations 
began nearly a decade ago. However, the earlier accounts stopped short of accusing the prince of 
sexual involvement with girls Epstein procured. In a 2011 Vanity Fair story, Prince Andrew 
denied any such contact. 
While a Buckingham Palace spokesman did not respond to POLITICO's query about the matter 
on Wednesday, the palace issued a denial to several British news outlets Friday. ""This relates to 
long-standing and ongoing civil proceedings in the United States, to which The Duke of York is 
not a party. As such we would not comment on the detail. However, for the avoidance of doubt, 
any suggestion of impropriety with underage minors is categorically untrue,"" the statement said. 
Prosecutors said in a 2007 draft letter they'd identified 40 young women who could be 
considered victims of Epstein's illegal acts. Many of them filed lawsuits or claims against 
Epstein and reached out-of-court settlements for amounts that were not disclosed. 
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While ""Jane Doe #3"" is unidentified in this week's court filing, her story appears to track with 
that of a woman who sued Epstein in 2009 and settled with him later that year. She apparently 
granted an on-the-record interview to Britain's DailN Mail in 2011. 
Some of the fascination with Epstein on the part of tabloids and glossy magazines stems from his 
ties to former President Bill Clinton. In 2002, Epstein provided his 727 to Clinton for a trip to 
Africa to study anti-AIDS programs. Celebrities such as Chris Tucker and Kevin Spacey came 
along for the ride. The new court filing makes no mention of Clinton, Tucker or Spacey. 
The federal investigation obtained manifests for Epstein's private jet travel, but prosecutors 
never charged anyone besides the investor with involvement in obtaining or using underaged 
girls for sexual purposes. 
The new court filing says this result is in part due to the fact that Epstein's legal team—which 
included such heavyweights as former independent counsel and solicitor general Ken Starr, trial 
lawyer Roy Black, and Dershowitz—negotiated a deal that precluded the feds charging anyone 
as a co-conspirator. 
Lawyers for Jane Doe #3 argue in the new motion that Dershowitz put this language in the 
agreement to protect himself. 
However, the law professor told POLITICO he didn't negotiate that deal and it wasn't aimed at 
protecting him. ""I had nothing to do with drafting the non-prosecution agreement,"" he said. 
Dershowitz added that the last draft of the agreement mentioned four people by name who 
wouldn't be prosecuted and he was not among them. All were regular associates or assistants of 
Epstein, the lawyer said, adding that the final language removed those names and simply barred 
federal prosecutors in South Florida from going after any potential co-conspirators. 
Epstein and his lawyers fought hard to prevent records about his plea negotiations from being 
turned over to victims' attorneys. However, U.S. District Court Judge Keith Marra ruled last year 
that the victims are entitled to examine those records to prepare their case against the 
government. 
Epstein, Black and others appealed that decision to the Atlanta-based 11th Circuit Court of 
Appeals, but it ruled in April of this year that no privilege protects plea negotiations in this sort 
of dispute. 
Edwards and Cassell did not respond to requests for comment for this post, including an inquiry 
about their response to Dershowitz's comments. However, the pair appear to be pressing forward 
with the victims' rights lawsuit, which seeks to unravel the no-federal-prosecution deal cut for 
Epstein in 2007. 
UPDATE (Wednesday, 7:18 P.M.): This post has been updated with further comment from 
Dershowitz. 
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-------- Original message-------- 
From: Abi Schwinck 
Date:16/01/2015 05:16 (GMT+07:00) 
To: Pink ,Jean Luc Brunel „Jeff Fuller 
Subject: FW: Victoria 
From: Erik Bechtal [m ai Ito : erik@pageparkes.corn1 
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2015 5:12 PM 
To: Abi Schwinck 
Subject: Victoria 
Hey Abi1 
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remaining with MC2 with all the drama going on right now in the press. She's asked me to 
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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016219.txt,"Daniels' lawyer, Michael Avenatti, said AT&T had made four separate payments of $50,000
apiece to Cohen's company, for a total of $200,000 in late 2017 and into early 2018.

That company, Essential Consultants, was created by Cohen in October 2016 and soon after
was used to make a $130,000 hush-money payment to Daniels.

In a prepared statement to CNBC, AT&T said Cohen's company ""was one of several firms
we engaged in early 2017 to provide insights into understanding the new administration.""
""They did no legal or lobbying work for us, and the contract ended in December 2017,""
AT&T said.

The company did not say how much it had paid Cohen, who was the president's personal
lawyer at the time.

AT&T is in the midst of pursuing an $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner. The U.S.
Justice Department has sued to block that deal.

In a report on Cohen's company, Avenatti's law firm said that Novartis in late 2017 and early
2018 made four separate payments to Essential Consultants totaling nearly $400,000.
""Following these payments, reports surfaced that Mr. Trump took a dinner with the
incoming CEO of Novartis before Mr. Trump's speech at the World Economic Forum in
Davos, Switzerland in late January 2018,"" Avenatti's report said.

That CEO, Vas Narasimhan, was joined with a group of other companies’ executives at that
dinner.

A Novartis spokesperson said in a statement that ""any agreements with Essential Consultants
were entered before our current CEO taking office in February of this year and have
expired.""

Avenatti's report says another company, Korea Aerospace Industries LTD, paid Essential
Consultants $150,000 in November 2017.

Avenatti's client Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, was paid $130,000 by
Essential Consultants on the eve of the 2016 presidential election.

Daniels says the money was in exchange for her signing a deal that required her to remain
silent about an affair she claims to have had with Trump in 2006, shortly after the birth of
his youngest son.

The White House has denied that Trump had sex with the adult film actress.

Neither the White House nor Cohen had an immediate comment on Avenatti's new
allegations about payments to Cohen's company.

WATCH: Feds saw log of Cohen's phone calls

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trafficking crime that has been committed.
The same thing is true if you fly a 17-year-old into

London, or if you fly her into New York. All of those are sex

trafficking crimes, and Professor Conan is prepared to explain
both that particular aspect, I would describe it as a mixed
question of fact and law, and also some of the psychological
techniques that are used to create the -- I think he refers to

them as the invisible chains of sex traffickers.

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under the age of consent, or we have a federal or, in all

likelihood, state trafficking offense if she's flown to another

states

Which regard to item 18, the Cassell and Edwards
litigation, I think your Honor asked som xcellent questions
on that.

We were told that there are five reasons why
Ms. Giuffre's connection to that case has some relevance. The

first argument, I guess, is their strongest argument, was that,

well, she was a witness in that case. But, of course, that was

a confidential deposition, so it couldn't have anything to do

with reputational damages or something else.

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was deposed, and if they say, ah-hah, you've said X from the

witness stand, but last year when you were deposed you said not

SOUTHERN DISTRICT REPORTERS, P.C.
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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019765.txt,"Snowden’s Choices | 277

have sent Poitras documents anonymously over his own Tor soft-
ware and server. And he could have remained in his self-described
“paradise” in Hawaii with his girlfriend.

When he chose to move to Booz Allen, the risk of exposure
greatly increased because of its auditing system. Any documents he
took without authorization could be traced back to him (though not
in real time). As he later told Greenwald and Poitras, he knew that
stealing documents at the Booz Allen job meant that he would either
go to prison or escape from America. He didn’t want to face prison
time, so the job change required an escape plan. As part of that plan,
soon after he started work at the Booz Allen—managed facility, he
submitted a request for a medical leave of absence.

We can safely assume that the reason he made this risky switch
in employment was that he wanted something beyond the whistle-
blowing documents. He wanted documents that were not avail-
able at the Dell job. One such document he took was the top secret
Congressional Budget Justification book for fiscal year 2013. This
“black budget,” as it is called in Congress, contained the entire intel-

® ligence community’s priorities for, among other things, monitoring ®
the activities of potential adversaries and terrorist organizations.
It specified the money requested not only by the NSA but by the
CIA, the DIA, the National Reconnaissance Office, and other intel-
ligence services. Snowden could not have objected to the budget’s
being somehow secret or illegitimate, because it was duly approved
by both houses of Congress and the president. If it was not for pur-
poses of whistle-blowing, presumably he had another purpose for
taking such a document. It certainly held value to other actors. “For
our enemies, having it [the black budget] is like having the playbook
of the opposing NFL team,” said the former CIA deputy director
Morell in 2015. “I guarantee you that the SVR, the Russian foreign
intelligence service, would have paid millions of dollars for such a
document.” If unlike Ames, Hanssen, and Pelton, Snowden was not
after acquiring money, he must have seen another value in taking it.

The documents he stole at Booz Allen certainly increased his
value to adversary nations, because they included lists revealing the
NSA’s sources in Russia, China, and other foreign countries.

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013728.txt,"note that changing the ratios of the numbers of cubes that are dense in point
probability to those that are sparse would not influence the value of Do. This helps
differentiate Do from other dimensions and, as noted above, Do as a maximal
estimate of the fractal dimension, is called the capacity dimension and by
convention the scaling law is written M(<)~ « ”. More specifically, Do is calculated

by repeatedly dividing the d-dimensionally embedded phase space into equal d-
dimensional hypercubes and plotting the log of the fraction of the hypercubes
containing data points versus the log of the (normalized) linear dimension (“length
scale”) of the hypercubes. The slope fitted to the most linear part of the slope
(usually the middle 50%) indicates the capacity dimension. Do is computed for
increasing embedding (and cube) dimension, d, until it achieves an asymptotic
plateau, it “saturates”. This is but one of a range of geometric scaling exponents,
“dimensions,” that are currently being computed (Farmer et al, 1983; Grassberger
and Procaccia, 1983; Meyer-Kress, 1986; Theiler, J. (1990); Gershenfeld, 1992; Ott
et al,, 1994).

Although still subject to debate, convention has it that the sample length
required to determine this most primitive of dimension computations goes like
10” (e.g. a dimension of 2.45 requires a sample length of at least 282 points).
Assuming robust findings using Do as indicated by non-parametric tests of
significance in test-retest, before and after, drug treatment designs, this arbitrary
criteria sounds more like ritual than meaningful help for the clinical neuroscientist
with (say) 100 spinal fluid hormone and metabolite samples painfully and
laboriously collected from a patient’s indwelling catheter over 48 hours. In the
context of real data (and not numerical studies of differential equations), we are
dealing with empirical findings that must find their meaning (or lack of) in the context
of questions about issues in the neurosciences, not in abstract questions such as
those about the number of dimensions that an unknown differential equation would
require to represent the data (Broomhead and King, 1986). In a similar arbitrary
spirit, a system manifesting a Do > 5 is considered not discriminable from a random
process; e.g. the difference between Do = 5 versus Do = 7 (though perhaps

statistically significant) is thought to be without meaning. Since in neurobiological

228

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_014047.txt,"68 CASSELL ET AL. [Vol. 104

criminal charges? Or do they attach at some earlier point in the process?
Does v. United States, a federal case in the U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of Florida, usefully illustrates the issue.*° In that case, the
U.S. Attomey’s Office for the Southern District of Florida developed
considerable evidence that Jeffrey Epstein, a billionaire with extensive
political and social connections,*! had sexually molested more than thirty
young girls between 2001 and 2007 at his West Palm Beach mansion.“
The U.S. Attorney’s Office entered into contentious plea negotiations with
Epstein over how the case should be resolved. The prosecutors initially
sought a resolution that would have required Epstein to plead guilty to at
least a felony sex offense. After pressure from Epstein, for reasons that
have never been clearly explained,** the U.S. Attorney’s Office agreed to
enter into a nonprosecution agreement. Under the agreement, the U.S.
Attorney’s Office agreed not to prosecute him and, in exchange, Epstein
agreed to plead guilty to two state felonies for soliciting prostitution with a
minor. After entering those guilty pleas, Epstein was sentenced to only
eighteen months in state jail.+ No federal charges were ever filed and

4° Does v. United States, 817 F. Supp. 2d 1337 (S.D. Fla. 2011). In the interest of full
disclosure, two of the authors of this Article (Cassell and Edwards) are co-counsel for the
victims in this case. The statement of the facts in this Article draws heavily on the victims’
allegations as they have detailed in their pending motion for summary judgment in the case.
See Jane Doe #1 & Jane Doe #2’s Motion for Finding of Violations of the Crime Victims’
Rights Act and Request for a Hearing on Appropriate Remedies at 3-23, Does, 817 F. Supp.
2d 1337 (No. 9:08-cv-80736-KAM) [hereinafter Jane Doe Motion] (providing fifty-three
proposed facts in the case). The U.S. Attorney’s Office has generally disputed some of these
allegations without offering specifics as to what happened. See, e.g., United States’
Response to Jane Doe #1 & Jane Doe #2’s Motion for Finding of Violations of the Crime
Victim Rights Act and Request for a Hearing on Appropriate Remedies at 34-43, Does, 817
F. Supp. 2d 1337 (No. 9:08-cv-80736-KAM) [hereinafter United States’ Response]. As of
this writing, Epstein has declined to intervene in the case to dispute the allegations.

4l See, e.g., Paul Harris, Prince Andrew’s Link to Sex Offender Jeffrey Epstein Taints
Royalty in US, GUARDIAN (Mar. 12, 2011), http://goo.gl/Ol4vAE; Landon Thomas Jr., Jeffrey
Epstein: International Moneyman of Mystery, N.Y. MAG., http://goo.gl/11Cayc (last visited
Nov. 26, 2013).

* See Jane Doe Motion, supra note 40, at 3-4; Abby Goodnough, Questions of
Preferential Treatment Are Raised in Florida Sex Case, N.Y. TIMES, Sept. 3, 2006, at A19.

43 The U.S. Attorney responsible for the plea deal later revealed that after negotiations
started, “[w]hat followed was a year-long assault on the prosecution and the prosecutors” by
Epstein. Letter from R. Alexander Acosta, former U.S. Att’y, to Whom It May Concern
(Mar. 20, 2011), reprinted in Conchita Sarnoff, Behind Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s
Sweetheart Deal, DAILY BEAST (Mar. 25, 2011, 3:17 AM), http://goo.gl/kyveiF. Acosta,
however, claimed that the pressure did not influence the ultimate disposition of the case. Id.

44 Landon Thomas Jr., From Paradise to County Jail: A Billionaire Financial Adviser
Will Serve 18 Months in Sex Case, N.Y. TIMES, July 1, 2008, at C1.

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IMAGES-012-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032779.txt,"From: Nicholas Ribs [aa

Sent: 7/9/2018 7:48:10 PM
To: Jeffrey Epstein [JEEvacation@gmail.com]
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IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028023.txt,"The Kenyans were not exactly allies of Israel. But relations between
President Jomo Kenyatta’s security services and Mossad had been close for
some years. I flew in with three leading Mossad men. While one of them called
on the aging President Kenyatta, our main point of contact, was the head of
Kenya’s security services. Since the secrecy of the mission had to be preserved,
we couldn’t make advance preparations for refueling or the additional 707
which we intended to fly in as a field hospital. But he smoothed the way for us
to do both, without anyone asking too many questions.

The Mossad men took the lead in arranging to get Rabin’s questions
answered. They contacted a pilot they knew. The pilot flew to Entebbe early on
Saturday morning, circled, and, after he was cleared to land, claimed
mechanical difficulties and flew out again. I had his telephoto pictures by mid-
morning and phoned Rabin’s intelligence officer to let him know we’d
confirmed there was a clear path to the old terminal. We still had to make sure
the captive passengers were there, however. A nurse from Kampala who had
been allowed to visit them made three further visits: late Saturday afternoon,
then shortly after the first Hercules had taken off from Sharm al-Sheikh, and
finally around nine at night. I was able to reassure Rabin that the question to his
second question was also “yes”. Although all of the C-130s were already
airborne, it was only then that he gave the mission the final go-ahead.

As commander of Sayeret Matkal, Pd always found running an operation
from a command post hugely frustrating. This was even worse. Once we got
word the Israeli force was on the way to Uganda, we put in place the
arrangements for refueling. If all went well, the first C-130, with Yont’s assault
team and at least some of the hostages, was due to reach Entebbe and begin the
assault at midnight Saturday. Assuming there were no major problems, it would
take an hour at most. All / could do now, from 300 miles away, was wait.

Shortly after midnight, Kuti radioed me with a terse message: the first of the
Hercules had left Entebbe for Nairobi, and the command plane was returning to
Israel. About quarter to one in the morning on July 4, the transport planes began
their staggered arrival. When the first Hercules taxied to a halt, I went out to
meet it. As its giant rear door lowered, Dan was the first person I saw. I could
tell from the awkward silence, the lack of any greeting, something must have

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IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021042.txt,"Illustrating the Revenue Tradeoffs —

Changing Tax Rates vs. Broadening the Tax Base

Mathematical Illustrations*

1) To eliminate F2010 deficits by increasing individual / corporate / payroll tax
rates across-the-board would require +12 percentage points of tax rate increase
(raising $1.4 trillion) — and would likely damage economic growth? or

2) To eliminate primary budget deficit** by F2019E by increasing top two tiers of
income tax rates would require moving marginal rates to 72% / 77% from 33% /
35% — also likely to damage growth and encourage tax avoidance? or

3) Broadening tax base could require reducing ‘tax expenditures’ and subsidies,
e.g., limiting deductions and subsidies for housing & healthcare?

Policy Options
1) Acombination of somewhat higher rates and a broader tax base? and/or

2) Changing taxation of individual income to encourage saving / investment
rather than consumption (perhaps a value-added tax and/or carbon tax)? and/or

3) Changing taxation of corporate income to reflect global competition?

Note: *The simple tax math presented here are pure mathematical illustrations — we simply calculated how big a broad-based tax rate increase (for
individual and corporate income, as well as payroll) would have to be for USA Inc. to financial break-even. These calculations are merely mechanical
iflustrations and are not meant to portray realistic solutions. **Primary budget deficit is the budget deficit excluding net interest payments.
www.kpcb.com

USA Inc. | What Might a Turnaround Expert Consider? 401

Changing USA Inc.’s Tax System Could Help

Rebalance the Economy & Reallocate Resources

e Though there would be adjustment costs, reducing subsidies and ‘tax
expenditures’ could broaden the tax base and collect more revenue, while
allowing income tax rates to stay low or go lower.

e The current system favors consumption, penalizes saving; a tax based on
consumption (or “value added”) could offset some of that penalty, though there
are risks and drawbacks.

e Subsidies create incentives to consume more health insurance and housing —
both account for 20% of GDP, vs. 11% in 19651 — and take resources from other
sectors like education, technology, infrastructure.

e A worldwide corporate tax system with a lower tax rate could reduce incentives
for companies to keep income offshore.

e Acarbon tax could raise some additional revenue to reduce the deficit, while
encouraging sustainable economic development.

KP Source: 1) per BEA and CMS.
(@E) www.kpcb.com USA Inc. | What Might a Turnaround Expert Consider? 402

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IMAGES-012-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033467.txt,"Chief Pilot, JEGE Inc.

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015710.txt,"20 Are the Androids Dreaming Yet?

nephew of the famous American mathematician Edward Kasner, and
subsequently the inspiration for the name ‘Google; the Internet search
engine.

Ray Kurzweil, the prolific inventor and futurologist, is fascinated
by this exponential growth. Exponential curves grow slowly to start with
but they pick up speed rapidly and, in the end, growth tends towards
infinity. We are all painfully acquainted with one example of exponential
growth: The common cold. Each infected cell in our body releases
virus particles into the blood which infect further cells, leading to an
exponential increase. This makes us feel rotten. Luckily our immune
system can also respond exponentially, albeit somewhat delayed, so we
survive. In the case of computer power there is no opposing immune
system fighting back, so Kurzweil thinks computers will achieve almost
limitless processing power; perhaps even within our lifetime. He thinks
this will lead to some interesting consequences, for example, allowing
people to live forever! Far-fetched? Follow his argument.

The two most important elements in keeping us alive are medical
imaging, to see what is wrong; and genetic engineering, to fix those
things. Both are improving in line with digital technology, doubling
in power every 18 months. As computers get better at seeing into our
bodies, and our ability to sequence and synthesize spare parts improves,
we will reach a point where we can fix almost any problem. Kurzweil
figures technology is improving and his body is decaying at just the right
rate to mean by the time he needs heavy duty medical intervention it will
be available. Barring a traffic accident or mad-axe-murderer, he should
live forever. Even if his calculation is slightly off, the next generation will
definitely have this option.

You might dismiss this as science fiction, but some amazing things
are already happening. Recently a female patient in the USA suffering
from bone cancer had her jaw replaced with a 3D printed component.
Doctors were able to scan her head and take an image of the good side of
her jaw, flip it right to left within the computer and repair any problems
they saw. Then they sent the image to a 3D printer. The printer made a
new jaw from tungsten powder, which was fused in a kiln. The final stage
was to cover the metal part with an inert bone-like substance to give
the human body a scaffolding on which to build real bone. They then
performed the operation to remove her old jaw and replace it with the
new one: result, brand new healthy jaw.

There are some practical limits to the power of computers on the
horizon. Currently, the wires in a silicon chip are about twenty-two
nanometers wide. That’s around a thousandth of the width of a human

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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017301.txt,"4.2.12
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successfully prosecuted for it by the State Attorney’s Office. The problem was that several years
had passed between the murder and the prosecution and Connolly had a plausible statute of
limitations argument on appeal.

I was asked by State Attorney Rundle to consult with her appellate lawyers and to prepare them
for what they expected would be a grueling oral argument. I agreed and worked with them, and
with federal prosecutors in Boston, on the appellate brief. I also conducted a “moot court” in
which I played judge and asked the hardest questions I could come up with. The “moot court,”
as it turned out, was more grueling than the actual argument, and the prosecution won the appeal.
It was the first time I recall cheering when I heard that the prosecution had won an appeal.

There is nothing more corrosive to the administration of justice than corrupt law enforcement
officials (except, perhaps, corrupt judges, several of whom Billy Bulger had appointed to “his”
bench). The Bulger gang is now history. Whitey and Connolly are in prison, probably for the rest
of their lives. Billy is “retired” from politics, but still widely admired by some in Boston, who
ought to know better.

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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018032.txt,"Case 1:19-cv-03377 Document 1-13 Filed 04/16/19 Page 3 of 4

In fact, the purpose of the May 19"" meeting with Mr. Boies was for Mr. Dershowitz to
propose a method to persuade Mr. Boies that his client was mistaken about having sex
with Mr, Dershowitz. Mr, Dershowitz proposed to show using his own records of travel
and calendars that he could not have been present at the times alleged as he was
demonstratively elsewhere. However, Mr. Dershowitz did not have the records with him
at that meeting and a later meeting was scheduled for Mr. Dershowitz and his paralegal to
present the records. Neither at or prior to the May 19"" meeting, had Mr. Dershowitz
given anything for Mr. Boies to evaluate the issue further.

I am informed that Mr. Dershowitz has also asserted that at a meeting on June 1, 2015,
“Boies said his goal was to persuade Virginia Roberts that she was mistaken in
identifying me as a person with whom she had sex.” Mr. Boies never said that in my
presence, and what he did say in my presence both before and after June 1, 2015 was
inconsistent with what Mr. Dershowitz ascribes to Mr. Boies. Mr. Boies said he would
discuss Mr. Dershowitz presentation with his client and see if it changed the client’s mind
regarding her recollections but he also said that the client strongly believed what she was
saying.

At Mr. Dershowitz’s request I attended a meeting on July 6, 2015, at the Boies Schiller
Flexner offices in New York City with David Boies and Sigrid McCawley with Mr.
Dershowitz participating by Skype. The purpose of the meeting as stated at the meeting,
and as stated to me by Mr. Dershowitz prior to the meeting, was to continue his efforts to
persuade Mr. Boies and Ms. McCawley that Mr. Dershowitz had not been in any of the
places where the client said Mr. Dershowitz had sex with her at any relevant time. The
assettion by Mr. Dershowitz that Mr. Boies had, by this time, stated that he was
convinced that Mr. Dershowitz had not had sex with the client or had expressed this view
in my presence, is not accurate.

(a) Mr. Boies indicated at the July 6"" meeting that while the information was
“useful” he had open questions about what he was given, and that there were gaps
in what he was being given. Moreover, there were locations where Mr.
Dershowitz was alleged to have had sex with the client with respect to which Mr.
Dershowitz had not yet produced sufficient documentation.

(b) The meeting ended with Mr. Dershowitz promising to produce additional
materials to BSF and with the parties planning to have another meeting to review
those materials.

Throughout this process, Mr. Dershowitz appeared determined that the outcome of those
meetings would vindicate him. At various points, Mr. Boies did say that if he became
convinced that his client was honestly mistaken about Mr. Dershowitz that he would
convey that view to his client and that if he could not convince her, his firm would
consider withdrawing from her representation. However, Mr. Boies also said that while
he had an open mind on this matter, in light of the steps his firm had taken to verify the
client’s accounts, and the other evidence of which he was aware, Mr. Dershowitz would
have to produce compelling proof to convince him the client was mistaken. Following

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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031976.txt,"some of the ups and downs of his writing career and how hard it is to make a
living as any kind of a writer, let alone a “rock journalist.” and the people who

created it, seriously.

Now everybody writes about rock and roll that way. Jules was one of the
people who did it first. “Goodbye Surfing, Hello God!” is Jules’s most famous
example of rock journalism, but | think his most revolutionary is his article
“The Big Beat.” It appeared in the Playboy-esque Cavalier magazine in 1965
and is one of the earliest writings I’ve ever seen on the development of rock
and roll, from slaves singing in chains on their way to America to Bob Dylan

“going electric” at the Newport Folk Festival.

Jules Siegel died of a heart attack on November 17, 2012 at the age of 77.
He was a brilliant author, but neither Rolling Stone nor the New York

Times honored him with an obituary. Not even a fake one.
COMIC STRIPS
Art Spiegelman tells me his work at Cavalier 50 years ago:

I was first invited into the mag to do two full-color comix pages in 1969 (when being printed in color
was a Very Big Deal for me as was Getting Paid more than 25 bucks for a drawing), somehow in
proximity to a big article on underground comix. It was around the time Vaughn Bode was made a
regular contributor to the magazine, They were running some Crumb “Fritz the Cat” pages. All thanx

to their hip, laid back and kind editor, Alan LeMond.

I also did some gag cartoons, short strips and occasional illustrations for Cavalier (one especially
bad drawing for a story by Bruce Jay Friedman, I recall). My work in 1969, as an apprentice
underground cartoonist taking too many drugs was really, really awful so I'm grateful for the editor's
hip and laid-back kindness. But, hey, I was proud to be in a mag that published pieces by Pynchon,

Manny Farber and you.

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Dinner with President and Mrs. Ford

Several years before Gerald Ford died, he and his wife invited me to deliver a lecture in Palm
Springs where they were living. They invited my son and me to join them for dinner before the
lecture. We schmoozed about our common experiences at Yale Law School, our different party
affiliations, and our mutual love for football and other sports. Then he asked me a question:
“What do you think of Justice John Paul Stevens?” I responded that I thought he was one of the
greatest justices in modern history, that he brought real common sense to the job of judging, that
he was non-ideological and that he was a really nice man. He deemed and said, “appointing him
was the second most important decision of my presidency.” I asked him what the first most
important decision was. He said, “The one that cost me reelection—the pardon of President
Nixon.”

380

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IMAGES-012-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033301.txt,"From: Barry Josephson [i

Sent: 6/27/2016 3:20:09 PM
To: Jeff Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: FW: Trump Force One Vs. Air Force One

Attachments: F8796710-315E-4988-9D76-F47859C86983[1].png

Importance: — High

Funny!
Best,
Barry J

Barry Josephson
Josephson Entertainment
1201 W. Sth St.

Suite F-300

Los Angeles, CA 90017

From: Niall McCarthy | Statista qq >
Reply-To: Niall McCarthy | Statista (I -

Date: Monday, June 27, 2016 at 7:34 AM

To: Barry Josephson <_jiiii >

Subject: Trump Force One Vs. Air Force One

View this email in your browser here.

Chart of the Day - Economy and Society

Dear Barry,

When it comes to describing Donald Trump’s private jet, the word
“impressive” would be an understatement. The presumptive Republican Party
nominee bought the Boeing 757-200 from Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen
and he spared no expense kitting it out. Dubbed “Trump Force One,” the
luxurious jet is equipped with a shower, gold-plated seatbelt buckles and a
52-inch flatscreen with a library of 1,000 movies. Built in 1991, the 757 is
estimated to have cost approximately $100 million. If Trump reaches the
White House in November, he'll have to exchange his personal jet for the
presidential fleet, two highly modified Boeing 747-200Bs. The aircraft used by
the president were built in 1986 and operate with the Air Force One callsign
when the president is onboard. Will switching jets prove one of Trump’s few
regrets if he becomes president?

Even though it cannot boast gold-plated accessories, Air Force One is a
larger aircraft, seating 70 passengers in comfort compared to Trump Force

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015076.txt,"In 2006, the Secular Coalition of America offered a $1,000 prize to
anyone who identified the highest-ranking non-theist public official in the
country. Almost 60 members of Congress were nominated, out of which 22
confided that they didn’ t believe in a Supreme Being, but they wanted
their disbelief kept secret. Only Pete Stark admitted that he was a
nonbeliever, and in 2007, he became the first member of Congress ever to
identify himself publicly as a nonbeliever.

In the week following that announcement, he received over 5,000
emails from around the globe, almost all congratulating him for his
courage. “Like our nation’ s founders,” he stated, “I strongly support
the separation of church and state. | look forward to working with the
Secular Coalition to stop the promotion of narrow religious beliefs in
science, marriage contracts, the military and the provision of social
services.” In 2008, he was elected to his 19th term with 76.5% of the
votes.

In the 2008 primaries, three presidential wannabes raised their hands
during a Republican “debate” to signify that they didn’ t believe in
evolution, although one of them, Mike Huckabee, admitted, “I don’ t
know if the world was created in six days. | wasn’ t there.” He has also

said that, “If there was ever an occasion for someone to have argued

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IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026768.txt,"From: Lawrence Krauss |)
Sent: 12/11/2017 5:47:53 PM
To: Sam Harris |

cc: Travis Pangburn | Lawrence Krauss (nn |
Subject: Re: Sexual harassment and Lawrence Krauss fro

Attachments: image002.png

Importance: — High

I was planning on writing both of you today or tomorrow if buzzfeed decided to go ahead with their story after I
wrote to them, but since they sent this to you here is what I was planning to forward.. namely my response to
their email and their original email. I hope it helps. They have clearly decided in advance to try to smear me,
and potentially other atheists (I found the remarks in their ‘miscellaneous facts’ telling in this regard), and I felt
a detailed response to the false claims was important. If you want to discuss this further I am happy to. Iam
currently on a plane heading to phoenix.

Thanks for forwarding.

LMK

Begin forwarded message:

From: Lawrence Krauss <j

Subject: Re: URGENT: BuzzFeed News inquiry re allegations of sexual harassment
Date: December 11, 2017 at 10:18:30 AM MST
To: Peter Aldhous

Cc: ee

I appreciate the opportunity to respond to your email. I am currently on a plane until noon pacific time, and then
heading to a meeting right after landing, till about 2 pm or so. While Iam running the risk that you will report
my comments, if you do, either out of context, or incompletely, I am responding with an effort to be complete,
as I always try and do with reporters. If you decide to go ahead with a story, which, after reading my responses,
I hope you decide is inappropriate, I would like you to quote my responses fully in order not to distort them.

It is hard to know how to respond to a list of false and/or distorted allegations, along with misleading
statements. I treat people I interact with with respect, and I work hard to support and mentor students,
colleagues, and members of the general public, and this is supported by the institutions of which Iam a part. I
do not sexually harass people. Ifthe purpose of your reporting is to somehow argue that Universities and other
institutions are lax in dealing with well known individuals like myself, then in fact the situation is quite the
opposite. My high public profile opens me up to more scrutiny at these institutions, not less, and it also opens
me up to a host of unfounded outside complaints and allegations that other faculty do not receive, each of which
the University has to respond to. The fact that I have remained a professor in all Universities with which I have
been associated, in good standing, and also an officer or an invited speaker at organizations like CFI, which
have strict harassment policies, is a confirmation of the fact that their experience validates a trust in my
behavior. I was asked to be an honorary director of CFI, and continue to be invited to their last 3 meetings to
speak, specifically because, as they have written me after the fact, the attendees universally appreciated my
talks, my courtesy, and graciousness in spending time with the attendees. If the purpose of your report is to
impugn my integrity or suggest I have a history of harassment, that too is false. As noted in one of your
‘miscellaneous facts’, as a scientist I try and remain skeptical, and rely on empirical evidence, rather than
allegations and innuendo by people whose motives I cannot judge. I also try and judge the facts in context. The

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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024215.txt,"Global Utility White Paper CONFIDENTIAL

fundamentals that are supportive of higher natural gas prices; while we don’t expect a return to the
commodity boom times of 2003-2007, a turn in trend will be very supportive of higher share prices.

e Capex (ex-US) is Rebounding Post-Recession

Capital spending precedes earnings, and utility capex (ex-US) is rebounding after a recession-driven
slowdown. In particular, transmission spending is accelerating in Europe (Germany, Spain, France) and
Asia while remaining firm in the US. Transmission capex not only enhances system reliability but also
system efficiency, by enabling the delivery of the most efficient generation to meet demand. Many
transmission grids face bottlenecks because of the inclusion of intermittent renewable generation in areas
with ample wind and solar resources but located far from customers. Companies such as Northeast
Utilities (US), National Grid (UK) and Elia (Belgium/Germany) are prime beneficiaries of this transmission
capital spending, along with equipment providers such as ABB (Switzerland).

In addition, many global utilities will be viewed as back-door beneficiaries of the shale gas boom
globally given the substantial amount of capex required to build new or upgrade existing infra-structure.
US utilities are building much of the infrastructure to export gas out of the shale basins (Dominion,
NiSource) and are building LNG liquefaction facilities (Dominion, Sempra) that are at the front of the
queue for US Department of Energy approval. Several European utilities, such as GDF Suez
(Belgium/France) and Gas Natural (Spain), and Asian utilities such as Kunlun Energy and ENN Energy
(China; note that China has 2x the shale gas reserves of the US) are exposed to LNG infrastructure
spending.

Finally, because of emerging markets’ growth rates and a higher intensity of energy use, emerging market
utilities will benefit from infrastructure spending across the entire utility value chain.

5. Substantial Aloha Opportunities Follow Periods of Underperformance

The global utility sector has experienced record underperformance and often this precedes substantial
alpha opportunities.

e Record Duration and Depth of Underperformance

We have analyzed the price performance of the global utility sector since 1995, when MSCI introduced its
Global Sectors. Although the period includes only 18 years of data, this is the relevant time frame as it
effectively covers the entire period of industry deregulation (see Appendix 2, page 25).

As can be seen below, the current period of global utility underperformance is the deepest (-67%) and
longest (4 years) of the modern utility era. Even with the strong rally in equity markets since the financial

crisis, the global utility sector is still down -11% on an absolute basis. It has not only been the worst-
performing MSCI global sector but has also underperformed the second-worst global sector by -23%.

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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024536.txt,"KLC PropCo Summary Historical Pro Forma and Projected Financials

Fiscal Year Ended December 31,

($ in millions) 2005 PF 2006P 2007P 2008P 2009P 2010P 2011P
Rental Revenue from KLC OpCo $96.3 $96.3 $96.3 $96.3 $96.3 $96.3 $103.0
Other Rental Revenue’ 0.0 0.0 4.6 7.0 9.4 12.1 15.0
Total Revenue $96.3 $96.3 $100.9 $103.3 $105.7 $108.4 $118.0
Operating Expenses 8.3 8.3 8.3 8.3 8.3 8.3 8.3
EBITDA $88.1 $88.1 $92.6 $95.0 $97.4 $100.1 $109.8
DEPRECIATION & AMORTIZATION
Depreciation $29.8 $27.0 $26.1 $25.0 $23.8 $22.4 $22.4
Depreciation From New Real Estate 0.0 0.0 2.8 4.2 5.7 TAs 9.1
Operating Income $58.6 $61.1 $63.7 $65.8 $68.0 $70.4 $78.3
INTEREST EXPENSE
KLC PropCo Debt $64.3 $64.3 $63.9 $63.5 $63.2 $62.8 $62.5
Deferred Financing Fees 2.1 24 24 24 2.1 24 2.1
Total Interest Expense $66.4 $66.3 $66.0 $65.6 $65.2 $64.9 $64.5
Interest Income 11 41 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2
Net Income ($7.0) ($4.2) ($2.0) $0.4 $2.9 $5.8 $14.0
BALANCE SHEET DATA
Cash and Equivalents $24.5 $5.0 $5.0 $5.0 $5.0 $5.0 $5.0
Total Debt? 849.4 844.7 839.9 835.3 830.6 826.0 815.8
Net PP&E 687.1 715.6 715.5 716.8 718.6 724.5 740.3

SELECTED CASH FLOW DATA

Net Income (Loss) to Common ($7.0) ($4.2) ($2.0) $0.4 $2.9 $5.8 $14.0
+ Depreciation 29.8 27.0 26.1 25.0 23.8 22.4 22.4
+ Real Estate Reinvestment Depreciation 0.0 0.0 2.8 4.2 5.7 7a 9.1
+ Amortization of Financing Fees 2.1 24 2.1 2.1 24 21 2.1
+ Non-Cash Interest Expense 2.3 2.3 23 23 2.4 2.4 2.4
+ Change in Working Capital NA 0.0 0.6 03 0.3 0.3 1.2
+ Change in Other Assets Held for Sale NA 15.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
+ Change in Other Assets NA 0.0 (0.7) (0.4) (0.4) (0.4) (1.5)
+ Change in Other Liabilities NA 0.0 48 2.5 2.5 28 10.1
= Operating Cash Flow $27.1 $43.0 $35.9 $36.4 $39.3 $42.6 $59.8
Cash Reinvested in New Real Estate’ $0.0 $55.5 $28.9 $29.4 $32.3 $35.6 $47.2

Assumes reinvestment of all excess cash above $5.0 million at an 8.25% cap rate.
? Junior Mezzanine debt is recorded at face value. Book value is approximately $147.3 million.

Rental Revenue

Management projects rental revenue to increase at a 4.2% CAGR, from $96.3 million (the annual rent
payable pursuant to its leases with KLC OpCo) in 2006 to $118.0 million in 2011. The growth stems from
KLC PropCo’s reinvestment of excess cash flow in additional real estate and rent increases in the
properties leased to KLC OpCo as described below:

Intercompany Rent. KLC PropCo currently leases 847 properties (845 childcare centers) to KLC for a
total annual rent payment of $96.3 million. The rent on the properties is fixed for the first five years of the
lease, at which point it increases by the lesser of the CPI growth over the five years or 7%.

Additional Real Estate. KLC PropCo has projected that it will invest all excess cash (anything over $5.0
million) in additional real estate. The additional real estate may be comprised of either educational or

non-educational assets, but will not be leased back to KLC OpCo. KLC PropCo has projected that it will
invest its capital at an 8.25% cap rate.

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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019003.txt,"Date: 7/13/06 PALM BEACH POLICE DEPARTMENT Page: 50
Time: 9:27:55 ' Incident Report Program: CMS301L
Case No. .. . : 1-05-000368 (Continued)

massage. Epstein began touching her on her buttocks and grabbed her

closer to him as he masturbated. Epstein also grabbed her breasts and

fondled her breast with his hands as she provided the massage.

stated on one occasion, he offered extra monies to have vaginal

intercourse. She stated this all occurred on the massage table. b6
stated Epstein penetrated her vagina with his penis and began b7C

having intercourse with her until he reached the point of climax.

Epstein removed his penis from her vagina and climaxed onto the

massage table. received $350.00 for her massage. I asked her
if she had any formal training in providing massages,[ _| stated she
did not. ;

[continued to state on one other occasion, Epstein introduced his
assistant, JERR, into the massage. MBM was brought into room with

to provide a massage. Epstein had them kiss and fondle each
other around the breasts and buttocks as they provided a massage to
Epstein. Epstein, watched and masturbated as this occurred. On other
occasions, Epstein introduced the large white vibrator/massager
during the massage. Epstein stroked the vibrator/massager on
vagina as she provided the massage.

ee the last time she spoke with anyone at the house, was
with during the weekend of October 2 or 3, 2005. [____] stated
she had brought two people to the Epstein house. She provided the
names of (unknown last name). It should

noted, een previously identified as Ls ans had
been previously interviewed. The interview was concluded and the

videotape was placed into evidence via the locker system.

On November 9, 2005, Sgt Frick and I traveled to 6791 Fairway Lakes
Drive in Boynton Beach, Florida in hopes to interview Juan Alessi, the
former houseman of Epstein's home. As no one was home, a business
card was left for him to return my call. We then traveled to 11349 sw
86th Lane in Miami in hopes to interview Alfredo Rodriguez, a former
house man of Epstein. We did not locate them at home. I left a
business card for him to return my call.

We then traveled i A Co met_with Dean of Students]
Ls. We requested to speak wi was re

interviewed, as she still was in possession of the rental car that
Epstein had acquired for her. [| stated that Epstein's
assistant, had called her on her c telephone and informed her
that rental was extended for her. il ae she had paid an
additional $625.00 for her to keep the rental an extra month. [|
was asked if she had any additional contact with either Epstein or
anyone from his organization. [____]stated she did not, other than
the telephone call informing her that she could keep the car for an
extra month. [___]did not provide any additional information.

On November 10, 2005, at approximately 9:47 am, Alfredo Rodriguez had
telephoned reference my business card found on his door. Rodriguez
stated he had worked with Epstein for approximately six months after

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"
IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026321.txt,"From: Larry Summers

Sent: 9/12/2018 3:01:20 AM
To: jeevacation@gmail.com
Subject: Fwd: This morning

Importance: — High

More than u may want to know
Sent from my iPhone

Please direct all scheduling inquiries to my office at:

Follow me on twitter @lhsummers
www.larrysummers.com

Begin forwarded message:

From: ""Maskin, Eric""

Date: S

eptember 11, 2018 at 10:24:21 PM EDT

Subject: RE: This morning

| believe there are, but don’t know how careful they are. | will try to get you references.

From: LHS
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2018 10:23 PM

To: Maskin, Eric <n
Ce: (nso fc rr

Subject: Re: This morning
Are there empirical studies on turnout.

Sent from my iPhone

Please direct all scheduling inquiries to my office | i _

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On Sep 11, 2018, at 10:20 PM, Maskin, Eric <> wrote:

Yes, we can expect more extremists to run under RCV. But also more centrists (e.g., Bloomberg). Since the centrists are
closer to the median voter, they will defeat the extremists.

The evidence | have seen suggests that RCV increases turn-out. [But it’s important that voters be given the choice to
rank as many or few candidates as they like, so that a voter always has the option of voting for a single candidate (in
effect, he would be ranking all other candidates as tied for second). In practice, most voters choose to rank two or three
candidates, but a significant fraction just rank one]

HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026321
"
IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_010927.txt,"hands happy to follow the board’s guidance. But my father had made it clear to
Lansing and me that we were to trust our judgment. We should be ready “to vote the
management in and out.” Since stockholders elect boards and boards hire managers,

that meant to vote the board in and out.

No wonder they were concerned. Lansing and I were both boat-rockers. Wouldn't it
be safer if there were a corporate co-trustee? These are usually safety-minded banks,

and many banks did business with Getty Oil.

Concerns rose when Lansing died in 1972. That left me as the sole trustee. I was less
obstreperous than Lansing, but also less predictable. Hostile takeovers were
common then, where bids are made directly to shareholders rather than cleared
through the board. Getty was rich in oil reserves per dollar of share price. It could be
a target. Board members tend to feel that they know stockholders’ interests best,
and that the angels are on the side of “friendly” or board-approved takeovers if any

at all. Stockholders don’t necessarily feel that way.

Temperatures rose when | pushed serious study of the possibility of taking Getty
private. The idea was to give up our corporate structure to escape the corporate
double tax. Management and its investment banker, Goldman Sachs, advised against.
I] now think they were right, although my idea had good precedents. | pressed on,

unwisely, by trying to convince the Museum to back me. They had better sense.

It was time to heal the breach. Marty Lipton of Wachtell, Lipton, a top mergers and
acquisitions law firm, represented the Museum. He proposed a moratorium (the
“tripartite agreement”) where the Trust, Museum and company would hold the
status quo for one year. Harold Berg had retired as chairman of Getty Oil, and Sid
was now chairman and CEO. His COO was Bob Miller, a keen petroleum engineer.
Harold Berg still chaired the Museum, although Harold Williams was its CEO and
main voice. We all signed. But Getty Oil had its fingers crossed. A few days later, the
company petitioned the court to appoint a co-trustee. It proposed Bank of America.
B of A’s chairman, Chauncey Medberry, sat on the Getty Oil board. Paul and George’s
daughters joined the plaintiffs.

Chapter 1: Recollections 1/06/16 11

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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019017.txt,"Date:
Time:

Case

\
7/13/06 a. BEACH POLICE smpanawnl : Page: 64
9:27255 . Incident Report ‘Program: CMS301L

No. . . . : 1-05-000368 (Continued)

_ Det. Recarey directed me to a second detached structure located on the

South East corner of the property. This area of this structure was
assigned with single letters to identify a particular part of the
room. In the office area, designated as Room B, I observed a powered

on Dell Dimension 2350, attached to an LCD flat panel monitor. The

screen displayed an open Microsoft Internet Explorer browser with URL
address of http://home.bellsouth.net/. I observed no other active
windows in the Start panel window and photographed screen. The power
cord was removed from the back of the Dell CPU and I disconnected the
cable modem to prevent remote access. At that time, the Dell CPU,
marked with Serial Number 6WTVN21, was secured and turned over the
evidence custodian for future forensic analysis via property receipt.

I also located several media related items within Room B, which were
recorded onto a property receipt and turned over the Evidence
Custodians.

I then responded to a Bedroom designated as Room F, where I observed a
white in color CPU marked Premio. The Premio CPU was in a computer
desk which held a white CRT monitor, both of which were powered on.
The CRT monitor displayed a message from Norton Antivirus software,
warning of an expired subscription. I observed no other active
windows in. the Start panel window and photographed screen. I removed
the power cable from the back of the Premio CPU and shutdown all other
media. The Premio CPU, marked with Serial Number 2000091078, was
secured and turned over the evidence custodian for future forensic
analysis via property receipt. I also located several media related
items within Room F, which were recorded onto a property receipt and
turned over the Evidence Custodians.

This concluded my participation in the search of the residence.

RRKEKEKEKEEKEREREEREEEEEERERK NARRATIVE He QQ KEKE KKEKKEKEKKEKEEE KEE KERR E
NA Reported By: RECAREY, JOSEPH 12/21/05
Entered By.: ALTOMARO, NICKIE A. 12/21/05

On December 20, 2005, I contacted ASA Daliah Weiss in an attempt to

subpoena the Epstein former houseman, Alfredo Rodriguez. Rodriguez,
who resides in Miami, had eluded the process servers previously and

was not served the investigative subpoena. A telephone message was

left as she is not available during the week of 12/19/2005. I made

contact with State Attorney Inv Theresa Wyatt and requested the same
via telephone message.

I then researched the victim's [__]cellular telephone subpoena data

which had been received from a previous subpoena request. I analyzed b6
the records which depict several calls from as The bic
telephone calls start on February 6, 2005 at 12:49 pm.; the same day

which the victim and the victim's father stated the incident occurred

at Epstein s house. The first incoming call was from iis

residence atL__—S—___]| The second incoming call from qs

HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019017
"
IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026335.txt,"Please direct all scheduling inquiries to my office |

Follow me on twitter @lhsummers
www.larrysummers.com

On Nov 30, 2018, at 10:35 PM, J <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:

ima pretty good wing man ,no? anymore, how great larry is comments and i would have
hadto barf. great fun

On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 4:48 PM LHS <> wrote:
Is there risk that u are staked our re tmrw night

Sent from my iPhone

Please direct all scheduling inquiries to my office ‘i

Follow me on twitter @lhsummers
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On Nov 29, 2018, at 4:47 PM, J <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:

short lived , no worry

On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 4:45 PM LHS ssa wrote:

I ll show it to her.

U have returned to the press

Sent from my iPhone

Please direct all scheduling inquiries to my office :'

Follow me on twitter @|hsummers
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On Nov 29, 2018, at 3:07 PM, J <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:

please note
The information contained in this communication is
confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may
constitute inside information, and is intended only for
the use of the addressee. It is the property of
JEE
Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this
communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited
and may be unlawful. If you have received this

HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026335
"
IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_010933.txt,"It got Darwinism backward. Darwin's idea was that the best-adapted leave most
progeny, not that leaving most progeny or other close kin somehow bootstraps itself

into adaptiveness.

The math of Hamilton’s rule didn’t work either. In diploids like us, where each
parent carries two sets of chromosomes, closest relatedness without inbreeding is
¥. That meant that fitness would have to double or more with each generation. The
reason is that fitness not expected to be transmitted to successors would bea
contradiction in terms. If it cannot be transmitted (invested) at less than a 2:1
efficiency ratio (benefit/cost ratio), then it must be expected to double or more with
each reinvestment. But aardvarks and flatfish aren’t 1024 times fitter than their
ancestors of ten generations ago. They aren’t even a smidgen fitter, by any measure
of fitness known to me, unless the population has grown. Population growth in

nature usually fluctuates around zero.

But his rule was right in important ways. Nepotism is common in nature. The Trust
passed my father’s wealth to direct descendants. Most wills do, or favor nephews
and nieces as a secondary choice. Chimp mothers maneuver to push their offspring
up the social ladder. Worker ants and bees, who don’t breed, push the chances of
their younger half-sisters. Hamilton’s rule was clearly a good rule of thumb, even
though the math needed tuning. Why should it usually work? I couldn’t know then
that Hamilton himself would find the biggest missing piece of the puzzle in 1982.

Economics was always somewhere on my screen. It was the biggest challenge
because | had to reinvent it from scratch. | had dropped the course at USF because I
couldn't find the foundations. But we don’t build a foundation without knowing
what we want to top. I had to reinvent everything at once. Does that mean | thought
I was best qualified for such a task? No. Plenty of people are better at logic than I am.

Rather I seemed to be the only volunteer.

Explicit economic axioms are seen as a nineteenth century thing. There are implicit
ones to a degree. Macroeconomics is said to rest on microeconomics, and

microeconomics on the logic of supply and demand. Good so far. But I felt the need

Chapter 1: Recollections 1/06/16 17

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"
IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017473.txt,"4.2.12
WC: 191694

OJ’s glove

I happen to be on the way to Australia to deliver a talk. There was a stopover in Los Angeles and
I decided to pay a visit to the OJ trial. My usual role was to provide legal briefs and memoranda
from my office in Cambridge on two or three occasions I appeared in court to argue motions, but
these appearances were rare and episodic. On this day, I had no real business to conduct in the
courtroom, but when my son picked me up at the airport, I suggested that we drop by and simply
say hello to the legal team and OJ, and join the legal team for lunch. My son turned on the radio,
which was carrying the trial live. The man on the witness stand was an expert in gloves, He was
testifying in the most boring and tedious matter ever, about the stitching in gloves. We practically
fell asleep in the car listening to the tedium. Elon begged me not to go to the courthouse and
continue to listen to this boring testimony, but I insisted. Upon entering the courthouse I sat
down next to the lawyers and my son sat in ....within 5 minutes of our appearance in court,
Prosecutor Dardin got up and asked to have OJ try on the glove. It was about the dumbest ploy
any prosecutor could have tried, especially since under CA law, he could have insisted that OJ try
on the glove outside the presence of the jury, before he decided to conduct this experiment in
front of the jury. But Dardin was not one for legal subtlety. OJ walked right in front of me, tried
on the glove, and in the most dramatic moment of the most month trial, walked in front of the
jury and showed them that it didn’t fit. He even “testified ‘it’s too small.’” [get exact quote]

Shortly after this dramatic moment, the lunch recess was called and I went to OJ’s holding cell
behind the courtroom. I told him that it was likely that they would ask him to try on the glove
without the latex underglove he wore during the courtroom experiment. He assured me that it
still wouldn’t fit.

My grandmother would have said, “it was bashert’”—that is ordained—that I would be in the
courtroom just at the moment that led to the famous closing argument “If it doesn’t fit, you must
acquit.”

386

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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031962.txt,"22

Soviet Union. Likewise, while the nationalism of America’s principal
rival, China, has become more assertive lately, the communist
regime’s clear priority — indeed, the key to its stability — is domestic
economic growth.

Indeed, the only obvious danger that the US faces stems from
weapons of mass destruction, which could proliferate or be used by
terrorist groups. But confronting this threat does not require a
massive military budget or huge deployments of US troops all over
the world. America has a much-needed opportunity to refocus on
itself — to recover its inner strength without withdrawing from the
world. As Richard Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign
Relations, puts it, America must enter a period of “restoration” of its
fundamentals.

American foreign policy starts at home, and that means reining in
budget deficits over the long term, reviving economic growth and job
creation in the short term, and addressing the country’s deteriorating
infrastructure. Indeed, America’s “aged modernity” has become a
drag on its competitiveness, as well as an insult to its international
image and a risk to the safety of its citizens.

Moreover, imperial fatigue has set in. Recent US history has been
characterized by cycles of enthusiasm about foreign engagement. In
the mid-1970’s, following the war in Vietnam, America, guided by
President Jimmy Carter’s moralizing impulse, opted for
“regionalization” of its engagements. But, given that the Soviet threat
still existed, this effort came too early (and probably was carried out
in the wrong manner).

Today, by contrast, the starting point for a reassessment of American
priorities is more economic than ethical. But the reasoning is the
same, for it is based on the conviction that more America in the world
today implies less costly and confused interventionism tomorrow.
That means that US foreign policy itself — defined in recent years by

HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031962
"
IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015062.txt,"reputation had spread by word-of-mouth, and he was known as “The
Saint.” Patients came to his clinic in Ashland from around the country.

| took the five-hour bus trip from New York to Ashland with my
gigantic Webcor tape recorder. Dr. Spencer was the cheerful
personification of an old-fashioned physician. He wore a red beret and
used folksy expressions like “by golly.”. He had been performing
abortions for 40 years. He started out charging $5, and never more than
$100. He rarely used the word pregnant. Rather, he would say, “She was
that way, and she came to me for help.”

Ashland was a small town, and Dr. Spencer's work was not merely
tolerated; the community depended on it--the hotel, the restaurant, the
dress shop—-all thrived on the extra business that came from his out-of-
town patients. However, he built facilities at his clinic for African-American
patients who weren't allowed to obtain overnight lodgings elsewhere. The
walls of his office were decorated with those little wooden signs that
tourists like to buy. A sign on the ceiling over his operating table said Keep
Calm.

Here’ san excerpt from our dialogue:

Q. Do you have any idea about how many actual abortions you’ re

performed during all these years?

HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015062
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IMAGES-012-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033315.txt,"From: Kathy Ruemm|er
Sent: 7/17/2018 12:29:07 AM

To: jeevacation@gmail.com

Importance: — High

Your boy should distance himself from Trump. Quick.

HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033315
"
IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024201.txt,"Eye on the Market | October 22, 2012 J.P Morgan

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IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021730.txt,"Senior U.S. District Court Judge William J. Zloch copied Acosta on his order,
noting, “The court is at a total loss as to why the Office of the United States Attorney
for the Southern District of Florida, as well as the Assistant United States Attorney
assigned to the above-styled cause, found it appropriate to intentionally withhold ...
information from the court.”

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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022670.txt,"From: Thomas Jr., Landon i:

Sent: Friday, January 16, 2015 7:56 PM
To: jeffrey E.

Subject: Re: How are you holding up?
Importance: High

that is old news -- buy dollar and take a nap? Kind of like buying Apple?

On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 2:52 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
it is the begining world currencies are out of balance. brazil, etc

On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 3:45 PM, Thomas Jr., Landon <> wrote:

I think the big issue is separating yourself from Andrew. I mean I can see why a statement might
help in some way -- but its Andrew (not clinton and the rest) that is keeping the story alive. Until
you are able to come fgrward and address that the story lives on. I mean in the end he had
consensual sex with Andffworked for you. The rest is atmospherics. You have moved on!
People don't know that and cant accept that unless you say as much.

Does franc drama worry you? Am writing on it now...

On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 2:35 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
very well, my reputation has admittedly taken a hit. however, again, more calls re currency than i can
handle. in addition I am considering a statement and positon that Out of respect and love for my former
girlfrend I have tried to keep her out of my mess. she was never questioned , or subpeonaed. her name
never surfaced.. I thought it right as a friend to protect her name. however during the entire
time she was my serious girlfriend. She traveled with me almost everywhere. each house, she is on the
plane many many times. she knew and rememberg{J_ She never saw anything that
claims. She can confirm 1. I was never alone at the house. staff, friends etc. , no girl ever complained ,
not once. 2. jane doe 1 and 2 , were local strippers, that would call all the time asking if they could do
massages. . . they left message after message. 3. We had a serious love relationship , I had promised her not
to involve her in my story as it was so sordid. . she was 22 - 24 at the time. . 4 she has photos after photos
showing we were together. . 5 she knows clinton was never on the island. 6 she knows no sex with steven
hawking, she knows no sex with ehud as he was also never on the island. 6 she is 38 years old now and
presentable. . 7 She woudl acknowledge that these girls asked to bring their friends . many of their best
friends sat in the kitchen while they gave massages outside on the terrace. (no sex _).. they certainly
looked over age. nevr heard anyone say otherwise. , Jeffrey never asked for underage, that is crazy, ..8.
answered the phones. served coffee. . there were many massage people , men women, aged up to

60.

On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 3:32 PM, Thomas Jr., Landon i i wrote:

Landon Thomas, Jr.

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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024522.txt,"11.9. Employees

As of December 31, 2005, KLC OpCo employed approximately 40,000 non-unionized personnel. Of the
total amount, 39,639 are employed at the field level (including teachers and center staff, center directors,
facilities and field and regional staff) and 592 are employed at the corporate level. Given the seasonality
of the child care business and the regulated teacher-student ratio that varies by age with each state,
approximately 16.5% of the total field personnel are employed on a part-time basis. Teachers and
teaching assistants, which account for 93% of the total employee pool, are paid on an hourly basis. Most
of KLC OpCo's remaining employees, including District Managers as well as most corporate staff, are
salaried. KLC believes that its relations with its employees are good.

KLC OpCo’s management believes that its below-industry average turnover rates are a result of its hiring
practices and closer involvement in center operations, a focus on treating teachers as educators and not
just employees, and comprehensive training programs that are designed to ensure that teachers are
successful. KLC OpCo believes that it has the opportunity to reduce employee turnover further through
improved recruiting, training and management.

The following table presents a breakdown of employees as of December 31, 2005:

KLC Employee Breakdown

Employee Type Number
Teachers and Center Staff 37,440
Center Directors 1,874
Corporate 592
Facilities 218
Field / Regional Staff 107
Total 40,231

11.10. Accreditation

KLC OpCo pursues accreditation of its centers by accrediting bodies, primarily the National Association for
the Education of Young Children (referred to herein as ""NAEYC""), the nation's leading child care
accreditation body. NAEYC accreditation criteria cover a wide range of quantitative and qualitative factors,
including, among others, faculty qualifications and development, staffing ratios, health and safety and
physical environment. NAEYC criteria generally are more stringent than state regulatory requirements. As
of December 31, 2005, KLC OpCo had 831 or approximately 43% of its total ECE centers that were
accredited by NAEYC. Of the approximately 117,000 licensed centers in the U.S., approximately 10%
are accredited by NAEYC.

Management believes that substantially all of its centers’ operations and policies adhere to or are
substantially compliant with NAEYC accreditation requirements. Since the accreditation process is
expensive, KLC OpCo intends to seek accreditation only where it believes accreditation will provide
meaningful local marketing benefits or competitive advantages.

11.11. Licensing and Government Regulation
Each early childhood care and education center and most school programs must be licensed under
applicable state or local licensing laws. Responsibility for licensing and compliance with government

regulations is at the regional and local level. Licenses are held at the center level or by the school
program and are typically good for a minimum of one year. Generally, the center or school program will

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IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028037.txt,"My main responsibility as commander of the 252"" was to implement the
withdrawal from the Sinai. Israel had committed itself to bring all of our forces
behind the 1967 border within next two years, and, along with Dan, I threw my
energy into planning and implementing the terms of the treaty. But especially
with Begin soon facing a reelection campaign against Labor, now led by
Shimon Peres, he was keen to play to the opponents of any further negotiating
concessions. He was positioning himself as the voice of military strength, and
painting Peres as someone who would risk our security by going further than
the separate peace with Sadat.

Begin had no more experience or knowledge of military details than Shimon.
But from his days in the pre-state Irgun, he’d been an unapologetic admirer of
men of military action. After his victory in the 1977 election, he’d formed a
government stocked with some of Israel’s best-known former generals. Not just
Ezer Weizman. He’d brought back Moshe Dayan, as foreign minister. And as
agriculture minister, the country’s most swashbuckingly self-confident, and
controversial, battlefield commander: Arik Sharon. Begin had recently lost both
Ezer and Dayan, who accused him of deliberatedly torpedoing chances of
building on the peace with Egypt. But Arik was still there, four-square behind a
more forceful military posture on Israel’s other fronts. As agriculture minister,
he had also been the driving force in a plan for settlement “blocs” designed to
encircle the main Arab towns and cities on the West Bank and foreclose any
realistic prospect of a Palestinian state.

After Begin’s second election victory, in June 1981, some commentators,
and many in Labor, insisted that he’d won because of a dramatic surprise air
strike, a few weeks before election day, against a French-built nuclear reactor
outside Baghdad. I never believed that, in part because I knew from intelligence
friends that the attack had been set for earlier, and was put back because of fears
the plan might become public. But mostly because of what I witnessed in the
heart of Tel Aviv the night before the election, when I joined one of my top
officers, a Likudnik, at Begin’s final campaign rally.

Shimon still had a narrow lead in the polls. I hadn’t been at his closing rally,
the previous evening. But like the rest of Israel, I'd heard and read about it, in
particular the warm-up act: a popular, solidly pro-Labor comedian and actor
named Dudu Topaz. Greeting the crowd, he’d said what a pleasure it was that it
was not full of chachachim. The word was sneering Israeli slang: for uncouth,

uncultured Sephardim, not far from the equivalent of using the “n” word in
America. In a single sentence, he’d managed to sum up everything the

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015704.txt,"14 Are the Androids Dreaming Yet?

moments — so we have packed them with diagnostic monitoring systems.
These systems allow us to watch a computer think and, since they think
symbolically, we can easily read their minds.

Unfortunately computers don't display many human-like thoughts.
They don’t laugh and cry, they don’t report consciousness and they don't
appear to exercise free will or display creative impulses. This is frustrating
because these are the thoughts we would most like to study. It might be
that computers are not yet powerful enough, and in another few years
they will be giving Mozart a run for his money. But there may also be
a fundamental difference which renders them incapable of this sort of
thinking. This is the crux of the modern scientific debate: do humans

think differently?

Computer Brains
On the face of it, humans and computers behave very differently. Our
memories are poor, but we understand things. We are creative, but bad
at mathematics. We learn by example, computers are programmed.
We are emotional, impulsive and appear to have free will. Computers
are ordered, predictable, but lack common sense. Both humans and
computers appear to be physical, discrete systems. We both take inputs,
generate outputs and are capable of solving similar problems. Indeed,
each time we examine a problem solved by humans we usually find we
can automate it. This is known as ‘knowledge engineering’ and there are
many examples; from aerospace to finance, and architecture to medicine.
An example of where computers excel is in medical diagnosis.
ISABEL is a clinical diagnosis program designed to help ER doctors
quickly diagnose critical patients. It was created by the parents of Isabel
Maude, a little girl who presented with multiple symptoms to an ER unit.
Doctors were initially confused by the symptoms and misdiagnosed
her condition. She was later diagnosed with meningitis. Isabel suffered
multiple organ failure but survived. Her parents realized there was
something wrong with the ER triage process. They got together with
some computer scientists and built the expert system ‘ISABEL. When
ER doctors are presented with symptoms, they must mentally scan a vast
array of literature to rule in and out possible diagnoses. The problem-
solving process is not linear; if you've ever watched the TV series House
it gives a great dramatization of the process. Certain symptoms might
suggest a diagnosis but are not conclusive, and there are many paths to
explore. Programmers have taken the heuristic rules from many doctors
and codified them into software. ISABEL allows a doctor to input a set

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WC: 191694

Scalia’s anachronistic views are appointed to the court.”

This is not to suggest that plainly innocent people are being routinely executed in the United
States. There are other checks and balances, such as gubernatorial commutation. (Though in
some states they are rarely, if ever, granted.) Moreover, the courts, even the Supreme Court,
sometimes find other ways to free the obviously innocent in most cases.

The real problem is how to prove one’s innocence when the courts deny possibly innocent
defendants the tools necessary to prove the certainty of their innocence. The Jeffrey MacDonald
case discussed previously, is a prime example of this problem.” The courts have repeatedly shut
the door on his serious claims that he can establish his innocence if he were to be given an
opportunity to subpoena evidence and witnesses. In his case several crucial witnesses have died.
These include Helena Stoeckley and her boyfriend, who may have been the actual killers, and Jim
Britt, the Deputy Marshall who would have testified that the prosecutor improperly pressured
Stoeckley to “forget” what she had seen—that is, to lie about her memory.

™ Tn 2009, I challenged Justice Scalia, who has written that he would have to leave the Supreme Court if his

constitutional views conflicted with his obligation to the Catholic Church, to debate this issue:

I hereby challenge Justice Scalia to a debate on whether Catholic doctrine permits the execution of a
factually innocent person who has been tried, without constitutional flaw, but whose innocence is clearly
established by new and indisputable evidence. Justice Scalia is always willing to debate issues involving
religious teachings. He has done so, for example, with the great Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, and with others as
well. He also has debated me at the Harvard Law School. Although I am neither a rabbi nor a priest, I am
confident that I am right and he is wrong under Catholic Doctrine. Perhaps it takes chutzpah to challenge
a practicing Catholic on the teachings of his own faith, but that is a quality we share.

I invite him to participate in the debate at Harvard Law School, at Georgetown Law School, or anywhere
else of his choosing. The stakes are high, because if he loses—if it is clear that his constitutional views
permitting the execution of factually innocent defendants are inconsistent with the teachings of the
Catholic Church—then, pursuant to his own published writings, he would have no choice but to conform
his constitutional views to the teachings of the Catholic Church or to resign from the Supreme Court.

Scalia did not take up my challenge.
® This is what the Court of Appeals had said in the Jeffrey MacDonald case:

[W]e acknowledge that MacDonald has a daunting burden ahead in seeking to establish that he is eligible
for habeas corpus relief solely because of his ""actual innocence."" The Supreme Court has only ""assume[d],
for the sake of argument . . ., that in a capital case a truly persuasive demonstration of ‘actual innocence'
made after trial would render the execution of a defendant unconstitutional."" Herrera v. Collins, 506 U.S.
390, 417, 113 S. Ct. 853, 122 L. Ed. 2d 203 (1993). The Court has yet to come across any prisoner who
could make the ""extraordinarily high"" threshold showing for such an assumed right. /d.; see Dist.
Attorney's Office v. Osborne, 129 S. Ct. 2308, 2321, 174 L. Ed. 2d 38 (2009) (""Whether [a federal
constitutional right to be released upon proof of ‘actual innocence'] exists is an open question. We have
struggled with it over the years, in some cases assuming, arguendo, that it exists while also noting the
difficult questions such a right would pose and the high standard any claimant would have to meet."").

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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023208.txt,"Date: Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 8:37 PM

Subject:

To: Brad Wechsler iii. Melanie Spinella <
gain at 20 % not 28. . so total , 35.8%. tax rate. same for boat. and plane each around 10 m so total 7
m savings if both sold

Date: Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 11:35 AM

Subject: Detailed constructive list.

To: Melanie Spinella <

Cc: Brad Wechsler ~——_—

Deciisions needed asap 1 phaidon. topco etc. .( cash needs) many wires needed !! 2 new trustee or
not. - new decantings 3 art in art partnership.??! overdue ?!4 grats? window - 5 artspace. .6
regan arts. .7 plane simplify re strucuture re finance. re purpose . 8 .boat restrucutre , sister, 9 re
fresh estate plan. to consider modifications Alex Victoria equal does not mean same. 10. tra review ,
sale. , 11 brh, doc review, 12. sale of stock or art ? tax, rent sale 13. gifts of art. 14. charity current
and future pledges , gifts, 15 cash flow. . 16 . new IT and new personnel. 17. operational re-do ( bill pay
etc). 18 debra and children ? current and future involvement . notifications etc. . new dynasty trust ? 19.
tax plan and dislosures gaming. foreign apollo and phaidon related . 20. investments rationalize incl
trading accouints .21. bank loans . rates? ? terms etc. consolidate. plane boat houses. disclosures? 22
. consolidate and review and reduce the number of all bank accounts and legal entities. decanting
liquidating etc. . 23 all outside consultants? valuations etc. 24 review legal bills carefullly. 25. third
party responsibilty Bens house , alex films . etc.

Date: Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 5:56 AM

Subject: Fwd: Detailed constructive list.

To: Lesley Groff (iii!

please print two copes . re formattted so leon can go line by line ie . headings question, gift
answer. blank whoresponsible. timeframe. fee paid when?

Date: Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 6:35 AM
Subject: Detailed constructive list.

To: Melanie Spinella <i i >
Cc: Brad Wechsler >

Deciisions needed asap 1 phaidon. topco etc. .( cash needs) many wires needed !! 2 new trustee or
not. - new decantings 3 art in art partnership.??! overdue ?!4 grats? window - 5 art space. .6
regan arts. .7 plane simplify re strucuture re finance. re purpose . 8 .boat restrucutre , sister, 9 re
fresh estate plan. to consider modifications Alex Victoria equal does not mean same. 10. tra review ,
sale. , 11 brh, doc review, 12. sale of stock or art ? tax, rent sale 13. gifts of art. 14. charity current
and future pledges , gifts, 15 cash flow. . 16 . new IT and new personnel. 17. operational re-do ( bill pay
etc). 18 debra and children ? current and future involvement . notifications etc. . new dynasty trust ? 19.
tax plan and dislosures gaming. foreign apollo and phaidon related . 20. investments rationalize incl
trading accouints .21. bank loans . rates ? ? terms etc. consolidate. plane boat houses. disclosures? 22
. consolidate and review and reduce the number of all bank accounts and legal entities. decanting
liquidating etc. . 23 all outside consultants? valuations etc. 24 review legal bills carefullly. 25. third
party responsibilty Bens house , alex films . etc.

From: jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 2:20 PM

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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019771.txt,"Snowden’s Choices | 283

actions here, including his contacts with Russian officials in Hong
Kong, speak louder than his words.

Just as he believed the Chinese intelligence service could protect
him in Hong Kong from a physical attack by agents of the United
States, he could assume that the FSB could protect him from them
in Moscow. He was not entirely naive about its capabilities. During
his service in the CIA, he had taken a monthlong training course at
the CIA’s “farm” at Fort Peary, in which counterintelligence offi-
cers taught about the capabilities of the Russian security services. He
couldn’t have believed that Russia would allow a defector from the
NSA who claimed to have had access to the NSA’s sources in Russia
and China to leave Moscow before its security services obtained that
information.

It is not uncommon for a defector to change sides in order to find
a better life for himself in another country. Some defectors flee to
escape a repressive government or to find one in which they believe
they are more closely attuned to its values. Russia, however, is ordi-
narily not the country of choice for someone such as Snowden seek-

© ing greater civil liberties and personal freedom. So why did Snowden ©
choose Russia for his new life?

The four choices just discussed that Snowden made, taken to-
gether, show that Snowden was determined to succeed where others
before him had failed. He not only wanted to take full credit for
stealing files from the NSA but also wanted to escape any American
retribution for his act. His decision suggests to me a highly intelli-
gent, carefully calculating man who was hell-bent on finding a new
life for himself in a foreign country. A common thread that runs
through these four choices is a willingness to do whatever was nec-
essary to achieve this new life, including disregarding his oath to
protect secrets and instead transporting them on thumb drives to
a foreign country. To protect himself, he was also willing to rely on
the influence of adversary intelligence services in Hong Kong and
put himself in the hands of Russian authorities in Moscow. He was
also willing to use some of his classified documents as a medium of
exchange, if not bait, with journalists to get the public attention he
sought.

These choices paid off for Snowden, the new hero of millions. In

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_014053.txt,"74 CASSELL ET AL. [Vol. 104

applicability to other situations), the government should have fashioned a reasonable
way to inform the victims of the likelihood of criminal charges and to ascertain the
victims’ views on the possible details of a plea bargain.

The Fifth Circuit then remanded the matter to the district court to determine
the appropriate remedy for the violation of the victims’ rights.°

The Fifth Circuit’s decision in Dean has been cited favorably in four
recent district court decisions, which provides further support for the
conclusion that the CVRA applies before charges have been filed. In
United States v. Rubin,” victims of a federal securities fraud argued that
they had CVRA rights even before prosecutors filed a superseding
indictment covering the specific crimes affecting the victims. Citing Dean,
the District Court for the Eastern District of New York agreed that the
rights were expansive and could apply before charges were filed but were
subject to the outer limit that the Government has at least “contemplated”
charges.”

Similarly, in United States v. Oakum,” the District Court for the
Easter District of Virginia considered a claim that CVRA nghts did not
apply until after a defendant had been convicted. In rejecting that
argument, the court agreed with the Dean court that victims acquire rights
even before a prosecution begins.”

The District Court for the Northern District of Indiana held to the same
effect in In re Petersen. There, the court held that a victim’s right to be
treated with fairness and with respect for [his or her] dignity and privacy
“may apply before any prosecution is underway and isn’t necessarily tied to
a ‘court proceeding’ or ‘case.””’? The court, however, found that the
“conclusory allegations” in the victims’ petition did not “create a plausible
claim for relief under the CVRA.”’”°

8 In re Dean, 527 F.3d at 394 (intemal citations omitted).

6 Td. at 396. On remand, the district court held additional hearings in which the victims
participated, satisfying their CVRA rights. See United States v. BP Prods. N. Am. Inc., 610
F. Supp. 2d 655, 660 (S.D. Tex. 2009).

70 558 F. Supp. 2d 411 (E.D.N.Y. 2008).

Tl Td. at 419 (internal citation omitted). Rubin’s suggestion about limitations that apply
to pre-indictment assertions of rights is discussed at notes 184-187 and 193 infra and
accompanying text.

7 No. 3:08cr132, 2009 WL 790042 (E.D. Va. Mar. 24, 2009).

8 Id, ""2,

™ No. 2:10-CV-298 RM, 2010 WL 5108692 (N.D. Ind. Dec. 8, 2010).

™ Td. at *2 (citing In re Dean, 527 F.3d 391, 394 (5th Cir. 2008); United States v. BP
Prods. N. Am. Inc., H-07-434, 2008 WL 501321 (S.D. Tex. Feb. 21, 2008)).

7° Id. Petersen also held that one specific CVRA right—the right to confer—only
applies after charges have been filed. Jd. But the authorities Petersen cites for that
proposition prove no such thing. Confusingly, Petersen cited the Fifth Circuit’s ruling in

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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026168.txt,"From: 
Sent: 9/21/2017 7:23:05 PM 
To: jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Subject: Re: 
Importance: High 
hey shiek i will be in new york saturday for a day trip .. i can drop by to say hello saturday night.. if you 
bussy dont worry, we can meet in kuwait in nov inshalla 
Sent from my iPhone 
On Sep 21, 2017, at 1:35 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
only you please 
On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 6:26 PM, < 
thnx jeff i m praying44 
> wrote: 
Sent from my iPhone 
On Sep 21, 2017, at 1:17 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
the book worked. :) 
On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 5:57 PM, <_______________________> wrote: 
only for you .. trump is on the phone today.. it is possible any minute that all parties will be on one table in 
new york including my dear old man to put an end to this 
Sent from my iPhone 
On Sep 20, 2017, at 11:51 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
Im certain you understand - I'm sure you will have a great new year . No need to respond 
please note 
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please note 
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constitute inside information, and is intended only for 
the use of the addressee. It is the property of 
JEE 
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communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited 
and may be unlawful. If you have received this 
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including all attachments. copyright -all rights reserved 
please note 
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"
IMAGES-012-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032745.txt,"From: Weingarten, Reid

Sent: 3/24/2018 9:14:48 PM
To: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Re:

Importance: — High
How about Monday morning? Easier for me...how did today go?

Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.

From: jeffrey E.

Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2018 11:48 AM
To: Weingarten, Reid

Subject: Re:

i have to leave at 830 for the airpot thats why sorry

On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 11:33 AM, Weingarten, Reid {a wrote:

Jesus....see you at 730...will be eager to hear about your day today...

Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.

From: jeffrey E.

Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2018 8:25 AM
To: Weingarten, Reid

Subject: Re:

either 73 am or 10 pm

On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 11:19 AM, Weingarten, Reid (i wrote:

Flying in from vancouver now...about to board...what works best for you tomorrow?

Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.

From: jeffrey E.

Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2018 8:15 AM
To: Weingarten, Reid

Subject: Re:

Tonight or tomnight

On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 11:10 AM Weingarten, Reid i wrote:
Later possible? Need my beauty sleep
Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.

From: jeffrey E.

Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2018 8:06 AM
To: Weingarten, Reid

Subject: Re:

yes 730?

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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023038.txt,"Date: Friday, March 4 2011 04:56 PM 
Subject: Fw: Fwd: FW: Ghislaine Maxwell 
From: Gmax <gmax1@ellmax.com> 
To: jeevacation@gmail.com; 
--- Original Message ---
From: The Duke____________________ 
To: Gmax 
Sent: Fri Mar 04 11:46:49 2011 
Subject: Fw: Fwd: FW: Ghislaine Maxwell 
Hey there! What's all this? I don't know anything about this! You must SAY so please. This has NOTHING to do with me. 
I can't take any more of this. 
From: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com> 
To: The Duke 
Sent: Fri Mar 04 16:31:26 2011 
Subject: Fwd: FW: Ghislaine Maxwell 
------ Forwarded message---------- 
From: GMAX <gmaxl@ellmax.com> 
Date: Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 8:28 AM 
Subject: FW: Ghislaine Maxwell 
To: J Jep <jeevacation@gmail.com> 
---- Forwarded Message 
From: Mark Cohen 
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 11:14:35 -0500 
To: NY Max <gmaxl@ellmax.com> 
Subject: FW: Ghislaine Maxwell 
FYI, following up on my email of this morning. Again, I have no intention of responding unless you direct otherwise. 
From: 
Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 11:12 AM 
To: Brett D. Jaffe 
Subject: Ghislaine Maxwell 
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Dear Brett Jaffe, 
I left you a telephone message earlier. The Mail on Sunday newspaper is running a story on Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein, Prince 
Andrew and others this weekend. 
We urgently require responses from Ms Maxwell to the following questions. Our deadline is noon tomorrow. My telephone numbers 
are or 
Annette Witheridge 
On behalf of the Mail on Sunday 
1. says Ghislaine Maxwell offered her a job as a masseuse with Jeffrey Epstein when she was aged 15. Ms Maxwell led 
upstairs on her first visit to him at his Palm Beach house. Mr Epstein was naked on massage table. 
Ms Maxwell initiated a bisexual encounter during which Ms Maxwell rubbed her own breasts on Mr Epstein and directec to copy 
her. 
Please respond to these allegations and all others in the original Jane Doe 102 complaint. 
2. Ms Maxwell took part in numerous other sexual encounters involving her assistant and Mr Epstein. 
3. Ms Maxwell kept sex toys and costumes in the Palm Beach mansion and dressed prior to sex sessions with Mr Epstein. S 
Maxwell herself wore black vinyl during sex sessions with Mr Epstein. 
4. was paid between US $200 and $ 5000 US sex, depending on whether it involved travel and other men. 
5, was required to have sex with friends of Ms Maxwell and Mr Epstein, including Glenn Dubin, Les Wexner, Ehud Barak, 
former Senator George Mitchell and Stephen Kosslyn. 
6. Ms Maxwell introduced to Prince Andrew in 2001 at Ms Maxwell's London house where ad sex with him. 
subsequently was directed to meet him at Mr Epstein's New York house where Ms Maxwell directe to sit on Andrew's knee 
witi Andrew groped both girls. Ms Maxwell directed after this to have sex with Andrew. 
Ms Maxwell and Mr Epstein subsequently travelled with to Little St James where she was directed to stage an orgy for Andrew 
and Mr Epstein during which she performed oral sex on 
them. 
7. vas paid extra by Mr Epstein or his employees for these sexual encounters. 
8. Ms Maxwell knew age and laughed about it when she introduced her to Andrew. 
9. Ms Maxwell and Mr Epstein tried to persuade to bear his child. 
10. After sexual encounters with male friends of Mr Epstein and/or Ms Maxwell, Ms Maxwell and Mr Epstein would ask 
explicit questions about what went on. 
11. Mr Epstein's residences in Florida and New York had surveillance cameras that taped the sex sessions and taped Wven in the 
bathroom. 
12. Ms Maxwell and Mr Epstein arranged for Ehud Barak to have sex with several girls, often at Mr Epstein's Palm Beach house. 
13. Ms Maxwell piloted President Bill Clinton in a helicopter to a dinner on Little St James where two brunettes Ms Maxwell, 
and Mr Epstein were at the table. 
14. Mr Epstein bought Ms Maxwell the helicopter, homes in New York and London and a Mercedes. 
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--- End of Forwarded Message 
*********************************************************** 
The information contained in this communication is 
confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may 
constitute inside information, and is intended only for 
the use of the addressee. It is the property of 
Jeffrey Epstein 
Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this 
communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited 
and may be unlawful. If you have received this 
communication in error, please notify us immediately by 
return e-mail or by e-mail to jeevacation@gmail.com, and 
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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025172.txt,"From: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]

Sent: 1/20/2017 12:14:31 PM
To: David Grosof
Subject: Re: Your Special Day

Importance: — High

probablity and statistics gets its strengh from the law of large numbers. _centrifigal force is a pseudo

force but not distinguishable in the right frame. . like gravity. lets assume that there is a force pushing heads
and tails towards a 50 50 distribution. . not merely recording it. regression to the mean. etc. would . could
be a force similar to the EM one.

On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 7:11 AM, David Grosof qq wrote:

Cool. And the former question, of clarification?

Please forgive typos. Sent from Android Nexus 6 phone.

On Jan 20, 2017 4:10 AM, ""jeffrey E."" <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
pretty well .

On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 7:02 AM, David Grosof > wrote:

Probability as a force rather than a what?

Didn't suss out the next word...

Watson's pretty wild and fun, if overconfident about some ideas about autism when I saw him talk ~4 years
ago on book tour @Google. I met him once through Gunther Stent, as well as Crick on another occasion.
Know him well?

Dz

Please forgive typos. Sent from Android Nexus 6 phone.

On Jan 20, 2017 2:47 AM, ""jeffrey E."" <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
1. is probability a force rather than a markter. if you look at a bell curve from scratch, it looks as if it
under a force pushing things towards the center. 1 think gravity might be just that. 2. all signals in
nature need to be envvyrpted so that the enemy cannot read. this includes inner signals that if you are
aware of , can give you up to your predator. so signals from the nose , my conjecture is that each person
has its own enxruption de encyption algorithm builtin. fyi having dinnner with Jin Watson.

On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 1:28 AM, David Grosof {> wrote:

At 10:13 PM 01/19/17, you wrote:

all good.A A thx.A A areas of interest,A A A A distribuitionsA in nature..A AAA 2
deception.A 3.A sleep.4.A power. 5 money.A 6 music and the brain. 7 , signal intellignece in the
biologocal systems

Excellent alignment with some of my interests or those of people I like and think are smart!
The rest of the truncated message has been sent.

1. What's been stimulating as a source of good questions for the ""distributions in nature” issue?

7. ""Signal intelligence in biol. systems"" seems to cover all of neurophysiology: Jonathan Victor, whom you
met a few years ago in your office, is powerfully thoughtful on the issues of neural coding. Are there
specific examples that have stimulated you to better questions or turned your thinking around?

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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023220.txt,"and jeffrey to have a higher level conversation some time next week; either way you'll have access to
everything, obviously.

From: Barry J. Cohen [mal @iiiiTTT i’

Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2015 05:55 PM

To: Brad Wechsler

Subject: RE: Fw: sched

I wouldn’t mind attending a meeting or portion of a meeting with JE. If he is the mastermind, and you
want to move quickly, it might get a lot of questions resolved quickly.

From: Brad Wechsler [mailto:
Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2015 5:37 PM
To: jeevacation@gmail.com'

Ce: I io Spinella; Barry J. Cohen

Subject: Fw: Fw: sched

On different subject: general time frame is: docs (notes and purchase and sale agreement to you tomorrow
end of biz); incorporate your comments monday and get docs to trust attorney tuesday;
contemporaneously meet in person with you tuesday or wednesday and do a dry run. On these days ada
will also take the trustees through outline of docs they will receive thursday. Docs to trustees, leon et al on
thursday and signatures gathered by friday for first close 12/22. Tight but doable. Ada, alan agree?

PS: ada, you shld begin to think abt where people are (jh, rr, bc, Idb) next week.

From: Heather Gray [mailto

Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2015 05:24 PM

To: Brad Wechsler

Cc: Jeffrey Epstein (jeevacation@gmail.com<mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com>)
<jeevacation@gmail.com<mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com>>

Subject: RE: Fw:

No, I’m meeting with him at 9:30 am tomorrow.

Date: Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 9:49 AM

Subject: fee

To: Melanie Spinella

elegant solution ;re fee. , 30 million paid now. with purchase of noel kalb, paid with funds from the
drawdown. you should use and keep open the line for the full 30m and leave it outstanding until its
expiration. in four months. legit biz reason, very nice , - the balance of the fee - paid in kind either low
basis art . or interest in either milenium ,lone cascade ,or king street.

Date: Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 5:53 PM
Subject:

To: Melanie Spinella SY

saved you 500k at the last minute, . brad has had the same chart since march 16th, its his job to review
NOT MINE .appears he is one of those living in the dark leiwe. I found 8 million dollars today, missed
deductions. . not yet in the numbers, .?

Date: Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 8:59 AM
Subject:

To: Melanie Spinella -

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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019981.txt,"personality headliner was slated to be the alt-right figure Milo Yiannopoulos, a gay British
right-wing provocateur attached to Breitbart News. Yiannopoulos—whose entire position,
rather more like a circa-1968 left-wing provocateur, seemed to be about flouting political
correctness and social convention, resulting in left-wing hysteria and protests against him
—was as confounding a conservative figure as could be imagined. Indeed, there was a
subtle suggestion that CPAC had chosen Yiannopoulos precisely to hoist Bannon and the
White House on the implicit connection to him—yYiannopoulos had been something of a
Bannon protégé. When, two days before CPAC opened, a conservative blogger discovered
a video of Yiannopoulos in bizarre revelry seeming to rationalize pedophilia, the White
House made it clear he had to go.

Still, the White House presence at CPAC—which included, along with the president,
Bannon, Conway, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, and the oddball White House foreign
policy adviser and former Breitbart writer Sebastian Gorka—seemed to push the
Yiannopoulos mess to the side. If CPAC was always looking to leaven boring politicians
with star power, Trump, and anyone connected him, were now the biggest stars. With her
family positioned out in front of a full house, Conway was interviewed in Oprah-like style
by Mercedes Schlapp (wife of Matt Schlapp—CPAC was a family affair), a columnist for
the conservative Washington Times who would later join the White House
communications staff. It was an intimate and inspirational view of a woman of high
achievement, the kind of interview that Conway believed she would have been treated to
on network and cable television if she were not a Trump Republican—the type of
treatment, she’d point out, that had been given to Democratic predecessors like Valerie
Jarrett.

At about the time that Conway was explaining her particular brand of antifeminist
feminism, Richard Spencer arrived at the convention center hoping to attend the breakout
session “The Alt-Right Ain’t Right at All,” a modest effort to reaffirm CPAC’s traditional
values. Spencer, who since the Trump victory had committed himself to full-time activism
and press opportunities, had planned to position himself to get in the first question. But
almost immediately upon arriving and paying his $150 registration fee, he had attracted
first one reporter and then a growing circle, a spontaneous press scrum, and he responded
by giving an ad hoc news conference. Like Yiannopoulos, and in many ways like Trump
and Bannon, Spencer helped frame the ironies of the modern conservative movement. He
was a racist but hardly a conservative—he doggedly supported single-payer health care,
for instance. And the attention he received was somehow less a credit to conservatism than
another effort by the liberal media to smear conservatism. Hence, as the scrum around him
increased to as many as thirty people, the CPAC irony police stepped in.

“You're not welcome on the property,” announced one of the security guards. “They
want you off the property. They want you to cease. They want you off the property.”

“Wow,” said Spencer. “Can they?”

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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030722.txt,"From: Kathy Ruemmler________________________________ 
Sent: 7/8/2018 12:53:09 AM 
To: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com] 
Subject: Re: Het hele interview met Steve Bannon I N ieuwsuur 
Importance: High 
This drives me Ping crazy. 
Simple question for your boy: Did Donald Trump actively promote the theory that Barak Obama was not born 
in the US and was therefore not a legitimate President? 
Answer: Yes. 
He should not defend that shit. He can defend populist/nationalism all he wants, but when he bullies people 
defending obvious Trump lies, he loses credibility. 
On Jul 7, 2018, at 10:57 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
Fun 
----------Forwarded message--------- 
From: Steve Bannon 
Date: Sat, Jul 7, 2018 at 1:21 PM 
Subject: Het hele interview met Steve Bannon 1Nieuwsuur 
To: jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> 
https://nos.nl/nieuwsuur/video/2240261-het-hele-interview-met-steve-bannon.html 
please note 
The information contained in this communication is 
confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may 
constitute inside information, and is intended only for 
the use of the addressee. It is the property of 
JEE 
Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this 
communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited 
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communication in error, please notify us immediately by 
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destroy this communication and all copies thereof, 
including all attachments. copyright -all rights reserved 
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"
IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016225.txt,"Deep Thinking
Twenty-five Ways of Looking at AI

edited by John Brockma

Penguin Press — February 19, 2019

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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019759.txt,"The Handler | 271

to me too risky for him to carry a large sum of undeclared cash
through three airports. Because large sums of cash must be declared,
the detection of the money could compromise his plan to deliver his
NSA documents. Snowden might have told the BBC he had brought
cash to allay suspicions about who was financing his stay in Moscow,

I was intrigued by this remark. Snowden, as far as I knew, didn’t
need a legal defense, because he was not charged with a crime in
Russia and the United States had no extradition treaty with Russia.

While Kucherena unfortunately did not arrange an interview with
Snowden, he did something I considered more important. He con-
firmed the accuracy of his September 2013 assertion that Snowden
had brought secret material to Russia, material he had not given to
journalists in Hong Kong. After what I had learned from Cherkashin
about the lengths that Russian intelligence would go to obtain U.S.
communications intelligence secrets, | viewed Snowden’s access to
this material to be a crucially important part of the mystery.

That day, I immediately sent my questions to Ben Wizner, and I
offered to fly back to Moscow if Snowden would grant me an inter-

© view. In March 2016, Wizner answered that Snowden had “respect- ®
fully declined.”
| | Epst_9780451494566_2p_all_r1.indd 271 ® 9/30/16 8:13AM | |

HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019759
"
IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013714.txt,"as in nonlinear equations representing them and other brain processes (Mandell,
1983).

An early study of power spectral scaling in the EEG reported alpha band

fluctuations that extended a <P 6B ~ 1 pattern to 0.02 Hz (Musha, 1981), as did

other applications of the log-log power spectrum to the EEG in man (Hu and Hu,
1988; Prichard, 1992). This power law scaling led naturally to the suggestion that
the range of frequencies available in the electromagnetic signal from the calivarial
surface extends far beyond those currently appreciated and may be available for
study using relatively noise free recording techniques such as_ the
magnetoelectroencephalogram (Mandell and Selz, 1991). A not surprising range of
intrinsic correlation lengths reflected in Hurst > 0.5 and/or Levy exponents < 2 have
been reported in lamb fetal breathing patterns (Szeto et al, 1992). The exponent
has been shown to be sensitive to maternal alcohol intake in humans (Akay and
Mulder, 1998), rat neonatal motoric activity (Selz et al, 1995), and nuchal atonia
duration sequences (associated with putative intra-uterine REM sleep) in fetal
sheep (Anderson et al, 1998).

Sequential amplitudes in 1 Hz stimulated soleus spinal cord H-reflex

demonstrated a $F 6B ~ 0.83 in control subjects and, reflecting the decrement in

correlations, by 0.31 in patients with losses in supraspinal input from spinal cord
injury (Nozaki et al, 1996). Whereas the sequences of fixation times in eye
movements of normal control subjects reading difficult material demonstrated an
exponentially decaying distribution, those of schizophrenic patients demonstrated a
power law tail, consistent with more sequential correlations (Yokoyama et al, 1996).
This finding may be related to the appearance of velocity arrests, runs of sticky fixed
points, in a spatially oscillating target task, called “smooth pursuit eye movement
dysfunction” in schizophrenic patients which has been modeled as a parametric
disorder in a periodically driven nonlinear dynamical system (Huberman, 1987). The
“short time fractal dimension” has been used to discriminate acoustic signal

transformations from the speech of normal subjects and ataxic patients (Accardo

214

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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026626.txt,"From: 
Sent: 
To: 
Subject: 
Attachments: 
Zubair Khan 
10/25/2016 9:07:53 AM 
jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
US Presidential Election Update 
US_Report3.pdf; Untitled attachment 406272.htm 
Importance: High 
Hi Jeffrey, 
Please find attached report of InsightsPod generated after third US Presidential debate. Trump's popularity has 
increased after third debate. 
Regards, 
Zubair 
HOUSE OVERSIGHT 026626 
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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029594.txt,"Thank you for this help with Serena. I'm so sorry about what happened with WA. I will keep the
""bootleg"" episode and hope to release someday. It's so good, and he was so kind to read the poem with me

and you were so kind to make it happen.

Lisa

Elisa New

Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature
Director, Poetry in America

Harvard University

148 Barker Center

12 Quincy Street

Cambridge, MA

02138

please note
The information contained in this communication is
confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may
constitute inside information, and is intended only for
the use of the addressee. It is the property of
JEE
Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this
communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited
and may be unlawful. If you have received this
communication in error, please notify us immediately by
return e-mail or by e-mail to jeevacation@gmail.com, and
destroy this communication and all copies thereof,
including all attachments. copyright -all rights reserved

Elisa New

Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature
Director, Poetry in America

Harvard University

148 Barker Center

12 Quincy Street

Cambridge, MA

02138

please note

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013072.txt,"156 8 Cognitive Synergy

here we will eschew most details and focus mainly on pointing out how PLN seeks to achieve
efficient inference control via integration with other cognitive processes.

As a logic, PLN is broadly integrative: it combines certain term logic rules with more standard
predicate logic rules, and utilizes both fuzzy truth values and a variant of imprecise probabilities
called indefinite probabilities. PLN mathematics tells how these uncertain truth values propagate
through its logic rules, so that uncertain premises give rise to conclusions with reasonably
accurately estimated uncertainty values. This careful management of uncertainty is critical for
the application of logical inference in the robotics context, where most knowledge is abstracted
from experience and is hence highly uncertain.

PLN can be used in either forward or backward chaining mode; and in the language intro-
duced above, it can be used for either analysis or synthesis. As an example, we will consider
backward chaining analysis, exemplified by the problem of a robot preschoolstudent trying to
determine whether a new playmate “Bob” is likely to be a regular visitor to its preschool or not
(evaluating the truth value of the implication Bob > regular_visitor). The basic backward
chaining process for PLN analysis looks like:

1. Given an implication L = A — B whose truth value must be estimated (for instance
L = C&P = G as discussed above), create a list (A1,...,An) of (inference rule, stored
knowledge) pairs that might be used to produce L

2. Using analogical reasoning to prior inferences, assign each A; a probability of success

e If some of the A; are estimated to have reasonable probability of success at generating
reasonably confident estimates of D’s truth value, then invoke Step 1 with A; in place
of L (at this point the inference process becomes recursive)

e If none of the A; looks sufficiently likely to succeed, then inference has “gotten stuck”
and another cognitive process should be invoked, e.g.

— Concept creation may be used to infer new concepts related to A and B, and then
Step 1 may be revisited, in the hope of finding a new, more promising A; involving
one of the new concepts

— MOSES may be invoked with one of several special goals, e.g. the goal of finding
a procedure P so that P(X) predicts whether X — B. If MOSES finds such a
procedure P then this can be converted to declarative knowledge understandable
by PLN and Step 1 may be revisited....

— Simulations may be run in CogPrime’s internal simulation engine, so as to observe
the truth value of A > B in the simulations; and then Step 1 may be revisited....

The combinatorial explosion of inference control is combatted by the capability to defer to
other cognitive processes when the inference control procedure is unable to make a sufficiently
confident choice of which inference steps to take next. Note that just as MOSES may rely
on PLN to model its evolving populations of procedures, PLN may rely on MOSES to create
complex knowledge about the terms in its logical implications. This is just one example of the
multiple ways in which the different cognitive processes in CogPrime interact synergetically; a
more thorough treatment of these interactions is given in Chapter 49.

In the “new playmate” example, the interesting case is where the robot initially seems not
to know enough about Bob to make a solid inferential judgment (so that none of the A; seem
particularly promising). For instance, it might carry out a number of possible inferences and not
come to any reasonably confident conclusion, so that the reason none of the A; seem promising
is that all the decent-looking ones have been tried already. So it might then recourse to MOSES,
simulation or concept creation.

HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013072
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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028852.txt,"From: Lesley Groff as

Sent: 7/17/2014 11:55:40 AM
To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Reminder Ed Boyden.

Importance: — High
Reminder: Would you like me to set up a call for you with Ed Boyden?
Sent from my iPhone

Begin forwarded message:

From: Ed Boyden
Date: July 14, 2014, 4:50:47 AM EDT

To: Lesley Groff <a

Ce: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: deception

Reply-To:

Sorry again for that last minute cancellation in the Spring -- alas,

the perils of running a new center, that I no longer control my

schedule like in the good old days. But the Obama BRAIN Initiative is
running strong, and MIT has a good bid for a seat at the table, so

that is good. Want to revisit a time for a chat? My schedule is now
much more free, thanks to these BRAIN initiative activities
launching...

Best,
Ed

On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 7:08 AM, Lesley Got wrote:

Good morning Neil...I am afraid Jeffrey must cancel his trip up today...he is sick in bed and not well. Iam so
very sorry to do this last minute. Hopefully we can circle back to this soon.

Thank you,
Lesley
Assistant to Jeffrey Epstein

On Dec 6, 2013, at 12:32 AM, Neil Gershenfeld sf wrote:

Confirming lunch noon Friday at my office, E15-401. Sunglasses and beach balls optional, hopefully this will
be a warm-up for meeting in more entertaining venues.

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IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022211.txt,"12 The Virgin Islands Daily News

PERVERSION OF JUSTICE

Saturday, March 2, 2019

Federal prosecutors admit backing down
Epstein’s attorneys applied relentless pressure, they say

By JULIE K. BROWN
Miami Herald

In recent court filings, the government was
forced to answer questions about its negotia-
tions, finally admitting in 2013 that federal
prosecutors had backed down under relentless
pressure by Jeffrey Epstein’s attomeys.

“The government admits that, at least in part
as a result of objections lodged by Epstein’s law-
yers to victim notifications, the [United States
Attomey’s Office] reevaluated its obligations
to provide notification to victims and Jane Doe
#1 was thus not told that the
US.AO had entered into a
non-prosecution agreement
with Epstein until after it
was signed,” wrote Assistant
| U.S. Attorney Dexter Lee.
| Said Francey Hakes, the
former federal prosecutor:
“| have never heard of a case
where federal prosecutors
consult with a defense at-
torney before they send out
standard victim notification
letters. To negotiate what
the letters would say and whether they would be
sent at all suggest that the victims’ rights were
violated multiple times.”

Kenneth Starr's aggressive advocacy for
Epstein against allegations of improper sexual
behavior was in stark contrast to the path he
took investigating President Bill Clinton as
independent counsel forthe Whitewater probe.

The Starr Report, the summary of his find
ings in the Whitewater investigation, which
started as a probe of a land deal gone sour and
veered into an investigation of sexual miscon-
duct, savaged the president for his involvement
with White House intern Monica Lewinsky and
was the basis for impeachment.

Starr himself would face criticism in 2016 —
he stepped down as president of Baylor Univer-
sity amid allegations that he and other university
officials mishandled sexual assault allegations
brought by female students against members of
the school’s football team.

The Miami Herald reached out to Starr,
through certified letter and through a spokesman
for his current law firm, the Lanier Firm, but did
not receive a response for this story.

Palm Beach police detective Joseph Recarey,
one of the most highly decorated officers on
the Palm Beach Police Department, called the
Epstein case the most troubling of his 23-year
career.

“Some of the victims were — and still are —
afraid of Epstein,” he said as part of a series of
interviews with the Herald earlier this year.

Privately, Michael Reiter and Recarey said
they held onto hope that Epstein would be
brought to trial someday, but they said that that
notion had faded.

“Lalways hoped that the plea would be
thrown out and that these teenage girls, who
were labeled as prostitutes by prosecutors,
would get to finally shed that label and see him
go to prison where he belongs,” Recarey said.

Recarey died in May after a briefillness. He

Kenneth
Starr

File photo by MIAMI HERALD

After he pleaded guilty in state court, Jeffrey Epstein was assigned to a private section of the Palm Beach County stockade. Soon, however, he
was allowed to leave the compound six days a week, 12 hours a day, for what was termed work release.

Sietwe: | Relemed -Reavired to

toe wiTss

Jeffrey Epstein, ac-
cused of sexually
abusing dozens of un-
derage women, grins
for his mugshot on
Florida's sex offender
registry. He once

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compared his crimes
to “stealing a bagel.”

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OFFENDER REGISTRY

was 50 years old.
Epstein’s sentencing hearing

Jeffrey Edward Epstein appeared at his

At the end of the 68-minute hearing, the
55-year-old silver-haired financier — accused
of sexually abusing dozens of underage girls
—was fingerprinted and handcuffed, just like

sentencing on June 30, 2008 atthe Palm Beach — any other criminal sentenced in Florida.

County Courthouse dressed comfortably in a
blue blazer, blue shirt, jeans and gray sneakers.
His attorney, Jack Goldberger, was at his side.

But inmate No. W35755 would not be
treated like other convicted sex offenders in the
state of Florida, which has some of the strictest

sex offender laws in the nation.

Ten years before the #MeToo movement
raised awareness about the kid-glove handling
of powerful men accused of sexual abuse,
Epstein’s lenient sentence and his extraordi-
nary treatment while in custody are still the
source of consternation for the victims he was
accused of molesting when they were minors.

Beginning as far back as 2001, Epstein lured
a steady stream of underage girls to his Palm
Beach mansion to engage in nude massages,
masturbation, oral sex and intercourse, court
and police records show.

The girls — mostly from disadvantaged
families — were recruited from middle schools
and high schools around Palm Beach County.
Epstein would pay the girls for massages and
offer them further money to bring him new
girls every time he was at his home in Palm
Beach, according to police reports.

The girls, now in their late 20s and early
30s, allege in a series of federal civil lawsuits
filed during the last decade that Epstein sexu-
ally abused hundreds of girls, not only in Palm
Beach, but at his homes in Manhattan, New
Mexico and on Little St. James island in the
U.S. Virgin Islands.

Special treatment in prison
In 2007, the FBI had prepared a 53-page

federal indictment charging Epstein with sex
crimes that could have put him in federal

See PERVERSION, next page

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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023546.txt,"cordially invite you and a guest

to join them at

THE NEW YORK OBSERVER
25TH ANNIVERSARY

Thursday March 14th, 2013

6:30-9:30pm
Cocktails & Light Supper

The Four Season Restaurant
99 East 52nd Street
New York City

RE 0: 212-935-6700

cocktail attire

Dear Mr. Jeffrey Epstein

Jared Kushner, New York's youngest powerhouse publisher, is celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the New
York Observer on Thursday, March 14th.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg will be by his side to toast you all.

The Observer is honoring those who have defined and shaped New York since 1987. They are celebrating the
cities best, brightest and most influential in culture,media and finance. The salmon pink pages are revered
among New York's elite as the preeminent voice on power.

The celebration is going to be one of those quintessential New York nights. We are looking forward to seeing
you.

XOXO,

Peggy

Jared Kushner, Publisher Joseph Meyer, CEO

Cory Booker Arthur Carter Georgina Chapman Katie Couric Lauren Santo Domingo

HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023546
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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024229.txt,"It’s an absurdly vast house, among the largest in
Manhattan, but the dining room is windowless, creating
a hermetic or stop-time sense, broken only by the
household staff ferrying in time-of-day-appropriate
foods and beverages.

The real world seems terribly far away, but with
paparazzi often posted near by, it’s dangerously close
too. Once I arrived for a visit and found several police
cars blocking the street and thought the worst—they’d
come for him again. But it was a security detail for a
controversial head of state who had come for tea.

We met several years before he became arguably
the world’s most notorious sex offender. In 2002, his
plane, a meticulously appointed 737, ferried a group of
people to the TED conference in Monterey. He was the
mysterious and peculiarly gracious host arriving after
everyone had boarded: tanned, relaxed, attentive,
soliciting every guest’s story and views, and
accompanied by three young women not his daughters,
witty, poised, helpful, and beautiful—out of a men’s
magazine fantasy of the luxe life.

One more thing about this trip suggesting
something of his unique view of the public world and
what you got to see when you are near him. Google
founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, with their
company rising into the stratosphere, came out to see his
plane on the Monterey tarmac and, with a few other
Googlers, literally ran whooping from one end of the
plane to the other. Then, sitting in the plane’s plush

HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024229
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IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026754.txt,"From: Thomas Jr., Landon

Sent: 8/23/2017 6:31:58 PM

To: Owen Blicksilver
BCC: jeevacation@gmail.com

Subject: Barrack

Importance: — High

Hi Owen -- you probably saw this, but wanted to pass on just the same. Still very
interested in doing a story on Tom.

Thanks.

Landon

http: //www.politico.com/story/2017/08/22/trump-arizona-phoenix-rally-24192

At dinners at Trump’s Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club, billionaire investor Tom Barrack
and New York real estate tycoon Richard LeFrak both talked about his potential to have
more support, administration officials and advisers said. Barrack, in particular, homed in
on the president’s sagging poll numbers and encouraged him to govern past his political
base, according to one person briefed on the conversation.

Landon Thomas, Jr.
Financial Reporter
New York Times

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/t/landon jr thomas/index.h
tml

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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031792.txt,"To:
Subject: RE: Jane Doe

A hearing for what??
We have a depositon set that morning so | need to know what it is for??

Certified Paralegal

Florida Registered Paralegal

BURMAN CRITTON LUTTIER & COLEMAN, LLP
515 N. Flagler Drive

Suite #400

West Palm Beach, FL 33401

From:
Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 10:54 AM
To:

Subject: RE: Jane Doe

Sorry — | was unaware of this. | will try and get this information as soon as possible. Also, please advise whether
you are available for a hearing on 8/20 UMC.

From:

Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 9:58 AM
To:

Cc: Robert D. Critton Jr.; Bradley J. Edwards
Subject: RE: Jane Doe

Thank you for the email, however, in briefly reviewing LM’s responses, she mentions a Dr. Rishard. | have previously
asked your office to provide Dr. Rishard’s contact information. | have looked for an “Office of Palm Beach Doctors” and
and a “Dr. Rishard” and have been unable to locate either. Please provide me with contact information so that | may
obtain records. Thank you.

Certified Paralegal

Florida Registered Paralegal

BURMAN CRITTON LUTTIER & COLEMAN, LLP
515 N. Flagler Drive

Suite #400

West Palm Beach, FL 33401

From:
Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 5:11 PM
To:
Cc: Robert D. Critton Jr.
Subject: RE: Jane Doe

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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016745.txt,"OSAE Fora 27le{March 20h)

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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022658.txt,"From: Thomas Jr., Landon |

Sent: 1/9/2015 6:24:30 PM
To: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Re: off the record

Importance: — High
on phone now -- will call when i am done

On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 1:20 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
number?

On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Thomas Jr., Landon rr wrote:

Lets have a chat -- you do need to fight back some how. Present evidence that she is lying AND show
the world that you are no longer that guy. You have made changes -- and that this is the past. My
sense is that its TV type thing where you just talk honestly about this/present evidence that its not
true/ and focus on what you have been doing for past five years. Charlie Rose?

But you cant just sit there taking punches like this -- especially wen the British tabs are driving this.
Maybe you go on British TV....
Call me any time.

On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 1:08 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
Landon. QM the story teller , crafted much of it out of whole cloth. . part of her story , is that
she was at multiple orgies with clinton and speciifically, the minute details of a dinner had on the
island with him, ""he sat on my left. came by black. heli. flown by ghislaine. clinton was NEVER EVER
there, never. it punches a hole in the dershowitz , andrew allegation. making it all apparent that it was
fantasy. and delusional. thoughts. who should break the story.

please note
The information contained in this communication is
confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may
constitute inside information, and is intended only for
the use of the addressee. It is the property of
JEE
Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this
communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited
and may be unlawful. If you have received this
communication in error, please notify us immediately by
return e-mail or by e-mail to jeevacation@gmail.com, and
destroy this communication and all copies thereof,
including all attachments. copyright -all rights reserved

HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022658
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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025600.txt,"Date: Monday, May 6 2019 10:52 AM
Subject: Re: $25K from ASU

From: Joichi Ito <-

To: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com>;

That would be great. I’ve been busy, but good. How are you? Heard you saw Madars.

> On May 6, 2019, at 06:48, J <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:

>

>1can have andrew farkas , he gave a building to the hasty pudding harvard. fund plant guys. how are you >?
>

> On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 8:23 AM Joichi Ito </i> wrote:

> Nice.

>

>> On Apr 18, 2019, at 08:03, J <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:

>>

> > https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/18/opinion/sunday/oliver- sacks-gardens.html?action=click
&module=Opinion &pgtype=Homepage

>>

> >On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 11:08 AM Joi Ito <,> wrote:
>> I’m good. Good luck!

Pe

>>- Joi

>>

>>> On Mar 4, 2019, at 7:45 AM, J <jeevacation@gmail.com > wrote:
> eS

>>> brutal press. . sorry . it seems im a symbol for all ills. :). if you hate the rich, the men , the trump types . im
your boy . at least for the moment. . hope you are well

>>>

>>> On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 1:24 PM Joi Ito iP wrote:

> >> Thanks!

> bs

> >>> On Feb 28, 2019, at 1:18 PM, J <jeevacation@gmail.com > wrote:
> bbe

> >>> No problem- Trying to get more black for you

bs bs

> >>> On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 1:10 PM Joi Ito {qa wrote:

> >>> Hey Jeffrey.

bs bs

> >>> How are things?

> Sis

> >>> Just to let you know. We were able to keep the Leon Black money, but the $25K from your foundation is
getting bounced by MIT back to ASU.

> Sb

> 32> Sotry ccs

> Sb

> >>> - Joi

Se SSishs ae

> >>> please note

> >>> The information contained in this communication is

> >>> confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may

> >>> constitute inside information, and is intended only for

> >>> the use of the addressee. It is the property of

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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023552.txt,"HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023552
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IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026740.txt,"Some of these have been found — there are thought to be many millions in the Milky
Way. There’s one orbiting the nearest star, Proxima centauri
And another nearby faint star has 7 Earth-sized planets around it

Will there be life on them — maybe even intelligent life?

The outer three are in the habitable zone

They’d be spectacular places to live. Viewed fro the surface of one of the planets, the
others would loom larger than our moon does to us — swinging past fast across the
sky.

But they’re very un-Earthly. Probably tidally locked so that they present the same
face to their star -one hemisphere in perpetual light. The other always dark.

And _ the real goal, of course, is to see these exo-planets directly -- not just to infer
them from their shadows .

But that's hard. To realise just how hard, suppose an alien astronomer with a
powerful telescope was viewing the Earth from (say) 30 light years away -- the
distance of a nearby star. Our planet would seem, in Carl's famous phrase, a 'pale
blue dot’, very close to a star (our Sun) that outshines it by many billions: a firefly next
to a searchlight.

The shade of blue would be slightly different, depending on whether the Pacific
ocean or the Eurasian land mass was facing them. The alien astronomers could infer
the length of our ‘day', the seasons, the gross topography, and the climate. By
analysing the faint light, they could infer that it had a biosphere.

The James Webb space telescope may offer clues. But within 10 years, the European
Southern Observatory, will hopefully have its ELT — with a mosaic mirror 39 metres
across.

Such instruments will be drawing inferences like this about exo-planets the size of
our Earth.

LIFE LIKELIHOOD

Habitable doesn’t mean inhabited — but for most of us that’s the number-one
question.

We still don’t know the likelihood — we know too little about how life began on Earth
to lay confident odds. What triggered the transition from complex molecules to
entities that can metabolise and reproduce? It might have involved a fluke so rare
that it happened only once in the entire Galaxy. On the other hand, this crucial

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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016989.txt,"That could be done for twenty-six different possibilities, but it couldn’t be done for ten
thousand. It was just a matter of scaling up the whole system that makes this possible
today. There are maybe five thousand picturable common nouns in English, ten thousand
if you include things like special kinds of plants and beetles which people would
recognize with some frequency. What we did was train our system on 30 million images
of these kinds of things. It’s a big, complicated, messy neural network. The details of
the network probably don’t matter, but it takes about a quadrillion GPU operations to do
the training.

Our system is impressive because it pretty much matches what humans can do. It
has about the same training data humans have—about the same number of images a
human infant would see in the first couple of years of its life. Roughly the same number
of operations have to be done in the learning process, using about the same number of
neurons in at least the first levels of our visual cortex. The details are different; the way
these artificial neurons work has little to do with how the brain’s neurons work. But the
concept is similar, and there’s a certain universality to what’s going on. At the
mathematical level, it’s a composition of a very large number of functions, with certain
continuity properties that let you use calculus methods to incrementally train the system.
Given those attributes, you can end up with something that does the same job human
brains do in physiological recognition.

But does this constitute AI? There are a few basic components. There’s
physiological recognition, there’s voice-to-text, there’s language translation—things
humans manage to do with varying degrees of difficulty. These are essentially some of
the links to how we make machines that are humanlike in what they do. For me, one of
the interesting things has been incorporating those capabilities into a precise symbolic
language to represent the everyday world. We now have a system that can say, “This is a
glass of water.” We can go from a picture of a glass of water to the concept of a glass of
water. Now we have to invent some actual symbolic language to represent those
concepts.

I began by trying to represent mathematical, technical kinds of knowledge and
went on to other kinds of knowledge. We’ve done a pretty good job of representing
objective knowledge in the world. Now the problem is to represent everyday human
discourse in a precise symbolic way—a knowledge-based language intended for
communication between humans and machines, so that humans can read it and machines
can understand it, too. For instance, you might say “X is greater than 5.” That’s a
predicate. You might also say, “I want a piece of chocolate.” That’s also a predicate. It
has an “I want” init. We have to find a precise symbolic representation of the desires we
express in human natural language.

In the late 1600s, Gottfried Leibniz, John Wilkins, and others were concerned
with what they called philosophical languages—that is, complete, universal, symbolic
representations of things in the world. You can look at the philosophical language of
John Wilkins and see how he divided up what was important in the world at the time.
Some aspects of the human condition have been the same since the 1600s. Some are very
different. His section on death and various forms of human suffering was huge; in
today’s ontology, it’s alot smaller. It’s interesting to see how a philosophical language
of today would differ from a philosophical language of the mid-1600s. It’s a measure of
our progress. Many such attempts at formalization have happened over the years. In

186

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IMAGES-012-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033329.txt,"From: HS

Sent: 11/21/2018 10:29:49 PM

To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
cc: hscffico
Subject: Fwd: China’s dangerous test

Importance: — High
See story on Chinese economists

Sent from my iPad

Please direct all scheduling inquiries to my office at:

Follow me on twitter @lhsummers
www.larrysummers.com

Begin forwarded message:

From: Bloomberg <noreply@mail.bloombergbusiness.com>
Date: November 21, 2018 at 4:46:50 PM EST

To:

Subject: China’s dangerous test

Fee

Beijing plans to give its 22 million residents behavioral report cards as China moves toward higher-
intensity monitoring of its entire population. This strategy, similar to those of other Chinese cities,
has been made easier by mobile technology and existing state restrictions on electronic
anonymity. Getting an ""F"" on this test doesn't mean staying after school, though. The

consequences can last a lifetime. —David E. Rovella

Here are today's top stories
If there's one thing Americans do well, it's soend. The expectation this holiday shopping season
is that they will burn through $1 trillion. But save a kind thought for one former king of Christmas:

This is usually the most wonderful time of the year for gadget maker Apple. Not anymore.

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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030498.txt,"Date: Thursday, January 28 2010 10:40 AM
Subject: Re: Re:
From: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com>

To: Boris Nikolic <a
possibly

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 5:37 AM, Boris Nikolic (i wrote:

You would get sick of yesterday harvard party. Average age was 60. Non stop boring talks. Run away so quickly!!!
Will be in nyc the following week feb 5 to 8th. Are you there?
boris

Sent from my AT&T Windows Mobile phone.

From: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com >
Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 11:30 AM

To: Boris Nikolic <r >

Subject: Re: Re:

yes you do, you need to laugh and have fun, he is good at that.

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 5:27 AM, Boris Nikolic TT wrote:

No problem.
lam meeting him as he has some questions. | do not need anything from him.

Also nathan wolf requested a mtg. Will meet him at some coctail later. Much better that way!
How are you?

Sent from my AT&T Windows Mobile phone.

From: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gqmail.com >
Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 11:24 AM

To: Boris Nikoic <a

Subject: Re:

you can tell andrew we are friends ,

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 4:39 AM, Boris Nikolic (i, wrote:

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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031786.txt,"From: Richard Kahn

Sent: 5/28/2019 3:18:36 PM
To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Mueller drew up obstruction indictment against Trump, Michael Wolff book claims

Importance: — High

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/28/mueller-trump-obstruction-charge-michael-wolff-book-

siege-under-fire-news

Richard Kahn

HBRK Associates Inc.

575 Lexington Avenue 4th Floor
New York, NY 10022
(hii
iii

col! as

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IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026998.txt,"From: JONATHAN FARKAS

Sent: 6/25/2019 10:23:28 PM
To: jeevacation@gmail.com

Importance: — High

HN seeing me for lunch early July I hate you for introducing me to her can’t get her out of my mind
what do you think will happen between trump and xi have a great f 35 story but not for e mail and it’s
no state secret

Sent from my iPhone

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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029501.txt,"From: Alan Dershowitz______________________________ 
Sent: 6/30/2016 2:45:27 PM 
To: Martin G Weinberg I Gerald B. Lefcourt ; Jeffrey Epstein 
Deeyacation@gmail.com] 
Subject: Fwd: media inquiry - FoxNews.com 
Attachments: Screenshot 2016-06-29 13.50.26.png 
Importance: High 
Privileged - Redacted 
Sent from my iPhone 
Begin forwarded message: 
From: ""Zimmerman, Malia McLaughlin"" 
To: ""Alan Dershowitz"" 
Subject: media inquiry - FoxNews.com  
Hi Alan 
I was reading through the files related to the Jeffrey Epstein case, including the original criminal case where 
you defended Mr. Epstein, and saw a letter both you and Gerald Lefcourt co-authored on his behalf dated July 
6, 2007. 
The letter said ""Mr. Epstein was part of the original group that conceived the Clinton Global Initiative, which is 
described as a project 'bringing together a community of global leaders to devise and implement innovative 
solutions to some of the world's most pressing challenges.' Focuses of this initiative include poverty, climate 
change, global health, and religious and ethnic conflicts."" 
I just wanted to clarify if Mr. Epstein was on the board of directors or listed as a founder anywhere or on any 
paperwork associated with the foundation and if so, in what capacity. Also wanted to clarify what you 
specifically mean by being part of the original group. 
I attached a screen shot of the exact passage I am referring to. 
Thanks, 
Malia 
Malia Zimmerman 
Investigative Reporter, 
FoxNews.com  
2044 Armacost Avenue 
Los Angeles, CA 90025 
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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029580.txt,"Elisa New

Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature
Director, Poetry in America

Harvard University

148 Barker Center

12 Quincy Street

Cambridge, MA

02138

PS

Elisa New

Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature
Director, Poetry in America

Harvard University

148 Barker Center

12 Quincy Street

Cambridge, MA

02138

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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026632.txt,"﻿From: jeevacation@gmail.com
To: Jeffrey Epstein jeevacation@gmail.com; 
Subject: Fwd: contacts
Sent: 11/1/2016 6:45:15 PM


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From: jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com <mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com> >
Date: Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 5:40 PM
Subject: contacts
To: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com <mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com> >



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IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022205.txt,"8. Jeffrey Epstein on Sports

An old school look at today’s sport's
world focusing on professional basketball
and football byJeffrey Epstein.
www.jeffreyepsteinsports.com/ - Cache

9. Jeffrey Epstein | Philanthropy

Jeffrey Epstein has three main
philanthropic and charitable
organizations he uses to fund arts,
sciences, research and other causes.
www.jeffreyepstein.org/ - Cached

10. About Jeffrey Epstein
Jeffrey Epstein is a financial mogul,
hedge fund manager and philanthropist.
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11. Sex Offender Jeffrey
Epstein Is Not A Billionaire -
Billions ...

Jeffrey Epstein, the underage massage
king of Palm Beach, was back in the
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pedophile goes free,” (Daily ...
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offender-jeffrey-epstein-all-that-

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From: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com>
To: Al secke| a >

Sent: Sat, December 11, 2010 12:31:16 PM
Subject:

the google page is not good.. after sept when you told me you thought it would take approx twenty thousand to
clean up. and hopefully in time for nov 1. then another ten thsousand , and another ten thousand. and your
emails about how you are all about results ,, then an emergency 2500 dollars to keep servers active , then you
told me micahel didn't want to give his bank details.. your quote was he'd explode, that was after he was sent
forty thousand dollars directly to his bank.. I have yet to have a complete breakdown of payments. and the
results , are what they are,,.

De ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee a
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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028846.txt,"From: ito as

Sent: 4/27/2014 10:54:13 AM
To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: NYTimes: Sanctions Revive Search for Secret Putin Fortune

Importance: — High

President Obamalfs response to the Ukraine crisis, while derided by critics as slow and weak, has
reinvigorated a 15-year global hunt for the Russian leaderifs hidden wealth.

http://www. nytimes.com/2014/04/27/world/sanctions-revive-search-for-secret-putin-

fortune. html ?smid=nytnow-share&smprod=nytnow

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TEXT-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033087.txt,"From: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com] 
Sent: 4/10/2018 2:36:47 PM 
To: Michael Wolff 
Subject: Re: 
On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 10:18 AM, Michael Wolff < > wrote: 
chat? #? 
On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 9:17 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
trump likely to hire dershowitz, no kidding 
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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030736.txt,"From: Steve Bannon 
Sent: 8/20/2018 1:41:12 AM 
To: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com] 
Subject: Steve Bannon says GOP must rally behind Trump to survive I News & Observer 
Importance: High 
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article216997195.html 
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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019995.txt,"The inaugural, largely written by Bannon and Stephen Miller, had shocked Jared and
Ivanka. But a particular peculiarity of the Trump White House, compounding its
messaging problems, was its lack of a speech-writing team. There was the literate and
highly verbal Bannon, who did not really do any actual writing himself; there was Stephen
Miller, who did little more than produce bullet points. Beyond that, it was pretty much just
catch as catch can. There was a lack of coherent message because there was nobody to
write a coherent message—just one more instance of disregarding political craft.

Ivanka grabbed firm control of the joint session draft and quickly began pulling in
contributions from the Jarvanka camp. In the event, the president behaved exactly as they
hoped. Here was an upbeat Trump, a salesman Trump, a nothing-to-be-afraid-of Trump, a
happy-warrior Trump. Jared, Ivanka, and all their allies judged it a magnificent night,
agreeing that finally, amid the pageantry—Mr. Speaker, the President of the United States
—the president really did seem presidential. And for once, even the media agreed.

The hours following the president’s speech were Trump’s best time in the White
House. It was, for at least one news cycle, a different presidency. For a moment, there was
even something like a crisis of conscience among parts of the media: Had this president
been grievously misread? Had the media, the biased media, missed well-intentioned
Donald Trump? Was he finally showing his better nature? The president himself spent
almost two full days doing nothing but reviewing his good press. He had arrived, finally,
at a balmy shore (with appreciative natives on the beach). What’s more, the success of the
speech confirmed the Jared and Ivanka strategy: look for common ground. It also
confirmed Ivanka’s understanding of her father: he just wanted to be loved. And, likewise,
it confirmed Bannon’s worst fear: Trump, in his true heart, was a marshmallow.

The Trump on view the night of the joint session was not just a new Trump, but a
declaration of a new West Wing brain trust (which Ivanka was making plans to formally
join in just a few weeks). Jared and Ivanka, with an assist from their Goldman Sachs
advisers, were changing the message, style, and themes of the White House. “Reaching
out” was the new theme.

Bannon, hardly helping his cause, cast himself as a Cassandra to anyone who would
listen. He insisted that only disaster would come from trying to mollify your mortal
enemies. You need to keep taking the fight to them; you’re fooling yourself if you believe
that compromise is possible. The virtue of Donald Trump—the virtue, anyway, of Donald
Trump to Steve Bannon—was that the cosmopolitan elite was never going to accept him.
He was, after all, Donald Trump, however much you shined him up.

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016231.txt,"Two years after Cybernetics, in 1950, Norbert Wiener published Zhe Human Use of
Human Beings—a deeper story, in which he expressed his concerns about the runaway
commercial exploitation and other unforeseen consequences of the new technologies of
control. I didn’t read The Human Use of Human Beings until the spring of 2016, when I
picked up my copy, a first edition, which was sitting in my library next to Cybernetics.
What shocked me was the realization of just how prescient Wiener was in 1950 about
what’s going on today. Although the first edition was a major bestseller—and, indeed,
jump-started an important conversation—under pressure from his peers Wiener brought
out a revised and milder edition in 1954, from which the original concluding chapter,
“Voices of Rigidity,” 1s conspicuously absent.

Science historian George Dyson points out that in this long-forgotten first edition,
Wiener predicted the possibility of a “threatening new Fascism dependent on the machine
a gouverner’’:

No elite escaped his criticism, from the Marxists and the Jesuits (“all of
Catholicism is indeed essentially a totalitarian religion”) to the FBI (“our great
merchant princes have looked upon the propaganda technique of the Russians,
and have found that it is good”) and the financiers lending their support “to make
American capitalism and the fifth freedom of the businessman supreme
throughout the world.” Scientists... received the same scrutiny given the
Church: “Indeed, the heads of great laboratories are very much like Bishops, with
their association with the powerful in all walks of life, and the dangers they incur
of the carnal sins of pride and of lust for power.”

This jeremiad did not go well for Wiener. As Dyson puts it:

These alarms were discounted at the time, not because Wiener was wrong about
digital computing but because larger threats were looming as he completed his
manuscript in the fall of 1949. Wiener had nothing against digital computing but
was strongly opposed to nuclear weapons and refused to join those who were
building digital computers to move forward on the thousand-times-more-powerful
hydrogen bomb.

Since the original of The Human Use of Human Beings is now out of print, lost to
us is Wiener’s cri de coeur, more relevant today than when he wrote it, sixty-eight years
ago: “We must cease to kiss the whip that lashes us.”

Mind, Thinking, Intelligence

Among the reasons we don’t hear much about “Cybernetics” today, two are central: First,
although Zhe Human Use of Human Beings was considered an important book in its time,
it ran counter to the aspirations of many of Wiener’s colleagues, including John von
Neumann and Claude Shannon, who were interested in the commercialization of the new
technologies. Second, computer pioneer John McCarthy disliked Wiener and refused to
use Wiener’s term “Cybernetics.” McCarthy, in turn, coined the term “artificial
intelligence” and became a founding father of that field.

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013700.txt,"21...) (Shenker and Kadanoff, 1982). Similar quantitative scaling properties were

also discovered in the parametric period adding route (Kaneko, 1983).

All of these scaling numbers have been found in experiments and in
remarkable agreement with theory. Examples have been discovered in electronic
circuits, hydrodynamic and mercury flows, acoustic systems, laser dynamics and
oscillating chemical reactions (see Cvitanovic’, 1989, for representative list of
references). Whereas qualitative evidence for all of these bifurcation scenarios have
been found in brain relevant experiments, there is yet to be a bifurcating
experimental biological system with adequate precision across a sufficient range of
magnitudes such that quantitative universality could be demonstrated across a
sufficient range of values to be convincing. We remind ourselves that in order to
establish a Fiegenbaum number, each period doubling bifurcation of the several
required necessitates about a five-fold improvement in the experimenter’s ability to

specify the control parameter.

Using Invariant Measures of Dynamical Neurobiological Systems

Before the modern era of dissipatively forced (energy utilizing) dynamical
systems research, the known attactors of an experiment’s initial values resulted
from their convergence onto either a fixed point or a limit cycle. An attractor can be
regarded as a set which remains in bounded space and to which all orbits in this
neighborhood converge (Milnor, 1985). Since by the rules of differential equations,
orbits are required to be both smooth (graphable without lifting the pencil) and
unique (different trajectories don’t intersect since the point of intersection would no
longer be unique), the foundational Poincare-Bendixon theorem says that any such
orbit confined to a two dimensional phase space that doesn’t converge to a fixed
point must, no matter how long it irregularly wanders, must, eventually intersect with
itself and then go around the same route again in a (perhaps very long) cycle. In
most neuroscience research as well, we have generally regarded our data as

manifesting either tolerable (or intolerable) fluctuations around mean values (fixed

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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031428.txt,"From: J [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Sent: 3/5/2019 11:19:19 PM 
To: Martin Weinberg 
Ken Starr 
Subject: Fwd: Herald 
Weingarten, Reid ; Lilly Ann Sanchez 
Privileged - Redacted 
Forwarded message 
From: Lilly Sanchez <___________________ 
Date: Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 6:08 PM 
Subject: Herald 
To: jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> 
> 
Miami U.S. Attorney's Office recuses itself from Jeffrey Epstein case 
Play Video 
DurationA 3:51 
AG nominee Barr pledges to look into handling of Epstein case 
Sen. Ben Sasse questioned attorney general nominee William Barr about the Jeffrey Epstein case on January 15, 
2019, getting the nominee to commit to having the Department of Justice look into the handling of that case if 
confirmed. C-SPAN Meta Viers 
BY JULIE K. BROWN 
jbrown@miamiherald.corn 
• 
• 
• 
R REPRINT OF THIS STORY 
Just days before a Friday deadline, the Justice Department has reassigned the Jeffrey Epstein victims' rights 
case to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Atlanta, the attorneys representing Epstein's victims' attorneys said 
Tuesday. 
Miami federal prosecutors, in letter to attorneys for the victims's lawyers on Monday, said they had recused 
themselves from the case, according to Brad Edwards and Jack Scarola, representing Epstein's victims. 
HOUSE OVERSIGHT 031428 
The reassignment means that the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, Byung J. ""BJay"" Pak, will 
oversee the case for the government. Pak, a former Georgia lawmaker, was appointed Atlanta's chief federal 
prosecutor by President Trump in October 2017. 
The Justice Department is still under a Friday deadline for prosecutors to confer with the victims' attorneys in 
an effort to settle the case. On Feb. 22, U.S. District Judge Kenneth A. Marra in Palm Beach ruled that federal 
prosecutors, under former Miami U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta, broke the law when they concealed a plea 
agreement from more than 30 underage girls in Palm Beach who had been sexually abused by Epstein, a 
multimillionaire New York hedge fund manager. 
Marra stopped short of voiding the agreement, which granted Epstein and an untold number of accomplices 
immunity from federal prosecution for sex trafficking crimes, provided Epstein plead guilty to minor charges in 
state court. At the time of the plea deal, federal prosecutors had gathered enough evidence against Epstein to 
write a 53-page federal indictment, court records show. 
Play Video 
DurationA 
12:20 
The story behind a Palm Beach sex offender's remarkable deal 
The story behind a Palm Beach sex offender's remarkable deal 
Emily Michot 
An investigation by the Miami Herald, ""Perversion of Justice,"" found that after Acosta met privately with one 
of Epstein's lawyers, the government agreed to seal the plea agreement so that no one — not the victims, not 
even the state court judge who sentenced Epstein — would know the full extent of his crimes. Epstein, now 66, 
was allowed to plead guilty to prostitution charges and served 13 months in the Palm Beach County jail, where 
he was given liberal work release, and allowed to travel to New York and his private island in the Caribbean 
during his subsequent house arrest. He was released in 2009, and now divides his time between New York, 
Palm Beach and the U.S. Virgin Islands. 
The Herald interviewed four of Epstein's victims, who were as young as 13 at the time they were abused by 
Epstein. They said they felt betrayed by state and federal prosecutors, who treated them like prostitutes instead 
of victims. Two of them sued the federal government in 2008 under the Crime Victims' Rights Act, which 
grants crime victims the right to be informed about plea deals and to confer with prosecutors. 
Marra, in a 33-page opinion, said prosecutors not only intentionally violated the Crime Victims' Rights Act, but 
they misled the girls into believing that the FBI's sex trafficking case against Epstein was ongoing — when, in 
fact, prosecutors had secretly closed it after sealing the plea bargain from the public record. 
Marra, noting that he reviewed affidavits, depositions and interrogatories, said ""Epstein worked in concert with 
others to obtain minors not only for his own sexual gratification, but also for the sexual gratification of others."" 
HOUSE OVERSIGHT 031429 
The victims' attorneys — Edwards, Scarola and Paul Cassell — have asked the Justice Department to throw out 
Epstein's plea agreement and reopen the criminal investigation. 
Edwards, who brought the victims' rights case against the government, said transferring the case to another 
jurisdiction is a prudent decision. 
""I think it's good that we're going to get fresh eyes and a fresh opinion on the way the case was handled,"" 
Edwards said Tuesday. ""We were obviously in an adversarial posture with the U.S. Attorney's Office in Miami 
because they handled the case to begin with."" 
Miami's new U.S. Attorney, Ariana Fajardo Orshan — who was appointed by President Trump in September 
— did not respond to a request for comment. 
Play Video 
DurationA 
5:29 
Jeffrey Epstein apologizes, but not to his victims 
Jeffrey Epstein apologizes, but not to his victims 
Emily Michot 
Edwards predicted that it would take some time for Pak's office to review the case, which includes more than 
500 docket entries and thousands of documents. He said If the sides can't agree on a resolution, then Marra 
would likely have to come up with one. The case is being closely watched by crime victims' rights advocates, 
as it will likely set a precedent. 
Acosta, who was appointed by Trump as the U.S. secretary of labor in 2017, is the focus of a separate Justice 
Department investigation into whether there was any prosecutorial misconduct in the Epstein case. That probe, 
by the DOJ's Office of Professional Responsibility, was initiated in response to demands from a bipartisan 
group in Congress, led by Republican Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska and Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman 
Schultz of Florida. 
In the meantime, a court hearing will be held at 4 p.m. Wednesday in New York in another Epstein-related case. 
A federal appeals court will hear oral arguments in a motion by the Miami Herald, supported by 32 other news 
organizations, asking the court to unseal documents that could reveal details about the extent of Epstein's 
crimes and any other people who may have been involved. 
Three of Epstein's former attorneys — who helped negotiate his plea deal in 2008 — wrote a letter published in 
the New York Times on Monday, defending the plea bargain cut with Acosta as a fair deal. The letter was in 
response to a Times editorial that called on Congress and the Trump administration to hold Acosta and others 
involved in the case accountable. 
HOUSE OVERSIGHT 031430 
Epstein's lawyers said the editorial's conclusions were ""in profound conflict with the reality,"" noting that there 
was no evidence that Epstein committed federal sex trafficking offenses. The letter was signed by former 
Epstein lawyers Kenneth Starr, Jack Goldberger and Lilly Ann Sanchez, as well as Epstein's current attorney, 
Martin G. Weinberg. 
Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-
government/article227136459.html#storylink=cpy 
Lilly Ann Sanchez 
The LS Law Firm 
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IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027338.txt,"GUID: 8C636E64-78C8-460D-AC20-E8F11FB4E6ED

Message: I hope he left the wire home at core club

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Message: You, Barrack. Bannon Nick Ribis. ( former president of trump org ) . Are

politically savvy . You can play either the tom Hayden role.

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Message: I like it going to suggest it

Or the war consiglieri

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015738.txt,"HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015738
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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025166.txt,"From: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]

Sent: 11/28/2016 6:49:51 PM

To: Pritzker, Ton TS |
Subject: Re: Re:

cash

On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 1:47 PM, Pritzker, Tom <9 wrote:

Cash or in-kind services?

From: jeffrey E. [mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, November 28, 2016 12:47 PM '

To: Pritzker, orn

Subject: Re: Re:

comey knows that denise neeed to pledge 500k to foundation

On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 1:44 PM, Pritzker, Tom PF wrote:

Read an interesting article on why Comey screwed Clinton. Came from Israeli press.

1. Comey as DA is hunting down Marc Rich to indict him.

2. Ehud calls Clinton and says please pardon Marc Rich he has done work for Mossad that has been valuable.
3. Clinton pardons Rich and Comey has been pissed ever since.

4. Comey got his opening to get even.

No idea if this is accurate story.
tip

From: jeffrey E. [mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, November 28, 2016 12:39 PM

To: Pritzker, Ton rr >

Subject: Re:

barrack and the boys in pb, wild wild.

On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 1:37 PM, Pritzker, Tom <q wrote:

Will check

From: jeffrey E. [mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, November 28, 2016 12:35 PM

To: Pritzker, Ton <a >
Subject:

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IMAGES-012-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032989.txt,"From: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]

Sent: 3/9/2017 3:22:44 PM
To: Thomas Jr., Landon
Subject: Re: Masa...

tell him to ask nathan mhyrvold. . or bin salman

On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 11:21 AM, Thomas Jr., Landon = UU”:~C~CS@S wrote:
Trying to get you in with Masa crowd. Some resistance though, due to all the headlines/controversy -
- as you might expect. I tell them about your relationship with Saudis/Gates/Trump crowd, but still
doubts. Working on it!

Landon Thomas, Jr.
Financial Reporter
New York Times

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/t/landon_ jr thomas/index.

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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017329.txt,"4.2.12
WC: 191694

I am convinced—and I think most observers were convinced—that if Tyson had gotten a second
trial with all the new evidence before the jury, he would have quickly been acquitted. But this
was Indiana. They had a trophy in Tyson. And they had a trial judge determined to prevent a new
trial that would have embarrassed her and freed Tyson. The conviction was eventually affirmed
on a two to two tie vote by the Indiana Supreme Court, with the chief justice disqualifying himself
from participation in the decision on a phony pretext. He sent his wife to speak to me during a
Yale Law School event. She said, “your New York style won’t work in Indiana.” I asked who
she was, and when she identified herself as the wife of the chief justice, I quickly moved away
saying, “We can’t talk.” He used this contrived encounter as an excuse to disqualify himself. I
believe that the real reason he got out of the case was because his own previous decisions would
have required him to vote for reversal, and if he did, the public would be reminded that he himself
had been accused of sexual impropriety with a law clerk by a fellow judge.

In my half century of practicing law throughout the world, I have never encountered a more
thoroughly corrupt legal system than I did in 1992 in Indiana and a less fair trial and appeal than
those accorded Mike Tyson. If hard cases make bad law, then the Tyson case proves that
unpopular celebrity defendants often receive bad justice. If Mike Tyson had not been a celebrity,
with a reputation for toughness, and if he had a zealous lawyer experienced in rape cases and a
fair judge, he never would have been convicted of a rape he didn’t commit. If he had been
convicted in a different state, or at a different time, his conviction would have been reversed. The
deck was stacked against Tyson and he paid a heavy price—loss of his career, and several years
of hard prison time—for a consensual one night stand with a young woman who apparently
regretted her decision and then decided to exploit it for money.

Different perceptions on Rape

My decision to represent Mike Tyson on appeal generated considerable controversy and some
outright animosity. Rape is a highly emotional issue, like abortion. Extremists on both sides of
such issue tend to see things in black and white terms.

It used to be thought that there were some lines that were crystal clear. Remember the old quip
about not being a “little bit pregnant” or a “little bit dead”? But today it may matter greatly
whether a woman is a little bit pregnant or a lot pregnant. The right to have an abortion may turn
on the trimester of the pregnancy. Even the issue of what constitutes “death,” that absolute of
absolutes, may now be hotly disputed in close cases.

Polemicists and absolutist on all sides of these and other gray-area issues refuse to recognize
matters of degree. To an absolute right-to-lifer, life begins at the moment of conception and is as
sacred then as it is at the moment before birth. To an absolute pro-choicer, a woman’s right to
terminate pregnancy is as compelling in the last trimester as in the first. Some radical feminists,
such as Judge Gifford, regard acquaintance rape in which the man honestly but mistakenly
believes his friend has consented as indistinguishable from a stranger rape at knife point. A letter
to the editor critical of columns I wrote on date rape made the point as follows:

Dershowitz further endears himself by explaining that date rape and acquaintance rape is
an area in which differing perceptions may produce inadvertently false testimony about

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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023234.txt,"pay a bill) eva goes. outsource as much as possible... bookkeeping systems built from scratch,
airplane restructure, boat . same, new grats. phaidon sale , decide on artspace survivability, regan, . do
the kids really want these? , children accounting ie bens house.etc. re do estate for new facts. redo
loans, trading accounts activity, . gaming -foreign- disclosures. . BRH TRA re thinks . household and
construction architects. . redone. art partnership , choice of paintings. . re do structure of consultants.
tax re family office. . decide if investments are a realistic option in the next three years.. insurance.
operations. airplane , etc. . art foundation , private. max charity contributions. financial reports. still
waiting. ? on line banking, . tax planning, family office deductions ( profit center ) . airplane certificate,
redone jetaviationredo. . paper gigi ( E )trust to avoid gift tax. .

Date: Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 3:31 AM

Subject: ask alan why he hasnt explained this to you since novmebr

To: Melanie Spinella

Tenancy in common is a type of shared ownership of property, where each owner owns a share of the
property. Unlike in a joint tenancy, these shares can be of unequal size, and can be freely transfered to
other owners both during life and via a will. Even if owners own unequal shares, however, all owners have
the right to occupy and use all of the property.

Date: Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 12:55 PM

Subject:

To: Melanie Spinella Po

The fire drill documents received should be the final nail in the coffin of Alan and Ada, ._ It is
inexcusable, , ludricrous and in brads words ""insane ""or yours, "" unexplainable"" that the two people that
you refer to as your estate attnys , NEVER EVER took the time to actually read the documents that have
the biggest efffect on your family and estate upon death or disablity, its impossible.!!! IMPOSSIBLE .
after telling me that they were confident that everything had been read , and after years , of you telling me
that Im not an attorney, it is clear that my telling you that you have c quality people was over generous, ,
I received a first draft of the summary of documents. you should read them for yourself. . executive
committee issues. , unclear tax. contradictory provisions,your reps having to rely possibly on a fall back
to delaware law to protect your interests, even suggesting that even if they would like to fall back , in
some instances - no case law. other crazy- provisions that are personal to you , instead of you and your
successor ? two pages of"" open to interpretation"" .or aha , maybe something is wrong! asie, your
rep, after death has no right for information on BRH? ! if you and another founder are dead , the exec
commitee has no decision authority, if josh and mark want to fuck your heirs, its easy, black family
partner docs dont deal with succession! YOU deserve better. _ fyi, after a month of brad ada and alan
,on the project, still not willing to share with me a final, they are all embarassed. and full of excuses .

It will take wendy and a new team 6 to 9 months to put your house in order. , new cash flows. new
accounting system, airplane rethought, , you new hires can find deals , they can familiarize themselves
with your current investments , but should not be doing the accounting for them, .

your will is still not amended, ?! the tenants in common not even explained to you. if something happens
to you and debra, no real direction for the foundation. . etc

Date: Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 4:17 AM
Subject:

To: Melanie Spinella {>

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IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028194.txt,"/ BARAK / 60

would agree to make them part of a Palestinian state. The second principle was that
“Jerusalem will remain united.” It would not be cut into Jewish and Arab halves as
had happened between 1948 and 1967. That, I knew, might prove tougher to carry
through on. But even if I had to concede a degree of Palestinian control in parts of
east Jerusalem, I expected to be able to retain Israeli sovereignty over the city. The
third principle was that there would be “no foreign army west of the Jordan River.”
In other words, if we did hand back at least the major part of the West Bank, it
would be demilitarized and we would have security control over the Jordan Valley.
Finally, we would not “‘accept responsibility for the birth of the refugee problem
and its solution.” Though there could be a “right of return” into a new Palestinian
state, we would not agree to rewrite the history of the 1948 war by sanctioning the
resettlement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians inside the State of Israel.

I think it was the very fact we were talking about a comprehensive peace
agreement that made it so hard for my Orthodox and right-of-center coalition
partners. They didn’t see the attraction of coming to final terms of peace. They
knew it would mean concessions. There would be a Palestinian state. We would
give up the great majority of Biblical Judaea and Samaria. While most of the
settlers would remain, since they lived in the major blocs, those in more isolated
settlements around the West Bank would have to be moved. They saw the prospect
of a final peace only in terms of what we were giving up. They didn’t see what we
would gain: not just peace, and international recognition and endorsement for it.
But normalcy: the central aim of Zionism. Jews living in a state like any other.
Ever since 1967, we had been in control of the daily lives of hundreds of thousands
of Palestinians on the West Bank and in Gaza. That was bad for them. But it had
been bad for us too. Fifty-two years after the birth of our state, we still didn’t have
a permanent, internationally recognized border. Rather than dealing with our
economic and social issues like other states, we were beset by internal divisions
that were in no small part a result of our unresolved conflict with the Palestinians.

Shas, the National Religious Party and Sharansky’s Yisrael ba’Aliyah were all
threatening to pull out of the government because of the summit. Nothing I said
could change their minds. Sharansky was the first to declare he was leaving. A few
hours later, Shas and the NRP followed suit. If the Likud mustered the required 61
votes for the no-confidence motion it was introducing before I got on the plane to
the US, the government would fall. If the parties that had left the coalition, with a
total of 28 seats, went along with Arik Sharon, it wouldn’t be close. As if that

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IMAGES-012-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032816.txt,"From: Weingarten, Reid aa

Sent: 10/3/2018 1:02:13 PM
To: J [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Re:

Importance: — High
Had a gut that's where you would come out

Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.

From: J

Sent: Wednesday, October 3, 2018 7:34 AM
To: Weingarten, Reid

Subject: Re:

fred gave him 15k as a3 year old only . however ( written 200k in ""todays dollars"" ) then they compound
their silliness, stating that he was a millonair at age 8.? all silly, . if fred put 2k in treasuries the same

year ,and didnt invest it it would be worth 1 million today. instead he invested in real estate. taxes on estates
and gigts are taxed on the value of what was transferred not the underlying thing. ex if you own 10 percent
of a partnership interest in a 1 million builidng that cannot be sold for 20 years. what is the value of your
interest. not 10 percent of 1 million as you only own a Itd partnership right. maybe 2 percent. its all legal

On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 7:21 AM Weingarten, Reid (i wrote:

Anything surprise you?

Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.

From: J

Sent: Tuesday, October 2, 2018 11:45 PM
To: Weingarten, Reid

Subject: Re:

Florida
On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 9:58 PM Weingarten, Reid wrote:
Reading the nytimes trump tax story...so wish | was with you right now...so where are you?

Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.

From: jeffrey E.

Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2018 11:42 AM
To: Weingarten, Reid

Subject:

where?

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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018185.txt,"By Nancy Francis

GPS technology will soon be at your feet, offering peace of mind to loved ones of Alzheimer’s
sufferers, people with autism, active preschoolers and others who might wander into harm’s way
or get lost.

A Los Angeles-based company that sees opportunity in the merging of GPS tracking technology
and footwear, has developed several prototypes of GPS tennis shoes.

GTX Corporation is having discussions with various footwear manufactures (including some in
Oregon) about licensing its technological designs and connectivity system.

During a recent visit to Portland, GTX Corp CEO Patrick Bertagna showed KGW a prototype of

the company’s GPS shoe.
Download the full article
Mobile Ways to Keep Track of Your Kids

By Lori Tucker, (WATE) Knoxville, TN -- June 7, 2007

As technology makes our society more mobile, there are more mobile ways to keep track of your
loved ones including cell phones, car trackers and even shoes. GPS shoes That's right, an LA
company has patented a GPS system in a shoe.

Xplorer Smart Shoes, made by GTX Corp., are able to track the person wearing them in real time
or by remote surveillance.

GTX says the shoes work particularly well for: children, people with Alzheimer's disease, outdoor

adventures, military, police, fire and public safety workers.
IN THE PIPELINE: Tracking All The Uses For Positioning Chips

By Donna Fuscaldo - DowJones Newswire - May 1, 2007

For Patrick Bertagna, the eureka moment came a few years ago when watching the coverage of the
Elizabeth Smart abduction. After spending years helping companies track their products via
software, Bertagna decided it was time to do something that mattered.

So the serial entrepreneur, armed with a couple of checks from friends, launched Global Trek
Xploration Corp., a Los Angeles-based company that's developing shoes embedded with a global
positioning chip. The shoes will enable parents to monitor their children's every movement and

caregivers to keep real time tabs on elderly or sick people.

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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020053.txt,"The natural default might be to do smaller things, incremental versions of the program.
But Trump showed little interest in the small stuff. He became listless and irritable.

So, okay, it would have to be peace in the Middle East.

For Trump, as for many showmen or press release entrepreneurs, the enemy of
everything is complexity and red tape, and the solution for everything is cutting corners.
Bypass or ignore the difficulties; just move in a straight line to the vision, which, if it’s
bold enough, or grandiose enough, will sell itself. In this formula, there is always a series
of middlemen who will promise to help you cut the corners, as well as partners who will
be happy to piggyback on your grandiosity.

Enter the Crown Prince of the House of Saud, Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz
Al Saud, age thirty-one. Aka MBS.

The fortuitous circumstance was that the king of Saudi Arabia, MBS’s father, was
losing it. The consensus in the Saudi royal family about a need to modernize was growing
stronger (somewhat). MBS—an inveterate player of video games—was a new sort of
personality in the Saudi leadership. He was voluble, open, and expansive, a charmer and
an international player, a canny salesman rather than a remote, taciturn grandee. He had
seized the economic portfolio and was pursuing a vision—quite a Trumpian vision—to
out-Dubai Dubai and diversify the economy. His would be a new, modern—well, a bit
more modern—kingdom (yes, women would soon be allowed to drive—so thank God
self-driving cars were coming!). Saudi leadership was marked by age, traditionalism,
relative anonymity, and careful consensus thinking. The Saudi royal family, on the other
hand, whence the leadership class comes, was often marked by excess, flash, and the
partaking of the joys of modernity in foreign ports. MBS, a man in a hurry, was trying to
bridge the Saudi royal selves.

Global liberal leadership had been all but paralyzed by the election of Donald Trump—
indeed, by the very existence of Donald Trump. But it was an inverted universe in the
Middle East. The Obama truculence and hyperrationalization and micromanaging,
preceded by the Bush moral militarism and ensuing disruptions, preceded by Clinton deal
making, quid pro quo, and backstabbing, had opened the way for Trump’s version of
realpolitik. He had no patience with the our-hands-are-tied ennui of the post-cold war
order, that sense of the chess board locked in place, of incremental movement being the
best-case scenario—the alternative being only war. His was a much simpler view: Who’s
got the power? Give me his number.

And, just as basically: The enemy of my enemy is my friend. If Trump had one fixed
point of reference in the Middle East, it was—mostly courtesy of Michael Flynn’s tutoring
—that Iran was the bad guy. Hence everybody opposed to Iran was a pretty good guy.

After the election, MBS had reached out to Kushner. In the confusion of the Trump
transition, nobody with foreign policy stature and an international network had been put in

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IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011230.txt,"DoGeFa RT @cestrosiOff: Et des milliers de votes par 23 Jun 2016, 1 | negative
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yield >5%... not even 1 #DJIA stock > 4.5%. Buy #UK
https://t.a€ |
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https://t.co/YnKtA1CaBN https://t.co/OI7vuOvvUc 13:13 - CEST
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fury and | love that shit.
HainesWatt | Today is a onceina generation referendum what will | 23 Jun 2016, | Leeds, 0 | positive
sLds you be voting for? #EUReferendum #Brexit 13:13 - CEST | England
steph_arella | RT @washingtonpost: What is Brexit? The complete 23 Jun 2016, | Santiago 17 | negative
no guide to Britaina€™s E.U. drama for confused 13:13 - CEST | , Chile
nonEuropeans. https://t.co/UvSTeRLYKJ
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@_ignaciomolina sobre #Brexit en nuestro especial: 13:13 - CEST | Spain
https://t.co/hZun5kKJOAa https://t.co/Y4uAB3ylYp
Stourbridge | Brexitbacking Dudley MEP targeting the undecidedin | 23 Jun 2016, 0 | neutral
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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012581.txt,"JAY P. LEFKOWITZ, Eso.
DECEMBER 13, 2007
PAGE 5 OF 5

With respect to Ms. Miller, I contacted her attorney - who was paid for by Mr. Epstein and
was directed by counsel for Mr. Epstein to demand immunity — and asked only whether he still
represented Ms. Miller and if he wanted me to send the victim notification letter to him. He asked
what the letter would say and I told him that the letter would be forthcoming in about a week and
that I could not provide him with the terms. With respect to Ms. Miller’s status as a victim, you
again want us to accept as true only facts that are beneficial to your client and to reject as false
anything detrimental to him. Ms. Miller made a number of statements that are contradicted by
documentary evidence and a review of her recorded statement shows her lack of credibility with
respect to anumber of statements. Based upon all of the evidence collected, Ms. Miller is classified
as a victim as defined by statute. Of course, that does not mean that Ms. Miller considers herself
a victim or that she would seek damages from Mr. Epstein. I believe that a number of the identified
victims will not seek damages, but that does not negate their legal status as victims.

I hope that you now understand that your accusations against myself and the agents are
unfounded. In the future, I recommend that you address your accusations to me so that I can correct
any misunderstandings before you make false allegations to others in the Department. I hope that
we can move forward with a professional resolution of this matter, whether that be by your client’s
adherence to the contract that he signed, or by virtue of a trial.

Sincerely,

R. Alexander Acosta
United States Attorney

By: s/A. Marie Villafaria
A. Marie Villafafia
Assistant United States Attorney

cc: — R. Alexander Acosta, U.S. Attorney
Jeffrey Sloman, First Assistant U.S. Attorney

You also accuse me of “broaden[ing] the scope of the investigation without any foundation
for doing so by adding charges of money laundering and violations of amoney transmitting business
to the investigation.” Again, I consulted with the Justice Department’s Money Laundering Section
about my analysis before expanding that scope. The duty attorney agreed with my analysis.

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013847.txt,"activities—e-mail, phone calls, conversations, paperwork, meetings, advertising, customers, suppliers,
products, services, etc.—Wwhat would you eliminate to keep the negative effect on income to a minimum?
Used even once per month, this question alone can keep you sane and on track.

4. What are the top-three activities that I use to fill time to feel as though P’ve been productive?
These are usually used to postpone more important actions (often uncomfortable because there is a
chance of failure or rejection). Be honest with yourself, as we all do this on occasion. What are your
crutch activities?

5. Who are the 20% of people who produce 80% of your enjoyment and propel you forward, and
which 20% cause 80% of your depression, anger, and second-guessing?
Identify:

e » Positive friends versus time-consuming friends: Who is helping
versus hurting you, and how do you increase your time with the
former while decreasing or eliminating your time with the latter?

e » Who is causing me stress disproportionate to the time I spend with
them? What will happen if I simply stop interacting with these
people? Fear-setting helps here.

e+ When do I feel starved for time? What commitments, thoughts,
and people can I eliminate to fix this problem’?

Exact numbers aren’t needed to realize that we spend too much time with those who poison us with
pessimism, sloth, and low expectations of themselves and the world. It is often the case that you have to
fire certain friends or retire from particular social circles to have the life you want. This isn’t being
mean; it is being practical. Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic.

The best way to approach a potential break is simple: Confide in them honestly but tactfully and
explain your concerns. If they bite back, your conclusions have been confirmed. Drop them like any
other bad habit. If they promise to change, first spend at least two weeks apart to develop other positive
influences in your life and diminish psychological dependency. The next trial period should have a set
duration and consist of pass-or-fail criteria.

If this approach is too confrontational for you, just politely refuse to interact with them. Be in the
middle of something when the call comes, and have a prior commitment when the invitation to hang out
comes. Once you see the benefits of decreased time with these people, it will be easier to stop
communication altogether.

I’m not going to lie: It sucks. It hurts like pulling out a splinter. But you are the average of the five
people you associate with most, so do not underestimate the effects of your pessimistic, unambitious, or
disorganized friends. If someone isn’t making you stronger, they’re making you weaker.

Remove the splinters and you'll thank yourself for it.

6. Learn to ask, “If this is the only thing I accomplish today, will I be satisfied with my day?”
Don’t ever arrive at the office or in front of your computer without a clear list of priorities. You’ll just
read unassociated e-mail and scramble your brain for the day. Compile your to-do list for tomorrow no

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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029379.txt,"the Palestinians, though the effort did
not succeed. Nor did we succeed
(Rabin and Peres, myself, Olmert and
Bibi as well). They shouldn't be
ridiculed and debased for this. They
should be appreciated. Even if we do
not agree on all the details.

¢ We will yet need their help in
facing many trials in the future.

¢ J recommend that we all
remember this well. The rules of
working with the Americans: Do not
marginalize yourself. Do not fold. Yes
— remember what the U.S. is for Israel.
And Maintain—at almost any cost —
mutual relations of trust and respect.
It's good for Israel.

¢ The American Congress,
President Obama, Biden and Kerry are
part of the solution, even if it tarries.

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TEXT-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032206.txt,"From: Multiple Senders [Multiple Senders] 
Sent: 8/24/2017 2:20:29 AM 
To: lawkrauss; jeevacation 
Subject: lawkrauss -- 2017/08/24 
lawkrauss 
08/24/2017 01:20:29 AM 
lawkrauss 
08/24/2017 01:20:39 AM 
can we talk tonight? I need advise. 
lawkrauss 
08/24/2017 03:33:24 AM 
I have a question of some urgency. Can you call me tonight at 
jeevacation 
08/24/2017 10:40:28 AM 
Consult a lawyer beforehand, if possible, but be cooperative/nice at this stage. But this sounds like an internal 
discipline matter rather than Title IX. Going into court this morning but can focus/reflect more on this after I 
emerge (around noon Central). Doing great! Hope you are as well. Breakers at Thanksgiving. Where will 
Jeffrey be? Sent from my iPhone On Aug 24, 2017, at 5:24 AM, jeffrey E. wrote: > Lawrence Krauss, 
professor at Arizona, says office of diversity contacts him saying a third party, said you inappropriatly touched 
another person in AUSTRAILIA after a Skeptics type event. They asked him to sign a paper saying he received 
notice of the investigation, any statments made could not be used in a court to incriminate him. and if he didnt 
sign or agree, he was open to disciplinary action. He was concerced that an investigation will now always be 
part of his file. . he was going to meet the title nine woman today. does he bring a lawyer. does he record the 
meeting, does he say, he will say nothing but is wiling to listen ? not a good environment nowadays. how are 
you? > > On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 5:56 AM, Starr, Ken wrote: > > No. Emphatically not if the victim is not a 
student. What's the student-status, if any, of the ""victim?"" > > Hugs, Ken > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Aug 
24, 2017, at 4:48 AM, jeffrey E. wrote: > >> A professor friend is told by title nine person that a third party 
filed a complaint alleging inappropriate touching of a person , not the third party, at a bar in another country by 
the professor after he gave a lecture for money to an unrelated organization. Jurisdiction? >> 
jeevacation 
08/24/2017 10:40:59 AM 
from the worlds expert KEN STARR. clinton. removed from Baylor under title 9. 
jeevacation 
08/24/2017 05:47:55 PM 
news? 
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jeevacation 
08/24/2017 05:48:25 PM 
what happened? 
jeevacation 
08/24/2017 07:14:01 PM 
??? 
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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032476.txt,"From: Michael Wolff

Sent: 2/15/2017 1:53:41 PM
To: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Re: A few favors...

Importance: — High
Thanks. Any time to get together today?

On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 8:52 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
kathy agreed

On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 8:31 AM, Michael Wolff i vote:

When in NYC?

On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 8:25 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
can you send me an email to forward to tom. hes in the middle 0 some of the mess at the
moment. everyone lawyering up in wash.

On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 8:16 AM, Michael Wolff i wrote:

So...I'm doing this Trump book for a pile of money and with so far quite a bit of cooperation from them (DT
called me the other day and spent 45 minutes on the phone ranting and raving about the media--alarming). I
wonder if you could introduce me to Tom Barrack--just to say I'm a journalist who you know and trust, and
that I'll follow up with a description of the project that I'm doing. Also, I'd love a reintroduction to Kathy
Ruemmler. I need some off-the-record perspective on White House procedures.

Are you in NYC soon?

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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030871.txt,"From: paul krassner 
Sent: 7/21/2017 4:13:33 AM 
To: jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Subject: hey 
Importance: High 
J. or Jeff or Jeffrey, 
Hope things are going well for you. 
I finally finished trimming down my collection from 700 pages to 400, ""60 Years of Investigative Satire: The 
Best of PK."" The piece below is the last one in the book. You've previously seen the first half 
Enjoy, 
Paul or Zen Bastard or Rumpleforeskin 
Alternative Facts 
Between the choice of a one-man-one-vote (Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia) and fake news of Weapons 
of Mass Destruction, invasion of Iraq, and horror of ISIS, George Bush was elected president in the year 2000. It 
was due to the electoral college (a rigged system which originally intended to prevent slaves from voting and 
evolved to gerrymandering), even though Bush's opponent, Al Gore, won the national popular vote. 
Hillary Clinton was elected senator that year, and she announced that the first thing she would do was to get rid 
of the electoral college. A few years later, as a columnist for the New York Press, I sent her a letter asking about 
the status of that promise. She didn't reply. 
On November 8, 2016, a crooked businessman, liar extraordinaire, bragging pussy-grabber, make-America-
white-again, anti-choice, anti-Semite, fake Christian, climate-change hoaxer, twitter addict, homophobic, 
apprentice politician, friendly fascist, and Vladimir Putin's ""useful idiot,"" namely Donald Trump, who was 
elected as an insanely narcissistic dictator based on the electoral college, whereas his opponent, Hillary Clinton, 
won the national popular vote by ""more than three million"" individuals. 
Irony lives. 
But an incredibly cruel monster inadvertently awakened a sleeping population to counteract the essence of evil 
with love, laughs, and law, fueled by the aid of true news. Incidentally, Putin had 88 journalists murdered. No 
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wonder Trump told him, ""It's an honor to be with you."" Now Putin wanted new Obama's sanctions on Russia to 
be reprieved. 
National Security Adviser Michael Flynn had discussed it with the Russian ambassador a month before Trump 
took office. Although General Flynn joined his campaign and shared criminal secrets, he denied them to the FBI. 
It was a felony offense. The Justice Department warned Trump that Flynn had misled Mike Pence, and that Flynt 
could be vulnerable to blackmail. Trump asked Flynn to resign, and yet he offered his job back when he got out 
of prison. Why? Because Flynt was the scapegoat, taking the fall for the president and vice-president. He preferred 
a trial with immunity since they knew. Pence said Flynt lied and that itself was a lie. 
If Trump and Pence were both to be kicked out of the White House, the next in line would be the Speaker of the 
House, Paul Ryan. Steve Bannon has described him as ""a limp-dick motherfucker who was born in a petri dish at 
the Heritage Foundation."" It takes one to know one. Indeed, Bannon said he wanted to destroy Ryan. 
Hallelujah! 
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"
TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028958.txt,"From: soon yi previn 
Sent: 12/8/2015 5:58:45 PM 
To: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com] 
Subject: Re: following up: WA poetry release 
Importance: High 
Open in principle depending on specially how and where it would be shown and how it would be advertised-
both subject to particular requirements and/or restrictions.Also dependent on approval of final cut. Would enter 
project with positive attitude but release would be reworked by lawyer. 
Sent from Soon-Yi's iPhone 
On Dec 8, 2015, at 10:40 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
----------Forwarded message 
From: Leah Reis-Dennis <1  
Date: Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 11:33 AM 
Subject: following up: WA poetry release_ 
To: jeevacation@gmail.com, Lisa New < 
Dear Jeffrey, 
> 
My name is Leah Reis-Dennis, and I'll be heading operations for Lisa's new non-profit, Verse Video Education. 
She's asked me to be in touch with you about helping us get a release from Woody Allen. 
First, I wanted to send along the rough stringout of footage from the conversation with Woody a couple of years 
ago on ""This is Just to Say"" by William Carlos Williams. This is totally unedited and uncut footage, but we 
would love the opportunity to turn it into something great. 
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/cObnljj xeo0654g/uWZ6KBVbLS?preview=WoodyAllen+Basic+Clip+for+Viewing.mov  
If Woody Allen agrees to let us use the footage, he will be in distinguished company. To date, we have filmed 
conversations about poetry with dozens of distinguished Americans including: 
Bill Clinton 
Al Gore 
John McCain 
Mayor Rahm Emanuel 
Mayor Tom Menino 
Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan 
Sir Mervyn King 
Former Secretary of the Treasury Larry Summers 
The conversation would be part of a large multiplatform initiative that Harvard Professor Lisa New has under 
way to bring poetry into the mainstream, and, especially, into English Language Arts classrooms in the United 
States and around the world. The initiative, Poetry in America, includes a HarvardX online course, a television 
series we're creating with WGBH to be paired with PBS LearningMedia segments for the classroom, and, a 
series of online professional development courses we're creating for ELA Middle and High School teachers and 
for their students. 
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Let us know if Woody Allen might be open to our sending another release form his way. Of course, if he's 
interested in releasing the footage for only certain parts of our project, we're open to having a conversation 
about that, too. 
Thank you, and I hope to meet you soon. 
Best, Leah 
Leah Reis-Dennis 
Poetry in America  
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IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_010648.txt,"OGE Form 278e (March 2014)
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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032310.txt,"communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited
and may be unlawful. If you have received this
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TEXT-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032560.txt,"From: Michael Wolff 
Sent: 7/31/2017 3:56:48 PM 
To: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com] 
Subject: Re: 
Importance: High 
Met him at dinner last night. He had some good Trump stories. 
On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 11:45 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
not well. martha stewarts old buddy 
On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 11:37 AM, Michael Wolff < wrote: 
...he's trying to get Sessions to take Homeland Security. Do you know Sam Waksal? 
On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 11:31 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
donald now down on tillerson 
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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028701.txt,"Under this structure, Hezbollah's militia
and terrorist activities, along with its
security organ, all report to the Jihad
Council. Until he was killed, Mughniyeh
was Hezbollah's top militant commander
and reportedly led the Jihad Council
himself. By some accounts, he also held a
seat on the Majlis al-Shura, which would
be typical for the party's standing military
commander.

Unlike its sister councils, however, the
Jihad Council enjoys strategic ambiguity.
Neither the majority of Hezbollah officials
nor the party's elected parliamentarians are
aware of the details of their party's covert
military and terrorist activities, which are
decided on by the most senior leadership.
According to the U.S. government, these
activities are ""executed"" by the leadership
of Hezbollah's military apparatus, known
as the Islamic Resistance and led by
Badreddine, and by the IJO, led by Talal
Hami1yah, and they are ""overseen"" by
Nasrallah.

Europe's approach to Hezbollah has been
varied. Many European governments have
resisted international efforts to designate
the organization as a terrorist group by
distinguishing between Hezbollah's
political and military wings. Britain
distinguishes among Hezbollah's terrorist
wing (the Islamic Jihad Organization),
military wing, and political wing, and the
country banned the IJO in 2000 and the

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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026296.txt,"From: ee

Sent: 7/29/2018 10:21:16 PM
To: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Re:

Importance: — High
i thought so
Sent from my iPhone

On Jul 29, 2018, at 8:43 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:

Unlikely

On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 1:34 PM qq wrote:

i was told that GCC leaders will meet Trump on or around sep 5 .. 1 hope this dispute comes to an ending
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On Jul 24, 2018, at 7:35 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:

great

On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 6:25 PM, <_ Wrote:

if you are in NY , maybe 1 visit in september
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On Jul 23, 2018, at 10:57 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:

now where is my friend?

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IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011556.txt,"The intellectual experience at university everything I hoped. The challenge
was finding a way to juggle my studies with my military reserve duty. In other
units, most reservists could schedule their one month per year when classes
weren’t in session. To be of use to Sayeret Matkal, Pd have to report when I
was most needed, and four weeks was unlikely to be enough. Near the end of
my first term, from late 1965 into the new year, I was called to participate in our
latest mission into the Sinai. The next winter, and through early 1967, I was
called up for another mission and was away for nearly two months.

That operation was prompted by the fact the Egyptians had begun laying a
new communications cable, parallel to the one where we’d put our intercepts.

With the diggers getting closer to where I’d led the first Sinai mission, the
kirya was worried that they might unearth the apparatus we’d installed. In
theory, at least, we’d planned for that. The bugging unit which we buried
included a booby-trap explosive device. Still, nearly four years on, we couldn’t
be absolutely sure it would work. So the decision was taken to send the sayeret
back on a further night crossing into the Sinai, defuse the explosives, and bring
the whole thing back to Israel. Since I was the one who’d installed it, I was
given the job of removing it.

The officer in overall command of the mission was Nechemia Cohen. He
was a good friend, and one of the finest officers in the unit. Before I left for
university, I’d mentored him so that he could take over my role as the effective
number-two officer in the sayeret, in charge of all our core operational
activities. He, too, was now about to leave, though not to for university. He was
becoming deputy commander of a paratroop company, under another former
Sayeret Matkal, named Yechiel Amsalem.

I was meant to defuse the booby-trap remotely: with a 12-foot-long metal
tool designed by the technology unit. I was fairly confident I’d manage. But
when Chief-of-StaffRabin heard about the operation, he summoned me, along
with Eliezer Gonn, the scientist working with us on the plan to defuse the
booby-trap. Rabin was with a half-dozen other officers when we arrived. Gonn
had brought along a mock-up of the explosive device, which he proceeded to
place on Rabin’s office table. But as I took out the extension tool and started to
explain how I was going to defuse the device, Rabin turned to Gonn and asked:
“Could it blow up spontaneously?”

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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016816.txt,"to spend time with physicists, the reason being that they think about the universe, 1.e.
everything. And no physicist was reputed to be articulate as Feynman. I couldn’t wait to
meet him. I accepted. That said, I am not a scientist, and I had never entertained the idea
of getting on a stage and delivering a “lecture” of any kind, least of all a commentary on
an obscure mathematical theory in front of a group identified as the world’s most
interesting thinkers. Only upon my arrival in Big Sur did I find out the reason for my
very late invitation. “When is Feynman’s talk?” I asked at the desk. “Oh, didn’t Alan
Watts tell you? Richard is ill and has been hospitalized. You’re his replacement. And, by
the way, what’s the title of your keynote lecture?”

I tried to make myself invisible for several days. Alan Watts, realizing that I was
avoiding the podium, woke me up one night with a 3am knock on the door of my room. I
opened the door to find him standing in front of me wearing a monk’s robe with a hood
that covering much of his face. His arms extended, he held a lantern in one hand, and a
magnum of scotch on the other.

“John”, he said in a deep voice with a rich aristocratic British accent, “you are a
phony.” “And, John”, he continued, Iam a phony. But John, Iam a real phony!”

The next day I gave my lecture, entitled ""Einstein, Gertrude Stein, Wittgenstein,
and Frankenstein."" Einstein: the revolution in 20"" century physics; Gertrude Stein: the
first writer who made integral to her work the idea of an indeterminate and discontinuous
universe. Words represented neither character nor activity: A rose is a rose is a rose, and
a universe is a universe is a universe. ); Wittgenstein: the world as limits of language.
“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world”. The end of the distinction
between observer and observed. Frankenstein: Cybernetics AI, robotics, all the essayists
in this volume.

The lecture had unanticipated consequences. Among the participants at the AUM
Conference were several authors of #1 New York Times bestsellers, yet no one there had
a literary agent. And I realized that all were engaged in writing a genre of book both
unnamed and unrecognized by New York publishers. Since I had an MBA from
Colombia Business School, and a series of relative successes in business, I was
dragooned into becoming an agent, initially for Gregory Bateson and John Lilly, whose
books I sold quickly, and for sums that caught my attention, thus kick-starting my career
as a literary agent.

I never did meet Richard Feynman.

The Long AI Winters

This new career put me in close touch with most of the AI pioneers, and over the decades
I rode with them on waves of enthusiasm, and into valleys of disappointment.

In the early ‘80s the Japanese government mounted a national effort to advance
AI. They called it the 5“ Generation; their goal was to change the architecture of
computation by breaking “the von Neumann bottleneck”, by creating a massively parallel
computer. In so doing, they hoped to jumpstart their economy and become a dominant
world power in the field. In1983, the leader of the Japanese 5“ Generation consortium
came to New York for a meeting organized by Heinz Pagels, the president of the New
York Academy of Sciences. I had a seat at the table alongside the leaders of the 1“
generation, Marvin Minsky and John McCarthy, the 2""! generation, Edward Feigenbaum

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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030507.txt,"Date: Wednesday, November 3 2010 02:43 PM

Subject: Re: Quick question
From: Jeevacation <jeevacation@gmail.com>

Do you want more free city for chanukH?

Sorry for all the typos .Sent from my iPhone

On Nov 3, 2010, at 3:36 PM, [i wrote:

> Hey Unc,
> Quick Question...do u think Larry Summers would come to Trinity to speak about Obama, the economy, the

government in general, etc?
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IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026807.txt,"Whipsawed! Democrats may be poised to regain
control of the Senate in 2016

GE Republican-Held Seats J Democratic-Held Seats WE open Seats No Election in 2016

- 23 seats have Republican incumbents, 7 seats with Democratic incumbents
- There are 4 open seats: California, Maryland, Indiana and Nevada

Deutsche Bank Francis J. Kelly Source: National Journal
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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024481.txt,"Such interests may involve risks in connection with such third-party involvement, including the possibility
that a third-party may be in a position to take (or block) action in a manner contrary to the Company’s
objectives or may have financial difficulties resulting in a negative impact on such interest. Acquisitions
made with third parties in joint ventures or other entities also may involve carried interests and/or other
fees payable to such third party partners or co-venturers. There can be no assurance that desirable
minority shareholder rights will be available or that such rights will provide sufficient protection of the
Company’s interests.

6.1.9 Certain of the Company's businesses may require additional capital

Certain of the Company’s businesses, especially those in development phases, may require additional
financing to satisfy their working capital requirements. The amount of the additional financing needed will
depend upon the maturity and objectives of the particular business. The Company may seek to raise any
required capital from different sources, and subsidiaries in foreign countries may raise capital locally. The
availability of capital is generally a function of capital market conditions that are beyond the control of the
Company. There can be no assurance that the Company will be able to predict accurately the future
capital requirements necessary for success or that additional funds will be available from any source as
needed. An inability to timely raise capital may materially and adversely affect the Company and/or its
business.

6.1.10 KUE’s subsidiaries operate in regulated industries; failure to comply with
governmental regulation and licensing requirements could have a material
adverse effect on operations

The pre-K-12 education business is highly regulated and is often subsidized with government funding or
reimbursement programs. In addition, KUE and its subsidiaries may require the consent or approval of
applicable regulatory authorities in order to acquire or operate particular businesses, including in foreign
jurisdictions where the Company has limited or no experience with the regulatory framework. Failure to
comply with applicable laws or regulations, or failure or inability to obtain applicable approvals, could have
a material adverse effect on the operations of KUE and/or its subsidiaries.

For example, KLC's centers and school programs are subject to numerous state and local regulations and
licensing requirements. KLC has policies and procedures in place to assist in complying with such
regulations and requirements. Although these regulations vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, government
agencies generally review, among ciher things, the fitness and adequacy of buildings and equipment, the
ratio of staff personnel to enrolled children, staff training, record keeping, children's dietary program, the
daily curriculum, and compliance with health and safety standards and transportation safety. In most
jurisdictions, these agencies conduct scheduled and unscheduled inspections of the centers and licenses
must be renewed periodically. Most jurisdictions establish requirements for background checks or other
clearance procedures for new employees of child care centers and school programs. Repeated failures
by any of KLC's centers to comply with applicable regulations may result in sanctions against that center
or program and other centers or programs in the same jurisdiction, including probation or, in more serious
cases, suspension or revocation of a center's or program's license to operate. In addition, this type of
action could attract negative publicity extending beyond that jurisdiction.

A licensing authority may determine that a particular center or program is in violation of applicable
regulations and may take action against that center or program and possibly other centers or programs in
the same jurisdiction, For more information, see ""The Operating Company (KLC OpCo)} — Licensing and
Government Regulation.""

6.1.11 Future legislation or new regulations may place additional burdens on the
Company and have a material adverse effect on operations

Additional, different and/or more stringent regulations and licensing requirements may become applicable
in the future due to changes in laws and regulations, judicial or administrative interpretations of existing
laws and regulations, changes in the Company's business strategy or for other reasons. State authorities

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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031619.txt,"From:
Sent:
To:
Subject:

jeffrey E.[jeevacation@gmail.com]
Sat 10/8/2016 1:29:26 AM (UTC)

Stephen Hanson

Re: Breaking News: Donald Trump brags in vulgar terms about groping women
in a 2005 recording, saying, ""When you're a star they let you do it""

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/927

On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 6:30 PM, Stephen Hanson {> wrote:

Ouch

Sent from my iPad

Begin forwarded message:

From: NYTimes.com News Alert <nytdirect@nytimes.com>

Date: October 7, 2016 at 5:40:40 PM EDT

To:

Subject: Breaking News: Donald Trump brags in vulgar terms about
groping women in a 2005 recording, saying, ""When you're a star they let
you do it""

dd nytdirect@nytimes.com to yo

October 07, 2016

NYTimes.com »

Breaking News Alert

BREAKING NEWS

Donald Trump brags in vulgar terms
about groping women in a 2005
recording, saying, “When youre a
star they let you do it”

Friday, October 7, 2016 5:28 PM EDT

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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016802.txt,"view, the market’s expectation for looser monetary policy
together with recent comments by President Trump
implying a desire for a weaker greenback have been
tailwinds. In addition to these drivers, we view gold as an
appealing diversifier in light of elevated geopolitical risks.
However, a comprehensive trade deal between the U.S.
and China would likely constitute a more significant

headwind for the yellow metal.

Find out more in this edition of Capital Market Outlook,

and feel free to contact us with any questions you have

about our market views.

Sincerely,
Paul

This material was prepared by the Chief Investment Office (CIO) and is not a publication of BofA Merrill
Lynch Global Research. The views expressed are those of the CIO only and are subject to change. This
information should not be construed as investment advice. It is presented for information purposes only
and is not intended to be either a specific offer by any Merrill or Bank of America entity to sell or
provide, or a specific invitation for a consumer to apply for, any particular retail financial product or
service that may be available.

Global Wealth & Investment Management (GWIM) is a division of Bank of America Corporation. The
Chief Investment Office, which provides investment strategies, due diligence, portfolio construction
guidance and wealth management solutions for GWIM clients, is part of the Investment Solutions Group
(ISG) of GWIM.

Investing involves risk, including the possible loss of principal. Past performance is no guarantee of
future results.

All recommendations must be considered in the context of an individual investor’s goals, time horizon,

liquidity needs and risk tolerance. Not all recommendations will be suitable for all investors.

The risk that exchange rate fluctuations will reduce the value of returns. This arises when investments
denominated in foreign currencies are purchased.

Investments have varying degrees of risk. Some of the risks involved with equity securities include the
possibility that the value of the stocks may fluctuate in response to events specific to the companies or
markets, as well as economic, political or social events in the U.S. or abroad. Investments in foreign
securities involve special risks, including foreign currency risk and the possibility of substantial volatility

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IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020599.txt,"140

also played a key diplomatic role in certain instances, such as providing a liaison

dialogue channel between the United States and North Korea.

In addition, the ILD performs a range of other functions:

e Administering “private sector” liaison organizations to facilitate contact with

think tanks, NGOs, and individuals worldwide;

e Collecting current intelligence and information on the foreign policies,
domestic political scene and political parties, and societies in various nations

worldwide;

e Sending special study teams abroad to research important topics related to

China’s reforms;

e Contributing to the work of Chinese embassies worldwide (usually monitoring
domestic politics and liaising with domestic political parties, movements, and

personages);

e Working with other CCP Central Committee departments and State Council
ministries to facilitate their work overseas (e.g., assisting the United Front Work
Department concerning Taiwan, the External Propaganda Leading Group/State
Council Information Office concerning China’s image abroad, or the National

People’s Congress on parliamentary exchanges);

e Arranging visits of central-level, provincial-level, municipal-level, and

occasionally sub-provincial level CCP officials abroad;

e Hosting foreign leaders, politicians, party officials, ex-officials, as well as a range

of foreign policy specialists, on tours of China;

e Hosting biannual World Political Parties High-Level Meeting, and the annual
“CCP in Dialogue with the World” meeting.

As such, the ILD performs extremely important roles overseas and is a key—but
underappreciated and even unknown—instrument in China’s international influence

activities.

Appendix 1

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IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026813.txt,"Conflict in Ukraine: is it all over but for the shooting?

Ukraine Lines of Withdrawal

- Moscow got what it wanted: securing
the naval port in Sevastopol and creating
a buffer state between Ukraine and
Russia as well as keeping Kiev weak and
unstable.

- But there has been a cost: Sanctions
are crushing the Russian economy and
Crimea has become a giant money pit for
Putin to pour rubles into. A complete
economic mess.

- However, do not exclude possibility of
more violence in Ukraine or elsewhere in
the region. eee
- Still waiting for any significant financial
aid or military relief from EU or US. Word
to the wise: do not hold your breath.

- One other conflict is now drawing in
Russian troops: Syria. Russian pilots are
now flying missions with Syrian Air Force.

*
Warsaw

Source: Washington Post; IIF,

Deutsche Bank Francis J. Kelly
Global Public Affairs francis.j.kelly@db.com

Percentage of population that
identified Russian as their
native language (2001 census)

|
10% 20 30 50%

RUSSIA

National Bank of Ukraine 7

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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024495.txt,"As shown below, an individual with a professional degree earns approximately 100% more than a college
graduate and an individual with a bachelor’s degree earns approximately 70% more than a high school
graduate in their lifetime.

Education and Wage Disparity: Lifetime Earnings (Ages 18-64)

(in millions)

$6.0
$5.0
$4.0
$3.0
$2.0
$1.0

$0.0

1991 1995 1999 2003

=—— Professional Degree Bachelor's Degree =="" High School Diploma

Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Despite the results of the study shown above, 35% of Americans over the age of 18 have not graduated
high school. Only one-third of the 25% of Americans who have received a bachelor’s degree, or 8%,
have received a graduate degree.""®

Studies by Nobel Prize winning economist James Heckman suggest that the highest rate of return within
education is generated through an investment in early childhood programs. Heckman’s study asserts,
“The rate of return to a dollar investment made while a person is young is higher than the rate of return to
the same dollar made at a later age,” as illustrated below:

Preschool
“A Programs

School Opportunity

Return Cost of Funds

""4 Job Training

Preschool School Post School

Age
Source: August 2002 study, James Heckman, University of Chicago.

Due to the high rate of return of investments in ECE and the principles underlying the theory of human
capital, KUE has made its largest initial investment in KLC, the largest company serving the ECE market

in the world.

""6 Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Precedence: ROUTINE Date: 03/12/2011

To: Criminal Investigative Attn: Violent Crime Section

Crimes Against Children Unit
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To: [i Attn: LEGAT
ALAT

From: Miami
Squad PB-2 /
Contacts: SA

Approved By:

Drafted By:
Case ID #: 31E-MM-108062 (Pemdtne}

Title: JEFFREY EPSTEIN;

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WSTA - CHILD PROSTITUTION
Synopsis: Request countr vel authority for two
Miami Agents to travel to fr
03/21/2011 to interview United States Citizen,
Details: : Captioned matter was initiated in July 2006 after the Palm

Beach Police Department (PBPD) requested the assistance of the FBI.
PBPD reported that they had an ongoing investigation regarding EPSTEIN
procuring underage girls from local high schools to perform massages
and sexual acts at his residence.

The victims were usually recruited by other underage females
and after performing various acts were paid sums of money in the $200-
$1000 range.

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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025953.txt,"concepts to each other, but they do not relate the concepts to ""proper"" mental representations of what objects
and processes look like and how they interact. Concepts are probably one of the top layers of the learning
hierarchy, i.e. they are acquired *“after* we learn to simulate a mental world, not before. Classical linguists
ignored the simulation of a mental world entirely.

It seems miraculous that purely conceptual machine translation works at all, but that is because concepts are
shared between speakers, so the structure of the conceptual space can be inferred from the statistics of
language use. But the statistics of language use have too little information to infer what objects look like and
how they interact.

My own original ideas concern a few parts of the emerging understanding of what the brain does. The
""request-confirmation networks"" that I have introduced at a NIPS workshop in last the December are an

attempt at modeling how the higher layers might self-organize into cognitive programs.

Cheers!

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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032304.txt,"From: Darren Indyke

Sent: 10/8/2016 10:48:32 PM
To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Fwd: WSJ inquiry -- on deadline

Importance: — High

Sent from my iPhone

Begin forwarded message:

From: ""Miller, Michael""
Date: October 8, 2016 at 4:52:27 PM EDT

To: ""Darren Indykc iii i
Ce: ""Weingarten, Reid""
Subject: FW: WSJ inquiry -- on deadline

Michael C. Miller
Partner
www.steptoe.com/mmiller

Steptoe

direct Steptoe & Johnson LLP
fax 1114 Avenue of the Americas
cell New York, NY 10036

www.steptoe.com

This message and any attached documents contain information from the law firm Steptoe & Johnson LLP that may be confidential and/or privileged. If
you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, copy, distribute, or use this information. If you have received this transmission in error, please
notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and then delete this message.

From: Palazzolo, Josep

Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2016 4:49 PM
To: Miller, Michael

Subject: WS] inquiry -- on deadline

Hi, Michael.

I'm writing about the Jane Doe case in SDNY involving Mr. Trump and Mr. Epstein. Can | talk to you briefly? Story is likely going
online in the next couple hours. Apologies for the short notice. | wanted to get a comment on behalf of Mr. Epstein.

Thanks and best,
Joe

Joe Palazzolo
Staff reporter

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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026282.txt,"The inspector general wrote that Mr. Strzok’s text messages “created the appearance that investigative
decisions were impacted by bias or improper considerations.” The report adds, importantly, that “most
of the text messages raising such questions pertained to the Russia investigation.”’ Given how biases
ineluctably shape behavior, these facts create a strong inference that by squelching the Clinton
investigation and building a narrative of Trump-Russia collusion, a group of government officials
sought to bolster Mrs. Clinton’s electoral chances and, 1f the unthinkable happened, obtain an insurance

policy to cripple the Trump administration with accusations of illegitimacy.

What does this have to do with Mr. Mueller, who was appointed in May 2017 after President Trump
fired Mr. Comey? The inspector general concludes that the pervasive bias “cast a cloud over the FBI
investigations to which these employees were assigned,” including Crossfire. And if Crossfire was
politically motivated, then its culmination, the appointment of a special counsel, inherited the taint. All
special-counsel activities—investigations, plea deals, subpoenas, reports, indictments and
convictions—are fruit of a poisonous tree, byproducts of a violation of due process. That Mr. Mueller

and his staff had nothing to do with Crossfire’s origin offers no cure.

When the government deprives a person of life, liberty or property, it is required to use fundamentally
fair processes. The Supreme Court has made clear that when governmental action “shocks the
conscience,” it violates due process. Such conduct includes investigative or prosecutorial efforts that

appear, under the totality of the circumstances, to be motivated by corruption, bias or entrapment.

In U.S. v. Russell (1973), the justices observed: “We may someday be presented with a situation in
which the conduct of law enforcement agents is so outrageous that due process principles would
absolutely bar the government from invoking judicial processes to obtain a conviction.” It didn’t take
long. In Blackledge v. Perry (1974), the court concluded that due process was offended by a
prosecutor’s “realistic likelihood of ‘vindictiveness’ ” that tainted the “very initiation of proceedings.”
In Young v. U.S. ex rel. Vuitton (1987), the justices held that because prosecutors have “power to
employ the full machinery of the state in scrutinizing any given individual . .. we must have assurance
that those who would wield this power will be guided solely by their sense of public responsibility for
the attainment of justice.” Prosecutors must be “disinterested” and make “dispassionate assessments,”
free from any personal bias.

In Williams v. Pennsylvania (2016), the court held that a state judge’s potential bias violated due
process because he had played a role, a quarter-century earlier, in prosecuting the death-row inmate
whose habeas corpus petition he was hearing. The passage of time and involvement of others do not

vitiate the taint but heighten “the need for objective rules preventing the operation of bias that might

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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028715.txt,"hills, valleys, and rising apartment blocks --
the future he was in the process of building
-- stretched out in front of him.

""On a good, clear day, you can see Tel
Aviv, Ashdod, and Ashkelon,"" he told me.
""One-third of Palestine and Israel."" Rawabi
is in the second-largest, yet most sparsely-
populated Area A in the West Bank -- from
the terrace, which faces away from Ateret,
you can see expanses of mostly-empty
hills. Perhaps in Masri's mind, they are
awaiting Rawabis of their own. When I
returned to Washington, I asked him in a
phone interview if he viewed his project as
the first of many such planned cities in
Palestine. ""I always say our success 1s
measured not by how many homes we sell.
It is measured when a second Rawabi is
established,” he told me.

Standing on the terrace, I asked him if his
willingness to undertake such a massive
project reflected any optimism about the
coming years -- no one invests this much
time, money, and energy into something if
they expect war is on the horizon. ""This
project is built for today's politics,"" he
replied. ""If it gets a little worse, or a little
better -- fine. If it gets really bad, we're in
trouble. If it doesn't, then great. We're not
waiting on a breakthrough.""

He estimated that Israeli obstruction had
delayed the project by a year and a half.
The bureaucratic inertia could continue:

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IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_010884.txt,"326

033638 1 couple of lines above it that do refer to Virginia 0338027 1 A. The lawyer -- look, this is not the first

033633 2 Roberts, put it in the context. 033827 2 time --

033641 3 My question is: Does that, fairly read, 033827 3 Q. I'm not asking the --

33646 4 constitute testimony that Virginia Roberts and Professor oxaa20 4 A. -~a lawyer has cited the wrong line number
ox3e4s § Dershowitz were in the house at the same time? 33331 5 ona transcript or something, and if you're suggesting
o33681 6 A. Those three sentences, three fines. 033033 6 that -- you know, I will concede that I cited the wrong
ossess | 7 Q. What -- yes, what the brief cites. o33a38 «7 line number for that particular assertion.

o3sses7 8 A. Those -- those three lines: “Not sure. When os3aat 8 Q. And this is what I want to clarify: When you
o370 9 Mr. Dershowitz was visiting. Uh-huh. How often did he | 03342 9 say the wrong line number, if you look at the quotation,

03346 10 there is, up above -- you cited 18 to 20 -- 22 to 25 --
o3e46 11 no, 18 to 20. I'msorry. You cited 18 to 20 which is

033706 10 come?"" Those -- those three lines, I agree, that looks

o3a7zio 11 ‘like a miscitation there. I agree with you on that.
oss714 12 Q. And isn't it true that -- first of all,
033716 13 nothing else is cited in the brief or elsewhere to

o33ass 12 -- do you see that?
o33as7 13 A. Ido see 18 to 20, yes.
oxsase 14 Q. And those lines don't refer to Virginia

03:37:22 14 support -- put -- put aside.

033901 15 Roberts coming to the house, correct?
03:39:02 16 A. Lines 18 to 20 do not refer to Virginia
033910 17 Roberts -- oh, no, wait a minute. Now, this is --

o3a723 15 Other than Virginia Roberts's own testimony,
03.3726 16 this is the only evidence that you cited to the court to
033730 17 support --

o3s7a1 18 A. No, no, no, no, no. That would require a oz312 18 because when I fook at it here, line 15:

033738 19 30-minute answer. o3aa17 19 ""Do you have any recollection of V.R.,

0330-20 20 Virginia Roberts, coming to the house when

oxa7as 20 Q. Okay. I won't ask you a 30-minute answer --
03:37:37 24 MR. SCAROLA: How about -- how about wrapping
033738 22 it up then because it's now 12:10.
oar 23 MR. SIMPSON: I will wrap it up. I have one
033742 24 more -- one more question.
033743 25 THE WITNESS: Okay.

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033021 21 Prince Andrew was there?""

03:30:23 22 Answer: ""It could have been. I'm not sure.

03:39:28 23 ""Not sure. When Mr. Dershowitz was

0330-28 24 visiting?”

03:30:30 25 So now when I read it, actually, I'm now
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033743. 1+ +=BY MR. SIMPSON: 03332 1 going to withdraw my earlier answer, I would -- because
o33743 2 Q. And that is: I just want to confirm that you 033935 2 you know, it's getting late in the day. I'm getting a

033747 3 do agree with me that what was cited to the court for 033937 3 little fuzzy here. When Mr. Dershowitz was visiting,

033750 4 the proposition that they were together, in this 03340 4 uh-huh, could be an affirmative answer read in context
o337s2 5 sentence, doesn't support that proposition? o33045 5 to saying, I don't recall about Prince Andrew, but I do
os37s4  G A. I will agree with you that there appears to 033947 6 recall Virginia Roberts being there. And I think when
033756 7 bea miscitation of the line number -- of the lines 18 o33e49 % we unpack the entirety of the deposition, which we don't
o33a01 8 through 20. o3a982 8 have time right now, that the context that I'm

o33a02 9 Now, you're saying that there is not osaaxss 9 suggesting now would be accurate. So I am not prepared

033804 10 information outside of 8 -~ lines 18 through 20 to 033087 10 to say, as I sit here right now, that those were the

033303 11 support the allegation, and that's going to require a

032050 11. wrong line numbers.

033011 12 much longer answer. o34001 12 Perhaps those are the correct line numbers,

os3a12 13 Q. I don't want a long answer, but I do want to 03-4003 13 but what I think I should have done was to cite

oaza15 14 clarify. When you say “outside” -- oases 14 additional parts of the transcript that would have, in
osaets 15 MR. SCAROLA: You also said one more
o3ae15 16 question.

os3eis 17 MR. SIMPSON: Well, I -- let me just finish

oszate 18 this, so we are not going to have this hanging,

osaato 15 context, made clear that the assertion was correct.
oaaots 16 MR. SCAROLA: With that --

oxa0is 17 MR. SIMPSON: I -- I just need to finish this
034016 18 one or two questions, but this is the topic, so

os4o18 19 fet me finish it.

o34019 20 BY MR. SIMPSON:

oxao19 21 Q. Did you ever watch the video --

cade 22 MR. SCAROLA: Running out of tape --

o3x4o19 23 BY MR. SIMPSON:

03:40:22 24 Q. _ -- of the transcript?

03.4022 25 MR. SCAROLA: We are also running out of tape
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oxzaig 19 because I want to make sure we are communicating.
03:36:21 20 THE WITNESS: Okay. Sure.

03:33:21 21 BY MR. SIMPSON:

03:38:22 22 Q. I understand you're -- you're saying that

03:32 23 there -- there may be evidence --
03:38:26 24 A. Yeah.
o3:38.27 25 QQ. -- elsewhere?

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IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011542.txt,"Despite General Yoffe’s angry protests in the command post, Avraham had told
him what he’d told me back at the base: that once an operation like this was
underway, only the commander on the spot could make life-or-death decisions.
I was “the ramatkal in the field.” But Yoffe had also discovered that his
jerrycans of gasoline were missing. He insisted that if and when I returned
safely from the Golan, I be handed over to the military police.

I don’t know what I would have told the general if he’d asked me directly
whether I broke into his jeep. But in the mix of celebration and relief that the
Syrian operation had succeeded, I got away with what amounted to a plea-
bargain. I promised both Meir Amit and Avraham — at least one of whom
believed me — that it would not happen again.

71
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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020047.txt,"As it happened, the Justice Department—Attorney General Sessions and Deputy
Attorney General Rod Rosenstein—were, independent of the president’s own course,
preparing their case against Comey. They would take the Bedminster line and blame
Comey for errors of his handling of the Clinton email mess—a problematic charge,
because if that was truly the issue, why wasn’t Comey dismissed on that basis as soon as
the Trump administration took office? But in fact, quite regardless of the Sessions and
Rosenstein case, the president had determined to act on his own.

Jared and Ivanka were urging the president on, but even they did not know that the axe
would shortly fall. Hope Hicks, Trump’s steadfast shadow, who otherwise knew
everything the president thought—not least because he was helpless not to express it out
loud—didn’t know. Steve Bannon, however much he worried that the president might
blow, didn’t know. His chief of staff didn’t know. And his press secretary didn’t know. The
president, on the verge of starting a war with the FBI, the DOJ, and many in Congress,
was going rogue.

At some point that afternoon Trump told his daughter and son-in-law about his plan.
They immediately became coconspirators and firmly shut out any competing advice.

Eerily, it was a notably on-time and unruffled day in the West Wing. Mark Halperin,
the political reporter and campaign chronicler, was waiting in the reception area for Hope
Hicks, who fetched him a bit before 5:00 p.m. Fox’s Howard Kurtz was there, too, waiting
for his appointment with Sean Spicer. And Reince Priebus’s assistant had just been out to
tell his five o’clock appointment it would be only a few more minutes.

Just before five, in fact, the president, having not too long before notified McGahn of
his intention, pulled the trigger. Trump’s personal security guard, Keith Schiller, delivered
the termination letter to Comey’s office at the FBI just after five o’clock. The letter’s
second sentence included the words “You are hereby terminated and removed from office,
effective immediately.”

Shortly thereafter, most of the West Wing staff, courtesy of an erroneous report from
Fox News, was for a brief moment under the impression that Comey had resigned. Then,
in a series of information synapses throughout the offices of the West Wing, it became
clear what had actually happened.

“So next it’s a special prosecutor!” said Priebus in disbelief, to no one in particular,
when he learned shortly before five o’clock what was happening.

Spicer, who would later be blamed for not figuring out how to positively spin the
Comey firing, had only minutes to process it.

Not only had the decision been made by the president with almost no consultation
except that of his inner family circle, but the response, and explanation, and even legal
justifications, were also almost exclusively managed by him and his family. Rosenstein
and Sessions’s parallel rationale for the firing was shoehorned in at the last minute, at

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012595.txt,"By signing this agreement, Epstein asserts and certifies that the above has been read
and explained io him, Epstein hereby states that he understands the conditions of this Non-
Prosecution Agreement and agrees to comply with them.

R. ALEXANDER ACOSTA

UNITED STATES ATTORNEY
Dated: By:

A. MARIE VILLAFANA

ASSISTANT U.S. ATTORNEY
Dated: vA i La
Dated:

GERALD LEFCOURT, ESQ.

COUNSEL TO JEFFREY EPSTEIN
Dated:

LILLY ANN SANCHEZ, ESQ.

ATTORNEY FOR JEFFREY EPSTEIN

Page 7 of 7

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IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011224.txt,"ellecome22 | RT @Dwalingen: The Peoples of Europe are hoping for | 23 Jun 2016, 20 | negative
2 a #Brexit domino effect into #Nexit #Frexit etcetc. The | 11:48 - CEST
#EU has failed us all https://ta€ |
Lin_121 @BeverleyTruth @DDawn0 OMG THAT IS TRULY 23 Jun 2016, | England, 0 | positive
WONDERFUL NEWS | SENSE A LANDSLIDE #BREXIT 11:48 - CEST | United
Kingdo
m
zzazzye RT @robertraineyni: Still undecided? #Brexit #EUref 23 Jun 2016, 9 | positive
#VoteLeave This is correct way to complete ballot 11:48 - CEST
https://t.co/B9x6I3pqTn
inspaceitrus | All the best to Brits braving the weather to vote. 23 Jun 2016, | England, 0 | positive
t #iVoted #brexit but as for whether that'll happen or 11:48 - CEST | United
not, | wouldn't want to bet on it. Kingdo
m
LaJovendiPe | RT @DebatAlRojoVivo: FernAindez DAaz:""Lo que me | 23 Jun 2016, 19 | neutral
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ausdjforums | Ea€™s To Soar To Af60 A Pill If Brexit Succeeds at’ 23 Jun 2016, | Australi 0 | positive
https://t.co/IEOVXbIm5M 11:48 -CEST | a
https://t.co/ZOp8XaSifm
Ryanshedde | RT @Dezeen: ""Vote Leave is a vote for a theme park 23 Jun 2016, | Clapha 10 | positive
n instead of a country"" a€“ Sam Jacob: 11:48 - CEST | m,
https://t.co/VQwCV3aVo5 #Opinion England
https://t.co/1T9vhcaaé€ |
PremierLeag | #PremierLeague Picture Special: Every Premier League | 23 Jun 2016, O | neutral
ue8 player who could be affected by Brexit revealed 11:48 - CEST
https://t.co/qEMKZbkZ3}
economistni | RT @JMurray804: Bloomberg illustrates Brexit 23 Jun 2016, | London 5 | negative
raj https://t.co/3ZDcLQnb3n @DanHanson41 11:48 - CEST
@muhammadakd https://t.co/7ITCR6crVg
A_G Dugin | Etsile Brexit donnait aux FranA§ais la volontA© de 23 Jun 2016, | Heartlan 0 | neutral
reconstruire l4€™Europe ? https://t.co/yatANBpCuD 11:48 -CEST | d
paolodriussi | Brexit, il giorno piA' lungo per I'Europa. ""Leave"" o 23 Jun 2016, | Italy O | neutral
""Remain"", alle urne 46,5 milioni di britannici 11:48 - CEST
https://t.co/edmjF19Mss via @repubblicait
solos4242 Brexit Movie 23 Jun 2016, 0 | positive
https://t.co/olBBLXYYxd 11:48 - CEST
#EU pd fisherman 2destroy their boats while giving
fishing rights to others https://t.co/wqYhskhT9s
anthony945_ | RT @LeaveEUOfficial: Shameful stuff from the 23 Jun 2016, | The 2 | positive
20648 Remains. @GiselaStuart has made a commitment to 11:48 - CEST | Kingdo
the UK and has ever right to back #Brexit. htta€ | m
MosharrafO | AJEnglish : Beyond the #Brexit debate 23 Jun 2016, | Dhaka, 0 | negative
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jpnoblejr RT @WSJ: Even if Britain votes against 'Brexit', the 23 Jun 2016, | Somew 7 | neutral
market's relief would be shortlived, writes 11:48 - CEST | here in
@Simon_Nixon. https://t.co/I3XsOgw6fD the
world

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013853.txt,"What do you do with all the extra time? Replace the newspaper at breakfast with speaking to your
spouse, bonding with your children, or learning the principles in this book. Between 9-5, complete your
top priorities as per the last chapter. If you complete them with time to spare, do the exercises in this
book. Recommending this book might seem hypocritical, but it’s not: The information in these pages is
both important and to be applied now, not tomorrow or the day after.

Each day at lunch break, and no earlier, get your five-minute news fix. Ask a well-informed colleague
or a restaurant waiter, “Anything important happening in the world today? I couldn’t get the paper
today.” Stop this as soon as you realize that the answer doesn’t affect your actions at all. Most people
won’t even remember what they spent one to two hours absorbing that morning.

Be strict with yourself. I can prescribe the medicine, but you need to take it.

Download the Firefox web browser (www.firefox.com) and use LeechBlock to block certain sites
entirely for set periods. From their site (http://www.proginosko.com/leechblock.html):

You can specify up to six sets of sites to block, with different times and days for each set. You can block
sites within fixed time periods (e.g., between 9am and 5pm), after a time limit (e.g., 10 minutes in every
hour), or with a combination of time periods and time limit (e.g., 10 minutes in every hour between 9am
and 5pm). You can also set a password for access to the extension options, just to slow you down in
moments of weakness!

2. Develop the habit of asking yourself, “Will I definitely use this information for something
immediate and important?”

It’s not enough to use information for “something” —it needs to be immediate and important. If “no” on
either count, don’t consume it. Information is useless if it is not applied to something important or if you
will forget it before you have a chance to apply it.

I used to have the habit of reading a book or site to prepare for an event weeks or months in the future,
and I would then need to reread the same material when the deadline for action was closer. This is stupid
and redundant. Follow your to-do short list and fill in the information gaps as you go.

Focus on what digerati Kathy Sierra calls “just-in-time” information instead of “just-in-case”
information.

3. Practice the art of nonfinishing.
This is another one that took me a long time to learn. Starting something doesn’t automatically justify
finishing it.

If you are reading an article that sucks, put it down and don’t pick it back up. If you go to a movie and
it’s worse than Matrix IIT, get the hell out of there before more neurons die. If you’re full after half a
plate of ribs, put the damn fork down and don’t order dessert.

More is not better, and stopping something is often 10 times better than finishing it. Develop the habit
of nonfinishing that which is boring or unproductive if a boss isn’t demanding it.

=» COMFORT CHALLENGE

Get Phone Numbers (2 Days)

Being sure to maintain eye contact, ask for the phone numbers of at least two (the more you attempt, the
less stressful it will be) attractive members of the opposite sex on each day. Girls, this means you’re in
the game as well, and it doesn’t matter if you’re 50+. Remember that the real goal is not to get numbers,
but to get over the fear of asking, so the outcome is unimportant. If you’re in a relationship, sign up to

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TEXT-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032212.txt,"From: 
Sent: 3/24/2018 9:55:46 PM 
To: jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Subject: Re: 
Importance: High 
Flag: Follow up 
Thanks! I think we've heard enough proofs on this subject today:) 
Miroslav Laj6ak 
Minister zahrani6nSrch veci a eur6pskych zaleZ'itosti Slovenskej republiky 
Minister of Foreign & European Affairs of the Slovak Republic 
Ministerstvo zahrani6nSrch veci a eur6pskych zaleZ'itosti SR 
Hlboka cesta 2 833 36 Bratislava 371 Slovenska republika 
tel.: fax: 
1www.mzy.sk 
From: jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> 
Sent: sobota, marca 24, 2018 6:39 AM 
Subj ect: 
To: Lajcak Miroslay/MINISTER/MZV 
https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-close-is-donald-trump-to-a-psychiatric-breakdown?ref=home 
please note 
The information contained in this communication is 
confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may 
constitute inside information, and is intended only for 
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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030865.txt,"From: 
Sent: 
To: 
Subject: 
Attachments: 
Richard Kahn_______________________________ 
9/20/2016 7:58:13 PM 
jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com] 
Fwd: US Equity Insights - Clinton vs Trump stock baskets 
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Importance: High 
Richard Kahn 
HBRK Associates Inc. 
575 Lexington Avenue 4th Floor 
New York, NY 10022 
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Begin forwarded message: 
From: Stewart Oldfield < 
Subject: FW: US Equity Insights - Clinton vs Trump stock baskets 
Date: September 20, 2016 at 9:25:31 AM EDT 
To: Richard Kahn < 
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From: David Bianco, Deutsche Bank [mailto  
Sent: Friday, September 16, 2016 6:47 PM 
To: Stewart Oldfield 
Subject: US Equity Insights - Clinton vs Trump stock baskets 
Deutsche Bank - Equity Research - North America 
US Equity Insights - Clinton vs Trump stock baskets 
16 September 2016 (26 pages/ 2739 kb) 
Download the complete report  
Clinton vs. Trump: A sweep by either party would likely rattle markets 
HOUSE OVERSIGHT 030865 
Our S&P targets and sector strategy assume a balanced outcome from the US general election on Nov 8th 
that maintains the current split in power. However, if Democrats keep the Presidency and take Senate or 
Republicans take the Presidency and keep Senate, it likely brings policy uncertainty and market volatility. 
Longer-term, it will be the policies and implementation that will influence markets, which both parties, many 
individuals and circumstances will craft. This note identifies sectors, industries and stocks that we think would 
be price sensitive to an unbalanced election outcome tilted toward one party. 
Dividing issues: Taxes, trade, favored infrastructure types and monetary policy 
It's difficult to pin down specific policies from either candidate, but on several economic issues their general 
bias is clear. These issues include taxes, trade deals, favored types of infrastructure — such as green vs 
conventional energy, preference for monetary policy, and also their expressed views on industries such as 
Health Care and Energy. It is the gist of the candidate's preference on these issues that we used to identify 
sectors and stocks sensitive to a sweep. 
Big banks might outperform small banks and oil might go down on Rep sweep 
While many of our conclusions align with conventional judgment, we think we differ in that we think a Rep 
sweep could: 1) be good for some domestic oil producers, as it should permit more drilling, but negative to the 
recovery in oil and gas prices, as more supply, and thus negative for the broad Energy sector, 2) bring 
somewhat faster Fed hikes and a stronger dollar than otherwise, 3) the first two could lead to lower inflation 
and a flatter yield curve than otherwise would be. One could argue that Trump sized tax cuts and an 
infrastructure and defense spending spree would steepen the curve, but we think this unlikely while 
Republicans control the House. If Fed hikes bring yield curve flattening then big banks and capital markets 
likely outperform small banks and insurance companies. Slow hikes that allow inflation to accelerate and 
steepen the curve might favor smaller banks and insurance, but this could pressure PEs at non-financials. If 
the Fed falls too far behind the curve, higher long-term rates could threaten the stock market, real estate and 
the overall economy. 
Equity strategy election tnernes: vary- sweep petter tor investor confidence on 
Taxes-R, Trade-D, Infrastructure-RID, Faster Fed hikes-R, Higher inflation target-D, Steeper curve-D, stronger 
dollar-R, stock market-R/D, large caps-R, small caps-D, globally exposed S&P stocks-R, domestically exposed 
S&P-D, higher commodity prices-D, lighter regulations-R, foreign profit repatriation-R. 
Industry pair trades and ETF ideas for Democratic vs. Republican Sweep 
1) Favor Health Care Services & Facilities over Drugs & Medical Devices 
2) Favor Engineering & Construction over Defense stocks 
3) Favor Small Banks & Life Insurance over Big Banks and Capital Mkts 
4) Favor Energy majors over Oil Services and smaller domestic E&Ps 
5) Favor Clean Energy & Social Media over Cheap Energy & Telco/Cable 
6) Favor Metals & Mining over Chemicals & Construction Materials 
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Clinton 15 stock basket (DBUSCLNT): UNH, HUM, MCK, ACM, PWR, XOM, AA, NEE, CREE, FSLR, FB, 
NFLX, PRU, C, UNP 
Trump 15 stock basket (DBUSTRMP): JNJ, PFE, MDT, NOC, LLL, HAL, DOW, DUK, F, MLM, VZ, CMCSA, 
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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032462.txt,"The spirit is to have an impact on young, talented folks, and absolutely to stay at the source.

Once again, not sure was drifted away from this in communication

De : jeffrey E. <jeevacation@ gmail.com>
Envoyé : vendredi 10 février 2017 12:32

A: Etienne Binant
Cc : Darren Indyke
Objet : Re: update

going to artists studio s much more appropriate , i think

On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 9:49 PM, Etienne Binan iy wrote:

Gentlemen

| hope you are having a great week.

In LA hoping to begin acquiring pieces: are we on?

If not yet, when please

thanks

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IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028180.txt,"/ BARAK / 46

viewed Hafez al-Assad as a natural partner for peace. For years, he’d been a
constant, sneering presence on our northern border, denouncing not only Sadat but
any Arab leader who’d shown willingness to engage or negotiate with Israel. Amos
Oz, one of our finest writers and a cultural icon for Labor Zionists, probably put it
best. He said the Syrians seemed to think that “we will give them the Golan, and
theyll send us a receipt by fax.” The consensus was: forget Assad. Keep the
Golan. In fact, before I left for the US, the Knesset voted on whether it supported
my attempt to negotiate an agreement with Syria. We could muster only 47 votes,
14 short of a majority. An opinion poll found only 13 percent of Israelis favored a
full withdrawal from the Golan.

The message I drew from this was not that we should give up on the chances of
a peace agreement. After all, before Begin and Sadat went to Camp David in 1978,
an almost equally tiny minority of Israelos had been in favor of withdrawing from
the Sinai. Yet once they had seen the other side of the equation — full, formal peace
with our most powerful neighbor — the opposition all but evaporated. The problem
I saw was that if we and the Syrians couldn’t find a way to insulate our
negotiations from leaks, speculation and a swirl of opposition to our efforts at
home, we’d never gef to the key issues of substance.

I’d been making that point to the Americans for weeks. At first, I tried to
persuade them to hold the talks at Camp David, ensuring the same, media-free
isolation that had yielded the historic Israeli-Egypt agreement. But Dennis Ross
replied that the very association of Camp David with that breakthrough meant it
would be a non-starter for President Assad. I then suggested we consider sites
outside of the US: NATO’s Incerlik air base in Turkey, for instance, a British base
in Cyprus, an American naval ship in the Mediterranean. Even, half-jokingly, an
abandoned missile silo in South Dakota. Yet the point I was making was serious, in
fact critical, I believed, if the talks were going to have a chance.

In the end, the Americans settled on a beautiful, and undeniably remote, town in
West Virginia called Shepherdstown. But from the outset, I was worried it couldn’t
provide the kind of environment we needed. As soon as our plane landed at
Andrews Air Force base outside Washington, I got a call from the head of our
advance team. He told me the news media were already there and that reporters —
Israeli, Arab, American and European — could be seen chatting with American,
Israeli and Syrian officials in the town’s coffee shops. I knew the press would have
to publish something about potential concessions as the negotiations proceeded.

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IMAGES-012-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032802.txt,"From: Nicholas Ribis

Sent: 8/29/2018 4:27:35 PM
To: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Re: Donald Trump only lasted 2 minutes during sex says Stormy Daniels | Bossip

Importance: — High
Not yet here with him and board - will shortly

Sent from my iPhone

On Aug 29, 2018, at 6:25 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:

did you get your money?

On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 12:19 PM, Nicholas Ribis TE wrote:

In Europe saw this it will drive him crazy!!
https://bossip.com/1664506/premature-potus-stormy-daniels-says-donald-trump-only-lasted-2-minutes-inside-

her-pornographic-pleasure-pocket-43081/

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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018191.txt,"""Enfora and the Enabler II provide us with an integrated approach to software, Internet
connectivity and customization that lets us focus on our product and service offering,"" said Eric
Stalnaker, VP of Business Development at GTXC. ""By working with Enfora, we know the

Xplorer® A-GPS Smart Shoe is built on a robust and highly accurate platform.""
Download the full article

GTXC Wins Praise, Reduces Chip Size

Los Angeles, California, March 5, 2007 - GTXC received a strong, positive reception as a third
time exhibitor at the recent World Shoe Association show in Las Vegas, NV. It also won praise
from the technology community at the latest 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. GTXC
continues to build momentum, enhance its intellectual property and provide leadership throughout

the embedded GPS footwear space.
Download the full article

New era of ""Wearable GPS"" capabilities enabled by technological breakthrough.

February 21, 2007, Los Angeles, CA - GTXC, founder of the Personal Location Services category
and leader in Miniaturized GPS Technologies, has created a proprietary, ""single click"" software
application used to activate the GPS-2-SMS Dual-GeoFence features that form an integral part of
its embedded GPS technology. The recent Multi Dual GeoFence patent application filled in
February 2007 is the most current of seven applications filed since the company's founding five
years ago, and promises to bring new capabilities and efficiencies to the Wearable GPS industry.

The company's first, US Patent 6.788.200 titled GPS Footwear was issued in September 2004.
Download the full article

GTXC unveils new generation of Smart GPS Shoes

Los Angeles, CA, January 25, 2007 - GTX Corp., a dominant world leader in personal location
services, will unveil their new Xplorer line of Smart GPS shoes on February Ist, at the World
Shoe Association (WSA) in Las Vegas.

Xplorer, the next generation of smart GPS shoes, incorporates the smallest, most powerful and
robust GPS tracking device on the market today. Drawing on a long history of patented embedded

GPS technology for footwear and other consumer products, GTXC has been in development on

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016392.txt,"For “human subject research,” we refer to the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki,
keeping in mind the 1932-1972 Tuskegee syphilis experiment, possibly the most
infamous biomedical research study in U.S. history. In 2015, the Nonhuman Rights
Project filed a lawsuit with the New York State Supreme Court on behalf of two
chimpanzees kept for research by Stony Brook University. The appellate court decision
was that chimps are not to be treated as legal persons since they “do not have duties and
responsibilities in society,” despite Jane Goodall’s and others’ claim that they do, and
despite arguments that such a decision could be applied to children and the disabled.*°

What prevents extension to other animals, organoids, machines, and hybrids? As
we (e.g., Hawking, Musk, Tallinn, Wilczek, Tegmark) have promoted bans on
“autonomous weapons,” we have demonized one type of “dumb” machine, while other
machines—for instance, those composed of many Homo sapiens voting—can be more
lethal and more misguided.

Do transhumans roam the Earth already? Consider the “uncontacted peoples,”
such as the Sentinelese and Andamanese of India, the Korowai of Indonesia, the Mashco-
Piro of Peru, the Pintupi of Australia, the Surma of Ethiopia, the Ruc of Vietnam, the
Ayoreo-Totobiegosode of Paraguay, the Himba of Namibia, and dozens of tribes in
Papua New Guinea. How would they or our ancestors respond? We could define
“transhuman” as people and culture not comprehensible to humans living in a modern,
yet un-technological culture.

Such modern Stone Age people would have great trouble understanding why we
celebrate the recent LIGO gravity-wave evidence supporting the hundred-year-old
general theory of relativity. They would scratch their heads as to why we have atomic
clocks, or GPS satellites so we can find our way home, or why and how we have
expanded our vision from a narrow optical band to the full spectrum from radio to
gamma. We can move faster than any other living species; indeed, we can reach escape
velocity from Earth and survive in the very cold vacuum of space.

If those characteristics (and hundreds more) don’t constitute transhumanism, then
what would? If we feel that the judge of transhumanism should not be fully paleo-culture
humans but recent humans, then how would we ever reach transhuman status? We
“recent humans” may always be capable of comprehending each new technological
increment—never adequately surprised to declare arrival at a (moving) transhuman
target. The science-fiction prophet William Gibson said, “The future is already here—
it’s just not very evenly distributed.” While this underestimates the next round of
“future,” certainly millions of us are transhuman already—with most of us asking for
more. The question “What was a human?” has already transmogrified into “What were
the many kinds of transhumans?. .. And what were their rights?”

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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018119.txt,"From: Jeffrey Epstein [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Sent: 9/22/2011 4:48:35 AM 
To: Sultan Bin Sulayem 
Subject: Re: Gps GTX Smart Shoe 
thanks, great idea , i really like your friend. 
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:46 AM, Sultan Bin Sulayem <________________________________________1). wrote: 
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Patrick Bertagna Interviewed on 
Travel Talk Radio with Sandy Dhuyvetter 
____ Patrick Bertagna, founder and co-inventor of the GTX Smart Shoe, joins Sandy to 
discuss this new invention and what it means to patients and families. 
The Executive Producer and Host of TravelTalkMEDIA is Ms. Sandy Dhuyvetter, one of the 
world's leading travel industry media specialists. Following a successful career as a pioneer in the 
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intemet industry and new media in the San Francisco area, Sandy established TravelTalkMEDIA 
in 2001 to provide radio and web-based, online information to the U.S. and global travel industry. 
Listen to the radio interview (MP3) 
GTX Corp's Tracking Apps Hit One Million Dowloads 
GPS Wolrd - July 12, 2011 - GPS Tracking Apps, from GTX Corp subsidiary 
LOCiMOBILE, have been downloaded more than one million times by users in 116 countries, and 
continues to be on the top charts of iTunes and Android marketplace, the company said. 
""The GPS Tracking app is the simplest way to stay connected to a child, parent, friend or business 
associate, quickly and accurately from a Smartphone or Internet-ready device like the iPad, iPod 
or Android tablet, allowing users to locate people, instantly with one simple touch of a button,"" 
said Patrick Bertagna, CEO of GTX Corp. ""We also offer it at a price everyone can afford without 
compromising privacy."" 
Read the full article 
GTX Corp... More'n A Million Served (GPS) 
This App has managed to stay quite popular in both iTunes and Android online sites... 
SatNews Daily - July 1, 2011 - GTX Corp. (OTCBB: GTX0.0B), a 
provider of real-time two way GPS Tracking and personal location 
services (PLS) has announced its LOCiMOBILE subsidiary's GPS 
Tracking Apps has managed more than 1 Million downloads with 
users in 116 countries and continues to be on the top charts of iTunes 
and Android market place. ""The GPS Tracking app is the simplest way to stay connected to a 
child, parent, friend or business associate, quickly and accurately from a Smartphone or intemet 
ready device like the iPad, iPod or Android tablet, allowing users to locate people, instantly with 
one simple touch of a button,"" said Patrick Bertagna, CEO of GTX Corp. ""We also offer it at a 
price everyone can afford without compromising privacy."" 
Read the full article 
Professor Andy Carle talks about ""Nana"" technology and the GPS Smart ShoeTM 
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Radio show called ""Wriggling in the Middle"", based out of Canton, Ohio and syndicated 
nationally through FOX radio network. 
http ://www.whb c . c om/Wrigg ling-In- The-Middle/6636686  
For anyone who would like to skip directly to the shoes, go to the link below, scroll down to the 
show listing (March 28) and fast forward to about the 26-minute mark. The conversation on the 
shoes lasts about 7 minutes. 
Proximity marketing will push location based service revenues to nearly $13 billion over the 
next few years. 
SatNews Daily - March 23, 2011 - GTX Corp (OTCBB: GTXO) and ADAM, Inc. have 
entered into an exclusive revenue share agreement allowing 123 Chambers of Commerce 
representing more than 100,000 businesses nationwide to push out proximity alert promotions, 
using the GTX Corp GPS/PLS Platform and leveraging its growing GPS Tracking Smartphone 
App user base. Gartner reports that 42 percent of consumers use their phone to check a store 
location, 31% use it for a mobile promotion, and 17 percent use their phone for the actual 
purchase. 
Read the full article 
GTX Corp. Joins with Chambers of Commerce on Location Advertising 
GPS World - March 22, 2011 - GTX Corp., which provides two-way GPS Personal 
Location Services (PLS), and ADAM, Inc., a platform for Hyper Local Mobile Apps for 
Directories, entered into an exclusive revenue share agreement allowing 123 Chambers of 
Commerce representing more than 100,000 businesses nationwide to push out proximity alert 
promotions, using the GTX Corp GPS/PLS Platform and leveraging its growing GPS Tracking 
Smartphone App user base, GTX Corp. announced. 
Read the full article 
New Tech Is Helping Families With Special Needs 
March 17, 2011 8:52 PM - MIAMI (CBS4) — New technology is making life a little easier for 
people with special needs and their families. 
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The GTX Corp. is introducing new shoes, loafers and sneakers, with GPS built into them. CBS 
technology expert Katie Linendoll said they can really come in handy for families who are taking 
care of relatives suffering from Alzheimer's disease. With a downloadable app, they can track 
them using the GPS or get an alert if the person wanders out of a pre-set safe zone. 
Read the full story and view the video 
Technology for seniors 
Great Day Show - CBS KHou.com - Houston - March 23, 2011 
Truly groundbreaking tech to ch awe our live, 
CBS News - Early Show - March 17, 2011 - The shoe uses GPS and cellular technologies. It 
gives a family member or a caregiver the option of monitoring real-time from the Internet or on 
your phone... 
Watch the CBS Early Show video 
GTX's GPS Tracking Apps For iPhone 
Apps allow you to let family, friends know your location 
Joel Mathis, Macworld.com - If the federal government tagged millions of iPhone users with 
GPS tracking devices, the American people—or, at least, Apple devotees—might protest very 
strongly. But iPhones these days come with GPS installed, and companies make good money 
furnishing apps that utilize that very feature. On this list: GTX, who offers a pair of $4 GPS 
apps—GPS Tracking and Tracking—that provide workmanlike solutions for users who want to 
keep an electronic eye on their loved ones. 
Read the full article 
Going Gray-Where Technology's Headed - Entering the Gray-Tech Revolution 
World Market Media - Brittney Barrett - February 16, 2011 
Over the next 20 years, 80 million baby boomers will enter their 
sixties and seventies in the U.S. alone. In the next 40, the number of senior citizens will double. 
For the government, this represents a huge financial burden resultant from rising Medicare and 
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Social Security costs. For industries focused on late-life care and creating products that cater to the 
aging demographic; however, this population shift represents a major opportunity. 
Read the full article 
Walk to Remember? A National Academy of Sciences Study Says Yes 
February 13, 2011 - In healthy adults, the hippocampus — a part of the brain important to the 
formation of memories — begins to atrophy around 55 or 60 and even sooner to an even greater 
degree if one contracts Alzheimer's. Now psychologists are suggesting that the hippocampus can 
be modestly expanded, and memory improved, by nothing more than regular walking. 
Read the full article 
GTX's New Patent...Smart Shoe Has Heart In Its Sole (GPS) 
Satnews Daily - February 09, 2011 - GTX Corp (OTCBB: GTXO) has a big heart that is 
manifested in their sole. GTX, known for customizable, 2-way GPS Personal Location Services 
(PLS) solutions, was granted its ninth patent for their innovative and potentially life saving GPS 
Smart Shoe technology. 
By the year 2050, there will be 16 million adults with Alzheimer's in the U.S. alone. The multi 
patent GPS Smart ShoeTM will afford millions of caregivers the means to remotely monitor those 
afflicted with Alzheimer's that become lost due to wondering. 
Read the full article 
GPS Shoes — Footsteps to the Future... 
World Market Media - Brittney Barrett - February 7, 2011 
Every 70 seconds, someone in America develops Alzheimer's, according to the Alzheimer's 
Association 60% will wander away from their homes or care facilities at some point during their 
affliction with the disease. Worse, it's even more difficult to find a missing senior citizen than a 
missing child, as fewer people will take note of older person walking alone than they would a 
small child. 
Read the full article 
GPS Tracking Technology — How it works 
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GPS Tracking Apps are available for most smartphones. 
Watch this video to learn how GPS Tracking Technology works and what it can do for you. 
GPS Tracking Apps installed on over 850,000 smart phones 
GPS Tracking Apps by LOCiMOBILE are installed on over 850,000 smart phones in over 106 
countries. 
LOCiMOBILE is a leader in 2-way GPS Tracking Solutions providing the ability to find your 
loved ones quickly and easily with one touch of a finger. But don't stop there, get creative with it; 
track your drivers in real-time, see when your relatives land at the airport... with turn by turn 
directions, you will never get lost again! 
Read the full article 
Locimobile GPS Tracker App Now for the iPad 
Well it looks like the iPad's next leap is to become a GPS tracker. Locimobile, which makes GPS 
Tracking Apps for iPhones, iPods and smartphones is now taking on the iPad. From the comfort of 
your own home and on a much bigger screen, you can keep tabs on your spouse or kids and see in 
greater detail than before, where they are off too or hanging out. Will the iPad be the cause for the 
next big celebrity break-up?! Who knows but in the mean time you can use it to keep tabs on your 
own family for only $4.99 
Proximity marketing will push Location Based Services revenues to nearly $13 Billion 
Knowing where you are will give you the answer to the ""where is"" question. 
Recent developments in GPS positioning technologies could drive revenues from mobile location-
based services to more than $12.7 billion by 2014, according to a new report published by Juniper 
Research. 
Revenues will come from sales of apps through application stores and other channels, but also 
from mobile advertising tied to those apps. In fact, the Juniper report notes that advertising will 
likely form an increasing share of Mobile Location Based Services-related revenues over the next 
five years. 
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Read the full article 
GPS Technology Mentioned In State of the Union Address as Growth Driver 
World Market Media - Brittney Barrett - January 26, 2011 
""The rules have changed. In a single generation, revolutions in technology have transformed ____ 
the way we live, work and do business"" said President Barack Obama last night, during his second 
State Of The Union address to the 112th Congress of the United States and 1.3 million Americans 
watching the speech from their homes. 
Read the full article 
Patrick Bertagna interview with Bob McCormick from CBS Los Angeles, Money 101 
January 17, 2011 - Being an apps developer can pay off handsomely 
when you fill a need. 
Click here to listen to the interview 
LBSN — What It Is And Why You Should Care 
Marsha Ahrenkiel - January 13, 2011 - Shades of The Island of Dr. Moreau! (hint: Google H.G. 
Wells) Modem-day mad scientists (let's call them ""software developers"") have been merging 
social networking concepts with a range of other technologies and rolling out new hybrid beasts 
that could eventually change your marketing and public relations strategies. 
One that we're keeping a close eye on here is a species known as ""location based social 
networking"" (LBSN) — combining short message service (SMS), aspects of gaming, smartphone 
technologies and GPS capabilities. 
Read the full article 
GTX Corp - Year in Review 2010 
SatMagazine - December 2010 - GTX Corp is in the business of keeping you connected — __ 
the Company continues to be at the forefront of the personal location industry and debuting new 
technologies that impact how you ask the ""where is"" question. 
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Read the full article 
Future Family: Life In the Digital Age preview. 
The Discovery Channel - Nov. 13, 2010 - This patient education program explores how 
baby boomers the 78 million Americans born in the wake of World War II are embracing 
technology to better manage increased work and home responsibilities. Future Family discusses 
the GPS footwear by GTX Corp. 
View the show - Part I 
View the show - Part 2 
Wireless Technology on Black Friday: Smart Phones Good, PNDs Bad According to 
WedBush 
World Market Media - Tom Copeland - December 1, 2010 - 
The biggest holiday shopping days of the year has passed and many 
investors want to know: How did wireless technology do? According to Scott Sutherland, CFA 
with Wedbush Securities, the answer is pretty good — depending on which companies you're 
invested in. 
Read the full article 
Andrew Carle on Elder Tech Trends 
Eldergadget.com - November 5, 2010 - ElderGadget's Michael Goldman starts the series 
with a conversation with Andrew Carle, an Assistant Professor at George Mason University. 
Andrew is also an expert on technology development for seniors, and is a consultant for the 
Nintendo Corp., GTX Corp., and several other companies about how to make their newest gadgets 
more elder friendly. 
Listen to Podcast interview with Andrew Carle 
How does a GPS tracking system work? 
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Patrick Bertagna, GTX Corp. - 10/26/2010 - Global Positioning System (GPS) is a 
worldwide radio-navigation system formed from the constellation of 24 satellites and their ground 
stations. The Global Positioning System is mainly funded and controlled by the U.S Department of 
Defense (DOD). The system was initially designed for the operation of U. S. military. But today, 
there are also many civil users of GPS across the whole world. The civil users are allowed to use 
the Standard Positioning Service without any kind of charge or restrictions. 
Read the full article 
GPS Elder Applications 
Eldergadget.com - October 21, 2010 - The rapid evolution of Global Positioning Satellite 
(GPS) tracking technology is producing new applications of particular interest to seniors, their 
families, and caregivers. One of the most active companies in this space is GTX Corp. GTX is the 
company behind the patented GPS Smart ShoeTM , in partnership with footwear manufacturer 
Aetrex Worldwide. The shoe was developed to provide peace of mind for families with senior-age 
loved ones suffering from Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia. Available on the Internet at 
the GPS Shoe, Aetrex, and Foot.com sites, the shoe should also be available in retail stores some 
time in 2011, according to GTX Corp. chairman/president Patrick Bertagna. 
Read the full story 
The ""Where"" or Your Social Media Network - iCheck-In 
World Market Media - Tom Copeland - November 15, 2010 - 
Checking in is a movement that's really starting to catch on, and 
companies are scrambling to develop and release check-in apps and services. GTX Corp 
committed to being the ""better people finder"", owns and operates LOCiMOBILE, Inc. which 
developsGPS Tracking location based social networking (LBSN) mobile applications, today 
released its 17th App - iCheck-In, the fastest and easiest way to ""check-in"" and stay connected to 
everyone in your mobile contact list and your Facebook and Twitter friends. 
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Read the full story 
App News 
On Saturday, CBS News broadcasted a segment on The Early Show called ""Unique Ways on ___ 
Keeping Kids Safe on Halloween"" in which CNET technology contributor Katie Linendoll 
showcased a few charming gadgets to help track children while they're out and about. Naturally, 
GTX Corp's iPhone, iPad, Android and Samsung GPS Tracking Apps iLoci2 and GPS Tracking 
Pro were highlighted for their easy-to-use yet powerful features. 
View the show 
Patrick Bertagna GTX Corp CEO on the Peggy Smedley Show 
Oct. 26, 2010 - wsRadio 
Listen to an interview with 
Patrick Bertagna, GTX Corp CEO, 
on The Peggy Smedley Show 
Click here to listen 
GPS Smart Shoe TM Wins 2010 People's Choice Award 
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 12, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - 
GTX Corp (OTCBB:GTX0 - News) has won the prestigious 2010 People's Choice Award for 
Most Innovative Connected Location Device at the 4th Annual Locations & Beyond Summit this 
past week. 
""We are honored to have won this prestigious award and look forward to continue to bring 
innovative and game changing technologies that transform how we utilize GPS tracking and stay 
connected to one another,"" says Patrick Bertagna, CEO and founder of GTX Corp. 
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Safety afoot, via GPS, for Alzheimer's patients 
USA Weekend - PEGGY J. NOONAN - October 17, 2010 
A tiny GPS chip embedded in the sole of the shoe provides continuous tracking ... The GPS Shoe 
by Aetrex is available from Foot.com and GPSShoe.com now for ... 
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GTX Corp. (OTCBB: GTXO) Wins 2010 Peoples Choice Award 
Tom Copeland - October 11, 2010 - World Market Media 
The GPS Smart ShoeTM was nominated for Most Innovative Location 
Connected Device at the Locations and Beyond Summit that was held 
last week during the CTIA show and CEO Patrick Bertagna confirmed with us - GTXO had won! 
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With 675,000 Downloads in 91 Countries GPS Tracking Apps Leader GTX Corp Launches 3 
New GPS and LBS Apps 
GPS Tracking Apps Keep You Connected to Everyone, Everywhere 
LOS ANGELES,CA - Tuesday, September, 28th 2010 - GTX Corp business unit LOCiMOBILE, 
Inc. is launching a series of GPS and personal location - based ""apps"" and web services solidifying 
its leadership position in the mobile LBS market, which mobile carriers are calling ""Pure Gold"". 
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Not All Who Wander Are Lost 
Donna Fannin - Gather News Technology - October 17, 2010 
GPS shoes are coming to a retailer near you. Why in the world would anyone want a 
GPS tracker in their shoes, you ask? Generally, they don't, if they know about it. 
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People Choice Tries on GPS Smart Shoe 
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By Peter Suciu - Kinetic Shift - October 13, 2010 
While there are many tracking programs out there for children and even teens, GTX Corp 
introduced an innovative product aimed at adults suffering from Alzheimer's disease and other 
dementias. Many sufferers are actually in good physical condition and thus aren't confined to a 
room or even a house. To keep track of loved ones, the company came up with a novel idea — 
namely putting a tracking device in the footwear. 
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GTX Corp... Phone Finder (GPS) 
Satnews Daily - September 28, 2010 
GTX Corp (OTCBB: GTX0.0B) business unit LOCiMOBILE, Inc. is launching a series of GPS 
and personal location-based ""apps"" and web services. 
The new apps all have a GPS component and are designed to add the ""where is"" factor to 
functionality. The Company launched on the Android market place Phone TrackingTm in case you 
lose or misplace your phone. More than 70 million phones are reported lost or stolen in the US 
each year, but while the loss of a phone may be annoying, the loss of personal and business data 
could be devastating. 
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Gadgets -These Shoes Were Made for Tracking 
By Erin Monda - TMCnet Contributor - September 22, 2010 
There is no end to the wonderments that shoes can achieve (a certain pair of ruby Mary Janes 
comes to mind) — and one company is pushing the envelope even further (although not quite as far 
as Oz). 
I'm referring to GTX, a company integrating two-way GPS people-finding technologies into 
consumer products and applications. The company utilizes the latest in miniaturized global 
positioning system (GPS) tracking and cellular location technology, enabling subscribers to track 
in real time the whereabouts of people, pets, or high valued assets through its customizable 
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transceiver module, wireless connectivity gateway, middleware, and viewing portals. 
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Costs of Alzheimer's will touch 1% of Global GDP in 2010 
By World Market Media 
The rising need for GTX Corp's technology continues to be influenced by the increasing numbers 
of elderly and those that are memory impaired, and so the epic battle of technology and illness 
wages on. ... 
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Do you know what the Most Innovative Location Device is? 
No it's not a compass or an astrolabe. It's not semaphore or a smoke signal. Not an RFID tag or a 
neon sign or phosphorous flare either. 
Give up? 
It's the GPS Smart ShoeTM recently mentioned in Forbes Magazine, developed by GTX Corp 
(OTCBB: GTX0.0B) and licensed to Aetrex Worldwide. Yes, a shoe. .well a very smart shoe as 
it can tell a caregiver the precise location, bearing, history, speed and altitude of an Alzheimer's 
victim that has eloped or wandered. No small feat — pun intended — to reduce the overwhelming 
stress on the millions of victim caregivers while potentially saving thousands from injuries and 
death owing to exposure, accidents and criminal activity. The GPS Shoe also reduces the 
manpower drain on municipal services; fire, police and welfare agencies often enlisted to locate 
the mentally ill. 
While a Finalist in the Most Innovative Location Device category of the Locations & Beyond 
Summit and the People's Choice Awards is a wonderful acknowledgment for the years GTXO 
invested in developing the solution and the promise that Aetrex has made in bringing the Shoe to 
market... the real winners are those touched by this devastating disease for which there is no cure, 
but now have a new measure of hope. 
'Nanatech': Seniors Stay Independent With Tech Gadgets 
Senior Tech - Ashlea Ebeling, 09.15.10 
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The GPS shoes from GTX ( GTXO - news - people ) tackle another senior problem--folks 
who have Alzheimer's who wander and are at risk of getting lost or injured. A GPS device in one 
of the shoes will alert a caregiver if the wearer leaves a specified area. Don't expect the latest 
styles from Nike ( NKE - news - people ) or Steve Madden ( shoo - news - people ) . The 
manufacturer is Aetrex Worldwide, an orthodic and medical specialty shoe maker. Roll-out is 
expected by year's end. 
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Keeping an eye on Mom and Dad 
Remote monitoring technology aims to keep seniors in their houses and out of nursing homes ____ 
Over the coming months a raft of new-and-improved remote monitoring devices will hit the _____ 
market, from GPS shoes that can track the whereabouts of wandering seniors to MedCottages, 
portable RV-like units equipped with motion and monitoring systems that allow seniors to 
maintain some independence from the backyard of their adult childrens' homes. 
""As we age, this is going to be a growing trend,"" says Laurie Orlov, a Florida-based expert on so-
called ""aging-in-place technology"" aimed at keeping seniors in their houses and out of nursing 
homes as long as possible. 
""We have to get past the fear and antagonism among the older people who need it the most. I don't 
think they're that technology-ready, but the boomers, who are their adult children, certainly are."" 
Motion sensors strategically placed in the three-bedroom home where Howe has lived for 53 years 
feed information right to her daughter's laptop, detailing when she got out of bed (the Friday we 
chatted it was 9 a.m.), walked into the bathroom (9:15 a.m.) or hovered at the kitchen table where 
she keeps her pills (9:30 a.m.) 
Even her blood-pressure reading (165/76) is fed to her daughter's computer, along with her daily 
weigh-in tally, providing a detailed graph which she often takes to her doctor appointments. 
The only thing GrandCare can't tell Pierce, because her system doesn't include cameras, is if her 
mother actually swallowed her pills. 
Monitoring and in-home help technologies will be a $20 billion U.S. business in North America by 
2020, predicts Orlov, founder of Aging In Place Technology Watch. 
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Already some baby boomers are able to remotely lock their parents' doors, track calls coming into 
their homes and even see who is ringing the doorbell, in many cases right from their smart phones. 
Systems such as QuietCare, WellAWARE, FineThanx and SimplyHome are already fixtures in 
some U.S. homes and seniors' communities, although Orlov estimates fewer than 10,000 units are 
in active use because the systems can be so costly. 
Next month, Paul Whyte, a Markham dealer of smart-home technology that allows ordinary 
electronics and appliances to communicate with each other, will unveil the GrandCare system at 
the Zoomer show in Toronto. 
""I call it the invisible caregiver,"" says Whyte of Cybernetics Systems Inc. ""The minute I saw this 
system I thought, 'There's something that actually makes sense.' 
The key, of course, with all these technologies is that the senior be relatively able-bodied and 
sound of mind — most are of limited value if the senior is suffering from dementia, which is 
expected to become a major public health issue in the next few decades. 
But developers are also working hard on that challenging front. 
Sometime later this fall or next spring the first GPS-equipped shoe, the Aetrex Ambulator, will go 
on sale through www.gpsshoe.com orwww.foot.com. 
Originally designed for children by Los Angeles-based GTX Corp., the new shoes are expected to 
retail for about $250 U.S. They enable caregivers to track those afflicted with dementia or 
Alzheimer's thanks to GPS and cellular technology that will relay their whereabouts back to a 
monitoring centre. 
""Privacy may be a talking point, but it's not really an issue,"" says Patrick Bertagna, chairman and 
CEO of GTX Corp. 
MEDCottage creator Dupin expects concerns around privacy will fade quickly as families and 
health-care systems here and in the U.S. become overwhelmed by aging baby boomers — more 
than 76 million in the U.S., 10 million in Canada — who start hitting 65 next year. 
""I see remote monitoring becoming an integral part of health care as we all age,"" says Dupin. ""One 
of the issues around aging in place is going to be making trade-offs. Privacy may be something we 
have to give up."" 
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Susan Pigg focuses on issues about aging and baby boomers. spigg@thestar.ca 
Tracking Deal 
A downtown L.A. company that creates GPS tracking applications for cell phones has 
announced a deal to provide its friend-finding apps on Samsung smart phones. 
The deal could mean more than 40 million more downloads, which would translate to increased 
revenue, for GTX Corp.'s application, which is currently available for the iPhone, BlackBerry and 
Android phones, said GTX Chief Executive Patrick Bertagna. 
The LociMobile tracking applications send a GPS signal out to all of a person's cell phone 
contacts who use the app. Bertagna said the app can be used to meet up with friends or keep tabs 
on kids. 
GTX has also developed a GPS shoe for tracking Alzheimer's patients. 
Staff reporter Natalie Jarvey can be reached atnjarvey@labusinessjournaLcom or at (323) 549-
5225, ext. 230. 
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Senior Gadgets: GPS Shoe May Offer Peace of Mind to Alzheimer's Caregivers 
By Teresa Steinfatt - July 1, 2010 - Safety of loved ones is a top concern for caregivers, 
especially those caring for persons with Alzheimer's disease. 
Memory loss and confusion can set in without warning. For example, a loved one might set out on 
a walk or errand alone, wander off and not be able to return home safely. 
Currently scheduled for retail sale this summer, the Aetrex Ambulator® GPS Shoe by GTX Corp 
will provide millions of caregivers the means to help easily find those afflicted with Alzheimer's 
and other forms of dementia who wander and become lost. 
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Style and Safety Come Together with GPS Shoes For Alzheimer's Care 
GTX Corp (OTCBB: GTXO), a provide of customizable, embedded 
2-way GPS Personal Location Services (PLS) solutions, is bringing 
personal GPS tracking solutions to the 5.3 million seniors afflicted with dementia by signing a 
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four year, license agreement with Aetrex Worldwide, Inc. GTX Corp's eight patents for the GPS 
Shoe cover a GPS transceiver module that is placed within the footwear and transmission of 
location coordinates to a central monitoring station which disseminates the location data through 
the use of proprietary software, cellular connectivity, the GTX Corp middleware platform and the 
secure viewing portal. 
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Wandering Soles 
Aetrex Worldwide Inc. has teamed with GTX Corp. to create the Aetrex Ambulator GPS 
Shoe, a therapeutic sneaker designed for people with Alzheimer's disease. The shoe comes with a 
tiny GPS tracker that alerts a caregiver when the wearer has strayed more than a set distance. It 
then sends the caregiver a Google map link that plots the wearer's location. 
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GTX And MNX - STAT Trax Critical Medical and Bio-Pharmas 
SatNews - June 9, 2010 - GTX Corp (OTCBB: GTX0.0B), a provider in embedded GPS 
tracking location based services and MNX (Midnite Express), a worldwide specialty courier, have 
entered into an exclusive three-year contract for GTX to deliver thousands of highly customized, 
industry-first GPS tracking devices. Additionally, the GTX Corp tracking platform to the shipping 
company is included in the contract. 
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Find Friends and Family Mobile Apps 
LOCiMOBILE [iPhone & Android] 
LOCiMOBILE has a few great GPS tracking apps out at the moment. The two that I would like to 
feature are the free/lite versions of the software. This app supports up to 6 users (paid version is 
unlimited) and integrates with Twitter and Facebook. GPS Tracking populates your phone's built-
in Google Maps with the locations of people in your private opt-in buddy list. You can let users 
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know where you are or request their location, and you can post your information to your social 
profiles. 
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GPS Tracking Apps Website to Track iPad, iPhone, Android, Blackberry Smart Phones 
Want to locate all your friends with smart phones (ipad, ipod, iphone, android, blackberry) but you 
don't have one? The latest technology from GTX Corp allows you to do just that — 
www.gpstrackingapps.com high-tech website enables you to locate your family, friends and 
coworkers (who have downloaded the GPS Tracking App) instantly, in real time, even if you don't 
have a smart phone. http andwww.locimobile.com are proud members of the http GTX Corp 
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Style and Safety Come Together with GPS Shoes For Alzheimer's 
Senior Housing News - GTX Corp (OTCBB: GTXO), a provide of customizable, embedded 
2-way GPS Personal Location Services (PLS) solutions, is bringing personal GPS tracking 
solutions to the 5.3 million seniors afflicted with dementia by signing a four year, ... 
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Keeping track of seniors with Alzheimer's 
Rosemary McClure, Special to the Los Angeles Times - May 29, 2010 - The email alert 
shouted its message: ""Missing Person with Alzheimer's. PLEASE HELP."" It was sent to 
Alzheimer's Assn. chapters and to law enforcement officials within hours after an Orange County 
woman disappeared while on a short trip to visit a friend. 
The woman had set out in her car, made a wrong turn and became confused, says her family, who 
asked that her name not be used to protect her privacy. 
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Resources and Technology to Help Caregivers Cope 
Kirk Johnson - NYTimes.com - May 4, 2010 - One Alzheimer's wanderer in Arizona had lost 
much of his memory, but not, apparently, his interest in fashion: he never left the house without a 
beloved baseball cap on his head. So a trick the family used to keep the man around was to hide 
his caps. 
Search-and-rescue experts who deal with dementia patients also recommend alarms on doors that 
sound when opened if a proper code is not entered, along with posters or wallpaper images that 
disguise or conceal doors. Sometimes a simple large, emphatic sign on every door saying ""Stop!"" 
will deter a wanderer. 
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New App craze brings back the 1990's 
World Market Media - April 9, 2010 - Every Portfolio manager I've 
ever known loves to find a sector with wind at it's back..the early 
users of the ""CrackBerry"" knew (Nasdaq: RIMM) was the stock 
he/she needed to invest in because every person on Wall Street had 
one. This phenomena doesn't occur often and RIMM""s are as rare as 
Australopithecus. I observe the current app craze as the new cycle for 
lightning quick revenues based on the size of the market itself. 
Certainly anyone with an iPhone or Android phone has imagined that 
they could build an app when they got home that night. .1 know I 
did. 
I can tell you from experience that when Kleiner Perkins doubles the size of its venture fund 
specific to app's you know your watching the ship turning in the harbor. This is a unique space 
with wind at it's back and certainly the app's market is a niche to watch, we found this company 
and had a chance to speak with Patrick Bertagna at GTX Corp (OTCBB:GTX0) its Founder/ 
Chairman and CEO. He had some interesting comments about how the company has evolved and 
found some traction with its wholly owned subsidiary LOCiMOBILE Inc. Bertagna commented 
""With 500 million smart phones entering the market place, I believe we are at the tip of the next 
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disruptive wave. Apps will become as ubiquitous as the device they live on and that makes this 
new frontier a game changer"" Certainly being on the iTunes top ten highest grossing list puts us at 
the forefront of this coming wave."" 
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World Market Media Announces the Launch of the WMM NanoCap and MicroCap Indices 
WEST PALM BEACH, April 19, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — World Market Media, Inc. 
(""WMM""), a high traffic stock market, news data website providing cutting edge new media 
products and services to publicly traded companies worldwide, announced today the launch of the 
WMM NanoCap Index and the WMM MicroCap Index. 
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GTX Corp. Inks Global Licensing Deal with Aetrex Worldwide 
SGI - March 24, 2010 - The four-year, exclusive contract brings Los Angeles-based GTX a ___ 
step closer to bringing its personal GPS tracking solutions to 5.3 million seniors afflicted with 
dementia. Aetrex is slated to begin selling the Aetrex Ambulator GPS shoe this summer through 
its website, www.foot.com, at www.gpsshoe.com and at a select group of assisted living facilities 
in the U.S. 
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New Running Shoes Could Include Embedded GPS 
GPS-powered trail running shoes may be on the horizon 
Michael Barkoviak - March 17, 2010 - GTX Corporation may be one step closer to trail running 
shoes that have integrated GPS directly into the shoes. GPS use has increased in the cycling and 
running worlds, as it is used to accurately track time, distance, and speed. There has been 
discussion of GPS-enabled running shoes in the past, but nothing significant ever materialized. 
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GPS in your shoe? 
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Yes GTX Corp. has a GPS shoe that can be worn while a family member is walking or jogging 
that reports your location to other family members ... 
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GTX Corporation - Year In Review 
GPS ""People Tracking"" continues to garner both increased opportunity and adoption worldwide 
— PLS technology has been the focus of our business for the past seven years. GTX Corp., a 
leader in Personal Location Services, develops and license's 2-way GPS people finding 
technologies which seamlessly integrate with consumer products and enterprise applications. GTX 
Corp uses the latest miniaturized, low power consumption hardware technology in its GPS and 
cellular location devices and provides a fully customizable back-end portal enabling subscribers to 
use real time tracking to obtain the whereabouts of people, pets, or valued assets. Through its 
miniaturized transceiver module, wireless connectivity gateway, smart phone Apps, customizable 
middleware, and viewing portal, GTX Corp offers a complete end to end solution. 
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BEAM: Game Plays... 
SatMagazine.com : November 2009 - With this issue's focus on the Latin 
American and MENA markets, one of the most interesting news items deals with 
Rio de Janeiro's win of the 2016 Winter Olympics. Companies who bid for, and 
win, the broadcasting rights to the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro are 
certain to enjoy substantial profits, and Latin American countries and communities are already 
celebrating this award by the Olympic Committee. 
According to GTX Corp., a firm whose base is in the Personal Location Services businesses, Latin 
America has increased its adoption of Location Based Services by a factor of 10 from 2008 to 
2009. Carlos Briceno, the firm's Vice President of Business Development, states that the category 
with the highest total spending in South and Central America is in ""People Tracking,"" which has 
been the exact focal point of GTX Corp for the past seven years. 
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GTX Corp Annual Update - Vista Partners 
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We Know Where You Are 
Phoenix, AZ --(www.USEquityNews.com)-- 03/12/2009 - If the above headline sounds a bit 
spooky, be prepared for things to get a lot spookier in the coming years - but also a lot more 
useful, valuable and fun. That's because electronic technology has once again taken a turn that 
could, like the cell phone, affect much of your waking life, either directly or indirectly. 
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GTX Corp brings personal location-based services to the masses with Google Maps API 
Premier Business 
Wherever you go, there you are, goes the saying — but others might have a tough time finding you, 
at least until now. With GTX Corp's Personal Location Services, people can go online and, via an 
intuitive interface, track the exact location of loved ones, or even their high-value assets. GTX 
offers miniaturized assisted Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) tracking and cellular location-
transmitting technology for consumer products and applications. The company's business model 
is to deliver solutions to consumers in a wide variety of wearable location devices, from shoes to 
tiny clip-on devices no larger than a small matchbox, by licensing its core technology to branded 
consumer product partners. 
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GPS-Equipped Shoes Keep Track of Wanderers 
Tuesday, August 11, 2009 - Caring for a loved one with dementia is worrisome, especially if ___ 
that person is prone to taking flight. Statistics suggest that 60 percent of people with Alzheimer's 
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disease will get lost at least once, said Andrew Carle, director of George Mason University's 
senior housing administration program. 
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Keep Track of Your Kids This Summer 
>From GPS to Temporary Tattoos With Contact Info, Keep Your Kid Safe This Summer 
ABC News - Good Morning America - July 31, 2009 - Those of you with iPhone know that ____ 
there are many GPS applications. One of the latest is the Locimobile. Ideal for the 3.0 family 
(you and your teen need to have the phone). You download the app to your phones, and then your 
teen lets you check on his or her whereabouts, perhaps in exchange for getting an iPhone in the 
first place. The Locimobile app allows you to see exactly where your child or children are on a 
map. You can monitor several kids at one time. 
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Understanding Dementia And 'Wandering' 
NPR - USA - July 14, 2009 - A shoe company, Aetrex Worldwide, and a firm that 
makes global positioning devices, GTX Corp., have created shoes containing GPS 
technology for wanderers to ... 
GTX in Sports Illustrated 
June 29, 2009 - GTX, a technology company, and Aetrex Worldwide have announced plans 
for shoes containing a GPS chip that will allow family members or saftey personnel to locate 
anyone wearing the shoes through online tracking software. 
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Interviews with Leading GPS Innovators 
GPS Tech Review is a forum for current news stories and interviews with the leading innovators 
of GPS-enabled personal location services. 
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Abductors of Children May Run, But Today Code Amber and SA-Announce Make it Much 
More Difficult for Them to Hide 
Timely missing person's alerts and rich graphics delivered to your phone. 
Mandeville, LA (PRWEB) June 25, 2009 --www.CodeAmber.com News Service the nation's 
leading intemet and digital display missing persons alert service, a wholly owned subsidiary 
of www.GTXCorp.com (GTX0.0B), has expanded its multimillion viewer reach with an 
additional 2 million www.syn-apps.comsubscribers. SA-Announce, Syn-Apps' notification system, 
is a feature-rich communication application that works with Cisco Unified Communications 
Manager to distribute alerts across enterprises such as; NASA, Tiffany & Co and Martha Stewart 
Living, as well as numerous schools and government offices. The Code Amber alerts will be 
available to the SA-Announce subscribers and accessible in real-time appearing on their VOIP 
enabled phones. 
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GPS shoe to track Alzheimer's patients 
A new shoe outfitted with a GPS chip aims to offer peace of mind to Alzheimer's patients and 
their caregivers. 
London, England (CNN) -- June 10, 2009 -- The embedded GPS tracking system will allow ___ 
the wearer of the shoe to be located instantly online and for their whereabouts to be monitored in 
real time. 
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GTX Corp in Sports Intelligence Magazine 
May 2009 - GTX Corp., which markets patented two-way GPS Personal Location Services (PLS) 
solutions, will launch two new applications this summer - expanding its LOCi brand with iLOCi2 
and Code Mobile. 
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Kids Sneakers That Know Where They Are 
Castro Valley Forum - CA, USA - By : Michael Singer: 10/16/07 
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There is a trend in high-tech that recommends adding location-based services to anything and 
everything. But it has me pulled between wanting to see really cool gadgets and avoiding a Big 
Brother-like society. 
The latest is a new high-tech tennis shoe coming to the market that lets parents and guardians track 
the movements of their family using Global Positioning Systems or GPS technology. 
Called the ""Smart Shoe,"" the miniature device is inserted in the sole of the low-top sneaker. An 
antenna that runs up the back of the footwear communicates with satellites and relays a location 
back to a subscription Web site service for easy viewing. Los Angeles-based GTXC, which makes 
the devices and the service, said it is hoping to put Smart Shoes in stores by the end of the year. 
Shoes with the technology could cost between $100 and $200. The tracking service is expected to 
cost about $20 a month. 
Follow That Kid 
Today's technology makes it easier for parents to know where their kids are and what they're 
doing. 
By Joe Burris 1Baltimore Sun July 1, 2007 
Michelle Smith had been reluctant to buy a cell phone for her 7-year-old daughter, Daysha. Then 
one day in April, a substitute teacher placed the Radford, Va., girl on the wrong school bus. 
Instead of being dropped off at her older sister's after-school program as planned, Daysha was sent 
home - only to find the doors locked. 
As she sat on her front porch crying, her mother drove around town, searching frantically for the 
girl. No one at the school could tell her which bus the girl had been put on. 
""Then my next-door neighbor called,"" said Smith, ""and said, 'I have your baby.'"" 
The scary moment had a happy ending, but Smith didn't want to take a chance on losing her 
daughter again. So she did what many other parents are doing - she bought her child a cell phone 
equipped with an electronic device that could keep track of her whereabouts. 
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Tracking technology hits the ground running. 
Wherever you go, there you are. And we know where you are. 
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By Nancy Francis 
GPS technology will soon be at your feet, offering peace of mind to loved ones of Alzheimer's 
sufferers, people with autism, active preschoolers and others who might wander into harm's way 
or get lost. 
A Los Angeles-based company that sees opportunity in the merging of GPS tracking technology 
and footwear, has developed several prototypes of GPS tennis shoes. 
GTX Corporation is having discussions with various footwear manufactures (including some in 
Oregon) about licensing its technological designs and connectivity system. 
During a recent visit to Portland, GTX Corp CEO Patrick Bertagna showed KGW a prototype of 
the company's GPS shoe. 
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Mobile Ways to Keep Track of Your Kids 
By Lori Tucker, (WATE) Knoxville, TN -- June 7, 2007 
As technology makes our society more mobile, there are more mobile ways to keep track of your 
loved ones including cell phones, car trackers and even shoes. GPS shoes That's right, an LA 
company has patented a GPS system in a shoe. 
Xplorer Smart Shoes, made by GTX Corp., are able to track the person wearing them in real time 
or by remote surveillance. 
GTX says the shoes work particularly well for: children, people with Alzheimer's disease, outdoor 
adventures, military, police, fire and public safety workers. 
IN THE PIPELINE: Tracking All The Uses For Positioning Chips 
By Donna Fuscaldo - DowJones Newswire - May 1, 2007 
For Patrick Bertagna, the eureka moment came a few years ago when watching the coverage of the 
Elizabeth Smart abduction. After spending years helping companies track their products via 
software, Bertagna decided it was time to do something that mattered. 
So the serial entrepreneur, armed with a couple of checks from friends, launched Global Trek 
Xploration Corp., a Los Angeles-based company that's developing shoes embedded with a global 
positioning chip. The shoes will enable parents to monitor their children's every movement and 
caregivers to keep real time tabs on elderly or sick people. 
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Top-Notch Security 
M2M - Specialty Publications - April 6, 2007 
M2M technology providers and system integrators often cite efficiency improvements and new 
revenue opportunities as common indicators of return-on-investment. However, as more and more 
customers use machine-to-machine applications to collect data, security has not only become a 
top-notch priority for end users and OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) but also a highly 
valued part of fostering a positive ROI. 
According to IDC Corp., www.idc.com, Framingham, Mass., as devices enabling a mobile 
workforce continue to shrink in size, the increased likelihood of losing devices, such as laptops, 
mobile phones, BlackBerrys, has caused growing concern over the sensitive corporate information 
they contain. 
Smart Shoes Get Smarter 
M2M - Specialty Publications - April 2, 2007 
Smart shoes just got a little smarter. The newest models of GPS-enabled (global positioning 
system) shoes from Global Trek Xploration Corp. (GTXC), www.gtxcorp.com, Los Angeles, 
Calif., will now be equipped with wireless and location modules from Enfora 
Inc.,www.enfora.com, Plano, Texas. 
GTXC chose Enfora's Enabler IIG-A-GPS modules for its robust and accurate platform, company 
executive say. Eric Stalnaker vice president of business development at GTXC explains, ""Enfora 
and the Enabler II provide us with an integrated approach to software, Internet connectivity, and 
customization that lets us focus on our product and service offering."" 
Wireless Briefs 
by Andrew D. Smith Dallas Morning News l Thursday, March 29, 2007 
Few at conference get to soul of GPS shoe 
Satellite tracking services were expected to be one of the big attractions at this year's big wireless 
conference in Orlando, but the satellite shoe seemed to surprise most of the people walking around 
the convention floor. 
Many passers-by Wednesday furrowed their brows or shook their heads at what appeared to be a 
silly toy for spoiled yuppie joggers. Only a few investigated long enough to realize that the GPS 
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shoe may well be one of the least frivolous prototypes on display among the 1,100 
exhibitors. Developers plan to sell the device as a way to track mentally disabled people or 
seniors who have Alzheimer's disease. 
Where would you be without GPS? 
Perhaps carrying fewer gadgets: The technology is being added to shoes, MP3 players, dogs 
By Carolyn Y. Johnson Boston Globe 1February 19, 2007 
This month, GTX Corp. launched a line of Xplorer Smart GPS shoes that transform sneakers into 
a wearable LoJack system. 
ABI Research found that the number of people in North America who subscribe to GPS-enabled 
location-based services more than doubled between 2005 and 2006, from 1.6 to 3.9 million. The 
number of subscribers is projected to rocket to 52 million in 2011. 
That means companies working in what used to be a niche market have been enjoying explosive 
growth. Revenues at TomTom NV, a Concord-based maker of personal navigation products, have 
increased more than 500-fold since 2001, from $2.5 million to an estimated $1.7 billion last 
year. Garmin's business has exploded into the mainstream, too, and the company ran its first 
Super Bowl ad this year. Boston-based start-up Skyhook Wireless brings location awareness to 
any device with WiFi, and announced a major partnership this month with GPS platform maker 
SiRF. 
Xplorer shoes offer advanced personal location services 
from Wearable Electronics 
January 29, 2007 - We've written several times about the concept of electronically fencing dogs 
and cats for their safety, or the safety of others. Similarly, as GPS technologies have become 
commercially viable, of tracking assets and loved ones to ensure their safety. Now personal 
location services company GTXC Corporation, is set to unveil a line of Xplorer Smart GPS shoes 
at the World Shoe Association (WSA) in Las Vegas on February 1 which offer a range of new 
opportunities. Xplorer shoes incorporate a small and robust GPS tracking device which hooks up 
with GTXC's intemet user portal to offer a very compelling array of personal location services. 
Integrated GPS Shoes by GTXC 
Getoutdoors.com Outdoor Blog - Friday, February 2. 2007 
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Integrated GPS Shoes by GTXC Though originally made to track patients and kids, we're sure the 
shoes will be integrated soon with the Nike + Ipod so you can track your run in your personal 
Google mashup. Or hide it in your wife's purse to see whether she's banging San Francisco's 
mayor, Gavin Newsom. Or something like that. The system from GTXC has a sophisticated GPS 
integrated into the shoe, which communicates directly with a satellite, which then relays locations 
in real-time to their monitoring center and made available via intemet or phone. Predetermined 
geographic areas can also be defined and alerts sent when the person being tracked leaves or enters 
the area. And don't worry, they already have a product for outdoor activities called the Wearable 
Caddy. 
New Smart GPS Shoes 
Manisha Kanetkar - Thursday, 1 February 2007 
Keeping track of your loved ones has never been so easy (or so spy-like) with the new Xplorer 
smart GPS shoes designed by GTXC. 
The company boasts the shoes incorporate the smallest, most powerful and robust GPS tracking 
device currently available. GTXC says they are ideal for caretakers of children or the elderly to 
easily monitor the location of their charges. 
So, for example, they can preset perimeters of safe zones or unsafe zones, and then receive mobile 
phone alerts if a perimeter is breached by the wearer. This is handled by what the company calls 
its 'set-it-and-forget-it' Dual GeoFencing feature. 
Shoes with GPS locator Coolest Gadgets 
Jan 29, 2007 - GTX Corporation will be unveiling its new line of Xplorer Smart GPS footwear at 
the beginning of next month in Las Vegas. The Xplorer aims to usher in the next generation of 
GPS smart shoes by incorporating smaller and yet more powerful GPS chipsets inside the shoe 
itself to provide a more accurate reading.... 
GTX Corporation unveils GPS-equipped Xplorer shoes Engadget 
Jan 26, 2007 - It seems like Sayo Isaac Daniel has some serious competition coming at him in the 
GPS shoe market, as GTX Corporation is unveiling its latest geo-tracking footwear at next week's 
World Shoe Association trade show. The questionably styled Xplorer kicks pack an internal GPS 
transceiver,... 
GPS Shoes keep track of kids 
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January 25, 2007 - GPS-integrated shoes - now why didn't I think of that? The Xplorer line of 
Smart GPS shoes from GTX Corp. come with an integrated GPS tracking device which helps 
parents keep tabs on their children. In addition, parents are able to set up a virtual boundary, where 
they will be duly noted via SMS should the shoes leave beyond the designated area. 
GPS Shoes Let Mommy Know Where You Are 
January 25, 2007 - Good news for worried parents. These GTX GPS Xplorer Smart Shoes will let 
you keep track of your kids no matter where you are. Here's how it works. 
Define a ""safe"" area around your house or school that it's safe for your kids to wander around. 
When the GPS signal goes outside of the area, an SMS will be sent to your phone alerting you of 
the situation. Then you're free to call your wife, the police, or Chloe from 24. 
The GTX GPS shoes have a small GPS tracking device inside the shoe actually 
communicates the location to a central location tracking service 
ESATO NEWS - Jan 26, 2007 - Xplorer, the next generation of smart GPS shoes, incorporates the 
smallest, most powerful and robust GPS tracking device on the market today. Drawing on a long 
history of patented embedded GPS technology for footwear and other consumer products, GTXC 
has been in development on the Xplorer line for the past three years. The new line advances the 
state of GPS tracking technology considerably, utilizing several groundbreaking innovations 
currently in the patent process. 
GTX Corp. announces the Xplorer line of Smart GPS shoes 
Thu, 25 Jan 2007 - The GTX GPS shoes have a small GPS tracking device inside the shoe actually 
communicates the location to a central location tracking service. So you could get your kids these 
GPS sneakers and define an area where it is safe for the kid to wander around. When leaving the 
defined area an SMS would be sent to your mobile phone notifying you of the situation. GTX calls 
this feature GeoFencing. The batteries powering the GPS unit inside the shoes last several days. 
""With Liberty and Surveillance for All: Person-to-person Surveillance Gets Green Light 
from Public 
Survey research from Boston University graduate students shows that Americans are more willing 
to engage in surveillance of loved ones than one might expect given our love for independence. 
Half of Americans are comfortable with being electronically monitored by a loved one for safety 
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or health reasons. Nearly a third 32% say it is likely they will use a tracking device to monitor a 
loved one in the future."" 
""The greatest endorsement of P2P surveillance is that 66% of Americans are comfortable being 
monitored by concerned loved ones in case of emergency. That's an awfully large market waiting 
to be tapped by companies like GTX Corporation who debuts its first GPS-based tracking shoe for 
children this week."" 
Excerpts from recent Boston University Research indicating that two-thirds of Americans are 
comfortable being electronically monitored by loved ones in case of an emergency 
Download the full article 
Brave New GPS World 
By James Klein, Larta VOX Editor - November 3, 2003 
In the future, we won't lose anything. Advances in global positioning system technology allow 
users to easily pinpoint the location of any object on earth. GPS boards have been reduced to the 
size of a postage stamp. Soon, we could attach GPS locators to everything we own - cell phones, 
briefcases, wallets - and even our children. 
GPS Shoe to Track Alzheimer's Patients 
London, England - June 10, 2009 - A new show outfitted with a GPS chip aims to offer peace of 
mind to Alzheimer's patients and their caregivers. 
Download the full article 
GTX Signs Deal With Aertrex Worldwide 
June 1, 2009 - GTX signs its first footwear deal for its Personal Location Services product with 
Aertrex Worldwide, which specializes in orthotic footwear. 
Download the full article 
Enfora and GTXC Advance Personal Tracking and Location with GPS-enabled Shoe 
Plano, Texas - March 27, 2007 - Enfora, Inc., today announced GTX Corporation's (GTXC) 
adoption of the Enabler® IIG-A-GPS embedded wireless and location module into their latest 
model of the GTXC Xplorer® GPS Smart Shoe designed to monitor the whereabouts of loved 
ones. 
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""Enfora and the Enabler II provide us with an integrated approach to software, Internet 
connectivity and customization that lets us focus on our product and service offering,"" said Eric 
Stalnaker, VP of Business Development at GTXC. ""By working with Enfora, we know the 
Xplorer® A-GPS Smart Shoe is built on a robust and highly accurate platform."" 
Download the full article 
GTXC Wins Praise, Reduces Chip Size 
Los Angeles, California, March 5, 2007 - GTXC received a strong, positive reception as a third 
time exhibitor at the recent World Shoe Association show in Las Vegas, NV. It also won praise 
from the technology community at the latest 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. GTXC 
continues to build momentum, enhance its intellectual property and provide leadership throughout 
the embedded GPS footwear space. 
Download the full article 
New era of ""Wearable GPS"" capabilities enabled by technological breakthrough. 
February 21, 2007, Los Angeles, CA - GTXC, founder of the Personal Location Services category 
and leader in Miniaturized GPS Technologies, has created a proprietary, ""single click"" software 
application used to activate the GPS-2-SMS Dual-GeoFence features that form an integral part of 
its embedded GPS technology. The recent Multi Dual GeoFence patent application filled in 
February 2007 is the most current of seven applications filed since the company's founding five 
years ago, and promises to bring new capabilities and efficiencies to the Wearable GPS industry. 
The company's first, US Patent 6.788.200 titled GPS Footwear was issued in September 2004. 
Download the full article 
GTXC unveils new generation of Smart GPS Shoes 
Los Angeles, CA, January 25, 2007 - GTX Corp., a dominant world leader in personal location 
services, will unveil their new Xplorer line of Smart GPS shoes on February 1st, at the World 
Shoe Association (WSA) in Las Vegas. 
Xplorer, the next generation of smart GPS shoes, incorporates the smallest, most powerful and 
robust GPS tracking device on the market today. Drawing on a long history of patented embedded 
GPS technology for footwear and other consumer products, GTXC has been in development on 
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the Xplorer line for the past three years. The new line advances the state of GPS tracking 
technology considerably, utilizing several ground-breaking innovations currently in the patent 
process. 
Download the full article 
GTXC to provide maritime version of personal GPS tracking devices to governmental 
security agencies and consumers 
Los Angeles, California, October 4, 2006 - GTXC (GTX Corporation), the Personal Location 
Services (PLS) company known worldwide for developing and commercializing miniaturized 
personal GPS tracking technologies - including ground-breaking shoe-based satellite tracking 
products - announced today that they have signed a licensing agreement aimed at providing 
miniaturized, waterproof personal tracking devices to governmental security agencies and 
consumer maritime enthusiasts. 
Download the full article 
An Open Letter To GTX Corporation's Investors, Customers And Friends 
January 5, 2007 - GTX Corp has received many inquiries this week regarding recent reports that 
another manufacturer has entered the GPS footwear sector claiming, among other things, that they 
have patented GPS footwear technology, and that there is a technology called ""Quantum Satellite 
Technology."" 
GTXC believes that the convergence of high technology with consumer products should be 
represented to the public in an ethical and honest fashion. GTXC takes issue with the claims made 
in those recent reports, and believes that they do not paint an accurate and truthful picture. As 
such, GTXC is taking immediate, strong and active steps to respond to those claims in a 
responsible way to inform the public and the relevant media about GTXC, its products and 
technology, and the true status of the following facts. 
Download the full article 
CEO & President of GTXC - to Address Cornell MBA Class 
Los Angeles, California, November 6, 2006 - Patrick Bertagna, CEO and President of GTXC 
(GTX Corporation), the Personal Location Services (PLS) company known worldwide for 
developing and commercializing miniaturized personal GPS tracking technologies - including 
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shoe-based and hand held satellite tracking products - will address the Cornell Business students 
that are analyzing a case study that was developed over the past year at the university. 
Download the full article 
GTXC announces newest addition to PERSONAL GPS suite of miniaturized location-
finding solutions 
Los Angeles, California, June 1, 2006 - GTXC (GTX Corporation), known worldwide for 
developing and commercializing innovative shoe-based GPS tracking technologies, today 
announced a downloadable location-finding application for hand held PDAs. 
Beginning with PaqTraxTm for the HP iPaq 6515, the newest GTXC application integrates a PDA's 
embedded GPS abilities with the intemet-based GTXC TrackPackTm, creating a complete Personal 
GPSTM tracking and location-finding solution. 
Download the full article 
Boston University study validates Americans' acceptance of Person-to-Person (P2P) 
surveillance 
Los Angeles, California, March 14, 2006 - GTXC, Inc., maker of miniaturized tracking 
technologies - including a patented shoe-based GPS location-finding platform - shared in the 
release of a recent Boston University study which offers proof of strong consumer demand for 
Person-To-Person (P2P) tracking and surveillance products. Despite increased media attention to 
governmental eavesdropping and surveillance issues, the study's conclusions contradict privacy 
advocates and redress recent media sentiments by finding that up to 81% of those surveyed 
approve the use of P2P surveillance under specific situations, and nearly a third (32%) say they are 
likely to use a tracking device to monitor a loved one in the future. 
Download the full article 
GTXC announces world's first GPS location-reporting technology built into footwear 
Los Angeles, California, February 10, 2006 - After several years of intensive research and 
development, GTXC (GTX Corporation) today announced the world's first GPS location-reporting 
platform built into footwear. Unveiled at the World Shoe Association trade show in Las Vegas, 
Nevada, the company's patented solution links advanced GPS and cellular miniaturization 
technology with intemet-based monitoring capabilities to provide accurate, real-time location and 
movement history to a wide range of users. Their shoe-based technology also introduces an 
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innovative platform for delivering a new category of portable, personal consumer-based 
applications, from exercise monitoring and live real-time gaming to interaction with appliances 
and other household items. 
Download the full article 
With Liberty and Surveillance for All: Person-to-person Surveillance Gets Green Light from 
Public 
February 2006 - Excerpts from recent Boston University Research indicating that two-thirds of 
Americans are comfortable being electronically monitored by loved ones in case of an emergency. 
Survey research from Boston University graduate students shows that Americans are more willing 
to engage in surveillance of loved ones than one might expect given our love for independence. 
Half of Americans are comfortable with being electronically monitored by a loved one for safety 
or health reasons. Nearly a third 32% say it is likely they will use a tracking device to monitor a 
loved one in the future."" 
Download the full article 
DailyTech, LLC - Michael Barkoviak - March 17, 2010 - GTX Corporation may be one step 
closer to trail running shoes that have integrated GPS directly into the shoes. GPS use has 
increased in the cycling and running worlds, as it is used to accurately track time, distance, and 
speed. There has been discussion of GPS-enabled running shoes in the past, but nothing significant 
ever materialized. 
Oct 26, 2010 
Listen to an interview with GTX Corp CEO, Patrick Bertagna 
on wsRadio - The Peggy Smiley Show. 
Top Grossing iTunes list 
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TEXT-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033124.txt,"From: J [jeevacation@gmail.com] 
Sent: 10/3/2018 9:59:22 AM 
To: Alan Dershowitz 
Nyt-By age 3, Mr. Trump was earning $200,000 a year in today's dollars from his father's empire. / this is 
UNFAIR- what are "" todays dollars? The article was written by financial illiterates--
please note 
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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029345.txt,"Source: Bloomberg

Oh.° The stock closed yesterday at $6.01, reducing the value of the estate's holdings by $2.8 billion -- and its
estate-tax liability by $1.1 billion -- since Simmons's death.

Is that good news or bad news for the estate? Well, the first law of tax is that it is always better to have more
money than less money.’ It's not actually a good idea to lose $2.8 billion of money to save $1.1 billion in taxes.

Though the estate didn't exactly lose $2.8 billion of money. That tax liability is a cash expense: You've actually
got to write a check to the IRS for $1.9 billion (using the December valuation) or $765 million (using
yesterday's valuation®), so the $1.1 billion you save is an actual cash savings. The $2.8 billion loss, on the other
hand, is a paper loss. Perhaps it's just temporary. If there were some reason to think that it didn't reflect only a
decline in the fundamental value of Valhi, you might not worry as much about that paper loss as you would
about the cash taxes.

So what's happened to Valhi? Well, it's not having a great year, with zero-ish net income last quarter. The board
reduced the dividend by 60 percent, to its lowest level since 2005. And the few people who follow the stock are
unimpressed. Bloomberg shows two analysts following Valhi, Barclays and EVA Dimensions. They both have
sell ratings, and Barclays has a price target of $5.00, saying in May that ""from a SOTP analysis, we continue to
view VHI as trading above its intrinsic value."" A Seeking Alpha piece from a few weeks ago is similarly
gloomy, with a $6 per share fair value.

All of this suggests that Simmons's estate owes less tax because it's really worth less than it was six months ago.
In fact, if you taxed Simmons's heirs now based on the value of Valhi six months ago, they'd have almost
nothing left of their stock.

But there's one more bit of the story. On June 11, about two weeks ago, the Harold Simmons Foundation -- the
charitable foundation controlled by Simmons's heirs -- filed with the SEC a plan to sell all of its 2.5 million
shares. That's not a Jot of stock, exactly -- just 0.7 percent of the company, worth around $16 million at the time
of the filing -- but it is a lot relative to the usual volume of trading in Valhi. Remember, 93.8 percent of Valhi is
owned by Simmons's heirs and never trades. Between December 27, 2013, and June 10, 2014, Valhi traded an
average of 42,311 shares a day, so the foundation's shares represented almost 59 days' volume.

It sold them in 11 days:

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_014585.txt,"Exhibit 51: ISM Manufacturing Index and S&P
500 Returns

Equity market performance is closely related to the
business cycle.

Index % YoY
65 4

60
55
50 |
45

40

95 - ISM Manufacturing Index + -40
----- S&P500 Return (Right)

30 -60

1995 2000 2005 2010 2015

Data through November 30, 2016.
Source: Investment Strategy Group, Bloomberg.

Exhibit 52: Estimated Incremental S&P 500
Earnings per Share by Tax Rate

Proposals for lower corporate tax rates could lead to
04

higher earnings.

13
12
1
10
9
8
7
6
5
4 A

30 29 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 21

US Effective Tax Rate (%)

neremental EPS ($)
6

a

=

Nn

Data as of December 31, 2016.
Note: The current US effective tax rate for the S&P 500 companies is 33.3%.
Source: Investment Strategy Group, Standard & Poor's.

estimates its new long-run equilibrium level has
fallen to 3%, a full 1.5 percentage points below
the historical average.'°’ Of equal importance, the
Federal Reserve is not expected to reach that 3%
target for six years based on current market pricing
in Eurodollar futures.

A similar valuation tailwind emerges from the
market’s current sector composition. The combined
technology and health-care sectors constitute about
40% of S&P 500 earnings today, almost three
times as high as their 15% share in the late 1980s.
Because these faster-growing, higher-margin sectors
are generally accorded premium valuations, their
higher representation in the index today justifies a
higher S&P 500 P/E multiple.

Exhibit 50: ISG S&P 500 Forecast—Year-End 2017

2017 Year-End

End 2017 S&P 500 Earnings

Good Case (25%)

Op. Earnings $140
Rep. Earnings $124
Trend Rep. Earnings $113

Although current valuations may be
fundamentally justified, that does not mean
they are impervious to downward pressure. Our
central-case equity view for 2017 acknowledges
this, calling for some contraction in P/E multiples
given the uncertainty associated with a new
administration and continued Federal Reserve
interest rate hikes. Even so, that headwind will be
more than offset by the 6-10% earnings growth
we forecast, resulting in a 1-5% total return for US
equities this year (see Exhibit 50).

Investors might rightly ask whether it is worth
bearing equity risk for such meager returns. Our
read of the evidence suggests it is. The linchpin
of this view is our expectation of a continued

Central Case (60%)

Op. Earnings $125-130
Rep. Earnings $113—-117
Trend Rep. Earnings $113

Bad Case (15%)

Op. Earnings < $102
Rep. Earnings < $78
Trend Rep. Earnings < $113

rend and forward earnings estimate}

Data as of December 31, 2016.

S&P 500 Price-to-Trend Reported Earnings 21-23x 18-2 1x 15—16x
End 2017 S&P 500 Fundamental Valuation Range 2,375-2,600 2,040-2,375 1,700-1,810
End 2017 S&P 500 Price Target (based on a combination of 2,450 2.225-2,300 1,800

Note: Forecasts and any numbers shown for informational purposes only and are estimates. There can be no assurance the forecasts will be achieved and they are subject to change. Please see

additional disclosures at the end of this Outiook.
Source: Investment Strategy Group.

52 | Goldman Sachs | JANUARY 2017

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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031143.txt,"All I can say about Bill’s message on Monday is: “Amen, brother! Amen!”

He hit every nail right on the head.

To those self-deluding worthies who think that a Donald Trump
presidency will solve all of America’s problems I say, “Get your heads

out of your collective a***s, because it ain’t gonna happen.”

Trump will continue the policies (if we can laughably call them such) of
the Deep State... with a dash of Adolph Hitler thrown in for good

measure. Clinton will be no better, if not worse.

I’m with Bill — a vote for the lesser of two evils is still voting for evil.
However, unlike him, I will vote, but for a third-party candidate who
doesn’t have a snowball’s chance of winning. A “wasted” vote is better

than a vote for Trump or Hillary.

— Dale A.

I think you are correct in your assessment of the Deep State. I disagree

in how to deal with it.

It seems easy for the rich or the poor to walk away and state it doesn’t
matter. The poor because they do not have a choice; the rich because
they do. For those of us in the middle we need to deal with it, lest we
end up in the poor camp. For me, a decision that includes a less bad

scenario is still a decision worth pursuing.

— Rudy R.

In Case You Missed It...

The third part of Doug Casey’s “virtual workshop” on how to turn crises into

wildly profitable investments goes live today.

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015843.txt,"Kittens & Gorillas 153

Notice I not only prove I am not guilty I also prove the opposite:
I am innocent. When a mathematician uses this trick, it is called an
indirect proof and works the same way as the alibi. Assume the opposite
is true of some theory you want to prove (I am guilty). If it generates a
contradiction or paradox (can't be in two places at once) you can deduce
the opposite must be true (innocence). Mathematicians use this all the
time. It assumes, of course, mathematics is consistent and that true and
false are opposites.

Some mathematicians argue this is too strong an assumption. Why
should we assume consistency and recognize only two logical states, true
and false? These mathematicians believe the only way to prove a theorem
is with positive argument rather than using the opposite of a negative
argument. They don't allow indirect proofs in their mathematical
models. This type of mathematics is unsurprisingly called positivism. It’s
a pure theory but, unfortunately, if you try to follow it you lose much of
our current mathematical knowledge and understanding. Most modern
mathematicians think it a historical curiosity, but it does pop up from
time to time. Modern mathematics is founded on the axioms that
true and false are the opposite of each other and that inconsistency is
forbidden within the system. Mathematical proofs submitted to journals
are not permitted to contain inconsistencies or result in paradoxes.

Paradoxes - When Logic Fails

“T would not be a member of
any club that would admit

me.
Groucho Marx

Paradoxes occur when a state-
ment makes no sense, or results
in an internal contradiction as
with Groucho Marx’s famous
quote. They are widely used in
mathematics to implement indi-
rect proofs. To do this, we sup-
pose something is true, and if
it results in a paradox then the

Groucho Marx

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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023397.txt,"In re: TERRORIST ATTACKS ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2001., 2012 WL 257568 (2012)

Thus, even in that more rigorous context, the D.C. Circuit has squarely rejected the approach taken by the district court here
(ignoring the context of a defendant’s alleged actions and examining each allegation in isolation). For example, the habeas
cases repeatedly find that an inference of al-Qaeda membership may be drawn from a pattern of dealing with persons
associated with al-Qaeda or from sharing characteristics with those persons. See Uthman, 637 F.3d at 407 (circumstantial
evidence, in the form of repeated dealings with al-Qaeda, sufficient to establish membership) *112 (collecting cases). As the
D.C. Circuit held, such “evidence tend[s] to show [the detainee’s] close relationship with these men and thus strengthen[s]
the probability that he was part of al-Qaida.” Al Adahi, 613 F.3d at 1109; accord Uthman, 637 F.3d at 407 (“[detainee’s]
actions and recurrent entanglement with al Qaeda show that he more likely than not was part of al Qaeda”). Just as clearly,
the D.C. Circuit has recognized that courts “must view the evidence collectively rather than in isolation.” Salahi, 625 F.3d at
753. “Merely because a particular piece of evidence is insufficient, standing alone, to prove a particular point does not mean
that the evidence ‘may be tossed aside and the next [piece of evidence] may be evaluated as if the first did not exist.’ ” Jd.
(quoting Al-Adahi, 613 F.3d at 1105) (brackets in original).

4. The District Court Vailed to Accept the Truth of the Tacts Alleged.

In considering a motion to dismiss, courts are of course under an obligation to “assume the[] veracity” of the plaintiffs’
factual allegations and to view them “in a light most favorable to the plaintiff.” Iqbal, 129 S. Ct. at 1950; Matson, 631 F.3d at
72. In addressing crucial allegations bearing directly on defendants’ state of mind, the district court failed to follow these
basic principles.

*113 For example, when analyzing the claims against Al Rajhi Bank, the district court rejected the truth of plaintiffs’
allegations, and instead, accepted Al Rajhi Bank’s version of events. After recounting plaintiffs’ allegation that Al Rajhi
Bank had a duty to inquire into the recipients of their zakat donations, the district court noted that Al Rajhi Bank “submits it
did not have a duty, or a right, to inspect the ... charities’ financial transactions to ascertain the ultimate destination of its
donations.” SPAS6 (Terrorist Attacks I). The district court continued, “Al Rajhi Bank contends it had a legal and religious
duty to make its charitable donations and any terrorist activity by the recipient charities was unknown to Al Rajhi Bank.” Jd.
The district court then concluded that the “[p]laintiffs do not offer facts to support their conclusions that Al Rajhi Bank had to
know that ... [the recipient] charities ... were supporting terrorism.” Jd. at 57. To reach this finding, the district court
necessarily ignored or declined to assume the truth of plaintiffs’ express allegation that Al Rajhi Bank was “required to
determine that the ultimate recipients of these contributions fall within one of the categories prescribed in the Quran for
recipients of Zakat.” Jd. At the pleading stage, the court’s reasoning is error. See Iqbal, 129 S. Ct. at 1950; Matson, 631 F.3d
at 72.

*114 The district court also failed to follow the standards that govern review of a motion to dismiss when it rejected “as
having no evidentiary value” the plaintiffs’ allegations that Saleh Abdullah Kamel and Al Rajhi Bank’s chairman and
managing director, Suleiman Abdel Aziz al Rajhi, were listed on the Golden Chain. SPA247 (Terrorist Attacks V); accord
SPA110 (DMI-Kamel); SPA42 (Terrorist Attacks 1).

This finding is not only an impermissible rejection of plaintiffs’ allegations concerning the Golden Chain, but also is
inconsistent with the findings of other courts and the Executive branch. For example, the Golden Chain -- along with other
documents discovered in the same raid -- was relied upon by the Government in an Evidentiary Proffer of al-Qaeda sponsor,
Enaam Arnaout, and also referenced and used as a resource in Arnaout’s sentencing hearing. See supra pp. 54-55 nn.85-86. It
was cited in the 9/11 Commission’s Final Report in July 2004, see supra pp. 25-26 & n.8, and the CRS has cited it in
numerous reports, see supra p. 56. The 9/11 Commission Monograph on Terrorism Financing cites to “a group of wealthy
donors from the Persian Gulf region known as the “Golden Chain,” which provided support to ... Usama Bin Ladin.” See
supra p. 55 & n.87. The 9/11 Monograph continues:

*115 The material seized [in Bosnia] included many documents never before seen by U.S. officials, such
as the actual minutes of al Qaeda meetings, the al Qaeda oath, al Qaeda organizational charges, and the
“Golden Chain” list of wealthy donors to the Afghan mujahideen ....

WESTLAW

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The question that you posed before just now
was: What was the reason for your including
those allegations in this pleading? Now you have
asked: What is the factual basis? And that's
going back to questions that we have already
covered and we have, I think, exhausted the
ability to respond to that question outside of
privileged information.

Do you want to go back to the question about
what was your reason for including those
allegations?

MR. SIMPSON: I'11 ask the question a
different way.

MR. SCAROLA: Thank you.

BY MR. SIMPSON:

Q. Mr. Cassell, I'm going to ask you if you're
in court and Judge Marra said to you, counsel, what is
the factual basis for your allegation that Professor
Dershowitz abused other minors, what would you say? And
if you wouldn't say something because it's privileged,
then don't include it. What would you tell the judge
was your basis for this?

A. All right. So the initial basis for it
was --

MR. SCAROLA: First of all, let me object

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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031625.txt,"Landon Thomas, Jr.
Financial Reporter
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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028964.txt,"From: Joi Ito 
Sent: 3/20/2016 7:33:11 PM 
To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
CC: Martin Nowak [martin_nowak@haryard.edu] 
Subject: Re: 
Importance: High 
I'm around. 
That's the day that Anonymous is supposed to take down Trump's page. 
Just saying. 
- Joi 
On Mar 20, 2016, at 2:52 PM, jeffrey E. <sTeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
barnaby and I will come up april 1 
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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030172.txt,"17

sign of making a decisive break with the past. Nevertheless, the new
leaders are more wary and sensitive to the qualms of the people. The
prosecution of former ministers, officials, and even the former
president and his family symbolizes the junta’s responsiveness to
popular demands. The military’s consistently expressed commitment
to push through with democratic elections and create a conducive
environment for an eventual transition to a civilian democratic
political system indicates that the balance of forces has shifted to the
people — despite the lingering threat of counterrevolution,
mobilization fatigue, and medium-term disenchantment with
democracy. The military occupies a position of prestige and
privilege in the society, and it is in its best interest to create a smooth
transfer of power in succeeding months and years. Perpetuating the
policies of the past regime would anger the population. So it's more
than likely that the new Egyptian leadership will review the tenets of
the former regime’s foreign policy architecture. The Islamists are
already pre-empting their opponents by talking about how they seek
to emulate the Turkish model, where Islam and political moderation
coincide, especially in the realm of foreign affairs. Moreover, the
Muslim Brotherhood has expressed its interest in occupying more
low profile and welfare-oriented executive ministries. So far, the
Islamists have not even vied for the position of presidency, content
with gaining some parliamentary representation and possibly some
influence in the executive branch. The Islamists at this point are
more concerned with gaining domestic political support and avoiding
any backlash from the military, democrats, and foreign powers. Any
Islamist-backed radical departure from the past could justify a
crackdown by the military or compromise the country's economic
well-being and political stability, which could, in turn, erode broader
popular support for their agenda. However, if Israel steps up its
ageressive policies in the region — with the West failing to support

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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032338.txt,"From: Richard Kahn

Sent: 11/9/2016 3:44:39 AM
To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Trump

Importance: — High

Shocked but you seem to be right on don't count him out. Trump victory looking good and these pollsters
like fools...

Markets getting hit. Dow futures -700
Richard Kahn
HBRK Associates Inc.

575 Lexington Avenue, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10022

Tel
Fax
cell ~

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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028970.txt,"From: Alan Dershowitz ______ 
Sent: 4/28/2016 4:51:57 PM 
To: Roy Black 
CC: jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com]; Jack Goldberger 
Subject: Re: Reuters / lawsuit against Jeffrey Epstein 
Importance: High 
Privileged - Redacted 
Sent from my iPhone 
On Apr 28, 2016, at 12:47 PM, Roy Black > wrote: 
, 
. . 
. Privileged - Redacted 
. : 
. . 
, 
From: Jeffrey E. [mailto:jeevacation@qmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2016 12:39 PM 
To: Alan M. Dershowitz; Roy Black; Jack Goldberger 
Subject: Fwd: Reuters / lawsuit against Jeffrey Epstein 
----------Forwarded message---------- 
From: Martin Weinberg <____________________ 
Date: Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 12:20 PM 
Subject: Fwd: Reuters / lawsuit against Jeffrey Epstein 
To: Jeff Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com> 
Privileged - Redacted 
Begin forwarded message: 
From: 
Date: April 28, 2016 at 12:14:37 PM EDT 
To: < 
Subject: RE: Reuters / lawsuit against Jeffrey Epstein 
Sorry, the suit is attached to this email. 
From: Ingram, David (Reuters News) 
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2016 12:14 PM 
To: 'Martin G. Weinberg' 
Subject: Reuters / lawsuit against Jeffrey Epstein 
Hi Marty, 
HOUSE OVERSIGHT 028970 
The attached lawsuit was filed this week in federal court in California alleging that Jeffrey Epstein and another 
man, Donald Trump, raped her in 1994. We're planning to publish a story on the suit this afternoon, and we 
want to make sure it is fair. Is Mr. Epstein available to speak? Or do you want to offer a comment on this 
behalf? 
My number is 
Thank you in advance. 
David Ingram 
Correspondent 
Reuters News 
Thomson Reuters 
Office: 
Mobile 
and I'm available any time. I also just tried your cell phone. 
Reuters.com 
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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029437.txt,"From: Robert Trivers

Sent: 1/4/2018 7:36:39 PM
To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: you and Chapman

Attachments: Dear Daniele 1.04.18.doc

Importance: — High

attached a message i just sent to President Struppa of Chapman—1 am certain that your gift will do the trick—
and that the West Coast is indeed more convivial and supportive than the East

i hope i did not f... up your contact with Finkelstein
Carlos told me of the devastation to your island—pretty much as i feared

am amused (at a safe distance) as Bannon takes on Trump—he responds as he always does, threatening a suit he
will not in fact file

no internet in my home or nearby in the great, retarded country of Jamaica so 1 am now at a restaurant some 35
minutes away and only go on-line twice a day—hoping that i will work instead

all best

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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030166.txt,"11

That this idea is being introduced into the public discourse is
revealing, not only of Turkey's internal debate on this issue, but also
of the message that Ankara may be trying to send to the United States
and others: It needs time to develop the wherewithal to meaningfully
influence its neighborhood. The United States wants Turkey to help
shoulder the burden of managing the Middle East as it looks to
extricate its military from Iraq. Washington especially needs to
develop a strong counterbalance to Iran - a role historically filled by
Turkey. This obviously presents a conflict of interests: Washington is
trying to push Turkey into a role it's not quite ready for; meanwhile,
Turkey is trying to sort out its growing pains while appearing
influential abroad.

Turkey's evolution will be difficult and uncomfortable, but this
should not come as a surprise. ""Zero problems with neighbors""
worked well for Turkey at the start of the century, as it came out of its
domestic shell, yet took care to avoid being seen as a resurgent power
with imperial interests. After a decade of regional conflict, Turkey is
finding that problems with neighbors are not only unavoidable, but
may even be necessary as the Turkish state redefines its core interests.

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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028729.txt,"their enriched uranium outside Iran. Western analysts were confident that
Mr. Khamenei would give his blessing, given the international pressure he
was said to be under following the fraudulent elections and the bloody
crackdown that followed.

The Ayatollah quashed that deal too: ""Whenever they [Americans] smile
at the officials of the Islamic revolution, when we carefully look at the
situation, we notice that they are hiding a dagger behind their back.""

It was the same in January 2011, when diplomacy also collapsed. Ditto in
2012, when negotiations in February, May and June each ended in failure.
Washington went into those talks thinking they were going to succeed on
the theory that Tehran desperately wants relief from the supposedly
crippling pressure of economic sanctions.

Why does the Ayatollah keep saying no? The conventional wisdom is that
previous U.S. offers weren't generous enough, or that the wrong President
was in the White House, or that Iran wants only to deal directly with the
U.S. and not in multilateral forums. Each of these theories has been tested
and shown to be false.

A more persuasive explanation—get ready for this shocker—is that Iran
really wants a bomb. The regime believes, not unreasonably, that
Moammar Gadhafi would still be in power had he not given up his nuclear
program in 2003. Mr. Khamenei also fears a ""velvet revolution"" scenario,
in which more normal ties with the West threaten the ideological
foundations of the Islamic Republic. Confrontation with America is in this
regime's DNA.

Meantime, the pretense of negotiations has allowed Tehran to play for
time to advance its programs. When Mr. Obama took office, Iran had
enriched 1,000 kilos of reactor-grade uranium. In its last report from
November, U.N. inspectors found that Iran has produced 7,611 kilos to
reactor grade, along with 232 kilos of uranium enriched to 20%, which is
close to bomb-grade. Last month, Iran declared that it would install 3,000
advanced centrifuges at its Natanz facility, which can enrich uranium at
two to three times its current rate.

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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022923.txt,"TK years for $TK, having sex with him and his friends,
and reporting on the details to Epstein so he would have
blackmailable details about them. In the laundry list of
big names, she also claims that Epstein introduced her to
Bill Clinton and Al and Tipper Gore (though there was
no sex involved).

Roberts, who was part of the original settlement—
which some accounts put as high as $1 million—has
sought an additional $50 million {NEEDS STATUS
CHECK} from Epstein [CLARIFY THAT SHE IS NOT
SUING HIM BUT SUING THE GOVT AND SAYING
SHE’LL DROP IT IF HE PAYS HER?], and is planning
a book on her life and the scandal. But there has been no
corroboration of the Roberts charges nor any new
evidence or further prosecution. Epstein says she never
met Clinton through him and, indeed, that he himself
has never met the Gores. Dershowitz is suing her for
libel.

But true or not, the story has taken on a life of its
own, with the US and British tabloid press continuing,
so far unsuccessfully, to search for a smoking gun
connecting Clinton to underage girls, which could have
the effect of derailing the Hillary Clinton presidential
campaign. In the meantime, it is delaying—dquite an
understatement—Epstein’s hoped-for public
rehabilitation.

It is a curious attribute of his character that, other than
perhaps being more circumspect about what legal advice

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IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012077.txt,"Over the past several years,

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communications.

Despite making significant
progress in the areas of governing
business risk and regulatory
compliance, many financia
companies continue to be involved
in irresponsible business practices.
uch behavior can potentially

urt long-term shareholder value
and damage their corporate
reputation. This is where we
elieve our active stewardship and
constructive shareholder voice can
have the most positive impact.

ROCKEFELLER & CO. HISTORY OF CO-FILING SHAREHOLDER RESOLUTIONS
IN THE FINANCIAL SERVICES SECTOR AFTER 2008:

2013
2012

Wells Fargo, Payday Lending

Morgan Stanley, Transparency in the
Repurchase Markets

Bank of America, Internal Controls Related
to Mortgage Loan

State Street, Separate Chair & CEO
Morgan Stanley, Restore Confidence in the
Financial System

Wells Fargo, Report on Business Standards

J.P. Morgan Chase, Proxy Voting

Bank of America, Separation of Chair &
CEO

J.P. Morgan Chase, Report on Business
Standards

Bank of America, Report on Business
Standards

Wells Fargo, Report on Business Standards

2012

2011
2011

Network on Climate Risk (INCR)
to engage with companies on
sustainability across various
sectors.

through active stewardship and
engagements. We believe that
institutional investors should
be more proactive than ever

as stewards of companies and
capital markets, and raise their
voice in seeking to ensure good
governance, accountability and
responsible growth.

Our engagements with the
Financial services sector are
supported by our long-term
collaborative work with the
nterfaith Center on Corporate
Responsibility (ICCR). We also
utilize other investor networks
such as the UN-backed Principles
For Responsible Investment

PRI) and the CERES/Investor

Finally, the outlook for possible
increased deregulation under
the new administration could
potentially undermine the
gains achieved by shareholders

ACTIVE STEWARDSHIP 6

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mean -- I guess the attorneys representing Virginia
Roberts on various matters which Boies Schiller law
firm, the Bradley J. Edwards and his law firm,
University of Utah's general counsel's office, the
university -- I'm sorry -- the Utah Attorney General's
office, Attorney General Reaz * (ph) and other persons
there. And the Searcy -- well, Mr. Scarola's law firm,
I'm trying to remember -- sorry, Jack, I can't remember
the name of all your partners off the top of my head.

MR. SCAROLA: That's quite all right.

MR. SIMPSON: He's the man.

THE WITNESS: It's the law firm that

Mr. Scarola is a named partner in.

BY MR. SIMPSON:

Q. And is it -- am I correct that you cannot say
one way or the other whether that written agreement was
executed before or after December 30th, 2014?

A. That's right. Sitting here right now, no, I
can't recall.

Q. Okay. I want to go back to the motion for

joinder which is Exhibit 2, and the provision -- not the

provision -- the assertion that we were referring to.
A. Right, right.
Q. Concerning not Virginia Roberts, but other

minors. Do you have that in mind?

ROUGH DRAFT ONLY

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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031631.txt,"From: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]

Sent: 10/19/2016 3:02:57 PM
To: Thomas Jr., Landon
Subject: Re: Saudi money

Importance: — High

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/07/donald-trump-sexual-assault-lawsuits-norm-lubow

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 10:28 AM, Thomas Jr., Landon > wrote:

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 10:26 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
number

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 9:55 AM, Thomas Jr., Landon <q wrote:
I have spoken to a lot of ceos of fund outfits who say Saudis have been pulling billions of dollars in
separate account money -- not just from BR. And plus I cant believe they would have so much tied
up in lock ups.

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 9:48 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
sorry, no good handle without digging

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 9:47 AM, Thomas Jr., Landon {i wrote:
what is your back of the envelope guess as to much saudi money tied up in such funds?

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 9:43 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
most of the saudi money is tied up in pe funds. no withdrawals allowed . and im not seeing much in the
secondary market... blackrock is more money market , more like custodian than investor .

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 9:41 AM, Thomas Jr., Landon <> wrote:
Interesting. CEO of big finance form told me that Saudis (SAMA) have withdrawn $200 billion
that has been parked with usual suspects over past year or so. That number seem in line with
what you know?

On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 7:04 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:

words that you to refer to one thing, USA. the stock market / the Royal family, . are no longer very
useful. In politics the USA meant the white house. now there is pentagon. cia, state, and congress
in addition, each feels empowered to act more independantly. stock market even in
tech, needs biotech, consuner tech. infrastrucrue tech. etc. same with Royal family, there are
20k members of a tribe. called the royal family, the words are misleading. if your article is
focused on bin salman, or the very top. no one is wondering where they can find the local
costco.. but they are aware that a message needs to be sent to their population , regarding the next 20
years,

social media, and the selfie crowds post the best of everything, their cutest pictures the amazing
food , the luxury resorts. the masses see these things and as the difference between
expectations and reality widen, the anger grows. trump has tapped in.

with the passage of the 9 11 saudi bill, unlike the french revolution where it was the people of france
that revolted against their own aristocracty, with the internet and globalization of discontect it is now
the americans that can revolt against the saudi leadership. _it is the americans that are demanding
women drive. not the saudis

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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031157.txt,"helped cushion portfolio returns when markets declined. We won’t know until the data comes in, but we expect the same
to happen this time.

[5] The “Eye on the Market” has endlessly chronicled this year the fissures which are now affecting financial markets:
European sovereign risk and inadequate bank capitalization; weak labor compensation as an Achilles heel of the US
profits recovery, given its negative impact on spending; the political divide in Congress over how to deal with falling
government revenue and rising entitlement spending; inflation risks in Asia and Latin America and the resulting need for
more policy tightening; and the mixed track record of low interest rates to sustainability solve structural problems. The
cover of the 2011 Outlook (a printing press, out of control) expressed our concern regarding a recovery built upon a
stimulus machine. I would contrast this with the cover of a competitor’s 2011 publication, which had a picture of George
Washington crossing the Delaware, with the caption “America’s structural resilience, fortitude and ingenuity will carry
the economy and financial markets in 2011 —- and beyond”. Our job is not to point to where we would like the
financial markets to go, but rather to point to where they might end up. It’s like the scene in Oliver Stone’s Nixon,
when Nixon looks up at a portrait of JFK and says, “When they look at you, they see what they want to be. When they look
at me, they see what they are.” Our job is to see financial markets for what they are.

[6] All that said, we have lessons to learn here.

Too many of our investment discussions this year focused on the negative real return characteristics of
cash, and why to reduce it. In a world of deflation risk on financial assets (rather than of goods and
services), cash retains substantial option value at times like these.

We could have connected the dots more aggressively on our views on weak growth and easy monetary
policy, and owned more gold. While we have had rising price forecasts for gold and owned it in
portfolios, we did not have large enough allocations.

Given the all-time high of US government transfers to households and negative real interest rates, we
should not have interpreted positive economic data earlier this year as being highly representative of the
true run-rate of the US economy. The same goes for the global economy, which has been the beneficiary
of a lot of stimulus that is now fading, for a variety of economic and political reasons.

Great corporate profits are no guarantee against a problem in financial markets. Corporate profits and P/E
multiples were fine in June 2007, but rested on top of a systemic problem in private sector credit markets
and private sector balance sheets. This year, strong corporate profits and low P/E multiples sit on top of
systemic problems in public sector finances.

[7] In the wreckage, as usual, there are opportunities, and we will be reviewing them with you in the days ahead. There
is a benefit to having held back on our firepower this year. With risk to spend held in reserve, there are oversold assets
with considering, particularly among multinationals with strong balance sheets, high dividends and which trade at very
low multiples, something we reviewed earlier in the week.”

Michael Cembalest
Chief Investment Officer

The material contained herein is intended as a general market commentary. Opinions expressed herein are those of Michael Cembalest and may differ from those of
other J.P. Morgan employees and affiliates. This information in no way constitutes J.P. Morgan research and should not be treated as such. Further, the views
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IRS Circular 230 Disclosure: JPMorgan Chase & Co. and its affiliates do not provide tax advice. Accordingly, any discussion of U.S. tax matters contained herein
(including any attachments) is not intended or written to be used, and cannot be used, in connection with the promotion, marketing or recommendation by anyone

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_014591.txt,"Exhibit 65: FTSE 100 Price Level and British Pound
A weaker pound benefits FTSE 100 companies, which
generate 75% of sales outside the UK.

Exchange Rate
FTSE 100 Price Level 15
e---- GBP/USD (Right, Inverted)

Index Level
7,300

7100 .20

Brexit

6,900 25

6,700 30
6,500 35
6,300 40

6,100 AB

Depreciation
5,900 50

5,700 55

5,500 : 60
Jan-16 Mar-16 May-16 Jul-16 Sep-16 Nov-16

Data through December 31, 2016.
Source: Investment Strategy Group, Bloomberg.

Exhibit 66: TOPIX Price Level

Japanese equities have traded in a large-but-
contained range.

Price Level

3,500 5

3,000

2,500

2,000 Flat
1,500

1,000

500 -

o 4
1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015

Data through December 31, 2016.
Source: Investment Strategy Group, Goldman Sachs Global Investment Research, Bloomberg.

footprint—75% of sales come from outside the
UK economy—should benefit from the accelerating
global GDP growth we expect this year, just

as this exposure profited from last year’s 16%
depreciation of the British pound (see Exhibit

65). Second, last year’s best-performing sectors—
commodities and financials—are well positioned
to extend their run. Financials—the largest UK
sector—stands to benefit from rising interest rates,
while the commodity sectors should get a boost
from higher oil prices. Notably, these two sectors
account for nearly half of FTSE 100 market
capitalization.

With these tailwinds in mind, we forecast UK
earnings growth of 11% this year, the highest of
our estimates across EAFE markets. That said,
continued uncertainty around the implications
of Brexit coupled with higher interest rates will
likely weigh on FTSE 100’s well-above-average
valuations. This view, combined with the UK equity
market’s hefty dividend yield of 4.0%, results in a
4% total return projection for the FTSE 100.

Although this return is attractive on its face,

We project UK earnings growth of
11% this year, the highest of our
estimates across EAFE markets.

we do not believe it offers investors a large enough
margin of safety to justify a tactical overweight.
Keep in mind that significant uncertainties remain
around the final contours of Brexit. Moreover,

a shift by the Bank of England toward raising
interest rates this year could reverse much of the
British pound’s depreciation, to the detriment of
UK earnings. Finally, FTSE 100’s global footprint
could magnify any disruption to global trade
volumes resulting from protectionist policies.

Japanese Equities: Scaling a Familiar Peak

Japanese equities have experienced their fair share
of booms and busts over the last 25 years. As seen
in Exhibit 66, this pattern of offsetting swings has
resulted in a “fat and flat”!* trading range. With
the TOPIX price level again in the upper third of
its historical band, it is natural to ask whether
2017 will mark yet another market top in Japan.
The earnings outlook is pivotal to answering
this question. While our forecast for accelerating
global GDP growth points toward higher
earnings, near-peak profit margins are
a headwind (see Exhibit 67). Moreover,
with less central bank easing given the
BOJ’s already sizable balance sheet, yen
depreciation—a key driver of Japanese
revenue growth since 2012—is expected

to moderate this year. Even so, the

58 | Goldman Sachs | JANUARY 2017

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015857.txt,"Complexity & Chaos 167

TRY THE PUZZLE ON THE WEB
Warning: Don’t spend too long on these problems.

The reason I warned you not to spend too long is that solving the
50-city problem would take longer than the age of the known universe.
NP problems get harder very fast as the number of elements goes up. A
50-city problem is hugely larger than a five-city problem, not just ten
times harder.

The Clay Mathematics Institute has offered a $1 million prize for
anyone who can say whether NP problems are really as hard as they
appear. It may be there is a general trick or a series of tricks that allow
you to solve any NP problem in a shorter time. If you could do this, the
problem would be demoted to P, allowing fast computers to tackle it. No
one has yet found a proof of the P=NP problem. At the time of writing
several proofs are sitting with the Clay Prize judges but don’t hold your
breath. Most people assume there is no solution. If you want to have a
crack at the problem let me state it in simple terms.

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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023383.txt,"In re: TERRORIST ATTACKS ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2001., 2012 WL 257568 (2012)

and other financiers associated with the Golden Chain enabled bin Laden and Al Qaeda to replace lost financial assets and
establish a base in Afghanistan following their abrupt departure from Sudan in 1996

The Golden Chain thus provides a list of the most significant donors to al-Qaeda. These donors, moreover, did not give
money to al-Qaeda unwittingly, through an al Qaeda front masquerading as a legitimate charity; they were, rather, bin
Ladin’s original list of financial backers for his al-Qaeda enterprise. The appearance on this list of Khalid bin Mahfouz and
Sulaiman al Rayhi is strong evidence of their knowing and active financial support of al-Qaeda.

In addition to the positions within their respective financial institutions, Khalid bin Mahfouz, Suleiman al Rajhi, and
Abdullah al Rajhi also played significant roles in al-Qaeda charity fronts. As mentioned above, bin Mahfouz founded
Muwafaq Foundation along with Defendant al Kadi, with the intent that it would serve as a front for al-Qaeda *55
operations.” Al Rajhi served as a Board Member of the RO, and also founded the SAAR Foundation, a U.S. based charity
established by al Rajhi to support Islamic extremists.” These allegations and facts concerning their longstanding ties to bin
Laden, and positions within financial institutions and charities with documented links to al-Qaeda, place bin Mahfouz and al
Rayhi at the center of the al-Qaeda financial and logistic network.

Al-Qaeda’s Additional Wealthy Financiers

A number of other wealthy financiers and sponsors played critical roles in the advancement of the al-Qaeda enterprise, by
providing much of the funding al-Qaeda needed to sustain its global operations, estimated by the U.S. government at more
than $30 million per year in the period immediately preceding the September 11th Attacks. These wealthy individual
sponsors included defendants Bakr bin Laden, Tariq bin Laden, Yeslam bin Laden, Omar bin Laden, Abdullah bin Laden
(collectively the “Bin Laden Brothers”), Yousef Jameel, and Saleh Kamel--Bakr bin Laden, *56 Jameel, and Kamel, along
with Khalid bin Mahfouiz and Suleiman al Rajhi, are identified as primary al-Qaeda financiers in the Golden Chain.”

Bakr, Tariq, Omar, and Yeslam bin Laden are Osama’s half-brothers. Bakr, Tariq, and Omar are alleged to have used their
positions within the Saudi Binladin Group, the bin Laden family construction empire, to channel support to their sibling
Osama after he formed al-Qaeda and made clear his intent to conduct jihad against the United States.™ Consistent with those
allegations, the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks’ Staff Monograph on terrorist financing confirms that Osama bin
Laden continued to receive disbursements from SBG following the establishment of al-Qaeda in 1988 through 1993 or 1994,
to a tune of approximately $1 million per year, until the Saudi government allegedly “forced the Bin Ladin family to find a
buyer for Usama’s share of the family company.” Bin Laden used those funds to provide economic support to the National
Islamic Front regime, a central component of the bargain under which the *57 NIF provided safehaven, training camps and
other support for al-Qaeda.” In addition, Bakr is a member of the Golden Chain, and a primary contributor to al-Qaeda front
charity TRO.”

Abdullah bin Laden sponsored al-Qaeda through his roles in establishing two US branches of al-Qaeda front charities, Taibah
International and WAMY USA, both of which have extensive ties to al-Qaeda. Yeslam bin Laden supported al-Qaeda
through the management of Swiss bank accounts for Osama’s benefit.”

Defendants Kamel and Jameel also are members of the Golden Chain.'” Both are alleged to have longstanding ties to
al-Qaeda, and to have supported al-Qaeda through a variety of channels.'""' Jameel’s sponsorship of al-Qaeda flowed largely
through purported charities, known to Jameel to be al-Qaeda fronts.'” Kamel also contributed generously to al-Qaeda through

its known charity fronts, and also *58 supported al-Qaeda through various businesses and financial institutions under his
control, including Defendant-Appellee Dalian al Baraka.’

*59 Summary of Argument
The district court concluded that plaintiffs had failed to state a claim against certain defendants under the Anti-Terrorism Act

WESTLAW

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016386.txt,"THE RIGHTS OF MACHINES
George M. Church

George M. Church is Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical
School; Professor of Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard-MIT; and co-author
(with Ed Regis) of Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and
Ourselves.

In 1950, Norbert Wiener’s Zhe Human Use of Human Beings was at the cutting edge of
vision and speculation in proclaiming that

the machine like the djinnee, which can learn and can make decisions on the
basis of its learning, will in no way be obliged to make such decisions as we
should have made, or will be acceptable to us. ... Whether we entrust our
decisions to machines of metal, or to those machines of flesh and blood which
are bureaus and vast laboratories and armies and corporations, . . . [t]he hour is
very late, and the choice of good and evil knocks at our door.

But this was his book’s denouement, and it has left us hanging now for sixty-eight
years, lacking not only prescriptions and proscriptions but even a well-articulated
“problem statement.” We have since seen similar warnings about the threat of our
machines, even in the form of outreach to the masses, via films like Colossus: The Forbin
Project (1970), The Terminator (1984), The Matrix (1999), and Ex Machina (2015). But
now the time is ripe for a major update, with fresh, new perspectives—notably focused
on generalizations of our “human” rights and our existential needs.

Concern has tended to focus on “us versus them [robots]” or “grey goo
[nanotech]” or “monocultures of clones [bio].” To extrapolate current trends: What if we
could make or grow almost anything and engineer any level of safety and efficacy
desired? Any thinking being (made of any arrangement of atoms) could have access to
any technology.

Probably we should be less concerned about us-versus-them and more concerned
about the rights of all sentients in the face of an emerging unprecedented diversity of
minds. We should be harnessing this diversity to minimize global existential risks, like
supervolcanoes and asteroids.

But should we say “should”? (Disclaimer: In this and many other cases, when a
technologist describes a societal path that “could,” “would,” or “should” happen, this
doesn’t necessarily equate to the preferences of the author. It could reflect warning,
uncertainty, and/or detached assessment.) Roboticist Gianmarco Veruggio and others
have raised issues of roboethics since 2002; the U.K. Department of Trade and Industry
and the RAND spin-off Institute for the Future have raised issues of robot rights since
2006.

“Ts versus ought”

It is commonplace to say that science concerns “is,” not “ought.” Stephen Jay Gould’s
“non-overlapping magisteria” view argues that facts must be completely distinct from
values. Similarly, the 1999 document Science and Creationism from the U.S. National
Academy of Sciences noted that “science and religion occupy two separate realms.” This

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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030859.txt,"From: Faith Kates 
Sent: 3/27/2015 2:34:05 AM 
To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com] 
Subject: Fwd: Google Alert - jeffrey epstein sex scandal 
Importance: High 
What a piece of shit!!! 
Sent from my iPhone 
Begin forwarded message: 
From: Google Alerts <googlealerts-noreply@google.com> 
Date: March 26, 2015 at 4:05:39 PM EDT 
To: <I_________________________________________ 
Subject: Google Alert - jeffrey epstein sex scandal 
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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026008.txt,"From: Deepak Chopra 
Sent: 8/20/2016 2:04:14 PM 
To: jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Subject: Re: 
Importance: High 
I agree 
Maybe then just stick to Sept 18th meeting - polite and courteous - 
I will be respectful and deferential. 
On the advice of Leonard I'm removing all criticism of scientists from the book 
A production company in LA - connected to my son - is doing a documentary film on the new book. 
They are looking for critics 
I will film part of it as a lecture Al Gore * Inconvenient Truth"" style in Nantucket. 
I sent you the poster. 
Can send it again by text 
They would welcome his criticism 
I think we should wait to discuss until Sept 18th unless you suggest we invite him on Sept 23 to Nantucket ? 
I'm thinking what I should do with the Autumn of my life. 
Will get clarity during silence . 
The energy of pleasure has exhausted itself in me as also the energy that goes into "" being right"" 
I'm ready to serve In a meaningful way 
Love 
Deepak Chopra 
Super Genes: Unlock the Astonishing Power of Your DNA for Optimum Health and Wellbeing 
On Aug 20, 2016, at 9:30 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
i 11 be any help i can, we are all of the same generation, it is silly to argue with hubris 
On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 9:24 AM, Deepak Chopra < wrote: 
I just landed in NY 
I'm staring a new phase in my life visa vis my relationship with my critics 
2 scientific papers on my work will be out soon 
Leonard read the new book and made some corrections so now 3 physicists have made sure that the science is 
accurate 
If you haven't sent the book to him please hold off so he gets a corrected copy. 
I'm going to get off my high horse ( the tiger I can't ) and try and start a dialogue with anyone who is willing. 
I will do as you guide me 
I'm going this afternoon to NJ to do a fundraiser for an orphanage and then to Boston until Monday afternoon 
Meeting Barnaby on Monday afternoon 
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Tuesday I'm doing an event in NY with Eric Schadt to announce new meditation research 
Go for silence on Aug 28 th 
Love 
Deepak Chopra 
Super Genes: Unlock the Astonishing Power of Your DNA for Optimum Health and Wellbeing 
On Aug 20, 2016, at 8:09 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
im sure if you like we can begin the krause counseling session on skype. 
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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019611.txt,"The Great Divide | 123

act, Section 215, euphemistically referred to as the “library records”
provision, permitted the FISA court to issue warrants authorizing
searches of records by the NSA and other federal agencies to inves-
tigate international terrorism or clandestine intelligence activities.
Through these FISA authorizations, the NSA could obtain “tangible
things” such as “books, records, papers, documents, and other items.”
Under the interpretation of this section of the law by both the Bush
and the Obama administrations, the FISA court was enabled by
Congress to issue warrants to telephone companies demanding that
they turn over to the NSA the bulk billing records of all calls made
in America. The FISA court need only deem these records to be “rel-
evant” to the FBI’s investigations of terrorists and spies.

Essentially, the NSA, to create a searchable database of telephone
billing records, used the FISA court’s controversial interpretation of
the word “relevant” in Section 215. Such a “haystack,” as the NSA
called the national collection of billing records, could allow the FBI
to instantly find missing “needles,” as this tracking was supposed to
work, even if the connections were made years earlier. For example,

© if the FBI had a lead on a foreign suspect, it could search the data- ®
base for any telephone calls made by the foreign suspect to tele-
phone numbers in America and then who those people called. The
FBI always had this power, if it obtained a warrant, but it did not
previously have the “haystack” of records in a single database. Gen-
eral Keith Alexander, who headed the NSA between 2005 and 2014,
believed that maintaining such a haystack database made sense. “His
approach was, ‘Let’s collect the whole haystack,’” according to one
former senior U.S. intelligence official quoted by The Washington
Post.

According to critics of NSA domestic surveillance, including the
ACLU, the results provided by this vast database did not justify its
immense potential for abuse. In early May 2015, just three weeks
before this part of the Patriot Act was set to expire, a three-judge
panel of the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York
agreed with the ACLU position, overturning a lower court deci-
sion that said it was legal. The panel found that the word “relevant”
in the act was not intended by Congress to justify the acquisition
and storing of the bulk records of telephone companies for possible

| | Epst_9780451494566_2p_all_r1.z.indd 123 ® 9/29/16 5:51 Pa | |

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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020090.txt,"they regarded as functionaries, and their job was to support the White House’s goals,
which included their goals and interests.

Spicer, ever ridiculed in the media for his cockamamie defense of the White House and
a seeming dumb loyalty, had been judged by the president, quite from the inauguration, to
be not loyal enough and not nearly as aggressive as he should be in Trump’s defense. Or,
in Jared and Ivanka’s view, in his family’s defense. “What does Spicer’s forty-member
comm staff actually do?” was a persistent First Family question.

7 OK Ok

Almost from the beginning, the president had been interviewing potential new press
secretaries. He appeared to have offered the job to various people, one of whom was
Kimberly Guilfoyle, the Fox News personality and cohost of The Five. Guilfoyle, the
former wife of California Democrat Gavin Newsom, was also reported to be Anthony
Scaramucci’s girlfriend, a rumor he denied. Unbeknownst to the White House,
Scaramucci’s personal life was in dramatic free fall. On July 9, nine months pregnant with
their second child, Scaramucci’s wife filed for divorce.

Guilfoyle, knowing that Spicer was on his way out but having decided not to take his
job—or, according to others in the White House, never having been offered it—suggested
Scaramucci, who set to work convincing Jared and Ivanka that theirs was largely a PR
problem and that they were ill served by the current communications team.

Scaramucci called a reporter he knew to urge that an upcoming story about Kushner’s
Russian contacts be spiked. He followed up by having another mutual contact call the
reporter to say that if the story was spiked it would help the Mooch get into the White
House, whereupon the reporter would have special Mooch access. The Mooch then
assured Jared and Ivanka that he had, in this clever way, killed the story.

Now Scaramucci had their attention. We need some new thinking, the couple thought;
we need somebody who is more on our side. The fact that Scaramucci was from New
York, and Wall Street, and was rich, reassured them that he understood what the deal was.
And that he would understand the stakes and know that an aggressive game needed to be
played.

On the other hand, the couple did not want to be perceived as being heavy-handed. So,
after bitterly accusing Spicer of not defending them adequately, they suddenly backed off
and suggested that they were just looking to add a new voice to the mix. The job of White
House communications director, which had no precise purview, had been vacant since
May, when Mike Dubke, whose presence at the White House had hardly registered,
resigned. Scaramucci could take this job, the couple figured, and in that role he could be
their ally.

“He’s good on television,” Ivanka told Spicer when she explained the rationale for
hiring a former hedge fund manager as White House communications director. “Maybe he

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Ph, 561.682.0905 - Fax. 561.682.1771
1655 Palm Beach Lakes Blvd., Suite 500 - West Palm Beach, FL 33401

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013884.txt,"2. Schedule 30-minute interviews for Carol, Marc/Julie, and Rob. Use www.myevents.com
(username: notreal, password: donttryit) to book them in my calendar for next week any time between
9-9 ET.

3. Find the name, e-mail, and phone (phone is least important) of workers in the U.S. who have
negotiated remote work agreements (telecommuting) despite resistant bosses. Those who have
traveled outside the U.S. are ideal. Other keywords could include “teleworking” and
“telecommuting.” The important factor is that they negotiated with difficult bosses. Please send me
links to their profiles or write a paragraph describing why they fit the profile above.

Look forward to seeing what you can do. Please e-mail if you don’t understand or have questions.
Best,
Tim

The truth is—I was at fault. This is not a good debut demand, and I made fatal mistakes even before
composing it. If you are an effective person but unaccustomed to issuing commands, assume that most
problems at the outset are your fault. It is tempting to immediately point the finger at someone else and
huff and puff, but most beginner bosses repeat the same mistakes I made.

1. I accepted the first person the firm provided and made no special requests at the outset.

Request someone who has “excellent” English and indicate that phone calls will be required (even if not).
Be fast to request a replacement if there are repeated communication issues.

2. I gave imprecise directions.

I asked him to schedule interviews but didn’t indicate that it was for an article. He assumed, based on
work with previous clients, that I wanted to hire someone and he misspent time compiling spreadsheets
and combing online job sites for additional information I didn’t need.

Sentences should have one possible interpretation and be suitable for a 2nd-grade reading level. This
goes for native speakers as well and will make requests clearer. Ten-dollar words disguise imprecision.

Note that I asked him to respond if he didn’t understand or had questions. This is the wrong approach.
Ask foreign VAs to rephrase tasks to confirm understanding before getting started.

3. I gave him a license to waste time.

This brings us again to damage control. Request a status update after a few hours of work on a task to
ensure that the task is both understood and achievable. Some tasks are, after initial attempts, impossible.

4.1 set the deadline a week in advance.

Use Parkinson’s Law and assign tasks that are to be completed within no more than 72 hours. I have had
the best luck with 48 and 24 hours. This is another compelling reason to use a small group (three or
more) rather than a single individual who can become overtaxed with last-minute requests from multiple
clients. Using short deadlines does not mean avoiding larger tasks (e.g., business plan), but rather
breaking them into smaller milestones that can be completed in shorter time frames (outline, competitive
research summaries, chapters, etc.).

5.I gave him too many tasks and didn’t set an order of importance.

I advise sending one task at a time whenever possible and no more than two. If you want to cause your
computer to hang or crash, open 20 windows and applications at the same time. If you want to do the

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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017275.txt,"4.2.12
WC: 191694

The Binion case: murder or drug overdose?

The classic “thriller” case is a “whodunit.” The fact of a murder is clear, as it was in the OJ
Simpson case. The only question is who committed it. (Remember the “one armed killer” in The
Fugitive!)

Many of my homicide cases have not been who-dunits, but rather, was anything criminal done at
all. Was the dead (or comatose) body the result of a criminal act, or the result of natural causes,
self-induced harm, or accident?

That was the issue in the Von Bulow and Sybers cases. It was also the question presented when
Ted Binion, the owner of the famous Binion Casino in Las Vegas—the home of the World Series
of Poker—was found dead in his home on September 17, 1998.

Binion’s live-in fiancé, Sandra Murphy—a young, sometimes exotic dancer—and her equally
young lover, Richard Tabish, were accused of murdering him, by an unusual means harking back
to the days of Sherlock Holmes. Dr. Michael Baden, one of the world’s leading forensic
pathologists (and a friend of mine) had concluded that Binion had been “burked” to death.

The term “burke” derives from two notorious 19"" Century Scottish murderers, who killed their
victims in order to provide fresh cadavers to doctors and medical students for research. The case
was so notorious that it became the subject of a short story, “The Body Snatchers” by Robert
Louis Stevenson, and of several films including one by the same name that starred Borris Karloff
and Bela Lugosi. Burke and colleague Hare, compressed the chest of their victims, thereby
smothering them to death, without leaving any bruises on the body.

Dr. Baden surmised that Sandra Murphy and her lover had done the same thing to Binion, so as to
leave no trace of murder. And her diabolical plan—if there was such a plan—worked—at least
for a while. Since it was well known that the high-living Ted Binion was a heroin addict, and
since there was evidence that his regular drug supplier had delivered a large quantity of black tar
heroin just before his body was found, the police concluded that this was just another Las Vegas
drug overdose, albeit by one of the city’s most famous celebrities. Since no crime (other than
those relating to the drugs) was suspected, the home was not declared a “crime scene,” but an
autopsy the next day noted various marks on the body and the examiner photographed them. It
was these marks that led Dr. Baden to conclude that Binion had been murdered—burked to
death—and had not died of an overdose. Other medical experts also concluded that Binion had
been murdered, but not by “burking.” Their theory was that he had been forced to swallow a
deadly mixture of heroin, xanax and valium—a cocktail of death.

In addition to the scientific evidence, there was testimony by Binion’s estate lawyer that on the
day before his death, Binion had said to him: “Take Sandy [Sandra Murphy] out of the will if she
doesn’t kill me tonight. If I’m dead, you’ll know what happened.”

The prosecution thus had evidence of motive, means and opportunity and they charged Murphy

and her lover with “murder by suffocation and/or poisoning.” At trial, they presented what I later
characterized as a “multiple choice” prosecution: the jury could choose either suffocation or

188

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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018146.txt,"By Nancy Francis

GPS technology will soon be at your feet, offering peace of mind to loved ones of Alzheimer’s
sufferers, people with autism, active preschoolers and others who might wander into harm’s way
or get lost.

A Los Angeles-based company that sees opportunity in the merging of GPS tracking technology
and footwear, has developed several prototypes of GPS tennis shoes.

GTX Corporation is having discussions with various footwear manufactures (including some in
Oregon) about licensing its technological designs and connectivity system.

During a recent visit to Portland, GTX Corp CEO Patrick Bertagna showed KGW a prototype of

the company’s GPS shoe.
Download the full article
Mobile Ways to Keep Track of Your Kids

By Lori Tucker, (WATE) Knoxville, TN -- June 7, 2007

As technology makes our society more mobile, there are more mobile ways to keep track of your
loved ones including cell phones, car trackers and even shoes. GPS shoes That's right, an LA
company has patented a GPS system in a shoe.

Xplorer Smart Shoes, made by GTX Corp., are able to track the person wearing them in real time
or by remote surveillance.

GTX says the shoes work particularly well for: children, people with Alzheimer's disease, outdoor

adventures, military, police, fire and public safety workers.
IN THE PIPELINE: Tracking All The Uses For Positioning Chips

By Donna Fuscaldo - DowJones Newswire - May 1, 2007

For Patrick Bertagna, the eureka moment came a few years ago when watching the coverage of the
Elizabeth Smart abduction. After spending years helping companies track their products via
software, Bertagna decided it was time to do something that mattered.

So the serial entrepreneur, armed with a couple of checks from friends, launched Global Trek
Xploration Corp., a Los Angeles-based company that's developing shoes embedded with a global
positioning chip. The shoes will enable parents to monitor their children's every movement and

caregivers to keep real time tabs on elderly or sick people.

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IMAGES-012-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033513.txt,"From: Weingarten, Reic [is

Sent: 6/17/2019 6:47:59 PM
To: J [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Re:

Do | want to rep arif naqvi the founder of abraaj?

Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.

From: J

Sent: Monday, June 3, 2019 1:31 PM
To: Weingarten, Reid

Subject: Re:

Future

On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 8:20 AM Weingarten, Reid (> wrote:

Why is this interesting?...Donny duetsch now has a show....should | go on and talk about ""the jeffrey |
know"",,.?....1am in london when you are in paris...we should try to make progress then
Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.

From: J

Sent: Saturday, June 1, 2019 6:46 PM
To: Weingarten, Reid

Subject:

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/44649 1 -trump-announces-departure-of-white-house-lawyer-

emmet-flood

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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024407.txt,"From: Bill Siege! |_y

Sent: 2/8/2013 8:48:50 PM
To: jeevacation@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Fro- The Control Factor - Frontpage Magazine interview

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| will let you Know when | go back. Do you know her?

From: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com>

To: Bill Siegel

Sent: Fri Feb 08 15:16:44 2013

Subject: Re: Fro- The Control Factor - Frontpage Magazine interview

great. place.. when will you go.. did you get married? im between alber and santa fe,, zorrro ranch, you can
google earth it.

On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Bill Siege] > wrote:
You ok? | became friendly with shirley maclaine last year and went to her ranch in sante fe. | may go

back and remembered you own half the ranch land there or something. Do you still like it there?

From: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com>

To: Bill Siegel

Sent: Fri Feb 08 14:58:01 2013

Subject: Re: Fro- The Control Factor - Frontpage Magazine interview

I already rad it. congragulations hope to see you soon

On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Bill Siegel I wrote:

Bill Siegel hopes this might be of interest to you: http://frontpagemag.com/2013/jamie-glazov/the-control-
factor-our-struggle-to-see-the-true-threat/

The Control Factor: Our Struggle to See the True
Threat

February 8, 2013 By Jamie Glazov Comments (6)

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Kerimov is a member of the Russian Federation Council. On
November 20, 2017, Kerimov was detained in France and held for two days. He is alleged
to have brought hundreds of millions of euros into France - transporting as much as 20
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IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021136.txt,"24 MICHAEL WOLFE

That afternoon, a bipartisan Congress with surprising ease had passed the
$1.3 trillion 2018 appropriations bill. “McConnell, Ryan, Schumer, and
Pelosi,” said Bannon about the Republican and Democratic congressional
leadership, “in their singular moment of bipartisan magnanimity, put one
over on Trump.”

This legislative milestone was a result of Trump's disengagement and
everybody else's attentive efforts. Most presidents are eager to get down into
the weeds of the budget process. Trump took little or no interest. Hence the
Republican and Democratic leadership—here supported by the budget
and legislative teams in the White House—were able to pass an enormous
spending bill that failed to fund Trumps must-must item, the holy grail
Wall, that prospective two-thousand-mile monument meant to run the
entire length of the border between the United States and Mexico. Instead,
the bill provided only $1.6 billion for border security. The current bill was in
effect the same budget bill that had been pushed forward at the end of the
previous September, when the Wall had once again not been funded. In the
fall, Trump had agreed to have the Republican-controlled Congiess vote to
extend the September budget bill. The next time it came up, the Wall would
be funded or, he threatened, the government would be shut down.

Even the hardest-core Trumpers in Congress seemed content not to
have to die on the actual battlefield of funding the Wall, since that would
mean embracing or at least enduring an always politically risky shutdown.
Trump, too, in his way, seemed to understand that the Wall was more
myth than reality, more slogan than actual plan. The Wall was ever for
another day.

On the other hand, it was unclear what the president understood.
“We've gotten the budget,” he privately told his son-in-law at the end of
the March budget negotiations. “We've gotten the Wall, totally.”

OF

On Wednesday, March 21, the day before the final vote, Paul Ryan, the
Speaker of the House, had come to the White House to receive the presi-
dent's blessings on the budget bill.

“Got $1.6 Billion to start Wall on Southern Border, rest will be forth-
coming,’ the president shortly tweeted.

SIEGE 25

The White House had originally asked for $25 billion for the Wall,
although high-end estimates of the Wall’s ultimate cost came in at $70
billion. Even then, the $1.6 billion in the appropriations bill was not so
much for the Wall as for better security measures.

As the final vote neared, a gentlemen's agreement appeared to have
been reached, one that extended to every corner of the government—
with, it even seemed, Trump's own tacit support, or at least his conve-
nient distraction. The understanding was straightforward: whatever their
stripe, members of Congress would not blow up the appropriations pro-
cess for the Wall.

There were, too, Republicans like Ryan—with the backing of Repub-
lican donors such as Paul Singer and Charles Koch—who were eager to
walk back, by whatever increment possible, Trump's hard-line immigra-
tion policies and rhetoric. Ryan and others had devised a simple method
for accomplishing this kind of objective: you agreed with him and then
ignored him. There was happy talk, which Trump bathed in, followed by
practical steps, which bored him.

That Wednesday, Trump made a series of calls to praise everyone’s
work on the bill. The next morning, Ryan, in a televised news conference
to seal the deal, said, “The president supports this bill, there's no two ways
about it.”

Here were the twin realities. The Wall was the most concrete manifesta-
tion of Trumpian policy, attitude, belief, and personality. At the same time,
the Wall forced every Republican politician to come to terms with his or
her own common sense, fiscal prudence, and political flexibility.

It was not just the expense and impracticality of the Wall, it was hav-
ing to engage in a battle for it. A government shutdown would mean a
high-stakes face-off between the Trump world and the non-Trump world
Should this come to pass, it would potentially be as dramatic a moment as
any that had occurred since the election of 2016.

If the Democrats wanted to harden the partisan division and were
eager to find yet another example—perhaps the mother of all exam-
ples—of Trump at his most extreme, a shutdown over the Wall woulc
hand them one. If the Republicans wanted to shift the focus from a full
barbarian Trump to, say, the tax bill the Congress had recently passed

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Stanley was worried by polling data that suggested most Israelis saw Bibi as
“strong.” I argued that strength was one area where we wouldn’t have to worry.
“No way, in a campaign, he’ Il end up coming over looking stronger than me.”
Stanley seemed not entirely convinced.

Both in “strength” and other ways, I think my background did prove an
advantage. The 35 years I’d spent in the military had given me a singleminded
determination to set goals, follow through and achieve them. After Haim Ramon
came to my office before the no-confidence vote to ask whether I was sure I
wanted to go ahead, and I answered with an unhesitating “yes,” Haim had told a
couple of reporters: “Barak has balls of steel.” In truth, I was puzzled he’d even
asked me. As when I was in uniform, it would never have occurred to me to ask
him to try to line up the necessary votes if I hadn’t thought it through and intended
to go ahead with it.

Still, my military background was not always an asset as I found my feet as
party leader and prepared to take on Bibi in the election campaign. In searching for
the tools, the structure, and the people I felt would give us the best chance to win, I
sometimes failed to pay due attention to the party’s existing apparatus and
institutions. This alienated a number of established Labor politicians, eventually
including Haim himself. So as the campaign approached I tried to shore up my ties
with the party establishment. I drafted in Bougie Herzog to act as my regular
liaison with leading figures in the party. I was careful to include a number of Labor
politicians in our campaign team as well, though, as Philip Gould had
recommended, I made sure they didn’t actually run it.

The closest equivalent to the role Haim had played in Peres’s campaign went to
a young businessman, PR professional and Labor supporter named Moshe Gaon.
As spokeswoman, we brought in someone who, though she’d been a messenger of
doom during the Tze’elim controversy that engulfed me before joining Rabin’s
government, had undeniable experience and ability which I valued and respected:
Yitzhak’s former media aide Aliza Goren. As campaign coordinator, I chose Tal
Silberstein, who at the time was in charge of a citizens’ group called Dor Shalem
Doresh Shalom: “A Whole Generation Demands Peace.” I relied on frequent, less
formal input from political friends whose judgement I had learned to trust, like
Eitan Haber and Giora Eini. Also playing a key role was a group of four young
women, led by Orna Angel, a successful architect and a former soldier in Sayeret
Matkal. She built from scratch an army of nearly 20,000 volunteers who helped

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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022710.txt,"Then, just before the New Year, Epstein forwarded me a heads-up
email that Alan Dershowtiz, one of Epstein’s long time friends—they have a
bickering brotherly relationship—and occasional legal advisors, had
received from a reporter at Politico and forwarded to Epstein. The Politico
reporter had been following Epstein-related court filings (there is a
determined contingent of Epstein reporters) and found a new one added to an
old law suit with some rather jaw-dropping claims.

Eight years after the original suit, a Florida lawyer was now seeking to
add new plaintiffs to the old case. This new filing was accompanied by
allegations connecting a catch-all of bold-faced names associated with
Epstein more than ten years ago, including Dershowtiz and Britain’s Prince
Andrew, to a “sex slave” ring—indeed, that Epstein’s purported sex slaves
had had sex with Dershowitz and the Prince at Epstein’s command.

This seemed to me to be merely a desperate, even comic-book,
filing—just a lawyer trying to revive a dead case. I responded to Epstein that
I doubted this would be seen as credible by anyone.

Epstein, who sometimes seems to have an out-of-body attitude to his
own fate and bad press, said he thought it might be “quite a show.”

Two days later, the Daily Mail, which has become the effective ground
zero in the English language for anti-privilege, and moral opprobrium (the
more salacious the better), and whose editor Paul Dacre has a long time feud
with Prince Andrew, put the story on its front page. (Epstein also has a long
relationship with the family of disgraced press baron, Robert Maxwell,
another reliable target of the British press.) Flimsy and far-fetched court
filings in the U.S. by settlement-hungry plaintiffs might be discounted by
skeptical U.S. reporters, but, the U.K. media, constrained by onerous rules
about legal proceedings in the U.K., promptly went into tabloid frenzy (even
the normally sniffy Guardian, in full anti- royal and anti- billionaire fever,
joined the tabloid show) and effectively exported the story back to the U.S.,
where Epstein’s connection to Bill Clinton, and, hence as a shadow over
Hillary, became the news.

“T told you,” said Epstein.

There is Epstein in his inner world, trying, quite ostrich like, not to
look out. Little beyond his strict realm seems palatable or even in a sense
familiar to him. He’s a foreigner out here. Not too long ago, I met him for
lunch in the West Village, the first time in more than ten years, he said, he’d
been out to lunch in a restaurant (a not particularly pleasant experience for
him and we were out in 30 minutes).

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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025984.txt,"Week in review & notable trends (US)

US equities at new all-time highs on upbeat employment report

Both the S&P500 and NASDAQ finished the week higher marking fresh all-time highs as
the July nonfarm payrolls and average hourly earnings came in better-than-expected. As
a result, VIX fell to its lowest levels since Jul-14 and the SPX ly vs. 1m ATMf implied vol
spread rose to its highest level in almost four years on lower short dated vol.

Across other asset classes, the USD finished with gains against other major currencies,
while Treasury yields rose across the curve, which partly explained the outperformance
(underperformance) in Financials (Utilities) (i.e., +1.7% and -2.7%, respectively).

Most companies (86% as of 5-Aug) in the SPX have reported Q2 results and the blended
(actual + estimated) yoy earnings decline for Q2-2016 now stands at -3.5%, less than
the expected decline of -5.5% as of 30-Jun. Analysts expect CY16 earnings decline of -

0.3% which would mark the first time SPX has reported two consecutive years of
earnings decline since 2008. Earnings growth is now expected to resume in Q4-16.

Chart 11: The SPX vol term-structure steepened materially on lower
shorter dated implied vol with the lyr-1m ATMf implied vol spread
reaching its highest level in almost 4 years

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Nov-12
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Chart 12: Near multi-year flat call skew on Biotech (IBB) makes long call
spreads an attractive option strategy to initiate or replace long positions
to lock-in profits from the recent strong rally

55% 20.0%
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2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
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——— == |BB 1M 110 implied vol (B)

Source: BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research. Daily data from 5-Aug-11 to 5-Aug-16.

With SPX rallying on a stronger-than-expected July jobs report,
SPX implied vol took a further leg down, especially in the
shorter end of the vol curve. Indeed, SPX 1m ATMf implied vol
ended the week at 9.1 vol pts, within striking distance of its 2-
year lows.

On the other hand, longer dated ATMf implied vols did not fall
nearly as much causing a material steepening in the vol term
structure. For instance, the lyr-1m implied vol spread reached
its highest level since 27-Sep-12 (6.4 vol pts).

Since its peak in Jul-15, the Biotech sector (NBI Index) has been
on one of its worst runs in decades, underperforming the broad
market benchmark (SPX) by a whopping ~30% on a total return
basis. However, more recently the sector has regained some
lost ground on solid large-cap earnings reports (i.e., +13.2%
since 1-Jul, 9.3% above the SPX).

While short-dated implied vol has dropped considerably as a
consequence of the recent rally, it still remains supported on a
5-yr basis. Also, upside vol has been richening vs. ATM vol, with
the 1m IBB ATM-110 implied vol spread reaching its lowest
level in five years on 4-Aug and finishing the week at 1.2 vol pts
(3 5-yr %-ile).

Investors with a constructive view on the sector who are
concerned about a reversal of the recent gains should consider
replacing or initiating long position via short dated ATM calls
partially financed by expensive OTM calls.

Bankof America
Merrill Lynch

Global Equity Volatility Insights | 09 August 2016 7

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015102.txt,"Of all the professional newscasters | have met, Walter Cronkite of
CBS was the most charming. He treated me with respect and dignity. After
the broadcast interview, we sat in his anteroom and talked informally.

“I’ ve always wanted to thank you,” he said, “for inadvertently
bringing me back to sanity that horrible weekend John Kennedy was
killed.”

“Oh, really—how so?”

“This followed on the heels of the televised shooting of Lee Harvey
Oswald by Jack Ruby. A journalist asked for your reaction, and you replied
with a slip of the tongue, ‘Two rights don’ t make a wrong.’ Before you
could correct yourself, | was finally able to break through my depression
with a bit of laughter.”

“Yes, those were muddled times. Do you know | forgot where | was
the day the assassination took place? | had to tell the FBI | couldn’ t
remember, and it was not until later that | remembered | had been in
Dallas, of all places. There was a convention of the American Bottlers of
Carbonated Beverages, and | was there representing Pepsi-Cola. But | flew
out of there at eleven o’ clock that morning. Kennedy was shot around

one o’ clock, as | recall. Where were you that day?”

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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023616.txt,"Date: Monday, January 6 2014 12:29 PM 
Subject: Re: Larry Summers 
From: Kelly Friendly 
To: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation©gmail.com>; 
CC: Andrew Friendly >; 
Andrew and Caroline would love to come see the island! I've cced him to work out the details.... 
Happy New Year! 
Sent from my iPhone 
On Jan 6, 2014, at 5:58 AM, ""Jeffrey Epstein"" <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
glad it worked out. if you husband woudl like to see the island this week i will arrange it. 
On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 9:40 PM, Kelly Friendly > wrote: 
Mr. Epstein: 
Many, many thanks for your overwhelming generosity. and I flew home today with Mr. 
Farkas and his family. They took very good care of us and they couldn't have been nicer. Andrew and 
are still stuck in St. Thomas, enjoying the use of your car. 
We are extremely grateful for everything you have done for us. 
Happy New Year and hope to see you next time you are at Harvard. 
Fondly, 
Kelly Friendly 
On Jan 4, 2014, at 1:06 PM, ""Jeffrey Epstein"" <jeevacationAgmail.com> wrote: 
glad to help 
On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Kelly Friendly < 
Ann brought us the car. It's wonderful, thank you so much. 
We are so grateful for your generosity... 
Kelly Friendly 
Sent from my iPhone 
On Jan 4, 2014, at 12:21 PM, ""Jeffrey Epstein"" <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
> wrote: 
you will get a call from either jermain, or cecile ( the governors wife and my asst ) 
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On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 10:54 AM, Kelly Friendly < 
wrote: 
Thank you! We are so grateful.... 
Sent from my iPhone 
On Jan 4, 2014, at 11:52 AM, ""Jeffrey Epstein"" <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
jermaine , please organzie kelly to have use of the mini van. today 
On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Kelly Friendly < 
> wrote: 
Excellent. I will email him now. 
If it's not too much of an inconvenience we would love to use the car. Is it available 
around 3? We are staying by the airport.... 
Kelly Friendly 
On Jan 4, 2014, at 11:46 AM, ""Jeffrey Epstein"" <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
. andrew farkas is flying tomorrow. please contact 
him____________________directly and as soon as you are ready i will organize the use of my car. 
On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 10:44 AM,  Kelly Friendly < 
> wrote: 
Fantastic. If possible, could my daughter (age 11) and I go back 
with Mr. Farkas? 
Please let me know how best to follow up. We may have found a condo by 
red hook but haven't found a car yet. 
Let me know how to follow up. 
Kelly Friendly 
•1 
On Jan 4, 2014, at 11:39 AM, ""Jeffrey Epstein"" <jeevacation@gmail.com> 
wrote: 
my friend andrew farkas has a pretty full plane to ny tomorrwo but can 
take 1 or 2 of you. i can call other hotels wher we have pull.. my cars 
and drivers are at your disposal. 
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On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 10:37 AM, Kelly Friendly < 
> wrote: 
Mr. Epstein: 
I work for Larry Summers and as you may have heard, we are stranded 
in St. Thomas and the airlines are saying we can't get out until Thursday. 
Our names: 
Kelly Friendly 
Andrew Friendly 
My cell is below or you can reach my husband Andrew Friendly on his 
cell a.-t You may have met him when he was President 
Clinton's aide. 
We would be so grateful for any help you could provide. 
Kelly Friendly 
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the use of the addressee. It is the property of 
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communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited 
and may be unlawful. If you have received this 
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*********************************************************** 
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the use of the addressee. It is the property of 
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IMAGES-012-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033275.txt,"From: Richard Kahn i

Sent: 2/27/2018 6:50:45 PM
To: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]

Importance: — High

https: //ww.texastribune.org/2018/02/27/trump-taps-texan-brad-parscale-his-2020-re-election-campaign-
manager/

Richard Kahn

HBRK Associates Inc.

575 Lexington Avenue 4th Floor
New York, NY 10022

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is the investment manager of the fund. As a result, CAS Investment Partners, LLC, possesses the power to vote and dispose or direct the disposition of
all the shares owned by the fund. Thus, CAS Investment Partners, LLC, may be deemed to beneficially own a total of 2,167,766 shares. Mr. Sosin is
the managing member of CAS Investment Partners, LLC. As a result, Mr. Sosin possesses the power to vote and dispose or direct the disposition of
all the shares beneficially owned by CAS Investment Partners, LLC as investment manager of Sosin Partners, L.P. Mr. Sosin disclaims beneficial
ownership of any of the shares held by Sosin Partners, L.P. This information is based on the Schedule 13G/A filed with the SEC on February 14,
2019. The address for each of these reporting persons is 8 Wright Street, 1st FL Westport, CT 06880.

(10) Blackrock, Inc. reports sole power to dispose or direct the disposition of these shares of Class A common stock. This information is based on the
Schedule 13G filed with the SEC on February 8, 2019. Blackrock, Inc.’s address is 55 East 52nd Street, New York, NY 10055.

(11) This number includes 71,875 shares of Class A common stock owned directly by Emest Garcia III, and 13,691 shares of our Class A common stock
owned by the Ernest Irrevocable 2004 Trust III. While Ermest Garcia IT and Ermest Garcia III are the investment trustees over Ernest Irrevocable 2004
Trust III, the trust is irrevocable and Mr. Garcia II is not a beneficiary. Mr. Garcia III is the sole beneficiary of the Ernest Irrevocable 2004 Trust III.
This number also includes 3,997 shares of Class A common stock issuable upon the exercise of options that vest on April 1, 2019, and 3,497 shares of
Class A common stock issuable upon the vesting and settlement of restricted stock units that vest on April 1, 2019, inclusive of shares to be withheld
for tax purposes. This number excludes 14,572 shares of Class A common stock underlying performance-based RSUs that are subject to vesting on
the date that performance objectives are achieved, so long as it is achieved prior to April 27, 2027.

(12) This number includes 3,664,526 shares of Class B common stock owned directly by Mr. Garcia III, and 11,952,000 shares of Class B common stock
owned by the Ernest Irrevocable 2004 Trust III, of which Mr. Garcia III is the sole beneficiary. While Ernest Garcia II and Ernest Garcia III are the
investment trustees over Ernest Irrevocable 2004 Trust IIT, the trust is irrevocable and Mr. Garcia IJ is not a beneficiary. Mr. Garcia III is the sole
beneficiary of the Emest Irrevocable 2004 Trust III. These shares of Class B common stock together with the corresponding LLC Units may be
exchanged for 15,616,526 shares of Class A common stock. These shares of Class A common stock represent approximately 10% of the shares of
Class A common stock that would be outstanding if all outstanding LLC Units were exchanged and all outstanding shares of Class B common stock
were converted at that time.

(13) This number includes 120 shares of Class A common stock owned directly by Mr. Jenkins; 869,531 shares of Class A common stock issuable in
exchange for vested Class B Units including those that will be vested within 60 days of February 27, 2019, based on an assumed price of $41.82 per
share (the closing price of our Class A common stock on the NYSE on February 27, 2019); 3,747 shares of Class A common stock issuable upon the
exercise of options that vest on April 1, 2019; and 3,278 shares of Class A common stock issuable upon the vesting and settlement of restricted stock
units that vest on April 1, 2019, inclusive of shares to be withheld for tax purposes. This number excludes 13,662 shares of Class A common stock
underlying performance-based RSUs that are subject to vesting on the date that performance objectives are achieved, so long as it is achieved prior to
April 27, 2027.

(14) This number includes 120 shares of Class A common stock owned directly by Mr. Huston; 909,531 shares of Class A common stock issuable in
exchange for vested Class B Units including those that will be vested within 60 days of February 27, 2019, based on an assumed price of $41.82 per
share (the closing price of our Class A common stock on the NYSE on February 27, 2019); 3,747 shares of Class A common stock issuable upon the
exercise of options that vest on April 1, 2019; and 3,278 shares of Class A common stock issuable upon the vesting and settlement of restricted stock
units that vest on April 1, 2019, inclusive of shares to be withheld for tax purposes. This number excludes 13,662 shares of Class A common stock
underlying performance-based RSUs that are subject to vesting on the date that performance objectives are achieved, so long as it is achieved prior to
April 27, 2027.

(15) This number includes 120 shares of Class A common stock owned directly by Mr. Gill; 461,950 shares of Class A common stock issuable in
exchange for vested Class B Units including those that will be vested within 60 days of February 27, 2019, based on an assumed price of $41.82 per
share (the closing price of our Class A common stock on the NYSE on February 27, 2019); 3,298 shares of Class A common stock issuable upon the
exercise of options that vest on April 1, 2019; and 2,885 shares of Class A common stock issuable upon the vesting and settlement of restricted stock
units that vest on April 1, 2019, inclusive of shares to be withheld for tax purposes. This number excludes 12,022 shares of Class A common stock
underlying performance-based RSUs that are subject to vesting on the date that performance objectives are achieved, so long as it is achieved prior to
April 27, 2027.

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{Short recess taken.]

FURTHER DIRECT EXAMINATION
BY MR. GOLDBERGER:

Q. Allright. Mr. Rothstein, Jack Goldberger,
I'm going to ask you some questions now. You
testified that you knew Jeffrey Epstein was a
billionaire. You did testify to that today, correct?

A. Yes.

Q. Okay. Tell me how you knew that. How did
you know that Mr. Epstein was a billionaire?

A. Russ Adler told me. ] looked him up on the
internet.

Q. What did you look on the internet about
Mr. Epstein?

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seeing that he was very wealthy, that he was a
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Q. Traveling out of state for depositions for

the particular cases, did you have to approve that?

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the significance of the expense. It would have been
case by case. |] certainly would not have been

approving or disapproving Mr. Nurik's travel,
Mr: Rosenfeldt's travel, Mr. Boden’s travel,
Mr. Lippman's travel. That was their own thing.

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to-me and said he need to travel out of state for
something, if it was just for a deposition, 1 wouldn't ©
have gotten involved in that unless he was telling my
CFO, Ms. Stay, that he wanted to fly first class and
stay in the Ritz Carlton, then ] would have gotten
involved. But other than that, no. The firm was too
big for me to get involved on a daily basis with all
that stuff.

Q. If Brad had to go out of state to take a
deposition, you wouldn't be the person to approve or
disapprove that?

A. Russ Adler would have handled that. And if
there was an issue, Russ would have come to me. And J
don't know what the relationship was specifically
between Brad and Russ, but it's certainly possible
that Brad just was going to go do what he needed to do
to properly handle the case and ] would have trusted
him to do that.

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are going to take a minute, okay?

THE WITNESS: Sure.

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Mr. Epstein was a billionaire, you learned via two
ways, one was from Russ Adler, correct? Is that
correct?

A. Yes, sir.

Q. And the other was through looking up
Mr. Epstein on the internet, correct?

A. Yes. -

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Q. Okay. And you don't know what you reviewed
on the internet in an effort to determine that
Mr. Epstein was a billionaire; is that correct?

A. I do not recall.

Q. Do you know when you did that?

A. 1 do not.

Q. Was it prior to your needing to use the
Epstein case to further your Ponzi scheme?

A. Yes.

Q. Okay. So prior to -- ] think you indicated
that you needed an influx of money at some point and
that's when you decided to use the Epstein case in
furtherance of the Ponzi scheme; is that correct?

A. Yes.

Q. So prior to that time though, prior to
determining that you needed to use the Epstein case
for the Ponzi scheme, you Jooked up Mr. Epstein and
you spoke to Mr. Adler about his work; is that
correct?

A. Yes.

Q. Why did you do that, Mr. Rothstein, if you
weren't using the Epstein case at that point in your
Ponzi scheme?

A. Because it was a legitimate case in the
legitimate portion of RRA that ] had reason to believe
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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031802.txt,"From: J [jeevacation@gmail.com]

Sent: 3/26/2019 11:11:17 AM

To: DAVID SCHOEN

Subject: Re: From Fox News - Federal judge overseeing key lawsuit relating to pedophile Jeffrey Epstein dies
Yup

On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 11:56 AM DAVID SCHOEN <> wrote:

A USS. District Court judge in New York who was presiding over a lawsuit involving a wealthy, Clinton-

connected financier and sex offender died Sunday at the age of 96.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/federal-judge-overseeing-key-lawsuit-relating-to-pedophile-jeffrey-epstein-dies

Explore the Fox News apps that are right for you at http://www.foxnews.com/apps-products/index.html.

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me?

A. Yeah, I'll give you the notes and then I will
compare with what I've got there.

Q. All right.

A. So I mentioned the Palm Beach Police
Department report. The next thing that I want to
mention is the Jane Doe 102 complaint. In August of
2009, Bob Josefsburg, who is from what I understood a
very well-regarded lawyer here in Florida; in fact, a
lawyer that was selected by the United States Government
to represent a number of the girls that had been
sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein. He was part of the
procedure that was including the nonprosecution
agreement.

In August of 2009 he filed a complaint on
behalf of Virginia Roberts. That complaint indicated
that Virginia Roberts had been sexually abused in
Florida, in New York, and in other places as I recall.
The thing that I particularly recall was that
Mr. Josefsburg had said Virginia Roberts was abused
by -- he gave some categories of people.

He mentioned, I think, business people, he
mentioned royalty, and he mentioned academicians. And
so to tie into your question, I knew that Professor

Dershowitz was an academician, and so what I was seeing

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                    PROGRAMME FOR THE PRESIDENT AND FIRST LADY FOR
                    THE 67th UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY
                    22-29 SEPTEMBER 
                    NEW YORK 


Saturday, 22 September 2012

02.15 PM:	                            President Arrives In JFK 
                                  o  Flight # EK 201
                                  o  Composition of the motorcade.
                                o  Car 1: President + First Lady
                                o  Car 2: PR + Counsellor Javed
                                  o  Departs to Helmsley Hotel, 42nd street between 2nd and 3rd Ave

08.00 PM – 10:30 PM:	              Private Dinner
                                  o   Helmsley Hotel

Sunday, 23 September 2012

08:00 AM – 09:00 AM:	              Breakfast with Maldivian Delegates
                                  o  Helmsley Hotel

12:30 PM – 01:30 PM:	              Private Lunch
                                  o  Helmsley Hotel

02.10 PM – 2.25 PM:	              Bilateral with the Secretary- General. 
                                  o  Location: 3rd Floor NLB, UNHQ (Walking distance)
                                  o  President+ Foreign Minister + State Minister + AG+ PR+ Aliny 

08.00 PM – 10:30 PM:	              Private Dinner Event – Jeffrey Epstine
                                  o  Composition of the motorcade.
                                o  Lead car: President

Monday, 24 September 2012

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM:	              Breakfast with Maldivian Delegates
                                  o  Helmsley Hotel

10.00 AM – 05.00 PM:	              High Level Segment on Rule of Law 
                                  o  Location: UN Headquarters. (Walking distance)
                                  o  20th speaker, apprx 11.40 am
                                  o  President+ Foreign Minister + State Minister + AG+ Ambassador Rasheed +PR

12:30 PM – 01:30 PM:	              Private Lunch
                                  o  Helmsley Hotel

04.00 PM- 04.45 PM:                    UNDP Administrator. 
                                  o  Location: bilateral booth at the UN.(Walking distance)
                                  o  President+ Foreign Minister + Environment Minister + AG + Ambassador Rasheed + PR 

06.15 PM:	                            Depart Hotel to President Obama’s Reception

07.00 PM:            	              President Obama’s Reception 
                           o  Location: Starlight Roof, The Waldorf Astoria Hotel, 301 Park Avenue, New York
                           o  President + First Lady

08.00 PM – 11:00 PM:	              Private Dinner
                                  o  Helmsley Hotel


Tuesday, 25 September 2012

7:00 AM – 7:30 AM:	              Breakfast with Maldivian Delegates
                                  o  Helmsley Hotel

07.30 AM:	                            Depart from Hotel to UNHQ (Walking distance)

08.00 AM – 08.50 AM:	              Welcoming reception hosted by the Secretary-General
                                  o  Location: Indonesian Lounge, UNHQ 
                                  o  President + First Lady

09.00 AM:	                            Opening of the General Assembly
                                  o  Location: UNHQ
                                  o  President+ Foreign Minister + Environment Minister + AG + State Minister+ PR 

01.15 PM:	                            Luncheon in honour of Heads of State hosted by the Secretary
                                                         -General
                                  o  Location: Visitors Lobby, UNHQ
                                  o  President

03.00 PM- 03.35 PM:                    Executive Director of UN-Women, Ms. Bachelet. 
                                  o  Location:  220 East, 42nd Street, 19th Floor.
                                  o  President+ State Minister + Environment Minister + AG+ Nee  

04.00 PM:	                          Tea Reception hosted by Mrs. Ban Soon-taek for spouses.                                                      
                                  o  Location: SG’s Residence, 3 Sutton Place and 57th Street. 
                                  o  First Lady

04.45 PM- 05.15 PM:                    UNICEF Executive Director, Anthony Lake
                                  o  Location: UNICEF Building, 13th Floor
                                  o  President+ Foreign Minister + State Minister + Ambassador Rasheed + PR +Aliny 

06.00 PM – 07.30 PM:	              Reception hosted by Prime Minister of Australia 
                                  o  Location: Ambassador’s Riverview, UN Headquarters
                                  o  President + Foreign Minister + PR


08.00 PM – 11:00 PM:	              Private Dinner
                                  o  Helmsley Hotel

Wednesday, 26 September 2012

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM:	              Breakfast with Maldivian Delegates
                                  o  Helmsley Hotel

9.00 AM – 11.00 AM:                     Museum Tour hosted by Mrs Ban Soon-taek
                                  o  Location: Morgan Library 225 Madison Ave. + 36th street
                                  o  First Lady 

09.30 AM- 11.00 AM:	2012 Launch of the Climate Vulnerability Monitor 
Invitation received from Prime Minister of Bangladesh
                                  o   Location: Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue (at 70th Street)
                                  o  President + Foreign Minister + Environment Minister+ PR

11.30 AM- 12.00 PM:                    Tanzania Foreign Minister 
                                  o  Location: bilateral booth at the UN.(Walking distance)
                                  o  President +Foreign Minister + State Minister+ AG + PR+ Aliny

01.15 PM – 03.00 PM:	              South Africa Reception, hosted by the President of South Africa 
                                  o  Location: Ambassador’s Riverview, UN Headquarters.
                                  o  President+ Foreign Minister + PR

03.00 PM- 03.30 PM:                    Trinidad and Tobago Foreign Minister 
                                  o  Location: bilateral booth at the UN.(Walking distance)
                                  o  President + Foreign Minister + State Minister + Amb Rasheed + PR + Aliny

04.15 PM – 05.00 PM:                   Meeting with Commonwealth Secretary General, H.E Mr. 
Kamalesh Sharma. 
                                  o  Location: Commonwealth Joint Office Large Conference room. 
                                  o  President+ Foreign Minister + State Minister + AG+ PR+ Aliny

05.00 PM:	                           Visit to the Permanent Mission of Maldives
                                  o  Location: 800 2nd Ave. 4th Floor 
                                  o  President+ Entire Delegation 

06.00 PM – 08.00 PM:	              Reception hosted by Luxembourg, in honor of His Royal Highness 
                                                         Grand Duke Henri. (TBC)
                                  o  Location: Permanent Mission of Luxembourg, Luxembourg House, 17 Beekman Place, NY 10022
                                  o  President + PR

08.30 PM:	                            Cyprus: Musical Philoxenia hosted by the President of Cyprus
                                  o  Location: Alice Tully Hall, Starr Theater, 1941 Broadway on 65th street. 
                                  o  President+ PR+ FM+ Spouses

11.00 PM – 12:00 AM:	              Private Dinner 
                                  o  Helmsley Hotel


Thursday, 27 September 2012

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM:	              Breakfast with Maldivian Delegates
                                  o  Helmsley Hotel

09.00 AM- 09.30 AM:                    Vanuatu Prime Minister 
                                  o  Location: bilateral booth at the UN.(Walking distance)
                                  o  President + Foreign Minister+ State Minister +AG+ PR +Aliny

09:00AM – 11:30AM	Fifth Annual World Focus on Autism 
                                  o  Location: The Prestigious Roosevelt House 
                                  o  First Lady

10:00AM – 11:30AM	Feed the Future: Partnering with Civil Society hosted by the
President of Malawi and Hillary Clinton. 
                                  o  Location: The Empire Room, Waldorf Astoria, 301 Park Ave. 
                                  o  President, Foreign Minister and PR

12:30 PM – 01:30 PM:	              Private Lunch
                                  o  Helmsley Hotel

03.00 PM – 09.00 PM:	              General Debate 
                                  o  Location: General Assembly, UN Headquarters
                                  o  Approx. 4 pm
                                  o  President+ Foreign Minister + State Minister + AG+ PR+ Ali Rasheed  
                                  o  Maldives has the 4th speaking slot. 

03.00 PM – 06.00 PM:	              2nd AOSIS Leaders Summit 
                                  o  Location: Helmsley Hotel
                                  o  President+ Environment Minister + Hassan

06.30 PM:                                       Sierra Leone Foreign Minister 
                                  o  Location: bilateral booth at the UN.(Walking distance)
                                  o  President +Foreign Minister + State Minister+ AG + PR+ Aliny

06.30 PM – 08.30 PM:	              Reception hosted by Nauru (Chair of AOSIS) 
                                  o  Location: Helmsley Hotel
                                  o  President+ Environment Minister + PR 

08.30 PM – 11:00 PM:	              Private Dinner Event
                                  o  Helmsley Hotel

Friday, 28 September 2012

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM:	              Breakfast with Maldivian Delegates
                                  o  Helmsley Hotel

09.00 AM – 10.30 AM:	              CMAG Meeting
                                  o  Location: Australian Mission
                                  o  President



12.15 PM- 12.45 PM:                    President of the General Assembly 
                                  o  Location: GA 200 (Behind GA Hall) UNHQ
                                  o  President+ Foreign Minister+ PR+ Aliny 

04.00 PM:	                           OHCHR
                                  o  Location: TBC 
                                  o  President+ AG 


06.00 PM – 07.30 PM:	             Commonwealth Reception hosted by Australia. (TBC) (RSVP)
                                  o  Location:1 Beekman Place, New York, NY 10022
                                  o  Head of Delegation + Foreign Minister +PR

08.00 PM – 11:00 PM:	              Private Dinner
                                  o  Helmsley Hotel

Saturday, 29 September 2012

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM:	              Breakfast with Maldivian Delegates
                                  o  Helmsley Hotel

1.45 PM:	                            President Depart from JFK to LAX (TBC)
                                  o  Flight #AA 117
                                  o  Composition of the motorcade.

 
Itinerary of President Waheed and Madam Ilham
 
  EK  659   21SEP MLE/DXB        1000     1300
  EK  201   22SEP DXB/JFK         0830     1415 
  AA  117   29SEP JFK/LAX         1345     1655
  EK  216   5OCT LAX/DXB          1645      1935  ** Arriving 06th October







                    PROGRAMME FOR LOS ANGELES SEGMENT
                    29TH SEPTEMBER – 5TH OCTOBER
                    NEW YORK 



Saturday, 29 September 2012

04.55 PM:	                            HEP Arrives In LAX 
                                  o  Flight # AA 117
                                  o  Extended Port Courtesies
7.00 PM:	                            Dinner at Navarro’s house
                                  o  Sstay at Shilo Hilltop Suites Hotel or alternative

Sunday, 30 September 2012

xxx	                          	Sail to Catalina Island, stay in Avalon (several hotels to choose from)


o  Monday, 1 October 2012

xxx	                            	Explore Avalon, 2nd night in Avalon


o  Tuesday, 2 October 2012
Xxx	Sail or motor to another part of the island and return to Avalon, 3rd night in Avalon


o  Wednesday, 3 October 2012
xxx	Sail back to Newport Beach, Stay in Anaheim, close to Disneyland (several hotels to choose from)

o  Thursday, 4 October 2012
xxx	                           	Disneyland, 2nd night in Anaheim


o  Friday, 5 October 2012
04.45 PM:	                            HEP Departs LAX
                                  o  Flight # EK 216
                                  o  Extended Port Courtesies






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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026255.txt,"From: Steve Bannon a

Sent: 2/24/2018 1:14:53 PM

To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]

Subject: Re: Lawyer for Susan Rice: Obama administration ‘justifiably concerned’ about sharing intel with Trump team -
POLITICO

Importance: — High

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From: ""jeffrey E."" <jeevacation@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2018 08:13:08 -0500

To: Steve Bannon aaa >

Subject: Re: Lawyer for Susan Rice: Obama administration ‘justifiably concerned’ about sharing intel with

Trump team - POLITICO

coin issues. : receive coins. distribute coins, pay in coins. coin cooperative. prohibitions foreign donor.? 1
need to understand flow of funds.. donor to campiagn c?s. does it have to go to campaign first. . does it

have to go there at all etc.

On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 7:48 AM, Steve Bannon Po wrote:

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/23/susan-rice-lawyer-obama-administration-classified-intelligence-

michael-flynn-trump-423437

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So I thought that was, again, a deliberate
faise statement under oath designed to exculpate him
from his criminal involvement in this international sex
trafficking ring.

At another point in the transcript, he was
asked, quote, -- no, I'm sorry. He stated, quote: I
challenge you to find any statement where I said I have
never traveled outside the presence of my wife, close
quote, representing that there would be no such
statement there, when, in fact, I'm aware of an American
Lawyer quotation attributed to him from January 15th,
2015, quote: I've been married to the same woman for 28
years. She goes with me everywhere, close quote. And,
again, you know, this -- I understand sometimes people
may go away from their wife, but the American Lawyer
was, obviously, on January 15th, 2015, asking about:
Well, have you been outside the presence of your wife in
situations where you might have interacted with Virginia
Roberts? And that was the answer that he gave to the
American Lawyer.

And based on -- on my review of the flight
fogs, I thought that was, again, a deliberate effort to
obscure and try to exculpate himself from his
involvement in this International sex trafficking ring.

The -- he also said yesterday: Nobody knows

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about Prince Andrew and Virginia, except for the two of
them. And, again, I thought that was at a minimum,
deliberately mis -- misleading information and more
likely deliberately false information, because
Mr. Dershowitz was aware of the photograph and had long
been aware of the photograph that shows Prince Andrew
with his arm around Virginia Roberts, standing next to a
beaming Glenn Maxwell who has been involved in this
international sex trafficking organization.

And in the circumstances of that photograph,
it seems quite likely that the photographer who took
that picture was the head of the international sex
trafficking ring, Jeffrey Epstein. And so for him to
say that only two people knew what went on was, again,
deliberately faise information, because I know he is the
attorney for Jeffrey Epstein, and he could have asserted
attorney/client privilege over that, said, I can't get
into my communications with my client about what he was
doing with Prince Andrew.

But instead he said, no one knows what
happened, other than those two people in circumstances
where it was quite clear that there would have been
others who would have been aware of that.

Now, the question is: Why do I think the --
the -- you know, there are inaccuracies in the flight

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logs. And I could refresh my recollection here by
looking at, I think it's docket entry 291 of our
pleading that we presented on January 21st to
Judge Marra where we provided specific itemized examples
of inconsistencies between the Dave Rogers’ flight log
and the -- again, I'll call it, the Alan Dershowitz
flight log, which was a selected presentation of flight
log information,

And when you see those inconsistencies, it
becomes very hard to believe that all of the information
that was provided in those flight logs was accurate. So
when I take all of that information, put it together, I
believe that there's sufficient -- I have a sufficient
basis for believing at this point in time, that
Mr. Dershowitz has, indeed, provided inaccurate
information to -- to law enforcement agencies, or at a
minimum has provided -- has produced inaccurate
information through circumstances beyond his control.

But when he continually represents that the
information is accurate and exonerates him, I believe
that that is a deliberately false statement.

MR. SIMPSON: Move to strike the answer --

the nonresponsive portion of the answer.
MR. SCAROLA: Which portion is that?
MR. SIMPSON: 99 percent of it. I think at
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the end, we got to the flight logs.
I move to strike the nonresponsive portion.
BY MR. SIMPSON:
Q. Mr. Cassell, you came here today looking for
an opportunity to give that statement; did you not?
A. If it was relevant to an answer I was giving,
yes.
Q. The answer to my question is, yes, you came
here today looking for a question to which you could
respond with that prepared statement?
A. Iwas prepared to give that -- I anticipated
that a very good attorney for Mr. Dershowitz might ask a
question where that would be relevant. And if that
question were asked and I was given the opportunity to
make that statement, I wanted to be prepared to give it
in the most accurate way that I could.
MR. SIMPSON: I would like the reporter to
mark as Exhibit -- are we up to 4 ~- Exhibit 4,
the document that Mr. Cassell was referring to.
lil fet the reporter do that.
THE WITNESS: Okay.
(Casseil's 1.D. Exhibit No. 4 - document
produced by the witness was marked for identification.)
MR. SIMPSON: I just want to make that part
of the record.
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IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011595.txt,"what I do and do the same. Finally, if our cover is broken, or if you hear
gunfire, we all storm the plane.

I felt as I always did as an operation was about to begin. Along with the
tension, I had a keen awareness of everything happening around me, almost as
if | was watching things in slow motion, in high resolution. When our
motorcade approached the generator, Rifa’at leaned out from the co-pilot’s
window. He was pointing a pistol at us. He seemed to be in his late 20s or early
30s. He had dark hair and a moustache and the hint of a stubbly beard. We
stopped beside the generator. I got out and walked toward the cockpit, halting
about 10 feet away. Looking up the hijacker, I made a conscious effort to appear
curious rather than worried. His eyes seemed a mix of intense focus and tension.
I opened the front of my overalls. Because of the heat, I was wearing nothing
else on top. He nodded his head to signal he was satisfied. I refastened the
overalls and moved off. One by one, the other men passed inspection. Then we
went back and brought the two smaller ladders to the side of each wing, and the
“mechanics” set down to work. I delayed bringing in the large ladders so as to
minimize any risk of arousing the terrorists’ suspicions.

The fact that at least so far they seemed to suspect nothing was in large part
down to Dayan’s misdirection plan. As we began working on the plane, the
“Palestinian” prisoners were disembarking from buses about 300 yards away.
As Rifa’at watched, several hundred men formed long rows. A few of them
waved in his direction. The Boeing which was theoretically going to take them
on to Cairo, to be followed by the Sabena jet minus the hostages, was being
towed into position.

One by one, our assault teams were moving into place. All that remained
was for me to give a short, sharp whistle and the attack would begin. Yet just as
I was raising my fingers to my mouth, I saw Bibi coming toward me from under
the fuselage. He motioned to me to wait. Zur, the last of our air marshals, had a
problem. Having spent 10 hours in the air on the way back to Israel, before
being immediately plugged into an assault team, he had something to attend to.
“He has to take a shit,” Bibi said. Can’t it wait, I asked. No, was the answer. So
I said OK, leading to the most surreal “operational” moment I would witness
during all my years in the military.

The “prisoner release” was now in full flow. Dozens of military vehicles,
and a small army of fire engines and ambulances, had also pulled to the far end
of the runway, out of sight of the hijackers, in case our attack on the Sabena jet
went wrong. Tel Aviv hospitals were on alert. And Zur was crouching and

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IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022359.txt,"From: Paul Morris Ij

Sent: 4/30/2013 6:57:28 PM
To: jeevacation@gmail.com
Subject: Fw: Tax Topics

Attachments: Untitled attachment 144206.gif; Untitled attachment 144209. gif; apr29tx13.pdf
Importance: — High

Classification: Public

Paul Morris

Managing Director

Deutsche Bank Asset & Wealth Management
345 Park Avenue, 27th Floor

New York, NY 10154

----- Forwarded by Paul Morris/db/dbcom on 04/30/2013 02:56 PM -----

From: Blanche Christersor
To:

Date: 04/30/2013 02:55 PM

Subject: Tax Topics

Classification: Public

Attached is the latest edition of Tax Topics. It discusses some of the tax proposals in President Obama's Fiscal Year
2014 Budget, which was released on April 10th. It also has the 7520 rate and the applicable federal mid-term rates.

.. three cheers for spring!

Blanche Lark Christerson
Managing Director

Deutsche Bank Trust Company, N.A.
Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management
345 Park Avenue, NYC 20-2606

New York, NY 10154-0004

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RECAREY: Let’s talk about [Mary] for a minute.

DOBBS: Okay.

RECAREY: [Mary] at the time was dating your cousin, right?

DOBBS: Mm-hmm.

RECAREY: Okay. She told you she needed to make money. Did
she know you worked for Jeffrey? '

DOBBS: I told her.

RECAREY: You had told her you worked for Jeffrey.

DOBBS: Mm-hmm.

RECAREY: Did you tell her what it entailed? So she knew that?

DOBBS: She knew everything before she even agreed to it.

RECAREY: Okay. So she knew that there was going to have to be
some kind of —

DOBBS: Contact. Pretty much. Yeah. I told her. I told her exactly
what his expectations were. I told her what goes on with the
girls that go up there. I told her—it was like, “It’s your call.”
I was like, “If you want to do this, fine. If not, fine. But when
you go in that room, I don’t want to hear you say, ‘Oh, I didn't
know he was going to do all that’ Because I’m telling you
right now, he’s expecting it.”

RECAREY: Basically, this is touching —

DOBBS: Fondling —

| RECAREY: Fondling—
. DOBBS: Or whatever. And I told her when she went on her own.

Just like, “Just remember, the more you do, the more you
make. But that’s—that’s up to you.” And she asked me, and I
brought up, told her I wouldn't do more.

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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026241.txt,"The information contained in this communication is
confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may
constitute inside information, and is intended only for
the use of the addressee. It is the property of

JEE

Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this
communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited
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communication in error, please notify us immediately by
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please note
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constitute inside information, and is intended only for
the use of the addressee. It is the property of
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please note
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constitute inside information, and is intended only for
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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030199.txt,"In 1994, Trump took a 13-year-old girl to a party with Jeffrey Epstein, a billionaire
who was a notorious registered sex offender, and raped her that night in what was a
""savage sexual attack,"" according to a lawsuit filed in June 2016 by ""Jane Doe."" The
account was corroborated by a witness in the suit, who claimed to have watched as the
child performed various sexual acts on Trump and Epstein even after the two were
advised she was a minor.

""Immediately following this rape Defendant Trump threatened me that, were I ever to
reveal any of the details of Defendant Trumpa€™s sexual and physical abuse of me, my
family and I would be physically harmed if not killed,"" Jane Doe wrote in the lawsuit,
filed in New York.

The lawsuit was dropped in November 2016, just four days before th lection, with Jane
Doe's attorneys citing ""numerous threats"" against her.

The charges and allegations brought against Donald Trump for sexual crimes include:

1 Accusations filed in court against Trump

1.1 Ivana Trump (1989)

1.2 A (1°22)

1.3 i (2007)

2 Recording controversy and second 2016 presidential debate

3 Public allegations in 2016 of unwanted physical contact

3.1 Ss (1980s)

3.2 QE. G1 220s)

3.3 Qi! C1997)

3.) EE 6557)
35 (2998)

3.6 I (2003)

3.7 (2005)

3.0 i (2005)

3.9 i (2006)

4 Allegations of pageant dressing room visits

4.1 Miss Teen USA contestants

4.4 Unnamed contestants (2001)

1, CTT 2006) ~ There are of course scores of cases that have been settled

out of court that we can not have any clear public record of as they are constrained by
non-disclosure agreements.

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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028757.txt,"Date: Thursday, July 26 2012 06:30 PM 
Subject: Re: press 
From: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.corn> 
To: 
i would appreciate it if you would stop being aggressive and accusatory, with me. 
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 2:08 PM, wrote: 
I told you I wasn't when you asked and then ignored me. 
What do you need? 
On Jul 26, 2012, at 6:23 AM, Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com > wrote: 
I have not seen this, not my doing. as you guessed I am not very well.. I hope you are. i believe in you. 
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 7:32 PM, wrote: 
I am glad to see you managed to find a way to improve your reputation in the press. Your concern and charitable 
contributions are touching... 
You forgot about everyone else your actions affected and the promises you made to fix it, but you clearly make an 
effort to improve your own image with contributions you can parade in the press. Congratulations. 
I suppose the few people who actually cared enough to put their lives and reputation on the line for you can fend for 
themselves. I will never understand your priorities... 
Have a nice trip. 
News 
Financier Jeffrey Epstein And Mount Sinai Hospital Support 3D Mammograms ... 
PressReleaseNetwork.com (press release) 
FinancierJeffrey Epstein And Mount Sinai Hospital Support 3D Mammograms For Breast Cancer. 25 Jul 201216:26 GMT- Financier 
Jeffrey Epstein helps fund one of the few3D mammograms available around the world. /El N Presswire.com/The Dubin Breast ... 
See all stories on thistopic »  
Early Detection Of Diabetes In Teeth Is Funded By Columbia University And  ... 
EIN News (press release) 
/EINPresswire.com/ A recent study published in the Journal of Dental Research at Columbia University College of Dental Medicine 
(CDM) and backed by The Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation amongst others; found that a pre-diabetes determination can be made 
Premature Babies Aided By Music Get Backing From Harvard University And ...  
Einnews Portugal 
A new study by The Institute for Music and Brain Science at Harvard University on the benefitsof music on premature babies has received substantial 
backing from science activist, Jeffrey Epsteinand his foundation, The Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation. 
See all stories on thistopic »  
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Music As A Remedy For Parkinson's Gets Funding From Harvard University And... 
MarketWatch (press release) 
""The results are remarkable,"" Jeffrey Epstein asserted. ""More studies need to be done to showthat music improves motor coordination. However, these 
studies highlight how areas in the auditory cortexare affected, providing a road mapfor how to ... 
See all stories on thistopic »  
Exceptional Public Schools Cited By Obama, Get Critical Backing From Investor  
U.S. Politics Today 
Exceptional Public Schools Cited By Obama, Get Critical Backing From Investor, Jeffrey Epstein. Press release distribution provided 
by US Politics Today. 
World's Smartest Think Tank Gets Substantial Backing from The Jeffrey Epstein...  
Sacramento Bee 
PRNewswire/--What has been dubbed °/022the world's smartest website%22and think tank from the UK's Guardian and Observer, The Edge Foundation, 
has just received substantial backing from science philanthropist and Edge member, Jeffrey Epstein, ... 
A Genetic Approach For Crohn's And Colitis Disease Is Financed By The Jeffrey...  
MarketWatch (press release) 
NEYYORK, July 3, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/-- The Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation, which actively supports science research, has given 
substantial support to the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America to continue its Genetic Initiative to find a ... 
Charter Schools In Washington DC Given A Boost By Education Philanthropist  ... 
MarketWatch (press release) 
The Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation which helped fund these schools, was established in 2000 to support science education throughoutthe United States 
but has evolved to support innercity and youth based education. ""Charter schools, though generally ... 
Largest School In Haiti To Be Built With The Support Of The Jeffrey Epstein VI ...  
MarketWatch (press release) 
NEWYORK, June 19, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The largest grade school in Haiti, called Ecole du Bel-Air, is currently under construction in the 
country's capital, Port-au-Prince, thanks to The Edeyo Foundation and the support of The Jeffrey ... 
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confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may 
constitute inside information, and is intended only for 
the use of the addressee. It is the property of 
Jeffrey Epstein 
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communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited 
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communication in error, please notify us immediately by 
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The information contained in this communication is 
confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may 
constitute inside information, and is intended only for 
the use of the addressee. It is the property of 
Jeffrey Epstein 
Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this 
communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited 
and may be unlawful. If you have received this 
communication in error, please notify us immediately by 
return e-mail or by e-mail to jeevacation@gmail.com , and 
destroy this communication and all copies thereof, 
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MS. McCAWLEY: Yes.
MR. SIMPSON: Okay.
BY MR. SIMPSON:

Q. Did you discuss former Prime Minister Barak
with Mr. Boies?

MR. SCAROLA: Same objection.

MS. McCAWLEY: Objection.

MR. SCAROLA: Same instruction.
BY MR. SIMPSON:

Q. Yesterday, you mentioned that one of the
reasons that supported your conclusion that it -- you
had an adequate basis to allege in the joinder motion
that the allegations against Professor Dershowitz was
that Mr. Boles was representing Virginia Roberts -- yes,
Virginia Roberts; do you recall that testimony?

A. Yes.

Q. And you said that because of how highly
regarded Mr. Boies was, I think you mentioned the Bush
v. Gore case; is that right?

A. Yes.

Q. 1 used to work for his opponent in Bush v.
Gore case. They are both very good.

A. I'm trying -- I was trying to remember. I'm
sorry to take time, but who was the other lawyer?

Q. Ted Olson.

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discussed Virginia Roberts' allegations of sexual
misconduct against Professor Dershowitz with Bob
Josefsberg?

A. Me personally?

Q. Yes, you personally.

A. No.

Q. After December 30th of 2014, had you -- did
you discuss with Mr. Josefsberg Ms. Roberts' allegations
against Professor Dershowitz?

A. Not personally, no.

Q. You say not personally. Are you aware of
someone else who had those discussions of -- with Mr. --
had any discussions on that topic with Mr. Josefsberg?

MR, SCAROLA: To the extent that that
question would call for any information that was
communicated to you in the context of the
common-interest privilege, you should not answer.

THE WITNESS: All right. I'm not going to...

MR. SCAROLA: So you -- you can answer it if
any such communication came to you outside the
context of the common-interest privilege, but you
may not include in your response any information
derived from the common-interest privilege.

BY MR. SIMPSON:
Q. And my question right now is not the
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A. Ted, that's right. That's...
Q. But that's a side note.
My question is: Given your high regard for
Mr. Boies, would you -- would his views as to the
credibility of Virginia Roberts be something that would
be important to you in evaluating the case?
MS. McCAWLEY: Objection.
MR. SIMPSON: Are you instructing him not to
answer?
MS. McCAWLEY: I mean, is it a hypothetical?
MR. SIMPSON: No. I'm just asking whether
his views -- those views -- I'm not asking what
the views are. I'm simply asking whether those
views would be important to him.
MR. SCAROLA: You may answer that question.
THE WITNESS: Yes.
BY MR. SIMPSON:
Q. And if I -- I may have asked this already,
but did you discuss with Mr. Boies his views as to the
credibility of Miss Roberts?
MS. McCAWLEY: Objection.
MR. SCAROLA: Same objection. Same
instruction.
BY MR. SIMPSON:
Q. Prior to December 30th of 2014, had you
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substance. We will get to that. But, to your
knowledge -- put -- let me rephrase that.

Did someone tell you that they had discussed
with Mr. Josefsbergs -- Josefsberg, the allegations made
by Miss Roberts against Professor Dershowitz?

MR. SCAROLA: You may only answer that
question to the extent that you had any
communication regarding that subject matter with
someone outside the common-interest privilege, or
the attorney/client privilege for that matter.

BY MR. SIMPSON:
Q. I'm simply -- I'm not asking for substance,
just the name if you did.

MR. SCAROLA: Well, I understand that, but
following along the same lines as before, you are
asking us to identify the subject matter of a
communication that is privileged. We won't
answer questions regarding the subject matter of
privileged communications, but if
Professor Cassell had a conversation with Sam
Smith standing on the street corner about Bob
Josefsberg, he can answer that question.

BY MR. SIMPSON:
Q. Did you have a conversation with anyone --
just narrow question: Did you have a conversation with
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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030118.txt,"From: Kathy Ruemmler 
Sent: 9/20/2014 11:45:34 PM 
To: jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Subject: Re: Floor Statement of Senator Barack Obama on the Nomination of Alberto Gonzales for Attorney General - 
Wikisource, the free online library 
Importance: High 
I won't get back to the city until @ 11:30, unfortunately. 
On Sep 20, 2014 7:43 PM, ""jeffrey E."" <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
see you at 1030? tomor? 
On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 7:13 PM, Kathy Ruemmler < > wrote: 
Furnished 
On Sep 20, 2014 7:12 PM, ""jeffrey E."" <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
furnished or un? 
On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 6:41 PM, Kathy Ruemmler <____________________________ wrote: 
I signed the lease in my name for a year, so I think I am pretty stuck. It is $11,000 a month and Latham 
reimburses me $8000 a month. 
On Sep 20, 2014 6:35 PM, ""jeffrey E."" <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
whose name is the apt in, does it have to be this one? or would another be ok. 
On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Kathy Ruemmler <____________________________ wrote: 
It appears that way. I have advised that him staying through the end is the clearly preferable alternative. 
On Sep 20, 2014 3:52 PM, ""jeffrey E."" <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
so is he the alternate in essence 
On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Kathy Ruemmler < > wrote: 
Mid-October, but there will be another run at him to reconsider. 
On Sep 20, 2014 3:42 PM, ""jeffrey E."" <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
date certain? hamlet. ? 
On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Kathy Ruemmler < > wrote: 
Date? 
On Sep 20, 2014 2:22 PM, ""jeffrey E."" <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
eric? 
On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Kathy Ruemmler < 
You are on the move. I went out for some retail therapy. 
On Sep 20 2014 12:51 PM, ""jeffrey E."" <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
now 
> wrote: 
On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 10:03 AM, Kathy Ruemmler < > wrote: 
Oh, sorry. 
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On Sep 20, 2014 10:01 AM, ""jeffrey E."" <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
Boy are you focused , I meant what number to call you on 
On Saturday, September 20, 2014, Kathy Ruemmler 
He got 60. Rs controlled the Senate then. 
On Sep 20, 2014 9:44 AM, ""jeffrey E."" <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
Number? 
On Saturday, September 20, 2014, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
Wow 
> wrote: 
On Saturday, September 20, 2014, Kathy Ruemmler > wrote: 
http://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Floor Statement of Senator Barack Obama on the Nomi 
nation of Alberto Gonzales for Attorney General  
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IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011581.txt,"But at least my next posting was closer to home. It was only 20 minutes from
our apartment, on a former RAF base not far from Lod airport. On the First of
April 1971, I was promoted from major to lieutenant-colonel, and given the
assignment which, more than any other, I’d hoped for when I returned to the
army.

I became the commander of Sayeret Matkal.

110
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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019163.txt,"rERSON

heard those conversations, |
vhen he was on the phone and
ke. I witnessed lots of things. I

ally, you all [want to knowl.

like 1 w—1 don't, I don't know
saying, “You're my favorite, and
o. but I was in about as deep as

ould say that to.

sage training?

too. [remember that. And when
cing off he would, like, rub him-
I was extremely uncomfortable. 1
vay from that activity. Id get up
xe, or 'd—I don't even remember.
3 going on without saying, “Can
would stop it without saying stuff

thing in me until one day he did
said, “Wait a second: my boyfriend,
ling, you can't (
here as long as you don't do that.
a couple months later I gues

46

do that. You know, r

s he

Firttuy Ricu

assumed me and my boyfriend had broken up, and he just did
it one day; he just did it without asking or anything. And then
I said, “What are you doing?” I said, “You know that’s not
cool,” and he goes, “Oh, I thought we did that last time.” And
I said, “No, we did not do that last time.” And then he goes—
uh, and then he just offered me more money. He’s like, “Well,
why don't I just give you something extra, and we can try this
out?” And I was like [sigh], “All right.” Very hard guy to say
no to. I don’t know if.any of you guys ever talked to him....

Oh, yeah. Well, if you talk to him, I mean, he straight up
tries to control the situation. Every—every word that comes
out of your mouth, it seems like, he knows what you are
going to say. Like, that’s his job; that’s how he made his
money is knowing what people are gonna say and what peo-
ple are gonna do.

: What did he tell you he does for a living?
: Well, there’s a couple of things. Things that I found for

myself, things I looked up on the Internet. What he specifi-
cally told me when I asked him the first time was, “Oh, I’ma
brain scientist.” And I said, “What the fuck is a-brain scien-
tist?” I was like, “That’s not a real job—tell me the truth.”
But anyway ... his explanation was, “It’s my job to know how
people’s brains work.” And I said, “Whatever the fuck that
means. Whatever. You're like some old guy who [unintelligi-
ble....]” You know what he promised me? Here's the reason I
held on so long is, he promised me that I would get into NYU.
That I would get into NYU and he would pay for it. And I
waited, and I waited, and I scored great on my SATs, I would
get 4.0—like, I did great in school. I filled out my application

47

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"
TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031206.txt,"From: Moskowitz, Bennet J. ___________________________________________________________ 
Sent: 7/13/2016 6:02:16 PM 
To: Darren Indyke 
CC: Jeffrey Epstein Jeeyacation gmail.com] 
Subject: RE: JUDGE SWEET ALLOWING STEVEN HOFFENBERG TO TALK WITH THE TOWERS VICTIMS TO EXPLAIN THE VICTIMS 
SUIT FILING AGAINST JEFF EPSTEIN 
Importance: High 
Darren, 
Privileged - Redacted 
Regards, 
Bennet 
From: Darren Indyke [mailto: 
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2016 9:37 AM 
To: Jeffrey Epstein; Moskowitz, Bennet J. 
Subject: Fwd: JUDGE SWEET ALLOWING STEVEN HOFFENBERG TO TALK WITH THE TOWERS VICTIMS TO EXPLAIN 
THE VICTIMS SUIT FILING AGAINST JEFF EPSTEIN 
DARREN K. INDYKE 
DARREN K. INDYKE, PLLC 
575 Lexington Avenue, 4th Floor 
New York, New York 10022 
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Begin forwarded message: 
HOUSE OVERSIGHT 031206 
From: steven hoffenberg _________________________________ 
Subject: Fwd: JUDGE SWEET ALLOWING STEVEN HOFFENBERG TO TALK WITH THE 
TOWERS VICTIMS TO EXPLAIN THE VICTIMS SUIT FILING AGAINST JEFF EPSTEIN 
Date: July 13, 2016 at 4:45:18 AM PDT 
To: 
Steven J. Hoffenberg 
New York Post Publishing INC. 
CEO 
WHAM INC THE PUBLIC COMPANY OWNS THE BELOW OPERATIONS 
TOWERSINVESTORS.COM 
CEO 
SEE 
WWW.POST PUBLISHING.BUZZ THE JESUS CHRIST ON LINE GODs WORD NEWSPAPER 
MR HOFFENBERG ONLINE NEWSPAPER 
PUBLICSPEAKINGWALLSTREET.COM  
Begin forwarded message: 
From: steven hoffenberg < 
Date: July 13, 2016 at 6:26:21 AM EDT 
To: ""Gary H. Baise"" 
Cc: Alan Fraade 
Subject: JUDGE SWEET ALLOWING STEVEN 
HOFFENBERG TO TALK WITH THE TOWERS VICTIMS TO EXPLAIN THE VICTIMS SUI 
T FILING AGAINST JEFF EPSTEIN 
SIR 
PRESIDENT TRUMP WILL KNOW THAT GARY BAISE IS WORKING ON THE NEEDED FOOD 
POLICY POINTS OF FACT WITH THE FOOD INDUSTRY LEADERS . 
PRESIDENT TRUMP UNDERSTANDS THAT THE FOOD INDUSTRY IS VITAL TO THE TRUMP 
WHITE HOUSE POLICY. 
WHAT IS NEEDED IN THE PRESENTATION TO PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP WILL BE DON 
E BY OUR TEAM THAT NOW HAS THE KEY JOB AT THE STEVEN 
HOFFENBERG TRUMP SUPER PAC IN BUYING OVER $ 1 BILLION DOLLARS IN ADS & T 
HE HIRING OF THE BUS PROJECT TO GET OUT THE VOTE IN EVERY POOR AREA IN THE 
USA. 
THE POOR VOTER OVER 120 MILLION VOTERS THAT WERE DEMS ARE NOW VOTING FO 
R PRESIDENT TRUMP ON NOV 8 2016. 
T V EXPERTS DONT REPORT THE ABOVE DEMS POOR FOLKS THAT ARE VOTING FOR PR 
ESIDENT TRUMP !!!!! 
HOUSE OVERSIGHT 031207 
THE POOR VOTER WILL PUT PRESIDENT IN THE WHITE HOUSE IN THE 2016 RACE. 
OUR BUS PROJECT IS VITAL TO THE PRESIDENT TRUMP GET OUT THE VOTE IN NOVEM 
BER!!!!! 
JUDGE SWEET PLAYS THE KEY PART NOW IN THE TOWERS VICTIMS SUIT AGAINST 
JEFF EPSTEIN !!!! 
JEFF EPSTEIN HAS THE PICTURES OF BILL CLINTON HAVING SEX WITH THE UNDERAGE 
GIRLS !!!!!! 
BILL CLINTON & JEFF EPSTEIN BOTH HAD SEX WITH THE UNDERAGE GIRLS THAT ARE 
RECORDED BY JEFF EPSTEIN !!!!! 
JEFF EPSTEIN IS NOT IN FEDERAL PRISON ONLY BECAUSE JEFF EPSTEIN IS HOLDING TH 
E ABOVE PICTURES !!!!!! 
THANK YOU SIR 
GO PRESIDENT TRUMP !!!!! 
TRUMP SUPER PAC 
GET OUR JOBS BACK INC . COM 
STEVEN HOFFENBERG C E 0 
Steven J. Hoffenberg 
New York Post Publishing INC. 
CEO 
WHAM INC THE PUBLIC COMPANY OWNS THE BELOW OPERATIONS 
TOWERSINVESTORS.COM 
CEO 
SEE 
WWW.POST PUBLISHING.BUZZ THE JESUS CHRIST ON LINE GODs WORD NEWSPAPER 
MR HOFFENBERG ONLINE NEWSPAPER 
PUBLICSPEAKINGWALLSTREET.COM  
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for the use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, you should immediately stop reading this message and 
delete it from your system. Any unauthorized reading, distribution, copying or other use of this communication (or its attachments) is 
strictly prohibited. 
HOUSE OVERSIGHT 031208 
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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016619.txt,"Code Enforcement Board Meeting Minutes 07/17/08

MOTION BY MR. OCHSTEIN TO FIND THE VIOLATOR IN NON-
COMPLIANCE, ASSESS ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS IN THE AMOUNT
OF $150.00 AND ORDER THEM TO PAY THE FIRE INSPECTION FEE
IN ADDITION TO ANY LATE PENALTIES BY JULY 21, 2008.
SECONDED BY MR. FRIED

MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY

i Case # 08-2515, 140 N. County Rd., Bank of America
Violation of Chapter 46, Section 46-68 of the Town of Palm Beach Code of
Ordinances, annual fire and life safety inspection fees not paid

Code Enforcement Officer Gerry presented the facts of the case and said he had
spoken with Robin Gert who advised him the bill had been mishandled and gotten
lost in their system. He said he spoke to her yesterday and was told the payment
was still in process. The Town recommends a finding of non-compliance,
administrative costs in the amount of $150.00 and payment of the fine inspection
fee in addition to all late penalties and costs by August 4, 2008.

MOTION MADE BY MS. GREENBERG TO FIND THE VIOLATOR IN
NON-COMPLIANCE, ASSESS ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS IN THE
AMOUNT OF $150.00 AND ORDER THEM TO PAY THE FIRE
INSPECTION FEE IN ADDITION TO ANY LATE PENALTIES BY
AUGUST 4, 2008.

SECONDED BY MS. DUEMLER

MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY

G. Case # 08-2516, 313 % Worth Ave., # B2, David Clark
Violation of Chapter 114, Section 114-32 of the Town of Palm Beach Code of
Ordinances, business tax receipt required

Code Enforcement Officer Gerry presented the facts of the case and said Mr. Clark
had submitted his paperwork and paid the fee but there was a zoning issue still in
question. The Zoning Administrator is out of the office this week on jury duty and
based on the inability to get the issue resolved, the Town recommends the case be
postponed until the August 21, 2008 hearing date.

Mr. Fried questioned what the zoning issue had to do with a business tax receipt

and Mr. Gerry said the Town records do not show this particular suite existing at
this address but Mr. Clark has documents showing it there.

Mr. Gerry said zoning is tied into business tax receipts because zoning
requirements do not allow certain businesses in some districts. There is also the

4

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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022704.txt,"TOTL WS LEU GP VED VR DUS LO WIL) iD Pe WeT DULU SIT AUS,

53, I have seen reports saying or implying that I had sex with former President Bill
Clinton on Little Saint James Island. Former President Bill Clinton was present on the Island at
a time when I was also present on the Island, but I have never had sexual relations with Clinton,
nor have I ever claimed to have had such relations. [I have never seen him have sexual relations
with anyone.

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Intensive coverage prompted by the court filings has hinted that Clinton abruptly ceased his flying with Epstein in 2005, not
terribly long before he was arrested, “perhaps because of events related to Epstein’s sexual abuse of children.” The implication is
that Clinton may have known trouble of the worst kind was coming and decided to get out while he could. In fact, the logs show

all of Clinton’s flights came in 2002 and 2003, with not a single appearance aloft recorded in 2004 or 2005.

The closest potential link to Clinton in the period closer to Epstein’s fall, the public record suggests, comes from one of his

longtime confidants, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers.

The flight logs indicate Summers flew on Epstein’s jet as far back as 1998, but also on April 15, 2004, September 14, 2005, and
December 21, 2005. The final trip came 10 days after Summers got married, and the log for the flight — from Bedford,

Massachusetts, to the Virgin Islands — shows what appears to be his new bride on board, as well as Ghislaine Maxwell, but not

Epstein.
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Palm Beach County Court

Epstein was a significant donor to Harvard University, of which Summers was president at the time. According to a spokesperson
for Summers, on a few occasions when Epstein was flying to where Summers was also traveling, he accepted rides on the

billionaire’s jet.

Attorneys in the two cases have attempted to get the court to permit discovery from Clinton himself, but have been stymied by
motions from Epstein’s lawyers. Court records show they have also tried unsuccessfully to depose Donald Trump, former New
Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, former Sony Music head Tommy Mottola, and magician David Copperfield. Notably, a list of 73

proposed witnesses in Roberts’ trial does not include Clinton.

The tale of Epstein and his sexual activities is undoubtedly a fascinating, and harrowing, one. But with the star witness in one case
swearing under oath that she has no such evidence, and everyone else in a position to know keeping their mouths firmly shut, it is
at this point extremely difficult to draw even a hazy, crooked, dotted line between Epstein’s depredations, in the bedroom or aloft,

and William Jefferson Clinton.

BuzzFeed News reporters Alex Campbell, Kyle Blaine, and Megan Apper contributed to this report.

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IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027516.txt,"Sender: e:jeeitunes@gmail.com

Time: 11/12/18 03:48:36 AM (563716116)
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Message: On wed. You can tell mike. Re your sound like a f.... Moron. Coversation with
Steve. They are very close . And I think it will break the ice\

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Message: Do you leave tonight

Time: 11/14/18 05:50:32 AM (563896232)

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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025990.txt,"Chart 23: European issuance of ESTX50-linked products rose to €9.9bn

Chart 24: Issuance of ESTX50-linked structured products in Korea was in
so far in 2016 (vs €7.2bn as of 4-Jul) line with the 2016 issuance trend
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Current vega outstanding near at least 2.5y high as European Issuance picks up
We estimate the current vega outstanding in SX5E-linked products (issued in Europe
and Korea) sums up to €143Mnh, which is in its 97"" percentile since Jan-14 (when our
records begin). Moreover, this could rise to as much as €169Mn if the SX5E rallies to
3280 (assuming no net SX5E-linked issuance', Chart 25, 26 and Chart 27).
Chart 25: We estimate the current vega outstanding in SX5E-linked Chart 26: The ESTX50 vega outstanding due to structured products
structured products is EUR 83Mn (European issuance) and EUR60Mn issuance could rise to EUR168Mnh, assuming no new net issuance
(Korean issuance) ;
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HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025990
"
IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021644.txt,"U.S. Department of Justice
Federal Bureau of Investigation

File No. 31E-MM-108062/ & 188B-MM-105207-D
25 August 2008

Mr.[

Federal Agent

Dear Federal Agen{ |

The Miami Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) requests the
assistance o in delivering a Victim Notification Letter and
rochur who has been contacted in the past at

On 24 July 2006, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Palm Beach Resident
Agency(PBCRA)opened an investigation involving the illegal sexual activity between multi-
millionnaire Jeffrey Epstein and minor aged children. At the conclusion of the sexual activity,
the minors were paid sums of money ranging from $200.00-$1,000.00. Testimony from multiple
witnesses indicate ha was one of Jeffrey Epstein's victims.
Mr. Epstein is believed to have had contact with during the years o
Under United States Code

Title 18 Section 3771, a victim of a crime in the United States has a number of rights which are
detailed in the enclosed letter and brochures. It is requested that Cd
locateL_ and deliver the enclosed letter and brochure. If you have any questions
regarding this request, please contact Assistant Legal Attached

Sincerely,

SCOTT L. CRUSE
LEGAL ATTACHE

by:

Assistant Legal Attache

be
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"
IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012088.txt,"10

MICHAEL D. SEO, CFA

Leveling the Playing Field

Investment opportunities in the
changing South Korean landscape

mostly agricultural economy to a powerful exporter with

the 11th highest GDP in the world. Its growth has been
built on the back of its chaebol system — conglomerates of
companies that are family-controlled, often spread across
multiple industries. While this structure has served Korea well
in terms of rapidly developing its industrial base, it has also
been associated with ongoing governance issues. The risks
associated with investing in Korea have historically resulted
from its stock market having a much lower valuation than those
of comparable economies.

S outh Korea has grown over the last 50 years from a poor

As an example of recent governance issues, consider that Chey
Tae-Won, chairman of the SK chaebol, had been serving a four-
year prison sentence for embezzling $40 million from the SK
companies. He was pardoned by former President Park Geun-
Hye in the summer of 2015 and soon found himself back in the
familiar leadership role of his family conglomerate. Political
actions such as this pardon or nepotism within large publicly

CHART 1: CHAEBOL % SHARE OF THE KOSPI INDEX

60%
50%
40%
30%
20%

10%

0%
Market Cap

Ms Samsung ME Hyundai Me SK

GLOBAL FORESIGHT THIRD QUAPTER 2017

es |G Ma | otic

Director of Equity
Research

212.549.5232

mseo@rockco.com

traded corporations are common, if not expected, in Korea.
Throughout its history, the nation’s gyrating politics and
powerful businesses maintained a symbiotic relationship that
propelled tremendous GDP growth while tarnishing the
political reputation of a nation. The cultural and regulatory
disregard of misconduct is at the root of Korea's corporate
governance, especially among the chaebols.

The five most recognizable chaebols as shown in CHART 1
(Samsung, Hyundai, SK, LG, and Lotte) collectively represent
over 50% of the market capitalization of the Korea Composite
Stock Price Index (KOSPI) and 47% of its revenues. Samsung
Electronics alone represents a 21% share of the KOSPI market
capitalization and 21% share of employees which is emblematic
of the chaebols’ influence in Korean society.

During Park Geun-Hye’s 2012 presidential election campaign
and political career, Ms. Park had been critical of past presidents
who had abused the power to pardon individuals and sought to
limit the government’s role in granting pardons. Her decision

Revenue

Employees

Source: Bloomberg

HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012088
"
IMAGES-012-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033261.txt,"From: Richard Kahn

Sent: 12/1/2017 4:34:09 PM
To: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: U.S. stocks fall after ABC report that Flynn will testify against Trump

Importance: — High

should be interesting...

Richard Kahn

HBRK Associates Inc.

575 Lexington Avenue 4th Floor
New York, NY 10022

HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033261
"
IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015116.txt,"Cuba—but because Kennedy didn’ t keep his campaign promise to
support the exiles, he then became the prime “Bay of Pigs” target.

Had the Watergate mission not been aborted, Hunt would have
continued to simulate documents blaming Kennedy and Ted Sorensen for
the murder of Che Guevara, just as he forged those cables blaming
Kennedy for the murder of Ngo Dinh Diem.

| hasten to add that Hunt was merely clarifying the issues. The
Kennedy Administration was responsible. But what we were trying to do
was hurt 7ed Kennedy’ s chances if he decided to run. However, that is
guilt by relationship, which is wrong and irrelevant.

kok #

| was convinced that Nelson Rockefeller was behind it all. He had
never forgiven me for defeating him for the Republican nomination in
1968. What with that whole 25"" Amendment arrangement, | figured their
chronological plan was to:

1. Get Spiro Agnew out of office.

2. Replace him with Gerald Ford.

3. Get me out of office.

4. Replace me with Ford.

5. Replace Ford (as vice president) with Rockefeller.

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holiday. Obviously, there wouldn’ t be enough items to go
around, but it was announced that the Beatles’ unwashed
towels and bed linens were to be cut into two-inch squares and
sold for $1 each. The price included a notarized statement of

authenticity.

My second column was about Lenny Bruce—titled “Lenny
the Lawyer,” since he defended himself in trials He was arrested
for obscene performances only because there were no
blasphemy laws, and he ridiculed religious leaders. | went to the
bank and deposited my check, withdrawing half of it in cash, a
$500 bill. Lenny was alone in his funky hotel room on Christmas
Day when | presented it to him. And, with a large safety pin,
Lenny attached the $500 bill to the outside breast pocket of his

dungaree jacket.
AFTER JFK ASSASSINATION

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Secret,” it began, “Lenny Bruce once told me how all the night

club comics used to gossip about Jack Ruby’ s “tattoo of a

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address from your firm; is that correct?

A. Yes.

Q. And were you filing any cases back in 2009
in federal court? Do you remember how PACER works?

MR. SCAROLA: Which question would like
answered?

THE WITNESS: |] don't remember.

MR. SCAROLA: Objection, compound.
BY MS. HADDAD:

Q. Do you remember how PACER worked when you
were filing a case, Scott?

A. | actually never actually did the actual
electronic filing procedure. ] had people that did
that. ] knew that we could file electronically.

Q. Do you know the purpose of your using your
e-mail address when you were filing electronically in
federal court?

A. |] guess so you can get a receipt, but J have
no idea.

Q. Did you ever receive an e-mail] from federal
court in your e-mail address that showed that a
document had been filed with the stamps that you see
on the top of that one?

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THE WITNESS: I don't know one way or the
other.

MR. SCAROLA: Are you attempting to
establish that that complaint was filed in federal
court by Brad Edwards?

MS. HADDAD: I'm asking him if he recalls
the way it's drafted and why.

MR. SCAROLA: Just ask your question.

MS. HADDAD: I'm asking a question. If you
have any objection, please Jay it on the record.

MR. SCAROLA: No, what J want to do is try
to save some time. If what you are trying to
establish is that Brad filed the complaint in federal
court on July 24th and used the PACER system, you
don't need to ask any more questions about that, it
happened.

MR. GOLDBERGER: We appreciate that, but
when we depose you we'll ask you that question. But
we are deposing Rothstein right now so Jet her ask
her questions. Don't do this speaking stuff, let her
ask the questions, okay?

MR. SCAROLA: Maybe.

MR. GOLDBERGER: Okay. Go ahead, Tonja.
BY MS. HADDAD:

Q. Scott, did you ever get e-mails like that

re aneseam esry y S O e I RAEN PUSS ST ERE RSDP SB RTI SS APM HL

from federal court?

A. I'm certain] did, Tonja. 1 don't have a
specific recollection of getting the one pertaining to
this. I] don't even know if they sent it to me. |
would imagine they'd send it back to Mr. Edwards.

Q. The filing attorney?

A. I suspect, unless the PACER system is
registered on my name, then maybe it comes to me, but
] am completely guessing.

Q. But based upon the e-mail communications of
July 22nd and the meeting occurring on July 23rd, this
complaint was filed the day of this meeting; is that
correct?

A. Okay. But here is the problem with your
question, ] don't remember whether or not there
actually was a meeting. | said there may have been,
and J don't have an independent recollection of this
being filed. ] do not have an independent
recollection of whether J told someone to file this.

And for the life of me, this ] am certain of, if]

told Mr. Edwards to file a complaint in federa] court,
if there wasn't a legitimate reason for him to do it,
he wouldn't have done it.

Q. Do you recall if this federal case was filed
when you decided to use the case for your Ponzi scheme

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and show it to your investors?

A. It may have been filed around that time,
because I haven't been abie to establish the exact
time. It also certainly may have been utilized by me
to further the Ponzi scheme. Also, 1 don't have an
independent recollection of that either. Without
seeing e-mail traffic, ] can't tell you one way or the
other exactly what was going on at that time.

Q. Well, then I'll point you to another e-mail
which is marked as EP 001.

MR. EDWARDS: Let me see it.

MS. HADDAD: I sent a copy to your office.

MR. SCAROLA: He would like to see a copy
now. Thank you.

{The E-mail referred to was marked for
identification as Defendant's Exhibit 2.]

BY MS. HADDAD:

Q. Were you able to find it, Scott?

A. Got it. Yes, ] have it.

Q. You have it, okay.

You said Cara Holmes used to be an FBI
agent, correct?

MR. SCAROLA: No. What he said is --

THE WITNESS: FBI or IRS.

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He was the one who planned the robbery.

In this case, these young boys were brought into the robbery at the last minute.
One of the codefendants, Greenawalt, directed what went on in the penitentiary.
Their father directed what went on thereafter.

There was never a time when they could have left their father's side, when the father left
any of them alone, the three of them, so that they could leave.

These are young kids under the control of their father.

I concluded my opening argument by acknowledging the responsibility of the brothers for the
prison escape, but insisting that they could not be executed for the unanticipated murders:

Nobody is denying their responsibility for these serious crimes of kidnapping, breakout of
prison.

But then after the crime was completed, after the car was taken, the father then, without
any necessity... as the courts found; no necessity at all; could have easily have left them
there... the father and the other defendant, on their own, after sending the boys away,
made a shocking and surprising decision to kill this family in cold blood.

There are findings by the Arizona Supreme Court that it was not necessary, that it was
spontaneous, it was not part of the original plan.

This is just like Enmund.

In Enmund there was spontaneity.

It was not part of the original plan.

After Enmund left the person to go into the house, something unexpected happened.
In this case it was the father who did something unexpected.

In the other case it was the gunman.

A family was tragically killed in both cases.

This Arizona case is an attempt to relitigate Enmund.

And we will hear relitigation after relitigation in every state if this Court allows every state
to redefine intent the way it chooses to redefine it.

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thereby opening myself up --

MR. EDWARDS: This again is nonresponsive

to the question.

SPECIAL MASTER POZZUOLI: Let me stop --

repeat the question so we can get an answer.

BY MR. EDWARDS:

Q. The question is, were you sent a waiver of
the statute of limitations to sign so that Virginia
Roberts could bring that lawsuit? Were you?

A. I don't believe that's right. I don't
believe that's right. I don't believe that I was
sent a -- something that would give her the
opportunity -- a waiver to file that lawsuit.
That's not my recollection. If you show it to me,
maybe my recollection will be refreshed.

I had talked about the statute of
limitations for criminal purpose was what I said,
that I would waive the statute of limitations for
criminal purposes. If a prosecutor were to
investigate this case and come to the conclusion
that there was probable cause that I had committed
any offense with Virginia Roberts, I would then

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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024413.txt,"Siegel: These are separate sets of documents that outline the Muslim Brotherhood’s goals and

plans underlying the Civilization Jihad. The former was discovered in Europe and extends globally. The 1991
Explanatory Memorandum emerged in 2008 from the Holy Land Foundation trial and describes the
Brotherhood’s work in America as a “Civilization-Jihadist Process with all the word means” and “a kind of
grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable
house by their own hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made
victorious over all other religions.”

Much as the communists of the Soviet Union had formulated in the 1950s a detailed long term plan to

destroy America (many of the effects of which we are seeing of late including destroying the nuclear family,
secularizing the nation, feminizing men ...) these documents identify many strategies to infiltrate while
eroding the foundations of our civilization in order to transform it into an Islamic one. The Control Factor has
many ingenious ways to convince us that this is ridiculous, that our courts and system would never allow
such a thing, that one is racist or “Islamophobic,” if not insane, for even thinking this is real. And just as with
the communists, time is plentiful. Even more so with our Islamic Enemy, a multi-decade plan is short term. It
is not critical that a seriou sly engaged Muslim lives to see the result. It is critical, more correctly a duty,
however, that he carries on his Jihad. Patrick Poole and The Center for Security Policy’s Team B Report,
Shariah: The Threat to America, are excellent sources for your readers to pursue these documents.

FP: And so what you call an “Inner Jihad” has to start. It’s our, as you say, mandatory “addiction treatment.”
Please explain.

Siegel: The “Inner Jihad” is the effort we must undertake to gain control over our Control Factors. There is a
famous Hadith in which Mohammad, returning from a successful battle, essentially says that the physical
fight was the “lesser Jihad” and it is time to then attend to the “greater Jihad €”- that internal battle against
our own internal appetites, lusts, wrong thinking and so forth. While that Hadith has been falsely utilized to
say that “Jihad” is not violent, it is useful to us as a symbol of the vicious effort we must take internally
against our own Control Factor tendencies.

As I said earlier, the Control Factor is “active” and “continuous” so we must constantly monitor and combat
it. Like “Whack-a-Mole,” just as we may think we have addressed it, another variation pops right up. I use the
terms “addict” and “enabler” because we truly need a form of rehab to break the habitual power of the
Control Factor and because our relationship with our Islamic Enemy is very much like that between a typical
addict and his enabler. And just as it is so difficult for an addict to kick his habit, so does the enabler act
essentially addicted to his behavior and find it so difficult to change. At its core, the relati onship involves the
transfer of responsibility for our Islamic Enemy’s hate and resultant actions onto us with our response framed
essentially as an effort to do what we can to try to address the Enemy’s grievance. (Your book, United in
Hate, describes this addiction to hate in detail.

The key to the Inner Jihad is to learn to transfer responsibility for our Islamic Enemy’s hate and resultant
actions back to it and take responsibility back for our own situation. We must learn all we can about the
enemy. We must unwind our inappropriate projections and introjections and rediscover who we are and are
not. We must speak up. We must support those Muslims who promote expressions of Islam that are consistent
with our principles. And we must stalk the C ontrol Factor, constantly be on guard for its intrusion. This is an
individual endeavor as each of our Control Factors uses its own methods. The book gives plenty of examples
of each maneuver discussed but it is important for each of us to discover the unique workings of his own
mind. That takes the work of the Inner Jihad.

FP: Share with our readers what you mean by the “Turnaround Moment.”

Siegel: There is a moment in typical horror films where the central characters have been pushed to their limit.
They then change and fully embrace the willingness to be as ruthless as the threat they face. No more moral
high ground; no more futile attempts to ignore or change the threat’s essence. As Lee Harris described in The
Suicide of Reason, it is the willingness o r license to be (not necessarily actually being) as ruthless that is
critical. It is a mental state that sheds all the prior counter-productive efforts at denial to finally clearly focus
on the threat faced. Part of the Inner Jihad is to reach that Turnaround Moment sooner rather than later.

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seemed to defeat the purpose of going into politics in the first place.

Still, I had no appetite for rushing into a challenge to Peres’s leadership, both
because it was bound to be difficult for both of us, and frankly because it seemed
rash, premature and maybe even unnecessary. Bibi was beginning the negotiations
to form a government, and that process was likely to take at least a few weeks.
Shimon had yet to signal whether he did intend to stay on. Still, when he invited
me for a late-night chat at his apartment a week after the election, I was concerned
he might raise the leadership issue and I knew that, if he did, I would have to be
honest and open with him.

The conversation went very differently than I’d expected. After he’d poured
each of us a glass of Armagnac, and offered me a plate of Sonia’s cakes, he spoke
for a while about Bibi, though he could not even bring himself to utter the name.
This man, he said, knew nothing about leadership, much less about running the
country. He would be outmaneuvered, overshadowed and ultimately controlled by
the “real strongman” in the Likud: Arik Sharon. I said I thought we were again
underestimating Bibi’s strength, as well as the effect of the country’s new electoral
system. He was the first Prime Minister to enjoy a direct, personal mandate. That
turned upside down the balance of power and influence in our politics. As he
assembled his coalition, the other parties, if they wanted to be in government,
would have to deal with him on his terms. So, to a much greater extent than before,
would potential internal rivals.

As we talked, I was struck that Shimon seemed resigned to the election defeat,
relaxed, more at ease with himself than at any time since the start of the grueling
campaign. Then, quite suddenly, he said: “Ehud, I understand the meaning of the
election result. “You will have to take on the leadership, and lead the party.” He
said he didn’t plan to spend the rest of his years hanging around the apartment. He
would remain active — “working for peace” — but no longer in the party political
arena. “I understand the meaning of what has happened,” he repeated. “I will pass
the Labor leadership torch to you. We should find a way to do it quickly, and in the
right way.”

It was nearly three in the morning when I left. I was not just surprised, but
touched, by what he’d said. Shimon was now nearly 73. He’d had a life in our
country’s politics, and in Labor, stretching back to before the state, when he’d been
a favored protégé of Ben-Gurion. Walking away was going to be hard. I was

295
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IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021122.txt,"CONTENTS
14.100 DAYS 185
15. MANAFORT 196
16. PECKER, COHEN, WEISSELBERG 209
17. MCCAIN, WOODWARD, ANONYMOUS 223
18. KAVANAUGH 234
19. KHASHOGGI 246
20. OCTOBER SURPRISES 257
21. NOVEMBER 6 268
22. SHUTDOWN 282
23. THE WALL 295
EPILOGUE: THE REPORT 309
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 317

INDEX 319

Author’s Note

Shortly after Donald Trump’s inauguration as the forty-fifth president of
the United States, I was allowed into the West Wing as a sideline observer.
My book Fire and Fury was the resulting account of the organizational
chaos and constant drama—more psychodrama than political drama—of
Trump’s first seven months in office. Here was a volatile and uncertain
president, releasing, almost on a daily basis, his strange furies on the world,
and, at the same time, on his own staff. This first phase of the most abnor-
mal White House in American history ended in August 2017, with the
departure of chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon and the appointment of
retired general John Kelly as chief of staff.

This new account begins in February 2018 at the outset of Trumps
second year in office, with the situation now profoundly altered. The pres-
ident’s capricious furies have been met by an increasingly organized and
methodical institutional response. The wheels of justice are inexorably
turning against him. In many ways, his own government, even his own
White House, has begun to turn on him. Virtually every power center left
of the far-right wing has deemed him unfit. Even some among his own
base find him undependable, hopelessly distracted, and in over his head.
Never before has a president been under such concerted attack with such
a limited capacity to defend himself.

His enemies surround him, dedicated to bringing him down.

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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031560.txt,"From: 
Sent: 7/4/2018 1:02:08 PM 
To: jeevacation@gmail.com 
Subject: Re: Hello 
Importance: High 
Personal/Political bias is one thing (I still would exploit it any and every time on cross); this was an obsession and directly 
relevant ""Stop Trump."" Also, the IG made clear in his testimony Strzok told him McCabe was there. McCabe is another 
real character. He denies this; but he also is irreconcilably at odds with Comey on WSJ leak. Absolutely right that taking 
emails alone is not fair; but I would point out that it is folks like Strzok and company who have ruined many a 
businesman's life based exclusively on a twisted reading of emails sold to a jury. Flynn is an interesting case. I believe I 
could have gotten his plea back for him in a second based on what has surfaced; but he decided to go a different 
way. But as to your underlying point that there might well be something to go after with these guys, I hear you; but I have 
spent my whole career fighting bullies and crooked, unethical prosecutors. That will remain a guiding principle for me, 
whether the target is popular, hated, a complete jerk, guilty, etc. I am doing ok, thanks. I see you really follow this stuff. 
-----Original Message----- 
From: jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> 
To: David Schoen_________________________ 
Sent: Wed, Jul 4, 2018 8:51 am 
Subject: Re: Hello 
we're on the same team. strzok. testimony was that discussions with lovers , often include embellishments, and not 
indicative of non professionalism. I believe he said nothing more than it referenced "" andys office"". . says andy 
was there. how many other people were there ? were strzok and . off in the corner talking to each other. was 
mccabe on the phone? you know that taking emails alone is not meaningful. . isnt it a but much to say that 
prosecutors that have strong opinions . should be looked out with skepticism? who doesnt have bias. . strzok had 
many neg hillary opinions .. - michael cohen. michael flynn.. are not fictions created by mueller ? how are you ? 
On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 8:31 AM, <_____________________> wrote: 
Gotti was an anomaly because of his personality (some agents loved him and some hated him); but I get your 
point. Couple of things: 
1. This the investigation of the President. It is only as good as public confidence in it can be (subtracting the conspiracy 
theorists on both sides). We just can't have someone with this kind of political bias as a lead investigator. But more 
importantly, he was not alone. He was just stupid enough to show it in office emails. We don't yet know what his private 
emails showed. Strzok, however, says that he met with McCabe - the number 2 guy in the FBI - and in his office 
discussed how best to stop Trump from becoming President. That just cannot be tolerated. Plus, if I find any evidence 
of personal or other extraneous animus in any case by any agent or prosecutor, I view it as an open invitation for cross 
examination and any other exploitation possible as it cannot be an accepted part of the process. 
2. In this whole matter, I am most disturbed by the composition of the Mueller team and it seems to me that if we are to 
learn anything from the IG's report it is the importance of having an investigation conducted above-board without 
personal and political baggage. Mueller had a whole universe of lawyers from around the country to choose from to 
make up his team. He purposefully chose a murderer's row of the worst. I can go one by one; but I will spare you. Here 
are a couple of examples: 
A. Andrew Weissmann was known in the EDNY as ""The Pathological Liar"" after the SNL character. He literally would 
withhold exculpatory evidence throughout the case and then one day when defense counsel went to the bathroom or 
lunch, stick the documents under others on his table and tell the judge the lawyer had it all along. I have been brought 
into a case in which he lied from start to finish - and now his rats have come to me to admit their role in it - to get murder 
convictions in two cases. He has been cited by judges for his misconduct and he runined both Arthur Anderson and 
Enron through his work, all of which was rejected by the higher courts. He also is a Trump hater and Clinton 
sycophant. Mueller knows Weissmann's conduct up close and personal. He chose Weissmann for his chief counsel at 
the FBI years ago. 
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B. Jeannie Rhee, hand-picked by Mueller from Mueller's own firm, was actually Clinton's lawyer in the email 
investigation. Now how does that look. She also is a bully and thinks she is a real tough guy and I don't want that kind 
of character around. I also have an ineffective assistance of counsel case against her for a client in a $100 million 
earnings management fraud case in which she was way over her head. 
C. Greg Andres was another bully who replaced Weissmann in the EDNY. He withheld evidence terribly in his cases, 
regularly threatened others, and accused a defendant of putting out a contract on him when he knew it was a completely 
bogus claim, but gave him the publicity he craved. He is 100% in the pro-Clinton, anti-Trump camp. President Obama 
gave his wife a federal judgeship on the SDNY 
and on and on. 
I don't personally believe Russia affected the election at all; but I certainly am not qualified to say. I do know that we 
have meddled in other countries' elections as a matter of policy forever. But the bottom line is, if there is to be an 
investigation, just play it straight up. I am friends for a long time with the IG. If they had picked him to head up the team, 
I would not be a weekly guest on Hannity tv and radio (I never would have been asked), as I know he would pick a team 
of honest folks from across the spectrum. 
-----Original Message----- 
From: jeffrey E. <ieevacationagmail.com> 
To: David Schoen ______________________> 
Sent: Wed, Jul 4, 2018 8:10 am 
Subject: Re: Hello 
is it overblown. ? all mob prosecutors have strong feelings towards their targets. I recall many that told stories of 
how they despised gotti etc. why is stryok different ? 
On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 7:51 AM, < > wrote: 
I am obsessed with prosecutorial and FBI misconduct wherever it rears it ugly head and i am committed to doing what i 
can to fight it whether for my death penalty clients or a klansman. Lots of wrongdoing here and we all lose when the 
system breaks down. 
I assume you were just flipping the channels. 
Hope you are doing well. I see they never miss an opportunity to try to drag you in - saw an article the other day asking 
how you missed the #metoo press and tying you to trump. Didn't mention much of all you have been put through 
already. I hope the cases are all behind you now. I would have liked to have helped; but i guess you and your team 
decided on a different direction. Whatever works best. 
Or Wednesday, July 4, 2018 jeffrey E. - jeevacation@gmail.com  
judge jeannie? 
On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 9:54 PM, <______________________> wrote: 
Just checking in to see how you are getting along these days. I hope all the litigation is well behind you and things are 
going well 
Take care. 
David 
David I. Schoen 
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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019605.txt,"The Great Divide | 117

Barack Obama’s presidency, there were six government employees
who, as a matter of personal conscience, shared classified informa-
tion they obtained from the FBI, the CIA, the State Department,
and the U.S. Army with journalists. They were all convicted: Sha-
mai Leibowitz in 2010, Chelsea Manning in 2013, John Kiriakou in
2013, Donald Sachtleben in 2013, Stephen Kim in 2014, and Jeffrey
Sterling in 2014. Like Snowden, they claimed to be whistle-blowers
informing the public of government abuses. But because they dis-
closed classified documents, they were dealt with as lawbreakers. All
six were indicted, tried, convicted, and sentenced to prison. Sterling,
a CIA officer who allegedly turned over a document to James Risen,
a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the Times, was sentenced to
forty-two months. The most severe sentence was meted out to Pri-
vate Manning, whom an army court sentenced to thirty-five years
in a military stockade, as noted earlier.

The prison time that others received did not go unnoticed by
Snowden. He had been following the Manning case since 2012. In
fact, he posted about it shortly before he began stealing far more

© damaging documents than Manning had. He would therefore likely ©
have been aware that by revealing state secrets he had sworn to pro-
tect, he would be risking imprisonment unless, unlike Manning, he
fled the country. His motives, no matter how noble they might be,
would not spare him—any more than they spared the other six—
from determined federal prosecution.

The view of those on the Snowden side of the divide is grounded
not in legal definitions but in a broader notion of morality. Snowden’s
supporters do not accept that the law should be applied to Snowden
in this fashion. A writer for The New Yorker termed it “an act of
civil disobedience.” His supporters argue that Snowden had a moral
imperative to act, even if it meant breaking the law. They fully accept
his view that he had a higher duty to protect citizens of all coun-
tries in the world from, as he put it, “secret pervasive surveillance.”
That higher duty transcended any narrower legal definitions of law-
breaking. Ben Wizner, a lawyer from the American Civil Liberties
Union who has represented Snowden since October 2013, argues
that Snowden’s taking of classified documents was an “act of con-
science” that overrode any legal constraints because it “revitalized

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013648.txt,"chemical family were synthesized by the great organic chemists of the German
pharmaceutical industry in the early 1930’s.

The sequence of parallel streets in the neighborhood of my home and first
grammar school in Kansas City, Missouri were my street, Virginia, then Tracy,
Forrest and Troost. My school, Bancroft Elementary, was on Tracy and one block
down that street was the Lutheran Day School established by German immigrants
under the aegis of the Missouri Synod. Starting in the third grade in 1943, | was
intermittently and unpredictably chased by rock throwing, “damn Jew” and “Christ
killer’ shouting boys from the Lutheran Day School. | had my choice of running for
safety directly from Tracy to my family’s half duplex at 4232 Virginia Street, or
moving away from school via Troost and then down several blocks and around to
sneak back to my home on Virginia without being spotted. One run-for-it afternoon,
my parents took me to the emergency room of the Menorah Hospital to have my
scalp sewed up where a sharp rock had landed.

When | asked my synagogue’s young people’s spiritual counselor, Rabbi
Kleigfeld, to explain the feelings and actions of these children of Martin Luther’s
Post-Reformation Christian Church, he answered that | already knew about similarly
difficult places and times of our Twelve Tribes’ like Rome, Medieval Europe, the
Spanish Inquisition, Persia (Iran) and, it was rumored, in Germany as we spoke.
“Conversion or death” was its most benign form, in places like Spain and Iran, many
Jews faked it, staying alive and practicing Judaism secretly. Kleigfeld told me that
the causes of this historical theme of persecution of Jews were complex.

Among the frequently unmentioned events recorded in the later part of the
worldly life of Mohammed, who lived from 570 to 632 AD was, ”...in the name of
Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful...” his participation in the crushing of the
Jewish tribe of al-Nadhir in 626 A.D., the beheading of 800 Jewish men of the tribe
of Qurayza who refused to accept Allah as their God in 627 A.D. and putting to the
sword the Jews of Khaybar in 629 A.D. As in the section of the Koran called The
Cow, Mohammed proposed to “...fight against them (the infidels) until idolatry is no
more and Allah’s religions reigns supreme...” In contrast, the more entheogenic

spiritual orientation of the ecstatic followers of Mohammed in his earlier years

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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020084.txt,"inherited it did not make his feelings warmer or inspire him to want to dwell on it further.
He knew the war was cursed and, knowing that, felt no need to know more. He put the
responsibility for it on two of his favorite people to blame: Bush and Obama.

For Bannon, Afghanistan represented one more failure of establishment thinking. More
precisely, it represented the establishment’s inability to confront failure.

Curiously, McMaster had written a book on exactly this subject, a scathing critique of
the unchallenged assumptions with which military leaders pursued the Vietnam War. The
book was embraced by liberals and the establishment, with whom, in Bannon’s view,
McMaster had become hopelessly aligned. And now—ever afraid of the unknown, intent
on keeping options open, dedicated to stability, and eager to protect his establishment cred
—McMaster was recommending a huge troop surge in Afghanistan.

OOK Ok

By early July, the pressure to make a decision was approaching the boiling point. Trump
had already authorized the Pentagon to deploy the troop resources it believed were
needed, but Defense Secretary Mattis refused to act without a specific authorization from
the president. Trump would finally have to make the call—unless he could find a way to
put it off again.

Bannon’s thought was that the decision could be made for the president—a way the
president liked to have decisions made—if Bannon could get rid of McMaster. That would
both head off the strongest voice for more troops and also avenge Bannon’s ouster by
McMaster’s hand from the NSC.

With the president promising that he would make up his mind by August, and
McMaster, Mattis, and Tillerson pressing for a decision as soon as possible, Bannon-
inspired media began a campaign to brand McMaster as a globalist, interventionist, and all
around not-our-kind-of-Trumper—and, to boot, soft on Israel.

It was a scurrilous, albeit partly true, attack. McMaster was in fact talking to Petraeus
often. The kicker was the suggestion that McMaster was giving inside dope to Petraeus, a
pariah because of his guilty plea regarding his mishandling of classified information. It
was also the case that McMaster was disliked by the president and on the point of being
dismissed.

It was Bannon, riding high again, enjoying himself in a moment of supreme
overconfidence.

Indeed, in part to prove there were other options beyond more troops or humiliating
defeat—and logically there probably weren’t more options—Bannon became a sponsor of
Blackwater-founder Erik Prince’s obviously self-serving idea to replace the U.S. military
force with private contractors and CIA and Special Operations personnel. The notion was
briefly embraced by the president, then ridiculed by the military.

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016379.txt,"Peter Galison’s focus as a science historian is—speaking roughly—on the intersection of
theory with experiment.

“For quite a number of years I have been guided in my work by the odd
confrontation of abstract ideas and extremely concrete objects,” he once told me, in
explaining how he thinks about what he does. At the Washington, Connecticut, meeting
he discussed the Cold War tension between engineers (like Wiener) and the
administrators of the Manhattan Project (like Oppenheimer: “When [Wiener] warns
about the dangers of cybernetics, in part he’s trying to compete against the kind of
portentous language that people like Oppenheimer [used]: ‘When I saw the explosion at
Trinity, I thought of the Bhagavad Gita—I am death, destroyer of worlds.’ That sense,
that physics could stand and speak to the nature of the universe and airforce policy, was
repellent and seductive. In away, you can see that over and over again in the last
decades—nanosciences, recombinant DNA, cybernetics: ‘I stand reporting to you on the
science that has the promise of salvation and the danger of annihilation—and you should
pay attention, because this could kill you.’ It’s a very seductive narrative, and it’s
repeated in artificial intelligence and robotics.”

As a twenty-four-year old, when I first encountered Wiener’s ideas and met his
colleagues at the MIT meeting I describe in the book’s Introduction, I was hardly
interested in Wiener ’s warnings or admonitions. What drove my curiosity was the stark,
radical nature of his view of life, based on the mathematical theory of communications in
which the message was nonlinear: According to Wiener, “new concepts of
communication and control involved a new interpretation of man, of man’s knowledge of
the universe, and of society.”’ And that led to my first book, which took information
theory—the mathematical theory of communications—as a model for all human
experience.

In a recent conversation, Peter told me he was beginning to write a book—about
building, crashing, and thinking—that considers the black-box nature of cybernetics and
how it represents what he thinks of as “the fundamental transformation of learning,
machine learning, cybernetics, and the self.”

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012556.txt,"ansor & Associates”

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A Right, pretty much.

Q And then there were some other contacts.
Would she call you and want to talk to you
about the specific facts about the case? I mean, why
would she contact --

A Yeah, I mean, just to re-question me about
certain things, because she wasn't sure that the
answers were -~

Q Were those in-person meetings?

A I mean, a lot of them were on the phone.
mean, it wasn't very often that we would meet.

6) Was there any other time that you did meet?

We talked about two times that you actually
did meet, once here at your home and once at Panera
Bread.

Were there any other actual meetings, or did
the others occur on the phone?

A There were other meetings, but they were,
like I said, not really important.

Q Do you remember where they were that they
took place?

A They came to my job, I think, two times.

Q When you say ""they"" --

A Well, it Nesbith the first time, and, the

second time, it was the David Copperfield investigators

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013890.txt,"Just set it and forget it!

—RON POPEIL, founder of RONCO; responsible for more than $1 billion in sales of rotisserie
chicken roasters

As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who
grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods,
ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.

— RALPH WALDO EMERSON

The Renaissance Minimalist

Daeccie Price was waking up to another beautiful summer morning in his Brooklyn brownstone. First

things first: coffee. The jet lag was minor, considering he had just returned from a two-week jaunt
through the islands of Croatia. It was just one of six countries he had visited in the last 12 months. Japan
was next on the agenda.

Buzzing with a smile and his coffee mug in hand, he ambled over to his Mac to check on personal e-
mail first. There were 32 messages and all brought good news.

One of his friends and business partners, also a cofounder of Limewire, had an update: Last Bamboo,
their start-up poised to reinvent peer-to-peer technology, was rounding the final corners of development.
It could be their billion-dollar baby, but Doug was letting the engineers run wild first.

Samson Projects, one of the hottest contemporary art galleries in Boston, had compliments for Doug’s
latest work and requests for expanded involvement with new exhibits as their sound curator.

The last e-mail in his inbox was a fan letter addressed to “Demon Doc” and praise for his latest
instrumental hip-hop album, onliness Vi.01. Doug had released his album as what he termed “open
source music” —anyone could download the album for free and use sounds from any track in his or her
own compositions.

He smiled again, polished off his dark roast, and opened a window to deal with business e-mail next.
It would take much less time. In fact, less than 30 minutes for the day and 2 hours for the week.

How much things change.

Two years earlier, in June of 2004, I was in Doug’s apartment checking e-mail for what I hoped would
be the last time for a long time. I was headed to JFK Airport in New York in a matter of hours and was
preparing for an indefinite quest around the world. Doug looked on with amusement. He had similar
plans for himself and was finally extricating himself from a venture-funded Internet startup that had once
been a cover story and his passion but was now just a job. The euphoria of the dot-com era was long
dead, along with most chances for a sale or an IPO.

He bid me farewell and made a decision as the taxi pulled from the curb—enough of the complicated
stuff. It was time to return to basics.

Prosoundeffects.com, launched in January of 2005 after one week of sales testing on eBay, was
designed to do one thing: give Doug lots of cash with minimal time investment.

This brings us back to his business inbox in 2006.

There are 10 orders for sound libraries, CDs that film producers, musicians, video game designers, and
other audio professionals use to add hard-to-find sounds—whether the purr of a lemur or an exotic
instrument—to their own creations. These are Doug’s products, but he doesn’t own them, as that would

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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025006.txt,"Article 3.

Los Angeles Times

Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat on

statehood moves at U.N.
Edmund Sanders

September 6, 2011 -- Palestinians have everyone guessing about their
next move. Defying the United States and Israel, the Palestinian
Authority is expected this month to apply for full membership in the
United Nations. If the Obama administration vetoes the application in
the Security Council as expected, Palestinian officials are likely to
turn to the General Assembly to upgrade their status from non-
member ""entity"" to non-member ""state."" Gaining de facto statehood
recognition from the international body could allow Palestinians to
join key U.N. institutions, such as the International Criminal Court.
Palestinian leaders say they have enough votes for such a move. But
with two weeks before the General Assembly convenes, they have
remained vague about their exact plans, and have refused to say
exactly what a U.N. membership application or General Assembly
resolution might say. Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat, a member
of the Palestine Liberation Organization's executive committee,
discussed with The Times what Palestinians are planning and why he
thinks the U.N. bid, if unsuccessful, could spell the end of the
Palestinian Authority.

There's been a flurry of last-minute pressure from the U.S. and
Mideast ''quartet"" to convince Palestinians to shelve the U.N.
membership bid. [White House envoys David Hale and Dennis
Ross arrived in the region Tuesday.] Any chance of that
happening?

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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017249.txt,"4.2.12
WC: 191694

Several state courts, where rape by black men against white women were routinely punished by
death, went out of their way to announce their rejection of the principal inherent in the dissenting
opinion. This is what the Georgia Supreme Court said:

With all due respect to the dissenting Justices we would question the judicial right of any
American judge to construe the American Constitution contrary to its apparent meaning,
the American history of the clause, and its construction by American courts, simply
because the numerous nations and States have abandoned capital punishment for rape.
First we believe the history of no nation will show the high values of woman’s virtue and
purity that America has shown. We would regret to see the day when this freedom loving
country would lower our respect for womanhood or lessen her legal protection for no
better reason than that many or even all other countries have done so. She is entitled to
every legal protection of her body, her decency, her purity and good name.

The decision did not mention that Georgia, at that time, had one of the worst records in the nation
with regard to women’s rights.

There was scholarly criticism as well. In the Harvard Law Review, Professor Herbert Packer of
Stanford wrote:

If one may venture a guess, what Justice Goldberg may really be troubled about
is not the death penalty for rape but the death penalty. The problem

may not be one of proportionality but of mode of punishment, the

problem that concerned the framers of the eighth amendment and

to which its provisions still seem most relevant. The Supreme Court

is obviously not about to declare that the death penalty simpliciter is

so cruel and unusual as to be constitutionally intolerable. Other social
forces will have to work us closer than we are now to the point

at which a judicial coup de grace becomes more than mere fiat. Meanwhile,
there may well be legitimate devices for judicial control of

the administration of the death penalty... .[but]

the device proposed by Justice Goldberg is not

one of them.

These were the short-term reactions. Far more important, however, was the long-term reaction of
the bar, especially the American Civil Liberties Union and the NAACP, which combined forces to
establish a death-penalty litigation project designed to take up the challenge of the dissenting
opinion in Rudolph. The history of this project has been recounted brilliantly by Professor Michael
Meltsner in his book Cruel and Unusual, and I could not possibly improve upon it here. But the
results achieved were dramatic. Meltsner and the other members of the Legal Defense Fund, a
group that included a number of talented and committed lawyers, litigated hundreds of cases on
behalf of defendants sentenced to death and, in many of these cases, succeeded in holding the
executioner at bay until the Supreme Court was ready to consider the constitutionality of the
death penalty. I consulted on a number of these case, lending insights from my experience as the
law clerk who had drafted the Rudolph opinion.

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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023354.txt,"rationalized, not only having brad step in to children investments . gift taxes, trust , loans, notes. payables.
expenses allocations .. , insurance.( life , art, split dollar), cashflows, operating biz, , investments, contingent
liabilitiites.( funds , miami ) , commitments funds and charities , dividend treatment -important review of
transcations relating to BRH (amendments) TRA sale ( nuanced ) , shareholder agreements, bank loan
agreements new bank relationships. . wills, construction accounting and oversite , contracts planning
permits etc..employee rules, regs, .. checking account reconciliations, crediti cards. jewelry , cost basis ,( art
stock etc.) foundations regs , brokerage accts,. stock options,( ie environmental solutions still not done !).
estate tax calcualtion firedrill, ( note ,basis etc ) review of boat expenses plane expenses, depreciation issues
refunds etc. . rationalize all outside counsels and accounting firms

Paul Weisss , Mcdermit Will, Macfarlanes. Price Waterhouse , Reich, withers bergman, Empire, , akin gump,
bbd seidman, , Apollo in house counsel.

set up and oversee brokerage accounts at JPM DBGS and thoughfullly trade

.new IT system from top to bottom full time IT person

new accounting system - on- line banking cooridnated with reports . fire drills as per caruci ( he sounds good
and. audit system,s . review of john murphy? joslin? dag? eva? .

in house, review household ( 12million ) review, filings- partnerhip accounting,- familitarity with grats, trusts
etc . audit system put in place. that should be the easy part. then strategy re:

As new facts on the ground develop , phaidon debra, children meeetings, involvment ,

trustees adjusted, stock sale sale of art, , apt( large gain ), 1031 trade in , plane depreciation, boat sale.
construction , brad will oversee brokerage and investment, ?? pe?. real estate?, . publishing, grats, tra, brh (
death). foundation , museum, tax proejctions cash flow projections, cooridnation with tax from apollo. etc
you are sitting on over 100 m of cash???!!

Subject: Re: we're calling the sales tax guy at 6:30 pm - I'll come to your office
To: Richard Joslin Brad Wechsler i Heather Gray

sorry but this is emblematic of the silliness that appears to continue. ..... 1. How can we ask for a legal opinion
when it is crystal clear that we don't yet have accurate facts or numbers ,f. 2 Invoices have not been
reviewed! corporate structure is convoluted and unexplored in detail. ( was the boat captain on the

call?) 3 Paul weiss is the attny , and should be charged with getting us info. . 4. Bringing in yet another
outside lawyer without full vetting and consideration, a waste of time energy and money. . 5. ex. what is the
location of charters shown on the invoice? do you know. .? if th invoices are incorrect, does that give us
any comfort in trying to defend an audit.. I saw three invoices only, and each had a different owner or
address ..

Date: Mon, May 18, 2015 at 8:17 AM
Subject: agenda for tomorrrow
To: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com>, Melanie Spinella

as areflection on your voiced spirited concerns inthe what have you done for me lately category ?
)): . inthe beginning . there was eileen and tom. ( eve and adam,-- however it appears, she declined to
eat the apple from the knowledge tree)

that was it. ada was at the bank but reviewing docs. carlyn was in the kitchen making mush ( abel and cain)

books as they were mystersiously called was being kept soley by eileen, with little or no input ,correction or
advice from tom. herarely if ever asked questions. expenses ie airplane was done in house apollo. (1031
exchange blown etc) at this time
as I recall you got quite annoyed, and agressive and initiated the"" talking out of the both sides of your mouth ""
tiddy, when 1 suggested that the level of their competence left much to be desired. ( ralph lerner's came later
) .response - eileen ran the desk, tom is a partner, ralph wrote the book etc

re tax there was almost no oversight of income, estate, gift ,sales and use, transfer excise etc . IRS SEC
GAMING NYS. real estate, valuations ( many )tax filings- disclosures, etc. re grats trusts defect trusts, Ilcs
corps , trustees , partnerships. foreign corps. 100 bank accounts. gift taxes, , loans, notes. payables. expenses.
., Insurance.( life, art, split dollar), cashflows, operating biz, , investments, contingent liabilitiites.( funds ,

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015658.txt,"e. There shall be a special master, paid by the Defendant, present at the
deposition, to rule on objections.

f. The Defendant Alan Dershowitz can be present at the deposition.

a. The deposition will be limited to the issues of this case without prejudice for
another deposition, if required, in the future. The issues and said limitations
will be determined by the special master.

DONE AND ORDERED in Broward County, Florida on this day of November,

2015.

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IMAGES-012-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032631.txt,"From:

Sent: 9/20/2017 10:58:00 PM
To: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Re:

Importance: — High

a long term invesment i hope

Sent from my iPhone

On Sep 21, 2017, at 1:35 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:

only you please

On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 6:26 PM, {x wrote:
thnx jeff..im prayingpiabid

Sent from my iPhone
On Sep 21, 2017, at 1:17 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:

the book worked. :)

On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 5:57 PM, [i wrote:

only for you .. trump is on the phone today .. it is possible any minute that all parties will be on one table in

new york including my dear old man to put an end to this
Sent from my iPhone

On Sep 20, 2017, at 11:51 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:

Im certain you understand - I'm sure you will have a great new year . No need to respond
please note

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_014546.txt,"Exhibit 11: Pillars of the Investment Strategy Group’s Investment Philosophy

History is a Appropriate Value Appropriate }
Useful Guide Diversification Orientation Horizon sistency
ANALYTICAL RIGOR

ASSET ALLOCATION PROCESS IS CLIENT-TAILORED AND INDEPENDENT OF IMPLEMENTATION VEHICLES

series, movies). Combined with some smaller
improvements, these changes added $560 billion to
the level of 2012 GDP, a 3.6% increase relative to
the prior estimate.

The more immediate—and important—
question is whether we have entered a new phase
in productivity growth trends that will keep
productivity growth at the low levels seen since
2004. We believe that the answer is unknowable
with any degree of certainty; historically,
productivity forecasts have been notoriously
wrong. In The Age of Diminished Expectations,”
first published in 1990, Paul Krugman, Nobel
laureate in economics and professor at City
University of New York, wrote that the lower pace
of productivity growth experienced since the early
1970s would most likely persist in the future. In
1995, however, productivity growth rates increased
and were more than double the rate of the prior
12-year period.

Similarly, in 1997, the Congressional Budget
Office estimated that the long-run average annual
growth rate of labor productivity would be 1.1%.
Between 1995 and 2004, the actual average annual
growth rate of labor productivity was 3.2%.’

As many of our clients know, one of the pillars
of our investment philosophy is that history
is a useful guide (see Exhibit 11). And history
tells us that labor productivity has moved in
cycles, with periods of low productivity growth
followed by periods of high productivity growth.
In a forthcoming and comprehensive paper
titled “Seven Reasons to Be Optimistic About
Productivity,”?* Professors Lee Branstetter of
Carnegie Mellon University and Daniel Sichel
of Wellesley College show that periods of low
productivity growth have been followed by periods
of high productivity growth since 1889, as seen
in Exhibit 12. There is no reason to believe that
“this time is different”; as many of you also know,
we believe that those words are among the most
dangerous and misused words in our industry.

Olivier Blanchard, senior fellow at the Peterson
Institute for International Economics and former
chief economist at the IMF, has also shown that
the current period of low productivity growth does
not tell us much about future productivity trends.
He states that the correlation of “successive pairs
of five-year averages of total factor productivity
growth is only 0.20” since the mid-1970s.”

Outlook | Investment Strategy Group 13

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015880.txt,"190 Are the Androids Dreaming Yet?

repeat. To create the random number in my example above I went to www.
random.org, a website that uses fluctuations in atmospheric quantum
noise to generate random numbers. As far as we know quantum effects
are truly random and have neither rhyme nor reason.

Numbers are more complex than they first appear. They are infinite,
yet there are different infinities, and they have meaning. The smallpox
example above and the Turing numbers we will discover shortly suggest
numbers do have meaning independent of culture and language. The
next two chapters will show us what happens when we think about the
meaning of numbers. We will also explain one more ‘super infinity’ and
this will be the key to understanding creativity.

“There are known knowns; there
are things we know we know.
We also know there are known
unknowns; that is to say we
know there are some things we
do not know. But there are also
unknown unknowns - the ones
we dont know we don't know.”

Donald Rumsfeld
United States Secretary of Defense
(2001-2006, 1975-1977)

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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029386.txt,"¢ Churchill once observed the
difference between an optimist and
pessimist.
The pessimist — sees the difficultly in
every opportunity
The optimist — sees the opportunity in
every difficultly.

¢ We have opportunities before
us within all of the difficulties. The
most important of all, a rare one, the
kind that comes once 1n a generation —
is the opportunity to establish a
regional agreement. It is all the more
important in light of the ""Arab Spring""
and following ""Operation Protective
Edge"".
There 1s an opportunity to establish a
regional agreement that fundamentally
changes the realities of the region and
Israel's future and status within it. An
agreement that will move the region's

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013660.txt,"The subject of complex eigenvalues brings up in me the emotionally
disturbing subject of imaginary and complex numbers. | can still feel a little of my
earlier anxiety. The episode started benignly enough. Our high school’s freshman
algebra class was studying how to solve quadratic equations, equations in which
the highest power of an expression was two. Told to work at the blackboard in front
of the class, | was given the problem of finding the two values of x that were the

roots of the equation, 5x? + 3x + 4 = 0. | had been taught to use the memorized

_ + af 2
quadratic formula, rs in which a = 5, b = 3 and c = 4. | always
a

calculated the square root part first and wound up with the expression,

/9—80 =J/-71.| can still feel the sinking feeling in my stomach as | looked at the
result. | anticipated the usual snide remarks and embarrassment as | contemplated
doing what | did not know how to do, take the square root of a negative number. Mr.
Kirby, the retired mechanical engineer who was my high school freshman algebra
teacher tried to help, but | did not trust him. It seemed to me that he had already
humiliated me in front of the class, several times. He asked, “... what number when
squared, multiplied by itself, would equal —7.” He then asked it another way: solve

the following equation for x: x°+1 = 0. Seeing something | could do, | wrote the next

line quickly x° = -7 and then, taking the square root of both sides, | wrote x = V-1.

He then asked me what that meant. | answered by writing quickly, glibly and blindly

that that meant that J—1xV/—1=-1. He asked me to explain what that meant by
giving him an example from the real world. Not yet knowing about imaginary and
complex (combine real and imaginary numbers), | stood head down, ashamed and
silent, thinking that my smart friend Jerry Blau would get the answer immediately.
Mr. Kirby said he would go on with the class while | continued to stand in front of the
blackboard and thought about it. He told me to interrupt him when | was ready to
answer. Some classmates were smirking, others giggled aloud. They had seen him
do this to me before.

Mr. Kirby, a short, muscular man, an ex-marine with a military haircut and a
brusque manner, lectured that mathematical competence and obedience to

authority and class discipline were all of a piece. | asked him about mathematical

160

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IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022403.txt,"More News

Trump’s ‘big, beautiful wall’ at U.S.-Mexico border

North Korean missile explodes seconds after

launch

The attempted missile launch comes at a time of
heightened tensions in the region, with the U.S. and
South Korea conducting joint military exercises and
the Trump administration clearly signaling it is

prepared to use force to stop the Kim regime.

By Anna Fifield « Read more »

As Ivanka Trump’s White House role expands, her

will require him to take big swaths of other people’s

company is sued for unfair competition

land

The wall will cost a lot more — politically and.
economically — than the president has publicly
acknowledged. Trump will need to wield the power
of government to forcibly take private properties,

including those belonging to his supporters.

By Tracy Jan « Read more »

As White House seeks distance, former Trump

campaign chairman faces new corruption

allegations

A San Francisco clothing retailer says President
Trump, his daughter and his aides have leveraged
the presidency to promote products from Ivanka

Trump’s brand.

By Matea Gold * Read more »

Tillerson, NATO look for new date for meeting

with foreign ministers

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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018533.txt,"When I talk to someone who is identifying as BDSM and ask them have you always felt
this way, and they almost always report that 'This has been the way I was all along. I
didn't realize it. I thought I was interested in more traditional male/female relationships
but now I realize that I really like the power and control aspects of relationship.""

... They are very clear often that, ‘my relationships which were vanilla were not fulfilling.
I always felt like there was something missing. Now that I'm doing BDSM, I am fulfilled.
This feels really right to me. This really gets me to my core. It's who I am.'

... And so in the same way as someone who is homosexual, they couldn't really change --
they somehow felt fulfilled in the same-sex relationship -- similarly ina BDSM
relationship or scenario, they similarly feel the same factors, and in my mind, that allows
me to classify people who fit that as a sexual orientation. I cannot change someone who's
into BDSM to not be BDSM.

That's how I feel. Absolutely.

And yet I disagree with Moser on one key point: not all BDSM people are like this. I
know that people exist who do BDSM, who don't feel it the same way I do. They don't
feel that it's been with them all along. It's not deep-rooted for them. It's not unavoidable,
it's not necessary, it doesn't go to their core. They can change from being into BDSM to
not doing BDSM, because it's not built-in; it's just something they do sometimes, for fun.
There are also plenty of people who have equally strong feelings about their BDSM
sexuality, but who have different BDSM preferences from mine. And that's totally okay
with me! I will always say that I've got no problem with whatever people want to do, as
long as it's kept among consenting adults.

But what does the existence of people like that mean for BDSM as an orientation? Are
they somehow less ""entitled"" to practice BDSM, because it's not as deep-rooted or
important to them as it is for, say, me? No, that can't be true. I'm not going to claim that
my feelings are ""more real"" than theirs, or somehow more important, just because BDSM
goes straight to my core but not to theirs. They've got as much right as I do to practice
these activities, as long as they do it consensually.

So, where does that leave us? It means that BDSM is an orientation for some people, but
not for others. I'm fine with that. Does that mean we're done here? Well, no....

... because if BDSM is an orientation for some people but not others, then we're in a bit of
a weird place when it comes to societal recognition. In the case I cited above, Charles
Moser is claiming that we BDSMers can't change ourselves and that therefore, we don't
deserve to be stigmatized for our sexuality.

On the surface, this might seem reasonable, but actually, whether or not people can alter
their sexual needs, there's no reason people shouldn't be able to do what they want
with other consenting adults. If any of us phrase the argument as: ""I can't change
myself, so please don't hate me!"" then we are implicitly saying, ""If I could change myself,
I would... but I can't, so please have pity on me!"" In other words, we are implicitly
saying: ""BDSMers can't 'fix' our sexual needs -- it's not ‘our fault’ -- so please don't hate
us.”

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016351.txt,"Sadly, Keynes’s predictions did not come true. Although productivity did indeed
increase, the system—possibly inherent in a market economy—did not result in humans
working much shorter hours. Rather, what happened is what the anthropologist and
anarchist David Graeber describes as the growth of “bullshit jobs.”°4 While jobs that
produce essentials like food, shelter, and goods have been largely automated away, we
have seen an enormous expansion of sectors like corporate law, academic and health
administration (as opposed to actual teaching, research, and the practice of medicine),
“human resources,” and public relations, not to mention new industries like financial
services and telemarketing and ancillary industries in the so-called gig economy which
serve those who are too busy doing all that additional work.

How will societies cope with technology’s increasingly rapid destruction of entire
professions and throwing large numbers of people out of work? Some argue that this
concern is based on a false premise, because new jobs spring up that didn’t exist before,
but as Graeber points out, these new jobs won’t necessarily be rewarding or fulfilling.
During the first industrial revolution, it took almost a century before most people were
better off. That revolution was possible only because the government of the time
ruthlessly favored property rights over labor, and most people (and all women) did not
have the vote. In today’s democratic societies, it is not clear that the population will
tolerate such a dramatic upheaval of society based on the promise that “eventually”
things will get better.

Even that rosy vision will depend on a radical shake-up of education and lifelong
learning. The Industrial Revolution did trigger enormous social change of this kind,
including a shift to universal education. But it will not happen unless we make it happen:
This is essentially about power, agency, and control. What’s next for, say, the forty-year-
old taxi driver or truck driver in an era of autonomous vehicles?

One idea that has been touted is that of a universal basic income, which will allow
citizens to pursue their interests, retrain for new occupations, and generally be free to live
a decent life. However, market economies, which are predicated on growing consumer
demand over all else, may not tolerate this innovation. There is also a feeling among
many that meaningful work is essential to human dignity and fulfillment. So another
possibility is that the enormous wealth generated by increased productivity due to
automation could be redistributed to jobs requiring human labor and creativity in fields
such as the arts, music, social work, and other worthwhile pursuits. Ultimately, which
jobs are rewarding or productive and which are “bullshit” is a matter of judgment and
may vary from society to society, as well as over time.

So far, ’ve focused on AI’s practical consequences. As a scientist, what bothers me is
our potential loss of understanding. We are now accumulating data at an incredible rate.
In my own lab, an experiment generates over a terabyte of data a day. These data are
massaged, analyzed, and reduced until there is an interpretable result. But in all of this
data analysis, we believe we know what’s happening. We know what the programs are

34 hitps://strikemag. org/bullshit-jobs/

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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030656.txt,"From: Darren Indyke 
Sent: 9/26/2017 12:12:50 AM 
To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com] 
Subject: Fwd: Breaking News: At least six of President Trump's advisers, including Steve Bannon and Reince Priebus, used 
private email accounts for government business 
Importance: High 
Here we go again. 
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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026269.txt,"From: Kathy Ruemm|er

Sent: 2/25/2018 9:28:23 PM
To: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Re:

Importance: — High
While he might like to, his lawyer would advise him against it. :-)

Are you feeling better today?

On Feb 25, 2018, at 4:17 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:

Steve Bannon Feb 24 (1 day ago)

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/23/susan-rice-lawyer-obama-administration-classified-intelligence-

michael-flynn-trump-423437

do you think Bill Clinton would like to join you me ehud and steve.? could be very funny, all off the record.

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016437.txt,"In their first on-the-record media interviews about the case, Reiter and Recarey
revealed new details about the investigation, and how they were, in their view,
pressured by then-Palm Beach State Attorney Barry Krischer to downgrade the

case to a misdemeanor or drop it altogether.

Former Palm Beach County Police Detective Joe Recarey was the lead detective on the solicitation-of-minors case

against billionaire Jeffrey Epstein.
EMILY MICHOT EMICHOT@MIAMIHERALD.COM

Between March of 2005 — when the case was opened — and seven months later,
when police executed a search warrant at Epstein’s home, Recarey had identified
21 possible victims, according to a copy of the unredacted police report obtained
by the Herald. By the time police felt they had enough evidence to arrest Epstein
on sex charges, they had identified about 35 possible underage victims and were

tracking down at least a dozen more, the police report said.

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013106.txt,"190 11 Stages of Cognitive Development

e the reflexive stage mentioned above corresponds to what some post-Piagetan theorists have
called the post-formal stage

— Example: Using abstract lessons learned from building structures out of blocks to guide
the construction of new ways to think and understand — “Zen and the art of blocks
building” (by analogy to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance [Pir84]).

Piagetan Stages of Development

Full self modification

Penexive Deep understanding and control of self structures
and dynamics
Abstract reasoning and hypothesizing. Objective
Formal detachment from phenomenal self
Rich variety of learned mental representations and
Concrete operations thereon. Emergence of phenomenal self.
: Making sense and achieving simple goals in
Infantile sensorimotor reality. No self yet.
Fig. 11.1: Piagetan Stages of Cognitive Development

More explicitly, Piaget defined his stages in psychological terms roughly as follows:

e Infantile: In this stage a mind develops basic world-exploration driven by instinctive ac-
tions. Reward-driven reinforcement of actions learned by imitation, simple associations be-
tween words and objects, actions and images, and the basic notions of time, space, and
causality are developed. The most simple, practical ideas and strategies for action are
learned.

e Preoperational: At this stage we see the formation of mental representations, mostly
poorly organized and un-abstracted, building mainly on intuitive rather than logical think-
ing. Word-object and image-object associations become systematic rather than occasional.
Simple syntax is mastered, including an understanding of subject-argument relationships.
One of the crucial learning achievements here is “object permanence” — infants learn that
objects persist even when not observed. However, a number of cognitive failings persist with
respect to reasoning about logical operations, and abstracting the effects of intuitive actions
to an abstract theory of operations.

e Concrete: More abstract logical thought is applied to the physical world at this stage.
Among the feats achieved here are: reversibility — the ability to undo steps already done;
conservation — understanding that properties can persist in spite of appearances; theory of
mind — an understanding of the distinction between what I know and what others know (If

HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013106
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IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022365.txt,"IRA, so as to provide, say, children and grandchildren with long-term income-tax free annuities.
Nevertheless, even if those beneficiaries had to take the balance of the Roth IRA within five years of the
owner's death, they still would be receiving income-tax free dollars — something that would not be the
case if they had simply “inherited” a traditional IRA with its built-in income tax liability. In other words, by
converting a traditional IRA into a Roth IRA, the owner is accomplishing something akin to what happens
with a defective grantor trust (see above): relieving the beneficiaries of an income tax liability they would
otherwise have to pay.

Limit the size of retirement benefits. Under current law, there are limits as to how much individuals
can accrue under a defined benefit plan (such as a pension plan), or how much they can contribute to
IRAs and various defined contribution plans, such as 401(k)s. There are no limits, however, as to how
much individuals can accumulate in these tax-preferred accounts. Because of this, the proposal
explains, individuals can accumulate more than is needed to fund “reasonable levels of consumption in
retirement...well beyond the level of accumulation that justifies tax-advantaged treatment of retirement
savings accounts.” The proposal would therefore cap the size of a taxpayer’s various retirement
accounts by barring additional contributions (or accruals) if, in total, the accounts exceeded what was
necessary to provide the maximum annuity permitted for a defined benefit plan: currently $205,000 per
year for a hypothetical 62 year-old and her spouse (this equates to accumulations of about $3.4 million).
When a taxpayer’s accounts hit that ceiling, they could still grow through investment returns, but
additions to the accounts would only be allowed if the maximum permitted annuity increased, or the
taxpayer's investment returns for a given year were less than the actuarial assumptions underlying the
annuity. If an addition put a taxpayer’s accounts over the ceiling, the taxpayer would include that excess
in income, and have a grace period to withdraw it; if the taxpayer did not withdraw the excess, then that
amount and attributable earnings would be subject to income tax when distributed, even if the
distribution was from a Roth IRA or a Roth 401(k).

Comments. This new proposal seems to be a reaction to this fall's presidential elections and the
significant retirement accounts of one of the contenders. Nevertheless, it is not an excise tax to whittle
down significant accounts, but a prohibition on additional contributions (or accruals). As Treasury
Secretary Lew has pointed out, we’re not saying you can’t save for retirement, we're just saying that
such large amounts shouldn't be tax-preferred. Still, will Congress really be inclined to limit how much
taxpayers can accumulate in their retirement accounts, especially when a rising interest rate
environment would make the permitted accumulation smaller? Although anything is possible,
particularly if tax reform really comes about, Congressional sentiment might be against what could be
viewed as “penalizing” successful savers.

Replace Consumer Price Index (CPI) with Chained CPI. Every year, the IRS issues inflation-adjusted
numbers for a variety of provisions, such as the income thresholds for the individual income tax rate
brackets, personal exemptions, and income thresholds and phase-out ranges for various deductions,
exclusions and tax credits. The proposal states that the CPI overstates the effects of inflation because it
doesn't fully reflect consumer reaction to price changes (as in, if prices go up, consumers will buy
something cheaper). A “chained” CPI would “account more fully for this substitution effect” and better
reflect changes in the cost of living. The proposal would take effect as of 2015.

Comments. Just as the proposal to limit tax benefits for income that would be taxed at higher than 28%
would raise taxes on some of those President Obama has previously pledged to protect (see above), a
chained CPI would also raise taxes for everyone, in that tax brackets (and other tax benefits, such as
personal exemptions) would increase more slowly. Similarly, a chained CPI would reduce cost-of-living
increases for Social Security recipients — again something that would affect those the President has
pledged to protect. Although this proposal represents an attempt at balance, Republicans and
Democrats generally seem to dislike it, but for different reasons.

Tax Topics 04/29/13 5

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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028926.txt,"From: Martin Weinber:

Sent: 3/19/2015 8:40:59 PM

To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]; dkiesq Po

Subject: Fw: Fwd: Mr. Clinton and Mr. Epstein
Attachments: image001.gif

Importance: — High

Martin G. Weinberg, Esq.

20 Park Plaza, Suite 1000

Boston, MA 02116

617-227-3700

617-901-3472 cell

This Electronic Message contains

information from the Law Office of

Martin G. Weinberg, P.C.,

and may be privileged. The

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use of the addressee only. If you

are not the addressee, please note

that any disclosure, copying,

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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016631.txt,"Code Enforcement Board Meeting Minutes 07/17/08

the Town Council’s power and authority, if persuaded, to look into an ordinance
and suggested Mr. Maxey address it with them.

B. Case # 08-2508, 227 Brazilian Ave., 2F, Hillen J. Smith
Violation of Chapter 18, Section 18-241 of the Town of Palm Beach Code of
Ordinances, building permits required to construct, install, repair or alter any
building or building system

Lead Code Enforcement Officer said Mr. Smith was found in violation, assessed
$150.00 in administrative costs and given until July 16, 2008 to come into
compliance. Compliance has not been achieved so this is the time a fine would be
assessed. Mr. Walton said the contractor was present to speak.

Steve Pappanelli said he was hired by Mr. Smith after Mr. Smith had been cited
and he was 90% complete with the job. He was just waiting on his final inspection
and he should have it by next week but the building is closed to all construction
inspections for two (2) weeks. Mr. Pappanelli said he was present on Mr. Smith’s
behalf to request a three (3) week extension. Mr. Walton said the Town did not
oppose the extension of time. Mr. Walton said the three weeks was necessary
because the building would not let inspections be done while their maintenance
man was on vacation. Mr. Walton said if compliance was not achieved by August
7, 2008 then he would ask for a $250.00 a day fine to commence on August 8,
2008.

Ms. Greenberg asked some questions about the type of permits and remarked that
it is unfortunate in multi-family dwellings that this type of situation would exist to
begin with because electrical and plumbing can have catastrophic effects on other
owners. She said it is unfortunate the people do not do the right thing until they
get caught. Mr. Pappanelli said he was not the contractor working without
permits.

MOTION BY MR. OCHSTEIN TO GRANT AN EXTENSION OF TIME
UNTIL AUGUST 8, 2008 TO COME INTO COMPLIANCE AND TO ASSESS
A FINE OF $250.00, RETROACTIVE TO JULY 17, 2008 IF COMPLIANCE
WAS NOT ACHIEVED

SECONDED BY MS. GREENBERG

During discussion on the motion, Ms. Duemler stated she believed the retroactive
fine was a little harsh. Mr. Ballentine said he agreed and asked the reason for the
retroactive fine. Mr. Ochstein said there are so many people who do work without
a permit and they know they need a permit. That is a very dangerous thing in a
multi-family dwelling and it should be egregious.

MOTION BY MR. OCHSTEIN TO GRANT AN EXTENSION OF TIME
UNTIL AUGUST 8, 2008 TO COME INTO COMPLIANCE AND TO

16

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IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020572.txt,"113

its fungibility, ultimately renders any distinction between domestic and foreign sources
meaningless. Corporations should also provide greater clarity on their financial and supply
chain exposure to China and disclose the presence of CCP members in joint- or wholly
owned ventures. In certain instances, new limitations on corporate activity that is harmful
to the national interest may be required.

American business leaders should become better versed in the evolving nature of China’s
global ambitions, especially in the use of United Front tactics for influencing almost all
aspects of China’s interaction with the United States. American corporations should raise
their voices through chambers of commerce or other collective commercial entities that can
collectively represent their interests when a company confronts pressures or coercion. To more
effectively resist growing Chinese pressures, American corporations will most certainly need
to find new ways to cooperate more closely with each other, and at times even in coordination
with the US government. Like think tanks, universities, other civil society organizations,

and media outlets, American companies will be most vulnerable to Chinese pressure when
they are atomized and isolated. In this sense, the challenges with which US corporations are
confronted by a rising authoritarian China with a far more ambitious global agenda are not so
dissimilar to those confronted by those other sectors of American society highlighted in this
report. Each confronts an un-level playing field that lacks reciprocity.

To help rectify these imbalances, in certain instances, the US government should be the
one to coordinate collective action, as it recently sought to do with the US airline industry.
It may also need to be more prepared to impose reciprocal penalties on Chinese companies
or even compensate American companies for losses when they stand up to punitive action
from China as an additional incentive to maintain resolve.

Most important, corporate executives, their boards, and their shareholders must double
their efforts to exercise the kind of principled leadership and restraint that will help them
resist the loss of corporate control in pursuit of short-term profit. This includes not only
individual companies but also their representative organizations, notably the US Chamber
of Commerce, the US-China Business Council and other specific trade associations. These
bodies not only need to promote American business interests by pushing back against
Chinese restrictions where necessary but they also need to adopt a heightened awareness of
the role that corporations must play in protecting both their own interests and the national
economic security of the United States itself.

In the corporate sector, China is not just taking advantage of the openness of American
markets, which are rightfully a point of pride for the United States and a pillar of our
economic vitality, but it is also exploiting American capitalism’s short-termism. This latter
predilection could end up being as much of a threat to the ability of American corporations
to maintain healthy economic relations with China as Beijing’s very strategic and targeted
United Front tactics.

Section 7

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IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026620.txt,"From: ee

Sent: 8/4/2015 10:23:22 PM

To: Allen West ; Rafael ergo — Philip Kafka
Herb goodman Grant Seeger |=.

Lisa albert ee janet katka I |. James Ramsey
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RE ; jeff epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]; Michael Steche| i); michael
buchholtz (A: (Vichael horowitz i Viarshall Funk

Subject: Fw: The Iran Nuclear Deal

Importance: — High

Pls spent 2 minutes and watch this dennis prager video on iran deal. And then forward it if you agree. If not, I
understand and just delete. Respectfully, terry
Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T

From: Mike Cohen
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 22:00:42 +0000

To: Terry Katka es
Subject: FW: The Iran Nuclear Deal

From: Mike Cohen
Sent: Monday, August 03, 2015 7:16 PM
Subject: FW: The Iran Nuclear Deal

Dear Friends,
PLEASE watch this very important short and incredibly clear video regarding the Iran deal.

If you have not yet called your congressmen and asked other friends and relatives to do so, PLEASE do that as well. The
wellbeing of your children and grandchildren depend upon it!

Mike

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IMAGES-012-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033249.txt,"From: Deepak Chopra Ss

Sent: 9/6/2017 5:19:43 PM
To: Jeff Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Here’s the guru Donald Trump needs right now - MarketWatch

Importance: — High

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-the-guru-donald-trump-needs-right-now-2017-09-06

Deepak Chopra MD

2013 Costa Del Mar Road
Carlsbad, CA 92009

Chopra Foundation

Jiyo

Chopra Center for Wellbeing

ee

Home: Where Everyone is Welcome

Deepak Chopra MD

2013 Costa Del Mar Road
Carlsbad, CA 92009

Chopra Foundation

Jiyo

Chopra Center for Wellbeing

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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023432.txt,"probably 1, 250,000 all in . But I haven't won 10 Emmys and David has . That has value too. As does Wgbh .
But I'll be more prepared for the next conversation and want to be much more prepared for templeton, so

thank you .

T really liked Michael. I would like to send him some stuff , but in googling him I noticed that we have the

same birthday! May I have his email?

You are in! Yeay! Lets see what this may mean? I'll improve my numbers and you'll improve your deep

reading ?

Sent from my iPhone

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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016625.txt,"Code Enforcement Board Meeting Minutes 07/17/08

Merola went into detail about the requirements of 10-45 and said Dr. Lynn had
complied with all of those. Then the letter of June 20"" came, requiring Dr. Lynn
to remove the dog or euthanize it. Mr. Merola read subsection (h) into the record
and said the Code Enforcement Board did not have any jurisdiction over
subsection (i) as subsection (h) just mentioned (d) through (g). The Town filed a
lawsuit and he and Mr. Randolph were before Judge Hoy this morning. The Town
is asking to have the dog removed or euthanized and asking for a permanent
injunction, stating an emergency situation. Judge Hoy gave them a hearing at 1:30
p-m. on Tuesday where it will be determined whether the dog is a nuisance,
whether 10-45 (1) even applies to the situation and if the Board has authority over
10-45 (1). If the Judge says the dog has to go, they are not going to argue with the
Court but he believes they have a right to present their case. He does not believe
the Town’s position that the fine should start tomorrow is correct. He believes the
Board can only find violations of subsections (d) through (g) of 10-45. There have
been no allegations that Dr. Lynn has violated subsections (d) through (g). Mr.
Merola believes it is clear that the Code Enforcement Board has no authority
under (i). Mr. Merola then addressed 10-6 and said he believed that since all
precautions have been taken under 10-45, the dog does not constitute a nuisance.
Mr. Merola said he has an injunction relief request before the Judge to stop the
Board from making this decision. Mr. Merola said Mr. Randolph has asked them
to determine these two (2) ordinances separately and he does not believe 10-45 (1)
is in the Board’s purview, and as to the nuisance, the dog has to be a nuisance now
and it is not. This is all going to be determined Tuesday and he is asking the Board
to either deny the Town’s recommendation because the Town cannot prove the
dog is a nuisance now or reset this case until next month’s hearing.

Sgt. Krauel advised he wanted to make a rebuttal to some of Mr. Merola’s
comments. The service of notice Mr. Merola referred to in declaring the dog
dangerous was when the police department spoke with Dr. Lynn on June 12, 2008
and was told Duke was being housed at a kennel in Palm Beach County. A notice
could not be served to Dr. Lynn to have him come into compliance with something
he was already in compliance with. The dog was not in the Town. The police
department did not find out the dog was in Town until June 20"" when Laura Klein
reported the dog attempted to break free of Dr. Lynn to attack her and this is
when the letter was sent out requesting compliance with Section 10-45. Dr. Lynn
was given the entire ordinance on June 10"", not just sections or specific acts that
he needed to comply with. Duke was not on the property at that time and no
notification to remove the dog from the property could be served then because the
dog was not there. As far as the police department was concerned, Dr. Lynn was
in compliance with the ordinance. Sgt. Krauel pointed out that the Town does not
abide by the state and the county ordinances, that the Town has the ability to
enforce more stringent and strict ordinances and that is what we have done here.

Sgt. Krauel said he was prepared, based on Counsel’s recommendation, to
recommend a motion to find Dr. Lynn in non-compliance with Section 10-6 and
move to postpone 10-45 (i) until after further consideration by the Circuit Court
on Tuesday. The Town recommends administrative costs in the amount of

10

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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022738.txt,"“You can’t spend a billion dollars, you can just relocate it to a
different investment class. And you can’t give away a billion dollars without
a vast staff, in effect going into the business of giving away money, yet
another business you are likely to know little about.”

At just about this point in the narrative, the questions or the
incredulity begins in social circles and eventually in the media. He begins to
acquire the major symbols of riches but does this without position, public
holdings, or obvious paper trails. In essence, the formulation is, how can a
person have enough money to merit increasing attention, but no clear way of
having gotten it. Epstein gets stuck in that tautology. He may be rich, but he
is without institutional protection or bona fides. He is a questionable
substrata of wealth. He’s a freelancer.

That’s the rub: he doesn’t work for anyone. Without institutional
credentials he’s... well, nobody knows what.

For a period, one part of his activities he says is recovering monies for
countries looted by exiled dictators or military strongmen. If early in his
career he might seem like a sort of George Peppard (there’s a physical
resemblance) in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, a charming hustler, later he’s George
Peppard in Banacek, a smart and astute operator.

Then, in his telling, he’s representing a series of vastly wealthy people
and families. He’s not just doing their bidding or their investing, he’s
helping them to imagine the ambitions of their wealth. They’ ve satisfied
their business dreams. Now there are the separate challenges and
possibilities of their actual wealth.

In essence, as he becomes more public the response to this, as a
function of envy and the media’s need for definition, is “bullshit.” True,
there is no clear alternate narrative. No one is accusing him of anything,
accept, sometimes, guilt by association. (In addition to Robert Maxwell, who
will be accused of fraud, there’s Steven Hoffenberg, briefly a New York
high flyer, who went to jail for a Ponzi scheme, for whom Epstein acted as a
consultant.) But the characterization persist: if it’s not clear, it must be
murky. Sure, Goldman Sachs partners and tech fortunes, but what to make of
a Coney Island, Zelig-like no-namer?

In 1994, just at the moment when Prince Charles is on television
acknowledging his love for Camilla Parker Bowles, Jeffrey Epstein is sitting
with his arm around Princess Diana at a dinner at the Serpentine Galley in
London (Diana is wearing her “revenge” dress that evening). Graydon
Carter, into his second years as editor of Vanity Fair, is also at the dinner.
Epstein’s rise and Carter’s rise are not, with a little critical interpretation,
that different. Both are a function of the age of new money, both are helped

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All told, major Chinese companies publicly acknowledge spending $3.8 million on

federal lobbying in 2017 and $20.2 million in total since 2000,” modest amounts by
global standards. The Chinese e-commerce behemoth, Alibaba, was the largest source of
expenditures in 2017, accounting for $2 million, followed by technology company ZTE
($510k), Sinopec ($384k),?> and the Wanda America Group ($300k), affiliated with Dalian
Wanda.” More difficult to track is Chinese corporate participation in American trade
associations. In early 2018, two Chinese companies have joined two major lobbying groups
noted for their political heft.?°

Indirect Donations A key exception to the ban on foreign federal campaign contributions
is permitted through activity conducted via a US subsidiary of a foreign company.

The Federal Election Commission has written that “where permitted by state law, a US
subsidiary of a foreign national corporation may donate funds for state and local elections

if (1) the donations derive entirely from funds generated by the subsidiaries’ US operations,
and (2) all decisions concerning the donations, except those setting overall budget amounts,
are made by individuals who are US citizens or permanent residents.”

This exception inherently creates the potential for exploitation, particularly given the
intrinsic difficulties of monitoring and enforcement. For example, the Intercept has reported
that American Pacific International Capital (APIC), an American subsidiary of a corporation
owned by a Chinese citizen, contributed $1.3 million to the Super PAC of presidential
candidate Jeb Bush on the advice of a prominent Republican campaign finance lawyer.”®
(Neil Bush, the brother of George W. and Jeb Bush, and former ambassador Gary Locke have
served as advisors of American Pacific International.)?”

Employees of Chinese enterprises, who in making the donations are presumably American
citizens, are also active donors. A review of campaign donation data finds that several
individuals cited as members of the China General Chamber of Commerce or employed
by member firms have made recent campaign contributions. For example, two individuals
associated with HNA Group, including Tan Xiandong, the group’s president, in 2017
donated $2,500 each to the congressional campaign of Greg Pence, the brother of the vice
president.’*

In May 2018, China-based companies reportedly invited Chinese to attend several
Republican Party fund-raising dinners at which President Trump would appear. The
invitations prominently featured the Republican Party’s logo along with that of

China Construction Bank, making it appear as if there was some formal connection.”
The Republican Party and China Construction Bank both denied awareness of the
solicitations in their name. Foreigners may attend fund-raisers so long as they do not pay
their own entry, another instance in which the fungibility of money makes it easy to
skirt this rule.

Section 7

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In connection with the issuance of our senior notes (see Carvana’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for 2018, page 66-67), Carvana Group
amended its LLC agreement to create a class of non-convertible preferred units, which Carvana Co. purchased with its net proceeds from the issuance of
these senior notes.

The operations of Carvana Group, and the rights and obligations of the holders of our LLC Units (who we refer to as “LLC Unitholders”), are
set forth in the LLC Operating Agreement.

EXCHANGE AGREEMENT

On April 27, 2017, we entered into an exchange agreement with Carvana Co. Sub LLC (our wholly owned subsidiary) and the LLC
Unitholders. Under the exchange agreement, LLC Unitholders (and certain permitted transferees thereof) may exchange at any time their LLC Units for
either shares of our Class A common stock or for cash, whichever we decide. To the extent LLC Unitholders also hold Class B common stock, they will be
required to deliver to us the same number of shares of Class B common stock as Class A common stock being exchanged for. We will then cancel those
shares of Class B common stock. As LLC Unitholders exchange their interest in Carvana Group, our indirect interest in Carvana Group will increase
correspondingly.

When an LLC Unitholder makes an exchange, they will receive four shares of Class A common stock for every five Class A Units or, at our
option, cash equal to the value of a share of Class A common stock multiplied by 0.8 times the number of Class A Units being exchanged. The value of the
Class A common stock is determined by the average of the volume-weighted average prices for a share of Class A common stock for each of the three
consecutive full trading days ending on and including the last full trading day immediately prior to the related date of exchange. Class B Units are subject to
vesting and a participation threshold, and, as a result, LLC Unitholders exchanging Class B Units will receive a number of shares of Class A common stock
equal to the Class A common stock value (determined the same way as above) less the applicable participation threshold multiplied by 0.8 times the number
of Class B Units being exchanged, divided by the same Class A common stock value, subject to adjustment as set forth in the Exchange Agreement.

REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT

In connection with the IPO, we entered into a registration rights agreement with certain LLC unitholders. These LLC unitholders are entitled to
request that we register their shares on a long-form or short-form registration statement on one or more occasions in the future, which registrations may be
“shelf registrations.” All of these LLC unitholders will be entitled to participate in certain of our

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IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026634.txt,"We recently met with Apollo's management

We recently met with Apollo Co-Founder Josh Harris and CFO Martin Kelly, who were optimistic about the growth opportunities for
the firm and the recurring fee outlook, although they expect meaningful upside in DE (distributable earnings) to take time given
seasoning of funds. While it is too early to have a clear view on the potential tax impact to APO and the sector from a tax overhaul,
management is keeping a close eye on all potential scenarios (carried interest tax rate, C-corp vs. PTP with lower corp tax, and
interest deductibility). While we are raising our PO to $21 and continue to see attractive growth for APO, given valuation and muted
DE levels, we maintain our Neutral rating.

Post-election outlook for their business

Management sees the election outcome (Trump and Republican Congress) to be likely favorable for GDP growth (portfolio
company EBITDA trends), with the potential for rising rates and inflation to eventually create some volatility and uncertainty on
multiples. In addition, potential de-regulation could create more competition in some areas that the alternative asset managers
have expanded into over the last few years, although the team still sees ample opportunity for growth.

Potential tax changes a mixed bag

There are three primary tax items that could potentially impact APO and the industry. First, the tax rate on carried interest could go
higher, which would increase the tax rate on carry for employees and on a portion of the distribution for some unitholders (this has
generally been expected at some point, given bi-partisan support). Second, if the corporate tax rate is reduced to 15-20%, this
could create an incentive for firms to shift from a partnership structure to a c-corp structure, which would simplify the tax issues
and entertain a larger investor base (including possible index inclusion). Finally, if the corporate tax rate is lowered, it has to be
funded with an offset to have enough support and, as of now, the primary iter being considered is the loss of corporate interest
tax deductibility, which would be a significant negative for the sector. Given the pros and cons and it being very early in the
process, there is no clear cut view, but tax reform will be an important item for the industry moving forward.

Attractive growth and FRE outlook ahead

Management sees the growth outlook as attractive, particularly in Credit. Apollo has multiple areas to drive double-digit growth,
including Athene, Mid-Cap Financial, AAME (Apollo Asset Management Europe) and Total Return. Rising interest rates could be a
near-term risk to credit valuations, but APO's overall duration is low or matched, and higher interest rates could benefit yields and
make it easier to achieve hurdles in certain products. Longer term, the team wants Real Estate to be more significant. Importantly,
with Apollo starting the process for PE Fund IX, the combination of this fund with growth in Credit bodes well for the FRE (fee-
related earnings) outlook into 2017-18.

DE will take a bit of time, but Fund VIII looks attractive
The outlook for DE is favorable with rising FRE, but the real lift will be driven by carried interest over time. The key fund to drive
meaningfully higher DE is Fund VIII and, while still early in its life cycle, given its strong performance, the outlook into 2018-20 is

attractive. We estimate that Fund VIII could return more than $2.0B of cash carry for unitholders, or around $5 per share, assuming
a 2.0x MOIC and typical compensation.

Michael Carrier, CFA

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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025774.txt,"Economic Research: How Increasing Income Inequality Is Dampening U.S. Economic Growth, And Possible Ways
To Change The Tide

potential addition to growth of a worker who has reached his or her full potential.

The pace of U.S. education is also falling behind its peers (see chart 5). Approximately 43% of Americans aged 25-34
had a college degree in 2011, compared with more than half of people the same age in Canada, Japan, and Korea.
Moreover, the proportion of degree holders among Americans aged 25-34 is virtually the same as that among those
55-64, meaning that graduation rates haven't changed much--a sharp contrast with the OECD average and a number of
other countries, where graduation rates have increased significantly. As today's U.S. educational attainment slips

behind other countries, the U.S.' ability to remain economically competitive in the international market is threatened.

Chart 5

U.S. Education Is Slipping Behind

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What if, instead, we broke that cycle? What if the supply of educated workers picked up its pace, and, more or less,
kept up with technological changes? The US. has been no stranger to this in the past. In the early part of this century,
technological advancements were accompanied by an education boom (29). What would be the impact to the
economy and to people's pocketbooks if the U.S. workforce's pace of education were to reach rates of education seen
50 years ago? That was when the American workforce gained a year of education from 1960 to 1965, which is a bit
stronger than the period from 1950 to 1980, where they gained an average of about eight months of education every
five years (30). In this scenario, the US. would add another year of education to the American workforce. US.

potential GDP would likely be $525 billion, or 2.4% higher in five years than in the baseline (see chart 6). If education

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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023426.txt,"From: Lisa New ay

Sent: 9/23/2014 10:17:55 PM
To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Highlight

Importance: — High

That was fun- definitely the highlight of a day that was not without other interesting moments

Don't know which was better-- the wholly unexpected surprise reminder (by a prime minister) of my
boyfriend from 1976( who was in high school, who lived with his doting parents), or , getting creamed on
my producer's budget but then offered the opportunity to profess poetry for production funds . There may
be someone as good in New York, but i'11 never tell you and you really have a heck of a seminar table
there . when do we do whitman's “Song of Myself"" 1-15 who else is reading with us? I'm ready .

A few other follow ups :

David and Brigid point out that reality tv doesn't cost anything because it is, as it sounds, very low

budget . No writing , no special expertise or knowledge or research , no archival footage , no copyright
clearance , no actors , no travel beyond the one location , certainly no clinton or woody allen or
justice elena kagan or david brooks or Lena Dunham or even Professor New. That said , I think If were

hiring the crew id do it for less -- probably 1, 250,000 all in . But I haven't won 10 Emmys and David
has . That has value too. As does Wgbh . But I'll be more prepared for the next conversation and want to
be much more prepared for templeton, so thank you .

I really liked Michael. I would like to send him some stuff , but in googling him I noticed that we have
the same birthday! May I have his email?

You are in! Yeay! Lets see what this may mean? I'll improve my numbers and you'll improve your deep
reading ?

Sent from my iPhone

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016423.txt,"January 11, 2019

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11th day of January, 2019

Notary Public

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013112.txt,"196 11 Stages of Cognitive Development

Stage 1: Infantile

Inference Rules
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Fig. 11.4: Uncertain Inference in the Infantile Stage

word-object associations: e.g. learning that when the word “ball” is uttered in various contexts
(“Get me the ball,” “That’s a nice ball,” etc.) it generally refers to a certain type of object.
The key point regarding these “infantile” inference problems, from the CogPrime perspective,
is that assuming one provides the inference system with an appropriate set of perceptual and
motor ConceptNodes and SchemaNodes, the chains of inference involved are short. They involve
about a dozen inferences, and this means that the search tree of possible PLN inference rules
walked by the PLN backward-chainer is relatively shallow. Sophisticated inference control is
not required: standard AI heuristics are sufficient.

In short, textbook narrow-AI reasoning methods, utilized with appropriate uncertainty-savvy
truth value formulas and coupled with appropriate representations of perceptual and motor
inputs and outputs, correspond roughly to Piaget’s infantile stage of cognition. The simplistic
approach of these narrow-AI methods may be viewed as a method of creating building blocks
for subsequent, more sophisticated heuristics.

In our theory Piaget’s preoperational phase appears as transitional between the infantile and
concrete operational phases.

11.4.2 The Concrete Stage

At this stage, the mind is able to carry out more complex chains of reasoning regarding the
world, via using inference control schemata that adapt behavior based on experience (reasoning
about a given case in a manner similar to prior cases).

In the concrete operational stage (Figure 11.5), an entity is able to carry out more complex
chains of reasoning about the world. Inference control schemata which adapt behavior based on
experience, using experientially learned heuristics (including those learned in the prior stage),
are applied to both analysis of and interaction with the sensory surround / world.

Concrete Operational stage tasks include:

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BSU Origins
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ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY

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IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022371.txt,"“Log Interpretation Manual Number 2”
Supplement-A-Ri-Rt Conversion Charts
Based on Lectures by Jack J. Grynberg and Sylvain J. Pirson — 1960

“Handbook of Well Log Analysis”
McGraw-Hill - 1964
Based on Lectures by Sylvain J. Pirson and Jack J. Grynberg

“Application of Water Resistivity Data”
By: Jack J. Grynberg and B.L. Carlberg - 1974

Study of Nuclear and Alternative Energy Systems
Supporting Paper 1 - 1978
“Problems of U.S. Uranium Resources and Supply to the Year 2010”
By: The National Research Council, The National Academy of Science
By: Leon T. Silver, Jack J. Grynberg, David S. Robertson, Joseph B. Rosenbaum
and Arnold J. Silverman
Study of Nuclear and Alternative Energy Systems
“U.S. Energy Supply Prospects to 2010” - 1979
By: The National Research Council, National Academy of Science
By: Jack J. Grynberg and others.

LANGUAGES
English, French, German, Polish, Russian and Hebrew

LEGISLATION
H.R. 501 - Sections 801 and 802, “Study of Actions to Improve the Accuracy of Collection of
Federal Oil, Condensate, and Natural Gas Royalties Act of 2011”
H.R. 3534 titled “Study of Actions to Improve the Accuracy of Collection of Royalties”
H.R. 2152 titled “Foreign Business Bribery Prohibition Act of 2009”
GAO-10-313 Report issued March 2010, “Interior’s Oil and Gas Production Verification Efforts
do not Provide Reasonable Assurance of Accurate Measurement of Production Volumes”

MILITARY SERVICE
Resistance against Nazis, 1943-1944
Volunteer, Israel’s War of Independence, 1947-1949
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; U.S. Army Research and Development Command,
Soviet Radioactive Warfare Section, and worked as a scientific spy 1956-1957
Honorable Discharge

PERSONAL
U.S. Citizen, born January 21, 1932, Brest, Poland
Married June 1959 to Celeste C. Bachove
Three (3) children and three (3) grandchildren

users on ‘gpdata’ (S:) open everyone JJG’s Resume#2—July 2014.doc

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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029475.txt,"﻿TWIN CITY MOBILE INTEGRATED HEALTH
4200 SION FARM, SUITE 25
CHRISTIANSTED, VIRGIN ISLANDS 00820
321-633-8005 or 321-432-2912
Business Expansion Portfolio and Prospectus
Twin City Care of The Virgin Islands
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Dear Mr. Jeffrey Edward Epstein
“Twin City; For Today, for the Future, and for Our Community”. Twin City Makes Connections
for Life.
Twin City Mobile Integrated Health Services (TCMIH) is a private, non-profit, non-emergency,
certified, advance and basic life support interfacility ambulance provider, specialized transport and
mobile phlebotomy service. Our staff are trained professionals who have the experience of
transporting thousands of patients to and from various healthcare facilities and playing a key role
in the Virgin Islands Prehospital Care.
TCMIH provides patient centered, compassionate care in an atmosphere of safety and
professionalism, serving hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, air ambulance and private medical
facilities in the Virgin Islands.
As a provider of mobile medical service, we bring to the community a company that is committed
to excellence in medical transportation and patient care. From our team of highly skilled
Phlebotomist, EMR’s, EMT’s, Advanced EMT’s, Nurses and Paramedics ready to care for their
patient’s needs, to the professional management team our focus remains patient centered and safety
driven from start to finish. TCMIH is guided by the vision of experienced healthcare providers
from our local EMS, Florida EMS and a Certificate of Need/Necessity (CON) awarded by the
Virgin Islands Department of Health. Twin City invests heavily in itself through its personnel,
equipment, vehicle and training to maintain the highest level of quality and professionalism. We
also invest back into the community through donations and community service projects.
While no one anticipates or favors an injury or crisis, mental crisis, illness or the aging process
you can rest assured that your medical needs will be met professionally by a team of caring
individuals focused on making the most comfortable and compassionate experience possible.
Sincerely!
Eugene Phipps, TNT EMR
President
Twin City Care, Inc.
Jeffery D. Gilliard, BS, NRP/CCEMTP/FPM
CEO
Twin City Care, Inc.
Jerry Galloway, NRP, CCEMTP
Chief Operations Officer
Twin City Care, Inc.
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Mission, Vision, Values
It is our goal, as a community non-profit service organization, to provide expedient, reliable, costefficient
non-emergency ambulance service, mobile phlebotomy and affordable specialized
transportation to the citizens of the Virgin Islands. In the pursuit of this goal, we pledge to furnish
superior, quality equipment, vehicle, personal, and service, dedicated to the needs and demands of
both the public and the local health care agencies. We strive to develop and promote a positive and
rewarding work environment. As a team, we inspire a professional, compassionate attitude,
knowing that without each other, we would not succeed. The company shall draw its strength from
the skill and dedication of its personnel and in turn, inspire the team to provide quality service of
which all would be proud.
Vision Statement
Twin City Mobile Integrated Health vision is to deliver service in a manner that sets the standard
for professional, compassionate, cost effective and safety oriented non-emergency ambulance
service, mobile phlebotomy and specialized transportation. Through our employees, our peers and
our patients we understand that we are not making connections for a moment, Twin City makes
connections for life.
Values
Patient Centered Care
Compassionate/Dignified Services
Health and Safety Focused
Compliance Motivated
Educationally Driven
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Commission on Accreditation of Ambulance Services (CAAS)
Any ambulance service can claim it is delivering quality service, but an accredited agency can
prove it through its written or documented procedures systems and reports. TCMIH demonstrates
full compliance with national ambulance standards of excellence to meet and maintain CAAS.
TCMIH will also maintain Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Blood
Borne Pathogen (BBP), Vehicle Safety (EMD & CEVO), Virgin Islands Traffic Laws and VI Code
Tax Laws.
CAAS was established in 1990 as a not-for-profit national agency to uphold quality operating
standards for ambulance services. It is the gold standard for the ambulance industry, in as much as
JCAHO (Joint Commission of Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations) is the benchmark for
hospital excellence.
The accreditation process entails a serious self-assessment, comparing us to the accreditation
standards. We work through a comprehensive application process with guidance, consultation and
mentorship from our CEO; Mr. Jeffery Gilliard former Director of Coastal Ambulance, Brevard
County Florida.
Within two years TCIMH hopes to achieve and maintain recertification requirements for CAAS
Accreditation and joins the 160 agencies in 37 U.S. State, Canada and the West Indies. This is our
steadfast commitment and dedication to quality healthcare for our community, each patient, each
transport, and each day.
Performance Requirements
As the premier non-emergency, interfacility, advanced and basic life support ambulance service
in the Virgin Islands. TCMIH will provide detailed performance parameters including on time
performance as outlined below.
Advanced and Basic Life Support
Definitions:
Pre-Schedule Requests
Urgent Requests
Non-Urgent Requests
Those requests scheduled 24 hours in advance.
Same day requests that are time sensitive in nature, such as transports
to emergency room.
Same day requests that are not time sensitive in nature such as hospital
discharges.
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Performance Parameters:
Pre-Schedule Transports On time 90%
Non-Schedule Urgent On time within 1 hour of call time 90%
Non-Schedule Non-Urgent On time within 2 hours of call time 90%
Mental Health Transports
Definitions:
Priority 1
Priority 2
Priority 3
Priority 4
Law Enforcement with the patient.
Transport requests coming from the Emergency Room, include Air Ambulance
Transport request from Hospital rooms, Detention Centers, Exparte, voluntary
request, inpatient mental health units, other “stable” environments, and voluntary
requests. “Non- Air Ambulance”
Pre-Scheduled transports with a minimum of 24 hours’ notice.
Performance Parameters
Priority 1
Priority 2
Priority 3
Priority 4
On scene 45 minutes from time of call’s acceptance 90% on time
On scene 1 hour from time of call’s acceptance from receiving facility, 90% on time
On scene 2 hours from time of call’s acceptance from receiving facility, 90% on time
On scene at the agreed upon time, 90% on time
Fees for Service
Transport Rate Schedule
Ambulance Transportation
BLS Non-Emergency $290.00
ALS Non-Emergency $400.00
BLS Emergency $440.00
ALS Emergency $520.00
ALS-2 $775.00
All Mileage
$11.25 per mile
Stand-by or Waiting Time
$125.00 per hour or increment thereof*
Medical Coverage (First Aid Station) Contracts
$800.00 per day
In addition to TCMIH primarily non-emergency inter-facility services, TCMIH will routinely
render ambulance services in response to facility requests that fall into the Center for Medicare
and Medicaid Services (CMS) guidelines qualifying Twin City for reimbursement under the CMS
code for ALS or BLS Emergency based on the “Immediate Response” criteria. The current CMS
definition for Emergency is not based on “lights and sirens”, it is based on “immediate response”.
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Ambulance Division and Definition
TCMIH provides Advanced Life Support services (ALS) 24/7, 365 days a year to our hospitals,
nursing facilities and various other health care providers in the Virgin Islands. Our entire fleet will
stand ready to provide consistent, high quality, patient centered care. Not only are we here for the
day-to-day needs of our community, but during times of need, for mutual aid support to the Virgin
Islands Department of Health EMS and the Virgin Islands Territorial Emergency Management
Agency.
All Paramedics, EMTs, Nurses and Emergency Medical Responders will be working under the
guidance of our Medical Director Dr. Christopher C. Hill DO, (Board License Emergency
Physician) in accordance with National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
As the premier interfacility non-emergency ambulance provider for the community, our role is as
diverse as the patients we serve. From providing critical care transports to monitoring the vital
signs and offering support for a Hospice patient, it is all about the connections we make, each day,
and each transport.
Advanced Life Support (ALS)
ALS care is provided by Advance EMTs, and Paramedics who are licensed in pre-hospital care,
having qualifications and equipment to provide BLS capabilities as well as advanced airway
management, cardiac monitoring and defibrillation, IV administration, administering of life saving
medications and capable of handling severe medical emergencies.
Specialty Care Transports (ALS-2)
Patients who require specialized monitoring of IV medication drips and ventilators. Care from Air
Ambulance services (Medivac).
Mental Health Transport and Crisis Hotline
Specialized medical transport team, working with agencies such as law enforcement, mental
healthcare providers, hospital emergency rooms and nursing facilities to ensure the safe, efficient
and dignified transport of the mental health patient. In addition to the transport component, Twin
City will be a vested partner in the progress and wellbeing of our mental health community at
large. Attending and participating in many community forums such as local planning meetings,
any mental health taskforce meetings TCMIH will be committed to assisting with the best practices
for the providers for the patients that we serve.
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Our crews will be trained as Crisis Intervention Teams (CIT) which will include being a Behavioral
Health Technician (BHT) who will meet requirements in:
Crisis de-escalation, intervention and sensitivity training
Patient and crew safety
Documentation and patient confidentiality
Ethical and Professional Responsibilities
Crisis Hotline Response & Management
Intake Assessment Referrals
Residential Substance Abuse Treatment Referrals
Individual & Group Counseling Referrals
Male/Female Specific Support Groups
Relapse Prevention Education
Substance Abuse Education & Prevention
Educational/Vocational Counseling
Family Education
Parenting Skills and education
Children's Services Referrals
HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis prevention and education services
Women's Aftercare Program Referrals
Mutual Aid
TCMIH will be available and prepared to fulfill its mutual aid commitment to the Virgin Islands
Emergency Medical Services (VIEMS) under the directives of the Virgin Islands Territorial
Management Agency (VITEMA). When called upon we will assist in the evacuation of healthcare
facilities, special needs residents and nursing facilities to safety, only to return them home again
after the storms have passed.
Community Paramedicine
Community paramedicine (CP) is an emerging healthcare profession. It allows paramedics, Nurses
and emergency medical technicians (EMTs) to operate in expanded roles to provide healthcare
services to underserved populations. It is a way to improve rural emergency medical services
(EMS) as well as address the healthcare needs of the community.
Some rural patients lack access to primary care, and misuse 911 services in an attempt to access
emergency departments for routine healthcare. This is demanding on our EMS system and causes
strains on the workforce. Working in a primary care role, community paramedics can meet the
needs of such individuals, as well as others in the community, in a more efficient and proactive
way.
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Mobile Phlebotomy
Our islands are moving toward new types of patient interactions and each year comes an influx of
organizations seeking in-home or direct patient (participants / customers) visits. TCMIH will
provide mobile phlebotomy and mobile examiner staffing services for island wide specimen
collections and one-on-one health testing.
Our Mobile Phlebotomy is a full-service staffing agency that works with organizations such as
specialty labs, doctors, health diagnostic and research companies to provide mobile phlebotomists
and mobile examiners directly to your patients around the island. We understand that many
organizations depend on reliable and experienced phlebotomists available specifically for short
term health screening assignments and specimen collections. Our technicians will collect blood,
urine, fecal, hair, nail samples and do Electrocardiograms.
Professional and reliable team members take pride in the quality of their work. They pride
themselves in their adherence to requirements for timely collection, delivery and handling of the
specimens. We will be the leader in the home blood draw services in the Virgin Islands. We deliver
the specimens to the labs so you don’t have to. All of our staff will be Certified Mobile Phlebotomy
Technicians and carry a mobile centrifuge in their vehicles. This helps assure we get quality
specimens.
Medical Oversight (Medical Director)
The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) believes that all aspects of the
organization and provision of basic (including first responder) and advanced life support
emergency and non-emergency medical service, require the active involvement and participation
of physicians. The primary role of the medical director is to ensure quality patient care.
Responsibilities include involvement with the ongoing design, operation, evaluation and revision
of the system from initial patient access to definitive patient care.
The medical director has authority over patient care, authority to limit immediately the patient care
activities of those who deviate from established standards or do not meet training standards, and
the responsibility and authority to develop and implement medical policies and procedures. The
medical director's qualifications, responsibilities, and authority must be delineated in writing
within each system. Ideally, the medical director will be a board-certified emergency physician.
In order to meet requirements and CAAS compliance, TCMIH has already entered into contractual
agreement with Dr. Christopher C. Hill DO, ACEP, AAEP, ACOEP, AOA, AMA.
Dr. Hill serves as the Medical Director for EMETS, a paramedic/EMT education/training company
in Brevard County and for EMETSEEI Institute Inc in Rockledge, Florida. He is concurrently
working at Rockledge Regional Medical Center Emergency Department and enjoys teaching in
the clinical setting.
Dr. Hill is currently a member of the American Academy of Emergency Physicians, American
College of Osteopathic Emergency Physicians, and American Osteopathic Association.
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Training
Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine/Doctors Hospital Emergency Medicine
Residency and Track Internship
Education
Nova Southeastern University, Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, Florida Atlantic University, BS
Biology
Accreditations/Affiliations
ACEP, AAEP, ACOEP, AOA, AMA
Communications
TCMIH will staff a 24 hour a day dispatch center with dispatchers who are professional, caring
and multi-task oriented. They will be responsible for making sure all requests for service are
handled in a prompt and courteous manner. The dispatchers handle and maintain all internal and
external communication between TCMIH and those agencies requesting ambulance transportation.
They are responsible for accepting, coordinating, and screening all requests for service and will
remain in radio contact with the crew from start to finish in each transport.
Equipment
As a private Non- profit service organization, a significant portion of our capital will be utilized in
the purchase of equipment. Our equipment selection will be based upon the latest advances in the
ambulance industry.
Ambulance
Currently we have one unit serving St. Croix with future operational plans to staff four Quick
Response Vehicles, and four additional ALS ambulances typically Type III models allowing for
additional room for complex equipment and staffing needs for more critical patients. Our
expansion intent will cover all of the USVI to include St. Thomas and St. John.
EPCR
To safeguard patient care documentation and best comply with the continuing regulations set forth
by Medicare/Medicaid for comprehensive medical necessity documentation TCMIH will be using
electronic run reports documentation.
Quality Assurance
In the dictionary the word Quality is defined as “an inherent or distinguishing characteristic; or a
degree or grade of excellence”.
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At TCMIH “Quality” will be the benchmark for our day to day performance. We believe quality
can be measured in many ways, from customer service surveys, on time performance measures, to
clinical indicator reviews and run report accuracy just to name a few. To ensure that TCMIH
remains focused on providing exceptional patient care from the request for service on through to
the reimbursement cycle, we have established quality assurance processes to create a culture in
which quality, excellence and accuracy is our focus. To achieve this, each day we will look at the
transports from the previous day and review how we performed. We will measure our on-time
performance, looking at each run report line-by-line to ensure we have met our protocol
requirements. We will make certain the crews have gathered the appropriate information allowing
us to properly bill on behalf of the patients while maintaining compliance with all Medicare,
Medicaid and other healthcare regulations.
Medical Necessity
Health Insurance providers and Medicare in particular, have strict guidelines on what they will
cover and what is deemed as “medically necessary”.
For the service to be determined medically necessary, the patient’s medical condition at the time
of transport must be such that any other means of transportation would have placed the patient at
risk for harm or deterioration.
In addition, Medicare and Medicaid have guidelines requiring all non-emergency ambulance
transports from a hospital, nursing home, physician’s office, out-patient facility or clinic to obtain
a Physician’s Certification statement (PCS). We will collect this statement at the time the request
for service is received as part of our normal practice.
Stand By / Special Events
TCMIH will provide both committed and non-committed ambulance standby / first aid station
support during sporting events, community gatherings, concerts, fairs, parades, and other public
and private events.
Code of Conduct
TCMIH will attribute its success and reputation to the ethical standards that our employees will
set forth in their day-to-day actions. Healthcare is a challenging field of endeavor, yet we know
we must meet each challenge with the highest level of integrity and resolve, not with shortcuts.
Operational Code of Professional Conduct
The primary goal of TCMIH is to ensure that all employees provide competent, safe and ethical
specialized transportation to the citizens of the Virgin Islands. TCMIH has adapted this Code of
Professional Conduct to define a set of professional standards that will augment the technical and
clinical aspects of our duties.
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Twin City Care, Inc.
Three Year Expansion Prospectus.
March 10, 2018
Dear Mr. Epstein:
In the ever-changing world of reimbursements for patient transportation, a means of cost effective
non-emergency medical transportation has emerged. It is the birth of this cost effective nonemergency
Ambulance Transportation business that has shown the most growth since President
Clinton signed the Medicare Reform Act. In this proposal, we will provide information on our
proposed expansion of our non-emergency Medical Ambulance service to include the following.
‣ Definition
‣ Competition
‣ Launch Strategies
‣ Public Relations
‣ Success Metrics and Rates
‣ Funding
Thank you for allowing us to provide you this information. As you will see an opportunity is
available to assist in funding this ever-growing business demand in the USVI.
Sincerely,
Jeffery D. Gilliard, BS NRP/CCEMTP/FPM
CEO
Twin City Care, Inc.
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Past
Prior to TCMIH there were no Advance Life Support Ambulance providing interfacility service
on St. Croix and the Governor Juan F. Luis Hospital was left on numerous occasions with patients
who were discharged tying up beds. Transports for Patients who need stretcher services were being
transported by the 911 emergency ambulances after no alternatives were provided. The research
show that an overwhelming number of patients that need stretcher transportation and medical
monitoring could not be provided by the current services on St. Croix.
Present
Presently, the competitor, Wheel Coach Services, hasn’t the ability or the authorization to bill the
customers insurance and in many cases the patients and family members will have to pay for their
own ambulance / stretcher transportation home. The request for Non-emergency ambulance
services has experienced an increase on St. Croix 88-92% and has been channeled through the 911
system. Today we also find a lack of Non-emergency ambulance services to provide timely
transportation. This constantly creates a multi-tiered domino effect when patients cannot be moved
out of the hospital. Discharged patients are tying up valuable beds, family members are angry and
receiving facilities are not going to accept late patients. Current reimbursements of ambulance
services that are medically necessary are at 100% if filed correctly.
Future
With the present situation of the Governor Juan F. Luis & Lester Schneider Hospital the need to
mobilize patients frequently, has caused a growth spurt within the district of St. Croix, St. Thomas,
St. John and will continue to grow. This growth will be perpetuated by the hospitals need to
transport patients from its facility to either a nursing home or home healthcare. Twin City will
currently fill part of the void by providing non-emergency and urgent advance life support
ambulance transport to and from JFLH, nursing homes and other health facilities / organizations
which would avoid much needed bed delays.
Service Definition
Non-Medical Stretcher service is stretcher patient transportation that requires no medical attention
or treatment. The service is provided by utilizing a high-top van with a stretcher mounted in the
back or transport of a patient in an ambulance without providing basic medical care / monitoring
and is being provided by Wheel Coach Services locally. Twin City will provide Ambulance
services which are categorized in the following manner and staffing patterns:
1. ALS ambulance services – One (1) AEMT and One (1) EMR or EMT
2. ALS 2 ambulance services – One (1) Paramedic and One (1) AEMT or EMT
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Competition
Presently, there is no competition for Twin City. All non-emergency ambulance and non-medial
stretchers are regulated through the Virgin Islands Department of Health and Wheel Coach
Services that are currently the only provider of the non-medical stretcher. Since 2003 to this date
Wheel Coach is unable to provide non-emergency ambulance service on the island of St. Croix. It
is very feasible to conduct successful non-emergency ambulance operations with the local
hospitals (JFLH), fee for service (Medicare, Medicaid, Private Insurance, self-pay).
Positioning
It is the goal of Twin City Care, Inc. to operate a Mobile Integrated Health Service which consist
of; non-emergency and emergency ambulance, specialized transport, community health and
mobile phlebotomy service within the USVI. Contracts for fees for service, and subscription
service, shall be sought with the major Hospitals, Skilled Nursing Facilities, Casino’s, Tourist
Bureau and the Community at large. It is our contention to provide excellent customer service.
Considering the numerous complaints of the lack of current service we feel that by instituting a
policy that provides performance parameters that meets the customers’ needs we will be highly
successful in our goal. It is our intention to provide a two-hour window and true scheduled pick
up times. According to customer surveys, they desire performance and reliability. Ambulance rates
are payable by Medicare at $221.00 base rate and $7.31 per mile, the average ambulance call per
day at Twin City is four. We expect to double that within the first month. We will also work with
the local physicians to transport all qualifiable patients by ambulance, such as those who are on
oxygen or those who need non-emergency and urgent transportation to the hospital. We shall also
offer to the people of St. Croix a subscription service for ground ambulance, where if they need an
ambulance they receive no bill.
Expansion Launch Strategies
It is our intent to expand Twin City Mobile Integrated Health with two ambulances operating per
day, Mon-Fri and one on the weekends, by salaried personnel on St. Croix and St. Thomas. Once
these units are at 85% capacitance, a third unit will be added. Along with the third unit, a marketing
strategy should be launched in the St. Johns area. Under this expansion project employees and
starting salary ranges would consist of the following:
4 fulltime Receptionist / Secretary / Dispatcher, $25k/year each
1 Salaried Chief Executive Officer / Paramedic, $100k/year
1 Salaried Medical Director, $125k/year
1 Salaried Human Resource Director, $75k/year
1 Salaried Chief Operations Officer (Paramedic) $85k/year
1 Salaried Supervisor / Customer Care Advocate (Paramedic or Advance EMT) $75k/year
12 Fulltime Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) $45k/year each = $450k/year
9 Part time Advance Emergency Medical Technician $55k/year each = $495k/year
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All calls received after hours, will be answered by the COO / Director and / or Supervisor and
immediately ran by the two of them if it cannot be scheduled.
A billing / collection Director will handle all billing. This employee will be paid a salary and a
percentage of the daily collections with accurate billings. This will be the driving incentive to do
a superior job and keep the revenues high.
Public Relations / Advertising
Through research, it has been recognized many organizations fail to realize that there are three (3)
customers in this business. The customer that rides on the stretcher deservers friendly and efficient
service. The second customer is the facility requesting patient transport. The third customers are
the staff that transports the clients in a timely, professional and courteous atmosphere. These
customers deserve prompt quality service as well as friendly and efficient service.
It has been found through research, that the company that makes public relations Priority One has
been very successful. With the healthcare profession being a tight circle of professionals, the word
will quickly spread of the fast, friendly, and efficient service that is being provided. Once this
reputation is established, and maintained, the advertising will be a part of each associates daily
activities and duties.
Twin City Mobile Integrated Health Services will also align itself with organizations, whose
clients will utilize our service. Such organizations would be local Hospice, Rehabilitation, Casino,
Hotels, Cruise Lines and Retirement Groups. The company would also be joining other
professional organizations such as the Chamber of Commerce, American Ambulance Association,
National Association of EMTs and Rotary Club.
Twin City Mobile Integrated Health Services will also provide Community paramedicine (CP)
which is an emerging healthcare profession. It allows paramedics and emergency medical
technicians (EMTs) to operate in expanded roles to provide healthcare services to underserved
populations. It is a way to improve rural emergency medical services (EMS) as well as address the
healthcare needs of the community.
Some rural patients lack access to primary care, and misuse 911 services in an attempt to access
emergency departments for routine healthcare. This is demanding on EMS personnel in rural areas
and causes strains on the workforce. Working in a primary care role, our community paramedics
can meet the needs of such individuals, as well as others in the community, in a more efficient and
proactive way.
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1.0 Executive Summary
The purpose of this business plan is to raise $10,000,000.00 for the expansion of our Mobile
integrated health service while showcasing the expected financials and operations over the next
five years. Twin City Care, Inc. is a US Virgin Islands based corporation that will provide nonemergency
ambulance, mobile phlebotomy, Community Health and specialized medical
transportation services to people in its targeted market.
1.1 Products and Service
Twin City intends to provide non-emergency medical transportation of people to hospital,
physicians, physical Therapy clinics, and outpatient centers. TCMIH will be able to attend
both urgent and non-urgent call. The business will receive a majority of its income from
publicly funded healthcare systems and private insurance companies.
1.2 The Financing
Twin City is seeking to raise $10,000,000.00. This funding is primarily for expansion cost,
relocation and current office maintenance / repairs. During the storm (Hurricane Maria) we
suffered severe damage to our current place of operations. The funding requested should assist
our organization to:
1. Make repairs to our interior walls, purchase furniture
2. Replenish radio communication
3. Purchase additional communication equipment (Dispatch Computers)
4. Purchase additional ambulances, 2 Quick Response Units and 2 Supervisors Units
5. 2 years Operational Funds
6. Office supplies
7. Medical supplies
8. General Operational Costs
Twin City has already purchased its first ambulance and will have it in comission by April
2018.
1.3 Management Team
Twin City Care, Inc. was co-founded by Eugene Phipps, Jeffery D. Gilliard, and Jerry
Galloway together we have a combined experience of over 90 years in the emergency medical
field and 31 years’ experience in Non-emergency medical transportation (see Curriculum
Vitae’s). Through our expertise and knowledge, we will be able to bring the services of this
business to profitability with its first year of operations.
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TWIN CITY CURRENT FINANCIAL SHEET:
Radio Communications
Radio Service $250.00
Dispatch Center $2,500.00
Annual Total $30,250.00
Radio Communications
Mobile Radio 4 $2200.00 ea. $8,800.00
Port. Radio 5 $1800.00 ea. $9,000.00
Tablets/ mounts 4 $3,000.00 ea. $12,000.00
Total Cost $29,800.00
Tele- Communications
Telephone Office $220.00
Fax Office $110.00
Cell Operations X 3 AT & T
$100.00/
month
$300.00
Internet Office Broad Band
$400.00
Month
/
$400.00
Internet Mobile AT& T
$500.00
Month
/
$500.00
Annual Total $6,730.00
Facility Rental
$3,500.00
Annual Total $42,000.00
Utilities
WAPA $1,200.00
Annual Total $28,800.00
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Office Supplies
Printing Advertising $125.00/week $500.00
Direct Mail $20.00/week $80.00
Brochure $375.00/week $1,500.00
Advertising $150.00/week $600.00
Website Advertising / Hosting $150.00/week $600.00
Promotional Materials $375.00/Month $1,500.00
Annual Total $57,360.00
Business License Expenses
Bus. License $500.00
Vehicle License $500.00
Vehicle Ins. $3,000.00
Annual Total $4,000.00
Staff Education
Monthly $3,000.00 $3,000.00
Annual Total $36,000.00
Staff Uniform
$2,500.00 $2,500.00
Annual Total $2,500.00
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Ambulance Medical/Equipment Supplies
ITEM Amount Cost Total
ALS Medical Bag (BLUE) $462.00 ea. $462.00 X 2 $924.00
Trauma Bag (RED) $277.00 ea. $277.00 X 2 $554.00
Pelican Drug Box $510.00 ea. $510.00 X 2 $1,020.00
Power Stair Chair (RED)
Ferno
$6800.00 ea. $6800.00 X 1 $6,800.00
Combination
Backboard/Scoop
$950.00 ea. $950.00 X 2 $1,900.00
Head Immobilizer $130.00 ea. $130.00 X 4 $520.00
Pedi Board $180.00 ea. $180.00 X 2 $360.00
LifePak 15 Defib/ Monitor
$27000.00
ea.
$27000.00 X 2 $54,000.00
Multi-system BP Cuff $160.00 ea. $160.00 X 4 $640.00
Reeves Heavy Duty Stretcher $378.00 ea. $378.00 X 2 $756.00
Reeves First call bag $90.00 ea. $90.00 X 2 $180.00
IO Drill Kit (Hard case) $450.00 ea. $450.00 X 2 $900.00
CPAP Kit (MACS) $2500.00 ea. $2000.00 X 2 $4,000.00
Thomas EMS Pedi Braslow
Bag
$1320.00 ea. $1320.00 X 2 $2,640.00
Total $75,194.00
Ambulance 2017
Chassis Cost ea. Amt. TOTAL
Sprinter Ambulance 2018 $245,617.74 1 $245,617.74
Including Shipping
Including Graphics
Stretcher (Ferno)
Total $245,617.74
Intial
Cost
Project
$558,251.74
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1.4 Current Assets
Twin City Care, Inc. has current assets consisting of training equipment, 1-2017 Ambulance,
EMS Equipment, office furniture and supplies for a total of $358,811.74.
TWIN CITY EXPANSION NEEDS FINANCIAL PROPOSAL:
Additional Radio Communications
Radio Service $250.00
Dispatch Center $2,500.00
Annual Total $30,250.00
Additional Portable Communications
Mobile Radio 4 $2200.00 ea. $8,800.00
Port. Radio 5 $1800.00 ea. $9,000.00
Tablets/ mounts 4 $3,000.00 ea. $12,000.00
Total Cost $29,800.00
Tele- Communications
Telephone Office $220.00
Fax Office $110.00
Cell Operations X 3 AT & T
Internet Office Broad Band
Internet Mobile AT& T
$100.00/
month
$400.00 /
Month
$500.00 /
Month
$300.00
$400.00
$500.00
Annual Total $6,730.00
Facility Purchase
10000 Sqft Building $2,350,000.00
Annual Total $2,350,000.00
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Utilities
WAPA $2,400.00
Annual Total $28,800.00
Office Supplies
Printing Advertising $125.00/week $500.00
Direct Mail $20.00/week $80.00
Brochure $375.00/week $1,500.00
Advertising $150.00/week $600.00
Website Advertising / Hosting $150.00/week $600.00
Promotional Materials $375.00/Month $1,500.00
Annual Total $57,360.00
Annual Total $172,080.00
Business License Expenses
Bus. License $500.00
Vehicle License x 6 $3,500.00
Vehicle Ins. X 6 $18,000.00
Annual Total x 3 years $328,000.00
Staff
Education/Month
Wage/Taxes/Benefits/Month
$
6,000.00
$
1,430,000.00
Annual Total x 3 years
$ 6,000.00
$
1,430,000.00
$
4,296,000.00
Staff Uniform
$ 10,000.00 $ 10,000.00
Annual Total x 3 years
$
30,000.00
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Ambulance & QRV Medical/Equipment Supplies
ITEM Amount Cost Total
ALS Medical Bag (BLUE) $462.00 ea. $462.00 X 2 $924.00
Trauma Bag (RED) $277.00 ea. $277.00 X 2 $554.00
Pelican Drug Box $510.00 ea. $510.00 X 2 $1,020.00
Power Stair Chair (RED) Ferno $6800.00 ea. $6800.00 X 1 $6,800.00
Combination Backboard/Scoop $950.00 ea. $950.00 X 2 $1,900.00
Head Immobilizer $130.00 ea. $130.00 X 4 $520.00
Pedi Board $180.00 ea. $180.00 X 2 $360.00
LifePak 15 Defib/ Monitor $27000.00 ea. $27000.00 X 2 $54,000.00
Multi-system BP Cuff $160.00 ea. $160.00 X 4 $640.00
Reeves Heavy Duty Stretcher $378.00 ea. $378.00 X 2 $756.00
Reeves First call bag $90.00 ea. $90.00 X 2 $180.00
IO Drill Kit (Hard case) $450.00 ea. $450.00 X 2 $900.00
CPAP Kit (MACS) $2500.00 ea. $2000.00 X 2 $4,000.00
Thomas EMS Pedi Braslow Bag $1320.00 ea. $1320.00 X 2 $2,640.00
Total $75,194.00
Total x 6 units $451,164.00
Ambulance 2018
Chassis Cost ea. Amt. TOTAL
Sprinter Ambulance 2018 $245,617.74 1 $245,617.74
Including Shipping
Including Graphics
Stretcher (Ferno)
Total for 4 additional units $982,470.96
QRV Units 2018
Chassis Cost ea. Amt. TOTAL
Ford F350 2018 $145,266.88 1 $145,266.88
Including Shipping
Including Graphics
Equipment Box
Total for 2 units $290,533.76
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Supervisor/Community Paramedicine Units 2018
Chassis Cost ea. Amt. TOTAL
Sprinter Ambulance 2018 $245,617.74 1 $245,617.74
Including Shipping
Including Graphics
Stretcher (Ferno)
Total for 2 units $982,470.96
Total Funding Needed
Expansion $9,978,299.68
$
Total Funding Requested
10,000,000.00
1.5 Summary
With your donation of $10,000,000.00, Twin City commits to aggressively expand during the
next three (3) years of operation. The intentions are to purchase an operations facility, set up a
mental health crisis hotline, purchase additional equipment and hire additional personnel. We
also intend to implement marketing campaigns that will effectively target individual new
customers within the territory. Due to our unique inside and immediate access to the market in
which we are involved with, on a daily basis, we will be able to assist and provide guidance to
the needs of our patients, constituents and future customers.
"
TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026020.txt,"From: Robert Lawrence Kuhn 
Sent: 11/28/2016 4:11:04 AM 
To: jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Subject: Re: 
Importance: High 
Fun (transient) with Trump-China: 
""What China Thinks of President-Elect Trump"" broadcast on CCTV News, discussion with former Chinese 
ambassador to U.S. and head of Chinese Association of American studies - streamed - 
http://english. en-W. cn/2016/11/13NIDEytqdltlf30 eFnd6vTIxy161113 . shtml  
Interview - http://www.atimes.com/article/china-wants-build-relations-dealmaker-trump/ 
More fun (enduring) with Closer To Truth; working new episodes from FQXi conference (e.g., ""Physics of the 
Observer"", ""Physics of Consciousness"", ""Quantum Cosmology of the Beginning?"", Philosophy of 
Cosmology""); progressing on ""Sleep & Dreams"". 
In LA for 2 weeks, then back to China; NY in January. You there then? 
Love to get your sense of Trump's administration, policies. 
Robert 
On Nov 27, 2016, at 10:05 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
are you having fun? 
On Sun, Nov 6, 2016 at 8:08 AM, Robert Lawrence Kuhn <> wrote: 
I almost get it.... 
On Nov 6, 2016, at 9:03 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
its not ba ba ba- bah. its regular (ba ) ba ba ba - bah. regular four eighth notes , but the first is not 
sounded . changes the whole dynamic and wildly misunderstood 
On Sun, Nov 6, 2016 at 2:00 PM, Robert Lawrence Kuhn < 
Didn't know. Meaning of the rest note? 
> wrote: 
Mahler's 5th opens with the same rhythmic motif (but 4th note is the same as the first three, not lower as in 
Beethoven's) - Mahler's 5th is my favorite symphony. 
On Nov 6, 2016, at 8:43 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
for me it is tied to music. beethovens fifth, is 555-3 . though unbeknownst to most people the first 
note ( you can verify, bu looking at the score ) , is a rest note ( silent ) so 0-555-3 
On Sun, Nov 6, 2016 at 1:35 PM, Robert Lawrence Kuhn < 
> wrote: 
HOUSE OVERSIGHT 026020 
You've got a jumbo-sized right superior parietal lobe. 
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/our-brains-have-a-map-for-numbers/ 
On Nov 6, 2016, at 8:23 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
you mentioned it at my house. unfortunately , I cant avoid remembering numbers 
On Sun, Nov 6, 2016 at 1:15 PM, Robert Lawrence Kuhn ‹> wrote: 
Yes! You beat my family. (How'd you know?) 
I celebrated in Beijing by (i) developing the Sleep/Dream proposal we discussed, (ii) lunch with an MNC 
CEO, and (iii) playing two hours of intense table tennis with a top coach. 
On Nov 6, 2016, at 6:30 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
birthday/? 
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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029392.txt,"includes the settlement blocs, a number
of strategic sites on mountain ridge, a
security zone east of Ben Gurion
Airport and long-term military
presence on the Jordan River.

¢ The real threat to the future of
the Zionist Project — is not the security
constraints of the ""two-state solution""
but rather a slippery slope leading to
the ""one-state solution"" — a reality that
would compromise Israel's security
and worsen its diplomatic isolation —
while inevitably (and this is the
keyword) leading Israel into becoming
a non-Jewish or non-democratic state.
Not to mention the danger of
descending into severe, perpetual
hemorrhaging, lasting generations, by
the two national communities locked
in embrace— as we have seen in Belfast

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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019639.txt,"Did Snowden Act Alone? | 151

other analysts there. “It is inconceivable to me that his co-workers
would divulge their passwords to him,” a former Booz Allen execu-
tive, who had also worked at the Defense Intelligence Agency, told
me. “If he was a system administrator, he might trick a threat ana-
lyst into entering his password into his computer under the pre-
text that he needed it to deal with an urgent hardware issue.” But,
it will be recalled, Snowden was not a system administrator at the
center. Snowden therefore “had no plausible reason for requesting
passwords to compartments he had not been read into,” the former
executive said. He said that NSA executives might have been read
into all twenty-four of the compartments, but he deemed it incon-
ceivable they would illicitly share their passwords with Snowden. I
asked him what the chance was of his voluntarily obtaining some
twenty-four passwords from co-workers in five weeks. “In my opin-
ion, near zero,” he said.

It is possible of course that Snowden could have simply observed
others typing in their passwords, one by one, but that would take
time and possibly attract attention. I asked the former Booz Allen

© contractor whether it was possible that Snowden could have used a ®
device for intercepting another computer’s electronic signals, called
by hackers a “key logger.” Such a device, which is obtainable over
the Internet, could be used to steal the passwords of the analysts
who had been read into the compartments. My source said that
while it was possible that Snowden smuggled in a key logger in his
backpack, it could not be operated unless it was hardwired to a com-
puter inside the center, because, like those at all other NSA facili-
ties, the computers had been insulated to block any form of wireless
transmission. This precaution was taken to guard against an EMP, or
electromagnetic pulse, attack by an enemy. The only way Snowden
could intercept keystrokes was to attach a cable from his key logger
to each of his fellow workers’ computers. In this scenario, he would
have had to surreptitiously build his own wired network connect-
ing his hidden key logger to twenty-four separate computers. More-
over, he would have to do this wiring in an open-plan office where
he could not count on these additional wires, even if rigged one by
one, not being noticed by either other analysts in the room or the
“geek squad” of system administrators who regularly checked con-

| | Epst_9780451494566_2p_all_r1.z.indd 151 ® 9/29/16 5:51 Pa | |

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013674.txt,"For C.S. Lewis, religious faith came from intellectual hard work. He was put
off by spirituality that arrived by thoughtless fiat. He rejected the idea of living in
simple and loving direct conversation with the God within, as described by Brother
Lawrence. Lawrence was described as the simple “great awkward fellow who broke
everything.” Lewis had little faith in what he perceived as the mindless spiritual
methodology of this selfless, silent, hard working Parisian monastery cook for a
hundred fellow monks who was also their dedicated smelly sandal repairer. Perhaps
reflecting his place in the British intellectual class system, Lewis wrote that
Lawrence’s conversations and letters in the brief pamphlet, Practice of the
Presence of God, “...full of truth... but unctuous and repulsive.” At the same time,
Lewis spoke of his own experiential evidence for God in Surprised by Joy in which
he admits, “| am an empirical theist. | have arrived at God by induction.” It is likely
that Brother Lawrence did not know and did not need to know the difference
between an inductive and deductive argument.

For most of my years, | have been a subject of Jamesian transcendent
experience, LSD expansive visions, Sufi moving meditation, long distance running,
Black Baptist shouting, Tantric orgasmic withholding, Yiddish Labovicher dancing,
Charismatic Christian Church rock and rolling, Hindi meditative rising Kundalini,
almost any ecstatic crisis inducing, God type. Recall that | am from a generation
that a Donovan song inspired to smoke bananas. | did not personally access
Brother Lawrence’s calm, work-a-day, devotional, quietly persistent, perspective
yielding, inner conversations with God until my sixth decade. The opportunity came
from my growingly severe, unfixably chronic, pain. The counter-intuitive insight and
helpful identification was gained from reading about Joseph de Beaufort’s
conversations with Brother Lawrence. Beaufort said Lawrence was born with the
name Nicholas Herman in 1611 and renamed Lawrence in honor of his parish
priest. As young soldier in the Thirty Years War of the 17"" Century, he was severely
injured. He was left with both sciatic nerves trapped between bone spurs and tissue
scarring from his early twenties. These injuries, involving the two biggest pain-
conducting nerves in the body, left him crippled in gait and in chronically severe

lower back and leg pain from which he would never be free. It was after this time

174

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IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022417.txt,"PARK PARTNERS

320 EAST 82 ST | NEW YORK! NY

November 23, 2015

Dear Partner,
| hope this letter finds you well — please see the below updates on the Park Mansion:

| am happy to report that we have completed the building’s demolition stage. | have included a
few photos for your reference.

Furthermore, we are very close to filling our building permit and we have finalized our design
for the units. Please see the attached plans. The team is finishing interviews with General
Contractors (GCs) and has come down to the final five GCs that will be allowed to bid on the

project.

Additionally included are visuals for the sidewalk shed and a rendering for the website.

Please fell free to contact me if you have any questions i ::

Thank you so much for your trust and friendship,

David J. Mitchell

801 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10065

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016345.txt,"hand on the tiller, exist in a world of energy and forces, as does the helmsman. The weak
forces that control the rudder are as real and physical as the strong forces that toss the
ship. If we shift our cybernetics perspective from the ship to the helmsman, the pressures
on the rudder become a strong force of muscles controlled by the weak signals in the
mind of the helmsman. These messages in the helmsman’s mind are amplified into a
physical force strong enough to steer the ship. Or instead, we can zoom out and take a
large cybernetics perspective. We might see the ship itself as part of a vast trade
network, part of a feedback loop that regulates the price of commodities through the flow
of goods. In this perspective, the tiny ship is merely a messenger. So, the distinction
between the physical world and the information world is a way to describe the
relationship between the weak and the strong.

Wiener chose to view the world from the vantage point and scale of the individual
human. As acyberneticist, he took the perspective of the weak protagonist embedded
within a strong system, trying to make the best of limited powers. He incorporated this
perspective in his very definition of information. “Information,” he said, “is a name for
the content of what is exchanged with the outer world as we adjust to it, and make our
adjustment felt upon it.” In his words, information is what we use to “live effectively
within that environment.” *> For Wiener, information is a way for the weak to effectively
cope with the strong. This viewpoint is also reflected in Gregory Bateson’s definition of
information as “a difference that makes a difference,” by which he meant the small
difference that makes a big difference.

The goal of cybernetics was to create a tiny model of the system using “weak
currents” to amplify and control “strong currents” of the real world. The central insight
was that a control problem could be solved by building an analogous system in the
information space of messages and then amplifying solutions into the larger world of
reality. Inherent in the motion of a control system is the concept of amplification, which
makes the small big and the weak strong. Amplification allows the difference that makes
a difference to make a difference.

In this way of looking at the world, a control system needed to be as complex as
the system it controlled. Cyberneticist W. Ross Ashby proved that this was true in a
precise mathematical sense, in what is now called Ashby’s Law of Requisite Variety, or
sometimes the First Law of Cybernetics. The law tells us that to control a system
completely, the controller must be as complex as the controlled. Thus cyberneticists
tended to see control systems as a kind of analog of the systems they governed, like the
homunculus—the hypothetical little person inside the brain who controls the actual
person.

This notion of analogous structure is sometimes confused with the notion of
analog encoding of messages, but the two are logically distinct. Norbert Wiener was
much impressed with Vannevar Bush’s Digital Differential Analyzer, which could be
reconfigured to match the structure of whatever problem it was given to solve but used
digital signal encoding. Signals could be simplified to openly represent the relevant
distinctions, allowing them to be more accurately communicated and stored. In digital
signals, one needed only to preserve the difference in signals that made a difference. It is
this distinction and signal coding that we commonly use to distinguish “analog” versus
“digital.” Digital signal encoding was entirely compatible with cybernetic thinking—in

33 The Human Use of Human Beings (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1954), p. 17-18.

125

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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018527.txt,"known each other for so long, it was easier to read the situation, easier to allow
investment. Much harder with Mr. ThereltIs, who came out of nowhere, who I barely
knew but had awesome chemistry with. In the beginning steps of this game, you can
never let them smell your fear.

Saturday morning. I'd spent the night with The Artist, was checking my email while he
made breakfast. (He actually likes cooking, which I have trouble comprehending.) I
wanted to plan my week, and texted Mr. ThereltIs to ask when we'd see each other. My
breath hitched as he texted back: he didn't think it'd be a good idea to spend the night
together again, but he wanted to have drinks and catch up. I closed my eyes, made myself
breathe. Remembered how many times he'd pulled back, how much anxiety he'd
expressed about the BDSM we engaged in. I'd tried to make it clear that he was doing
awesomely, but dollars to donuts he was still freaking out about it. I was his first-time
heavy BDSM partner. Why do I keep doing this to myself? Haven't I learned my lesson

about vanilla-but-questioning guys yet?

After giving myself a moment to calm down, I texted back that I was open to getting
drinks, but wanted to understand his motives better before doing so. ""Feel free to email or
text,"" I wrote, ""I can't talk right now,"" then put down my phone and walked into an
intense conversation in the kitchen. There'd been some uncertainty over my last month or
so with The Artist, due to surprisingly divergent relationship priorities. We're decently
matched in terms of being BDSM-identified, and we have so much else in common, but
there were some things I wanted to do that particularly freaked him out, plus he wasn't
feeling 100% comfortable with polyamory. Most of all, I've been surprised by his
emphasis on settling down.

That Saturday, it ended with him deciding it wouldn't work. ""You and I are in such
different places right now,"" he said gently. ""You're still focused on having an interesting
life. I'm not prioritizing that anymore. I would have been a much better match for you
five years ago.”

You're one of the most interesting people I've ever met, | wanted to say, how can you
decide this? The night before, we'd had a conversation in which he'd described how
incredibly stable he wants his life to be. Well-designed apartment, respected job, kids, the
lot. How much he wants to get away from past days, when he thrived among bizarre
subcultures, prioritized art above everything. He doesn't even want to travel! I listened,
heart sinking. Trying to understand. ""Isn't there anything you can't walk away from?"" I
asked.

""S&M,"" he said promptly. ""But that bothers me, because I don't know how I can make it
fit.""

Stability; making things fit. Saturday at breakfast, The Artist mentioned that a friend had
compared him to Alex, the main character in A Clockwork Orange: in the famous ""lost""
21st chapter, Alex decides that it's time to abandon ultraviolence and settle down.
Obviously, The Artist was never even close to being the psychopath that Alex is, but it's
still an instructive parallel. And I, with all my desire to push and stretch myself, with all
the boundaries I'm still seeking to subvert and hack and destroy -- I don't work with the
desire to settle down. I may never work with that desire.

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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025012.txt,"16

SPIEGEL: That, of course, is far from the truth.

Elaraby: | delivered a clear and unambiguous message to (Syrian
President) Bashar Assad. I called on him to institute reforms, stop the
violence and facilitate a peaceful transition into a new era.

SPIEGEL: We're hearing that for the first time.

Elaraby: It was a sensitive issue that I couldn't make public at the
time. Assad promised me that he would introduce changes. But now
almost two months have passed, and I don't see any reforms.

SPIEGEL: What are you asking for? Regime change?

Elaraby: That's something for the Syrian people to decide for
themselves. No one can dictate to a sovereign nation how it should
change.

SPIEGEL: What would have to happen for the League to take a
stronger position against the Syrian regime, as it did in Libya?

Elaraby: Things are still in flux. Only the United Nations has the
right to make decisions on the use of force. Even the Arab League has
no mandate to bring about change by force in a member state.

SPIEGEL: Still, the Arab League has been militarily active in the
past. In 1961, for example, it sent a special force to Kuwait to protect
it from an imminent Iraqi invasion. Don't you need this kind of a
strike force, not unlike the UN peacekeeping force?

Elaraby: Given the majorities within the League, I don't think that's
realistic. But I do insist on compliance with human rights. The
people, the citizens, have to be protected, and not just in Syria.

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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023340.txt,"would be helpful. . I would like to send him this email, with your consent of course. Ifthe transactions were
never consummated , i would not be owed a dime, however , the expected fee was known up front. , the
detailed step by step plan was followed and overseen by me, the amount that I had requested before the
transaction had even begun, had already been heavily discounted, out of friendship, . I believe the decision re
only paying 20m has frankly , left me felling quite uneasy. and colors the view about the Athene or
Rothschild transaction.

Date: Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 11:17 PM
Subject:

To: Melanie Spinella La a a
glad to see you are personally on the mend - as well as the fence. -- As you know i dread money

discussions with you-- however -we should address the issue of what you would like to do moving forward. re-
do family office, accounting trusts , estate and apollo agreements . Along with your "" payment "" last year

we agreed . no further obligations on each side. yes, i continued to moan. I realize that though Ive done
quite a lot this year already , it is not your responsibility. . As you often like to remind me- you've paid a
great deal of money to date. that being said - If you want my involvement moving foward, I suggest

you pay my regular | fee of 40 m. 20 now. 20 on completion or as per the invoice issues at the end of last
year pay 30 all at once. -

To help out .im keenly aware of your current cash position. so Iwill consider an in-kind payment - real
estate ( Miami ), ,art , financing of my new plane (allows you to spread over years or of course the preferred
cash. Get rid of Castrucci,it is over a year since the same story of findign the right guy at the top. you

entire accounting needs to be re done. , office downsized, reporting re done. meetings to recitify, categlorize

, the various docs re appollo , rowen , suydam, alan etc. Brad can direct investment guys, ( hopefully) my
people will be in your office for a few months . reorganizing IF you decide not to pay I fully understand, as I
m sure you will re my no longer spending any serious time on these things.

Of course re any non financial issues , I am always there for you and will continue to be the best friend I can
be.

Steve jobs said that everyday he woke up , and asked himself , if he knew he was going to die tomorow , would
he do the same thing that he had planned for the day- he wanted to check that he was doing things that he
really wanted to. after three days of getting back an answer of no, he would change what he was going to do. .
he also did not believe in LONG term plans. I dont think either one of us will figure out what we want to do
long term so my thinking is that we should try to have fun everyday, and welcome serendipity.

I think another trust and estate lawyer should be brought in to deal with the issues of how not to allow your
family to get screwed by your partners on death. Alan, for years told me that paul weiss had drawn the
docs so no issue but when recently pushed by my new fire drill he asked akin to draft .?!| PLease ask brad
about why he keeps talking about flow. I dont know what he means, its so silly.. this is only about money
control and protection .

Iam leaving monday night now. free to speak in the afternoon

Date: Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 11:49 AM

Subject:

To: Melanie Spinella Po

use tax questions. ? california question state returns? as you know wendy did not play arole here. . her

involvment moving foward would help alot. . sign your gift tax return today if possible . I will be

finished tomorw with this year. crazy on april 13th. !!. last minute to say the least. . brad told you the tra

can be separated with approvals. which should be simple. . alan alwys just says no ,. unless he is asked , well

what if we amend what is there. . moving foward , i ask you to decide if you want me and my team involved

or not. . I want to be weaned. I agree the past , apart from phaidon and artspace. this year of course is done.
for me to allow bad reporting to negaitvely impact you, by keeping joslin, would be irresponsible on my

part. . letting him do harm, or stopping him and having to listen to his leaving is my fault. is awkward. . I

will call at 3

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_014552.txt,"Exhibit 17: Labor Productivity Growth for
Different Groups of Firms

Rapid productivity growth of firms at the frontier of
innovation is not spreading to the rest of the industry.

ndex, 2001=1 (Log Points)

Frontier Firms—Top 5% in Each Industry/Year
Frontier Firms—Top 100 in Each Industry/ Year
a aie Non-Frontier Firms

0.9
2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013

Data through 2013.

Note: Average across 24 OECD countries and 22 manufacturing and 27 market services
industries.

Source: Investment Strategy Group, OECD preliminary results based on Dan Andrews, Chiara
Criscuolo and Peter N. Gal, “Mind the Gap: Productivity Divergence Between the Global Frontier
and Laggard Firms,” OECD Productivity Working Papers, forthcoming.

Exhibit 18: US Financial Conditions Index
Conditions tightened significantly due to global shocks
emanating from the Eurozone, oil prices and China.

US Financial Conditions Index
101.5

101.0 +

{ri

100.5 =

+142bp
100.0 +

oo. 4
99.0 +
98.5 4

98.0
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Data through year-end 2016.
Source: Investment Strategy Group, Goldman Sachs Global Investment Research.

the rest of the industry. Baily and Montalbano
suggest that increased regulation after the crisis
may be partially responsible for the widening gap
between frontier firms and the rest of the industry,
which lowers overall productivity growth rates
across the economy and hence lowers the pace of
economic growth.

Our colleagues in GIR think that lower capital
investment accounts for the lack of diffusion of
new technologies from more productive firms to
less productive firms.** Here, again, it is likely that
a more favorable business environment could have
boosted capital expenditures and increased overall
productivity levels.

We conclude that it is reasonable to assign
some of the weakness in this recovery to less
effective fiscal and regulatory policies out of
Washington rather than to structural shortcomings
in the US economy.

A Steady Onslaught of External Shocks

A sixth theory posits that numerous external
shocks explain the slow pace of this recovery.

Just as the US economy was recovering from the
trough of 2009, the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis
jolted global financial markets. The Eurozone

was a source of uncertainty and financial market
volatility beyond the initial shock in 2010 as the

crisis spread from Greece to Spain and Italy.

The Eurozone crisis was followed by a series
of what the Brookings Institution has called the
“fiscal fights of the Obama administration.” The
first fiscal fight resulted in the Standard and Poor’s
(S&P) downgrade of US Treasury debt in August
2011. The equity markets, as measured by the S&P
500 Index, dropped about 19% between April and
October of 2011.

Taken together, the Eurozone sovereign debt
crisis and the first of the fiscal fights tightened
US financial conditions*®® by 142 basis points (see
Exhibit 18). GIR estimates that a 100 basis point
tightening of financial conditions is equivalent to a
federal funds hike of 150 basis points and a drag
on GDP growth of about one percentage point.

The drop in oil prices from a post-crisis high
of $107 per barrel for West Texas Intermediate
in June 2014 to a trough of $26 per barrel in
February 2016 also provided a shock to the
economy. Employment and capital expenditures
in the oil and gas sector dropped by 29% and
67%, respectively, from peak levels seen in 2014.
The sector’s par-weighted default rate excluding
distressed exchanges reached 14.6% and including
such exchanges 19.8%, in October 2016.°!

Broad-based fear of policy mistakes in China
and unexpected depreciation of the renminbi were

Outlook | Investment Strategy Group 19

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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031194.txt,"the FBI can't arrest Epstein. These are all lies by the President of the United States.
The book says that President Obama lied to cover up his relationship with Larry Summers who is on Jeffrey Epstein's payroll.
The book could give reasons for the president to be impeached for obstruction of justice whereby the U.S. Attorney General will
learn everything that is in the Twardeau book.
Readers, stay with this hot story that reveals that a cover-up in America is taking place.
| The Richard Nixon story all over again is in the Lisa Twardeau book coming soon........

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015894.txt,"204 Are the Androids Dreaming Yet?

Every correctly formed theorem number has another number,
which demonstrates the proof of that number.

If this is universally true there should be no contradiction.
Unfortunately if you apply the theorem to itself you get something
similar to the liar’s paradox.

“This proof number is not a proof of the truth of this theorem
number.”

The proof number proves the theorem number is true, but the truth
of the statement is that it can’t be a proof of the statement... Paradox.

The only way to resolve the paradox is to go back one step and
realize that not every correctly formed theorem number has a proof
number using only the rules of that system.

Concisely, Godel’s theorem says, “Within any formal system of
mathematics there can be statements that are true but are not provable
using only the rules of that system”

When Hilbert heard of Gédel’s proof, his first reaction was anger.
After all, he had spent 30 years of his life trying to prove mathematics was
tidy and complete. Gédel had just shown it was not. Hilbert never worked
on formalism again, but the rest of the mathematical establishment
largely ignored the result. Godel’s proof did not stop mathematicians
proving new theorems nor doing useful mathematics. They went on
much as before, using a mixture of intuition and analysis. The only
difference was someone had told them analysis alone would not succeed.
The repercussions of Gédel’s theory have more to do with understanding
our place in the Universe and the nature of knowledge discovery. These
are ‘big’ philosophical questions, which don’t greatly affect the day-to-
day ability of a mathematician to do their job. However, it is important
to understand that knowledge discovery is not simply analysis. Knowing
this helps us understand human creativity.

Inconsistency

In the proof above, I said the only way to resolve the paradox is by saying
there cannot be a proof number for every mathematical statement and
therefore mathematics is incomplete. There is one other way to solve the
paradox, and that is by allowing inconsistency into the system. Gédel’s
proof assumes you can prove something true or false, but what if you
could prove it true and false? In this case, the system is complete but you
can prove truths and untruths within it! This may seem an acceptable
solution, but inconsistency in a mathematical model is a cancer that will

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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023817.txt,"Real-Life Learning Projects Considered 77

Conceptual processes

1. Prediction YES
2. Modeling YES
3. Experimentation YES
4. Evaluation YES

Analytic processes

1. Diagnosis YES
2, Planning YES
3. Causation YES
4, Judgment YES

Social processes

1. Influence YES
2. Teamwork YES
3. Negotiation YES
4, Describing YES

Hmm. All of them. How can this be?

Managing a business, any business, requires one to influence em-
ployees, negotiate with suppliers, plan future moves, determine what
isn’t working, teach employees how to work together, make judg-
ments about people and processes, and so on.

All this should give a hint about how to approach a business that
wants to teach its employees to do their jobs properly. One must teach
each of the 12 processes, but they need to be taught in the actual con-
text of what people will do when they graduate. This does not mean
that for every problem there are 12 courses that need to be created.

While you might need to predict an employee’s behavior, this does
not mean there should be a prediction course. This is not a problem
because there never is such a course. A businessperson has to make
judgments, and determine causes of problems, and so on, so maybe we
should have courses in each of those processes. But this makes no sense.

We must teach people to deal with the real-life issues that arise
in any situation they are preparing to work in. In other words, the

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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024683.txt,"ACKRELL
CAPITAL CHAPTER IIl_ Cannabis Industry Segmentation

across cannabis varieties and even across flowers from the same plant, which limits the accuracy of lab-
oratory tests conducted on a sample of plant material. Cannabis concentrates, however, are generally
homogeneous and their active elements can be more precisely measured and reported so as to facilitate

standardization of products and accurate dosing by consumers.

The following chart shows the combined relative sales by category of concentrates for Colorado,
Oregon and Washington for the three months ended September 30, 2017.

Concentrates Sales by Category: Q3 2017

6%
18%

16%

17%

@ Live resin B Oils @ Other concentrates @ Shatter © Vape oil mw Wax

Source: BDS Analytics

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hydrocarbon, carbon dioxide (CO) or ethanol solutions to chemically isolate cannabinoids and other
active compounds. Solvent-based extraction can be performed relatively quickly and can produce high
yields and customized formulations, but requires the use of expensive equipment and skilled labor and
also may leave residual solvents in the resulting concentrate. Solvent-free techniques include the use of
filters, ice water or heat to physically separate parts of the cannabis plant with high cannabinoid con-
centrations. Generally, solvent-free extraction is inexpensive and can be performed without specialized
equipment, but it is also slow and labor-intensive and it typically results in low yields.

Hydrocarbon Extraction

Hydrocarbon extraction is a process whereby a hydrocarbon solvent (typically butane or propane)
chemically extracts cannabinoids, terpenes and other compounds from cannabis plant matter. The
solvent is then purged using heat and pressure, leaving a concentrated form of the extracted com-
pounds. Because hydrocarbon extraction involves a risk of explosion and usually leaves behind residual
solvents, regulations are becoming more restrictive in specifying where and how the process can occur
and prescribing acceptable levels of residual solvents in the resulting products. Concentrates prepared
through hydrocarbon extraction—including BHO, shatter and wax—are popular with some con-
sumers because hydrocarbon extraction generally preserves terpenes and the source plant’s aroma and
flavor.

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IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020957.txt,"Expense Drivers as Percent of Total Expenses:

Entitlement + One-Time Items Are Crowding Out Other Federal Spending

1965 — 2005 USA Real Federal Expenses Mix by Category

Share of Total Expenses
40-yr ‘05 vs. 40-yr

1965 2005 Average Variance
Entitlement Expenses 21% 51% 42% 9%
Defense 43 20 24 -4
Non-Defense Discretionary* 29 22 23 -1
Net Interest Payments 7 7 11 4
Total Federal Expenses 100% 100% 100% 0%
Normal
Note: All data are inflation adjusted using GDP price index from BEA; ’05 vs. 40-yr variance is rounded. *Non-defense discretionary
KP spending includes education, infrastructure, agriculture, housing, etc. Data source: White House Office of Management & Budget.
(@)E) www.kpcb.com USA Inc. | What Might a Turnaround Expert Consider? 231

Category Expenses as Percent of Expenses:

Observations from Previous Slide

Entitlement spending has risen to 51% of total spending, higher than 40-
year average of 42% (and much higher than the 21% in 1965), defense
spending has fallen to 20% from 24% average, non-defense discretionary
spending (including education, infrastructure, energy, law enforcement
and veteran services) has fallen to 22% from 23%, and net interest
payments have fallen to 7% from 11%, despite higher debt (largely because
of declining interest rates). These trends have become more pronounced
in recent years.

Questions:

1) Should entitlement spending account for 51% (and rising) share of total USA
Inc.’s spending, while other key areas (such as education, infrastructure, energy,
law enforcement...) account for only 22% (and falling) of spending?

Note: All data are inflation adjusted using GDP price index from BEA; ’05 vs. 40-yr variance is rounded.
KP Data source: White House Office of Management & Budget.
(@E) www.kpcb.com USA Inc. | What Might a Turnaround Expert Consider? 232

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IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011754.txt,"ministers when we’d arrived in the banqueting hall. I did have a good talk with
Egypt’s Amr Moussa, and the foreign ministers of Morocco and Tunisia. When
I tried to start a conversation with Syria’s Farouk al-Sharaa, however, he
pointedly, though politely, said he felt that would not be appropriate. President
Assad had broken off talks with us earlier in the year, insisting that we first
commit explicitly to honor Rabin’s “pocket deposit” on the Golan Heights. Still,
in my formal remarks at the dinner, I urged both sides to resume our effort to
negotiate an Israeli-Syrian agreement. Sharaa’s response was, again,
unencouraging. But I did notice, and take heart from, the fact that it was neither
polemic nor overtly hostile towards Israel.

When I returned to Israel, I found that Peres, too, wanted to restart the
negotiating process with the Syrians. The effort took on fresh momentum after a
meeting at Peres’s home in Jerusalem in early December, ahead of his visit to
Washington for talks with President Clinton. Itamar Rabinovich and I had each
met with him separately a few weeks earlier to brief him on how the talks with
the Syrians had gone under Rabin, and why they’d reached an impasse. We
emphasized Assad’s insistence on a preemptive agreement on our leaving the
Golan. Peres now came forward with a plan. It was the diplomatic equivalent of
what the Americans, a few years later in the second Gulf War, would call
“shock and awe.” This was “dazzle and befuddle.” As Peres explained it, we
would flood Assad with proposals: not just on land or security, but everything
from water and electricity to tourism and industrial zones. Assad was in
personal control of the Syrian side of the talks. The mere volume, range and
complexity of the simultaneous engagement Peres had in mind would, he
hoped, dilute his focus on the Golan. “The best results are extracted from
confusion,” he said. Having watched President Assad operate for years, when I
was head of intelligence and chief of staff, I said I was skeptical. I used the
image of a bulldog. “It comes into your living room with one aim: to lock on to
your ankle. You can throw fireworks, cookies, balloons, a tasty bone. But it’s a
bulldog. It’s still going to move another step toward your ankle.” For Assad, the
ankle was the Golan.

I understood why Peres wanted to make a new effort to get peace with Syria.
Obviously, it was something to be desired in itself. It would transform the terms
of our conflict with the Arabs, and maybe even bring within reach the hope of
ending it altogether. But there was a political consideration as well. For all his
other accomplishments, Peres had a record of repeated electoral defeat as head
of Labor. This next election would be the first held under a new set of rules.
Instead of merely choosing lists of Knesset candidates, Israelis would cast two

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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026094.txt,"From: Nicholas Ribi si

Sent: 5/27/2017 10:23:02 PM
To: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Re:

Importance: — High
Yes but bad time call me at 8 or early tomorrow

Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.

From: jeffrey E.

Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2017 6:20 PM
To: Nicholas Ribis

Subject: Re:

are you on cell?

On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 6:14 PM, Nicholas Ribis <i > wrote:
Wow | wonder what Jarred did u know DJT knew!

Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.

From: jeffrey E.

Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2017 6:11 PM
To: Nicholas Ribis

Subject:

getting hotter

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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028503.txt,"Please let me know if you have any questions.

Best regards,
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Associate Director, Development

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TEXT-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032762.txt,"From: LHS 
Sent: 3/25/2018 5:38:17 PM 
To: jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
CC: lhsoffice 
Subject: Re: 
Importance: High 
Ok. Will be there in about an hour. 
Sent from my iPhone 
Please direct all scheduling inquiries to my office at: ______________________________________________ 
Follow me on twitter glhsummers 
www.larrysummers.com 
On Mar 25, 2018, at 1:37 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
4 
On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 1:25 PM LHS wrote: 
Got it till when ? 
Sent from my iPhone 
Please direct all scheduling inquiries to my office at: 
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On Mar 25, 2018, at 12:35 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
We are here at martins 
On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 2:40 PM LHS 
Opinions 
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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032112.txt,"In the mountainous north of the country, just over an hour from Porto, Now Live
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IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022198.txt,"From: jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com>
To:

Sent: Friday, January 9, 2015 1:44 PM
Subject: Re: we'll see

| only met Jeffrey Epstein, after | was adult. ( over 18). | was never, ever, his ""sex slave ""

. obviously a lurid chauvenistic categorization. which in my opinion could only have been
made by some loser of a repressed male reporter. He was always kind , funny and generous to
me . These fantasy fabrications made by a delusional thief. ( charged with stealing from the
burger place and which she worked, though she claimed to paid thousands of dollars in cash

and held at the beck and call of the genious tycoon. ) . Her story telling had it been done while
sleeping would have been called dreaming, if awake, hallucinaitons but to the English press they
are referred to as allegations . She claimed in the minutest of detail , her dinner with President
Clinton on the Caribean Island, How he arrived . ( by black heli). where he sat. ,(on jeffreys

left.) a21st century tale of power, sex, money. The fact is that this story is total make
believe , fabricated on purpose to gain tabloid attention ,and easily refuted by readily availalble
travel records of a former president. . it defies belief that any person would take seriously such
a preposterous story. little different than her telling her father that sne met the queen, whoops- he
believed her though her mother at the relevant time complained that she must have been
engaging in satan worship and asked that she be put her in a drug home. cmon. | am currenty a
professional pilot with a spotless record. | have a checklist that | follow before every flight to verify
that things are what they are supposed to be , checking her story which the presss has refused to
do would serve the public well. In this case human error is merely a euphmisn for hijacking the
truth ,

On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 2:10 PM,§ a wot:

Apparently...

They are now asking how my parents bought a building in town...implying it was all the money they got for selling me :)
Getting ugly..

From: jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com>
To: Nadia <nadja2102@yahoo.com>
Sent: Friday, January 9, 2015 12:50 PM
Subject: Re: we'll see

notable?

On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 1:44 PM, i rote:

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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018916.txt,"-2906Q-HH -HE

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By NICOLE JANOK
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

A part-time Palm Beacher who has
socialized with Donald Trump, Bill
Clinton and Kevin Spacey was jailed
early Sunday with accused drug dealers,
drunken drivers and wife beaters after
he was charged with soliciting a prosti-
tute.

Manhattan money manager Jeffrey
Epstein, 53, was picked up at his home
on El Brillo Way at 1:45 am. He was
released hours later on $3,000 bond.

Epstein was indicted last week by a
state grand jury, according to state at-
torney’s spokesman Mike Edmondson.
Despite Epstein’s arrest, the indictment
containing the allegations remained
sealed Sunday and Edmondson provid-
ed no details.

Unlike most accused johns, Epstein
was charged with a third-degree felony
instead of a misdemeanor. Under state
law, a solicitation charge usually is ele-
vated to amore-serious felony when the
defendant has at least two solicitation

‘Mysterious billionaire’
has been on probation

> SOLICITING from 1B

lished reports. National
magazines have described
him as a “mysterious billion-
aire” who lives in a 45,000-
square-foot New York City
mansion.

He has been in trouble
before. In 1993, he and two
other defendants were
charged in federal-court with
three counts of postal larceny
and theft and one count of
property theft. Epstein plead
guilty to a single charge of
conspiring to steal U.S.
Treasury checks from resi-
dential. mailboxes and_re-
ceived 5 years’ probation.
The remaining charges were

dropped.

Since then, Epstein’s
name has turned up in New
York City’s tabloids. The New
York Post noted he flew Pres-
ident Clinton and Kevin
Spacey to Africa on his pri-
vate Boeing 727. In 2003, the
paper dubbed him one of the
Big Apple’s “top studs.”

In 2004, Epstein bid
against Trump for a 43,000-
square foot Palm Beach es-
tate once owned by health-
care magnate Abe Gosman.
Trump topped Epstein with a
$41.35 million bid.

Staff Researcher Angelica
Cortez contributed to this story.

© nicole_janok@pbpost.com

7 | -

convictions.

However, checks of court records
here and in New York Sunday turned up
no such convictions.

Epstein could not be reached. F1-
mondson said he was being represente 1
by West Palm Beach attorney Jack
Goldberg, who declined comment.

Epstein is the president of J Epstein
& Co., amoney management company
based in Manhattan that caters to ultra-
wealthy clientele, according to pub-

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IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011032.txt,"I also modeled human capital as three fourths of total capital. My tag for the two
ideas together was the “three fourths rule.” The agreement of the two ratios as
modeled is a convenient coincidence. If they differed, this book would have to be a

few sentences longer. Each is first-order approximation only.

The Free Growth Index for Total Capital

Given the three fourths rule, the free growth index for total capital is derived by
reading “pure” and “total” before the words consumption and capital in the

equations of Chapter 4.

Now back to the charts and tables. The free growth index for total capital is tracked
in the red line and labeled (Kt). It too fluctuates around one in each country, but in
a much narrower range than does the blue line g(K). The reason is the three
fourths rule. The thrift index, not shown in the charts and tables, is one minus the
free growth index. It is derived in Chapter 4 as thrift rate over acceleration, where
thrift rate is change in consumption/capital ratio times minus one. By the three
fourths rule, where pure consumption is three fourths of all consumption while total
capital is four times physical capital, the pure consumption/total capital ratio is only
3/16 (3/4 divided by 4) the size of the consumption/physical capital ratio. The
yearly changes in these ratios reflected in the numerator of the thrift index will hold
to the same proportion. The denominator is acceleration, which is always the same
for physical as total capital by the assumption that they hold in 1:4 proportion
throughout. This explains why the unshown thrift index, or numerator over
denominator, is automatically 3/16 as large for total as for physical capital, and why

the shown free growth index runs nearer one in consequence.

I have just given an idea why it can be worthwhile to brush up the algebra we all
learned in high school or before, and to suffer the nuisance of mathematical notation.

| have made a very simple truth, obvious in hindsight, seem complicated by making

Chapter 5 Bringing Human Capital In 1/13/16 13

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012783.txt,"cichlid fish spectators observing a winning fight, and soccer spectators seeing their team win the World
Cup.

What many volumes of experiments reveal is that testosterone plays a fundamental role in social
behavior across the animal kingdom, motivating individuals to defend their resources, acquire additional
resources when possible, develop confidence following victory, and gracefully walk away following
defeat. Testosterone influences behavior, and behavior influences testosterone. If an individual
experiences a challenge, this causes an increase in testosterone. The increase in testosterone heightens
confidence and risk-taking to defend the resources. Heightened confidence and risk-taking are often
associated with winning fights. Winning fights increases testosterone, bringing us full circle to the
challenges of social living.

Testosterone is joined by several other microcontrollers, including at least one additional
hormone — cortisol — two neurochemicals — serotonin and dopamine — and several brain areas that are
affected by these hormones and neurochemicals. Our understanding of this assemblage, beautifully
synthesized by the psychologist Jack van Honk, accounts for both our adaptive and sometimes highly
maladaptive capacity to harm others.

Cortisol mediates the stress response in fish, reptiles, birds, and mammals, including all ages of
human mammals. When fear kicks in due to aggressive challenges from a dominant individual or from
the appearance of a predator, cortisol rises. When individuals confront uncertainty, cortisol rises. When
cortisol levels are high, individuals are more sensitive to punishment and more likely to avoid social
interactions. Flipping the polarity around, when cortisol levels are low, individuals are more aggressive,
more reward focused, and less sensitive to punishment. Testosterone and cortisol therefore play within
the bodies of animals like two children sitting on opposite ends of a see-saw. When testosterone is up and
cortisol is down, individuals are primed to harm others and take risks. When testosterone 1s down and
cortisol is up, individuals are risk averse, less likely to harm and more likely to engage in fnendly social
behavior.

Serotonin, as noted earlier in the discussion of domestication, is primarily involved in self-
control. High serotonin levels are associated with behavioral inhibition, whereas low serotonin levels are
associated with disinhibition or impulsivity, as well as heightened aggression. Dopamine is linked to the
experience of reward, both in terms of predicting when it will occur and in motivating behavior that
maximizes the odds of obtaining the goods. When animals reach their goals or expect to obtain them,
including food, mating, or winning a fight, the brain delivers a surge of dopamine. In humans, taking a
drug that increases the amount of dopamine, causes people to believe that they will feel more elated about

an event in the future.

Hauser Chapter 1. Nature’s secrets 37

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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020251.txt,"|

MacAskill had stayed at the W Hotel when Poitras and Greenwald Poitras went to the Mira
Hotel. Poitras did not want to bring along an uninvited guest to the first meeting with Citizen
Four. As instructed, at 10 AM on June 3™ she and Greenwald went to the Mira restaurant. They
gave the recognition signal, twice. After a few minutes, a young man walked over to them,
holding a Rubik cube. Greenwald noted: “The first thing I saw was the unsolved Rubik’s cube
twirling in the man’s left hand.” The man said “Hello” and introduced himself as ""Ed Snowden.""
Greenwald was particularly surprised by Snowden’s boyish looks. “The initial impression was one
of extreme confusion,” Greenwald wrote in his book. “I was expecting to meet somebody in his
sixties or seventies, someone very senior in the agency, because I knew almost nothing about him
prior to our arrival in Hong Kong.” His initial confusion was understandable. Snowden, it will
be recalled, had falsely identified himself to them in an email as a senior member of the
intelligence community.

Snowden led Greenwald and Poitras through various corridors of the hotel to his room, 1014.
It was in a single room mainly occupied by a king-sized bed. Its other furniture included a sleek
writing desk in the corner, a modernistic chair and a tall lamp. The bathroom was behind a glass
partition, which could be closed off by a black louver blind. There was also a small refrigerator in
the minibar in which Snowden asked them to stow their cell phones,

Snowden had already told Poitras that he wanted her to make a documentary of the meeting.
She therefore wasted no time in mounting her camera on a tripod. “Minutes after meeting, I set
up the camera.” Snowden had told her, as she later recalled, “when you are involved in an action
which is likely to get you indicted, you typically don’t have a camera rolling in the room.”
Nevertheless, he allowed her to film his actions for the next eight days. One possible reason is
that he had no intention of standing trial. In any case, as Poitras found out, Snowden was
anything but camera shy. Over the next week, she would shoot over 20 hours of Snowden’s
activities in that small room. It was essentially a one man show, a presentation of him, by himself,
for the appreciation of a global public. Poitras knew virtually nothing about her subject until ten
minutes before she began filming him. She had not even googled him, since she was concerned
that her Internet search might alert the NSA and law enforcement authorities

In an extraordinary waiver of his own privacy, he allowed her to film him washing in the
bathroom, preening his hair in the mirror, napping on his bed, getting dressed, and packing his
bag. He even permitted her to film a private computer exchange between him and Mills (who was
in Honolulu.) Mills now informed Snowden that two government investigators had come to their
home in Hawaii. Mills reported that they were asking her about Snowden’s whereabouts.
Evidently when he had failed to show up for work on June 1%, it set off alarm bells at Booz Allen
and the NSA. Snowden expressed anger to the journalists in the room at the NSA intrusion on
the privacy of his girlfriend (although he had left her in the lurch by telling her in the note he was
away on a brief business trip.)

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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025918.txt,"From: Philip Kafka 
Sent: 3/9/2016 10:22:23 PM 
To: Terry Kafk 
CC: Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com] 
Subject: Re: Gingrich view of Trump 
3 
Importance: High 
Epstein 2016! 
(Mark) 
On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 5:21 PM, Terry Kafka < wrote: 
Exactly! Bernie's like a Mark Twain or Lafayette teacher from Brooklyn back in the 60's and 70's. 
Terry B. Kafka, President 
Impact Outdoor Advertising Co. 
5454 La Sierra Dr., Suite 200 
Dallas, TX 75231 
ell 
Impactoutdoor.com 
From: Philip Kafka [mailto 
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2016 4:18 PM 
To: Terry Kafka <MIN 
Subject: Re: Gingrich view of Trump 
I love ole Bernie. Wish he wasn't a damn socialist. He probably reminds you of your Social Studies teacher 
from Lafayette high...? 
-pk 
On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 5:15 PM, Terry Kafka <IIM> wrote: 
Agree. Funny, I too have been saying Trump or Bern. Get Hillary the hell out. She's shameless! 
Terry B. Kafka, President 
Impact Outdoor Advertising Co. 
5454 La Sierra Dr., Suite 200 
Dallas, TX 75231 
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From: Philip Kafka [mailto 
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2016 4:11 PM 
To: Terry Kafka 
Subject: Re: Gingrich view of Trump 
I openly and proudly support Trump. 
I've actually been able to pull people away from Hillary by saying I'd ONLY vote for Trump or Sanders. 
Citing they everyone else is establishment politics. I convinced a lesbian woman, older, to consider Trump 
after she went on a rampage about him. It just shows, people HAVE NO IDEA what they are talking about. 
Media holds the cards.... people are sheep. 
On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 5:04 PM, wrote: 
Agree 
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And I believe we have a problem 
Sent from my iPhone 
> On Mar 9, 2016, at 4:58 PM, Terry Kafka 
> Trump is a problem solver for sure. 
> Terry B. Kafka, President 
> Impact Outdoor Advertising Co. 
> 5454 La Sierra Dr., Suite 200 
> Dallas, TX 75231 
cell 
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> From: Philip Kafka [mailto ______________ 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2016 3:55 PM 
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> Great one. Thanks 
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>> 5454 La Sierra Dr., Suite 200 
>> Dallas, TX 75231 
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Date: March 9, 2016 at 9:26:23 AM CST 
Subject: Fwd: Gingrich view of Trump 
SUBJECT; GINGRICH VIEW OF TRUMP 
Understanding Donald Trump The Washington Times January 8, 2016 by Newt Gingrich 
Donald Trump is a genuine phenomenon. He may or may not become the Republican nominee for 
president. He may or may not win the presidency even if he becomes the nominee. Yet it is clear that he is a 
phenomenon and that any history of the 2016 presidential race will have to spend a good bit of time 
analyzing Trump and his impact. 
» 
>> From the time he announced on June 16, Trump has dominated social and mainstream media. He 
dominates the conversation despite the lack of paid advertising. Trump says outrageous things and his 
supporters shrug it off. At every turn, his poll numbers continue to rise. 
» 
>> As a step toward understanding this amazing performance, I spent part of the Christmas break reading his 
first bestseller, 'The Art of the Deal'. Written in 1987, this book is a classic among American business 
books and has influenced a generation of entrepreneurs. Trump wrote 'The Art of the Deal' when he was 41 
years old and having a successful run. The book's popularity contributed to Time Magazine's decision to 
feature Donald Trump on its cover in January 1989. 
» 
>> The portrait that emerges from this easy-to-read and remarkably interesting book is of an aggressive, 
ambitious person who is constantly pushing, constantly learning, and always seeking the next 
challenge. Reporters and analysts who are trying to understand Trump would be well served by slowing 
down and reading this nearly three-decade-old bestseller. 
» 
>> They would discover that Donald Trump has developed a remarkable set of rules and principles that 
allow him to make decisions with incredible speed. Trump knows a lot, but what is amazing is how rapidly 
he figures out what he doesn't know. 
» 
>> My favorite story is of the Wollman Skating Rink in New York's Central Park. 
>> The Wollman Rink was a heavily used public skating rink which had fallen into disrepair in 1980. New 
York City tried for six years to fix it, spent $13 million, and the rink still was not ready to open. In June of 
1986 Trump, who could see the rink from his apartment, finally got tired of the embarrassment and offered 
to fix the rink at his own expense. At first the city turned him down because its bureaucracy did not want to 
be embarrassed by someone fixing something they couldn't fix. Trump kept pushing and finally out of 
embarrassment the city gave in. 
» 
>> The key part of the story is Trump's reaction to being put in charge. He promptly recognized that he 
didn't know anything about fixing a skating rink. He asked himself who built a lot of skating rinks. 
""Canadians!"" he concluded. He found the best Canadian ice skating rink construction company. When the 
Canadians flew in to assess the situation, they were amazed at how bad the city had been at solving the 
problem. They assured Trump that this was an easy job. Trump fixed the six year embarrassment two 
months ahead of schedule and nearly $800,000 under-budget. (The city did end up paying for the work, and 
Trump donated the profits to charity.) 
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>> After reading this chapter you begin to think that maybe Donald Trump really could build a wall along 
our southern border for a lot less than our current government estimates. 
» 
>> 'The Art of the Deal' is filled with stories like this — stories of common sense stories of calculated risk 
taking, and stories of innovation and marketing. 
>> Anyone who would like to better understand Donald Trump would be helped by reading this remarkable 
book. 
» 
>> Another is his pledges and I have no way of knowing if he will make good on all of them but I do agree 
with all of them. Trump is the only candidate that is serious about building The Wall"" ! Two other 
important pledges Trump has made that no other candidate of either party has matched! First deportation of 
millions of illegals that are demanding and costing American taxpayers billions of dollars and 
second Closing 34 Muslim traing Camps throughout our country! I WOULD LIKE TRUMP OR ANY 
OTHER CANDIDATES PLEDGE TO REINSTATE ANY AND ALL MILITARY OFFICERS 
DISCHARGED BECAUSE THEY DISAGREED WITH OBAMA OR HIS POLICIES!! 
» 
>> Here is another that kind of wraps up my feelings about Trump 
>> Raccoon's in your basement! An interesting analogy 
>> You've been on vacation for two weeks, you come home, and your basement is infested with 
raccoon's. Hundreds of rabid, messy, mean raccoon's have overtaken your basement. You want them gone 
immediately so you hire a guy. A pro. You don't care if the guy smells, you need those raccoon's gone 
pronto and he's the guy to do it! You don't care if the guy swears, you don't care if he's an alcoholic, you 
don't care how many times he's been married, you don't care if he voted for Obama, you don't care if he has 
plumber's crack...you simply want those raccoon's gone! 
» 
>> You want your problem fixed! He's the guy. He's the best. Period. That's why Trump. Yes he's a bit of 
an ass, yes he's an egomaniac, but you don't care. 
>> The country is a mess because politicians suck, the Republican Party is two-faced & gutless, illegal's are 
everywhere. You want it all fixed! You don't care that Trump is crude, you don't care that he insults people, 
you don't care that he had been friendly with Hillary, you don't care that he has changed positions, you don't 
care that he's been married 3 times, you don't care that he fights with Megyn Kelly and Rosie 
O'Donnell, you don't care that he doesn't know the name of some Muslin terrorist,...this country is weak, 
bankrupt, our enemies are making fun of us, we are being invaded by illegal's, we are becoming a nation of 
victims where every Tom, Ricardo and Hamad is a special interest group with special rights 
>> to a point where we don't even recognize the country we were born and raised in; ""AND WE JUST 
WANT IT FIXED"" and Trump is the only guy who seems to understand what the people want. 
» 
>> You're sick of politicians, sick of the Democratic Party, Republican Party, and sick of illegal's. You just 
want this thing fixed. Trump may not be a saint, but doesn't have any lobbyist money influencing him, he 
doesn't have political correctness restraining him, all you know is that he has been very successful, a good 
negotiator, he has built a lot of things, and he's also not a politician, so he's not a cowardly politician. And he 
says he'll fix it. You don't care if the guy has bad hair. You just want those raccoon's gone. Out of your 
house! 
» 
>> This one is more about why we don't want Hillary. 
>> I think this sums it up well ! 
>> Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are in a bar. Donald leans over, and with a smile on his face, says, 
""The media are really tearing you apart for That Scandal."" 
» 
>> Hillary: ""You mean my lying about Benghazi?"" 
>> Trump: ""No, the other one."" 
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>> Hillary: ""You mean the massive voter fraud?"" 
>> Trump: ""No, the other one."" 
» 
>> Hillary: ""You mean the military not getting their votes counted?"" 
>> Trump: ""No, the other one."" 
>> 
>> Hillary: ""Using my secret private server with classified material to Hide my Activities?"" 
>> Trump: ""No, the other one."" 
» 
>> Hillary: ""The NSA monitoring our phone calls, emails and everything Else?"" 
>> Trump: ""No, the other one."" 
» 
>> Hillary: ""Using the Clinton Foundation as a cover for tax evasion, hiring cronies, and taking bribes from 
foreign countries? 
>> Trump: ""No, the other one."" 
» 
>> Hillary: ""You mean the drones being operated in our own country without The Benefit of the law?"" 
>> Trump: ""No, the other one."" 
» 
>> Hillary: ""Giving 123 Technologies $300 Million, and right afterward it Declared Bankruptcy and was 
sold to the Chinese?"" 
>> Trump: ""No, the other one."" 
» 
>> Hillary: ""You mean arming the Muslim Brotherhood and hiring them in the White House?"" 
>> Trump: ""No, the other one."" 
» 
>> Hillary: ""Whitewater, Watergate committee, Vince Foster, commodity Deals?"" 
>> Trump: ""No the other one:"" 
» 
>> Hillary: ""The IRS targeting conservatives?"" 
>> Trump: ""No the other one:"" 
» 
>> Hillary: ""Turning Libya into chaos?"" 
>> Trump: ""No the other one:"" 
» 
>> Hillary: ""Trashing Mubarak, one of our few Muslim friends?"" 
>> Trump: ""No the other one:"" 
» 
>> Hillary: ""Turning our backs on Israel?"" 
>> Trump: ""No the other one:"" 
» 
>> Hillary: ""The joke Iran Nuke deal?"" 
>> Trump: ""No the other one:"" 
» 
>> Hillary: ""Leaving Iraq in chaos?"" 
>> Trump: ""No, the other one."" 
» 
>> Hillary: ""The DOJ spying on the press?"" 
>> Trump: ""No, the other one."" 
» 
>> Hillary: ""You mean HHS Secretary Sibelius shaking down health insurance Executives?"" 
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>> Trump: ""No, the other one."" 
» 
>> Hillary: ""Giving our cronies in SOLYNDRA $500 MILLION DOLLARS and 3 Months Later they 
declared bankruptcy and then the Chinese bought it?"" 
>> Trump: ""No, the other one."" 
» 
>> Hillary: ""The NSA monitoring citizens' 
>> Trump: ""No, the other one."" 
» 
>> Hillary: ""The State Department interfering with an Inspector General Investigation on departmental 
sexual misconduct?"" 
>> Trump: ""No, the other one."" 
» 
>> Hillary: ""Me, The IRS, Clapper and Holder all lying to Congress?"" 
>> Trump: ""No, the other one."" 
» 
>> Hillary: ""Threats to all of Bill's former mistresses to keep them quiet"" 
>> Trump: ""No, the other one."" 
» 
>> Hillary: ""You means taking the $145,000,000.00 from Putin for the Uranium Bribe ? "" Trump : "" No the 
other one ."" 
» 
>> Hillary: ""I give up! ... Oh wait, I think I've got it! When I stole the White House furniture, silverware and 
China when Bill left Office?"" 
>> Trump: ""THAT'S IT! I almost forgot about that one"". 
>> 
>> ********** 
TI 
>> Everything above is true. Yet she still gets the Democratic votes. Could there be that many stupid people 
in this country? 
>> Does anyone understand this??? I think we're doomed! 
» 
» 
» 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> This email has been sent from a virus-free computer protected by Avast. 
>> http://www.avast.com/  
» 
» 
» 
>> 
>> 
> 
Philip Kafka 
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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018387.txt,"against Sparta. The Melians - like poor Lin Zexu or Lobengula of the Matabele -
yearned only to be left alone. “You would not agree to our being neutral, friends
instead of enemies, but allies of neither side?” they asked??8. No, the Athenians
replied, and then a line that has resonated through the problems of nations ever
since: “It is the nature of power that he who has it takes; he who does not must
submit.” The Melians voted stubbornly against surrender and for hope. Perhaps the
Spartans would mount a relief raid? The Athenians might change their minds?
Neither happened. The Melian men were betrayed and then massacred. Their wives
and children were sold as slaves.

What do networks do when they touch the balance of war and peace? How might we
use what we know, what we sense, about a connected age to manage the dangers
ahead? If an insane Cult of the Offensive flavored the end of the 19 Century, our
own age vibrates, as we've seen, to a Cult of the Disruptive. The great tale of our
times is the diffusion of a new, promising and disorienting network order. We've
been told that all this interconnection makes war an impossibility. Everyone would
be a loser in such a war. But the way in which that earlier age was so horribly wrong
about the result of machines x weapons, should unnerve us. We don’t yet really know
what networks x weapons means - to say nothing of networks x networks x weapons.
Or, to sum up what we've seen so far in this book, very fast networks x artificial
intelligence x black boxes x a New Caste x compression of time x everyday objects x
weapons. Would you look at that weird formula and say conclusively: “Hey, we'll all
get along.” Me neither. We should worry about the day we might face a Melian
choice of our own, when some general or infomanagerial despot - or some clicking
computer - shows up, unwelcome, and says to us: It should be obvious you are
merely a node, and I control the network.

When leaders label the rise of China or cyberweapons or terrorism or the decline of
the US as the “main problem” of our age - and all of these have been designated as
such by famous foreign policy figures -they are missing the revolutionary, uniting
force that animates them all. Networks. Whether we are trying to slice apart the
roots of the Islamic State or slow Russian territorial dreams or understand narco-
economics or hedge-fund finance - connectivity touches and defines each problem.
New and essential platforms for finance and biological data and artificial intelligence
are emerging now, blossomed out of network connection. These ecosystems must be
design, built, protected. All while the world we know kicks back around us,
sometimes crumbling, sometimes fighting for its dear life. ] promised earlier that
we'd apply the Seventh Sense to some practical problem, and the deadly test of war
and peace is the one I'd like to consider now. The sharpest challenge of truth for any
view of the world is, after all, the design of a grand strategy. Get it right and you can
secure your Safety. The energy of the age can be your tool. Get it wrong and you reap
the Somme, Melos, Canton, the Shangani. Recall General Liu Yazhou’s line: “A major

228 The Melians: Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Steven Lattimore trans.,
(Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 1998) Chap 5.; See also the excellent BBC
performance of certain elements of Thucydides in “The War That Never Ends”
available on YouTube

155

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_014963.txt,"TED2017: The future you

4/20/17, 12:07 PM

David Titley is a Professor of Practice in Meteorology and a Professor of International Affairs at the Pennsylvania State University. He is
the founding director of Penn State’s Center for Solutions to Weather and Climate Risk. He served as a naval officer for 32 years and rose
to the rank of Rear Admiral. Titley’s career included duties as commander of the Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command;
oceanographer and navigator of the Navy; and deputy assistant chief of naval operations for information dominance. He also served as
senior military assistant for the director, Office of Net Assessment in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.

While serving in the Pentagon, Titley initiated and led the U.S. Navy’s Task Force on Climate Change. After retiring from the Navy, Titley
served as the Deputy Undersecretary of Commerce for Operations, the chief operating officer position at the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration. Titley serves on numerous advisory boards and National Academies of Science committees, including the
CNA Military Advisory Board, the Center for Climate and Security and the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic
Scientists. Titley is a fellow of the American Meteorological Society. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of
Alaska, Fairbanks.

solutions2wxrisk.psu.edu @dwtitley

Ted Halstead
Policy entrepreneur, climate expert, author

Ted Halstead is breathing new life into US climate policy by mobilizing conservative leaders and CEOs around a breakthrough carbon
dividends solution.

When not writing or sailing around the world, Ted Halstead launches cutting-edge think tanks. His first, founded when he was 25,
introduced new measures of progress and coordinated the Economists’ Statement on Climate Change, signed by 18 Nobel laureate
economists. His second, New America, has become one of the most influential think tanks in Washington.

Halstead’s newest creation, the Climate Leadership Council, is transforming climate policy and politics by advancing a more effective,
popular and equitable climate solution, based on the conservative principles of free markets and limited government. He has published
numerous articles in the New York Times, Washington Post, Financial Times, Fortune, Atlantic, National Review, Los Angeles Times and
Harvard Business Review. He has also published two books, including Zhe Radical Center: The Future of American Politics (co-authored
with Michael Lind).

clcouncil.org @ImTedHalstead

Wednesday, April 26, 5:00PM - 7:00PM PDT

Session 7: Connection, Community

Hosted by Kelly Stoetzel and Bruno Giussani.

https://ted2017.ted.com/program

Jacob Collier
Musician and artist

Jacob Collier is a one-man audio-visual viral sensation. In his videos, he sings every part, plays every instrument and visualizes every
component with a captivating vision.

Jacob Collier is nothing short of prodigious. A two-time Grammy-winning singer, arranger, composer, and multi-instrumentalist, he
combines everything from jazz and a cappella to classical and Brazilian music. In 2014, he was discovered by the legendary producer
Quincy Jone. Shortly after, Collier began working on his audio-visual live performance vehicle designed and built at MIT.

Since his first video in 2011, Collier has amassed more than 250K international followers and 10 million YouTube views, including on his
astounding cover of Stevie Wonder's ""Don't You Worry ‘Bout a Thing.” In July 2016, Collier released his chart-topping debut album, Jn My
Room. Most recently, he's been touring the world with his unique one-man show, helping to score the newest Dreamworks film, The Boss
Baby, with Hans Zimmer, collaborating on Herbie Hancock's upcoming record and holding masterclasses at universities across the globe.

jacobcollier.co.uk @JCollierMusic

Anna Heringer
Architect

Anna Heringer’s sustainable designs lend breathtaking forms to easily-available local materials while developing the skills and
consciousness of their builders.

Before she became an architect, a visit to a small village in Bangladesh immediately hooked Anna Heringer on an ancient and yet
neglected building material -- earth. With its easy availability, durability and endless recyclability, she realized, there was a reason its use
has persisted for thousands of years.

Since then, Heringer’s love affair with sustainable materials has deepened, resulting in acclaimed projects like woven bamboo hostels in
China and the METI Handmade School in Rudrapur, where, along with local workers and schoolchildren, she created a building that drew
on locally abundant materials and fostered modern, sustainable building skills in local craftsmen. In the 2014 book, The Future of
Architecture, she and her coauthors argue for a future that is low-impact and adaptable.

anna-heringer.com @AnnaHeringer

Grace Kim

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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018393.txt,"How? “Seven friends in ten days,” Facebook growth hackers repeated like a mantra
in the early years, a humming meditation that carried them from dorm room to
nearly every corned of the world??2. If you or I joined the service and found seven
friends in ten days, we would most likely stay, enjoying the benefits of the gated
world, making it that much harder (impossible really) for friend number eight to
wander somewhere else. Pretty soon, there was essentially nowhere else to go
anyhow. The network magnetism worked so well that, as a result, Facebook’s speed-
looping connection machine cut the famous “six degrees of separation” posited by
Stanley Miligram - the number of leaps between any two people on the planet - to
four.233

Network theorists who came after Arthur call these “rich get richer” systems “power
law distributed” because if you line up all the firms in a digital industry you find the
winners are exponentially - by a power of ten or one hundred - ahead of everyone
else. They slip free from the average gravitational center of a normal bell curve that
marks most traditional business. A normal distribution would shape up like a chart
of people who own cars: 20 percent driving Fords, 10 percent Nissans and Toyotas,
and so on. Or it might look like the distribution of height: Most men are between 5’7
and 5’11, but 50% are scattershotted at different heights. Network systems,
however, can breed commanding winners. It’s not like 50% of online users are on
the Internet and others are scattered across different systems. Users huddle into
single winning clusters. It’s as if 90% of the world always bought a Ford; or 90% of
people were exactly 5’ 11”. These systems run faster and better and more profitably
because they are locked-in, gated by technology standards and by common
connection. When we say that networks crave gates, this is the sort of gate we mean.
If you had to look for your friends one-by-one on Facebook, Friendster, MySpace,
and GooglePlus you'd exhaust yourself. So, one winner emerges. Data scientists
attribute the success of these winning nodes to “preferential attachment” - the idea
that if Brian Arthur is using Microsoft Word and I’m using it you are likely to do so
too. But there’s another secret: More widespread adoption makes the whole system
faster. Winner-take-all marks that network hunger for the compression of time.?34

There’s an additional feature at work in the very newest of these billion-user
clusters that’s worth our attention: It’s not merely that we’ll use them because
everyone seems to be doing so, it’s also that as more users weave themselves into
each others’ lives and the machines into too, these nodes of power get smarter.
Google Maps can predict the fastest route from your house to your office because it
can watch the movements of hundreds of millions of users, each silently pinging
their location and speed as they creep through rush hour or sprint down an empty
motorway. As more people use GPS enabled devices, the quality of this data gets

232 The network magnetism: Chamath Palihapitiya, “How we put Facebook on the
path to 1 billion users.” Udemy Growth Hacking: An Introduction lecture published
January 9, 2013 and available on YouTube.

233 Winner-take-all: van der Hofstad, p 24

234 But there’s another secret: Albert-Lazlo Barabasi “Network Science”,
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: (2013) 371

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near its highs established since 2004 (Chart 11). With steep SPX put skew, the market
is implicitly pricing in a high probability that the option will knock-out during its life, i-e.,
that relatively large drawdowns are more likely. As detailed above, however, we see
many reasons why the most likely near-term scenario for US equities is to remain
range-bound. The structure is short 11% delta at inception and has the same vega
sensitivity as the equivalent put spread (short 6bps).

Chart 11: SPX put skew is near the all-time highs reached since 2002. Chart 12: The price of SPX put spreads is already near the lows reached
Steep skew helps cheapen knockout puts as the market is implying a since 2002. In particular, the price of a 3m 50d-25d put spread is
relatively high probability of the barrier being breached ~1.02%, in the 0.15 %-ile since Nov-02
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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031369.txt,"= Selection of Awards ED,

NOBEL CHARITABLE TRUST Pa —_

*Selection, Announcement of Winners and the Award Ceremony
Award Awards will be granted to energy developments, products and services evaluated as being most ingenious,
practical and eco-friendly (Winners will be selected through visitor's votes and the Judging Committee)

NCT aims to gain worldwide recognition and establish the NCT accreditation mark as the world’s most prestigious environmental accreditation mark.
This will be the most distinctive feature of this Convention.
Awarded products will have the right to carry the NCT accreditation mark and news of the winners will be sent through NCT’s PR division to the world.

How Awards are Selected (tentative plan)

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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018902.txt,"@ dable Cause Affidavit ©

Palm Beach Police Department
Agency ORI# FLO 500600

a
attempted to reach up her tank top and touch her breasts. [__|pulled back and Epstein stopped, however he b6
kept masturbating until he climaxed. He cleaned himself with the towel he was previously wearing. [_]was Bre
paid $200.00 for the massage and left the area. She met with [who was waiting in the kitchen area and
left the house.

[then explained she never provided another massage for Epstein. She did however, go to the house

with [MMend|_________]as they took another friend of MEEEMs.___ advised she was present when

[___]went to work for Epstein. She advised she rode over and sat in the kitchen area with J to
wait for|_______ advised while they waited for|____] the house chef prepared lunch for them as it was
almost lunchtime when they went. Whenl____}was finished with the massage they left the area. I asked__|if

BE ever told her what would be expected when she provided a massage.|__ tated yes, f told her
that a massage would be expected, possibly naked and possibly some touching involved. [_Jhas no formal
training in providing massages. [__lspoke about a third and last time she went to Epstein’s house. |
drove another girl[ _| (sixteen years of age) who is [_]friend, to Epstein’s house|__ftated[__]knew that

[__Jhad made money massaging Epstein and wanted to make money herself. [MMftook them in the kitchen
area of the house and introduced |___}o I tool__jupstairs to the main bedroom.
advised she doesn’t know what happened aq _| did not speak about what happened in the room| _keceived
$100.00 from a fo: going with her to Epstein’s house and recommending _|

On October 6, 2005, at 11:45 am, I met with dof af and

explained to her why we there to interview her. She advised she was aware of the ongoing investigation.L__|
stated she had previously spoken with|____] who told her she was interviewed by detectives. During a
sworn taped statement[___]stated she knew that worked for Jeff Epstein in Palm Beach.[___]
advised she originally had been taken to the meer | whom she met when they both
attended] —(‘C™SCSC‘*@d She began going to the house when she was sixteen years of age and
stated she had been there a lot of times to provide massages over the past two years. I asked her if she had
formal training in providing massages, which[___]stated she had not. [___ advised she was told what was
expected of her by providing massages and she‘would have to remove clothing but if she felt uncomfortable just
to say so and Epstein would stop pushing the issue. [_]began providing massages and advised she kept her
clothes on. She considered Epstein a pervert and he kept pushing to go further and further. explained she
would keep telling him she had a boyfriend and would not be right to her boyfriend. It wasn’t until recently that
[ Jbegan removing her clothes and staying in her thong underwear to provide a massage. [_Jexplained

The foregoing instrument was sworn to or affirmed State of Florida
before me this 1* day of May, 2006 by County of Palm Beach
Det Joe Recarey, who is personally known to me.

Signature/Arresting Officer

Signature of Police Officer (F.S.S. 117.10) Date: 05/01/2006

Page of 22

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012797.txt,"Endnotes: Chapter 1

Recommended books

Bloom, P. (2010). How Pleasure Works. New York, Norton Press.

Coyne, J. A. (2009). Why Evolution is True. New York, Viking Press.

French, P. (2001). The Virtues of Vengeance. University of Kansas Press.

Goldhagen, D.J. (2009). Worse than War. New York, Public Affairs.

Kekes, J. (2005) The Roots of Evil. Ithaca, Cornell University Press.

Kiernan, B. (2007). Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to
Darfur. New Haven, Yale University Press.

McCullough, M.E. (2008). Beyond Revenge. John Wiley & Sons.

Pinker, S. (2011) The Better Angels of Our Nature. New York, Viking Press

Wrangham, R.W., & Peterson, D. (1996). Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence.
Boston, Houghton-Mifflin.

Notes:

* Smarter and more painful mice: Wei, F., Wang, G.-D., Kerchner, G. A., Kim, S. J., Xu, H.-M., Chen,
Z.-F., & Zhuo, M. (2001). Genetic enhancement of inflammatory pain by forebrain NR2B
overexpression. Nature, 4,2; Tang, Y.-P., Shimizu, E., Dube, G. R., Rampon, C., Kerchner, G.
A., Zhuo, M., & Tsien, J. Z. (1999). Genetic enhancement of learning and memory in mice.
Nature, 401: 63-69.

* Insects that play leaf: Wedmann, S., Bradler, S. & Rust, J. (2007). The first fossil leaf insect: 47 million
years of specialized cryptic morphology and behavior., Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences 104(2): 565-569.

* Evolving tameness: Trut, L. N. (1999). Early canid domestication: the farm-fox experiment. American
Scientist, 87, 160-169; Hare, B., Plyusnina, I, Ignacio, N., Schepina, O., Stepika, A., Wrangham,
R. W., & Trut, L. N. (2005). Social cognitive evolution in captive foxes is a correlated by-product
of experimental domestication. Current Biology, 15(3), 226-230; Udell, M., Dorey, N., & Wynne,
C. (2009). What did domestication do to dogs? A new account of dogs' sensitivity to human
actions Biological Reviews, 85(2): 327-345; Galibert, F., Quignon, P., Hitte, C., & Andre, C.
(2011). Toward understanding dog evolutionary and domestication history., Current Reviews in
Biology 334(3), 190-196; Careau,V., Réale, D., Humphries, M.M., & Thomas, D.W. (2010). The
pace of life under artificial selection: personality, energy expenditure, and longevity are
correlated in domestic dogs. American Naturalist 175(6), 753-758.

* What’s religion for? Boyer, P. (2001). Religion explained: The evolutionary origins of religious thought.
New York, Basic Books; Wilson, D.S. (2002). Darwin's Cathedral. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press; Sosis, R., & Bressler, E.R. (2003). Cooperation and commune longevity: a test of
the costly signaling theory of religion. Cross-cultural Research, 37(2), 211-239; Norenzayan, A,
& Shariff, A. F. (2008). The origin and evolution of religious prosociality. Science, 322(5898),

Hauser Chapter 1. Nature’s secrets Sl

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IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011026.txt,"the partial exception of Becker. I will generally prefer (5.3a), although the two are

identical in meaning.

Schultz’ analysis of consumption found

consumption = invested consumption + pure consumption. (5.4)

This plus (5.1) and (5.3a) combine for

output = total growth + pure consumption
= investment + human growth + pure consumption
= investment + invested consumption + self-invested work
— recovered human depreciation + pure consumption
= investment + invested consumption + self-invested work
— recovered human depreciation + consumption
— invested consumption
= investment + consumption + self-invested work
— recovered human depreciation. (5.5)

“EX post net”, as always, should be understood before both “output” and

“investment”.

Chapter 6 will revisit this logic once again, and add a second way to the same

conclusion.

The Growth Equation Under the Y Rule

(5.1) can be arranged as
total growth = output - pure consumption, (5.1a)
as a counterpart to (4.1a). Total growth means growth in total capital. My argument

continues as in Chapter 4. Since (4.2) was a blind alley, skip to (4.3). That now

becomes

Chapter 5 Bringing Human Capital In 1/13/16 7

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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020245.txt,"93

At this venue, Snowden apparently believed he was relatively safe. “That whole period was very
carefully planned and orchestrated,” Snowden later told the Guardian in Moscow. Here, for the
first time, Snowden communicated directly with first Gellman and then Greenwald.

He emailed Gellman under the alias “Verax

.’ Already, via Poitras, he had provided this Washington Post journalist with power point slides
from a NSA presentation about a joint FBI-NSA-CIA operation codenamed PRISM. He believed
it qualified as whistle-blowing because it revealed that the NSA, in intercepting emails, tweets,
postings and other Web interactions about foreign terrorists, incidentally also picked up data
about Americans. According to the rules imposed on the NSA by a 2007 presidential directive,
whatever information accidently picked up about Americans was supposed to be filtered out, and
hundreds of compliance officers rechecked the data ever 90 says to assure that directive was
being carried. Even so, it was likely some data was not expunged in this process. So PRISM
could cause embarrassment for the NSA.

Snowden proposed that Gellman join him in Hong Kong. In attempting to persuade him of the
urgency of the trip, he wrote him that he had reason to believe that “omniscient State powers”
imperiled “our freedom and way of life.” He noted, with a touch of modesty, “Perhaps I am
naive.” He added dramatically “I have risked my life and family.” Even so, Gellman declined
coming to Hong Kong. (According to Greenwald, Gellman could not make the trip because
lawyers for the Washington Post were uneasy with having a reporter receive classified documents
in a part of China.)

Next, on May 24, 2013, Snowden attempted to apply more pressure on Gellman by telling him
that the story about the PRISM program had to be published by the Post within 72 hours.
Gellman could not accede to such a condition because the decision of when to publish a story was
made not by him but by the editors of the newspaper. He told Snowden that the earliest the story
could be published was June 6, 2013, which was well past Snowden’s deadline.

Snowden next turned to Greenwald. Both Poitras and Micah Lee had made great efforts to
tutor Greenwald on encryption protocols, with Lee, who was in Berkeley, California, sending
Greenwald by Fedex a DVD that would allow him to receive both encrypted messages and phone
calls. Even then, Greenwald was unable to fully install it. As a result, Greenwald still had not met
Snowden’s requisites on encrypting his computer.

In addition, possibly because of a lost message, Snowden believed that Greenwald was
reluctant to fly to the place that he designated for a meeting. With Gellman uncertain, Greenwald
was now essential to his plan. If he was to have any newspaper outlet, he needed to persuade
Greenwald to come to Hong Kong. At this point, he took matters in to his own hands. On
May 25, 2013, Snowden somewhat aggressively emailed Greenwald “You recently had to decline

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IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011740.txt,"Chapter Seventeen

It was an ambush. It came in July 1995, six months after I'd left the army
and only days before I was expected to named as Interior Minister in Yitzhak
Rabin’s government. The effect, and clearly the intention, was to threaten my
political career before it had even begun — by reviving, and lying about, the
tragic training accident at the Negev army base of Tze’elim, during our
preparations for the operation against Saddam Hussein.

When the “story” broke, I was nearly five thousand miles away. I was
accompanying Nava’s brother, Doron Cohen, on a business trip he was making
to China — and savoring my last few days as a private citizen between my three
decades of military service and my entry into politics. I'd got a hint of the storm
that was about to engulf me a few days before we left for the Far East. It was a
letter from a reporter at Yeidot Achronot, Israel’s largest-selling newspaper,
with a list of questions about Tze’elim. The thrust of the questions made clear
the case Yediot seemed intent on building: that after the live missile strike
which killed the Sayeret Matkal men, I had abandoned the injured and
immediately “fled” to Tel Aviv. I probably should have answered the letter. But
I assumed even rudimentary checks would reveal the story to be false. I'd had
similar questions from a TV journalist a few months earlier. I did phone him
back. I explained the true details of what had happened. I suggested he talk to
others who were there, like Amnon Lipkin, the current chief of staff and my
former deputy, to confirm my account. The story was dropped.

But Yediot evidently decided not to let the facts get in the way of the
“exclusive” it ran in its weekend edition on July 7. Under a banner headline — an
undeniably clever Hebrew pun, Ehud Barakh, “Ehud Ran Away” — it accused
me of having stood by, paralyzed with shock, when the missiles struck and then,
as other officers tended to the wounded, rushed away by helicopter.

Doron and I were having dinner in Beijing when Nava phoned. She’d just
seen the newspaper story, and read it to me. I’d never been angrier. As best I
could work out, it had been concocted from a patchwork of accounts long after
the fact. To the extent the notion of my “fleeing” had been raised, I could only
imagine that Yediot’s “sources” had misunderstood the arrival of the first
medical helicopter, when the pilot was unable to see us and flew on before
returning a couple of minutes later. But in every single detail about my actions
after the tragedy occurred, it was a pure and simple lie.

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TEXT-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033468.txt,"﻿
Conflicting reports have surfaced on the possible resignation or firing of US Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who oversees the special counsel investigation into Russia's role in the 2016 presidential election. 
 
According to US media, Rosenstein was meeting with White House Chief of Staff John Kelly after reports surfaced that he had offered to resign in speculation of being fired. 
 
Axios, citing an unidentified source with knowledge of the matter, reported that Rosenstein verbally resigned to White House Chief of Staff John Kelly. A second source told the news outlet that Rosenstein is ""expecting to be fired"" so he plans to step down. 
 
The Wall Street Journal, citing an individual familiar with the matter, reported that Rosenstein has not submitted his resignation.
 
NBC News reported that Rosenstein said he would not resign and the White House would have to fire him.
 
Reuters news agency, also citing a person familiar with the matter, said Rosenstein had not resigned and is still serving as US deputy attorney general. The news agency reported that the unnamed source confirmed that the deputy attorney general had a previously scheduled meeting at the White House on Monday and that the Axios reports were false. 
 
The reports come as Trump faces mounting pressure from the investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is looking into Russia's role in the 2016 presidential election. 
 
Rosenstein assumed supervision of the investigation after his boss, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, recused himself because of his own contacts with Russia's ambassador to Washington while serving as a Trump campaign adviser became public. 
 
There was widespread speculation that Trump would fire Rosenstein after a New York Times report on Friday said in 2017 he had suggested secretly recording Trump and recruiting Cabinet members to invoke a constitutional amendment to remove him from the office. The newspaper said none of those proposals came to fruition. Rosenstein denied the report as ""inaccurate and factually incorrect"". 
"
IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028517.txt,"Nina Schick

Technology expert and political commentator focusing on how
technology and artificial intelligence are reshaping democracy and
geopolitics. She was a recent political advisor to former NATO
Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, leading research into
next-generation disinformation in the form of Al-generated deep
fakes. She is a regular commentator on Sky News, BBC and

Bloomberg.

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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026080.txt,"From:

Sent: 5/14/2017 8:27:10 PM
To: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Re:

Importance: — High
very well many thnx and here is a refrence:

KUNA : Yemeni FM: We are ready to go back to peace talks - Politics - 05/05/2017

BRUSSELS, May 5 (KUNA) -- Yemeni Foreign Minister Abdulmalik Al-Makhlafi said Friday that the Yemeni
government is adhering to the peace process and is ready to go back to the table to bring peace to Yemen as
soon as possible and to save the people from more suffering.

""But the positive position of the government does not get any response by the revolutionaries who are still
refusing the demands for peace or to accept any international peace efforts,"" he told the Kuwait news agency,
KUNA, in an exclusive interview at the end of his visit to Brussels.

Al-Mekhlafi said they went ""to our brotherly country Kuwait"" which hosted the meeting for four months last
year. ""After the consultations the UN envoy presented the draft agreement and we signed it but the other side
did not sign it,"" he noted.

""But after we left Kuwait and till now the revolutionaries did not undertake any steps proposed by the UN
envoy, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed. We regret that peace is on hold due the desire of the revolutionaries to
continue the war,"" he said.

Al Makhlafi said that the government would continue to call for peace and hopes that the international pressures
and defeats that the revolutionaries have suffered until now will make them respond to the peace efforts.

""We were hoping to return again to Kuwait for the talks and our Kuwaiti brothers welcomed the return of the
two delegation in Kuwait in order to sign the agreement,” he noted.

The Yemeni foreign minister expressed his deep appreciation and thanks to HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah AI-
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, to the Kuwait government and to HE the first deputy prime minister and foreign
minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled al-Sabah who exerted great efforts during the Kuwait meetings.

""We look forward to return to Kuwait, and our brothers in Kuwait are rightly saying that we will welcome you
if you sign the agreement and not to waste time. But it appears that the revolutionaries are not ready to respond
to this step,” he said.

Al Meahlafi said he visited Brussels for two-days of talks with the Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders,
European Commission officials and Members of the European Parliament to explain the situation in Yemen and
seek support for the Yemeni government's peace efforts.

He said the Yemeni government seeks peace based on the three references, the Gulf initiative, the outputs of the
national dialogue, and the Security Council resolutions on Yemen, including resolution 2216.

The Yemeni foreign minister called on the EU to condemn the revolution and the Iranian interference in
Yemen, which is sending arms to the Houthi militias.

He also expressed his thanks to the EU for their humanitarian aid and for pledging the amount of 116 million
euro (USD 127 mn) during the UN-sponsored donors conference on Yemen held recently in Geneva. (end)
nk.mb

Sent from my iPhone

On May 14, 2017, at 11:25 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:

iwill ask, get back to you tomorw

On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 10:23 PM, <i wrote:

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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030358.txt,"Date: Thursday, May 11 2017 08:35 PM
Subject: Re: What is going on with your man Jes?

From: Thomas Jr., Landon Pg

To: jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com>;

On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 4:30 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com > wrote:
i tired to call you , not for email

On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 10:22 PM, Thomas Jr., Landon {qq > wrote:

Other stuff I am sympathetic -- but to answer a random gmail email, that is not smart!

How are you Trump contacts responding to Comey?

On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 4:18 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:

iknow, everyone gets their turn in the barrel

On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 10:17 PM, Thomas Jr., Landon ~~ ¢ wrote:

‘Thanks for sharing the foxhole’

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TEXT-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032776.txt,"From: Kathy Ruemmler________________________________ 
Sent: 6/22/2018 2:59:06 PM 
To: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com] 
Subject: Re: 
Importance: High 
Ugh. 
On Jun 22, 2018, at 10:42 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
sign of the times 
On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 4:42 PM, Kathy Ruemmler 
wrote: 
Good lord. A novella of rehashed crap. 
On Jun 22, 2018, at 10:20 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-did-trump-and-clinton-pal-jeffrey-epstein-escape-metoo 
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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029609.txt,"From: Joi \to

Sent: 3/4/2019 4:08:40 PM
To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Re: $25K from ASU

Importance: — High
I’m good. Good luck!

- Joi

On Mar 4, 2019, at 7:45 AM, J <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:

brutal press. . sorry . itseemsima symbol for all ills. :). if you hate the rich, the men , the trump
types . im your boy . atleast for the moment. . hope you are well

On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 1:24 PM Joi Ito ;  « wrote:
Thanks!

On Feb 28, 2019, at 1:18 PM, J <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:

No problem- Trying to get more black for you

On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 1:10 PM Joi Ito J wrote:

Hey Jeffrey.
How are things?

Just to let you know. We were able to keep the Leon Black money, but the $25K from your foundation is
getting bounced by MIT back to ASU.

Sorry...

- Joi
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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023803.txt,"CHAPTER 5

(Z

Real-Life Learning
Projects Considered

| learned more about the economy from one South Dakota
dust storm than | did in all my years of college.
—Hubert H. Humphrey

These days everyone has ideas about ways to improve student learn-
ing. These range from having kids stretch between classes, to listening
to Moaart, to eating right. Of course, those things won’t harm you, but
they really have nothing to do with learning. They are about getting
students to concentrate on material that doesn’t interest them much.
Presumably, a tedious task is made better by these kinds of things. An
interesting task does not need that kind of enhancement. It should be
interesting in and of itself.

In the summer of 2008, I met a most unusual man. He recently had
retired from being the CEO of Epson Europe. Some years earlier, his
close friend, who was director general of a college, got sick and died.
His dying wish was that his friend, the Epson CEO, would succeed him
and become president of the business school of the college. And so it
happened that a professional from the business world found himself
in charge of the Business Engineering School at La Salle University in
Barcelona, Spain. During his years at Epson he had hired many gradu-
ates from that college and others, and believed that the training they
received there was highly theoretical, not practical enough or oriented
to the real world of business. It was clear to him that students needed
a different kind of training in order to prepare them for professional
life. He began to talk to the faculty about teaching different kinds
of courses, ones that were less theoretical and more related to what
people actually do in business. The faculty objected. Shocker.

A provost friend of mine once said that with faculty, everything is
a la carte. What he meant was that professors never feel that they have

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IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020943.txt,"ARRA: Spending Examples

Education — Used ARRA funding and saved education jobs, such as
teachers, principals, librarians, and counselors

Tax Credits — Provided higher Earned Income Tax Credits
Transportation — Repaired roads and bridges

Energy — Provided additional funding for renewable energy and energy
efficiency projects

Nutrition Assistance — Provided additional assistance for low-income
families to purchase food

Other — Funding for various programs related to homeland security and
law enforcement...

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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024697.txt,"CHAPTER IV
U.S. Legal Landscape

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The legal landscape for the cannabis industry in the United States continues to be characterized by
conflict between federal prohibition and the steady advance of state legalization. According to federal
policy, Americans can access tobacco, alcohol and prescription drug products that kill thousands each
year, but they cannot access cannabis because it is a dangerous drug with no currently accepted med-
ical application in the United States (notwithstanding the federal government holds a U.S. patent for
methods of treating diseases with cannabinoids). Meanwhile, 46 U.S. states permit some use of canna-
bis products as medicine by adults or children, and 8 of those states have laws that regulate cannabis

like alcohol.

The U.S cannabis industry has proven adept at navigating this federal-state conflict and is experi-
encing rapid growth despite it. Moreover, we believe that federal policy will move (and may already be
moving) in a new direction—one that would facilitate federal approval of cannabis-derived drugs and
ultimately, we believe, give rise to a regulatory and political environment in which the U.S. Congress
could fully legalize both medical and recreational cannabis.

In this chapter, we summarize three categories of state cannabis laws and examine certain federal
laws and policies that impact the cannabis industry, including federal laws related to drug and food reg-
ulation, banking and finance, and intellectual property. Finally, we offer our views about how the can-
nabis legalization trend and related developments likely lead to a federally legal U.S. cannabis industry.

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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025589.txt,"From: Robert Trivers _ a |

Sent: 4/14/2018 5:06:12 PM
To: Alan Rogers |i « Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
cc: Gordon Getty i Oliver Goodenough | | Tim Kane

EE, Rob Hanson i: Paul Zak |); Bobby McCormick
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Richerson, Peter)

Subject: Re: Free Growth (09-29-17) part 2.pdf

Importance: — High
yes Alan i think you are

you are referring to duplication of a gene—there are many such genes including those produced by
retrotransposons (as evidenced by lack of introns)—where a gene has two separate effects and there is an
advantage to having a gene with each effect you will often prefer two genes to one, because of less interference
in fitness effects

Peter was talking about a gene with a single effect—sickling—and the other allele is the normal one—the
heterozygote destroys malaria within red blood cells at trivial cost and there is no cost at all if malaria is not
present—by contrast homozygous sickle individuals suffer lifetime effects

Peter was trying to conjure up a heterozygote that propagated asexually but this requires a chiasma between
neighbouring genes, a very rare event and hence it usually leads rapidly to mutational decay of one of the two
copies, i.e. so-called pseudogenes, of which there are many in our genome

in haste

On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 11:02 PM, Alan Rogers > wrote:

haven't read whatever Pete wrote, but if I understand Bob correctly,
Pete must be talking about subfunctionalization:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subfunctionalization

so, it's not a radical suggestion. It's thought to be the process that
gave rise to all multi-gene families. Michael Lynch discusses it in his
book, The Origin of Genome Architecture.

Am I missing something?

Alan

On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 3:03 PM, Robert Trivers (> wrote:

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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030711.txt,"From: Steve Bannon

Sent: 3/15/2018 10:54:45 AM
To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Re: Corker ‘hopeful’ on approving new war-powers authorization for Trump administration - POLITICO

Importance: — High
What time is dinner?

Do u want me to come over beforehand ???
Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T

From: ""jeffrey E."" <jeevacation@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 06:46:54 -0400

To: Steve Bannon {a

Subject: Re: Corker ‘hopeful’ on approving new war-powers authorization for Trump administration -
POLITICO

yesIsawit 1 iwill invite gerry baker to our dinnner tonight. 2 miro lajcak. president of UN. will guide the

EU project if you like him. his govt will fall this week - as planned. :) 3. later today we can discuss michael
and his coins. 4. sultan - duabi in new york 21 22

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Okay. After everything was done, okay, did he watch you get dressed?

No. Cause | was getting dressed while he was out there getting the $300. |
guess that’s what he was doing. That’s the only thing he came back in with. He
was stillin a towel and stuff.

In the room, at all, do you think...and | don't know if there is or not, but do you
think there is anything in there that may have recorded what you did?

Oh my gesh....

A video camera...

Oh my gosh. | didn’t think about that. There was lots of places there could have
been one because there's pictures, that could have been, | don’t know....

When he walked out... the reason why | ask is because he walked out once and
then came back in, right?

Yes.

So it could be just so he could whack off. | was just curious. | don't know if
there is or not.

if there was, | did not know about it.

Okay. So you get dressed, you go downstairs. Where is that woman again?
Downstairs talking to i and the other girl.

Okay.

They were having a conversation.

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IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011768.txt,"/ BARAK/ 11

force Shimon out. But Jean said he’d been giving a lot of thought to everything
that had happened since Rabin was killed. He felt I was the only potential Labor
leader who could defeat Bibi in an election and “bring back sanity to Israel, lead it
to peace.” He said he was convinced that Peres’s time had passed. “I can say that.
I’m from his generation. And as a very close friend of Shimon, I will be the first in
line to help you.”

Early in September, having let Shimon know through Giora and then phoning
him directly, I declared publicly that I would be running for the Labor leadership.
Though he’d thanked me for telling him beforehand, he said he thought I was
making a mistake, and was still against having a leadership election at all. That
made his public response to my announcement puzzling. He went on Israeli TV
and said he would not be a candidate for Prime Minister in four years’ time. “The
time has come for a change,” he said. But while everyone took that to mean he was
reconciled to a change of party leadership as well, it turned out that we had jumped
the gun. He intended to stay on as chairman.

During the early months of 1997, Shimon and I held a series of late-night
meetings at his apartment to thrash out an agreed course. It was a process that was
hard for both of us, and hurtful for him. He was now at least reconciled to the
inevitability of an election for a new party leader, if only because his protégé Yossi
Beilin had also put his name forward. But he kept proposing to push back the vote.
I insisted that since the deadline under party rules was June 3, it was only right that
all of us abide by that. I do remember a particularly poignant moment from one of
our sessions. Peres had left the room for a minute, and Sonia came in. “Ehud,” she
said to me, “keep your nerve. You’re the only one who can talk to him this way.
He should have retired from politics years ago. You’re the only one around him
who tells him the truth.”

We ended up with a compromise. Shimon accepted that the leadership election
would be held on June 3. I agreed that in the unlikely event Bibi decided to invite
us into his coalition during the three months after the leadership vote, Peres would
select the Labor ministers. Our last meeting ended at nearly four in the morning.
He told me he’d arranged a reception for the party leadership at 10 a.m., in barely
six hours’ time. He suggested we meet in his office an hour beforehand. I didn’t
know what to expect. After months of discussions, I hoped he understood that I
had wanted the process to go differently. I had been open and honest with him
throughout. But I knew that, deep down, he still wanted to stay on, that he believed

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TEXT-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033440.txt,"From: Larry Summers 
Sent: 3/17/2019 4:24:05 PM 
To: J [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Subject: Re: Call from New Yorker. 
Importance: High 
That is true. 
Interesting. I take a serious note from someone as a deed not words. 
Sent from my iPhone 
Please direct all scheduling inquiries to my office at: 
Follow me on twitter glhsummers 
www.larrysummers.com 
On Mar 17, 2019, at 12:17 PM, J <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
you can be both thoughtful and face to face 
On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 11:48 AM Larry Summers < > wrote: 
?.. 
Sent from my iPad 
Please direct all scheduling inquiries to my office at: 
Follow me on twitter glhsummers 
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On Mar 17, 2019, at 9:49 AM, J <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
coming from you -- not mutually exclusive 
On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 9:45 AM Larry Summers < > wrote: 
Hmmm. 
I think sometimes written communication shows seriousness of thought but see your point 
Sent from my iPad 
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On Mar 17, 2019, at 9:11 AM, J <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
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this is only the first quarter of the game. if you call a time out, its on the field and done with dignity, you 
cant retreat into the locker room and send a note to the opposing side. in the next quarter she will appreciate 
whatever you've said with respect and founded on strength. you care very much for this person. you might 
want to demonstrate that. a note does the very opposite. . its like trump firing comey. :) 
On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 9:01 AM Larry Summers < 
It was latter. Why bad form. Supposed to be face to face? 
Sent from my iPad 
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Follow me on twitter glhsummers 
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On Mar 17, 2019, at 8:54 AM, J <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
> wrote: 
unclear if you meant you ve written notes to yourself re exit or a note you were thinking of sending - BAD 
FORM if latter. you both have still not agreed the rules of the game. so difficult to play . you have laid 
out - this is what i want. . but actually, how it would work, and what her freedoms are. could be . yours.. 
are essential to the plan. I think much of this is your uncertainty and not hers. sorry. and yours is 
infectious 
On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 8:48 AM Larry Summers < > wrote: 
Ok. Best to make reversible errors 
I've written note for exit strategy 1. Not going to send for few days. 
Going to treat it all as a game till I maybe see her in Beijing and out of character ignore and look past her 
bad behavior. 
Best to stop obsessing. 
Sent from my iPad 
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On Mar 17, 2019, at 8:42 AM, J <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
COM 
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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017936.txt,"Case 1:19-cv-03377 Document 1 Filed 04/16/19 Page 2 of 28

Plaintiff, VIRGINIA L. GIUFFRE, formerly known as Virginia Roberts (“Roberts”), for
her Complaint against Defendant, Alan Dershowitz (“Dershowitz”) avers upon personal
knowledge as to her own acts and status and upon information and belief and to all other matters:

NATURE OF THE ACTION

1. This suit arises out of Defendant’s defamatory statements of and concerning
Plaintiff.

2. During 2000-2002, beginning when Plaintiff was 16, Plaintiff was the victim of
sex trafficking and abuse by convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

3. Epstein’s trafficking scheme involved recruiting young girls, often by claiming
they would be paid $200 for simply providing a massage to a wealthy billionaire. The young girl
would then be brought up to Epstein’s bedroom where Epstein would be on a massage table;
Epstein would then sexually abuse the girl. This same pattern was repeated numerous times with
numerous children.

4. “From between 1999 — 2007, Jeffrey Epstein sexually abused more than 30 minor
girls...in his mansion in Palm Beach Florida, and elsewhere in the United States and overseas...
In addition to his own sexual abuse of the victims, Epstein directed other persons to abuse the
girls sexually. Epstein used paid employees to find and bring minor girls to him. Epstein
worked in concert with others to obtain minors not only for his sexual gratification, but also for
the sexual gratification of others.” United States District Court Judge Marra February 21, 2016
Summary Judgement Order at 2, Case No.: 9:08-cv-80786 (internal citations omitted). One of
the persons with whom Epstein acted in concert was Dershowitz.

5. Like other minor children who came before and after her, Plaintiff was initially

recruited to provide massages, and thereafter to engage in a variety of sexual acts, for Epstein.

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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031427.txt,"From: Nicholas Ribs [a

Sent: 3/12/2019 12:55:51 PM
To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: New York Attorney General Opens Investigation of Trump Projects - The New York Times

This is the start of big problem for him!
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was easy to remove. But then, just a few inches down, our shovels struck
something hard. Maybe it was a sheet of rock. Maybe sand packed tight over the
millennia. But it resisted all our attempts to break through.

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equipment. I called back Oded and Nissim from lookout duty. All four of us
attacked the subsoil with every tool in our backpacks that could conceivably
help. It took nearly three hours in all. But we finally managed to carve out a
trench that seemed as if it might just do the job. It wasn’t as deep or as wide as
we'd planned. But we were approaching a point where we would have to give
up. We couldn’t risk any more time digging, and still leave time to attach the
intercept unit, cover our tracks and make the rendezvous with the helicopter to
take us back into Israel.

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surgeons in an operating theater, silent except for the faint hum of the intercept
equipment. Within a little less than an hour, they’d finished the main part of the
work. During our training exercises, we’d factored in a fall-back plan, a way of
ensuring we got the unit installed but without additional equipment to extend its
battery life. Since we were still behind schedule, I was tempted to stop while we
were ahead. But having come this far, and knowing the potential risks of a
further mission to refresh the power unit and replace the batteries, I told them to
keep going, and also to take the extra few minutes needed to make sure the
equipment was functioning.

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than an hour’s less time than we had reckoned on to make it back to the
rendezvous point. There was another problem, too, which IJ at first sensed more
than saw. A bank of fog was closing in. It had come in patches at first, but was
getting denser. We had the same radio we had taken on to the Golan. We’d
worked out codewords for each part of the operation but otherwise agreed to
break silence only if absolutely necessary. Now, I had no choice. If the fog
continued to thicken, it would block any chance of the helicopter getting in. I
radioed the command post and said as calmly as I could: “The milk is coming.”
It wasn’t elegant. But “milk” was our codeword for fog. The chopper would
now try to bring us out within 30 minutes.

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eastward. As conditions worsened, I radioed again with a short series of
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The Control Factor: Our Struggle to See the True 
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Our Strugle to Sec the Trur Threat 
BILL SIEGEL 
FrontPage Interview's guest today is Bill Siegel, a lawyer and business 
executive. He has been a producer of several documentary films and assists numerous non-profit organizations. 
He is the author of The Control Factor: Our Struggle to See the True Threat. 
FP: Bill Siegel, welcome to FrontPage Interview. 
Congratulations on this brilliant book. It is without question one of the most vital works of our time. 
Let's begin with what inspired you to write it. 
Siegel: Thanks for having me Jamie. As a young boy born in the mid 1950s, I was fascinated with footage of 
Hitler and the Third Reich and could never understand how the Jews of the time could not see the evil that 
seemed so obvious. Not yet appreciative of the benefit of hindsight, I could not comprehend the blindness. 
Following 9/11, like so many others, I began to study Islam, its history, its current movements, terrorism and so 
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on. As I would learn one stunning aspect after another, I would discuss them with friends and associates. Rather 
than confront the facts I would present, they would find one clever way after another to avoid the frightening 
truth of what America and the West truly face. Their fear appeared obvious to me. I began to catalog many of 
my friends' different maneuvers to dispel the anxiety that they found so difficult to endure. The more I focused 
on their mental processes (as well as my own) the more I began to see a structure to the mental endeavor and to 
understand what I had, as a child, found so difficult to explain. 
FP: Tell us about the Control Factor, what you describe as ""that effort our minds enga ge in in order to keep us 
blind"" and that ""process of a voiding seeing the threats we face."" It's also about, as you state, trying to believe 
that the threat is under our control, when in fact it is not. Kindly enlighten us as to these profound insights you 
make in terms of the Control Factor. 
Siegel: First, let's distinguish the ""real world"" where real battles are taking place from the mental battlefield 
which occurs in each of our minds. We tend to believe our perceptions are simply clear realizations of what is 
""out there"" and overlook how much our internal worlds can literally determine what we see. When our internal 
minds become anxious and sense a loss of ""control,"" they tend to concoct ways to distort our perceptions so as 
to restore that sense of inner control. I describe the Control Factor as an ""active and continuous process"" 
designed to maintain that sense, if not illusion, of control. We natural ly think that our thinking and feeling 
processes are passive; that they just happen. Yet when faced with truly frightening prospects, the mind is geared 
to actively distort. 
Similarly, the sense of control must be continuously maintained so the Control Factor operates constantly. In 
turn, the sum of this active and continuous undertaking makes these perceptions all the more familiar and thus 
seemingly all the more ""real."" In one sense, the Control Factor is the mechanism of what Andy McCarthy 
entitled one of his numerous excellent books- willful blindness. The Control Factor is cleverer than we are 
aware; that is almost tautological as, if our minds are to create ways to keep us in denial, they must out 
maneuver our conscious thinking. 
Since World War II, America has had limited experience with threats coming to the homeland. Most of 
America's history has been about ""over there,"" where we have always known that if things got too out of hand 
(e.g. Vietnam) we could always ret urn home. The current generations, for a wide array of reasons, have had 
virtually no experience with a threat to this land. (The documentary, Generation Zero, is interesting on this 
point). 
Consequently, the process of waking up to such a threat parallels the arc of a typical horror film. In such a film, 
there is typically a cast of characters surrounding one or two main characters. We in the audience know there is 
a threat coming — be it a monster, a virus, a psycho killer, an alien, the blob that ate Cincinnati etc. This threat is 
typically defined by its intent- the singular goal of destroying the characters. Much of the initial exposition 
shows how the characters first are oblivious to the destruction the threat brings about, then explain it in familiar 
terms only to finally open their eyes to see that something uniquely terrifying is happening. The next stage 
usually involves a series of failed attempts to deal with the threat- fr om trying to negotiate with it, to appease it, 
to coax it, to threaten it with ineffective weapons and so forth. Most of these failings are due to not adequately 
appreciating the threat for what it truly is and projecting onto it a host of other attributes instead. The final stage 
generally involves a back-up-against-the-wall decision by whichever characters remain alive. I named this the 
""turnaround moment"" when the character becomes willing to be as ruthless as the threat. That change in mental 
state is necessary to ensure survival. Ultimately, the storyline is a race for whichever characters remain to wake 
up fully and use whatever advantages they may still have to beat the threat. 
This is the same arc our minds go through in battling our own Control Factors, our own compulsions to deny 
that which is staring us in the face. Ultimately, the question is whether we will be able to wake up while we still 
have advantages and give ourselves permis sion to fully fight the battle we are in. 
I said ear her that there is a structure to the Control Factor. To oversimplify, I view it much as a pyramid where 
on the bottom are the many minute by minute thoughts that are manipulated. I call this level of maneuvers the 
many ""D's"" as they include the psychological defenses such as distortion, denial, demonization, deflection, 
deletion, detachment, delusion, displacement, discolorization and so forth. Layered upon these are moves such 
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as projection, where we can assign to our Islamic Enemy traits we wish to see in them or introject traits from 
them into ourselves that we wish not to acknowledge. These maneuvers involve a mixing of identities where we 
actually lose clarity about who we are and who the enemy is. Projection and introjection are active almost 
across the board. It is always helpful, for instance, to ask how what the enemy accuses us of is more 
appropriately descriptive of it. When we add Western Guilt and Shame, our need to be liked, and o ther 
psychological dimensions, basic thoughts solidify into larger fantasies. 
As these narratives (""Our courts will never allow that,"" ""As a superpower we will always be able to win any 
fight we put our minds to,"" ""Assimilation will ensure Muslims are westernized"" ...) gain consent from others 
they tend to guide us deeply and become infused on our policies. Ultimately, what emerges is a relationship we 
take with our Islamic Enemy that parallels that between an addict and an enabler. Emblematic of this 
relationship is the ""transfer of responsibility"" in which we assume responsibility for the enemy's behavior who 
is addicted to transferring it away from itself The Control Factor actively maintains this relationship and makes 
changing that relationship as difficult a chore as any addict finds in breaking his addiction. And just as an addict 
needs to devote serious effort and con sciousness to his addiction, so must we devote great energy to unders 
tanding how the Control Factor ultimately sabotages us. 
FP: Describe the threat we face in our Islamic enemy. And you talk about the three levels of jihad against us. 
What are they? 
Siegel: Simply stated, our Islamic Enemy seeks the totalitarian domination of Islam throughout the world — 
Islamic supremacy. It seeks to have the West submit to Islam. Obviously, this does not mean that everybody 
becomes a Muslim. Islam, in all its varied expressions, permits dhimmis- those Christians, Jews, and some 
others who are permitted to remain as protected non-Muslims as long as they submit to an inferior status. What 
is critical is that Shariah (Islamic Law) ultimately rules the world. 
Jihad, loosely, is the effort/struggle to see this vision through. The most obvious method of Jihad is through 
violence; it is the one most familiar to most Westerners and almost all of the Koranic references to Jihad are 
based in violence. The Violent Jihad includes al-Qaeda and its offshoots as well as other groups that formed 
around the globe independent of al-Qaeda. It also obviously includes the violence from Islamic nations such as 
the Islamic Republic of Iran whose constitution specifies such vision. It also includes, however, various militant 
groups and training camps here in the US as well as ad hoc efforts of individuals. 
Since 9/11, there have been something in excess of 15,000 Violent Jihadic attacks across the globe. However, as 
terrible as this is, we have a tendency in the West to think that the only dimension of threat we face comes from 
violence. While the Bush administration helped initiate this thinking, the Obama administration has actively 
abused it by limiting any discussion of the threat we face to al-Qaeda and some other terrorist groups abroad. As 
frightening as these groups are, we can get some ease from thinking they are a band of ""extremists limited in 
number, weaponry, sophisticati on, and means. Stunningly, Hillary Clinton recently estimated that there are 
only about 50,000 ""homicidal"" violent extremists around the world who simply have been able to project power 
much greater than their number should allow. Here the Control Factor makes the threat appear more easily 
manageable. 
Jihad, however, is pursued in other often even more effective ways which I have grouped into three ""levels."" A 
second more insidious level of threat is what the Muslim Brotherhood itself called the ""Civilization Jihad."" It is 
the effort to infiltrate all aspects of our society, peacefully according to our laws, in order to later be in position 
to sabotage and destroy it from the inside. The Civilization Jihadists have learned the culture and rules of the 
territories they seek to command and use those rules to maneuver—specifically using our freedoms to destroy 
our freedoms. They use ""lawfare"" to seek changes in our laws so as to push Shariah into our society. Your 
readers should read Daniel Pipes and Brooke Goldstein's Lawfare Project material and others to fully appreciate 
how cancerous this activity has become. This includes intimidating in a variety of ways anyone who speaks out 
against them or Islam and seeking to squelch our treasured broad right to free speech so as to ultimately prevent 
any criticisms of Islam. Once criticism of Islam is prohibited, little can stop it from cascading throughout the 
culture. 
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The Civilization Jihad includes situating such Jihadists in critical positions in the society, in the government, in 
the legal system, the military, and elsewhere. It includes the control over university programs that distribute 
propaganda about Islam and Islamic history which then filters down throughout textbooks for even younger 
students. It includes control over most of the nation's mosques and local Imams guiding the mess ages engaged 
Muslims are receiving. Most troublesome are the Muslim g roups (CAIR, ISNA, MSA and others associated 
and/or joint venture partners with the Muslim Brotherhood) supposedly interested in ""outreach"" which know 
how to appear Westernized and interested in the goals of Western Civilization. They have fooled a large part of 
our authorities and media due in part to their patience and willingness to chip away, one airport prayer room, 
one frivolous intimidating lawsuit, one Congressman or CIA officer, one mosque, one ruling at a time. 
Particularly in the US, given our deep attachment to freedom as well as cultural and psychological tendencies 
toward diversity, Western guilt and expectations of truthfulness, this effort is devious and difficult to uproot. 
The Civilization Jihadists present one face to the American public which is completely at odds with their true 
agenda and how they deal in private. Jamie, you and David and others such as Steve Emerson, Frank Gaffney, 
Andy McCarthy and others have done s o much to uncover this level of Jihad that your readers should be urged 
to review as much of their work (including Steve's recent excellent documentary, The Grand Deception,  and 
Frank's important web video course, The Muslim Brotherhood in America) as possible. 
Finally, there is a third level — the International Institutional Jihad. Here the most powerful international 
institutions such as the UN and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and others seek to push into America 
from without those changes which are difficult to complete from within. The OIC is the largest Islamic 
institution in the world. It essentially controls the vote in the UN's General Assembly and thus explains in part 
the absurd and abject pro-Islamic, anti-Israel thrust of that organizat ion. This level seeks to use the power of 
Islamic nations to work fro m outside the West to force changes within the West. While there are various 
conflicts between many of the nations, being Islamic majority states, there is a great deal they agree upon which 
becomes the focus of these efforts. Just as the Obama administration is beginning to cooperate with 
international efforts to control gun ownership, so has Hillary Clinton's Istanbul Process become a dangerous 
step in the effort to restrict speech critical of Islam by norm (or possibly even treaty) when it may not be fully 
executable by domestic action alone. 
I should point out that Stephen Coughlin, the former Pentagon officer who has an important must-see 
presentation of Islamic Law, uses different names for these same three levels — Jihad, Dawa, and Ummah. Had I 
seen his work before I wrote my book I would have conformed to his categorizations. 
We must learn how powerful language has become on all three levels. Words such as ""peace, 0 $B!1 
""freedom,"" ""terrorism,"" and phrases such as ""human rights"" have different meanings for us and for our Islamic 
Enemy. To oversimplify, ""peace"" is not something for now but that which comes when all the earth is 
submitting to Islam. In the context of battles, ""peace"" is at best a temporary ceasefire. ""Freedom"" is best 
understood as having the freedom to fully submit to Islam, not to choose whatever beliefs one desires while 
respecting the same right in others. We've all seen how ""human rights"" and ""terror"" really only apply among 
Muslims, not to non-Muslims. Our enemy fully understands these differences and uses them at all levels to 
paralyze us. 
Look simply at how the phrase ""Israeli-Palestinian conflict"" has equalized the two parties, making it all the 
easier to ascribe features of one to the other and view the problem as a simple-to fix division of ass ets into 
statehoods but for personality problems among the leaders. The simple truth is that this is and has always been a 
one-sided Arab war against Israel as Ruth Wisse and others have described and, as Bibi Netanyahu made clear, 
the ONLY state truly at issue here has been the State of Israel that the Arabs have refused for over half a 
century. Nonetheless, the Control Factor hypnotically abuses the mind's susceptibility to the intricacies of 
language. 
Even the label ""Peace Process"" has been damaging language. While most focus upon the first word, turning this 
into a ""process"" has helped ensure that peace is never obtained. It is more appropriately called the ""Extortion 
Process"" because all that results is that violence is used over decades to extract concessions from Israel. 
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These three levels must be understood for their differences while united by a single goal. While these levels 
often op erate together and assist each other, we must avoid ""level confusion"" which the Control Factor 
employs to curtail our fears. If the Obama narrative is swallowed- that the only threat is the Violent Jihad- we 
will miss the other contamination fomenting within our borders. We must appreciate how these levels work 
together and even unite with other forces such as the global Leftist movement that you, Jamie, have described 
so forcefully in United in Hate. 
FP: You write about how we like to talk of ""Good Muslims"" and how we are always on the eternal search for 
""moderate"" Muslims (Khatami, Mousavi, Abbas, etc), while we stress how the ""extremists"" are the real 
problem and how ""few"" they really are. All of this is connected to the Control F actor. Enlighten us. 
Siegel: The Control Factor seeks to have us feel in control of the situation. The easiest way to do this is to 
simply minimize the number of potential enemies. We have been lectured for years about how Islam is a 
""religion of peace"" and that the violence we see (remember that we have already improperly limited the 
problem to violence) is the product of a small number of ""crazies"" (remember Hillary Clinton's 50,000) who 
have distorted Islam. I call this the ""Peaceful Muslim Disclaimer"" as virtually everyone in the press and 
government has been bullied into making some statement of the kind to silence those who will pressure them 
that they are ""Islamophobic"" and Islam is being attacked. (These are the Islam hustlers who operate on the same 
principles that black race hustlers so effectively used to extort concessions over the last six decades or so). 
Nobody has done any real work to support this proposition, nor is it clear exactly how it would be tested. My 
view is that the grammar ""Islam is x"" is itself problematic because Islam has expressed itself throughout history 
in a variety of fashions. It is more useful to talk in terms of how seriously engaged with Islam, the Koran and 
other texts, a Muslim is. What is significant is how Muslims today are using Islam and most of those who are in 
power either throughout a large territory or within a small community tend toward, if not fully advocate, the 
very supremacist ideas that we try to tell ourselves are reserved for the few ""extremists."" Presumably most 
Germans did not wish to see all Nazi atrocities carried out but in the end they fell in line because they had to. 
Those our politicians and press call the ""extremists"" are in one sense more accurately the ""good"" Muslims who 
ar e following their Islamic beliefs dutifully. 
FP: Tell us how Western shame and guilt play into all of this. 
Siegel: One of the dirty little secrets the Control Factor preys upon is that if we believe we control something 
we can comfort ourselves that we can change it. Remember the horror film- the threat has one purpose and that 
is to destroy you. You can not change it, talk it out of it, teach it alternatives or otherwise. That is what makes it 
so inherently frightening. If we can convince ourselves that we caused the threat to act the way it does we can 
maintain the secret hope that we can change it. Consequently, there is a tremendous attraction to blaming 
ourselves for the Islamic Enemy's behavior. And we see this power in our readily accepting responsibility for 
terror- because of our occupation, our greedy quest for oil, our failure to extend a hand of ""engagement,"" 
Israel's building settlements, our making videos that defa me Mohammed and so on. Again, the relationship is 
defined by the enemy blaming us for his actions and our accepting such responsibility. 
Shelby Steele has written brilliantly about what he calls ""white guilt"" and outlines how whites during the 60's 
and thereafter were pressured into a transaction whereby in order to re-obtain a sense of moral authority they 
accepted blame for the condition of blacks and behaved as if guilty. Blacks were able to extract great 
concessions and whites were able to view themselves as morally restored and redeemed. At a certain point, 
however, the behavior takes on a life of its own and the narratives become deeply embedded in the culture and, 
as we can see today, difficult to uproot. 
Western guilt is an extension of Steele's notion. President Obama's confessionals to the Arab world admitting 
that America has made ""mistakes"" and was not born a colonial pow er express this same tendency to appease 
through guilt. Hillary Clint on's ""reset"" with Russia conveyed the same submissive request for a more 
acceptable response. In being guilty we presume the other party will recognize our contrition and respond in 
like kind. One of the Control Factor's most devastating moves is employed- presuming the other is just like us 
and will respond the way we would. This is frequently how an enabler justifies his continuous support for an 
addict. The problem, however is that our Islamic Enemy is NOT like us and will not respond in like kind. 
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Rather, as we repeatedly refuse to learn, appeasement invites more abuse from an enemy. This becomes 
the ""game of guilt;"" it tends to expand to greater and greater consequences. Paradoxically, psychological 
defenses tend to create the very outcomes they seek to eliminate and it is no different here. It is a game we love 
to play but, unfortunately, the game gives us no rules for how to end it. 
All beha vior is instructive. That is, we teach others how to treat us. The game of guilt, along with other Control 
Factor tools, teaches our Enemy it is winning and to continue playing. 
FP: The reason Nidal Hasan was able to perpetrate his murder spree at Fort Hood is precisely because of our 
Control Factor. Please connect the dots for our readers. 
Siegel: Just as I used to look at Hitler when I was young and be amazed that no one could see what he was 
about, in retrospect the same applies to Hasan. It is precisely all the elements of the Control Factor that could 
allow this man, a Soldier of Allah, to be positioned as he was. He was blatantly voicing his Islamist views and 
Jihadi intent including, even, an essay recommending the ""painful liquidation"" of non-Muslims. Yet, in the 
Army of all places, the Control Factor operated to allow and even foster his work. Even after the murders, we 
cont inue the denial by calling it ""workplace violence."" He is the Civilization-Violent Jihad combo! And we 
continue to enable the same infiltration elsewhere. 
FP: Tell our readers about ""The Project"" and ""Explanatory Memorandum."" These are realities that serve as 
great threats to the Control Factor, right? 
Siegel: These are separate sets of documents that outline the Muslim Brotherhood's goals and plans underlying 
the Civilization Jihad. The former was discovered in Europe and extends globally. The 1991 Explanatory 
Memorandum emerged in 2008 from the Holy Land Foundation trial and describes the Brotherhood's work in 
America as a ""Civilization-Jihadist Process with all the word means"" and ""a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating 
and destroying the Western civilization from within and 'sabotaging' its miserable house by their own hands 
and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other 
religions."" 
Much as the communists of the Soviet Union had formulated in the 1950s a detailed long term plan to 
destroy America (many of the effects of which we are seeing of late including destroying the nuclear family, 
secularizing the nation, feminizing men ...) these documents identify many strategies to infiltrate while eroding 
the foundations of our civilization in order to transform it into an Islamic one. The Control Factor has many 
ingenious ways to convince us that this is ridiculous, that our courts and system would never allow such a thing, 
that one is racist or ""Islamophobic,"" if not insane, for even thinking this is real. And just as with the 
communists, time is plentiful. Even more so with our Islamic Enemy, a multi-decade plan is short term. It is not 
critical that a seriou sly engaged Muslim lives to see the result. It is critical, more correctly a duty, 
however, that he carries on his Jihad. Patrick Poole and The Center for Security Policy's Team B Report, 
Shariah: The Threat to America, are excellent sources for your readers to pursue these documents. 
FP: And so what you call an ""Inner Jihad"" has to start. It's our, as you say, mandatory ""addiction treatment."" 
Please explain. 
Siegel: The ""Inner Jihad"" is the effort we must undertake to gain control over our Control Factors. There is a 
famous Hadith in which Mohammad, returning from a successful battle, essentially says that the physical fight 
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vicious effort we must take internally against our own Control Factor tendencies. 
As I said earlier, the Control Factor is ""active"" and ""continuous"" so we must constantly monitor and combat 
it. Like ""Whack-a-Mole,"" just as we may think we have addressed it, another variation pops right up. I use the 
terms ""addict"" and ""enabler"" because we truly need a form of rehab to break the habitual power of the 
Control Factor and because our relationship with our Islamic Enemy is very much like that between a typical 
addict and his enabler. And just as it is so difficult for an addict to kick his habit, so does the enabler act 
essentially addicted to his behavior and find it so difficult to change. At its core, the relati onship involves the 
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transfer of responsibility for our Islamic Enemy's hate and resultant actions onto us with our response framed 
essentially as an effort to do what we can to try to address the Enemy's grievance. (Your book, United in Hate, 
describes this addiction to hate in detail. 
The key to the Inner Jihad is to learn to transfer responsibility for our Islamic Enemy's hate and resultant 
actions back to it and take responsibility back for our own situation. We must learn all we can about the enemy. 
We must unwind our inappropriate projections and introjections and rediscover who we are and are not. We 
must speak up. We must support those Muslims who promote expressions of Islam that are consistent with our 
principles. And we must stalk the C ontrol Factor, constantly be on guard for its intrusion. This is an individual 
endeavor as each of our Control Factors uses its own methods. The book gives plenty of examples of each 
maneuver discussed but it is important for each of us to discover the unique workings of his own mind. That 
takes the work of the Inner Jihad. 
FP: Share with our readers what you mean by the ""Turnaround Moment."" 
Siegel: There is a moment in typical horror films where the central characters have been pushed to their limit. 
They then change and fully embrace the willingness to be as ruthless as the threat they face. No more moral 
high ground; no more futile attempts to ignore or change the threat's essence. As Lee Harris described in The  
Suicide of Reason, it is the willingness o r license to be (not necessarily actually being) as ruthless that is 
critical. It is a mental state that sheds all the prior counter-productive efforts at denial to finally clearly focus on 
the threat faced. Part of the Inner Jihad is to reach that Turnaround Moment sooner rather than later. 
FP: You suggest that ""mirroring"" should be used as part of our arsenal. Tell us about it. 
Siegel: Mirroring is a literal approach to transferring back to the addict responsibility that we have been 
inappropriately accepting. Critical to the addict/enabler relationship is asymmetry. Like the addict, the enemy 
uses a less limiting set of rules than we do. The enemy typically initiates aggression while we respond only. 
Mirroring means that we demonstrate our willingness to act symmetrically, to be governed by the same rules. It 
is stunning how much is accomplished when one's attitude simply is clear that he will do what is necessary; 
often not much else is needed as the addict or enemy realizes the game is fundamentally changed. But other 
times action is absolutely needed. Demonstrating that we are not afraid to treat the enemy as it treats us carries 
great meaning. Imagine (international law aside) if Israel announced that from now on it will mirror Hamas 
such that if civilian populations are targeted by bombs from Gaza, Israel will do the same (it is accused of such 
anyway). The population might finally rethink and take responsibility for its privilege of voting its leaders. As 
stated earlier, all behavior is instructive and when we mirror we teach the other the effects of his behavior. 
Conversely, some situations demand that we assert asymmetry; those cases where it is necessary to highlight 
our differences with the enemy. Just this week, an disingenuous report was issued by an NGO drawing an 
equivalence between Palestinian and Israe li schoolbooks claiming that both sides have their relativistic"" • 
narratives."" Yet, as the Palestinian Media Watch's website has demonstrated for years, there is nothing in the 
West anywhere comparable to the hatred spewed daily by the Palestinian Authority, including through its 
education system. It is interesting to note that while the US State Department initially funded the ""study,""- in 
what appears to be an attempt to sanitize the PA's record so that the US can continue to fund the PA against the 
spirit of US law- Hillary Clinton has a difficult time escaping her conclusion as Senator in 2007 that these 
schoolbooks along with other media ""profoundly poison(s) the minds of these children."" It is most important 
that we do not succumb to this type of use of symmetry that distorts the profound differences between us and 
the enemy. 
Essentially, we are not clear as a nation, participating in a world with international rules, how to bes t fight this 
enemy. The first act of any rehab is to acknowledge that we do not know how nor are we yet competent to 
stop our addictions. This is not a book about policy. In fact, the ""right"" policies are unlikely to emerge until a 
critical mass has meaningfully dealt with their Control Factors and share a common perspective. We like to look 
at our history and assume a single perspective throughout but the truth is that we had to learn how to respond to 
Pearl Harbor, the Nazis, the Cold War etc. The same applies here. Our press promotes ""elites"" who are tasked 
with acting as if they possess the ""true wisdom"" to deal with our threats but the truth is we do not know nor are 
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we equipped to marshal enough of our population to agree just yet. The sooner we learn, however, the less we 
will suffer. Mirroring has always been a key component of those lessons. 
I have been encouraged by some recent acts that have begu n to nip at the asymmetry. For years, the language 
of ""feeling s"" had been reserved for our enemy while we were limited to that of ""action;"" we would do terrible 
acts that would cause bad feelings in the enemy which would then serve to justify whatever response it made. It 
had always been a question of the harsh insensitive acts Westerners do against Muslims and the resulting hurt, 
loss, shame etc. that Muslims experience. The Ground Zero Mosque incident, however, broke new ground 
because all of a sudden non-Muslims' feelings became the focus and were cast as resulting from Muslim acts. 
Another example was seen in how quickly the attempt to blame the Benghazi murders on the video about 
Mohammad fell apart. Just as large corporations eventually learned to turn away from shakedown attempts from 
race baiters, we are beginning to learn to demand symmetry through mirroring. A word of caution: When 
enablers change their behavior and demand symmetrical rules for the addict, the latter typically initially erupts 
with great resistance. This is a stage we must be prepared to tolerate and fully withstand as it creates the only 
real chance for the addict to finally change. It is critical, therefore, that when we finally engage in mirroring that 
we be prepared to see it through completion. 
FP: What if we fail to engage in our own Inner Jihad and the Control Factor stays firmly in place? 
Siegel: Critical to the Inner Jihad is the realization that our civilization is fragile; not to be taken for granted. 
Our demands for multi-culturalism and diversity have bumped heads with the simple paradox that tolerating the 
intolerant leads to extinction. Tolerating the intolerant is perhaps the most crystalline version of asymmetry we 
have accepted. Seriously engaged Muslims MUST place the Koran above all law while in America, the 
Constitution ranks supreme. As Omar Ahmad, founder of CAIR, reputedly said, ""Islam isn't in Amer ica to be 
equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran is the highest authority in America and Islam is the 
only accepted religion on Earth."" Who makes law- the people or Allah? While the Control Factor constantly 
seeks for some accommodation between the two, this conflict CAN NOT be negotiated. Only one can survive 
not because we have declared ""war"" but because our Islamic Enemy has. That is, perhaps, the lesson we will 
most need to fully learn, one way or another. We will eventually hit a Turnaround Moment as a nation and 
if enough of us are not truly prepared to fight and continue to be controlled by our delusions, we will lose. If we 
truly seek to win, it is better to get there sooner while we have advantages than later. 
FP: Bill Siegel, thank you for joining FrontPage Interview. 
And thank you for writing this superb and most important book. 
We encourage all o four readers to get their hands on The Control Factor: Our Struggle to See the True Threat  
and to read it! 
Editor's note: To watch The Glazov Gang's recent discussion about the Muslim Brotherhood's 
infiltration of the United States and the Obama administration, see this week's episode below: 
Freedom Center pamphlets now available on Kindle: Click here. 
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AdinaK 86p 11 hours ago  
The war being waged has two components - mental and physical. The mental side is a minefield of constructs, deeply 
implanted within generations of Americans, and its PC chickens are coming home to roost. So much so, millions of 
Americans (westerners) cannot break free of its shackles. But it is not as if these mental chains magically appe ared. Far 
from it - http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/11/26/the-death-of-...  
In addition, the fault-lines of democracy allowed for the most retrograde forces, on this planet, to infiltrate and 
penetrate the body politic- http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/09/02/the-subversio...  
IF the mental and physical constraints are not immediately removed, it is a given that western civilization will fall. Cause 
and effect. 
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dmw 30 minutes ago  
And I would think one ""phy sical constraint"" is to not let them in in the first place. By & quot;them"" I mean those who 
have allegiance to a socio-political system disguised as a religion that seeks world dominance by man imposed 
methodology/effort -- unlike Judaism and Christianity properly understood. If we are to ""believe"", the world already has 
a King and does not need a Caliph. 
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MikeWood 6 hours ago  
Ground-breaking, brilliant. There are absolutely essentially lessons to be learned from this. Buy this book, read it, study 
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lambsev77 54p 4 hours ago  
The fall of Rome... The fall of the 3rd Reich... The fall of Western Civilization... 
00000h... Scary! 
How about the fall of humankind recorded in Genesis Chapter 3 and following? 
We're ALL GONNA DIE! But will you rise with Christ? 
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gWolfyJam  - 2 hours ago  
Notice how celebrities basking in their narcissism think they can dictate culture to us while they live their lives in the 
comfort of their ivory castles. Mia farrow has no clue what the right to bear arms means and because of that she needs 
to shut the hell up. _As far as blacks go-- I grew up in the 70's coming home from Hallahan H.S. in Philadel phia, me and 
my small group of girls were swarmed by a mob of black girls who would kick and slap and pull hair without provocation. 
of course we would fight back but then that was back in the day when whites weren't sissies. Still I made excuses for 
them. Black men would get in my face for no other reason than to intimidate me. rocks were thrown a my car for no 
reason. So, in short, based on my experiences Blacks are the cause of racism and if they hate whites so much then they 
should stay away completely and totally. _ 
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gWolfyJam  - 2 hours ago  
I read the Control factor and it was excellent. I wish more people would realize that our country is at its most vulnerable 
than ever in its history. the jihadis have basically taken over the inner cities. Islam's love for violence coupled with 
ignorance and narcissim are a recipe for disaster. I hope Americans wake up in time to save their future. I'm not 
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COLLABORATIVE INSIGHTS

February 25, 2019

Vapor

While vapor remains the major market share gainer across adult use cannabis, CBD only
offerings are much smaller, but represent a solid growth segment. Over the next two
years, we believe the category can generate over $350 mm in revenues, with upside if
consumer adoption of this particular form factor resembles the adult use market for
THC, or the growing popularity of nicotine vapor. We benchmark the market
opportunity against the U.S. e-cigarette category, which we are forecasting to grow
~32% in 2019 and ~27% in 2020, resulting in revenues surpassing $11 bn in 2020. In
addition to e-commerce, we believe there will be distribution channel overlap with e-
cigs, with a focus on vape shops and convenience stores (as opposed to just
dispensaries). If vapor generates $360 mm in revenues in 2020, that would result in an
implied market share of 3.2%, roughly 10% of JUUL’s current U.S. market share.

Figure 95 Vapor Will Be Smaller, But Can Grow To Almost $400 MM Figure 96 Our E-Cig Model Assumes Revenues Of ~$11 BN By 2020
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believe there is upside to these numbers and that strong consumer adoption can result
in revenues surpassing $500 mm.

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Even if each outlier case only applies to 3 or 7 per-
cent of one type of cancer, as more cases are solved,
the benefits quickly add up. “We’re talking about
small subsets of patients that together make a radi-
cal change,” says Funda Meric-Bernstam, chair of the
Department of Investigational Cancer Therapeutics at
MD Anderson, who leads the unusual responders pro-
gram. In some cases, existing cancer drugs can simply
be repurposed, such as discover-
ing that an immunosuppressant
drug works for certain bladder
cancers. Or 1t might mean find-
ing new life for an experimental
drug that had been abandoned.
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pinpoint who might be helped
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maceutical company might
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ther studies to get that drug
approved for routine use.

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thing like what’s been gomg on
for several years at the Genome
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ing 1s being used to help people
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genome sequencing, exome sequencing, and RNA
expression analysis—what Washington University pro-
fessor of genetics and Genome Institute co-director
Elaine Mardis calls the “Maserati approach”—the team
compares a comprehensive genetic profile against a
database of drugs that target specific gene variants,
looking for a match.

If there is a match, the results can be impressive,
as was the case with a young Washington University
doctor with leukemia, Lukas Wartman, who had suf-
fered two relapses. In his case, analysis revealed that
a gene called FLT3 was expressing more RNA than
normal. A drug that inhibits this gene, usually used in

39

kidney cancer, sent his cancer into remission. Wash-
ington University now has a special genetic test for
patients with his type of leukemia.

Just recently, Solit’s group solved another excep-
tional responder mystery—a case of ureteral cancer
eliminated with a combination of old and new drugs.
The old drug is a standard chemotherapy treatment
that prevents DNA from unwinding, which it must do
in order to duplicate itself dur-
ing cell division. The new one
sensitizes cells to the effects of
radiation. This patient tumed
out to have a mutation in RADSO,
involved in repairing broken
DNA strands (badly repaired
DNA can lead to uncontrolled
cancerous growth). Here, too,
the outlier finding may lead to
a new treatment, since about
4 percent of the other tumors
Solit has looked at have muta-
tions that affect part of the
RAD50 complex. “To look at
these individuals’ cancers can
tell us a lot more than just a
random case of cancer,” says
Solit. “There’s a phenotype—a
response—that gives you infor-
mation about the genes.”

Solit is now making a quick,
reliable test for the TSC1 mutation to single out people
with bladder cancer who might be helped by everoli-
mus, and 1s planning a new study to test the drug in
them. And the original outlier, the woman with blad-
der cancer? Three years later, she’s still on everolimus
and still having a “complete response,” Solit says. She’s
doingfine. ©

kat mcgowan is acontributing editor at Discover magazine
and an independent journalist based in Berkeley, Calif.,
and New York City.

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Sent: 8/27/2012 11:05:23 AM
To: Sultan Bin Sulaye
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Date: August 27, 2012 9:23:47 AM GMT+01:00

To: 'Esneh'

Subject: How to Repair the Widening American-Israeli Rift

Israel Policy Forum

On Iran: How to Repair the Widening American-Israeli Rift
Ephraim Sneh

The Islamist takeover in the Middle East and North Africa has created perilous strategic
turbulence in the region. Consequently, it is now critically important that the United States and
its few allies cooperate closely. Unfortunately, this has not been the case in recent weeks for US-
Israel relations regarding Iran’s nuclear program. The disagreement about attacking Iran’s
nuclear facilities has turned into ugly bickering, much of it disguised. This is harmful for both
Israel and the United States.

To heal this rift — which is necessary to effectively address the Iranian threat — we must
understand the following basic facts:

1. The Israeli fear of a nuclear Iran is genuine. It is not a political trick of Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu or Defense Minister Ehud Barak. A nuclear Iran would bolster and
encourage extremist militant forces across the region. The moderates would be discouraged,
intimidated and invariably weakened to the point where they would be unable to negotiate with
Israel. In just a few years, Israel will be surrounded by three ‘Pakistan-like’ countries: Saudi
Arabia, Egypt and Turkey. All three would possess nuclear weapons and be dominated
politically by Islamists. In such a scenario, Israel would lose its strategic advantage in the region.
It would lose its lead as a country of entrepreneurship and excellence, as foreign investment
would decline and talented young Israelis would build their future abroad. No responsible Israeli

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e do so in such a way as to lead to self and attentional focus as emergent structures that serve
as approximate attractors of this dynamic, over time periods that are long relative to the
basic “cognitive cycle time” of the system’s forward-analysis dynamics

To prove the truth of a hypothesis of this nature would seem to require mathematics fairly
far beyond anything that currently exists. Nonetheless, however, we feel it is important to
formulate and discuss such hypotheses, so as to point the way for future investigations both
theoretical and pragmatic.

3.5 Perspectives on Machine Consciousness

Finally, we can’t let a chapter on philosophy — even a brief one — end without some discussion
of the thorniest topic in the philosophy of mind: consciousness. Rather than seeking to resolve
or comprehensively review this most delicate issue, we will restrict ourselves to giving it in
Appendix ?? an overview of many of the common views on the subject; and here in the main text
discussing the relationship between consciousness theory and patternist philosophy of cognition,
the practical work of designing and building AGI.

One fairly concrete idea about consciousness, that relates closely to certain aspects of the
CogPrime design, is that the subjective experience of being conscious of some entity X, is corre-
lated with the presence of a very intense pattern in one’s overall mind-state, corresponding to X.
This simple idea is also the essence of neuroscientist Susan Greenfield’s theory of consciousness
[GreO1] (but in her theory, ""overall mind-state” is replaced with ""brain-state""), and has much
deeper historical roots in philosophy of mind which we shall not venture to unravel here.

This observation relates to the idea of ""moving bubbles of awareness"" in intelligent systems.
If an intelligent system consists of multiple processing or data elements, and during each (suf-
ficiently long) interval of time some of these elements get much more attention than others,
then one may view the system as having a certain ""attentional focus"" during each interval. The
attentional focus is itself a significant pattern in the system (the pattern being ""these elements
habitually get more processor and memory"", roughly speaking). As the attentional focus shifts
over time one has a ""moving bubble of pattern"" which then corresponds experientially to a
""moving bubble of awareness.""

This notion of a ""moving bubble of awareness"" ties in very closely to global workspace
theory [Baa97] (briefly mentioned above), a cognitive theory that has broad support from
neuroscience and cognitive science and has also served as the motivation for Stan Franklin’s
LIDA AI system [BF09], to be discussed in Chapter ??. The global workspace theory views the
mind as consisting of a large population of small, specialized processes — a society of agents.
These agents organize themselves into coalitions, and coalitions that are relevant to contextually
novel phenomena, or contextually important goals, are pulled into the global workspace (which
is identified with consciousness). This workspace broadcasts the message of the coalition to al
the unconscious agents, and recruits other agents into consciousness. Various sorts of contexts
— e.g. goal contexts, perceptual contexts, conceptual contexts and cultural contexts — play a
role in determining which coalitions are relevant, and form the unconscious ""background"" o
the conscious global workspace. New perceptions are often, but not necessarily, pushed into the
workspace. Some of the agents in the global workspace are concerned with action selection, i.e.
with controlling and passing parameters to a population of possible actions. The contents o
the workspace at any given time have a certain cohesiveness and interdependency, the so-called

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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030416.txt,"So what to make of the current fuss over Ghislaine? I haven’t spoken to her or to Jeffrey, but I suspect that her
loyalty to friends like Bill Clinton will keep her in good stead, in the end, she’ll be out and about as always.
Look at Waksal and Stewart. No one sees them and thinks: criminal. Au contraire. In this city, money makes up
for all sorts of blemishes.

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TEXT-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033326.txt,"From: Richard Kahn 
Sent: 10/24/2018 10:27:45 PM 
To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Subject: The New York Times: When Trump Phones Friends, the Chinese Listen and Learn 
Importance: High 
When Trump Phones Friends, the Chinese Listen and Learn 
The New York Times 
President Trump has been repeatedly told by aides that his cellphone calls are not secure from foreign spies. But 
he has refused to heed the warnings to stop talking. Read the full story 
Shared from Apple News 
Richard Kahn 
HBRK Associates Inc. 
575 Lexington Avenue, 4th Floor 
New York, NY 10022 
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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016190.txt,"assume a terminal growth rate of 2% across all of the markets, starting from 2023. For
STC's associates, we value its holdings in Oger Telecom and Binariang using a
combination of our Research team's valuation (for Oger's stake in Turk Telecom) and
book value. We then add STC's net cash position at YE 2015 in deriving our PO.

Risks to our PO come from potential market share loss as both Mobily and Zain KSA,
plus several MVNO's are aiming to take market share from STC domestically, following
recent cut in MTR's. Additionally, we see ongoing risk from FX exposure at their
subsidiary investments, especially their indirect stake in Turk Telekom.

Savola (XSAVF)
Given the diversified nature of the Savola group, we use a sum of the parts valuation in
deriving our SAR46/share price objective for Savola. Specifically, we:

Value the food business on 12x 2016 earnings, a 30% discount to global peers on
account have having slightly slower growth and risks presented by having a significant
position in Iran (which accounts for 13% of revenues).

Value retail(Panda) at 15x 2016 earnings, a c.10% discount to global peers on account of
having slower near term growth. we believe near term growth will be impacted by
continued aggressive expansion and slowing demand trends in the Saudi market
(following the introduction of the 2016 budget).

The investments business is valued using a variety of methods. For its stake in Almarai,
we value it in line with our price objective for the shares. Savola's interests in other
listed entities (Herfy, KEC and EEC) are valued at current market valuation given we do
not have research coverage on the names. The stakes in none listed entities including
the real estate book and private equity holdings are valued at 2x book value (YE2015).

Downside risks to our PO include higher cost escalation than we forecast, further
adverse moves in commodity prices , adverse FX movements in countries outside of
Saudi Arabia where Savola does business and any disruptions to its material Iranian
business.

THALES (THLEF)

To derive our Thales price objective of €87, we use a 2017E sum of the parts valuation,
using Rockwell Collins, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, Ultra, and the EU Civil Aerospace
peer group as peers for the Aerospace/defence segments, and Ansaldo STAS as a peer

for the transport business.

At €87 Thales would trade on 18.1x 2017E P/E and 12.3x EV/EBITA which we think is
appropriate given balance sheet/ portfolio optionality and building order momentum.

Upside/Downside risks to our price objective are: 1) changes in the company's free float,
2) assets swap and portfolio changes could add more value than we currently estimate
3) lower/more French defence cuts than we currently estimate.

YANSAB (XUYNF)
We apply a justified P/E multiple to derive YANSAB's PO of SAR48. The P/E is based on
a normalized RoE of 14.5%, Cost of Equity of 11% and payout of 70%

Downside risks to our price objective are: 1. Lower-than-expected demand for polyester
would adversely impact MEG prices and effectively earnings 2. Unexpected change in
feedstock prices could negatively impact earnings 3. Unexpected shutdowns that would
result in lower production.

80 GEMs Paper #26 | 30 June 2016 3S Merrill Lynch

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012973.txt,"Chapter 4
Brief Survey of Cognitive Architectures

4.1 Introduction

While we believe CogPrime is the most thorough attempt at an architecture for advanced AGI,
to date, we certainly recognize there have been many valuable attempts in the past with similar
aims; and we also have great respect for other AGI efforts occurring in parallel with Cog-
Prime development, based on alternative, sometimes overlapping, theoretical presuppositions
and practical choices. In most of this book we will ignore these other current and historical
efforts except where they are directly useful for CogPrime — there are many literature reviews
already published, and this is a research treatise not a textbook. In this chapter, however, we
will break from this pattern and give a rough high-level overview of the various AGI archi-
tectures at play in the field today. The overview definitely has a bias toward other work with
some direct relevance to CogPrime, but not an overwhelming bias; we also discuss a number of
approaches that are unrelated to, and even in some cases conceptually orthogonal to, our own.

CogPrime builds on prior AI efforts in a variety of ways. Most of the specific algorithms
and structures in CogPrime have their roots in prior AI work; and in addition, the CogPrime
cognitive architecture has been heavily inspired by some other holistic cognitive architectures,
especially (but not exclusively) MicroPsi [Bac09], LIDA [BF 09] and DeSTIN [ARK09a, ARCO9J.
In this chapter we will briefly review some existing cognitive architectures, with especial but
not exclusive emphasis on the latter three.

We will articulate some rough mappings between elements of these other architectures and
elements of CogPrime — some in this chapter, and some in Chapter 5. However, these mappings
will mostly be left informal and very incompletely specified. The articulation of detailed inter-
architecture mappings is an important project, but would be a substantial additional project
going well beyond the scope of this book. We will not give a thorough review of the similarities
and differences between CogPrime and each of these architectures, but only mention some of
the highlights.

The reader desiring a more thorough review of cognitive architectures is referred to Wlodek
Duch’s review paper from the AGI-08 conference [DOPO8]; and also to Alexei Samsonovich’s
review paper [Sam 10], which compares a number of cognitive architectures in terms of a feature
checklist, and was created collaboratively with the creators of the architectures.

Dutch, in his survey of cognitive architectures [DOP08], divides existing approaches into three
paradigms — symbolic, emergentist and hybrid — as broadly indicated in Figure 4.1. Drawing on
his survey and updating slightly, we give here some key examples of each, and then explain why

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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030402.txt,"From: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]

Sent: 6/13/2018 2:36:34 PM
To: Karp, Brad S aS
Subject: Re: my suggested type of edits. lets talk

he is commited to not doing it - now , if any hint of trouble ill explain on the phone I had a long talk this
morning.

On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 10:24 AM, Karp, Brad S <> wrote:

Thanks. It's still quite challenging. Will speak shortly to Michael.

Brad S. Karp | Chairman
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
1285 Avenue of the Americas | New York, NY 10019-6064

| 1 1://www.paulweiss.com

Bio: https://www.paulweiss.com/professionals/partners-and-counsel/Brad-S-Karp.aspx

From: jeffrey E.

Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2018 9:37 AM

To: Karp, Brad S

Subject: Fwd: my suggested type of edits. lets talk

my suggested edits

---------- Forwarded message ----------

From: jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 7:51 AM
Subject: my suggested type of edits. lets talk

To: Michael Wolff <r >

The Special Counsel's office, nearly leak-proof since its inception more than a year ago and seemingly
immune to the President's constant taunts, might appear to be operating in some parallel universe unmoved by
the every-day political turmoil. But in the course of conversations I've had recently, as a I research a new book
on President Trump and the forces arrayed against him, what has become clear is that Robert Mueller and his
office are preparing for a life or death confrontation with the President and the mother of all constitutional
crises.

My discussions have been with both White House advisors and people close to the investigation. No source
involved in this story would speak on the record.

The sources firmly believe that Special Counsel has ready an aggressive legal theory for the indictment of
the president for obstruction of Justice. In the last few weeks, as the President has indulged his pardon
authority, the Mueller team has also developed a legal strategy to oppose the ikely pardon of former National
Security Advisor, Michael Flynn, who had previously struck a plea bargain which could include his testimony
against the President.

Robert Mueller, according to one person familiar with the Special Counsel's thinking, could hardly contain
his disgust when Rudy Giuliani, the President's new lawyer—hired to makes a television case for the President
and to push back against the Mueller team—in May airily dismissed the notion that a president can be indicted.
Adding insult to injury, Giuliani—who a White House source said had likely learned of aspects of the pending
indictment—said Mueller agreed with that assessment. White House sources believe Giuliani was daring the
Special Counsel to tip his hand. Mueller, in character, contained his outrage and continued to hold his cards
close as his team finished preparing the obstruction case and refined the legal theories under which it would

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TEXT-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033332.txt,"From: paul krassner 
Sent: 11/28/2018 9:56:58 PM 
To: J [jeevacation@gmail.com] 
Subject: Fwd: Trump: Manafort Pardon 'Not Off the Table' 
Importance: High 
Begin forwarded message: 
This one is milder than the previous—pk 
From: ""The Daily Beast: PM Cheat Sheet"" <emails@thedailybeast.com> 
Subject: Trump: Manafort Pardon Not Off the Table' 
Date: November 28, 2018 at 1:29:35 PM PST 
To: 
DOUBLE STANDARD 
Trump Labor Sec Helped 'Contain' Scandal in Epstein Deal 
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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030483.txt,"Date: Saturday, October 31 2009 11:43 AM 
Subject: Re: on another subject... gates and ed 
From: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation©gmail.com> 
To: roger schank 
>; 
they are sending their rep here on the second week of dec.. do you remember chaunce the gardner from "" being 
there"" . dimitri 
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 7:36 AM, roger schank <_ 
> wrote: 
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation gives about $200 million a year in elementary and secondary education grants and is 
pressing for some of the same changes that Obama wants, such as paying teachers based on student test scores. 
roger schank 
http://www.rogerschank.comi 
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confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may 
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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020279.txt,"(27

confuse the CIA. Others are rejected as political liabilities, as happened to Wang Lijun, a well-
connected police chief in China. In February 2012, Wang, walked into at the US consulate in
Chengdu asking from asylum. The State Department decided against it. After Wang left US
protection, he was arrested for corruption and received a 15 year prison sentence. Such
decisions about walk-ins are not made with due consideration, often at the highest level of a
government, since exfiltrating a defector can result in diplomatic ruptures and political
embarrassments.

Conversely, it raises espionage concerns when an adversary government authorizes the exfiltration of a
rogue employee of an intelligence service. At minimum, it means that a rival government placed value on
what the defector could provide it. The Snowden case is no exception. Whatever Snowden’s prior
relations may have been with Russia, it could prudently assumed that after he fled to Moscow, in light of
the intelligence value of the stolen documents, he would wind up in the hands of the Russian security
services. That assumption was reinforced by subsequent countermeasures that were implemented by
Russia to block secret sources of NSA surveillance. “Within weeks of the [Snowden] leaks,
communications sources dried up, tactics were changed,” Michael Morell who was at that time the Deputy
Director of the CIA, revealed. It indicated that at least part of the US communications intelligence that
Snowden had stole was in enemy hands. The CIA and NSA’s monitoring of these countermeasures was
itself extremely delicate since revealing what they learned about Russian and Chinese countermeasures
risked compromising even more U.S communications sources than had Snowden. General Keith B.
Alexander headed both the NSA and Cyber Command at the time these countermeasures were first detected
in 2013. He said in his interview with the Australian Business Review: “We absolutely need to
know what Russia’s involvement is with Snowden.” He further said, “I think Snowden is now being
manipulated by Russian intelligence. I just don't know when that exactly started."". Much turned on the
answer to this “when” question. The counterintelligence issue was not if this U.S. intelligence defector in
Moscow was under Russian control, but when he came under it.

There were three possible time periods when Snowden might have been brought under control
by the Russian intelligence service: while he was still working for the NSA; after he arrived in
Hong Kong on May 20, 2013; or after he arrived in Russia on June 23, 2013.

The NSA Scenario

The first scenario could stretch as far back as when Snowden was forced out of the CIA in
2009. It will be recalled that the CIA then had planned to launch a security investigation of
Snowden but it was aborted when he resigned. He also had incurred large losses speculating in
the financial markets in Geneva, which is an activity which had in the past attracted in interest of
foreign intelligence services. So it had to be considered in this scenario that Snowden had been
recruited by the Russians after he left the CIA and directed to take jobs at civilian contractors
servicing the NSA. Such “career management,” as it is called by the CIA, could explain why
Snowden had switched jobs in March 2013 to Booz Allen Hamilton, which, unlike his previous
employer Dell, allowed him to gain proximity the super-secrets list of the telecommunication
systems that the NSA had penetrated in Russia and China. Even though Snowden himself did not

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016184.txt,"4. Increasing the reserve to peak demand to 12% from 10% now: This reserve
margin was just at 2.3% back in 2012 and SEC was assigned a target of 10% which
management expects to fulfil. In light of the recent improvements and SEC’s
ambitious capacity expansion plan (SAR240bn / (US$64bn in capex over the 2016-
21), the target looks realistic to us.

5. Reducing the outages of more than 5min to 3.0 per year from 6.4 per year now
and the average outage time to 120 minutes from 262 minutes now. This goal
will likely be achieved through the ongoing investments in expanding and improving
SEC’s transmission and distribution network (half of the overall capex incurred in
2015 went to these two segments).

6. Increasing the access to electricity to 99.5% of the population from 99% now:
It is hard to quantify the cost of this objective, but we believe that it entails
increasing the reach to the remote Eastern and Southern regions of the country
where the economics of expanding the transmission network are not relevant.

7. Reach 86 GW of installed capacity vs. 69 GW at the end of 2015 (incl. 50 GW
at SEC alone): The target is in line with SEC own current ambitious expansion plan
(22.8GW to be added over five years to reach 68.3 GW by the end of 2018) and
factors in additional capacity from SWCC and IPPs as well.

8. Generate 4% of the electricity from renewables (equiv. to 3.45 GW): we would
expect the projects to be primarily based on onshore wind and solar. It is likely that
these projects will be fully developed by IPPs under long term power purchase
agreements where SEC would be the offtaker and assume the higher cost of the
electricity from these RelPP. While SEC has currently no renewable generation
capacity at all, it has recently invited expressions of interest for potential lead
developers for two 50MW solar photovoltaic projects, which we see as a (modest)
step towards the NTP target. Based on the KACARE study on grid impact, Saudi
Arabia’s electricity network should be able to integrate up to 14GW of renewables
capacity by 2020. Finally, we note that ACWA Power, the largest privately-owned
utility company in Saudi Arabia and one of the main IPP players in the country
(along with Engie), has developed a proven expertise in wind and solar projects
internationally. ACWA is likely to be one of the main players in the upcoming
liberalisation plans.

Chart 63: SEC’s debt and payables to the gov. Chart 64: Saudi Arabia power generation Chart 65: Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) fuel
& GREs grew at 17.4% CAGR since 2009 installed capacity split in 2015 (total: 69 GW) mix for electricity generation
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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031355.txt,"—— The Nobel Charitable Trust @

Vision

""We envisage a world in which alternative, renewable and sustainable energy sources will be freely accessible to all members of

society. A world in which solutions have been found and successfully implemented to meet the present and future needs whilst
avoiding environmental threats.

Mission

""Nobel Charitable Trust seek to encourage and push forward the development and use of products, procedures, research and

initiative within the domain of renewable and sustainable energy in order to fulfil our vision and to create general awareness of
this matter”

Nobel Charitable Trust Scholarship

The scholarship shall be awarded at every award ceremony to the person or persons who, have shown the most inventive and
effective development or discoveries within the fields of alternative, renewable and or sustainable energy.

Candidates are most likely to be found amongst young researchers and inventors from all over the world. Companies,
organisations, politicians and others could also be candidates so long as they fulfil the criteria above and, of course, that their
efforts are available for the benefit of all mankind.

Ascholarship committee with seven members will make the selection for the winner of the scholarship. The members will be
national and international experts on sustainability

Persons eligible to receive the NCT Scholarship will be limited to selected young researchers.

The scholarship will be awarded at every award ceremony , with the first award to be granted in 2012 (tentative)

The winner will receive, in addition to the recognition and honour bestowed by the scholarship, a cash prize .

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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031433.txt,"From: Lawrence Krauss

Sent: 12/12/2017 2:22:11 AM
To: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Re: URGENT: BuzzFeed News inquiry re allegations of sexual harassment

Importance: — High
Flag: Follow up

No. We didn’t have sex. Decided it wasn’t a good idea.

Lawrence M. Krauss

Director, The Origins Project at ASU

Foundation Professor

School of Earth & Space Exploration and Physics Department

Arizona State University, P.O. Box 871404, Tempe, AZ 85287-1404
Research Offic: <i:

Origins Office (Cynthia): 480.965.0053
S|

origins.asu.edu | twitter.com/Ikrauss1 | krauss.faculty.asu.edu

Sent from my iPhone
On Dec 11, 2017, at 7:09 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:

did You have sex with her ). ? Condom ? Did she take it? I wouldn’t respond . My advice is consistent. Off
the record

On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 2:47 AM Lawrence Krauss (qq wrote:

Is this a reasonable response? Should i even respond? Could use advice.
Mutual decisions about meeting and everything else at the time. I assumed that was clear.

Lawrence M. Krauss

Director, The Origins Project at ASU

Foundation Professor

School of Earth & Space Exploration and Physics Department

Arizona State University, P.O. Box 871404, Tempe, AZ 85287-1404
Research Office: =i sist i

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origins.asu.edu | twitter.com/Ikrauss1 | krauss.faculty.asu.edu

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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017922.txt,"In re Terrorist Attacks on September 11, 2001, 392 F.Supp.2d 539 (2005)

10 A.L.R. Fed. 2d 789

purposefully directed his activities toward the United
States by making personal contributions to several
Saudi-based charities. (Federal Compl. §§ 442-43.)

19! Plaintiffs must make a prima facie showing that Prince
Salman and Prince Naif have minimum contacts with the
United States. The minimum contacts requirement is
satisfied “if the defendant has ‘purposefully directed’ his
activities at the residents of the forum.” Burger King v.
Rudzewicz, 471 U.S. 462, 474, 105 S.Ct. 2174, 85
L.Ed.2d 528 (1985). Foreseeability is not enough, there
must be “some act by which the defendant purposefully
avails itself of the privilege of conducting activities within
the forum.” Jd Donating money to established
humanitarian organizations that may or may not have
been diverting funds to support al Qaeda cannot be
considered primary participation in intentional
wrongdoing expressly aimed at the United States.
Terrorist Attacks I, 349 F.Supp.2d at 809 (citing In re
Magnetic Audiotape Antitrust Litig., 334 F.3d 204, 208
(2d Cir.2003)).

As to Prince Salman’s various limited contacts with the
United States, they do not support general jurisdiction
over him. The 1989 visit to the White House and
Maryland is too far removed in time from the 2001
attacks. See, e.g., Metro. Life Ins. Co., 84 F.3d at 569
(explaining that a defendant’s “continuous and
systematic” contacts with a forum must be examined over
a period of time and finding a six-year period reasonable).
Prince Salman’s deceased son’s contacts with the United
States are irrelevant to this Court’s analysis. Keeton vy.
Hustler Magazine, Inc., 465 U.S. 770, 781 n. 13, 104
S.Ct. 1473, 79 L.Ed.2d 790 (“Each defendant’s contacts
with the forum State must be assessed individually.”).
Prince Salman’s ownership of shares m Texas
corporations, on its own, cannot be considered
sufficiently systematic and continuous to establish general
jurisdiction. Helicopteros, 466 U.S. at 414-16, 104 S.Ct.
1868 (finding CEO’s travel to forum for contract
negotiations, employees’ travel to forum for training,
receipt of funds drawn on forum bank accounts, and
purchase from forum companies were not contacts
sufficiently systematic and continuous to establish general
jurisdiction). Plaintiffs have not presented a genuine issue
of jurisdictional fact such that discovery is necessary.
Daventree, 349 F.Supp.2d at 761. Plaintiffs have not
satisfied the constitutional requirement of showing that
the Princes have minimum contacts with the United
States. Accordingly, Prince Salman’s and Prince Naif’s
motions to dismiss the Ashton, Burnett, and Federal
complaints for lack of personal jurisdiction are granted.

WESTLAW

*360 B. Rabita Trust®
[1 Plaintiffs allege that Rabita Trust is

a charitable organization which was
created to organize the repatriation
and rehabilitation of stranded
Pakistanis from Bangladesh.
Founded in 1988, the trust fund
was started jointly by the
government of Pakistan and the
Saudi-based charity, [Defendant
MWL]. Rabita Trust received the
majority of its funding from the
MWL and the Saudis, and [has]
been involved with terrorism.

(Ashton Compl. § 521; Burnett Compl. § 268.) The
charity initially recetved funding from its founders to help
relocate 250,000 displaced refugees. (Ashton Compl. J
522; Burnett Compl. J 269.) Plaintiffs assert that Rabita
Trust has actually relocated only a few hundred refugees.
(Ashton Compl. J 522; Burnett Compl. § 269.)

On October 12, 2001, the United States Treasury
Department designated Rabita Trust a Specially
Designated Global Terrorist Entity and froze its assets.’
(Ashton Compl. § 312, 527; Burnett Compl. § 236;
Federal Compl. J§ 117, 214.) Rabita Trust is allegedly
related to various other charity Defendants and al Qaeda.
For instance, as a subsidiary of MWL, it is a “sibling
organization of the RO.” (Ashton Compl. § 525; Burnett
Compl. § 272; Federal Compl. § 113.) Through MWL
and its own officers, Rabita Trust is also related to the
SAAR Network. (Ashton Compl. [§ 338, 526-28; Burnett
Compl. §§ 273-75; Federal Compl. § 213.) Plaintiffs
claim that “Rabita Trust is an al Qaeda front” and that its
General Director, Wa‘el Julaidan, is a known al Qaeda
member. (Ashton Compl. § 523; Burnett Compl. J 270;
Federal Compl. ff 100, 121, 210.) In a list of orders
obtained in a raid of BIF’s Sarajevo’s offices,
investigators allegedly recovered a document from Osama
bin Laden regarding the management of Islamic charities
in which he urged the creation of a committee to receive
and distribute donations to al Qaeda and suggests Rabita
Trust’s participation. (Federal Compl. Jf 195, 211.)

Rabita Trust claims that it does not have an office in the
United States and that the complaints are devoid of any
allegations that it directed money to terrorists. It admits

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IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027933.txt,"The intellectual experience at university everything I hoped. The challenge
was finding a way to juggle my studies with my military reserve duty. In other
units, most reservists could schedule their one month per year when classes
weren’t in session. To be of use to Sayeret Matkal, Pd have to report when I
was most needed, and four weeks was unlikely to be enough. Near the end of
my first term, from late 1965 into the new year, I was called to participate in our
latest mission into the Sinai. The next winter, and through early 1967, I was
called up for another mission and was away for nearly two months.

That operation was prompted by the fact the Egyptians had begun laying a
new communications cable, parallel to the one where we’d put our intercepts.

With the diggers getting closer to where I’d led the first Sinai mission, the
kirya was worried that they might unearth the apparatus we’d installed. In
theory, at least, we’d planned for that. The bugging unit which we buried
included a booby-trap explosive device. Still, nearly four years on, we couldn’t
be absolutely sure it would work. So the decision was taken to send the sayeret
back on a further night crossing into the Sinai, defuse the explosives, and bring
the whole thing back to Israel. Since I was the one who’d installed it, I was
given the job of removing it.

The officer in overall command of the mission was Nechemia Cohen. He
was a good friend, and one of the finest officers in the unit. Before I left for
university, I’d mentored him so that he could take over my role as the effective
number-two officer in the sayeret, in charge of all our core operational
activities. He, too, was now about to leave, though not to for university. He was
becoming deputy commander of a paratroop company, under another former
Sayeret Matkal, named Yechiel Amsalem.

I was meant to defuse the booby-trap remotely: with a 12-foot-long metal
tool designed by the technology unit. I was fairly confident I’d manage. But
when Chief-of-StaffRabin heard about the operation, he summoned me, along
with Eliezer Gonn, the scientist working with us on the plan to defuse the
booby-trap. Rabin was with a half-dozen other officers when we arrived. Gonn
had brought along a mock-up of the explosive device, which he proceeded to
place on Rabin’s office table. But as I took out the extension tool and started to
explain how I was going to defuse the device, Rabin turned to Gonn and asked:
“Could it blow up spontaneously?”

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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024873.txt,"COWEN
COLLABORATIVE INSIGHTS

February 25, 2019

Canadian LP Commentary on CBD

In addition to the public companies already actively involved in the hemp / CBD market,
we would note that all of the major Canadian public cannabis companies have been
vocal in terms of expressing their interest in the space, as reflected in the below
commentary.

Aphria (APH)

“Depending on the country, there is a lot of movement in Europe...with a CBD light. That
CBD, that source from hemp, and what we are contemplating in certain countries,
Portugal being one, Italy being one.” Chairman, CEO & President Victor Neufeld (1919
Earnings Call)

Aurora (ACB)

“I think the hemp industry, | tell a lot of the people here that | think it's going to be as
big or bigger than the cannabis industry.” Founder, CEO and Director Terry Booth (4Q18
Earnings Call)

“We've got -- obviously, we're first mover in the hemp space out of any other of our
competitors. And we'll enter when it's proper to enter and when it's legal to enter into
the United States market.” Founder, CEO and Director Terry Booth (2019 Earnings Call)

Canopy Growth (WEED, Outperform, C$82 PT)

“But CBD every day is moving through a progression where it's going to become part of
the normal course available ingredient set..and | think we're doing a very good job of
getting in front of that.” CEO Bruce Linton (1Q19 Earnings Call)

“CBD is] going to come down to who gets the data to get the branded product that
actually works. And | think we're doing a very good job on that and | believe we have a
leadership position on that.” CEO Bruce Linton (2Q19 Earnings Call)

Cronos (CRON)

“At Cronos, we seek to build the world's most innovative cannabinoid company, where
we develop and research efficient processes to effectively produce and formulate the
full spectrum of cannabinoids, not just THC and CBD.” Chairman, President & CEO
Michael Gorenstein (3Q18 Earnings Call)

Emblem Corp (EMC)

On 8/1/18, Emblem and GreenSpace announced a strategic partnership to develop and
commercialize CBD infused health and beauty products for the expected adult-use
cannabis market. (Press Release)

“Emblem's partnership with GreenSpace Brands is an industry first and represents an
incredible opportunity to capitalize on the growing CBD market in Canada.” CEO Nick
Dean (Press Release)

Emerald Health Therapeutics (EMH)

Emerald secured over 500 acres of hemp harvest in 2018 and has contracted for
approximately 1000 acres in 2019 to 2022, with the objective of extracting low-cost
cannabidiol (CBD). (Press Release)

On September 26, 2018 the Company entered into a long-term supply agreement to
obtain harvested hemp chaff, plant material consisting of mainly flower and leaf. The
supply agreement was signed with Emerald Health Hemp Inc. to purchase CBD
containing hemp biomass for extraction into CBD oil. (Press Release)

COWEN.COM 57

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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024188.txt,"06.00 PM — 07.30 PM:

08.00 PM — 11:00 PM:

Wednesday, 26 September 2012

8:00 AM — 9:00 AM:

09:00 AM — 10:00 AM:

9.00 AM — 11.00 AM:

09.30 AM- 11.00 AM:

11.30 AM- 12.00 PM:

01.15 PM — 03.00 PM:

01:15 PM — 02:30PM

01:15 PM — 02:30PM

03.00 PM- 03.30 PM:

03.00 PM- 06.00 PM:

Reception hosted by Prime Minister of Australia
o Location: Ambassador's Riverview, UN Headquarters
o President + Foreign Minister + PR

Rishfa: please provide details!

Presidents Private Dinner
o Helmsley Hotel

Breakfast with Maldivian Delegates
o Helmsley Hotel

Deepening Democracy: A Strategy for Improving the Integrity of
Elections Worldwide
o Location: One UN plaza, Riverview room 28"" floor

Museum Tour hosted by Mrs Ban Soon-taek
o Location: Morgan Library 225 Madison Ave. + 36"" street
o First Lady

2012 Launch of the Climate Vulnerability Monitor
Invitation received from Prime Minister of Bangladesh
o Location: Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue (at 70"" Street)
o President + Foreign Minister + Environment Minister+ PR

Tanzania Foreign Minister
o Location: bilateral booth at the UN. (Walking distance)
o President +Foreign Minister + State Minister+ AG + PR+
Aliny

South Africa Reception, hosted by the President of South Africa
o Location: Ambassador’s Riverview, UN Headquarters.
o Head of Delegation+ Foreign Minister + PR

LDC Agenda in a Post Riot+20 Perspective
o Location: NLB 2, UNHQ
o Ministerial Level

Freedom of Religion or Belief: An Individual’s Choice
o Location: NLB 3, UNHQ
o Ministerial Level

Trinidad and Tobago Foreign Minister
o Location: bilateral booth at the UN. (Walking distance)
o President + Foreign Minister + State Minister + Amb
Rasheed + PR + Aliny

Parliaments and the Rule of Law: Toward Justice for

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TEXT-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032992.txt,"From: 
Sent: 
To: 
Subject: 
Attachments: 
jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
3/22/2017 12:09:56 PM 
Lawrence Krauss________________________________ 
Re: 
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Importance: High 
you told me you were worried about space and i told you not to worry, he will decimate climate change. and 
support, verifiable projects. 
On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 7:46 AM, Lawrence Krauss < > wrote: 
All shoe. This is not supporting science. It is all about the size of the rocket for him. All this will do is give him 
glory and not contribute to science. 
Lawrence M. Krauss 
Director, The Origins Project at ASU 
Foundation Professor 
School of Earth & Space Exploration and Physics Department 
Arizona State Universit, P.O. Box 871404, Tempe, AZ 85287-1404 
Research Office: Assistant 
Origins Office 
origins.asu.edu I twitter.comilkraussl  
Asil Origirp, „ 
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY 
Sent from my iPhone 
On Mar 22, 2017, at 5:41 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/03/21/trump-signs-nasa-bill-aimed-at-
landing-on-mars/?utm term=.64eb9bf54e09  
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confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may 
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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030364.txt,"Landon Thomas, Jr.
Financial Reporter
New York Times

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/ reference/timestopics/people/t /landon_jr_thomas/index.html

please note

The information contained in this communication 1s
confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may
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TEXT-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033454.txt,"From: JONATHAN FARKAS 
Sent: 4/18/2019 2:21:05 PM 
To: J [jeevacation@gmail.com] 
Subject: Re: 
Importance: High 
The best appointment trump made 
Sent from my iPhone 
On Apr 18, 2019, at 10:18 AM, J <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
he stuck it up their ass wow 
On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 9:40 AM JONATHAN FARKAS ‹> wrote: 
I did not talk to him about anything but dinner but I know the kind of person he is 
Sent from my iPhone 
please note 
The information contained in this communication is 
confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may 
constitute inside information, and is intended only for 
the use of the addressee. It is the property of 
JEE 
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communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited 
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communication in error, please notify us immediately by 
return e-mail or by e-mail to jeevacation@gmail.com, and 
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IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_010489.txt,"On the day the police investigation
began, Epstein was photographed
with Ghislaine Maxwell in New York
City at the 2005 Wall Street concert
series benefiting Wall Street Rising,
at Cipriani in New York City, March
15, 2005. (Joe Shildhorn / Patrick
McMullen)

Jeffrey Epstein, photographed
with Adrianna Ross, attend-
ing the launch of Radar
magazine held at the Hotel
QT in New York City, May

j 2005 (Neil Rasmus / Patrick-

1 McMullan.com / Sipa Press)

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2008 Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office
booking photo of Jeffrey Epstein (Palm
Beach County Sheriff's Office)

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013338.txt,"alleges that Epstein told her during the “massage”, “I love how young you are. You have a tight
butt like a baby”. See Jeff Epstein Sued for ""Repeated Sexual Assaults"" on Teen, New York
Post, October | 17, 2007, by Dareh Gregorian, link at:
http -//www.nypost.com/p/news/regional/item_44z]1WyLUFH7R10UtK YGPbP;jsessionid=6CA3
EBF1BEF68F5DE14BFB2CAASC37B0, See Article attached hereto as Exhibit “X”.

51. | Edwards’s three complaints against Epstein contained less detail about sexual
abuse than (as one aml a complaint filed by attorney Robert Josephsberg from the law firm
of Podhurst Orseck. See Complaint, Jane Doe 102 v. Epstein (Exhibit “B”). As recounted in
detail in this Complaint, Jane Doe 102 was 15 years old when Ghislaine Maxwell discovered her
and lured her to Epstein’s house. Maxwell and Epstein forced her to have sex with both of them
and within weeks Maxwell and Epstein were flying her all over the world. According to the
Complaint, Jane Doe 102 was forced to live as one of Epstein’s underage sex slaves for years
and was forced to have sex with not only Maxwell and Epstein but also other politicians,
trates royalty, academicians, etc. She was even made to watch Epstein have sex with
eter 12-year-old French girls that were sent to him for his birthday by a French citizen that is a
friend of Epstein’s. Luckily, Jane Doe 102 escaped to Australia to get away from Epstein and
Maxwell’s sexual abuse.

52. Edwards learned that inaddition to civil suits that were filed in court against
Epstein, at around the same time other attorneys engaged in pre-filing settlement discussions
with Epstein. Rather than face filed civil suits in these cases, Epstein paid money settlements to
more than 15 other women who had sexually abused while they were minors. See articles

regarding settlements attached hereto as Composite Exhibit “Y.”
, 20

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IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011797.txt,"/ BARAK / 40

talks. I did realize that, “null and void” or not, our proposals or suggestions would
not simply disappear from memory. But I felt the point of principle was essential if
Israel was going to be able to consider the kind of far-reaching concessions which
final peace deals might require.

In the end, I realized that we might simply discover that Assad, and certainly
Arafat, were not willing or ready to make peace. We might, initially at least, have
to settle for a more incremental step. “Right here in Camp David, Begin, Sadat and
Carter couldn’t complete the process,” I pointed out. “They signed a “framework
agreement’ and it took months of further diplomacy to reach a peace treaty. Maybe
we ll end up doing the same.” But I told the President I was convinced that if we
didn’t try to get agreements, we’d have no way of knowing whether the will to
make peace was there on the other side. Assad, I suspected, was the more likely to
reciprocate. That was a major reason I wanted to start our efforts with him. But so
far, his true intentions had never been fested, beyond his obvious determination to
get back the Golan. Nor had Arafat’s, beyond his focus on the detail and extent of
West Bank redeployments.

President Clinton did not object to an early effort to reopen our efforts with the
Syrians. But he was worried about the effects of ignoring the already-creaking
prospects of fulfilling the promise of Oslo. If we were going to delay focusing on
that, Clinton told me, he needed to be able to assure Arafat the wait would be
worth his while. What could we give the PLO leader in return for putting off the
Wye redeployments further, he asked. And then, the real question on his mind:
“Ehud, when we get to the final redeployment and a peace deal, how much of the
West Bank are you prepared to hand back?”

I simply didn’t know at this stage. Much would depend on whether we could be
sure Arafat could or would deliver a final peace. But even if I had known, I would
have been reluctant to name a precise percentage. Though I had full trust in
President Clinton, I knew that everything he and I said would be shared with at
least a few of his closest policy aides and negotiators. Sooner or later, word would
get to Arafat. When we did begin negotiations, he’d take whatever number I gave
as a mere starting point. Still, I knew I had to signal the President that I was serious
about negotiating with Arafat when the time came. I also knew the main source of
his concern. In order to get the agreement at Wye, the President had signed on to a
provision that the dimension of the third and final redeployment phase would be
determined by Israel alone. By that stage, when we got there, Arafat would have

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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029806.txt,"Saudi Arabia. When Saudi Arabia wanted
American forces removed from the
kingdom, for example, Qatar was eager
to compensate by hosting a more robust
American command presence in the
region.

The Arab uprisings and subsequent GCC
intervention in Bahrain have turned the
tables, making Saudi security backing a
necessity for the smaller Gulf
monarchies. From their perspective,
American forces are clearly more capable
than Saudi forces, but given the
alignment of their interests, Riyadh is a
more reliable security partner. Gulf
leaders and military commanders in the
coming decade will be focused on how to
avoid following in Mubarak's footsteps.
Part of minimizing that risk will involve
decreasing security dependency on the
United States. Gulf leaders have to worry
that if push comes to shove, the
Americans will throw them under a bus
just like they did to Mubarak.

* K

If the political dynamics in the Middle
East and South Asia do not favor further
American military intervention in the
future, neither do the emerging military
trends. The proliferation of supersonic
cruise missiles and mines in the region

will make for nasty forced entries into

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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026057.txt,"From: Robert Kuhn

Sent: 2/3/2017 3:58:55 PM
To: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Re: Kuhn

Importance: — High

On point! First serious, independent confirmation of Giulio Tononi’s theory. This constitutes the primary part of
our Episode 6 (working outline). Giulio is a Closer To Truth contributor (primarily his theory of consciousness)
and a friend; he has invited me/CTT to spend 1-2 days in his lab (Madison).

On Feb 3, 2017, at 6:23 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/02/science/sleep-memory-brain-forgetting.htm|?ribbon-ad-
idx=5 &rref=homepage&module=Ribbon&version=origin&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=H
ome%20Page&petype=article

On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 1:02 AM, Robert Kuhn wrote:
When to meet? Weekend OK.

On Jan 22, 2017, at 4:32 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:

look forward to it

On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 2:33 PM, Robert Kuhn i, wrote:

Just got to New York - love to meet, brainstorm.

From Washington, my inauguration-day commentary and conversation with Chinese experts on Sino-US
relations under Trump - https://youtu.be/OGdulpmeVNM?list=PLt-M801W_GdSZbSuplmsSS5JZzlhIWpGb

Earlier interview on BBC “What Chinese think of Trump” - two minute excerpt
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04m9jj4

Looking forward, Robert

On Jan 11, 2017, at 2:51 AM, Robert L. Kuhn <> wrote:

Dear Jeffrey:

Attached, as promised, is our proposal for Closer To Truth to produce the definitive television series on “The
Science of Sleep and Dreams” - 13 episodes, a full season, on ~200 PBS stations, plus extensive web videos.
Contemporary advances in sleep/dream research makes timing propitious.

Three documents:

1) Proposal (12 pages)

2) Budget (line item)

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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018422.txt,"of ELIZA, the theoretical mathematician Doron Zeilberger now names his computer
as a co-author of his papers. He calls it Shalosh B. Ekhad, a play on the Hebrew name
of his IBM 3B1.) 258

The AI systems designer Roger Grosse has named two paths to this sort of wired
sensibility: “Predictive Learning” and “Representational Learning”.25° That first
approach is what Maes’s movie machine pusued. The computer is simply checking
what it encounters against a database. It teaches itself to predict based on what has
been seen before. This sort of knowledge begins with massive amounts of data and
then hunts for patterns, tests their reliability, and improves by mapping quirks and
similarities. Google engineers have a device that can gaze into a human eye and spot
signs of impending optical failure. Is the machine smarter than your
ophthalmologist? Hard to know, but let’s just say this: It has seen, studied and
compared millions of eyes to find patterns that nearly perfectly predict a diagnosis.
It can review in seconds more cases than your doctor will see in a lifetime - let alone
recall and compare at sub-millimeter accuracy. Fast, thorough predictive algorithms
make what might once have been regarded as AI disappear. The machine isn’t all
that wise; it just knows a lot.

On the other path, the one of “representational learning” the machine uses a self-
sketched image of the world, a “representation.” Computers using predictive
methods to recognize 10,000 numbers pulled from a database of scrawled hand
writing now identify 90 percent of the images. Self-trained machines, however, line
up each scanned pixel against a representation of the very idea of writing. They
screen millions of pictures with nary a mistake. Faces, disease markers, obscure
sounds - all these become scrutable not because the machines have been told what
to look for, but because they’ve sort of figured it out themselves. The Al is actually
starting to think, much as you or | might, first by building up a picture of the world
and then applying it, much as a child might build comprehension of traffic rules just
by watching Mom driving every day.

With this representation finished, these nearly alive “thinking” meshes navigate by
themselves. You can see already the competition lingering here - who can build the
most sensitive model of the world? You? A machine? Even today basic versions of
representational Als can study a map and name the most important roads. They can
predict cracks in computer networks days before a fault. These programs take
longer to train. They are harder to program - and they demand almost unimaginable
amounts of computing power - but what emerges is a subtle, lively kind of insight. A
machine with a representational understanding of Mozart's 41 symphonies can
write you an extremely convincing 424 - or, if you wish, an even earlier First
Symphony based on what it knows about his evolution as a composer. It can do it
again and again. In seconds. The basic attitude of these researchers behind this
technology runs, they confess, like this: Mozart was a fantastic composer. If he wrote

258 He calls it: See Nielsen
259 The AI systems designer: Roger Grosse, “Predictive Learning vs.
Representational Learning”, Building Intelligent Probabilistic Systems: 2013

190

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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017711.txt,"Page 76 of 78
2007 Utah L. Rev. 861, *968

of subpoenas for confidential information and thus violated important due process principles. °°? The new rule is an
improvement, in that it limits ex parte procedures to ""exceptional circumstances."" The Committee note then offers two

illustrations of exceptional circumstances. One is unobjectionable - where ""evidence ... might be lost or destroyed if the
590

""

subpoena were delayed"" - a standard exigent circumstance that justifies moving rapidly. But the other illustration -

n 591

a

situation where the defense would be unfairly prejudiced by premature disclosure of a sensitive defense strategy - remains

quite problematic, for reasons discussed earlier. °?7
Rule 21. Also at its October 1, 2007 meeting, the Advisory Committee approved a very modest change to Rule 21(b), regarding
transfer of cases for convenience. The change reads:

Rule 21. Transfer for Trial

(b) For Convenience. Upon the defendant's motion, the court may transfer the proceeding, or one or more counts, against that
defendant to another district for the convenience of the parties, and victim, and the witnesses, and in the interests of justice.

This change is modest, because (in my estimation) relatively few federal cases involving victims are transferred for
""convenience"" under Rule 21(b). The more common situation is transfers for prejudice under Rule 21(a). >°3 Thus, this change
is, at best, relatively inconsequential.

In any event, the change is defective. While the proposed rule lets the judge consider the victim's interest in determining
whether to transfer, the Advisory Committee did not adopt my recommendation to let crime victims be heard on transfer
decisions. °?4 Without a mechanism for passing victim information along to the judge, an instruction to the judge to consider
the victims' interest is essentially meaningless. The Advisory Committee should remedy this defect by giving victims the right
to be heard on transfer decisions.

Rule 32. In possible response to my point that victims deserve the right to be ""heard"" at sentencing hearings by speaking
directly to the judge, *°° on April 16, 2007, the Advisory Committee modified its note to Rule 32(i)(4). The note now reads:
""Absent unusual circumstances, any victim who is present should be [*969] allowed a reasonable opportunity to speak
directly to the judge."" *°° While this is an improvement over earlier language, it still remains unclear what sorts of ""unusual
circumstances"" the Advisory Committee has in mind that would permit a judge to deny a victim her right under the CVRA to
speak. It is also odd that the Advisory Committee Note would apparently allow a judge to exclude a victim in some

circumstances, when the only two reported decisions on the issue have held directly to the contrary that victims have an

unequivocal right to speak to the judge. *°7

Rule 60. In response to public comments, the Advisory Committee made several modest changes to Rule 60. Rule 60(a)(2) was
revised to make clear that the duty to permit full attendance arises in the context of the victim's possible exclusion. *?° As

589 See supra notes 347-351 and accompanying text.

59° Bucklew Memo, supra note 580, app. a, at 282.

591 Tq.

592 See supra notes 249-257 and accompanying text.

593 See, e.g., supra notes 366-382 and accompanying text (discussing transfer for prejudice in two cases).
594 See supra note 366 and accompanying text.

95 See supra notes 434-448 and accompanying text.

96 Beale Memo, supra note 580, app. at 7.

597 See Kenna v. U.S. Court for Cent. Dist. of Cal., 435 F.3d 1011, 1016 (9th Cir. 2006); United States v. Degenhardt, 405 F. Supp. 1341,
1343-44 (D. Utah 2005); see also United States v. Turner, 367 F. Supp. 2d 319, 333 (E.D.N.Y. 2005) (reaching same conclusion).

*98 Bucklew Memo, supra note 580, app. a, at 299, 302-03.

DAVID SCHOEN

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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024898.txt,"COWEN
COLLABORATIVE INSIGHTS

82

February 25, 2019

kg per year, which has led to a shortage of supply. In 2018, an import license was
granted to Canadian licensed producer (LP), Aurora, for 100 kg of medical cannabis per
year to help meet the demand.

Italy has a rich history of hemp cultivation and it used to be one of the main producers in
the world prior to prohibition of the plant. The market opened up in 2016 when the
government announced that a license to cultivate hemp for industrial, food, cosmetic
and energy purposes was no longer required. Whereas the rest of the EU requires THC
content to be below 0.2%, Italy permits a margin of up to 0.6%.

Based on the license exemption, many companies started producing and selling high
CBD, low THC referred to as “cannabis light.” Cannabis light products must state that the
product is not for human consumption; however, once a person purchases the product
the use is essentially up to their own discretion. These products are legally sold and
branded as “collectors’ items.” Since it is a “collectors’ item,” imported “cannabis light”
products are not taxed. However, it is necessary to have proper test and analytics when
crossing the border to guarantee the product passes customs.

One of the first “cannabis light” companies, EasyJoint Project, launched in 2017 and is

sold in hemp specialist shops. There are now around 1,000 e-commerce sites and other
retail stores that sell CBD oil, capsules, CBD for pets, dried flower, vapes and cosmetics.
Legally, the Health Ministry must approve products, yet this is not frequently enforced.

Foreign companies have invested in land over the last couple of years, including public
Canadian companies Wayland, LGC Capital, Canopy and CROP. In 2018, Wayland
entered a JV with CBD Italian Factory S.S. with plans to supply the local market with
CBD for medical, therapeutic and veterinary purposes. LGC Capital entered an
agreement with EasyJoint to acquire 47% of the company to gain access to the local
“cannabis light” companies’ 415 retail outlets and 11 branded stores. In February 2019,
Canopy made an investment in Italian organic hemp producer and CBD extractor,
Canapar Corp. CROP, a Canadian holdings company, acquired 30% of Italian company,
Zhemplar, to cultivate and extract low THC, high CBD products, under a white label
brand, Tiffany CBD and Hempire Italia. The company also has exclusive rights with Yield
Growth Corp to over 55 wellness products that can be infused with CBD.

Switzerland

Switzerland is recognized for its progressive drug policies and evidence based
approaches. Medical cannabis has been regulated since 2008 and continued to open
with regulatory changes in 2017. The number of patients is relatively small, at around
3,000 people. Prior to June 2018, it was not possible to obtain pharmaceutical grade
pure CBD for medical purposes. That changed once the Food and Drug Administration in
the U.S. approved Epidiolex; subsequently, the Swiss law changed, too. Pharmacies can
now prepare magistral formulas for CBD for patients who meet certain conditions

Although cannabis is controlled under the Narcotics Act, CBD is not included in that
legislation. The country permits 1% THC to be cultivated, produced and used, which is
regulated as a tobacco substitute. These products (e.g. pre-rolled joints, dried flower,
and cannabis cigarettes) are regulated under the Tobacco Ordinance and can be
purchased in supermarkets, specialty shops, kiosks and cafes. The first cannabis
cigarette was available for purchase in 2017. These products are predominantly
consumed by affluent businesspeople during breaks at work or the end of the day.

The Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH) provides regulatory oversight for tobacco
and CBD products. Registration with the FOPH is required for tobacco substitutes to

COWEN.COM

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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024163.txt,"Emerging market bonds

EMBI Global / CEMBI spread (27 June): 388bps / 430bps (last month: 410bps / 440bps)
UBS View EMBI Global / CEMBI spread target (6-month): 340bps / 350bps
e Emerging market (EM) bond spreads are currently higher than implied by fundamentals, and we think
they offer attractive returns even against a more challenging global backdrop.
¢ The probability remains significant, though, that negative headlines out of the Eurozone or a weakening
global growth outlook will put short-term pressure on EM bond prices. However, given EM sovereigns’
better average fundamentals, and EM corporates' solid profit growth outlook and low leverage ratios, we
think that periods of price weakness should offer attractive entry points.
e Although we revised our spread targets (to 340bps from 300bps for sovereigns, and to 350bps from
310bps for corporates), we continue to expect spreads to trend gradually lower over the next six months,
more than offsetting the moderate rise in US Treasury yields we expect in the quarters ahead.

A Positive scenario EMBI Global / CEMBI spread target (6-month): 290bps / 290bps

e Yield stability in Europe's core markets and higher-than-expected growth in the US would provide a
favorable backdrop for EM fixed income spreads. In such an environment, issuers of lower credit quality
would likely fare better. Average spreads could tighten to below 300bps in such an environment.

& Negative scenario EMBI Global / CEMBI spread target (6-month): 525bps / 700bps
e An environment of escalating risk aversion in Europe, deteriorating EM funding markets, weakening
global growth prospects, and lower commodity prices could impact EM credit negatively. Liquidity in
emerging market bonds could dry up and spreads could spike.

Note: Scenarios refer to global economic scenarios (see slide 7)

What we're watching Why it matters

Core market yields The direction of US Treasury and German Bund yields are important for EM fixed
income spreads, especially for USD- and EUR-denominated bonds.
Key dates: 1 August, US ISM & FOMC rate decision

The European debt crisis may lead to further periods of outflows and weaker
prices, which could offer attractive entry levels for investors.

Capital flows

Monetary policy cycles © Monetary policy easing remains a key topic for local currency bonds. We look for
central bank policy announcements in key markets such as Brazil, Indonesia,
Malaysia, Mexico, Poland, South Africa, and Turkey. Key policy rate
announcement dates: 29 June, Colombia; 4 July, Poland; 5 July,

Malaysia; 11 July, Brazil; 12 July, Indonesia; 19 July, Turkey

36 UBS

Preference: overweight

Recommendations

Tactical (6 months)

e EM corporate bonds are particularly
attractive due to favorable valuation,
solid fundamentals, and their relatively
short duration. We advise clients to focus
on investment grade bonds in the current
environment. We continue to like
selected sovereign bonds.

Please refer to our EM bond list for
specific guidance.

Strategic (1 to 2 years)

e EM bonds are attractive for longer-term
investors looking for higher yields.

e Local markets in Asia offer interesting
opportunities for longer-term investors
because of a supportive currency outlook.

Room for tightening
Spreads of EM bonds over US Treasuries (in bps)

600
500
400

300

200

100

0
Jun-09

Dec-09

Jun-10 Dec- 10 Jun-11 Dec-11

— Emerging market sovereign bonds (EMBI Global)
Emerging market corporate bonds (CEMBI Broad)

Source: JP Morgan, UBS CIO, as of 27 June 2012

Note: Past performance is not an indication of future returns.

28

For further information please contact CIO's asset class specialist Michael Bolliger, michael.bolliger@ubs.com and Kilian Reber, kilian.reber@ubs.com

Please see important disclaimer and disclosures at the end of the document.

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IMAGES-012-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033077.txt,"From: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]

Sent: 3/8/2018 12:13:48 AM

To: LHS

Subject: Re: What’s up in trump World?
2

On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 4:51 AM, LHS > wrote:

Sent from my iPhone

Please direct all scheduling inquiries to my office |)

Follow me on twitter @lhsummers
www.larrysummers.com

please note
The information contained in this communication is
confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may
constitute inside information, and is intended only for
the use of the addressee. It is the property of
JEE
Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this
communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited
and may be unlawful. If you have received this
communication in error, please notify us immediately by
return e-mail or by e-mail to jeevacation@gmail.com, and
destroy this communication and all copies thereof,
including all attachments. copyright -all rights reserved

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015300.txt,"he smokes a joint to help him “fine-tune” his material. “One hit is all |
need now and it’ s punch-up time.”

At the Shadow Convention that took place while the Democrats
were in Los Angeles, Bill Maher revealed to the audience, “I’ m not just a
pot reformer, I’ m a user” —something which ABC forbids him to say on
Politically Incorrect—then quickly added, “Just making a light remark
there, federal authorities.”

Actor and hemp activist Woody Harrelson has stated, “lI do
smoke.” Willie Nelson confirmed in his autobiography that he smoked
pot in the White House. And on KRLA, radio talk-show host Michael
Jackson’ s program, Michelle Phillips, actress and former member of the
Mamas and the Papas, said that she still enjoys smoking marijuana.

Just as Ellen DeGeneres appeared on the cover of 7/ME magazine
saying, “Yep, I’ m gay,” there might come a day when a presidential
candidate will appear on the cover of Newsweek saying, “Yep, |’ m
stoned.” Isn’ t that what young pot-smokers need—good role
models—so they won’ t be ashamed of their private pleasure seeking?

Meanwhile, drug czar McCaffrey would continue his crusade, not
only against illegal substances, but perhaps also against certain food

supplements, such as a popular herbal mixture with a reputation for aiding

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IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021452.txt,"FD-302a (Rev. 10-6-95) b7C

31E-MM-108062

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After a brief telephone conversation with stated
CJ] would_like to speak with one of the agents. SA spoke

briefly with and explained the nature of visit.

agreed that would voluntarily place the documents/reports
in a sealed envelope and be escorted to

Voluntaril and the agents drove with the captioned

records to The envelope was hand delivered by
for the purpose of preserving the records.

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IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020994.txt,"... Opportunity for Two Mutually Reinforcing Cycles:

Information + Incentives

Improving incentives for providers and consumers is also critical.

— Providers need appropriate incentives to improve quality of care and lower
costs.

— Drivers include more widespread adoption of bundled payments and
accountable care organizations.

— Tort reform could play an important role.

— Consumers need to take more responsibility for their own health and to utilize
the healthcare system appropriately.

— Appropriate social and financial incentives are key.

Source: Morgan Stanley Healthcare Research.

KP
www.kpcb.com USA Inc. | What Might a Turnaround Expert Consider? 305

Restructure Medicare & Medicaid: Economic Factors—Possible Solutions

1) Cost-Sharing and/or
2) Reimbursement Reform and/or
3) Improving Cost & Quality Transparency and/or

4) Deploy Cost-Benefit Analysis for Medical
Technology Spending

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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024640.txt,"ACKRELL
CAPITAL Cannabis Investment Report | December 2017
The U.S cannabis industry has proven adept at navigating this federal-state conflict, and is experi-
encing rapid growth despite it. We estimate that the 2017 U.S. state-legal cannabis market was $8.0
billion, with more than four million consumers. While the overall state-legal market has grown sig-
nificantly, the addressable market has been constrained due to the lack of access to purely recreational
consumers and the sometimes-narrow scope of medical conditions that qualify a patient for access to

medical cannabis. The breakdown of this market estimate by state is shown in the following chart.

2017 U.S. State-Legal Cannabis Market Estimate

Other States
$1.9B

California
$3.2B

Colorado
$1.5B
Oregon Washington
$470M $929M
Source: Ackrell Capital
U.S. Federal Law

Current federal law effectively prohibits all cannabis use and all commercial cannabis activity in the
United States. Producing, selling and possessing cannabis are federal crimes. No cannabis-derived drug
has ever been federally approved for use in treating any medical condition. Otherwise legitimate busi-
ness transactions conducted by cannabis companies—and their banks, for those who can access bank-
ing services—are legally suspect. Certain intellectual property and bankruptcy protections critical to
many U.S. businesses are not available to cannabis companies. Cannabis companies pay federal income
tax at effective rates significantly higher than other businesses.

Despite official prohibition, however, federal policies and laws recently passed by Congress have
carved out a limited space in which the state-legal cannabis industry has managed to thrive. Enforce-
ment policies published by the U.S. Department of Justice have unofficially invited cannabis business
to proceed if certain conditions are respected. The U.S. Department of the Treasury established report-
ing policies that create room for banks to service the cannabis industry. Federal budget legislation

4 © 2017 Ackrell Capital, LLC | Member FINRA/SIPC

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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022512.txt,"The FCPA:

Anti-Bribery Provisions

THE FCPA: ANTI-BRIBERY

PROVISIONS

The FCPA addresses the problem of international corruption in two ways: (1)

the anti-bribery provisions, which are discussed below, prohibit individuals

and businesses from bribing foreign government officials in order to obtain

or retain business and (2) the accounting provisions, which are discussed in

Chapter 3, impose certain record keeping and internal control requirements

on issuers, and prohibit individuals and companies from knowingly falsifying

an issuer's books and records or circumventing or failing to implement an is-

suer’s system of internal controls. Violations of the FCPA can lead to civil and

criminal penalties, sanctions, and remedies, including fines, disgorgement,

and/or imprisonment.

In general, the FCPA prohibits offering to pay, pay-
ing, promising to pay, or authorizing the payment of money
or anything of value to a foreign official in order to influ-
ence any act or decision of the foreign official in his or her
official capacity or to secure any other improper advantage

in order to obtain or retain business.

Who Is Covered by the Anti-Bribery Provisions?
The FCPA’s anti-bribery provisions apply broadly to

three categories of persons and entities: (1) “issuers” and

their officers, directors, employees, agents, and sharehold-
ers; (2) “domestic concerns” and their officers, directors,
employees, agents, and shareholders; and (3) certain per-
sons and entities, other than issuers and domestic concerns,

acting while in the territory of the United States.

Issuers—15 U.S.C. § 78dd-1
Section 30A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
(the Exchange Act), which can be found at 15 US.C.

§ 78dd-1, contains the anti-bribery provision governing

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IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021334.txt,"involves additional mechanisms beyond
the sharing of emotion and includes self-
regulatory mechanisms to modulate the
observer’s experience of negative
arousal. Specifically, in order to
understand the emotions and feelings of
others in relation to oneself, second-
order representations of the other must
be consciously available and must not
confuse the other with the self. The
medial and ventromedial prefrontal
cortices are known to play crucial roles
in decoupling first-person and third-
person information and maintaining
representations of the other as distinct
from the self (5).

The regulatory component of
empathy, especially regulation of
internal emotional states and processes,
is particularly relevant to the modulation
of vicarious emotion and the experience
of empathy as well as sympathy.
Empathy is unlikely to lead to helping
behavior if the observer is incapacitated
by strong empathically evoked emotions,
which is why emotional regulation is an
important component in empathy.
Indeed, children high in effortful control
show greater empathic concern, and the
tendency to experience empathy and
sympathy versus personal distress varies
as a function of their ability to regulate
their emotions more generally.

How We Perceive Other People in
Pain

When witnessing another person
experiencing pain, the scope of an
observer’s reaction can range from
concern for personal safety, including
feelings of alarm, fear, and avoidance, to
concern for the other person, including
compassion, sympathy, and care-giving.
The existence of the perception-action
coupling mechanism apparent in
emotional contagion also seems to

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account for our ability to perceive and
understand the pain of others. In the case
of pain, individuals are predisposed to
find distress of others aversive and learn
to avoid actions associated with this
distress. This is even the case in many
mammalian species, including rodents.
For instance, rats that had learned to
press a lever to obtain food would stop
doing so if their response was paired
with the delivery of an electric shock to
a visible neighboring rat (6).

Recently, a handful of functional
neuroimaging studies performed with
healthy human volunteers revealed that
the same neural circuits implicated in
processing the affective and motivational
aspects of pain in oneself account for the
perception of pain in others (7). In one
study, participants in a magnetic
resonance imaging (MRI) scanner either
received a painful stimulus or, in other
trials, observed a signal that their
partner, who was present in the same
room, would receive the same stimulus.
First-hand experience of pain resulted in
activation of the somatosensory cortex,
which encodes the way we feel aspects
of a noxious stimulus such as its bodily
location and intensity. Furthermore, the
anterior medial cingulate cortex (ACC),
and the anterior insula were activated
during both first-hand pain and the
anticipated experience of pain in
someone else. These regions are
responsible for the affective and
motivational processing of noxious
stimuli such as those aspects of pain that
pertain to desires, urges, or impulses to
avoid or terminate a painful experience.
A number of other neuroimaging studies
of empathy for pain in adults as well as
in children have demonstrated that the
somatosensory cortex is not activated
only during first-hand pain but is also
activated with the perception of other

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_014778.txt,"Bullish USD/JPY

The election of Donald Trump catapulted USD/JPY through another resistance level, this
time a weekly trend line, adding to the list of technical signals that USD/JPY has
bottomed and is in an uptrend. We began discussing a bottom in our September 5 and
September 18 Technical Advantage reports. We estimate technical upside and
resistance in the area of 112. We also think this uptrend has the potential to reach the
full measured move target of 116.50 in 2017.

Chart 80: USD/JPY weekly chart

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2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Source: BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research, Bloomberg

A higher yield environment
We continue to think yields will trend higher in 2017. We initially reported our view that

global yields would rise in our October 26 Technical Advantage report. Since then we
have seen added confirmation by US 10y, US 30y, 10yr bund, 30yr JGB and 10y Gilt that
yields will rise.

US 10y and 30y yield form wedge bottom pattern

US 10y and 30y yields formed wedge bottom patterns by breaking through the upper
trend line resistance (Breakout 1). A wedge pattern is composed of two converging
trend lines often consisting of multiple smaller trends followed by a breakout. Each yield
has a second resistant trend line and Fibonacci retracement to break. If 10y yield breaks
through 2.35% and 30y yield through 3.15%, then another breakout will have occurred
that technically triggers another leg higher to 2.98% and 3.80%, respectively. We think
this is the more likely outcome.

BankofAmerica <2”

48 Global Rates, FX & EM 2017 Year Ahead | 16 November 2016 Merrill Lynch

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IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027066.txt,"communication in error, please notify us immediately by
return e-mail or by e-mail to jeevacation@gmail.com, and
destroy this communication and all copies thereof,
including all attachments. copyright -all rights reserved

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015466.txt,"NAUTIL.US | TEXT SETS

4. What concept is at work in the ion drive? (Hint:
what is conserved?)

5. What other travel options work on this principle?

6. How much momentum does an electron fired
from a gun have?

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

1. Why not take a traditional rocket to Alpha
Centauri?

2. Which of the propulsion meturds listed 1s most
likely to succeed? Would any be used together?

3. Would it be worth going if it took generations?

4. How far away is the next-nearest star?

ACTIVITIES

1. Research and create a brochure or ad enticing
astronauts to make the trip. What would they eat?
What psychological qualities would they need? If
robots were sent, how would they be fixed? What
kind of data could they expect to collect?

2. Propose another method of traveling to Alpha
Centauri.

ADDITIONAL MULTIMEDIA

1. Voyager I Leaves the Solar System
(The Guardian) 1 MIN 45 SEC
A quick explanation of where Voyager 1 is, and
how scientists know its location: http://www.
theguardian.com/science/video/2013/sep/13/
voyager- | -leaves-solar-system-video

2. New Mars Rover Powered by Plutonium
(Space.com) 2 MIN 30 SEC
An introduction to the nuclear battery on
board the Mars Curiosity Rover, and the
advantages of not using solar power (as with
past missions): https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=1JOPW8aAcgFt

WHERE THIS FITS IN THE CURRICULUM

Structure and Properties of Matter (HS-PS1-8) Develop
models to illustrate the changes in the composition
of the nucleus of the atom and the energy released
during the processes of fission, fusion, and radioac-
tivedecay.

Forces and Interactions (HS-PS2-1) Analyze data to sup-
port the claim that Newton’s second law of motion
describes the mathematical relationship among the
net force on a macroscopic object, its mass, and its
acceleration.

Forces and Interactions (HS-PS2-2) Use mathematical
representations to support the claim that the total
momentum of a system of objects 1s conserved when
there is no net force on the system.

Engineering Design (HS-ETS1-3) Evaluate a solution
to a complex real-world problem based on priori-
tized criteria and trade-offs that account for a range
of constraints, including cost, safety, reliability, and
aesthetics, as well as possible social, cultural, and
environmental impacts.

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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018344.txt,"Chapter Seven:
The New Caste

In which we meet a powerful group defined, enabled and enriched by their mastery of
the Seventh Sense.

1.

Looking back over several hundred years of European history, the Oxford professor
David Priestland found that the movement of power might be scored by reviewing
the alliances and hatreds and hopes of three distinct, interacting groups. He called
them “castes”: merchants, soldiers and sages. By merchants, Priestland meant the
bankers, traders and industrialists whose capital, goods and political power bent
Europe’s once-feudal economy into something modern and industrial.!®° The Medici,
Dutch coffee traders, Scottish cotton barons. By sages, he had in mind the
churchmen and later the technocrats of various empires, the men who helped birth
and then manage the problems of an Enlightened, urban social order: Locke,
Bismarck, Disraeli. And by soldiers he had in mind both the great aristocratic
warrior classes of Europe and upstart, genius figures like Napoleon or Wellington -
men who handled martial force with the fresh, surpasssing brilliance of a paintbrush
or chisel, not an instrument of mass murder.

The aligned, shifting interests of these three castes, Priestland wrote, were like
gears of sorts, each offering special leverage, meshing together to drive nations to
great power. Mix the influence of France’s sage-bureaucrats with her artful soldiers
and you get the French Imperial period. Marry the interests of Britain’s shrewd 17%
Century trading bankers with her martially inclined sailors and globe-spanning
Victorian dominance results. Today, of course, the merchants and soldiers and sages
of our era are also at work. They sit in sovereign wealth funds, wired situation
rooms and madrasas, churches and research labs. The force of America’s merchants
and financiers, bolstered by Washington’s security caste, defines much of American
power. No other nation could, at the moment, comprehensively replace what the
country does with such breadth, intensity and speed. And now, all around the globe,
we're seeing the emergence of what we might think of as a New Caste joining the
merchants, soldiers and sages. This is the infotech caste.

What was going on in that field in Amsterdam back in the summer of 1993 was
nothing less than the birth of the first figures of a connected technological era, of a
new elite. This caste | have in mind is defined by their personal proximity and
fingertip feel for the linked machines that drive so much of our world. They
represent a tiny fraction of our population, but operate with non-linear, massive
levels of influence. This New Caste clusters, in ever tighter circles of intimacy,
around the systems and networks we depend on. They are building new connected

160 Looking back: David Priestland, Merchant, Soldier, Sage: A New History of Power,
(New York: Penguin, 2013)

112

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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025238.txt,"come from the states, may be underestimated. A 2011 analysis by the Joint Economic Committee shows that lower
portfolio return assumptions on pension assets sharply increase the magnitude of underfunded pensions (see chart, right).

AS reported unfunded state pension and OPEEB liabilities State and local unfunded pension liabilities under

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However, there’s more of an effort at the state/local level to address this issue than at the Federal level. More than
40 states lowered pension benefit liabilities over the last 3 years according to the National Conference of State
Legislatures. Measures taken include raising employee contributions (while lowering employer payments), raising
minimum retirement ages, cutting post-employment healthcare benefits and in some cases, switching to defined
contribution from defined benefit plans.

The good news, to paraphrase Mark Twain, is that reports of municipal bonds’ demise have been greatly

exaggerated. From 1970 through to the end of 2011, municipal bonds rated by Moody’s experienced a grand total of 71
defaults among 17,700 issuers (11 of which occurred during 2010 and 2011). General obligation bonds accounted for 5
defaults; 29 were related to housing; 22 for hospitals and healthcare; 3-4 each for education and infrastructure. Utilities
and cities registered 2 each, while counties, special districts, and water & sewer and experienced | each. The average
recovery for defaulted munis was 65%, compared to 49% on corporate senior unsecured bonds. Last comment on
municipals: while /oca/ tax collections are weak due to the collapse in home prices, state tax collections have been
increasing for 7 quarters in a row.

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OK, so the US economy is improving, but is still heavily dependent on monetary and fiscal stimulus to grow, and the only
belt-tightening one can find is at the state and local level. Since 2009, after equities collapsed and bond prices rose, how
have many investors reacted?

By selling more equities and buying a lot more bonds. See chart above (a global version of this chart looks roughly the
same).

Have investors been positioning this way since stocks are expensive?

Not really. Insert a giant martini glass on the chart below from 1998 to 2001 (I hate using simple averages which include
periods when the market had lost its collective mind). The current P/E multiple is in the middle of the ex-bubble range of
the last 25 years. Some bank stocks look interesting, even after accounting for reliance on shrinking loan loss reserves to

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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017077.txt,"Kris Gopalakrishnan

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Adrian Gore
Sergey Gorkov
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Nik Gowing
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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012740.txt,"HED: To Venice With Love, Peggy Siegal

DEK: Back to northern Italy to take in the arts and architecture—and of course, film at the 68th annual
Venice Film Festival.

By: Peggy Siegal
Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2010

Art collector, polo player and film producer Peter Brant gives me a ride to the 68th Venice Film Festival
to mingle with Hollywood glitterati from around the world. Venice, the thousand-year-old city looks like
a movie set floating on the water that has been the backdrop for films from Casanova to The Tourist.
This year, 65 films will have world premieres. Among the jury are two American directors: chairman
Darren Aronosfky, Todd Haynes and one English musician, David Byrne.

Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2011

| check into the paparazzi-proof Cipriani's on the private Giudecca Island for a week—a safe haven for
George Clooney, Al Pacino and Gwyneth Paltrow. Cipriani's is impossible to book | have been told for
months that Friday night is sold out.

In Italy, George Clooney, aka “King George,” is presiding over his Ides of March press conference at the
Palazzo del Casino on Lido. He rules himself out of a future role as United States President, citing Barack
Obama's troubles are reason enough to avoid the job. How many countries can George rule?

Clooney currently serves as producer, director, co-writer and actor. He seriously tries to explain why his
film now reflects the present cynical political mood of the country. The press cannot help asking silly
questions and setting George up for one wisecrack after another.

Also on the panel are producer Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon who wrote the play the film is based on,
Farragut North. Paul Giamatti, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Marisa Tomei and Evan Rachel Wood are
confident they are sensational in this Machiavellian, political thriller and try not to joke around. George's
infectious humor prevails and the conference is reduced to a Friars roast.

Ryan Gosling, last seen in Blue Valentine, who is filming in the states, is finally this year’s breakout star
stealing Clooney’s film.

At the premiere on the Lido at the Palazzo del Cinema, Marco Muller, artistic director of the festival,
greets 50-year-old heartthrob Clooney with 45-year-old bombshell Cindy Crawford dressed in long
bright red Roberto Cavalli gown exactly matching the red carpet. 23-year-old Evan Rachel Wood steps
out in a white Alessandra Rich gown, slit all the way up the middle, exposing her endless legs.

Royal George later holds court with his cast back at Cipriani's. Attempting to handle the sweltering
humidity, ties are loosened, drinks are poured while Evan Rachel Wood takes the microphone with a
back-up jazz quartet belting out Janis Joplin songs. She transforms herself into a gyrating, pulsating soul

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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020292.txt,"140

When I later asked Kucherena in Moscow why Snowden changed his story in direct
contradiction of what Kucherena had stated, he said “Wizner.” He was referring to Ben Wizner,
a top-drawer ACLU lawyer based in Washington D.C. Wizner had joined the ACLU in August
2001 after graduating NYU law school and clerking for a Federal judge. At the ACLU, he
became an effective foe of NSA surveillance. “I had spent ten years before this [Snowden
leak] trying to bring lawsuits against the intelligence community,” he explained in an
interview with Forbes in 2014. Prior to the Snowden leak, he had been consulted frequently by
Poitras on government surveillance issues (and appeared in Poitras’ 2010 documentary “The
Oath.”) He had also been engaged in a law suit aimed at exposing the NSA’s subpoenas for
Verizon records.

He had first learned about Snowden in early 2013, while Snowden was still working for the
NSA, from Poitras. At that time, Poitras did not know Snowden’s real name, but she revealed to
Wizner that she had found an anonymous source with access to U.S. government surveillance
secrets. So he was not completely surprised when Glenn Greenwald, Poitras’ writing partner,
asked him in July 2013 to contact Snowden in Russia.

Snowden offered an opportunity for Wizner since the ACLU already had been pursuing a suit
in Federal court against the government’s seizure of Verizon’s billing records. If he could induce
Snowden to retain him and the ACLU, he could claim standing in Federal court to represent
Snowden in the case. He also fully believed in the salutary benefit of Snowden’s revelations.
They communicated over Skype, according to Kucherena. When they discussed Snowden’s legal
situation in America, Snowden expressed an interest in obtaining some form of amnesty from
prosecution in America. Wizner was willing to attempt to explore making a possible deal with the
Department of Justice, but it would not be an easy task, especially if Snowden had turned over
NSA documents to a foreign power.

Even to argue that Snowden was merely a NSA whistle-blower presented a serious challenge
for Wizner. The ACLU had been involved with three previous NSA whistle-blowers, William E.
Binney, Thomas A. Drake, and Russell D. Tice, but Snowden’s case differed from those cases in
an important ways. Binney, Drake, and Tice had not intentionally taken any NSA documents.
Snowden, on the other hand, had not only taken a large NSA documents but released tens of
thousands of these top secret files to journalists based in Germany and Brazil as well as other
unauthorized recipients. In addition, the Whistle Blower Protection Act, passed by Congress in
1989, does not exempt an insider who signs a secrecy oath, such as Snowden, from the legal
consequences of disclosing classified documents to journalists or other unauthorized persons.
Consequently, getting some form of amnesty for Snowden required changing Snowden’s public
image from that of a person who had damaged America to an image of a person who had helped
America. But if Snowden had taken even a single top secret document to Russia, the case could
be made that he had stolen communications intelligence secrets with intent to damage the United
States, which under the law could be considered espionage. In this regard, Kucherena’s
disclosure was extremely damaging to Snowden’s position.

One way to mitigate the damage from it was for Snowden to substitute a new narrative. In it,
he would say to say to hand-picked journalists that he had given all his documents to Poitras and
Greenwald in Hong Kong and took none of them to Russia, Wizner could then argue that
documents such as the FISA warrant were improperly classified secret and that disclosing them

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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019413.txt,"Headline Journalist Outlet Full Text
Energy
Nuclear Operator Raises Alarm on Crisis Hiroko Tabuchi New York Times Article text
The New Nuclear Craze Mark Bittman New York Times Article text
Pipeline-Capacity Squeeze Reroutes Crude Oil Russell Gold Wall Street Journal Article text
U.S. Electrical Grid on the Edge of Failure Jeff Tollefson Nature Article text
Technology
Ballmer Departure From Microsoft Was More Sudden Kara Swisher All Things D Article text
Than Portrayed by the Company
The Decline of E-Empires Paul Krugman New York Times Article text
As Amazon Stretches, Seattle’s Downtown Is Reshaped Kirk Johnson & Nick New York Times Article text
Wingfield
State Budgets and Healthcare Costs
How to Charge $546 for Six Liters of Saltwater Nina Bernstein New York Times Article text
States scramble to get health-care law’s insurance Sarah Kliff and Washington Post Article text
marketplaces up and running Sandhya
Somashekhar
80 House members: Shutdown betterthanObamacare Charles Babington Associated Press Article text
Berkshire Hathaway
No breaking news
Philanthropy
Philanthropy: the givers club Cordelia Jenkins Livemint and the Wall Article text
Street Journal
Global Health and Development
Paton the back or force for good: what purpose do Mark Tran Guardian blog Article text
development awards serve?
Education
A Chance at Learning Ginia Bellafante New York Times Article text
Obama goes for college ‘datapalooza’ Nick Anderson Washington Post Article text
Massively Online And Offline Too: How MOOGs Will Giovanni Rodriguez Forbes Article text
Evolve In The Physical World
Women and Children
Indian Police Arrest Suspects in Two Gang Rapes Sean Mclain and Wall Street Journal Article text
Khushita Vasan
Is there any space in the development debate for African Andrew Quinn Guardian blog Article text
experts?
Child marriage campaigners in south Asia receive $23m Mark Tran Guardian blog Article text

cash injection

ARTICLE TEXT

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012998.txt,"82 4 Brief Survey of Cognitive Architectures

and (except for the lowest level) supervenes over children whose spatiotemporal scope is a sub-
set of its own. The action hierarchy takes care of decomposing tasks into subtasks; whereas the
sensation hierarchy takes care of grouping signals into entities and events. The modeling /guid-
ance hierarchy mediates interactions between perception and action based on its understanding
of the world and the system’s goals.

In his book [AMO01] Albus describes methods for extending 4D/RCS into a complete cognitive
architecture, but these extensions have not been elaborated in full detail nor implemented.

Plans for next 24 hours
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4.5.5 PolyScheme

Nick Cassimatis’s PolyScheme architecture [Cas07| shares with GLAIR the use of multiple
logical reasoning methods on a common knowledge store. While its underlying ideas are quite
general, currently PolyScheme is being developed in the context of the “object tracking’ domain
(construed very broadly). As a logic framework PolyScheme is fairly conventional (unlike GLATR
or NARS with their novel underlying formalisms), but PolyScheme has some unique conceptual
aspects, for instance its connection with Cassimatis’s theory of mind, which holds that the same
core set of logical concepts and relationships underlies both language and physical reasoning
[Cas04]. This ties in with the use of a common knowledge store for multiple cognitive processes;
for instance it suggests that

e the same core relationships can be used for physical reasoning and parsing, but that each
of these domains may involve some additional relationships.

e language processing may be done via physical-reasoning-based cognitive processes, plus the
additional activity of some language-specific processes

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_014331.txt,"Chart 27: Where do you see Citicorp’s efficiency ratio settling in 2017?

80%
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10%

0%

Below the 58% reported YTD in In-line with the 58% reported Above the 58% reported YTD
‘16 YTD in 16 in 16

Source: BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research

East West Bancorp (EWBC), B-1-7, Buy
Sentiment post-election appears constructive on regulatory relief. CEO
Dominick Ng noted that the industry could be positively impacted should aspects of
Dodd-Frank, which have been both challenging and taken up significant internal
resources (even for banks below the $50bn SIF! asset threshold), be reformed.
Specifically, Mr. Ng believes the pace of expense growth could likely slow. That said,
he noted the possibility to shift some of these expense savings to revenue
generating areas.

= _EWEBC sees limited impact from anti trade rhetoric during the run-up to the US
elections. Although recent political rhetoric on China has had a negative bias, Mr.
Ng believes these views are primarily focused on the traditional-manufacturing
Chinese industries vs. the country’s current strategic emphasis on tech and
consumer/retail. Despite having only a 4% exposure to Greater China (includes Hong
Kong), EWBC benefits from its unique positioning, both as industry experts in
parallel industries and as a relationship bank. Investor sentiment agreed; with 86%
of the audience polled have a bullish view of EWBC’s China exposure.

Chart 28: How does China exposure impact your investment thesis on EWBC?

50%
40%
30%
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10%

0%

Makes me cautious, Makes me bullish, as Makes me cautious, Does not matter much,

especially given the China provides an givenaslowing given EWBC’s earnings

anti-trade rhetoric in attractive growth Chinese economy are far more levered to

the run-up to the US opportunity the US economy
elections

Source: BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research

= EWEBC reiterated its strategy to sell CRE loans in favor of portfolio
diversification. Although Mr. Ng expressed caution on the overall commercial real
estate (CRE) market, he noted seeing little tangible signs of concern within EWBC’s
footprint. That said, EWBC could continue to look to sell CRE loans in order to keep
the loan portfolio balanced and thereby limit the reliance on any one segment. Note:
CRE concentration was 261% of risk-based capital as of 3Q vs. 265% in 2Q.

Bankof America a 2016 Future of Financials Conference | 17 November 2016 17
Merrill Lynch

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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018719.txt,"1994 Poster
“Trump, Lord Of The Financial Jungle”

In 1994, this poster was sent to High Rollers inviting them to a Birthday Party for
Donald Trump. The party was held in the Crystal Ballroom at the Trump Castle.

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012754.txt,"A month passed. I felt better. My father told me that it was time to go back to lunch at school, but
with a plan, one centered around the notion of respect. The only way to command it from my tormenters
was to fight back. “But Dad,” I said, “if I hit them, they will crush me.” “They might,” he said, “but you
will have gained some respect, and they may turn their attention to someone else.” It seemed like a
remarkably stupid idea. But my father lived through a war and fought his way to respect among the thugs
in every village school. I decided to give it a go.

I went back to school. Soon thereafter, I found myself standing behind Paxton who displayed
biceps bigger than my head. I figured I had only one shot. I tapped him on the shoulder and swung as
hard as I could, hitting him square in the chest. What aim. What perfection. What wasted energy. With no
more than a flinch, Paxton looked down at me, fury in his face, and grunted “What’s up with you?” With
tears running and lips trembling, I sputtered “I can’t take it anymore. You, Joffe, and James are constantly

lad

hitting me and locking me in the lockers. I can’t take it!” And then, as if his entire brain had been rewired,
serotonin surging to provide self-control, dopamine flowing to shift his sense of reward, the hulk spoke:
“Really? Okay, we’ll stop.” And just like that, Paxton, Joffe and James stopped. No more locker games,
no more bruises. They even saw me as a useful resource, someone who could help them pass some of
their exams. From victim to victory.

I was fortunate. Many are not. Thousands of children throughout the world are persecuted in a
similar way but never fight back or if they do, are crushed for trying. Some are pushed so hard that they
commit suicide, tragedies that increasingly make headline news reports.

The fact that bullies often torment their victims for personal gain, cause great harm, and often
enjoy the experience — as did Lionel James — fits well with a common view of evil. On this view, we
think of someone as evil if they inflict harm on innocent others, knowing that they are violating moral or
legal norms, and relishing the abuse delivered. But what of bullies who, due to immaturity or brain
deficits, simply don’t understand the scope of moral boundaries? What if they impose great harm on their
victims, but don’t enjoy the experience? What if the victims are not entirely innocent, such as those who
double-time as bullies?

We can debate questions like these on philosophical grounds, attempting to refine what, precisely,
counts as an act of evildoing as opposed to some mere moral wrong, like breaking a promise or having an
affair while married. Many have. I don’t believe, however, that this is how we will achieve our deepest
understanding. Instead, I turn to the sciences of human nature, focusing on cases where people directly or
indirectly cause excessive harm to innocent others as the essence of evil. To explain this form of evil, we
must dissect the underlying psychology, the brain circuits that generate this psychology, the genes that
build brains, and the evolutionary history that has sculpted the genetic ensemble that makes us

distinctively human. This is the approach I pursue. If ’m nght about this approach, not only will we gain

Hauser Prologue. Evilution 8

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CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
The Keys to the Kingdom Are Missing
“There’s a zero percent chance the Russians or Chinese have received any documents.”

--Edward Snowden in Moscow

The critical missing piece in Snowden enigma is the whereabouts of the NSA documents.
Greenwald told the Associated Press that the documents that Snowden had taken from the NSA
constituted "" the instruction manual for how the NSA is built"" and they ""would allow somebody
who read them to know exactly how the NSA does what it does, which would in turn allow them
to evade that surveillance or replicate it."" Snowden indeed said on camera in June 2013 that NSA
investigators would have “a heart attack” when they discovered the extent the breach. Ledgett,
the NSA official who it will be recalled had conducted the damage assessment, while not having a
heart attack, confirmed that the files Snowden had taken a massive number of files, which he pout
at over one million documents, and, among them, what he deemed the NSA’s “keys to the
kingdom.” These so-called “keys to the kingdom” presumably could open up the mechanism
through the United States learns about the secret activities of other nations, and, by doing so,
bring down the American signals intelligence system that had for 60 years monitored government
communications. It had also kept track of adversaries’ missile telemetry, submarine movements,
and nuclear proliferation.

The Snowden breach was not without precedent at the NSA. There had been two Russian
spies at the NSA during the Cold War, Jack Dunlap and David Boone who took a limited number
of documents, but no one since the end of the Cold War had taken a single NSA classified
document. Now an insider removed, by any count, tens of thousands of NSA’s documents.
Moreover, many of these documents were classified “TS/SCI’—Top Secret, Sensitive
Compartmentalized Information—which, as NSA secrets went, were the gold standard of
espionage. Whatever the assessment of Snowden’s motivation, the single question that needed to
be answered was: What happened to these stolen files?

To begin with, there is a huge disparity between the number of documents that the NSA
calculated that Snowden compromised and the number of documents he is known to have handed
over to journalists in Hong Kong on a thumb drive. After the Snowden breach, the House and
Senate intelligence committees asked the NSA how many documents were taken by Snowden.
Even though the NSA had employed a world class team of computer scientists, cryptanalysts and
forensic experts to reconstruct the crime from the logs, it could not come up with a definitive
number. What it could say was how many documents had been highlighted or selected, coped
and moved to another computer. As the NSA briefed these committees in closed-door sessions,

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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019407.txt,"From: Jay Lefkowitz as

Sent: 3/8/2011 4:40:35 PM
To: Michael S. Sitrick EE ; Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Fw:

Importance: — High

Privileged - Redacted :

----- Original Message -----

From: Jay Lefkowitz

Sent: 03/08/2011 10:39 AM CST

To: ""Wolfe, Alexandra"" xs

Subject: Re:

Alexandra,
I have not been able to respond to your questions because Mr. Epstein is traveling.

But if you plan to make any factual assertions about him in your article, I hope you will run the facts
by me, as you said yesterday you would do.

Mr. Epstein has been the subject of many inaccurate and misleading articles, and I am sure Newsweek would
not want to make such a mistake or worse, libel him.

Best,

Jay

----- Original Message --pae
Sent: 03/07/2011 02:04 PM EST
To: Jay Lefkowitz

Subject: RE:

Dear Mr. Lefkowitz,

Here are the questions I'd like to ask Jeffrey Epstein. Would he be available to answer any of these on
the phone or by email? People have told me some of his thoughts on background but I wanted to see if he
could tell me or email me anything directly I could use on the record. Also I'd like to run the
information I already have by you or him.

Thank you,
Alexandra

-what is he chiefly focusing on now? Is he spending more time on The Jeffrey Epstein Science Foundation?
could he talk about his interest in science and the 2011 grants/conference?

-How has his business been affected? Is there any new direction he's taking it? Does he still have the
same clients or new ones? Is it still at $15 billion?

-Did he still work while in prison? How was that arranged? with whom was he working/advising?

-where is he spending his time now? How has his social life changed from three years ago?

-Is he still close with Ghislaine Maxwell?

-what were friends/colleagues/acquaintances reactions to his conviction?

-what does he think about the sentence he got- was it too lenient or too harsh and why?

-what is his side of the story and have people been supportive?

-Is he continuing the charity initiatives he started with Bill Clinton, etc?

----- Original Message-----

From: Jay Lefkowitz as
Sent: Mon 3/7/2011 12:18 PM

To: Wolfe, Alexandra

Subject:

Dear Ms. Wolfe,

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_014325.txt,"Chart 15: Would you want to see ASB partner with emerging online lenders to augment organic
growth?
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10%

0%

Yes, partnership with online lenders provides a_ No, given the uncertainty around how these
good source of loan growth loans will perform during a credit downturn

Source: BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research

BB&T (BBT), B-1-7, Buy
Pent up demand in small and middle market corporates. COO Chris Henson was
upbeat with regards to the growth outlook for the US economy post the US
elections, particularly from middle market companies that have been extremely
cautious around making investments over the last few years. Mr Henson noted that
as business confidence rises on back of potentially stronger job growth and lower
tax reductions, BBT should see strength across its core banking operations.

¢ Out of M&A in the near term but looking to grow long term. Management
reiterated that it is out of the M&A game for now as it looks to execute on
delivering its targeted synergies from recent deals. That said, management expects
to eventually engage in M&A deals with BBT having the infrastructure for double its
size, noting that scale has become important in the current regulatory landscape.
When asked where investors would like BBT to focus on doing deals, 59% noted
that it would like management to pursue fee related businesses while 23% would
like management to prioritize dividend maximization.

Chart 16: Do you expect the deal activity in financial services to pick up Chart 17: Once M&A is back on the table, where would you like to see
in 2017? BBT focus on doing deals?
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¢ Well positioned from rising rates. Given the outlook for higher interest rates on
both the short and long end of the curve, Mr. Henson noted that while BBT tries to
maintain a relatively neutral balance sheet, it would expect to see upside in the
margin on back of higher rates. Additionally, higher long rates could also help drive

Bankof America a 2016 Future of Financials Conference | 17 November 2016 11
Merrill Lynch

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IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021320.txt,"Systems and Signals for Social
Coordination

How do we understand each other
as people? Do we take people at their
word, or do actions speak even louder?
When moved to affiliate and to act in
concert with other people as a group, we
need to understand the communications
and actions of others. Language can
move us to action even across great
distances but how does it do so? While
we can observe the behavior of groups

of people as coordinated, the mechanism

of achieving this coordination is unseen.
We may be driven socially to form
groups but how does that drive function
in the individual to cause us to cohere.
In order to go beyond the observation
and experiences we have with groups
and group behavior, we need to
understand what makes the engine of
social connection run. At one level, we
can talk about language as a force itself,
as Howard Nusbaum does. We can talk
about the synchronization of individual
behavior as Giin Semin does. However,
both of these are observations about the
way individuals may become part of a
group. To go beyond this we must look
to our biology to understand how the

machinery underneath our sociality leads

to connected minds.

Semin suggested one way our
brains may seek to connect. Some
neurons in an area of the brain that is
involved in the control and planning of
our actions also respond when we
observe actions we have performed.
Such neurons might be thought to
“resonate” when seeing someone act or
speak with our own experiences.

Neurons that mirror actions and behavior

have been thought to play a role in the
process of understanding that behavior
and the social connection that may form

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as aresult of the resonance. In the next
essay, Steve Small discusses these neural
mechanisms and how they may be
important in helping us understand
spoken language and possibly in
understanding social behavior.

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IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027072.txt,"On a per country example this has led to, for instance, an annual need for 3 million

FC2 female condoms in Uganda, and no funding to procure. A need of 1 million
female condoms annually in Kenya, and funding for only 230,000. A need of 6 million female
condoms annually in Zimbabwe and funding for only 3 million. And these are just some
examples of the many countries who do not receive their actual FC2 female condom need on
the continent of Africa.

Solution

Female Health Company would like to propose a partnership with new donors
in order to ensure that the need for the FC2 female condom is met in Africa to ensure

prevention of HIV/AIDS among the target groups that need it. FHC is committed to
providing the training and technical support to the countries and target groups to ensure correct
and safe usage of the FC2 female condom, if donors are willing to procure the female condoms

that are necessary in these countries. We could even create a specific donor brand for the

FC2 female condom, to increase brand recognition for the donor in the region while
saving lives together.

On Female Health Company

The Female Health Company manufactures, markets and sells the FC2 Female Condom. FC2 is the only currently
available female-controlled product approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and cleared by
the World Health Organization (WHO) for purchase by U.N. agencies that provides dual protection against
unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV/AIDS. The Company's first
generation product was the FC1 Female Condom, a Class III medical device approved by FDA in 1993. The
Company's second generation product, FC2, has been available globally since 2007, and in the U.S. since 2009
after it was approved by the FDA as a Class III medical device. To date, FHC has shipped its female condom to
over 140 countries worldwide.

Currently, there are only two FDA approved and marketed products that prevent the transmission of HIV/AIDS
through sexual intercourse: the male condom and FC2. FC2 is currently the only FDA approved and marketed
female-controlled product that prevents STIs, including HIV/AIDS. Used consistently and correctly, FC2 provides
women dual protection against STIs, including HIV/AIDS, and unintended pregnancy. When used correctly the
protection rates against unintended pregnancies are 95 percent for female condoms compared to 98 percent for
male condoms according to the FDA. FC2 is not seen as directly competing with the male condom; it provides an
alternative to either unprotected sex or male condom usage.

An economic analysis of the cost effectiveness of an FC2 HIV/AIDS prevention program conducted by Dr. David
Holtgrave, the chairman of the Department of Health Behavior and Society at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg
School of Public Health, was featured in the March 26, 2012 issue of AIDS and Behavior. The study showed that
the Washington, D.C. FC2 prevention program, a public-private partnership to provide and promote FC2,
prevented enough HIV infections in the first year alone to save over $8 million in avoided future medical care
costs (over and above the cost of approximately $445,000 for the program). This means that for every dollar spent
on the program, there was a cost savings of nearly $20. In the article Dr. Holtgrave concluded, ""These results
clearly indicate that delivery of, and education about, Female Condoms is an effective HIV prevention intervention
and an outstanding public health investment."" Washington, D.C. began its program in 2010 to fight a disease that
is at epidemic levels. At least 3 percent of Washington, D.C. residents have HIV or AIDS, a prevalence rate that
is the highest of any U.S. city.

In May 2014, a business case was published by Global Health Visions, LLC, commissioned by Rutgers WPF, the
advocacy partner of the Universal Access to Female Condoms (UAFC) Joint Programme. Part of the publication
was a study comparing total expected costs with total estimated economic benefits and it determined there was an

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015472.txt,"NAUTILUS EDUCATION | BETA PRODUCT

Chemistry & Fuels

The matter in our world is recycled. The pair of articles here explores how elements and atoms
wend their way through space and time. Students will explore how chemical reactions usher ele-
ments through their journeys. You Are Made of Waste illustrates, in five short vignettes, the lives of
the elements that make up our teeth, fi breath, hair,and blood. Frack ‘er Upisanin-depth
look at the botched promise of biofuel—energy from cars made from renewable plant growth.

In the “curriculum” section of the teacher’s notes, you will find information on how these pieces
can help fulfill requirements of the Next Generation Science Standards. Specifically, they make
for entry pomts to—or a means of reinforcing—lessons on photosynthesis, chemical reactions,
valence electrons, and energy. But more than that, these lessons will connect to the students’ daily
lives, and spark discussion.

Lesson Plan:

Ask students to read one or both of the articles for homework. Briefly introduce or review the vocabulary words
in class. Assign all or a selection of the reading comprehension questions for the students to complete along
with the reading, and ask them to come up with one question for further discussion. (Note that a couple of the
questions for each article are redundant.)

Start class with students raising any technical questions they might have about the readings. Ask them to
contribute their discussion questions, and write these on the board, along with the questions provided in the
teacher’s notes. Ask the students to break into small groups; assign each group to address a question, and
briefly present to the class for further discussion. 30-45 MIN

In the following class time (or another class) have the students complete one or more of the activities in the
teacher’s notes in small groups. 30 MIN

Teacher’s Notes: You Are Made of Waste

VOCAB WORDS

Mass: a physical property that describes an object’s Radioactive decay: the process by which a nucleus
resistance to force. The mass of an object canbe used ejects alpha particles, particles of ionizing radiation.
to calculate its weight: (mass) x (gravitational force) A nucleus that does this is considered “unstable;” a
= weight. substance that contains unstable nuclei is consid-

ered “radioactive.” This process usually only occurs in

Carbon: an element found in stars, planets, comets, : .
atoms heavier than tron.

as well as in all known living things.

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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018350.txt,"apprehensible, the Rabbis said, only by its movements. Are we back at the first
chapter of Genesis and its absolute prohibition against eating from the tree of
knowledge. Or, from the Talmud, “For him who reflects about four things - what is
above, what is below, what is before and what is behind - it would be better not to
have come into the world.”!7° We want to reflect about what goes on inside the
machines. Can we? Should we? How does Dare to know face off against these
impenetrable systems.

It is little surprise that places like Silicon Valley often leave a visitor with the feeling
of a town where work is done in rooms within rooms within rooms. To drive along
the dulled, anodyne asphalt stretch of road that runs in front of Sand Hill Road in
Menlo Park almost hurts your head: Inside the offices on revolutions are dreamed,
debated and funded. And it looks, for the most part, like a row of mildly prosperous
dental practices. The real import of the work is, on the outside at least, nearly totally
muted. The corporate structure of the most powerful tech companies are padded
with this sort of deadening fustian too. Founders control the majority of voting
stock; shareholders are more like lucky “users” than owners. Control, security and
speed in decision-making are secured from the inside, free of exploit risk or
interference. The companies are like computers. Of course the founders know where
real powers sits. But this shouldn’t distract us from the human energy breathing in
the code itself. The programs are “permeated by all the forms of contestation,
feeling, identification, intensity, contextualization and decontextualization,
signification, power relations, imaginings and embodiments that comprise any
cultural object,” the computer science historian Adrian Mackenzie has written.171

Each of the parts of a black box is a black box. The famous billionaires of our
technology age operate for the most part as their systems do. Their tight, well-
engineered clusters of machines produce fortunes from connectivity, even as they
obscure some of the deeper nature of the connections that are essential to their
success. They are themselves at times obscured, human black boxes in a sense.
“Linux is just an enabler,” the genius programmer Linus Torvalds once observed
about the code language that undergirds much of the connected world. “It’s a solid
base, but like all good, solid bases, it really is something that should be almost
entirely hidden and out of people’s minds.”!” It is a hard paradox for us. The work
of the black boxes, of connected systems or protocols such Linux is miraculous. It is
wonderful in so many ways. And the roots of it are, and seem like they have to be,
obscure. But this cuts very fast into the arteries of a healthy democracy.
“Democracy,” Arthur Schlesinger wrote in his famous post-war book The Vital
Center, “has no defense-in-depth against the neuroses of industrialism.” It’s easy to
see how the system might also have a weakened immunity to the subversive forces

170 Or from the Talmud: See Leo Strauss, Persecution and the Art of Writing,
(Glencoe, Ill.: Free Press, 1952), 21

171 The programs: Adrian Mackenzie, Cutting code: Software and sociality, (New
York: Peter Lang 2006) 5

172 “Linux”: Andy Meek, “Linux creator explains why a truly secure computing
platform will never exist” on bgr.com Sep. 25, 2015

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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017063.txt,"Madhur Bajaj

Niraj Bajaj

Rahul Bajaj
Douglas M. Baker Jr

Gerard Baker

Peter Bakker

Jon Fredrik Baksaas
Jorge E. Ballesteros
Zavala

Jim Balsillie

Rolando Balsinde
Beat Balzli

Ban Ki-moon

Stéphane Bancel
Oriana Bandiera

Chandrajit Banerjee

Shumeet Banerji
Manvinder S. Banga

Britt D. Banks

Almir Guilherme Barbassa

Lionel Barber
Roger Barnett
Nicholas Barr

Nicolas Barré
Maria Bartiromo

Dominic Barton
Pius Baschera
Lluis Bassets
Sonja Bata
Olivier Baube

Raymond J. Baxter

Eben Bayer
Alexander Bazarov
Abdullah Bazid

Timothy Beardson
Robert E. Beauchamp

Laurent Beaudoin
Pierre Beaudoin
Bernhard Beck

Christophe Beck
John M. Beck
Carol Becker
Charlie Beckett

Tanya Beckett
Bernd Beetz
Brian Behlendorf

Nariman Behravesh
Martha Bejar

Koos Bekker

Erik Belfrage

Marc R. Benioff

Suzan G. Benmayor
Katrin Bennhold
Stéphane Benoit-Godet

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Mukand Limited
Bajaj Auto Ltd
Ecolab Inc.

The Wall Street Journal
TNT

Telenor ASA

Grupo Mexicano de
Desarrollo SAB

Research in Motion Limited

McKinsey & Company
HandelsZeitung und
Finanzrundschau AG

bioMérieux SA

London School of
Economics and Political
Science

Confederation of Indian
Industry (Cll)

Booz & Company
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice LLP
University of Colorado
Petroleo Brasileiro SA
Petrobras

The Financial Times
Shaklee Corporation
London School of
Economics and Political
Science

Les Echos

CNBC

McKinsey & Company
Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
EI Pais

Bata Shoe Foundation
Agence France Presse
(AFP)

Kaiser Foundation Health
Plan Inc.

Ecovative Design LLC
Sberbank

Saudi Basic Industries
Corporation (SABIC)
Crosby Holdings Ltd
BMC Software Inc.

Bombardier Inc.
Bombardier Inc.
EnBW Energie Baden-
Wurttemberg AG
Ecolab Inc.

Aecon Group Inc.
Columbia University
London School of
Economics and Political
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BBC World News

Coty Inc.

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Investor AB

Salesforce.com

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International Herald Tribune
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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018436.txt,"Wittenberg church, in the American and French revolutions, in the silent fatal
cracking of Ghandi’s India and Mandela’s South Africa.

We know that no political system that doesn’t match the power distribution of the
society it governs can endure. Feudal order could not survive the pressures of
liberty. Can democracy withstand the pressures of enmeshment, of massive
concentration of power, of artificial intelligences. Or will the slow, inefficient
reaction time of popular voting prove finally unequal to the complexity ahead of us
or too easy to manipulate? Writing of the Enlightenment, the historian Leon-Michel
Gambetta once explained that the goal of politics in the age of liberation and
questioning was, “to derive the political and social system from the idea of reason
rather than that of grace.” What to do now? In a world where we may need to derive
a political system girded by tools of Al or wired by fast-moving and emergent
networks, that can’t quite be derived from reason? What will the goal of politics be
then? When the first AI runs for President on a ticket of pure efficacy? Or perhaps
Democratic and Reblican candidates will debate who has the best AI. How will you
vote?

We need already to reevaluate the idea of citizenship. What is it for? And the state
too. To fit these roles into an age of liberation took centuries after Luther began the
reformation; we may have but decades to decide what they mean in an age of
enmsemhment. Does setting geographic and age criteria for voting still make sense?
One man one vote? Is there a better system to deal with complex issues? The
economists Daron Aceomoglu and James Robinson, in their magestirial study Why
Nations Fail marked success or collapse by these lines: Countries with “inclusive”
institutions which guarded both elites and society at large have historically fared
better than those (think of Russia or Latin America) that ran on “extractive” urges,
nations machined to secure the profits and serenity of the elites alone. But where to
fit our gated world into such an analysis, an era in which linked institutions benefit
both the gated and gatekeeper? Would you say such a system was extractive as it
sucks our data and habits and secrets into massive, opaque finance or machine
learning systems? Or inclusive because, after all, we’re enmeshed in a web of newly
found linked wealth: time, health, finance, information, security. Networks in so
many ways insist on fresh considerations of power. What sorts of network design is
likely to be most effective, most legitimate? Kant’s famous question of the 1780s -
“What is Enlightenment?” - is one we've not yet perfectly answered or resolved. The
new puzzle of “What is Enmeshment” is one we're only beginning to consider now.
It too will take lifetimes to answer, and the debate will be decied in the collision of
ideas and institutions we can’t even dream of today with the structures of power
that tower around us now.

At least we can see already that we'll need new ways to consider our future political
order, mashed through as it will be by connection, machines and hot human hopes
and fears. We'll certainly face our own turning points as our institutions collapse or
calcify or (hopefully) redesign themselves in some modern version of Britain’s
bloodless 1688 Glorious Revolution, that ineffable moment when parliamentary

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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017705.txt,"Page 70 of 78
2007 Utah L. Rev. 861, *959

First, in Proposed Rule 60(b)(1), the Advisory Committee has watered down the CVRA's directive that a court must decide any
victim's motion ""forthwith"" >4? to ""promptly."" While there is nothing wrong with this change as a matter of style, > it does
appear to reduce the speed with which courts will have to act to enforce victims' rights. ""Forthwith"" can be interpreted to be
more exacting requirement than ""promptly."" >44 Given that the Advisory Committee's premise that, where possible, it ""should

545

incorporate"" the language of the CVRA, it is unclear why it chose to substitute ""promptly"" for the ""forthwith"" requirement.

Second, in Proposed Rule 60(b)(2), the Advisory Committee has inexplicably left out the right of the victim's representative to
assert a victim's right (along with [*960] the victim herself and the prosecutor). *4° This omission is criticized earlier in this
Article. *47

Third, in Proposed Rule 60(b)(5)(a) through (c), the Advisory Committee sets out three requirements for a victim to file a
motion to reopen a sentence - requirements taken straight from the CVRA. **% Without explanation, however, the Advisory
Committee then leaves out the CVRA's qualification to these restrictions - ""this paragraph does not affect the victim's right to
restitution as provided in Title 18, United States Code."" °49

Fourth, in Proposed Rule 60(b)(4), the Advisory Committee has left out the CVRA's venue provision which allows a victim to
assert her rights ""if no prosecution is underway, in the district court in the district in which the crime occurred."" °° In contrast
to the other three omissions just noted, the Advisory Committee specifically discussed whether to track the italicized language
in its proposed rule on asserting rights. Remarkably, it decided to take the statutory language out of the Rules:

Judge Levi expressed concern over the final phrase in Rule [60(b)(4)], which gives a victim the right to assert rights ""if no
prosecution is underway, in the court in the district in which the crime occurred."" Judge Jones said the Crime Victims Rights
Act affords victims certain rights even in the absence of a case. Judge Levi noted, however, that the criminal rules only apply to
proceedings in filed cases. Judge Jones explained that the subcommittee had decided to include it because there might be a pre-
prosecution proceeding of some sort to which the provision might apply. There was discussion as to whether a grand jury
investigation might qualify as such. Professor Beale said that, while the Act might give victims certain rights, such as being
treated respectfully, Judge Levi was probably correct that the rights covered by the criminal rules could only be asserted with
respect to a case being prosecuted. After further discussion, Judge Jones said the phrase would be deleted, as Judge Levi had
suggested. >>!

342 18 U.S.C. § 3771(d)(3).
43 See Bryan A. Garner, A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage 372 (2d ed. 1995).

4 See, e.g., Amella v. United States, 732 F.2d 711, 713 (9th Cir. 1984) ""[""Forthwith'] connotes action which is immediate, without delay,
prompt, and with reasonable dispatch.""); Ayers v. Coughlin, 530 N.E.2d 373, 375 (N.Y. 1988) (“We reiterate that the statutory mandate to
commit individuals to the officials responsible for their custody ""forthwith' means that it is done without delay, at once, promptly. ""Forthwith'
signals immediacy."").

45 CVRA Subcommittee Memo, supra note 66, at 1-2.

*46 Compare Proposed Amendments, supra note 71, R. 60(b)(2), at 17, with 18 U.S.C. § 3771(d)(1) (2006) (victims' rights may be asserted by
""the crime victim or the crime victim's lawful representative, and the attorney for the Government"") (emphasis added).
47 See supra notes 117-133 and accompanying text. For the Advisory Committee's response to this criticism, see infra notes 578-579 and

accompanying text.

348 See 18 U.S.C. § 3771(d)(5)(a)-(c).
$49 Td. § 3771 (d)(5).
550 Td. § 3771(d)(3) (emphasis added).

I Advisory Committee Minutes, supra note 68, at 15 (discussing now-renumbered Rule 43(1)(b)(3)).

DAVID SCHOEN

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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023618.txt,"On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 10:37 AM, Kelly Friendly <

Mr. Epstein:

I work for Larry Summers and as you may have heard, we are stranded
in St. Thomas and the airlines are saying we can't get out until Thursday.

Our names:

Kelly Friendly
Andrew Friendly

My cell is below or you can reach my husband Andrew Friendly on his
cell at{MMJ_ You may have met him when he was President
Clinton's aide.

We would be so grateful for any help you could provide.

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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024177.txt,"Contact list

UBS WM Global Chief Investment Officer

Alexander Friedman
alexander. friedman@ubs.com

Global Head of Investment
Mark Haefele
mark.haefele@ubs.com

Global Investment Office

Themes / UHNW
Simon Smiles
simon.smiles@ubs.com

Kiran Ganesh
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James Purcell
james.purcell@ubs.com

Christopher Wright
christopher-zb.wright@ubs.com

Regional Chief Investment Officers

Regional CIO Europe
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andreas.hoefert@ubs.com

3, UBS

Asset Allocation Advisory
Mark Andersen
mark.andersen@ubs.com

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karsten.bagger@ubs.com

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Philipp Schéttler
philipp.schoettler@ubs.com

Regional CIO Asia-Pacific
Yonghao Pu
yonghao.pu@ubs.com

Asset Allocation Discretionary
Mads Pedersen
mads.pedersen@ubs.com

Walter Edelmann
walter.edelmann@ubs.com

Markus Irngartinger, CFA
markus.irngartinger@ubs.com

Oliver Malitius
oliver.malitius@ubs.com

Matthias Uhl
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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015314.txt,"placard, You don't need magic to tight the franchising. A lone, sad-faced
clown bore a banner with a white dove in a red heart.

In Golden Gate Park, an emcee asked the crowd a series of rhetorical
questions to rev them up: “How many people were here in the sixties? . ..
How many are here now? ... How many don't know? ... How many don't
care?” A musician announced, “We were told not to have amplifiers, but
we decided to break the law today.” Hog Farmer Sharon Share-alike
offered her roll of hard candy to novelist Herb Gold, which immediately
aroused his fear of dosing. He asked, “These really are Life Savers, right?”

The Summer of Love reunion continued at the I-Beam, a disco on
Haight Street. On stage, | compared the decades:

In the sixties, marijuana was ten dollars an ounce. In the eighties, it's
three hundred. In the sixties, teenagers used to hide their pot
smoking from their parents. In the eighties, parents have to hide it
from their kids. In the sixties, the favorite chemical drug was LSD. In
the eighties, it's Ecstasy. In the sixties, Ken Kesey wasn't allowed to
donate blood because he had ingested acid. In the eighties, there
are those who are afraid to get a blood transfusion because of AIDS.
In the sixties, Lenny Bruce got arrested for saying “cocksucker” on
stage. In the eighties, Meryl Streep got an Academy Award for
saying it in Sophie's Choice. Now, almost the entire audience at a
Grateful Dead concert is younger than the number of years the band
has been together--but these kids have less deconditioning to go
through than we did. They have less innocence to lose.

When a group of students and other protesters, including Abbie
Hoffman and Amy Carter (the president’ s daughter), won their case
against CIA recruiting on campus by using a_ “necessity defense,”

attorney Leonard Weinglass told me that the turning point for the

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IMAGES-012-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033063.txt,"From: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]

Sent: 1/5/2018 11:17:30 AM
To: Michael Wo! ff aS
Subject: Re:

ok, barrack keeps texting me. good luck this morning. _ the next question is who will do YOUR

biography now that you are world famous :)/ have fun today

On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 6:04 AM, Michael Wolff iii. wrote:

Just passing reference that you, Tom Barrack, and Trump were once friends. One mention. No inference.

On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 8:41 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
am i mentioned in the book? .

please note
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Cannabis Investment Report | December 2017

= The Human Endocannabinoid System

The human endocannabinoid system consists of nervous and immune system receptors involved in
regulating health and physiological functions. There are two types of endocannabinoid receptors, CB1
and CB2 receptors, which are located in the brain and in other organs, tissues and glands throughout
the human body. The human body actively regulates variables related to appetite, immune response,
memory, mood, pain, sleep and other functions by naturally creating compounds known as “endo-
cannabinoids” and delivering them to these receptors. The following illustration depicts the human

endocannabinoid system and the location of CB1 and CB2 receptors.

Human Endocannabinoid System

CB1 Receptors

CB2 Receptors
Immune Cells

ce cee ' CB1 and CB2

Brain Spleen Immune system

Lungs Bones Liver

Vascular system Skin Bone marrow

Muscles Glial cells Pancreas

Gastrointestinal tract Brain stem

Reproductive organs

The physiological effects of cannabis consumption are believed to be primarily the result of THC,
CBD and other cannabinoids bonding with the body’s endocannabinoid receptors and the consequent
impact on functions regulated by the endocannabinoid system. As scientists gain a deeper understand-
ing of the human endocannabinoid system, they are beginning to explore the application of cannabi-
noids to a broad range of medical conditions and ailments. Although medical research on cannabinoids
is nascent, cannabis is currently being used to manage many conditions, including anxiety, depression,
inflammation, insomnia, nausea, neural disorders and pain.

CB1 and CB2 Receptors

CB1 and CB2 endocannabinoid receptors, which are found on cell surfaces throughout the body, are
believed to be more numerous than any other cellular receptor signaling system in the human body.
The CB1 receptors are located primarily in the brain, central nervous system and other tissues; these
receptors play a modulatory role in memory, mood, sleep, appetite and pain sensation. The CB2 recep-

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IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020980.txt,"Restructure Medicare & Medicaid: Combination of Reducing Benefits

(Including Covered Lives) & / or Raising Taxes

Consider:
1) Reduce Medicare benefits by 53%? and/or
2) Increase Medicare tax rate from 2.9% to 6.8%? and/or

3) Some combination of all / some the above

However you look at it, this math is draconian. A 53% cut in
Medicare benefits and / or more than doubling taxes are unrealistic.
The situation for Medicaid is even worse, as Medicaid has no
dedicated funding source.

Neither Medicare nor Medicaid has yet fully faced up to the crisis and
reform that Social Security experienced in the early 1980s.

KP
www.kpcb.com USA Inc. | What Might a Turnaround Expert Consider? 277

Restructure Medicare & Medicaid: Policy Option #2

lsolate and address the drivers
of rising healthcare costs

KP
www.kpcb.com USA Inc. | What Might a Turnaround Expert Consider? 278

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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022506.txt,"Deputy Chief (FCPA Unit)
Fraud Section, Criminal Division
Bond Building
1400 New York Ave, N.W.
Washington, DC 20005

Telephone: (202) 514-7023
Facsimile: (202) 514-7021
Email: FCPA.Fraud@usdoj.gov

In 1998, the FCPA was amended to conform to
the requirements of the Anti-Bribery Convention. These
amendments expanded the FCPA’s scope to: (1) include
payments made to secure “any improper advantage”; (2)
reach certain foreign persons who commit an act in fur-
therance of a foreign bribe while in the United States; (3)
cover public international organizations in the definition
of “foreign official”; (4) add an alternative basis for juris-
diction based on nationality; and (5) apply criminal pen-
alties to foreign nationals employed by or acting as agents
of US. companies.”° The Anti-Bribery Convention came
into force on February 15, 1999, with the United States

as a founding party.

National Landscape: Interagency
Efforts

DOJ and SEC share enforcement authority for the
FCPA’ anti-bribery and accounting provisions.” They also
work with many other federal agencies and law enforce-
ment partners to investigate and prosecute FCPA viola-
tions, reduce bribery demands through good governance
programs and other measures, and promote a fair playing

field for U.S. companies doing business abroad.

Department of Justice
DOJ has criminal FCPA enforcement authority

over “issuers” (ie., public companies) and their officers,

Introduction

directors, employees, agents, or stockholders acting on the
issuer’s behalf. DOJ also has both criminal and civil enforce-
ment responsibility for the FCPA’s anti-bribery provisions
over “domestic concerns’—which include (a) US. citizens,
nationals, and residents and (b) U.S. businesses and their
officers, directors, employees, agents, or stockholders act-
ing on the domestic concern’s behalf—and certain foreign
persons and businesses that act in furtherance of an FCPA
violation while in the territory of the United States. Within
DOJ, the Fraud Section of the Criminal Division has pri-
mary responsibility for all FCPA matters.” FCPA matters
are handled primarily by the FCPA Unit within the Fraud
Section, regularly working jointly with US. Attorneys’
Offices around the country.

DOJ maintains a website dedicated to the FCPA and
its enforcement at http://www justice.gov/criminal/fraud/
fcpa/. The website provides translations of the FCPA in
numerous languages, relevant legislative history, and selected
documents from FCPA-related prosecutions and resolutions
since 1977, including charging documents, plea agreements,
deferred prosecution agreements, non-prosecution agree-
ments, press releases, and other relevant pleadings and court
decisions. The website also provides copies of opinions issued
in response to requests by companies and individuals under
DOJ’s FCPA opinion procedure. The procedures for submit-
ting a request for an opinion can be found at http://www.
justice.gov/criminal/fraud/fepa/docs/frgncrpt.pdf and are
discussed further in Chapter 9. Individuals and companies
wishing to disclose information about potential FCPA viola-
tions are encouraged to contact the FCPA Unit at the tele-

phone number or email address above.

Securities and Exchange Commission
SEC is responsible for civil enforcement of the FCPA

over issuers and their officers, directors, employees, agents,

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_014443.txt,"supportive of the 5 star movement or threatened the recapitalisation of the Italian
banks (see Strategy Insights: Italy risks elevated).

In 2017 the focus turns to core Europe, especially France and Germany. Because of the
winner takes all system in France we find investors are more concerned with the
situation there. Marine Le Pen and the Front National look likely to make it to the
second round of voting (again according to polls) and until the vote comes in we suspect
investors will be cautious about European markets. A Le Pen victory could likely bring
the future of the EU and the Euro into question as she has talked about France
withdrawing from both. That in turn has arguably the potential to be even more of an
earthquake for the world’s financial markets. Our central case is that centre right
President is elected in France (with Francois Fillon now the official Republican
candidate) and Merkel is returned at the head of a coalition government in Germany.

Chart 19: German polls show a consistent lead for Merkel’s CDU party Chart 20: Fillon well ahead of Le Pen in polls showing a potential run-off
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Source: Allensbach (15-Sept, 13-Oct), Emnid (7-Sept, 14-Sept, 21-Sept, 28-Sept, 5-Oct, 12-Oct, 19- Nov), Harris Interactive (27 Nov}, Note: all 2016.

Oct, 26-Oct, 2-Nov, 9-Nov, 19-Nov), Forsa (2-Sept, 9-Sept, 16-Sept, 23-Sept, 30-Sept, 7-Oct, 14-Oct,
21-Oct, 28-Oct, 4-Nov), Forschungsgruppe Wahlen (22-Sept, 13-Oct, 27-Oct, 10-Nov), GMS (14-Sept,
12-Oct, 12-Nov), Infratest dimap (21-Sept, 5-Oct, 19-Oct, 2-Nov), INSA (5-Sept, 12-Sept, 19-Sept, 26-
Sept, 3-Oct, 10-Oct, 17-Oct, 24-Oct, 2-Nov, 7-Nov, 14-Nov, 22-Nov), Ipsos (10-Oct)

Were this to be the case then we think there may well be room for a significant relief
rally in European assets. Until then we think it likely investors will demand a higher risk
premium.

Brexit was the big political topic for Europe going into 2016. Going forward we see it as
an ongoing issue but mostly for the UK. The political uncertainty is likely to be extended,
even after Article 50 is triggered as any significant negotiations probably need to await
the outcome of the French and German elections. We expect the UK economy to
struggle as the lagged effect of the fall in the currency hurts consumers and while there
may be contrarian trades available in the GBP during 2017, our strategists think it goes
lower first on the triggering of Article 50.

BankofAmerica <2”

12 Global Cross Asset Strategy - Year Ahead | 30 November 2016 Merrill Lynch

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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019361.txt,"Davie Cause Affidavit @

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Agency ORI# FLO 500600 b6 -1, -3

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taped statement, Mr. Rodriguez stated he was employed by Jeffrey Epstein for approximately six months, from
November 2004 through May of 2005. His responsibilities as house manager included being the butler,
rs ef houseman. run errands for Epstein and provide for Epstein's guests. [asked Rodriguez about

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IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011783.txt,"/ BARAK / 26

that he and others were convinced Bibi couldn’t win. A couple of weeks later,
Yitzhik Mordechai seemed on the verge of becoming the latest of Bibi’s ministers
to resign. He was openly flirting with the idea of joining a new centrist party that
had been formed by Likud’s Dan Meridor. Bibi struck back with a mixture of
subtlety and venom. He fired Mordechai, accusing him of being driven by personal
ambition. Then he offered the Defense Minister’s job to Misha Arens.

Yitzhik did join the Center Party, as did Amnon Lipkin, who had ended his
term as chief-of-staff and, with initial opinion poll numbers suggesting he’d do
well, even briefly entered the race for Prime Minister. Now, he endorsed Yitzhik
Mordechai instead: a man not only with strong military credentials, but of Sephardi
background and religiously observant, and a proven politician and cabinet minister.
It was clear that he would be going after many of the same votes I needed to win.

That situation wasn’t ideal, to put it mildly. But all I could do at this stage was
to put our own campaign house in order. I hoped that if we ran the campaign I
expected, there wouldn’t be a run-off.

At the start of April, the final list of candidates was set. There were five. In
addition to Bibi, Yitzhik and me, Benny Begin had decided to run on the right.
Also in the contest was Knesset member Azmi Beshara, the first Israeli Arab
citizen to seek national office.

When we chose “One Israel” as the name of our campaign alliance, it was not
meant just as a catchy phrase. Though now a half-century old, the country had
rarely seemed so diverse, and in many ways divided. It was not just the old fault
line between Labor and Revisionist Zionism that defined our politics, or even the
Ashkenazi-Sephardi gulf that had predominated since the late 1970s. There were
new, younger, more assertive, more right-wing and more pro-settlement voices
among the Orthodox. There was the contrast between the overwhelmingly secular,
politically and socially liberal, and culturally Western Tel Aviv, with its lively
cafés and restaurants, and the constellation of wealthy suburbs to the north; and
smaller Israeli towns and cities in the interior, Jerusalem as well, not to mention

312
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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029893.txt,"From: Jeffrey Epstein [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Sent: 8/11/2009 7:00:57 PM 
To: Jessica Cadwell 
Subject: Re: FW: Jane Doe 
Privileged - Redacted 
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Jessica Cadwell < 
Privileged - Redacted 
feJjka &iditteeff, e?, cia' 
Certified Paralegal 
Florida Registered Paralegal 
BURMAN CRITTON LUTTIER & COLEMAN, LLP 
515 N. Flagler Drive 
Suite #400 
West Palm Beach, FL 33401 
From: Jacquie Johnson [mailto___________ 
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 2:55 PM 
To: Jessica Cadwell 
Subject: RE: Jane Doe 
Yes — we are still trying to get the details though 
wrote: 
From: Jessica Cadwell [mailto____________ 
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 2:27 PM 
To: Jacquie Johnson 
Subject: RE: Jane Doe 
Does this mean you have service on Maxwell 
feJjka &iditteeff, e?, cia' 
Certified Paralegal 
Florida Registered Paralegal 
BURMAN CRITTON LUTTIER & COLEMAN, LLP 
515 N. Flagler Drive 
Suite #400 
West Palm Beach, FL 33401 
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From: Jacquie Johnson [mailto 
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 2:30 PM 
To: Jessica Cadwell 
Subject: RE: Jane Doe 
From: Jessica Cadwell [mailto 
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 11:28 AM 
To: Jacquie Johnson 
Subject: RE: Jane Doe 
Do you have service on Maxwell or still trying to subpoena her?? 
feJjka &dazeEE e?, cia' 
Certified Paralegal 
Florida Registered Paralegal 
BURMAN CRITTON LUTTIER & COLEMAN, LLP 
515 N. Flagler Drive 
Suite #400 
West Palm Beach, FL 33401 
From: Jacquie Johnson [mailto 
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 11:28 AM 
To: Jessica Cadwell 
Subject: RE: Jane Doe 
Please notice the deposition of Ms. Maxwell has been rescheduled from 8/17 to 9/23. A re-Notice of Taking Deposition 
will follow. Mr. Trump's deposition is scheduled for August 18, 2009. 
From: Jessica Cadwell [mailto____________ 
Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 3:31 PM 
To: Jacquie Johnson 
Subject: RE: Jane Doe 
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No not likely. They just filed an emergency protective order 
feJjka &dazeEE e?, cia' 
Certified Paralegal 
Florida Registered Paralegal 
BURMAN CRITTON LUTTIER & COLEMAN, LLP 
515 N. Flagler Drive 
Suite #400 
West Palm Beach, FL 33401 
From: Jacquie Johnson [mailto 
Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 3:18 PM 
To: Jessica Cadwell 
Subject: RE: Jane Doe 
Jessica — is the depo of going forward on Friday 
From: Jessica Cadwell [mailto_____________ 
Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 12:10 PM 
To: Jacquie Johnson 
Subject: RE: Jane Doe 
I didnt forget about this... 
Still working on it. 
feJjka e?, cia' 
Certified Paralegal 
Florida Registered Paralegal 
BURMAN CRITTON LUTTIER & COLEMAN, LLP 
515 N. Flagler Drive 
Suite #400 
West Palm Beach, FL 33401 
From: Jacquie Johnson [mailto 
Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 10:47 AM 
To: Jessica Cadwell 
Subject: RE: Jane Doe 
Jessica — I need a date for the deposition of Mr. Epstein. Can you provide me with one please? 
HOUSE OVERSIGHT 029895 
From: Jessica Cadwell [mailto 
Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 10:20 AM 
To: Jacquie Johnson 
Subject: RE: Jane Doe 
Great thank you. Do you have your Stays signed yet? 
frJaca &dazeEE e9), Yccia' 
Certified Paralegal 
Florida Registered Paralegal 
BURMAN CRITTON LUTTIER & COLEMAN, LLP 
515 N. Flagler Drive 
Suite #400 
West Palm Beach, FL 33401 
From: Jacquie Johnson [mailt 
Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 9:59 AM 
To: Jessica Cadwell; Bradley J. Edwards 
Cc: Robert D. Critton Jr. 
Subject: RE: Jane Doe 
Brad is out of the office until this afternoon — I will ask him then. 
From: Jessica Cadwell [mailto: 
Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 9:51 AM 
To: Bradley J. Edwards 
Cc: Jacquie Johnson; Robert D. Critton Jr. 
Subject: Jane Doe 
Brad — 
In your answers to ROGS, you list Milton Center for girls as facility that Jane Doe attended. Milton Center is a 
Department of Juvenile Justice facility; therefore I will need to get her records from DJJ. DJJ will not release the records 
without a signed release by Jane Doe. I have attached a general HIPPA release for your review. Would you please 
have Jane Doe sign it? DJJ does not have a standard form. 
Also, will you agree to one more week on Responses to Net Wirth ROGS?? 
Please let me know. 
Jess — 
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feJath &dwelt, e?, cia' 
Certified Paralegal 
Florida Registered Paralegal 
BURMAN CRITTON LUTTIER & COLEMAN, LLP 
515 N. Flagler Drive 
Suite #400 
West Palm Beach, FL 33401 
*********************************************************** 
The information contained in this communication is 
confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may 
constitute inside information, and is intended only for 
the use of the addressee. It is the property of 
Jeffrey Epstein 
Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this 
communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited 
and may be unlawful. If you have received this 
communication in error, please notify us immediately by 
return e-mail or by e-mail to jeevacation@gmail.com, and 
destroy this communication and all copies thereof, 
including all attachments. 
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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029812.txt,"dependence on American military power,
they will increasingly look to China for
security assurances. China does not have
a political agenda devoted to promoting
democratization, and it maintains
political and diplomatic ties with both
Arab states and Iran. China's military
activity in the region is modest but
increasing, as evidenced by its recent
peacekeeping dispatches to the region
and naval port visits in the Gulf. Beying
is likely to send more naval forces to the
Gulf to increase its presence there and
enhance its ability to protect the sea lanes
which bring oil to China's thirsty
economy. China is keenly aware that the
United States has naval supremacy in the
Gulf, but will be working to erode that
strategic edge in the future.

Faced with these realities, there is a need
for new thinking and innovative
conceptualizations of surges into
Centcom's area of responsibility. Theater
campaign planners will have to think
about contingencies in which the United
States cannot slowly and methodically
build up forces in the region and then
kick off campaigns after most troops,
arms, and equipment are in place. Future
U.S. force build-ups in the region will be
far too vulnerable to preemptive nuclear
strikes. As a result, planners will have to
devise campaign plans in which the
insertion of U.S. military forces begins

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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026043.txt,"Schulte Research Report, ED 164: Slides

1. Ping An & CICC are the 2 H shares that operate in the middle of Alibaba, Tencent, Lufax.

A. The chart below represents a deep dive we did on the new world of Chinese banking. Companies
like Zhong An, WeBank and Lufax will grow dramatically and will take advantage of (as well as

support) the massive worlds of Alibaba and Tencent. Together, Alibaba and Tencent have market cap
of $500 bn. Popping up in many of these areas of overlap are Ping An and CICC. They are
strategically placed to make great strides in China. This is slowly being recognized in the case of Ping
AN (See Page 8 of attached PPT). Ping An's market cap is $97 bn. It is connected to Zhong An.. It
owns 44% of Lufax. And some if its management were the very ones that started WeBank. It is
perfectly positioned for the coming boom in new banking. It has the best combined ROA and ROE
globally and its P/E of 10x is trading on a 50% discount to the global averages. Why is Ping An
trading at a discount to AIA? BUY PING AN -- SELL ATIA..

B. The other company which has the best return on capital of any broker dealer -- and is also
positioned nicely for the coming boom in the new era of banking in China -- is CICC. CICC and CDH
(a CICC breakaway) both invested in Zhong An and Lufax. CICC has vision and a proven track record.
Yet it has been a laggard. This is a top pick for H shares for China in 2017. The other bank with great
vision in this area is CCB, which has invested in Ant Financial. BUY H shares CCB and CICC. (See
attached PPT for portfolios and China fintech details).

C. IPOs in 2017. I think Zhong An will be a surprise for 2017 in the Hong Kong market. Its market
cap is expected to be $10 bn and it has interesting potential in so many areas of insurance. It
remains an insurance company whose marginal cost of a new customer is zero. It has a talented
team of 900 engineers and has new AI and blockchain divisions. It is rolling out an impressive array
of products including corporate solutions for insurance and investment plans. Lufax CEO Greg Gibb
made a big splash at the Finnovasia (Schulte Research co-sponsored it) in Hong Kong last month.
The company is a diversified financial conglomerate akin to ""Schwab meets etrade and Fidelity"" --
only 25 years ago. It needs an IPO north of $25 bn in order for the private equity partners to make
money. Lastly, Ant Financial will come to the market for a $60 bn IPO in 2017 -- also in Hong Kong.
This is a mothership company that goes to the heart of China's system. Its early investors are CIC,
CDB, CCB, China Life and other vital organs of the system. It will not be allowed to fail. There are
some questions about whether to own this through Alibaba, since Alibaba will own 33% of Ant post
IPO. I'm in this camp. Buy Alibaba on this pullback. (See attached PPT for the full China Fintech
Report).

2. Koch Industries saturates both the offices of Trump as well as Pence. Mega bullish for Russia, oil
and gas companies. Mega bearish for alternative energy.

A. The Koch Brothers are not just two grumpy men -- they are a political party. Koch Industries is the

second biggest private company in the US after Cargill. They operate public and secretive political
entities in 32 states and dole out more than $500 million each political cycle to various entities in the
strongest places. The political entities employ more than 1,200 people and the amount of donations
available to right wing causes varies dramatically but is as high as $750 million per cycle. It is the
third largest party in the US after the Democratic and Republican party. It controls the Libre Alliance,
Americans for Prosperity, Freedom Partners, Institute for Energy Research, American Energy Alliance
and Concerned Veterans.

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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023630.txt,"“Okay,” he says, after listening for a bit to Pierce and his update on the rapid Bitcoin price swings, “I have
opportunities here. But an additional feature of my decision problem, roughly speaking, is that the worst that
could happen to you is that you could lose all the money you put into it. Whereas, I could go—I mean I don’t
look that great now—but I could go from being seen as a figure of some probity and some intelligence to being
a figure of much less intelligence and much less probity...”

“Well,” says Pierce in seeming dramatic understatement, “ no question I expect as in any nascent business one
is going to have some low quality characters playing early in the space...”

That evening, in the Epstein dining room (he seems rarely to use the rest of the house’s 50,000 square feet),
there is a small cocktail party, which includes the former Prime Minister of Australian, Kevin Rudd, and
Thorbjorn Jagland, the head of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, who offers an affable, but generally scathing,
critique of U.S. diplomacy (and a brief defense of Obama’s Peace Prize award) and to whom Epstein offers a
ride back to Europe on his jet.

The next morning, it’s Ehud Barack, the former Israeli Prime Minister, for breakfast. Barack 1s, over his
omelet, able to defend both Obama and Putin. Then a high ranking official from the Obama White House,
whose name I am asked not to use. There follows the former head of the UN Security Council, Hardeep Purie,
and then head of the central bank of Kazakhstan, Kairat Kelimbetov. Then Nathan Myhrvold the former chief
technology office at Microsoft. Then Martin Nowak, a Professor of Biology and Mathematics and Director of
the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics at Harvard, the institute that Epstein has funded with $30 million. Part
of Nowak’s research has to do with trying to “describe cancer mathematically.” (Epstein preempts Nowak’s
explanation : “Think of cancer the same way as you think of a terrorist group. The NSA has been able to thwart
a great number of terrorism acts by intercepting communication signals from one terrorist to another. That same
dynamic, a form of signal intelligence, of finding a terrorist in Europe, can be used to intercept communication
between cancer sells. Cancer cells merely communicate in protean code rather than electronic code. If you can
decode what the signals are saying you can jam those signal between terrorist calls—essentially wipe out their
cell phones. Likewise if you can decode biological signals you can jam them too, that’s the holy grail.”)

Then Richard Axel, a Nobel prize winner in physiology. Then Ron Baron who has $26 billion under
management in his Baron Fund. Then Josh Harris, the co-founder of Apollo Global Management ($164 billion
under management) and owner of the New Jersey Devils and the Philadelphia 76ers.

The question is why, in the face of such public flogging , with the paparazzi so near,do the high and might still
come?

Perhaps simply that it’s intelligence of a high order. Not just market moving information, but Epstein and
Summers trying to unravel the conundrum of zero interest rates, or Epstein and Noam Chomsky on memory
and language, or Epstein TK...

What goes on at Epstein’s house might seem just to confirm everyone’s worst fears about power and the
powerful: it’s all insider stuff. But the conversations at Epstein’s are the conversations, I suspect, that rich men
dream of, but in the real world, such a buttoned-down and agenda-driven place, are actually hard to have.
“That’s Jeffrey,” says Mort Zuckerman, (whose paper, the Daily News, is ever vitriolic in its coverage of
Epstein), with a twinkle in his eye.

On Epstein’s part, there is the wink: In his Paris apartment, 10,000 square feet on the Avenue Foch, a
neighborhood otherwise occupied by foreign potentates, there is a stuffed baby elephant in his living
room—that is, the elephant in the room. (Epstein says too it’s a reminder that elephants have 23 copies of
cancer tumor suppressor genes and humans have only 1.) Epstein has a yet more structural explanation as to
why, after prison and with continuing tabloid infamy, he can maintain his valued place. It comes back, not
unexpectedly, to the nature or the needs of money: “At a certain level of finance, almost everyone is allied with
an institutional interest. You are part of government, or you want to be in government, or you are connected to
a bank or other portfolio, or you have key relationships with certain corporations or industries. Because of my
situation, I have none of that. I have no institutional ties which makes me in some sense one of the few wholly
independent sources of advice - an actual honest broker. That I guess could be described as the usefulness of a
“colorful reputation”

In some sense, too, it is perhaps generational: Most everyone who is now of a certain age and ambition and
status grew up in, and found they were temperamentally suited to, the era of wealth that started in the late

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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025562.txt,"Morgan Stanley | RESEARCH

Exhibit 13:

NORTH AMERICA INSIGHT ~~

Alts organic growth has outpaced traditionals by 7% over the past 4 years, and we expect average Alts growth over the next to years to be 10x that

of Traditionals

Organic Asset Growth: Traditionals vs. Alts

mAvg. 2014 - 2017E Growth Rate

20%
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Note: We look at fee paying AUM for the alts to calculate organic growth

Despite the more favorable view on asset growth, the alterna-
tive asset mangers continue to trade at a significant P/E discount
to traditionals. The group currently trades at 10.8x MSe 2018 EPS,
a 3.0x turn discount to traditionals peers. This however is on total
earnings per share, and is inclusive of performance fees which inves-
tors use a Lower multiple on given volatility. However, we believe a
re-rating of the management fee portion of earnings ina SOTP valua-

tion alone could help close the overall P/E gap vs. traditionals.

Exhibit 14:
Organic Growth for Traditional Asset Managers (2018e avg) vs. Current

2018e P/E Multiple
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25x e

23x 4
21x 4
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B) Longer-term capital that is committed for a defined period of
time and pays fees with an average duration of 12 years in a typical
drawdown fund. As you can see in the following exhibit based on full-
year 2016 data, we see larger redemption rates from traditionalasset
managers (those that disclose redemption rates) relative to alts. For
traditionals we look at total redemption rates. For the alternatives
we look at realizations/harvesting of investments along with
redemptions of open ended products from fee paying AUM as it is
more comparable to traditional asset managers. If we take 1 divided
by the redemption rate, we can back into an average duration of
assets under management. For traditionals below (both covered and

non covered), this equates to 4.3 years duration and for the alterna-

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IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020770.txt,"HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020770
"
IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030922.txt,"swayed to do anything with Jeffrey that they were not already doing. That is not to approve of the whole
behavior, but lots of peopleI know and like have behavior I don't entirely approve of.. I know it is not
politically correct to say that, because in general this is a very sensitive issue and all other things being
equal one should take the side of the young women. But all things are not equal in this case, from my
point of view. It is a judgement call, and I will not turn my back on a good friend so easily.

On Apr 6, 2011, at 9:57 AM, Rebecca Watson wrote:

Thanks for getting back to me. I was asking because I found the quote shocking . . . the evidence against
Epstein is overwhelming and he's even pled guilty to paying for sex with a minor. It's in no way scientific
or rational to assume that because you never saw him with an underage girl he must actually be innocent. It
is possible for a person to be kind and generous with his friends but still a criminal paying for sex with
underage girls in his private life.

I'm going to write about the topic on Skepchick, and I'll include any additional statement you'd like if you
want to provide more context or if you've changed your mind.

-R

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Lawrence Kraus rote:
yes it is.. Based on my direct experience with Jeffrey, which is all I can base my assessment on, he is a
thoughtful, kind, considerate man who is generous to his friends, and all of the women I have known who
have been associated with Jeffrey speak glowingly in the same words..

why are you asking?

On Apr 6, 2011, at 9:41 AM, Rebecca Watson wrote:

Dear Professor Krauss,

We met briefly after your talk in Ithaca a few months ago — I'm the girl on The Skeptics' Guide to the
Universe podcast. I've really enjoyed your talks and books, but I was surprised to see you quoted in the
Daily Beast recently defending Jeffrey Epstein:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-04-01/bill-clinton-katie-couric-woody-allen-

jeffrey-epsteins-society-friends-close-ranks/2/

Can you confirm if the following quote is accurate?

""If anything, the unfortunate period he suffered has caused him to really think about what he wants to do
with his money and his time, and support knowledge,” says Krauss. ""Jeffrey has surrounded himself with
beautiful women and young women but they're not as young as the ones that were claimed. As a scientist
I always judge things on empirical evidence and he always has women ages 19 to 23 around him, but I've
never seen anything else, so as a scientist, my presumption is that whatever the problems were I would
believe him over other people."" Though colleagues have criticized him over his relationship with Epstein,
Krauss insists, ""I don't feel tarnished in any way by my relationship with Jeffrey; I feel raised by it.”

Thanks,
Rebecca Watson

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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029663.txt,"From: Jeffrey Epstein [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Sent: 10/31/2011 10:50:46 AM 
To: Katherine Keating 
Subject: Re: After Words 
where are you? 
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 4:21 AM, Katherine Keating -___________________________ wrote: 
Dear Friends, 
I wanted to share with you the forward to my father's new book 'After Words'. He truly is 
an inspiration and so is his writing. The book, which is a compilation of his speeches, was 
launched yesterday in Sydney. I will be sure to send you a copy, it's a brilliant read. 
I trust this email finds you well. 
Kindest regards 
Katherine X 
Creativity is central to our endeavours 
• BY:PAUL KEATING 
• From: 
The Australian 
• October 22, 2011 12:00AM 
Paul Keating is aware that many people see him as a puzzle and contradiction. During the 
interview he explained he wrote this introduction to his book as a guide to help people see the 
unifying philosophy of his life, public and private. 
FRIEDRICH Schiller, the German philosopher, said: ""If man is ever to solve the problems of politics in practice he 
will have to approach it through the problem of the aesthetic, because it is only through beauty that man makes his 
way to freedom."" 
Romantic and idealistic as that view may seem to some, the thought is revelatory of the fact that the greater part of 
human aspiration has been informed by individual intuition and privately generated passions, more than it has 
through logic or scientific revelation. The moral basis of our public life, our social organisation, has come from 
within us - by aspiration and by light, not by some process of logical deduction. 
Immanuel Kant referred to our inner impulses as ""the higher self"", an unconscious search for truth, going deeply 
into ourselves to establish who we are and what we should be. 
Beauty is about the quest for perfection or an ideal, and that quest has to begin with aesthetic imagination - 
something informed by conscience, carved by duty. Kant called it ""the inner command"", the ethical construct one 
creates to guide one from within. 
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But we need tools to mine good intentions: inspirations, ones which await the creative spark, the source of all 
enlargement. Creativity is central to our progress and to all human endeavour. 
Music provides the clue: unlike other forms of art, music is not representational. Unlike the outcome of the 
sciences, it was never discoverable or awaiting discovery. A Mahler symphony did not exist before Mahler created 
it. 
E.T.A. Hoffman, a contemporary of Beethoven's, famously said: ""Music reveals to man an unknown realm, a world 
quite separate from the outer sensual world surrounding him, a world in which he leaves behind all feelings 
circumscribed by intellect in order to embrace the inexpressible."" 
This is not to turn our back on reason. Or to argue that modernism, with all its secular progress through education, 
industrialisation, communications, transport and the centralised state, has not spectacularly endowed the world as 
no other movement before it. But a void exists between the drum-roll of mechanisation with its cumulative power of 
science and the haphazard, explosive power of creativity and passion. Science is forever trying to undress nature 
while the artistic impulse is to be wrapped in it. 
While these approaches are different - perhaps often diametrically opposite - they inform related strands of thinking 
in ways that promote energy and vision. 
This is what I have found when these forces are contemplated in tandem. When passion and reason vie with each 
other, the emerging inspiration is invariably deeper and of an altogether higher form. One is able to knit between 
them, bringing into existence an overarching unity - a coherence - which fidelity to the individual strands cannot 
provide. 
In the world I have lived in, the world of politics, political economy and internationalism, the literature exists in 
abundance. But what is far from abundant are the frameworks for the intuitive resolution of complex problems that 
require multi-dimensional solutions. 
But from where do we glean this extra dimensionality? 
For me, it has always been from two sources: policy ambition in its own right and from imagination - the dreaming. 
Policy ambition arising from Kant's higher self, and imagination promoted by those reliable wellsprings - music, 
poetry, art and architecture - blending the whole into a creative flux. 
This collection of speeches reflects many of those interests and impulses - whether it be Joern Utzon's Opera 
House or the imperative of liberal internationalism in foreign policy or Neoclassicism, the future of native title or the 
rise of China. Each is related in a wider construct which is part and parcel of the way I have viewed and thought 
about the world. 
While the speeches are from the period after my prime ministerial life and period in government, the impulse in 
writing them came from the same framework and inclinations which informed my life in public office. 
The speeches may be read individually or read together, subject to subject, idea to idea. Either way, a common 
thread informs them all. 
I trust this might be evident to the reader. 
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Paul Keating explains as never before 
BY:PAUL KELLY, EDITOR-AT-LARGE 
• From:The Australian 
October 22, 2011 12:00AM 
WITH his panoramic view of world affairs sharper than ever, Paul Keating blames the current global crisis 
on blunders by European and US leaders and warns that Australia must rediscover the keys to national 
success. 
Interviewed in his Sydney office, furnished in a style he calls ""the last gasp of revolutionary classicism"", Keating's 
new 600-plus page book sits atop his desk, an insight into his intellectual, aesthetic and political obsessions. 
What has Keating been doing since he left office in 1996? He has been travelling, speaking and analysing the 
world and Australia with undiminished intensity suggesting a man operating as prime minister-in-exile. 
His idea of leadership is more philosophical than ever, more distant from Bob Hawke or John Howard. His focus is 
the synthesis between beauty and reason and his book encompasses China's currency, the world malaise, 
Mahler's Symphony No2 and broaching the republic with the Queen. 
During the interview Keating talks, as never before, about his leadership concept. But he 
is doing something else: explaining himself to a still puzzled nation. 
""The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs 
and passion rather than by a process of rational deduction,"" Keating tells me. In 
retirement, his political inspiration comes from music and beauty, not opinion polls. 
There are signs he has mellowed. While ruthless with his judgments Keating is keen to 
support a struggling Labor Party while addressing the source of its strategic demise. 
""The failure of the Rudd and Gillard administrations is the lack of an over-arching story, 
the lack of a compelling story,"" he says when interviewed last week. 
""I'm happy that Labor took us through this dreadful financial crisis so competently. But 
they are not in the business of teaching. And governments, to succeed with change, must 
be in the business of educating the community. 
""Our Labor governments have failed to conceptualise the changes. We need a 
framework. 
""What is the framework? It is 'Australia in Transition' strategically and economically. 
That's the story we have to present. 
""I think the Australian people are very conscientious. During the 1980s and 1990s we 
proved they will respond conscientiously to necessary reforms. They mightn't like them 
but they'll accept them. But reforms have to be presented in a digestible format. 
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""I know that in the age of the internet, opinion and perpetual static it is difficult to get the 
message over. I accept that. But the big messages have their own momentum. If we get 
the story of transition right then other things will find their place. 
""Our problem is what I call shooting-star policies. We have a policy on carbon pricing, on 
minerals, on boatpeople, but they are not connected up to the big picture about 
Australia's direction and its transition."" 
Pressed on whether he thinks the Australian Labor Party is in permanent decline, Keating 
defends Labor, insists it doesn't have to decline but highlights the problem. ""Labor must 
recognise what it has created,"" he says, invoking the Hawke-Keating era. ""It has a 
created a new society and it has to be the party of the new society. 
""It can't be the party of part of the old society. Labor must be the party of those people 
who gained from the pro-market growth economy that we created. Labor must be open to 
the influences of this middle class, to people on higher incomes. And I don't think it is."" 
It is, perhaps, the clearest statement of Labor's problem. The party, in an act of strategic 
folly, abandoned the path of its previous success. It turned inwards on itself, away from 
the community. 
""At the operating level it's become the party of insiders,"" Keating says. ""The problem is 
that members get too caught up in the gift of faction managers and they get caught up in 
the false construct of popularity, the false god."" 
Fixated by the nature of political leadership, Keating's book After Words shouts out: ""The 
great curse of modern political life is incrementalism."" 
Leaning across the table he says to me that briefing notes and economic texts aren't 
enough: the leader must locate his own source of higher command and inner belief. He 
laments the efforts of US President Barak Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel 
in the teeth of contemporary challenges. 
""There is nothing preordained about American decline any more than the European 
project is destined to fail,"" he writes. 
""But the portents are not good. Despite the rhetoric, President Obama conducts himself 
as an arbitrator or mediator between the competing strands of American economic and 
political ideology. He repeatedly eschews striking out, snatching the naked flame and 
hanging on. But the cost of this strategy is not simply a cost to him; it is a cost to the 
whole world. 
""On the other hand, Chancellor Merkel is the archetypal worry-wart. She does not lead; 
she assesses. 
""You really wonder why leaders want these jobs when they really do not want to lead. 
And what is their risk? That Barack Obama will not get a second term? Or that Angela 
Merkel's coalition might finally end up on the rocks? If they actually made the leap they 
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might astound themselves. Because, in the end, everyone in political life gets carried out 
- the only relevant question is whether the pallbearers will be crying."" 
For Keating, the 20th-century leader exerting most influence on the coming century is 
China's Deng Xiaoping. 
""If you look at the other figures of the century, Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin and Mao, none 
will leave the legacy in terms of the 21st century that Deng leaves,"" he says. ""He walked 
away from the ideology of the Communist Party just as effectively as Mikhail Gorbachev 
walked away from the essence of the Soviet Union."" 
By 2050 Keating sees a world order with nations in terms of gross domestic product in 
this hierarchy: (1) China, (2) US, (3) India, (4) Japan, (5) Brazil, (6) Russia, (7) Britain, (8) 
Germany, (9) France and (10) Italy. 
The key, however, is that Japan lags a distant fourth behind the top three. 
On America, Keating is dismayed by the pivotal change in its outlook after the end of the 
Cold War. ""When the Berlin Wall came down the Americans cried victory and walked off 
the field,"" he says. 
""Yet the end of the Cold War offered the chance for America to develop a new world 
order. It didn't know what to do with its victory. This at the moment the US should have 
begun exploiting the opportunity of establishing a new world order to embrace open 
regionalism and the inclusion of great states like China, India and the then loitering 
Russia. 
""Well, frankly, the US didn't have the wisdom. It just wanted to celebrate its peace 
dividend. The two Clinton terms and the two George W. Bush terms, that's four 
presidential terms, have cost US mightily."" 
For Keating, the malaise in US politics is the problem. He says: ""The most compelling 
thing I've seen in years is that in the great burst of American productivity between 1990 
and 2008, of that massive increment to national income, none of it went to wages. By 
contrast, in Australia real wages over the same period had risen by 30 per cent."" Keating 
sees this ""as the breakdown of America's national compact"", the shattering of its 
prosperity deal. He says American conservatives abandoned the middle ground 
represented by Republican presidents such as Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon and 
Bush Sr and became radicals. The derailment, he argues, began under Ronald Reagan 
and reached its zenith under George W. Bush. 
With the goodwill gone the US ""is not able to produce a medium-term credible fiscal 
trajectory or get agreement on rebuilding its infrastructure"". This paralysis ""is significant 
not just for the US but for the world."" 
Keating links the collapse of this ""prosperity compact"" to the financial crisis. Too many 
Americans were unable to sustain themselves from wages and salaries. 
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How did they get by? They used the easy credit of the banking system, thereby feeding 
the frenzy that ended in bad loans and meltdown. 
Keating's book has an abiding message for Australia: in the transformed world we ""will 
find ourselves increasingly on our own"" having to master our own destiny. 
The job is to rediscover the productivity and savings agenda of the 1990s. Why did 
Australia survive the 2008 financial crisis? ""Because of the flexibility of the economy,"" 
Keating says. ""Flexibility which came from the reform of Australia's financial, product and 
labour markets that began 25 years ago. This has given us one of the most flexible 
economies in the world - arguably the most flexible. But further structural changes are 
ahead of us."" 
He lists them. It is a mix of the new and old Keating agenda: a shift in resources to the 
extractive industries; a lift in capital inflow driving a high current account deficit putting a 
premium on savings; recognition that competitiveness will lie ""in the creativity of our 
people as much as it does in our oil and gas""; a renewed emphasis on the value of hi-
tech and education; and above all, a cultural change that integrates Australia more into 
East Asia. ""Cultural transformation is the key for us,"" Keating says. He rates it as more 
important than economic reform. 
""There is less interest now in being part of East Asia than there was in the 1990s,"" he 
laments. 
Keating wants this idea revived. And he ties it to the republic arguing that to succeed in 
Asia we must become a republic, a proposition Howard always dismissed. 
On China, Keating is an optimist yet alive to the daunting economic challenge China now 
confronts. ""What is happening in China knows no precedence in world economic history,"" 
he says. ""Never before have 1.25 billion people dragged themselves from poverty at such 
a pace. China is now half the GDP of the US and incomes have risen by a factor of 10."" 
He argues, however, that the origin of the 2008 financial crisis lies in the global 
imbalances - China has built huge foreign exchange reserves by exporting too much and 
America, in turn, is saving too little. 
Keating says: ""China must shift the basis of growth from net exports and investment to 
domestic consumption. Will they achieve this? Probably. Will there be strains along the 
way? There have to be."" 
Unlike many Australian leaders, Keating is a Europhile. ""I think the European project is 
the most significant project since the second world war,"" he says. But he sees two huge 
blunders made in Europe. 
From the euro's inception, Keating said it should constitute only Germany, France and 
the Benelux nations, not the peripheral countries around the Mediterranean, and ""Greece 
should never have been allowed in"". 
Why were the weaker economies given entry? 
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Keating says: ""It's because president Mitterrand and the French wanted it. They weren't 
ready to sit beside the German unified state without some friends."" 
So the eurozone was flawed from the outset, a structure awaiting internal assault: ""The 
problem is we have a single currency without a political union and without a fiscal union."" 
The second blunder was the 1990s expansion of NATO to the Russian border. For 
Keating, this was recklessness for which the world may yet pay. 
""Sensible policy would have included a place for Russia in the new world order,"" he says. 
""But that didn't happen. So Russian liberals were pushed to one side by Russian 
nationalists. In a sense the US has created Vladimir Putin."" 
Who is responsible? He points the finger at Bill Clinton. 
On the 2008 financial crisis, he says former US Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan 
must bear ""a fair amount of responsibility"". 
""Greenspan is someone I know and like,"" Keating says. ""But if you are so naive to believe 
that institutions with a balance sheet with assets geared at 45 to one is not an accident 
waiting to happen then you don't deserve to be chairman of the Federal Reserve."" 
He praises Obama for seeking a return to the ""liberal internationalism"" that, in Keating's 
view, made the US great in the post-World War ll age. This is the US he loves but it is still 
in retreat. 
Asked about the nature of leadership, Keating reveals what lies within his heart: ""I believe 
there is a poetic strand to life that doesn't exist in an economics textbook. 
""This is not to say that rationalism isn't important and good. It is. But left to itself without 
the guidance of higher meaning and a higher concept, rationalism can be mean and 
incomplete. I say if you simply live on rational policy and briefing notes you are not 
sufficiently informed. 
""You need a higher calling or some inner system of belief - here I mention Kant and the 
inner command that tells you what is true, what is right, what is good. The inner 
command must be the divining construct in what you do. 
""Music has always been a large part of what makes me tick. You listen to a great work . . 
. you hear the majesty of these works and your head and soul gets caught up in them. 
When that happens you are in for bigger things and you will strike out to be better. 
""When I was listening to music I would always have the pad out to write the ideas down."" 
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/paul-keating-explains-as-never-
before/story-e6frg74x-12261 73493029  
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IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022167.txt,"James PATTERSON

All these possibilities seemed bizarre. And yet everything
connected with Epstein’s story seemed to be bizarre.

Bill Clinton got the use of a jet out of Epstein—a trip to
Africa. But he and Epstein weren't bosom buddies.

As for Prince Andrew, we already know how he feels about

women.

But what did Dershowitz get out of Epstein, aside from
Epstein’s wise counsel on all the books he'd written?

One advantage Dershowitz had, as he laid out his argument,
was that when it came to Jeffrey Epstein, all bets were off. He
didn't have to establish his innocence. All he had to do was make
sure that the waters stayed muddy. The more complicated things
seemed to be, the better they were for Dershowitz.

Thanks to Jeffrey Epstein’s actions, and the endlessly compli-

cated cycle of suits and countersuits those actions inspired,

those waters were very muddy indeed.

270

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013304.txt,"IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FIFTEENTH
JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR PALM
BEACH COUNTY, FLORIDA

CASE NO.: 502009CA040800XXXXMBAG
JEFFREY EPSTEIN,

Plaintiff,
Vs.

SCOTT ROTHSTEIN, individually, BRADLEY J.
EDWARDS, individually, and L.M., individually,

Defendant,
/

DEFENDANT/COUNTER-PLAINTIFF’S RESPONSE IN OPPOSITION TO
PLAINTIFF/COUNTER-DEFENDANT’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT ON
DEFENDANT/COUNTER-PLAINTIFF’S FOURTH AMENDED COUNTERCLAIM

Defendant/Counter-Plaintiff Bradiey J. Edwards, by and through his undersigned counsel, hereby
submits this Response in Opposition to Plaintiff/Counter-Defendant Jeffrey Epstein’s Motion for
Summary Judgment. Epstein seeks Summary Judgment on the claims of abuse of process and malicious
prosecution set forth in Brad Edwards’ Fourth Amended Counterclaim. Each of the grounds asserted in
support of Epstein’s Motion for Summary Judgment are without merit and must be denied.

In Epstein’s Amended Complaint he carries forth the essence of all claims asserted in his original
Complaint. In that pleading Epstein essentially alleges that Edwards joined Rothstein in the abusive
prosecution of sexual assault cases against Epstein to “pump” the cases to Ponzi scheme investors. The
purported “proof” of the allegations against Edwards, as referenced in the Second Amended Complaint
and in Epstetn’s Motion for Summary Judgment, includes Edwards’ alleged contacts with the media, his
attempts to obtain discovery from high profile persons with whom Epstein socialized, press reports of
Rothstein’s known illegal activities, the use of “ridiculously inflammatory” language and arguments in
court. But as the evidence submitted in opposition to Epstein’s Motion for Summary Judgment reflects,
Epstein filed his claims and continued to pursue claims despite his knowledge that his claims could never

be successful because they were both false and unsupported by any reasonable belief of suspicion that

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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019349.txt,"Europe and its institutions. Through which he hopes to coordinate the populist right in view of the
European elections which will be held in spring 2019.

Objective: to compete with George Soros, the American billionaire of Hungarian origin, benefactor of
the Democratic party, who since 1984 with his Open Society has spent at least $32 billion in support of
NGOs dealing with human rights. And for this he became the bogeyman of the populist right, accused
of plots of all kinds: including that of wanting to replace Italians with immigrants in order to have
labour at low cost. A mantra repeated in the past on Twitter also by the current Minister of the Interior
Matteo Salvini.

The ambition of Steve Bannon, former director of the alt-right American site Breitbart — which in the
European campaign preceded him since the platform had already opened bureaux in London and
Rome — is therefore to become the coordinator of the one great “populist international” of which he
has long since been dreaming.

The Movement, in fact, intends to function as an extreme right-wing think tank: a source of strategic
advice to channel the not-so-politically structured discontent of the most extreme European
movements. Analysing data and giving strategic advice. But also by raising funds and channeling
funding.

The aim is to create a populist alliance, a sort of “super group” that if victorious can conquer up to a
third of the European Parliament in the elections next May.

Indeed — putting the common policy of the Old Continent in the hands of Bannon and his own. The
American strategist is very attached to the Freedom Caucus — the extreme right of the US Congress
— and in 2014 he was at the top of the Cambridge Analytica company, which in 2016 used data stolen
from Facebook to try to influence the presidential election from which Donald Trump emerged victor.
It is not a mystery that for a long time he courts nationalists of the right from East to West. And he has
already met, among others, the Hungarian Orban, the French Marine Le Pen and the former leader of
the British separatists Nigel Farage. The latter reappeared, coincidentally, on Friday in Pennsylvania,
USA, to a fundraiser in favor of the Republican congressman Lou Barletta. Without forgetting the
Italians of Lega and 5 stars. Of them, he said: ""If it works in Italy, we can import the model
anywhere”.

The Movement, which for now will count on a staff of 10 people, will be fully operational in 2019. In
short, after the American midterm elections, where Bannon is fighting to influence the primaries
supporting candidates potentially able to undermine the prospects of Republican establishment. But in
the future the former spin doctor says he wants to spend more and more time in Europe. Also because
the relationships with Trump have worsened after the revelations he made to Michael Wolff and
published in the scandal book “Fire and Fury”. “Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Paradise,”
Bannon says now paraphrasing the Satan of one of his favorite books, John Milton's Lost Paradise.
Hell in this case would be the dear old Europe and its democratic values. The “army of darkness” is
already among us.

In Sacratissimo Corde Jesu et Purissimo Corde Mariae et Castissimo Corde Ioseph.

is 2s 3s 2 2s ig 2k

Benjamin Harnwell
Founder and President of the Board of Trustees
Dignitatis Humanae Institute

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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030332.txt,"Date: Friday, September 26 2014 10:57 PM 
Subject: Re: 
From: Jes Staley _______________________________ 
To: jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com>; 
I saw that. 
Sent from my iPhone 
On Sep 26, 2014, at 6:51 PM, ""jeffrey E."" <jeevacation@gmail.com > wrote: 
Administration officials were firm that President Obama was only beginning to think about a new 
attorney general, but many in Washington are already focusing on Kathryn Ruemmler, the former 
White House counsel, who recently returned to private practice. 
Ms. Ruemmler, 43, is known to be highly trusted by the president, and she helped guide his thinking on 
gay rights, the health care law and the reach of executive authority. 
She is one of only three women to serve as White House counsel. 
Ms. Ruemmler, who grew up in Washington State and studied law at Georgetown, also has a history of 
winning over skeptical Republicans. ""You never had to question where she was coming from, and she 
never volunteered something she didn't know,"" said Senator Saxby Chambliss, Republican of Georgia. 
""She is very precise but very firm also, and held her own well."" 
She also won admirers as a lead prosecutor on the Enron task force. But if Ms. Ruemmler is nominated, 
the advice she dispensed to the White House about the I.R.S. scandal and the attacks on Benghazi, Libya, 
will certainly draw scrutiny. 
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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030454.txt,"Date: Monday, March 7 2011 04:18 PM 
Subject: FW: Please forward 
From: Jack Goldberger <______________________________ 
To: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com>; 
Attachments: image001.png 
From: Kirsty Mackenzie [ma ilto1 
Sent: Monday, March 07, 2011 11:11 AM 
To: Jack Goldberger 
Subject: RE: Please forward 
I am writing in an attempt to make contact with Jeffrey Epstein and wondered if you would, as his attorney, forward this 
message on to him? 
We are keen to explore the possibility of conducting an interview with Mr Epstein, on the subject of the stories which are 
circulating, however inaccurately, about both him and Prince Andrew, the Duke of York; we'd be keen to hear from Mr Epstein 
first hand so that the various and at times, speculative reporting which is at large in the UK press can be better scrutinised? 
Let me tell you a bit about the Today programme. 
Today is the BBC's main morning news show; we have been part of the BBC for over 50 years and are generally considered 
one of the most important news broadcast outlets - either on radio or TV- here in the UK. We set the news agenda for the BBC 
and in many respects we set the daily news agenda for the country. Our interviews are regularly re broadcast across the BBC's 
national and international news network including - BBC World, BBC World Service and BBC Online. The combination of 
these outlets means the global 'reach' of a BBC Today programme interview is second to none. 
Programme guests have included a selection of some of the biggest names in politics, business, international relations and 
the arts including US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, President Nicholas Sarkozy, President Hamid Karzai, HRH the Prince 
of Wales, former President Musharraf, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, former President Bill Clinton, Senator 
George Mitchell, Al Gore, Kofi Annan, former Prime Minister Tony Blair, the Dalai Lama, Bill Gates, George Soros, Stephen 
Hawking, Sir Paul McCartney, Mick Jaggar and Salman Rushdie. 
We are a programme that carries considerable weight and influence and which prides itself in being a first port of call for many 
of the most important and influential figures on the international stage. 
I can best be reached via my cell phone - 
My very best wishes and my thanks! 
Kirsty 
Kirsty MacKenzie, 
Interviews Editor, 
Today Programme, 
BBC News 
mobile: 
or this email address. 
HOUSE OVERSIGHT 030454 
http://www.bbc.co.uk  
This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal views which are not the views of 
the BBC unless specifically stated. 
If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system. 
Do not use, copy or disclose the information in any way nor act in reliance on it and notify the sender 
immediately. 
Please note that the BBC monitors e-mails sent or received. 
Further communication will signify your consent to this. 
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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016153.txt,"Chart 45: Saudi 12m fwd. P/E vs. EM Chart 46: Saudi 12m fwd. P/B vs. EM

Chart 47: Saudi 12m fwd. EV/EBITDA

MSCI Saudi 12m Fwd PB
EM 12m Fwd PB

22 MSCI Saudi 12m Fwd PE 27
EM 12m Fwd PE 25
Average 23

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2.1
1.9
nhs

1.5
1.3
14

09
07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 0 10 (12181 8H

Source: DataStream, |/B/E/S, Bloomberg, BofA Merrill Lynch Global Source: DataStream, |/B/E/S, Bloomberg, BofA Merrill Lynch Global
Research Research

Interestingly, not all sectors within the Saudi market trade at a premium to GEM peers,
with both consumer discretionary and consumer staples trading at a material discount.
The remaining sectors all trade at a modest premium to their GEM counterparts, with
the industrial and utility sectors trading at a substantial premium on 12mth FWD P/E

Chart 48: Consumer sectors trade at a discount relative to GEM averages. Industrials and Utilities are
relatively expensive vs. GEM peers, other sectors trade at small premium

30.0

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Source: DataStream, |/B/E/S, Bloomberg, BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research

Weaker economic outlook largely priced in as ERR shows inflection

A further consequence of the weakening economic outlook for Saudi Arabia has been
the collapse in market expectations, with earnings estimates having posted their longest
sustained period of downgrades on record. We note however, the Saudi Earnings
Revision Ratio (ERR) has reached an inflection point, with a slowdown in the rate of
earnings downgrades. (ERR is a ratio of number of companies enjoying earnings
upgrades vs number of companies suffering downgrades. A ratio above one, therefore,
indicates more upgrades than downgrades). Consequently, we believe the relatively un-
testing valuations of the Saudi market indicate that a high level of negativity is already
being priced in.

MSCI Saudi 12m Fwd EV-EBITDA
16 7 —seeeqeeee Average

06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

Source: DataStream, I/B/E/S, Bloomberg, BofA Merrill Lynch Global
Research

OS Merrill Lynch

GEMs Paper #26|30 June 2016 43

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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018731.txt,"The Offering

Stan Johnson Company is pleased to offer to qualified
investors, on behalf of Ownership, a unique pre-sale/
JV investment & acquisition opportunity for a 100%
fee simple interest in a brand new, to-be-built General
Services Administration (GSA) facility. The Property is
eased to the U.S. Government and is occupied by the
Citizenship and Immigrations Services (CIS) agency, and
is located on the island of St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin
slands.

The proposed deal structure is a forward commitment

acquisition, with the purchaser funding 100% of

development costs, receiving a preferred rate of return
on their outstanding equity during development,
and subsequently purchasing the property upon
rent commencement at a pre-determined cap rate.
Ownership closed on the purchase of the underlying
and in mid-2014 and is ready to start construction
immediately. Qualified investors are encouraged to
submit bids outlining their proposed terms & structure,
to be reviewed by Ownership.

The Property will be developed on an exceptionally well
ocated site. It will be a 100% occupied, free standing,
two-story office property of approximately 12,770 square
feet on 1.89 acres. The site is located in Smith Bay on
the East side of the island of St. Thomas in the US, Virgin
slands. The GSA will be operating under a new, 10-year
base lease term.

fap)

he subject Property is mission critical to CIS as it will
ouse a consolidation of multiple CIS facilities including
urrent facilities in St. Croix and Charlotte Amalie. The
roperty will serve as the CIS center for the entire St.
homas region to welcome and educate future US
tizens. The Property is a unique opportunity for an
investor to acquire a new construction property 100%
eased to the GSA, while earning additional income
through funding of development costs.

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Investment Highlights

100% Leased to and Guaranteed by the US
General Services Administration - Property to
house the Department of Homeland Security's
Citizenship and Immigration Services agency

Class A Asset with Long Term Residual Value
— Property will be a modern two-story split level,
state of the art, public office facility, built to
withstand a CAT V hurricane

Brand New 10-Year Base Lease Term - Newly
signed 10-year lease, which is non-cancellable for
the first ten years, at a full service rate of $49.55 per
RSF

Mission Critical Facility — The subject Property is
truly mission critical as it will house a consolidation
of multiple CIS facilities and serves as the CIS center
for the entire St. Thomas region to welcome and
educate future US citizens

Strong Developer Track Record of GSA
Projects — The developer, Hoover Properties,
has successfully completed 29 different build-to-
suit developments for the U.S. Government for a
wide range of agencies. Inquire with broker for
additional information.

GSA’s Financial Contribution to Tenant
Improvements - The GSA is contributing almost
$1 million toward interior buildout at the Property,
well in excess of the developer's $665,000
contribution

LEED® Certified Building - The Property's
interior space will be constructed to meet the
requirements of LEED for Commercial Interiors

Subject Property Site

Page 5 GSA Investment & Acquisition Opportunity | St Thomas, USVI ee) Stan Johnson Company | THE NET LEASE AUTHORITY®

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013462.txt,"In June 2002 ... the WHO adopted new prescriptions for dealing with MDR-TB, virtually the same as PIH had
used in Carabayllo. For Jim Kim this marked the end of a long campaign. ""The world changed yesterday,"" he
wrote from Geneva to all of PIH. The prices of second-line antibiotics continued to decline, and the drugs now
flowed fairly smoothly through the Green Light Committee to, among other places, Peru, where about 1,000
chronic patients were either cured or in treatment. About 250 were receiving the drugs in Tomsk, and, largely
because of the efforts of WHO, the Russian Ministry of Health had finally agreed to the terms of the World
Bank's TB loan--150 million dollars to begin to fight the epidemic throughout the country.

The twin pandemics of AIDS and tuberculosis raged on, of course, magnifying each other, in Africa and Asia,
Eastern Europe and Latin America. Mathematical models predicted widening global catastrophe--100 million
HIV infections in the world by the year 2010. Some prominent voices, some in the U.S. government, still
argued that AIDS could not be treated in desperately impoverished places. But this view seemed to be fading.
The prices of antiretrovirals were falling, even more dramatically than the prices of second-line TB drugs.

This was thanks to a growing worldwide campaign for treating AIDS wherever it occurred. Jim Kim had often
said that the world's response to AIDS and TB would define the moral standing of his generation. In 2003, a
new director general took over at WHO, and he asked Jim to serve as his senior adviser. Meanwhile, the
example of Zanmi Lasante [PIH's Haiti-based project] was growing, and Cange had become a favorite
destination for global health policy makers and American politicians.

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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029184.txt,"On Jun 6, 2018, at 2:15 AM, Michael Braun <q  wrote:

Dear Lawrence Kraus,

my name is Michael Braun and | am working on the DAI Heidelberg’s fall program brochure.

May | ask you if you settled on a topic for your Heidelberg talk?

If so, could you send me title and a short abstract for me to include in the brochure and on our website?

Best
Michael

Mit besten Griiwen

Michael Braun .

Referent flr Presse- und Offentlichkeitsarbeit
Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut Heidelberg
- Das Haus der Kultur -

Sofienstrake 12, 69115 Heidelberg

tel:

fax:

www.dai-heidelberg.de

Schurman-Gesellschaft e.V.
VR 425 Amts- und Registergericht Heidelberg

HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029184
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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_014744.txt,"Chart 26: The Euro HICP - weighted index proportions recording Chart 27: Eurozone member country inflation rates, with bubble sizes

inflation below 0% and above 2% proportionate to index weights

70
60
50
40
30
20
10

0
99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

— 2% —<0% 4

0.5 1 1.5 2

Source: Eurostat, BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research Source: Eurostat, BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research

Core inflation at 0.8% is barely above the 2015 low of 0.6%. One statistic that often
grabs attention is the high proportion of HICP index components recording deflation
(currently 31% on a weighted basis). However, much of this represents volatile non-core
components so is less of a concern. The bigger problem is the fact that even after we
take out all these components recording deflation, the 69% of the index remaining is
only recording a weighted average inflation rate of 1.3%. Chart 26 shows that the more
serious problem is that only 10% of components in the basket are recording inflation
rates above the 2% target. So there is a “lowflation” clustering problem by index item
and Chart 27 shows that there is also a lowflation clustering problem by country. In fact,
the country clustering is even more concentrated than it looks if we allow for the fact
that the bigger of the two upside outliers, Belgium (1.8% inflation), has experienced a
presumably unrepeatable increase in the tax rate on electricity from 6% to 21%, as well
as other excise duty increases.

One might be tempted to give the Eurozone the benefit of the doubt on inflation,
insofar as its output gap remains material. However, the closure of the output gap still
requires strong and continuing stimulus, we would argue, and even that does not
guarantee that somehow inflation resets to target.

Our worry about item and country lowflation clustering is not that inflation is
“unanchored”. Our concern is that it flags a “re-anchoring” of inflation at a level well
below 2% and that this new anchor will prove difficult to dislodge.

Chart 28: Output gap as % potential GDP Chart 29: Influence of current inflation on 5y5y EUR inflation swaps

0.35
0.30
0.25
0.20
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0.10
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4%
3%
2%
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00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 :ianieniniittieeniaieien
2012, 2013, 2014. 2015 2016

0.15
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Source: BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research , AMECO Note: The chart shows the slope of the regression of 5y5y on current inflation, with rolling windows

of 29 quarters

Source: BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research, Bloomberg

14 Global Rates, FX & EM 2017 Year Ahead | 16 November 2016

BankofAmerica <2”
Merrill Lynch

HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_014744
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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031382.txt,"—=———. The special video messages of celebrities

""I hope that people look upon charity as they look upon the necessity of flowers needing
oxygen. Any dream is possible if it comes from the heart because it is a real thing""

- Stevie Wonder

“I hope to have the opportunity to bring our own modest contributions one day together
with you because we are the world”
- Quincy Jones
""I dream that, one day when I wake up, the whole world will be one people who loves
each other. I think it is possible that people throughout the world will communicate with
each other since we are not different""
- George Duke

“I am pleased to learn that all your work is to achieve peace of help, peace of mind,
peace of heart and peace of body”’
- Dionne Warwick

“Remember, you can achieve everything if you really try. Never, never, never give in”

y - Former Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley

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IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021308.txt,"Depending on the particular behavior
and interaction in question, behavioral
cycles of interpersonal entrainment can
range from milliseconds to hours.
Indeed, this kind of interpersonal
entrainment is a pervasive phenomenon
not specific to human social behavior
alone’,

When does synchronized
clapping occur? The distinctive feature
of such an event is a convergence
between the neural mechanisms
underlying the monitoring of the
movement of others and the execution of
one’s own movements. The specific
factors responsible for the tipping point
from asynchronous to synchronous
clapping are not yet known, but
descriptively each individual shifts the
timing of his or her subsequent clap to
the perceived timing of claps by the
whole collective. Thus, a continuous
adjustment process emerges in the form
of a collective behavior (synchronized
clapping) to which each individual
contributes and no single individual
controls. Such continuous monitoring of
the collective rather than individuals
within the collective and the adjustment
of one’s own movements to synchronize
one’s behavior with that of the collective
result in a continuous loop of performing
the very same action leading to
dissolution between self and other and
the emergence of an entrained unit. The
resulting effect is the materialization of a
supra-individual behavioral
phenomenon, namely extended
behavioral cycles that are locked
together in time. Although the
emergence of clapping in unison can be
regarded as a phenomenon worthy of
more detailed understanding, it does not
induce in its performers the necessity of
searching for an explanation since the
readily available account is that the

Page |62

performance somehow produces
synchronous clapping.

There is preliminary evidence
that even with no externally imposed
demands prolonged synchronization
emerges within pairs of people
interacting or dyads’. What one finds is
that despite individual differences in
movements, participants entrain (tap
together in time) rapidly when
participants can perceive the behavior of
others’. Extensive research in
coordination dynamics has demonstrated
that such entrainment does not depend
on the intention to coordinate behavior
'. 1 Studies have repeatedly shown that
there is a spontaneous propensity to
mimic other people (generally observed
in dyads). One implication this kind of
behavioral synchrony is the emergence
of affective bonding — such as a feeling
of rapport — both in the case of mimicry""
and between the synchronized partners'”.
One might conjecture that positive
feelings are even stronger when more
people are synchronized.

The conditions that lead to
behavioral synchrony can vary. It is
interesting that people may be more
likely to experience the dissolution of
self-other boundaries when
synchronization is produced without any
obvious external director and is
continuous. Prolonged spontaneous and
unintended entrainment among three or
more people may introduce this feeling,
because the emergence of synchrony
cannot be attributed to a single external
cause.

Conclusions

Social interaction involving
extended periods of synchronized
behavior are not part of our daily
experience, particularly when they
involve more than two people. How do

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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023156.txt,"OUP CORRECTED PROOF - FINAL, 12/9/2014, SPi

xxiv Chronology

15 December 1999 President Clinton hosts summit meeting with Israel’s Prime Minister
Barak and Syrian Foreign Minister al-Shara, followed by rounds of peace
talks in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, in January 2000.

5 March 2000 Government of Israel’s resolution to withdraw from Lebanon.

26 March 2000 Bill Clinton and Hafez al-Assad summit in Geneva.

17 April 2000 Letter from Israel’s Foreign Minister to UN Secretary-General on Israel’s
withdrawal from Lebanon.

22 May 2000 Report of the UN Secretary-General on Implementation of Resolutions 425
and 426.

24 May 2000 IDF completes pull-out from Lebanon.

10 June 2000 President Hafez al-Assad dies.

16 June 2000 Second Report of the UN Secretary-General on Implementation of Resolu-
tions 425 and 426.

18 June 2000 The UN Security Council confirms Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon in a
Presidential Statement.

10 July 2000 Bashar al-Assad is elected President of Syria in a nationwide referendum.

11-25 July 2000 Camp David II negotiations between Ehud Barak and Yasir Arafat.

25 July 2000 Camp David Statement.

28 September 2000 Likud leader Ariel Sharon’s visit to the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif,
prompting major Palestinian riots. Second Palestinian uprising (al-Aqsa
Intifadah) begins.

7 October 2000 Three Israeli soldiers abducted by Hezbollah along the Blue Line.

17 October 2000 Joint Statements at the Conclusion of the Middle East Peace Summit in
Sharm el-Sheikh.

10 December 2000 Prime Minister Barak resigns and calls for early elections.
23 December 2000 Clinton Parameters.

21-27 January 2001 Taba Talks.

27 January 2001 Taba Statement.

27 January 2001 Moratinos Non-Paper on Taba Negotiations.

6 February 2001 Ariel Sharon elected Prime Minister of Israel.

19 April 2001 Jordanian-Egyptian Proposal.

30 April 2001 Mitchell Report.

14 June 2001 Palestinian-Israeli Security Implementation Work Plan (Tenet Cease-Fire
Plan).

17 October 2001 Assassination of Israel tourism minister Rehavam Zeevi in Jerusalem by

militants of the PFLP.

17 February 2002 Thomas Friedman of the New York Times publishes interview with
Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia on his peace initiative.

12 March 2002 UN Security Council Resolution 1397.
28 March 2002 Beirut Arab League Summit Declaration on the Arab Peace Initiative.

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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018378.txt,"also doing something else. It had infected tens of thousands of machines, which
were all cranking away in unintended harmony. During the 48 hours of its brief and
unforgettable life, it was later calculated, the Morris Worm had become the most
powerful parallel computer in history. At its peak, it managed to achieve a
processing speed of 400 billion operations per second - about twice the speed of the
most expensive supercomputers of the day.

Like any unexpected epidemic, the worm became a social, cultural and technological
milestone. First, it caused Morris to be arrested. He was handed a $10,000 fine,
some community service and several years of probation. He later went on to found
an important Internet company, to join the faculty of MIT and to receive the highest
honors in computing for his (other) efforts.

Then, a year or so after the virus had been finally corralled, the computer scientist
Fred Cohen, one of the earliest specialists in malware - in fact, the man who
invented the term “computer virus” - wrote an article that challenged the notion
that all computer viruses are, inherently, bad.215 What drew his attention was that
fabulous, unbelievable record of the Morris Worm: 400 billion computations each
second. “The features that make computer viruses a serious threat to computer
integrity,” he wrote, “can also make them a powerful mechanism.”2'6 This optimistic
gloss, which sounded an awful lot like “The Plauge was great for humanity!” if you
didn’t follow Cohen's logic, triggered a furious response. Eugene Spafford, also a
well-regarded computer researcher, fired back: “For someone of Dr. Cohen’s
reputation to actually promote the uncontrolled writing of any virus, even with his
stated stipulations, is to act irresponsibly and immorally.”21”

So here, then, is a line, of sorts. The Morris Worm, an expression of really massive
connection and interaction and speed, is a model for the world we live in now. Fast,
linking with a mind of its own, running best (or at least fastest) when it uses the
design of the system to spread on a topology optimized for speed. But who is right
about the implication of such an historic design. Cohen? Spafford? Do we want our
whole world cranking away, super fast, compressing time to nothing?

We can, all of us, decide to fight against the very ideas of a network. Or we can, like
Cohen suggested, look at the terrifyingly fast nature of this world and begin to see
something else. The totally unimaginable. Of course Spafford was not wrong. There
is something scary and thought-muddling about the idea of intentionally authored
computer viruses, running wild, ever faster. But there is something thought-
muddling about this whole world we're entering. Networks are pulling at every
existing structure. They hum, really, with the most elemental and precious human

215 Fred Cohen: Frederick B. Cohen. A Short Course on Computer Viruses (Pittsburgh,
PA: ASP Press, 1990)

216 “The features”: Fred Cohen, “Friendly Contagion: Harnessing the Power of
Computer Viruses”, The Sciences Sept/Oct 199, 22

217 Eugene Spafford: Eugene Spafford, “Three Letters on Computer Security and
Society,” Purdue e-Pubs 1991, 91-088

146

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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025204.txt,"However, I have had an abortion, and I was totally outraged by the blatant hypocrisy I’d overheard. I had never

leaked a document before, but my anger overshadowed my fear.

I chose Nina Totenberg because I had come to trust her reporting about the Supreme Court on National
Public Radio. I honestly had no idea what leaking the affidavit would accomplish. I certainly did not envision
that it would literally embarrass the Senate into delaying the vote until public hearings were held, though that

probably was my secret desire.

But Judge Thomas testified under oath that he had never discussed the subject of abortion. However, in
response to a question by Senator Hank Brown, Professor Hill testified that she had disagreed with Judge Thomas

in a discussion about Roe v. Wade. Unfortunately, then-Senator Joseph Biden quickly interrupted her.
“That is not the subject of these hearings,” he said.

Personally, I feel quite disappointed about that particular aspect of the testimony, but I have not the slightest

regret over leaking Anita Hill’s affidavit, and I would gladly do it all over again.

I certainly set a higher moral standard for myself than did the staffer for Senator John Danforth who wrote

Judge Thomas’s statement that began, “Nobody helped me with this.”

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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031396.txt,"A Justice Dept. discipline office
with limited reach to probe
handling of controversial child sex
abuse case

Matt Zapotosky

The Justice Department office that handles employee discipline has
opened an investigation into whether attorneys committed
“professional misconduct” in allowing a well-connected millionaire to
spend just over a year in jail to resolve allegations that he molested
dozens of young girls.

The department revealed the investigation Wednesday in a letter from
Assistant Attorney General Stephen E. Boyd to Sen. Ben Sasse (R-
Neb.), who has questioned how the department handled its inquiry of
financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Epstein’s case had been the subject of an investigation by the Miami
Herald, which detailed how then-U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta, now

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_014750.txt,"lows suggesting this will be a source of pressure on the Won given the greater trade
linkages (Table 2).

Our current account forecasts for 2017 anticipate deterioration in Korea’s current
account surplus compared to marginal improvement in Russia’s. Recent issues at
Samsung and Hanjin pose risks for the goods and service balances, respectively.
Electronics account for 30% of Korea’s exports. While a stronger dollar and energy de-
regulation in the US could dampen the oil market, our energy strategists continue to
expect further modest gains in Brent over 2017. The RUB/KRW cross has a modest
positive beta to oil at 25% since the beginning of 2014. Risks to the trade are mainly
material downside to oil prices vs our baseline scenario.

Sell German 2y vs OIS, buy 10y vs OIS
In H2 2016, we saw an impressive richening of short-maturity German govies and repo:
we like fading the move by selling 2y Bund vs OIS and buying the 10y vs OIS.

German 2y is pricing-in structurally high demand and low supply

The German 2y trades at the richest against OIS since the peak in 2011 due mainly to
demand/supply dynamics driven by: 1} European regulation on mandatory central
clearing and minimum initial margin requirements generating €350bn in extra collateral
needs in 2016-19; 2} LCR regulation and negative rates having pushed cash-rich
corporates into holding short-end German bonds/bills in order to store liquidity; and 3)
net bill issuance having been cut to negative in Q4 because falling yields created €42bn
of excess cash for governments.

Supply pressures are expected to ease in 2017E

Bubill auctions will resume after more than two months of absence while more
treasuries may be the answer to an excessive rise in yields by increasing net issuance in
the front-end. The ECB may also be concerned by the richness of front-end German
govies (see Couré’s speech on 3 November). If the Eurozone fails to create enough
safe/low-volatility securities for the market to work efficiently, then the central bank
could compensate by lending more collateral, by adjusting counterparty frameworks and
running higher balance sheets or even by issuing bills to satisfy safe asset demand in
the non-bank system.

ECB QE and potential periphery stress supports 10y outperformance

Given the tail risks in 2017 and our call of ECB QE extension to September 2017, we
prefer to add a 10y DBR long vs OIS — we expect 10s to outperform in such a scenario.
In Chart 38 we show that ECB tapering expectations have now pushed 2510s vs OIS to
levels before the announcement of ECB QE on 22 January 2015. However, we see even
more reasons for the ECB to extend the €80bn per month in QE to September 2017.

Chart 37: Return to a different time Table 2: Russia vs S. Korea factors
45 3.5
40 RUB KRW
3.0 Real rate* 42 09
38 25 CA change forecast, '17 vs '16 1.2 -{
30 Growth delta forecast, '17 vs '16 16 0.2
25 - 2.0 NFA / GDP+ 1 5
20 15 Pvt credit (% GDP) 50 80
. Foreign holdings of local debt (USD bn) 20 67
15 - 1.0 FX reserves / ST debt 6 3
10 Share of US in exports 2 13
5 0.5 Share of China in exports 10 25
0 0.0 ; oo
Jan-10 Oct-14 Juk413 Apr-15 Jan-17 * ty fwd 5y yield vs inflation forecast

+Countries net external position vs BIS-reporting banks

——RUB/KRW (LHS) ——=US 5y5y breakeven (RHS)
Source: BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research, Bloomberg

Source: BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research, Bloomberg

20 _ Global Rates, FX & EM 2017 Year Ahead | 16 November 2016 Bankof America
Merrill Lynch

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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023142.txt,"OUP CORRECTED PROOF - FINAL, 12/9/2014, SPi

x Contents

UN General Assembly Resolution 194 (IH) (11 December 1948) 601
UN General Assembly Resolution 273 (II): Admission of Israel to

Membership in the United Nations (11 May 1949) 605
UN General Assembly Resolution 303 (IV) (9 December 1949) 606
UN General Assembly Resolutions 1000 (ES-I) and 1001 (ES-I)

(5 and 7 November 1956) 608
UN Security Council Resolution 242 (1967) (22 November 1967) 611
UN Security Council Resolution 338 (1973) (22 October 1973) 613
UN General Assembly Resolutions 3236 (XXIX) and 3237 (XXIX)

(22 November 1974) 614
UN General Assembly Resolution 3379 (XXX) (10 November 1975) 617
UN Security Council Resolutions 476 (1980) and 478 (1980)

(30 June and 20 August 1980) 619
UN General Assembly Resolution 46/86 (16 December 1991) 623
UN Security Council Resolution 904 (1994) (18 March 1994) 624
UN Security Council Resolution 1073 (1996) (28 September 1996) 626
UN Security Council Resolution 1322 (2000) (7 October 2000) 628
UN Security Council Resolution 1397 (2002) (12 March 2002) 630
UN Security Council Resolution 1402 (2002) (30 March 2002) 632
UN Security Council Resolution 1405 (2002) (19 April 2002) 633
Report of UN Secretary-General prepared pursuant to UN General

Assembly Resolution ES-10/10 (Jenin Report) (31 July 2002) 634
UN General Assembly Resolution ES-10/13 (21 October 2003) 679
Report of UN Secretary-General prepared pursuant to General Assembly

Resolution ES-10/13 (24 November 2003) 681
UN General Assembly Resolution ES-10/14 (8 December 2003) 691
UN Security Council Resolution 1515 (2003) (19 November 2003) 694
UN Security Council Resolution 1544 (2004) (19 May 2004) 695
International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion on the Barrier (July 2004) 697
UN General Assembly Resolution on ICJ Ruling on the Barrier

(2 August 2004) 759
UN Security Council Resolution 1850 (2008) (16 December 2008) 763
UN Security Council Resolution 1860 (2009) (8 January 2009) 765

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_014988.txt,"Chart 24: The HSCEI-SPX Dec- 18 (18-month) variance swap spread is Chart 25: The long term HSCEI-SPX realized vol spread has been higher
back to the lower-end of its 5-year trading range than the current implied corridor variance spread (5%) 98% of the time
since 2007
20% 30%
18%
16% 25%
14% 20%
12% ;
10% 1
8% 10%
6% 5
4% a
2th 0%
Mm owomomoewerer nnrnrnnwn srwm woo oOo Mm
NAN MOMMA TA TOM HD OO ONN SSSSeSseSReS FFE ZBRSEES
seeeeeeeeeeeebesg sd OS SO SOO eee
7 EoO>?-S 2 eH = see 7 o er =, a> S HSCEI - SPX 18-month realized vol
ee ATISTIGS apnea — — Dec18 Variance Implied: 8%
Source: BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research Data as of 2-Jan-12 to 16-Jun-17 weeeee Dect8 70/110% Corridor Variance Implied: 5%
18-month constant maturity variance swap spread is used as a proxy of Dec18 variance swap spread
Source: BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research Data as of 2-Jul-O7 to 16-Jun-17
Chart 26: Historical payoff of buying HSCEI-SPX Dec-18 70/110% Table 6: The HSCEI-SPX Dec-18 70/110% corridor variance trade
corridor variance spread; higher payoffs during 2011-2012 and 2015 has a positive carry with realized vol across most tenors higher
sell-offs than the current implied corridor variance swap spread
HSCEI SPX Spread
1M realized vol 12.1% 4.6% 75%
0, Ao 3M realized vol 13.7% 6.8% 6.9%
250,000 6M realized vol 14.0% 6.8% 7.2%
200,000 12M realized vol 16.6% 9.7% 6.9%
1 fe} 0, fe}
450,000 18M realized vol 20.8% 11.99% 8.8%
100,000 HSCEI - SPX Dec18 70/110% corridor variance offer: 5.0%
50,000 Source: BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research
-50,000
mand toe} Lo?) Q — N oO s+ iw ico}
SSS 3 53 53353553 8
== HSCEI-SPX Dec’18 70/1 10% corridor historical payoff (10k
vega)
Source: BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research Data as of 2-Jul-O7 to 16-Jun-17
orice a Global Equity Volatility Insights | 20 June 2017-17

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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025210.txt,"mercury films inc.
=. 645a dupont street
toronto ontario m6g 1Z4 canada
t: 416.516.2661
e: mercfilm @istar.ca

JENNIFER BAICHWAL

Jennifer Baichwal was born in Montréal and grew up in Victoria, British Columbia. She studied
philosophy and theology at McGill University and received an M.A. in 1994, supported by a
McGill Major Fellowship and a 2 year FCAR Master’s Scholarship.

She has been directing and producing documentaries for 15 years. Her first film, Looking You In
The Back of the Head, an enquiry into the problem of personal identity, asked thirteen women to
try to describe themselves and was first broadcast, to critical acclaim, on TVOntario's From the
Heart. It subsequently sold for broadcast across Canada.

Let it Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles, her first feature documentary, won a 1999
International Emmy for Best Arts Documentary. It premiered at the Toronto International Film
Festival in 1998 and was nominated that year for a Best Feature Documentary Genie Award. It
won Best Biography at Hot Docs in 1999 and was picked up for theatrical release by Mongrel
Media in Canada, Zeitgeist Films in the U.S., and Uplink in Japan. The film has been sold for
broadcast all over the world, and has been selected for a number of international film and
television festivals, including Jerusalem, Buenos Aires, FIPA, Banff (where it received a Rockie
nomination), Istanbul and Edinburgh.

The Holier It Gets documents a trek Baichwal took with her brother and two sisters to the source
of the Ganges river with her father’s ashes. The film won Best Independent Canadian Film and
Best Cultural Documentary at Hot Docs 2000, Geminis for Best Editing and Best Writing and
was nominated for the Donald Brittain Award and the Chalmers Documentarian Award. It was
commissioned by TVOntario and features music by Ravi Shankar and John McLaughlin.

The True Meaning of Pictures is a feature length film on the work of Appalachian photographer
Shelby Lee Adams. It was commissioned by TVOntario, Bravo!, SBS Australia and Discovery
Germany. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2002 and was invited
to the Sundance International Film Festival in January 2003. It won a Gemini award for Best
Arts Documentary in 2003 and has played at numerous international festivals. The film was
released on dvd by Docurama/New Video in October 2003.

Baichwal, along with Nick de Pencier, was commissioned in 2003-4 to make 40 short films on
artists who have been supported over the past four decades by the Ontario Arts Council. These
include writer Michael Ondaatje, artist Michael Snow, pianist Eve Egoyan and playwright Judith
Thompson, and are in periodic rotation on TVOntario. The collection received a 2006 Gemini
nomination for Best Direction in a Performing Arts Program or Series.

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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018725.txt,"“Donald Trump, 2004 (America)”

Andres Serrano

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012768.txt,"What’s it for?

About 50 million years ago, a family of insects — the Phylliinae — evolved a distinctive piece of
anatomy: a body that looks like a leaf. They also evolved the capacity for catalepsy or statuesque
stillness. Their leafy body is so exquisitely designed that even predators with superb search images are
fooled as they walk or fly by. But from the fact that the leafy body provides these insects with an
invisibility cloak, and the fact that this enables them to escape predation, we cannot conclude that the
leafy body evolved for predator evasion. What something is used for today may be different from what it
evolved for — the difference between current utility and original function. To show that the leafy body
evolved for predator evasion, we need to know more, which we do. For one, the leafy body is paired up
with a requisite behavioral adaptation: turning to stone. If leaf insects fluttered about as actively as any
other insect, their motion alone would cry out to the predators. Optimal effectiveness requires acting like
aleaf. But acting like a leaf without the leafy body has its own independent benefits, paying off in terms
of predator evasion, as well as sneaking up on potential mates. It would therefore make good sense if
stillness evolved first followed by a leafy body. This is precisely what evolution’s record reveals.

The adaptive advantage that comes from statuesque stillness and a leafy camouflage can only be
measured against the backdrop of today’s predator line-up. If some future-predator evolves more
sophisticated abilities to discriminate real leaves from faux leaves, the Phyllinae will be out of luck. This
new pressure from predators will, in turn, push for new evasive tricks, thus initiating the classic cycle of
predator-prey evolution. What is adaptive for the Phylliinae today, may not be adaptive tomorrow.

The comparative study of the Phylliinae raises a class of questions posed by all evolutionary
biologists, independently of their taxonomic biases or interests in physiology, morphology, or behavior:
How did it originally evolve? What adaptive problem did it solve? Did it evolve to solve one adaptive
problem, but over time shift to solve another — a case of what the late evolutionary biologist Stephen J.
Gould referred to as an exaptation? Does the exaptation generate profits or losses for survival and
reproduction? Is the trait associated with byproducts, incidental consequences of the evolutionary
process? What effects, if any, do these byproducts have on survival and reproduction? These questions
apply with equal force to evil as they do to language, music, mathematics, and religion. The fact that evil,
relative to a leafy body, is more difficult to define, harder to measure, and impossible to experiment upon
— at least ethically — doesn’t mean we should take it off the table of scientific inquiry. What it means is
that we must be clear about what we can understand, and how we can distinguish between the various

interpretations on offer. When we explore the evolution of evil, what are we measuring and what evidence

Hauser Chapter 1. Nature’s secrets 22

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016147.txt,"Chart 34: Real Brent prices are at one of the lowest levels in decades, Chart 35: We see global light sweet crude oil averaging US$55 to
and will likely encourage very strong demand growth ahead US$75/bbl over the 2016-2020 period
440 Real and nominal yearly average Brent crude oil prices 410 Medium term oil supply & demand (2016-2020)
US$/bbI avg oil price

100 90

80 80

60 70

60
40

Al 60
20 2016YTD 40 nitbpd growth, 2016-20
0 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
70 73 76 79 82 85 88 91 94 97 00 03 06 09 12 15 supply (OPEC 2.9): low supply (OPEC 4.2): base*

demand

supply (OPEC 5.5): high

nominal oil price real oil price, rebased to 2016YTD price level

Source: BP, Bloomberg, BofA Merrill Lynch Commodities Research Source: IEA, BofA Merrill Lynch Commodities Research
*4.2 mn b/d OPEC supply: Saudi: 1.3 mn b/d; Iraq: 0.8 mn b/d; other OPEC crude: 1.7 mn b/d; 0.4 mn
b/d OPEC NGLs.

Non-OPEC production will not reach 2015 levels before 2020 at the earliest...
Non-OPEC producers have massively reduced capex spending, down US$290bn or 42%
from 2014 to 2016, in response to the low price environment. Should capex start to
increase again in 2017, the effect on non-OPEC non-shale production is unlikely to be
felt before 2020 at the earliest. Most of the decline in the short term comes from non-
conventional output in the US, as shale is very price sensitive within a 12-month
horizon. With Brent prices set to increase from US$46/bbl this year to US$80/bbI in
2020 in our base case, we believe US shale production will grow again, albeit at a slower
rate than in the past four years. Total non-OPEC supply is set to drop to 56.4mn bpd in
2017 before rebounding to 57.5 mn bpd in 2020, a similar level as in 2015.

Chart 36: With Brent prices set to increase to US$80/bbl in 2020, we Chart 37: Linking this with our 5-year price deck suggests marginal US
believe US shale output will grow again, albeit at a slower rate shale output grows in 2017 and acceleration thereafter

Non-OPEC oil supply growth by major country 8 Shale production forecasts aligned with BofAML WT|

mn bid price assumptions

3.0
2.5
2.0

mn b/d, YoY

BofAML f'cast

15
1.0
0.5
0.0
-0.5
-1.0
2010 2012 2014 2016F 2018F 2020F
mu US meme Canada mam Mexico
mmm North Sea mmm Russia Kazakhstan
. . 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
mum Asia Brazil mmm Sudan/So. Sudan
other —+— total non-OPEC base =2016@$45/bbl m2017@$59/bb!_ =2018@$67/bb| m2019+@$75/bbl
Source: IEA, BofA Merrill Lynch Commodities Research Source: EIA, BofA Merrill Lynch Commodities Research

4.1mn bpd needs to be added by OPEC by 2020, namely Saudi, Iran and Iraq

The US is the only country able to ramp up production among non-cartelized players by
2020, so OPEC has to come to the rescue to provide the required incremental supplies.
We estimated that demand will grow by 5.9mn bpd in 2015-20. With the market
oversupply of 1.8mn bpd in 2015, OPEC needs to increase production by 4.1mn bpd in
the next five years to “balance the market”. Saudi Arabia could make up for half of this
given its c2mn bpd of spare capacity, and we believe it intends to at least increase its
market share. We would expect other OPEC countries to expand their capacity in the

OS merrill Lynch GEMs Paper #26 | 30 June 2016 37

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013476.txt,"Case 9:08-cv-80893-KAM Document 168 Entered on FLSD Docket 06/28/2010 Page 1 of 4

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA

CASE NO.: 08-CIV-80893-MARRA/JOHNSON
JANE DOE,

Plaintiff,
vs.

JEFFREY EPSTEIN,

Defendant.
/

DEFENDANT EPSTEIN’S MOTION FOR SETTLEMENT CONFERENCE, OR IN
THE ALTERNATIVE, MOTION TO DIRECT PARTIES’ BACK TO MEDIATION

Defendant, JEFFREY EPSTEIN, by and through his undersigned attorneys,
pursuant to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the Local Rules for the Southern
District of Florida, moves this Court for an order requiring the parties to attend a
Settlement Conference before Magistrate Judge Linnea R. Johnson, or in the alternative,
for an Order directing the parties to reconvene at a second mediation on or before July 1,
2010, and as grounds set forth would state:

1. The above-styled matter is currently scheduled on the Court’s trial docket
beginning July 19, 2010. (D.E. #119, Order Re-Setting Trial Date and Pretrial Deadlines).
The Court’s Mandatory Pretrial Stipulation and Motions in Limine deadlines are set for
July 1, 2010, In this regard, if the parties could reach an agreement at a settlement
conference or a mediation before these pre-trial deadlines, it would result in substantial
conservation of judicial resources and preparation time.

2. The parties attended mediation on April 5, 2010, at Matrix Mediation,
LLC, with Rodney Romano serving as mediator, but were unable to reach an agreement.

(See D.E. #139).

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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029190.txt,"From: Lawrence Krauss |

Sent: 8/29/2018 7:07:18 PM
To: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Re: October 19, Heidelberg

Importance: — High
please call me asap

Lawrence M. Krauss

Professor

School of Earth & Space Exploration and Physics Department
Arizona State University, P.O. Box 871404, Tempe, AZ 85287-1404

Research Office: S| Assistant [I
| twitter.com/Ikrauss1 | www.lawrencemkrauss.com

On Aug 29, 2018, at 11:56 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:

What was Justin bill ? nd total to date?

On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 2:29 PM Lawrence Krauss <i wrote:
actually I found I can buy an economy (YUK) ticket for only $1300.. so maybe I can buy that and try to

upgrade it using miles..

Lawrence M. Krauss

Professor

School of Earth & Space Exploration and Physics Department
Arizona State University, P.O. Box 871404, Tempe, AZ 85287-1404

Research Office {EEE Assistant

| twitter.com/Ikrauss1 | www.lawrencemkrauss.com

On Aug 29, 2018, at 11:06 AM, Lawrence Krauss <i  wrote:

Hi.. so, here is the event I am still invited to give in Germany. It is Oct 19th. I was previously invited to give a
major lecture in Heidelberg Oct 14 but they had to cancel it after the university determination re australia was
publicized by the bitch. That air ticket, which they had paid fo, was about 5250 euros. There is a $900
cancellation fee, and they have agreed to let me keep the ticket if I pay them 4500 euros. I offered that to the
other place but they only have $5K USD total, which includes the $4K fee they originally offered me. Iam
going to check other tickets now, but wanted to know if you might be flying to europe around then and could
take a hitchhiker. :)

Lawrence M. Krauss

Professor

School of Earth & Space Exploration and Physics Department
Arizona State University, P.O. Box 871404, Tempe, AZ 85287-1404

Research Office: EEE | Assistant
| twitter.com/Ikrauss1 | www.lawrencemkrauss.com

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_014319.txt,"Chart 6: What is your outlook on fixed income performance and flows versus equities?

60%

50%

40%

30%

20%

10%

0%
Weaker FI performance Weaker Fl and Equity Flat Fl performance & Stronger Fl and Equity Stronger FI
& flows / Stronger performance & flows flows / Flat equity performance & flows — performance & flows /
equity performance & performance & flows Weaker equity
flows performance & flows

Source: BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research

Active vs passive outlook — passive to continue to gain share

Given the ongoing shift to passive investing from active, we polled the audience to see
where they think the share split between the two styles eventually settles. Currently the
share split is roughly 70% active and 30% passive which was the least popular answer
(10%) when asked “do you see improving cyclical demand for active management,
despite structural headwinds, and if so where do you think active/passive share settles?”
Most investors do see improving cyclical demand for active management and think
passive will eventually control 40% of the market (50%) while 40% of respondents do
not see improving trends for active and that passive will eventually capture 50% of the
market.

Chart 7: Do you see improving demand for active & where do you think active/passive share settles?

60%

50%

40%

30%

20%

10%

0%

Yes, but structural will persist, with No, and structural will persist, with share Yes, with the share settling near the
share heading to 60% active /40% heading to 50% active / 50% passive current 70% active / 30% passive
passive

Source: BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research

M&A activity likely to rise

Given a recent pickup in M&A and pressures within the industry that will likely continue
the trend, including rising regulatory costs, some fee pressure, and active outflows, we
asked investors their outlook for M&A in the sector. We found that the majority think

Bankof America a 2016 Future of Financials Conference | 17 November 2016 5
Merrill Lynch

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"
TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029111.txt,"From: Joi Ito 
Sent: 11/22/2017 6:14:38 PM 
To: jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Subject: Re: 
Importance: High 
Lots of stuff going on that week but I'm in town. 
#metoo is quite amazing... 
Madars is doing well. His PhD paper won an award and he found a vulnerability in ING's new crypto currency. 
Sent from my iPhone 
On Nov 22, 2017, at 10:57, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
maybe week of 3rd not seeing anything that exciting or new ? you? with all these guys getting busted for 
harassment, i have moved slightly up on the repuation ladder and have been asked everday for advice etc. this 
morning I have Ken Starr coming to point out how if clinton cigar lewinsky were to be outed today the world 
would be a different place 
On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 10:51 AM, Joi Ito > wrote: 
Pretty good. Had a pinched nerve in my neck that screwed me up for awhile. How about you? Any plans to 
come to Boston? 
Sent from my iPhone 
On Nov 22, 2017, at 10:44, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
all good? 
please note 
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confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may 
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please note 
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confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may 
constitute inside information, and is intended only for 
the use of the addressee. It is the property of 
JEE 
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communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited 
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"
IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011967.txt,"43

MR. OBRONT: Well, I would object, because
of circumstances.
BY MPR. DAVID:
Q But you said before that you never heard
anything that would indicate that Jean-Luc Burnel
behaved inappropriately with -- with any models,

especially any minor models that MC Square may have

had.
Is that correct?
A Yeah, I said what is the truth. Nobody
cemplain to me. Nebody -- your question was very

clear, has any girl came to you and complain about

sexually, you know, involved with Mr. Brunel.

Q Right.
A And my answer was no. Nobody came to tell
me. I never saw. I never knew. His personal life

was net my problem.

Q Do yeu have any actual knowledge, that is
to say were you present or did you see with your own
eyes, any minor models go with Jean-Luc Burnel to
Jeffrey Epstein's home, or any party ef his?

MR. OBRONT: Objection.
THE WITNESS: T['m sorry, but I take the

Fifth

EXHIBIT H-2

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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031038.txt,"From: 
Sent: 
To: 
Jeffrey Epstein [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
6/5/2012 1:01:03 PM 
hang the clinton painting in place of the art work, so that people walking by can smile. 
*********************************************************** 
The information contained in this communication is 
confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may 
constitute inside information, and is intended only for 
the use of the addressee. It is the property of 
Jeffrey Epstein 
Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this 
communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited 
and may be unlawful. If you have received this 
communication in error, please notify us immediately by 
return e-mail or by e-mail to jeevacation@gmail.com, and 
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IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022173.txt,"James PaTTERSON

Prince Andrew had long since sold the home, which he and
Sarah had received as a gift after their 1986 wedding. He got into
hot water when it was revealed that the buyer, a Kazakh billion-
aire named Timur Kulibayev, had paid three million pounds
more than the home’s asking price.

For her part, Sarah Ferguson announced that she was mov-
ing into a thirteen-million-pound ski chalet in Switzerland.

It was a fitting end to the long, sometimes sordid story of the
prince’s marriage. But it was not the end of the scandals that
seemed always to be swirling around the prince.

On January 2, 2015, Virginia Roberts's allegations about her
relationship with the prince—and the photo of him with his
arm around Roberts's waist—appeared in the press. Prince
Andrew was forced to cut short a skiing holiday to confer with
his mother, the queen, and to issue a statement denying Rob-
erts’s allegations—a step that was widely seen as being without
precedent for a member of the royal family.

That same month, at the World Economic Forum in Davos,
Switzerland, the prince was again forced to “reiterate and to reaf-

firm” the repeated denials made by Buckingham Palace that he
had any sort of sexual relationship with Roberts, who had
announced in papers filed at the start of the year that Prince
Andrew has a “sexual interest in feet.”

“My focus is on my work,” Prince Andrew said at the time.

Asked by a reporter, “Will you be making a statement?” the — ‘

prince refused to answer.
A few days later, Virginia Roberts signed a sworn statement in

which she said, “I did have sexual contact with him as I have ~
described here — under oath. Given what he knows and has seen, ©

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Barry Krischer

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Barry Krischer said in 2016

_ asked about Jeffrey Epstein.

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013310.txt,"Case No.: 502009CA040800XXXXMBAG
Edwards' Opposition to Epstein's Motion for Summary Judgment
Page 7 of 15

e Question not answered: “Did sexual assaults ever take place on a private airplane on
which you were a passenger?” Reasonable inference: Epstein was on a private airplane
while sexual assaults were taking place.

e Question not answered: “How many minors have you procured for prostitution?”
Reasonable inference: Epstein has procured multiple minors for prostitution.

© Question not answered: “Is there anything in L.M.’s Complaint that was filed against
you in September of 2008 which you contend to be false?” Reasonable inference:
Nothing in L.M.’s complaint filed in September of 2008 was false —i.e., as alleged in
L.M.’s complaint, Epstein repeatedly sexually assaulted her while she was a minor and
she was entitled to substantial compensatory and punitive damages as a result.

e Question not answered: “J would like to know whether you ever had any physical

contact with the person referred to as Jane Doe in that [federal] complaint?” Reasonable

inference: Epstein had physical contact with minor Jane Doe as alleged in her federal
complaint.

e Question not answered: “Did you ever have any physical contact with E.W.?”

Reasonable inference: Epstein had physical contact with minor E.W. as alleged in her
complaint.

e Question not answered: “What is the actual value that you contend the claim of E.W.
against you has?” Reasonable inference: E.W.’s claim against Epstein had substantial
actual value.

(See Exhibit “A” — Edwards’ Statement of Undisputed Material Facts, paragraphs 93-120
for page references.)

A jury could conclude, therefore, from the adverse inferences drawn against Epstein that he was
liable for the claims brought by Brad Edwards and that he had no basis for the pursuit of his efforts to
intimidate and extort Edwards and his clients in the pursuit of those claims.

The Litigation Privilege Does Not Bar the Claims of Abuse of Process and Malicious Prosecution

Epstein contends he is entitled to absolute immunity pursuant to the litigation privilege as to both
claims asserted by Edwards because all actions taken by him occurred during the litigation of his abuse of
process claim against Edwards. For support, he relies primarily on the decision of Wolfe v. Foreman,
2013 WL 3724763 (Fla. 3d DCA July 17, 2013), wherein the Third District found that the litigation

privilege barred both an abuse of process claim and a malicious prosecution cause of action. Wolfe is still

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TEXT-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032951.txt,"From: 
Sent: 
To: 
jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
1/6/2017 2:49:47 PM 
Importance: High 
• Raafat Alsabbagh 
http://www.cnn.com/20 17/0 1 /06/p olitics/tom-b arrack-donald-trump-inauguration/index.html 
please note 
The information contained in this communication is 
confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may 
constitute inside information, and is intended only for 
the use of the addressee. It is the property of 
JEE 
Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this 
communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited 
and may be unlawful. If you have received this 
communication in error, please notify us immediately by 
return e-mail or by e-mail to jeevacation@gmail.com, and 
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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030326.txt,"From: Richard Kahn ______________________________ 
Sent: 8/1/2018 1:34:05 PM 
To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Subject: Congressional candidate compares Melania Trump to prostitute 
Importance: High 
https://nypost.com/2018/07/31/congressional-candidate-compares-melania-trump-to-
prostitute/?utm source=maropost&utm medium=email&utm campaign=nypdaily&utm content=20180801&  
mpweb=755-7157445-719004712  
Congressional candidate compares Melania 
Trump to prostitute 
By Chris Perez 
A congressional candidate from Oregon has caused an uproar on social media after 
comparing first lady Melania Trump to a prostitute. 
""Did you know the First Lady works by the hour?"" tweeted independent House candidate  
Mark Roberts on Monday, using the hashtags ""#thinkdirty"" and ""#hoebag."" 
Twitter users were quick to blast the politician for his crude comment, with some calling on 
him to pull out of the 2nd Congressional District race for Republican incumbent Greg 
Walden's seat. 
""Very unprofessional on your part,"" tweeted one person. ""Grow up and stick to the issues, so 
the voters in your district can decide on your stand regarding the issues."" 
Another added, ""Wow no class Mark. You're definitely using liberal tactics and it makes me 
wonder if you really are a conservative at all."" 
Roberts sparked the social media storm on Monday afternoon after replying to a tweet from 
Charlie Kirk, president of the right-wing youth organization Turning Point USA. Kirk had 
compared Melania's staff numbers to those of former first lady Michelle Obama. 
""Did you know: There are thirty-nine fewer staffers dedicated to The First Lady of the 
United States (FLOTUS) than under Obama,"" Kirk tweeted, referencing data reported in 
January. 
""There are only five staffers dedicated to Melania Trump vs. forty-four staffers who served 
Michelle Obama,"" he said. 
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Political experts told The Oregonian on Tuesday that Roberts' reply completely railroaded 
his chances of unseating Walden in a race that was already said to be a longshot. 
""If he wins, I'll sell my house and donate to charity,"" joked Jim Moore, political science 
professor at Pacific University. 
Roberts is apparently known for making crude and outlandish remarks on Twitter, most of 
which have been aimed at politicians. 
""#NikkiHaley very hot,"" he once tweeted, in reference to a TV appearance she made last 
year. 
""Important stuff,"" Roberts added. 
Describing Illinois Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris, the independent candidate tweeted: 
""Hot, tough & smart!"" 
Commenting on a video featuring President Trump, he said: ""It looks like he's morphing 
into a woman, get that man a haircut and non fat chocolate cake!"" 
In response to the social media backlash he's been receiving, Roberts refused to apologize 
and instead cited the Constitution. 
""It's that whole 1st amendment thing,"" he tweeted on Tuesday, along with an official 
explanation from Twitter as to why his tweet about Melania hasn't been taken down. 
""We have investigated the reported content and could not identify any violations,"" a 
spokesperson said. ""Accordingly, we have not taken any action at this time."" 
Richard Kahn 
HBRK Associates Inc. 
575 Lexington Avenue, 4th Floor 
New York, NY 10022 
Phone 
Fa"" 
Cell 
_ 
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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017739.txt,"Page 25 of 52
2005 B.Y.U.L. Rev. 835, *877

The proposed new rule protects victims’ statutory and potential constitutional interests in two ways. First, the court is required
to make a preliminary determination that the subpoena seeks information relevant at trial and that compliance appears to be
reasonable. This is consistent with the trial court's existing power to quash unreasonable subpoenas, including subpoenas
directed at crime victims. !?* Second, if the court makes a preliminary determination that the subpoena is appropriate, the
victim would then receive notice of the subpoena. To avoid harassment, the notice would be provided either through the
victim's own attorney or, more commonly, through the prosecutor.

The proposed rule makes no substantive change in the right of the party to obtain appropriate information through a subpoena.
Instead, it merely changes procedures to ensure victims are treated fairly by having the opportunity to file a motion to quash
where such [*878] a motion is appropriate. The court is then authorized to grant the victim's motion to quash under the same
standards that already apply to other motions to quash - where compliance would be ""unreasonable or oppressive."" !9?

The proposed change does not interfere with the legitimate interests of the government or defendants. The change will not
hamper government investigations because it applies only to subpoenas issued after indictment. Before indictment, a victim's
privacy is protected through grand jury secrecy. After indictment, the only legitimate purpose for a subpoena by either the
government or the defendant is to obtain testimony or evidence for trial or stmilar court hearing. Rule 17 does not permit a
subpoena for discovery purposes, Le although upon a proper showing a party can obtain pre-trial access to materials. ie
Therefore, when challenged by a victim on a motion to quash, the party seeking the evidence will prevail upon a proper
showing that the subpoena is appropriate. The only change made by the rule, then, 1s to require preliminary screening by the
court when confidential information is involved and give the victim the opportunity for court review in cases where legitimate
interests are at stake. Constitutional interests in privacy and the victim's right to be treated ""with fairness"" require nothing less.

Rule 18 - Victims’ Interests Considered in Setting Place of Prosecution
The Proposal:

Rule 18 should be amended to require the court to consider the convenience of victims in setting the place of prosecution as
follows:

Unless a statute or these rules permit otherwise, the government must prosecute an offense in a district where the offense was
committed. The court must set the place of trial within the district with due regard for the convenience of the defendant, any
victim, and the witnesses, and the prompt administration of justice.

[*879]

The Rationale:

191 See, e.g., State ex rel. Romley v. Superior Courts, 836 P.2d 445, 451-52 (Ariz. Ct. App. 1992) (crime victim had the right to deny
defendant access to medical records); Commonwealth v. Wilson, 602 A.2d 1290, 1296-97 (Pa. 1992). See generally Tera Jckowski Peterson,
Distrust and Discovery: The Impending Debacle in Discovery of Rape Victims’ Counseling Records in Utah, 200] Utah L. Rev. 695; Anna Y.
Joo, Note, Broadening the Scope of Counselor-Patient Privilege To Protect the Privacy of the Sexual Assault Survivor, 32 Harv. J. on Legis.
255 (1995).

9 See, e.g., Amsler _v. United States, 391 F.2d 37, 51 (9th Cir. 1967) (upholding trial court's decision to quash subpoena directed to
kidnapping victim's father for lack of materiality).

93 See Fed. R. Crim. P. 17(c)(Q).

°4 See generally United States v. Nixon, 418 U.S. 683, 689 (1974).

95 See id. at 699.

DAVID SCHOEN

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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023624.txt,"the use of the addressee. It is the property of

Jeffrey Epstein

Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this
communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited
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Jeffrey Epstein

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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025576.txt,"NORTH AMERICA INSIGHT ~~

Morgan Stanley | RESEARCH

KKR & Co. SOTP and Sensitivity Analysis

Exhibit 42:
SOTP for KKR
KKR & Co. (KKR)
Downside Case
C-Corp
Conversion

Current
Price
SOTP

Upside Case C-
Corp
Conversion

Sum-of-the-Parts Components

(KKR)

2018e Pre-Tax Core FRE / Sh $0.56 $0.56 0% $0.56 0%
Tax Rate 24% 24% 0% 24% 0%
Fee Rel
Earn ated 20180 After-Tax Core FRE / Sh $0.43 $0.43 0% $0.43 0%
arnings
FRE Multiple 15.0x 15.0x 0.0x 225K. 7.5x
Core FRE Value $6.38 $6.38 0% $9.57 50%
le
Balance Balance Sheet Net Cash and ° 5
Sheet Investments / Sh (as of 3Q17) LE oval Ws ua oe
+
Accrued Net Accrued Carry / Sh (as of $1.74 $1.32 24% $1.32 24%
Carry 3Q17)
as
Avg Net Carried interest / Sh 940 -949
Market (2018e-2020e) $0.93 $0.71 24% $0.71 24%
Implied Carry ;
Value Multiple 7.0x 2.5Xx -4.5x 9.0x 2.0x
Market Implied Carry Value I _ _ $6.57) $1.80 -73% $6.42 -2%
Total Value $24.40 $19.21 -21% $27.01 11%
2018e EPS $2.74 $2.16 -21% $2.16 -21%
Valuation P/E 8.9x 8.9x 0.0x 12.5x 3.6x
3Q17 Book Value / Sh $13.80 $13.80 $13.80
Price-to-Book 1.77x 1.39x -0.4x 1.96x 0.2x
2018e ROE 19.1% 19.1% 0.0% 15.3% 3.8%
Source: Company Data, Morgan Stanley Research estimates
Exhibit 43: Exhibit 44:
KKR Estimated Potential Share Price in C-corp Conversion KKR Estimated % Change in Current Share Price
Multiple on Future Performance Fees Multiple on Future Performance Fees
2.5x 3.5x 4.5x 5.5x 6.5x 7.5x 2.5x 3.5x 4.5x 5.5x 6.5x 7.5x

Fee Related Earnings Multiple

Source: Thomson Reuters, Company Data, Morgan Stanley Research estimates

9.0x

Fee Related Earnings Multiple

Source: Thomson Reuters, Company Data, Morgan Stanley Research estimates

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015328.txt,"Meantime, since gays and lesbians have waited so long for basic
fairness, they might as well just wait for the next election. If you win, then
would you kindly do immediately what you believe is right, constitutionally
and in your heart, and end this injustice? The ultimate irony is that gays in
the military are fighting, being maimed and dying unnecessarily,
supposedly to protect the freedom their own country is denying them.

Sincerely,
Paul Krassner
Postscript:

| sent a copy of the letter to some folks that day. Among the
responses, | received a message from a mother: “I am trying to explain
this to my twelve-year-old son, who wants to know why, if men and
women don’ t share barracks in the military, why gay men and hetero
men should share barracks, but then follows with ‘They should all sleep in
the same place.’ ""

And that evening | received this email from a seasoned journalist: “I
know it's late, but | cannot wait to ask if this letter is a spoof, or you've
actually sent it to Obama. If it's a spoof and you've not sent it to him,
would you like to? I've got his fax number and he's got a great sense of

humor. May | have your permission to send this to him?”

“Absolutely.”

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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030936.txt,"Grant_Smith070964*eMailContent.htm

Fed up with the prosecutor and in the presence of the jury, the witness preceded to recount my debate
over recording from the first interview. Pointing to me in the back of the courtroom, the witness
announced that I had warned him that they would pull this crap with the """"302"""" report.

~ . It didn't take the jury very long to acquit.

With the advent of DNA and groups like the Innocence Project, we have now seen that so-called
unrecorded confessions have put many innocent people in jail and even on Death Row. As a result,
agencies such as the BSO, now require all interviews to be taped. -

Like anyone, including lawyers, the FBI wants to control the record of the interview. Taping hurts that
effort.

I'm not saying that it is FBI policy to step over the line. But they have chalk on their shoes more often
than you can imagine.

So, what's should you do if the FBI comes calling?

First of all, the advice I am about to give is not for the a guy who was an inadvertent witness to a bank
robbery.

I am talking about people who are being interviewed as part of the types of crimes that are best
described as corruption,. RICO, white collar, etc.

Those are the kinds of cases that involve tons of evidence. Giving an innocent, but incorrect answer to a
vague question could leave any of us in deep CaCa.

A case in point is the lead story in the September 26, 2009 Herald. Chris Walton, director of the
Broward County Transportation Department, was interviewed by two FBI agents.

mn

He stated that they wanted to know if """"commissioners attempted to influence contracts.

""""T told them no.""""

_ It may sound like a simple straight forward Q-and-A but it ain't necessarily so. He may think his
interview and public statement ends the matter.

In actuality, he has thrown down the gauntlet in front of the FBI.

Start out with the understanding that the FBI is not investigating to see if there is crime and corruption in
Broward County government. They already believe there is. They are only trying to uncover evidence to
confirm their beliefs. | .

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Cannabis Industry Segments

E prove? n d Business Business
quipmen an Software Services
Supplies

Distribution Digital Media

Online Content Online
and Networking Directories

Consumer Products

Vaporizers and
Accessories

| Involves “touching the plant” | Does not involve “touching the plant”

= Production

We divide the production segment of the cannabis industry into three subsegments: cultivation, pro-
duction equipment and supplies, and production and testing services. Cultivation involves operating
grow facilities, propagating cannabis strains, and harvesting and curing cannabis flower. Production
equipment and supplies include the physical components used in production, such as extraction
equipment, testing equipment, lighting, irrigation systems and plant nutrients. Production and testing
services include services that support production, such as extraction or packaging, as well as testing ser-
vices related to product safety, composition and quality control. Each of these production subsegments
is described in more detail in the following discussion.

Cultivation

The principal function of a cannabis cultivator is to produce cannabis plants and flowers with the
aromas, flavors, active compounds and overall quality demanded by consumers and production inter-
mediaries. A cultivator can access hundreds of existing cannabis strains by purchasing seeds or clones
from commercial seed banks or nurseries, or developing unique strains through selective breeding. A
cultivator seeks to optimize the quality and quantity of a plant's yield by managing cultivation input
variables such as light, air, nutrition, and drying and curing times.

Cannabis Cultivation Process

Ordinarily, a period of three to ten months is required to grow and prepare cannabis flower for con-
sumption. The cultivation process generally can be organized into six phases: seed selection, seedling,
vegetative, flowering, harvesting and curing. Each of these phases is summarized in the following table.

32 © 2017 Ackrell Capital, LLC | Member FINRA/SIPC

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Brokers Takeaways

In brokers, GS presented, while MS hosted 1-1 meetings with investors. During the
conference we polled the audience on several topics including the outlook for capital
markets revenues.

Investors modestly positive on capital markets over next 1-2 years

Given the election outcome, recent rise in rates, potential for higher growth and de-
regulation, and lower corporate tax rates, we asked investors about their outlook for
capital markets over the next 1-2 years. The majority of investors (78%) were positive
about the capital markets sector, with 56% who expect modest improvement in
regulation, revenue growth of 5-10%, and returns of 10-12% and 22% who think we
could see significant improvement in regulation, revenues growth of 10%+, and returns
12% +.

Chart 5: Based on the backdrop and the election outcome, what is your outlook for the capital
markets over the next 1-2 years

60% 56%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
Little tono change in Little to no change in Modest improvement in Significant
regulation, flattish regulation, but regulation, revenues improvement in
revenues, and stable improvingrevenues (5-10%), and returns —_ regulation, revenues
returns (5%) and returns (10-12%) (10%+), and returns
(10%+) with GDP (12%+)
growth

Source: BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research

Asset Manager Takeaways

In asset management, four of the largest public managers, IVZ, EV, LM, and AB either
presented or engaged in fireside chats, while several other firms including AMG, APAM,
BLK, CNS, OMAM, and VRTS hosted 1-1 meetings with investors. During the conference
we polled the audience on several topics including the outlook for DOL (in the panel
section), the outlook for fixed income given the recent rise in rates/expected rate hike
and outlook, active vs passive market share, M&A, and pricing/fee structures.

Fixed income outlook more muted

Given the recent rise in rates, a looming rate hike in December, and the potential for a
higher growth/inflation outlook for the economy, we asked investors their outlook on
fixed income performance and flows vs equities. The majority of investors believe we
will see weaker fixed income performance and flows offset by stronger equity
performance and flows (52%). Weaker fixed income/equity performance and flows was
the second most popular answer at 24% while flat flows and performance came in third
at 16%. Only 8% of the audience think we will see stronger fixed income/equity
performance and flows, while nobody thinks fixed income will be stronger and equity
will be weaker (both flows and performance).

4 2016 Future of Financials Conference | 17 November 2016 Bankof America 2
Merrill Lynch

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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029191.txt,"Begin forwarded message:

From: Jakob Kéllhofer (qa

Subject: Re: October 19, Heidelberg
Date: August 29, 2018 at 4:49:53 AM PDT

To: Lawrence Krauss <a’ >

Hi Lawrence,
just back from a long tour ,,on origins”.
As promised you will get my message promptly.

As you may understand, before we start recruiting for the Festival our budget
implies more freedom. Now I simply do not have the flexibility to decide so easily
on amounts in ,,kilos“. (especially as a prominent Nobel laureate shortly before
deadline agreed to come and implied a pretty large sum).

What I can offer you is 5k as a lump sum. This is the ultimate at the moment.
I deeply regret these limitations but I cannot ignore redlines.
So please let me know if you can or cannot come.

As ever Jakob

Jakob J. K6llhofer
Direktor
DAI

Fax:
Email:
www.dai-heidelberg.de

Am 26.08.2018 um 22:04 schrieb Lawrence Krauss {i :

Hi.. update.. noam cannot do anything anyway.. nor UK that week.. So, I have been able confirm I can get the
ticket for the discounted amount of 4500 Euros.. Are you game with my proposal? I have until end of Sept to
buy out the old ticket before they cancel it.

Lawrence

Lawrence M. Krauss
Professor
School of Earth & Space Exploration and Physics Department

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013477.txt,"Case 9:08-cv-80893-KAM Document 168 Entered on FLSD Docket 06/28/2010 Page 2 of 4

Doe v. Epstein
CASE NO.: 08-CIV-80893-MARRA/IOHNSON
Page 2

3. Since the April 5, 2010 mediation, additional discovery has been completed.
and exchanged, including each parties’ psychological (Plaintiff) and psychiatric
(Defendant) expert depositions. As well, Defendant filed his Motion for Summary
Judgment and Motion for Bifurcation. Both parties have exchanged witness and exhibit
lists. Each party will be filing extensive Motions in Limine. Plaintiff's Trial Witness
List has identified over 170 potential wimesses, and further, Plaintiff identifies over 140
trial exhibits, including composite exhibits that are hundreds of pages in length. It is
conceivable this case could last 12- 20 trial days.

4, Additionally, since the parties attended mediation on April 5, 2010, Defendant
has resolved all pending lawsuits, including Plaintiff, C.L. (Case No.: 10-80447) and
JANE DOES Nos. 2-8 (Case Nos.: 08-80119, 08-80232, 08-08380, 08-80381, 08-80994,
08-80993, 08-80802), C.M.A. (Case No.08-80811), Jane Does Nos. 101, 102 and 103
(Case Nos, 09-80591, 09-80656, 10-80309), another Jane Doe (Case No. 08-80804),
Jane Doe II (Case No. 09-80469), as well as other non-filed claims. Furthermore,
Defendant has also resolved three state court claims. The only cases not resolved are this
case and two (2) cases in state court (all three Plaintiffs are represented by Plaintiff's
counsel, Brad Edwards, Esq. and his firm). ! .

5. Plaintiffs in other filed cases were represented by various law firms as the
court is aware.

6. With the additional discovery completed to date and with the motions, trial

preparation and judicial rulings necessary to try this case, all yet to be done, Defendant

There is also a case styled L.M. v. Jeffrey Epstein, CASE NO.: 09-CIV-81092 -MARRAJOHNSON, which was never served
on the Defendant, Defendant has filed 2 Motion to Dismiss.

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012769.txt,"enables us to distinguish between adaptive and non-adaptive explanations? To answer this question, let us
look at two illustrative examples that are more challenging than leafy coverage in insects: the evolution of
tameness and religion.

Sheep, goats, cows, cats, and dogs are all domesticated animals, created by the forces of artificial
selection. All have been transformed from a wild type to an animal that not only lives with us, but
sometimes lives for us as food. All are more relaxed, less fearful, and less stressed in the presence of
humans than their wild ancestors. Many of these animals seek human companionship. These are the
trademark features of tameness. They are also consistently associated with other features that never
entered into the breeder’s calculations: floppier ears, curlier tails, more mottled fur, greater sensitivity to
human communication, reduced response to predators, earlier sexual maturation, smaller brains, and
higher levels of serotonin — a chemical messenger of the brain that regulates self-control. Some of these
features appear directly relevant to tameness, whereas others appear entirely irrelevant. For example,
serotonin is critically linked to self-control which is critically linked to an animal’s ability to suppress
aggression when threatened, which is critically linked to building a life with humans. Mottled fur is not
critically linked to any of these benefits.

Domestication leads to a pastiche of characteristics, some indicative of the domesticator’s goals
and others orthogonal to it. How does the process of domestication, and artificial selection in particular,
generate both desired and unanticipated traits?

In most cases of animal domestication, we know little about how the wild type changed because
the only available information is either anecdotal or based on loose archaeological reconstructions.
Consider the domestication of dogs from wolves, and especially the variability among dog breeds.
Though it is clear that humans throughout history have bred dogs to serve particular functions, including
herding, aggressive defense, and companionship, each of these personality styles is linked to other
behavioral and physiological traits. For example, breeds with high activity levels are smaller than breeds
with low activity levels, aggressive breeds have higher metabolic rates than docile breeds, and obedient
breeds live longer than disobedient breeds. Does selection for aggressiveness cause an increase in
metabolic rate or does selection for higher metabolic rate allow for heightened aggressiveness. Because
these are all correlations, we don’t know which trait pushed the other to change or whether both traits
were favored at the same time.

There are two situations that provide a more clear-cut understanding of which feature was favored
by selection and which emerged as an incidental byproduct: controlled experiments and domestication
efforts that resulted in unambiguously undesirable traits. In the 1950s, the Russian biologist Dmitry
Belyaev set out to domesticate the wild silver fox. Over several generations, he selectively bred those

individuals who were most likely to allow a human experimenter to approach and hand them food. After

Hauser Chapter 1. Nature’s secrets 23

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016146.txt,"Exhibit 2: Saudi credit risk prices in rating downgrades
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300
200
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Source: Bloomberg BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research.

Commodities: NTP adds to medium-term oil
market tightness

Francisco Blanch Peter Helles
MLPF&S MLI (UK)
francisco.blanch@baml.com peter.helles@baml.com

The Saudi National Transformation Plan (NTP) suggestion that production capacity is to
be maintained at the current level until 2020 reinforces our conviction of medium-term
oil market tightness. We continue to see a call on OPEC of 4.1mn bpd in the next five
years to “balance the market”, and see oil prices of US$55-75/bbl over 2016-2020.
Although the NTP incorporates a target of boosting domestic gas production by 50% to
18 bcf/d by 2020 which could crowd out oil demand, we expect Saudi Arabia’s ability to
switch to reduce oil burn in power generation to 2020 to be quite limited, in our view.

We see oil averaging US$55-75/bbl over 2016-2020

Real Brent prices are at one of the lowest levels in decades, and will likely encourage
very strong demand growth ahead, while we see supply falling across non-cartelized
producers. As such, we see global light sweet crude oil averaging US$55 to USS75/bbl
over the 2016-2020 period, depending on how much incremental production OPEC can
and will supply over the next five years. We think it likely that Saudi will dig into its
untested spare capacity to go for increased market share, though uncertainty over how
much Saudi can and will produce remains. We also remain concerned about output
sustainability among weaker cartel members given the rapid credit profile deterioration.

36 GEMs Paper #26 | 30 June 2016 3S Merrill Lynch

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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025211.txt,"Manufactured Landscapes, a feature documentary about the work of artist Edward Burtynsky,
was a co-production between Mercury Films, Foundry Films and the National Film Board. It
premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2006 and won Best Canadian
Feature Film, and has since received a number of other awards, notably a Genie for Best
Documentary, Al Gore’s Reel Current Award and the 2006 Toronto Film Critics’ Award for Best
Canadian Feature and Best Documentary 2006. It played theatrically in over 15 territories
worldwide, after a prolonged and successful run in Canada.

Act of God, a feature documentary on the metaphysical effects of being struck by lightning and
another collaboration between Mercury and Foundry, opened the Hot Docs Film Festival in April
2009 and was released in Canada afterwards by Mongrel Media. It has since played at a number
of international festivals, and was released by Zeitgeist Films in the U.S. and Against Gravity in
Poland. The film features Paul Auster, Dannion Brinkley and Fred Frith. It was commissioned by
The Documentary Channel in Canada, Arte in France and Channel 4 in the U.K.

Baichwal is currently in production on Margaret Atwood’s Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side
of Wealth with the National Film Board of Canada and Ravida Din (Executive Producer, Quebec
Production Centre). She lives in Toronto with her husband, Nick de Pencier, and their two
children.

NICHOLAS de PENCIER (Co-Director / Producer)

Nicholas de Pencier is a director, producer, and director of photography working in
documentary, performing arts, and dramatic film. He is President of Mercury Films Inc., the
Toronto based production company he shares with his partner, Jennifer Baichwal.

De Pencier was a producer resident in the Canadian Film Centre's 1997 Producers’ Lab, and
produced one of four Short Dramatic Films, Co/d Feet, which was selected for the Toronto
International Film Festival and the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, among others. He then
produced Jim Allodi's feature film The Uncles, which premiered at the Toronto International
Film Festival in September 2000, was picked up for distribution in Canada by Odeon Films, and
named one of year's top ten Canadian films by the Toronto International Film Festival Group.

As a cinematographer, de Pencier regularly shoots factual TV series, modern dance, rock videos
(Gord Downie, Skydiggers, Bob Wiseman), and documentaries. He has also directed, produced
and photographed eight modern dance performance films which have received national and
international broadcasts and won awards at Canadian and international festivals. His
performance film Streetcar, was nominated in 2004 for a Performing Arts Best Direction
Gemini; the film's choreographer and lead, Peter Chin, won for Best Performance in a
Performing Arts Program or Documentary. It was also nominated for a Banff Rockie Award.

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_014989.txt,"Notable trends and dislocations (Asia)

Most regions in Asia reported modest declines last week, led by Hong Kong’s HSCEI,
which lost 2.0% week-over-week. Much of the decline came on Thursday following the
US Fed’s decision to hike rates 25bps. Also in China, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC)
injected 410bn yuan (about $60bn) into the financial system via reverse-repos, the
largest cash boost since January. The central bank said the funds are meant to ease
concern amid a seasonal funding squeeze. The biggest contributors to the index’s loss
were financials names, including China Life Insurance (2628 HK), which fell 5.7%, Ping
An Insurance Group Co of China Ltd (2318 HK}, which dropped 3.7%, Bank of China Ltd
(3988 Hk), which declined 1.8%, and China Merchants Bank Co Ltd (3968 Hk), which fell
5.7%. We saw a similar decline from Hong Kong’s HSI index, which lost 1.6% percent
last week.

After the HSCEI and HSI, last week’s biggest losers were Korea’s KOSPI and India’s
NIFTY, which each returned -0.8% week-over-week. In Japan, the Nikkei fell 0.3%. On
Friday, the Bank of Japan (BoJ) left its monetary policy unchanged—it will continue to
control the yield curve via its negative benchmark rate and its asset purchasing program.
The final region to report a loss last week was Taiwan’s TWSE, which lost 0.4%.

On the other hand, the only region to see a gain last week was Australia, which saw its
ASX 200 benchmark increase 1.7% week-over-week. The biggest contributors to the
gain were Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA AU}, which gained 3.4%, Westpac
Banking Corp (WBC AU), which increased 1.9%, and CSL Ltd (CSL AU), which added
2.9%.

10 day realized vol picked up in Asia last week, up 2.0 vol points to 9.6%

« Asian 3m ATM volatility declined on average 0.1 vol point to 12.3% last week, while
10 day realized vol increased on average 2.0 vol points to 9.6%. Notably, the HSI's
realized vol increased 5.4 vol points, the biggest increase in the region. On the
other hand, the NKY was the only index to see a decline in 10 day realized vol—it
dropped 4.3 vol points week-over-week to 7.2%.

¢ On average, term structures among Asian indices steepened by 0.2 vol points to
4.2% last week. The TWSE 12M-1M term structure steepened the most, increasing
1.0 vol point to 2.9%. On the other hand, Hong Kong’s HS! saw the only flattening
as its term structure flattened 0.1 vol point to 4.9%.

e Asian 3M 90-110% skews widened 0.5 vol points on average to 3.8%. Taiwan’s
TWSE widened the most, increasing 2.3 vol points to -0.2%.

Table 7: Volatility measures of major Asian indices (data as of 16-Jun-17)

3Mth ATM Implied Volatility 10D Realized Volatility {2Mth-1Mth ATM Vol Spread 3Mth 90-110 Skew Spread Equity Market
Weekly 4Yr Weekly 4Yr Weekly 4Yr Weekly 4Yr Weekly
Current change percentile Current change percentile Current change percentile Current change percentile return
HSI 124% 0.2% 2.1% 10.2% 54% 20.6% 49% 0.1% 97.8% 3.3% 0.9% 414% -1.6%
HSCEI 15.0% 0.4% 0.0% 107% 48% 78% 5.4% 0.2% 98.1% 14% 0.5% 36.5% -2.0%
NKY 13.8% 0.2% 0.1% 1.2% 43% 1.8% 5.8% 0.5% 99.9% 5.8% 0.0% 13.9% -0.3%
KOSPI 200 = 12.2% 0.2% 19.7% W1% 11% 53.1% 40% 0.2% 17.0% 3.8% 0.3% 43.7% -0.8%
ASX 200 11.8% 0.2% 177% 157% 51% 171% 2.1% 0.0% 59.5% 6.4% 0.1% 22.5% 1.7%
NIFTY 10.7% 0.2% 2.2% 48% 1.0% 0.4% 40% 0.0% 16.1% 5.9% -0.1% 64.1% -0.8%
TWSE 10.5% -0.6% 1.2% 78% 1.0% 20.3% 2.9% 1.0% 112% 0.2% 2.3% 3.9% 0.4%

Source: BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research

Bankof America

18 Global Equity Volatility Insights | 20 June 2017 Merrill Lynch

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Contents Xi
Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict
(led by Judge Richard Goldstone) (25 September 2009) 767

Report of the Secretary-General’s Panel of Inquiry on the 31 May 2010
Flotilla Incident (2 September 2011) 797

UN General Assembly Resolution 67/19: Status of Palestine in the
United Nations (4 December 2012) 802

Part IV. Regional Documents

Sykes—Picot Agreement (16 May 1916) 809
Balfour Declaration (2 November 1917) 812
Churchill White Paper (3 June 1922) 813
Peel Commission (7 July 1937) 817
MacDonald White Paper (17 May 1939) 843
Biltmore Program (11 May 1942) 854
Arab League Charter (22 March 1945) 856
Egypt-Israel General Armistice Agreement (24 February 1949) 863
Lebanon-Israel General Armistice Agreement (23 March 1949) 877
Jordan-Israel General Armistice Agreement (3 April 1949) 884
Syria—Israel General Armistice Agreement (20 July 1949) 894
Khartoum Resolution (1 September 1967) 906
Cairo Agreement (3 November 1969) 908
Rogers Plan (9 December 1969) 911
Egypt-Israel Sinai Disengagement Treaties (18 January 1974) 916
Egypt-Israel Sinai Interim Agreement (4 September 1975) 918
Israel-Syria Separation of Forces Agreement (31 May 1974) 922
Sadat and Begin Speeches to Knesset (20 November 1977) 925

UN Security Council Resolutions 425 (1978) and 426 (1978) (19 March 1978) 941

Camp David Accords (17 September 1978) 943
Framework for the Conclusion of a Peace Treaty between Egypt and

Israel (17 September 1978) 949
Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty (26 March 1979) 952

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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031397.txt,"President Trump’s labor secretary, shelved a 53-page indictment that
could have put Epstein behind bars for life.

Epstein, who counts among his friends Trump and former president Bill
Clinton, assembled a high-powered legal team to address the
allegations he faced. Ultimately, he pleaded guilty in 2008 only to state
charges of soliciting prostitution. Victims told the Herald they felt
betrayed by the arrangement.

The department’s newly announced investigation is likely to be of
limited consequence. According to Boyd's letter, it is being handled by
the Office of Professional Responsibility, which explores allegations of
employee wrongdoing. The office’s findings, at worst, typically result
in employees being fired, and they are not usually made public, though
Boyd wrote to Sasse that the office would “share the results with you
at the conclusion of its investigation as appropriate.” It is possible,
even likely, the investigation could drag on so long that Acosta, already
outside the Justice Department, would by then be out of government
entirely.

In a statement, Sasse said: “The victims of Epstein’s child sex
trafficking ring deserve this investigation — and so do the American
people and the members of law enforcement who work to put these
kinds of monsters behind bars. Parents should be grateful for the men
and women at the DOJ who are committed to transparency and
accountability and for the soon-to-be Attorney General who is
committed to pursuing justice.”

A representative for Acosta, who did not respond to requests for an
interview for the Herald’s investigation, did not immediately return a

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20 *° OlS-B
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Source: BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research Source: BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research

10s would be particularly supported if the ECB increases the holding limit of non-CaC
bonds to 50% — a tweak we see as the most likely. Also, given the already stretched
valuations in the 2y, we think a rise in geopolitical risks or a blow-out in peripheral
spreads would increase collateral values of 5s and 10s more than the front-end — as
happened during the first BTP spread widening in 2011 or the Brexit referendum.

We recommend investors go long the DBR Aug26 vs OIS and short the BKO Dec18
vs OIS at current levels of -17bp, targeting 14bp and with a stop at -34bp. The
position has 1.1bp in 3m Carry and Roll. The main risk in the short term is ECB QE
failure, while tighter short-maturity securities supply or lending is the main risk over the
longer term.

Bank of America Global Rates, FX & EM 2017 Year Ahead | 16 November 2016 21
Merrill Lynch

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CHAPTER Ill Cannabis Industry Segmentation

Cultivation Process Overview: Seed to Bud
Time Seed Selection

Selecting a seed is the first step of the cultivation process. A cultivator can
choose from more than 1,500 unique seed varieties, each of which has the
capacity to produce a cannabis strain with a particular cannabinoid and
terpene profile and other unique characteristics.

Seedling

The seedling stage is the period during which the seed sprouts and the
1-4 plant stem starts to grow. During this stage, cultivators manage growth to
Weeks avoid long stems that may lack the strength to support further vegetation.

Start

Vegetative

The vegetative stage is characterized by the plant’s rapid growth and reve-

lation of sexual characteristics. During this stage, cultivators remove male

3-8 plants and control growth inputs, such as light and nutrients, to maximize

Weeks the plant’s yield of unpollinated female flower (which generally contains
the highest concentration of active compounds).

The flowering phase comprises the growth and maturation of the cannabis
flower and the trichomes on the flower. Trichomes are hairlike components
6-16 that secrete cannabinoids, terpenes and other compounds. Trichomes gen-
Weeks erally occur all over the surface of the plant, but are found in highest con-
centration on the flowers of unpollinated female plants.

Harvesting involves clipping the leafstalks (on which the flowers grow)

from the main plant stem, drying the leafstalks and flowers, and trimming ' :

the dried flowers. Cultivators harvest at a time calculated to maximize ” agnnstitl
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2-4 flower yield and optimize cannabinoid and terpene content. WNP ;
Weeks rit

The curing phase is a period of controlled fermentation of the dry canna-

Wests bis flower. The conditions under which fermentation occurs, as well as the
duration of the fermentation process, further affect the cannabis flower’s
aroma, taste and cannabinoid composition.

3-10
Months

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Walton's blanket defense of the Commission has made the Feds conclude he is a fool or co-conspirator.

The FBI just needs the evidence and not much of it. To quote the late Supreme Court Justice William
Brennan: ""any prosecutor worth his salt could indict a ham sandwich.""""

This means all evidence, regardless of its sanibigupns nature, will be interpreted to support their
assumption of wrongdoing.

They will be using software to go through millions of E-mail messages to look for key words. As Buddy
has quoted me: """"The 'E’ in E-mail stands for evidence.""”

Six months from now they uncover an E-mail from the County Manager to Walton stating that
Commissioner X wants te know if the bid of company Y for new busses was correctly filled out. He
replies that it was.

Months later he has totally forgotten about the innocuous Eumail. Based on the merits, he happens to
rank Y's bid number one.

“You can bet as sure as “J . Edgar Hoover wore pink poodle skirts, the FBI will conclude this was code
from Commissioner X to Walton to vote for Y.

Armed with the E-mail you can be damn sure that the G-Men will be back threatening him with
everything including a stint in Gitmo.

_All of this might have been avoided if he had followed my three basic rules.
Mermorize them. | |
1. Do not talk to the FBI without a lawyer.
2. Do not talk to the FBI without a lawyer.

3. Do not talk to the FBI without a law

Grant J. Smith, Esq.

Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015329.txt,"Two days later, to the dismay of Obama--who told a town hall
meeting that he was restricted because the “Don’ t ask, don’ t tell”
policy was written into law, adding, “This is not a situation where | can, by
the stroke of a pen, end this policy” --he wanted Congress to repeal it
after the November midterm election, but Federal Judge Virginia Phillips
upset that timetable by issuing an immediate and permanent ban on what
she considered to be unconstitutional. This ruling was not a spoof, though
it was treated as one by an appeals court that set aside her injunction. In
December 2010, Congress repealed the 17-year-old law.

Nor was it a spoof when Attorney General Holder—having been
pressured by nine former DEA chiefs, plus the president of Mexico--
warned that if Prop. 19 was passed, making California the first state to
legalize pot, the federal government would not look the other way, as it
has done with medical marijuana. Holder (who wouldn’ t prosecute the
Bush administration for promulgating torture) explained:

“Let me state clearly that the Department of Justice strongly
opposes Proposition 19. If passed, this legislation will greatly complicate
federal drug enforcement efforts to the detriment of our citizens. We will

vigorously enforce the [law] against those individuals and organizations

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Morgan Stanley | RESEARCH

Oaktree Capital Group SOTP and Sensitivity
Analysis

Exhibit 45:

SOTP for OAK

Oaktree Capital Group (OAK)

Downside Case

C-Corp
Conversion

Current
Price
SOTP

Upside Case C-
Corp
Conversion

Sum-of-the-Parts Components

(OAK)

Fee Related
Earnings

+

Balance
Sheet
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Accrued
Carry
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Market

Implied Carry

Value

Valuation

2018e Pre-Tax Core FRE / Sh
Tax Rate

2018e After-Tax Core FRE / Sh

FRE Multiple
Core FRE Value

Balance Sheet Net Cash and
Investments / Sh (as of 3Q17)

Net Accrued Carry / Sh (as of
3Q17)

Avg Net Carried interest / Sh
(2018e-2020e)

Multiple

Market Implied Carry Value

Total Value
2018e EPS
P/E

Source: Company Data, Morgan Stanley Research estimates

Exhibit 46:

$1.06
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$0.81

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$4.38

$1.68

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2005 B.Y.U.L. Rev. 835, *875

criminal proceedings involving the kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart. Elizabeth was kidnapped from her home in Salt Lake City,
Utah. She was found nearly nine months later with a local transient and his wife, who had taken Elizabeth at knifepoint. !°°
Attorneys for Elizabeth's alleged kidnapper subpoenaed class records from her high school - class and teacher lists, report
cards, and disciplinary and attendance records - and medical records from her hospital. '8! While the hospital refused to turn
over the requested records, the school willingly turned over the requested records without notice to the Smart family.
Elizabeth's father learned about the subpoena only after her school records had already been turned over to defense counsel.
The Smart family [*876] attorney then filed a motion to return the records to the school. Prosecutors in the case have objected
to the fact that they were not given an opportunity to file a motion to quash. !** The matter is still under review in state court.

The problem that occurred in the Smart case under the Utah rules could also occur under the federal rules. '8? The federal rules
currently allow the witness to whom the subpoena is issued to object, !** but there is no provision for notifying the victim
when personal or confidential information has been subpoenaed from another witness.

Serving such subpoenas without notice to the victim violates the provisions of the CVRA guaranteeing victims the rights to be
treated ""with respect for the victim's dignity and privacy"" and ""with fairness."" !8° Allowing subpoenas to go directly to third-
party custodians of records can fail to protect privacy if the custodian is disinterested or disinclined to protect the victim's
privacy. Such a scenario 1s not far-fetched; a third party who is subpoenaed will often have no interest in incurring legal fees to
protect a victim's rights. Even if interested, third parties may not fully understand the sensitive nature of certain victim
information. Victims may also have important statutory rights to protect. In the Elizabeth Smart case, for example, the school
may have violated the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act by turning over private information about Elizabeth. 18°

Subpoenas served without notice to victims may also raise constitutional concerns. 8’ It is well settled that a right to privacy
is implicitly incorporated within the protections guaranteed under the [*877] United States Constitution. The Supreme Court
""has recognized that a right of personal privacy, or a guarantee of certain areas or zones of privacy, does exist under the
Constitution."" '8® Supreme Court precedent establishes two lines of privacy interests: (1) the ""individual interest in avoiding
disclosure of personal matters"" and (2) ""the interest in independence in making certain kinds of important decisions."" !®° In
essence, the right to privacy includes an mdividual's terest in making certain decisions that fundamentally affect his or her
person ""free from unwarranted governmental intrusion."" !9° In light of interests such as these, several courts have held that

crime victims' records - such as rape crisis counseling records - are not subject to subpoena. 19!

80 See generally Ed Smart & Lois Smart with Laura Morton, Bringing Elizabeth Home: A Journey of Faith and Hope (2003).

8! Stephen Hunt, Defense Blasted for Obtaining Smart's School Records, Salt Lake Trib., Jan. 14, 2005, at B2.

82 Pat Reavy, Quash Smart Subpoenas, DA Says, Deseret Morning News, Feb. 1, 2005, at B3.

83 See Letter from Gregory G. Skordas, attorney for Elizabeth Smart, to Judge Susan Bucklew (May 23, 2005) (on file with author)

(proposing changes to the federal rules to avoid recurrence of this problem in federal court).

84 Fed. R. Crim. P. 17(c).

8 18 USCA. 3771 (a)(8).

86 Pat Reavy, Elizabeth Wants Records Returned, Deseret Morning News, Jan. 15, 2005, at B3; see 20 U.S.C. 1232g (2000) (establishing
rights of privacy in educational records).

87 See generally Wendy J. Murphy, Using the Federal Courts To Make State Courts Respect Victims’ Rights, 9 Lewis & Clark L. Rev.
(forthcoming 2005) (discussing federal constitutional rights of privacy for victims' confidential records).

88 Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113, 152 (1973).

89 Whalen v. Roe, 429 U.S. 589, 599-600 (1977).

9 Eisenstadt v. Baird, 405 U.S. 438, 453 (1972); see also Carey v. Population Servs. Int'l, 431 U.S. 678, 684-85 (1977).

DAVID SCHOEN

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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023625.txt,"Jeffrey Epstein

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Jeffrey Epstein

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constitute inside information, and 1s intended only for
the use of the addressee. It is the property of

Jeffrey Epstein

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Edwards' Opposition to Epstein's Motion for Summary Judgment
Page 8 of 15

on rehearing and, thus, is not a final opinion. As a result, it is not binding, nor persuasive. Moreover,
Wolfe undercuts the long-standing recognition of the viability of a claim for malicious prosecution in its
own District and other Florida state and federal courts. See, SCI Funeral Svs. of Fla., Inc. v. Henry, 839
So. 2d 702, n.4 (Fla. 3d DCA 2002) (“As the Levin court cited Wright v. Yurko, 446 So. 2d 1162, 1165
(Fla. 5th DCA, 1984), with approval, presumably the cause of action for malicious prosecution continues
to exist and would not be barred by the litigation privilege.’”’); Boca Investors Group, Inc. v. Potash, 835
So. 2d 273, 275 (Fla. 3d DCA 2002) (Cope, J., concurring) (litigation privilege would not be a bar to a
malicious prosecution action); North Star Capital Acquisitions, LLC v. Krig, 611 Fed. Supp. 2d 1324
(M.D. Fla. 2009) (“However, not every event bearing any relation to litigation is protected by the
privileged because,... “if the litigation privilege applied to all actions preliminary to or during judicial
proceedings, an abuse of process claim would never exist, nor would a claim for malicious prosecution”);
Cruz v. Angelides, 574 So. 2d 278 (Fla. 3d DCA 1991)(“the law is well settled that a witness in a judicial
proceeding,... is absolutely immune from any civil liability, save perhaps malicious prosecution, for
testimony or other sworn statements which he or she gives in the course of the subject proceeding.”);
Johnson v. Libow, 2012 WL 4068409 (Fla. 15th Jud. Cir. March 1, 2012)(the purpose of the litigation
privilege does not preclude the tort of malicious prosecution).

In Wright v. Yurko supra, the Fifth District Court of Appeal rejected the application of the
litigation privilege to a malicious prosecution action brought by a physician against his patients and an
expert after he successfully defended a malpractice claim. Also of significance is the Second District’s
opinion in Olson v. Johnson, 961 So. 2d 351 (Fla. 2d DCA 2007). In that case, the court observed that the
litigation (or judicial) privilege would not apply to bar a malicious prosecution action which arose as a
result of a false accusation of criminal liability where the prosecution was based, in part, on the testimony

of the defendants in the criminal case. The court ruled that the privilege (either absolute or qualified)

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IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022172.txt,"ATTERSON

iccusations of sexual misconduct

g nightmare he'd had to endure as a
y Epstein finally seemed to be over.

‘h Epstein behind her, Ghislaine

ve the oceans now,” a socialite says
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transformation of the high seas.”
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awake at night because they're

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list Richard Johnson reports © : :

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Alaska. “It’s hard to top Ghislaine Maxwell in the globe-trotting
department,” he writes.

Upon her return, the president of the China Arts Foundation
International hosts Maxwell at a dinner cooked by the former
chef for Madame Chiang Kai-shek.

Sources say that Maxwell still maintains her warm telation-
ship with the Clintons. She was never charged with a crime. And
Maxwell has repeatedly denied all allegations made by Virginia
Roberts—and continues to do so today. Through her lawyer,
Maxwell says she’s had no connection to any criminal misconduct
involving Virginia Roberts (or any other young woman) and Jef-
frey Epstein. She claims that Virginia's story about her experience

as a “sex slave” has changed, significantly, over time—that with
each telling, Virginia adds salacious details and names new public
figures. Nevertheless, legal troubles for Maxwell recently began.

In 2015, Virginia Roberts filed a defamation suit against the
woman she says recruited her to work at Epstein’s house on El Brillo
Way. In January of 2016, Roberts filed additional papers, claiming
that a defamation suit filed against Bill Cosby, another alleged sexual
predator, was directly relevant to her case against Maxwell. In March,
Maxwell filed an answer in court denying all of Roberts's allegations
and accusing Roberts of fabricating them for financial gain.

As of this writing, the suit is ongoing.

_ Prince Andrew

: In January of 2016, Sunninghill Park— the twelve-bedroom estate
| that Sarah Ferguson and Prince Andrew once shared in the
English county of Berkshire—was bulldozed.

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Q As part of your employment with MC Square
did you live in New York, for a time?

A I'm sorry, but I take the Fifth.

Q Have you ever heard any model of MC Square
who at the time of being a minor, that means under
the age of eighteen, made an accusation that
Jean-Luc Burnel acted inappropriate with her?

A Never. And that is something that I will
not answer. And I said never because even when
peoples come and ask me I will always say the truth
regarding that.

I know Mr. Brunel for the longest --
maybe eight years. And I always said what I know.
I never saw and I never knew that he did anything.

So I know that. And that's the truth.

Never. I never heard anybody accusing Mr. Brunel
or complaining about Mr. Brunel. Nething.
Q That means -- that means at any time no

model, no minor model came to you and said, you
know, “Maritza, look what just happened to me"", that,
""something bad happened to me"".

A Maybe a model came and told me, ""Maritza,
look what happen to me. I don't have any money,” or
""T doen't have a place to live""™. Or, ""Look, I didn't
get my ticket"", or whatever.

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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031039.txt,"From: Jeffrey Epstein [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Sent: 12/15/2013 1:07:51 AM 
To: 
Subject: Re: A few questions just in case please? 
Importance: High 
how will our future differ from your lives? if i was going to do your job what three things would i have to 
know. ? is obama good for the country, . ? israel?. if you could live one day of your lives over again, what 
would it be? 
On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 7:04 PM 
Sent from my iPhone 
*********************************************************** 
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confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may 
constitute inside information, and is intended only for 
the use of the addressee. It is the property of 
Jeffrey Epstein 
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wrote: 
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TEXT-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032788.txt,"From: 
Sent: 
To: 
CC: 
Subject: 
LHS________________________________ 
7/18/2018 12:51:11 AM 
jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Re: 
Importance: High 
Just tried back. Now here 
Sent from my iPhone 
Please direct all scheduling inquiries to my office at: 
Follow me on twitter glhsummers 
www.larrysummers.com 
On Jul 17, 2018, at 8:33 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
just tried 
On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 8:12 PM, LHS < wrote: 
Just tried u. Am at 6178179452 
Sent from my iPhone 
Please direct all scheduling inquiries to my office at: 
Follow me on twitter glhsummers 
www.larrysummers.com 
On Jul 17, 2018, at 5:09 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 8:01 AM, LHS <_______________________> wrote: 
Will call later. What number? 
Sent from my iPhone 
Please direct all scheduling inquiries to my office at: 
Follow me on twitter glhsummers 
www.larrysummers.com 
On Jul 17, 2018, at 7:42 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
my email is full with similar comments . wow 
HOUSE OVERSIGHT 032788 
Im sure his view is that it went super well . he thinks he has charmed his adversary. . Admittedly he has no 
idea of the symbolism . He has no idea of most things 
On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 8:18 PM, LHS wrote: 
Do the Russians have stuff on Trump? 
Today was appalling even by his standards. 
Sent from my iPhone 
Please direct all scheduling inquiries to my office at: 
Follow me on twitter glhsummers 
www.larrysummers.com 
On Jul 16, 2018, at 9:17 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
wed presidnt of united nations , interesting person for you 
On Sun, Jul 15, 2018 at 6:28 PM, LHS___________________________kwrote: 
Unsure. What is up 
Sent from my iPhone 
Please direct all scheduling inquiries to my office at: 
Follow me on twitter glhsummers 
www.larrysummers.com 
On Jul 15, 2018, at 6:09 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
new york soon? 
please note 
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JEE 
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please note 
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JEE 
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please note 
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JEE 
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please note 
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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030333.txt,"﻿141/2015 Prince Andrew sex allegations: Jeffrey Epstein's butler Alfredo Rodriguez, who stole tell-all 'black book', dies age 60 
NDEPENDENT 
Prince Andrew sex allegations: Jeffrey 
Epstein's butler Alfredo Rodriguez, who 
stole tell-all 'black book', dies age 60 
Rodriguez served prison time after refusing to hand over Epstein's (pictured) book in 2011 
and attempting to sell it for over £30,000 
Loulla-Mae Eleftheriou-Smith 
Wednesday, 7 January 2015 
Alfredo Rodriguez, the butler of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, has died, and with 
him the location of a `black book', which allegedly details ""the full scope and the extent of 
Epstein's involvement with underage girls"", and contact details of the businessman's 
celebrity friends. 
Rodriguez died at the age of 60 after suffering from mesothelioma last week, his widow 
Patricia Dunn told DailvMail.com.  
Dunn alleges that her late husband 'knew all about Prince Andrew,"" who has been named in 
the current sex scandal centring on Epstein. Allegations levelled at the Prince are that he 
was supplied with a teenage girl who was used by Epstein as a ""sex slave"". Buckingham 
Palace has denied the allegation. 
The 'black book' that Rodriguez had in his possession is journal in which Epstein is 
understood to have detailed the girls which attended his properties for ""massages"" for him 
and his friends, and details of his celebrity friends and associates who had no connection 
with alleged offences, including Bill Clinton and Donald Trump. 
Jeffrey Epstein: Controversies surrounding paedophile billionaire  
Rodriguez, who stole the book, claimed he needed it as insurance against the businessman 
to protect his own life. 
The butler failed to tell prosecutors he possessed the book and later refused to hand it over. 
He was jailed for 18 months for attempting to sell it for $50,000 (01,000). 
In 2011 it emerged that the journal ""detailed the full scope and the extent of Epstein's 
involvement with underage girls,"" according to prosecuting lawyers, who referred to it as 
""The Holy Grail"". 
Rodriguez died on 28 December. The current location of the document has not been 
disclosed and the Mirror claims  Epstein's lawyers are ""petrified"" about where it will go, 
according to a source. 
Read more: Boris Johnson has 'svmpathv for Prince amid sex claims  
Documents about Prince Andrew's support for Epstein 'concealed'  
http://www.independentoo.uk/news/peoplelprince-andrew-sex-allegations-jeffrey-epsteins-butier-alfredo-rodriguez-who-stole-tellall-biack-book-dies-age-60-9... 1/2 
118/2015 Prince Andrew sex allegations: Jeffrey Epstein's butler Alfredo Rodriguez, who stole tell-all 'black book', dies age 60 
Billionaire sex offender Epstein had '21 numbers' for Bill Clinton  
htto://www.independent.co.uk/news/oeople/prince-andrew-seac-allegations-jeffrey-epsteins-butler-alfreclo-rodriguez-who-stole-tellall-biack-book-dies-age-60-9... 2/2 
"
TEXT-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033482.txt,"From: Sultan Bin Sulayem 
Sent: 9/18/2015 5:26:12 AM 
To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Subject: Fareed Zakaria: Trump sells America short 
Fareed Zakaria: Trump sells America short 
Dear Donald Trump: China, Japan and Mexico are not ""killing us"" 
By Fareed Zakaria, Thursday, September 17, 2015 
Donald Trump's presidential bid is centered on the promise of his personal talents. He says he's the ""most successful 
person ever to run for the presidency, by far."" (George Washington and Dwight Eisenhower, sit down!) But if there is an 
idea animating his candidacy, it is that the United States is being badly beaten by its economic competitors. In his speech 
on foreign policy this week, Trump explained that America is being bested by countries such as China, Japan and Mexico 
because their leaders are ""smarter, more cunning and sharper than our leaders."" ""They're killing us,"" he often says. 
This is an odd moment to make these charges because the reality is almost entirely the opposite. The United States is 
more dominant on the global economic landscape than at any point since the heyday of Bill Clinton's presidency — 
perhaps even more so. 
Last quarter, the U.S. economy grew at a 3.7 percent clip. Annual growth now is almost twice that of Europe and four 
times that of Japan. Unemployment is at 5.1 percent, the lowest in seven years. The deficit as a percentage of gross 
domestic product (2.8 percent in 2014) is at its lowest since 2007. 
""The U.S. has come out of the 2008 crisis better than all the others,"" says Ruchir Sharma, head of global macro investing 
at Morgan Stanley. ""Americans have reduced their debt burden more than the Europeans, while China's debt has 
skyrocketed to extremely dangerous levels. If you look outside of China, U.S. growth is actually faster even than the 
emerging markets. Since the 2008 crisis, U.S. equity markets have outperformed all others — in fact 9 out of the 10 most 
valuable companies in the world are now American. The dollar is the currency of choice. Global growth is not what it 
used to be, but in a bad neighborhood, the U.S. has the best house by far."" Sharma points out that for the past four 
years, the United States' share of global GDP has increased while Europe's and Japan's have moved down. 
When I was in Europe last week, businessmen there were concerned with what they saw as a new level of U.S. 
dominance in everything from technology to entertainment to finance. Consider America's big banks. They were at the 
epicenter of the financial crisis and were badly battered by it. Since then, bankers have complained that they've faced 
uncertainty about government policies, overzealous regulators trying to compensate for their laxness before the crisis 
and the unwieldy burdens of the Dodd-Frank law. 
Well, U.S. banks today are more dominant than ever. The Wall Street Journal notes that in the past five years, JPMorgan 
Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley have increased in value by $254.6 billion. In the 
same period, their European competitors, Barclays, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, UBS and Royal Bank of Scotland added 
just $9.5 billion. In July, Barclays Chairman John McFarlane was asked if America's banks were eating European lenders' 
lunch. He replied: ""They are doing a good job of it."" He added that the U.S. banks ""are the only ones that really claim to 
be global and successful."" 
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To compare the United States' performance and leadership to Mexico's, Japan's and China's is particularly ill-timed. 
Trump might be stuck in a 1980s time warp on Japan. When his ""The Art of the Deal"" was published in 1987, Americans 
were envious of Japan's brilliant leaders, who were said to be outsmarting the United States at every turn. Since then, 
Japan has become the poster child for economic stagnation and political paralysis. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been 
unwilling or unable to get his promised reforms enacted, and the country's economy continues to shrink. 
Mexico is watching its growth collapse. While its president, Enrique Pena Nieto, is a courageous and intelligent leader 
who has made some very bold decisions, he has also made some significant missteps. Most important, the country was 
ill-prepared for plunging oil prices that have battered government revenues and growth. 
China has had three decades of supercharged growth and competent government policy. But in the past few years, 
Beijing went on a borrowing binge, running up its total debt to levels that are unprecedented, according to Sharma. And 
in the past two months it has made mistakes in managing both its equity markets and currency — mistakes that have 
cost $400 billion, the Financial Times reports. 
Of course, the United States has problems that are worrying, such as wage stagnation and low labor-force participation. 
But the important comparison is not to some ideal fantasy of what America might be but to other countries in the real 
world. And the facts show, Mr. Trump, we're killing them. 
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TEXT-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032944.txt,"From: jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Sent: 12/15/2016 3:58:59 PM 
To: Pritzker, Tom 
Subject: Re: 
Importance: High 
yes, any word on karyyna plans. . can you belive MBS sent me a TENT carpets and all. 
On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 10:54 AM, Pritzker, Tom < > wrote: 
I'm stuck in the cold! Five degrees. Aspen next week to warm up. Tilerson is a good move for Trump. Have gotten to 
know him at CSIS, he's the real deal. 
tjp 
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Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2016 8:53 AM 
To: Pritzker, Tom 
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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019348.txt,"From: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]

Sent: 7/23/2018 3:58:02 PM
To: Steve Bannon a |
Subject: Re: Fw:

reacall , Iam unaware of your playbook. however , whatever is good for you -- Im in. . I think meeting , the
leaders of europe BEFORE he possible implodes is only good for many reasons. frankly , after you meet ,
you could explain what happened; they will all want advice... ALL

On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 2:18 AM, Steve Bannon <> wrote:
Well played sir
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From: ""jeffrey E."" <jeevacation@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2018 01:58:06 +0200

Tt:

Subject: Re: Fw:
Hicks?

On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 1:57 AM Steve Bannon qa wrote:
Abandon Hope, All Ye Who Enter

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Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2018 01:51:58 +0200

To:

Subject: Re: Fw:

9th circle

On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 1:26 AM Steve Bannon i, wrote:

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Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2018 22:01:54 +0200

Subject: Re:

Bannon the European: He’s opening the populist fort in Brussels

The former Trump strategist arrives in Europe with ""The Movement"". Objective: an alliance between
right-wing leaders, from Salvini to Orban in view of the 2019 elections

NEW YORK. The invasion of Europe has begun. Steve Bannon, 65, the American far-right guru who
was Donald Trump’s right-hand man in the White House — but let go last summer following the racist
violence in Charlottesville — is preparing to march on Brussels. Launching, he told the Daily Beast
himself, a new non-profit foundation called The Movement, (Il Movimento), right in the heart of

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Edwards' Opposition to Epstein's Motion for Summary Judgment
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they were true. Epstein knew that he had in fact molested each of the minors represented by Brad
Edwards. He also knew that each litigation decision by Brad Edwards was grounded in proper litigation
judgment about the need to pursue effective discovery against Epstein, particularly in the face of
Epstein’s stonewalling tactics. Epstein also knew that he suffered no legally cognizable injury
proximately caused by the falsely alleged wrongdoing on the part of Edwards. Moreover, Epstein had no
intention of waiving his Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination in order to avoid providing
relevant and material discovery that Epstein would need in the course of prosecuting his claims and to
which Edwards was entitled in defending those claims. Epstein knew that his prosecution of his claims
would be barred by the sword-shield doctrine. Most significantly, the evidence submitted in the
supporting papers would compel a fact finder to determine that Epstein had no basis in law or in fact to
pursue his claims against Edwards and that Epstein was motivated by a single ulterior motive to attempt
to intimidate Edwards and his clients and others into abandoning or settling their legitimate claims for
less than their just and reasonable value. The evidence demonstrates that Epstein did not file these claims
for the purpose of collecting money damages since he knew that he never suffered any damage as a
consequence of any alleged wrongdoing by Edwards but filed the claim to require Edwards to expend
time, energy and resources on his own defense, to embarrass Edwards and impugn his integrity and deter
others with legitimate claims against Epstein from pursuing those claims. Indeed, the evidence
demonstrates that Epstein continued to pursue his claims by filing the Second Amended Complaint
alleging abuse of process against Edwards even after he had paid significant sums in settlement of the
claims instituted by Mr. Edwards’ clients against Mr. Epstein.’

""The evidence marshalled in support of these assertions is set forth in the previously filed documents in this Court.
Those documents include Exhibit “A” — Edwards’ Statement of Undisputed Facts; Exhibit “B” — Edwards’ Renewed
Motion for Summary Judgment; Exhibit “C” — Edwards’ October 19, 2012 Second Renewed Motion for Leave to
Assert Claim for Punitive Damages; Exhibit “D” — Edwards’ Notice of Filing of Transcript of Telephone Interview
of Virginia Roberts in Support of Motion for Leave to Amended to Assert Punitive Damages; Exhibit “E” —

Transcript of Deposition of Jeffrey Epstein dated January 25, 2012; Exhibit “F’ — Deposition of Bradley Edwards
dated March 23, 2010; Exhibit “G” - Deposition of Scott Rothstein dated June 14, 2012; Exhibit “H” — Order of

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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026551.txt,"From: 
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Jeffrey Epstein [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Fwd: Foreign Policy magazine: The Ayatollah Under the Bed(sheets): 
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Importance: High 
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/20 12/04/23/the ayatollah under the bedsheets  
AN FP SPECIAL REPORT 
The Ayatollah Under the  
Bed(sheets)  
In the Islamic Republic of Iran, all politics may not be sexual, but all sex is political. 
BY KARIM SADJADPOUR I MAY/JUNE 2012  
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In the early years of the Iranian Revolution, an obscure cleric named Ayatollah Gilani 
became a sensation on state television by contemplating bizarre hypotheticals at the 
intersection of Islamic law and sexuality. One of his most outlandish scenarios -- still 
mocked by Iranians three decades later -- went like this: 
Imagine you are a young man sleeping in your bedroom. In the bedroom directly below, 
your aunt lies asleep. Now imagine that an earthquake happens that collapses your floor, 
causing you to fall directly on top of her. For the sake of argument, let's assume that you're 
both nude, and you're erect, and you land with such perfect precision on top of her that 
you unintentionally achieve intercourse. Is the child of such an 
encounter halalzadeh (legitimate) or haramzadeh (a bastard)? 
Such tales of random ribaldry may sound anomalous in the seemingly austere, asexual 
Islamic Republic of Iran. But the ""Gili Show,"" as it came to be known, had quite the 
following among both the traditional classes, who were titillated by his taboo topics, and 
the Tehrani elite, who tuned in for comic relief. Gilani helped spawn what is now a virtual 
cottage industry of clerics and fundamentalists turned amateur sexologists offering 
incoherent advice on everything from quickies (""The man's goal should be to lighten his 
load as soon as possible without arousing his woman"") to masturbation (""a grave, grave 
sin which causes scientific and medical harm""). 
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Perhaps it's not entirely surprising that Iran's Shiite fundamentalists -- not unlike their 
evangelical Christian, Catholic, Orthodox Jewish, and Sunni Muslim counterparts -- spend 
an inordinate amount of time pondering sexuality. They are human, after all. But the 
sexual manias of Iran's religious fundamentalists are worthy of greater scrutiny, all the 
more so because they control a state with nuclear ambitions, vast oil wealth, and a young, 
dynamic, stifled population. Yet for a variety of reasons -- fear of becoming Salman 
Rushdie, of being labeled an Orientalist, of upsetting religious sensibilities -- the 
remarkable hypocrisy of the Iranian regime is often studiously avoided. 
That's a mistake. Because religion is politics in a theocracy like Iran, uninformed or 
antiquated notions of sexuality aren't just confined to the bedroom -- they pervade the 
country's seminaries, military barracks, boardrooms, courtrooms, and classrooms. A 
common aphorism among Iranians is that before the revolution, people partied outside 
the home and prayed inside, while today they pray outside and party inside. This reverse 
dichotomy is true of a lot of social behavior in Iran. For many Iranians, this perverse state 
of affairs is now so ingrained, such an inherent aspect of daily interactions with Iranian 
officialdom, that it is no longer noteworthy. For those in the West who seek to better 
understand what makes Tehran tick, though, the regime's curious fixation on sex cannot 
be ignored. 
To paraphrase the late U.S. House Speaker Tip O'Neill, in the Islamic Republic of Iran 
all politics may not be sexual, but all sex is political. Exhibit A is the revolution's father, the 
late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Like all Shiite clerics aspiring to become a ""source of 
emulation"" (marja'-e taqlid), Khomeini spent the first part of his career meticulously 
examining and dispensing religious guidance on personal behavior and ritual purity that 
ranged from the mundane (""It is recommended not to hold back the need to urinate or 
defecate, especially if it hurts"") to the surprisingly lewd. 
In his 1961 religious treatise A Clarification of Questions (Towzih al-Masael), Khomeini 
issued detailed pronouncements on issues ranging from sodomy (""If a man sodomizes 
the son, brother, or father of his wife after their marriage, the marriage remains valid"") to 
bestiality (""If a person has intercourse with a cow, a sheep, or a camel, their urine and 
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dung become impure and drinking their milk will be unlawful""). As a young boy growing 
up in the American Midwest, I remember being both horrified and bewildered after 
coming across these precise passages in a translated volume of Khomeini's sayings I found 
in our Persian emigre home. 
Scholars of Shiism -- including harsh critics of Khomeini -- emphasize that such themes 
were the norm among clerics of Khomeini's generation and should be understood in their 
proper context: Islam was a religion that emerged out of a rural desert, and the Prophet 
Mohammed was himself once a shepherd. Whereas religions like Christianity and Judaism 
simply declare such behavior to be sinful, Islam addresses them from a juridical point of 
view. 
The underlying problem, says Islamic scholar Mehdi Khalaji, a former seminary student in 
the Shiite epicenter of Qom, is not that such issues were addressed, but the fact that 
""Islamic jurisprudence hasn't yet been modernized. It's totally disconnected from the 
issues that modern, urban people have to deal with."" 
Indeed, Khomeini's religious prescriptions are often the butt of jokes among Iran's post-
revolutionary generations. ""I've never even seen a camel in Tehran,"" prominent Iranian 
cartoonist Nikahang Kowsar told me, ""let alone been tempted to have sex with one."" 
IF THERE IS A DOUBLE ENTENDRE that aptly captures today's Middle East, it is 
the ""youth bulge."" The Arab world's median age is 22, Iran's is 27; Western Europe's, by 
contrast, is near 40. High levels of Internet and satellite television penetration, with their 
pervasive pornography, coupled with the region's youthful demographics, have 
accentuated the Muslim Middle East's fraught relationship with sexuality. 
Google Trends, which monitors searches from around the world, shows that of the seven 
countries that most frequently search the word ""sex"" on Google, five are Muslim and 
one (India) has a large Muslim minority. (The word ""sexy"" is even more popular among 
Arabs.) Google Insights, another trend spotter, shows that the most rapidly rising search 
term for Iranians so far in 2012 has been ""Golshifteh Farahani,"" a popular exiled actress 
who in January posed topless for the French magazine Madame Figaro. 
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Before the 1979 revolution, religious fundamentalists were revolted by images of scantily 
clad Iranian women in the country's cinema and television; today, state television and 
cinema are forbidden from showing unveiled Iranian women. This is despite the fact that 
most of the country's citizens have access to the much more tawdry fare on satellite TV 
(the dishes are officially illegal, but thought to be smuggled in by the Islamic 
Revolutionary Guard Corps itself). In the forthcoming documentary The Iran Job, Kevin 
Sheppard, an American who played basketball in Iran's professional leagues, is shocked 
while surfing his newly connected satellite television. ""We have 600 channels,"" he 
remarks, ""400 of them are sex!"" 
Because of its religious pretensions, however, the Iranian regime is forced to spend untold 
millions of dollars trying to jam satellite TV broadcasts to prevent them from reaching the 
country's citizens -- a futile attempt to simultaneously repel the forces of both technology 
and human nature. In an interview with the New Yorker several years ago, an Iranian 
security official candidly assessed the challenge at hand: 
The majority of the population is young.... Young people by nature are horny. Because they 
are horny, they like to watch satellite channels where there are films or programs they can 
jerk off to.... We have to do something about satellite television to keep society free from 
this horny jerk-off situation. 
One might assume a country that suffers from chronic inflation and unemployment -- not 
to mention harsh international sanctions and a potential war over its nuclear program --
would have better things to do than discourage its youth from masturbating. Yet the 
regime continues to pour hundreds of millions of dollars into Chinese censorship 
technology to create a moral Iron Dome against political and cultural subversion, with 
decidedly mixed results. Piped-in BBC Persian and Voice of America television are 
sometimes successfully scrambled, but those who want pornography have no shortage of 
outlets. That said, the censorship software sometimes get a bit overzealous. One Iranian 
friend told me of repeated unsuccessful attempts to access his British university's email 
account from Tehran, only to realize that the school's apparently bawdy name -- Essex --
was prohibited by the regime's Internet filters. 
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DURING THE RULE OF WESTERN-ORIENTED autocrat Mohammad Reza Shah 
Pahlavi, Tehran was a rapidly evolving society that deceptively appeared to be crossing 
into the modern age. My own family history is perhaps representative of Iran's urban 
middle-class trajectory during the 20th century: My devout paternal grandmother, born in 
1907, wore a chador and wasn't formally educated beyond elementary school; three of her 
four daughters attended university, and all eschewed the veil. All of their daughters grew 
up in a Tehran in which miniskirts were the trend, and Googoosh -- Iran's pre-
revolutionary J. Lo (but remarkably modest by today's standards) -- was their main 
""source of emulation."" 
Khomeini's opposition to the shah was fueled in part by the latter's enfranchisement of 
women, which the ayatollah deliberately conflated with sexual decadence. In his 1970 
book Islamic Governance(Hukumat-e Islam° -- which would later provide the ideological 
and political template for post-revolutionary Iran -- Khomeini hyperventilated that 
""sexual vice has now reached such proportions that it is destroying entire generations, 
corrupting our youth, and causing them to neglect all forms of work! They are all rushing 
to enjoy the various forms of vice that have become so freely available and so 
enthusiastically promoted."" 
Khomeini nonetheless reassured his liberal revolutionary compatriots -- just months 
before the revolution, while in Paris exile -- that ""women [would be] free in the Islamic 
Republic in the selection of their activities and their future and their clothing."" Much to its 
retrospective dismay, a sizable chunk of Iran's liberal intelligentsia -- both male and 
female -- lined up behind Khomeini, some even referring to him as an ""Iranian Gandhi."" 
Shortly after consolidating power, however, Khomeini and his disciples swiftly moved to 
crush opposing views and curtail female social and sartorial freedoms. ""Islam doesn't 
allow for people to [wear swimsuits] in the sea,"" he proclaimed shortly after becoming 
supreme leader. We ""will skin their hide!"" 
Women who resisted the mandatory veil were met with violence and intimidation, 
including lyrical taunts of ""Ya roosari, ya toosari!"" (""Cover your head or be smacked in 
the head!""). As Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi recently wrote, 
""Although the 1979 revolution in Iran is often called an Islamic revolution, it can actually 
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be said to be a revolution of men against women.... The drafters of [the Islamic Penal 
Code] had effectively taken us back 1,400 years."" 
Like Islamists in today's Egypt -- and some among America's Christian right -- Iran's 
revolutionaries found fertile ground on which to play the politics of pious populism, rather 
than concretely address the enormous challenges of building a diversified economy. The 
country's massive oil wealth made it appear all too easy. Khomeini famously dismissed 
economics as ""for donkeys,"" and he responded to complaints of inflation by saying, ""The 
revolution wasn't about the price of watermelons."" Three decades later, the results are self-
evident: In 1979, resource-rich Iran's GDP was almost double that of resource-poor 
Turkey. Today, it is roughly half. 
The brutal reality is that Iranians had entrusted their national destiny to a man, Khomeini, 
who had spent far more time thinking about the religious penalties for fornicating with 
animals than how to run a modern economy. 
AFTER HIS DEATH IN 1989, Khomeini was succeeded by the current supreme leader, 
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has remained loyal to Khomeini's vision for Iran, including 
his prudishness regarding matters of the flesh. For Khamenei -- who has said that keeping 
women in hijab would ""prevent our society from being plunged into corruption and 
turmoil"" -- outward displays of feminine beauty are viewed not only with religious 
disfavor, but as an existential threat to the regime itself. 
Khamenei contends that the health of the family unit is integral to the Islamic Republic's 
well-being and is undermined by female beauty. Although to some this worldview is 
fundamentally misogynistic,Khamenei sees men, not women, as untrustworthy and 
incapable of resisting temptation: 
In Islam, women have been prohibited from showing off their beauty in order to attract 
men or causefitna [upheaval or sedition]. Showing off one's physical attraction to men is a 
kind of fitna ... [for] if this love for beauty and members of the opposite sex is found 
somewhere other than the framework of the family, the stability of the family will be 
undermined. 
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Interestingly, the word Khamenei employs against the potential unveiling of women - 
- fitna -- is the same word used to describe the opposition Green Movement that took to 
the streets in the summer of 2009 to protest President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's 
contested reelection. In other words, women's hair is itself seen as seditious and 
counterrevolutionary. Even so-called liberal politicians in the Islamic Republic have long 
fixated on this issue. Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, Iran's first post-revolutionary president, who 
has spent the past three decades exiled in France, reportedly once asserted that women's 
hair has been scientifically proven to emit sexually enticing rays. (An Iranian satirist 
responded with a cartoon showing a man inadvertently aroused while eating lunch at his 
friend's home; the culprit turned out to be an errant strand of his friend's wife's hair in 
the ghormeh sabzi stew, an Iranian national dish.) 
OVER THE LAST TWO DECADES, the women of Iran's younger generation have 
increasingly pushed back and loosened their veils, but any discussion of abolishing the veil 
altogether is not tolerated by Khamenei. In addition to opposition toward the United 
States and Israel, the hijab is often considered one of the Islamic Republic's three 
remaining ideological pillars. ""For Islamic Republic officials, the hijab has vast symbolic 
importance; it is what holds up the dam, keeping all of Iranians' other demands for social 
freedoms at bay,"" says Azadeh Moaveni, an Iranian-American author. ""Relax on the 
hijab, they think, and all hell will break loose; next people will want to swill beer on the 
street and read uncensored novels. They think of it as a gateway freedom."" 
Despite Khamenei's assertion that the hijab prevents men from straying, governmental 
policies in fact encourage the opposite. For example, to help accommodate the apparently 
incorrigibly wandering libido of the Iranian male, the country's parliament -- composed of 
Khamenei loyalists -- has supported sharia-sanctioned ""temporary marriages"" (known in 
Persian as sigheh) allowing men as many sexual partners as they want. The marriage 
contract can last as little as a few minutes, and it doesn't need to be officially registered. 
The man can abruptly end the sigheh when he likes, but initiating divorce is far more 
difficult for women. Indeed, women who stray from the sanctity of their marriages do so at 
grave risk -- dozens have been stoned to death in Iran for adultery. 
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The country's economic malaise has also led to a reportedly sharp rise in plain old, non-
Islamically sanctioned prostitution. Tehran's high-end taxi drivers, often underemployed 
university graduates, casually point them out on the street. 
""When economies take a downturn, informal economies and illicit networks become more 
attractive,"" says Pardis Mandavi, author of a book on sexuality in Iran. ""Technology 
facilitates this too."" 
During the shah's time, Tehran's notorious red-light district was known as Shahr-e 
Noe (New City), a place where countless young Iranian men lost their virginity. Like many 
things post-revolution, however, the Islamic Republic just imagined that banning the 
symptom would make the problem go away. But pouring saltpeter from the minarets 
hasn't worked. ""They razed Shahr-e Noe thinking it would end prostitution,"" a retired 
Iranian laborer once told me. ""Now all of Tehran has become Shahr-e Noe."" 
UNSURPRISINGLY, THE OUTWARDLY CHASTE nature of Khomeinist political 
culture has perverted normal sexual behavior, creating peculiar curiosities -- and 
proclivities -- among Iranian officialdom. Omid Memarian, a journalist who spent several 
months in the notorious Evin prison for his articles critical of the government, told me 
that his interrogators seemed far more interested in his sex life than his political 
peccadilloes. ""I tried to answer their questions in very general terms, but they'd interrupt 
me,"" he recalled. ""They wanted to know details. 'Start from when you were unbuttoning 
her blouse...."" In one instance, he told me, he was horrified when an interrogator 
appeared to be rubbing himself while listening. 
Observers of American politics -- the land of Jimmy Swaggart, Mark Sanford, 
and Newt Gingrich, to name just a few -- won't be surprised to learn that it is often the 
most outspoken Iranian advocates of traditional values who fall short of achieving them. 
Memarian spent part of his mandatory military service in Tehran writing speeches for a 
senior Revolutionary Guard commander who routinely attacked the craven immorality of 
the ""Global Arrogance"" (i.e., the United States). ""His filmi [the person who brought him 
bootlegged films on CD] later told me that he always requested 'films with scenes' [film-
haye sahne-dar],"" a euphemism for porn. 
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In a well-publicized national scandal in 2008, the Tehran police commander responsible 
for enforcing Iran's strict anti-vice laws, Reza Zarei, was caught nude in a brothel with six 
women (one of the women claimed he had asked them to pray naked in front of him). 
While American politicians might bounce back from such transgressions with their 
own television show (see: Spitzer, Eliot), the revelation of the incident reportedly led 
Zarei to attempt suicide while in prison. 
The shame of sexual malfeasance has been routinely used by the regime as a form of 
political coercion and intimidation. When the famously jocular reformist cleric 
Mohammad Ali Abtahi, former vice president to Mohammad Khatami, was imprisoned 
after Iran's contested 2009 presidential election, he surprised his supporters by confessing 
with great gusto to being part of a Western-backed conspiracy to foment a velvet 
revolution. Although his confession was undoubtedly forced, his close associates claim that 
what compelled him to confess was not physical or psychological torture but hidden 
photos of him -- in flagrante delicto -- at a secret Tehran love nest that was long being 
monitored. 
The Islamic Republic isn't always so prudish, however. In fact, it's been willing to use 
sexual incentives as a form of statecraft. In a WikiLeaked U.S. State Department  
cable, for example, senior Iraqi tribal chief Abu Cheffat confided in a U.S. diplomat in 
Baghdad that Tehran effectively wielded influence over Iraqi politicians -- ostensibly 
visiting Iran for ""medical treatment"" -- by offering inducements including ""temporary 
marriages"" with Iranian women. Not that Cheffat was complaining, mind you: The perks 
were surely better than when he visited President George W. Bush at the White House in 
2008. It was not without reason, he explained, that Iranian soft power was trumping 
American hard power in Iraq. 
More recently, three Iranian intelligence agents who unsuccessfully tried to kill Israeli 
government officials in Bangkok this past February photographed themselves at a bar in 
the beach resort of Pattaya with local ""escorts."" When I asked the scion of a powerful 
cleric in Tehran how ostensible devotees of Khomeini's religious ideology are able to 
reconcile frequenting non-Muslim prostitutes and drinking alcohol, he quickly dismissed 
any religious obstacles. ""There are government clerics who can easily grant them religious 
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pretexts [mojavez'e Shar'i],"" he explained. ""They can make the case that if they didn't 
frequent prostitutes and drink alcohol they would appear to be [terrorists] and raise 
suspicions."" 
In essence, the Iranian regime's approach toward sex, like its philosophy of governance, is 
marked by maslahat, or expediency, and used alternately as a tool of suppression, 
inducement, and incitement. In the summer of 2009, when hundreds of thousands of 
Iranians took to the streets to protest Ahmadinejad's reelection, many protesters were 
brutally beaten by the Basij militia, gangs of young regime thugs on motorbikes who were 
given a green light to quell the uprising. As Iranian-American academic Shervin 
Malekzadeh reported from Tehran, the Basij seemed to be driven by a combination of class 
resentment and pent-up frustration. ""They don't screw; they don't drink or smoke joints,"" 
one of his sources told him. ""What else are they going to do with all of that energy?"" 
But perhaps the seminal -- and most heartbreaking -- moment of the Green Revolution 
was the murder of a 26-year-old female protester, Neda Agha-Soltan, whose bloody death 
was caught on cell-phone camera and rendered one of the most viral videos in history. In 
an HBO documentary about her life, Neda's mother recalls a message that some 
sympathetic female Basij members relayed to Neda days before she was killed by a sniper: 
""Dear, please don't come out looking so beautiful.... Do us a favor and don't come out 
because the Basiji men target beautiful girls. And they will shoot you."" 
While the iconic faces of Iran's 1979 revolution were bearded, middle-aged men, Neda has 
come to symbolize the new face of dissent in 21st-century Iran: a young, modern, educated 
woman. For her opposition to the regime and to the hijab, she is the embodiment of fitna 
in Khamenei's eyes. 
THREE SPRINGS LATER, the Iranian regime once again is faced with a crisis, this 
time of an external variety. As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatens war 
in between meals, the Pentagon plays war games and policy planners huddle in the White 
House: Is the Iranian regime rational or irrational? Can diplomatic negotioations prevent 
Iran from obtaining a bomb, or is an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities inevitable? 
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Many Iran watchers assert that to persuade Tehran not to pursue a nuclear weapon, 
Washington must reassure Khamenei that the United States merely seeks a change in 
Iranian behavior, not a change of the Iranian regime. 
What they fail to consider is Khamenei's deep-seated conviction that U.S. designs to 
overthrow the Islamic Republic hinge not on military invasion but on cultural and political 
subversion intended to foment a ""velvet"" revolution from within. Consider this revealing 
address on Iranian state TV in 2005: 
More than Iran's enemies need artillery, guns, and so forth, they need to spread cultural 
values that lead to moral corruption.... I recently read in the news that a senior official in 
an important American political center said: ""Instead of bombs, send them miniskirts."" He 
is right. If they arouse sexual desires in any given country, if they spread unrestrained 
mixing of men and women, and if they lead youth to behavior to which they are naturally 
inclined by instincts, there will no longer be any need for artillery and guns against that 
nation. 
Khamenei's vast collection of writings and speeches makes clear that the weapons of mass 
destruction he fears most are cultural -- more Kim Kardashian and Lady Gaga than bunker 
busters and aircraft carriers. In other words, Tehran is threatened not only by what 
America does, but by what America is: a depraved, postmodern colonial power bent on 
achieving global cultural hegemony. America's ""strategic policy,"" Khamenei has said, ""is 
seeking female promiscuity."" 
Khamenei's words capture the paradox and perversion of modern Iran. While dropping 
bombs on the Iranian regime could likely prolong its shelf-life, a regime that sees women's 
hair as an existential threat is already well past its sell-by date. 
Karim Sadjadpour is senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. 
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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030923.txt,"Lawrence M. Krauss

Foundation Professor

Director, The ASU Origins Project
Co-Director, Cosmology Initiative

Assoc. Dir, Beyond Center

ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
School of Earth and Space Exploration
PO Box 871404 | Tempe AZ 85287-1404
480-965-6378 | krauss@asu.edu
http://krauss.faculty.asu.edu

Exec. Asst

Origins Asst

Lawrence M. Krauss

Foundation Professor

Director, The ASU Origins Project
Co-Director, Cosmology Initiative

Assoc. Dir, Beyond Center

ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
School of Earth and Space Exploration
PO Box 871404 | Tempe AZ 85287-1404

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htto://krauss.faculty.asu.edu

Origins Ass

Lawrence M. Krauss

Foundation Professor

Director, The ASU Origins Project
Co-Director, Cosmology Initiative

Assoc. Dir, Beyond Center

ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
School of Earth and Space Exploration
PO Box 871404 | Tempe AZ 85287-1404

htto://krauss.faculty.asu.edu

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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023429.txt,"From: Lisa New 
Sent: 9/24/2014 12:25:39 AM 
To: jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Subject: Re: Highlight 
Importance: High 
Jeffrey, if you are conceding any bit of the other things , with all due respect, that's exciting, as its new for me 
to be right about anything in the area of budgets. 
As it happens,and as of today, there is huge dissatisfaction in public television world with the lower budget 
Clinton footage versus the Herbie Hancock footage. David g was there for Herbie and not for Clinton. I can see 
the difference .the pilot was made for 100, 000, with savings on the Clinton but it does show 
Sent from my iPhone 
On Sep 23, 2014, at 7:57 PM, ""jeffrey E."" <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
clinton woody kagan, do not add one penny to budget 
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 6:17 PM, Lisa New < 1> wrote: 
That was fun- definitely the highlight of a day that was not without other interesting moments 
Don't know which was better-- the wholly unexpected surprise reminder (by a prime minister) of my boyfriend 
from 1976( who was in high school, who lived with his doting parents), or, getting creamed on my producer's 
budget but then offered the opportunity to profess poetry for production funds . There may be someone as good 
in New York, but i'll never tell you and you really have a heck of a seminar table there . When do we do 
Whitman's ""Song of Myself"" 1-15 Who else is reading with us? I'm ready. 
A few other follow ups: 
David and Brigid point out that reality tv doesn't cost anything because it is, as it sounds, very low budget . No 
writing , no special expertise or knowledge or research , no archival footage , no copyright clearance , no 
actors, no travel beyond the one location, certainly no clinton or woody allen or justice elena kagan or david 
brooks or Lena Dunham or even Professor New. That said , I think If were hiring the crew id do it for less --
probably 1, 250,000 all in. But I haven't won 10 Emmys and David has . That has value too. As does Wgbh. 
But I'll be more prepared for the next conversation and want to be much more prepared for templeton, so thank 
you. 
I really liked Michael. I would like to send him some stuff, but in googling him I noticed that we have the 
same birthday! May I have his email? 
You are in! Yeay! Lets see what this may mean? I'll improve my numbers and you'll improve your deep 
reading ? 
Sent from my iPhone 
please note 
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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025563.txt,"Morgan Stanley | RESEARCH

tives 6.8 years. Said differently, the alternatives have nearly 55%
longer duration of the asset base.

Exhibit 16:

Redemption Rates by Company for 2016: Alts see less redemption
money as a % of AuM relative to traditionals and duration of assets
~55% longer and C-corp alts with the longest duration.

Annual Redemption Rates by Company: 2016

35% 33%

Alts have ~55% longer duration of AUM

5 compared to traditionals. Based on 2016
30% 29% redemptions and outflows we see alts
avg. duration of 6.8 years vs. trads at
25%, 4.3. C-Corp alts have the longest
9
25% 24% 23%00, implied duration of assets at 11.8 years 23%
20% 18%18%17%4 7%,
6%
15%
15% 13%q 2%,
1%
10% 8% 9%
6%
5% LT
0%
SS =
x

ES E48 x SMO ES

ov

Source: We use Fee Paying AUM for the Alts; Soure: Company Data, Morgan Stanley Research
Note: HLNE outflows are for an average of FY 2016 and FY2017

C) Management fees that are paid on committed money rather
than net asset value. This provides much more stability and down-
side protection, but limits upside to management fees as invest-
ments appreciate in value do not automatically translate into higher
mgmt fees. The Alts then participate in investment performance
through performance fees or carried interest, whereas the tradi-
tionals participate in performance via greater management fees ona

higher value of invested assets.

D) Relatively more insulation from fee pressure in private mar-
kets given limited low cost competitors (indexed funds and ETFs for
traditionals) and higher demand for products driven by the search for
higher return and diversification from investors. In fact, recent
demand for some PE funds has actually led to supply constraints and
allowed Alts to give less fee concessions. Apollo, for example, closed
fundraising for their flagship Fund IX last year at $24b, but the
demand was 25% higher at $30b. As a result, the company said ""eco-
nomics to Apollo for Fund IX are considerably better since we did not
need to provide as many management fee discounts."" This supports
the forward look on growth in management fee revenues; however,
we could see some mix shift into lower return profile (and Lower fee)

products that could begin to pressure fee rates over time.

NORTH AMERICA INSIGHT ~~

2) Publicly Traded Alts Comps

We see Hamilton Lane (HLNE, Equal-weight) and Partners Group
(PGHN, Equal-weight, covered by Anil Sharma) as offering an
upside scenario for Alts©fee-related earnings multiples.
Hamilton Lane is ~90% fee earnings and currently trades at 23.4x
multiple on our CY2018e EPS. Similar to alternative asset manager
peers, the company gets paid management fees on drawdown funds
and customized separately managed accounts with stable fees paid
on committed capital. PGHN is a publicly traded alternative asset
manager in Switzerland, and as a C-corporation it is the closest true
comp for HLNE.

While we see the publicly traded C-corps as good comps, there

are several factors that could be elevating the multiples. HLNE is
a small cap stock with $2b market cap and may not be the best comp
for the large cap PE firms. The company has limited float (currently
at ~25%) and scarcity value as the only US based publicly traded alt
in a C-corp structure. PGHN is a trades in Europe and may not be a
great comp because of that. Lastly, while not drastically different,
HLNE and PGHN have had higher organic growth historically and
looking out over the next 2 years we expect their growth to outpace
most of the alts. As aresult of the high multiples at the public C-corp
alts, we have heard partnership alts increasingly use HLNE as a peer

comp.

Exhibit 17:
We expect Alts to deliver similar organic growth profile over the next
few years as C-Corp Alts Hamilton Lane and Partners Group

Organic Asset Growth:C-Corp Alts vs. Partnership Alts
20% mAvg. 2014 - 2017E Growth Rate = Avg. 2018 - 2019 Growth Rate

1% 14%

% 11% 1%
10% 2% 10% 11% 11% % os
: Jit ii
0%

-5%

APO
cc
KKR
BX
ARES
OAK
HLNE
PGHN

Alts Average

Source: Company Data, Morgan Stanley Research
Note: HLNE average organic growth includes years 2015 - 2017e where we have data; The alts average
uses 2014 - 2017e for consistency with the traditionals organic growth chart above

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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023631.txt,"1970s. A meritocracy on steroids, or, as Vanity Fair would baldly dub it, the new establishment, an increasingly
parallel world, a self-invented one, at further and further remove from the ordinary one.

Epstein often tells his middle class to riches tale: born in 1953 in Coney Island, father worked for the city’s
Parks Department, mother a housewife.

The captain of the math team at Lafayette High school in Bensonhurst, he went on to Cooper Union where the
tuition is free. He dropped out after two years. Without a college degree, an unsolved mystery , he got a job
teaching math and physics at Dalton in 1974. (A few years ago, during a chance encounter with a former
Dalton math department chairman, Margo Gumport, I asked her about Epstein. She said he was the most
brilliant math teacher at Dalton in her 50-year career and that she had often wondered what had become of him.)
Dalton fathers perhaps sensed in him a young man on the make. Punch Sulzberger, the publisher of the New
York Times, and a Dalton father at the time, tried to recruit Epstein to come to the Times. (Epstein recounts a
story of riding with Sulzberger in his faux wood paneled station wagon to the family’s country estate and
Sulzberger talking to the chauffer on a phone from the backseat to the front.) Another Dalton father, asking
“wouldn’t you rather be rich than be a teacher?” introduced him to Bear Stearn’s chief Ace Greenberg.

Hence, Epstein, like many in the late ‘70s, arrived on Wall Street.

Ifon one side of Wall Street there were the salesmen (the Wolf of Wall Street model), on the other side there
was a new sort of finance type able to embrace a level of acute abstraction. “In the past,” says Epstein,
“investing was all about reputations and relationships. You invested in a company on the basis of who was
running it. Did they have integrity? Were they married? Good family men? It was a ‘50s mentality. But in the
mid ‘70s stock options started to be traded. In essence, the first version of formal derivatives. The movement
of the instrument was not directly attached to the stock price but a derivative of it. The world of investing began
turning from relationships to math. In a sense I didn’t really know how to make money , as I produced little. I
merely tried to learn how to “create” money.

He soon became the protégée of Jimmy Cayne (also hired by Ace Greenberg on a whim—he met him ina
bridge game), who would go on to run Bear and to lose his fortune in Bear’s 2006 collapse). Epstein’s leave-
taking or ouster from Bear was the result of politics, envy, overreaching, or a securities violation, or...unclear.
But, no matter, when he left in 1982 he took with him billionaire clients, including Marvin Davis, a real estate
developer who owns Twentieth Century Fox, and Herb Seigel, a major media investor in the 1980s. At this
point, Epstein was dating Morgan Fairchild, a television star in the new mega-rich-family soap operas, Dallas
and Falcon Crest.

If the “80s were happening pell mell in New York, they were happening at double time and catch up speed in
London. “I would head to Kennedy Airport and, on the theory that most important events in one’s life are
serendipitous, I wouldn’t decide where I was actually going until I got there.” Thirty-year-old Epstein was
living a Lifestyle of the Rich and Famous (he befriended the show’s star, Robin Leach), at English shooting
parties and country estates with Saturday night black tie dinners, where he was meeting the over-the-top
families of Europe.

At the same time, he was developing a perception, or, at least a market differentiation: the hyper wealthy had
different problems than the very wealthy. Dealing with a billion dollars was different from dealing with $10
million. “The traditional wealth service structure, an accountant, and investment advisor, a personal lawyer,
and an less that stellar brother-in-law, became hopelessly outdated as amounts exponentially increased. You
can’t spend a billion dollars, you can just hope to reallocate it to different investment classes. And you can’t
give away a billion dollars without a vast staff, in effect going into a new give away business at its core just
another business. However one you are likely to know little about.”

For a period, one part of his activities, he says, was recovering looted monies . Then, in his telling, he was
representing a series of vastly wealthy people and families—helping them to navigate the ambitions of their
wealth. If they had big dreams before, it’s nothing to what they can have now.

If early in his career he might have seemed like a sort of George Peppard (there’s a physical resemblance) in
Breakfast at Tiffany’s, a charmer , later he’s George Peppard in Banacek, smart and astute.. At just about this
point in the narrative, the mystery about Epstein began to circulate in social circles. Epstein had acquired the
major symbols of wealth but without obvious position, public holdings, or overt paper trails. His is a substrata
of super wealth, i.e. without institutional establishment credentials or academic bona fides. He’s a freelancer.
That’s the rub: he’s free. i.e. doesn’t work for anyone.

Sure, Goldman Sachs partners and tech geniuses, they might have stratospheric wealth, but what to make of a

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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018379.txt,"data - our DNA, our wedding photos, our hopeful voice mails and most essential
knowledge, our small savings against disaster. In its speed and its depth, in its
increasingly comprehensive grasp of each of us and our world, this new network
order is at once the most amazing thing we've ever created and the most terrifying.
But recall, for a moment, Hillis’s dream for his parallel computer: “The ability to
configure the topology of the machine to match the topology of the problem.” What
if we really could rewire our thinking, our networks and politics and economics to
match the problems we face now? Finally, with the Seventh Sense kicking alive in
each of us, we can at least see the topological landscape where such a construction
might occur. Now we must turn to the exciting question of just how we’d configure it
to do our bidding.

We've covered a lot so far; perhaps it is worth a glance back.

First, we’ve come to see how networks really operate, the way in which they breed a
lively connected skein that concentrates and distributes power. These systems are,
as a result of their very design, plucking apart many of our old structures and ideas.
Recall my dad, the doctor, ripped one direction by millions of disease advice
websites (distribution) and in the other by massive diagnostic databases
(concentration). This pulling process creates too, as we saw: Billion-user firms (and
billion dollar fortunes) bred with breathtaking speed. Drones, derivatives, waves of
migrants torn from their states but plugged into technological tapestries - all of
these are products of network power. Connection, we learned, changes the nature of
any object. You. Me. Money. Terrorists. Pretty much anything. And because there is a
lot more of the world that has not yet been fully connected, it’s easy to see that we
live in a revolutionary age.

Second, we learned that the world of networks is complex. It’s made up of many
complicated pieces, but complexity is something entirely different: It’s the
unpredictable and colliding evolution you might see in a rainforest, where
uncountable forces intermingle to produce life and death, growth and change.
Scientists call this “emergence” - and it is happening on all our connected systems.
Connection produces new, ripplingly powerful and unpredictable structures. The
Arab Spring. The 2008 financial crisis. Connection changes complicated objects not
least by making them complex. This is why our whole world, even the parts we
might expect to be most stable, whips around now with a new and wild energy. Ina
way, we Saw, this should reward a careful confidence: Go ahead and break the old
systems. Something new will emerge.

Third, we followed the trail of hackers like the Warez Dudes and discovered
something unnerving about the networks around us. Not only are they
honeycombed with dangerous and unpatchable holes, but historically unmatched
amounts of power rests in their central cores. The reason hackers are so eager to get
to these kernels of power is that in doing so they can manipulate entire landscapes
of power with a profound efficiency. A “weird machine,” fired with an invisible and
dangerous hacked logic, is a possibility that flutters through any network. Trade.
Politics. Finance. Choices made in the center of network systems will redound on

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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025205.txt,"mercury films inc.
=. 645a dupont street
toronto ontario m6g 1Z4 canada
t: 416.516.2661
e: mercfilm @istar.ca

JENNIFER BAICHWAL

Jennifer Baichwal was born in Montréal and grew up in Victoria, British Columbia. She studied
philosophy and theology at McGill University and received an M.A. in 1994, supported by a
McGill Major Fellowship and a 2 year FCAR Master’s Scholarship.

She has been directing and producing documentaries for 15 years. Her first film, Looking You In
The Back of the Head, an enquiry into the problem of personal identity, asked thirteen women to
try to describe themselves and was first broadcast, to critical acclaim, on TVOntario's From the
Heart. It subsequently sold for broadcast across Canada.

Let it Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles, her first feature documentary, won a 1999
International Emmy for Best Arts Documentary. It premiered at the Toronto International Film
Festival in 1998 and was nominated that year for a Best Feature Documentary Genie Award. It
won Best Biography at Hot Docs in 1999 and was picked up for theatrical release by Mongrel
Media in Canada, Zeitgeist Films in the U.S., and Uplink in Japan. The film has been sold for
broadcast all over the world, and has been selected for a number of international film and
television festivals, including Jerusalem, Buenos Aires, FIPA, Banff (where it received a Rockie
nomination), Istanbul and Edinburgh.

The Holier It Gets documents a trek Baichwal took with her brother and two sisters to the source
of the Ganges river with her father’s ashes. The film won Best Independent Canadian Film and
Best Cultural Documentary at Hot Docs 2000, Geminis for Best Editing and Best Writing and
was nominated for the Donald Brittain Award and the Chalmers Documentarian Award. It was
commissioned by TVOntario and features music by Ravi Shankar and John McLaughlin.

The True Meaning of Pictures is a feature length film on the work of Appalachian photographer
Shelby Lee Adams. It was commissioned by TVOntario, Bravo!, SBS Australia and Discovery
Germany. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2002 and was invited
to the Sundance International Film Festival in January 2003. It won a Gemini award for Best
Arts Documentary in 2003 and has played at numerous international festivals. The film was
released on dvd by Docurama/New Video in October 2003.

Baichwal, along with Nick de Pencier, was commissioned in 2003-4 to make 40 short films on
artists who have been supported over the past four decades by the Ontario Arts Council. These
include writer Michael Ondaatje, artist Michael Snow, pianist Eve Egoyan and playwright Judith
Thompson, and are in periodic rotation on TVOntario. The collection received a 2006 Gemini
nomination for Best Direction in a Performing Arts Program or Series.

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Chronology xxv

Israel launches operation Defense Shield, placing Arafat under siege in his
Ramallah compound, the Mugata.

Security Council Resolution 1402.

European Parliament votes to suspend Euro-Israeli association agreement.

The Battle of Jenin.

UN Security Council Resolution 1405 on Jenin.

Basic Palestinian Law.

President G.W. Bush’s Rose Garden speech.
Ayalon-Nusseibeh Statement of Principles.

Report of the UN Secretary-General prepared pursuant to UN General
Assembly Resolution ES-10/10 (Jenin Report).

Outcomes of London Conference on Palestinian Reform.

US and UK invasion of Iraq.

Yasir Arafat appoints Mahmoud Abbas as the first Prime Minister of the

Palestinian Authority.

Performance-Based Road Map to a Permanent Two-State Solution to the
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.

Israel’s response to Road Map.

A summit is convened by President Bush in Aqaba, Jordan with Prime
Ministers Sharon and Abbas, hosted by King Abdullah II.

Palestinian cease-fire statements.

Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas resigns.

The Israeli cabinet approves removal of Yasir Arafat from the West Bank.

Ahmed Qorei appointed Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority.
UN General Assembly Resolution ES-10/13 (Barrier).

UN Security Council Resolution 1515 (Quartet’s Road-Map).

Report of the UNSG pursuant to Resolution ES-10/13 (Barrier).

The Geneva Accord: A Model Israeli-Palestinian Peace Agreement.
UN General Assembly Resolution ES-10/14 (Barrier).

Prime Minister Sharon’s address at the Fourth Herzliyah Conference.

Exchange of letters between Prime Minister Sharon and President Bush.

The Disengagement Plan: General Outline.

Rice-Weisglass Letter of Understanding.

UN Security Council Resolution 1544.

Letter from President Bush to King Abdullah I of Jordan.
Israeli Cabinet Resolution Regarding the Disengagement Plan.
Advisory Opinion of the IC] on the Barrier.

Olga Document.

UN General Assembly Resolution on the ICJ Advisory Opinion on the

Barrier.

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IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021309.txt,"we understand this kind of synchrony
when it occurs? In the Western
intellectual tradition, we have a strong
tendency to search and explain events in
terms of individual agency and
causation.

Social events are generally
understood in terms of contributions of
the individual and the situation itself.
The degree to which the person or the
situational constraints shape the nature
of the event will vary greatly. However,
spontaneous and prolonged entrainment
among three or more people introduces
an experience that is difficult to explain
by these more traditional accounts.
These experiences cannot be easily
reduced the actions of a single person, so
an account has to be found in some
source that goes beyond the individual.
The powerful sense of unity and
belonging that emerges from this kind of
experience almost demands a different
kind of explanation than we generally
consider. Indeed, such feelings
emerging from the synchrony of
behavior may provide some of the
foundation for the cultural interpretation
of a transcendental experience.

References

'Ne’da, Z., Ravasz, E., Brechet, Y.,
Vicsek, T., & Barabasi, A. L. (2000a).
The sound of many hands
clapping*Tumultuous applause can
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849 850.

* Neda, Z., Ravasz, E., Vicsek, T.,
Brechet, Y., & Barabasi, A. L. (2000b).
Physics of the rhythmic applause.
Physical Review E, 61, 6987 6992.

> Semin, G. R. & Cacioppo, J. T. (2008).
Grounding Social Cognition:
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Coordination. In G.R. Semin & E.R.
Smith (Eds.), Embodied grounding:
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* Semin, G. R. & Cacioppo, J. T. (2009).
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press). Coordination from the
perspective of Social Coordination
Dynamics. Encyclopedia of Complexity
and System Science., 1-29.

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_014745.txt,"Economists place great store in the importance of expectations and their impact on
inflation. Chart 29 suggests an adverse feedback problem has emerged, with actual

inflation an increasingly influential driver of 5y5y inflation (and economist long-term
consensus expectations).

With 10y20y inflation effectively at the ECB’s target, we favor short positions in 30y
breakevens. In the case of the OATei 2047, the “observed” breakeven drastically
understates what we would consider to be a fairer measure. The issue here is that the
linker is almost 10 years longer than its nominal 2045 comparator in modified duration
terms. On a duration basis, the linker lies in between the 2060 and 2066 nominal OATs
and, of course, the 30s50s OAT curve is very steep.

Trade: we recommended a more closely-matched breakeven trade, shorting OATei
2047s to buy OAT 2066s to give a breakeven of 163.3bp, targeting 130bp with a
stop-loss at 180bp on October 14. The breakeven has risen, against our
expectations, to 169.6bp currently and we regard this as an attractive entry level.
We will nudge our stop-loss level higher to 185bp.

The relative cheapness of the nominal 50y partly reflects the 31y maturity limit to ECB
buying. We regard the ECB eligibility premium for bonds within the ECB’s buying range
(like this linker) as material, so the trade should be a beneficiary in the event of an ECB
“taper tantrum”. An important additional feature in these turbulent times is the greater
dispersion of the nominal’s cash flows (in PV terms). This means the trade is
significantly net long convexity.

We see the risks to the trade being a strong Eurozone recovery causing a general
repricing of breakevens higher and the possibility of further heavy issuance of 50-year
bonds across the Eurozone.

EM linkers: feeling the contagion for higher breakevens

The prospect for higher yields in the US clearly affects the appetite for Emerging
Market (EM) assets including inflation-linked bonds. The discussion is about not only EM
becoming less attractive on a relative basis, but also how the higher yields in the US
affect the dollar and thus EM currencies.

Fiscal stimulus prospects in the US should continue to drive some correction across EM
assets, but at this point, there is still too much uncertainty on the actual reach of such
stimulus. Investors faced strong returns in EM this year and because of the calendar
effect, this puts pressure to square positions and reduce risk. While this correction may
last for a while, it is clearly creating more value in some assets. For now, the discussion
will be about re-sizing positions rather than valuation. Only when volatility declines and
yields stabilize in the US will we be able to resume discussion on valuation and the level
of yields across EM.

Liquidity is a key issue when looking into EM linkers, in particular across EMEA, but we
find some interesting opportunities in Asia and LatAm.. Currency weakness ends up
adding risks for higher inflation in some countries but FX pass-through varies a lot
depending on output gap. In general, we believe there is room for higher breakevens in
EM, with key highlight for Thailand and 10y in Mexico.

Attractive breakevens in Thailand and Mexico

In Asia, we believe breakevens are pricing in too much complacency on the inflation
outlook. With prospects for higher oil prices, it makes sense to position for higher
breakevens in both Thailand and Korea in our view. Breakevens appear cheaper in
Thailand as inflation is already increasing, while breakevens have clearly lagged the
movement.

In EMEA, linkers are mostly illiquid and/or expensive so there is more to do in nominals
and/or FX in our view. Yet, the currency move has triggered a widening in breakevens in
some countries like South Africa. We expect this movement to continue for now.

Bankof America
Merrill Lynch Global Rates, FX & EM 2017 Year Ahead | 16 November 2016 15

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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031383.txt,"From: GMAX [gmax1@ellmax.com]

Sent: 4/2/2011 2:15:40 PM
To: J Jep [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Re:

Importance: — High
Did you have a chance to look at the potential idea of having people fulfill there contract with Sunrise? Just

want to know what you think as this is something you know well..as it says int he article the only thing that
you don’t get a pass on is poverty..

On 4/2/11 9:02 AM, ""J Jep"" <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-04-01/bill-clinton-katie-couric-woody-allen-jeffrey-

epsteins-society-friends-close-ranks/2/

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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029104.txt,"﻿Dear Harvard Business School,
I am extremely excited to share my application with you. For years now it has been my dream to attend your
MBA program, studying amongst the world’s best professors and most achieved students to earn the education
that will influence the rest of my career and the future of my company. To explain how much I also
hope to contribute at Harvard, I would like to tell you three stories that characterize who I am.
My first story is about family.
A small-town Italian from a modest family, my father worked locally as an industrial designer after high school,
but he always wanted to be an entrepreneur. Thirty-four years ago, at the age of 22, as soon as he saw a
market opportunity, he quit his job (defying his parents), linked his talents for design and sports, and handbuilt
his first piece of gym equipment in his garage; that was the beginning of Technogym. By the time I arrived,
seven years later, Technogym had earned a respected place in the international market. Nine years later,
when my younger brother was born, it was the world-leading and most innovative manufacturer of fitness
equipment, digital wellness solutions and rehabilitation systems. It now has annual revenues of over 555m€
and 35 million daily users in over 100 countries. My father directs some 2,000 staff as CEO and Chairman.
Thousands of talented people have contributed to Technogym, among them my mother, my brother, and I.
Technogym has been like my older sibling, and has always been the main topic of conversation at dinner. We
plan our vacations around it and have supported one another through its ups and downs. We have all made
sacrifices – but gladly, as one always does for family.
My father’s vision to bring “wellness” to people around the world inspired me to get involved at a very young
age, so many of my childhood memories involve weekends at the office with my dad. These early experiences
embedded in me the entrepreneurial values that make my father such a successful person, values such as
taking calculated risks and investing in innovation. I have attended countless meetings at his side and worn a
company T-shirt at every Olympics from Athens 2004 to Rio 2016, as Technogym has been the games’ official
supplier since 2000.
Growing up in a family business has given me access to a vast network of people and I have sought to learn
as much as I could from inspiring people like Richard Branson and Marc Benioff; however, the person I admire
the most is my mother, who put aside her own education and career to commit to our family and company.
She’s been at my father’s side since she was 16. Women have played a huge role in business and society,
and I want to do my part to further opportunities for women, joining the long legacy of leaders who proudly
call themselves Harvard alumnae. I intend to participate in the Women’s Student Association to become one
of the voices that carries this power beyond the campus. A Harvard education will help me develop the vision,
leadership and credibility that I will need throughout my career, and in furthering great causes that mean a lot
to me.
Next, I'd like to talk about commitment.
I understood early that I would always participate with my father's legacy and lead Technogym. I committed
myself to learning languages at school, becoming a good teammate and competitor through sports, and
spending my university holidays exploring different industries through internships. Yet I still wanted to set my
own career and earn my own credibility. Whether conducting analyses at JP Morgan in Paris, selling highpriced
artwork in Mexico City, or developing marketing campaigns for iconic brands like Bulgari and
Tifany&Co., I have built my own identity thanks to working alongside diverse, accomplished people. By
adapting to different countries, cultures and industries, I have adopted new ways of thinking, working, and
even speaking while also asserting myself and learning to make measurable contributions quickly.
My most impactful experience was volunteering for a UN’s World Food Program microfinance initiative in El
Salvador, one of the world's poorest and most dangerous countries. I helped design and develop “Fondo
para Agricultura,” an investment fund supporting 75,000 small farmers. There, I was warned not to walk
alone or explore the city, but I have never seen such warm and generous people as the Salvadorans. I made
lifelong friends with my colleagues and many locals, and I witnessed how even small efforts can impact the
lives of many. I became active in our company’s foundation to spread goodwill in my own community.
Since 2009, Technogym has been an invitee of the World Economic Forum in Davos as the ‘wellness industry
shaper’, a true honour for a company of its size. Accompanying my father to the Annual Meetings, I have
heard inspiring leaders talk about making the world a better place. As a ‘Next Gen' myself, I joined the Family
Business Community. There I discovered impact investing, which in turn led me to take the Harvard Kennedy
School course Impact Investing for the Next Generation. Working on projects with other Next Gen associates
has given me a taste of courses and case study groups at Harvard, and I love it. I have since, through our
family office, been eyeing for investment projects that could make a measurable positive difference on communities
around the world.
Finally, I'd like to talk about awakening.
After decades of managing and growing his company, my father returned to his original passion of sharing
“wellness” to build sustainable communities. He created the “Wellness Foundation,” a non-profit aiming to
bring healthy lifestyles to people around the world. One of our international partners is the Clinton Foundation,
and during our annual Wellness Congress in 2012, former President Clinton even delivered the keynote
speech and I am currently helping to bring high profile speakers to our 25th Congress that will be held next
year.
For our local community in Italy, I have been involved in the development of the “Wellness Valley,” a socially
innovative project urging all our stakeholders to strengthen civic attitudes and culture towards healthy living
for human-centric prevention and sustainability. Our long-term goal is to recreate this model in communities
worldwide, allowing governments to reduce healthcare costs, companies to increase productivity, and people
in general to improve their quality of life.
For several years, this project was, like Technogym, an endeavour outside my job at Luxottica. I joined that
company as a marketing intern and was soon promoted to manage an important licensed brand, Tiffany&Co.
It turned out my previous experience had prepared me well for this first big management opportunity, and I
truly enjoyed it.
Exploring the workings of a complex international firm of 80,000 employees, I began to re-examine my family’s
business. When Technogym had its IPO in early 2016, I joined its Board of Directors and looked deep into the
company's potential and my own role. The time was right to take on new responsibilities. Resigning from
Luxottica and training my replacement, I dove into a new Technogym project, the first of its kind. I'm currently
working with the Senior Retail VP to develop a B2C sales channel through new experiential stores in Milan
and London, where I direct staff, strategy, and new revenue streams. Moreover, I recently took responsibility
over the development of a new business unit with the launch of a clothing line, including the evaluation of
potential partnerships and acquisitions, aimed at increasing our presence in the consumer sector at a higher
pace. These are uphill endeavours, but I am energetic to face them. My two years on the Board of Enervit –
a listed health-food company, and another family business – have given me useful insights.
Leadership is both a burden and a blessing – having control can also isolate you – that is why I want to get
all I can from the 360° training and feedback of an HBS MBA. I don't want to be just a founder's daughter; I
want to be a leader in my own right. I am a passionate person with vision, intuition and an ability to think
laterally – a key asset, I think, for Technogym. Taking charge will be a challenge, but I am sure that with my
determination I will be able to demonstrate the autonomy and leadership to take Technogym into the next era.
After the MBA, I plan to spend several years in the US to push the company’s expansion in the world’s largest
wellness/fitness market – despite a strong international reputation, our market share in the US is still modest;
I see the opportunity to grow our presence into a leading position, and earning the best training to prepare for
that is my next step.
Now you understand more about me, my family, our company and why my dream has brought me to you. I
have worked hard to learn from peers, friends, and mentors and will continue to do so in a new setting that
will help me grow – as a woman, a manager, a leader, and, I hope, an example to others.
"
TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026237.txt,"From: 
Sent: 12/22/2017 12:23:04 PM 
To: jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Subject: Re: 
Importance: High 
very well .. keep us posted about your gee trip Ii 
Sent from my iPhone 
On Dec 22, 2017, at 3:04 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
great. have fun. . with the crazy tax bill, Ill stay in US until end of year. 
On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 7:03 AM, < > wrote: 
i m ok.. still waiting for new york trip .. taking the family to dubai for new year 
Sent from my iPhone 
On Dec 22, 2017, at 2:43 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
what have you been doing? any fun? 
On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 5:53 AM, <1=1=11111M11, wrote: 
i m trying to wear the sweater but it has been geeting a bit warm here° 
hope you doing well 
Sent from my iPhone 
On Dec 9, 2017, at 1:13 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
They told me to discuss in Jan 
On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 8:00 AM < > wrote: 
i forget to ask.. is there any new update about the saudi project that i sent you?? 
Sent from my iPhone 
On Dec 8, 2017, at 11:38 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
no come now !!! 
On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 9:37 PM, < > wrote: 
i m at the door but i will wait for my time.. i dont want to come early to find trump in your house00 
Sent from my iPhone 
On Dec 8, 2017, at 9:55 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
Yes 
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On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 2:10 PM < > wrote: 
sorry that is 2512 for the gate Ii 
Sent from my iPhone 
On Dec 6, 2017, at 5:44 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
lOpm should I bring special cake from New York 
On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 9:37 AM <--.-MMIIIMIM> wrote: 
very well .. just send me the address again and the code to the door so i can get to the second floor? and 
send me the day and time. 
thnx 
Sent from my iPhone 
On Dec 6, 2017, at 5:17 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
You are welcome at my house always . And more private 
On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 9:12 AM jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
Of courses 
On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 9:08 AM < > wrote: 
777 
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Sent from my iPhone 
On Dec 5, 2017, at 2:34 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
at the moment i was flying to paris on the 8th. . I can leave eariler and get to paris by 830 . if you like 
to meet there. geneve difficult to fly out of at night. or lunch sat in paris. , 
On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 5:03 AM, <_____________________> wrote: 
can we have dinner in geneva on the 8th? i will be there on 7 and 8 dec and going back to kuwait on 
the 9th 
Sent from my iPhone 
On Dec 5, 2017, at 3:34 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
I am planning to be in paris starting the 9th for the week. any chance to see you 
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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029185.txt,"From: Lawrence Kraus

Sent: 8/29/2018 6:29:24 PM
To: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Re: October 19, Heidelberg

Importance: — High

actually I found I can buy an economy (YUK) ticket for only $1300.. so maybe I can buy that and try to upgrade
it using miles..

Lawrence M. Krauss

Professor

School of Earth & Space Exploration and Physics Department
Arizona State University, P.O. Box 871404, Tempe, AZ 85287-1404

Research Office: =| Assistant

| twitter.com/Ikrauss1 | www.lawrencemkrauss.com

On Aug 29, 2018, at 11:06 AM, Lawrence Krauss <> wrote:

Hi.. so, here is the event I am still invited to give in Germany. It is Oct 19th. I was previously invited to give a
major lecture in Heidelberg Oct 14 but they had to cancel it after the university determination re australia was
publicized by the bitch. That air ticket, which they had paid fo, was about 5250 euros. There is a $900
cancellation fee, and they have agreed to let me keep the ticket if I pay them 4500 euros. I offered that to the
other place but they only have $5K USD total, which includes the $4K fee they originally offered me. I am
going to check other tickets now, but wanted to know if you might be flying to europe around then and could
take a hitchhiker. :)

Lawrence M. Krauss

Professor

School of Earth & Space Exploration and Physics Department
Arizona State University, P.O. Box 871404, Tempe, AZ 85287-1404
Research Office: | Assistant

| twitter.com/Ikrauss1 | www.lawrencemkrauss.com

Begin forwarded message:

From: Jakob Kdllhofer <
Subject: Re: October 19, Heidelberg
Date: August 29, 2018 at 4:49:53 AM PDT
To: Lawrence Krauss <

Hi Lawrence,
just back from a long tour ,,on origins”.
As promised you will get my message promptly.

As you may understand, before we start recruiting for the Festival our budget

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016152.txt,"Chart 44: Summary of sectors and companies with exposure to key NTP themes (companies highlighted in green are rated Buy and represent our top picks)
Theme 1 Theme 2 Theme 3 Theme 4 Theme 5 Theme 6

Growth in Affordable Telco infrastructure Increase in none-oil
housing growth commodity exports
Travel & Tourism Consumer staples Private Hospitals Real Estate Telecoms Petrchemicals
Transport Consumer Disc. Insurance co's Construction Training & Education Metals & Mining

Religious Tourism Downtrading Healthcare provision

Sectors to

Consumer staples Training & Education Pharma Banks Industrials

Training & Education Training & Education Training & Education Training & Education
STC Savola Al Hammadi Dar al Arkan STC SABIC
ZAIN KSA Almarai Dallah Zain KSA Maaden
Savola Al Othaim Yansab
Almarai Al Hokair Saico

Al Othaim Jarir

coverage with
exposure

Mobily Sadafco Mouwasat Emaar Economic city Mobily Petrorabigh
Sadafco Halwani Brothers Care Saudi Banks Al Khaleej Training Zamil

Al Tayyar Nadec MEAHCO Al Khaleej Training Al Khaleej Training
Dur Hospitality Saudi Marketing Spimaco

Saudi Ground Serv. Al Khaleej Training Bupa

Saudi Catering Tawuniya

Al Khaleej Training Med Gulf

Other Companies with
exposure

Source: BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research

Saudi market valuation not testing

The Saudi market has been one of the poorest performing emerging markets year-to-
date, underperforming the MSCI EM indices by approximately 10% (and c20% since
August 2015). A combination of weak oil prices and their inevitable impact on the Saudi
economy including slowing economic growth, rising operational risks and fiscal
consolidation (including subsidy removals) have been the key drivers. The
underperformance has left the market trading on a 12mth P/E of c.13x, an 11% discount
to its long term average and its lowest premium to GEMs since 2010 (Saudi trades on a
7% percent premium vs long run average of c. 30%). Furthermore, Saudi trades on
12mth FWD P/B ratio of 1.5x, a 20% discount to long run averages, but a 15% premium
to GEMs on 1.3x, justified by the market’s higher ROE’s (Saudi’s long term P/B premium
has been c.25%). Finally, Saudi trades on 12mth FWD EV/EBITDA multiples of 9x, a
c.11% discount to long run averages.

42 GEMs Paper #26 | 30 June 2016 3S Merrill Lynch

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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018730.txt,"Executive Summary

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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017062.txt,"Johan H. Andresen Jr
Jason Andrew

Kirill Androsov

Christian Angermayer

Husodo Angkosubroto
Kofi Annan

Alan Annex
Paola Antonelli

Platon Antoniou
Leo Apotheker
Frank Appel
David Appia

Jun Arai
Marta Arango Nimnicht

Louise Arbour
Dan Ariely
Anita Arjundas
David Arkless

Peter Armstrong
Tim Armstrong
Nikesh Arora

W. Brian Arthur
Ayman Asfari
Tewodros Ashenafi
Samir Assaf

Peter Athanas

Abdul Rahman Attar
Khalid bin Mohammed Al
Attiyah

Lera Auerbach

Helmut Aurenz

Bruce E. Aust Jr

Stefano Aversa
Ronit Avni

Eytan Avriel

Bassem |. Awadallah
Orlando Ayala

José Sergio Gabrielli de
Azevedo

Azman Mokhtar
Michelle Bachelet

Louis Bacon

Abdalla Salem El Badri

Raymond J. Baer
Sebastian Bagé
Shaikha Al Bahar
Alejandro Bailléres

Owner and Chief Executive Officer
Vice-President, Worldwide Marketing
and Channels

Managing Partner, Altera Capital,
Russian Federation

Chief Executive Officer

Chairman

Secretary-General, United Nations
(1997-2006); Member of the
Foundation Board of the World
Economic Forum

Chair, New York Corporate and
Securites Group

Senior Curator, Department of
Architecture and Design
Photographer, USA

President and Chief Executive Officer
Chief Executive Officer

Ambassador of France for
International Investment; Chairman
and Chief Executive Officer, Invest in
France Agency, France

President

Founder and General Director

President and Chief Executive Officer

Professor of Psychology and
Behavioral Economics
Managing Director

President, Corporate and
Government Affairs

Director

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Senior Vice-President and Chief
Business Officer

Professor

Group Chief Executive

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Chief Executive, Global Banking and
Markets

Member of the Board of Directors
President

Minister of State for International
Cooperation of Qatar

Composer, Poet and Concert Pianist
Member of the Supervisory Board
Executive Vice-President, Global
Corporate Client Group

President and Member of the Board
Founder and Executive Director
Managing Editor

Chief Executive Officer

Corporate Vice-President, Chairman
of Emerging Markets and Chief
Adviser to the Chief Operating Officer
President and Chief Executive Officer

Managing Director
Undersecretary-General, United
Nations Women (UN Women), New
York

Chief Executive Officer and Chairman

Secretary-General, Organization of
the Petroleum Exporting Countries
(OPEC), Vienna

Chairman of the Board

President

Chief Executive Officer

Chief Executive Officer

World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2011

Ferd
BMC Software Inc.

Angermayer, Brumm &
Lange Merchant Banking
Group

PT Gunung Sewu Kencana

Greenberg Traurig LLP

Museum of Modern Art

Hewlett-Packard Company
Deutsche Post DHL

Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K.
International Center for
Education and Human
Development (CINDE)
International Crisis Group
(ICG)

Duke University

Mahindra Lifespace
Developers Limited
Manpower Inc.

OneWorld UK
AOL
Google Inc.

Santa Fe Institute

Petrofac Ltd

SouthWest Energy (Hk) Ltd
HSBC Bank Plc

Schindler Holding Ltd
Attar Group

AUDI AG
The NASDAQ OMX Group

AlixPartners LLP

Just Vision

Ha'aretz Daily Newspaper
Tomoh Advisory
Microsoft Corporation

Petroleo Brasileiro SA
Petrobras
Khazanah Nasional Berhad

Moore Capital Management,
LP

Bank Julius Baer & Co. Ltd
Laboratorios Bagé SA
National Bank of Kuwait
Grupo Nacional Provincial
SAB

Norway
USA

Germany

Indonesia

USA

USA

USA
Germany

Japan
Colombia

Belgium

USA

India

United Kingdom

United Kingdom
USA
USA

USA

United Kingdom
Ethiopia

United Kingdom

Switzerland
Syria

Germany
USA

USA
USA
Israel
Jordan
USA

Brazil

Malaysia

USA

Switzerland
Argentina
Kuwait
Mexico

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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018351.txt,"of network power: Contagions of fear, manipulation of data, the subtle and invisible
influence of the boxes we depend upon but don’t understand.!73 Recall Francis
Bacon’s Enlightenment line? That human knowledge is human power? Well, what is
computer knowledge? It is human power? Or something else, in its entire, hidden
immensity? You have to wonder if this packing of insight and vision and control into
black boxes, or the hands of a small New Caste will bleed us of our liberty as a result.
“Our constitution is called a democracy because the power to make decisions is not
in the hands of a minority but of the whole people,” Pericles reminded Athens in his
Funeral Oration 2500 years ago. “We regard a man who takes no interest in politics
not as harmless, but as useless.”!”4 Vital engagement is the food of democratic life.
To be baffled to the outside of the essential boxes of power then, seems an instant
sort of cancer on liberty. What do we make of a man who takes no interest in the
networks of networks that control the power to make decisions?

Perhaps you've heard of the famous manufacturing trilema: You can get something
made any two of good, fast and cheap. If you want that custom table made quickly
and well, it won’t be cheap. If you want it good and cheap, you had best be prepared
to wait. In networks a similar puzzle emerges in my mind. Systems can be any two of
fast, open or secure. A computer system that is really secure can be open, but it will
be very slow, inspecting each packet and instruction like a bank security guard
watching customers in a bad neighborhood. Think of the like an airport. Want it to
be fast? Secure too? Then it won’t be very fast. Mostly what we want today are fast,
secure arrangements for our markets, our nations, our data. So these will become, |
think, ever less open.

It used to be that history was made in public: Big visible wars and social shifts and
revolutions. Pericles in the Athenian square; the churning protests of Jefferson’s
Paris or the massing of armies. Now, however, subtle manipulations of technology,
invisible to most of us and maybe even accidental, maybe weird, will produce
historic-scale external effects. Changes to the network design will become political
and social exploits in a sense, living versions of that atomic-level “rowhammer” hack
that work on the connective energy of our world. Already social network analysis
can be used to manipulate voting patterns. Soon, it will be possibly to precisely
target any potential voter with a message engineered like a custom-made drug,
designed to bind right to the DNA of your habits and beliefs. It represents the
possibility for the complete technical perversion of politics.

As the New Caste operates on the systems that are at the core of connected politics
and economics, on how we vote or think or shop, they will vibrate the system in
invisible ways even when they don't mean to be nefarious. Improvements may be as
dangerously unpredictable as bugs. Small changes to algorithms or links or
protocols mean our whole system may be pwned before we're quite aware. Such

173 “Democracy”: Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., The Vital Center: The Politics of Freedom
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1949), 246

174 “Our constitution”: Thucydides, A History of the Peloponnesian War, (Oxford:
Oxford University Clarendon Press, 1881),119

119

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015473.txt,"NAUTIL.US | TEXT SETS

Fusion: when two or more nuclei collide, fusing to
make a new nucleus and releasing energy. This pro-
cess usually only occurs in atoms lighter than iron.

Chemical bond: an attraction between two or more
atoms that allows them to form a substance of defi-
nite chemical composition. Breaking these bonds
requires energy.

Petroleum: a “fossil fuel” that forms when organisms
are crushed under rock and subjected to lots of pres-
sure, and lots of time. Like the organisms it’s made of,
petroleum consists largely of carbon.

READING COMPREHENSION

1. “Each of those waste molecules is a carbon atom
bome on two atomic wings of oxygen.” Write out
the chemical equation for the molecule described
here.

2. “Organic” is used in two different ways in this
piece. What are the two different definitions?

3. What does it mean for a chemical to be “highly
reactive?” Identify oxygen’s location on the peri-
odic table, the group of atoms that it belongs to,
and why they are considered “highly reactive.”

4. Which elements on the periodic table are the
leastreactive?

5. “Fossil-based carbon dioxide molecules that
are not soaked up by oceans or stranded in the
upper atmosphere are eventually captured by
plants, shorn of their oxygen wings, and woven
into botanical sugars and starches.” What is the
process described here? (Hint: it is mentioned
by name later in the piece.) Write down the equa-
tion for this reaction.

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

1. “Chemophobia” ts the fear of chemicals. What are
some chemophobic practices or products that we
engage with? Are there good reasons to be afraid
of chemicals?

2. How does the story change the way you see your-
self? Others?

ACTIVITIES

1. Pick an element not discussed in this article.
Where else is it found? Where did it come from?

2. Draw a map or annotated illustration of all the
places carbon goes in this article. Use outside
research to complete a full picture of the carbon
cycle.

ADDITIONAL MULTIMEDIA

1. Whose air do you share?
(It’s OK To Be Smart, PBS) 3 MIN 30 SEC
A video that explains how we breathe recycled
ait—including molecules of air exhaled by Ein-
stein himself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BybkIysAKe

2. We Are Star Stuff segment
(Carl Sagan’s Cosmos) 8 MIN
Carl Sagan explains how the elements of life
were born in stars, evolved into simple organ-
isms, then into us: imtelligent creatures, capable
of exploring the stars we came from:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE9dEAx5 Sew

3. The Microbes We’re Made Of
(Smithsonian.com) 2 MIN 30 SEC
We’re not just made of waste. We’re made of
trillions of other organisms. This video provides
a quick exploration of the microbiome crucial
to keeping our bodies working, and what we’re
doing to kill them:
http://www.smithsonianmag.
com/videos/category/3play_1/
the-microbes-were-made-of/?no-ist

WHERE THIS FITS IN THE CURRICULUM

Chemical Reactions (HS-PS 1-2) Construct and revise
an explanation for the outcome of a simple chemical
reaction based on the outermost electron states of
atoms, trends in the periodic table, and knowledge of
chemical properties.

13

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excellent return on investment for female condoms in sub-Saharan Africa. For example, in Nigeria an investment
of $1 offers a $3.20 return on investment to the country's economy.

Numerous clinical and behavioral studies have been conducted regarding use of the female condom. Studies show
that in many cultures, the female condom is found acceptable by women and their partners. Importantly, studies
also show that when the female condom is made available as an option along with male condoms there is a
significant increase in protected sex acts with a concurrent decrease in STIs. The increase in protected sex acts
varies by country and averages between 10 percent and 35 percent.

FC2 consists of a soft, loose fitting sheath and two rings: an external ring of rolled nitrile and a loose internal ring
made of flexible polyurethane. FC2's soft sheath lines the vagina, preventing skin-to-skin contact during
intercourse. Its external ring remains outside the vagina, partially covering the external genitalia. The internal ring
is used for insertion and helps keep the device in place during use.

FC2's primary raw material, a nitrile polymer, offers a number of benefits over natural rubber latex, the raw
material most commonly used in male condoms. FC2's nitrile polymer is stronger than latex, reducing the
probability that the female condom sheath will tear during use. Unlike latex, FC2's nitrile polymer quickly transfers
heat. FC2 can warm to body temperature immediately upon insertion, which may enhance the user's sensation and
pleasure. Unlike the male condom, FC2 may be inserted in advance of arousal, eliminating disruption during sexual
intimacy. FC2 is also an alternative to latex sensitive users who are unable to use latex male or female condoms
without irritation. To the Company's knowledge, there is no reported allergy to the nitrile polymer. FC2 is pre-
lubricated, disposable, and recommended for use during a single sex act. FC2 is not reusable.

The first clinical evidence of AIDS was noted more than thirty years ago. Since then, HIV/AIDS has become the
most devastating pandemic facing humankind in recorded history. In November 2009, WHO released statistics
indicating that on a world-wide basis, HIV/AIDS is now the leading cause of death in women 15 to 44 years of
age. According to WHO, in 2012 worldwide women comprised 50 percent of all the adults living with HIV and
approximately 58 percent of all new adult cases of HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa. In the United States the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and FDA both list heterosexual sex as the most common
method of HIV transmission in women.

For sexually active couples, male condoms and FC2 are the only barrier methods approved by the FDA for
preventing sexual transmission of HIV/AIDS. In recent years, scientists have sought to develop alternative means
of preventing HIV/AIDS. Based on the complexities of such research, a viable prevention alternative is unlikely
to be available in the foreseeable future. To date, it is clear that condoms, male and female, continue to play a key
role in the prevention of STIs, including HIV/AIDS. The United Nations Joint Programme on HIV/AIDS
(UNAIDS) has reported that, since the beginning of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, it is estimated that condoms have
averted approximately 50 million new cases. FC2, when used consistently and correctly, gives a woman control
over her sexual health by providing dual protection against STIs, including HIV/AIDS, and unintended pregnancy.

The feminization of HIV/AIDS has increased the relevance of FC2 for the prevention of unintended pregnancies
as well as disease prevention. Unintended pregnancy may result in maternal and infant death, babies with
HIV/AIDS, AIDS orphans, and increased health care costs.

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Chapter 8°

8 The lead author is Steven L. Small, M.D.,
Ph.D., a Professor of Neurology and Psychology,
Associate Chair for Research in Neurology,
Member of the Committees on Neurobiology and
Computational Neuroscience, and Senior Fellow,
Computation Institute, at The University of
Chicago. He is currently Director of the Human
Neuroscience Laboratory and was founder of the
Brain Research Imaging Center. He is an elected
member of the American Neurological
Association, a fellow of the American Academy
of Neurology, and Editor-in-Chief of the
international journal Brain and Language.
Small’s research concerns the neural basis of
human language and its breakdown after injury.
He has published more than 120 scientific
articles, primarily about human language, from
the perspectives of artificial intelligence,
cognitive psychology, computational
neuroscience, human systems neuroscience, and
clinical neurology.

Human language represents a unique
product of our social species and the tremendous
evolution of the primate cerebral cortex
simultaneously supported the development of
both. Language 1s the defining feature of our
species: In his 12"" century volume, Guide to the
Perplexed, Maimonides viewed it as tautological
that man is a speaking animal, 1.c., “there is no
third element besides life and speech in the
definition of man”. But how does the brain
implement this unique function in the context of
its common ontogeny with social function? The
current essay discusses the possibility that the
recently discovered “mirror neurons” of the
cerebral cortex of macaque monkeys play a
special role in the ability of humans to
understand each other with language by using a
mechanism of observation and covert emulation.
If the neurobiology of language were partly
grounded on such systems of visual observation
and imitation, this would overlap integrally with
the biology of the social brain.

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Hidden Forces in Understanding
Others:
Mirror Neurons and Neurobiological
Underpinnings

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in the environment and another to
understand what is perceived. A rodent
that senses an apple definitely has a
notion that this represents something
edible. A monkey might realize that the
apple can be eaten but also can be
thrown. A human might perceive it as a
food, an object to be propelled, a
temptation that should be resisted, or
something that falls out of a tree at a
specific acceleration. For each individual
animal or person, understanding an apple
means to take the sensory perceptions of
the apple and to use previous experience
and knowledge to fit it into an overall
context. In this way, understanding a
particular apple depends on our
previously having seen, touched, and
smelled apples, eaten them, read about
them, and perhaps even been hit by a
falling or thrown apple. All of our
previous experiences come to bear every
time we encounter a new perception that
we must make sense of, and of course,
this represents virtually every moment of
our waking lives.

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from seeing simple objects (e.g., apples),
taking in more complex entities (e.g.,
restaurants, neighborhoods), hearing
noises or speech, and seeing actions
(e.g., simple manual actions, sporting
events). A major question for brain
research is how we can possibly
understand all these different kinds of
input, and what brain circuits are used to
do so. We assume that such an
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were behind the sector, while the private payments companies stressed the importance
of partnering with incumbent leaders and the need to maintain safety standards.

US Banks Top Takeaways

Associated Bancorp (ASB) B-3-7, Underperform
A strong Midwest market should lead to steady growth: ASB’s CEO Phillip Flynn
and CFO Chris Niles highlighted the strong fundamentals of the bank’s Midwest
footprint with its low unemployment and a strong manufacturing base. While
commenting on the potential for relief coming out of DC under the new Trump
administration, management noted that shortage of skilled workers was probably
the biggest issue impeding businesses in its footprint versus higher taxes or an
overly stringent regulatory environment.

= CRE represents a growth opportunity: Management was positive on growth
prospects within the CRE loan portfolio, which represents 24% of avg loans as of
3Q16. Management is targeting CRE to represent 30-40% of the portfolio in order
for consumer, CRE, and commercial to each comprise approximately a third of the
loan book. In the near term, executives see opportunities in the CRE space in 2017
as pricing and structure improve benefitting from a pullback by lenders with high
CRE concentration.

= Energy portfolio should begin to stabilize: While management analyzes the
energy book on a credit by credit basis, it noted caution if oil prices fell
significantly. However, management noted that the energy book reflects lower
energy prices as new energy loans price in lower hydrocarbon pricing vs. the
maturing loans. Regarding energy loan growth, management expects muted growth
going forward as the benefit from new loans will most likely be offset by continued
pay-downs by existing customers.

= Dec rate hike to surface in 1Q17 margin: Management expects a Dec rate hike to
have little impact on 4Q given that its LIBOR based portfolio would re-price on Jan
1. On the other hand, interest expense is expected to rise as deposits that are
linked to benchmark rates re-price higher. Last year, the margin fell 1bp QoQ
following the Fed rate hike as deposit costs rose 8bp QoQ. Management noted that
1Q16 saw lower loan renewal rates and compression from cost of funds, but that
its cost of funds are in a better position this year, which should help lead to a
modest positive impact to the margin in 1Q17 from a Dec rate hike.

= Fee businesses could get augmented by additional M&A: Within fees,
management views insurance as the best opportunity from non-bank M&A. Recall
that ASB completed the acquisition of Anmann & Martin in 02/15. Management
noted that it saw a significant opportunity from providing consulting services
around employee benefits to small-to-medium sized businesses. Moreover, any
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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019406.txt,"Date: Friday, March 4 2011 07:03 PM
Subject: Re:
From: R. Couri Hay (>

To: jeevacation@gmail.com;

Good morning Jeffery,

The Newsweek story is being written without your input as you read this. Lloyd Grove is not writing the story, he made a few calls but he
was taken off the project. This is for Newsweek, the magazine that is on the stands, not the website. It’s still 1200 to 1500 words.
Alexandra Wolfe needs to turn in a draft of the story by Monday. I’ve been subtly guiding Alexandra on your behalf, but would really like
to formalize this job with your attorneys and then I would really need to give names and numbers of pro Jeffery power brokers for
Alexandra to call. She has already called Donald Trump, Leon Black, and Les Wexner among others. I’ve given her Jonathans number,
please let me focus on this before its too late to spin this in your direction. I’m in all afternoon my office number is a. My cell

is: TTT My cn]

Cheers,
Couri

Follow me on Twitter!! RCouriHay1

-——Original Message----

From: jeffrey epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com>
To: R. Couri Hay a >

Sent: Tue, Mar 1, 2011 6:34 pm

Subject: Re: Re:

| was told itwas lloyd grove Nottrue?

Sorry for all the typos .Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 1, 2011, at 3:16 PM, ""R. Couri Hay"" <x wrote:

Hi Jeffrey
| hope I’m not bothering you, but this is information | think you need to know. Tina Brown has assigned a 1200 to 1500
word story with pictures about you for Newsweek and the deadline is next Wednesday. My good friend Alexandra Wolfe
is writing the story; she called me within an hour of getting this assignment. If you hire me | feel confident that | can
positively affect this feature on your behalf. That does not mean | can control it completely or that they won't reference
past problems. However, | can assure you that the story will be fair and balanced and that your side will be represented
intelligently. The story will be about your reemergence in New York post your previous problems. The party you gave for
Prince Andrew will be a big part of it. | suggest we arrange for interviews with figures who have seen the good things that
you have done in business, science, and philanthropy. |’ll be home after 7:30 tonight. My home celta
ME, or you can call my cell at i998 || will also be in tomorrow morning. | suggest you act swiftly in this matter.
As | told you when we first met this story wont go away and you need to take positive steps to change your image.
Cheers,
Couri

Follow me on Twitter!! RCouriHay1

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1.7 million had been selected in two dozen NSA computers during Snowden’s brief tenure at
Booz Allen in 2013. This total included documents from the Department of Defense, NSA and
CIA. Of these “touched” documents, some 1.3 million of them had been copied and moved to
another computer. The selection of these documents by Snowden could hardly be considered an
accident since Snowden had used pre-programmed spiders to find and index these documents. In
addition he had stated that he took the job at Booz Allen to get access to data that had been
copied. So, as far as the NSA was concerned the 1.3 million documents he copied and moved
were considered compromised. On top of this haul, Snowden had copied files while working at
Dell in 2012. The total number he stole there is unknown, however, because, as a system
administrator there, he could download data without leaving a digital trail. At best, the NSA
investigation could only count the documents that were published or referred to in the press and
those found on the thumb drive intercepted in London that traced back to his 2012 work at Dell.
As previously mentioned, more than half the published documents had been taken during
Snowden’s time at Dell.

Snowden supporters, to be sure, do not accept that Snowden stole such a large number of
documents. According to Greenwald, the NSA vastly exaggerated the magnitude of the theft in
order to “demonize” Snowden. Snowden also disputed the 1.7 million number. He told James
Bamford of Wired in early 2014, that he took far less than the 1.7 million documents that the
NSA reported was compromised. He further claimed in that same interview that he purposely left
behind at the NSA base in Hawaii “a trail of digital bread crumbs” so that the NSA could
determine which documents he “touched” but did not download. If so, these “bread crumbs” were
missed by the NSA according to its statement.

It is within the realm of possibility that the NSA Damage Assessment team under Ledgett
falsified its finding to inflate the number of documents that Snowden stole. NSA executives also
might have lied to Congress to the same end. But why would these officials engage in an
orchestrated deception that made them look bad? Ledgett, after all, had been in charge of the
National Threat Operations Center from which most of the Level 3 documents were stolen. By
exaggerating the magnitude of the theft it would also magnify Ledgett and other NSA’s failure in
its mission to protect US secrets. Certainly they had no reason to demonize him for legal reasons.
Greenwald and Poitras had already effectively demonized him in this regard. They revealed that
Snowden had given them a vast number of NSA classified documents on a thumb drive that
revealed, as Greenwald put it, the “blueprints” of the NSA. This drive contained, it will be
recalled, no few than 58,000 documents. As was discussed in Chapter I, just revealing the partial
content of a single document to a journalist, as in the case of CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling, could
result in two years in prison. So in the eyes of the law disclosing the full contents of 58,000
highly-classified documents constituted an unprecedented breach of the laws passed to protect
communications intelligence. In any case, safely ensconced in Russia, Snowden was not in any
legal jeopardy no matter how many documents it was claimed by the government that he stole. It
is also makes little sense that the numbers were falsified by the Department to tarnish Snowden’s

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012755.txt,"a deeper understanding of how and why our species has engaged in evildoing, but we will learn about our
own individual vulnerability to follow suit. This prologue provides a sampling of the central ideas minus

the rich evidence and explanations that follow in the four core chapters of this book.

A brief history of malice

Homo sapiens, the knowing and wise animal, has logged an uncontested record of atrocities,
despite moral norms prohibiting such actions: no other species has abducted innocent children into rogue
armies and then killed those who refused to kill, tossed infants into the air as targets for shooting practice,
gang raped women to force them to carry the enemy’s fetus to term while destroying the souls of their
powerless husbands, and mutilated and burned men to death because more humane forms of killing were
less effective and enjoyable. These are horrific acts. They abound globally and across the ages. Many
scholars have judged them as evil.

Despite the pervasiveness of these atrocities, evil is commonly perceived as a defect, an
unfortunate malignancy that has engulfed and metastasized within our species’ essential goodness. Evil is
also denied, relegated to mythology, the delusional imagination of a few madmen, the propaganda of
imperialist nations, or the result of a rare mutation. Perhaps because of these impressions, we have an
obsessive fascination with evil, evidenced by our fertile capacity to create and then consume films about
genocide, cunning rapists, master criminals, corporate raiders, psychopaths and serial killers. We are of
two minds, wanting to hide from the atrocities of evil while feeding our insatiable appetite for more.

To understand evil is neither to justify nor excuse it, reflexively converting inhumane acts into
mere accidents of our biology or the unfortunate consequences of bad environments. To understand evil is
to open a door into its essence, to clarify its causes. In some cases, understanding may force us to
exonerate the perpetrators, recognizing that they harbored significant brain damage and as a result, lacked
self-control or awareness of others’ pain. In other cases, understanding will reveal that they knowingly
caused harm to innocent others, relishing the devastation left behind. By describing and understanding an
individual’s character with the tools of science, we are more likely to make appropriate assignments of
responsibility, blame, punishment, and future risk to society.

To understand evil requires facing our species’ sustained record of atrocities, laying out a variety
of cases for inspection. Former Reverend Lawrence Murphy was responsible for over two hundred
instances of sexual abuse, luring innocent deaf children in with a saintly smile. Charles Manson, the
illegitimate son of a sixteen year old woman and the self-proclaimed father of dozens of runaway women,

was responsible for the brutal death of five people by means of 114 knife jabs, while also prostituting his

Hauser Prologue. Evilution 9

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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026042.txt,"On 17 Dec 2016, at 3:09 AM, Gino Yu <P wrote:

I’m Still in HK. Cancelled my India trip. Leaving for Italy on Monday. Can meet this weekend if you are
around.

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gino

On 16 Dec 2016, at 6:19 PM, Paul Schulte {> wrote:

Founder and Editor
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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029813.txt,"with an immediate rolling and flowing
start. The United States will have to work
from smaller troop footprints and be
prepared to start fighting even as follow-
on-forces are on the way. Ideally, these
forces would flow from multiple staging
positions to reduce vulnerability to
nuclear attack. The politics of the region,
however, will work against securing a
multitude of staging areas from which to
deploy.

The region under the purview of
Centcom has always been riddled with
political violence that has posed
formidable challenges to military
operations. But in plotting a course over
the horizon, the political and military
obstacles for American military surges
into the region are poised to grow even
larger. As a result, theater contingency
planners will have fewer good options for
projecting American military power into
the region -- and they'll have to do more
with the bad and the ugly.

Richard L. Russell is Professor of
National Security Affairs at the Near East
and South Asia Center for Strategic
Studies.

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1982 Lebanon War, with two sons fighting on the ground, he’d been a rare voice of
common sense, and caution, in the Begin cabinet. I’d also seen him operate in
Shamir’s inner security cabinet, when I would come, as deputy chief of staff, to
present military operations for approval. I remember one occasion when an air
force general laid out the details of a planned helicopter-borne mission into
Lebanon. I added a few remarks in summary. Raful Eitan and Arik Sharon were
both ministers. Within seconds, they were peppering the general and me with
questions. Why were the aircraft taking one route north instead of another? Why
not closer to Mount Hermon? Shouldn’t they fly lower? Levy interrupted.
“Gentlemen,” he said, “we are not in company commanders’ course. We’re in the
inner cabinet of the government of Israel. We have a chief of staff and other
generals and military professionals. It’s their job to decide the operational details.
Our job is to balance the reasons for doing an operation against the risks as
presented to us.”

I met with him in the Knesset cafeteria before Bibi went off to the Wye River
summit. Levy now headed a small breakaway faction from Likud called Gesher,
Hebrew for “bridge.” Without explicitly suggesting we join forces, I explained my
hope to run my eventual campaign for Prime Minister in alliance with a few other
parties. I told him I wanted to make my candidacy a legitimate choice for voters
from the center-right, the Orthodox, as well as the Russian community. I took a
napkin and drew a big umbrella to illustrate what I had in mind. He said he
understood — though he did tell me to make sure I tore up the napkin. There came a
point, at the end of November when it looked like my overture had failed.
Scampering for a way to shore up his coalition, Bibi tried to lure Levy into the fold
back by offering him the Finance Ministry. But with resistance from other
ministers, Bibi broke off the talks with Levy, leaving him humiliated and furious. I
met with him several more times, and we brought in Gesher as our first “One
Israel” partner. The second to join us, early in the new year, was a small religious
party called Meimad, inspired by an openly pro-peace Orthodox rabbi named
Yehuda Amital and including a former Chief Rabbi of Norway, Michael Melchior.

By the end of January 1999, several months before the real campaign, I was
feeling better about where we stood, in part because of a series of hits Bibi was
taking from former friends and allies. The first salvo was fired by Misha Arens,
who had helped engineer Bibi’s move into national politics. He announced he was
going to put himself forward for the Likud leadership before the election, saying

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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021216.txt,"From: Steve Bannon ______________________ 
Sent: 4/23/2019 12:57:52 PM 
To: Michael Wolff [ 
CC: Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com] 
Subject: Re: Announcing the 2019 Hillman Prize winners 
Importance: High 
Pile on 
On Apr 23, 2019, at 8:51 AM, Michael Wolff > wrote: 
Another big prize for Miami Herald. 
----------Forwarded message--------- 
From: The Sidney Hillman Foundation - 
Date: Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 2:45 PM 
Subject: Announcing the 2019 Hillman Prize winners 
To: Michael .1_________________________________________ 
Congratulations to the 2019 Hillman Prize recipients! 
HOUSE OVERSIGHT 021216 
Sidney Hillman Foundation Names Winners of 2019 Prizes 
for Journalism in Service of the Common Good 
Reuters, NBC News and MSNBC, ProPublica Receive Honors; Adam Serwer to 
receive Opinion & Analysis Prize 
NEW YORK — The Sidney Hillman Foundation announced Tuesday winners of the 69th annual 
Hillman Prizes, recognizing a Reuters expose of slum-like living conditions on U.S military 
bases, the Miami Herald's investigation into Labor Secretary Alex Acosta's sweetheart deal with 
serial sex abuser, Jeffrey Epstein, and NBC News and MSNBC's reporting on the Trump 
Administration's family separation policy, among other standout reporting in service of the 
common good. 
HOUSE OVERSIGHT 021217 
Hannah Dreier of ProPublica won a Hillman Prize for reporting that showed how the 
government's bungled crackdown on MS-13 has torn apart the lives of Latino immigrants. The 
Atlantic's Adam Serwer, who has emerged as a defining voice of the Trump era, won for his 
essays on racism and Trump's political movement, and Anna Clark won for her book on the 
Flint water crisis. 
This year's prizes were judged by writer Ta-Nehisi Coates, the New Yorker's Jelani Cobb, 
Reuters' Alb( Freedman, the New Yorker's Hendrik Hertzberg, the American Prospect's Harold 
Meyerson and The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel. 
The 2019 winners of the Hillman Prizes are: 
• Newspaper — Miami Herald, Julie K. Brown and Emily Michot: Perversion of Justice 
• Magazine — ProPublica with New York magazine, Newsday, This American Life, New 
York Times Magazine, Hannah Dreier: Trapped in Gangland 
• Web — Reuters, Joshua Schneyer, Michael Pell, Andrea Januta, Deborah Nelson: 
Ambushed at Home 
• Broadcast — NBC News and MSNBC, Jacob Soboroff and Julia Ainsley: Torn Apart: 
Crisis at the Border 
• Opinion & Analysis — Adam Serwer, The Atlantic 
• Book — Anna Clark: The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban 
Tragedy, Metropolitan Books 
Reporting by this year's prize winners has had significant positive impact, including: 
• Reversal of the Trump administration's ""Zero Tolerance"" family separation policy 
• Three federal investigations, new legislation, widespread repairs, and a $386 million 
emergency program to inspect military housing for hazards 
• The exposure of pervasive bias and negligence by Long Island police, leading to federal 
and local investigations and reforms 
This year's honorees follow in the trailblazing tradition of past winners ranging from Murray 
Kempton in 1950 for his articles on labor in the south and Edward R. Murrow in 1954 for his 
critical reports on civil liberties and Joseph McCarthy at the height of the Red Scare; to 2017 
newspaper winner, David Fahrenthold, for exposing Donald Trump's sexual harassment and 
mismanagement of his foundation. 
The Hillman Prizes are open to journalists and subjects globally for any work widely accessible 
to a U.S. audience. Winners will be awarded a $5,000 prize at the Hillman Foundation's annual 
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ceremony in New York City on May 7. 
""In a time when this country's highest powers have taken it as their business to demean the 
work of journalists, it is particularly significant for us to honor those who have taken up the 
tools of journalism to challenge corrupt power wherever it may reside,"" said Hillman judge Ta-
Nehisi Coates. 
In 2011, the Sidney Hillman Foundation inaugurated the Canadian Hillman Prize. This year's 
winners, Harvey Cashore, Bob McKeown and Kimberly Ivany of CBC's The Fifth Estate, won for 
their sweeping investigation into the research and regulatory failures that have put millions of 
children at risk on their way to and from school each day. Their reporting exposed fraudulent 
science behind Transport Canada's seminal seatbelt study and led the Transport Minister to 
form a task force with the provinces to look at implementing seatbelts on school buses across 
the country. 
The Hillman Foundation announced Monday that CUNY professor and historian, Joshua B. 
Freeman, is the recipient of its 2019 Sol Stetin Award for Labor History. Freeman has written 
extensively about the history of labor, industry, modern America, and New York City. The 
Hillman Foundation established the award in 2005 to honor a labor historian who has made 
significant contribution to the field, researching and telling the stories of working peoples' lives. 
Since 1950, the Hillman's Prizes for Journalism honor the legacy of Sidney Hillman, an 
immigrant who dedicated his life to a ""better America."" Hillman believed that a free press was 
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legacy by honoring journalists who illuminate the great issues of our times—from the search for 
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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_014442.txt,"Chart 15: Eurozone PMI's point to solid growth Chart 16: Japanese growth expected to accelerate in 2017
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Source: Markit Source: BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research forecasts, CAO

It is a decent global growth picture and it is not impossible to imagine it being still
better should the US surprise on the upside and the impact on trade from a Trump
presidency prove to be modest.

It certainly fits with the Peak Deflation theme since this stronger growth is expected to
be accompanied by a pick-up in inflation. We have core PCE in the US reaching 1.9%
next year in our core scenario. Our headline inflation numbers are higher because of the
expected increase in the oil price from our commodity strategists. Indeed with oil
expected to reach $60pb (OPEC permitting) headline CPI inflation in the US could push
3%. In the Euro Area we see headline inflation rising to 1.2%, albeit with core inflation
only nudging modestly higher. UK inflation is expected to move markedly higher care of
the lower pound, again with headline inflation pushing towards 3%. In Japan driven by
our more optimistic view of the economy we project core CPI at 1%.

Chart 17: BofAML sees GDP accelerating into 2018... Chart 18: ...with inflation picking up too
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Source: BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research Source: BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research

Politics - does populism strike again, this time in Europe?

Few would have predicted both Brexit and a Trump win in 2016. Both had something to
do with the Peak Inequality and Peak Globalisation themes. Politicians on both sides of
the Atlantic tapped into a deep disquiet, particularly amongst white male blue collar
voters that they were not benefitting from this new globalised world. If opinion polls are
to be believed (something which we have all learnt to question) then Italy may well end
the year with another vote against the governing party - although that one is perhaps a
little more complicated to dissect. We recently added a put spread on the eurostoxx to
hedge against such a bad outcome here, which would be the case if it is perceived to be

Bankof America 2 Global Cross Asset Strategy - Year Ahead | 30 November 2016-11
Merrill Lynch

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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031005.txt,"From: Jeffrey Epstein [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Sent: 10/9/2009 5:19:34 PM 
To: Mortimer Zuckerman_________________________________________ 
Subject: Fwd: Daily News story on Jeffrey Epstein 
----------Forwarded message---------- 
From: Darren Indyke < > 
Date: Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 12:32 PM 
Subject: Fwd: Daily News story on Jeffrey Epstein 
To: Jeevacation <jeevacation@gmail.com> 
Just woke up to find this from Howard. A 
going to canyons today, so not sure about phone reception. 
Sent from my iPhone 
Begin forwarded message: 
From: Howard Rubenstein < 
Date: October 9, 2009 7:26:54 AM PDT 
To:____________________________________ 
Subject: FW: Daily News story on Jeffrey Epstein 
Hi Darren: 
I hope you are well. 
Since we are no longer working for Jeffrey, I'm forwarding this Daily News request to you so you can handle it as you see 
fit. 
Many thanks, 
Howard 
From: Rush, George [mailto 
Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 11:08 PM 
To: Howard Rubenstein 
Subject: Daily News story on Jeffrey Epstein 
Howard: 
We're working on a story for our Sunday column about Jeffrey Epstein. I thought I might send 
my questions to you tonight, so you'd have them first thing tomorrow. 
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Would you like to comment on the following: 
1. You've said that the women pressing suits against Mr. Epstein ""have lied repeatedly, and in 
no way shape or form were they victims. They were at his place freely and voluntarily. And one 
of them showed Epstein a fake ID."" What do you have to say now that Mr. Epstein has 
admitted in his federal plea bargain that he did conspire to entice minors to engage in 
prostitution? Accepting that these women came voluntarily, isn't Mr Epstein still guilty of 
statutory rape? 
2. Brad Edwards, an attorney who represents three of the women, recently served a 
Subpoena to Testify at a Deposition on Epstein's former girlfriend, Ghislaine 
Maxwell. The Subpoena asks that Maxwell produce ""a list of all girls"" that visited 
Jeffrey Epstein's homes in Palm Beach and Manhattan, or flew on his 
planes. Edwards said in an interview that Maxwell was ""second-in-command of 
Epstein's criminal enterprise."" He added, ""She was on Epstein's plane, transporting girls 
for the purpose of having sex with other people. She kept a computer database of hundreds of 
girls and oversaw the schedule of girls who came to Epstein's homes."" 
3. A suit filed last May by ""Jane Doe 102"" against Epstein alleges that, after recruiting her as a 15-
year-old girl to give Epstein massages, Maxwell and Epstein took part in ""sexually assaulting, 
battering, exploiting, and abusing Plaintiff."" 
4. The same suit alleges that Epstein ""lured"" the girl ""every day for next two weeks"" to his 
house. The suit claims that she eventually became a ""sex slave"" to Epstein, traveling with him 
around the world. ""In all of these locations, she was required to engage in sex acts with him and 
other women - including other minors."" 
5. Did Jane Doe 102 — who now lives in Australia — go on the 2002 trip where 
President Clinton flew on Mr. Epstein's Boeing 727? 
6. ""Most of these acts of abuse occurred during a time when defendant [Jane Doe 102] knew 
that the plaintiff was approximately 15, 16 and 17 years old and, after years of daily sexual 
exploitation continued into her adulthood ... until she fled at age 19,"" 
7. When Maxwell and Epstein celebrated Jane Doe 102's 16th birthday with her, Epstein joked that 
he would have to ""trade her in"" because she was getting too old for him. 
8. Not only was Jane Doe 102 required to satisfy Epstein's ""every sexual whim,"" but she also was 
exploited by Epstein's adult male peers. They included ""royalty, politicians, academicians, 
businessmen and others in various locations around the world."" 
9. The Palm Beach Post and lawyers representing Epstein's alleged victims have called his federal 
non-prosecution agreement a ""secret,"" ""backroom,"" ""sweetheart"" deal, noting that none of his 
alleged victims was consulted. Several critics have claimed Epstein ""bought"" the agreement, using 
politically-connected lawyers. Would he like to comment? 
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10. Is Epstein cooperating with federal suit against Bear Steams hedge fund managers Ralph Cioffi 
and Matthew Tannin? Willhetestifyintheircases? 
11. Mr Epstein was deposed on this week, on Thursday. Is it true that he answered almost every 
question by invoking his FifthAmendmentrights? 
12. Defense attorney Brad Evans has filed a motion to freeze Mr Epstein's assets. Has Mr. 
Epstein moved his money from the US offshore or abroad, or does he intend to, in order to 
protect his assets from possible damage claims? 
13. What did Mr. Epstein do during his work release program while serving time. Reports have 
said he engaged in ""scientific research."" If so, what was he researching? 
14. Has Mr. Epstein returned to pursuing his investment business? Is Mr Epstein still on 
probation? 
15. Is Mr. Epsteinpermittedto leave FloridaortheUnited States? Do authoritiesholdhis 
passport? 
You can reach me via e-mail or at or . We close our column at 3 
pm on Friday but can add comments as late as 3 pm on Saturday. Many thanks. 
George 
This transmission is intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain 
information that is confidential, privileged and/or exempt from disclosure under 
applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any 
dissemination, distribution or copying of the information contained herein is strictly 
unauthorized and prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please 
notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Thank you. 
*********************************************************** 
The information contained in this communication is 
confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may 
constitute inside information, and is intended only for 
the use of the addressee. It is the property of 
Jeffrey Epstein 
Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this 
communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited 
and may be unlawful. If you have received this 
communication in error, please notify us immediately by 
return e-mail or by e-mail to jeevacation@gmail.com, and 
destroy this communication and all copies thereof, 
including all attachments. 
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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022507.txt,"FCPA Unit Chief
Division of Enforcement
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
100 F Street, N.E.
Washington, DC 20549

Online: Tips, Complaints, and
Referrals website

http://www.sec.gov/complaint/tipscomplaint.shtml

Office of Investor Education and Advocacy:
(800) SEC-0330

or stockholders acting on the issuer’s behalf. SEC’s Division
of Enforcement has responsibility for investigating and
prosecuting FCPA violations. In 2010, SEC’s Enforcement
Division created a specialized FCPA Unit, with attorneys
in Washington, D.C. and in regional offices around the
country, to focus specifically on FCPA enforcement. The
Unit investigates potential FCPA violations; facilitates
coordination with DOJ’s FCPA program and with other
federal and international law enforcement partners; uses its
expert knowledge of the law to promote consistent enforce-
ment of the FCPA; analyzes tips, complaints, and referrals
regarding allegations of foreign bribery; and conducts pub-
lic outreach to raise awareness of anti-corruption efforts
and good corporate governance programs.

The FCPA Unit maintains a “Spotlight on FCPA”
section on SEC’s website at hetp://www.sec.gov/spotlight/
fcpa.shtml. The website, which is updated regularly, pro-
vides general information about the Act, links to all SEC
enforcement actions involving the FCPA, including both
federal court actions and administrative proceedings, and

contains other useful information.

Individuals and companies with information about
possible FCPA violations by issuers may report them to the
Enforcement Division via SEC’s online Tips, Complaints
and Referral system, http://www.sec.gov/complaint/tip-
scomplaint.shtml. They may also submit information to
SEC’s Office of the Whistleblower through the same online
system or by contacting the Office of the Whistleblower
at (202) 551-4790. Additionally, investors with questions
about the FCPA can call the Office of Investor Education
and Advocacy at (800) SEC-0330.

For more information about SEC’s Whistleblower
Program, under which certain eligible whistleblowers may
be entitled to a monetary award if their information leads to

certain SEC actions, see Chapter 8.

Law Enforcement Partners

DOJ’s FCPA Unit regularly works with the Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to investigate potential FCPA
violations. The FBI’s International Corruption Unit has pri-
mary responsibility for international corruption and fraud
investigations and coordinates the FBI’s national FCPA
enforcement program. The FBI also has a dedicated FCPA
squad of FBI special agents (located in the Washington
Field Office) that is responsible for investigating many, and
providing support for all, of the FBI’s FCPA investigations.
In addition, the Department of Homeland Security and the
Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation regularly
investigate potential FCPA violations. A number of other
agencies are also involved in the fight against international
corruption, including the Department of Treasury's Office
of Foreign Assets Control, which has helped lead a number
of FCPA investigations.

Departments of Commerce and State

Besides enforcement efforts by DOJ and SEC,
the U.S. government is also working to address corrup-
tion abroad and level the playing field for U.S. businesses
through the efforts of the Departments of Commerce and
State. Both Commerce and State advance anti-corruption
and good governance initiatives globally and regularly

assist U.S. companies doing business overseas in several

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IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020981.txt,"Restructure Medicare & Medicaid: Isolate and Address the Key Drivers

of Rising Healthcare Costs

USA Total Healthcare Spending Has Risen Faster than Peers’ (France, UK and Japan)*

Total Healthcare Spending as % of GDP

1970 ,

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B kpeb USA Inc. | What Might a T dE Consider? 279

Restructure Medicare & Medicaid: Incentives Support Healthcare Cost Growth

¢ Consumers demand healthcare services with less regard
for the full economic impact as they pay only a fraction of
the true cost out of pocket.

¢ Healthcare service providers are generally rewarded for
pushing more services through the system, largely with
relatively less regard for cost effectiveness.

Bottom line = Powerful forces encourage spending

related to social / economic / legal issues throughout
the healthcare system.

KP Source: Doug Simpson, Morgan Stanley Healthcare Research.
www.kpcb.com USA Inc. | What Might a Turnaround Expert Consider? 280

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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024655.txt,"KR L
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tors are located primarily in peripheral organs associated with the immune system, with the greatest
concentration in the spleen, and are responsible for managing inflammation and autoimmune func-
tion. Many tissues contain both CB1 and CB2 receptors, with each receptor type linked to a different
physiological function.

Human Endocannabinoids

Endocannabinoids are the cannabinoids created naturally by the human body for delivery to CB1 and
CB2 receptors. In contrast with cannabinoids introduced through cannabis consumption, endocan-
nabinoids are broken down quickly by the body and cause effects with shorter durations. One well-
studied endocannabinoid is anandamide (AEA). AEA is associated with the maintenance of mood,
and AEA deficiency is understood to be anxiogenic (anxiety-inducing). Maintaining appropriate AEA
levels within the human body is believed to reduce pain and inflammation, counter the proliferation
of cancer cells, relieve anxiety and promote adult neurogenesis (a process whereby nerve cells are gener-
ated from neural stem cells). Like THC, AEA has a small molecular structure that binds to CB1 recep-
tors. AEA is currently being studied for its effects on angiogenesis (the process of developing new blood
vessels), anxiety, cancer and memory consolidation. AEA is also present outside the human body; for
example, it is a natural component of chocolate.

Endocannabinoid Systems in Animals

Nonhuman mammals, including dogs, cats and horses, have been shown to have endocannabinoid
systems that are similar to their human counterparts: these systems employ CB1 and CB2 receptors
and function through the natural production of endocannabinoids. This implies that the endocanna-
binoid system is not a recent evolutionary development, but rather an ancient physiological feature of
mammals in general. The cannabinoids found in cannabis, particularly CBD, have been shown to have
a range of therapeutic applications for certain animals, including antibacterial and anti-inflammatory
properties, appetite and bone-growth stimulation, and pain relief. The following chart depicts the
canine endocannabinoid system and CB1 and CB2 receptors.

Canine Endocannabinoid System

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was interviewed in West Palm Beach,
Florida regarding a federal investigation involving the sexual
exploitation of minors. Also present during the interview was

and Assistant United States Attorney

of the UNITED STATES ATTORNEY'S OFFICE. After being

advised of the identity of the interviewing agents and the nature
of the interview, DP] provided the following information:

EPSTEIN's Palm Beach residence. His
responsibilities included

According tol EPSTEIN traveled to Palm Beach via
EPSTEIN's aircrafts, the Gulfstream or the Boeing 727.
was not aware of EPSTEIN ever flying a commercial airline to Palm
Beach. EPSTEIN visited his residence in Palm Beach once, twice and
sometimes even three times a month. EPSTEIN would stay for three’
or four days at a time. EPSTEIN traveled less to his Palm Beach
residence in the summer months. EPSTEIN spent the most time at his
Palm Beach and U.S. Virgin Islands residences. EPSTEIN has another
residence in New Mexico and an apartment in Paris. stated
that EPSTEIN primarily traveled to Palm Beach

said

that and

Investigation on 02/02/2007 at West. Palm Beach, Florida

File # 31 Date dictated 02/02/2007

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015315.txt,"jury was the testimony of Ralph McGehee, who revealed how he had
been recruited right off the football field by the CIA, only to become
a star player in their assassination-squad program. Members of the
jury would not have voted that way in the sixties because they
weren't prepared to believe such testimony as they are in the
eighties.
In the sixties, we knew that the CIA was smuggling heroin from
Southeast Asia. And in the eighties we know that they're smuggling
cocaine from Central America. The same planes that fly weapons for
the contras to airports in Panama, Honduras and Costa Rica come
back to Florida, Louisiana and Arkansas with their cargoes filled to
the brim with cocaine, even though the administration is carrying on
its anti-drug campaign. The pilots only have to be careful to evade
the radar screen. So while Nancy Reagan is saying, “Just say no,”
the CIA is saying, “Just fly low.”
Meanwhile, the quality of co-option had not been strained. The slogan
“Today is the first day of the rest of your life’ was used in a TV
commercial for Total breakfast cereal. Tampax promoted its tampon as
“Something over thirty you can trust.” Beatles songs were used to sell
cars, or, if you preferred to walk, they also sold sneakers. 7ime magazine
was being peddled by the Byrds’ version of Pete Seeger's song, “Turn,
Turn, Turn” --based on Ecclesiastes—t here's a time for this and a time for
that, get it?
The Youngbloods once sent a copy of their song “Get Together”

to every member of Congress and the Senate, with a suggestion that it be

established as the new national anthem, but who could ever have guessed

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IMAGES-012-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033062.txt,"From: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]

Sent: 1/4/2018 6:17:52 PM

To: Kathy Ruemm|er
Subject: Re:

Great

On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 1:10 PM Kathy Ruemmler a > wrote:

Finally got the apartment so can “move in” tomorrow.

On Jan 4, 2018, at 10:29 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.hollywoodreporter.com/amp/news/michael-wolff-my-insane-year-inside-

trumps-white-house-1071504

On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 10:27 AM, Kathy Ruemmler > wrote:
Now being reported that Trump’s lawyers sent a letter to MW’s publisher demanding that they not publish the
book.

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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024176.txt,"Private Equity

Prefer small/mid-cap buyout in US / emerging markets;
UBS View distressed debt in Europe
e Private equity deals in today's volatile and uncertain markets are conservatively financed, with an average
equity cushion of 40%. We like mid-market buyout strategies, which offer long-term exposure to attractive
corporate assets and which rely less on large bank debt syndications.
¢ Our house view sees large parts of Europe in a stagnation, and business owners are reluctant to sell their
companies, reducing PE deal flow in the region significantly. We therefore prefer North America, which
will see continuous (albeit suboptimal) growth, and emerging markets, which show positive fundamentals.
e Prices for PE transactions have corrected by around 10% this year, although they are still 20% above the
attractive levels seen during the successful years between 2000 and 2004. However, significant dry powder
and high cash positions at corporations keep competition high and hinder prices from falling much further.

A Positive scenario Prefer small-/mid-cap buyout and secondaries
e An abating Eurozone debt crisis and improved business confidence would increase deal flow and exit
opportunities for private equity managers, but would also increase entry prices. In such a positive scenario,
we would perceive commitment strategies to secondary funds as attractive for building exposure to an
invested private equity portfolio.
4 Negative scenario Prefer distressed debt
e A renewed escalation of the debt crisis would significantly impact deal activity, the availability of debt
and company owners' willingness to sell. At the same time, it would offer attractive opportunities within
distressed strategies and lower entry prices for long-term private equity investors.

Note: Scenarios refer to global economic scenarios (see slide 7)

What we're watching
Credit markets

Why it matters

Availability of leverage and credit spreads are important signs of the health of
buyout markets. Small/mid caps are currently financed at 4.3x EBITDA (vs 4.6x
for large-caps) and are more attractive given their lower reliance on bank
financing in a period of ongoing bank deleveraging.

We track deal/exit activity to understand the pressure to invest, future price
dynamics and draw-down profiles for investors. More than USD 930bn of un-
invested capital and expiring investment periods will keep prices elevated.

Capital overhang

Purchasing prices (Enterprise Price multiples offer valuable insight into private company valuations. YTD
value / EDITDA) May 2012, buyouts occurred at 8.1x, down from 8.8x seen in 2011. Large-cap

buyouts have come down 10% from the peak last year to 8.6x.

USD bn

Recommendations
Strategic (1 to 2 years)

Private equity deals continue to be defensively

We prefer small-/mid-cap buyouts in North
America given the better economic
outlook vs Europe, higher transaction
certainty and more attractive entry prices.
Investors looking for downside protection
and stability during economic
uncertainties can consider large-cap
buyouts in the US, which offer exposure
to large, diversified companies at more
attractive prices.

In Europe, the crisis and ongoing
deleveraging have led to attractive
opportunities for special situations. We
thus recommend investing in distressed
debt to benefit from the macroeconomic
adjustment process and selling pressure
for many European banks.

We advise investors make an ongoing
allocation to private equity in emerging
markets, which offer an attractive way to
capture superior long-term growth and
provide access to small/mid-cap companies
not available through the stock market.

financed amidst economic uncertainty

100

2005 2008 2007 2008

2009

2010 2011 YTD May 12

mmm PE backed high yield issuances ([hs) —Equity cushion in LBOs (ths)

Source: S&P, UBS CIO, as of May 2012

Note: Past performance is not an indication of future returns.

Equity cushion (% of transaction

For further information please contact CIO's asset class specialist Stefan Bragger, stefan.braegger@ubs.com
Please see important disclaimer and disclosures at the end of the document.

Note: We emphasize the equal importance of fund manager selection and the commitment strategy. Please note that private equity is an illiquid asset class and must be held at least until the end of the fund (10+ years).
Please note that UBS might not have a product available which reflects our UBS CIO private equity recommendations. Private equity is only suitable for qualified investors (> USD 5m investable assets).

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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017704.txt,"Page 69 of 78
2007 Utah L. Rev. 861, *958

(b) Preserving a Claim of Error. A party or a victim may preserve a claim of error by informing the court - when the court
ruling or order is made or sought - of the action the party wishes the court to take, or the party's objection to the court's action
and the grounds for that objection. If a party or a victim does not have an opportunity to object to a ruling or order, the absence
of an objection does not later prejudice that party. A ruling or order that admits or excludes evidence is governed by Federal
Rule of Evidence 103, >*°

The Advisory Committee proposed incorporating some of the language of the CVRA dealing with enforcement of victims'
rights as follows:

Rule 60. Victim's Rights.

(b) Enforcement and Limitations.
(1) Time for Decision. The court must promptly decide any motion asserting a victim's rights under these rules.

(2) Who May Assert Rights. The rights of a victim under these rules may be asserted by the victim or the attorney for the
government.

(3) Multiple Victims. If the court finds that the number of victims makes it impracticable to accord all of the victims the rights
described in subsection (a), the court must fashion a reasonable procedure to give effect to these rights that does not unduly
complicate or prolong the proceedings.

(4) Where Rights may be Asserted. The rights described in subsection (a) must be asserted in the district in which a defendant
is being prosecuted for the crime.

(5) Limitations on Relief. A victim may make a motion to re-open a plea or sentence only if:
(A) the victim has asked to be heard before or during the proceeding at issue and the request was denied;

[*959] (B) the victim petitions the court of appeals for a writ of mandamus within 10 days of the denial and the writ is
granted; and

(C) in the case of a plea, the accused has not pleaded to the highest offense charged.

(6) No New Trial. In no case is a failure to afford a victim any right under these rules grounds for a new trial. °4!

Discussion:

I proposed to essentially create a rule for victims to assert error, leaving additional details to be treated elsewhere. The
Advisory Committee proposed to fold into the Rules of Criminal Procedure some of the enforcement provisions and restrictions
in the CVRA.

Because the Advisory Committee's proposal largely tracks the CVRA, much in it is unobjectionable. But the Advisory
Committee deviates from the CVRA's language in five places for reasons that are unexplained - and unexplainable. The patient
reader of this Article may not be surprised that all five of these deviations operate in the same direction - to reduce a crime
victim's rights from what Congress has commanded.

40 Cassell, Proposed Amendments, supra note 4, at 921-22.
41 Proposed Amendments, supra note 71, R. 60(b), at 16-18.

DAVID SCHOEN

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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018437.txt,"power finally achieved real grip. Recall that important distinction between
“Predictive Learning” and “Representational Learning” - and how machines with a
deep representation outperformed the ones merely predicting, the difference
between recognizing a Mozart symphony and writing one? We ourselves need to
move now from predictive to representational views of our world. We need an
historical sense, of course. But something else too, that Seventh Sense I’ve been
writing about. So much of what lies ahead can’t, of course, be predicted by looking at
what has come before. And we won't make this leap to a new representation of the
world around us with mere technology. That passage to a new, and subtle insight, to
a new instinct, demands wisdom.

There will be a point, several hundred years from now, when the answers to the
fundamental questions we now face will be decided. A new political order, tuned to
the power laws now visible with the Seventh Sense will emerge. Our question we
will often ask on that long passage is this: Can more and more technology bridge the
gap between the ideal society we might aim for and the troubled one we have? Or
might it crank that gap wider still? My sense is that the antidote to the machines and
their new logic is not, in the end to make ourselves more like the machines.
Encryption alone won't protect our privacy. Mobility won’t assure our liberty. We
can’t keep up with the innovations, to be honest. So we have to go deeper. Our
protection will come from making ourselves more human, not just more technical.
We should consider the path Su Dongpo’s life suggest, the cultivation of an inner
instinct, and that this should touch on the very things that make us most human.
This means to make ourselves more political, more cultured, more aware of history
and ideas. Which problems do we solve with technology? Which ones with our own
hearts and minds? This choice, at least, is still before us.

Take a moment. Look at yourself. Feel yourself with the Seventh Sense. Through
each of us now will flow all the power of this new age. Yes, it can jack apart all our
old habits and fill the passage of our time with all the dangers of evil as we silently
watch terrible and fearful things appear from nowhere. But we can also wake up,
see the world accurately and then act with the confidence of knowing that we are,
each of us, the passage through with which the future will emerge. At the very
moment we might feel so many of our burdens lifted by technology, an old and
heavy one crashes down upon us. It is the burden of maintaining our liberty. Now,
you and me are, like it or not, what we are connected to.

205

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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022513.txt,"How Can | Tell If My Company Is an “Issuer”?

# It is listed on a national securities exchange in the
United States (either stock or American Depository
Receipts); or

= The company’s stock trades in the over-the-
counter market in the United States and the
company is required to file SEC reports.

"" To see if your company files SEC reports, go to
SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov/edgar/
searchedgar/webusers.htm.

issuers. A company is an “issuer” under the FCPA if it
has a class of securities registered under Section 12 of the
Exchange Act® or is required to file periodic and other
reports with SEC under Section 15(d) of the Exchange
Act.” In practice, this means that any company with a
class of securities listed on a national securities exchange in
the United States, or any company with a class of securi-
ties quoted in the over-the-counter market in the United
States and required to file periodic reports with SEC, is an
issuer. A company thus need not be a US. company to be
an issuer. Foreign companies with American Depository
Receipts that are listed on a US. exchange are also issuers.
Asof December 31, 2011, 965 foreign companies were reg-
istered with SEC.” Officers, directors, employees, agents,
or stockholders acting on behalf of an issuer (whether US.
or foreign nationals), and any co-conspirators, also can be
prosecuted under the FCPA.®

Domestic Concerns—15 U.S.C. § 78dd-2

The FCPA also applies to “domestic concerns.” *! A
domestic concern is any individual who isa citizen, national,
or resident of the United States, or any corporation, part-
nership, association, joint-stock company, business trust,
unincorporated organization, or sole proprietorship that is
organized under the laws of the United States or its states,
territories, possessions, or commonwealths or that has its

principal place of business in the United States.” Officers,

directors, employees, agents, or stockholders acting on
behalf ofa domestic concern, including foreign nationals or

companies, are also covered.”

Territorial Jurisdiction—15 U.S.C. § 78dd-3

The FCPA also applies to certain foreign nationals or
entities that are not issuers or domestic concerns. Since
1998, the FCPA’s anti-bribery provisions have applied to
foreign persons and foreign non-issuer entities that, either
directly or through an agent, engage in amy act in further-
ance of a corrupt payment (or an offer, promise, or authori-
zation to pay) while in the territory of the United States.*
Also, officers, directors, employees, agents, or stockholders
acting on behalf of such persons or entities may be subject

to the FCPA’s anti-bribery prohibitions.*°

What Jurisdictional Conduct Triggers the Anti-
Bribery Provisions?

The FCPA’s anti-bribery provisions can apply to
conduct both inside and outside the United States. Issuers
and domestic concerns—as well as their officers, directors,
employees, agents, or stockholders—may be prosecuted
for using the U.S. mails or any means or instrumentality of
interstate commerce in furtherance of a corrupt payment
to a foreign official. The Act defines “interstate commerce”
as “trade, commerce, transportation, or communication
among the several States, or between any foreign country
and any State or between any State and any place or ship
outside thereof ....°°” The term also includes the intrastate
use of any interstate means of communication, or any other
interstate instrumentality.* Thus, placing a telephone call or
sending an e-mail, text message, or fax from, to, or through
the United States involves interstate commerce—as does
sending a wire transfer from or to a US. bank or otherwise
using the US. banking system, or traveling across state bor-
ders or internationally to or from the United States.

Those who are not issuers or domestic concerns may
be prosecuted under the FCPA if they directly, or through
an agent, engage in amy act in furtherance of a corrupt pay-

ment while in the territory of the United States, regardless of

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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024641.txt,"ACKRELL
CAPITAL CHAPTER! Executive Summary

has prevented allocated funds from being used to prosecute conduct that complies with state medical
cannabis laws. And recent developments indicate the federal government may be pursuing policies and

practices that create space for cannabis research and approval of cannabis-derived drugs.
The following chart shows three general areas of federal law that impact the cannabis indus-
try—food and drug regulation, banking and finance, and intellectual property—as well as specific

laws and federal policies related to each area. (We expand on these laws, regulations and policies in
Chapter IV, U.S. Legal Landscape.)

Federal Laws and Policies Impacting the Cannabis Industry

Justice
Department
Cole Memo Bank Secrecy Act
Controlled and Financial
Substances Transaction

Act Laws

Treasury
Department
Rohrabacher- FinCEN Memo
Blumenauer
Amendment

Securities
petites Federal Laws ND baw
; and Policies
Agricultural
g ie REGULATION Impacting the FINANCE
of 2014 Cannabis
Industry Bankruptcy
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Food, Drug,
and INTELLECTUAL internal
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IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020995.txt,"Restructure Medicare & Medicaid: Economic Factors—Possible Solutions

1) Cost-Sharing

* Cost-sharing can help control demand for a portion of healthcare by creating
incentives for consumers to shop for most cost-effective treatments (although those
benefits would be somewhat mitigated by the skew in health spending toward high
users).

* Once again, a Math Problem: Consider a routine physician office visit in which a provider
suggests and / or patient requests various tests, procedures, etc.

Patient #1 covered by a plan with a $20 co-pay (i.e., a flat fee regardless of the level or
intensity of care performed during the visit)
Patient #2 covered by a plan with a 10% co-insurance for in-network care (i.e.,
responsible for 10% of the aggregate billed charges)
Clearly, patient #2 will become more sensitive to necessity and cost of care beyond a
level of $200 of total healthcare services
Note that deductibles drive similar dynamic as a co-pay: once the deductible is met, the
member has little or no “skin in the game”

* Only 14-18% of employer-sponsored health insurance plans use pro-rata cost sharing (i.e.
co-insurance in example #2 above). Most (77%) insurance plans only use a co-pay (in
example #1), which gives consumers little incentive to shop the most cost-effective treatment

path.
KP Source: Kaiser/HRET Survey of Employer-Sponsored Health Benefits, 2009
www.kpcb.com USA Inc. | What Might a Turnaround Expert Consider? 307

Restructure Medicare & Medicaid: Economic Factors—Possible Solutions

2) Reimbursement Reform

Reimbursement reform could help shift drivers of payment from quantity of
care to quality of care. The following list provides a few options to consider.

* Bundled Payments: Providers get a fixed budget to treat an episode of care (i.e. a broken
hip). Exceeding the budget means providers absorb additional costs; staying under it lets
provider benefit from savings.

Examples: PROMETHEUS Payment System’, Medicare Acute Care Episode
Demonstration?

* Global payment system® (i.e., capitation): Providers are paid up-front to provide care that their

patient receives over a period, incentivizing them to manage costs and quality. This global
payment is adjusted periodically to reward accessible and high-quality care.

* Pay for performance*: Reimbursement for care providers varies, based on various quality and
efficiency measures such as discharge rate and readmission rate.

* Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs): Provider groups accept responsibility for the cost
and quality of care for a specific population of patients®

The recently enacted Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act includes regulations
supporting the creation of Accountable Care Organizations

Other models often discussed to improve coordination / efficiency and reduce costs : 1)
integrated delivery systems; 2) multispecialty group practices; 3) physician-hospital
organizations; 4) independent practice associations; 5) virtual physician organizations
Source: 1) Cutting Healthcare Costs by Putting Doctors on a Budget, Time 1) Adopted in Rockford, iL in Jan 2010 2) Medicare Demonstration Project Overviews,
www.cms.gov/demoprojects 3) Recommendations of the Special Commission on the Healthcare Payment, Commonwealth of Massachusetts 4) Pay for
Performance incentive Programs in Healthcare , Geoffrey Baker 5) How the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation Should Test Accountable Care

KP Organizations, Stephen Shortell, Lawrence P. Casalino and Elliott S. Fisher for Health Affairs, July 2010
(@E) www.kpcb.com USA Inc. | What Might a Turnaround Expert Consider? 308

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IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021453.txt,"FBI: We still have

> EPSTEIN fom 1B

and Donald Trump among
his friends.

“Highly unusual’ is how
Palm Beach Police Chief Mi-
chael Reiter described State
Attorney Barry Krischer’s
handling of the case in a
bluntly critical letter to
Krischer last year before
Epstein was indicted.

Reiter referred the mat-
‘ter to the FBI to determine
whether any federal laws had
been violated. Epstein’s allies
countered by attacking the
chief personally and profes-
sionally.

Reiter department in-
vestigated Epstein for 11
months. Police sifted repeat-
edly through his trash and
conducted surveillance on
his five-bedroom, 7-bath,
7,234-square-foot home on
the Intracoastal Waterway.

Police said Epstein paid
women and girls as young
as 14 to give him erotic mas-
sages at his home. Police
thought there was probable
cause to charge him with
unlawful sex acts with a mi-
nor and lewd and lascivious
molestation. ‘

Gg Epstein responded by
whiring a phalanx of lawyers.
+ One of them, Harvard law
2 professor and author Alan
& Dershowitz, provided the
+ state attorney's office with
information about alcohol
q and marijuana use by some
Sof the girls who said ‘they
, were with Epstein.

‘Prosecutors then referred
the case to the grand jury

Teenage girls were
recruited to, visit.
Epstein for massages
and sex, police Say.

rather than file’ charges di-
rectly against Epstein.
Epstein’s attorneys deny
he had sex with underage
girls. The lawyers say the
girls’ stories are not credible.
But if the court file is any
indicator, they've made no ef

fort to depose the girls.
Neither prosecutors nor
defense attorneys have

sought to question Robson,
said Dutko, her attorney. She
recruited teenage girls to vis-
it Epstein for massages and
sexual activity, Palm Beach
police said, and presumably
would be a key witness.

Epstein’s attorney Jack
Goldberger did not return
phone messages.

A source close to the case
suggested it is languishing
pending a decision by the
FBI on whether to refer it to
federal prosecutors.

“We still have a pending
case,” FBI spokeswoman

. Judy Orihuela said Monday.

State Attorney Krischer
did not return a call for com-
ment. His spokesman, Mike
Edmondson, declined to say
whether federal investiga-
tors are delaying the Epstein
case. But, he added, “if an-
other agency is looking at
something, we wouldn’t want
to step on their toes.”

a pending case:

Attorneys say inertia in a
criminal case often points to

a pending plea deal.

“It would not surprise me
if something has happened
thats not reflected in the
court file,” said Dutko, such
as an agreement that will be
formalized later.

Defense. attorney Marc
Shiner said defense  at-
torneys sometimes put off
overtly conducting discov-
ery — deposing witnesses,
requesting documents and
the like — because doing so.

creates more work for har

ried prosecutors who may
become angry and not offer
apleadeal.

“Sometimes defense law-
yers, knowing that, will try
and do discovery without
taking depositions,” said
Shiner, a former prosecutor
for 13 years.

Instead, they may conduct
a below-the-radar probe such
as having a private investiga-
tor check out leads, he said.

Shiner and others say a
plea deal for Epstein probably
would result in pretrial inter-
vention, in which a defendant
may be ordered to undergo
a psychological evaluation,
counseling or other condi-
tions in return for dropping
the charge.

Edmondson, spokesman
for State Attorney Krischer,
said there is no plea offer
and no request for the pros-
ecution to show its cards.

“To my knowledge, it’s
never happened before on a
filed case,” he said.
© larry_keller@pbpost.com

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IMAGES-012-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033076.txt,"From: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]

Sent: 3/7/2018 11:49:41 AM
To: LHS
Subject: Re: What’s up in trump World?

Pe
On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 4:51 AM, LHS i wrote:

Sent from my iPhone

Please direct all scheduling inquiries to my office at: 3 IR

Follow me on twitter @lhsummers
www.larrysummers.com

please note
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confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may
constitute inside information, and is intended only for
the use of the addressee. It is the property of
JEE
Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this
communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited
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communication in error, please notify us immediately by
return e-mail or by e-mail to jeevacation@gmail.com, and
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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015301.txt,"memory and concentration. Who could ever have dreamed that chess
players might get in trouble for using ginkgo biloba as a performance

enhancer?

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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024899.txt,"COWEN
COLLABORATIVE INSIGHTS

February 25, 2019

guarantee quality control and compliance. However, this is practiced under “self-
supervision” requiring the company to register products prior to market placement. In
recent years, the FOPH has been removing CBD products from storefronts due to lack of
self-compliance, transparency and false claims.

Swiss law also permits CBD to be used in pure or synthesized form for cosmetic
products. The Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office regulates cosmetic products as
well as products that contain hemp-derived ingredients and CBD liquids for e-cigarettes.
None of these products can make any pharmacological claims. The Federal Office for
Agriculture regulates hemp seeds, oil, fiber, etc, and seeds must be certified and listed
under the European Union’s Common Catalogue of Varieties.

From 2017 to 2018 there was an influx in the number of cannabis companies in
Switzerland, leveling off from around 500 companies to around 100 companies. While
many are supplying the local market, a number of companies are exploring and
exporting to neighboring markets (e.g. Italy, France, Germany). Beyond their
geographical advantage, Switzerland also is recognized for its quality and sophisticated
pharmaceutical sector.

At the end of 2018, LGC Capital entered a partnership with Viridi, a Swiss cultivator,
processor and distributor of high-CBD products. Wayland acquired Haxon AG, a Swiss
hemp producer of 1% THC products. Creso Pharma Limited entered into an agreement
with Hempmate Zurich AG for further expansion into the European CBD market.

France

Medical cannabis has been legal in France since 2013 and Marinol has been the only
product prescribed. In 2018, the ANSM launched an investigation to explore scientific
data for therapeutic uses of the plants, type of eligible conditions and consider
regulatory frameworks in other legal medical markets. An initial recommendation found
that legal medical cannabis should be authorized and final recommendations are
expected to be released by September 2019. Aurora has already announced plans to
expand into France by investing in infrastructure prior to the market opening.

France is the leading hemp cultivator and processor in Europe, and the global leader in
hemp seed production. In 2016, there was a total of 33,000 hectares growing hemp.
Stalks and seeds can be processed, yet buds cannot be legally processed, unless for
medical purposes. Synthetics are permitted for use. The country permits the cultivation
of 20 strains, approved by the EU. There is one company, Hemp-it, that has received a
license to grow different varieties.

Despite its leading position in hemp production, the French government has cracked
down on the sale of hemp-derived products and CBD sold in stores, cafes and seed
shops, as a response to public health and safety. Over the past few months, the Ministry
of Social Affairs and Health and National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health
products (ANSM) have been conducting a review on the uses and authorizations
required for CBD. There are a number of CBD and hemp-derived skincare and cosmetic
companies that sell lotions, cremes, pain balms, beard oils, etc. France’s extensive
history in the cosmetics industry positions the country well for CBD skincare.

COWEN.COM 83

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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024162.txt,"High yield corporate bonds

Spread USD HY (26 June): 660bps (last month: 660bps)
UBS View USD HY spread target (6-month): 525bps

¢ US high yield (HY) bonds continue to offer attractive value; we expect high single-digit total returns over
the next six months. We stick to our spread forecast of 525bps based on an ongoing recovery of the US
economy, robust company balance sheets, rising earnings, and ongoing investor appetite for higher-
yielding assets. US HY bonds remain our preferred asset class.

¢ Fundamental factors remain supportive. Despite the recent uptick in defaults, in the absence of a
renewed US recession only a very gradual increase is to be expected. We forecast a modest rise in the
trailing default rate to 3.5% at the end of the year from 3.1% in May. A heavy load of new issuance in the
first three months of the year means that HY companies will be faced with a lower risk of failed
refinancing going forward (e.g. in case of an unexpected economic slump).

e¢ We acknowledge that ongoing risk aversion could still cause spreads to widen somewhat in the short run.
Investors who are able and willing to hold on to their HY position will likely benefit over 6 months.

@ Positive scenario USD HY spread target (6-month): 450bps
¢ In the positive economic scenario, a rally in high yield bonds and a return to pre-crisis spreads of about
400bps is likely. Benchmark yields would also rise, limiting HY returns to around 10%. European HY
outperforms the US.
& Negative scenario USD HY spread target (6-month): 1,200bps
¢ A global recession is a major risk for high yield bonds. Based on the more robust state of the corporate
sector, we would not expect spreads to widen to 2008/09 peak levels above 2,000bps. Although short-term
spikes are likely, due to liquidity suddenly drying up, we would expect a quick return to the ""usual""
recession-level spread of around 1,200bps.

Note: Scenarios refer to global economic scenarios (see slide 7)

What we're watching
Credit quality/
default cycle

Why it matters

As long as corporate earnings increase and balance sheets remain backed by high
cash levels and low debt ratios, the default rate will remain below its 5% long-
term average.

For now, favorable conditions in the primary market have mainly been used for
refinancing. More aggressive issuance activities should be monitored.

Bank lending provides an important source of funding. US banks relaxed
standards slightly in 2Q. Key dates: early-July, ECB bank lending survey;
late-July, Fed Senior Loan Officer Survey

New issuance

Bank lending standards

36 UBS

Preference: overweight

Recommendations

Tactical (6 months)

e US high yield corporate bonds offer an

attractive return outlook and should be

overweighted.

We prefer US over European issuers given

the poorer economic outlook in Europe

and the increasing proportion of
peripheral and financial issuers in the

European HY universe.

Inflows into HY mutual funds have been

strong so far in 2012, but new issuance has

cooled down a bit in April and May.

Strategic (1 to 2 years)

e We expect US defaults to remain at below-
average levels for longer. Significant re-
leveraging is unlikely in the medium term.

° We believe US high yield corporate bonds
will provide good returns for absolute
return-oriented investors, as well as
relative to other fixed income segments.

Yield spreads
2,500 bps

2,000
1,500
1,000

500

ce)

2005 2006 2007
—EUR High Yield

2008 2009 2010 2012

—USD High Yield

2011

Source: Bloomberg, UBS CIO, as of 26 June 2012
Note: Past performance is not an indication of future returns.
27

For further information please contact ClO’s asset class specialist Philipp Schdttler, philipp.schoettler@ubs.com

Please see important disclaimer and disclosures at the end of the document.

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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017710.txt,"Page 75 of 78
2007 Utah L. Rev. 861, *966

In response to this Article and to other public criticisms of its rules, the Advisory Committee made several modest changes to
its proposed rules. These changes are discussed in numerical order here. Other than these changes, no significant changes were
made to the proposed rules discussed here. The Advisory Committee has submitted them all to the Supreme Court and, unless
the Court takes the unusual step of disavowing them, they will go into effect on December 1, 2008.

Rule 1. In apparent response to my criticism that the definition of ""victim"" found in Rule 1 intentionally excluded a victim's

""representative,"" 78

on April 16, 2007, the Advisory Committee amended its proposed Rule 60 to allow a victim's
representative to assert a right. Rule 60(b)(2) now provides: ""A victim's rights described in these rules may be asserted by the
victim, the victim's lawful representative, the attorney for the government, or any other person as authorized [*967] by /&
U.S.C. § 3771(d) and (e)."" >7? This change insures that victims' representatives will be able to assert victims’ rights. The
Advisory Committee also added language to the Committee Note stating that courts could make appropriate findings to resolve

any dispute about who is a victim. *°°

Rule 5. At its October 1, 2007 meeting in Utah, the Advisory Committee approved a proposed change to Rule 5 regarding
detention hearings. The proposed addition to Rule 5 reads: ""In making the decision to detain or release the defendant, the judge

""

must consider the right of the victim to be reasonably protected from the defendant."" >8! This language was lifted almost

straight from Senator Kyl's proposed legislation implementing the CVRA **? (which is discussed in the next section). This
seems like a valuable addition to the Rules, helping to protect victims' rights in detention decisions.

Rule 12.1. At its April 16, 2007 meeting, the Advisory Committee apparently agreed with my conclusion that courts lack

authority to force a victim to meet with a defendant >*?

584

and struck language recommending such a meeting from its Committee
note.

Rule 12.3. Also at its October 1, 2007 meeting, the Advisory Committee responded to my point that the same language appears
in both Rule 12.1 (alibi defense) and Rule 12.3 (public authority defense) regarding disclosure of addresses of crime victims.
>85 It therefore proposed to add the same changes to Rule 12.3 that it added to Rule 12.1. *8° Unfortunately, for the reasons
discussed at length here, now the language in both Rule 12.1 and 12.3 is insufficiently protective of victims' rights. *87

Rule 17. At its April 16, 2007 meeting, the Advisory Committee revised its rule on subpoenas for confidential information to
read: ""Before entering the order and unless there are exceptional circumstances, the court must require that notice be given to
the victim so that the victim can move to quash or modify the subpoena or otherwise object."" *°8 This change responds to
objections from the American Bar Association, other groups, and me that the earlier rule encouraged ex parte [*968] issuance

578 See supra notes 117-126 and accompanying text.

579 Proposed Amendments, supra note 71, R. 60(b)(2), at 17 (emphasis added).

80 Memorandum from Hon. Susan C. Bucklew, Chair, Advisory Comm. on Fed. Rules of Criminal Procedure, to Hon. David F. Levi, Chair,
Standing Comm. on Rules of Practice and Procedure app. a, at 271-72 (May 19, 2007) [hereinafter Bucklew Memo], available at
http://www.uscourts.gov/rules/Reports/CRO5-2007. pdf.

*81_ Memorandum from Professor Sara Sun Beale, Reporter, Advisory Comm. on Fed. Rules of Criminal Procedure, to Members of the
Criminal Rules Advisory Comm. 136 (Sept. 2, 2007) [hereinafter Beale Memo].

582 §. 1749, 110th Cong. § 5 (2007).

583 See supra notes 206-211 and accompanying text.
584 Bucklew Memo, supra note 580, app. a, at 277.
85 See supra notes 202-203 and accompanying text.
86 Beale Memo, supra note 581, app. at 7.

87 See supra notes 187-191 and accompanying text (explaining why changes to Rule 12.1 leave victims' addresses vulnerable to unfair
disclosure).

88 Bucklew Memo, supra note 580, app. a, at 283.

DAVID SCHOEN

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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018423.txt,"even more symphonies they’d probably be great too. Unfortunately he’s dead.
Wouldn't it be nice if we could sample his old symphonies and make new ones
whenever we want?2°°

In the future we'll invite Al into our lives to harmonize away many of the problems
we face, not merely making up for Mozart’s inconvenient mortality. “AI Agents” will
linger along side us. They will compose versions of themselves we'll not quite grasp,
even as we appreciate their efficient magic. “Al is both freedom from programming
and freedom from understanding,” runs one programmer’s line2®!. Today machines
that once demanded millions of lines of code can function with a fraction of that.
Instructions are sent to machine learning systems; the programs do the rest. Such
designs balance their mystery with efficacy. They speak to and learn from each
other too. Part of the reason that the the “Does it think like a human?” Turing Test
will be insufficient in the future is that the machines are not learning from only from
humans. They are learning from each other.

Perhaps this is not such a bad thing. The distinguished physicists George Ellis and
Joe Silk, who spent a lifetime trying to stand on Newton and Einstein’s shoulders to
grasp answers about gravity or the future of our universe, electrified many of their
peers in 2015 with by wondering if perhaps too much of science had become
unscientific, unverifiable, unreliable. The great grand ideas of our day, notions like
string theory or dark matter, differ in a crucial way from Newton's laws of motion or
Einstein’s principles: They cannot seem to be tested and significantly proved. And
this had fired a trend among younger physicits: Perhaps there was no need for
proof. To Ellis and Silk this seemed an awful retreat, dragging physics back to a pre-
Enlightenment age of conjecture, superstition and instinct. “This year, debates in
physics circles took a worrying turn,” they wrote. “Faced with difficulties in applying
fundamental theories to the observed Universe, some researchers called for a
change in how theoretical physics is done. They began to argue — explicitly — that
if a theory is sufficiently elegant and explanatory, it need not be tested.” Fans of such
an approach called the idea “post-empirical science.” This strange, oxymoronic idea
was, in a sense, like proposing post-rules baseball: A recipie for wild, swinging chaos
that would make scorekeeping impossible.

The strange, boiling debate did however reflect an underlying and unnerving truth:
Science does seem to have stalled. And it became inevitable to ask: Might it be
possible that the machines - or some fusion of Shalosh B. Ekhad andta human mind
- can reach into an understanding of laws that no human alone can fathom. We've
said again and again: Connection changes the nature of an object. Perhaps it changes

260 Wouldn't it be nice: Andrej Karpathy, “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of
Recurrent Neural Networks,” in The Hackers Guide to Neural Networks published
online May 21, 2015 or John Supko, “How I Taught My Computer to Write Its Own
Music,” in Nautilus, February 12, 2015 and Daniel Johnson, “Composing Music with
Recurrent Neural Networks,” on Hexahedria Blog August 3, 2015

261 Freedom from understanding: Philip Greenspun, “Big data and machine
learning” from Philip Greenspun weblog (November 21, 2015)

191

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Syllabus
NOTE: Where it is feasible, a syllabus (headnote) will be released, as is
being done in connection with this case, at the time the opinion is issued.
The syllabus constitutes no part of the opinion of the Court but has been
prepared by the Reporter of Decisions for the convenience of the reader.
See United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co., 200 U. S. 321, 337.
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
Syllabus
JAM ET AL. v. INTERNATIONAL FINANCE CORP.
CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR
THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT
No. 17–1011. Argued October 31, 2018—Decided February 27, 2019
In 1945, Congress passed the International Organizations Immunities
Act (IOIA), which, among other things, grants international organizations
the “same immunity from suit ... as is enjoyed by foreign
governments.” 22 U. S. C. §288a(b). At that time, foreign governments
were entitled to virtually absolute immunity as a matter of international
grace and comity. In 1952, the State Department adopted
a more restrictive theory of foreign sovereign immunity, which
Congress subsequently codified in the Foreign Sovereign Immunities
Act (FSIA), 28 U. S. C. §1602. The FSIA gives foreign sovereign governments
presumptive immunity from suit, §1604, subject to several
statutory exceptions, including, as relevant here, an exception for actions
based on commercial activity with a sufficient nexus with the
United States, §1605(a)(2).
Respondent International Finance Corporation (IFC), an IOIA international
organization, entered into a loan agreement with Coastal
Gujarat Power Limited, a company based in India, to finance the construction
of a coal-fired power plant in Gujarat. Petitioners sued the
IFC, claiming that pollution from the plant harmed the surrounding
air, land, and water. The District Court, however, held that the IFC
was immune from suit because it enjoyed the virtually absolute immunity
that foreign governments enjoyed when the IOIA was enacted.
The D. C. Circuit affirmed in light of its decision in Atkinson v.
Inter-American Development Bank, 156 F. 3d 1335.
Held: The IOIA affords international organizations the same immunity
from suit that foreign governments enjoy today under the FSIA.
Pp. 6–15.
(a) The IOIA “same as” formulation is best understood as making
international organization immunity and foreign sovereign immunity
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continuously equivalent. The IOIA is thus like other statutes that
use similar or identical language to place two groups on equal footing.
See, e.g., Civil Rights Act of 1866, 42 U. S. C. §§1981(a), 1982;
Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U. S. C. §2674. Whatever the ultimate
purpose of international organization immunity may be, the immediate
purpose of the IOIA immunity provision is expressed in language
that Congress typically uses to make one thing continuously equivalent
to another. Pp. 6–9.
(b) That reading is confirmed by the “reference canon” of statutory
interpretation. When a statute refers to a general subject, the statute
adopts the law on that subject as it exists whenever a question
under the statute arises. In contrast, when a statute refers to another
statute by specific title, the referenced statute is adopted as it existed
when the referring statute was enacted, without any subsequent
amendments. Federal courts have often relied on the reference
canon to harmonize a statute with an external body of law that the
statute refers to generally. The IOIA’s reference to the immunity enjoyed
by foreign governments is to an external body of potentially
evolving law, not to a specific provision of another statute. Nor is it a
specific reference to a common law concept with a fixed meaning.
The phrase “immunity enjoyed by foreign governments” is not a term
of art with substantive content but rather a concept that can be given
scope and content only by reference to the rules governing foreign
sovereign immunity. Pp. 9–11.
(c) The D. C. Circuit relied upon Atkinson’s conclusion that the reference
canon’s probative force was outweighed by an IOIA provision
authorizing the President to alter the immunity of an international
organization. But the fact that the President has power to modify
otherwise applicable immunity rules is perfectly compatible with the
notion that those rules might themselves change over time in light of
developments in the law governing foreign sovereign immunity. The
Atkinson court also did not consider the opinion of the State Department,
whose views in this area ordinarily receive “special attention,”
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela v. Helmerich & Payne Int’l Drilling
Co., 581 U. S. ___, ___, and which took the position that immunity
rules of the IOIA and the FSIA were linked following the FSIA’s enactment.
Pp. 11–13.
(d) The IFC contends that interpreting the IOIA immunity provision
to grant only restrictive immunity would defeat the purpose of
granting immunity in the first place, by subjecting international organizations
to suit under the commercial activity exception of the
FSIA for most or all of their core activities. This would be particularly
true with respect to international development banks, which use
the tools of commerce to achieve their objectives. Those concerns are
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inflated. The IOIA provides only default rules. An international organization’s
charter can always specify a different level of immunity,
and many do. Nor is it clear that the lending activity of all development
banks qualifies as commercial activity within the meaning of
the FSIA. But even if it does qualify as commercial, that does not
mean the organization is automatically subject to suit, since other
FSIA requirements must also be met, see, e.g., 28 U. S. C. §§1603,
1605(a)(2). Pp. 13–15.
860 F. 3d 703, reversed and remanded.
ROBERTS, C. J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which THOMAS,
GINSBURG, ALITO, SOTOMAYOR, KAGAN, and GORSUCH, JJ., joined.
BREYER, J., filed a dissenting opinion. KAVANAUGH, J., took no part in
the consideration or decision of the case.
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SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
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No. 17–1011
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BUDHA ISMAIL JAM, ET AL., PETITIONERS v.
INTERNATIONAL FINANCE CORPORATION
ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF
APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT
[February 27, 2019]
CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS delivered the opinion of the
Court.
The International Organizations Immunities Act of 1945
grants international organizations such as the World
Bank and the World Health Organization the “same immunity
from suit . . . as is enjoyed by foreign governments.”
22 U. S. C. §288a(b). At the time the IOIA was
enacted, foreign governments enjoyed virtually absolute
immunity from suit. Today that immunity is more limited.
Most significantly, foreign governments are not
immune from actions based upon certain kinds of commercial
activity in which they engage. This case requires us to
determine whether the IOIA grants international organizations
the virtually absolute immunity foreign governments
enjoyed when the IOIA was enacted, or the more
limited immunity they enjoy today.
Respondent International Finance Corporation is an
international organization headquartered in the United
States. The IFC finances private-sector development
projects in poor and developing countries around the
world. About 10 years ago, the IFC financed the construc-
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tion of a power plant in Gujarat, India. Petitioners are
local farmers and fishermen and a small village. They
allege that the power plant has polluted the air, land, and
water in the surrounding area. Petitioners sued the IFC
for damages and injunctive relief in Federal District
Court, but the IFC claimed absolute immunity from suit.
Petitioners argued that the IFC was entitled under the
IOIA only to the limited or “restrictive” immunity that
foreign governments currently enjoy. We agree.
I
A
In the wake of World War II, the United States and
many of its allies joined together to establish a host of new
international organizations. Those organizations, which
included the United Nations, the International Monetary
Fund, and the World Bank, were designed to allow member
countries to collectively pursue goals such as stabilizing
the international economy, rebuilding war-torn nations,
and maintaining international peace and security.
Anticipating that those and other international organizations
would locate their headquarters in the United
States, Congress passed the International Organizations
Immunities Act of 1945, 59 Stat. 669. The Act grants
international organizations a set of privileges and immunities,
such as immunity from search and exemption from
property taxes. 22 U. S. C. §§288a(c), 288c.
The IOIA defines certain privileges and immunities by
reference to comparable privileges and immunities enjoyed
by foreign governments. For example, with respect to
customs duties and the treatment of official communications,
the Act grants international organizations the privileges
and immunities that are “accorded under similar
circumstances to foreign governments.” §288a(d). The
provision at issue in this case provides that international
organizations “shall enjoy the same immunity from suit
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and every form of judicial process as is enjoyed by foreign
governments.” §288a(b).
The IOIA authorizes the President to withhold, withdraw,
condition, or limit the privileges and immunities it
grants in light of the functions performed by any given
international organization. §288. Those privileges and
immunities can also be expanded or restricted by a particular
organization’s founding charter.
B
When the IOIA was enacted in 1945, courts looked to
the views of the Department of State in deciding whether
a given foreign government should be granted immunity
from a particular suit. If the Department submitted a
recommendation on immunity, courts deferred to the
recommendation. If the Department did not make a recommendation,
courts decided for themselves whether to
grant immunity, although they did so by reference to State
Department policy. Samantar v. Yousuf, 560 U. S. 305,
311–312 (2010).
Until 1952, the State Department adhered to the classical
theory of foreign sovereign immunity. According to
that theory, foreign governments are entitled to “virtually
absolute” immunity as a matter of international grace and
comity. At the time the IOIA was enacted, therefore, the
Department ordinarily requested, and courts ordinarily
granted, immunity in suits against foreign governments.
Ibid.; Verlinden B. V. v. Central Bank of Nigeria, 461 U. S.
480, 486 (1983). 1
In 1952, however, the State Department announced that
it would adopt the newer “restrictive” theory of foreign
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The immunity was “virtually” absolute because it was subject to
occasional exceptions for specific situations. In Republic of Mexico v.
Hoffman, 324 U. S. 30 (1945), for example, the State Department
declined to recommend, and the Court did not grant, immunity from
suit with respect to a ship that Mexico owned but did not possess.
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sovereign immunity. Under that theory, foreign governments
are entitled to immunity only with respect to their
sovereign acts, not with respect to commercial acts. The
State Department explained that it was adopting the
restrictive theory because the “widespread and increasing
practice on the part of governments of engaging in commercial
activities” made it “necessary” to “enable persons
doing business with them to have their rights determined
in the courts.” Letter from Jack B. Tate, Acting Legal
Adviser, Dept. of State, to Acting Attorney General Philip
B. Perlman (May 19, 1952), reprinted in 26 Dept. State
Bull. 984–985 (1952).
In 1976, Congress passed the Foreign Sovereign Immunities
Act. The FSIA codified the restrictive theory of foreign
sovereign immunity but transferred “primary responsibility
for immunity determinations from the Executive to
the Judicial Branch.” Republic of Austria v. Altmann, 541
U. S. 677, 691 (2004); see 28 U. S. C. §1602. Under the
FSIA, foreign governments are presumptively immune
from suit. §1604. But a foreign government may be subject
to suit under one of several statutory exceptions.
Most pertinent here, a foreign government may be subject
to suit in connection with its commercial activity that has
a sufficient nexus with the United States. §1605(a)(2).
C
The International Finance Corporation is an international
development bank headquartered in Washington,
D. C. The IFC is designated as an international organization
under the IOIA. Exec. Order No. 10680, 3 CFR 86
(1957); see 22 U. S. C. §§282, 288. One hundred eightyfour
countries, including the United States, are members
of the IFC.
The IFC is charged with furthering economic development
“by encouraging the growth of productive private
enterprise in member countries, particularly in the less
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developed areas, thus supplementing the activities of ” the
World Bank. Articles of Agreement of the International
Finance Corporation, Art. I, Dec. 5, 1955, 7 U. S. T. 2193,
T. I. A. S. No. 3620. Whereas the World Bank primarily
provides loans and grants to developing countries for
public-sector projects, the IFC finances private-sector
development projects that cannot otherwise attract capital
on reasonable terms. See Art. I(i), ibid. In 2018, the IFC
provided some $23 billion in such financing.
The IFC expects its loan recipients to adhere to a set of
performance standards designed to “avoid, mitigate, and
manage risks and impacts” associated with development
projects. IFC Performance Standards on Environmental
and Social Sustainability, Jan. 1, 2012, p. 2, ¶1. Those
standards are usually more stringent than any established
by local law. The IFC includes the standards in its loan
agreements and enforces them through an internal review
process. Brief for Respondent 10.
In 2008, the IFC loaned $450 million to Coastal Gujarat
Power Limited, a company located in India. The loan
helped finance the construction of a coal-fired power plant
in the state of Gujarat. Under the terms of the loan
agreement, Coastal Gujarat was required to comply with
an environmental and social action plan designed to protect
areas around the plant from damage. The agreement
allowed the IFC to revoke financial support for the project
if Coastal Gujarat failed to abide by the terms of the
agreement.
The project did not go smoothly. According to the IFC’s
internal audit, Coastal Gujarat did not comply with the
environmental and social action plan in constructing and
operating the plant. The audit report criticized the IFC
for inadequately supervising the project.
In 2015, a group of farmers and fishermen who live near
the plant, as well as a local village, sued the IFC in the
United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
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They claimed that pollution from the plant, such as coal
dust, ash, and water from the plant’s cooling system, had
destroyed or contaminated much of the surrounding air,
land, and water. Relying on the audit report, they asserted
several causes of action against the IFC, including negligence,
nuisance, trespass, and breach of contract. The
IFC maintained that it was immune from suit under the
IOIA and moved to dismiss for lack of subject matter
jurisdiction.
The District Court, applying D. C. Circuit precedent,
concluded that the IFC was immune from suit because the
IOIA grants international organizations the virtually
absolute immunity that foreign governments enjoyed
when the IOIA was enacted. 172 F. Supp. 3d 104, 108–
109 (DC 2016) (citing Atkinson v. Inter-American Development
Bank, 156 F. 3d 1335 (CADC 1998)). The D. C.
Circuit affirmed in light of its precedent. 860 F. 3d 703
(2017). Judge Pillard wrote separately to say that she
would have decided the question differently were she
writing on a clean slate. Id., at 708 (concurring opinion).
Judge Pillard explained that she thought the D. C. Circuit
“took a wrong turn” when it “read the IOIA to grant international
organizations a static, absolute immunity that is,
by now, not at all the same ‘as is enjoyed by foreign governments,’
but substantially broader.” Ibid. Judge Pillard
also noted that the Third Circuit had expressly declined to
follow the D. C. Circuit’s approach. See OSS Nokalva, Inc.
v. European Space Agency, 617 F. 3d 756 (CA3 2010).
We granted certiorari. 584 U. S. ___ (2018).
II
The IFC contends that the IOIA grants international
organizations the “same immunity” from suit that foreign
governments enjoyed in 1945. Petitioners argue that it
instead grants international organizations the “same
immunity” from suit that foreign governments enjoy to-
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day. We think petitioners have the better reading of the
statute.
A
The language of the IOIA more naturally lends itself to
petitioners’ reading. In granting international organizations
the “same immunity” from suit “as is enjoyed by
foreign governments,” the Act seems to continuously link
the immunity of international organizations to that of
foreign governments, so as to ensure ongoing parity between
the two. The statute could otherwise have simply
stated that international organizations “shall enjoy absolute
immunity from suit,” or specified some other fixed
level of immunity. Other provisions of the IOIA, such as
the one making the property and assets of international
organizations “immune from search,” use such noncomparative
language to define immunities in a static way. 22
U. S. C. §288a(c). Or the statute could have specified that
it was incorporating the law of foreign sovereign immunity
as it existed on a particular date. See, e.g., Energy Policy
Act of 1992, 30 U. S. C. §242(c)(1) (certain land patents
“shall provide for surface use to the same extent as is
provided under applicable law prior to October 24, 1992”).
Because the IOIA does neither of those things, we think
the “same as” formulation is best understood to make
international organization immunity and foreign sovereign
immunity continuously equivalent.
That reading finds support in other statutes that use
similar or identical language to place two groups on equal
footing. In the Civil Rights Act of 1866, for instance,
Congress established a rule of equal treatment for newly
freed slaves by giving them the “same right” to make and
enforce contracts and to buy and sell property “as is enjoyed
by white citizens.” 42 U. S. C. §§1981(a), 1982. That
provision is of course understood to guarantee continuous
equality between white and nonwhite citizens with respect
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to the rights in question. See Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer
Co., 392 U. S. 409, 427–430 (1968). Similarly, the Federal
Tort Claims Act states that the “United States shall be
liable” in tort “in the same manner and to the same extent
as a private individual under like circumstances.” 28
U. S. C. §2674. That provision is most naturally understood
to make the United States liable in the same way as
a private individual at any given time. See Richards v.
United States, 369 U. S. 1, 6–7 (1962). Such “same as”
provisions dot the statute books, and federal and state
courts commonly read them to mandate ongoing equal
treatment of two groups or objects. See, e.g., Adamson v.
Bowen, 855 F. 2d 668, 671–672 (CA10 1988) (statute making
United States liable for fees and expenses “to the same
extent that any other party would be liable under the
common law or under the terms of any statute” interpreted
to continuously tie liability of United States to that of
any other party); Kugler’s Appeal, 55 Pa. 123, 124–125
(1867) (statute making the procedure for dividing election
districts “the same as” the procedure for dividing townships
interpreted to continuously tie the former procedure
to the latter).
The IFC objects that the IOIA is different because the
purpose of international organization immunity is entirely
distinct from the purpose of foreign sovereign immunity.
Foreign sovereign immunity, the IFC argues, is grounded
in the mutual respect of sovereigns and serves the ends of
international comity and reciprocity. The purpose of
international organization immunity, on the other hand, is
to allow such organizations to freely pursue the collective
goals of member countries without undue interference
from the courts of any one member country. The IFC
therefore urges that the IOIA should not be read to tether
international organization immunity to changing foreign
sovereign immunity.
But that gets the inquiry backward. We ordinarily
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assume, “absent a clearly expressed legislative intention
to the contrary,” that “the legislative purpose is expressed
by the ordinary meaning of the words used.” American
Tobacco Co. v. Patterson, 456 U. S. 63, 68 (1982) (alterations
omitted). Whatever the ultimate purpose of international
organization immunity may be—the IOIA does not
address that question—the immediate purpose of the
immunity provision is expressed in language that Congress
typically uses to make one thing continuously equivalent
to another.
B
The more natural reading of the IOIA is confirmed by a
canon of statutory interpretation that was well established
when the IOIA was drafted. According to the “reference”
canon, when a statute refers to a general subject, the
statute adopts the law on that subject as it exists whenever
a question under the statute arises. 2 J. Sutherland,
Statutory Construction §§5207–5208 (3d ed. 1943). For
example, a statute allowing a company to “collect the same
tolls and enjoy the same privileges” as other companies
incorporates the law governing tolls and privileges as it
exists at any given moment. Snell v. Chicago, 133 Ill. 413,
437–439, 24 N. E. 532, 537 (1890). In contrast, a statute
that refers to another statute by specific title or section
number in effect cuts and pastes the referenced statute as
it existed when the referring statute was enacted, without
any subsequent amendments. See, e.g., Culver v. People
ex rel. Kochersperger, 161 Ill. 89, 95–99, 43 N. E. 812, 814–
815 (1896) (tax-assessment statute referring to specific
article of another statute does not adopt subsequent
amendments to that article).
Federal courts have often relied on the reference canon,
explicitly or implicitly, to harmonize a statute with an
external body of law that the statute refers to generally.
Thus, for instance, a statute that exempts from disclosure
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agency documents that “would not be available by law to a
party . . . in litigation with the agency” incorporates the
general law governing attorney work-product privilege as
it exists when the statute is applied. FTC v. Grolier Inc.,
462 U. S. 19, 20, 26–27 (1983) (emphasis added); id., at 34,
n. 6 (Brennan, J., concurring in part and concurring in
judgment). Likewise, a general reference to federal discovery
rules incorporates those rules “as they are found on
any given day, today included,” El Encanto, Inc. v. Hatch
Chile Co., 825 F. 3d 1161, 1164 (CA10 2016), and a general
reference to “the crime of piracy as defined by the law
of nations” incorporates a definition of piracy “that changes
with advancements in the law of nations,” United States
v. Dire, 680 F. 3d 446, 451, 467–469 (CA4 2012).
The same logic applies here. The IOIA’s reference to the
immunity enjoyed by foreign governments is a general
rather than specific reference. The reference is to an
external body of potentially evolving law—the law of
foreign sovereign immunity—not to a specific provision of
another statute. The IOIA should therefore be understood
to link the law of international organization immunity to
the law of foreign sovereign immunity, so that the one
develops in tandem with the other.
The IFC contends that the IOIA’s reference to the immunity
enjoyed by foreign governments is not a general
reference to an external body of law, but is instead a specific
reference to a common law concept that had a fixed
meaning when the IOIA was enacted in 1945. And because
we ordinarily presume that “Congress intends to
incorporate the well-settled meaning of the common-law
terms it uses,” Neder v. United States, 527 U. S. 1, 23
(1999), the IFC argues that we should read the IOIA to
incorporate what the IFC maintains was the then-settled
meaning of the “immunity enjoyed by foreign governments”:
virtually absolute immunity.
But in 1945, the “immunity enjoyed by foreign govern-
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ments” did not mean “virtually absolute immunity.” The
phrase is not a term of art with substantive content, such
as “fraud” or “forgery.” See id., at 22; Gilbert v. United
States, 370 U. S. 650, 655 (1962). It is rather a concept
that can be given scope and content only by reference to
the rules governing foreign sovereign immunity. It is true
that under the rules applicable in 1945, the extent of immunity
from suit was virtually absolute, while under the
rules applicable today, it is more limited. But in 1945, as
today, the IOIA’s instruction to grant international organizations
the immunity “enjoyed by foreign governments” is
an instruction to look up the applicable rules of foreign
sovereign immunity, wherever those rules may be found—
the common law, the law of nations, or a statute. In other
words, it is a general reference to an external body of
(potentially evolving) law.
C
In ruling for the IFC, the D. C. Circuit relied upon its
prior decision in Atkinson, 156 F. 3d 1335. Atkinson
acknowledged the reference canon, but concluded that the
canon’s probative force was “outweighed” by a structural
inference the court derived from the larger context of the
IOIA. Id., at 1341. The Atkinson court focused on the
provision of the IOIA that gives the President the authority
to withhold, withdraw, condition, or limit the otherwise
applicable privileges and immunities of an international
organization, “in the light of the functions performed by
any such international organization.” 22 U. S. C. §288.
The court understood that provision to “delegate to the
President the responsibility for updating the immunities
of international organizations in the face of changing
circumstances.” Atkinson, 156 F. 3d, at 1341. That delegation,
the court reasoned, “undermine[d]” the view that
Congress intended the IOIA to in effect update itself by
incorporating changes in the law governing foreign sover-
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eign immunity. Ibid.
We do not agree. The delegation provision is most
naturally read to allow the President to modify, on a
case-by-case basis, the immunity rules that would otherwise
apply to a particular international organization. The
statute authorizes the President to take action with respect
to a single organization—“any such organization”—
in light of the functions performed by “such organization.”
28 U. S. C. §288. The text suggests retail rather than
wholesale action, and that is in fact how authority under
§288 has been exercised in the past. See, e.g., Exec. Order
No. 12425, 3 CFR 193 (1984) (designating INTERPOL as
an international organization under the IOIA but withholding
certain privileges and immunities); Exec. Order
No. 11718, 3 CFR 177 (1974) (same for INTELSAT). In
any event, the fact that the President has power to modify
otherwise applicable immunity rules is perfectly compatible
with the notion that those rules might themselves
change over time in light of developments in the law governing
foreign sovereign immunity.
The D. C. Circuit in Atkinson also gave no consideration
to the opinion of the State Department, whose views in
this area ordinarily receive “special attention.” Bolivarian
Republic of Venezuela v. Helmerich & Payne Int’l. Drilling
Co., 581 U. S. ___, ___ (2017) (slip op., at 9). Shortly after
the FSIA was enacted, the State Department took the
position that the immunity rules of the IOIA and the FSIA
were now “link[ed].” Letter from Detlev F. Vagts, Office of
the Legal Adviser, to Robert M. Carswell, Jr., Senior Legal
Advisor, OAS, p. 2 (Mar. 24, 1977). The Department
reaffirmed that view during subsequent administrations,
and it has reaffirmed it again here. 2 That longstanding
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2
See Letter from Roberts B. Owen, Legal Adviser, to Leroy D. Clark,
Gen. Counsel, EEOC (June 24, 1980) in Nash, Contemporary Practice
of the United States Relating to International Law, 74 Am. J. Int’l. L. 917,
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view further bolsters our understanding of the IOIA’s
immunity provision.
D
The IFC argues that interpreting the IOIA’s immunity
provision to grant anything less than absolute immunity
would lead to a number of undesirable results.
The IFC first contends that affording international
organizations only restrictive immunity would defeat the
purpose of granting them immunity in the first place.
Allowing international organizations to be sued in one
member country’s courts would in effect allow that member
to second-guess the collective decisions of the others.
It would also expose international organizations to money
damages, which would in turn make it more difficult and
expensive for them to fulfill their missions. The IFC
argues that this problem is especially acute for international
development banks. Because those banks use the
tools of commerce to achieve their objectives, they may be
subject to suit under the FSIA’s commercial activity exception
for most or all of their core activities, unlike foreign
sovereigns. According to the IFC, allowing such suits
would bring a flood of foreign-plaintiff litigation into U. S.
courts, raising many of the same foreign-relations con-
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918 (1980) (“By virtue of the FSIA, and unless otherwise specified in
their constitutive agreements, international organizations are now
subject to the jurisdiction of our courts in respect of their commercial
activities, while retaining immunity for their acts of a public character.”);
Letter from Arnold Kanter, Acting Secretary of State, to President
George H. W. Bush (Sept. 12, 1992) in Digest of United States
Practice in International Law 1016–1017 (S. Cummins & D. Stewart
eds. 2005) (explaining that the Headquarters Agreement of the Organization
of American States affords the OAS “full immunity from judicial
process, thus going beyond the usual United States practice of affording
restrictive immunity,” in exchange for assurances that OAS would
provide for “appropriate modes of settlement of those disputes for which
jurisdiction would exist against a foreign government under the” FSIA);
Brief for United States as Amicus Curiae 24–29.
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cerns that we identified when considering similar litigation
under the Alien Tort Statute. See Jesner v. Arab
Bank, PLC, 584 U. S. ___, ___–___ (2018); Kiobel v. Royal
Dutch Petroleum Co., 569 U. S. 108, 116–117 (2013).
The IFC’s concerns are inflated. To begin, the privileges
and immunities accorded by the IOIA are only default
rules. If the work of a given international organization
would be impaired by restrictive immunity, the organization’s
charter can always specify a different level of immunity.
The charters of many international organizations
do just that. See, e.g., Convention on Privileges and Immunities
of the United Nations, Art. II, §2, Feb. 13, 1946,
21 U. S. T. 1422, T. I. A. S. No. 6900 (“The United Nations
. . . shall enjoy immunity from every form of legal process
except insofar as in any particular case it has expressly
waived its immunity”); Articles of Agreement of the International
Monetary Fund, Art. IX, §3, Dec. 27, 1945, 60
Stat. 1413, T. I. A. S. No. 1501 (IMF enjoys “immunity
from every form of judicial process except to the extent
that it expressly waives its immunity”). Notably, the
IFC’s own charter does not state that the IFC is absolutely
immune from suit.
Nor is there good reason to think that restrictive immunity
would expose international development banks to
excessive liability. As an initial matter, it is not clear that
the lending activity of all development banks qualifies as
commercial activity within the meaning of the FSIA. To
be considered “commercial,” an activity must be “the type”
of activity “by which a private party engages in” trade or
commerce. Republic of Argentina v. Weltover, Inc., 504
U. S. 607, 614 (1992); see 28 U. S. C. §1603(d). As the
Government suggested at oral argument, the lending
activity of at least some development banks, such as those
that make conditional loans to governments, may not
qualify as “commercial” under the FSIA. See Tr. of Oral
Arg. 27–30.
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And even if an international development bank’s lending
activity does qualify as commercial, that does not
mean the organization is automatically subject to suit.
The FSIA includes other requirements that must also be
met. For one thing, the commercial activity must have a
sufficient nexus to the United States. See 28 U. S. C.
§§1603, 1605(a)(2). For another, a lawsuit must be “based
upon” either the commercial activity itself or acts performed
in connection with the commercial activity. See
§1605(a)(2). Thus, if the “gravamen” of a lawsuit is tortious
activity abroad, the suit is not “based upon” commercial
activity within the meaning of the FSIA’s commercial
activity exception. See OBB Personenverkehr AG v. Sachs,
577 U. S. ___, ___–___ (2015); Saudi Arabia v. Nelson, 507
U. S. 349, 356–359 (1993). At oral argument in this case,
the Government stated that it has “serious doubts” whether
petitioners’ suit, which largely concerns allegedly tortious
conduct in India, would satisfy the “based upon” requirement.
Tr. of Oral Arg. 25–26. In short, restrictive immunity
hardly means unlimited exposure to suit for international
organizations.
* * *
The International Organizations Immunities Act grants
international organizations the “same immunity” from
suit “as is enjoyed by foreign governments” at any given
time. Today, that means that the Foreign Sovereign
Immunities Act governs the immunity of international
organizations. The International Finance Corporation is
therefore not absolutely immune from suit.
The judgment of the United States Court of Appeals for
the D. C. Circuit is reversed, and the case is remanded for
further proceedings consistent with this opinion.
It is so ordered.
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JUSTICE KAVANAUGH took no part in the consideration or
decision of this case.
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SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
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No. 17–1011
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BUDHA ISMAIL JAM, ET AL., PETITIONERS v.
INTERNATIONAL FINANCE CORPORATION
ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF
APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT
[February 27, 2019]
JUSTICE BREYER, dissenting.
The International Organizations Immunities Act of 1945
extends to international organizations “the same immunity
from suit and every form of judicial process as is enjoyed
by foreign governments.” 22 U. S. C. §288a(b). The
majority, resting primarily upon the statute’s language
and canons of interpretation, holds that the statute’s
reference to “immunity” moves with the times. As a consequence,
the statute no longer allows international organizations
immunity from lawsuits arising from their
commercial activities. In my view, the statute grants
international organizations that immunity—just as foreign
governments possessed that immunity when Congress
enacted the statute in 1945. In reaching this conclusion,
I rest more heavily than does the majority upon the
statute’s history, its context, its purposes, and its consequences.
And I write in part to show that, in difficult
cases like this one, purpose-based methods of interpretation
can often shine a useful light upon opaque statutory
language, leading to a result that reflects greater legal
coherence and is, as a practical matter, more sound.
I
The general question before us is familiar: Do the words
of a statute refer to their subject matter “statically,” as it
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was when the statute was written? Or is their reference
to that subject matter “dynamic,” changing in scope as the
subject matter changes over time? It is hardly surprising,
given the thousands of different statutes containing an
untold number of different words, that there is no single,
universally applicable answer to this question.
Fairly recent cases from this Court make that clear.
Compare New Prime Inc. v. Oliveira, 586 U. S. ___, ___
(2019) (slip op., at 7) (adopting the interpretation of “‘contracts
of employment’ ” that prevailed at the time of the
statute’s adoption in 1925); Wisconsin Central Ltd. v.
United States, 585 U. S. ___, ___ (2018) (slip op., at 2)
(adopting the meaning of “‘money’” that prevailed at the
time of the statute’s enactment in 1937); Carcieri v. Salazar,
555 U. S. 379, 388 (2009) (interpreting the statutory
phrase “‘now under Federal jurisdiction’” to cover only
those tribes that were under federal jurisdiction at the
time of the statute’s adoption in 1934); and Republic of
Argentina v. Weltover, Inc., 504 U. S. 607, 612–613 (1992)
(adopting the meaning of “ ‘commercial’” that was “attached
to that term under the restrictive theory” when the
Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act was enacted in 1976),
with Kimble v. Marvel Entertainment, LLC, 576 U. S. ___,
___ (2015) (slip op., at 14) (noting that the words “‘restraint
of trade’” in the Sherman Act have been interpreted
dynamically); West v. Gibson, 527 U. S. 212, 218 (1999)
(interpreting the term “‘appropriate’” in Title VII’s remedies
provision dynamically); and Allied-Bruce Terminix
Cos. v. Dobson, 513 U. S. 265, 275–276 (1995) (interpreting
the term “‘involving commerce’” in the Federal Arbitration
Act dynamically).
The Court, like petitioners, believes that the language of
the statute itself helps significantly to answer the static/dynamic
question. See ante, at 7–9. I doubt that the
language itself helps in this case. Petitioners point to the
words “as is” in the phrase that grants the international
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organizations the “same immunity from suit . . . as is
enjoyed by foreign governments.” Brief for Petitioners 23–
24. They invoke the Dictionary Act, which states that
“words used in the present tense include the future” “unless
the context indicates otherwise.” 1 U. S. C. §1. But
that provision creates only a presumption. And it did not
even appear in the statute until 1948, after Congress had
passed the Immunities Act. Compare §1, 61 Stat. 633,
with §6, 62 Stat. 859.
More fundamentally, the words “as is enjoyed” do not
conclusively tell us when enjoyed. Do they mean “as is
enjoyed” at the time of the statute’s enactment? Or “as is
enjoyed” at the time a plaintiff brings a lawsuit? If the
former, international organizations enjoy immunity from
lawsuits based upon their commercial activities, for that
was the scope of immunity that foreign governments
enjoyed in 1945 when the Immunities Act became law. If
the latter, international organizations do not enjoy that
immunity, for foreign governments can no longer claim
immunity from lawsuits based upon certain commercial
activities. See 28 U. S. C. §1605(a)(2).
Linguistics does not answer the temporal question. Nor
do our cases, which are not perfectly consistent on the
matter. Compare McNeill v. United States, 563 U. S. 816,
821 (2011) (present-tense verb in the Armed Career Criminal
Act requires applying the law at the time of previous
conviction, not the later time when the Act is applied),
with Dole Food Co. v. Patrickson, 538 U. S. 468, 478 (2003)
(present-tense verb requires applying the law “at the time
suit is filed”). The problem is simple: “Without knowing
the point in time at which the law speaks, it is impossible
to tell what is past and what is present or future.” Carr v.
United States, 560 U. S. 438, 463 (2010) (ALITO, J., dissenting).
It is purpose, not linguistics, that can help us
here.
The words “same . . . as,” in the phrase “same immunity
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. . . as,” provide no greater help. The majority finds support
for its dynamic interpretation in the Civil Rights Act
of 1866, which gives all citizens the “same right” to make
and enforce contracts and to buy and sell property “as is
enjoyed by white citizens.” 42 U. S. C. §§1981(a), 1982
(emphasis added). But it is purpose, not words, that readily
resolves any temporal linguistic ambiguity in that
statute. The Act’s objective, like that of the Fourteenth
Amendment itself, was a Nation that treated its citizens
equally. Its purpose—revealed by its title, historical
context, and other language in the statute—was “to guarantee
the then newly freed slaves the same legal rights
that other citizens enjoy.” CBOCS West, Inc. v. Humphries,
553 U. S. 442, 448 (2008). Given this purpose, its
dynamic nature is obvious.
Similarly, judges interpreting the words “same . . . as”
have long resolved ambiguity not by looking at the words
alone, but by examining the statute’s purpose as well.
Compare, e.g., Kugler’s Appeal, 55 Pa. 123, 123–125 (1867)
(adopting a dynamic interpretation of “same as” statute in
light of “plain” and “manifest” statutory purpose); and
Gaston v. Lamkin, 115 Mo. 20, 34, 21 S. W. 1100, 1104
(1893) (adopting a dynamic interpretation of “same as”
election statute given the legislature’s intent to achieve
“simplicity and uniformity in the conduct of elections”),
with O’Flynn v. East Rochester, 292 N. Y. 156, 162, 54
N. E. 2d 343, 346 (1944) (adopting a static interpretation
of “same as” statute given that the legislature “did not
contemplate” that subsequent changes to a referenced
statute would apply (interpreting N. Y. Gen. Mun. Law
Ann. §360(5) (West 1934))). There is no hard-and-fast rule
that the statutory words “as is” or the statutory words
“same as” require applying the law as it stands today.
The majority wrongly believes that it can solve the
temporal problem by bringing statutory canons into play.
It relies on what it calls the “reference canon.” That canon,
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as it appeared more than 75 years ago in Sutherland’s
book on statutory construction, says that “when a statute
refers to a general subject, the statute adopts the law on
that subject as it exists whenever a question under the
statute arises.” Ante, at 9 (citing 2 J. Sutherland, Statutory
Construction §§5207–5208 (3d ed. 1943); emphasis
added).
But a canon is at most a rule of thumb. Indeed, Sutherland
himself says that “[n]o single canon of interpretation
can purport to give a certain and unerring answer.” 2
Sutherland, supra, §4501, p. 316. And hornbooks, summarizing
case law, have long explained that whether a
reference statute adopts the law as it stands on the date of
enactment or includes subsequent changes in the law to
which it refers is “fundamentally a question of legislative
intent and purpose.” Fox, Effect of Modification or Repeal
of Constitutional or Statutory Provision Adopted by Reference
in Another Provision, 168 A. L. R. 627, 628 (1947);
see also 82 C. J. S., Statutes §485, p. 637 (2009) (“The
question of whether a statute which has adopted another
statute by reference will be affected by amendments made
to the adopted statute is one of legislative intent and
purpose”); id., at 638 (statute that refers generally to
another body of law will ordinarily include subsequent
changes in the adopted law only “as far as the changes are
consistent with the purpose of the adopting statute”).
Thus, all interpretive roads here lead us to the same
place, namely, to context, to history, to purpose, and to
consequences. Language alone cannot resolve the statute’s
linguistic ambiguity.
II
“Statutory interpretation,” however, “is not a game of
blind man’s bluff.” Dole Food Co., 538 U. S., at 484
(BREYER, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part).
We are “free to consider statutory language in light of a
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statute’s basic purposes,” ibid., as well as “‘the history of
the times when it was passed,’” Leo Sheep Co. v. United
States, 440 U. S. 668, 669 (1979) (quoting United States v.
Union Pacific R. Co., 91 U. S. 72, 79 (1875)). In this case,
historical context, purpose, and related consequences tell
us a great deal about the proper interpretation of the
Immunities Act.
Congressional reports explain that Congress, acting in
the immediate aftermath of World War II, intended the
Immunities Act to serve two related purposes. First, it
would “enabl[e] this country to fulfill its commitments in
connection with its membership in international organizations.”
S. Rep. No. 861, 79th Cong., 1st Sess., 3 (1945); see
also id., at 2–3 (explaining that the Immunities Act was
“basic legislation” expected to “satisfy in full the requirements
of . . . international organizations conducting activities
in the United States”); H. R. Rep. No. 1203, 79th
Cong., 1st Sess., 3 (1945) (similar). And second, it would
“facilitate fully the functioning of international organizations
in this country.” S. Rep. No. 861, at 3.
A
I first examine the international commitments that
Congress sought to fulfill. By 1945, the United States had
entered into agreements creating several important multilateral
organizations, including the United Nations (UN),
the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank,
the UN Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
(UNRRA), and the Food and Agriculture Organization
(FAO). See id., at 2.
The founding agreements for several of these organizations
required member states to grant them broad immunity
from suit. The Bretton Woods Agreements, for example,
provided that the IMF “shall enjoy immunity from
every form of judicial process except to the extent that it
expressly waives its immunity.” Articles of Agreement of
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the International Monetary Fund, Art. IX, §3, Dec. 27,
1945, 60 Stat. 1413, T. I. A. S. No. 1501. UNRRA required
members, absent waiver, to accord the organization “the
facilities, privileges, immunities, and exemptions which
they accord to each other, including . . . [i]mmunity from
suit and legal process.” 2 UNRRA, A Compilation of the
Resolutions on Policy: First and Second Sessions of the
UNRRA Council, Res. No. 32, p. 51 (1944). And the UN
Charter required member states to accord the UN “such
privileges and immunities as are necessary for the fulfillment
of its purposes.” Charter of the United Nations, Art.
105, 59 Stat. 1053, June 26, 1945, T. S. No. 993.
These international organizations expected the United
States to provide them with essentially full immunity.
And at the time the treaties were written, Congress understood
that foreign governments normally enjoyed immunity
with respect to their commercial, as well as their
noncommercial, activities. Thus, by granting international
organizations “the same immunity from suit” that
foreign governments enjoyed, Congress expected that
international organizations would similarly have immunity
in both commercial and noncommercial suits.
More than that, Congress likely recognized that immunity
in the commercial area was even more important for
many international organizations than it was for most
foreign governments. Unlike foreign governments, international
organizations are not sovereign entities engaged
in a host of different activities. See R. Higgins, Problems
& Process: International Law and How We Use It 93
(1994) (organizations do not act with “ ‘sovereign authority,’”
and “to assimilate them to states . . . is not correct”).
Rather, many organizations (including four of the five I
mentioned above) have specific missions that often require
them to engage in what U. S. law may well consider to be
commercial activities. See infra, at 12.
Nonetheless, under the majority’s view, the immunity of
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many organizations contracted in scope in 1952, when the
State Department modified foreign government immunity
to exclude commercial activities. Most organizations could
not rely on the treaty provisions quoted above to supply
the necessary immunity. That is because, unless the
treaty provision granting immunity is “self-executing,” i.e.,
automatically applicable, the immunity will not be effective
in U. S. courts until Congress enacts additional legislation
to implement it. See Medellin v. Texas, 552 U. S.
491, 504–505 (2008); but see id., at 546–547 (BREYER, J.,
dissenting). And many treaties are not self-executing.
Thus, in the ordinary case, not even a treaty can guarantee
immunity in cases arising from commercial activities.
The UN provides a good example. As noted, the UN
Charter required the United States to grant the UN all
“necessary” immunities, but it was not self-executing. In
1946, the UN made clear that it needed absolute immunity
from suit, including in lawsuits based upon its commercial
activities. See Convention on Privileges and Immunities
of the United Nations, Art. II, §2, Feb. 13, 1946, 21
U. S. T. 1422, T. I. A. S. No. 6900 (entered into force Apr.
29, 1970); see also App. to S. Exec. Rep. No. 91–17, p. 14
(1970) (“The U. N.’s immunity from legal process extends
to matters arising out its commercial dealings . . . ”). But,
until Congress ratified that comprehensive immunity
provision in 1970, no U. S. law provided that immunity
but for the Immunities Act. Id., at 1. Both the UN and
the United States found this circumstance satisfactory
because they apparently assumed the Immunities Act
extended immunity in cases involving both commercial
and noncommercial activities: When Congress eventually
(in 1970) ratified the UN’s comprehensive immunity provision,
the Senate reported that the long delay in ratification
“appears to have been the result of the executive
branch being content to operate under the provisions of
the” Immunities Act. Id., at 2.
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In light of this history, how likely is it that Congress,
seeking to “satisfy in full the requirements of . . . international
organizations conducting activities in the United
States,” S. Rep. No. 861, at 2–3 (emphasis added), would
have understood the statute to take from many international
organizations with one hand the immunity it had
given them with the other? If Congress wished the Act to
carry out one of its core purposes—fulfilling the country’s
international commitments—Congress would not have
wanted the statute to change over time, taking on a meaning
that would fail to grant not only full, but even partial,
immunity to many of those organizations.
B
Congress also intended to facilitate international organizations’
ability to pursue their missions in the United
States. To illustrate why that purpose is better served by
a static interpretation, consider in greater detail the work
of the organizations to which Congress wished to provide
broad immunity. Put the IMF to the side, for Congress
enacted a separate statute providing it with immunity
(absent waiver) in all cases. See 22 U. S. C. §286h. But
UNRRA, the World Bank, the FAO, and the UN itself all
originally depended upon the Immunities Act for the
immunity they sought.
Consider, for example, the mission of UNRRA. The
United States and other nations created that organization
in 1943, as the end of World War II seemed in sight. Its
objective was, in the words of President Roosevelt, to
“ ‘assure a fair distribution of available supplies among’”
those liberated in World War II, and “‘to ward off death by
starvation or exposure among these peoples.’” 1 G. Woodbridge,
UNRRA: The History of the United Nations Relief
and Rehabilitation Administration 3 (1950). By the time
Congress passed the Immunities Act in 1945, UNRRA had
obtained and shipped billions of pounds of food, clothing,
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and other relief supplies to children freed from Nazi concentration
camps and to others in serious need. 3 id., at
429; see generally L. Nicholas, Cruel World: The Children
of Europe in the Nazi Web 442–513 (2005).
These activities involved contracts, often made in the
United States, for transportation and for numerous commercial
goods. See B. Shephard, The Long Road Home:
The Aftermath of the Second World War 54, 57–58 (2012).
Indeed, the United States conditioned its participation on
UNRRA’s spending what amounted to 67% of its budget on
purchases of goods and services in the United States. Id.,
at 57–58; see also Sawyer, Achievements of UNRRA as an
International Health Organization, 37 Am. J. Pub. Health
41, 57 (1947) (describing UNRRA training programs for
foreign doctors within the United States, which presumably
required entering into contracts); International Refugee
Org. v. Republic S. S. Corp., 189 F. 2d 858, 860 (CA4
1951) (describing successor organization’s transportation
of displaced persons, presumably also under contract).
Would Congress, believing that it had provided the absolute
immunity that UNRRA sought and expected, also
have intended that the statute be interpreted “dynamically,”
thereby removing most of the immunity that it had
then provided—not only potentially from UNRRA itself
but also from other future international organizations
with UNRRA-like objectives and tasks?
C
This history makes clear that Congress enacted the
Immunities Act as part of an effort to encourage international
organizations to locate their headquarters and carry
on their missions in the United States. It also makes clear
that Congress intended to enact “basic legislation” that
would fulfill its broad immunity-based commitments to
the UN, UNRRA, and other nascent organizations.
S. Rep. No. 861, at 2. And those commitments, of neces-
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sity, included immunity from suit in commercial areas, since
organizations were buying goods and making contracts in
the United States.
To achieve these purposes, Congress enacted legislation
that granted necessarily broad immunity. And that fact
strongly suggests that Congress would not have wanted
the statute to reduce significantly the scope of immunity
that international organizations enjoyed, particularly
organizations engaged in development finance, refugee
assistance, or other tasks that U. S. law could well decide
were “commercial” in nature. See infra, at 12.
To that extent, an examination of the statute’s purpose
supports a static, not a dynamic, interpretation of its
cross-reference to the immunity of foreign governments.
Unlike the purpose of the Civil Rights Act, the purpose
here was not to ensure parity of treatment for international
organizations and foreign governments. Instead, as
the Court of Appeals for the D. C. Circuit pointed out
years ago, the statute’s reference to the immunities of
“foreign governments” was a “shorthand” for the immunities
those foreign governments enjoyed at the time the Act
was passed. Atkinson v. Inter-American Development
Bank, 156 F. 3d 1335, 1340, 1341 (1998).
III
Now consider the consequences that the majority’s
reading of the statute will likely produce—consequences
that run counter to the statute’s basic purposes. Although
the UN itself is no longer dependent upon the Immunities
Act, many other organizations, such as the FAO and several
multilateral development banks, continue to rely
upon that Act to secure immunity, for the United States
has never ratified treaties nor enacted statutes that might
extend the necessary immunity, commercial and noncommercial
alike.
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A
The “commercial activity” exception to the sovereign
immunity of foreign nations is broad. We have said that a
foreign state engages in “commercial activity” when it
exercises “‘powers that can also be exercised by private
citizens.’” Republic of Argentina, 504 U. S., at 614. Thus,
“a contract to buy army boots or even bullets is a ‘commercial’
activity,” even if the government enters into the
contract to “fulfil[l] uniquely sovereign objectives.” Ibid.;
see also H. R. Rep. No. 94–1487, p. 16 (1976) (“[A] transaction
to obtain goods or services from private parties would
not lose its otherwise commercial character because it was
entered into in connection with an [Agency for International
Development] program”).
As a result of the majority’s interpretation, many of the
international organizations to which the United States
belongs will discover that they are now exposed to civil
lawsuits based on their (U. S.-law-defined) commercial
activity. And because “commercial activity” may well have
a broad definition, today’s holding will at the very least
create uncertainty for organizations involved in finance,
such as the World Bank, the Inter-American Development
Bank, and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency.
The core functions of these organizations are at least
arguably “commercial” in nature; the organizations exist
to promote international development by investing in
foreign companies and projects across the world. See Brief
for International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
et al. as Amici Curiae 1–4; Brief for Member Countries
and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency
as Amici Curiae 13–15. The World Bank, for example,
encourages development either by guaranteeing private
loans or by providing financing from its own funds if private
capital is not available. See Articles of Agreement of
the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development,
Art. I, Dec. 27, 1945, 60 Stat. 1440, T. I. A. S. No.
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1502.
Some of these organizations, including the International
Finance Corporation (IFC), themselves believe they do not
need broad immunity in commercial areas, and they have
waived it. See, e.g., Articles of Agreement of the International
Finance Corporation, Art. 6, §3, Dec. 5, 1955, 7
U. S. T. 2214, 264 U. N. T. S. 118 (implemented by 22
U. S. C. §282g); see also 860 F. 3d 703, 706 (CADC 2017).
But today’s decision will affect them nonetheless. That is
because courts have long interpreted their waivers in a
manner that protects their core objectives. See, e.g.,
Mendaro v. World Bank, 717 F. 2d 610, 614–615 (CADC
1983). (This very case provides a good example. The D. C.
Circuit held below that the IFC’s waiver provision does not
cover petitioners’ claims because they “threaten the
[IFC’s] policy discretion.” See 860 F. 3d, at 708.) But
today’s decision exposes these organizations to potential
liability in all cases arising from their commercial activities,
without regard to the scope of their waivers.
Under the majority’s interpretation, that broad exposure
to liability is at least a reasonable possibility. And that
being so, the interpretation undercuts Congress’ original
objectives and the expectations that it had when it enacted
the Immunities Act in 1945.
B
The majority’s opinion will have a further important
consequence—one that more clearly contradicts the statute’s
objectives and overall scheme. It concerns the important
goal of weeding out lawsuits that are likely bad or
harmful—those likely to produce rules of law that interfere
with an international organization’s public interest
tasks.
To understand its importance, consider again that international
organizations, unlike foreign nations, are
multilateral, with members from many different nations.
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See H. R. Rep. No. 1203, at 1. That multilateralism is
threatened if one nation alone, through application of its
own liability rules (by nonexpert judges), can shape the
policy choices or actions that an international organization
believes it must take or refrain from taking. Yet that is
the effect of the majority’s interpretation. By restricting
the immunity that international organizations enjoy, it
“opens the door to divided decisions of the courts of different
member states,” including U. S. courts, “passing judgment
on the rules, regulations, and decisions of the international
bodies.” Broadbent v. Organization of Am. States,
628 F. 2d 27, 35 (CADC 1980); cf. Singer, Jurisdictional
Immunity of International Organizations: Human Rights
and Functional Necessity Concerns, 36 Va. J. Int’l L. 53,
63–64 (1995) (recognizing that “[i]t would be inappropriate
for municipal courts to cut deep into the region of autonomous
decision-making authority of institutions such as the
World Bank”).
Many international organizations, fully aware of their
moral (if not legal) obligations to prevent harm to others
and to compensate individuals when they do cause harm,
have sought to fulfill those obligations without compromising
their ability to operate effectively. Some, as I have
said, waive their immunity in U. S. courts at least in part.
And the D. C. Circuit, for nearly 40 years, has interpreted
those waivers in a way that protects the organization
against interference by any single state. See, e.g.,
Mendaro, 717 F. 2d, at 615. The D. C. Circuit allows a
lawsuit to proceed when “insistence on immunity would
actually prevent or hinder the organization from conducting
its activities.” Id., at 617. Thus, a direct beneficiary of
a World Bank loan can generally sue the Bank, because
“the commercial reliability of the Bank’s direct loans . . .
would be significantly vitiated” if “beneficiaries were
required to accept the Bank’s obligations without recourse
to judicial process.” Id., at 618. Where, however, allowing
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BREYER, J., dissenting
a suit would lead to “disruptive interference” with the
organization’s functions, the waiver does not apply. Ibid.
Other organizations have attempted to solve the liability/immunity
problem by turning to multilateral, not
single-nation, solutions. The UN, for instance, has
agreed to “make provisions for appropriate modes of settlement
of . . . [d]isputes arising out of contracts or other
disputes of a private law character.” Convention on Privileges
and Immunities of the United Nations, Art. VIII,
§29, 21 U. S. T. 1438, T. I. A. S. No. 6900. It generally
does so by agreeing to submit commercial disputes to
arbitration. See Restatement (Third) of Foreign Relations
Law of the United States §467, Reporters’ Note 7 (1987).
Other organizations, including the IFC, have set up alternative
accountability schemes to resolve disputes that
might otherwise end up in court. See World Bank, Inspection
Panel: About Us (describing World Bank’s threemember
“independent complaints mechanism” for those
“who believe that they have been . . . adversely affected by
a World Bank-funded project”), https://inspectionpanel.org/
about-us/about-inspection-panel (as last visited Feb. 25,
2019); Compliance Advisor Ombudsman, How We Work:
CAO Dispute Resolution (describing IFC and Multilateral
Investment Guarantee Agency dispute-resolution
process, the main objective of which is to help resolve issues
raised about the “social and environmental impacts of
IFC/MIGA projects”), www.cao-ombudsman.org/howwework/
ombudsman.
These alternatives may sometimes prove inadequate.
And, if so, the Immunities Act itself offers a way for America’s
Executive Branch to set aside an organization’s immunity
and to allow a lawsuit to proceed in U. S. courts.
The Act grants to the President the authority to “withhold,”
to “withdraw,” to “condition,” or to “limit” any of the
Act’s “immunities” in “light of the functions performed by
any such international organization.” 22 U. S. C. §288.
16 JAM v. INTERNATIONAL FINANCE CORP.
BREYER, J., dissenting
Were we to interpret the statute statically, then, the
default rule would be immunity in suits arising from an
organization’s commercial activities. But the Executive
Branch would have the power to withdraw immunity
where immunity is not warranted, as the Act itself provides.
And in making that determination, it could consider
whether allowing the lawsuit would jeopardize the
organization’s ability to carry out its public interest tasks.
In a word, the Executive Branch, under a static interpretation,
would have the authority needed to separate lawsuit
sheep from lawsuit goats.
Under the majority’s interpretation, by contrast, there is
no such flexibility. The Executive does not have the power
to tailor immunity by taking into account the risk of a
lawsuit’s unjustified interference with institutional objectives
or other institutional needs. Rather, the majority’s
holding takes away an international organization’s immunity
(in cases arising from “commercial” activities)
across the board. And without a new statute, there is no
way to restore it, in whole or in part. Nothing in the
present statute gives the Executive, the courts, or the
organization the power to restore immunity, or to tailor
any resulting potential liability, where a lawsuit threatens
seriously to interfere with an organization’s legitimate
needs and goals.
Thus, the static interpretation comes equipped with
flexibility. It comes equipped with a means to withdraw
immunity where justified. But the dynamic interpretation
freezes potential liability into law. It withdraws immunity
automatically and irretrievably, irrespective of institutional
harm. It seems highly unlikely that Congress
would have wanted this result.
* * *
At the end of World War II, many in this Nation saw
international cooperation through international organiza-
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BREYER, J., dissenting
tion as one way both to diminish the risk of conflict and to
promote economic development and commercial prosperity.
Congress at that time and at the request of many of
those organizations enacted the Immunities Act. Given
the differences between international organizations and
nation states, along with the Act’s purposes and the risk of
untoward consequences, I would leave the Immunities Act
where we found it—as providing for immunity in both
commercial and noncommercial suits.
My decision rests primarily not upon linguistic analysis,
but upon basic statutory purposes. Linguistic methods
alone, however artfully employed, too often can be used to
justify opposite conclusions. Purposes, derived from context,
informed by history, and tested by recognition of
related consequences, will more often lead us to legally
sound, workable interpretations—as they have consistently
done in the past. These methods of interpretation can
help voters hold officials accountable for their decisions
and permit citizens of our diverse democracy to live together
productively and in peace—basic objectives in
America of the rule of law itself.
With respect, I dissent.
"
IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029807.txt,"narrow maritime confines like the Suez
Canal, the Red Sea, and the Persian Gulf.

But the likely proliferation of nuclear
weapons -- and ballistic missile delivery
systems -- will pose even more
formidable challenges to conventional
military surges in the region. In the
future, the United States will not be able
to take for granted unchallenged surges
of naval, air, and ground forces into
regional theaters via logistics hubs. These
hubs -- like the American naval presence
in Bahrain -- are large, readily
identifiable, and will be increasingly
vulnerable to future targeting by nuclear
weaponry.

Iran's nuclear weapons, assuming it gets
them, will pose a direct threat to
American military surge capabilities.
Although American policymakers and
military commanders might feel
confident that they could surge forces
into the Gulf despite Iranian nuclear
threats because of the American nuclear
deterrent, Gulf security partners might be
more nervous and less willing to
cooperate. As a result, they might not
grant access to U.S. air, naval, and
ground forces out of fear of angering
Iran.

American observers who doubt that Gulf
states would make such calculations
should recall how Kuwait responded in

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IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011796.txt,"/ BARAK / 39

president and his negotiating team had spent the previous few, frustrating years
trying alternately to urge, nudge and cajole him — and, of course, Arafat — toward
implementing Oslo. Clinton did finally succeed in getting the Wye River
agreement. But it, too, remained to be implemented.

Nava’s presence, and Hillary Clinton’s, contributed to an informal, familial
atmosphere. Before my first round of talks with the President, we joined Bill and
Hillary for dinner. Though I would work more closely with Hillary in later years,
when she was Secretary of State under President Obama, this was the first time I’d
had the opportunity to engage in anything more than small talk with her. She was
less naturally outgoing than her husband. Yet not only was she bright and
articulate. She was barely less informed on the ins and outs of Middle East peace
negotiations than the President. She, and Bill as well, also spoke with us about
things well beyond the diplomacy of the Middle East: science, music, and our
shared interest in history. What most struck Nava and me, however, was the way
the Clintons interacted with each other. The scandal surrounding Monica Lewinsky
was still fresh. I suppose we expected to see signs of tension. Whether they were
there, we had no way of knowing. But what the two of them did palpably have was
a deep respect for each other’s intelligence, insight and creativity in looking for
solutions where so many others saw only problems. It was impressive.

Still, there was little small talk in the long discussions I had with the President.
From the outset, I wanted him to know exactly what I hoped we could accomplish
and how, in my view, we were most likely to get there. I wasn’t trying to impose
“ground rules” on the President of the United States, something I neither would nor
could do. But I was explicit with him about my own approach the negotiations. I
assured him I was prepared to be flexible. But I said I’d be relying on two critical
assumptions. The first was that when we and the Americans agreed a position on a
specific issue, there would be no unilateral “surprises” — by which I meant, though
didn’t say, things like the unfortunate American redefinition of Yitzhak’s “pocket
deposit” assurance regarding the Golan. The second assumption, I know, may
seem overly legalistic. It was that, until and unless we reached a full and final
agreement with either Syria or the Palestinians, any Israeli negotiating ideas or
proposals would not be binding. If no agreement was reached, they would become
null and void. I wanted to avoid a situation, as had happened so often in past
negotiations, where an Israeli proposal was rejected by the Arab side but then
treated as the opening position in the expectation of further concessions in later

325
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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019374.txt,"Colleagues cite chief's professionalism,

REITER from IB

ney’s office for two reasons,
First, he pressed for Epstein
to be charged with the more
serious crimes of sexual ac-
tivity with minors. Second, he
slammed State Attorney Bar-
ry-Xrischer in blunt language
seldom used by one law-
enforcement official con-
cerning another because of
what he perceived as that of
fice’s mishandling of the
case.

‘In a letter to Krischer
written May 1, Reiter called
his actions in the Epstein
case “highly unusual.” He
added, “‘Imusturge youto...
consider if good and suffi-
cient reason exists to require
your disqualification from the
prosecution of these cases.”

In short, Reiter told the
county’s top prosecutor for
the past 13 years that he
ought to get off the case. “It
-looks like a departure from

professionalism,” Muiami-
Dade State Attorney
Katherine Fernandez Rundle
said of Reiter’s letter.

Following Epstein’s in-
dictment, Reiter referred the
case to the FBI to determine
whether the super-rich,
super-connected defendant
had violated any federal laws.

Reiter won't discuss the
case or the broadsides aimed
at him. But others almost
uniformly use one word to
describe the chief: profes-
sional. :

“I have always been im-
pressed by Mike’s profes-
sionalism and his leader-
ship,” said Rick Lincoln, chief
of the Lantana Police Depart-
ment and a Palm Beach
County cop for 32 years.

“The town of Palm Beach
has a very professional police
department. We all consider

Mike to be our peer and 2 -

man of integrity.”

Reiter: Town
Manager Peter
Elwell says the
Paim Beach
police chief's
well worth his
$144,000 sal-
ary.

Juno Beach Police Chief
H.C. Clark II agreed. Al
though he doesn’t know Re-
iter well, he has met with him
on countywide law enforce
ment issues. “I’ve never seen
him lose his cool. I've never
seen anything but a profes-
sional demeanor from him.”

Reiter joined the Palm
Beach Police Department in
1981, leaving a $20,000-a-year
patrol job at the University of
Pittsburgh. His personnel
jacket shows consistently ex-
cellent job evaluations.

Posh Palm Beach is no
hothed of crime, and in his
first year on the job, a resi-

dent confined to his home
with a sick child thanked Re-
iter for delivering afew Cokes

to the house. Reiter refused -

payment for the beverages.
Another resident thanked
Reiter for shutting off his
car’s headlights in his drive-
way, saying a valet must have
heen at fault.

Reiter worked everything
from road patrel to organized
crime, vice and narcotics.
And he’s no novice at investi-
gations involving the island’s
rich and famous. He was the
lead detective probing the
drug overdose death of David
Kennedy in 1984. He also was
one of the officers who
worked the investigation of
William Kennedy Smith, who
was charged in 1991 — and
later acquitted — with raping
@ woman at the Kennedy
family compound in Palm
Beach.

Reiter, who has amaster’s
degree in human resource

integrity

development from Palm
Beach Atlantic University, al- .
so has attended the FBI Na-
tional Academy in Quantico,
Va., and management cours.

es at Harvard. He’s been cK
tive in countywide interagen-
cy law enforcement
organizations and has a “top
secret” national security
clearance.

“He has a perspective
that’s broader than just ad-
dressing the needs of the
town,” said Town Manager
Peter Elwell, who promoted
Reiter from assistant chief to
chief in March 2001. Reiter
makes more than $144,000 as
the town’s top cop. Elwell
thinks he’s worth it,

“He’s very businesslike,
very straighiforward. He's

not easily agitated or in —-

boyant, He’s about the work,”
Elwell said. “I think that his
service as chief has been
outstanding in  five-plus
years.”

® lary_keller@pbpast.com

03956-79

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013339.txt,"Epstein’s Obstruction of Normal Discovery and Attacks on His Victims

53. Once Edwards filed his civil complaints for his three clients, he began the normal
process of discovery for cases such as these. He sent standard discovery requests to Epstein
abut his sexual abuse of the minor girls, including requests for admissions, request for
raestiuction, and interrogatories. See Edwards Afadavit Exhibit “N”, at [911-19 and 25.

Rather than answer any substantive questions about his sexual abuse and his conspiracy for
procuring minor girls for him to abuse, Epstein invoked his 5th amendment right against self-
inctimination. An example of Epstein’s refusal to answer is attached as Composite Exhibit “Z”
(or ginal discovery propounded to Epstein and his responses invoking 5th amendment).

54. During the discovery phase of the civil cases filed against Epstein, Epstein’s
deposition was taken at least five times. During all of those depositions, Epstein refused to
answer any substantive questions about his sexual abuse of minor girls. See, e.g., Deposition
Attachments 1, 6 and 7.

55, During these depositions, Epstein further attempted to obstruct legitimate
questioning by inserting a variety of irrelevant information about his case. As one of
innumerable examples, on March 8, 2010, Mr. Horowitz, representing seven victims, Jane Doe's
2-8, asked, ""Q: In 2004, did you rub Jane Doe 3's vagina? A: Excuse me. I'd like to answer that
question, as I would like to answer mostly every question you've asked me here today; however,
upon advice of counsel, I cannot answer that question. They've advised me I must assert my
Sixth Amendment, Fifth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment Rights against self--excuse
me, against--under the Constitution. And though your partner, Jeffrey Herman, was disbarred

after filing this lawsuit [a statement that was untrue], Mr. Edwards' partner sits in jail for
21

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IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_010488.txt,"-xner, photographed
ne in New York City,

Lynn Goldsmith) Virginia Roberts, age

fifteen; photo reportedly
taken by Jeffrey Epstein in
New York City (Virginia fam
Roberts Affidavit, US
District Southern Court of
Florida)

|
|
.

(L to R) Prince Andrew, Virginia Roberts,
and Ghislaine Maxwell: photo reportedly
taken by Epstein with Roberts's camera
in Maxwell's London town house.
Roberts was seventeen years old at this
time. (Virginia Roberts Affidavit, US
District Southern Court of Florida)

(Lto R) Deborah

* Blohm, Jeffrey Epstein,
Ghislaine Maxwell, and
Gwendolyn Beck attend a
reception at Mar-a-Lago,
1995. (Davidoff Studios)

Virginia Roberts, age seventeen;
photo reportedly taken by
Jeffrey Epstein at Zorro Ranch,
his New Mexico property,

in winter (Virginia Roberts
Affidavit, US District Southern
Court of Florida)

| Jeffrey Epstein with Professor
) Alan Dershowitz in Cambridge,
| MA, September 8, 2004 (© Rick
Friedman / Corbis)

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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031011.txt,"From: Jeffrey Epstein [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Sent: 6/14/2010 8:18:52 PM 
To: Pritzker, Tom 
Subject: Fwd: Fw: [Pen-Cousins] Fw: Nobody knows nobody in Chicago 
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HOUSE OVERSIGHT 031011 
Get it 
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry 
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weiss ROBERT SAWYER 
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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:49:10 -0400 
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Subject: Nobody knows nobody in Chicago 
, peter 
Rod Blagojevich is the former Illinois Governor who tried to sell Obama's seat in congress. 
Obama was asked, by the press, if he had ever met Gov. Ron Blagojevich. 
Barack Obama: ""I only saw Rod Blagojevich one time ... and that was in the stands and from 
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a distance at a Chicago Bears Football Game."" 
Rod Blagojevich, Barack Obama and Richard Daley during a rally in Chicago , April 
16, 2007. (Photo Reuters) 
To understand the next 4 years, you have to understand the world according to Chicago ... 
While Chicago is a city in Illinois , it is almost a completely different country when 
it comes to politics, with a whole different set of morals and language. 
There are only three rules and a Prime Directive which anybody can understand. You don't 
even need an attorney to understand them --and if you need an attorney, well, you know too 
much...so look out for Rule #3! 
RULE #1...No matter what you see, hear, or do --you don't know anybody and you don't 
know nothing! 
RULE #2...If you capture something on tape or camera -- it doesn't reveal nothing! 
RULE #3...If you know what everybody knows in Chicago --well, you still don't know 
nothing. 
The PRIME DIRECTIVE in CHICAGO ...No matter what the vote Democrats win 
the election. Now pay close attention! 
It's very simple....we'll illustrate. Remember, you know nothing. 
These two? They don't know each other! They said they didn't. 
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The fellas in this picture. They never actually met face to face. What fellas? We don't see 
nothing! 
• 
The guy on the left? For all you know he's Santa Claus. 
And the guy on the right.., well, he's the Easter Bunny! That's all you need to know. 
Go to your eye doctor...your eyes are lying to you! Ca'pish? 
Remember Jimmy Hoffa? He knew too much and now, well, now no one knows where 
he is. 
Is the big picture clear? Not these pictures! Remember, You've already forgot them... 
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Governor Ellogojevich confers with now President-Elect Elorock Obomo 
Now, ain't that simple? They don't know each other and they never met! 
How is that possible? 'cause they said so! And don't forget it! 
P.S. If you pass this on to your friends, don't forget, you know nothing and they will 
know nothing. 
David Gibson, M.D. Chicago 
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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_014330.txt,"expected to fall to the bottom line, management noted that achieving this would be
accretive to its overall margin. We note that when asked where is C’s biggest
opportunity to take global market share within ICG, 47% of those polled said the
biggest opportunity lied within the Equities business.

Chart 25: Where do you think C’s biggest opportunity is to take global market share within its IGC
business?

AT%

50%
45%
40%
35%
30%
29%
20%
15%
10%

5%

0%

31%

22%

Fixed income markets Equity markets Banking (Treasury & Trade
Solutions, advisory, ECM,
DCM)

Source: BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research

- Lower regulatory constraints versus peers present opportunity. Given C’s strong
regulatory position such as its above peer SLR ratio, management noted that it can
compete in balance sheet intensive businesses such as Rates while more
constrained peers are forced to pull back. In terms of its ability to take market share
away from European banks, management noted that European banks are more likely
to cede share in Fixed Income and less so within Equity and Banking.

« Longer term goal of 14% ROTCE in ICG. Management believes that under a more
normalized rate environment and through its work towards improving efficiencies
across ICG on back of its infrastructure refinements, ICG should be able to achieve a
14% ROTCE vs ~12% today.

Chart 26: Despite material progress, C shares still trade below TBV. What will drive shares to re-rate
closer to TBV?

40% 34% 37%

35%
30%
25%
20%
15%
10%
5%
0%
Continued Consistent Continued core Accelerated re- Further
increase in capital improvement in cost control, with capture ofits simplification of its
return from the revenue further reductions deferred tax asset global business
$10.4B expected = momentum in legal & (DTA) model
return under the repositioning
2016 CCAR cycle charges

Source: BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research

16 2016 Future of Financials Conference | 17 November 2016 Bankof America 2
Merrill Lynch

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012999.txt,"4.5 Globalist versus Localist Representations 83

SENSORY WORLD MODELING

BEHAVIOR GENERATION
PROCESSING . VALUE JUDGMENT

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Fig. 4.12: Albus’s perceptual, motor and modeling hierarchies

4.5.6 Joshua Blue

Sam Adams and his colleagues at IBM have created a cognitive architecture called Joshua Blue
[AABLO2], which has some significant similarities to CogPrime. Similar to our current research
direction with CogPrime, Joshua Blue was created with loose emulation of child cognitive
development in mind; and, also similar to CogPrime, it features a number of cognitive processes
acting on a common neural-symbolic knowledge store. The specific cognitive processes involved
in Joshua Blue and CogPrime are not particularly similar, however. At time of writing (2012)

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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019412.txt,"Date: Monday, August 26 2013 02:46 PM

Subject: FW: Press Snapshot: Monday, August 26th, 2013
From: Boris Nikolic <a
To: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com>;

Attachments: image001.jpg; image002.jpg
See good article re balmer below.
Still awaiting for call reply

Sent from my Windows Phone

From: John Pinette
Sent: 8/26/2013 4:17 PM
To: Bill Gates

Cc: DL-Press Snapshot
Subject: Press Snapshot: Monday, August 26th, 2013

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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020293.txt,"141

served the public good. The government might not be able to contest his claim without further
revealing NSA sources. Under these circumstances, it might be induced to agree to a plea bargain
for Snowden. Changing the narrative would also help enhance his public image as a whistle-
blower,

Whatever the reasoning that led to it, Snowden’s new narrative was that he had destroyed all
the documents he had in his possession before coming to Moscow and had no access to any NSA
documents, not even those that he had distributed to journalists.

Snowden reinforced this narrative in almost in a series f interviews arranged by Wizner. In
December 2013, he met with Barton Gellman of the Washington Post. It was his first face-to-
face meeting with a journalist since he had arrived in Russia in June. To advance his narrative ,
Snowden turned on his laptop to Gellman and, as if proving his point, said to him “there’s nothing
on it... my hard drive is completely blank.” That his computer had no files stored on it actually
meant very little. The files could have been transferred to another device, or, as was discussed
earlier, to a server in the cloud. Gellman probed further by asking the precise whereabouts of
the files, but, as he reported, Snowden declined to answer that question. All that he would say
was that he was “confident he did not expose them to Chinese intelligence in Hong Kong.” Since
that answer did not nail down the issue, Wizner arranged for Vanity Fair, which was preparing an
article on Snowden, to submit questions. In his reply to them, Snowden wrote s that he destroyed
all his files in Hong Kong because he didn’t want to risk bringing them to Russia. He expanded
on this claim in three more interviews arranged by Wizner. These interviews were with three
journalists who themselves had opposed NSA surveillance: James Bamford writing for Wired
magazine, Alan Rusbridger, the editor of the Guardian and Katrina vanden Heuvel, the editor of
The Nation. He also gave a televised interview to Brian Williams of NBC News in which he
explained that since he had no access to the NSA documents in Russia, he could not provide
access to the Russians even if they “break my fingers.”

Snowden did he specify where, when or how the putative destruction of the files occurred,
and offered no witnesses or evidence, other than a blank laptop screen to corroborate it. Even
though his new narrative was widely accepted by the media, a self-serving claim by a perpetrator
that files have been destroyed cannot be accepted at face value in a digital age in which files can
be copied to another computer or moved to the “cloud” with the click of a key,. After all
Snowden went to considerable risk to select, copy, and steal these Level 3 documents in mid-May
before leaving Hawaii for Hong Kong. They were the last medium of value he held in Hong
Kong. These secrets were his potential bargaining chips. Why would he simply erase them in June
in Hong Kong? It is also difficult for me to accept that he would destroy these documents
because he feared the Russians might get them. If he was so concerned about the ability of
Russian intelligence, he could have stayed in Hong Kong and fought extradition instead of flying
to Russia. Once he made his arrangements to go to Russia, he must have realized that even
without the files on his computer, the Russian intelligence service could still obtain the NSA
secrets he held in his head. Indeed, as he told the New York Times, the secrets he held in his
head would have devastating consequences for NSA operations.

In light of Kucherena statement that Snowden had access to NSA documents in Russia, it
would require some form of a suspension of disbelief to accept Snowden’s new narrative. But
even if one was willing to accept his erasure claim, it still would not mean that the NSA
documents had not fallen into the hands of adversaries.

If he had destroyed all of the electronic copies of the NSA’s data before boarding his flight to

Moscow, he could he be “100 percent” certain, as he claimed that the data had not been accessed

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012741.txt,"sister as Robin Wright, Christoph Waltz, Diane Kruger and Sir Norman Foster watch in awe. Remember,
Evan sang in Julie Taymor's Across the Universe.

By 2 a.m. Ms. Wood is drenched and jumps into Cipriani's Olympic-size pool to cool off in her borrowed
gown. She has the dress cleaned the next day and sends it back good as new.

Thursday, Sept. 1, 2011

Fox Searchlight premieres Alexander Payne's Hawaiian-set The Descendants. George stars as a father of
two who learns about his wife's infidelity. You have to love the role-reversal casting. Nobody cheats on
George—which is why his performance is so poignant.

Clooney and Payne met at the Toronto Film Festival two years ago and were shooting in Oahu months
later. Payne edited the film at Clooney's Italian villa on Lake Como, where the entire cast, including
Charlie Rose who has a cameo playing Charlie Rose, end up for a holiday reunion the weekend before
this year’s festival.

Activities include George and Grant challenging Charlie and Marisa Tomei to a strenuous game of hoops
on the private basketball court. Late-night partying ends with Mr. Rose skinny-dipping in Lake Como—a
tradition started by that wild and crazy guy Walter Cronkite years ago.

The Weinstein Company screens in Venice and Telluride their silent film The Artist, directed by Michel
Hazanavicius and starring French movie idol Jean Dujardin. The film was premiered in May at the Cannes
Film festival.

Early Oscar buzz for films and male lead performances could be The Descendants, The Artist and Shame.
This momentum has to sustain itself on the long road to Eddie Murphy's opening dialogue on Oscar
night in February.

Next to Evan el Wc fa | am lunching and munching on pasta and pizza with
Valentino, Giancarlo Giammetti, Bruce Hoeksema, Charlene de Ganay and Carlos Souza aka “the family.”

Paul Giamatti, whose family changed their spelling, tells me he is actually related to Valentino's business
partner Giancarlo Giammetti, which is a visual stretch of the imagination.

Valentino has brought his yacht T.M. Blue One carrying six pugs to Venice to attend Madonna's premiere
of W.E., the compelling romance between King Edward VIII and the twice-divorced Wallis Simpson.

Madonna has shown an early cut on DVD to Valentino in his grand Paris apartment last spring. Valentino
loves the film and says Andrea Riseborough, who was trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, is
as compelling as Wallis.

Similarities between Madonna and Wallis: Americans hounded by the press, moved to London to marry
Englishman, were fashion icons always re-inventing themselves and were possessed with a faint sense
of being misunderstood.

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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017076.txt,"Bekele Geleta

Richard L. Gelfond

Eli Gelman

Pierre Gentin

William W. George
Julie Louise Gerberding
David R. Gergen
Valery Gergiev

Valerie Germain

Nataliya Germanova
Tillman U. Gerngross

Olaf Gersemann
Minelik Getahun

Aart J. de Geus
Federico Ghizzoni
Carlos Ghosn

Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
Majid S. Al Ghurair

Julie Gichuru

Sir John Gieve

Clément Gignac

Mark Gilbert

Chris Giles

Mack Gill
Ambassador Dan
Gillerman

Sarah Gillett

Trond Giske

Jane Gladstone
Ivan Glasenberg
Daniel Glaser

Amy Glasmeier

Robert Glasser
Susan Beth Glasser
Thomas H. Glocer
Richard J. Gnodde

Jules Goddard
Pierre Godé

Sunil Godhwani
Adi B. Godrej
Jamshyd N. Godrej
Daniel Goffart
Donald J. Gogel
Rick Goings

Ayla Géksel
Yair Goldfinger

lan Goldin

Neal Goldman
Daniel Goleman

Peter Gomez
Francisco Gonzalez

Jim Goodnight

Secretary-General

Chief Executive Officer

Chief Executive Officer

Managing Director, Legal and Risk
Professor of Management Practice
President, Merck Vaccines

Director, Center for Public Leadership
Artistic and General Director
Managing Partner, Strategy and
Business Development

Managing Director, Marketing
Co-Founder and Chief Executive
Officer

Business Editor

Ambassador and Permanent
Representative of Ethiopia to the
United Nations, Geneva

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Chief Executive Officer

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Chief Executive Officer

Chief Executive Officer

Group Digital Business Manager and
TV Host
Senior Fellow

President and General Manager

Senior Columnist, London Bureau
Chief

Economics Editor

President, Global Services
Chairman

Ambassador of the United Kingdom
to Switzerland

Minister of Trade and Industry of
Norway

Senior Managing Director

Chief Executive Officer

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Professor of Geography and Regional
Planning and Head
Secretary-General

Editor-in-Chief

Chief Executive Officer

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Research Fellow, Management
Innovation Lab
Senior Executive Vice-President

Chairman and Managing Director
Chairman, The Godrej Group
Chairman and Managing Director
Editor, Economic and Political News
President and Chief Executive Officer
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Chief Executive Officer

Co-Founder and Chief Technology
Officer

Director, Oxford Martin School
Chairman

Co-Director, Consortium for Research
on Emotional Intelligence in
Organizations

Chairman of the Board of Directors
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Chief Executive Officer

World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2011

International Federation of
Red Cross and Red
Crescent Societies (IFRC)
Imax Corporation

Amdocs Management Ltd
Credit Suisse

Harvard Business School
Merck & Co. Inc.

Harvard Kennedy School
Mariinsky Theatre
Heidrick & Struggles

Sberbank
Adimab Inc.

Welt am Sonntag

Synopsys Inc.
UniCredit
Renault-Nissan Alliance
Mashreqbank PSC
Al-Ghurair Group of
Companies

Royal Media Services

Belfer Center for Science
and International Affairs,
Harvard University
Société Générale de
Financement du Québec
(SGF)

Bloomberg BusinessWeek

The Financial Times
SunGard
Markstone Capital Group

Evercore Partners Inc.
Glencore International AG
Marsh Inc. (M&MC)

MIT - Department of Urban
Studies and Planning
Care International
Foreign Policy Magazine
Thomson Reuters
Goldman Sachs
International

London Business School

LVMH Moét Hennessy -
Louis Vuitton

Religare Enterprises Ltd
Godrej Industries Ltd
Godrej & Boyce Mfg Co. Ltd
Handelsblatt

Clayton, Dubilier & Rice LLC
Tupperware Brands
Corporation

ACEV/Ozyegin Foundation
Dotomi

University of Oxford
Connectivity Data Systems
Rutgers University

SIX Group AG

Banco Bilbao Vizcaya
Argentaria SA

SAS Institute Inc.

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USA

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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018345.txt,"financial systems. Fresh AI designs. Protocols and platforms for secure
communication. Maybe one million people can write object-oriented code at a high
level. A hundred thousand of them can shape that code into some sort of innovative
data structure. A few thousand might be able to use it to access and manage a large
data center. But get down to the couple of dozen who know how Google or Intel or
bitcoin really work, the group who can make machines seem to think, who know
and use backdoors at that atomic level of hacking - well, then you have a tight,
powerful elite. They are called system designers, algorithmic traders, growth
hackers or any of a dozen hazy and somewhat unnamable lines of work that fuse
network mastery with economic, political or social power. If connection changes the
nature of an object it also elevates, to a level of rare power and influence, those who
control that connection.

Through the networks and black boxes they control, the group of transcendent
talents working on search algorithms, data management and machine learning
touch, at any one instant, more parts of our lives than any group of elites ever has.
That many of them are billionaires as a result should hardly be a surprise. This is a
caste marked by constant one upsmanship, by endless and compulsive innovation,
by a cold and ceaseless fear of obsolescence. They are marked, of course, by a full
expression of the Seventh Sense. Their every instinct for starting, financing, growing
and using new firms or technologies or data-spinning biological tools reflects
complete confidence in network power. If the leading figures of the Enlightenment
shared a certainty near to faith that reason would unlock nearly any puzzle of mind
or politics, the New Caste shares a certainty too, that connection can produce a new,
better order. This caste battles with each other. They struggle for dominance over
markets and - more profoundly - for control of the lucrative systems they have
built.

My point in this chapter is simple. It is to introduce this new and powerful caste and
see what their successes and failures might tell us about the world we now all share.
Even now, however, I think we can make this sobering judgment: Whatever nation
cultivates and trains legions of this New Caste best will rule the future. Think of the
legendary Xerox PARC research lab, which in the 1970s produced not just some of
the best early members of the New Caste - like Alan Kay or John Seeley Brown- but
also a series of fundamental inventions that generated trillions of dollars of value?®!.
The mouse. Laser printing. A graphical user interface. PARC was arguably the most
economically significant small group in human history, an entire Renaissance
packed into a couple of dozen offices. Just as the nations that produced the finest
mariners once dominated global commerce and decided political questions, so
countries (or really any group - even terrorists or criminals or bankers) that can
breed, train and equip and deploy members of this New Caste will possess a really
unusual power. Calling them a “caste” is not accidental: There’s a way in which we
are all now tied to the virtual spaces they control, much as serfs were once bound to
the land by feudal lords. The Italian historian Giambattista Vico, in developing his

161 Think of the legendary Xerox PARC: Chunka Mui, “The Lesson that Market
Leaders are Failing to Learn from Xerox PARC”; Forbes Leadership Blog / Alan Kay

113

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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025239.txt,"drive income, and ongoing regulatory uncertainty. Most US banks are at or close to Basel 3 funding needs, have

considerably fewer capital adequacy questions than their European counterparts, and do not rely on wholesale funding to
finance loan portfolios.

S&P 500 ex-bubble price to earnings multiple

Price to next twelve months operating EPS US bank price to book ratio
45x

24x 40x Datastream

22x 3 5x

20x 30x

si 25x

16x 20x Morgan Stanley

14x 15x

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Source: IBES, Standard & Poor's

Now that P/E multiples have risen off the bottom, what’s the outlook for P/E multiples and earnings from here?

The return on the S&P this year has been a function of P/E multiples rising (from 11.3x to 12.9x), a big part of which has
been Apple (3% of the S&P index, 15% of S&P’s YTD returns). As shown below, earnings revisions have been negative
for 2012, but analysts are still optimistic about 2013. According to Morgan Stanley, analysts are forecasting the highest

percentage of companies posting 2013 margin expansion since 1970, and by a very wide margin. In our view, it will be

difficult for multiples to rise further unless earnings outperform expectations, particularly if Europe’s structural problems
take center stage again.

Revisions to consensus EPS by quarter
Index, 12/30/2011 = 100

101

4QE+1%
100

SQE -1%
99

FYI2-1%
a8 2QE -2%
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1QE -3%

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12/30/2011 OVSV2012 O2/2o/2012 OS282012
Source: FactSet

The place that worries me the most: Spain. It ranks at or close to the bottom in a lot of categories (see table), and its
growth outlook is poor. Historically, this kind of thing has not ended well. Spain has defaulted 13 times since 1500 AD;
it’s probably going to take a lot of bilateral aid and ECB financing to prevent another one.

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IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027067.txt,"From: Sean Bann cr

Sent: 8/23/2018 8:26:12 PM

To: Steve Banno

cc: jeevacation@gmail.com; Dan Fleuette Ii
Subject: Re: Trump@War

Importance: — High

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> On Aug 23, 2018, at 4:25 PM, Steve Bannon <steve@arc-ent.com> wrote:

>
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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_014779.txt,"Chart 81: US 10yr yield (top) and US 30yr yield (bottom) weekly chart
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Source: BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research, Bloomberg
German 10yr bund yield breaks out
Bund yield has risen through resistance levels and is up about 60bps from the low. Prior
uptrends failed at trend line resistance levels; however, this time it broke through. The
distance traveled during prior moves include +140bps, +93bps and +108bps. Therefore,
we believe this uptrend has room to continue to 55bps (estimated 200wk SMA) by
1Q2017 and to 75bps in 2017.
Japanese 30y yields form head and shoulders bottom
The rapid decline in 30y JGB yield during 2016 led to a trend exhaustion signal at the
lows (TD Sequential 13), a rise resulting in the most overbought (higher yield}
momentum since 2010 and the formation of a head and shoulders bottom. Provided
yield remains above 44bps, we could see yield rising to 71 bps and possibly 87bps in
2017.
Bankof America 2 Global Rates, FX & EM 2017 Year Ahead| 16 November 2016 49
errill Lynch

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IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021335.txt,"people in pain. Altogether, there is
strong evidence to suggest that
perceiving the pain of others triggers an
automatic somatic sensory-motor
mirroring mechanism between other and
self, which activates almost the entire
neural pain matrix including the
periaqueductal gray, a major site in pain
transmission and for processing of fear
and anxiety, and the supplementary
motor area that programs defensive
movements in response to anticipated
pain. Such a neural resonance
mechanism provides a functional bridge
between first-person and third-person
information. It is grounded in the
equivalence of self and other, which
allows for analogical reasoning, and
offers a possible, yet partial, route to
understanding others.

Of course, human empathic
abilities are more sophisticated than
simply yoking perceptions of the self
and other. In the eighteenth century,
Scottish philosopher and economist
Adam Smith proposed that through
imagination, “we place ourselves in his
situation... enter as it were into his body,
and become in some measure the same
person with” (8). By means of
imagination we come to experience
sensations which are generally similar
to, although typically weaker than, those
of the other person. This capacity to
engage in role-taking has been
theoretically linked to the development
of empathy, moral reasoning, and more
generally, prosocial behavior. Unlike the
motor mimicry and emotional contagion
aspect of empathy, perspective-taking
develops later, possibly because it draws
heavily on the maturation of executive
functions (1.e., processes that serve to
monitor and control thought and actions,
including self-regulation, planning,
cognitive flexibility, response inhibition,

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and resistance to interference), functions
that are predominantly centered in the
prefrontal cortex which continues to
mature from birth to adolescence.
Theoretically, imagining the other is
distinct from imagining the self: the
former may evoke empathic concern
(defined as an other-oriented response
congruent with the perceived distress of
the person in need) while the latter
induces both empathic concern and
personal distress (1.e., a self-oriented
aversive emotional response such as
anxiety or discomfort). This distinction
has been supported empirically. When
individuals are asked to imagine how
they would feel in reaction to emotion-
laden familiar situations and to imagine
how a known person would feel if she
was experiencing the same situations,
common neural circuits are activated
both for the self and the other. However,
relative to imagining the self, imagining
the other results in specific activation of
parts of the frontal cortex that are
implicated in executive control—the use
of attention and working memory and
decisions—and an area of the brain at
the interface of the temporal and parietal
lobes of the brain that is a key
component of a larger network of neural
circuits involved in attention (sometimes
called the temporoparietal junction).

Some researchers have
hypothesized that the role of the frontal
lobes and the temporoparietal junction is
to hold separate perspectives or to resist
interference against attention to one’s
own perspective. In a recent functional
brain imaging study (9), participants
were shown pictures of people with their
hands or feet in painful or non-painful
situations with the instruction to imagine
themselves or to imagine another
individual experiencing these situations.
During perception of painful situations,

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016185.txt,"Defence: Vision 2030 supports defence
spending

Celine Fornaro >> Benjamin Heelan >>
MLI (UK) MLI (UK)
celine.fornaro@baml.com benjamin.heelan@baml.com

Saudi Arabia is increasing its regional role as a Security and Defence nation in the
Middle East region. The 2030 Vision includes a higher local content in defence
procurement which can be achieved through new contract awards and increased
cooperation with large Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs). BAE is best
positioned, in our view: it has been the in the country since 1966 with 5,000 local
employees and Saudi Arabia represents 21% of BAE’s group sales.

Saudi Arabia to build out military industrial base

Defence is one of the key industries that Saudi is pinpointing for investment as part of
its future strategy plans, and one where it is well placed to become a global leader, in
our view. Saudi Arabia has one of the largest defence budgets globally, and we expect
its focus on defence investment to remain broadly intact regardless of the price of oil.
Due to regional tensions, defence spending will likely remain high for the foreseeable
future, in our view. Saudi Vision 2030 and the associated National Transformation Plan
(NTP) will likely increase focus on use of defence to achieve their economic
diversification goals. This is likely to take place through capability deployment and
employment in partnership with long term defence partners. Saudi authorities aim to
raise the locally-sourced defence procurement from 2% today to 50% in 2030.

Much of the countries’ defence spending is for foreign imports. According to
consultancy IHS, 1 out of every 7 dollars spent on defence imports in 2015 was spent by
Saudi Arabia, which was predicted by IHS to increase its defence imports by 52%yoy to
USS9.8bn in 2015.

In our view, Saudi strategy to increase locally manufactured defence content is justified,
given their level of purchasing power with international contractors. However, this could
trigger a round of new contracts’ awards to set up new terms. The State owned Taqnia
company has been signing some contracts with international companies but this
remains very limited at this stage.

Saudi commitment to defence spending positive for European Defence

Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Finance 2016 defence budget spending remains high at
SAR213bn (cUS$57bn) which is 25% of the total budget. In 2015, the budgeted defence
spending reached SAR307bn (US$82bn). Despite the large decrease in headline defence
and security expenditure, budgetary figures suggest the allocation for the Ministry of
Interior, Ministry of National Guard, Ministry of Defence, General Intelligence
Directorate, and Saudi Royal Guard Regiment could be heavily supported from elsewhere
in the budget, if required. Figures released by the Ministry of Finance suggest that
SAR183.0bn of the state budget for 2016 - c21% of total budgeted spending - will be
allocated through a new ‘Budget Support Provision’ that is to be used ""to give more
flexibility to the budget and redirect capital and operational expenditure in line with
national priorities and to fulfil spending requirements"". In our view, the commitment to
defence spending is positive for companies who have presence in the area, BAE (Buy,
600p) & Thales (Buy, €87).

BAE Systems ties to Saudi Arabia go as far back as 1966, when the company was
contracted to Lightning and Strikemaster aircraft and equipment in a programme called
the ‘Magic Carpet’. In 1985, a new government-to-government (UK/Saudi Arabia)
agreement was signed covering supply and support of Tornado, Hawk and PC-9 aircraft.
A new government-to-government agreement, known as the Saudi British Defence Co-
operation Programme, was inaugurated at the start of 2007. Salam Project, which

OS Merrill Lynch GEMs Paper #26 | 30 June 2016 75

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for the Russian intelligence services from 1979 to 2001. He was a “walk-in,” who never entered
the Soviet embassy or met with KGB or SVR case officers. Instead, he set his espionage in
motion by passing an anonymous letter to Victor Cherkashin, the KGB spy handler working
undercover at the Soviet Embassy in Washington D.C. From the start of his work for the KGB,
Hanssen laid down his own rules. The KGB would deliver cash from which all the fingerprints
were removed to locations, or “dead drops,” he specified. He would deliver documents exposing
FBI, CIA and NSA sources and methods in another dead drop. The KGB would precisely follow
his instructions. Cherkashin told me that Hanssen’s “astounding self-recruitment” was executed in
such a way that the KGB never actually controlled him. “He was our most important mole and we
didn’t ever know his identity, where he worked or how he had access to FBI, CIA and NSA
files.” Even so, the KGB (and later SVR) paid him $600,000 in cash. In return, the anonymous
spy delivered 27 computer discs containing hundreds of secret documents revealing the sources
and methods of American intelligence. According to Cherkashin, it was the largest haul of top
secrets documents ever obtained by the KGB (although it was only a small fraction of the number
of top secret NSA, Department of Defense and CIA documents taken by Snowden in 2013.)
Cherkashin told me the price paid by Moscow was a great bargain since it helped compromise
“the NSA’s most advanced electronic interception technology,” including a tunnel under the
Soviet Embassy. Yet, it was only after newspapers reported that Hanssen had been arrested by the
FBI in February 2001 that Cherkashin learned the name and position of the spy that he had
recruited. Cherkashin told me that what matters to the KGB was not “control” of an agent but
the value of the secrets he or she delivered. “Control is not necessary in espionage as long as we
manage to obtain the documents.” So in the eyes of the KGB, anyone who elects to provide it
with US secrets is a spy.

It is also possible to exploit a walk-in even after he has left his service. For example, KGB
Major Anatoli Golitsyn was an ideological self-generated spy who walked into the US embassy in
Helsinki, Finland on Christmas Day 1962. He asked to see the CIA officer on duty announce to
him he had collected a trove of KGB secrets, including information that could identify its key
spies in the West. He offered to defect to the U.S. The CIA accepted his offer, and through this
archive of secrets he had previously compiled, he became one of the CIA’s most productive
sources in the Cold War.

The job of an intelligence service is to take advantage of whatever opportunities comes its way
in the form of self-generated spies. If a Russian walk-in had not yet burned his bridges to his own
service, US intelligence officers were under instructions to attempt to persuade the walk-in to
return to his post in Russia and serve as a “defector-in-place,” or mole. “While defectors can and
do provide critical information, a CIA memorandum on walk-ins during the Cold War noted,
“There are very few cases in which the same individual may not have been of greater value if he
had returned to his post.” Of course if a walk-in believed he was already compromises, as
Golitsyn did, a decision would have to be made whether the value of his intelligence merited
exfiltrating him to the United States.

This required evaluating the bona fides of the walk-in. Not all walk-ins are accepted as
defectors. Some walk-ins are deemed “dangles,” or agents dispatched by the KGB to test and

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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030482.txt,"Date: Wednesday, August 3 2011 12:55 AM 
Subject: Re: basketball player 
From: 
To: Uncle F Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@grnail.corn>; 
Its such a circus with this politics thing...its ridiculous 
Sent via BlackBerry from T- Mobile 
From: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com > 
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 22:40:02 +0200 
To: 
Subject: basketball player 
obama was scheduled to sign the debt bill late yesterday, just hours before the midnight Treasury deadline that 
could have seen the US default on its debts, a national humiliation likely to have had a huge impact on markets 
and the global economy. 
*********************************************************** 
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Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this 
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and may be unlawful. If you have received this 
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TEXT-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033333.txt,"From: Richard Kahn 
Sent: 11/29/2018 10:02:09 PM 
To: Larry Visoski ; Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com] 
Subject: President Trump's Private Plane Clipped On Ground At LaGuardia Airport 
Importance: High 
https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2018/11/28/president-trumps-private-plane-clipped-on-ground-at-laguardia-
airport/ 
Richard Kahn 
HBRK Associates Inc. 
575 Lexington Avenue 4th Floor 
New York, NY 10022 
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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030403.txt,"claim the right to haul the president into court.

The Mueller team, according to sources both near the investigation and the White House, has prepared a
case, but it requires the approval of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who—with the recusal of
Attorney General Jeff Sessions from the Russia-related investigation—oversees the Mueller team. He would
need to set aside He could do this based on a finding that the former opinion was inaccurate re the president
being above the law. ttherby creating an inability to indict a sitting president. Indeed, Rosenstein, as recently
as April, publicly declared that the President was not a target. This may have been a form of fig leaf to soothe a
President who regularly demands aides assure him he is not being pursued: the President does not become a
formal target until Rosenstein agrees to designate him as one.

Any proposed indictment would confront Rosenstein with matters with which he has been intimately
involved. The case, according to my conversations , is fundamentally Trump versus the FBI, Justice
Department, and Mueller investigation itself. In many ways, it boils down to the word of former FBI Director
James Comey against the word of Donald Trump. Rosenstein, at the President's behest, drafted a memo
justifying the Comey firing for how the former FBI Director handled the Hillary Clinton email investigation.
But that justification, in an embarrassment for Rosenstein, was shortly brushed aside by the President when he
admitted that he fired Comey to disrupt the Russian investigation. What's more, the indictment is said to charge
that the firing of Andrew McCabe, the former Deputy Director of the FBI, who reported directly to Rosenstein
after the Comey dismissal, was an instance of illegal retaliation tampering or consipracy by the President
against a potential witness.

According to a source with knowledge of the strategy , it will be all the more controversial because if finds
the entire narrative of the case for obstruction in plain sight. Almost nothing about the case involves new
information. ""This indictment could have been drafted without anyone being interviewed,"" said this source.
Rather it takes well covered public events and moves them to a set of circumstantial conclusions. There is no
smoking gun beyond the often flagrant, custom-breaking, events of the President's 16 months in office. Indeed,
much of the evidence is based on the President's public statements and tweets about those events.

This is, according to White House sources who have gotten wind of this approach, good news: the case then,
is just an issue of what motives you ascribe to the President's behavior—behavior that is, the President's
supporters believe it is easy to show, impulsive and not thought out. Hence no intent. For the Mueller team, it
is precisely that careless behavior and flagrant disregard for the rules that they aim to put on trial.

There is no certainty that the Special Counsel's office will ultimately pursue its plan to indict the President.
But, according to a source the worry is that the plan is ""more advanced"" than previosly believed. . The
investigation continues and new evidence or other factors might push both prosecutors and the grand jury in
another direction. Just passing its first anniversary, the Mueller investigation has conducted itself with
remarkable secrecy. Descriptions of a proposed indictment provide one of the few insights into its strategy and
its sense of the political peril in front of it.

It may be noteworthy that there appears now not to be plan for an indictment related to collusion, although,
legal experts say, that could come later.

The White House view is that without the underlying collusion charge, Mueller will be presenting a weak
and politically-motivated case. The Mueller view seems to be that the obstruction charges go to the heart of
exposing how Trump has abused his power and turned the White House into a corrupt fiefdom.

The President's scheme to obstruct the FBI's investigation into connections between the Trump campaign
and Russian efforts to undermine the U.S. election, according to Mueller began on the 7th day of the Trump
administration. Three days prior to this, on January 24, National Security Advisor, Michael Flynn, lied to the
FBI about his contacts with the Russian Ambassador, Sergey Kislyak. These were contacts, directed by an
unnamed person.

That unnamed person, in the view of several lawyers who discussed the case with me, is very likely Trump
himself, and might imply that Trump encouraged Flynn to lie to the FBI, promising to protect him—using his
influence or pardon powers.

On January 27th, seven days after Donald Trump's inauguration, the President had the one-on-one dinner
with FBI

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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029152.txt,"* Replicability Crisis - Problems in Statistics in Search for Truth. Deep problems of replicability in biomedical
and especially psychological research - the scandal in recent years. See links and attachments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis

https://www.nature.com/news/over-half-of-psychology-studies-fail-reproducibility-test-1.18248
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/349/625 1/aac4716

“Replicability vs. Reproducibility” - http://www.replicability.tau.ac.il/index.php/replicability-in-
science/replicability-vs-reproducibility.html

Five Ways to Fix Statistics - Nature [attached].
* Other possibile areas you suggest

We would like to set a mutually agreed schedule so we can confirm and reserve the Closer To Truth ‘season’ of
13 episodes for Radical Breakthroughs’, which we need to plan well in advance - especially as we begin 2018.

See you Jan. 5 - Looking forward to brainstorming.

Robert

On Dec 28, 2017, at 7:40 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
great work , but needs some editing, did not like multi verse and sensience. seems more blahblah

On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 12:50 AM, Robert Lawrence Kuhn <P wrote:
Hi: When are you back in NY?

Attached is the complete Preproduction Book for Radical Breakthroughs - now including Misha Gromov!
Love your feedback, suggestions.

Also attached is the budget and timing of funding, as presented originally, now updated for the completion of
preproduction (phase I). We are ready to go into production (phase II). See Budget, p. 4. Committed and
excited.

When to meet?

Robert

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TEXT-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033455.txt,"From: JONATHAN FARKAS 
Sent: 4/21/2019 1:21:37 PM 
To: jeevacation@gmail.com 
Importance: High 
Somers and I talked to trump and melania last night He looked and seemed very tired but upbeat 
sent from my iPhone 
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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030365.txt,"From: Karp, Brad S

Sent: 12/14/2017 9:32:10 PM
To: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Re:

Importance: — High
Thanks.

Brad S. Karp | Chairman
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
1285 Avenue of the Americas | New York, NY 10019-6064

| http://www.paulweiss.com
Bio: https://www.paulweiss.com/professionals/partners-and-counsel/Brad-S-Karp.aspx

From: jeffrey E.

Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2017 4:31 PM
To: Karp, Brad S

Subject:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3914012/Troubled-woman-history-drug-use-claimed-assaulted-

Donald-Trump-Jeffrey-Epstein-sex-party-age-13-FABRICATED-story.html

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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024872.txt,"COWEN
COLLABORATIVE INSIGHTS

56

February 25, 2019

GTI has reported revenues of ~$41.7 mm (which includes adult use and medical),
reflecting a YoY growth rate of over 300% and gross margin of 45%. We would note
that on a pro-forma basis including the acquisition of Essence, in the most recent
quarter, GTI would have generated revenues of over $35 mm (vs. $17.1 mm reported).

Khiron Life Sciences Corp. Khiron is a publicly-traded (TSXV: KHRN; OTCQB: KHRNF),
vertically integrated cannabis company currently focused on Latin America. Priority
markets in the region include Colombia, Peru, Chile, Brazil, and Mexico. Earlier this year,
they announced a 50/50 JV with U.S.-based Dixie Brands, which will result in the
introduction of a full line of cannabis infused products to the Latin American market.
Importantly, as part of the agreement, Dixie will manufacture and distribute Khiron’s
Kuida brand of CBD-based cosmetics in the U.S., where they will target the growing
Hispanic population. Khiron will operate the JV from Bogota, Colombia, with a focus on
regulation, cultivation, manufacturing, and distribution. Dixie will contribute IP, including
its extensive brand portfolio, which includes over 100 SKUs spanning 15 different
categories. Khiron recently recognized first sales in October 2018.

Level Brands. Originally founded as a consumer products company in 2015, Level
Brands (NYSE American: LEVB) subsequently expanded into licensing and brand
management prior to initiating an IPO in 2017. Most recently in 2018, the company
completed the acquisition of cbdMD, a CBD consumer products brand with products
available online and in over 1,000 retail outlets across the U.S. cbdMD offers 60 skus, 24
of which come in the form of oils, while 12 SKUs come in the form of topicals.
Additionally, other cbdMD form factors offered include capsules, gummies, bath bombs,
and pet products. In its first year, cbdMD delivered $7.5 mm in sales, while achieving a
gross margin in excess of 70%. From a route to market perspective, 80% of revenues
come from e-commerce, though the company started to build out a sales team to drive
brick and mortar penetration.

Tilray (Outperform, $150 PT). Canadian-based Tilray (NASD: TLRY), is a licensed
producer and distributor of cannabis across Canada, as well as internationally. Through
the company’s strategic partnership with Privateer, TLRY licenses established U.S.
based cannabis brands including Marley Natural, Irisa, Goodship, Grail, and Dutchy. TLRY
has been active on the M&A front, with previously announced acquisitions /
partnerships with Novartis, Authentic Brands and AB-Inbev, among others. Most
recently, the company announced a C$419 mm acquisition of Manitoba Harvest, the
global leader in hemp-derived food products. The cash and stock deal gives TLRY access
to Manitoba Harvest’s broad range of food products that are currently distributed in
16,000 stores across North America.

Turning Point Brands (Outperform, $45 PT). Based in Louisville, KY, Turning Point
Brands (NYSE: TPB) operates in the Other Tobacco Products (OTP) category and sells
and distributes a wide range of products. These products include MST, loose leaf
chewing tobacco, cigarette papers, cigar wraps, e-cigs, vaporizers, and herbal wraps.
TPB recently announced a minority stake in CASH, a privately held CBD extraction and
production company, which should complement its current infrastructure, which
includes Vapor Beast, Vapor Shark and Vapor Supply. Additionally, we would note that
TPB currently sits on the U.S. Hemp Roundtable Board of Directors. Through the first
nine months of fiscal 2018, TPB has reported $238.4 mm in revenues, which reflects a
YoY growth rate of over 12%. The company has achieved a run rate gross margin of
~44% over the comparable timeframe.

COWEN.COM

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05.00 PM:

06.00 PM — 08.00 PM:

06.00 PM — 08.00 PM:

06.30 PM — 08.30 PM:

08.30 PM:

11.00 PM — 12:00 AM:

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08.00 AM — 09.30 AM:

09.00 AM- 09.30 AM:

09:00AM — 11:30AM

Updated on 20 September 2012

All, Organized by IPU(Confirmed)
o Location: Conference room 3 NLB, UNHQ
o Nihan+ AG+ Shabeen

Meeting with Commonwealth Secretary General, H.E Mr.
Kamalesh Sharma.
o Location: Commonwealth Joint Office Large Conference
room.
o President+ Foreign Minister + State Minister + AG+ PR+
Aliny

Visit to the Permanent Mission of Maldives
o Location: 800 2"" Ave. 4” Floor

o President+ Entire Delegation

Reception hosted by Luxembourg, in honor of His Royal Highness
Grand Duke Henri. (TBC)
o Location: Permanent Mission of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
House, 17 Beekman Place, NY 10022
o President + PR

Reception hosted by E.U, Inaugurating new premises. (TBC)
o Location:666 Third Avenue, 31° floor, NY 10017
o Foreign Minister+ Javed

Reception hosted by U.A.E, hosted by the Minister of Foreign
Affairs of U.A.E (TBC)
o Location: Morgan Library and Museum, 225 Madison Ave.
o Environment Minister

Cyprus: Musical Philoxenia hosted by the President of Cyprus
o Location: Alice Tully Hall, Starr Theater, 1941 Broadway on
65"" street.
o President+ PR+ FM+ Spouses

Presidents Private Dinner
o Helmsley Hotel

Breakfast with Maldivian Delegates
o Helmsley Hotel

Increase Peace through Mediation, co-hosted by Finland and
Turkey (TBC)
o Location: Consulate General of Finland, 866 United Nations
Plaza, Suite 250, New York, NY
o Ministerial Breakfast

Vanuatu Prime Minister
o Location: bilateral booth at the UN. (Walking distance)

o President + Foreign Minister+ State Minister +AG+ PR
+Aliny

Fifth Annual World Focus on Autism

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, Reporting and Transesiption, Inc.

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coming in here today. We got this done much quicker than

if we had to go to the courthouse to do it.
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particular answers, did I?
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truth? Es
fine. That's good.
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truth?
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for coming in today. I appreciale it very much.
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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022938.txt,"From: 
Sent: 
To: 
Subject: 
Importance: 
what do you suggest? 
jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> 
Thursday, January 21, 2016 1:43 AM 
Re: Help! 
High 
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 7:19 PM, wrote: 
Happy birthday, I remember the few I had spent with you, good memories! 
The problem is that you may appreciate my support but that doesn't help me. Yes, I told you I can't have people 
coming here to ask about you and ex pals.... My landlord may shoot them. He is pissed. I need your help. Out 
of all the people you should be helping is someone who actually genuinely cared about you.i realize you're 
living the good life and I'm not your concern, but if you really appreciated my support then you'd help me 
otherwise I don't know what I'll do. 
On Wednesday, January 20, 2016, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
i appreciate your support is what i meant. has anyting happened recently? it is my birthday today 
On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 10:46 PM,__________________________________wrote: 
Appreciate what? I'm not sure you do. Be back for what? Where? I don't need to be photographed. I am 
trying to avoid that, hence the reason why I moved out here. I don't need people coming here looking for me 
to give them information about you or the ""people"" I was documented with... It's not my property. I don't 
think you get it. 
On Tuesday, January 19, 2016, jeffrey E. leevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
i appreciate it. I should be back feb 14, 
On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 6:39 PM, 
wrote: 
Because you were not available to meet me in person last year and at this point I don't need to be seen. I can not have press, 
media, private investigators, film companies, etc. contacting me or my parents and sisters at home or on cell/texts and or by 
mail. I realize you don't have much control over this, but you can at least help me to move. I can't just get up and go like you. I 
left the city to escape, make a better life and I am devastated these people found me and brought to light an association of that I 
would rather them never to know. People think I was involved with something really bad and I lost a boyfriend of great 
potential over this shit. I am still in debt over all these years, been working my ass off trying to get ahead, which you could 
never understand I was even surviving off the pay I was getting. Well, its not any better. I dropped out of college because of 
you (and GM's) advice. Started working for a company you wanted me to and basically my life has has become hell since then. 
I have been your supporter for 16 years, the media explosion with Clinton, Trump and Cosby is affecting me. I'm not prepared 
for this. 
please note 
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IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027932.txt,"in north Tel Aviv set up with French backing and an accent on French language
and culture. Unlike the girls on the kibbutz — proud of their plain, utilitarian
clothes and sensible shoes — she wore make-up and perfume and, when she was
out of uniform, bright print dresses. She never tried to make me feel out of place. Still,
it was sometimes hard not to wonder whether she saw me as a country bumpkin — a
nice, interesting, bright county bumpkin, perhaps, but still an interloper or a curiosity in
her world.

It wasn’t until April, the day before I was due to leave for the French commando
fortress in Mont Louis, that I plucked up the courage to ask her out. I needn’t have
worried. She smiled. In fact, she proposed that since I was about to leave the country,
she should be the one doing the asking. She invited me to dinner that evening at
the apartment she shared with her parents and younger sister, about a half-mile
from the Airya, a few blocks back from the Mediterranean. Dinner was less
awkward than I feared, but I still felt nervous, until the dishes were cleared and
Nili and I went out to chat on the apartment balcony and, just before I left, to
share a first kiss.

We wrote each other almost every day while I was away in France. Once I
got back, we met whenever I wasn’t preparing for a sayeret operation. This was
the first girl ’'d known whom I could talk to, and listen to, on almost any
subject with a feeling that it was natural and somehow meant to be. But in the
second half of 1963, I was working almost non-stop on preparing for a sayeret
operation. I still saw Nili when I could, sometimes at her apartment, but also
occasionally going out to a movie, a meal or a concert in Tel Aviv. Yet what I
most wanted was an acknowledgment that we were not just dating: a
commitment that we intended the relationship to last. I didn’t say this to Nili.
Years later, she would say this was down to pride. In fact, I was afraid she
would say no. And in the periods when we were apart, I couldn’t help asking
myself why she hadn’t raised the question of a deeper commitment.

Even more frustrating, by the time I entered Hebrew University in
September 1965, our relationship was again being conducted by mail. After her
military service, she took a two-year posting at our embassy in Paris. I could
understand the attraction, not just because of her taste for all things French. She
was working with the Mossad to help Moroccan Jews skirt an official
emigration ban and get to Israel. Still, it meant that charting our future together,
if we had one, was going to have to wait.

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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017923.txt,"In re Terrorist Attacks on September 11, 2001, 392 F.Supp.2d 539 (2005)

10 A.L.R. Fed. 2d 789

that it has been designated a terrorist, but claims it does
not have the same connections to the United States, bin
Laden, and al Qaeda that Defendants Benevolence
International Foundation (“BIF”) and Adel A.J. Batterjee
had. See Terrorist Attacks I, 349 F.Supp.2d at 823-25
(finding Court had personal jurisdiction over Mr.
Batterjee based on his designation as a global terrorist, his
role with BIF, another designated terrorist, his *561
leadership of BIF’s United States operations, and his
relationship with Osama bin Laden). It also argues that
the document that Plaintiffs attribute to Osama bin Laden
is similar to the Golden Chain, in that it lacks foundation
and authentification. See Terrorist Attacks I, 349
F.Supp.2d at 817 (“The ‘Golden Chain’ is a group of
documents that was discovered by Bosnian authorities
searching the offices of charity Defendant BIF in March
2002. Plaintiffs claim the ‘Golden Chain’ contains a list
of early direct donors to al Qaeda.”)

P11 Tn assessing whether Rabita Trust has purposefully
directed its activities at the United States under Rule 4(k),
the Court is mindful of the executive branch’s designation
of it as a SDGT. While the designation is not dispositive
on its own, it does warrant some deference. In the realm
of foreign affairs, the executive branch has access to
“confidential sources of information [and] agents in the
form of diplomatic, consular and other officials.” United
States v. Curtiss-Wright Corp., 299 U.S. 304, 320, 57
S.Ct. 216, 81 L.Ed. 255 (1936). Entities are designated
under Executive Order 13224 if the executive branch
determines they are involved in terrorist activities. See
Executive Order 13224 Fact Sheet. Courts enjoy great
discretion in deciding whether to order jurisdictional
discovery before resolving motions to dismiss for lack of
personal jurisdiction. See, e.g, APWU v. Potter, 343 F.3d
619, 627 (2d Cir.2003). This Court finds that such
discovery would be helpful in assessing whether any of
Rabita Trust’s activities were directed at the United
States. Accordingly, Rabita Trust’s motions to dismiss the
Ashton, Burnett, and Federal complaints are denied
without prejudice.

C. Wa‘el Jalaidan®
21 The United States Department of Treasury has
designated Defendant Jalaidan a terrorist,’ frozen his
assets, and named him “one of the founders of al Qaeda.”
(Ashton Compl. J 304; Burnett Compl. § 255; Federal
Compl. Ff 117, 91.) The Treasury Department
“characterized [him] as having ‘directed organizations
that have provided financial and logistical support to
al-Qa-ida, [he] is the logistics chief of bin Laden’s
organization and fought on bin Laden’s side in

WESTLAW

Afghanistan.’ ” (Ashton Compl. J¥ 304, 312, 523-24;
Burnett Compl. J 236, 255, 271; Federal Compl. § 117;
see also Federal Compl. § 196 (claiming documents
found in the Bosnian raid of BIF offices contained a note
from Osama bin Laden to Jalaidan regarding al Qaeda’s
need for weapons).) Further, Osama bin Laden and his
lieutenant, Abu Zubaydah, allegedly “have acknowledged
Wa‘el Julaidan as a known associate of their operations.
Julaidan has been the head of various non-government
organizations providing financial and logistical support to
the al-Qa‘ida network.” (Ashton Compl. Jf 304, 312, 341,
484; Burnett Compl. § 236, 255.)

Jalaidan was in charge of the MWL in Peshawar, Pakistan
and served as the General Director of Rabita Trust.
(Ashton Compl. J 304; Burnett Compl. J 236, 255.) He
“operated MWL offices that served in the early days of al
Qaeda to attract and train holy warriors from around the
world for the war in Afghanistan” and has “repeatedly
aided and abetted terrorists.” (Ashton Compl. § 304,
*362 312; Burnett Compl. § 255.) Jalaidan is also
allegedly connected to Defendant SIRC. (Ashton Compl.
4 484; Federal Compl. § 125.)

Defendant Jalaidan argues that the allegations against him
are simply allegations of guilt by association, and do not
include any specificity regarding dates to put his actions
in context. He urges the Court to not rely on his
designation as a terrorist by the Treasury Department
because he did not have an opportunity to rebut it.

Plaintiffs do not claim to have served Mr. Jalaidan in the
United States under the ATA’s nationwide service
provision. Accordingly, Rule 4(k)(2) may provide a basis
for personal jurisdiction. There are several federal claims
at issue in this litigation and Plaintiffs have not made a
prima facie showing that Mr. Jalaidan is subject to
personal jurisdiction in New York or any other state. The
Court turns to Mr. Jalaidan’s contacts with the United
States. In addition to being designated as a global terrorist
by the Department of Treasury, Mr. Jalaidan is alleged to
be a founder and the logistical chief of al Qaeda, and
affiliated with several other charities that are allegedly in
al Qaeda’s fundraising network. In light of al Qaeda’s
public declarations of war against the United States,
someone who is alleged to be a founder, an admitted
associate, and a provider of financial and logistical
support to al Qaeda, has purposefully directed his
activities at the United States such that the exercise of
personal jurisdiction over him is reasonable.’ See Mwani
v. bin Laden, 417 F.3d 1, 14 (C.A.D.C. 2005).

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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031432.txt,"From: Nicholas Ribis

Sent: 2/19/2019 7:25:25 PM
To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: The New York Times: Intimidation, Pressure and Humiliation: Inside Trump’s Two-Year War on the Investigations

Encircling Him

He is crazy!!

Intimidation, Pressure and Humiliation: Inside Trump’s Two-Year War on the Investigations Encircling
Him

The New York Times

President Trump’s efforts have exposed him to accusations of obstruction of justice as Robert S. Mueller III, the
special counsel, finishes his work. Read the full story

Shared from Apple News

Sent from my iPhone

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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024866.txt,"COWEN
COLLABORATIVE INSIGHTS February 25, 2019

outside of gummy vitamins. Of the brands analyzed, super-premium brand, beceae
offered by far the most SKUs (15), which largely consist of chocolates and other baked
goods. We would caveat that although Lord Jones products fall into the premium
segment as part of this analysis, if we were to benchmark them against the broad
gummies category, they would’ve been at the top of the super-premium range.

- Confection products are diverse, which we classify as essentially any edible food falling

Figure 93 Confections Are Broad Based

50.50 $0.47 CBD Confections by Price Segment
ee $0.29
$0.30 $0.19
$0.20
$0.10
$0.00
baceae Lord Jones groncBD Hemp Bombs Mr. Moxey's Experience CBD
Super Premium Premium Main Value
(> $0.38) ($0.29-$0.38) ($0.19-$0.28) (<$0.19)

MR. MOXEYS

Source: Company Websites/Reports and Cowen and Company
Note: Reflects price per mg of CBD; For companies with multiple SKUs, we used a straight line average

Figure 94 CBD Bars Broadly Comprised Of Protein, Power, Energy And Granola Offerings

gogo $0.70 CBD Bars by Price Segment

$0.60
$0.40
$0.20
$0.00

$0.60

nase $0.48

$0.40

$0.34 $0.32 $0.32

$0.25 $0.25

$0.20 $0.19 $0.16

Snaac_  baceae |CasaLuna Wise Bar Wayward Everhemp| VeloBar ShrediblesPureVida Mary Betty

eggimins Green
CBD Gains Bar Khronic

Monkey

Value

(< $0.30)

Main
($0.30-$0.43)

Premium
($0.44-50.57)

Super Premium
(> $0.57)

Source: Company Websites and Cowen and Company
Note: Reflects price per mg of CBD; For companies with multiple SKUs, we used a straight line average

50 COWEN.COM

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IMAGES-012-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033089.txt,"destroy this communication and all copies thereof,
including all attachments. copyright -all rights reserved

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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030738.txt,"From: Steve Bannon i |

Sent: 8/20/2018 2:28:22 AM
To: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Re: Steve Bannon says GOP must rally behind Trump to survive | News & Observer

Importance: — High

Exactly

But somebody big has u in the gunsights

On Aug 19, 2018, at 10:27 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
yes . no worry, november too important to risk diversion. mission first

On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 10:21 PM, Steve Bannon qq wrote:
Yes

but let's discuss--their is a crazed jihad against u--ive never seen anything like it--and I've seen a lot
Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T

From: ""jeffrey E."" <jeevacation@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2018 22:17:38 -0400

To: Steve Bannon<

Subject: Re: Steve Bannon says GOP must rally behind Trump to survive | News & Observer

AHHHH thats more like it, , we need to find you the exorcist hat. ! . do you think you might want to
come to europe?

On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 9:41 PM, Steve Bannon - «¢ wrote:

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article2 16997195. html

please note
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confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may
constitute inside information, and is intended only for
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JEE
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IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012260.txt,"isor & Assoc

- Reporting asd Transeriptics, fee,

QO. Just your own traffic matters?
A. Yes.
Q. Have you ever had to have an attorney
represent you for anything?
A. No.
Q. Good for you.
Okay I want to talk to you about a man that
you know by the name of Jeffrey Epstein.
A. Uh-huh.
You know Jeffrey, do you not?

I met him once,

Q. Okay. And now before you went to Jeffrey

Epstein's house, had you ever heard of him before?
A. Yes, | | had told me about him, [I

Q. And what had RR coi you about

Mr. Epstein?

A, She told me that he was having girls such
as I =:¢ J. enc otners that 1 don't know their
names, were setting up girls to bring them over and give
him massages, and it was going to be strictly massages,

no physical contact other than that, and that I would be

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IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027926.txt,"We were as ready as we were ever going to be. We got the final go-ahead
from in mid-February. Our backpacks were crammed full with the whole array
of equipment we’d designed, commandeered or purchased for the mission —
including a metal detector we got from a hobby shop in Pennsylvania. All the
cargo except our personal gear, our weapons and our communications
equipment was loaded onto the cart. A command post was set up in a few
wooden huts on Mount Keren in the Negev, complete with special antennas to
receive the intercept transmissions if we succeeded. Not since the first Golan
operation had the attention of the kirya been so keen, or the stakes so high. In
addition to Meir Amit, and of course Avraham, also flying down to Mount
Keren would be General Tzur’s successor as armed forces chief of staff —a
gruff Palmach veteran whom I’d met very briefly at the end of my officer’s
course but who I would come to know well, and work closely with, in the years
ahead: Yitzhak Rabin.

The helicopter lifted off at about six-thirty at night. Compared to special
operations nowadays, the mission still had a somewhat improvised feel about it.
Certainly, that was true of the equipment we were ferrying in, and the tools
we'd devised to make sure we could get it installed and working. But the men in
my team were soldiers I’d trained from the day they arrived in the sayeret.
Achihud Madar was unfailingly surefooted, whether finding his way alone at
night on unfamiliar ground or in a firefight inside a building. He also had
natural dexterity. He and another of the soldiers who was also gifted with his
hands, Nissim Jou’ari, would be performing the most technically delicate part of
the operation on the cable. The third member was Oded Rabinovitch. Tall, thin
and quiet, he was absolutely reliable in whatever part of an operation he was
given to execute. And as my deputy commander, I’d chosen a sayeret officer
named Kobi Meron, who’d been with me on a number of Golan missions. Over
six feet tall, he was probably the strongest man in the unit, quick-thinking and
utterly unflappable.

When we landed, we telescoped out the axles on the cart. The roar of the
departing chopper was replaced by silence. Under the soft light of hundreds of
stars, I led the way deeper into the desert. It took nearly an hour to reach the
road leading to the cable site. Though traffic was light, I posted Oded and

78
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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031426.txt,"From: Nicholas Ribis in

Sent: 3/28/2019 7:41:52 PM

To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]

Subject: The Washington Post: How Donald Trump inflated his net worth to lenders and investors
I

For ur info

How Donald Trump inflated his net worth to lenders and investors
The Washington Post

Trump’s ‘statements of financial condition’ are a key component of inquiries by House Democrats and New
York investigators. Read the full story

Shared from Apple News

Sent from my iPhone

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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017937.txt,"Case 1:19-cv-03377 Document 1 Filed 04/16/19 Page 3 of 28

Plaintiff was required to be on call for Epstein for sexual purposes and frequently traveled with
him both nationally and internationally. Plaintiff was regularly abused by Epstein and was lent
out by Epstein to others for sexual purposes.

6. Defendant Dershowitz was Epstein’s attorney, close friend, and co-conspirator.
Dershowitz was also a participant in sex trafficking, including as one of the men to whom
Epstein lent out Plaintiff for sex.

7. When Epstein was arrested for sex trafficking in 2006, Dershowitz defended his
friend and client by falsely attacking the veracity of his accusers, including calling the children
whom Epstein had abused (and, in the case of Plaintiff, the Defendant himself had also abused),
liars and prostitutes.

8. Despite his significant criminal activity, Epstein’s criminal charges were resolved
by a guilty plea to a single Florida state law charge and a non-prosecution agreement (a “NPA”)
with the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida. Unknown to the public and the
victims at the time, Epstein’s lawyers, including Dershowitz, were pressuring the Government to
commit to the NPA without informing the victims. Epstein’s multiple victims, including
Roberts, were kept in the dark and told to be “patient” while Dershowitz participated in the
drafting of the NPA and worked to protect Epstein and other “potential co-conspirators”
(including himself) from prosecution.

9. On July 7, 2008, a challenge to the NPA was brought on behalf of two of
Epstein’s victims (not including Plaintiff) based on the fact that, contrary to the requirements of
the Criminal Victims’ Rights Act (the “CVRA”), the NPA had been concealed from Epstein’s

victims.

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IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_010477.txt,"A POWERFUL BILLIONAIRE,
THE SEX SCANDAL THAT UNDID HIM, AND ALL
THE JUSTICE THAT MONEY CAN BUY:

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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029620.txt,"please note
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confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may
constitute inside information, and is intended only for
the use of the addressee. It is the property of
JEE
Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this
communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited
and may be unlawful. If you have received this
communication in error, please notify us immediately by
return e-mail or by e-mail to jeevacation@gmail.com, and
destroy this communication and all copies thereof,
including all attachments. copyright -all rights reserved

please note
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confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may
constitute inside information, and is intended only for
the use of the addressee. It is the property of
JEE
Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this
communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited
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Subject: Fwd: draft

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From: jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 2:08 PM
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To: Melanie Spincla JE, Brod Wechs!cr

phaidon and art space. combined basis 96 million , ( reviewed with brad and joe.) . add ten for
restructuring . basis 106. mi. subtract total sale price. for both, lets say approx $8-15m ._ leaving loss
of between 90 and 98 million long term loss. . AMT rate 28 % obama. tax 3.8%. city and state

12% total aprox 43%. tax rate. savings 38.7-44m

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IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011769.txt,"/ BARAK / 12

that his long record of service should have earned him that right, and that it would
be painful for him to accept that, by June, there would be a new Labor leader.

He was relaxed and gracious when I arrived. We went through the details of
what we’d agreed, and worked out what each of us would say to reporters. What
came next, as the party faithful filed in, was simple human nature, I suppose.
Seeing some of his oldest supporters, he had second thoughts. His comments to
reporters afterward were more hedged than what we’d discussed. Giora told me
that after all of us had left, Peres turned to him and said: “Look what Barak is
doing to me. What have you been doing?” Giora, who had been a conduit between
us at the very beginning of our discussions, replied: “You asked me to bring Barak
to you.” At which point, Shimon said: “OK. So probably I made a mistake.”

At a convention of 3,000 party activists in mid-May, a few weeks before the
leadership election, he made a final attempt to mitigate that “mistake”. Nissim
Zvili, the secretary-general of the party and a longtime Peres ally, introduced a
motion to vote him into a new post of party president. A couple of Shimon’s
friends urged me to back the idea, describing it essentially as a ceremonial role.
But I feared it was a recipe for prolonging the agony. Whatever powers “President
Peres” would have, the idea of two captains on a ship would almost certainly mean
trouble. I was especially reluctant to go along with it because our particular ship
had been in rough waters for so long. Labor needed to steer a calm, decisive course
toward the next election if we were going to defeat Bibi.

What followed was one of the most painful spectacles I’ve ever witnessed.
When Peres rose to make his case for becoming party president, he said: “I don’t
want powers. I don’t want honors. But I also don’t want insults. I announced my
decision to resign from the position of party chairman. Did someone push me into
it? Am I trying to hold on to my job?”

“Yes!” many hundreds of the delegates shouted back at him.

Stung, he reminded the meeting that it was he who had led Labor back from the
battering it took in the 1977 election against Begin. In 1981, he’d helped us
recover a dozen of our lost seats. Even so, because he hadn’t succeeded in forming
a Labor government, people had called him a loser! “Mah? Ani loser?” he asked,
using the English word. “Am I a /oser?”

“Yes! Yes!” came the shouts.

298
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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016191.txt,"Zain KSA (XOCTF)

We use a DCF valuation model to derive our price objective of SAR 12.2. Key
assumptions are a discount rate of 11.0%, underpinned by a risk free rate of 5.5%, a
cost of equity of 29% and a 6.5% cost of debt. We explicitly forecast free cash flows
until 2022 and then assume perpetuity growth of 3%, as we do when valuing other Gulf
operators. Our forecasts take in to account the repayment of the deferred royalty loan
afforded to Zain in 2013 (repayments starting from 2021).

Downside risks are greater pricing pressure from MVNOs, the loss of its appeal against
a SAR620mn tax claim, an unfavourable ruling against Zain KSA in its arbitration process
with Mobily and an inability to grow market share and margins, which in turn would
threaten capital requirements.

Analyst Certification

We, Abdelrali El Jattari, Ali Dhaloomal, Anton Fedotov, Benjamin Heelan, Celine Fornaro,
Faisal AlAzmeh, CFA, Francisco Blanch, Hootan Yazhari, CFA, Jamie Clark, CFA and Jean-
Michel Saliba, hereby certify that the views each of us has expressed in this research
report accurately reflect each of our respective personal views about the subject
securities and issuers. We also certify that no part of our respective compensation was,
is, or will be, directly or indirectly, related to the specific recommendations or view
expressed in this research report.

Special Disclosures

Some of the securities discussed herein should only be considered for inclusion in
accounts qualified for high risk investment.

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TEXT-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033327.txt,"From: Richard Kahn 
Sent: 11/8/2018 8:46:41 PM 
To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com] 
Subject: Former NJ Gov. Chris Christie visits the White House as Trump considers him to replace Jeff Sessions as attorney 
general 
Importance: High 
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/08/trump-considers-chris-christie-to-replace-sessions-as-attorney-
general.html 
Richard Kahn 
HBRK Associates Inc. 
575 Lexington Avenue 4th Floor 
New York, NY 10022 
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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030417.txt,"Date: Tuesday, March 82011 11:49 PM
Subject: RE:

From: = Eva Dubin [as

To: Jeffrey <jeevacation@gmail.com>;

superb!!!!
Where and when will this be published??

Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 12:28:31 -0800
Subject:
From: jeevacation@gmail.com

10:

Jeffrey and Ghislaine: Notes on New York's Oddest Alliance <
http: //www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2011/03/notes- on-new-

yorks-oddest-couple-jeffrey-epstein-and-ghislaine- maxwell. html >

by Vicky Ward <http://www.vanityfair.com/contributors/vicky-_ ward>

March 8, 2011, 2:30 PM

“T’ve got a story idea for you. The rebuilding of Indonesia. Or New Orleans. Or both. Go there. I’ve just been. You
will never think the same way about anything again.”

So spoke not Bill or Melinda Gates, but Ghislaine Maxwell, the 48-year-old woman being written up everywhere at
the moment as the alleged “procurer” of young women for billionaire Jeffrey Epstein.

Epstein, 57, is the financier who spent a year in jail on charges of soliciting prostitutes—and now there is talk of
another investigation because various women, now in their twenties and thirties, have come forward with
allegations that he molested them when they were under-age. The allegations first surfaced in British newspapers,
which have zeroed in on Epstein’s friendship with Prince Andrew, who has recently tried to publicly disassociate
himself from his old pal.

I wrote a piece for Vanity Fair in 2003 called “The Talented Mr. Epstein.” It was largely a business piece that focused
on his mysterious exit from Bear Stearns in 1981, his close relationships with Jimmy Cayne, Les Wexner, the
chairman of Limited Brands, and above all, the man who claimed to be his mentor, Steven Jude Hoffenberg, who is
currently serving a 20-year-jail sentence for bilking investors in Towers Financial out of $450 million.

The piece alluded to Epstein’s great friendship with Maxwell, and how she introduced him to young women with
whom he had sexual relationships. But, in the end, the story didn’t really go there, focusing instead on the issue that
remains a mystery—how Jeffrey made his money, and how Ghislaine made hers.

This is not to say I didn’t hear stories about the girls. I did. But, not knowing quite who to believe, I concentrated on
the intriguing financial mystery instead. But now the women have come back. Not the same ones, different ones.
And their stories are bone-chilling. Journalists from England have phoned—and, in one case, flown—to ask me
about Epstein and Maxwell. Who is he? And the British, especially, want to know: Who is she? At this point, I am so
bored of repeating myself to others—it was, after all, my 2003 Vanity Fairstory that really brought him into the
limelight—that I have decided to write about this myself.

Bizarrely, perhaps, I have gotten to know Jeffrey and Ghislaine far better after my piece than before it. I kept
running into both of them, separately, at parties. Jeffrey is not a social animal so he usually has a couple of young
women with him who stand two feet behind him, as if serving a monarch. “Do they speak?” I remember asking him
once, nodding at his lookalike blondes. He laughed. “Not like you, Vicky,” was his riposte.

I remembered that when we'd once discussed math—in particular, an isosceles triangle—and I revealed I hadn’t
studied math since I was 14 (such is, or was, the way of the British educational system), I received a package at
home via messenger. It was a book: “Math for idiots.”

So he is not without humor, even though he doesn’t drink or smoke, and hates restaurants.

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012966.txt,"50 3 A Patternist Philosophy of Mind

must be counteracted by a pragmatic tendency to remove items from the attentional focus if
giving them attention is not providing sufficient utility in terms of the achievement of system
goals.

The synthesis and analysis perspective provides a more systematic perspective on this self-
reinforcing dynamic. Synthesis occurs in the attentional focus when two or more items in the
focus are combined to form new items, new relationships, new ideas. This happens continually,
as one of the main purposes of the attentional focus is combinational. On the other hand,
Analysis then occurs when a combination that has been speculatively formed is then linked
in with the remainder of the mind (the “unconscious”, the vast body of knowledge that is not
in the attentional focus at the given moment in time). Analysis basically checks to see what
support the new combination has within the existing knowledge store of the system. Thus,
forward-analysis basically comes down to “generate and test”, where the testing takes the form
of attempting to integrate the generated structures with the ideas in the unconscious long-
term memory. One of the most obvious examples of this kind of dynamic is creative thinking
(Boden, 2003; Goertzel, 1997), where the attentional focus continually combinationally creates
new ideas, which are then tested via checking which ones can be validated in terms of (built up
from) existing knowledge.

The analysis stage may result in items being pushed out of the attentional focus, to be
replaced by others. Likewise may the synthesis stage: the combinations may overshadow and
then replace the things combined. However, in human minds and functional AI minds, the
attentional focus will not be a complete chaos with constant turnover: Sometimes the same set of
ideas — or a shifting set of ideas within the same overall family of ideas — will remain in focus for a
while. When this occurs it is because this set or family of ideas forms an approximate attractor
for the dynamics of the attentional focus, in particular for the forward-analysis dynamic of
speculative combination and integrative explanation. Often, for instance, a small “core set” of
ideas will remain in the attentional focus for a while, but will not exhaust the attentional focus:
the rest of the attentional focus will then, at any point in time, be occupied with other ideas
related to the ones in the core set. Often this may mean that, for a while, the whole of the
attentional focus will move around quasi-randomly through a “strange attractor” consisting of
the set of ideas related to those in the core set.

3.4.5 Conclusion

The ideas presented above (the notions of synthesis and analysis, and the hypothesis of self and
attentional focus as attractors of the iterative forward-analysis dynamic) are quite generic and
are hypothetically proposed to be applicable to any cognitive system, natural or artificial. Later
chapters will discuss the manifestation of the above ideas in the context of CogPrime. We have
found that the analysis/synthesis approach is a valuable tool for conceptualizing CogPrime’s
cognitive dynamics, and we conjecture that a similar utility may be found more generally.

Next, so as not to end the section on too blasé of a note, we will also make a stronger
hypothesis: that, in order for a physical or software system to achieve intelligence that is roughly
human-level in both capability and generality, using computational resources on the same order
of magnitude as the human brain, this system must

e manifest the dynamic of iterated synthesis and analysis, as modes of an underlying “self-
generating system” dynamic

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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029146.txt,"* Other possibile areas you suggest

We would like to set a mutually agreed schedule so we can confirm and reserve the Closer To Truth
‘season’ of 13 episodes for 'Radical Breakthroughs’, which we need to plan well in advance - especially as
we begin 2018.

See you Jan. 5 - Looking forward to brainstorming.

Robert

On Dec 28, 2017, at 7:40 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:

great work , but needs some editing, did not like multi verse and sensience. seems more blahblah

On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 12:50 AM, Robert Lawrence Kuhn 4g wrote:
Hi: When are you back in NY?

Attached is the complete Preproduction Book for Radical Breakthroughs - now including Misha Gromov!
Love your feedback, suggestions.

Also attached is the budget and timing of funding, as presented originally, now updated for the completion
of preproduction (phase I). We are ready to go into production (phase II). See Budget, p. 4. Committed and
excited.

When to meet?

Robert

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patient (who doesn’t want her name made public)
had such a wonderful response to everolimus, the tech-
nology was ripe to analyze her entire tumor.

The outlier patient had already gone through sev-
eral rounds of treatment, including surgery at Memo-
nial Sloan-Kettering. That was another stroke of luck
because tt allowed Solit’s group to acquire samples of
her tissue to be sequenced. Cancers typically start with
mutations that cause cells to divide too much, ignoring
normal stop signals and evading quality controls that
repair or prevent errors in DNA reproduction. “Cancer
is a disease of mutations,” says Solit.

The outlier patient’s cancer had accumulated 17,136
mutations, of which 140 seemed most suspect, because
they appeared in “coding” regions of the genome, the
segments that include instructions on how to build the
proteins that do the work in a cell. Out of those 140,
two looked particularly menacing to Solit. In a gene
called TSC1, sust two of tts 8,600 DNA base-pairs were
missing, but the error would cause the gene to make a
defective version of the protein it was supposed to cre-
ate. In the gene NF2, an error meant a protemn would
be built only halfway, unable to do its job.

Solit could now see how these mutations were
affected by everolimus, a drug typically used to sup-
press the immune system after organ transplants, and
to combat advanced kidney cancer. Everolimus shuts
down one crucial link in a chain of interacting proteins
called the mTOR pathway that fuels cell growth, divi-
sion, and survival. The drug mhibits the cells of the
immune system from dividing, which they must do in
order to attack foreign tissue, and protects transplant-
ed organs. Likewise, it slows down the uncontrolled
cell division that happens in cancer. The kicker was
that both of the woman’s mutations, NF2 and TSC1,
affect the mTOR system. “It’s not surprising, in ret-
rospect, that our patient responded really well to this
specific drug,” Solit says. “She had the mutation that
activated the pathway the drug targets.”

Solit’s team analyzed 13 more people from the tri-
al and found different TSC1 mutations in three other
people, mcluding two whose tumor shrank a Iittle in
response to the drug. (Nobody else had NF2 mutations,
which is probably why she alone responded dramati-
cally.) Meanwhile, eight of nine people whose tumors
grew during the study did not have the mutation.

38

DOROSHOW OF THE National Cancer Institute says

Solit’s work “turned on the lightbulb.” It showed how

the analysis of exceptional responders could be made

systematic. Inspired by his example, the NCI is now

trawling through its own archives, revisiting outlier
responses among the roughly 10,000 patients who
enrolled in NCI-sponsored clinical trials during the

last decade. Picture the long rows of crates in the gov-
ernment warehouse at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark:

There’s treasure in there somewhere, if only someone
would look. “We ought to study these people more,
since we have the means now,” says Barbara Conley,
the associate director of the cancer diagnosis program

at NCI, who leads the project.

In the few months since the project began, Con-
ley’s team have already found about 100 exception-
al responders. The next steps are to find out if their
tumors were biopsied, if that tissue sample 1s still sit-
ting in a freezer somewhere, and whether it’s in good
enough shape to be sequenced. Starting next year, the
group will start inviting any scientist who is doing a
clinical trial to submit new cases.

The NCI project will include whole-genome
sequencing (provided they have adequate tissue sam-
ples) and repeated reads of the whole “exome’—the
1 percent of human DNA that is translated into exons,
the sequences that are used as templates for protein
construction. The reason to do both, explains Conley, is
that cancer cells, even within a single tumor, often have
a hodgepodge of mutations. Re-doing whole exome
sequencing dozens of times captures most of the sig-

nificant genetic variation in one tumor, and it’s more
practical than trying to sequence the whole genome
over and over. Finally, RNA expression will also be ana-
lyzed. Evaluating RNA, an intermediary between DNA
and proteins, provides a measure of which genes are
switched on and how much protein they’re producing.

Other elite cancer research centers and genome-
sequencing centers have similar in-house projects.
Much like the NCI project, the unusual responder pro-
gram at the University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer
Center, is beginning by combing through the archives
to hunt for outliers of the past. A patient at the clinic
who has an unusual response—good or bad—will also
be referred for genome sequencing and other kinds of
geneticanalysis.

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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020244.txt,"92

CHAPTER ELEVEN
The Escape Artist

“T’m not self-destructive. I don’t want to self-immolate and erase myself from the pages of history. But if we don’t
take chances, we can’t win.”

--Snowden in Moscow

The next evening Snowden drove to Honolulu International Airport. He left his leased car in
the parking lot. He took with him only carry-on baggage, including a back-pack and a laptop
with a TOR sticker on it. “I took everything I had on my back,” he said. Before leaving he also
packed in his luggage the cash that would pay for his fugitive life. Along with the cash, he took
the thumb drives containing the NSA’s keys to the kingdom.

At this point, Snowden was still a free man. He was not wanted by the authorities. He had
provided his employer and the NSA with a medical excuse for his absence from work so he would
not be immediately missed. He also had a valid passport, a credit card, and ID. He had he yet
made arrangements to meet the journalists. Snowden’s destination was Hong Kong. After
crossing the International Date Line, Snowden waited three hours in the transit zone of Narita.
Here he was reportedly captured by the airports CCTV cameras sitting alone. He then boarded a
plane to Hong Kong. After the four-hour long flight from Narita, he arrived in Hong Kong early
in the morning on May 20"".

He had visited Hong Kong at least once before with Lindsay Mills when he was stationed in
Japan. He had also made some arrangements. According to Albert Ho, his Hong Kong Lawyer,
Snowden stayed at a residence arranged for him in advance by a party whom Snowden knew prior
to his arrival. This “carer,” Ho said, had assisted Snowden with his logistics. For the next ten
days, Snowden did not use his credit card or leave any paper trail to his location. Wherever he
was, “his first priority,” as he told Greenwald, was to find a place safe from US countermeasures.
He brought with him a large number of electronic copies of NSA documents marked “TS/SCI/
NOFORN, which stood for Top Secret, Sensitive Compartmentalized Information and No
Foreign Distribution. According to government rules, data carrying these labels could not be
removed from a government-approved “SCI facility.” Yet Snowden, who brought them with him
into this semi-autonomous zone in China, intended to break these rules.

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IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011027.txt,"totalgrowth _— output pure consumption

= 5.6
totalcapital total capital total capital (0-6)
which can be written as
total growth rate = total capital productivity
— pure consumption rate, (5.6a)

as with (4.3a). Since (5.6a) is always true, and not only under occasional

circumstances, we also get

change in total growth rate = change in total capital productivity

—changein pure consumption rate. (5.7)

This parallels the logic of (4.4). Again save space by reexpressing this as

total acceleration = total productivity + total thrift, (5.7a)

where “total” means “of total capital”. Now divide by total acceleration to reach the

counterparts of (4.5) and (4.5a).
I will sometimes save space, from now on, by expressing these arguments in the
equations of Chapter 4, as for example in leaving the words “total” and “pure”

implicit if the context shows that I mean them.

The Slave Paradox

Say that Phil enslaves Bill. Bill’s maintenance consumption had been taste-satisfying
pure consumption to Bill when Bill was free, and so was not deducted from his pay
to find his gross realized output as valued by himself. But Bill’s maintenance
consumption satisfies no tastes of Phil. Cash flow is gross realized output less

plowback from revenue less new investment from outside, for either factor, while

Chapter 5 Bringing Human Capital In 1/13/16 8

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012796.txt,"incidental consequence, a hunger to watch violence and to see it as entertainment. It allowed our feelings
of inequity and envy to morph into schadenfreude, retaliation, and spite. It allowed us to enjoy violence

as perpetrators and spectators. It allowed us to put our money on feeling good about righting an injustice.

Why oh why?

Why did evil, expressed as excessive harm to innocent others, evolve? The answer lies, so I suggest, ina
special property of the human brain. Some time after we diverged from a chimpanzee-like common
ancestor, the human brain was remodeled to allow promiscuous connections between previously
unconnected circuits. Promiscuity enabled us to explore new problems using a combination of older, but
nonetheless adaptive parts. Some of these novel explorations led to highly adaptive consequences, as
when we developed the ability to self-deceive in the service of pumping ourselves up to do better in the
context of competition; or when we invented new technologies to solve difficult environmental problems,
such as using spears to capture prey at a distance; or, when we acquired the know-how to stockpile and
enhance resources such as food, water and fertile land that are critical to individual survival and
reproduction; or when we evolved the richly textured social emotions of jealousy, shame, guilt, elation,
and empathy, feelings that motivate individuals to recognize the importance of others’ well-being and
interests and to correct prior wrongs; or, when we tapped into the rich connection between reward and
aggression to punish cheaters trying to destabilize a cooperative society. But these same adaptive
explorations also resulted in incidental costs that have destroyed the lives of innocent individuals. The
capacity to deny others’ moral worth enabled us to justify great harms, including self-sacrifice as living
bombs designed to annihilate thousands of non-believers. The capacity to create advanced weaponry
enabled us to kill at a distance, thereby avoiding the aversiveness of taking out those staring back. The
capacity to stockpile resources led to the growth of greed, increasing disparities anong members of
society, the inspiration to steal, and heightened violence both to defend and to obtain. The capacity to
experience social emotions such as jealousy led to blind rage and a driving engine of homicide, including
cuckolded lovers who kill their spouses and stepparents who kill their stepchildren. The capacity to feel
good about harming others enabled us to recruit this elixir in the service of causing excessive harm in any
number of novel contexts, from ethnic cleansings to bizarre fetishes that include self-mutilation. And the
list goes on. This is the yin and yang of promiscuous thinking. This is the natural history of evil, its
ancestry and adaptive significance. This evolutionary explanation sets the stage for unpacking the recipe

for evil, how it develops within individuals and societies, ingredient by ingredient.

Hauser Chapter 1. Nature’s secrets 50

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TEXT-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032011.txt,"From: Nicholas Ribis 
Sent: 5/29/2019 2:14:44 PM 
To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Mueller statement at 11am will be interesting - I think it's because of Michael wolff's new book and the 
reference to a draft indictment- it probably will be helpful to arr - talk after 
sent from my iPhone 
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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018903.txt,"Ddbadie Cause Affidavit ©

Palm Beach Police Department
Agency ORI# FLO 500600

Epstein wanted to be rubbed on his back and recently he began turning over and have her rub his chest as he
masturbated. He would try to touch her breasts as she rubbed his chest. [___ stated “Jeff would try to get away
with more and more on each massage”.[__| stated Epstein would try to touch her more and on one occasion
he attempted to use a massager/vibrator on her. PE crovd_ to the house for the original massage. [
left | | her cell phone number and every time Epstein would come into town, JJ would call her for an bé
appointment to “work”. Each time she went, [jwould meet her at the kitchen door area. She would bring = »7¢
her upstairs and prepare the massage table.[___]advised Epstein would ask her questions about herself. Epstein
knew she was a soccer player and would be attending == =| I asked kf Epstein knew her real
age| _| stated Epstein did and didn’t care. The most recent massage she provided was on October 1, 2005.
During the massage, she asked Epstein if she could borrow one of his vehicles to visit her family and boyfriend in
Orlando, Florida. Epstein had told her she could borrow one of his vehicles but later stated he would rent her a
car. She continued with the massage as Epstein grabbed her buttocks and caressed the buttocks cheeks. I
asked|___Jif she was wearing undergarments to which she replied her thong underwear. Once he tried to touch
her breasts, she would pull away from him and he would stop. [__|was asked if he ever used a vibrator on her.

as aware of the vibrator but advised she never would allow him to use the vibrator on her. She described
the vibrator as the large white vibrator with a huge head on the tip of the vibrator. She stated he kept the vibrator
in a closet near the massage table. .

[__|statea that on October 3, 2005, she was contacted by Epstein’s assistant, | | who informed her
that Jeff Epstein had rented her a new Nissan Sentra and she should come by the house to pick it up. | |
informed [she would have the car for a month. [__}tated Epstein knew her car was not working properly
and that she had missed appointments in the past because of her car being inoperable[ _ explained the car is
currently parked next to the ym field. I asked her if she ever took any one to the house. [
explained she took a friend of hers who attended —“‘S™S™*™*™*™;*C*‘~*@S who has

relocated to Orlando to attend college. I asked if she ever allowed another female in the room.[___ advised no
one was brought into the room with her.

At the conclusion of the interview, Det Dawson and I went to the gym area off sd and
located the Silver Nissan Sentra bearing Florida tag X98-APM . The vehicle is registered to Dollar Rent a Car
out of the Palm Beach International Airport. The vehicle was rented by Janusz Banasiack, later learned to be

Epstein’s houseman, and paid with Epstein’s credit card.

On September 11, 2005, w/f| |_| dof | was arrested by the Palm Beach Police Department
The foregoing instrument was sworn to or affirmed State of Florida
before me this 1*t day of May, 2006 by County of Palm Beach
Det Joe Recarey, who is personally known to me.

Signature/Arresting Officer

Signature of Police Officer (F.S.S. 117.10) Date: 05/01/2006

Page of 22

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013488.txt,"Barry Silbert — CEO of SecondMarket.
Josh Silverman — President of US Consumer Services, American Express. Fmr CEO, Skype. Fmr CEO, Shopping.com. Fmr CEO and Fndr, eVite.

Sukhinder Singh Cassidy — Chm, JOYUS. Fmr CEO, Polyvore. Fmr President of Asia Pacific and Latin America, Google. Boards: TripAdvisor (TRIP)
and Formspring.

Megan Smith — VP Business Development, Google. Fmr CEO, PlanetOut.
Charles Songhurst -- GM and Head of Strategy and M&A, Microsoft. MD, Katana Capital.
Angelo Sotira — CEO, DeviantArt.

Bret Stephens -- Member of Editorial Board, Wall Street Journal. Main Foreign Affairs Columnist, Wall Street Journal. Fmr Editor-in-Chief, Jerusalem
Post.

Simon Stevens — EVP, UnitedHealth Group. Fmr CEO, Ovations (revenues of $31 billion). Fmr Health Policy Director to British Prime Minister Tony
Blair.

Henry Sweica — CEO, Talpion Fund Management. Fmr co-founder, Highbridge Capital Management.

Alexander Tamas - Partner, DST. Boards: Forticom, mail.ru

Peter Thiel -- CEO of Thiel Capital. Managing Director, Founders Fund. Fmr founder and CEO of PayPal. Boards: Facebook and Palantir.
Steve Wayne — CEO, Jensen Group.

Will Wechsler — Deputy Asst. Sec of Defense for Counternarcotics and Global Threats.

Adam Weiss — co-CEO, Scout Capital.

Katharine Weymouth - Publisher, Washington Post.

Michael Wolf — CEO, Activate. fmr President and COO, MTV Networks. Fmr Prtnr, McKinsey. Former Senior Partner, Booz Allen & Hamilton.
Paul Wolpe — Director, Center of Ethics. Prof of Bioethics, Emory. Sr Bioethicist, NASA. Co-Editor, American Journal of Bioethics.

Jed York — CEO of San Francisco 49ers.

Lauren Zalaznick — Chairman, Entertainment & Digital Networks and Integrated Media, NBCUniversal. She oversees Bravo, Oxygen Media, Style, PBS
Sprout, Telemundo, iVillage, Swirl, Daily Candy, and Fandango.

Eric Zinterhofer — co-CEO, Searchlight Capital. Chm, Charter Communications. Fmr Sr Partner, Apollo Management. Boards: Central European Media
Enterprises, Dish TV India.

Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg — fmr Minister of Defense, Germany. Fmr Minister of Economics and Technology, Germany.

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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031368.txt,"=> Exhibition Zone (Gee,

NOBEL CHARITABLE TRUST

Energy efficient products and services from Japan and around the world all exhibited in one venue. NCT will send out the
latest information on energy efficiency to reduce effects on the environment.

Exhibition of Renewable. Alternative and Sustainable Energy Developments & Energy Efficient Products

Exhibition

Exhibitors will be corporations (organizations) of energy efficient products and renewable, alternative and sustainable energy developments from around the

world. The exhibition will scale in size each year as the most prestigious environmental exhibition.
Each participating corporation (organization) will enter a product (technology/service)for the awards. As corporations hope to win, an active and lively

atmosphere will be created.

The exhibition zone will be divided into 2 subzones under the following categories:

@ Renewable, Alternative and Sustainable Energy Zone => Introducing new energy developments such as fuel cells and biomass energy
*3 Awards will be selected from this division by the Judging Committee: NCT Energy Aware, Kyoto Energy Award, Nobel Family Award

@® Environment and Eco Zone > Exhibits and demonstrations of energy efficient products, services and

technologies
*3 Awards will be selected from this division by visitors and the Judging Committee: NCT Contribution to the

Environment Award, NCT Environmental Design Award and the Special Ecology Award (3 products)

Venue and Booths
Venue scheduled to be at Tokyo Big Sight’s West Halls 1 & 2 (17,760m ) .

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_014976.txt,"Chart 7: A combination of upward trending global equity markets and
very low volatility have conspired to push trend following (CTA) equity
positioning to near record levels. Consequently, the beta of CTA
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CTA = Commodity Trading Advisor

Chart 8: Owing to low cross asset vol and strong diversification, the
volatility of risk-balanced multi-asset portfolios has fallen to historically
low levels. Consequently, leverage levels across multi-asset & other
portfolios that target fixed vol have likely hit their caps

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Source: BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research. Based on daily data from 3-Jan-72 through 16-Jun-17.
Equity, fixed income, and commodity components within the hypothetical risk parity investment are
represented by the S&P500, 10-Year US Treasury Bonds, and the S&P GSCI Index, respectively. Risk
parity allocations are determined and rebalanced monthly using prior 12-month realized volatility
and correlations.

It is important to note that not all CTA, risk parity, or vol control strategies operate
similarly and there is model risk in estimating the exact size of these trading flows.

Chart 9: The vega outstanding in inverse VIX ETNs has also reached a
record high at ~$125mn vega

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Rule works as follows: when average cash balance rises above 4.5% a contrarian buy signal is
generated for equities. When the cash balance falls below 3.5% a contrarian sell signal is generated.

Extract risk-limited alpha from SPX range via cheap in-the-money knockout puts

As a risk-limited range trade, we like owning down-and-out puts on SPX that are already
in-the-money. For example, the SPX Sep 2475 put with a 2300 knock-out (continuous
observation) indicatively costs 7Obps (spot ref 2451) and offers a 60% discount to the

vanilla 2475/2300 put spread, which is itself historically cheap (Chart 12).

If SPX stays above the 2300 barrier at all points in time before expiry, the structure is
equivalent to a 2475 put option. If the barrier is instead breached, the maximum loss
will be equal to the (low) upfront premium. The 2300 barrier is about 6% out-of-the-
money, hence “allows” for the elusive 5% correction not seen since Brexit (on a closing
basis). However, investors can mitigate the risk of breaching the barrier by either
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to 1%}, or by only observing it on a close-to-close basis (in turn sacrificing part of the

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idea of a closed iWorld where the efficiencies and charm of inclusion made outside
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path. So: Windows runs on 90% of the globe’s PCs, nearly 30 years after its first
release. Google has 65% market share. Android runs on 81% of new phones.
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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013501.txt,"﻿THE NEARNESS OF GRACE
A PERSONAL SCIENCE OF SPIRITUAL TRANSFORMATION
Arnold J. Mandell
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements ………………………………………………………… 3
Chapter 1: In Search of the Miraculous .…………………………………. 4
Chapter 2: Doesn’t Everybody ……………………………………………. 22
Chapter 3: Transmogrifications Of Energies ……………………………. 42
Chapter 4: Sensual In-Between Entropies ………………………………. 64
Chapter 5: Some Entheogenic Entropies …………..……………………. 87
Chapter 6: Pentecostal Phase Transitions ………………………………. 122
Chapter 7: Amphetamine Roll-Up And Splitting .………….……………. 144
Chapter 8: Faith And Rationality …………………………………………. 168
Appendix: An Intuitive Guide to the Ideas and
Methods of Dynamical Systems for the Life Sciences …………… 186
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Appreciation is expressed to the Fetzer Institute for their support of this work.
Particular thanks are due their imaginative Vice President, Dr. Paul Gailey, who shared my
vision and hope that these somewhat disparate themes could be blended into a meaningful
whole. Time and the reading by others will tell whether this idea was realized. The Fetzer
Foundation and Dr. Gailey have facilitated exploration into blends of science and
spirituality, particularly in the context of personal meaning. They also have a history of
supporting serious work in this era’s most powerful and rigorous exercise in holism as
represented by the mathematical and applied mathematical fields of modern dynamical
systems theory. Fetzer’s very special environment and years of dedication have
encouraged the variety of personal meanings within science to emerge and be recognized
as legitimate and important parts of the research enterprise. It would be difficult to imagine
a more propitious context for this effort.
The book is dedicated to my daughter Buna, and to my intellectual and creative
companion, Dr. Karen Selz, whose deep and lovely mind wrote much more of this book
than is formally acknowledged.
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CHAPTER 1:
IN SEARCH OF THE MIRACULOUS
More than a half-century of naïve persistence and driven search for unity in
the biophysics of mind and personal spirituality as the basis for healing
transformation has led me into many laboratories. The motivation may have been
genetic. My father said that we were descended from several generations of Jewish
mystics, none of them able to attain the salaried status of rabbi or cantor. These
ecstatic men lived lives of peripatetic eccentricity, stirring congregations with
provocative insights and uncomfortably personal inquiry. But only for a little while.
Soon they were asked to leave the synagogue and often their Eastern European
Jewish townships called shtetels as well.
My father, in the first generation of our family without rabbis in over a
Century, was a businessman-musician, who in the early mornings studied Talmudic
commentaries. He taught me about why it was that most interpretations of the book
by the rational, physician, lawyer, philosopher, Moses Maimonides, called Guide for
the Perplexed, were in error in their assumption that man cannot understand God’s
nature with his mind. He took issue with the opinion that the union of a person’s
intellect and Spirit with Him was not possible as long as a person was living. Ibn
Tibbon, Maimonides’ best-known early translator and interpreter, relegated the
cognitive, analytical, physical and alchemical transformational sciences to the
earthly, not spiritual realm. My father disagreed. He espoused the work of the 13 th
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Century proponent of a school of Jewish ecstatic mysticism, Abraham Abulafia,
whose interpretation of the Guide and his own Commentary on the Secrets taught
that the human mind, if transformed into a “state of active intellect,” could become
one with Spirit, realizing the Kingdom of God in rational mystical experience in a
state of excitement with new ideas. The new consciousness achieves deep
knowledge of both the “upper” and “lower” realms of what he called “reality” both
spontaneously and directly. He said that without personal transformation, this
knowing is not possible.
Abulafia’s lesson was that the mundane intellect of man has the potential for
transformation into another kind of mind in a spiritualization of thought. This occurs
via developmental stages that begin with intellect and imagination and culminate in
what he called prophetic emanations. The exercises leading to this transformation
are to be strongly willed and practiced with regularity. This work results in ascension
to an ecstatic state accompanied by great intuitive powers, which Abulafia called
“prophesy.” Ibn Adret, the Chief Rabbi of Spain at the end of the Thirteenth Century,
banished Abulafia from the Country, a Century before the Spanish Inquisition
ousted all the Jews.
Following what my father said was required in the practice of Kabbalah, a
13 th Century tradition of esoteric and mystical interpretations of the Scriptures, I
learned the secret meanings of each of the twenty-two letter Hebrew alphabet.
Much like the Platonic view of mathematics, that it existed before the physical
universe, these symbolic equivalences were believed to be eternal in the
transcendental realm. One of the rare written accounts of this oral tradition is in the
thirteenth-century Hebrew Book of Splendor called the Zohar which describes the
Hebrew alphabet as the heavenly code of the cosmos.
I learned that the Tegragrammaton’s repeated letter Hei, being fifth in the
Hebrew alphabet, represents the number five. In the Kabbalistic tradition, Hei
implicates the functional five-partition of the human inner self or soul. The five parts
are: nefesh, instinctual drives; ruach, mood, affect and emotions; neshamah,
cognitive activities of the mind; chayah, efforts to understand and attain
transcendence; yechidah, experiencing the world as a cosmic unity. Later in life as
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a psychoanalytical neuroscientist with a computational bent, the partitions divided
thoughtful, forewarning forebrain from automatic and stereotyped hind brain, the
signal analyzing thalamocortical system from the emotional and impulsive brain
stem-limbic, the symbolically logical left from intuitively geometric right
hemispheres. We divide the neurotransmitter moods of dopamine aggression from
the transcendentally erotic serotonin and the organized dynamical states of
periodicity and quasi(multi)periodicity from the real world complexity of chaos. I
learned that it is comforting to divide an unknown whole into two or more
unknowable parts.
The Jewish guru and Hebraic tutor of my childhood, Rabbi Isadore Kliegfeld,
smiled when I told him about my sudden loss of panic during nighttime Hebrew
letter meditations. He said that I had had received personal evidence that these
powerful symbols could call forth the transformational powers of God. He said that I
had been given a blessing, in Yiddish, a nachas. Maybe panic is not that far from
the transcendence of an activated mind.
In my tenth summer, behind closed door in a hot back bedroom, first by
accidental touch and then by more systematic chaffing, I evoked a pleasurably
urgent and yawning feeling that began in the lower part of my abdomen and back. It
filled me with thought emptying fullness that a sudden involuntary burst of pelvic
contractions found resolution in an hour or two of an unexplainable sadness. I had
been struggling to understand my father’s well warn copy of William James’s
Varieties of Religious Experience and I wondered if I had been visited by one of the
altered states he described. Was this what he meant by a transformative
experience? A few months later, a late night meditation produced physical
evidence, a thick, sticky, salty sweet stuff that by morning stuck my sheets together.
Later that year, in my father’s library, I found a translation of the 1500 BCE Egyptian
Book of the Dead. It contained a creation myth of two Gods in which “rubbing with
my fist, my heart came into my mouth and I spat forth Shu and Tefnut.” Psalm 23,
read rather regularly in Sunday school, began to make me wonder about the
meanings of“…rod and staff that comforts…” and what was meant by “…my cup
runneth over.” Among the ten regions of the Zohar, connecting the inner world of
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man to the upper world, is the tree of ten sefirot in which Yesod , the phallus,
occupies a central place. Now we’re allowed to know that G-spot stimulation of the
para-urethral glands in the female can result in spurt as well as a cup that runneth
over.
Other occasions of the temporal disappearance of the self-conscious I
occurred while doing the theorem and proof work of high school geometry. Axioms
and the rule bound processes of deduction created difficult journeys from that which
was given to what should be found. Rocking back and forth in a desk chair for
hours, chewing on fingernails, cuticles and pencil ends, time disappeared in a none
self aware state of work-a-day well-being. Sri Aurobindo’s Bhagadvad Gita
described this state as one of the rewards of karma yoga. Abulafia’s Kabalistic
School emphasized the importance of hitbodedut, detachment and seclusion in
concentrated thought, as a technique for the attainment of spiritual “intensification.”
Stacks of lined yellow paper piled up full of blind alleys as I lived in humbling
dumbness. One of my teachers of mathematics described it as the working
mathematician’s dark night of the soul. A breakthrough to a route from premises to
proof brought an expansive rush.
Engagement in a struggle to fuse two differing contextual worlds may be
transporting. Geometric visions can be used to do imageless algebra in a brain
state that feels like intuition. The brain does something like this: Let the number of a
sequence of unit squares, each side of measuring 0 to 1, be the denominator of a
series of fractions, say fifths. Now put five of these boxes in a row. Then the
sequence of all possible fifths, 0/5,1/5, 2/5,..5/5, is inscribed by cutting the vertical
sides of the five sequential squares with a diagonal from the lower left of the first
one to the upper right corner of the last. This line cuts each sequential square’s
front boundary with vertical lengths, 0.0, 0.2, 0.4…1.0 in a series of decimal
fractions equivalent to the sequence of all possible fifths, the proper fractions 1/5,
2/5…5/5. It was Abulafia’s kabalistic belief that symbolic, (algebraic), operations in
(geometric) spaces can unify the “upper” and “lower” worlds in the eternal tensions
between the body and soul, the inner world and the cosmos, the conflict making the
global system both sensitive and stable. The geometric-topological approach to
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modern dynamical system’s theory describes a convolution of the expansive
motions (as in the upper world) and contractive motions (as in the lower world)
embedded naturally in the curved time and space geometries of what are called
hyperbolic spaces. Each point in this space can be visualized as a little saddle in
which orbital flows from pommel and back flow down to the seat, bringing points
together in contracting motion, and flows away from seat down along the sides are
expanding the distance between nearby points.. In the middle of the saddle,
simultaneously expansive and contracting orbits demonstrate hyperbolic stability
composed of intersecting destabilizing and stabilizing influences. Loss of this
countervailing hyperbolic dynamical stability results in global system
transformations called bifurcations and/or phase transitions.
Transformation as a loss of stability is a theme of a recent poetic translation
of portions of the Zohar called Dreams of Being Eaten Alive by David Rosenberg.
He writes that at some time in the difficult journey through the oftenincomprehensible
Zohar, in order to gain entrance to the kabalistic cosmos, there
arose what he called “heartbreak.” “No matter how much intellectual study is
involved, the reader cannot understand the text unless he or she has offered his
heart to be broken on the altar of poetry…and prayer.” Surrender may be the source
of the strange, uplifting feeling of worked through dumbness.
My mother, once a conservatory teaching assistant in piano, sat beside me
while I practiced almost daily, weekends included, from the age of two until the
midteens. Her quiet analytic counter-point sounded mathematical, “You can hear
that that this harmonic progression goes through intervals of fourths of dominant
seventh chords.” I felt the persistent lack of harmonic resolution as growing tension
in my groin. “If you transform each of the 12 notes in a chromatic scale, multiplying
it by five (in what mathematicians call) mod 12 (the numbering system goes from
one to twelve, not ten, before it repeats), one can recover the circle of fourths, the
commonest harmonic chord progression in music.” Though her computational talk
supported rational thought, in my adolescent heat, the addition of Charley Parker’s
flatted fifth and ninth to the dominant seventh chord led suddenly somewhere else
and she knew it. Hearing my arrangement of a Beethoven piano piece become a
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mix of classical and modern jazz themes that I called “How High the Moonlight
Sonata,” she laughed lasciviously as though tickled by this sensual violation of
musical canon. A boogie-woogie Bach two and three-part invention brought more
excited disapproval.
Mysterious are the conditions of attentive (preoccupied) and none attentive,
(fugued out) disappearing time. I found a musical way for it to happen when
improvising: continue to shuffle a small set of notes that stay within the melodic field
of the tonal center of an unchanging tonic chord. In contrast, most melodies and
their chords leave the tonal center to which they return in harmonic and melodic
progression. We can call these conventional tonal centers unstable fixed points.
They are attractive repellers of melodic and harmonic expectation. It has been
mathematically proven that these hyperbolic systems are globally stable. In
contrast, a melody that remains stuck in the tonic chord, a purely contracting stable
fixed point, is technically a chant. Paradoxically, it can be shown that this kind of
fixed point is globally unstable. Rigid things can more easily fracture. The rich,
altered states of consciousness that emerge while hearing the beat of Tibetan
monks meditating, the Sufi chant-dances of Rumi and the John Coltrane and
McCoy Tyner’s endless, single chord, tenor/piano dialogues exemplify the
bifurcation to hallucinatory new stuff arising spontaneously from the experience of
unchanging repetition. Constant repetition of the conditioned (expected) stimulus
drove Pavlov’s dogs, especially those with “nervous temperaments,” into frozen,
catatonic states. Abulafia’s 1280 book on ecstatic techniques, Hayyei Ha’Olam
HaBa, recommended the recitative rearranging of a finite set of Hebrew letters,
frontward and backward, many times, using prayer melodies, until “…the heart will
suddenly become aware of the intellectual, divine and prophetic…” and hitbodedut
will rest upon him. The instructions were “…combine letters (and associated musical
notes)… reversing and rolling them around rapidly until one’s heart begins to feel
warm.”
It was in my freshman year at Stanford University when I met Michael
Murphy, later to co-found Esalon, the California center for mystical pursuits and
naked mud bathing. He is the author of Golf in the Magic Kingdom and with George
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Leonard, Integral Transformative Practice. I watched him go through a dramatic
personal transformation after participating in Professor of Asian Studies, Frederick
Spiegelberg’s seminar (with meditation lab) about Sri Arubindo’s interpretation of
the Hindu Bible, the Bhagavad-Gita. Shortly after the semester, he climbed into an
abandoned tower on campus to continue his meditation. He remained there for
several months, refusing to come down even after the Stanford Student Health
Service sent a medical school psychiatrist to investigate. I was more than curious
about how it was that this hard drinking, and like his brother Dennis, all night poker
playing, Phi Gamma Delta party boy, had suddenly become a transcendent ascetic.
My girl friend Mary and I signed up for Spiegelberg’s seminar in Indian
Religions. We were made breathless by his accounts of administering a Rorschach
Test to the Indian Saint, Swami Sivananda. He recounted discussions about God
with the artists Paul Klee and Max Ernst and the philosophers Rudolph Otto, Paul
Tillich, Martin Heidegger and Martin Buber. As homework, Mary and I practiced
breathing awareness mediation twice a day. During the year, Spiegelberg
sponsored a visit by the aging but still very lively Aldous Huxley to our seminar. He
also brought us Alan Watts and several lecturers from the Jung Institute of San
Francisco. Shortly after hearing Huxley talk about the spiritual power of a particular
exercise of will and loving thoughts, Mary and I began the daily practice of karessa,
some call it coitus reservatus. I was eighteen and she was nineteen. We found that
withholding an orgasm in order to achieve nirvanic extinction of all desires and
passions was difficult. We spent hours in karessa meditation, trying to experience
the detachment described in the Bhagadvad Gita. This biblical explication of karma
yoga told how it was that the warrior, Ardjuna, instructed by God Krishna in the form
of his charioteer, was able to detach sufficiently to do his assigned job of killing
without emotional involvement. Ken Wilbur, a modern, self proclaimed pandit, an
academically oriented articulator and intellectual justifier of the dharma, the spiritual
work of Hindu and Buddhist practice, contrasts the nirvana (literally “end”)
composed of emptiness in time and space, dharma Kaya in which “…no objects are
arising…” with the lesson of the Bhagavad-Gita. Its message involved realizing
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ones spiritual unfolding within the stream of real time and space, finding emptiness
in the world of form and inaction in the world of action.
We worked at karessa so ardently that there was barely enough time left to
do our assignments in biology and chemistry. In a darkened room, Mary and I lay
legs locked, lying on our sides, moving slowly and rhythmically, humming Om and
waiting for our ascension. We worked at making the journey through Sri Aurobindo’s
soul planes of higher mind, illumined mind, infinitive mind, over mind and finally, the
supermind of infinitely empty no mind. This somewhat unusual way to study for a
three credit course in Asian Studies at Stanford grew naturally out of the central
message of Spiegelberg’s seminar that whereas “…deriving a universal theology is
not possible, having the universal experience is required for an understanding of
any of the world’s theologies.” The controversial Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of
Newark who teaches that Christian forms continue to evolve, John Shelby Spong,
D.D. says, “…every biblical word represents an attempt on the part of our ancestors
in faith to make sense out of a God experience in their time and place. The
experience …is eternal and real. The explanations will never be eternal and real.
They will last only as long as the (cultural) mind-set that created them.”
Mary got an A+ grade, topping Spiegelberg’s class with a final examination
essay, which, in literary detail, described her episodes of samadhi, yoga’s state of
unity with the creator. Her 25 page blue book contained accounts of walking fugues,
spontaneously strong genital sensations, changes in tastes and smells, sudden
feelings of rising spinal-abdominal kundalini, middle of the night dreams of oceanic
orgasmic fusion with God. She failed to mention that she was describing her usual
pre-menstrual state.
During these college years, I learned about two Isaac Newtons The first I met
at elementary physics lectures; the unit was about how things worked called
mechanics. Logically and computationally consistent but taken on faith, I learned
about an invisible field force between masses called gravity that decayed in strength
like the inverse of the square of their distances apart and operated in my intuitive
world like an electromagnetic spirit. Less occult were the expressions of
gravitational fields as contact forces, computed for the tension in the string of a
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pendulum or the pressure of the floor on a weight resting upon it. Faith in this realm
came from exercises in physical object visualization followed by manipulation of
self-consistent algebraic symbols. I learned about experiments attesting to the
“reality” of these ghostly fields (that now include electric, magnetic and strong and
weak nuclear forces), and yet it was the physicists that already believed them who
designed the machines to demonstrate them. It was Gregory Bateson, Margaret
Mead’s houseboy, lover, photographer and social anthropologist who said, “Newton
didn’t discover gravity, he invented it.”
One college summer I found a second Isaac Newton, perhaps not so
estranged from the first. He appeared in the form of a marble bust in the chapel of
Trinity College at Cambridge University, holding the prism he had used to explore
the polychromatic properties of light like a talisman. In his essay called Newton, the
Man, the early 20 th Century Cambridge Don and economic theorist, John Maynard
Keynes, said that the Newton of the chapel followed “…certain mystic clues which
God had laid about the world to allow a sort of philosopher’s treasure hunt to the
esoteric brotherhood.” Michael White’s biography, called Newton the Last Sorcerer,
described his work as an attempt to integrate the magic of the Old World with the
science of the New Age. Newton’s awe over what he saw as the wonders of the
universe maintained him in private theological study throughout his life. Arthur
Waite’s Alchemists Through the Ages describes how Newton’s alchemical
orientation toward the earth’s fundamental substances such as fire, air, wind and
water, their powers and potential for transformation, was joined imperceptibly with
his metaphysics and physics. In his hands, experimental observations involving
gravitation, celestial mechanics and optics, though motivated by esoteric alchemical
theories, generated experimentally accessible phenomena and testable ideas.
The French mathematician, Jacque Hadamard, in his The Psychology of
Invention in the Mathematical Field, said that mystical preoccupations were never
far from the minds of most of the English and European mathematicians and
physicists of the 18 th and 19 th Centuries. This orientation served as an impetus for
them to pay attention to the almost imperceptible whispers of their emergent
thoughts. E.T. Bell, the historian of mathematics and mathematicians said even
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Descartes, the essential Enlightenment rationalist, was responsive to his “…call of
the Spirit…” Napier the inventor of logarithms wrote an exegetical commentary on
the Book of Revelations. The mathematician and physicist, Pascal, believing that
contact with a religious relic had cured his terminally ill sister, wrote long tracks
about whether or not the Devil could work miracles. The great mathematician,
Cauchy, was known for his persistent efforts to convert fellow mathematicians to
Roman Catholicism. Gauss, who was not particularly religious, said that a difficult to
prove theorem did not result from hard work but “…the grace of God.” In letters
between Liebniz, who along with Newton was the inventor of calculus, and a
member of the family of great mathematicians, John Bernoulli, used scriptural
quotations and biblical diagrams as part of their theoretical correspondence.
Perhaps the greatest mathematician of the 18 th Century (or ever), Euler, in his
Letters to a German Princess, discussed the functional characteristics of spirits and
the connections between body and soul. Bell said Euler “…never discarded a
particle of his Calvinist faith.”
It was to the working out of a law of mechanics called “the principle of least
action” that Ernst Mach attributed the beginning of the separation of physical
mechanics from formal theology. The flavor of this change is captured in his 1893
The Science of Mechanics that stimulated Bridgeman’s 1936 more formal
philosophical analyses of physical theory, from a position that came to be called
operationalism: the restriction of physical concepts to those definable in terms of the
experimental operations required to demonstrate or prove them. Mach said that
these events marked the move of formal metaphysical thinking about mechanics
and the physical sciences more generally into the personal and private realm of
belief and meaning.
Maupertuis, an eccentric friend of Frederick the Great and president of the
Berlin Academy, proposed the principle of least action as evidence of the infinite
wisdom of the Creator. As an early psychopharmacologist, Maupertuis
recommended the use of opium to facilitate creative thought and was famously
parodied for doing so by Voltaire in his 1752 story in which he is portrayed as the
naïvely foolish Dr. Akakia. The physical law of least action belongs to a set of ideas
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that are called variational analysis. They involve the natural (or miraculous)
selection of maxima or minima in quantifiable physical processes. Of all possible
two-dimensional shapes with the same perimeter, the circle contains the greatest
area; in three dimensions, it’s the sphere. In his Principia, Newton reports his work
determining the optimal shape of round solids, with circles of revolution having the
same effective cross section, in order to minimize frictional resistance to gravity in a
medium.
The principle of least action says that imparting energy; say by a kick, to a
physical body on a rigid two-dimensional surface like the earth, results in it taking
the shortest route possible from its initial to final position. The related 1650 Fermat’s
“principle of least time” is about light. As Feynman explains in his Lectures in
Physics, “…out of all possible paths that light might take from one point another,
light takes the path that requires the shortest time.” Feynman, using elementary
relations from high school geometry, proved that the least time principle could lead
directly to Snell’s law of the refraction of light at the interface of two different
conducting media such as air and water. His analogy was the optimal choice of the
path to take in order to rescue a pretty girl drowning in the ocean. Whereas the
shortest distance to the girl leads directly into the water, faster running along the
beach to the point that minimizes the distance required for the intrinsically slower
rate of swimming increases the distance traveled but reduces the time required to
reach her.
Euler attributed the optimization principle to an expression of the meaning
and purpose of a loving God. Infused with this spirit, he developed mathematical
methods describing smooth variations in position of an object in motion, the Euler
differential equation, in which differential coefficients are varied to prove the
principle of least action for mechanical motion. He gave the law Maupertuis’s name.
Mach quoted Euler’s conclusion, “As the construction of the universe is the most
perfect possible, being the handiwork of an all-wise Maker, nothing can be met with
in the world in which some maximal or minimal property is not displayed.” Such faith
based mathematical formalisms were rejected by Joseph Lagrange, an early 19 th
Century mathematician, who, among many other things, proved that every natural
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number could be expressed as the sum of at most four squared numbers. It was his
strongly held opinion that metaphysical speculation was both foreign and inimical to
the conduct of mathematics and science. His work in the calculus of variations led
to the development of a system of algebraic manipulations seeking the value of
constants, Lagrange multipliers, in place of solving Euler’s differential equations. It
makes it possible to immediately write down a computable expression for the
maximum of a mathematical equation. The technique is now routinely taught to high
school students and with no mention of the role of belief in the perfection of God in
its discovery.
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I was a fortunate freshman medical student. After a visit to his office and a
stimulating discussion about some of the correspondences between the ideas of
psychoanalysis and neurobiology, Robert Heath, Tulane Medical School’s Gary
Cooper-like charismatic chairman of the psychiatry department, offered me a place
in his animal and human neurophysiological laboratory. Between classes, evenings
and weekends, I used a Horsely-Clarke apparatus, one of the world’s first
stereotaxic devices. It allowed the precise placement of electrodes into functionally
specific regions of a cat’s brain. The electrodes were cemented to the skull in place
and their wires connected to a device by which the frequency, amplitude and wave
shape of the electrical stimulation could be oscilloscopically monitored and
electronically controlled as the conscious cat walked around the room. I spent hours
observing and recording changes in spontaneous behavior that followed activation
of various nuclei in the cat’s brain with small electrical currents.
Deep in the part of brain that resides in the upper neck, called the lower brain
stem, the region thought to regulate functions such as breathing, heart rate, blood
pressure, gastrointestinal motility and global states of consciousness such as
wakefulness and sleep, I found stimulus sites that, after 15 seconds of electrical
activation, led to several minutes of hissing and objectless rage. One cat attacked
an empty chair. These regions when activated also inhibited spinal reflexes such as
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the knee jerk of the standard neurological examination. Such phenomena were
already well known in the late 1930’s in what W.R. Hess and later John Flynn,
following electrical stimulation of cats in the lateral hypothalamus, called
“hypothalamic rage.” In the late 1940’s and 1950’s, work by National Institutes of
Mental Health’s Paul MacLean attributed it to the actions of parts of the emotional
“limbic” brain, particularly the fear-rage-attack coloring of experience by the
temporal lobe’s amygdaloid nucleus. Modern imaging studies in man have shown
that this source of emotional coloring is activated by new information, even before
the more rational parts of the neocortical brain processes it. How we feel about
something new arises before what we think about it. These survival-oriented states
of fight or flight are known to be biologically universal and demonstrable in even
single cell organisms.
A greater contribution to my brain metaphysics followed observations that
after several seconds of stimulation of other brain stem sites, the cats became alert
but quiet, staring into space for several minutes. Then, they circled slowly and
curled up on the ground. This was followed by several minutes of grooming and
loud purring. Difficult to handle cats became transiently tame, some coming close
for petting. I found that these same sites also increased the amplitude and reduced
the threshold for the cat’s knee jerk reflex. Responsiveness increased with
calmness. Particularly interesting was the finding that electrical induction of this
purring state could immediately stop on-going stimulation-induced episodes of
hissing rage. I referred to these experiments with my friends as my
neurophysiological studies of Old Testament vengeance and New Testament
forgiveness. It seemed that the hissing rage would produce eye for an eye and a
tooth for a tooth hypertension, the talon principle of the Old Testament and Koran.
New Testament forgiveness would yield low blood pressure health and Jesus was a
healer. It was about this time in the early 1950’s that Northwestern University social
psychologist, Jim Olds, found that rats could be trained to push levers to obtain
current delivery via electrodes in various parts of their brains. Shortly after, Joseph
Brady, then of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, showed that squirrel
monkeys would do the same. With depth electrodes attached to wires running to a
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miniaturized electronics box strapped to their belts, some of Robert Heath’s
schizophrenic patients spent hours pressing their switches with beatifically
expectant smiles.
It was after several months of cat experiments that Professor Heath
suggested that we spend some time interviewing a hospitalized, chronically ill
female patient, Donna, before and during the time she was being studied with
recording and stimulating depth electrodes in the human neurophysiology
laboratory. Donna, bony thin in a lose fitting green hospital gown and sandals, had
dark red toenails, blonde hair and eyes shadowed darkly. In her mid-thirties, she
had never married and, when she could, worked as a beautician. She told us that
since her menarche at 13, she increasingly often had episodes of spontaneous
ecstatic rushes along with sudden visions of strong white light. She attributed these
experiences to visitations of “…an unseen Christ.” She showed me a stack of
notebooks filled with hand written accounts of her religious experiences
interspersed with biblical quotations and difficult to follow discussions of what she
called the Christian ideals underlying the Civil War. She read parts of it to us. One
of her memorable stories was about being invited to a Children’s Crusade that had
begun in Georgia, led by a great grandson of Stonewall Jackson. “We were trying to
find the Lord to see if He would part the waters and open up an escape route from
General Sherman’s march to the sea.”
From a relatively poor family of Southern Baptists in rural Louisiana, she had
lived in a state psychiatric hospital for almost three years. Her diagnoses ranged
from borderline schizophrenia to temporal lobe epilepsy. The collateral interviews
with her mother from several years before had been placed in the hospital chart.
They recounted that in the patient’s middle to late teens she had become suddenly
promiscuous, frequently approaching strange men in city parks. Obsessed with
fellatio and swallowing sperm, she told her mother that she was receiving a holy
sacrament. More recently, the increasing incidence of ecstatic episodes and
compulsive note taking coincided with the complete loss of interest in sexuality in
any form. Her talk was now full of moralizing detail about the shoulds and should
nots of daily living. She referred to herself as a non-Catholic nun who was married
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to Christ. The brain waves recorded from electrodes deep in her brain demonstrated
transient episodes of spiking in a midline limbic structure called the septum and in
the right hippocampus, deep in the temporal lobe. Paul MacLean and others since
have shown that electrical stimulation of these and related brain regions could
produce pleasure and grooming reactions in cats and prolonged penile erections in
squirrel monkeys.
Many years later, I spoke about Donna with the Harvard professor of
neurology, Norman Geschwind. He took me to his twice a week epilepsy clinic. In
an effort to demonstrate what is now known as the Geschwind Syndromes of
between seizure, inter-ictal personality changes in patients with temporal lobe
epilepsy, he stood in front of the patients’ waiting room. In a loud voice, he asked
that all people keeping diaries and personal notebooks please stand up. Several did
so, some displaying their notebooks in outstretched hands. The pages that I saw
were filled mostly with religious writing, biblical quotations and exclamation points.
Gathering the positive responders together, he asked them in turn what religion they
were. Several answered the question with the question, “When?” It turned out that
many reported having several experiences of religious conversion. Geschwind
called them “Jamesian Episodes” after William James’ Varieties of Religious
Experience. He then asked when was the last time they engaged in sexual activity.
For most of them, including those that were married, it had been years. Thought the
men said they were not impotent, experiencing early morning spontaneous
erections, they claimed a complete loss of interest in sex though feeling warmly
affectionate toward people generally. As he anticipated, the patients were
emotionally intense and unstoppably loquacious, needing to speak at length about
their moral philosophies. They persisted in following us around the clinic waiting
room, several speaking at once. In his lectures and papers, Geschwind called this
last feature, difficulty in separation, interpersonal “stickiness.” First reported by the
French electroencephalographer, Henri Gastaut, a history of multiple ecstatic
religious experiences, increasing emotional intensity and lability, hyposexualilty (not
impotence), moralizing religiosity, compulsive and frequently poetic writing and
tendency to cling to people is now called the Geschwind Syndrome of temporal lobe
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epilepsy. Some say it is relevant to the likes of Apostle Paul, Sister Teresa and
Joan of Arc.
One evening in the human neurophysiology laboratory, I was invited by Dr.
Heath to join him and several other brain scientists behind a two-way mirror to
watch an interview with Donna while electrical current was being put through her
recording electrodes. We watched and listened as a psychiatrist interviewed her
about her past. The patient was speaking about her childhood. Unseen by the
patient, the neurophysiologist, with us behind the mirror, was intermittently pushing
the button evoking brain stimulation with very low current applied to the septum. Dr.
Heath told me to listen for subtle changes or discontinuities in the flow of the ongoing
conversation that he said might reflect alterations in her thoughts and
feelings. .
“The first time we were allowed to take a break from Sunday school for the
church service and I got to hear the choir and the pipe organ, I suddenly got a
feeling of happiness that I hoped would last forever. My Sunday school teacher told
us how much Jesus loved us and that’s what the music made me feel like. For the
first time in my life I felt completely safe.” Though the two way mirror I saw the
psychiatrist nod silently. “When I learned about the real meaning of Christmas and
Easter, it was frightening and beautiful.”
Within a few seconds after the neurophysiologist, behind the mirror and
unseen by the patient or her interviewing physician, pushed the switch on the
stimulus generator, the patient stopped talking. After a little more silence, her
interviewer encouraged her to continue,
“You were talking about how beautiful the holidays were. Tell me in what
ways?”
“I don’t want to talk about that anymore.” She blushed and looked very
uncomfortable. The neurophysiologist’s hand remained on the switch. She
continued to speak with her psychiatrist.
“I have to ask you a favor and I don’t know why. I hope you don’t get upset.
The thought won’t leave me alone.” She seemed embarrassed even as her body
relaxed against the back of the chair languorously.
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“Of course not, Donna. You know that with me you can say anything.”
Her face reddening further, she stuttered something unintelligibly and then
was silent.
“Pardon me, Donna, I didn’t hear what you said.”
“Would you mind if I rested my legs on your shoulders?”
Further Readings for In Search Of The Miraculous
The Hebrew Alphabet, A Mystical Journey, Edward Hoffman, Chronical Books, San
Francisco, 1998
The Book of Letters, A Mystical Alef-bait, Lawrence Kushner, Jewish Lights
Publishing. Woodstock, Vt., 1990
Studies in Ecstatic Kabbalah, Moishe Idel, State University of New York Press,
Albany, N.Y. 1988
Beyond the Human Species, The Life and Work of Sri Arubindo and The Mother,
Georges van Vrekhem, Paragon House, St. Paul, MN, 1997
Bhagadvad Gita, Sri Aurobindo, Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, WI, 1995
Play of Consciousness, Swami Muktananda, Syda Foundation, South Fallsburg,
NY, 1978
Alchemical Psychology, Old Recipes for Living in a New World, Thom F. Cavalli,
J.P. Tarcher/Putnam, NY 2002
Studies in Schizophrenia, A Multidisciplinary Application to Mind Brain
Relationships, Robert G. Heath, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA 1954
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Role of Pleasure in the Brain, Robert G. Heath, Harper-Row, N.Y. 1964
Psychiatric Aspects of Neurological Disease, D. Frank Benson and Dietrich Blumer,
Grune and Straton, N.Y. 1975.
Mathematics –The Music of Reason, Jean Dieudonne, Springer-Verlag, N.Y. 1991
Mathematics for the Liberal Arts, F. Richman, C.L. Walker, R.J. Wisner and J.W
Brewer, Simon and Schuster, N.Y. 1998
The Feynman Lectures on Physics, R.P. Feynman, R.B. Leighton and M. Sands,
Addison Wesley, Reading, MA, 1963
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CHAPTER 2:
DOESN’T EVERYBODY
Varieties of religious experience and the potential they bring for personal
change are embedded in and perturbative of our unique and common personalities.
The obsessive compulsive may have an easier time with the rigid restrictions of
Fundamentalism or be more resistant to the flagrancy of none rational mystical
experience. The hysteric may find subjective evidence for the Holy Ghost more
accessible and rules of behavior beside the point. The potential for double-jointed
multiplicity in personal styles and quick transitions between them characterize what
is called the borderline personality. It is in these ways that temporary and
permanent brain styles in us and important others supply much of the ground for the
possibility of spiritual transformation and the often attendant alterations in
personality. How can we think about this facilitator and source of resistance to new
spiritual practice?
A skinny, knobby kneed, small breasted, mousy haired, bright-eyed
psychotherapy patient of mine at UCLA’s Neuropsychiatric Institute Outpatient
Clinic was among the highest priced Santa Monica call girls serving Beverly Hills.
Answering my unaskable question about her thousand-dollar fee, she explained that
she was living proof that, in her profession, what was more important than physical
beauty was “griv sense.” She explained that by her middle twenties, she had
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developed the ability to anticipate the most highly prized but often embarrassing-tosay
longing for a particular sexual act without being asked. She told me that she
had to “empty out my personal sex manual” to feel the cravings of her clients. What
the john most wanted appeared suddenly in her mind in the form of a cartoon. A
university criminologist later explained that the word “griv” was probably derived
from what pick pockets call grift sense, the ability to intuit who was likely to have
enough money in their billfold to justify the risk, even if they appeared in the worn
clothes and dated cars of old money.
In his 1913 Dernieres Penses, Henri Poincare′, France’s seminal theorist in
nonlinear dynamical systems theory, described intuition as a mental faculty which
allows us to “…immediately see the end from afar…” In the context of mathematical
epistemology, the instantaneous images of a geometer contrast with the labored
sequential logic of the mathematical analyst. Poincare′ claimed that inclinations
toward one or the other of these two cognitive styles and their associated
mathematical tools arise from different kinds of minds. He contrasted the 19 th
Century German mathematicians, Weierstrass, who he said reduced his general
theory of functions to “…a prolongation of arithmetic…without a single (pictorial)
figure in any of his books…” with Riemann who called geometry to his aid in
describing functions. He created “…an image that no one can forget… once he
understood it.”
Experiencing the behavior of others, we create a set of anticipations about
whom and how they are that align with parts of ourselves. Aware of one aspect of a
person, we imagine the others. With a small amount of initial information, we
connect the dots, fitting features we have seen and heard to personality
configurations stored by informal category in our brain files. Our conclusions about
them “being one of those” can both facilitate and impair our perceptions. Eastern
metaphysicians, Western mystical religionists, socially liberal secular humanists,
Shannon information theorists and today’s students of dynamical systems in brain
and behavior can, in different ways, make the case that the content of these
stereotypes reflect a pattern of constraints, our personal limitations resulting from
the rutted roads of worldly experiences. Baba Muktananda, the Hindi Saint from the
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Indian village of Ganeshpuri, called them our samsara. These limit the formlessness
of anticipation that underlies sensibility. Our samsara reduces the uncertainty that
could serve as grounds for new perceptions and understanding of others. Preemptive
distortions reduce the bandwidth available for new information. They impair
the range of empathic relations with others as well as ourselves. These restrictions
in possibilities and choices are expressed in enduring patterns of behavior, thinking
and feeling that mental health practitioners call personality and character. When
confronted with these constrictions, the self justifying and diagnostically revealing
thought about a feature of one’s personality is, “…doesn’t everybody? “ This pride in
our shape contrasts with the teachings about emptiness of one of Baba’s favorite
Indian holy men, Zipruanna, who sat all day, loin clothed naked in a garbage dump,
instructing his students and followers about knowing and being nothing.
We quantitate deficiencies in formlessness using statistical measures of
entropy. They characterize the system’s behavior as a distance from the state of
highest entropy also known as maximal randomness. Professor Karen Selz of
Emory University did a study in which her human subjects, after taking a battery of
personality inventories, were asked to remove as many dots as possible from a
computer screen full of them in three minutes. They were to do so by left clicking on
each of them with the mouse key. Two seconds after a dot was removed, it
reappeared and became subject to removal again. As they went about the dot
removal task and unbeknown to the subjects, the orbit inscribed by their dot
removing mouse travels was recorded for later graphic representation and
quantification. Most subjects with the usual broad mixture of personality traits
inscribed a wide variety of orbital line styles: little wiggles, big wiggles, large and
small loops, little smooth slides and big and little jumps. The counter-intuitive
coupling of stylistic rigidity and whole system instability (as in non-hyperbolic fixed
points described in the previous essay and below) is in evidence at the personality
and graphical extremes of her subject group.
A fastidious, rigidly organized, severely obsessive-compulsive subject
repeatedly removes the same dot, only occasionally moving to a neighboring one to
do more repetitious left key mouse clicking. Very little of the large computer screen
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of possible mouse travels is occupied. All the action is centered on a small set of
points. When such a minimal entropy person is injured and feeling helpless, their
stuckness can grow bizarre. Ruminative fixation in self-critical and persecutory
ideas extend into poisoned food anorexia, circular pacing, weight loss and middleof-the-night,
worried insomnia. Suffused with sin, they ask forgiveness for soiling the
chair by their sitting in it or smelling up the room with their body odor.
At the high entropic extreme, the mouse orbits of the seductively dramatic,
new reality-creating hysteric includes big jumps, disorganized whorls and large and
small restless and short attention span scribbles that tend to fill up the entire screen.
The fragility of fixation at this end manifests itself in breakdown into impulsively outof-control
and floridly dramatic displays. Their decrease in contact with reality
precipitates social chaos around them. The Montreal behavioral neurologist, Pierre
Flor-Henry, using electroencephalographic and psychological test data, described
the difference between these two extreme forms of personality expressions as the
overly dominant expressions of one or another of the left obsessional or right
hysteric hemispheric emotional styles. As examples, Flor-Henry said that a left half
brain depression feels like hopeless and agitated indecision and the depression of
the right brain is an experience of emptiness like homesickness. Left-brain
happiness is being exactly correct and right brain joy rushes like being especially
chosen.
The church going obsessional resonates with the sermon of the punitive
priest who invokes the tension and relief of sin and salvation. The practice can
result in a life long addiction to the transient high of this temporary forgiveness. In
other churches, the hysterical character gets spiritual respite in disassociative
visitations of the Holy Ghost and attendant signs and wonders. At Wednesday night
healing services, new hope arises from personal surrender in a floor hitting,
backward collapse called dying in the Lord. Both of these antipodal personalities
contrast with the more receptive state of in-between entropy (with enough entropy
available to form messages) which predicts more flexibility and higher potential for
undistorted information processing. Relatively style-less and ego-less people are
more open to hearing a variety of Gods in themselves and others. High alertness
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without presupposition, ecstatically aware and selfless, it is God’s gift realized, a
joyfully awake and nonjudgmental empty state of transcendence. As we sit, we work
at feeling this in the brain of the enigmatically smiling stone Buddha.
The externally inactive state of high internal activity, the Bhagavad-Gita’s
formlessness in the world of form, inaction in the world of action, has a natural
mathematical representation in the simultaneously expanding and contracting
motions of hyperbolic dynamics and its associated entropic descriptors. How can
this kind of formlessness equip us for almost instantaneous knowing? In a resting
state of uniform hyperbolicity that only looks like randomness, accurate impressions
of others can arise quickly and from only a few data points of observation. In the
late 1960’s, University of California mathematician, Rufus Bowen, proved the now
famous shadow theorem. This says that in dynamical states of hyperbolicity, directly
observable on the screen in computer simulations, the first few points of the ongoing
wild dynamical dance that appears to jump randomly from here to there on
the computer screen, counter-intuitively will quickly outline the entire skeleton of its
future global shape, its geometry, though more time of observation is required to
realize this structure in full detail. The contracting motions on the stable surface of
action, called a manifold, “iron down” all the points onto the unstable manifold that
serves to outline the shape of the attractor of all starting points. In such a system,
observation of just the first few points outline the whole. Intuition, anticipatory
knowing and that which some call prophesy, may be expressions of the hyperbolic
brain’s mind doing dynamical shadowing.
To review briefly, hyperbolic brain flow is made up of three decomposable
components: (1) The apparently predictable one along the main road of the action,
going straight ahead and round and round on a throughway called the center
manifold—analogous perhaps to what might be a sequentially logical development;
(2) Intersecting the center manifold transversally is a field of influence moving the
action away from the center manifold with out-of-the-box motion, exploring side
paths of unpredictably new, creative possibility called the unstable manifold, we
might think about inspired risk-taking, impulsive associations in thought; (3) Another
transversally intersecting field of influence, which conservatively, rationally, “irons
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down” the expansive flow back onto the road, the entire constrictive field called the
stable manifold. This influence herds points into shadowing the main road of the
dynamics, like the hair of the dog that stay close to the real body of the animal in
motion. It is in this way that just a few often slightly off the mark points nonetheless
shadow the real (called fiduciary) orbits of the attractor, outlining its global geometry
with just a little information.
The intuitive reason shadowing works is built into these natural countervailing
tendencies of hyperbolic dynamics, which on one hand tends to spread out nearby
initial points and brings disparate others together. The latter inclination is the one
that smoothes down the escaping points onto surfaces of actions that
mathematicians call manifolds. However, the details of the orbital paths don’t look
that orderly due to the mixing of the sequence of points in hyperbolic motion. The
mixing process on manifolds has been analogized to that of the bundled pink loops
of the stretching (expanding) and folding (contracting) taffy puller at the carnival
candy stand. The process gets sequences of small particles of candy out of
sequential order while maintaining the taffy’s overall geometrically ovoid shape.
Disorder is local with the entropy being generated by the repeatedly shuffling of the
line up of the original orbital sequence. This results in the impossibility of any pointto-point
prediction for more than a few points even though the over all shape is
maintained. Exactly what minute a habitually late sleeper awakes can’t be
predicted. On the other hand, the skeletal manifold of the global structure is entirely
in evidence from almost the beginning. Late risers remain late risers even without a
precise, minute-to-minute, predictable schedule.
It is also interesting that a uniformly hyperbolic dynamical system, unlike the
fixed-point attractors of stylistic fixation, resist perturbation-induced changes in
global dynamical form. In an apparent paradox worthy of metaphysical allusion, the
dynamically hyperbolic kind of formlessness has structural stability. The global
geometric predictability of this point-to-point, completely unpredictable system can
be both the subject and object of Zen frustration and thoughtful meditation.
During weekly professorial rounds at Los Angeles’s Neuropsychiatric
Institute, I assigned a standard exercise for psychiatric residents on clinical rounds,
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which involved limiting their contact with a patient to five minutes. This was followed
by detailed discussion of everything we’d seen and heard. I’d ask them to predict
what we’d find in the many pages of personal interviews and nurses observations in
the clinic chart. The student psychiatrists with the most street smarts, called
emotional intelligence by Daniel Goleman, were particularly quick at shadowing and
thus predicting the patient’s global dynamical pattern.
Do personality patterns exist? Evidence from biometric studies of the
hereditary aspects of personality style in animals and humans suggest that
relatively few global component properties underlie a variety of complicated-looking
manifestations of behavioral style. Primary colors are the source of all hues.
Harvard psychologist, Jerome Hagen, has reviewed the history of this idea in his
book, Galen’s Prophecy. While there are differences among personality research
programs, almost all rating scale and questionnaire-based studies result in clusters
of traits that reflect statistically associated properties which when taken together are
called temperament. This idea is close to what we mean by personality. These
relatively few response clusters are given descriptive names such as introversion,
extroversion, neuroticism, impulsivity, sociability, task persistence and tolerance of
ambiguity. As defined by psychological inventories, studies of families show that
these styles are heritable in the range of 60%.
Hans Eysenck, in over four decades of work and more than 5000 published
papers from London’s Maudsley Hospital, derived common global factors of
personality using questionnaires. The best known was called the Eysenck
Personality Inventory. His studies resulted in evidence for only a few fundamental
behavioral axes, behavioral manifolds, which describe extremal properties of
personality types analogous to stable and unstable manifolds: introversionextroversion,
shyness-sociability, low and high activity level and emotional
constriction versus impulsivity.
To make the issue of personality as dynamical system more realistically
complex, we can call on some examples of the rich history of behavioral genetic
studies using animals such as the mouse. They can be selectively bred for
underlying personality factors, such as dominance, fear, aggression or exploratory
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courage. Not surprisingly, social interactions, as configured by the mouse’s own
personality style, contributed significantly to their behavioral patterns. As an
example, the C57BL strain of laboratory mouse has strong tendencies toward
impulsively wild behavior. To be anthropocentric and using Hagen and Eysenck-like
behavioral dimensions, we could describe the C57BL mouse as exhibiting high
psychotocism, P, energetic sociability, high energy, E, and low emotionality, low
neuroticism, N. The C57BL also loves alcohol and will dominate the low E, shy, low
P, retiring, alcohol avoidant, high N, emotional, anxious, frequently defecating albino
BALB strain of mouse when they are placed together for a limited time in a novel
situation during the daylight hours. Over a more extended time, however, the BALB
mouse comes to dominate the C57BL, beginning with attacks in the dark and finally
as the persistent and patient survivor over days of aggressive fighting. BALB’s low
E, social fear eventually turns into rage and aggression. The C57BL is quick to mate
and ejaculate but very slow to recover sexually, so that the less post-orgasmically
refractory BALB also wins in long term sexual competition in a cage full of fecund
females. Modern social psychological approaches to human personality are
beginning to approach the interactions of genetic brain proclivities and collective
social dynamics in this way.
Employing Eysenck categories of personality characteristics, similar results
about style as influenced by genetic selection can be seen in humans. The
correlations between factor scores based on B. Loehlen’s studies using the
California Personality Inventory in twins demonstrated as much as threefold higher
correlations among identical twins for extroversion (E) and neuroticism (N) factors
compared with matched fraternal twins. The primacy of some of the in-born
biological roots of these personality styles is suggested by G. Methany’s finding of
higher correlations between identical as compared to fraternal twins when studied at
the age of two months. The similarities in personality and temperament measures
included activity level, regularity, approach-withdrawal, intensity, persistence,
distractibility and adaptability.
More recent familial studies of the heritability of personality characteristics
included childhood shyness, neuroticism, depressive symptoms, aggressiveness,
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behavioral inhibition and anxiety, behavioral flexibility, narcissism, deviant motor
activity levels, novelty seeking, harm avoidance and reward dependence. These
studies were conducted by R.R. Crowe, J.F. Rosenbaum, A. Methany, and J.L
Robinson and indicated familial congruity of these characteristics among first and
second degree relatives in the range of 40-50%. This level of heritability in
genetically unrelated family members was found to be less than 20%.
Low entropy fixations of personality can also evolve developmentally.
Experiments in young animals have shown that stress-induced high levels of
adrenal hormones exaggerate the normal developmental process of trimming back
unused neural connections, called pruning, the normally complexly over-grown
sprouting pathways. The pruning actions of the pituitary-adrenal stress hormones
come to dominate sprouting actions of neural growth factors and their protection of
neuronal axonal branching and connections during development. The research
program of Bruce McEwan of Rockefeller University and others document nerve cell
loss resulting from the neurohormonal concomitants of stress. This reduction in
neuronal connectivity and neuronal cell content has been conjectured to contribute
to the pathological simplification of neuronal projections and neural network
complexity, reducing information processing capabilities. The still intact machinery
underlying the global patterns of neurological activity, such as those that underlie
personality styles, is arranged around these pruned, unoccupiable holes of lost
brain possibility. If this range of potential behavior is extremely reduced, the
behavioral syndrome is often called a personality disorder. Those that have one are
the predictable Johnny one notes of response to perturbation: thrash out, lie without
reason, get drunk, binge on promiscuity, steal unneeded things from department
stores, or withdraw into interpersonal isolation.
A more abstract and quantifiable way of representing the pathological
simplification-induced emergence of low entropy, stereotypical personality style is
inscribed on the head stone of the post-suicidal grave of Ludwig Boltzmann. This
father of modern statistical physics expressed the idea in the form of a
transformation: the (maximal) entropy, S, of a system is the logarithm of the
number,Ω, of its available ways of being, (i.e., S = log Ω). That is, one way a
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reduction in the dynamical entropy of a system can occur is by reducing the number
of its available states. As the repertoire of ways of personal responding, log Ω, is
reduced, so is the brain system’s entropy, S.
Reality constrained patterns of behavior, as in successfully adaptive
personalities, lie in some optimal in-between place between the maximal and
minimum measures of entropy. The dynamical state that is postulated to yield inbetween-valued
entropies is called nonuniform hyperbolicity. This is best seen when
the values of the experimental observations are plotted in a two dimensional phase
space with each point represented by two values: along the x-axis is plotted the
value observed, along the y-axis is graphed the change in the value from the last
observation. The signatory motions of these observations plotted in phase space
are irregularly varying in rate of expansion (near by initial values are separating in
time) and contraction (greatly differing initial values are coming together in time).
Values are not fixed, rhythmically varying nor in random motion. These
nonuniformly hyperbolic motions are seen in speeded up, talking head videos
showing bursts of hand gestures and in normal neuronal activity. Silences have
widely varying lengths and bursts of hand movements and neuronal discharges are
irregular in duration and character. The statistical pattern of neuronal inter-burst
intervals is not the convergent Gaussian distribution of I.Q. or heights but the
nonconvergent, long tailed, Levy distribution of flood incidences and, according to
Mandelbrot, stock market crashes.
The labored logic and inscrutably compact mathematical formalisms of the
Nobel Prize winning physicist, Ilya Prigogine, and his Belgian school, explain the
thermodynamics of these long lasting niches of restricted variation in our personal
style as energy requiring dissipative structures. Compulsive nail biting, driven
promiscuity, readiness to be suspicious are seen as a persistence of deviations
from the maximum entropy of formless, flexible, receptive end states. The system is
trapped in possibility reduced, energy requiring, samsaric niches of what Prigogine
called minimal entropy generation. We unique and oddly shaped and entropy
leaking balloons maintain our characteristic distortions through energy-requiring,
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persistent efforts at insufflation. The maintenance of neurotic defenses and
eccentric habits can be fatiguing.
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The children at Kids in Distress Residential and Day Care Center in
Southeast Florida, called KIDS, tended to be small for their ages. As a psychiatric
consultant to the Center, I often summarized an evaluation of both their physical
and intellectual development as “delayed.” Looking like almost completely formed
adult-like personalities, however, they were developmentally “advanced.” I heard in
a child analytic seminar at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Southern California that
traumatized children often hurry through the dangerous developmental ambiguity of
openness and flexibility to the predictable, fixed attitudes and behavior of adults. It
was common to find prematurely wise young children serving as parents in
chaotically dysfunctional families. In residence at the Center, set free from their
pathogenic homes by social workers and family law judges, these premature
caregivers lost sleep worrying about who was taking up their obligations to the
sisters and brothers left behind.
Trauma-induced possibility pruning was often obvious in the young refugees
at Kids in Distress. Having been soaked in alcohol containing, nutritionally deficient,
crack-laced amniotic fluid, young babies were then left in dirty cribs behind locked
doors to cry themselves into exhausted despair. Their mothers were working the
streets for drugs. The children that survived often demonstrate personality styles
that are reduced in variety. They came to use a few, individualized, and stereotyped
techniques for survival. Some children’s insulated detachment was hollowly
disguised as interpersonal caring. Others used driven and rigid compulsion to
maintain the appearance of conscientious good citizenship. For some children,
paranoid thoughts were realistic expectations. .
Arriving at the Center I heard “Dr. Arnold! Dr. Arnold!” in high-pitched
screams. Several children ran up to me at once, demanding to be held. Some
leaped into my arms for a hug. Trying to get and hold their visual gaze was another
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matter. Their eyes darted back and forth across my face, not stopping at my eyes,
as though checking for danger. It felt like a strange mix of physical clinging and
interpersonal distantiation. Many articles in the International University Press’s
Psychoanalytic Studies of the Child book series, described these prematurely
formed child personality types: the paranoid scouts, the detached as if children
pretending to feel, the desperate to please obsessionals, the charismatically
seductive hysterics and the unconscionable psychopaths.
Experiments simulating trauma and neglect in young animals also
demonstrate acceleration in biobehavioral development. Possibilities, the number of
available states, Ω, brain entropies as S = log Ω, become casualties of traumatic
and neglected early life. Like one trick ponies, these abused and abandoned
children take up singular patterns of behavior that seem to work and stick to them.
One doesn’t anticipate seeing such narrowly fixated personality patterns until late
adolescence or adulthood. They appear at ages too young to qualify for the
character pathology coding of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual IV. Yet the
labels of adult personality disorder seem inescapable when one sees a four-yearold
child trapped in a compulsive hand washing ritual or a panty flashing five-yearold
girl with a seductive gait.
Four-year-old Alicia rubbed the lumps in my right hip pocket containing
caramel candies. Her blue eyes twinkled. Her long blonde hair was in bangs and
her lips in a pout. She kept a hand on her hip and tilted her pelvis as she spoke.
Listening to children’s stories, she straddled the reader's thigh and rocked. Alicia
had a history of sexual abuse in a home that was a hang out for drug dealers. There
were rumors that she talked to strange men late at night on the phone. On
admission to the Center, she was found to have genital herpes. Both of her parents
had been in and out of prison for drug-related crimes. The Center’s staff spoke of
Alicia’s seductive smiles, incessant demands, irritable complaints and tantrums.
With the back of her hand held against her forehead, she said that it was too hot to
pick up the toys she had scattered around the fenced yard. Ordered to comply,
Alicia took three steps into Florida’s summer heat and fainted. Each morning, she
spent the better part of an hour in front of the mirror, trying on all four of her dresses
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and their scarf and belt accessories before choosing one for her appearance at the
breakfast table.
Five-year-old Grace was a suspicious and dictatorial presence in the
Center’s kindergarten class. Articulate and righteous, she confronted children and
staff alike with evidence for the unfairness she found everywhere. In legalistic
defense of her rights and sometimes those of her peers, she used her strong wide
face, penetrating look and quick and observant mind aggressively. Her somewhat
intimidated childcare worker maintained Grace's cornrowed hair with care. Sensitive
to criticism and quick to anger, she competed with her teacher for control of the
class. Her drug abusing young mother had escaped from her own mother’s
authoritarian house, leaving six-month-old Grace in the care of her commanding
grandmother, a matronly church elder. Recent studies by David Reiss and
associates at George Washington University assessed psychosocial dynamics in
genetically varied families. They found that genetic similarities amplified the
expression of individual characteristics of interpersonal relating through what might
be called personality resonance. Relatives often commented that Grace and her
grandmother, being alike, deserved one another. Shortly after her fourth birthday
Grace was removed from her grandmother's home while the circumstances
surrounding the accidental scalding of the bottom half of her body in an overheated
bath were being investigated. She began her first conversation with me, “Hey doctor
baldy, why are your bottom teeth so crooked?”
Damon was darkly handsome, with teasing eyes and a gleaming smile.
Talking to his legal guardian on the pay phone in the afternoon of his second day at
KIDS, he was heard to be making charges of mistreatment by the staff. He asked
his guardian, loud enough to be heard throughout the day room, “What does it take
to get someone fired around here?” Six years old and abandoned by his mother at
the age of three, Damon came to KIDS with a history of provoking administrative
conflicts at several children’s shelters. His record showed that once he successfully
used accusations of beatings to get a staff member fired employing charges that
were later shown to have been fabricated. He argued persuasively, manufacturing
events and quoting imaginary conversations with smooth confidence. He could
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change stories midstream without apparent loss of continuity or confidence. He
learned the power of a claim of abuse, and used the threat of it to control his
environment. Damon talked other children out of their candy allotments, cheated at
games and stole clothes from other children’s lockers.
Debbie, age eight, was the eldest of four children. Her mother was a street
prostitute with an expensive drug habit. Debbie was thin, restless and worried. A
self-appointed mother from the age of four, Debbie felt responsible for the care and
feeding of her brother and two sisters. With a history of physical and sexual abuse
by a series of her mother’s boyfriend-pimps, Debbie spent most of her time cleaning
and recleaning their small apartment and worrying about obtaining enough food for
her brothers and sisters. Her mother was often gone for one or two days at a time,
and food supplies were not dependable. On several occasions, Debbie was caught
stealing food from all night grocers. The investigative social worker reported that
Debbie had learned to sell oral sex to the men who loitered behind a neighborhood
bar. She used the money to buy food. For several days after admission to the crisis
home, Debbie was anxious and sleepless. She worried endlessly about the welfare
of her sisters and brother despite reassurances that they were in caring foster
homes. She checked on them as frequently as allowed by phone. In a playroom
therapy session, wielding a rubber knife, she pointed to a scar on her left forearm
and told a story about the time that she cut herself with a kitchen knife and fed her
blood to her infant sister when there wasn’t any food in the house. Debbie kept her
room very tidy, did all her chores and sometimes those of other children. Even after
several months in residence, always-busy Debbie didn’t have even one close
relationship with any of the other children or members of the staff.
Despite the superficial differences, there are subtle and pervasive similarities
among the personality styles of Alicia, Grace, Damon and Debbie. Like overgrown
and tasteless cabbages, pale and four feet across, growing from seeds over-treated
with gibberellin or auxin plant hormones, the inner lives of these prematurely big
little people are relatively empty of stable interpersonal objects. The pantheon of
indwelling companions are either malignant, absent or both. There is a deficiency of
internalized significant others with qualities we more healthy neurotics paste onto
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new faces which we then love and hate. Instead, every interpersonal arrangement
is new, suspect and run on a cash-and-carry basis. We are made to feel like there
are no seats for us inside of them. Even Debbie, with her history of selfless motherly
devotion to her “children,” felt like an empty husk, encased in the exoskeletal armor
of compulsive correctness. With their inner life unpeopled, the best we on the
outside can hope for is to be valuable to them as tools, like forks and chairs.
In new and potentially therapeutic settings, for example a genuinely loving
foster family, these children manipulate, testing for the feared loss and abuse that
first generated their detachment. They provoke the very mistrust they fear. The
sexually exploited child is seductive. The physically abused child provokes attack.
Personality constellations which can be adaptive, when narrowed and fixated,
become impediments to new and reparative experience. It is in this way that
personality disorders are self-maintaining.
An irony is that these interpersonally empty and rigid patterns in personality
tend to occur in the most constitutionally robust of the abused and neglected
children. They are those who have escaped early death from failure to thrive,
severe neuropsychological impairment, chronic depression, severe social
withdrawal or the pediatric psychotic disorders. The children with sufficient flexibility
to adapt quickly and survive often settle into empty-centered rigid caricatures of
adult personality styles.
Of course, well-defined and characteristic personality patterns do not require
abandonment and abuse or the pathological simplification of traumatic deforestation
of neuronal connectivities in order to emerge. Demanding social selection of
particular personality proclivities that are competitively advantageous for highly
sought positions also results in the appearance of well-defined personality styles.
Common examples are the technical types, “techies,” “nerds,” whose work require
long hours alone to master and execute, as in doing mathematical proofs, solving
problems in theoretical physics, unraveling computer programming problems or
writing highly technical tracks. These activities can be aided by the personality
inclinations of shyness and distantiation, the experience of discomfort in social
occasions along with a rich private fantasy life. Diagnostically oriented mental health
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professionals (and lonely mates) may label these interpersonally distant,
engineering rocket science people, “high functioning” sufferers of Asperger’s autistic
spectrum disorder. Things going on inside get most of the attention, having more
impelling importance than those on the outside involving other people. A recent
study by Cambridge University’s Autism Research Center compares the
empathizing (E) versus systemizing (S) ability of normal controls and adults with
Asperger Syndrome and find the quasi-autistic adults are deficient in E and superior
in S. They call it the E-S theory of autistic spectrum diseases. Psychotherapists of
these autistic spectrum personality types, patients who characteristically do not
seek therapy but are forced into the office by marital or family conflict, speak of their
long, patient and mighty struggles to make intimate contact with these clients. A
more philosophical question involves issues of what are acceptable individual
differences and why it is that these high functioning, highly paid and successful
professionals have any diagnosis at all.
It is not surprising that the highest paid members of corporations producing
technical products and services such as IBM and Oracle are those rare individuals
in technical sales that are able to combine the skills and insights of introverted
scientists and technicians with those of the gregariously successful salespersons. In
business schools such a blend is seen in people who combine talents in both
marketing and finance. In architecture this combination might take the form of a
graphic-design artist with computational mechanical engineering skills. Recruiters
know that it is difficult to find people for what is called engineering sales.
From all over the United States, professional instrumental musicians that
began to experience severe technical difficulties that defied their teachers as well as
more extended practice time came to see Chicago’s music guru, Carl Boardstadt.
He was a nationally known consultant to classical and jazz professionals in the
1920’s and 30’s. His particular specialty involved those who had “hit the wall,” those
whose progress toward advanced musical mastery and accession into the higher
echelons of the business had been truncated. His recommendations were often
eccentric indeed. For the wind musician with breadth control problems, it might be
blowing uniform bubbles through a long tube held at increasing depths of a filled
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bathtub or feeling the seductively diaphragmatically oscillating belly of a taxi dancer.
Pianists with speed problems worked at specially constructed up-side-down
keyboards with the rationale being that finger lifting was more rate limiting than
finger placing. He said that his most hopeless cases were those whose
personalities didn’t fit their choices of instrument, too often made by what position
remained open in the high school band rather than following a personal interview.
He claimed that trombonists should be sensually languorous; clarinetists, nervously
impatient; double reed instrument players, obsessional and withdrawn; brass
players, athletic and exhibitionistic.
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As one of the team physicians of the San Diego Chargers in the years 1971-
1975, I spent several days a week in their summer training camps, on the team
plane to and from games, in the locker room and on the sidelines during games. I
was involved particularly in player drafts. Unbeknown to candidate players and
other teams, we used a system of what social scientists call unobtrusive measures
of their personalities as part of their evaluations. College football players are sent
questionnaires each year by professional teams asking about a variety of life events
and attitudes including their goals for the future. Filled out by hand, they served as
repeated measure, handwriting samples. Twenty years of them were available in
the Charger’s record room. Using 30 standard signs from the French graphology
literature and three trained raters, we evaluated the hand writing characteristics of
players, National Football League wide, who obtained and retained playing, not
reserve, positions in the League for at least three years.
After studying handwriting profiles from close to a thousand established NFL
players, and hundreds of hours of individual interviews of members of many teams,
it became clear that, athletic abilities being equal, success was more likely when the
player’s personality type fit his football position. What amounts to a series of
selective filters are operated by coaches, scouts and managers throughout the
playing careers of these players in grammar schools, high schools, universities and,
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ultimately, the NFL draft. Choices obviously involved more than height, weight, time
in the 40-yard dash and performance in motor coordination tasks. The players
behavior, carefully studied on the field, in multiple camera angle game films, direct
and collateral interviews and observations under game conditions constituted a high
level of selective pressure that brought with it the emergence of characteristic
personality types. Tens to hundreds of thousands of candidates are winnowed down
to several hundred highly paid players in this selective process.
Distinctive personality patterns accompany success at a particular position.
Structure loving, politically more conservative, choreographed in detail and
repeatedly rehearsed, offensive players keep their lockers more organized and tidy.
More rebellious, resentful of structure, politically more libertarian, thematically
instructed but principally opportunistic, defensive players, particularly linemen and
linebacker’s lockers had messy lockers. Defensive team players were most often in
trouble with the law. Offensive lineman including centers, guards, tackles and some
tight ends tend to be patiently enduring and tenacious, their aggression taking the
form of stubbornness. This contrasts with the temperamental explosiveness of the
defensive line and linebackers. We could speak of the volubility of centers, the loyal
and caring kindness of offensive tackles, the narcissistic exhibitionism of wide
receivers, the murderous rage of the defensive end, the sullen and paranoid
depressiveness of the defensive back, the joyfully impulsive unpredictability of
broken field running backs and the good citizenship egolessness of the blocking
fullback. Some quarterbacks lead and play fearlessly in a religious state of grace,
some are members of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Others lead as
fearlessly, but in the style of an unconscionably calm psychopathic bank robbing
professional.
Influenced by our findings, the San Diego Chargers drafted the Hall of Fame
quarterback and one time ABC Monday Night Football commentator, Dan Fouts.
Skinny and hurt several times during his college years as a quarterback in Oregon,
he was passed over in the NFL draft until the third round. The scouts “knock” on him
was that they thought that he lacked psychological and physical toughness; the
ability to get up after a hit and to ignore the on coming tons of defensive linemen
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while calmly and quickly surveying the routes of several potential receivers. The
pattern found in his handwriting features, however, resembled those Johnnie
Unitas, the Hall of Fame quarterback of the Baltimore (then) Colts who, in spite of
his small size, famously played with great courage and physical toughness. In
chronic and severe back pain, he played regularly until retirement in his early 40’s.
Fouts drafted in the third round with a small five-figure bonus, proved to be a great
bargain for the Charger franchise.
Given the theoretically infinite number of ways that a personality can be, it is
remarkable that the latest Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American
Psychiatric Association, DMS-IV, describes only eight types, which form three
subsets of exaggerated expressions of stable personality styles called personality
disorders. All eight personality disorders can be grouped into: (1) Cluster A - Odd
and eccentric types, whose anxiety is related to the felt threat of disintegration and
annihilation of the self and whose style is dominated by mistrustful paranoia, a
schizoid, detached and emotionally flat pattern or the isolated strange eccentricism
of schizotypal characters; (2) Cluster B - Unstable and impulsive types whose
anxiety is related to loss of the stable self and whose style is dominated by
irresponsible antisocial behavior, chronic instability with high amplitude fluctuations
in behavior called borderline, or patterns of excessive emotionality and dramatic
display associated with histrionic characters; and (3) Cluster C - Fearful types
whose anxiety is related to hypersensitivity to criticism, guilt and feelings of
inadequacy or loss of control, and whose style is dominated by interpersonal
avoidance, clinging dependency, or rigid lock up into obsessive-compulsive efforts
to do the right thing and avoid disapproval. This remarkably small array of
stylistically consistent global behaviors selected from a practically infinite number of
imaginable possibilities establishes a small set of invariants of some, perhaps
abstract, property. These characteristic patterns inspire our search for the implied
brain and behavioral conservation laws that may underlie them.
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Further Readings for Doesn’t Everybody
The Evangelicals, David F. Wells and John D. Woodbridge, Abingdon Press,
Nashville, 1975.
Godtalk, Travels in Spiritual America, Brad Gooch, Knopf, N.Y. 2002
The Value of Science, Essential Writings of Henri Poincare’ Stephen Jay Gould,
Modern Library, Random House, N.Y. 2001
From Being to Becoming, Ilya Prigogine, Freeman, San Francisco, 1980
The Development of Mathematics, E.T. Bell, McGraw Hill, N.Y. 1945
Deterministic Chaos, An Introduction, Heinz, George Schuster, VCH, Weinheim,
1989
Lectures on Dynamical Systems, Structural Stability and their Applications, Kotic K.
Lee, World Scientific, Hongkong, 1992
The Psychobiology of Behavioral Development, Ronald Gandelman, Oxford, N.Y.
1992
Handbook of Character Studies, Psychoanalytic Explorations, Manfred Kets de
Vries and Sidney Perzow, International Universities Press, Madison, 1991
Cognitive Style, Five Approaches and Relevant Research, Kenneth M. Goldstein
and Sheldon Blackman, Wiley, N.Y. 1975
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CHAPTER 3:
TRANSMOGRIFICATIONS OF ENERGIES
After several of months of running, 12 miles most days, I felt an energetically
calm, self-containment and a growing loss of interest in things sexual. My
increasingly impoverished fantasy life led my training psychoanalyst to suggest that
I was running away from the critical, females issues of my psychoanalysis. He said I
was becoming more out of reach as I became more socially pleasant. This was
decades before Prozac, Paxil and other serotonin reuptake inhibitors were inducing
similar hyposexual, withdrawn states of cordiality in millions of Americans. Recall
that Norman Geschwind, the Harvard Professor of Neurology, reported similar
conditions of high energy sexual disinterest and abstract metaphysical
preoccupation in patients with right temporal lobe epilepsy. For reasons other than
the loss of church property rights and the spread of syphilis to the clergy, it felt like I
was being readied for Pope Gregory VII’s Eleventh Century celibacy reforms for
abbots and clerics of the Catholic Church.
It was true that my feelings of dependence on my analyst for understanding
and approval were being reduced as I ran into less emotional involvement. I was
becoming a more rationally objective observer of others and myself. It wasn’t the
first time that my over-ardent practice led to this warning. Baba Muktanada, my
Hindi guru, told me to reduce my daily sitting time of meditation. He said my spacey
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social smile belied a growing disinterest in the welfare of others. I was getting
hooked on the hard training high of not really being there for other people.
Several articles in Runner’s World said that many runners become addicted
after even a few months of running over six miles per day. It’s true that over fifteen
years I missed less than 10 days of running per year. I ran in driving rain, sweltering
heat and dangerous places. In New York’s Central Park after dark, I followed a
freshly strewn trail of torn woman’s garments that ended in shredded panties and a
bra on the Park’s bridle path. In Oklahoma City at 104,° I was chased and bitten by
a terrier. In Munich at 4:30 AM, before delivering a morning lecture, the black
uniformed police stopped me for a shakedown. In Ann Arbor, I shuffled along in two
feet of snow. By the Seine, at 14°, paranoid barge hounds barked in big dog
baritones. I ran on the Hebrew University track a block away from a loud Palestinian
bomb left in a refrigerator near a busy street corner. Breathless at nine thousand
feet in Aspen, gagging on the strong manure smell of Sacramento Valley farms, in
the hot wetness of Houston and dry heat of Palm Springs. I wore out three to four
pairs of Nike running shoes per year. What I did not tell my training analyst was that
this felt like a chase after God. As in most spiritual transformations, His messages
and music could emerge quite suddenly.
Even after stretching, it was painful to begin and that was my daily sacrifice. I
was readying myself to follow the God of the Hebrews and make the “three days
journey into the desert” as in Exodus and Paul’s recommended presentation of my
body “as a living sacrifice, holy and well pleasing to God.” After three miles of
running, the hip pain, back stiffness and leg heaviness lifted, difficult breathing
became easier. A burst of new energy appeared suddenly. The first pop usually
took the form of assertive feelings fueled by new personal power, an undoing of the
lethargy and depression of a helpless sinner. New and big, I felt like I could fix
almost anything. Up bubbled an aggressive speech to the Dean about his refusal of
our recent request for an increase in departmental research space. As for the
National Institute of Health’s recent return of one of our grant proposals, it was now
clear that the reviewers were wrong. I would resubmit but this time ask for twice the
amount of money. I rehearsed a new list of necessary and routine laboratory chores
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for my most rebellious post-doctoral student. I would tell my teen-age son that he
must wait another year for his own car. I felt generally intolerant.
In an article in Runners World, I labeled my run’s first global brain state
transition, the first second wind. It energized me with the cool firmness but ready-tobe
angry righteousness of modern religious orthodoxy: Orthodox Jews gunning
down Hamas terrorists as retribution for bus bombing children which was itself a
retribution; Muslim suicide bombing as vengeance for cultural contamination;
Catholic Bishops refusing the Eucharist to pro-choice politicians; Charismatic
Christians gay bashing defense of the sanctity of marriage; Mohammed’s early Sufilike
poetry of love turning into territorial aggression and Jew killing in his later years.
Once in while, unpredictably, past the first hour of running and after the first
second wind, a fatigue easing second burst of energy followed the second stage of
exhaustion. I called this running-induced, second global brain state transition to a
softer loving energy, the second second wind. Colors became intense, clouds
breathed and my body lightened. Running once again became easy. I was flooded
with empathic and generous thoughts. I understood that the Dean was faced with
too many space demands to satisfy; the grant reviewers’ criticisms of the budget
were meant to be constructive. I recalled that strong minded, rebellious postdoctoral
students often made the most creative contributions to science. I realized
that my son’s urgent desire for his own car was a proposal in the direction of the
independence that would be required of him the following year when he was going
to be hundreds of miles away at a university. Filled with benign optimism, I felt the
compassionate perspective afforded those with energy but without envy, anger or
fear. William James, in Varieties of Religious Experience, A.C. Underwood’s book,
Conversion, Christian and Non-Christian and Gobi Krishna’s The Awakening of the
Kundalini, among many others before and since, describe the sudden appearance
of long lasting states of optimistic energy and loving empathy that can emerge after
long episodes of suffering, especially following periods of privation of spiritual
meaning and the loss of a previously strong faith. These episodes are painfully
chronicled by St. John of the Cross in his Dark Night of the Soul.
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In the long distance running model of spiritual transformation, the first energy
appears suddenly in the middle of painful fatigue and feels like a vigorous
implementation of Halachic commands or Canon Law. The second burst of energy
emerges from readiness for resignation and ends in humane comprehension and
empathy. In some Christian monastic practice, a similar transition is represented in
the ritual of Tenebrae (or Darkness). Fifteen lit, unbleached candles are
extinguished, one by one over the night, while reading the Psalms. The practice is
said to represent the desertion of Christ by his disciples, as the church grows darker
over the night. After the singing of the Benedictus, the one remaining light is
quenched, plunging the church into total darkness. In Myth and Ritual in
Christianity, Alan Watts suggests that the loss of the last light of Tenebrae induces
the realization that “I am nothing.” This reduction in egocentrism, along with a darkpiercing
alertness is said to facilitate an invasion by a loving God that precipitates
the fasting, sleep deprived and praying petitioners into long lasting ecstatic states.
These uses of energy and its attendant characteristics are not physically
specifiable but rather hermeneutic of a force. It is both a potential and a realization,
observed and inferred. It is the “energy stuff” of Freud’s libido, Wilhelm Reich’s
orgone energy, Pavlov’s drive, Rudolph Steiner’s etheric formative force, the
arousal and attention of brain wave and consciousness research, the Ch’I of
Chinese medicine, the Hindu divine energy of Shakti, the Hebraic ruach, the
Cabalist’s Yesod, the Sufi’s Baraka, the Christian Holy Spirit, the Yogic breath
energy, prana, Mesmer’s animal magnetism, Galvani’s life force, Goethe’s
Gestaltung, Madam Blavatsky’s astral light, Georg Groddeck’s it, Henri Bergson’s
elan vitale, Schroedinger’s entropy, Abraham Maslow, Ruth Benedict and
Buckminister Fuller’s synergy, Bertalanffy’s anamorphosis, Colin Wilson’s x factor
and George De la Warr’s biomagnetism. Of course, by nationality, culture and field
of study, there are many more examples, each locally defined by its particular
context and haunting with its promise of universality.
Energy in the context of mathematical physics is intuitional, abstract and
relational. It is not created or destroyed, but rather transformed. Consistent with his
deceptively simple style of physical intuition training of the young, Feynman’s
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discussion of thermodynamic energy and its conservation in Lectures in Physics
begins with the premise that it is a numerical quantity that does not change when
one or many alterations in the system occurs. His heurism for energy and its
conservation involves the premise that Dennis the Menace has 28 indivisible blocks,
a number which his parents find constant at the end of every day of play. If one day
a count yielded 27, an investigation would reveal that a block could be found
elsewhere, say under the rug. If at the end of the day, the count was 29, the extra
one had to come from somewhere else, perhaps Dennis’s playmate Bruce. If
Dennis locked some of his blocks in the toy box and threw some into a bathtub of
dirty water and (1) A block weighed three ounces; (2) The box alone weighed 16
ounces; and (3) Each block raised the water level of 6 inches by one fourth of an
inch, then this metaphoric energy relation can be expressed:
(blocks seen) + (weight of box)-16 ounces + (height of water)-six inches = constant (28)
3 ounces 1/4 inch
Feynman notes that this representation of an energy relation, computed as a
number of blocks, will always remain the same. If there were no blocks in sight, and
one used this energy conservation relation with blocks as units of energy, we find
no blocks as such in the expression at all.
The abstract and formal idea of energy in physics first arose in
mechanics and was generalized to electrostatics and electrodynamics. If one
idealizes these systems, eliminating real world factors such as friction, temperature
gradients, temperature dependence of the properties of materials, viscosity,
hysteresis and other nonlinear behavior, then the energy conservation law says that
in an isolated and interacting set of systems, the sum of the energies of the several
systems remains constant. If, on the other hand, a system interacts with its
surroundings, not isolated and interacting, then the increase in the energy of the
index system is equal to the work done on the system by its surrounds. Like pre-
Enron bookkeeping of corporate cash flow and balancing ones personal checking
account, energy, like money, does not disappear; it is only changed in expression.
As in the context of currency equivalent value, energy can represent a very general
quantity applicable to a wide array of specific objects and activities. The results of
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the early studies by Professor Seymore Kety of Harvard and Dr. Harold Himwich of
the Thudicum Laboratory in Galesberg, Illinois, using measures of whole brain
oxygen and glucose utilization as indices of energy generation and utilization by the
brain, surprised many of us. They indicated that energy use by the whole brain was
relatively constant when states of relaxed awakeness, mathematical cognition and
deep sleep were compared. Of course, modern studies have indicated that relative
regional brain energy utilization is state dependent and may vary quite widely.
More spiritual aspects of energies and their transformations were made
clearer during several month visits to Baba Muktananda’s, now Gurumayi
Chidvilasananda’s, Sidha Yoga Ashrams. Baba Muktananda loved and worshipped
his Hindu Guru, Bhagawan Nityananda. Baba had been a restlessly wandering,
guru-hunting, young man. Nityananda said he had “wheels for feet.” After many
years of devoted meditation, chanting and service, sadhanna, all the while being
prohibited from eating mangos, his favorite food, his passive, taciturn, ecstatic guru,
Nityananda, presented voluble, energetic, joyful Baba with the guru’s rather
aromatic and worn sandals. This symbolically acknowledged Baba’s successful
absorption of the guru’s transforming spiritual energy, shaktipat, the power of his
enlightenment.
At Nityananda death, Baba, using world tours, spiritual fellowship meetings,
satsangs (public conversations) and spiritual training sessions called “intensives”,
organized Ashrams in West Coast sites such as Oakland and Venice, and on the
East Coast, in South Fallsburg, New York, buying several old residence hotels in
the Borscht Belt. Baba was introduced to America by one of his first advance men,
Be Here Now Baba Ram Das, Timothy Leary’s co-investigator in the Harvard
Student LSD project when his name was Richard Alpert. EST’s Werner Erhard was
another of Baba’s advance men.
Baba discipled and disciplined a sister and brother who, when 18 and 11
respectively, were sent to live in his Ashram in Ganeshpuri India by their parents.
The girl was known as Malti when she served as a translator for Baba and
Gurumayi Chidvilasananda after receiving the energy of her enlightenment. The
younger brother was given the name of Baba’s guru, Nityananda. When Baba took
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a guru’s ecstatic death, Samadhi, both Gurumayi and young Nityananda became
co-gurus. Following three years of the usual covert power struggles of succession in
organizations, Gurumayi took over the guru lineage of Siddha Yoga. Her lively
brother’s worldly preoccupations with jazz drumming and confessions of promiscuity
led to his giving up of the orange robe of the denunciate, sanyasi, for the blue robe
of worldliness, exchanging one kind of energy for another.
Brad Gooch who visited Gurumayi’s Ashram in Ganeshpuri, India, wrote in
his recent book, Godtalk, that she looks like a “synthesis of Indira Gandhi and
Bianca Jagger.” In what reads like a Hunter Thompson episode in an unwritten book
called Fear and Loathing Along the Guru Trail, Godtalk’s explication of Siddha Yoga
was dominated by yellow journalistic rumors such as the one about Baba’s use of a
gynecologist’s table with stirrups for non-ejaculatory Tantric practice with some
female followers. This unconfirmed claim remains, as Gooch says, in the realm of
“…he said, she said.” Gooch’s exploration almost ignores the deeper meanings of
Kashmir Shavism, Buddhism and Kundalini Yoga that compose the philosophical
foundations of Siddha Yoga. The importance of knowing, loving and becoming one
with the God within trivializes all but ungenerous or hurtful interpersonal behavior.
Even the tougher version of the Ten Commandments in Leviticus 19 would not
necessarily disagree.
When a Los Angeles Times reporter tried to chide Baba about being driven
about in his “worldly” Mercedes sedan, he explained that a very wealthy Indian
merchant had given it to him and “…I have to put my behind somewhere.” Similarly,
why would Gooch’s account of Baba’s Tantric practice, even if true, ruin the imago
of him in my mind unless I had already surrendered to the pantheon of good and
evil absolutes of Judeo-Christian taboo? My knowledge of these non-materialistic
meanings of apparent materialism began with one of the favorite finds of Baba’s
youthful days of guru hunting: Zipruanna, who, wearing only a loincloth spent all
day, every day, on a stool in the middle of a garbage dump. Remarkable changes
occurred in people who spent time there in his presence. Baba said the identity of
guru was established by the results experienced by those that spent time in his
presence. It could not be defined by the physical features or ritual conduct of the
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interaction. People become spiritually energized and change in Zipruanna’s smelly,
garbage-filled presence. I keep a picture of him on my desk.
Gooch, in his implicitly and superficially righteous preoccupation with what he
considered disenfranchising human vulnerability, recalls how the medieval church
used the difficult to impossible vow of chastity for political control of their priesthood.
He seemed to have missed Baba’s lessons about the remarkably simple sounding
practices for mobilizing the energy of the God-receptive state. Once in this new
state, the rest of the metaphysical work almost takes care of itself. I, like many
others, adopted Baba’s mantra, Om Namah Shivaya, “I worship the God within me
(and you)” that he was given by his guru. The inner chant of this mantra brings me
to an internal quiet in which things become clearer. Meditation, chanting and service
to the guru was motivated by his promise that my egoistic concerns ranging from
the number of publications on my curriculum vitae, to the size and adroitness of my
penis, would disappear autonomously in the Baba state of bliss. This sounds very
much like the role of the transition to an “active intellect.” in Abraham Abulafia’s 13 th
Century Commentary on the Secrets. Arduous study of the spiritually dense writings
of Sri Aurobindo during the days with Professor Spiegelberg at Stanford gave me a
peak into the simple but difficult to execute idea of “simply” becoming the
transcendently comprehending state of existence-consciousness-bliss.
Whereas Baba would occasionally lapse into terse Sanskrit verse and its
multiplicity of potential meanings, Gurumayi keeps things simple. Sitting silently and
immobile at satsang for hours, she radiates transformational energy, shakti, that
makes ruminations about human affairs seem unimportant. The work is about
getting the self concerned head noise of ones preoccupations sufficiently out of the
way to allow the discovery of the God who has been waiting patiently within. A
fellow ashramite gave me a photograph of my first audience with Gurymayi. It
showed me on my knees in front of her. She appears to be dismissing me with a
baleful, almost disdainful look as my introducer, gesturing broadly, was, unasked,
reciting a list of my professional bona fides. The picture caught her waving me off
with a long, peacock-feathered stick. Obviously unimpressed, she is sending me
back to my all night, every night, tent cleaning labors at the Ashram. Rich Indian
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businessmen, whose large donations were a major source of support of the
Ashrams, faired little better. They seldom received a personal audience or favorable
seating at Darshan, the evening public time of question and answers with the guru.
In contrast with the relatively easy public availability, mischievous play, provocative
humor and worldly sophistication of Baba, the ambience of Gurumayi is more
private, simple, serious and subtle. It is as powerful, but in another way.
In response to Gurumayi’s ascension to Siddha Yoga’s singular guru, I
imagined hearing Baba saying that God energy was at least androgynous, if the
dimension of sexual identity was relevant at all. Baba taught that divine energy, by
necessity, is expressed through a wide variety of particular personalities and
cultures and should not be confused with the details of its manifestations. This
included the sexual identity of the chosen Vehicle. Guramayi’s central theme, as I
understand it, concerns the simple, quiet and pervasive powers of love and faith.
Some say Baba took the path, marga, of selfless action, karma-marga, whereas
Gurumayi took the bhakti-marga, the road of loving devotion and faith. The third
marga is jnana-marga, my inclination, is the road of intellectual study and
knowledge. Aldous Huxley related the choice among these three categories of yoga
practice, to the physical and personality types of William Sheldon’s 1954 Atlas of
Man. Karma yoga corresponded to the mesomorphic body type and the assertive
boldness, high energy, and interpersonal callousness of the somatotonic
personality. Bhakti Yoga was the characteristic choice of endomorphic body types
with the viscerotonic personality traits of sociability, good will, tolerance and love.
Huxley associated Jnana Yoga with ectomorphic body type and the cerebrotonic
characteristic of shyness, sensitivity and intellectuality.
My summers with Baba at his temporary Ashram in Venice, California and
the permanent American Ashram in South Fallsburg, New York, were spent in daily,
very early morning, chanting of the gurugita after most of the night spent taking
down, cleaning and putting up large tarpaulin meeting tents. I was assigned this
simple, arduously manual, all night work after being interviewed and found out to be
a professor and chairperson of a medical school department. Baba instructed his
assignment committee that many if not all professorial egos would benefit from what
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Andrew Carnegie famously called the dignity of real work. Spicy one dish vegetarian
meals, twice a day meditation and brief stolen naps consumed the rest of the day. I
found myself meditating for longer and longer times, chasing the promised Blue
Pearl that Baba said appeared behind the eyes near the supreme meditative end
point.
Beside care with the titration of meditation-induced interpersonal
disconnection, detachment with love is the desired end point of most Hindu and
Buddhist meditative practice, another set of “side effects” of the energy arising early
in the course of too much meditation is called kriyas, spontaneous episodes of
involuntary behaviors and postures of the body such as unprovoked chanting and
writhing and stereotyped hand positions called mudras. Baba told us one of his
kriyas took the form of spontaneous erections that occurred during his first
experiences with deep meditative states. I recall a woman physician and fellow
ashramite in Los Angeles telling me that her panties often got so soaked during
meditation that she worried about being stuck to her cushion. Beyond these initial
somatic overflows of Divine Energy, shakti, emerges a vision of the Blue Pearl,
bindu, Baba’s “gift from the Goddess Kundalini.” As he entered this stage, he said
that his mind filled with “joyous contentment.” Jewish mysticism of the 1300’s
acknowledged the neighborhood relations of Eros and the Sacred.
More formal and scientific uses of the word, energy, like all objects of thought
embeddable in a mathematical context, are abstract and relational. In his book,
Mathematics-The Music of Reason, Jean Dieudonne′ treats mathematical objects
as objects of thought. Dieudonne′’s book documents the 19 th Century transition
from concrete, visualizable, classical mathematics to abstract, nonvisualizable
relational ideas. This conceptual transition to abstract, relational thought objects that
are no longer representable by pictures or accessible to our senses of mathematics
and physics is yet to reach the concrete DNA-causal religionists of modern
molecular biology. In 20 th Century mathematics, Dieudonne′ observes that “…the
primary role in theory is played by the relations between mathematical objects
concerned rather than the nature of the objects themselves…these relations are
often the same for objects which appear to be very different and therefore they must
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be expressed in ways which do not take these appearances into account…and can
be specialized at will…” DNA sequences are, as MIT molecular biologist, Eric
Lander observed, nothing more than an elementary “…list of parts…” In fact, since
about 1% of the nucleotides are relevant to functional genes, one might say that the
important members of this list of parts are distributed very thinly among many more
apparently unimportant ones. The next frontier will certainly involve an
understanding of the dynamics of the interactions among elemental parts and in
more abstract laws about molecular biological relations; a focus on the dynamics,
not the structural parts, that regulate and control their expression.
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I made a pilgrimage to spend eighteen months within Rene’ Thom’s
penumbra, living among mathematicians in his “ashram” in Bures sur Y’vette,
France. Thom was one of the founders of the Institute des Hautes D’Etudes, IHES,
Institute for Advanced Scientific Studies, created to stanch the flow of high-level
scientific talent away from France after the Second World War. It is in Bures sur
Y’vette, deep in a green forested valley, 50 or so miles South of Paris, in a building
packed with small, thin walled, big windows-on-the-woods offices. Each office
contained a single hard chair, an old office desk, two walls of blackboards and a box
of white only chalk. The use of colored chalk was felt to be without mathematical
rigor because its use substitutes colors as dimensional descriptors for more
demanding abstract and formal representations. Color was cheating. Meditation in
this ashram was practiced by staring, pacing, scribbling, and humming, mumbling,
belching and farting through the Institute’s thin office walls. The building, though
almost completely occupied, was otherwise silent. The Institute was populated by
such world-class mathematicians and theoretical physicists that once inside that
building, I felt so intimidated that I almost never spoke above a whisper. Listening to
excellent William Thurston’s casual use of a tiled bathroom floor to motivate a
unique partition of a topological space, I was attacked by the awe of an early
morning visit to an almost empty Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris or standing in front
of Michelangelo’s radiant marble statue of Mary and Jesus the Infant in the Vatican.
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Though the environment was one of tranquil academic scholarship, I lived charged
with anticipated performance anxiety about the seminars on the brain as a
dynamical system I was scheduled to present to these (I feared) ready-to-bedisdainful,
prize-winning, pure mathematicians and theoretical physicists.
My dorm-style sleeping room at IHES was, in winter, painfully cold and
drafty; the narrow iron bed’s thin mattress contained lumps of persistently disturbing
dreams, the small scratched table for work shim-irreparably wobbled. A faded
poster of Van Gogh’s garden was tacked crookedly on the door facing the toilet in
the dank, dimly lit small bathroom. A dwelling for distracted young mathematicians.
A retired but still famous Parisian chef cooked many course, elegant meals every
afternoon. The food was accompanied by so many liters of unlabeled red wine and
peer pressure to be French and socially drink it that it became a choice between
dulled, blunted,. sleepy post-prandial afternoons or living on bread, many cheeses,
apples and Perrier water, alone in my room. I chose the latter.
Thom’s gifts to us theoretically oriented non-mathematicians were
diagrammatic, easy-to-visualize pictures that allow the intuitive capture of counterintuitive
discontinuities in functions. How we might imagine that a smooth and
continuous change in a cause of something can lead to a big, discontinuous change
in the results. His system of topological (shape not size) diagrams was useful when
considering up to four causal variables and one to two dependent variables that
described how things behaved.
For an important real life example, in modern clinical pharmacology, the
smooth dose-response curve consistent with the physician’s intuition that if a little
drug didn’t work, a little more may do so, should become an up and down search for
the dose-region for the desired effect which may involve a lower amount than a
previously ineffective drug dose. The therapeutic effect may occur in the middle of a
narrow dose range with too much or no effect occurring out of this span. In many
physical systems, sudden and global transitions in state, from incoherent light rays
to coherent lasing and from laminar flow of fluids to turbulence, emerge
unexpectedly when causal parameter are moved into what some call the critical
region of the values of control parameters. Outside this region, cause and result
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were behaving linearly and smoothly whereas within this region we observe global
and dramatic changes via a forced discontinuity in what Thom called a catastrophe
and others use related words such as bifurcation or phase transition. The transitions
from painful fatigue to running rage and then to ecstatic transcendence feels like the
gifts from two kinds of Gods, the first, bearing the righteous lawfulness of the Old
Testament, the second bringing the empathic forgiveness of the New Testament
Jesus. Catastrophe and bifurcation theories predict and keep track of these
transitions using mathematically describable changes in global characteristics of the
“motion” using technical descriptors such as eigenvalues, germs and jets.
Thom taught me my first catastrophe, called the cusp, in words during our
late afternoon walks along a shadowed green wooded path on the grounds of the
Institute des Hautes Etudes, outside of Paris. My homework consisted of trying to
visualize his verbal descriptions. It was not until weeks later that he drew the
geometric object being discussed on the blackboard. With eyes twinkling and in his
provocatively playful style, he said,
“Imagine an empty rectangular box with the front edge of its roof buckled
into an `S’ and the back edge, an unfolded, left-to-right gradually rising simple
smooth curve. If one moves the causal force from low to high, from left to right along
the back of the box, the changing effect (represented by height) would be smooth;
moving from left to right in the front encounters a sudden drop off at the S shaped
buckling, a discontinuity in roof height indicating a discontinuity in effect. The energy
equivalent height of the roof graphically indicates the amount of result. The roof is
the manifold upon which the result of causal change is portrayed. The two
dimensional floor of the box represents a graph of the two causal parameters, the
increasing amount of normal factor going left to right along the `x’ dimension, the
increasing amount of splitting factor (taking one from the back to the front to the
region of the buckling) going back to front along the `y’ dimension.”
He gave me some examples of systems that showed cataclysmic changes in
effect from smooth changes of normal and splitting factors. About the onset of a
war: “At the back of the top surface of the box, the manifold, the normal factor
increasing from left to right is the amount of the perceived threat. The splitting factor
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decreasing from front to back is the cost (and ability to pay) for war. Without the
financial capacity to make war, threat goes from left to right smoothly at the back of
the box as tension gradually increases without the onset of armed conflict. When
effective fighting capacity is cheap and/or already well funded, the country well
armed, the increases in threat go from left to right at the front edge of the box and
encounter the cliff of catastrophe and war is declared. Cost of, or ability to wage war
varies from the front to back, and serves as the splitting factor. Considering prison
riots, social tension is the normal factor and alienation (degree of identification with
prison authority) is the splitting factor.” Using factial expressions of dogs sketched
by the Konrad Lorenz, Christopher Zeeman then of Warwick Mathematics Institute
in England, considered countenances reflecting increasing rage as the normal
factor, the amount of fear was the splitting factor. Increasing rage at high fear
increased smoothly at the back of the box; at low fear, increasing rage falls off the
cliff to an animal attack at the front of the box.” He paced as he talked, occasionally
looking up to see if I was following him. He continued,
“A light above the box casts a shadow from the roof to the floor, outlining the
gradually widening fold created by the transition from the smoothly rising back of the
roof to its `S-shaped’ front. This triangle on the x-y causal floor is the region in which
the discontinuity in the result surface roof results and is called the bifurcation set. An
increasing amount of the causal `normal factor’ is represented from left to right
along the `x’ dimension, the results of which change smoothly at the back of the roof
but encounter a discontinuous jump up or fall down crossing the inaccessible
crevice in the `S’ fold at the front of the roof. Again, the triangular shadow on the
floor made by the fold indicates the parameter region in which discontinuous
changes in the result surface occur. The reason the parameter that determines the
front to back location of the left to right movement of the `normal factor’ is called the
`splitting factor’ becomes obvious. Its value determines whether the results induced
by increasing amounts of `normal factor’ will be smoothly changing or generate a
discontinuous jump. The entire visualizable object is called a cusp catastrophe and
it along with higher dimensional parameter region-inspired shapes such as the
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swallowtail and butterfly buy back the smooth DE deterministic intuition lost with
discontinuous changes in results.”
He grinned mischievously as he asked, “Can you see it?”
Thom’s catastrophes serve as accessible and powerful theoretical settings
for the use of energy as a generalizable, one dimensional, dependent, resulting
effect, influenced by one or several, sometimes conflicting, independent, causal,
variables. For more examples: the weight of a ship (smaller to greater, left to right,
along the x, normal dimension) and the position of center of gravity (smaller to
greater, front to back, along the y splitting dimension) are causal with a jump in roofheight
energy from stability to capsizing, a discontinuity emerging from initially
smooth changes in stability. As above, gradually increasing tension (the left to right
normal factor) and alienation (the back to front (splitting factor) in inmates generate
a sudden increment in energy, from subtlety increasing tension in relative quiet to
the sudden outbreak in a riot in the prison population. Embryological notochord
somitogenesis, (that which become the vertebrate of the spinal column) has a
smooth (left to right) causal influence that Chris Zeeman named a normal factor. It
is the smooth growth of the material wave of mesodermal (to become muscle,
connective tissue and bone) tissue. Zeeman called the front to back dimensional
gradient of influence, the secondary wave of adhesiveness, the splitting factor. The
value of this secondary wave co-determined a critical-valued interaction between
these causal parameters leading to a discontinuous change in the “energy”
equivalent continuity of developmental growth and vertebral column segmentation.
A little more technically: Thom’s basic mathematical contributions were in
differential topology and analysis with particular emphasis on what is called
structural stability of surfaces representing and supporting actions called manifolds.
For example, in a graph of a function, say F(x), such that a change in cause x
determines what happens to the result y= F(x), the stability question involves what
happens when one perturbs F(x) with a littleδ, i.e. δ + F(x). Do the topological
properties of the surface representing the potential range of actions of the system
(such as nearness of an originally close point set, continuity and connectedness of
the surface, its dimensionality, its compactness as a generalization of finiteness)
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remain the same after perturbation? Note that the inter-data point metric distances
are not considered. If they do, the two dynamical objects being compared are
topologically equivalent. The test of this equivalence requires the mapping one set
onto the other with, at most, smooth distortions of either or both surfaces.
In the context of catastrophe-related bifurcation theory, if a δ converts a
steady valued fixed point to an oscillating cycle on a manifold of potential actions,
also called a state space, then the fixed point system was not structurally stable. In
phase space, this is seen as a change-in-causal-parameter induced transformation
of a dot to a circle. If the one frequency circle is perturbed to a manifold of the
system’s actions consisting of two independent frequencies, the circle takes the
topological form of the crust of a doughnut, one frequency graphed spiral winding
around the doughnut, the other winding along the doughnut around its orifice, the
circle is not structurally stable. If δ distorts the frequency-amplitude relations on a
surface such that the manifold of possible actions is distorted from a doughnut to a
tea cup, both topological manifolds being one holed surfaces and therefore
topologically equivalent, the system is structurally stable. Perturbed systems that
maintain the sequence of points in time in sequential order (though the distances
between the points may be different), are generally structurally stable.
The seductive possibility, one which Thom realized so successfully, was
that in the language of distance-independent differential topological forms, there
would exist a small, finite set of shapes categorically describing the causes and
result parameter spaces from which, even without specific quantities, universal
qualitative (including discontinuous) behavior could be described and sometimes
predicted. A formal yet general categorical system within which a small set of
universal discontinuous changes in global qualities could be rationalized seemed
seductively applicable to the enlightenment transitions, spiritual transformations,
appearing suddenly after months and years of disciplined spiritual practice. The
Platonic view is that the universal forms of discontinuous change existed before
they could be about anything specific, before the universe was born.
In this era of nonlinear dynamics and dynamical system, common dynamical
scenarios give accounts of smooth changes in causes leading to discontinuous
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changes in results. The Nobel Prize winning solid-state physicist, Phillip Anderson,
in a short but memorable piece in Science in the 1970’s said it tersely, “More is
different.” This general, qualitative mathematical theory of discontinuous change
models nicely the sudden delivery of the first and second second winds from
gradually and continuously increasing running distances as well as the abrupt
transmission of the guru’s “energy”, shaktipat, from smoothly increasing amounts of
chanting, meditation, guru service and Baba love. Gradually changing forces
leading to sudden changes in an energy-equivalent result are found in most
rigorous form in Rene′ Thom’s singularity-bifurcation-catastrophe theory applied to
rational mechanics and geometric optics. Here the existence of already solvable
computational formalisms makes this more qualitative approach superfluous. On the
other hand, the power of this both basic and applied mathematical orientation and
method lies in its approach to the qualitative understanding of variously induced
global and sudden changes in an energy-equivalent observable in biological,
psychological, spiritual and social systems, fields of study in which little abstract and
formal lawfulness presently exists. Oxford’s Chris Zeeman’s more accessible
applications of Thom’s deeper, more generally ramifying, almost mystical (due to
their apparent wide generality) results, include approaches to real world problems
such those above as well as the sudden change in excitable membrane potential
accompanying the generation of the heart beat and neuronal discharge;
mechanisms of opinion change, stock market crashes and, as noted above, the
social science of riots. Whereas Thom’s On Structural Stability and Morphogenesis
can be said to be scriptural, Zeeman’s Selected Papers, 1972-1977 constitute the
Book of Common Prayer of this church.
To review and place catastrophe and bifurcation theories in the context of the
differential equations of mathematical physics and biology, causal determinism
implied by differential equations conventionally requires continuity and smoothness
in behavior to be credible. Our intuitions as well as the formal conditions for the
generic differential equations of mathematics and physics imply that smoothly
increasing amounts of cause lead to smoothly increasing results and yield at least
local predictability: a little more leads to a little more, a little less leads to a little less.
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This smoothness-dependent intuition of determinism breaks down in nonlinear
equations as well as in a wide variety of the machines of experimental physics, from
the sudden coherent lasing of previously incoherent light to the vortices and
turbulence in suitably bounded rotating or flowing fluid. It took me a while for these
topological still shots and movies of the head to become real. Nevertheless, the
enrichment of intuition was well worth it. Of course one could smoothly increase the
normal factor weight of a ship until it gradually sank, but if one moved the center of
gravity splitting factor to an eccentric position in the ship in the parameter region of
the bifurcation set, a sudden global capsize before weight-induced gradual sinking
made sense. I could see it. Indeed, increasing normal factor tension in a prison
population that was identified, not alienated, from the officials and mores of the
penal institution, would increase social symptomotology gradually. However,
increasing the splitting factor of social and institutional alienation results in the
cataclysmic change of a riot with increasing tension. I could see it.
Do we need to know the causal equations to anticipate instability and
discontinuity in our lives? Zeeman making Thom’s thoughts accessible to us plain
mortals said no. He suggested that we could use several diagnostic
phenomenological signs to make a good guess about whether we are near or within
the bifurcation set. Depending upon the route that the causal variables take through
the shadow of the bifurcation set, we may see very large fluctuations in our
observable. The Dow or S&P stock indices in the neighborhood of a sudden large
change is often presaged, sometimes for weeks, by a marked increase in volatility,
fluctuations between extreme values. Theorists call the statistical properties of a
time series of values behaving this way anomalous variance. For several months, I
did psychotherapy with a genuinely spiritual Catholic priest who only some Sundays
served the Eucharist, the corporal presence of our Lord at Communion, wearing no
trousers or underpants beneath his robes. A sudden change in a stock index in
response to the “shock” of a terrorist attack takes much longer to settle down if a
cataclysmically bigger change is in the neighborhood. This extension of the
system’s usual relaxation time is sometimes called critical slowing. In the bifurcation
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regime of a schizophrenic break down, critical slowing can be both global and literal
as the patient freezes in catatonic postures.
In the neighborhood of the bifurcation set, big jumps in the stock index, up or
down, are possible under almost the same surrounding conditions. This stock
analyst-humbling phenomenon is called bimodality. Jimmy Swaggert’s Saturdays
were often spent watching the show at naked dance parlors and buying videos at
the pornography shops of Metairie Highway near Schwegmann’s Grocery outside
New Orleans. Sundays found him on national television engaged with infectiously
real, transcendent experiences in the public arena of the pulpit. The ecstatic
congregation was deeply moved by his eloquent and tearful sermons about sin and
salvation. Counter to most suspicions, this is less conscious fakery than the
genuinely felt alternating states intrinsic to the bimodality in neighborhoods of
spiritually unstable, born again transitions.
Similarly, beginning with nearly the same initial values near the boundary of
the bifurcation set, very similar motions lead to dramatically different results. This
counter-intuitive behavior has been called divergence. At UCLA’s Neuropsychiatric
Institute, I interviewed a pair of lively teenage, genetically identical male twins raised
by a loving family in Los Angeles’s Valley. One was president of his high school
class, a Sunday school nursery school volunteer and a Saturday soup server to the
poor. The other twin sold pot and cocaine to support his habit. Deep and potentially
dark mysteries live in these spiritual bifurcation sets. They leave us pondering child
sexual abuse by deeply religious clergy and the massacre by mass suicide of a
New Christian congregation by James Jones. We wonder why it is that
fundamentalists (Jewish, Christian and Muslim) have the most ecstatic and direct
validating experiences of God and do the most shooting and bombing of other
people. In Burt Lancaster’s portrayal of bifurcation set dweller, Elmer Gantry,
charismatic believer and exploitative psychopath, were simultaneous and both
credibly real.
Another feature of the occupancy of this bifurcation region in control space is
that the values producing a sudden jump that occur passing through going one way
along the “normal” dimension usually jump back much further along when moving
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the other way. Theorists call this characteristic sign of bifurcation land, hysteresis. It
is generally known that sudden healing changes of the first born again experience
can arrive magically fast whereas a run at it a second time, another born again state
after the loss of the first one, comes, if at all, with much more effort and difficulty.
Members of Alcoholic’s Anonymous know that getting on the AA wagon the first
time may be quick, joyful and easy. Getting back on this wagon after a fall is much
more painfully slow and demanding, analogous to the Carmalite monk; St. John’s
lost faith engendered suffering of the Dark Night of the Soul.
Viewing the instabilities and extremes near the boundary of a bifurcation
brings inquiries and advice about why a rational compromise, some form of
disciplined moderation, would not be more desirable. It turns out that in this
parameter regime, the in-between state is intrinsically inaccessible. The pocket in
the S shaped fold of the upper manifold cannot be attained, at least for very long, by
varying the values of the two parameters. However, if one increases the number of
controls, it might be possible to stabilize a small island in a parametric sea of
instabilities. In an application of this strategy, Smith College and Harvard Professors
James Callahan and Jerome Sashin used a geometric representation of the difficult
to stabilize region of normal weight on a double cusp manifold representing the
behaviors of patients with eating disorders with both anorexia nervosa and bulimia.
They varied five controls to stabilize a very small result area representing normal
eating by varying the control values for ability to verbalize feelings, to imagine
solutions, to defend against anxiety with unconscious forgetting called repression, to
make contact with realistic rationality and to modulate feelings with say exercise,
meditative practice or psychopharmaceuticals.
My experiences with the so-called borderline personality, with the tendency
toward sudden and global personality change, from Sunday school teacher to Harlot
in the space of a breath, has been both sexually exciting and personally ruinous for
me in my life. I could feel the instabilities in these dwellers of the bifurcation pockets
and my heart raced at the promise of mutually unconsidered impulses, the blurring
of orificial identities, the experiments with sexual roles and modes and the
incipiency of collapse into regressive mud play. Most of all, I anticipated that their
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screaming orgasms, potentiated by a natural inclination to bifurcate, would be so
messianic as to carry me along to a transcendentally erotic new place.
Unfortunately, paranoid rages, bursts of promiscuity and hopeless inconsistency of
goals and efforts dominated the remainder of our living days.
Further Readings for TRANSMOGRIFICATIONS OF ENERGIES
Religions in Four Dimensions; Existential, Aesthetic, Historical, Comparative, Walter
Kaufman, Reader’s Digest Press, 1976
Religious and Spiritual Groups in Modern America, Robert S. Ellwood, Prentice-
Hall, Englewood Cliffs, 1973.
The Evangelicals, What They Believe, Who They Are, Where They are Changing,
David F. Wells and John D. Woodbridge, Abington Press, Nashville, 1975
A Nation of Believers, Martin Marty, Univ. Chicago Press, Chicago, 1976
Conversion: Christian and Non-Christian, Alfred C. Underwood, George Allen,
Unwin Ltd., London, 1925
Eros and the Sacred, Paul Avis, SPCK, London, 1989
Mukteshwari, The Way of Muktananda, SYDA Foundation, Ganeshpuri, India, 1972
Godtalk, Travels in Spiritual America, Brad Gooch, Knopf, N.Y. 2002
The Beat of a Different Drum; The Life and Science of Richard Feynman, Jadish
Mehra, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1994
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The Shape of Space, Jeffrey Weeks, Dekker, NY, 1985
The Topological Picture Book, George K. Francis, Springer-Verlag, NY 1988
Mathematical Models of Morphogenesis, Rene Thom, Wiley, NY 1983
Catastrophe Theory, Selected Papers, 1972-1977, Christopher Zeeman, Addison-
Wesley Reading, MA 1977
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CHAPTER 4:
SENSUAL IN-BETWEEN ENTROPIES
Since the early teens, I’ve been beguiled by girls and women that have what
might be regarded as exquisite sensibility, perhaps more precisely, exquisite self
sensibility. These inhabitants of the near transformational neighborhoods of
bifurcation sets, are grandly responsive receivers of emotionally significant
information arising from their insides and the world. They are the canaries in the
deep mines of human experience. Not the usual one lively-eye, one sober-eye,
binocular difference of most of us, both their eyes sparkle, their feeling antennae
await a happening and each is regarded as new. I spot these brains in a crowd
within minutes and am compulsively drawn to know them better, to become part of
them, to vicariously experience and serve them. They seem to have little inhibitory
control of even weak sensory information on its way to their strong, global feelings.
Near ecstasy and excruciating pain await. They feel their anticipations with their
body, down to their painted toes. Their receptivity brings me lower abdominal
warmth in remembrance.
At sixteen in my Dad-purchased second hand Ford convertible, I was parked
with my new girl friend on Sarasota’s Lido Beach, hearing and seeing dark shadows
of the Gulf of Mexico’s waves hit white sand against the night sky. I took her flat
party shoes off to message her feet. When I kissed her left foot and sucked gently
on her toes, she gasped and became faint. She told me that a strong electric shock
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had run up her back. The passionate licking and sucking of her musky, moist, pink
labial lips brought what she said were explosions of pink and blue lights. She had
several ecstatic multicolored crises in a row, sometimes without pause. She begged
me to stop. I was as pleased as a sexually inexperienced young man in love could
have possibly been.
Bowled over by what seemed to be the uniquely sensual properties of her
brain, I began to wonder if her sensitivity was more general when she asked me to
keep the windows open or top down, even in the cool of a Florida January, because
the exhaust smell in my car was suffocating, though I couldn’t smell it. The car had
been checked and registered negative for abnormal fumes and leaks by Anderson
Ford. She asked me never to wear any kind of after-shave lotion because it choked
her. Jazz music on the car radio had to be played quietly. On-coming headlights
gave her headaches. Her mother, sometimes desperate, called me for help during
her daughter’s episodes of premenstrual emotionality and early menstrual
discomfort. During these times, we would drive together for hours as she explained
the many different colors of lower abdominal pain and how this particular kind
yawned darkly before it cramped. It was more purple then any of the others. I tried
to explain what I intuited but didn’t understand to her mother about the her gift of
unfiltered information coming through her nerve endings, her ever readiness for
surprise and her brain’s unwillingness or inability dampen or ignore what it didn’t
like. She saw things in art, heard things in music that I only saw, and heard after her
telling. She had tearful smiles listening to Debussy’s Afternoon of a Fawn. The
flatted fifths of Charley Parker and the laconic riffs of Miles Davis made her anxious.
Since then and for all these many years, the same sensually susceptible
brains showed up in my life carrying a variety of woman’s names and I never lost
my fascination for them. I learned that their heightened awareness extended to the
spiritual realm with unusually strong metaphysical inclinations and readiness for
transcendent experience. They seemed to live closer to the direct experience of
God. Attending Assembly of God and other Pentecostal midweek service, I found
that praying in tongues and dying in the Lord came as easily and dramatically to
them as their orgasmic experiences. At the same time, distant bad news could
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suddenly become immediate and loud in a litany of threatening thoughts that
hooked and persisted through sleepless nights. They taught me to see genuinely
the delicate beauty of flowers and to know in my stomach that some forms of
sadness felt hollow like homesickness. In medical school I found that that many of
them were the clinic patients, women and men, with unusual sensitivity to chemical
odors, think Gulf War Syndrome, and fibromyalgia, which I heard as unusually
sensitive awareness of normal sensory information about posture and position
coming in from the bones and muscles of the body but experienced as pain. This
background of odorific and somatic information is usually repressed from
consciousness by the rest of us. Their medical histories contained detailed accounts
about how each of their organs was feeling at the time, sensations that the
textbooks say we are incapable of consciously knowing. Internists and psychiatrists
often dismissed their accounts as signs of somatoform disorder, psychological
conflicts expressed in the language of body feelings.
In the psychophysiological laboratory, I learned these brains tended not to
habituate. Each of a series of noises continued to elicit startle responses that could
be picked up in brain wave recordings or in the running record of a
psychophysiological, lie detector, machine. In psychoanalytic training, I learned that
these brains remembered their dreams more richly than the rest of us and that
treatment with over twice a week analytic sessions was potentially dangerous. The
psychoanalytical situation-engendered fantasies and feelings could get too strong
and exaggerated, too real.
Professor Iris Bell of University of Arizona’s Alternative Medicine Research
Program has, studying these brains, found slower reaction times, defects in divided
attention psychological tasks, longer latencies to the first dream, and unusual
patterns of odor reception called cacosmia or dysosmia. Using brain wave and
cardiac interbeat interval data as markers, Bell reports the increase in the amount of
alpha awake brain waves and decreases in cardiac interbeat interval variation
associated with increasing sensitivity, rather than habituation, with repeated
exposure to a variety of smells over time.
In spite of these brains usually requiring what is known as high maintenance
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in relationships, I continue to be erotically spellbound, in love with them in all their
forms. Questions about how to think about these exquisitely sensitive women, Bell’s
Syndrome exists but is rarer in men, continue to drive aspects of my scientific
research. It has been variegated quest, which began with trying to find a general
conceptual framework that would help my understanding of this unique capacity to
be aware and process large amounts of internal and external information that
escape the awareness of most of us. As one might guess, this search led to
fundamental ideas about information and its inverse, the entropy indicating the
amount of information transport capacity, with respect to their characterization,
quantification and measurement.
To get to the end from close to the beginning, we recall that it was Claude
Shannon and his followers who both mathematically proved and experimentally
verified that a receiver must have more entropy, less already fixed knowledge and
more wondering, than the sending source, in order for the message to be sensitively
and reliably received and encoded. Sensibility seems to have something to do with
the readiness for information transmission afforded by the brain’s high entropy,
minimal fixed information states, in its resting dynamics. Their remarkable
receptivity derives from a baseline brain state like the formless emptiness of the
bodhisattva’s “…no form, no sound, no feelings, no perceptions, no
consciousness…” of transcendent Tibetan Buddhism as described in the Heart
Sutra of The Dalai Lama.
In Chinese Medicine, xu, meaning emptiness, contrasts with shi, the word for
fullness, both of these complementary opposites having multiple specific meanings.
Most metaphysically relevant is the characterization of xu as the emptiness of the
deepest reality of being and the highest state of human spirituality. Like that aspect
of Lao-Tsu’s ineffable Dao, The Way that is empty, xu indicates a mind devoid of
desire, being lucid and serene. In the context of dynamical form, xu shares the
structureless, non-imagery of maximal entropy systems and shi the lower dynamical
entropy of fixations on form, desires and beliefs. Shigehisa Kuriyama’s The
Expressiveness of the Body, elucidating historical and conceptual divergences of
Greek and Chinese Medicine, notes that xu was the supreme end of self-cultivation
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and the secret to vigor and longevity. “…to achieve fullness of life one had to abide
in empty nothingness, xuwu.” In Lao-Tsu’s Tao-Te-Ching, “…the Way is gained by
daily loss, loss upon loss until…by letting go, it all gets done…”
William James, in The Principles of Psychology, tried to capture the subjective
dynamics of the brain as an on-going preconscious stream of statistical wave
processes. He envisioned autonomously increasing and decreasing coherence
emerging spontaneously and from sensorial evoked thoughts via the confluence
and disaggregation of statistical wave processes, “…wave crests and hollows…”
that achieved temporary statistical stability by “…feelings of relation, consubstantial
with our feelings or thoughts of the terms between which they (only temporarily)
obtain.” In the more receptive, higher entropy brain systems, fleeting forms change
without continuity, jumping from one to another with “magical rapidity,” but being not
already engaged, are available for use for self-organized structure evoked by new
information. Without ordered, low entropy, preconceived ideational defects in the
resting random brain field, the full attentional statistical machine is available to
sensitively respond in self-organized, quasi-stable states of cognitive, conative and
affective integration. They then disappear; this brain relaxes quickly, ready for new
experience. This contrasts with those brains that are dominated by islands of order
composed of personality fixations and rigid belief systems, low entropy defects,
which interfere with sensorially responsive self-organization.
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As in most systems of authoritarian premises, precise definitions and what
appears to be strict logical continuity, as in discussions of Torah among Orthodox
Jews and Canon Law by Catholic bishops, classical equilibrium thermodynamic
ideas that are borrowed for use out of the context of their origins, risk the calumny
of their physicist practitioners. We have probably already earned more than a little
distain from those quarters with our use of none-minimal or none-maximal but inbetween
entropies. This phrase cannot be found in the literature of physics or, as
such, in the writings of communication and information theory. In the modern theory
of nonlinear motion called dynamical systems, in-between entropies can be
generated by chaotic systems that are non-uniform in their rates of separation of
near by points and convergence of far-away points in dynamics that have been
previously described as nonuniformly hyperbolic.
The energies and their transformations that fuel and support karmic escape
from the personality fixations of samsara and accession to unmanifest Divine Life
can occur without the loss of the richness and multiplicity of apparent reality. Big
internal changes without external sign can occur in the arrangements of the
ineffable and mysterious formless silence within which we have associated with
states of high, but not maximal, in-between entropy. For examples, the Indian Saint,
Sri Aurobindo, in the early 20 th Century, the Catholic metaphysical anthropologist,
Teilhard de Chardin and currently American pandits (spiritual seekers with
intellectual and academic inclinations) such as Ken Wilber, among many others
over the millennia, direct us toward the goal of Nirvanically changeless emptiness
without the properties of space or time. At the same time, we maintain an astute
and effective yet distantiated appreciation for existential realities. The non-dual
enlightenment of Integral Being or Yoga involves realizing emptiness through the
world of form. There is a way of thinking about and even computing that “nothing
within” and its changes.
As John R. Pierce suggested in the 1981 revision of his book that made the
theorems of the father of communication theory, Claude Shannon, so accessible,
“…if we want to understand information-related entropies, it is perhaps best to clear
our minds of any (physical) ideas associated with the entropy of physics.”
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Nonetheless, historical comments about what the classical thermodynamic term,
entropy, is and is not about are in order.
We recall that Richard Feynmann, in his well-known 1962 class notes,
Lectures on Physics, said that the subject of thermodynamics is the study of
relationships among the heat, energetic and organizational properties of materials,
without knowing their internal structure. Historically, the relational formalisms of
equilibrium thermodynamics emerged before our knowledge of the internal structure
of matter. For examples, the pressure in an insulated container of gas is due to
molecular bombardment of the container walls, which increases with heat or
compression of its volume. Compression of its volume increases its temperature
and expansion of its volume leads to cooling. Note that these relationships hold
without specifying the constituents and the specifics of a particular gas or solid.
In his lectures, Feynman’s intuitively accessible examples of reversible
thermodynamic properties are reminiscent of his on camera performance at the
Senatorial hearings about the Challenger disaster. Recall that he dropped an O-ring
in a glass of iced water demonstrating cold-induced rigidification of the rubber ring,
which he postulated to be the cause of the fuel leak and resulting explosion. In his
Lectures, he said that if one holds a rubber band between ones lips as a crude
thermometer, stretching a rubber band heats up the lips and relaxing it cools them.
Working the same system in reverse, and equilibrium thermodynamic systems are
classically reversible, we find that heating a rubber band makes it contract. These
changes involve complicated alterations in the internal arrangements of the
polymeric strands of rubber, their structural properties, the details of which, for the
purpose of global thermodynamic characterization, need not be known. The
relationships between physical state, energy and temperature in this material were
predictable from thermodynamic laws even without specific knowledge of the
complex internal structure and physical dynamics of rubber.
Thermodynamic theory, which makes deep conceptual connections between
quantitatively measurable primitives such as heat, hotness and work and the
invisible in the form of derived ideas such as energy and entropy, yielded an
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enormously rich and logically consistent intellectual framework from within which to
characterize macroscopic behavior composed of unknown molecular mechanisms.
Ideas about entropy grew out of William Thomson's (a.k.a Lord Kelvin)
thermodynamic laws about energy conservation and its allowable transformations.
Later Clausius decomposed the energy into that which was available for mechanical
work, called work-content, and that which was not, called transformation content.
He referred to the transformation content, a reflection of what changes in the
internal order properties of the system that occurred as a concomitant of changes in
energy and heat, as the entropy.
Rudolph Clausius added the word entropy as a thermodynamic property to
the conceptual armamentarium of theoretical physics in about 1865. This followed
the earlier work of the French engineer, Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot, who was
trying to develop a theoretical framework within which efficiencies in heatgenerating
engines might be understood. It implicated positive, > 0, changes, d, in
entropy, S, with changes in time, t, i.e. dS
dt
> 0, entropy is increasing in time, as a
concomitant of the inevitable mechanical inefficiencies in an energy driven system.
The resulting losses in the form of wasted energy show up as increases in
molecular motion, which could be estimated from the increases in heat. Wasted
energy dissipated as heat increases the amount of random motion and volume
occupied by the surrounding molecules in physical processes involving heat,
pressure, vaporization, condensation and work; all elements of that era’s dominant
physical metaphor, the steam engine.
The highly developed, multifaceted, often quite abstract formal
characteristics of the inferred property, entropy, prevent glib definitions and
generalizations. In the context of Kelvin-Clausius theory, the entropy of a closed
system will remain the same if it is isolated from any matter or energy exchanges
with the environment. If heating a system such that the change, d, in heat, Q, is
positive, i.e. dQ > 0, it experiences a rearrangement in its microstructural motions,
but the temperature is left unchanged. The (inferred) entropy, S, increases (i.e., dS
> 0) as the ratio of change in added heat, dQ, over the unchanging, absolute
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temperature, T. Thus, one definition of entropy change is dS = dQ/T. In classical
contexts, dS is expressed in units of heat called Joules per degree of absolute
temperature in units Kelvin, the temperature in Centigrade plus 273.16 o . The bestknown
physical image involves the heat-energy transfer to and from heat baths
called reservoirs as intermediate actions of the work of the heat driven engine
executing what has come to be known as the Carnot Cycle. The same formulation
emerges in this more concrete context: the heat, Q, transfer, dQ, at a particular
absolute temperature, T, dQ/T, has been used to define an entropy change, dS =
dQ/T related to some not-need-to-know-about specific alteration(s) in a system’s
internal physical properties.
If one allows some loose thinking about heat-induced increases in the
statistical randomness of molecular motion in the above reservoir that is associated
with the loss of useable energy, the positive entropy change, dS > 0, is vaguely
relatable to the kinds of information entropies to be discussed below. If a gas
trapped in an insulated, physically isolated, closed cylinder is allowed to expand
infinitely slowly, reversibly, called adiabatically, pushing up the piston that closed off
its end, the gas will become cooler, energy having been expended doing the work of
lifting the piston. Defined as an isolated system (of course no where in the real, nonlaboratory,
world can this condition of absent exchanges of energy or matter with
the environment be found), it is a reversible process, because returning the energy
of the work by, again, infinitely slowly pushing down on the piston and compressing
the gas to its original volume, returns it to its former temperature-defined energy
state. In this historically prominent thought-toy of physics, there has been a
reversible change in energy but no changes in the entropy, dS = 0. The gas’s heat,
temperature (and energy and volume) can be completely restored in this
metaphysically mythic classical thermodynmical tale of an entropy-conserving,
reversible process.
While fixed entropy and independence of the specific path is the case for the
above noted abstract reversible cycle, in the real, irreversible orbits of most physical
and all biological systems, entropy increases, dS > 0. Walter Nernst’s 1907 heat
theorem yields a zero point from which to determine a difference measure in the
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postulated, real physical world of ever-increasing entropy. He showed that at an
absolute temperature of zero, entropy is zero. We can illustrate an approach to this
singular state by placing a heated metal rod in ice water which would result in a
decrease in the entropy of the rod’s molecular motions by dQ/ T 1 < 0, the cooling
reducing the complexity of molecular motion in the metal bar and an increase in the
entropy of the water by dQ/T 2 > 0 indicating an increase in the amount and
complexity of the surrounding water’s molecular motions. Of course the heat moves
from metal rod to the water as T 1 →T 2 making dQ > 0 positive and the entropy
change, dS = dQ/ T 2 - dQ/ T 1 , also positive. In another simple example, producing
friction by rubbing a surface generates heat, dQ > 0, at a temperature T. This
induces a positive change in entropy, dQ/ T > 0, in the form of increasing amount
and complexity of the patterns of molecular motion in the air surrounding the rubbed
surface.
Using another related and well-known thermodynamic thought toy, the
original isolated, insulated body of gas in the cylinder is partitioned by a membrane
into two chambers, one containing all the gas with its temperature, pressure and
ability to do mechanical work and the other a vacuum without these properties. This
equilibrium state is changed into another equilibrium state by suddenly removing the
membrane, filling both chambers with gas and, while increasing its entropy
irreversibly, dS > 0, removes at least some of the gas’s ability to do piston raising
work. In the context of classical thermodynamics, it is in this way that irreversibility
can be defined by its associated increase in entropy. Though there has been no
change in total energy in this insulated closed system, an increase in entropy
means a decrease of the energy available for work. The increased disorder in the
gas is associated with the loss of ability to convert heat, thermal energy, into
mechanical energy. Historically important and still available elementary texts by
Enrico Fermi (1936), Mark Zemansky (1957) and Herbert Callen (1985), among
many others, explicate clearly the formal, but far from biologically relevant, classical
theory of the physical entropy of closed equilibrium thermodynamic systems.
Growing in part out of the formal thermodynamics of physics, statistical
mechanics offers yet another set of intuitions about the not-necessarily-known
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molecular details associated with changes in entropy. These ideas are closer to
applicability in problems of making measures on the behavior of biological systems.
Very generally, in the statistical mechanical context, an increase in entropy means a
decrease in the order, which can be a quantitative observable reflecting a decrease
in predictability and/or knowledge about the system. For example, we can locate the
molecules of the gas more accurately when they are all on one side of the
membrane-partitioned cylinder compared with the situation when the membrane is
suddenly removed. This accompanying increase in ambiguity and decrease in
knowledge in locating a set of gas particles reflects a statistical mechanical view of
increases in entropy. Can anything general be said about the bounds on an
increase in entropy? The statistical developments of the Yale mathematical
physicist, Josiah Willard Gibbs (about 1875), consonant with the logical arguments
of the Greek mathematician, Constantin Caratheodory (about 1910), conclude that
the entropy increase goes to the maximum allowed by the constraints imposed by
or upon the system. A change in likelihood as a probability is a characteristic way to
quantify the entropy change, reflecting an alteration in knowledge or its reciprocal
complement, uncertainty. The system’s entropic uncertainty said more colloquially,
and relevant to the Bell Syndrome’s women of my life, is its capacity for surprise.
A statistical mechanical approach to the total entropy of a bounded set of
molecules in motion involves summing this property across all the participating
molecules. We let N be the number of particles involved. As a problem in Newtonian
mechanics, each of the N particles is represented in 6N dimensional phase space.
That means that each point represents one of the N molecules in the three
dimensions of location space plus three dimensions of motion space as its velocity,
more specifically, the product of mass times velocity called momentum. This adds
up to 6 dimensions of measurement. This so called phase space reconstruction of
the molecules of a gas as individual particles are a daunting task, though fast
computers and new algorithms are making computations from first principles more
generally attainable. Those based on the first principles of short-range repulsion
and long-range weak attraction among particles and the bumper-car collision
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dynamics between them can now be implemented if the system of particles being
simulated is sufficiently small and the computer simulation is for very short times.
To transform the entropy into something more statistical and global, we
return to the theoretical work of Ludwig Boltzmann whose formalism was used
previously to quantitate pathological developmental simplification. He assumed that
given a set of constraints, say the closed volume, V, of a box, B, of a fixed size, V
(B), the orbit of each particle would eventually explore all the space in the box that
was available to it. Boltzmann’s entropy became a constraint dependent, n-
dimensional volume measure, with the assumption that the entropy, S, equals the
logarithm of this volume measure, S = ln V (B). To calculate a value for the entropy,
compute the volume of the molecular motion as determined by the invariant
constraints of the system, such as the volume, temperature, pressure and/or its total
number of molecules. We may partition, discretize, the volume up to some limit of
resolution such that it is divided into Ω small boxes, each containing the
representation of a particular state.
Making the same assumptions of closed system, equilibrium
thermodynamics, such a system is completely isolated from outside sources of
matter and energy, it spends equal time in each of its Ω available states. In such a
case, the characteristic occupancy time of any state is inverse to the number of
states available, e.g. 1/Ω, and the system’s entropy is maximal for that set of states.
Under these conditions, S = k ln(Ω), where the k term is the Boltzmann constant
that contributes to the numeric units of entropy, as above, in Joules of heat /degrees
Kelvin of the temperature. If the system is in contact with a heat bath, but cannot
exchange matter with its environment, it is called diathermally isolated. The
distribution of times spent in the available states of a classical diathermally isolated
system of gas molecules can be represented by what is called a Boltzmann
distribution of probabilities of state occupancies, ρ (as a function of their energy
level, more measurably, their responsiveness, susceptibility, to heat). Here the
characteristic time of the system spent in each state varies as the particular state’s
probability.
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Leaving the framework of physical thermodynamic entropies entirely, the
entropy of information was introduced in the context of communication engineering
in electrical and electronic devices. The metaphorical machine for the current age of
entropy, analogous to the role of heat and steam engines in classical
thermodynamics, is the computer. Energy in this context is a relatively trivial
property. Ammeters and other monitors of load are unable to discriminate between
a computer actively engaged in encoding and computation or one simply
maintaining its dynamic memory while resting in computational readiness. This
situation is very analogous to the results of early work discussed previously on the
metabolic rates and sources of the whole brain’s energy, oxygen and glucose
metabolism, by National Institutes of Mental Heath’s Seymore Kety and Louis
Sokoloff and the State of Illinois Thudicum Laboratory’s Harold Himwich. Using
whole head arterial-venous, energy-in, energy-out, differences, they could not
demonstrate differences in rates of whole brain metabolism between states in which
the human subjects were engaged in solving mathematical problems or deeply
sleep. In today’s brain imaging research, using a variety of physical reflections of
the brain’s metabolic activity, it is the differences in regional distributions of
metabolic activity that are relatable to subjective and behavioral states, not
differences in total amount of energy expended. In graphically coded
representations of the regional metabolism of the brain in action, one or another or
many areas “light up” and others “grow dark” in correlation with changes in thinking,
feeling and action.
The entropy first developed by Claude Shannon was formalized for use in
1948 in what was then called communication theory and now information theory. It
represented a measure of the ambiguity and uncertainty that had the potential for
being resolved by new knowledge. In this context, entropy and information were
obviously complementary descriptors. A message that informs us about which of
ten possibilities should be chosen contains less information than one that informs us
about the proper choice to be made from among a thousand possibilities. The
entropy of communication theory is a measure that is computed on uncertainty. The
information reception capacity of a system is dependent upon the amount of
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uncertainty in the receiver that pre-existed the receipt of the message. In the binary
coding scheme of digital electronic operations, the unit of information is the bit, a
choice made between 0 or 1 in the resolution of a two state ambiguity at each place
of some power of two number of places. Our relatively common computers these
days have 32 or 64 bit processors. If these 0,1 choices are made in a random
sequence in which each step is independent of the previous one, the sequential
probabilities,  � ��  � are multiplicative: e.g. the probability of getting two 1’s (heads
in a fair coin) in a row are the product of each 0.5 probability: ρ 1 = 0.5 × ρ 2 =�0.5 =
ρ 1 ρ 2 = 0.25. Using the common base ten system of logarithms to demonstrate the
algebraic fact that multiplicative probabilities are logarithmically additive (and
ignoring the minus sign that comes with making logarithms of the decimal fractions
of probability), we notice that log 10 (0.5) = 0.693147 and log 10 (0.25) = 1.386294 and
that 0.693147 + 0.693147 = 1.386294.
The dot-dash choices of Morse code machines, the go, no-go gates of
transistors, the open versus closed ion channel-mediated neuronal membrane
discharge and the left, right spins of the single electrons of today’s quantum
computers lead naturally to an information encoding of multiplicative sequences as
the sum of logarithms in base (equal to the number of available states) two, each ρ�=
0.5 choice called, log 2 (0.5) = 1, a bit. Shannon’s 1938 master’s thesis mapped
George Boole’s algebraic scheme for doing yes-no, either-or computation onto
current switching devices such that circuit closed was “true” and circuit open was
“false.” Using Boole’s laws such as “Not(A and B)” always equals “(Not A) or (Not
B)” led to schemes for circuit routing through electronic gates which also serve for
information storage in gadgets ranging from cell phone directories to computer hard
disks.
Following Claude Shannon, each logarithmically additive entropy term is
expressed as the sums, Σ ι � of its probability, ρ ι , times the probability’s logarithm,
Σ ι (ρ ι �× log 2 ) (ρ ι ��in base two. A logarithm is an exponent of its relevant base such that,
for example, the logarithm, base two, of 2 × 2 × 2, 2 3 , = 3 and 3 bits can encode
eight binary (0,1) numbers: (000, 001, 010,011,100,101,110, and 111). Shannon
used a hill-like, called convex, entropy function S (ρ)= -Σ(ρ ln (ρ)). The amount of
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information required to gain knowledge of an event is dependent upon the
probability of its occurrence. log 2 (0.5) = 1 is the maximal entropy when modeling the
equilibrium entropy of an independent random 0,1, (heads or tails) series of
informational states as might result from flipping a fair coin a large number of times.
This value would be maximal when the coin was fair, ρ(heads, tails) = 0.5, and the
entropy would be 2(number of allowed states)×0.5(probability of occupying each
state)×log 10 (0.5) = 0.693147...or in bits, log 2 (0.5) = 1.
More generally, if system’s behavior is distributed equally among its possible
states, the Shannon entropy is maximal and equal to the logarithm of the number of
defined states, for example, log 2 (2) = 1. Shannon’s classical equation about
information content says the amount of information, I = -ρ log 2 ρ, measured in bits.
The minus sign in this reciprocal relation indicates that the information content of
data, I, goes up as the probability of occurrence of the observed data, ρ, goes
down. Since soon we will be talking about brains and their various styles of
information encoded content as well as its transmission, we note the other famous
Shannon theorem dealing with limits on the channel capacity, C, for information
transport is C = Wlog 2 (1+S/N) where W is bandwidth, the range of frequencies
available for information transport, S is the strength of the signal and N is the
strength of the noise. Recall that the log 2 (1) = 0 so only the signal-to-noise ratio,
S/N contributes to the value of the product of the multiplication by bandwidth, W.
Transparent clinical examples come from studies of the perceptual and cognitive
decline in normal geriatric patients in which the range of aural frequencies (W)
heard without augmentation decreases with age as does the frequency range (W)
observed in their resting brain waves. The inattentiveness of the obsessively
worried ruminator can be used as an example of brain channel capacity being
reduced by the amount of on going head noise, an increase N, which, of course,
reduces the value of S/N and therefore C.
Measures of the informational complexity of systems in motion, in contrast
with the information content of a static equilibrium state, are of dynamical entropy.
Dynamical entropy is often called H, in contrast with thermodynamic and/or
informational entropy, S. One can begin with a representational image of the
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location, velocity and directional tendency of every point generated by a dynamical
system by an arrow on the surface of action, the manifold, of a dynamical system.
This field of arrows indicating directional and strength of motional tendencies is
called a vector field. A vector represents its location at the base of the arrow, its
velocity by the length of the arrow (called the modulus) and the direction of the
motion by the direction of the arrow. If we regard all moduli as equal to one, every
vector on the surface has the same length. The resulting graphs are called direction
fields. Looking at a stop-action photograph of any point on this surface, its
associated vector informs about where the system would take it over the next unit of
time. The whole surface can be marked by initial points, which the dynamical
systems move as they generate patterns of orbits of moving arrows in time. The
following two brain and behavioral experimental circumstances make this depiction
and its relevance to dynamical entropy more concrete.
We review in more detail the concrete and visualizable findings from
experiments requiring the quantification of characteristic patterns of motion in
animals and man. They can be embedded into a similar surface-like setting, which
might be called a behavioral manifold. For examples, my students from the past,
Martin Paulus and Mark Geyer, now Professors at the Medical School of the La
Jolla branch of the University of California studied the effects of psychotropic drugs
on the patterns made on the floor by rats of various genetic strains while they
wandered about, in exploratory behavior in a bounded space. Monitored by a video
camera placed above the ceiling less cages, the patterns made by the paths taken
by the rats over time were reconstructed as vectorial orbits on a behavioral
manifold. This manifold was then repeatedly partitioned, covered with, from just a
few large, in graded progression, to many smaller boxes, each partition composed
of rectangular lattices of a particular size. Units of time were also partitioned into
range of units from larger to smaller durations of observation. Differences in the
rat’s genetic strain as well as injections of stimulants, antidepressants or
antipsychotic drugs resulted in characteristic and discriminable path geometries
mapped onto the behavioral manifold as orbital patterns. Each path was encoded
as a sequence of size-dependent numbered boxes that were entered and occupied
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or left. The new information being generated by the pattern of spatial orbits took the
form of sequences of numbers or symbols representing the sequence of labeled
boxes. The complexity of these numeric or symbol sequences was then quantified
in a variety of ways including the use of two fundamental measures of dynamical
entropy.
One measure reflects how many new, previously unexplored boxes were
entered by the rat per unit of time. This rate represents a percent of the possible.
The second measure reflects how much of the time did the rat in each box visited
as a distribution of the probable. The rate of expansion of the possible and the
relative time in occupancy of these possibles, the probables, form the bases for the
computation of these two kinds of entropies. For example, the work of Paulus and
Geyer showed that the administration of a very small amount of stimulant drug,
compared with a salt water control, led to an increase in the first measure of the
number of new, previously unexplored, boxes entered per unit time. With respect to
the second measure, the stimulant drug augmented exploratory activity was also
more uniformly distributed over the possible boxes, making for more uniform
probability. Administration of higher doses of stimulant drugs, at a critical dose, led
suddenly to more spatially and temporally restricted and stereotyped patterns of
motion of the rats, compulsive circling alternating with frozen sniffing. Both
contributed to a decrease in the possible and nonuniformity in the distribution of the
probabilities. In man, low doses of amphetamine tend to increase the rate and
creativity of thought streams and high doses generate fixed ideas and paranoid
delusions. In the statistical approach to nonlinear dynamical systems, timedependent
generation of new possibilities is called topological entropy, H T and the
entropy associated with the distribution of probabilities is called the metric entropy,
H M. These kinds of entropies have also been used to quantitate characteristic
patterns of in human behavior as well.
We have previously mentioned these measures as used in human
experiments by Karen Selz, a Research Professor of Psychiatry at Emory University
in Atlanta. Recall that she devised a set of experiments leading to unobtrusive
measures made on human subjects by asking them to remove, as many as they
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could, the dots in a lattice, one by one, from the computer screen, by clicking on
each point with a mouse. In some experiments, after removal, the dot reappeared in
fifty milliseconds, in the “fast return condition”, or after one-second delay in the
“slow return condition.” Unbeknown to the subject, the path made by the motions of
their mouse on the computer screen over time while removing dots were
reconstructed as a path on a fine to coarse grained box-partitioned behavioral
manifold. Entropic indices of the rate of expansion of the possible, number of new
boxes entered, reflecting H T , and the relative occupancy of the partition of the
possible, reflecting H M , the distribution of probabilities with respect to the boxes,
could then be computed. For examples, Selz found that the spatial and temporal
patterns of computer mouse motions made in this dot search and destroy task
correlated highly with the subjects’ age, sex and personality types as defined by
profiles from the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, MMPI, and the
Structured Clinical Interview, SCI, associated with the standard Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual, DSM IV. She found that subjects whose personalities were like
my high self-sensibility girlfriends demonstrated high indices of both H T and H M .
The actions of nonintegrable nonlinear differential equations, not solvable by
the usual techniques of integration, can be transformed into graphical images by
plotting their orbits in abstract phase spaces with the three physically measurable
coordinates of location x (or some other temporarily fixed value), velocity y (the rate
of change in the location or measured value) and z acceleration (the rate of change
of the rate of change in location or value) in x, y, z space. Graphical representations
of the system in action in phase space can serve in place of analytic solutions to the
equations. This idea was one of Henri Poincare’s major contributions to
mathematics and physics, and has come to be the centerpiece of the qualitative
theory of differential equations. The often point-to-point unpredictable but globally
and qualitatively characteristic geometric shapes of the orbital patterns in abstract
phase space are the objects of interest. There are visualizable representations such
as cycles as circles and statistical measures made on these objects such as the H T
and H M entropies and the in-betweenness (neither maximal nor minimal) of their
difference.
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A global statistical context for these qualitative differential systems was
inspired by the Russian mathematician, Andrei Nikolaevic Kolmogorov. In his now
famous foundational talk about the stability of classical mechanical systems in the
final session of the 1954 International Congress of Mathematics, he gave public
birth to, among other ideas, what has come to be called the ergodic or statistical,
measure theory of dynamical systems. Here, ergodic means the existence of an
invariant statistical measure on the phase space attractor of the system that can be
obtained using a variety of equivalent methods and beginning the count at any of its
points. Two phase space objects generated by a dynamical system may look
different in phase space but their statistical measures may all be the same, i.e.
invariant. These qualitative orbits in a box-partitioned space can be visualized as
Paulus and Geyer’s rats exploring a space and Selz’s path sequences of computer
screen dot quenches produced by clicking on them with a computer mouse.
A precursor of Kolmogorov’s ergodicity was the earlier ergodicity of Ludwig
Boltzmann. This describes a suitably partitioned system such that equivalent values
come from quantitating the behavior of one single orbit exploring the space of the
lattice of boxes over very long times time as those obtained from a single aggregate
photograph of all orbits run from all possible starting places simultaneously. The
ergodicity of gas-like molecular randomness implicates systems being in one of only
two possible equilibrium statistical states: measure zero (at most occupying a single
point, zero, minimal entropy) or its “complement,” full measure one (occupying all
available space in a state of maximal entropy). Joseph Goldstein, a well known
teacher of meditation, giving advice recorded in Daniel Goleman’s 1977 book on the
subject said that all methods of nirvana directed meditation amounted to “…simple
mathematics …all systems aiming for One or Zero—union with God or emptiness.”
In place of the maximal or minimal values for the H T and H M entropies of these
states of transcendence, we in the world of samsara are stuck in states of inbetween
entropy which invariant statistical measures of on phase space shapes
help quantify.
To generalize measures made on rat and computer mouse paths to more
general and idealized systems, after plotting an orbital path in a phase space, we
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may partition the space of values taken by the journey of the orbital action
generated by the equation over time with rectangular grids of increasing fineness.
The result is an equipartition of phase space such that there is at most one orbital
point in each rectangle of the grid, with, of course, many rectangles in the finer grids
being empty. This final grid partition is called a generating partition. The proportion
of the available boxes of the partition occupied by points is called its area or volume
measure. This measure has been given a variety of names including Liouville, Haar
and Lesbegue measures. If every box is occupied, it has measure one. If at most
one box, it has measure zero. If we allow partitions to be non-uniform and/or not
fine enough to be generating and apply probability weightings for how many points
fall into each particular box of the grid, the method is called the Sinai-Ruelle-Bowen
or SRB measure after Kolmogorov’s students and followers, the Russian, Ya Sinai,
the Belgian Frenchmen, David Ruelle and the American, Rufus Bowen.
Similar to the SRB measure, the distribution of box occupancy probabilities
multiplied by their logarithms and summed over all cells of the partition yields a
statistical measure that is close to the informational entropy of Claude Shannon as
described above. It is called the metric entropy ( H M = -Σ(ρ i ln(ρ i )), where H means
entropy and ρ i is the proportion of the total observations that occupy cell i of the
phase space or state space partition. It was the above noted Russian father of
modern dynamical systems, Kolmogorov, who in 1956 proved that the Shannon
metric entropy is a quantifiable invariant of systems even in very complicated
motion. Stanford University's Donald Ornstein won a Field’s Medal (the under forty
year old mathematician’s Nobel Prize) for his late 1960’s work proving that the
Shannon metric entropy, H M , was the only invariant for a large class of appropriately
defined, expansive (near by points separating in time) dynamical systems. Recall
that we refer to metric entropy reflecting the relative occupancy as probability
among the possible boxes (or states) as H M . H M is maximal when the percentage
occupancy of all occupied boxes is uniform.
IBM’s Roy Adler in New York and Brian Marcus in California, Hebrew
University’s Benjamin Weiss, Warwick University’s English mathematicians, William
Parry, Peter Walters, Mark Pollicott and others developed and proved the relevance
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of a related measure of the rapidity of dynamical expansion, the generation of new
information seen as the rate of entering new boxes of the partition, a logarithmic
rate of expansion of the possible. Counting the number of previously unoccupied
squares entered by the dynamical systems orbit per unit time over the generating
partition, for instance, yields an estimate of entropy that, as in the rat and computer
mouse examples above, is called the topological entropy, H T . H T , is about how
much new information is being generated by the system per unit time. Theorems
have been proven that H T is a maximal estimate of the global dynamical entropy
with H M proven to be a minimum estimate. Monitoring single or aggregate molecular
motion in a system with the maximum randomness of a space filling gas, we find
that, on the average, every box is entered and occupied uniformly such that H T = H M
or said another way, H T – H M = 0.
As evidenced by the above described experiments in rats and people, the
same entropic relations (but usually not with maximal or minimal measure) can be
found in biological systems. We have previously described the manifold geometry of
a generic (typical, idealized) nonlinear dynamical systems as hyperbolic defined by
the presence of simultaneous but decomposable components of the motion
including the straight ahead and round and round actions on the center manifold,
the new possibility generating, expansive, away from the center manifold motions
along unstable manifolds and the back to the center manifold, contracting motions,
along the stable manifolds. Uniform expansive and contractive influences in the flow
leads to mixing of the order of the initial sequence of the values inscribed by the
orbits. This results in maximization of the entropies and satisfaction of a
concomitant of the uniformly hyperbolic condition, H T – H M = 0.
These clean and mathematically proven findings do not hold for the quasimess
that is human neuropsychobiology. Enmeshed as most of us are in only
intermittently random or nonuniformly hyperbolic systems with the in-between
entropies of the only apparently real world of maya, H T – H M ≠ 0. How the H T – H M
= 0 of uniform hyperbolicity fails, H T – H M ≠ 0, and along with it the dispassionate
detachment of entropic emptiness and fullness, becomes a problem not unrelated to
the existence and quantitative qualities of personality styles and their dissolution
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with return toward but not reaching the maximally entropic openness, flexibility and
naïve credulousness of the in Jesus and Holy Ghost occupying transcendent
dynamical states. We are all stuck somewhere in the range of measures indicating
in-between entropies.
Further Readings for Sensual In-Between Entropies
Ecstasy in Secular and Religious Experience, Marghanita Laski, Tarcher, Los
Angeles, 1961.
The Role of Neural Plasticity in Chemical Intolerance, Barbara A. Sorg and Iris R.
Bell, Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. Vol. 933, 2001
The neuropsychiatric and somatic characteristics of young adults with and without
self-reported chemical odor intolerance and chemical sensitivity, I.D. Bell, C.S.
Miller, G.E. Schwartz, Arch. Environ. Health 51:9-21, 1996.
Application of entropy measures derived from the ergodic theory of dynamical
systems to rat locomotor behavior, M. Paulus, M. Geyer, L. Gold, A. Mandell, Proc.
Natl. Acad. Sci. (USA) 87:723-727, 1990.
Long-range interactions in sequences of human behavior, Martin Paulus, Phys.
Rev. E. 55:3249-3256,1997.
Mixing properties in human behavioral style and time dependencies in behavior
identification: The modeling and application of a universal dynamical law. Karen A.
Selz, UMI, Ann Arbor, 1992.
A family of autocorrelation graph equivalence classes on symbolic dynamics as
models of individual differences in human behavioral style, Karen A. Selz and
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Arnold J. Mandell, In (ed. R.R. Vallacher and A.J. Nowak), Dynamical Systems in
Social Psychology, Academic Press, San Diego, 1994.
Toward a neuropsychopharmacologicy of habituation: a vertical integration. Arnold
J. Mandell, Math. Modeling 7:809-888,1986.
Thermodynamics, Enrico Fermi, Dover, N.Y. 1956.
Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics, Peter T. Landsberg, Dover, N.Y. 1978.
Ergodic Theory, Symbolic Dynamics and Hyperbolic Spaces, T. Bedford, M. Keane
and C. Series, Oxford, Oxford, 1991.
The Mathematical Theory of Communication, Claude E. Shannon and Warren
Weaver, U. of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1963.
Science and Information Theory, Leon Brillouin, Academic Press, N.Y. 1962.
Brain Metabolism and Cerebral Disorders, Harold E. Himwich, Williams and Wilkins,
Baltimore, 1951.
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CHAPTER 5:
SOME ENTHEOGENIC ENTROPIES
In the spring of 1968, members of my laboratory team were looking for new
brain metabolic pathways of the essential amino acid tryptophan, the dietary
precursor of the human mood, sleep and libidinal neurotransmitter, serotonin. After
struggling for several months to identify an apparently new compound, which turned
out not to be new but only new in the brain, we collected evidence for a human
brain enzyme that could catalyze the production of an LSD-like hallucinogen,
dimethyltryptamine, DMT. Tracing its metabolic origins, we found that DMT was
derived from tryptamine, a common metabolite of the essential and omnipresent
amino acid, tryptophan. This enzyme and its metabolic product were located in
highest concentrations in brain stem systems that influence the neural regulation of
the heart, blood pressure, temperature, breathing, vomiting and primitive approachavoidance
behavior. It was also found in limbic brain nuclei thought to modulate the
emotional coloring of perception and thought. Richard Wyatt, working at the
National Institutes of Mental Health found DMT in the urine of schizophrenic
humans. He also showed that DMT increased significantly if tryptamine’s normal
pathway for degradation was blocked by monoamine oxidase inhibitors, such as
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Nardil, Marplan, Eutony, Parnate and others of a then common family of
antidepressant drugs.
The presence of a DMT-generating enzyme in human brain was particularly
exciting because we knew from the work of Harvard botanist, Richard Shultes and
others, that DMT and the monoamine oxidase inhibitor, beta carboline, are
combined in a mixture of the leaves of a shrub and the bark of a vine, both
Amazonian plants, used together by the shaman of Peru, Colombia and Ecuador for
thousands of years to evoke mystical experiences in themselves. In their state of
chemically-facilitated, spiritual transformation, they were better able to engage in
healing and divination of others. More recently this and other similarly acting
biochemicals have been called entheogenic, “connecting to the sacred within.”
Consistent with our neurochemical findings in human brain, the shamanic
concoction, called by many names including ayahuasca and yage, combined the
DMT containing plant, Psychotria viridis, with an extract of a vine with the powerful
monoamine oxidase inhibitor properties of the beta carbolines found in
Banisteriospsis caapi. In 1975, working with a graduate student, Louise Hsu, we
found that the mammalian brain could also synthesize beta carbolines. This family
of compounds from the vine protects the tryptamine substrate as well as DMT from
metabolic degradation such that it could circulate in the blood long enough after oral
ingestion for enough to cross the blood brain barrier to induced prolonged and
dramatic alterations in perceptions, feelings and thoughts. In addition, the
carbolines of the Benisteriospsis component extended the time of action of DMT
beyond the 15-30 minutes of effect of DMT when injected alone in human subjects.
We found it fascinating that the human brain made combinations of DMT and beta
carbolines similar to the blend that indigenous shamamic chemists discovered as an
entheogenic from plant sources.
Ralph Metzner, in the introduction to his 1999 collection of papers called
Ayahuasca concluded that “…it is widely recognized by anthropologists as
being…the most powerful and most widespread of the shamanic hallucinogens.”
William Burrough in a 1953 City Lights published book written with Allen Ginsberg,
The Yage Letters, said that yage “…gave entrance to a city where all human
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potential is spread out in a silent market…” It was generally believed that with
adequate spiritual preparation, ayahuasca could generate transcendent states that
allowed access to ones inner being and the beings of other worlds that could serve
as sources of mystical knowledge and healing. The Shams dervish of the 13 th
Century, wandering the Turkish portion of the Silk Road, used the word sohbet to
describe the inner land of mystical conversations about mystical subjects that their
turning meditation, whirling, and the shaman’s entheogenic compounds such as
DMT give entrance.
The question was whether our finding of DMT and its human brain enzyme
had been an artifact, an accidental laboratory fluke. Members of my neurochemical
research teams at the University of California Medical Schools in Irvine and La
Jolla, notably Dr. Lee Poth, now a professor of pediatric endocrinology at the
Uniform Services Medical School in Washington D.C., demonstrated that the DMT
synthesizing enzyme existed in the brains of recent accident victims that as far as
we were able to learn from their family and social histories, had been completely
psychologically normal. More than a little bit startled by this finding and worried
about making a sensational scientific mistake, we repeated the experiments with a
variety of controls with the same findings. Though our original estimates of the
human brain enzyme concentration were on the high side, we confirmed the general
finding and published them in Science in 1969 and Nature in 1970. Our carboline
work was published in the Journal of Neurochemistry in 1975. A year or so after our
Nature paper was published, the Nobel Prize winning neuropharmacologist at the
National Institutes of Mental Health, Julius Axelrod, confirmed the presence of the
DMT biosynthetic enzyme that converted the tryptophan product, tryptamine, to
DMT in mammalian brain tissue. We were both delighted and relieved.
We speculate, perhaps too grandly, that this finding, along with the beta
carboline human brain synthesizing capacity, supplies one of many possible
neurobiological and neurochemical mechanisms for the claims of the cross-cultural
universality of mystical experience. We all had human brains with these enzymes.
The idea that the phenomena accompanying primary religious experience were
common to all cultures was a major theme of the life’s work of the philosopher-
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psychologist, William James, and was studied using fieldwork by anthropologists
such as Bronislaw Malinolowki as described in his classic book, Magic, Science and
Religion. Was this neurochemical-behavioral organization an evolutionarily adaptive
mechanism selected so that some spiritually gifted individuals self-selected from a
severely stressed population could escape and then lead the rest of us out of a
sense world that had become intolerable? Could this be an antidote for the
hopeless, without materialistic solutions and trapped in a belief system of spiritual
nihilism? Was this a brain chemical transcendence escape and spiritual delivery
system for the suprapsychological survival of those in dire need? As the 13 th
Century Islamic mystic, Jelaluddin Rumi, has written, “If a tree could fly off, it
wouldn’t suffer the saw…” and more concretely, “…if you can’t go somewhere,
move into the passageways of the self…,” a spiritual escape via a neurobiological
road to the God-space within.
What followed were a few years of occasional exploration of an “inside out”
understanding of the mystical states evoked by the entheogenic family of chemicals.
There were varieties of settings for these personal experiments. I found myself
LSD-lost, circling endlessly in the tall silence of a Northern California redwood
forest. I tried on Hunter Thompson’s mescaline lenses for the experience of Las
Vegas unfiltered. I was expertly mentored in these quests by a distinguished
collection of guides: Cultural anthropologist Michael Harner who taught me about
the yage and datura use among the shaman of the Jivaro; Social anthropologist,
Barbara Meyerhoff introduced me to the personal renewal rituals of the peyote
cactus-using Huichol Indians of the Southwestern Sonora Desert; Neurochemically
sophisticated Sidney Cohen, founding director of the National Institutes of Health’s
Institute on Drug Abuse, told me stories of his involvement with Aldous Huxley and
Barbara Brown in the Los Angeles covey of early American LSD explorers; organic
chemist Albert Hoffman, Sandoz’s designer of a series of ergot alkaloids including
LSD, told me stories of his accidental post-sniff hallucinations while returning home
on a bicycle; An anonymous group of us conducted personal experiments with
Sacha Shulgin, the University of California at Berkeley professor who first
synthesized and tested the mescaline-derived, Ecstasy series of compounds; We
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did some work with the dissociated anesthesias (producing wide awake but not
there states) having consulted with John Lilly, a brain scientist who used these
agents as a courageous self-medicating explorer of sensory isolation tanks; I met
several native shamanic practitioners including the Huichol Indian that was the
model for Don Juan in Carlos Castanada’s five volumes of pseudoethnography
written up in my essay “Is Don Juan Alive and Well?” in The Pushcart Prize of 1977.
Issues of culture and brain chemistry came together in several accounts about
entheogenic, mescaline-containing peyote use among the Huichol Indians in a book
edited by Kathleen Berrin and Thomas Seligman of the San Francisco Art Museum
called Art of the Huichol Indians.
Over these years I collected many nauseating, upper and lower bowel
wrenching and ecstatically transcendent and exhausting day-long episodes of the
angular geometries of visual pattern-generating DMT, the animistic breathing of
bush and flower breathing peyote cactus, the darkly forbidding shadows of the
psylocybin-containing mushrooms, the irreversible rocket launches into the
electrically buzzing, kaleidoscopic circus of LSD-containing vials from Sandoz and
the optimistic, trust engendering, expansively warm rush of six of Sacha Shulgin’s
gregarious, rave dancing, chlorinated, methoxylated and ethoxylated
phenylethylamines which he had, years before, synthesized for “an undisclosed
purpose” for the Dow Chemical Corporation under contract with the U.S. Army
Chemical Corps. The best known of the latter group remains part of the rave culture
as Ecstasy.
These agent’s peaks are flooded with exaggerated, caricaturizing images of
people’s faces and a belief in the mindedness of animals and even the embodiment
of inanimate things. Evoked are simultaneous and diametrically conflicting
interpretations of the same social context, heteromodal sensory fusion called
synesthesia so that sound bespoke color and smells induced music, habitual
thoughts rearranged as new ideas in what is experienced as exciting new insights,
and, most of all, that which Louis Lewin, Berlin’s early 20 th Century Freud of
psychotropic drugs in his book Fantastica, called gladness of the soul. Timothy
Leary wrote of entheogenic escape from the habitual human brain’s mental-
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manipulative and socio-sexual circuits gaining access to the rapture and ecstasy
brain pathways on the way to the new planet within.
What is seldom written about is the aftermath of chemical entheogenic
agents. After the several hours of fireworks, all of these entheogenic agents, some
more than others, gifted me with weeks to months of more self-sufficient, emotional
fullness and ease in the conduct of living that was less contaminated by narcissistic
preoccupation or defensive distantiation. I was left with increased interpersonal
sensitivity and a noticeable repair of my deficiencies in aesthetic sensibility,
particularly for the visual arts and landscapes. What were once two dimensional,
trivial, beside-the-point, scattered copses of trees and apparently casual arrays of
plant life in the Boboli Gardens behind the Palazzo Pitti in Florence, became the
grandly structured, botanical wonder of increased dimension, communicating awe
filled new perceptions of its previously unseen beauty. For the first time, I found
myself walking slowly and stopping for several minutes, wordless, spellbound, in
front of the modern art pieces of New York’s Guggenheim Museum. Lost in the
experience, I found myself exclaiming to no one in particular, “I can see!”
The delicacy and deliciousness of post-entheogenic agent’s new and
beautiful everything made me tiptoe watchfully so as not to injure an ant. Feelings of
omnipersonal kindness and generous compassion were without prideful selfreflection.
This state of grace felt like an invasion of a shimmering presence that
made contact with my other, generally unknown to me, life. It brought new
perceptions, feelings and ideas for which I was moved to give thanks. I began to
think I understood a little bit about what was meant by living in the Spirit and
merging with God. Mircea Eliade, the French, University of Chicago Professor of the
History of Religions, in his classic The Sacred and Profane, calls the revelation of
the sacred in ordinary objects, people and events an hierophany. In the state that
this requires, “…all nature is capable of revealing itself as cosmic sacrality….” The
entire world can become a hierophany with what Abraham Abulafia called an
activated mind, the Jewish soul of emergent properties called the Nefesh.
This entirely new world, Rudolf Otto in his 1917 Das Helige (The Sacred)
called it ganz andere, (wholly other, something else), seemed to emerge
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spontaneously along with an instantaneous knowing-how-it-is-with-you-and-I-andall-of-us
that made even vicious killers appear sympathetic. Is this what the
Charismatic New Testament Book Churches mean by redemption through
forgiveness of others, requiring the genuine sincerity of this thought before
qualifying for Communion? Is this Christ’s undemanding gift of grace as in Romans
4: where Paul observed that all of us fall short of the full glory of God unless justified
freely by His grace. Was this the New Testament’s spiritual technological advance
from the Old Testament’s and Koran’s eye-for-an-eye? Did this chemically triggered
transcendent experience differ significantly from the supernatural transformation of
individuals by the Holy Spirit of Christian revivalist teachings? Martin Marty,
University of Chicago’s Professor of Modern Church History, dates the
institutionalization of this personal transformation in the United States to the post-
Civil War period. Did this mean that the mysteriously selfless love of Christian
agape and the altruism of E.O. Wilson’s sociobiology lay waiting in the brain and
could appear spontaneously, by grace, without lawful directive, repetitive recitation
or the discipline of catechism?
As one might have suspected, the urgency of my inner and outer search for a
new spiritual ecology of mind was driven by more personal needs. My spiritual
hunger was made acute a couple of years before our laboratory’s DMT discovery
when as a 30 year old Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at UCLA
in West Los Angeles, I was living in a small, heavily mortgaged house in Brentwood
with my graduate student wife and two young sons. A testicular lump was an
accidental discovery made while showering. After surgical biopsy and radical lymph
node dissection, the professor of urology gave me a diagnosis of right testicular
choriocarcinoma. All by itself, my testicle had given birth to a mass containing all the
embryological tissues of a fetus, and had thrown in some maternal placental cells
as lagniappe. Unlike now, when the group of testicular neoplasms are treated
successfully with a high survival rate (think Lance Armstrong), at that time, follow up
research of this young man’s disease by the Army Medical Corps promised a fiveyear
survival rate of only 5% to 10%. The news filled me with fear and the ensuing
hopeless resignation detached me from life with a dread broken up only by
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episodes of rageful envy of everyone else in the world that had been spared. My
wife escaped into an alcoholic flirtation with her major professor; my sons grew
increasingly ensconced in the generous and kind neighborhood homes of their
playmates. I metered as many hours as possible in equity growing, long lonely days
in a small, dark, couch filled, university office, listening to Beverly Hills, Brentwood
and West Los Angles citizens as they psychoanalyzed their mysterious lack of
emotional fulfillment from materialistic fulfillment. Legend has it that Gautama’s
sudden insight about the universality of this sated, bored condition occurred in 528
B.C. after 49 days of sitting in the lotus position under the bodhi tree, now called
ficus religiosa. In contrast with Buddha’s illumination, my psychoanalytic traininginduced,
Freudian-Darwinian instinctual conflict, driven by fears of starvation and
castration, drew me tighter into the world of meaningless, coin flip probabilities.
Our house was a block away from a West Los Angeles synagogue and we
knew the Rabbi and his family well. Our sons played together frequently. The Rabbi
tried to bring comfort to me on my death watch, with hours of discussions about
trans-individual, ethnic belonging and a deeper foray into philosophical humanism.
Both felt completely irrelevant to my condition. As an intern tending to those dying at
night in Ochsner Foundation Hospital in New Orleans, it seemed to me that Jews
tended to die more noisily than Catholics. For my personal escape from low-lying
dread, I needed the metrically linear time of chronos to become the metric-free,
topological, continuous surface of the twisted circular ribbon of a Mobius loop, with
the view from each moment a kairos, a stretchable infinity of each moment’s internal
multiplicity of times.
The ruthlessly reasonable Hebraic historicity, configured by the tooth-for-atooth,
Mosaic and Roman talion law, the reciprocal, economic, exchange-calculating
brains of Barkow, Cosmide and Tooby’s The Adapted Mind (1992) and the terrifying
stories of the Five Books of Moses, made the hopelessness of this sinner’s plight
inevitable. It felt like my dichotomous choice of God-type was between One of
merciless fairness and the He and She of unconditionally forgiving generosity. The
mind set of logical problem solving applied to the question about which of these two
represented the true character of God lead to a momentarily distracting, metaphoric
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ecclesial exercise: what were the minimal number of four magical cards need we
turn over with preconditions or results on the upsides and downsides if what was
showing was: (1) Beatifically good; (2) Cursed with extraordinarily bad luck; (3) Not
dependent upon personal virtue; (4) Inordinately fortunate in all of life’s trials. The
pay-as-you-go God people would need to pick up (1) and find fortunate life and (2)
to find the fate of the non-believer to establish that God was coldheartedly true and
fair with the results of flipping (3) and (4) being none contributory. The grace-to-allsinners
God people need to turn over card (3) to find good life and (4) to find
sometime sinners nonetheless fortunate to confirm their belief in the unconditionally
of the loving generosity of God and making finding out about the underside of cards
(1) and (2) unnecessary. This liturgical discussion and gamble with God’s cards,
perhaps a caricature of the Talmudic, rational discussions with the rabbi, felt
irrelevant to my spiritual needs.
Missing was mysticism’s promise of the disappearance of I into a union with
the divine, the Heart Sutra’s eternal emptiness of form and the eternal form of
emptiness that gifts with spiritual perspective and not-necessarily-logical intuition
about unseen Absolute Reality. Forced either-or, binary, card-turning cognition in
the search for God’s logic is unrewarding. As the Dalai Lama, in his Heart of
Wisdom Teaching, says, “…all phenomena are emptiness, without defining
characteristics, they are not born, they do not cease…"" In trying to penetrate the
mystery and promise of this emptiness, it was difficult to surrender my internal
parody of what sounded like that day’s Southern California New Age stuff about
global nonaggression, sexual politics, Beadles music, distressed jeans and pot. In
the synagogue of my neighborhood, experience with a deeply felt, never-you-mindabout-anything
God of detachment with love, was not on the menus of Friday night
or Saturday morning services. All I could feel was a faithless and nonnegotiable
fear.
In the work of many mysticism-positive scholars, a classic being Evelyn
Underhill’s Mysticism, 1961, it has been speculated that this ineffable state as a
union with a powerful unknown, transcending description in language, becomes
more socially prominent during times of cultural efflorescence. She pointed to the
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flowering of mysticism in epochs of the high cultural achievements at the close of
the Classical Period in the Third Century, the Medieval Period in the Fourteenth
Century, the Renaissance in the Seventeenth Century and, now, as we know, in the
Western World toward the end of the Twentieth Century. An increase in general
acceptance of talk, writing and practice focused on mystical experience is said by
many to accompany historical high points in intellectual, literary and political
achievement. One might include as a component of our growing cultural richness,
the new science about chemical dialogues with the brain. Although no central
nervous system agents were ever allowed in the ashrams of Baba Muktananda, it
was common during some evening sessions of questioning, called satsangs, for him
to acknowledge that one or a few experiences with entheogenic agents can open
many recalcitrant folks to the existence of the God within. This, in turn, led them to
the drug free spiritual exercises, sadhana, of love, self-truth, and spontaneity (each
according to their nature) as well as abstinent discipline, meditation, chanting and
yoga to maintain the knowledge. We might speak of participating in the creation and
maintenance of the spiritual ecology of ones inner and outer being. Underhill said
that the cultural richness of an efflorescent epoch is taken inward and accompanies
personal and societal mutations into states and institutions involving higher spiritual
consciousness.
In addition to an increase in the common outward manifestations of having
had a mystical experience, such as an increase in compassion, forgiveness and
more respectful and reverential attitudes toward the Earth and all its creatures
(currently taking the forms of deep ecology, ecofeminism, herbal medicine, organic
farming and the like), these times bring more public consideration of the nature of
reality itself, apart from its material manifestations. The theme of the life’s work of
the Dominican priest, Thomas Aquinas, made master of theology by papal
dispensation in 1259, involved the existential recognition of this dichotomy of
existence, esse, and essence, nature and grace, the material world and God.
William James wrote famously about mystical experience penetrating the thin veil
between these two worlds. Those with a mystical orientation attribute reality to inner
experience in relationship to a transcendental, supernatural world. Whereas
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everyday events are subject to perceptual ambiguity and its attendant variety of
interpretations, mystical union is claimed to bring the existence and meaning of
Absolute Reality into direct experience. This kind of knowing is more akin to the
Platonic view of mathematics, that theorems have been everlastingly existent, from
before our physical world, then it is to the here and now, physically based, finite
computations involving the experimental machines of physics.
The philosopher-mathematician father of phenomenology, Edmund Husserl,
criticized the physics-want-to-be orientation of the 1860 empirical, objective
measure psychologies of Fechner and Wundt. He understood the best of their
findings as simply correlations between subjective and observable events. Using
mathematical discoveries as examples, Husserl spent his life arguing for the
possibility of abstract truths relevant to mind being more reliable and valid if grasped
via direct experience. Knowing by what the popular mid-twentieth century writer of
science fiction, Robert Heinlein, called grocking it. This is antithetical to the attitudes
of today’s human cognitive and brain sciences which disallow such knowing as
deeply suspect unless accompanied by objectively definable observables such as
changes in electrical or imaging indices of brain activity in one neural region or
other. The modern psycholinguistics of brain mechanics can be called
neolocationism. Using modern technology to measure regional blood flow, energy
metabolism and/or electrovoltage or magnetic field activity, stories of function are
spun that closely resemble those imagined more than a century ago by the first
locationists, such as Ramon Cajal. These neuroanatomists spent thousands of
hours looking at cell clusters and their connections in stained slides of human brain
tissue using microscopes and imagined their singular and integrated function.
Today, Lewis Judd, long time chairperson of the Department of Psychiatry at
UCSD in La Jolla, carries a full sized, polymeric, three-dimensional model of the
human brain when teaching his students about human subjective experience and
interpersonal behavior. In his weekly grand rounds, he explains that day’s
psychiatric patient’s problems pointing here and there at regions in this plastic
surrogate for our electrical jellied brain. Few, if any, of the psychiatry students in his
class was inclined to ask the foundational question: how it is that a finger point and
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a name of a brain place can describe, much less explain in the language of physical
or physiological mechanism, a patient’s illogical thoughts, feelings of hopelessness,
irrational rage or prayerful gratitude. There remains a wide gap between ideas
about the mechanisms of human symbolic processing and those involving the
structures and functions of neuronal components and their connectivities in the
brain, particularly when perceived as regionally segmented meat. Yet this report of
Professor Judd’s finger-pointing plastic brain ritual should not elicit surprise since
iconic manipulation is certainly not new to the practices of priesthood.
In contrast with neuropsychiatry’s behavioral attributions to brain parts as an
explanatory pantheon of mysterious doers, absent of mechanical specifics, the
fields of physics turn to more abstract and general mathematical and statistical, socalled
phenomenological laws, such as those of thermodynamics and statistical
mechanics. The accounts of Feynman’s abstract and general thermodynamic
development of conservation of energy as well as equilibrium thermodynamics
discussed previously serve as relevant examples. These abstract models have
been found to capture the behavior common to diverse physical systems involving
(often still unknown) differing physical mechanisms. Consistency of description,
reliability, weighs in before predictive validity, which, with maturation of the research
area, gradually becomes detailed mechanistic understanding with the eventual goal
being derivation from the first principles of physics. The painful truth is that that in
spite of evocative claims made to the contrary in the 1990-2000 Decade of the
Brain, this level of understanding at the interface of neurobiological hardware and
software remains unbreached. Some recent attempts are interesting.
One of the current research themes about real single neurons in real brains
(in contrast with the silicon chip modules used in neural network computer
simulations), involve widely distributed neurons that discharge in temporal
synchrony. These phenomena have been described by Max Planck’s Wolf Singer,
Christoff Koch of California Institute of Technology and Florida Atlantic University’s
Steven Bressler and others with words such as synchronization, phase locking,
coherence and binding. Binding is an intuitively seductive word that premises that
two, even widely spatially separated, brain regions that manifest neuronal signals of
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activation locked together in time are assumed to be functionally integrated. Another
time-dependent neuronal characteristic of current interest involve neurons or
neuronal clusters that beat with almost strict periodicity, the oscillatory pacemakers.
For example, the program of research by Professor Al Selverson at University of
California at San Diego, among others, has elucidated the role of these rhythmic
pattern generators, both autonomous and those emerging from particular patterns
of network connections. A wide variety of functional links involving neuronal
pacemakers has been demonstrated. They range from the oscillatory transport of
calcium through membrane channels in neurons and heart muscle, smooth muscle
oscillations of the pylorus muscle of the stomach, the neuronal ganglion driven
chewing motions of the jaws of invertebrates and the retina-to-brain hypothalamic
cells gating human circadian rhythms coupling our body’s hormonal clocks to light
cycles.
Though regular rhythmicity in neuronal discharges is an intuitively attractive
idea and relatively easy to quantitate using simple sine wave trigonometric
transformations, in the real brain it is statistically rare. The commonest neuronal
discharge pattern observed is that of intermittent bursting, clusters of neuronal
discharges in time in which the inter-discharge intervals irregularly stretch and
contract like the bellow pleats of a syncopated accordion. Bursts of repeated firing
of some unpredictable length followed by silences of equally mysterious durations.
Their behavior can be represented as statistical measures using non-normal, long
tailed distributions and in-between entropies described previously. For a whole
human example, although the rhythm of manic depression is commonly thought to
involve periodic cycles, careful study using motility patterns of the timing through life
of these episodes of extreme mood states by Professor Allan Gottschalk at the
University of Pennsylvania and others have demonstrated an irregularly intermittent
bursting pattern in manic-depressive episodes, getting more frequent with age.
Neuronal inter-discharge intervals seldom demonstrate what is called a regression
to the mean like the normal distribution of heights, as one increases the number of
people measured, the tighter the distribution around the mean. Neurons, much like
our own irregular pattern of doing things (in spite of our plans), the statistical
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distributions of neuronal interspike intervals have increasingly long tails. Contrary to
the behavior of a normally distributed observable, the larger the series of neuronal
spike observed, the more likely that a longer interspike interval than had been seen
before will occur. Counter-intuitively, long intervals tend to be followed by more long
intervals as more shorts follow short intervals. Manic attacks cluster in time as does
a number of other brain and body diseases. Maybe it is intuitively obvious that bad
stuff tends to cause more bad stuff and good stuff is self-propagating. Having
suffered recently does not mean fate owes you one. The brain’s syncopated
segmentations of time can be translated into a creatively arrhythmic dance.
What makes neurologizing conversations like these about subtle human
experience possible are the human subjective scenarios we have agreed to short
hand with names of brain parts and neurochemicals. The how is where conceptual
connection is filled with post 19 th Century Spanish microscopic neuroanatomist,
Santiago Ramon y Cajal-like, intuitions about the functional role of brain structures:
we think motor automaticity and pacing when hearing the brain place names such
as caudate, putamen and cerebellum; we think limbic lobe when musing about
sexuality, rage and depression; we short hand left versus right hemispheric places
for verbal and sequential versus intuitive and geometric shape cognition; we point to
the frontal lobe for the future work of executive control, anticipation and paranoia;
the hypothalamus for primitively expressed appetites and to the brain stem for our
vital functions such as breathing and blood pressure. With respect to the brain
juices, we say dopamine for aggressive activity, norepinephrine for attention and
sensory discrimination and serotonin for hunger, mood and sexual inclination. No
matter how avant guarde our experimental techniques such as monitoring local
functional blood supply by fMRI, regional brain glucose utilization maps, timedependent
changes in skull surface voltage using a cap studded with
electroencephalographic, EEG, leads, monitoring these voltage field via their
transverse magnetic fields by the frozen helmets of magnetoencephalography,
MEG, we conclude our work by calling forth named but still enigmatic brain parts
and their juices as mysteriously powerful little men and women executing
remarkably complex and subtle tasks, sometimes even when called upon.
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Current neurochemical research using molecular biological tools such as
mice knockouts (the ablation of specific proteins though interference with their
nucleotide-mediated protein biosynthesis), for example, the production of animals
missing a subunit of their hippocampal glutamate receptors associated with the loss
of some memory functions, conclude the memorial mechanism to be a specific
cellular region, such as hippocampal CA3 cells. Technology advances but continues
to support a primitive philosophic animism of named brain parts which pop science
icons like the late Francis Crick called “The Amazing Hypothesis.” He and his fellow
brain philosophers implicate brain mechanisms such as the amygdaloidal nucleus
man who can emotionally color even affectually neutral information that is
transported through him. Imaging data showing amygdala man lighting up is used to
tell us that circulating sensory information through the differentially behaving
amygdaloid nucleus is used for fight or flight interpretive significance. Emotionally
expressive human faces light up inferior parietal cortex. The Iowa University
Professors, the husband and wife Damasios, have located even the criminal
psychopath man in specific locations in the brain. As we have argued, perhaps ad
nausem, using multimillion-dollar imaging and molecular biological technology and
no new thoughts that weren’t around during the era of the 19th Century’s
neuroanatomists, specific brain regions continue to gain implicative properties like
the task-specialized gods of the Roman and Greek pantheons. Crick implied that
God is a brain part.
At the same time, those of us that have been in the brain business for a
while, recall skyscraper window washers, standing steady, high up on rope lashed
planks, suffering from congenital absence of the cerebellum, the supposed sine qua
non brain part supporting motor coordination and balance in humans. More
generally, there is much evidence that if young enough and willing to work, many of
the functions of missing parts of the brain can be taken on remarkably well by other
brain parts thought not to be involved in these functions at all. In addition, since
evidence of neuronal responding to loud noise or bright light perturbation can be
found almost everywhere in the hyper-connected human brain, because anticipation
and brain time inversions make before and after indicate little about human
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neuropsychological causality, and inhibitory on or off and activating on or off are a
priori functionally equivalent with respect to the logic gates of information encoding,
transport or storage, the modern study of brain mechanisms in emotion, cognition
and behavior remains almost as mysterious as ever.
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The only human mind-brain observations that are doubted consistently, and
treated as unpublishable by the editors of the journals of science, are those that
result from direct human experience using subjective reports from within. They are
called unscientific. Often ignored are logically consistent mathematical and
computational contexts, which, as abstract and general tools of thinking and
imagining, have the capacity to frame, rigorously define and describe thinking about
both the subjective and objective aspects of brain-generated phenomena. These
mathematically configured metaphors can lead to consistencies in description, this
is behaving like that, in what are called equivalence relations expressed both as
intuitive imagery; for a concrete example, a one holed bagel and one handled tea
cup are topologically equivalent because, sculpting in clay, they can be smoothly
transformed into each other. We have seen that invariant measures in computable
statistical flows can come out of a mess of data. Professor Paul Rapp of the
University of Pennsylvania has been able to mathematically encode the verbal
content of the patient’s free associations and the therapist’s responses, using tape
recordings of hours of psychoanalytical treatment. Examples of quantifiable qualities
found useful in this regard involve a variety of characteristic statistical patterns in
what are called entropies and information as well as various measures of what with
a wide range of definitions is called complexity. These quantifiable properties,
measures, can help in the struggle with the intrinsic tension of Absolute Reality
between the “eternal emptiness of form and the eternal form of emptiness.” We
resort to measures of entropy, information and complexity when confronted with our
ignorance, “emptiness,” great or little, with respect to either cause or result, about
what exactly is going on. Entropy in its forms relevant to information quantifies our
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ignorance, the emptiness and its mystery. Computations of the entropy of systems
in motion convert questions and answers concerning the detailed workings of the
leg’s neuromuscular machinery to global statistical descriptions of more abstract
thematic motifs, forms, expressed in the dance. Patterns of behavior of these
properties can suggest intuitive ideas and imagery about global mechanisms,
approach/avoid, smooth/discrete, wild/tame, as well as correlated and objective
physical observables.
To learn more about this abstract, topology tinged (none numeric) style of
model building, we can go to school on a long studied physical example. It connects
a simple and well understood real world observable with abstract statistical patterns
resulting from motions using the one-to-one correspondence (the equivalence
relation called isomorphism) between their entropies. As we have discussed, the
Stanford mathematician and Field’s Medal Winner, Donald Ornstein, proved that in
statistical studies of even point-to-point unpredictable, chaotic systems, entropy is
the only isomorphism. The hardware of this physical example is what the statistical
physicists call a dilute gas of some fixed number, n, of uniform hard spheres,
moving scatterers, that, absent of dissipative friction, wander continuously around,
changing their directions when bumping into each other. In a two dimensional
bounded arena of randomly rolling balls, this game has been called Sinai’s billiards.
It was named for previously mentioned Ya Sinai, an eminent Russian
mathematician He is now at Princeton and was previously a student of Andrei
Nikolaevic Kolmogorov, the Russian guru of many of the Twentieth Century’s worldclass
Russian mathematicians. Kolmogorov axiomatized the field of probability and,
more relevantly, initiated the theory of statistical descriptions, the ergodic theory, of
nonlinear dynamical systems. In the language of statistical physics, we will see that
the same system produced by high number of elements executing Newton’s
deterministic laws can be generated by a so-called random system such as that
resulting from flipping a suitably biased coin. Our example can also serve as a
metaphor, used extensively in the mathematical biology of the late Professor Art
Winfree, for the temporal features of life on a topological circle: the natural
irregularities of the recurrent beat of the heart, the in and out breathing of lungs, the
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up and down voltage of brain waves, the pendulum swings of our blood hormone
levels, the cyclic procession of our days, months and years and at large scale, our
body’s journey from dust to dust.
The angular deviation theta, θ� �from the initial reference direction of a single
moving sphere, gets rotated to a new angle theta, θ
→ θ
’ �by a collision with another
sphere. It has been shown that the new angle θ ’ is the previous angle, ��times twice
the average distance traveled between collisions called the mean free path, here
symbolized by delta, δ, divided by the diameter, D, of the sphere. Algebraically,
θ ’ �=�
2δ θ ��the new angle is equal to twice the mean free path divided by the diameter
D
of the spheres times the original directional angle of the sphere’s motion. �If we
symbolize the time between collisions with tau, τ, after an elapsed time of
experimental observation, t, we can say that the deviations from the initial direction
of the sphere changes like ( 2 δ � t/τ . The exponent, t/τ, represents the time of the
D
experimental observation divided by the average time between collisions of the
spheres, i.e. the time we’ve been watching, t, is expressed as units of inter-collision
interval, τ. Of course, the circular deviation in the angle from the initial direction
rotates repeatedly around a circle as the number of collisions increase. If a point on
a circle marks the angular change resulting from each collision and the system runs
long enough, it has been shown that the circle will eventually be completely covered
by points.
An estimate of the entropy, S, being generated by each sphere labeled with
some index i, Si, is positive because the recurrent motion is deviating continuously
from the initial direction. It can be computed for each sphere as the logarithm of the
intercollision time-averaged deviation from the initial direction, S i = 1 log( 2 δ
) and the
τ D
entropy of the whole n hard sphere system is the sum of the n entropies, which can
be expressed as n× S i . If we keep books by registering the points when each
sphere’s  ’ makes a stop on the top half of the sphere’s circle as 1 and the bottom
half as 0 (and we must arbitrarily decide between 0 and 1 if it falls exactly on the
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division between top and bottom and do so in a consistent way), then we can keep
score with a random looking binary series such as 11001001010…. that describes
the sequence of rotations. The advantage that accrues by doing so is that this coin
flip counting eliminates details in favor of a computable over all measure and
supports several forms of entropy calculations for its use in deciding if this system is
behaving like that system, an equivalence relation. One can imagine a series of coin
flips with 1 being heads and 0 being tails such that the statistics of a characteristic
series is determined by the fairness of the coin. As noted above, Donald Ornstein’s
famous theorem says that the entropy of these kinds of hardware and software
systems is the only general basis for finding correspondence between
characterizations of two such irregularly behaving systems. The important idea here
is that a series of 1’s and 0’s may not be identical but the two systems can be
isomorphically equivalent with respect to their entropy.
Notice again that the physical process of hard spheres bouncing off each
other on a flat surface has been captured by an abstract representation in binary
numbers that, like a series of coin flips, can be quantified as entropies (which would
be maximal for an ideal, fair coin). After describing the process of real number
representation by the binary code, we will show how entropies can be computed for
these binary series. We remind ourselves that we are struggling to obtain some kind
of knowing in a representative system manifesting the tension and mystery between
emptiness and form.
We can translate all finite real numbers into this language, making them
accessible to standard entropy computations. The following discussion of the
process of transforming numbers into binary series is in the spirit of the famous
number theory theorem that every natural number (the positive integers such as 1,
2, 3, 4…) can be expressed as the sum of at most four squared numbers. Encoding
any number by a series of 0’s or 1’s in what is called a binary transformation, begins
with its separation, called partition, into a sum of powers of 2, for example, 100 = 64
(2 6 ) + 32 (2 5 ) + 4 (2 2 ). A short hand description of this sum begins with a form
indicating the presence or absence of each successive power by a 1 or 0 coming
before the relevant power of two; i.e. 100 = 1 × 2 6 + 1 × 2 5 + 0 × 2 4 + 0 × 2 3 + 1 ×
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2 2 + 0 × 2 1 + 0 × 2
0 (in which the last term, arbitrarily, is 2 0 = 1, since anything to
the power 0 = 1). This can be written even more simply as a series of 0’s or 1’s,
their presence indicating whether the power represented by each place in the left to
right descending sequence of powers of two participates in the sum of the partition.
It is in this way that in binary numbers, 100 = 110010. As another example, if we
similarly partition the decimal number 729 = 512 (2 9 ) + 128 (2 7 ) + 64 (2 6 ) + 16 (2 4 ) +
8 (2 3 ) + 1(2 0 ), we find that its binary transformation results in 729 = 1011011001,
the 0’s representing the descending powers of two that are absent in the powers of
two partition. One can compute the binary representations of lower valued numbers
immediately; for example, 4 = 1 × 2 2 + 0 × 2 1 + 0 × 2 0 so that there is a 1 in the
multiply-the-power-of- two column and 0 the power 1 and power 0 columns so in
binary representation, 4 = 100. Similarly, 6 = 1 × 2 2 + 1 × 2 1 + 0 × 2 0 making the
binary transformation of 6 = 110.
It was the co-inventor (with Isaac Newton) of the calculus, Gottfried Wilhelm
Leibniz, in about 1665, who fully developed the binary representation of all decimal
numbers. In a state of wonderment about the simplicity, power and completeness of
this 1 and 0 encoding, he is said to have the beliefs that 0 symbolized the
emptiness of the universe’s beginnings, 1 represented the complete fullness of God
and that this transformation served as metaphoric evidence consistent with God’s
creation of the universe out of nothing.
The simplicity of binary expressions as in the dynamics of hard spheres or
rotations on the circle as well as the transformations such as 729 = 1011011001
make them propitious for exemplifying the methods for computing the entropies of
the growth rate of the possible, called the topological entropy, H T , and the probable,
the metric entropy, H M , which was introduced in a previous chapter called “Sensual
In-Between Entropies.” The following exemplify the computations of measures of
topological and metric entropies, H T and H M , another computable idea called
algorithmic complexity, AC and finally, the well known (to statisticians) standard run
score, src. Their descriptions have as their purpose a demonstration for the reader
that these apparently abstract, perhaps nebulous sounding, words can be
transformed into well-defined, concrete, quantitative and computable form of reality.
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If acceptance of this idea does not constitute a problem for the reader (and you do
not find it fun to follow along with a computer math program and/or a pencil), then
the following several paragraphs can be quickly scanned or skipped entirely.
The computations of H T and H M begins with keeping track of how many 0 →
1 and 1 → 0 transitions are found going from left to right in the binary series. For
example, in the binary expression of 729, 1011011001, one starts counting with a
1→ 0 transition followed by a 0 → 1 transition and then a 1 → 1 transition and so
on. A useful way to record the count is via entries into a 2 × 2 matrix for score
keeping in which the horizontal rows are labeled 0 on top and 1 below and the
vertical columns are labeled 0 on the left and 1 on the right. The number of each
kind of transitions (from the vertical label to the horizontal label) are counted and
summed in the appropriate box of the two box by two box matrix; for examples: for a
0 → 0 transition, a tally mark is entered in the upper left corner of the matrix; for a 0
→1 transition, a tally mark is entered in the upper right corner; a 1→ 0 tally goes in
the left lower corner and a 1→ 1 is tallied in the right lower corner. The resulting
transition incidence counting matrix, M t for the 729 binary transformation series
looks like M t = 1 3
indicating one 0 → 0, three 0 → 1, three 1 → 0, and two 1 → 1
3 2
transitions have been tallied. Although this series alone is too short for computing
reliable statistical measures, if we assume that the pattern of transitions observed in
this short series is stationary, that is its transition behavior will remain the same if
the binary series continued on to be infinite in length, the assumption being that the
dynamics of now will be the same as always, 729 will stay 729, then we can use two
forms of this transition matrix in the computation of the topological entropy reflecting
the growth rate of the possible, HT, and the metric entropy from the statistical
weights of allowed choices among them, the probable, H M .
To obtain the entropy representing the growth rate over time of the new
possibles, the computation of H T , the topological entropy, involves first transforming
M t into an transition incidence matrix, M t,i a 0 or 1 matrix indicating whether each
box has been entered at all (or not). Since in the binary representation of 729, all
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four boxes of M t are occupied, the M t,i =
1 1
1 1
indicates that all four kinds of
transitions are possible. Since we remain in the context of a 0,1, two state system,
the growth rate of the possible equals the logarithm, base two, of the sum of the
entries in the boxes of the left-top-row to right-bottom-row diagonal called the trace
and HT = log 2 (1 + 1) = log 2 (2) = 1. Consistent with intuition, since every transition is
possible, the topological entropy of M t as indicated in its M t,i is maximal (= 1).
Another expression equal to the sum of the trace (the sum of the upper left to lower
right diagonal) in a square matrix, is its leading eigenvalue, most often symbolized
with a lambda, λ 1 . The logarithm of the leading eigenvalue of the transition
incidence matrix is equal to its topological entropy. Symbolically, H T (M t,i ) = log 2 (λ 1 )
= log 2 (2 ) = 1. Standard elementary linear algebra texts describe how to compute
eigenvalues, these relations and related operations as well as their foundational
theorems.
Before computing the entropy of the distribution of probabilities among the
possibles as the metric entropy, H M , let us notice again that the occupancies in the
four entry boxes of the transition matrix M t are not uniform, M t =
1 3
3 2
. This leads
naturally to the intuition that for this series of binary transitions, HM, in contrast with
H T , will not be maximal, i.e. not equal to 1 and the nonuniformity of H T and H M is a
computational expression of what we mean by a state of in-between entropy. These
entropies are identical and their difference = 0 for transitions reflecting maximal
entropy, as might be realized in a very long series of fair coin flips in which the
entropies = 1. Entropy will be minimal when flipping a two headed coin, here the
entropies = 0. More compactly, the non-uniform probabilistic, metric entropy,
differing from the maximal topological entropy indicates that the system is in a
dynamical state of in-between entropy, written as H T - H M ≠ 0.
In the computation of the metric entropy, H M , the M t is transformed into a
transition probability matrix, M t,p , called a Markov matrix named for one of the two
great Russian mathematicians, both students of Pafnuti Lvovich Chebyshev, the
Markov brothers. The entries of each row in the M t are transformed into transition
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probabilities, so that the sum of the decimal fraction parts of all the boxes in each
horizontal row add up to 100%, or as a real number, 1.00. Recall that in the
example we’ve been using, the binary expansion of the natural number 729, the
1 3
transition incidence matrix is M t = and its Markov matrix is top row, 1/4, 3/4
3 2
and bottom row 3/5 , 2/5, i.e. M
t,p =
0.25 0.75
. Matrix multiplication of Mt,p by itself
0.60 0.40
repeatedly is equivalent to tracking the temporal evolution of the transition matrix’s
probabilities until the resulting matrices move toward, converge onto, a steady state;
each self matrix multiplication step represents what results from the passage of one
unit of time. The convergence to equilibrium values is continuous and gradual.
When the steady state is reached, both rows become identical. For this example,
M t,p × M t,p or M t,p 2 =
0.5125 0.4875
; M
0.3900 0.6100
t,p 4 =
0.4527 0.5472
; Mt,p 8 0.4445 0.5554
= ;
0.4377 0.5622 0.4443 0.5556
M
t,p 16 =
0.4444 0.5555
0.4444 0.5555
which for the first four decimal places remain the same for
additional times of self multiplication. Note the convergence of the top and bottom
rows to the same asymptotic values. Books discussing the multiplicative and other
behavior of these nonnegative matrices are numerous and frequently appear in
matrix algebra texts under the rubric of the Frobenius-Perron theorems.
Using the entropy formalism of Claude Shannon as developed previously, H M
is computed as the sum across either of the identical rows of each probability times
its logarithm, �ρ � �× log(ρ � �����ρ 2 × � �log(ρ 2 )) remembering from above that we are working in
base 2 logarithms and to change the minus sign (resulting from taking the
logarithms of decimal fractions) to plus: H M (M t,p ) = .4444 × log(.4444) + .5555 ×
log(.5555) = .9911 The nonuniformity of the box occupancy probabilities is reflected
in the difference between the topological (maximal estimate) and metric (minimal
estimate) entropies and is therefore quantifiable and computable: H T - H M ≠ 0 = 1.00
- 0.9911 = 0. 0089. If the maximal and minimal estimates of the entropy were equal
and all the probabilities boxes in each row asymptotically contained the same
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probabilities as in M t =
0.5 0.5
, it would retain these values across an infinite
0.5 0.5
number of self multiplications such that HM = .5 × log(.5) + .5 × log(.5) = 1 and H T -
H M = 1.00 – 1.00 = 0. 0.
Complexity is a more general and variously defined descriptive expression
than that of the topological and metric entropies and as such brings with it many
kinds of definitions and computational approaches. One choice that’s intuitively
appealing assumes that the relative complexity of an expression representing, say
an outcome of an observation or experiment, is reflected in the minimum length of
the most compressed program (algorithm) from which, given a suitable dictionary of
symbolic equivalencies, one can reconstitute the original expression. Increases in
what some have called algorithmic complexity, AC, are reflected in the growth of
this minimally descriptive symbol series length. Karen Selz’s approach to
compression and AC, similar to one proposed by Paul Rapp, involves the
identification and symbolic representation of repeated blocks of symbols called
words. For example, given an arbitrary, exemplifying binary series:
011011101010001010101001001010011, we first find the longest repeated word
[1010100] and represent it with the symbol, a, yielding a shortening in the original
series, 011011a010a1010011. The next longest repeated word is [011] is replaced
with b, yielding a further compression, bba010a1010b. The next remaining binary
word is of length equal to the previous one, [010], which, when replaced by c results
in the series bbaca1cb. This can be further compressed to the final representation
with four symbols and for the sequentially repeated b, one exponent of degree two,
b 2 aca1cb. From this representation and a dictionary of letter equivalent words, the
original binary expression can be recovered. For a quantitative index of the
algorithmic complexity, AC, of the compression, Selz computes the sum of the
number of distinct symbols plus the sum of the natural logarithms of the exponents:
4 + log (2) = 4.6931. The binary representation of 729, 1011011001, discussed
above, is compressed by making two [101]’s = a and two 0’s = b resulting in a 2 1b 2 1.
Having three distinct symbols, a,b, and 1, and two exponents of two, its algorithmic
complexity is equal to, AC = 3 + 2 × log(2) = 4.38.
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In addition to H T , H M and AC, if computable in a meaningful way, the
deviation of the binary series under study from the idealized random behavior of a
fair coin could serve as another index of complexity. Common descriptions of the
amount of randomness in a series are indices of run length If a run length is defined
by number of elements in a series of the same symbol before it stops, counting the
number of run boundaries by reading along the binary series and counting the
number of switches from 0 →1 or 1 → 0, then the binary expression of 729,
1011011001, has six runs. The great analytic probabilist, William Feller, among
many others, including the distinguished 18 th Century Swiss family of
mathematicians, the Bernoulli’s, proved that computing a standard run score, srs,
involves three terms, the theoretical expectation, E, of the number of runs, r, that is
E(r), the number of runs actually observed, Obs(r) and the variance of the
expectation of the number of runs, Var( E(r). If the srs is less than zero, then the
binary series is more random than that resulting from the flipping of a fair coin.
Interestingly, when a normal group of subjects are instructed to simulate what they
think of as a random coin flip determined series of 0’s and 1’s, their srs tends to be
lower than zero, over-estimating the degree of irregularity that randomness
represents. Long runs occur by chance far more often than intuition would dictate. If
srs is more than zero, than the binary, coin-flip series is more ordered than random.
If srs equal to zero, the binary series is not discriminable from fair coin flipping
randomness.
The expected number of runs, E(r), can be estimated by a fraction formed by
twice the product of the number of heads times tails divided by the sum of the
heads and tails to which is added one. That is, E(r) = 2 × 6 × 4 + 1 = 5.8. The average
6+
4
variation around this expectation called the variance, Var, of the expectation,
Var(E(r)), is estimated by a fraction formed by (take a breath) twice the product of
the number of heads times tails × twice the product of the number of heads times
tails minus the number of heads and minus the number of tails, all over the product
of the sum of the heads and tails squared, times the sum of the number of heads
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(2× 6× 4)(2× 6× 4 −6−4)
and tails minus one. That is, Var(E(r)) = = 2.03 . From these
2
(6 + 4) × (6 + 4 −1)
three terms, we compute srs =
Er () − Obsr () 5.8−
6,0
= =− 0.140 . We conclude that
Var( E( r) 2.03
the standard run score of the binary series is less than zero and therefore more
random than the expected random behavior of a fair coin.
Recall from the last chapter that Karen Selz, Martin Paulus and others have
shown that various personality types and psychiatric diagnoses are associated with
characteristic deviations of srs from zero. When the winners of the 2002 Annual
World Rock, Paper Scissors Championships held in Montreal Canada were
interviewed, they said that sensing their opponent’s characteristic style of deviations
from randomness in what we would call the continuum from maximal to minimal
entropy determined their successes. We characteristically use all of these measures
to estimate quantitate the deviation from randomness standard run score, srs,
algorithmic complexity, AC, as well as H T and H M ,, the topological and metric
entropies.
* * *
The encounter with mystical Absolute Reality, though sought by arduous
contemplative and other practice, emerges spontaneously, most often during times
of apparent mental emptiness, detachment, a state in which rationally instructive
thought and the choral background of brain voiced, emotion-ladened, commentary
have disappeared into the entropic soup of formless silence. It is this indescribable,
ineffable, stillness that we think serves as the psychophysiological anlage of
mystical experience. The mathematical systems yielding quantitative metaphors,
descriptive ideas about dynamical entropic statistical emptiness and form inspire the
use of mathematical structures in place of localized lumps in brain meat as
personalized icons of doing.
Our wedding of well-defined mathematical objects to metaphoric elements of
more general nonverbal intuition has a long tradition. Rene Thom’s 1990 book,
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Semiophysics, discusses mathematical mechanisms and their representations in
mind and the real world, analogizing mathematical objects and the intuitions they
generate to mechanical tools. Similar ideas are found among the four liberal arts of
the ancients: Number, Geometry, Music and Cosmology. The epistemologies of all
four require, then and now, the intuitive use of mathematical objects, conscious or
unconscious. Examples can be found in conceptual issues of Geometry and
Number with implications for relationships between man’s physical and
psychological worlds. One set of articulations were attributed to the shapes of
Platonic solids found among the Neolithic stone circles in Aberdeenshire, Scotland,
2000 years before Plato. Each symbolized particular physical and psychological
themes. All manifested equal edges and every face of each solid was the same
perfect polygon. The solid with four equilateral triangles manifesting four vertices
and faces, the tetrahedron, represented the physical element, Fire, and the
personal psychological climate of a choleric, fiery nature. A Platonic solid composed
of eight equilateral triangular faces, two tetrahedrons annealed, the octahedron,
signified Air in physical composition and optimistic hopefulness in psychological
disposition. Six square faces together making a cube, evoked the elemental
physical component, Earth, and its human expression as a phlegmatic, apathetic
personal style. Twenty faces, all equilateral triangles, constitute an icosahedron
indicating Water and a dominant feeling state of melancholic sadness. Like
onomatopoeic words and pictorial script, the three dimensional geometry of these
Platonic solids feel like what they came to symbolize.
The personality styles symbolized and evoked by the Platonic solids continue
to be used to this day. For example, they compose the basic elements of the
constitutional categories of remedy in homeopathic medicine as introduced over
200 years ago by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann in his classical Organon of the Medical
Art. The assignment of clinical remedy in homeopathic treatment combines
consideration of the presenting physical symptoms and signs, the what, with
intuitive discernment of the patient’s constitutional type, the who. To the
homeopathic physician, tetrahedral fire is suggested by the traits of personal
magnetism, courage and inspiration as well as egotism, strong desire and rage.
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Octahedral Air people intellectualize objectively in confident and insensitive
aloofness. Those symbolized by cubic Earth are realistic and practical, a what-yousee-is-what-there-is
belief along with rigid, materialistic ways. Icosahedral Water
types experience emotions strongly and are sensitive, intuitive, nurturing and can be
overly sensitive and dependent.
What intuitions and observations relevant to self, subjective and objective,
emanate from the stylistic properties of feelings as derived from a time series of
observations of their associated actions suggested by their statistical measures, H T ,
H M , AC and srs? The yield is rich and unexpected. We find an enjoining of values of
these measures, characteristic and invariant for each person, with the brain and
behavioral actions of entheogenic agents and Zen meditation in contrast with
worldlier focused attitude adjusting experiences and drugs. The range of their
potential values helps rationalize a person’s inclinations along the continuum of
attachment and detachment. This quantifiable dimension augers positively and
negatively with respect to the requirements for mystical experience as poetically
described by the ambivalent warrior prince, Ardjuna, in conversations with Lord
Krishna in the Bhagavad-Gita, the most famous and influential component of the
Mahabharata of Hindu scripture, A similar theme relevant to the occupancy of a
propitious range of values for the measures, H T , H M , AC and srs, is found in what is
often called the Second Nobel Truth as explained by the Buddha, Siddhartha
Gautama, in lectures recorded in a deer park near Benares. We begin with the
results of some drug experiments conducted by behavioral neurophysiologists and
end with suggestions about the intuitive relevance of the conceptual content of
these measures to the universals of mystical experience and perhaps to elements
of spiritual transformation.
As described previously, the brain and behavioral process of habituation is
characterized by a decrease in the strength of an observable response to the
repetition of an evocative stimulus. Imagine the decrease in our startle responding
when a once unexpected loud noise continues to occur. Sir Charles Sherrington,
the early Twentieth Century British pioneer in neurophysiology showed that animals
and humans gradually stopped the withdrawal of their limbs with stimulation of its
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skin when it was repeated several times. Columbia University’s Nobelist in the brain
sciences, Eric Kandel studied the neural mechanisms of habituation as a primitive,
accessible and fundamental example of learning, the association of a nonresponse
to a usually evocative stimulus, in Aplysia californica. The sea snails learned not to
respond to a local irritation with a gill-withdrawal response when exposed to it many
times. They learned to stop paying attention to the perturbation. The background
noise appears to disappear after a little time in the Mall. Though his exploration of
its synaptic mechanisms involved the neural circuit of the gill-withdrawal reflex in the
marine snail, its generality and human relevance is well established. Hundreds of
papers can be found reporting the results of studies of habituation in normal
humans under all kinds of circumstances as well as in psychopathological
conditions. That it samples something both fundamental and persistent is suggested
by studies in children by one of Kandel’s students, Michael Lewis. He found that the
rate of habituation of a startle response to a bright light in one-year-old human
infants predicted success in many kinds of learning and other cognitive functions
when the children were tested again at the age of four. Pavlov’s experiments
studied habituation of the classically conditioned salivary response to meat powdercoupled
bell sounds in dogs in which the bell was followed by nothing, not only led
to inhibition of the salivary response with unreinforced trial repetition but
generalization of the inhibitory state such that dogs were observed to freeze in
motionless catatonic states for hours. In the language of our statistical measures,
the fixation of the dog’s behavior would manifest minimal entropy in the form of H T =
H M = 0 and the lowest complexity values for AC and srs. Entheogenic agents like
LSD or mescaline inhibit the process of habituation and fixation, maximizing the
entropy of behavioral measures, H T , H M → 1 and high complexity values for AC and
srs.
Mark Geyer and David Braff, Professors at the University of California in La
Jolla and Michael Davis, a Professor at Yale’s School of Medicine, found that
entheogenic agents, such as mescaline and LSD, as well as naturally occurring
indoleamines, such as DMT, which occurs naturally in human brain, prevented
habituation of startle responding in mammals. Each sound repetition was treated as
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though it were new. The baby is Buddha is an Eastern philosophical aphorism that
captures the fresh spiritual state of each moment’s openness and readiness, the inbetween
entropies for new information surprise. Geyer and Martin Paulus found that
entheogenic agents such as Ecstasy also increased the complexity of the patterns
of spontaneous motor movement made by rats exploring a bounded space. Recall
that they partitioned the floor to document the exploratory motion in the context of a
sequence of location transitions, readying the data for the computation of some of
the measures previously described. Following the administration of entheogenic
agents, the partitioning of the space that the animals were exploring, into a lattice of
discrete boxes and the encoding of each square with a symbol, the computable
entropic and complexity measures such as H T , H M , AC and srs were increased. In
contrast, the administration of amphetamine-like stimulants led to a different kind of
behavioral activation than that induced by entheogenic agents. The measures of H T ,
H M , AC and srs reflected decreases in entropy and complexity. As University of
California’s David Segal and others documented in the 1960’s, high doses of
amphetamine led to animals into in a minimal entropic state, they were frozen in
stereotyped rocking, nodding and circling motions. High dose amphetamine-treated
humans develop rigid fixation of ideas, low H T , H M , AC and srs, in man this is seen
as inescapable obsession and paranoid delusion. There is considerable medical
evidence that Hitler took large doses of amphetamine (Benzedrine) daily for the last
20 years of his life.
The entheogenic drug-induced phenomena of naïve openness and absence
of fixation, states of high entropy and complexity, behavior generating higher than
control measures tending toward maximal values of H T , H M , AC and srs , are
subjectively reflected in the results of personal experiments of University of
Chicago’s Heinrich Kluver as described in his Mescal and Mechanisms of
Hallucinations (1966). Observing himself after the self administration of a crude
preparation of peyote cactus, he said that it led to glad feelings of unfamiliarity and
a marked reduction in his tendency for boredom (habituation), a detachment from
old ways of thinking and a new openness to a rush of seen again for the first time
experiences. Everything in his personal world, no matter how mundane, became a
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source of new interest and fascination. New thoughts replaced old ideas in a
continuing process of new formulation. All of these things feel like they emerge
spontaneously, making ideas about being born again and personal renewal
concrete. We remember that Timothy Leary and his wife in their privately circulated
pamphlet, Neurologic, described their entheogenic drug-induced escape from the
habitual order as supported by the learned and established “…mental-manipulative
and socio-sexual brain circuits…,” an escape to a fresh new planet of possibilities.
Louis Lewin, the early Twentieth Century German pioneering ethnopharmacologist
described his subjective responses to peyote as a flood of lively, numerous, random
fantastic creations of perception and thought, all demanding his fresh attention.
To complement these subjective reports, experimental tasks involving
habituation, such as the disappearance of a brain wave sign of arousal to sound or
light stimulation, called alpha blocking, the eyes-closed resting pattern of 8-14
cycles per second, hz, waves perturbed into the arousal pattern of >20 hz, did not
habituate when the subjects were pretreated with entheogenic drugs. This finding
was also true for the results of years of meditative practice. In his 1974
Psychophysiology of Zen, Hirai reported that Soto Zen monks, after many years of
practice in mindful, one pointed, be here now meditation, unlike normal controls,
continued to show alpha blocking surprise, brain wave arousal patterns, throughout
the course of repeated stimulation with auditory clicks.
James Austin in his monumental book, Zen and the Brain (2000) summarizes
other studies of habituation in TM practitioners and other mediators in which eyes
open versus eyes closed, the set and setting and variations in other experimental
variables blurred these results to some degree. He develops the case that years of
meditation-induced brain states of emptiness, we would say of maximal entropy and
minimal form, set the stage for the ecstatically insightful flood accompanying the
sudden insight into a Zen koan’s solution or the transcendent startle induced by a
roshi’s shout. A meditative struggle concerns how one can think about not thinking.
That is, thinking of nothing. This is generally thought to be the most important part
of Zen meditation, called zazen. Achieving high values for brain and behavioral H T ,
H M , AC and srs supply the formless infrastructure for ecstatic transformation.
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In healthy people, an awareness of self is not lost during this time of invasion
by and fusion with what feels like an independent agency. At full force, the mystical
experience is transfixing, tending to paralyze movement and speech, and at the
same time bringing with it the capacity for clear sensory and sensory-integrative
lucidity. This new seeing brings previously unnoticed things to attention and makes
old things new. Perhaps most striking is the passive (unsought) experience of the
unification of erstwhile disparate, apparently unrelated thoughts and feelings. The
yield can be the sudden emergence of deep relationships between apparently very
different constructs, beliefs and formalisms leading to unanticipated and unsought
integrative connections. In mathematics, this experience can lead to entirely new
kinds of theorems and proofs; in the physical and biological sciences, a previously
unseen organization of the data generating new global relationships and potential
scientific laws. In our spiritual life, the ineffable richness of the direct experience of
God.
Mysticism-negative interpretations of these experiences have always been
attendant. To the extent that the mystic’s inward turn is seen as a detachment and
implicit derogation of the external, consensually real world, it is often seen as
alienating from established institutions of religion and government. Psychoanalytic
practitioners may label it a regression to primary narcissism. Most churches tend to
discourage its practice as counter to the dominant social hierarchy and its
governance. Governments pass laws against its practice and manifestations, a
current example being modern Chinese governmental reactions to the Tibetan
Buddhism of the Dalai Lama and the yogic practices of the Falon Gong. Agencies of
established society such as the institutions of licensed medical practice make the
dominance of the inner world of mysticism subject to diagnoses ranging from the
narcissistic character disorders to interpretations of the reported extraordinary
experiences as manifestations of schizophrenia, manic-depressive disorder or
temporal lobe epilepsy. Rejection and fear of the transcendent states lead to
uninformed and politicized anti-narcotic laws, grouping heroine and cocaine with the
entheogenic (recall: engendering connection with the sacred within) agents such as
the Huichol Indian’s peyote and the Amazonian Indian’s yage, obstruct and socially
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taint the personal use of plants and practices that facilitate access to the mystic
way. Rational, socially responsible and otherwise kind and tolerant Presbyterians,
Unitarians and Reformed Jews can be suspicious and rejecting of what appears to
them as the politically tinged mass hysteria of praying in tongues and other rituals of
Charismatic Christian rebirth and renewal or the ecstatic states of Orthodox Jewish
chant-dancing.
Modern brain and behavioral scientists, remaining under the philosophical
spell of logical positivism and its requirement for operational definitions and
(external) experimental disconfirmability, operate from the position of strong doubt
when mystical experience is addressed. What is striking and strange about how
science plays the game of mysticism research is exemplified by the publishable
increment in credibility concerning a meditation-induced change in state of
consciousness when Boston University’s William Benson reported the
accompanying relaxation response, a sudden decrease in heart rate---much like the
dive reflex of a seal or what the heart rate does when you duck your head suddenly
forward into a sink full of water. Decades are spent getting professorial tenure for
research yielding things we have already experienced and know directly and for
ourselves. Recall that the existence of visual imagery in the human, doubted by an
experimental psychology of the time in which William James self-exploratory
observations were viewed as revolutionary, was made more credible by evidence
for the existence of a subjective spatial metric: verbally reporting subjects, when
timed, took longer in their minds to go from one room to another one that was down
the hall then going to the room that was immediately next door.
We use brain chemical, pharmacological, neurophysiological and
neuroanatomical localization and computation of characteristic statistical patterns in
time dependent brain and behavioral observations to the same end.
Further Readings for SOME ENTHEOGENIC ENTROPIES
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Phantastica: A Classic Survey on the Use and Abuse of Mind-Altering Plants. Louis
Lewin, Park Street Press, Rochester, Vermont, 1998 (First published in 1924)
Indole(ethyl)amine N-methyltransferase in the human brain. M. Morgan (Poth) and
A. J. Mandell, Science 165:492-493, 1969
Enzymatic formation of tetrahydro-beta-barboline from tryptamine and 5-
methltetrahydrofolic acid in rat brain fractions. L.L Hus and A.J. Mandell, J.
Neurochemistry 24:631-636
The Sacred and Profane, The Nature of Relgion. Mircea Eliade, Harvest Books,
Harcourt, San Diego, 1957
Hashish and Mental Illness. J. J. Moreau, Raven Press, N.Y. 1973 (First published
in 1848)
The Neurochemistry of Religious Insight and Ecstacy, A.J. Mandell in Art of the
Huichol Indians, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Abrams, N.Y. 1978
Altered States of Consciousness: A Book of Readings. Charles T. Tart, John Wiley,
N.Y. 1969
Soul; God, Self and the New Cosmology. A. Tilby, Doubleday, N.Y. 1992
Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story. Alexander Shulgin and Ann Shulgin, Transform
Press, Berkeley, CA 1991
Psychochemial Research Strategies in Man, A. J. Mandell and M.P. Mandell,
Academic Press, N.Y. 1969
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The Biology of Transcendence, J. C. Pierce, Park Street Press, Rochester,
Vermont, 2002
Psychiatry and Mysticism, S.R. Dean, Nelson-Hall, Chicago, 1975
Zen and the Brain, James H. Austin, MIT Press, Boston, 2000
Perspectives in Biological Dynamics and Theoretical Medicine. Eds. S.H. Koslow,
A.J. Mandell and M.F. Shlesinger, Ann. N. Y. Acad of Sci. Volume 504, 1987
Consciousness and the binding problem, W. Singer, Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 929:123-
146.
Mixing properties in Human Behavioral Style, Karen A. Selz, U.M.I., Ann Arbor, MI.
1992
Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory, M. Pollicott and M. Yuri, London
Mathematical Society, 1998.
Introduction to the Modern Theory of Dynamical Systems, A. Katok and B.
Hasselblatt, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995
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CHAPTER 6:
PENTECOSTAL PHASE TRANSITIONS
By their late teens, my two offspring, sons of an Alcohol Anonymous, born
again, originally Christian Science mother and a spiritually struggling and mostly
secular Jewish psychiatrist father, had been unfulfilled in their hungry search for the
experience of a personally meaningful God. After years of perhaps too academic
conversations with their parents, visits to a variety of houses of worship, talks with
University of California religion professors and evenings with a Ph.D. psychologistrabbi
and friends at the neighborhood synagogue, they turned somewhere else.
Some of their high school friends who were Evangelical Christians took them to
their Assembly of God, Pentecostal and other Christian, direct experience of God,
churches. They came to love what they sometimes called their Wednesday night
and Sunday morning “rock and roll,” services.
Struggling with the post-Vietnam cynical mistrust of authority and the
marijuana apathetic nihilism of the 60’s and 70’s, and clearly not enticed by what
they regarded as their father’s vacuous mélange of New Age Eastern Religions and
secular brain science, they spoke about their sudden and life-changing experiences.
They studied, memorized and quoted the Scriptures as part of their commitment to
their word churches. As erstwhile cynical teenagers, now positive and brimming with
faith, I secretly called it denial, they described what was happening to them as New
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Birth. They told me that, paraphrasing Paul in Romans, they had been saved and
were living New Life, not earned by good works as in Hebraic Law, but by faith
through God’s Grace. Jesus had “paid their bills” through His sacrifice at
Gethsemane. They both tried to explain inexplicable feelings of new energy, the
unseen hand of spiritual guidance and peace. One told me that the wind of the Holy
Ghost had taken him to the front of the pulpit, tearfully, thankfully, on his knees, to
accept Jesus as his personal Savior. They described how they had opened their
lives to the spiritual strength of living in Jesus.
Many things about them changed: their tastes in food, from hamburgers to
vegetables and fruit; from the jazz of John Coltrane and McCoy Tyner and the
cynicism of Frank Zappa’s “…only fourteen and knows how to nasty…,” to playing
strum guitar and singing the hymns of Wednesday night healing services; from t-
shirts hanging out of raggedy, Southern California, boutique store purchased,
stressed jeans, to polished dark shoes, starched white shirts and gray or tan khaki
slacks, sometimes with ties. They became cool, respectful, rational and more
distant with me. They repeated often the scriptural story about young Jesus,
accidentally separated from his parents on a visit to Jerusalem. When by standers
asked Him about where His parents were, He answered, “I have no mother and
father.” They told me that they, like God’s son Jesus, were filled to completeness
with the Father and the Holy Ghost.
On one hand, their experiences sounded like those of the activated mind
state of Abraham Abulafia, a suddenly emergent Nevesh and my father’s
metaphysical talks about personal transformation. My personal secularcomputational
brain God spoke to me of the mechanisms of sudden personality
change, a phase transition in complex systems, in the context of the nonlinear
dynamics of brain and behavior. On the other hand, their global changes in mind felt
both alien and threatening. When I came to learn their churches’ full list of
expectations, rules, requirements and sociopolitical policies, I found that I could not
identify with this system of spiritual knowing at all. It felt rigid, righteous, unforgiving,
even angry, and it frightened me. I never anticipated that my culturally enriched,
intellectually sophisticated sons would be quoting Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell.
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The Freudian psychoanalyst of my younger days tried to write off these (to me)
cataclysmic changes as manifestations of male sons’ unconscious oedipal strivings
to father kill and thus become. After some mulling, my theory did not wash.
They spent time accompanying themselves on guitars, singing hymns and
shouted Corinthian Paulisms to small curious crowds gathered in beach parking
lots, city parks and inner city street corners of Southern California. They passed out
pamphlets containing New Testament tracts and formulaic aphorisms promising the
post-repentance blessings of Jesus. The eldest, articulate, bright and prematurely
worldly, had been an ardent memorizer and appreciator of Shakespeare, especially
the mystical Tempest, the music of Aaron Copeland and Igor Stravinsky, the
improvisations of Charlie Parker and Cannon Ball Adderley and the provocative
literature of the time including Jack Kerouc’s On the Road and Hunter Thompson’s
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. They loved riffing with the Voltairean pungency of
Frank Zappa’s lyrics. Now, nihilistic humor had become an anathema.
Several weeks after my eldest son’s transformation, I found him in the
garage using a hammer and an empty barrel for disposal as he destroyed his
modern jazz and early rock record collection. He ridded himself of all of his fiction
and most of the nonfiction books in his young but relatively large personal library.
His new energy and high purpose emerged as a clearly defined set of rules of
behavior, a strong stand against abortion, frequent talk about the need to escape
from the contaminating influence of MTV culture, as well as our years of talk about
the biological and physical sciences. Both boys were particularly critical of my
Darwinian flavored attempts at scientific explanation of man’s inner life using the
selective and adaptive neurobiology of brain mechanisms and behavior. They spent
increasing amounts of time with Church friends, seldom seeing their old ones. The
eldest’s college goals turned from plans for a U.C. Berkeley equipped career in
literature and creative writing to a none spiritually challenging, objective and
practical, Christian free market finance and accounting degree from U.C.’s Business
School.
Gone were shared magical hours of intellectually stimulating, humorous,
even scholarly discussions. In place of evidential talk in areas of philosophy,
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literature and science, their opinions and claims derived exclusively from biblical
quotation. Their particularly favorites were Paul’s letters and some of the later
prophets, particularly Jesus-auguring Isaiah. “In the beginning was the word…”
became the real reality. The meaning of life was Scripture as explicated by their
book church pastors. They scribbled notes in the margins of their Bible pages
during sermons They were displeased when I interpreted the wild imagery and 666
symbolism of Revelations from the point of view of the historicity of encoded political
messages, meanings hidden for the safety of the early Jews in their world of Greco-
Roman governance. Twenty-five years, before the glut of books by Tim LaHaye, my
well-educated sons claimed that Revelations was literal and foretold the coming
tribulation that augured the end of the world and ascension to heaven of the
believers. My youngest, since childhood a well-read history buff, now viewed New
Testament scripture as sui generisly, divinely and literally true. They said the
conduct of their lives their meaning had been clarified by the biblical truths revealed
to them by The Book. What I did not say was that much of the talk seemed to me to
be an intellectually and spiritually impoverished miasma of cant and righteousness.
At the same time, their remarkable transformation appeared to be the expression of
a powerful and mystical force, the scientific understanding of which has been the
ostensible focus my life’s work. Why did their alterations appear so alien, strange
and forbidding?
Born to a home of psychoanalytically and scientifically oriented political
liberals, these precociously bright and worldly sophisticated young men were
suddenly transformed into, unrecognizable to me, radical Christian
Fundamentalists. They are now in their late thirties and remain just as ardent,
Christian patriotic, Right Wing voters to this day. The eldest is now an executive in
Morris Cerullo’s San Diego based, worldwide missionary movement, raising money
for revival and media ministries. He travels to and is involved with hundreds of
Fundamentalist Christian churches in countries ranging from Argentina and Africa to
the Middle East and Russia. He hasn’t allow me to contact his children, my
grandson and granddaughter, because, in vague talk and mostly silent implication, I
and people like me are seen as sources of potentially satanic, worldly
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contamination. He feels wronged by the way I am. He once chided me about what
he saw as my futile spiritual search in what he called the “health food” Eastern and
brain religions. My youngest, only a little less ardent and critical, visits occasionally,
and, hands in the air and speaking in tongues, prays to the Lord for my salvation.
Of course, this sudden and long lasting personal transformation in the
direction of Fundamentalism is well known and almost commonplace in modern
American and European Jewish, Christian and Moslem college educated middle
class families. The Saudi Arabian World Trade Center bombers were, mostly, well
supported children of the educated middle class We recall the famously tragic
American radical Moslem, Richard Reid, the would be airplane shoe bomber. My
stomach clenched as I heard Richard’s sophisticated and obviously caring father
share his confusion and struggle to rationalize what had happened to his son. The
commonality of this kind of spiritual and life transformations in the educated young
makes each event no less painful. On the other hand, we know that healing
transformations in the name and spirit of the Christian God can lead to quite positive
realities. They are effective in even quasi-secular disguise as in Alcoholics and
Narcotics Anonymous, Synanon and in the rehabilitation of the Charismatic
Christian, ex-alcoholic, Southern Methodist politician, George W. Bush.
Paul Holmer, Professor of Theology at Yale Divinity School gives thanks to
the evangelicals who “…keep alive the radical breach that the gospel is from the
nous of this world…they (Fundamentalists, Evangelicals) look marginal if you are
churchy…intolerant if you are ecumenical…anti-intellectual if you are trying to
systematize… in their roughness and …abrasiveness.” I bring personal and painful
witness to these claims. To get to the personal meaning and mechanisms of these
transformations, I had to start from somewhere. I am wedded to the belief of the
Jewish ecstatic, Abraham Abulafia, and not those of Moses Maimonides, that the
human mind in an altered state of activated intellect, man’s Nevesh, can understand
such mystical happenings. I would continue to work at it.
One of the early personal church experiences with my sons’ religious path
came after accepting an invitation to go with them to a Sunday service at their
current charismatic church. By then, the eldest was married with children, the
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youngest, unmarried, was teaching bilingual mathematics in high school. I had
waited several years for this occasion.. The meeting took place in a large, gray,
unmarked warehouse building that was crowded in back with high stacks of storage
cartons. The large, cement floored, open space in front of the storage boxes was
occupied by rows of metal folding chairs. They faced an unadorned, elevated
wooden platform upon which was a lectern and microphone. Behind the lectern
stood a casual array of a dozen or so young people, singing hymns and playing a
variety of instruments. These included piano, two or three guitars and upright bass,
tenor saxophone, trombone, trumpet, mouth organ and two snare drums. Sounding
a bit like a Salivation Army Band, they played and sang, “They cast their nets in
Galilee just off the hills of brown; such happy simple fisher folk, before the Lord
came down…the peace of God, it is no peace, but strife closed in the sod. Yet let us
pray for but one thing, the marvelous peace of God.”
The building, used for commercial storage, packaging and mass mailings
during the week and a Charismatic Christian word church on Sunday, was located
at the rear of an unfinished strip mall. A new and well-polished yellow Cadillac
Deville was the only vehicle parked in the no parking zone immediately in front of
the entrance to the warehouse. My youngest explained that the car belonged to Carl
Austin, the self-discovered and declared pastor, who spontaneously rose up to lead
without academic religious training or a conventional ordination. The bright yellow
car was explained as evidence of the power of God. Paraphrasing Mark, my son
told me “…he who does not doubt in his heart and believes that those things he
says will come to pass, he will have whatever he says…whatever things you ask for
when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.” The car
served as a glorious instantiation of the church’s major promise of the rewards of
faith.
Pastor Carl Austin, a tall, blonde, portly man in his early thirties with a
resonant tenor voice, was the youngest of several children of a poor Midwest farm
family. He had been a state college drop out and without a career or a job. His
sermons contained stories about how he had caught spiritual fire at a revival
meeting conducted by Kenneth Hagin of Kenneth Hagin Ministries, aka Rhema
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Bible Church, Tulsa, Oklahoma. The pastor’s witness of the Holy Ghost acting
through his life was his personal cure, by transformative Grace, of a triad of selfdestructively
sinful addictions: alcohol, gambling and promiscuity. Self-chosen and
self-declared, he now served this two and a half year old growing congregation of
over 200, mostly young, working families. The young men in attendance at the
warehouse church were in shirts and ties, very unlike the more casual garments of
even dressy occasions in Southern California at that time. Women were dressed
simply and modestly. Most of the children were in Sunday school in a small
neighboring store in the strip mall during the adult service. The few that
accompanied their parents were remarkably well behaved I was told that most
families tithed 10% of their income. They quoted Hebrews, “…king of the
righteous…to whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all….” They believed that
their tithe would be returned manifold and the yellow Cadillac Deville served as
Pastor Carl Austin’s personal evidence. From these funds, the congregation
supported the pastor, his car, the rental expenses of the Sunday warehouse church
and an orphanage in a small Mexican border town. Some of these children, several
neurologically disabled, were bussed to the Sunday service for healing. They sat
together in a section in the front of the congregation and were the beneficiaries of
the second Sunday collection plate, passed around after the first one that was
designated for the church and its pastor.
The first Sunday sermon I heard in the warehouse followed several awkward
minutes of Pastor-directed warm up hugs of neighboring strangers while the choir
sang hymns. The songs were accompanied by instruments playing the melody in
unison sans harmony, and accented by the beats of two loud drums. As the volume
and pace of singing increased, I saw several episodes of ecstatic looks and fainting,
dying in the Lord and shouts of praise with upraised hands. The intermittent
elevation of the hands during prayer and song appeared to be spontaneous. I was
told that the arms were up as antennae, feeling the energy of Lord all around us.
The pastor’s topic was forgiveness. From Ephesians, “…let all bitterness, wrath,
anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, along with all malice… be
kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving one another, just as God in Christ
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also forgave you.” In the middle of his sermon, which built slowly in tension and
volume, the pastor introduced a forty-ish, sparkly eyed, somewhat overweight, dark
haired, slightly made up woman who the Pastor said was a witness for the ultimate
in Christian forgiveness. She was someone from whom all of us could learn. She
was the mother of the 7-year-old boy that he, the Pastor, had, four years before,
accidentally killed during a drunken driving episode in his “other life.” That was the
one he was living before he was saved. I was told that he presented her in a service
at least once a year. The woman said that her successful struggle for forgiveness
led to her being saved. She quoted Ephesians, ”And you who were dead in
trespasses and sins hath he quickened.” She looked radiant and hugged the pastor.
When my sons introduced me to him as we filed out at the end of the service, the
pastor told me that my visit was important to the congregation. He told me that Jews
were special in Charismatic Christianity since we would play an important role in the
return. He said he hoped he would see more of me. My boys seemed pleased to
have invited me.
I accompanied them to their church most Sundays, and often for what they
called the “rock and role healing services” on Wednesday night, for over two years.
Within three or four months I found myself, the first time while awakening out of a
deep sleep, mumbling sounds that I was told sounded like some unknown
language, I was praying in tongues. At some services it happened spontaneously
accompanied by an almost ecstatic feeling accompanying the surrender of willful
control. This was usually accompanied by the release of new energy. I recall
thinking that the spontaneous, nonsensical linguistics shorted out my verbal and
obsessionally logical left brain allowing the unbridled expression of my hysterical
right brain. Sometimes in agreement with an insight offered in a sermon or when
particularly moved by a hymn, I found my hands lifting skyward, right hand and arm
higher than left, with a high feeling of trust and delicious surrender of conscious
cognitive control.
Reading the New Testament’s Acts, I learned that we were re-enacting the
scene of the Apostles in the upper room. Those gathered there were the ones
chosen by the risen Jesus to be able to see Him, the list including Peter, James,
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John, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James, Simon and Judas.
“…they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as
the Spirit gave them utterance…” The secular psychoanalyst in me tried to make an
analogy with the joyful jazz lyrics of Ella Fitzgerald’s scat singing, I’d done a little of
that during my small jazz group pianistics as an a adolescent. I thought about how
verbally paralyzed stutterers could be articulate when singing what they mean when
they could not talk it. I wondered about the relevance of the spontaneous poetry of
slams and Hip Hop rapping. We attended what my sons called charismatic black
Baptist churches in South Los Angeles and Long Beach. These often four hour
services usually featured two wonderfully harmonic echoing choirs with organ and
drum punctuation of the speech-singing, sermonizing Reverend. Large and
beautifully dressed black women sang operatically and danced gracefully down the
aisles. I joined my sons in this joyful noise for these long services and, exhausted, I
was forced to go home for a Sunday afternoon nap.
In spite of what could be regarded as validating experiences with the real life
Holy Spirit, I continued to be generally confused and even more deeply estranged.
An inner voice kept recalling my spiritual failure as a parent and being traitorous to
my Jewish ethnic identity by Christian church attendance. I tried to understand how
my sons had traveled from where I thought we were living together to this entirely
new world. How did it happen? Could the path going there and back be
meaningfully reconstructed and then reversed? This idea is consistent with the
medical dictum that knowing the cause, the treatment logical follows. My education
had shown me such assumptions of reversibility need not be true.
Contrary to the beliefs of early physical mechanics, medical psychiatric
history takers and psychoanalysts reconstructing childhood events, the modern
physics and mathematics of complex systems says phase transitions in complex
systems are probably not reversible, at least not simply so. One of the features of
global changes in complex systems, often called bifurcations or phase transitions
(think heated water going suddenly to a boil), is their dramatic discontinuities in
behavior. Knowing only the initial and end state, phase transitions in complex
systems do not allow for point-to-point backtracking or specific linear-causal
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understanding. These discontinuous and global transformations are the stuff of
miracles, especially for physicists. Even with respect to initial and end-states, rather
than using straight forward phenomenological observation, the mathematical and
physical theories of phase transitions are usually dependent on not necessarily
intuitive, derivative physical quantities. Their verbal representations are often not
concrete but metaphoric. This retreat to derived and abstract, far from the primary
data computables, may be more evidence of man’s many insufficiencies in
understanding of the mysteries that are often placed in the spiritual realm.
* * *
Driven by an effect that contributes to cause, like the faith-driven
abandonment to God that generates more faith, a drop of water hanging from a
faucet is pulled down by its own gravitational field as the thinning neck of the drop
facilitates its own further thinning. A gobbet connected by a thick neck to the main
drop begins to separate. The neck between them thins and breaks, and one
becomes suddenly and irreversibly two. A continuous structure has suddenly
become discontinuous in finite time at what is called a singularity. Since the single
measurable feature that dominates the water’s behavior around this singularity is
the diameter of the thinning neck, a derivative physical, one-dimensional
observable, neither the details about where it all began (called the initial conditions)
nor the path it followed to get to the moment of fracture, are predictively relevant
with respect to the sudden transition. Considering this kind of phenomenon going on
in our brains, choosing between theories of behavior that involve changes in brain
cell groups and/or brain chemicals versus those that involve behavioral quantities,
may be neither possible nor necessary. The challenge is to place the problems of
cataclysmic change in brain and behavior in sufficiently abstract and universal terms
that can be represented in some low dimensional, computationally accessible space
of variables.
The simplification and stereotypy of behavior around singularities reduce the
number of features that are required to discuss the dynamics of change in what
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would otherwise be a complicated beyond reach situation. One of the properties
found around singularities, is the loss of absoluteness in contextual characteristics
such as the scale of the observation. We no longer can say that what we are
studying happens in inches or miles, in seconds or days, now or in the past. In the
place of a single unit of relevant measurement, we have a distribution of spatial and
temporal feature sizes that stretch toward both the infinitely small and the infinitely
large.
We can illustrate a dynamical transition involving the passage of the system
through a singularity by using the metaphor of another kind of water experiment. If
we pour a small amount of water through a filter full of coffee grounds, or watch our
coffee maker do it, the first spurt of water makes an incomplete path of wet grounds
in the bed of dry ones. The next bit of water soaks this path more thoroughly and
may form additional and multiple, new and branching, incompletely penetrating
paths. Eventually, on just one more of these pourings, a connection in the paths
occur, such that the water snakes all the way through the coffee grounds and the
first brown drop of coffee falls into the pot. At this flow singularity and opposite to
the dynamic of a faucet water drop, a discontinuous system of pathways becomes
continuous in finite time in a process called percolation,
Trying to set up a predictive model, we can count the number of water
deliveries that occur before the first drop finds its way through. Repeating the
experiment many times yields a span of the number of pours required to reach the
singular point of percolation. If we do the experiment enough times, the distribution
of the number of pours required to reach percolation will range from one toward
infinite. In the neighborhood of the transition, time as recorded as the number of
small pouring events may stretch.
In aa comparable system, as elegantly described by Detrich Stauffer in his
Springer-Verlag book on percolation, multiple hot spots in the woods can suddenly
fuse into a forest fire. Isaiah said, “…glorify the Lord in the growing fires of dawn…”
Faith fires spreading through a faithless dense forest, its hot irregular front damped
by the disbelief of water-filled leaves, or disillusionment gaps of already burned out
trees, can, under the right motivating conditions of dryness, wind velocity, tree
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density, kindling temperature and desperation-induced willing of faith, sweep
through the entire woods in a sudden blaze. This is the spirit of percolation.
Computer simulations of percolating blazes generate a multiplicity of life times of
forest fires near the singularity that represents the transition to a global
conflagration.
Mentioned previously is Rudolf Otto’s 1917 book about the characteristics of
religious experience, Das Heilige, The Sacred, which described phases in the
discontinuous transition from everyday life to the wholly other (ganz andere) reality
of the world of the sacred. They include intense, numinous experiences of fearsome
ambiguity, dawning awareness of awesome mystery, revelation and appreciation of
the majestic power and finally, entrance into a reality of an entirely other place and
time than the natural and secular which Mircea Eliade called profane. In his 1958
book, Patterns in Comparative Religions, this well-known historian of religion called
the revelatory occurrence of sacred reality an hierophany. Eliade’s classic work,
The Sacred and the Profane, contrasts the homogenous, spiritually formless and
relative world of the profane with the results of passage through spatial and
temporal singularities to a place and time that are not of this world.
Poincaré said that the brain did not know of absolute space, but rather
established a model of it through internal reconstructions of sequential sensory
experiences that accompanied our exploratory movements. Activity generates the
internalized, partial differential, equations (describing changes in the observable
with motions in space) required for representing the dynamical cartography of the
world. It was Poincaré’s habit to topologize the dynamics of motion in mathematical
problems that lacked analytic solutions. In this way, simple algebraic operations
replace some of the insoluble problems of the calculus. Eliade’s sacred space
defining singularity in the plane that breaks profane homogeneousness, a center
point that is no longer a circle, can be viewed also as Poincaré’s topological center.
His topological brain theory found expression in the formal representation of internal
space as the invariant product of an organism’s displacement groups of imagined or
real physical movements around such singular fixed points. The operational object
called groups defines this kind of algebraic, mathematical structure and motion.
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associated with the loss of habitual temporal-spatial contextual moorings. A mind at
time one and the same mind at time two are unconnected. They are wholly other.
In much the same sense, for Eliade, sacred time, like space, is neither
homogenous nor linearly continuous. Sacred time is circular, recoverable and
reversible. Past, primordial, mythical time can exist in the present. Religious
festivals are recurrently ontological, allowing the recovery of the sacred time such
that their past and present expressions are the same. Rebirth is new birth. In the
language of the North American Indian Tribe, the Yokuts, the term for world
(cosmos) and year are the same. A year and the world has gone by, only to start
again. The Dakota Tribe says that the Year goes around the World. As Elaide has
said, “…at each New Year…the world (is) recreated and to do this is also to create
time…the sick man becomes well because he begins life again with its sum of the
energy intact.” Healing by becoming another or renewed self may become a frontier
science in the yet unexplored field of phase transition medicine.
The quality of separateness, discontinuity in states, as occurs in the samedifferent
inside world, is much like that found in the stages of anesthesia. Each
stage of anesthesia is ganz andere from the others. In Stage I anesthesia, fast
frequency, low voltage brain waves are observed and accompanied by a two
Martini-like, mildly activated, sedated but exhilarated high. Stage II, the next deeper
stage of anesthesia, is marked by the sudden emergence of intermittent bursts of
high amplitude brain waves, and animals and man demonstrate bizarre postures,
hallucinatory phenomena, fixed staring, and sometimes movements that look like
acting out some symbolic drama. This stage marks the beginnings of the loss of
responsiveness to painful stimuli. In the sudden drop into Stage III, a low voltage
mix of mostly slow and some fast brain waves can be seen associated with
depressed consciousness, complete insensitivity to pain, slow regular respiration
and an unexcitable cardiovascular system. Stage IV is the deepest stage of
anesthesia. This state is characterized by very low voltage, almost flat brain waves,
a loss of spontaneous breathing, the collapse of blood pressure and, finally, cardiac
irregularities and death in cardiac arrest. These are both discontinuous and global
brain state phase transitions.
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primary process by Freud and his followers. This forgotten language of the
unconscious, an archaic needs and fear-driven tongue lurking beneath our
supposedly objective discourse, comes to dominate themes of communication in
the middle of these unfinished spiritual transitions. The Rorschach Test of master
meditaters and LSD users overflow with conflictual primary process images, as
does the talk of patients on the verge of schizophrenic decompensation. The
primitive symbolism of primary process provides the major current in the overwritten
prose of the hyper-religious temporal lobe limbic epileptics described previously and
called the Geschwind Syndrome and in the regressed and iconic transference
concerns of patients with tendencies for global and sudden phase transitions,
prostitute to saint, righteous obsessional to conscienceless psychopath, called
borderline personality disorder.
Primary process represents a dynamical brain state, one unburdened by
linearly predictive connections with reality. It is a state without even a transient
single defining physical time or other fixed measure of order. It is without the causal
logic or knowledge of an outside reality that a brain implies in supposing to know. Its
primitively instinctual style and goals contrast with more physically time-locked,
reality oriented thinking which Freud called secondary process and Penn-Lewis
referred to as ordinary and religiously lawful “reasoning faculties.”
An absence of absolute time and space scales with which the executive ego
orders internal and external time and events, and therefore their relations, results in
primary process thinking characterized by condensations of several, often
incompatible, representations into one. Dueling, conflictual and simultaneous
feelings and thoughts float from their relevant objects to others. In the transitional
transcendent state, there may be confusion of self with others, of objects with their
labels, of parts with the whole and of symbols with the things that they symbolize.
This facilitates living in the spirits of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost at the
same time. Mixed inextricably with saintly awareness and charisma, there are
signatures of instinctually driven and configured primary process. Freud’s classical
work on slips of the tongue concerned the intrusion of these instinctual thought
stream condensations from the world of the ganz andere and displacements into
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everyday life. In this intense and quasi-fluid state, saintly priests slip seamlessly into
sexual predation; an ecstatic Jewish Orthodox fundamentalist shoots 29 praying
Moslems in a cave near Abraham’s burial plot for Sarah in Hebron; what were
lovingly mystical, Jelaluddin Rumi’s Afghanistan (Balkh) descendents become
people bashing and women stoning morality police; committed and mesmerizing
Christian televangelists attend peep shows and seek child pornography; devoted
Islamists crash airplanes into tall New York buildings.
In the physics of condensed matter, two common forms of multi-molecular or
polyatomic cooperative arrangements are the crystalline condition and in some
ways its opposite, the amorphous glassy state that results from rapid cooling
through a melting temperature. The microscopic atomic arrangement in glasses, in
contrast with the crystalline state, exhibits no spatial periodicity or long-range order.
In contrast with fluids, the friction of passage of molecular elements of glasses past
each other, their shear viscosity, is large enough such that their macroscopic
shapes are maintained in the very slow flow for very long times. In-between the
crystalline and glassy states their exists a multiplicity of possible unstable
arrangements which result from what physicists call frustration, the inability of a
system to find a unique, lowest energy, ground state. The generic example of a
ferromagnetic crystal has two types of ordering principles: (1) The mutual alignment
of the atomic magnetic moments, visualizable as the lining up of dipole, positive to
negative, magnetic arrows; (2) The geometric crystalline low energy ground state
described above.
When the symmetry of these two ordering principles are incompatible,
imagine an arrangement of neighboring atoms that prefer anti-alignment of the
magnetic moments which are placed on a geometrically triangular rather than a
square lattice, there is no single arrangement that can satisfy both magnetic and
geometric principles. What emerges in this state of frustration is the potential for a
multiplicity of nearly equal energy states. Water has the potential for both geometric
ice crystal symmetry as well as arrangements of hydrogen proton (+) to oxygen
electron (-) magnetic moments (with well-ordered oxygen lattices but disorder
among the hydrogen positions). It is therefore not surprising that a multiplicity of
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indirectly by my sons and church elders about joining a study group for personal
conversion.
I was surprised to learn that discussions of current political topics were a
regular part of these discussions as well as the Sunday and Wednesday night
services. We received a weekly political action committee report. Their issues
involved abortion, school vouchers, sex education in schools, family planning,
school prayer and carefully chosen Christian elected officials for school boards and
the Congress. As a congregation, we frequently held hands in small circles and
prayed for the electoral success of our issues and candidates. Twenty years later,
this movement has evolved into the public political morality play of the Republican
base of George W. Bush.
Laying on of hands, dying in the Lord, speaking in tongues, dancing in the
aisles and praying with up stretched arms were routine in the hymn dense services.
The goal for all was the spiritual transformation of mind as in Romans, “…be not
fashioned according to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your
mind that ye may prove what is the good and well-pleasing and perfect will of
God…” The pastor told us that the world ruled mind could not grasp spiritual things
as in Corinthians “…they are foolishness unto him and he cannot know them,
because they are spiritually understood.”
My research took me to a collaborative project at a European mathematics
institute for three months. I returned to our town very late on a Saturday night. I
planned to surprise my sons by appearing at their usual choice of the middle service
the next day. I drove up to the warehouse church fifteen minutes before the service
was scheduled and found that the parking lot of the strip mall was nearly empty.
There was no Cadillac parked at the front door. I banged on the double door when I
found it locked. More then a little surprised, I called my eldest. He told me that four
weeks before, the pastor disappeared, I later found that his disappearance
accompanied that of the congregation’s bank account, and no one knew where he
had gone. He had not warned or informed anyone in the congregation about his
plans. Calmly and without apparent awareness of my surprise and distress, my
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eldest asked me if I would like to attend the late Sunday morning service at their
newly chosen Charismatic Christian church. He gave me its address and told me
that the service started at 11:00 AM. There still was enough time for us to meet
there. I wondered how the Pastor Carl Austin would use this incident in sermons
about sin and redemption to his next congregation.
Further Readings for Pentecostal Phase Transitions
Religious and Spiritual Groups in Modern America. Robert S. Elliwood, Prentice-
Hall, Englewood, N.J. 1973.
The Name of Jesus. Kenneth E. Hagin, Rhema Bible Church. Tulsa, Oklahoma.
1979.
War on the Saints. Jessie Penn-Lewis, Robert Lowe, N.Y. 1973.
Discipleship, David Watson, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1981.
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CHAPTER 7:
AMPHETAMINE ROLL-UP AND SPLITTING
We try to understand the metaphysics and inner dynamical life of the
committed, judgmental, fundamentalist believer. In these sacerdotaly rigid and
faithful, disenfranchisement and righteous intolerance toward other denominations
are simultaneous with spiritual compassion, mercy and forgiveness for the members
of their own. This splitting between the good people and latent evil doers is seen by
psychoanalysts and dynamically oriented brain scientists as an all too common,
sometimes psychopathological, solution to the inevitable ambiguities of living. I am
certainly not alone in being fearful of Fundamentalists: Jewish, Christian, Moslem
and Hindu. From the overpass above the freeway, bearded Jewish Orthodox men
rained rocks onto the roof of my rented car because I was driving on Sabbath. A
research project had taken me to Jerusalem Mental Health Center’s neurochemical
laboratories for collaborative work with mostly secular Jewish scientists. Halachic
considerations, those of Jewish lawfulness, comparable to the constraints of Muslim
shirah, forbids working, even driving, on the Sabbath. Orthodox Jews live walking
distance from synagogues or benefit from a rabbinicaly blessed, network of
symbolically covered walkways for going longer distances on the Sabbath. This
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Sabbarian grid of permission obviously did not cover driving on the free way to the
mental health center.
It is the splitting of us from them that leads to the breakdown in empathy and
compassionate identification with others. Studies of the dominance of direction of
rotation within a closed space in small mammals have shown that amphetamineinduced
intensification makes the choice of right versus left (or left versus right)
rotation, broken symmetry, more statistically significant. In contrast, the Hefner
Foundation of Switzerland has shown that entheogenic drugs such as psilocybin in
man facilitate seeing both of the conflicting, simultaneously presented, right eye and
left eye images in place of the usual dominance of just one of the two
representations. A precondition of compassion might be that a person’s brain be
able to see and comprehend both or several sides of apparently conflicting points of
view at the same time. The Fundamentalists do not see things that way. In the
Koran, Mohammed says, “…give sustenance to the poor man, the orphan, the
captive…and for the unbelievers We have prepared fetters and chains and a
blazing fire….” In the New Testament’s Mark we find the final words of the risen
Jesus, “…whoever believes and is baptized will be saved but whoever does not
believe will be damned.” The Crusaders’ claimed scriptural support for their
murderous marches to reclaim Jerusalem.
Carl Jung wrote about the New Testament’s Revelations in his Answer to
Job: “…a terrifying picture that blatantly contradicts all ideas of Christian humility,
tolerance, love of your neighbor and your enemies and makes nonsense of a loving
father in heaven and rescuer of mankind. A veritable orgy of hatred, wrath,
vindictiveness and blind destructive fury that revels in fantastic images of terror
breaks out…overwhelming a world which Christ endeavored to restore to the
original state of innocence and loving communion with God…” As Princeton
University philosopher, Walter Kaufman, has noted in his Religion in Four
Dimensions “…compassion for unbelievers is implicitly condemned and
proscribed…Augustine argued expressly against compassion for the damned and
Luther used invectives against his (religious) enemies…” How can this be God’s
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setting for the spiritual work toward that promised in John “…that you love one
another; even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.”
In contrast with what has been described in previous chapters as the
entheogenic drug-induced transitions to a spiritual mind, one is tempted to describe
these Fundamentalists’ states as the amphetamine religions. The Los Angeles
Ram’s Hall of Fame defensive end, on very high doses of amphetamine (125
milligrams compared with the diet dose of 5 milligrams) taken four hours before the
Sunday games, the Baptist minister, Deacon Jones, used his famous and
consciousness annihilating head slap to daze the opposing offensive tackle in order
to gain access to and injure the other team’s quarterback. Before taking the handful
of Dexedrine spansuls, he would tell me, “See you on Tuesday.” Along with the
Deacon’s destructive aggression was the other invariant feature of the actions of
high doses of amphetamine, compulsive stereotypy, the fixity and driven repetition
of over simplified actions and thoughts along with the loss of breadth of vision and
adaptive flexibility. Deacon consistently rushed inside, took the inside lane, in spite
of offensive linemen, who having studied previous game films, being set up to
expect his route. They used this knowledge to take him out of the play. In modern
theological parlance, judgmental rigidity and thinly veiled disapproval take the place
of the more flexibly curious and lovingly humane feelings of the participants in the
evolution in spiritual understanding of today’s liberal Protestant process religions.
These are the ones that believe that the properties of God evolve along with our
biology, our brains and our growing scientific understanding of ourselves and the
world.
Angry splitting is not just a stimulant drug effect. Recall my experience of the
sudden emergence of a first second wind after a mile or so of my daily ten miles of
running. It was frequently accompanied by inner bursts of obsessive, paranoid
thoughts. Taking five milligrams of amphetamine felt much like the first second
wind. I am full of energy with arrogant feelings of power, mind fixated in grand and
simple ideas that I believe to be absolute and correct. I feel irritably intolerant about
anyone or anything different. It is my virtuous duty to set everyone straight.
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In the 1980’s, Moishe Zar, a desert castle dwelling, settlement organizing,
ardent Orthodox Jewish Zionist, now 65 years old, was the leading vigilante of the
West Bank He planted bombs in the cars of Arab mayors and plotted to blow up the
Dome of the Rock. Buying up farmland from the Palestinians beginning in 1979,
many of whom were then killed by their own because they were seen as
collaborators, Zar and his group of young volunteer settlers took over harvesting the
Palestinian’s olive trees and shooting rifles over the heads of those that would take
them back. Fundamentalist Christians share his vision that the coming of the
Messiah, the second for Christians, the first for the Jews, is dependent upon the
complete return of all of the land of Israel to the Jews.
I recall that in the middle 1940’s, my father took me to a fund raising dinner
for the local chapter of the Jewish Antidefamation League. The whispered talk was
about blowing up a warehouse in which anti-Semitic pamphlets were stored,
planned for the middle of the night when it was unoccupied. Even at the age of 10, I
could tell that their quiet anger and firm commitment made these threatened men
feel less vulnerable. I understood a little more about the motivation for this proposed
nighttime property destruction when, the following year, my father explained the
reason for our being refused overnight rooms at several motels as we drove along I-
95 in Southeast Florida. It took us until late night to find a place to sleep. This was
America’s muted version of what Hitler and his legions were doing to Jews that, at
that time, was not generally known, except for Walter Winchell, in America.
Resonant with our chemical-cultural theme are the many reports that Hitler was
taking an amphetamine drug, Benzedrine, daily and in high doses for the last 20 or
more years of his life. One can hear the characteristic, amphetamine-induced,
higher pitched, rants in his recorded radio tirades. Compare the pitch and strained
voice quality of the singing of Bob Dylan in his early records made while he was on
speed with the gravely, much lower pitched voice, now that he is not. In our
behavioral neuropharmacology laboratory at the Brain Research Institute at UCLA,
Professor Charles Spooner and I used an audiographic oscilloscope to monitor the
sounds of baby chicks whose peeps became higher in pitch and rate following
injections of amphetamine. The earliest members of the methadrine-amphetamine
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chemical family were synthesized by the great organic chemists of the German
pharmaceutical industry in the early 1930’s.
The sequence of parallel streets in the neighborhood of my home and first
grammar school in Kansas City, Missouri were my street, Virginia, then Tracy,
Forrest and Troost. My school, Bancroft Elementary, was on Tracy and one block
down that street was the Lutheran Day School established by German immigrants
under the aegis of the Missouri Synod. Starting in the third grade in 1943, I was
intermittently and unpredictably chased by rock throwing, “damn Jew” and “Christ
killer” shouting boys from the Lutheran Day School. I had my choice of running for
safety directly from Tracy to my family’s half duplex at 4232 Virginia Street, or
moving away from school via Troost and then down several blocks and around to
sneak back to my home on Virginia without being spotted. One run-for-it afternoon,
my parents took me to the emergency room of the Menorah Hospital to have my
scalp sewed up where a sharp rock had landed.
When I asked my synagogue’s young people’s spiritual counselor, Rabbi
Kleigfeld, to explain the feelings and actions of these children of Martin Luther’s
Post-Reformation Christian Church, he answered that I already knew about similarly
difficult places and times of our Twelve Tribes’ like Rome, Medieval Europe, the
Spanish Inquisition, Persia (Iran) and, it was rumored, in Germany as we spoke.
“Conversion or death” was its most benign form, in places like Spain and Iran, many
Jews faked it, staying alive and practicing Judaism secretly. Kleigfeld told me that
the causes of this historical theme of persecution of Jews were complex.
Among the frequently unmentioned events recorded in the later part of the
worldly life of Mohammed, who lived from 570 to 632 AD was, ”…in the name of
Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful…” his participation in the crushing of the
Jewish tribe of al-Nadhir in 626 A.D., the beheading of 800 Jewish men of the tribe
of Qurayza who refused to accept Allah as their God in 627 A.D. and putting to the
sword the Jews of Khaybar in 629 A.D. As in the section of the Koran called The
Cow, Mohammed proposed to “…fight against them (the infidels) until idolatry is no
more and Allah’s religions reigns supreme…” In contrast, the more entheogenic
spiritual orientation of the ecstatic followers of Mohammed in his earlier years
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speaks of the multiplicity of valid Ways to Deep Truth. The acceptability of many
ways is supported in the tales from the millennial oral tradition of the Sufi Masters in
their Teaching Stories. One of them, What Befell the Three, is attributed to the early
18 th Century Sufi teacher, the Dervish Murad Shami. In it, an apparition is mobilized
by the concentrated Truth seeking efforts of three Sufi Dervishes named Yak, one,
Do, two and Se, three. When this “…white smoke head of the very old man…” was
asked what he was, he answered “…I am what you think me to be…have you never
heard the saying ‘There are as many ways to the Deep Truth as there hearts of
man.’” In the narratives about the lives of the Mevlevi Islam dervishes called
Munaquib el-Arafin (1353), Jalaludin Rumi, the Sufi saint, instructs his ill and
troubled petitioner to ask forgiveness from the Christian he recently spat on saying
“…whether a ruby or a pebble, there is a place on His hill, there is a place for all…”
Cole Barks and Michael Green’s The Illuminated Prayer (2000) notes that the Rumi
follower, Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, a modern Sufi guru, was said to be keenly aware
how quickly spiritual entheogenic systems can become amphetamine-like and
“…develop rigid marching orders …which turn into a dumb obsession with other
people’s behavior…”
It appears that entheogenic and amphetamine spiritualities can coexist
contemporaneously, in Islam as well as in all the other of the world’s great religions.
One day, sneaking home from school, taking the long way around via Troost,
I was spotted and chased up some stairs into an apartment building’s dark hall.
Terrified, I swung hard and hit the leading angry and noisy head with a propitiously
found snow shovel that had been left near the apartment’s entrance. An ambulance
was called to tend to the twelve-year-old, transiently unconscious, Lutheran boy. He
recovered completely within a day and the chases after school and my desperate
escapes stopped suddenly, never to reappear. After several months, our family
crossed the socioeconomic divide in Kansas City to a more tolerant, upper middle
class, Southside neighborhood near Rockhill Road, to a suburban home, one block
from Missouri’s border with Kansas. There, persecution for my Jewishness took
more subtle forms such as not being permitted to play teen-age golf with my friends,
though invited, on their Blue Hills and Kansas City Country Club’s golf courses. It
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was decades later that the first Jewish member of the KCCC was the founder of H
and R Block. Unable to afford membership in the single all Jewish country club of
the region, I practiced for my high school golf team on Armour Hills Public Golf
Course, where, at the time, mostly white working class golfers played.
How can it be that spiritual states include both personal humbleness and
loving mercy toward some of mankind and judgmentalness, nonacceptance and
commitment to seduction, threat and even violence in the service of invoking
changes in the beliefs of others. How can the high energy calm of being home at
last in the born again condition with its new freedom from self assaults about sin,
most importantly that of disbelief, but also peccadilloes such as drunkenness,
promiscuity and familial abuse, be associated with readiness to judge, harass even
persecute others. Psychoanalysts would say that it is a riddance mechanism, the
projection of unwanted personal traits onto others. From the standpoint of rational
thought, this seems more like non-Aristotelian cognition, two, not either-or,
countervailing orientations toward mankind held simultaneously. The newborn
parishioners of these charismatic amphetamine churches express their fealty to
God with strongly held beliefs that diagram logically as contradictions. The
perception of the world’s peoples into believers and infidels, good and evil, our
people and your people, ourselves and the others. It is generally believed among
social psychologists that it is the perceived nonpersonness of others, which allows
the cruelty that empathic identification with them would never permit. Splitting feels
like resolution, its stereotypy reducing the complexity of spiritual thought as well as
true to life perception.
A concrete laboratory example of amphetamine conversion, the sudden
transition to a high energy, fixated, and delusional state called amphetamine
psychosis, is supplied by experiments in humans conducted by Professor John
Griffith at Vanderbilt University in the 1960’s. These experiments would not be
allowed by today’s human research committees or medical ethicists. Each one of a
group of psychologically screened-as-normal graduate student volunteers, at an
individually unique amphetamine dose, developed suddenly a personally unique
and peculiar system of new beliefs, obsessionally held as rational thoughts. Ten
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milligrams of amphetamine were administered to volunteer subjects every hour until
every subject crossed their particular threshold for personality change. The
graduate students underwent a global mind-brain-person transition at differing total
doses of amphetamine. The subject’s world was suddenly transformed into one of
enemies and friends. The syndrome dissipated over several hours when the drug
was stopped and the plasma levels of amphetamine and its metabolites declined.
As amphetamine makes memory formation and recall stronger, the subjects were
embarrassed when remembering what strange and forbidding yet uneatable things
they so strongly believed. These included such things as: they as good people were
caught in a network of bad person Russian spies; some threatening others arranged
for poison gas to be seeping out of the water faucet; the white coated scientists
were CIA undercover intelligence officers hoping to get information about their small
pornography collection. The subject’s world had become divided in, for each
person, a stereotyped way.
After a couple of weeks of return to normal living, the experiment was
repeated. Each subject again developed his or her individually unique set of goodguy,
bad-guy delusional beliefs and at the same dose of amphetamine as before.
Like those of strong faith, their ideas once again resisted the logical arguments
made by the professional staff: that the new realities were neuropsychological and
had an obvious pharmacological origin. While on the drug, all stuck to their story,
even while being shown the movie record of their first drug-induced episode. There
is reliable scientific literature describing kamikaze pilots on high doses of
amphetamine in an ecstatic state of Shinto nationalism. With their planes loaded
with explosives, they deliberately crashed their planes onto American aircraft
carriers in the Pacific Theater of World War II. One wonders if these drug-induced
states occur in the drug-free condition in today’s abstemious Muslim suicide
bombers.
A more abstract and general way of thinking about the sudden emergence of
fixation, repetitiousness and splitting in feelings and thoughts involves the
emergence of regular limit cycle oscillations in a complex system that was behaving
previously in a stable but flexible way. Locking up into a fixed, closed loop, is a
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common way for electrical circuits, computer programs, brain mechanisms and
other complicated systems, even cultural or spiritual movements, to behave when
one or more important control parameters crosses a threshold. Doyne Farmer of the
Los Alamos’s Prediction Company once said about this vulnerability in complex
system, “Those things can hardly wait to roll up.” The limit cycle lock-up occurs
most often as a sudden, discontinuous change, called a bifurcation, into
autonomous self-oscillations from an equilibrium state around which there was
some random variation. A bifurcation, a discontinuous change in outcome from a
smooth changes cause, characteristically occurs when the amount of an important
influence, a metabolic state, a drug, a psychodynamic conflict or level of emotional
stimulation crosses some critical value. The switch from one type of dynamical
behavior to another looks like the system has suddenly changed into something
else with an entirely new kind of life of its own. In the new life of rolled up, locked-up
repetitious motion, almost all new starting conditions follow pathways that lead into
the same limit cycle pattern. Evangelical Christians talk about all born again life
being in Jesus, fixed in a complete set of moral, social and political beliefs, ideas
and judgments. The limit cycle gets its name because the end state of the orbits of
almost all starting points of the dynamics winds up being drawn into the same fixed,
repetitious pattern of a stable cycle. Visualizing the simulation of one kind of
bifurcation to a limit cycle on a computer screen, we see a slightly jiggling point
explode suddenly into an orbit of ceaseless rotations around a circle.
Ralph Abraham, the University of California at Santa Cruz pioneer in
graphical approaches to nonlinear systems, describes, cinemagraphically, the
emergence of limit cycles from a single point. He starts with a picture of an attractor
of water flow in the shape of a basin. All water that enters the basin, rolls down its
sides to the bottom, to what physicists say represents a potential energy minimum.
A little more technically, this attractor basin is composed of the set of all points such
that the orbits that flow from them tend to end up inside the basin as time goes
toward infinity, no matter where they start. Changing the value of a control
parameter of the system changes the shape of this basin-like landscape, of the
surface of the systems dynamical actions called a manifold, which can intuitively
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predict how the fluid will flow upon it. If we start with a simple bowl, a parabolic
basin, then the attractor itself is a point at the bowl’s very bottom. Changing the
value of some influential parameter may induce the sudden formation of a small hill,
growing at the center of the basin’s bottom. Now fluid flow in the attractor bowl runs
down to a path around the hill at its bottom. The autonomous motion of the fluid
flows takes place now in a circular orbit. The basin of the new attractor is the
original bowl minus the point at the top of the central hill. The fluid flow around the
hill at the bottom of the basin is circular and is called a limit cycle. Note that the
direction of the rotation of the limit cycle can circle in one direction or the other. In
some computational simulations, motion alternates between directions. This
suggests the aspect of the born again amphetamine religions, splitting. There is an
unstable and intermixed probability of right versus left turning directions and their
alternation. This vulnerability to directional splitting and often unpredictable
alterations in action themes can represent what seem to be paradoxical
combinations of both good and evil in the same strongly faithful, for example, the
apparent bidirectional morality of generous and loving, pederast priests.
These mathematically flavored images of the sudden emergence of a limit
cycle in complex systems was made biologically concrete to me by research
conducted by one of my first graduate students, David Segal. He is now a professor
of psychiatry at the University of California in San Diego. His program of work
involved the administration of very gradually increasing doses of amphetamine to
rats while their behavior was being monitored and recorded by a continuously
running video camera. He documented the behavior of rats in a walled rectangular
space within which, without drugs, they first wandered about randomly and then
settled down to rest in an individually selected, favorite home corner. Segal called
all of these phenomena, patterns of exploratory behavior. At doses of amphetamine
below 2.5 milligrams (mg) per kilogram weight (kg), the exploration of the entire
bounded space proceeded faster than was the case with their salt-water treated
controls, their paths being more uniformly distributed throughout the box. They
spent less time resting in their home corner. At almost precisely 2.5 mg/kg, the rat’s
behavior changed dramatically into an entirely new pattern of continuous circling. As
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was the case in the abstract manifold picture of bifurcations to limit cycles, some
rats tended to circle their chamber to the left and some to the right and switching
between them was often seen.
The influence of amphetamine and other brain dopamine neurotransmittermediated
drug manipulations on directional turning tendencies in rats, mice and
cats were the focus of brain and behavioral research of Professor Stanley Glick of
the University of Massachusetts. The asymmetry of dopamine concentrations in the
two sides of the brain, particularly in the medial prefrontal cortex and the brain
stem’s nucleus accumbens, predicted both the paw preference for pellet reaching
and direction of turning in several studies in rats. These findings were statistically
true over a population of rats, but not necessarily predictive for any single one.
Reminiscent of the conflict between good and evil in our human spiritual analogy,
naturally right turning male rats and left turning female rats, when compared with
the opposite paired group, were greater voluntary ingesters of alcohol placed in
their water bottles.
Splitting as a part of the phenomenology of limit cycle bifurcations, with
directional implications for good and evil, has neurological support in humans as
well. In the context of contrasting right versus left hemispheric temporal lobe
syndromes, recall that temporal lobe seizures with a right side excitatory focus
leads to the development of the Geshwind Syndrome, a high, softly energetic and
saintly state of spiritual preoccupation and voluminous writings, loving and generous
kindness toward all and the complete disappearance of sexual interest but not
sexual potency. A left temporal lobe excitatory focus leads to the development of
the Kluver-Bucy Syndrome of indiscriminate aggressiveness and hypersexuality.
Experimental simulations of this syndrome in cats lead to them mounting and
attacking living and nonliving things, even chairs. A variety of manipulations of the
symmetry of brain dopamine concentration and dynamics by its characteristic drug,
amphetamine, interact with lateral brain lesions such that we conclude that the
stimulant-induced limit cycle lockup remains a phenomena influenced by drugs, sex,
genetic predisposition and several other experimental conditions. This situation is
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perhaps not so different in variety and complexity from the range of representations
in art and literature of the left hand of evil and the right hand of grace.
Oscillations that appear spontaneously in nonlinear systems without external
periodic input were known to Henri Poincaré in 1882, and were systematically
studied and made accessible to non-mathematicians by early 20 th Century Russian
mathematicians and physicists, well represented by a 1949 book, Theory of
Oscillations by the Russian engineer-mathematicians, A. A. Andropov and C.E.
Chaikin. Another relatively early classic is Nonlinear Oscillations by Nicholas
Minorsky. The most common form of transition from a fixed point to a limit cycle was
pictured as changes in the surface of the action, the bowl-hillock manifold in the
paragraphs above, and is called a Hopf bifurcation. Recall that bifurcation means a
discontinuous change in an observable over a continuous change in what is known
as a control parameter, such as dose of amphetamine or intensity of an experience.
The mathematical mechanism resulting in circular directional motion represented by
the (eigen)vectorial states, was named for the German mathematician, Eduard
Hopf. His 1942 paper was a mathematical proof of its existence and was discussed
in the context of fluid flows that role up such that circling vortices arise from smooth,
called laminar, water flow, at a critical value of the flow rate. Hurricanes are another
example of these kinds of dynamics.
The Hopf bifurcation to limit cycles has been found in several, many
dimensional, physical, chemical and biological systems. The latter include calcium
conductance oscillations in the excitable membranes of muscle, heart and the brain,
cardiac arrhythmias such as ventricular flutter as well as oscillations in population
numbers in foxes and rabbits, predator-prey systems. California Institute of
Technology’s Professor, James Old and Johns Hopkins Professor, Joseph Brady
made experimentally obvious the potential for the rigid irrationality implied by the
brain’s inclination to be locked up into limit cycle behavior. They demonstrated that
animals, from rats to monkeys, could get locked up in apparent self torture,
repeatedly and endlessly pushing a bar to deliver current to pain systems in the
their brains. These pushes induced almost unremitting screams in monkeys and
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what appeared to be rageful biting and then immobilized resignation in behaviorally
depressed rats.
Freud’s last paper, Analysis, Terminable and Interminable (1939), featured
examples of what he perceived to be the unsolvable mystery of helpless
psychological entrapment in repetitious patterns of self-destructive behavior. He
blamed the Iliad’s and Odyssey’s villainous immortal, Thanatos, the everthreatening
spirit of death and destruction to contrast with the good, life giving Eros.
The Yiddish word for a personified Thanatos is Moloch ha-Moves. A range of
fixations in self-excitatory, repetitious, self-mutilating behaviors is documented in
domesticated animals. Dogs, particularly German Shepherds and Labrador
Retrievers, can lock up in compulsive grooming cycles of what is called acral lick in
which endless licking of paws or flanks lead to the break down of skin into seepingsore
dermatitis, which, in turn, stimulates more licking.
Mark Twain wrote a story about his getting stuck in ceaseless mental
repetitions of a catchy, clangy poem. He could not stop reciting it to himself even
after days of sleep loss and anorexia. He was finally cured by relating his problem
and the poem to his pastor who he then unwittingly heard creating a community
epidemic by including the rhyme in his following Sunday’s sermon. Psychologists,
who study this form of human mental limit cycle attacks, call this state of internal,
repetitiously recited, poetic stuckness, earworms.
There are additional invariants of sudden transformations into spiritual-mindbrain
bifurcations into a limit cycle lockups and, as discussed, one of them is
psychological splitting. In psychoanalytic theory, as first suggested by Freud in his
1937 written and posthumously published paper, Splitting of the Ego in the Process
of Defense (1940), splitting implies two simultaneous and contrary psychological
reactions, one can be conscious and the other unconscious. They can both emerge
in conflictual situations involving adaptive efforts of the personality to deal with the
opposition between some form of powerful instinctual pressure and attendant
perceived or imagined danger. Otto Fenichel’s Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis
(1950) elucidates multiple manifestations of splitting of the I (more technically, the
ego) into a conscious part that knows reality versus an unconscious part that denies
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it. In some situations, a logical view contends with a more irrational, magical one.
Today, the morning group praying, evening hymn singing, Christian Republican
Right Wing feed their feelings of being on the side of God by dividing people into
those that are like them and good and those that President Bush and Attorney
General John Ashcroft calls the evil doing “bad guys.” As noted previously,
psychoanalytic theory posits that the evil doing others may represent the projected
repository of our own unacceptable impulses and inclinations. It became quite clear
in my own psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic training that it is in healing our split
and knowledge of our own unacceptable things that will lead to our understanding
and forgiveness of others.
As we dig deeper into global brain-mind dynamics of emergent high-energy
fixation, stuck repetitiousness and splitting, we encounter their universality in the
structures of mathematical thought. Did we just make them fit? Do these thought
forms map onto internal and external physical reality? Are these abstract concepts
and operations simply products of our biological brains manifested as psychological
mechanics and used to explain to ourselves what we perceive and think? Does a
square have external reality or is it a universally imagined something, and, as such,
represented only in our minds and the pictures of it we draw? Is mathematical
understanding simply inborn perceptual skills combined with developed and
practiced logical cognition? Or, do we take the Platonic view of mathematical
relations: these abstractions are the ultimate realities, antedating and persisting
through the past, present and future of the universe and omnipresent.
Where can the conceptual boundary be drawn between the physical reality of
the Babylonian surveyors use of the Pythagorean theorem to calculate distances,
that the sum of the squares of the lengths of the two legs of a right triangle is equal
to the square of the length of its hypotenuse, and its abstract, pencil-marks-onpaper,
algebraic development as in the definition of Pythagorean numbers, a,b, and
c such that a 2 + b 2 = c 2 . The dichotomy between the abstract and concrete,
consistently blurred in our work, is between a natural science with ideas that can be
disconfirmed, directly or indirectly, by experimental observation and the thinking of
mathematics as an a priori field in the sense of Kant. The modern Platonic view
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such as that held by Rene Thom is that once accepting a set of natural givens,
called the axioms, the rest of the knowledge of this reality grows in the form of
theorems that relate to the axioms and each other through their logical consistency.
Knowledge of reality is moved by the ever-forward mathematical refinement of a
priori conditions to do away with the theorems’ exceptions, called counter examples.
The Hebraic Bible’s view of signifiers such as words and symbols is close to,
but not identical with, the Platonic view of mathematical formalism. According to the
Torah, God made the word with words. God spoke and the world became real. The
Aramaic for “I create in speaking” is avara k’davara , or as the magician says, as he
waves his wand over an apparently empty black high hat, abracadabra. The
Hebrew word for word, davar, also signifies thing. This view contrasts with the
mathematical formalists, among them Hilbert, who considered the signifiers of
abstract mathematics simply symbols used in a game, the rules of which being
arbitrary, must include proofs of consistencies among them. Consistency from the
point of view of physics was addressed by Hertz, in Die Prinzipien der
Mechanik,(1894), where he expressed the formalist theoretical physicist’s work as
“…within our own minds we create images or symbols of the external objects, and
we construct them in such a way that the logically necessary consequences of the
images are again the images of the physically necessary consequences of the
objects.”
In another set of related contrasts, the constructionist mathematician will
argue that mathematical assertions are only true if they can be demonstrated, found
or constructed. In contrast, the classical school of mathematics can develop the
case for the truth of mathematical statements if they are consistent with field’s
network of theorems and proofs, even if, up to the current time, no specific example
of this truth can be demonstrated. The former can be thought of as a builder, the
latter as a discoverer. For example, suppose we try to make a proposition about
perfect numbers where a perfect number is defined as being equal to half the sum
of its divisors. Using the perfect number 6, we find that its non-identity divisors are
1, 2, and 3 and half of their sum = 6. Our proposition: either there exists an odd
perfect number, or else there exists no odd perfect number. An expression of this
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forced decision between yes and no is called the excluded middle. The
constructionist mathematician, an orientation without the excluded middle, asserts
that “an odd perfect number exists” would only be meaningful if one could show that
such a number had been found or constructed. The classical mathematician would
find the phrase “no odd perfect number exists” meaningful without a concrete
example, if the assumption of its existence would lead to a no (versus yes)
contradiction encountered in the proof-relevant network of established theorems
and their relations. The symbolic operations of these formal schools of mathematics
and their relationship to the objective and ideational realities of brain-mind-spiritual
life have been viewed by some as Western cultural products rather than
expressions of secular or spiritual Absolutes. Still others have argued that cultural
relativism is not relevant here because mathematicians worldwide constitute a
monoculture.
With respect to the real world existence of abstract mathematical structure,
our Platonic bias must be obvious. The thrilling experience of a new reality I get to
know from finally understanding how a theorem works and the rush of peering into
the grandeur of the Grand Canyon feel like the same kind of full-of-wonder high to
me. I blend them here without reservation. Perhaps this world of spiritual abstraction
is closer to the orientation of the school of intuitionist mathematics. Its founder,
L.E.J. Brouwer, required that every mathematical construction be so immediately
apparent to the human mind that no formal proof was necessary. This became my
form of spiritual transcendence, which led naturally to a mathematical, mystical
faith.
We carry the explication of this kind of reality further. Reflections of the good
and evil, right and left, moral directional biases and their relative weightings in born
again bifurcations to invariant circles called limit cycles, can be symbolically
represented in what are called the complex eigenvalues of matrices describing the
system’s set of orthogonal motions with changes in their control parameters. The
behavior of these complex eigenvalues underlies and characterizes the
mathematical mechanism of the Hopf bifurcation.
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The subject of complex eigenvalues brings up in me the emotionally
disturbing subject of imaginary and complex numbers. I can still feel a little of my
earlier anxiety. The episode started benignly enough. Our high school’s freshman
algebra class was studying how to solve quadratic equations, equations in which
the highest power of an expression was two. Told to work at the blackboard in front
of the class, I was given the problem of finding the two values of x that were the
roots of the equation, 5x 2 + 3x + 4 = 0. I had been taught to use the memorized
quadratic formula,
2
− b±
b −4ac
x = , in which a = 5, b = 3 and c = 4. I always
2a
calculated the square root part first and wound up with the expression,
9 − 80 = −71.
I can still feel the sinking feeling in my stomach as I looked at the
result. I anticipated the usual snide remarks and embarrassment as I contemplated
doing what I did not know how to do, take the square root of a negative number. Mr.
Kirby, the retired mechanical engineer who was my high school freshman algebra
teacher tried to help, but I did not trust him. It seemed to me that he had already
humiliated me in front of the class, several times. He asked, “… what number when
squared, multiplied by itself, would equal –1.” He then asked it another way: solve
the following equation for x: x 2 +1 = 0. Seeing something I could do, I wrote the next
line quickly x 2 = -1 and then, taking the square root of both sides, I wrote x = − 1 .
He then asked me what that meant. I answered by writing quickly, glibly and blindly
that that meant that − 1×
− 1=−1. He asked me to explain what that meant by
giving him an example from the real world. Not yet knowing about imaginary and
complex (combine real and imaginary numbers), I stood head down, ashamed and
silent, thinking that my smart friend Jerry Blau would get the answer immediately.
Mr. Kirby said he would go on with the class while I continued to stand in front of the
blackboard and thought about it. He told me to interrupt him when I was ready to
answer. Some classmates were smirking, others giggled aloud. They had seen him
do this to me before.
Mr. Kirby, a short, muscular man, an ex-marine with a military haircut and a
brusque manner, lectured that mathematical competence and obedience to
authority and class discipline were all of a piece. I asked him about mathematical
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creativity and he said that this class was certainly not about that. I disliked and
feared him. He seemed to feel (and wrote a note to my parents to the effect) that,
being “too arrogant” I needed to be “brought down a peg or two.” I had gotten the
best grades in the first two exams and was enjoying the role of after school tutor for
some of my friends. I suspect I was getting pretty egotistical. In class, I found myself
eagerly shouting out answers without holding up my hand, behavior that Mr. Kirby
met with his characteristic look of fatigued disgust. Twice I was thrown out of class
for my introjections. He then began to give me problems that I could not do, for
which I was not prepared. This left me standing at the blackboard until the end of
the hour, after all the rest of the students had solved theirs and sat down. On
parent’s night, Mr. Kirby told my father that I needed more “social and intellectual
discipline.”
Inspired and personally directed hard work and socially defined correct
behavior were not synonymous to this arrogant 13 year old who had already
brought chagrin to his mother, the conservatory classical piano instructor, with his
satirical pianistic jazzy composition called “How High the Moonlight Sonata.” I was
also a secret reader of the book on the top back shelf in my father’s library by Jack
Hanley called “How to Make Mary; A Gentlemen’s Guide to Seduction.” In Mr.
Kirby’s class, inspired by the book, I sometimes reached behind me, through the
crack in my desk seat, to caress the inside part of the long smooth legs and
sometimes moist panties of a well developed, tall and beautiful brunette girl behind
me. I was never caught and she pretended that nothing was happening. In fact, she
never talked to me outside of class. I felt then, vaguely, and now, more specifically,
that a content enriched, instinctually titillated and excited unconscious could lead
me to the solutions of intellectual challenges if it were both sufficiently indulged and
untrammeled, left alone in its work of being itself. Mr. Kirby did not see things that
way.
Since then, among my graduate and post-doctoral students in the
neurosciences, I have learned that the Mr. Kirby’s of modern American educational
practice have ruined generations of potential mathematicians and physical
scientists. Worse, they have created generations of very bright math phobics who
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run to other graduate fields such as biology and medicine and come to resist the
potentially humiliating incursions of new and potentially helpful abstract ideas and
operations from mathematics and physics into their fields. They do not want their
persecutory versions of Mr. Kirby to take up residence once again in their heads. I
can still feel his negative presence during long hours of struggle with the ego
deflating feelings of dumbness that an understanding of almost any new
mathematical concept requires of me. Holding Mr. Kirby’s voice off as long as I can
until, sometimes, the wonderful “aha!” experience arrives. I have tried to forgive him
since but forgetting him has not been possible.
It turns out that in the world of elementary, physically representative, real
numbers, the square root of a negative number has no meaning. Such a number
has understandably come to be called imaginary. Was this the answer Mr. Kirby
wanted? There was some conflict among mathematicians in the 17 th
and 18 th
Century about the arbitrary definition of −1
as an imaginary number. It was
symbolized by a letter, i, that is −1 ≡ i . The existence of i extended the range of
algebraic definitions so that a solution of the quadratic formula as above could be
found for the square root of a negative number. A further expansion of this idea was
to that of a complex number that can have both a real and an imaginary part. For
example, letting letters be generalized representations of numbers, a complex
number might be written, a + bi, real number a + real number b times i, the letters
such as a, b, c, d… symbolized real numbers. Consistent with membership in an
algebraic system, a + bi and c + di can be added and multiplied. This extension of
the real numbers into the imaginary realm permitted d’Alembert’s and Gauss’s
proofs (and many, more complete ones since) of the powerful Fundamental
Theorem of Algebra from which the faith derives about always being able to find at
least one solution to an algebraic equation. It was proven that any n th
algebraic equation (e.g.
has at least one real or complex root.
x
n
degree
n 1
+ x − + ... = 0 ) with real or complex coefficients always
Closer to an image that helps make intuitive connections with human born
again bifurcations, limit cycles and directional splitting is the geometric interpretation
of a complex number, let us now call it z. As above, algebraically, z is the sum of a
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real part a, plus b times the imaginary part, bi”; that is, z = a + bi. We can then set
up a geometric space to represent z by imagining a two dimensional plane with the
horizontal real axis extending from left to right, the usual x axis, and the vertical
dimension, called the imaginary axis, extending from bottom to top like the standard
y axis. These two axes, going from negative values to positive ones, left to right and
bottom to top, cross at the shared value of 0. Thus a and b can be visualized as the
rectangular coordinates of a point in the plane and the point locates the complex
number, z = a + bi. Since real parts and imaginary parts are like apples and pears
and for addition, like must be added to like, if two complex numbers, a + bi and c +
di are equal, then a = c and b = d and their sum is written (a + c) + (b + d) i.
Now that we’ve set up a point z on the plane, located with a complex number
at z = a + bi, we can then draw an arrow, called a vector, from the intersection of the
imaginary and real axis at 0 to this point z. Its length from 0 to z, 0z, we’ll call that
length ρ , is the size or amplitude-like modulus of the complex number, z = a +bi.
The angle this 0z vector makes with the real, 0a-axis, lets call this angle φ , is called
the argument of complex number z = a +bi. ρ is a length that can grow or shrink, φ
is an angle that can rotate. We imagine vectorial movement like that of a variable
length hand of a clock. This geometric explication of complex numbers prepares us
to visualize complex numbered eigenvalue solutions to matrices representing the
relevant equations that bifurcate to limit cycles and directional good and evil
splitting. ρ represents the dilatable clock’s radial amplitude of circular motion and
φ , the angle of vectorial turning from the 0a-axis.
The complex conjugate of the complex number, a + bi is the complex number
a – bi in which the sign of the imaginary part is reversed. Geometrically, this means
that a pair of complex conjugate numbers with the ρ ’s of both having below zero
values relative to the 0a-axis, that is negative real parts, could be imagined as the
points indicated by two same sized, mirror image, clock hands pointing at 8:00 and
10:00 o’clock. Note that the φ , the angle of vectorial deviation of the arrow pair from
the 0a-axis, turn in opposite directions in these mirror image moving clock hand
vectors. Without going deeper into the representation of the actions of the system in
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question (its differential equation) in the form of what is called its Jacobian matrix of
partial derivatives (a matrix representation of the differential equation indicating
orthogonal directional velocities of change of locations of the components of the
motion with respect to changing values of the control parameter), we know that
when the ρ of the matrix’s set of two complex conjugate eigenvalues is less than
zero, ρ < 0, the orbit representing the system, spirals into a stable fixed point. This
is analogous to going to the bottom of the parabolic attractor basin as described
above. Values of the invisible eigenvalues and their changes constitute the abstract
mathematical mechanisms underlying the observable dynamics of the system
observable physically.
The mathematical mechanism underlying the Hopf bifurcation of fixed points
into limit cycles (associated with bi-directional splitting that accompanies the
amphetamine transformation into limit cycle stereotypy of rigid ideas and equally
likely mirror image motions in the directions of good versus evil) is the crossing of
the systems real valued parts, ρ ’s, of its complex conjugate eigenvalues into
positive territory, ρ > 0. The mirror image of clock arrows is transformed from 8:00
and 10:00 o’clock to the clock locations of 4:00 and 2:00. At a Hopf bifurcation, a
pair of complex conjugate eigenvalues crosses the imaginary (vertical) axis such
that is real parts have positive value. In the orbit representing the motions of the
system itself, the fixed point disappears to be replaced by the action spiraling out to
an invariant circle. This is analogous to our manifold image of the disappearance of
the central attractive point and the sudden appearance of a small hill at the bottom
of a parabolic basic of attraction.. The new attractor is an invariant circular path
around the hill, with the spiraling out to the invariant circle being a two dimensional
picture of the disappearance of the bowl-bottom and appearance of a missing point,
hill top fixed point and a spiral flow to the path circling the hill. Underlying the
transition from a fixed point to a limit cycling, invariant circle, are a pair of mirror
image complex conjugate eigenvalues that turn in mirror image, we could say, good
versus evil, opposite directions. The Hopf bifurcating system inevitably has both.
The implications of this very abstract metaphor for the emergent limit cyclesplitting
style of spiritual transformation can be made deeper by considering the
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common practice of Rumi’s Mevlevi (and other) orders of Islamic Dervishes that
facilitate the onset and maintenance of their ecstatic states by an improvisational
dance which goes from rocking to irregular whirling. The Dervish teaching tales
place a symbolic emphasis on the power of the rotating wheel, the circling of the
heavenly bodies, the mill wheel and the millstone. As Rumi said, “The mountain of
the sun I’ll fashion to a mill. And as my waters run, I’ll turn thee at my will.” Note that
their work toward spiritual transformation results in neither the emergence of the
involuntary and rigid limit cycles of invariant circles or the associated divisive
internal eigensplitting of good self from evil other. The Sufi compass points to an
integrated field of divine consciousness, which contains the appearance of the
world’s multiplicity. In this profound unity, all humankind is perceived as one family.
The singular direction of all prayer, Salat, five times a day, at dawn, high noon,
afternoon, sunset and an hour after sunset, turns the entire world into a unified
directional field of prayer. At its center, the Islamic pilgrims wander round and round
the black cube of the ancient shrine of Kaaba,
This leaves one with the speculation that we started with: that the simple,
authoritarian rules of the amphetamine, roll-up and splitting religions may be
intrinsically more vulnerable to unpredictable breakouts into morally inconsistent
actions and that the righteously rigid limit cyclists are invariantly split into
ambivalence. In contrast, the more free form, chaotic turns of the entheogenic
dervish define us all as belonging to one unified ecstatic field.
Further Readings for Amphetamine Roll-Up And Splitting
Psychology and Religion. Carl G Jung, Princeton Univ. Press, N.J. 1938.
The Faith of a Heretic, Walter Kaufmann, Meridian, N.Y. 1959.
Nightmare Season. Arnold J. Mandell, Random House, N.Y. 1976.
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The Rabbinic Mind. Max Kadushin, Bloch , N.Y. 1972.
Coming of (Middle) Age. Arnold J. Mandell, Simon and Schuster, N.Y. 1978.
Introduction to Islamic Theology and Law. Ignaz Goldziher, Princeton Univ. Press,
N.J. 1981.
Tales of the Dervishes. Idries Shah, Dutton, N.Y. 1970.
Open Secret; Versions of Rumi. J. Moyne and C. Barks, Threshold Books, Putney,
Vermont. 1984.
Amphetamine Psychosis, P.H. Connell, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1958.
Amphetamine Use, Misuse and Abuse. David Smith, Hall, Boston. 1979.
Long-term Administration of D-Amphetamine. David S. Segal and Arnold J. Mandell,
Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior. 2:249-255. 1974.
Amphetamine Enhancement of Reward Asymmetry. S.D. Glick, L.M. Weaver and
R.C. Meibach, Psychopharmacology 73:323-327, 1981.
Hopf Bifurcation and Its Applications, Appl. Math. Sci. Vol. 19,. Springer-Verlag,
N.Y., N.Y. 1976.
Dynamics, The Geometry of Behavior, I-IV, Aerial Press, P.O. Box Office 1360,
Santa Cruz, CA 1982.
Nonlinear Oscillations, Dynamical Systems and Bifurcations of Vector Fields. John
Guckenheimer and Phillip Holmes, Springer-Verlag, N.Y. 1983.
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Psychiatric Aspects of Neurologic Disease. D. Frank Benson and Dietrich Blumer,
Grune and Stratton, N.Y. 1975.
Drives and Reinforcements. James Olds. Raven, N.Y. 1977
Neurobiology of Stereotyped Behavior. S.J. Cooper and C.T. Dourish. Clarendon,
Oxford, 1990.
Mathematics Unlimited—2001 and Beyond. B. Engquist and W. Schmid, Springer,
N.Y. 2000.
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CHAPTER 8:
FAITH AND RATIONALITY
It was my belief that, without subjective evidence of Holy Spirit Energy, the
rush of reconfiguring transcendent experience, some glimmering of grace no matter
how fleeting, an experience of intoxication with God, Martin Buber’s self
authenticating I-Thou encounter, the many good citizens of this world, without these
moments of illumination, must be attending church or temple to negotiate a better
now and hereafter. Attending synagogue or church without the promise of a
mystical high seemed like a superstitious rabbit foot rubbing for personal health and
safety and a sharing of propitious contacts for social and economic advantage. Why
else?
I have had the good feel of what Jews call Tzedakah, the sharing of supplies
by the haves for the betterment of the have nots. I have known the quiet calm of
human right action as in the Unitarian Universalist’s serving the needy, open and
flexible, intimate mindfulness of others and their needs. Considering E.O. Wilson’s
brand of brain herd biology of altruism gives me a warm feeling about the potentially
intrinsic goodness of man. But compared with the Jamesian brands of ecstatic
transcendence, minds blown in Sufi twirling, Orthodox Jewish chanting, rocking and
dancing, hands-in-the-air praying and hands-on-the-head healings of Wednesday
night Pentecostal services, the soberly serious social engagement and
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responsibility sermons of Reformed Judaism and the Unitarians as well as the 19 th
Century hymns and high I.Q. apologetics of some Presbyterian and Methodist
clergy, are like near beer. Formally equivalent but without the rush and the delicious
risk and promise of life long addiction.
National opinion polls have found my preference for churchly fireworks in
religious experience quite common. My Charismatic Christian sons are among the
many with a preference for and loving labeling of these kinds of houses of worship
as rock and roll churches. In a recent survey of Americans, 46% of respondents
claim to be twice born, Evangelical Christians. Perhaps unfortunate with respect to
their children’s academic and professional ambitions, 48% do not accept a
Darwinian view of biology. Fifty million American readers are now buying books with
plots taken from the Babylonian prophecies and anticipate the Rapture of Return
with weekly, joyful, mini-rehearsals. They include praying in tongues as the Spirit
moves them like Peter, John, James and the rest of the one hundred and twenty in
the upper room on the day of Pentecost.
Those of us with two or more available cable religious networks can, on any
given Sunday morning, choose a smiling, kind, Proverbs quoting, rational
Presbyterian liturgical stylist. In his seventies, standing tall with a full head of white
hair and in a quietly resonant voice, he delivers a sermon about seven ways to
avoid growing old. His list includes learning new things and continuing to work. His
spiritual proposal was about personal faith, always leaning on the Lord. On another
network, the three hundred pound, restlessly pacing preacher of the Cornerstone
Assembly of God Church of San Antonio, Texas, stood in front of large maps of Iraq
and the Middle East. He preached from Ezekiel about the refleshing of dry bones
and a return of all Jews to Israel. He said that contributions to his church over the
past year helped finance the return of 4000 Russian Jews to Israel. He reiterated
the promise that, when the return was completed, there would be a massive Islamic
attack on Jerusalem and “we will all rise up to Heaven” in an ecstatic
disappearance. Jews, as long as they accepted Jesus as their Savior, were
welcomed along on the ride. More then two thousand parishioners erupted into loud
applause along with shouts of “praise Jesus.”
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An inkling of something entirely different, neither human psychology nor
frenzy, was an unanticipated benefit of being at England’s Warwick University in
sabbatical residence in Math House #2. This large, round, many windows and black
boards, study with a small upstairs bedroom was one of the apartments for visiting
professors behind the Warwick Mathematics Institute in the English Midlands. I
attended a variety of churches and synagogues on the weekends. The perspective
that emerged for me at Warwick was that rabbinic Haggadah, inferences to be
drawn from imaginatively spawned narrative, isn’t the same thing as Halakhah, the
law dictated by Jewish legal tradition; that geometric insight and other intuitions
aren’t the same as mathematical proofs; that the mystical visions of the English
romantic poet and illustrator, William Blake, were not necessarily consistent with the
scientific observations and logical arguments of the contemporary Scottish
philosopher, David Hume. Paul Tillich wrote that the wisdom attendant to primary
spiritual experience that was without the unconditional character of sensible moral
obligation was not to be trusted without critical analyses. I learned that among High
Episcopal and Reformed Jewish English academics, God is not a hallucinogen, but
more like a spiritually based, social contract.
In his 1929 essay, Mysticism and Logic, Bertrand Russell noted mysticism’s
preference for: (a) Insight over discursive analytic knowledge; (b) Belief in the unity
of all things over oppositions or divisions in representational thought; (c) The denial
of the reality of time, even in the divisions of past, present and future; (d) Belief that
evil is unreal, manufactured by the innate divisiveness in some analytic intellects. In
modern brain hemispheric and other neuropsychological philosophies, these
countervailing descriptions of external observables can grow naturally out of the
brain’s abilities to maintain logically incompatible perspectives simultaneously.
Right-brain aesthetic holism in contrast with left-brain categorical analytics recalls a
popular example. Would one chose Blake or Hume to better explain how the time
dimensions of memory disappear with the scent of a past lover or the hearing of his
favorite music for lovemaking.
In the inevitable mix of primitive instinct with high purpose, the visiting
professors’ Math House #2 had an aura of infamy. It was the one in which, by the
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accidental intrusion of a campus security officer, the brilliantly eccentric Northern
California mathematician, Ralph Abraham, was famously arrested for pot smoking.
The campus officer told me that, late one night, thinking he had smelled fire, he
used his master key to make an unwelcome entrance. The incident became part of
the record in House of Commons hearings about the intellectual and moral decay of
English Universities. Apparently, even among English intellectuals, there were trivial
and politicized definitions of virtue.
Christopher Zeeman, the head of the Mathematics Institute was a worldclass
topologist who, among other things, demonstrated biological and socialpsychological
applications of Rene Thom’s Catastrophe Theory. I was invited as a
brain person and amateur mathematician, to see what might result from mixing me
with members of his fine mathematics faculty. In addition to learning some
bifurcation and lots of ergodic (statistical) theory, my chats with Christian and
Jewish mathematicians on Saturday and Sunday morning visits to the synagogues
and chapels of Oxford and Cambridge introduced me to an English intellectual’s
religious tradition. The spirit of C.S. Lewis was still very much alive. Surprising,
however, was that more than a few of these scholars had the elements of Christian
faith in full menu: virgin birth, incarnation, crucifixion, resurrection, original sin and
the promise of salvation. I was disabused of my belief that these elements of
Christian belief were incompatible with high mental capacity and intellectual
sophistication.
Yet, the spiritual climate of these English intellectual Christians were different
from today’s post, post Vietnam return of the religious themes of the turn of the
Twentieth Century, big tent revivalism and Billy Sunday’s brand of Christian patriotic
America. Today’s religious patriotism infuses George W. Bush’s Republican base,
National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice’s after dinner hymns and Attorney
General John Ashcroft’s early morning bible study groups for his Assistant Attorney
Generals. Even the most religious of my English math buddies are without what
seems like adventitious baggage of today’s faith based Republicans: the belief in
the immorality and godlessness of teaching evolution in schools, what has been
called the massacre of the innocents in stem cell research and abortion clinics, the
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right to bear machine guns and the intrinsically venal sinfulness of a man’s
commitment in love of another man. Was the clustering of these apparently diverse
concerns the accidental result of a sociopolitical-religious short circuit, a classresentment-driven
spiritual split in geographic, socioeconomic and educational
class? Tim LeHay is selling millions of books, whole tables full at Wal-Mart’s, which
come packaged with these assumptions.
Surely higher-level theists would make today’s evil more subtle, abstract and
pervasive, perhaps involving inner life themes of envy, vengeance and aggression;
goodness implicating empathically made moral choices involving interpersonal
kindness and evidence of caring about the well being of others. My contact with
some English academicians taught me that even the mathematics of hard science
can be viewed as a gift of grace and belief in the possibility of a continually
emerging, Christ-centered, evolutionary process. Protestant philosopher
mathematician Alfred North Whitehead in his 1926 Religion in the Making, Catholic
anthropologist priest, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin in his The Phenomenon of Man
and the more modern process theologists of New York’s Union Theological
Seminary do not exclude Christ’s involvement in evolving science and other new
knowledge. They see Him participating in a spiritual evolutionary progress which
does not gather the barnacles of irrational ideas about the murder of less than
hundred-cell blastula or the psychoneurohormonally determined sexual partner
preference. They know about the ever-changing cultural and political appearances
of faux and real evil. Nonetheless, what I learned from my Christian and Jewish
friends at the mathematics institute was that, though the definitions of evil may
change, evil as a construct and spiritual mechanism is an apparently essential
component of the Christian experience. On Rosh Hashanah, even the reformed
Jews commit themselves to Teshuvah, making up for past evil deeds. The good
versus evil dichotomous view of man’s existence is true in the lives of Assembly of
God Fundamentalists of Georgia as well as the sophisticated Readers, Professors
and Dons of the high Episcopal churches and university chapels of Oxford and
Cambridge.
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Finding high-level mathematical thinkers at home in metaphysical surrounds
and metaphysicians diligently practicing mathematics are certainly not new. Some
instructive examples include, famously, the Pythagoreans, the 15 th Century Catholic
Cardinal Nicholas Von Cusa, who used geometric symbols to record his spiritual
philosophy, and the Talmudic-Cartesian style of argumentation of Nicholas de
Spinoza. This approach to an examination of metaphysical systems, sometimes
called mathematicism, exploits the machinery of the mathematical mind to evaluate
the consistency and completeness of thoughts, to create representative axiomatic
structures and to operate within them using syntactic calculus. The practice of the
rational dialectic of mathematicism, working for moral purity of heart, develops a
brain-somatic discipline much like the exercises of Yoga.
This approach flies in the face of the major premise of these essays, my
belief in the necessity of what William James and others have called the primary
religious experience in order to know God. Recall that my father’s favorite Jewish
mystic, Abraham Abulafia, said this experience gives birth to an activated mind that
can then immediately and completely inform the Spirit. Among the religious English
mathematicians, I learned that it doesn’t have to happen this way. One can
apparently think oneself to It. A well known example of a modern theistic Oxford
type, the Magdalene College English tutor and Don, C.S. Lewis, in his introduction
to St. Athanasius’s The Incarnation of the Word of God, wrote, “…I believe that
many who find that nothing happens when they sit down or kneel down with a book
of devotion, might find that their heart would sing unbidden while they are working
their way through a tough bit of theology with a pipe in their teeth and a pencil in
their hand…” In contrast, without my personal experiences with joyful
transcendence, the direct feeling of His presence, I would not have known about the
goals of his more analytic efforts. It was a struggle for me to use a rational mind to
share the meanings of the poetic ruminations in his BBC lectures, Mere Christianity.
This Reader from Oxford with two firsts in Latin and Greek followed by another first
in English Literature, described the world as “…enemy occupied territory…” the
omnipresence of the Good Power turned Dark Power of the Prince of Darkness and
the Christian as “…a man who is enabled to repent and pick himself up…”
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For C.S. Lewis, religious faith came from intellectual hard work. He was put
off by spirituality that arrived by thoughtless fiat. He rejected the idea of living in
simple and loving direct conversation with the God within, as described by Brother
Lawrence. Lawrence was described as the simple “great awkward fellow who broke
everything.” Lewis had little faith in what he perceived as the mindless spiritual
methodology of this selfless, silent, hard working Parisian monastery cook for a
hundred fellow monks who was also their dedicated smelly sandal repairer. Perhaps
reflecting his place in the British intellectual class system, Lewis wrote that
Lawrence’s conversations and letters in the brief pamphlet, Practice of the
Presence of God, “…full of truth… but unctuous and repulsive.” At the same time,
Lewis spoke of his own experiential evidence for God in Surprised by Joy in which
he admits, “I am an empirical theist. I have arrived at God by induction.” It is likely
that Brother Lawrence did not know and did not need to know the difference
between an inductive and deductive argument.
For most of my years, I have been a subject of Jamesian transcendent
experience, LSD expansive visions, Sufi moving meditation, long distance running,
Black Baptist shouting, Tantric orgasmic withholding, Yiddish Labovicher dancing,
Charismatic Christian Church rock and rolling, Hindi meditative rising Kundalini,
almost any ecstatic crisis inducing, God type. Recall that I am from a generation
that a Donovan song inspired to smoke bananas. I did not personally access
Brother Lawrence’s calm, work-a-day, devotional, quietly persistent, perspective
yielding, inner conversations with God until my sixth decade. The opportunity came
from my growingly severe, unfixably chronic, pain. The counter-intuitive insight and
helpful identification was gained from reading about Joseph de Beaufort’s
conversations with Brother Lawrence. Beaufort said Lawrence was born with the
name Nicholas Herman in 1611 and renamed Lawrence in honor of his parish
priest. As young soldier in the Thirty Years War of the 17 th Century, he was severely
injured. He was left with both sciatic nerves trapped between bone spurs and tissue
scarring from his early twenties. These injuries, involving the two biggest painconducting
nerves in the body, left him crippled in gait and in chronically severe
lower back and leg pain from which he would never be free. It was after this time
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and a few years of looking for God in what he called “wondering in the wilderness”
that he began his 40 years of monastery service as cook and sandal maker. He was
described as amazingly selfless and a “…gentle man of joyful spirit…” who
“…continually walked with God…not from the head but from the heart…” Doing long
hours of selfless work with such painful disabilities, how was it that he maintained
his joyful, loving and calm contact with God and his fellow man? How did he do it? I
found that, as with all miracles of God contact for me, it happened by itself.
I suffered my first testicular cancer in my thirties. I felt the little hard rock by
accident while scratching. It was on the left side. Surgical removal was followed by
a five-hour radical abdominal lymph node dissection that left me with incidental
abdominal sympathetic nerve damage, urinary hesitancy and ejaculating backwards
into my bladder. The tissue diagnosis was of embryonic cell carcinoma with
chorionic elements. The U.S. Armed Service Pathology Department’s statistical
book gave me 5% chance of living beyond two years. My second testicular cancer
occurred in my fifties and on the right, two little joined lumps found by my wife. It
was a seminoma with cure rate of 85% but requiring four weeks of almost daily x-
ray treatment. The combination of radiation induced blood vessel scarring (they had
to blast widely since my earlier lymph node dissection confused the usual
radiological anatomy), a pre-existing laterally curved spinal column and the arthritic
changes resulting from fifteen years of running over 10 miles per day with this kind
of back led eventually to the degeneration and collapse of several of the bodies of
my vertebrate pinching several leg nerves between bone spurs and radiationinduced
scarring. I have been in increasingly severe back and leg pain for fifteen
years.
It was in this way that I fell heir to both Brother Lawrence pain syndrome and
what I now think was his strong inclination to live in the Spirit, as far as possible
outside the concerns with his own mental and physical body. In my experience, this
led naturally to a decreased in my life long narcissistic preoccupations, diminished
my ego-driven achievement desperation, setting up a more comfortable inner
seating for conversations about and with God. The choice was between fully
embracing a God-oriented place for most of my daily existence or the chronic use of
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enough narcotics to eliminate complexity of thought, real interpersonal feelings and
hope for meaningfully creative work. The remarkable thing to me was that people
began to talk about my “improved disposition,” an increase in out-of-mypsychiatrist’s
office personal empathy and kindness as well as a significant
decrement in my overweening, ego-stoking ambitious and competitive urges. Any
return to the earth body of tense readiness to competitively succeed, protect with
ego defensive anger, fantasies of assertive sexuality, stand tall grandiose notions of
intellectual superiority, even getting up for scientific combat, was accompanied by
the return to this world of pain. Only lovingly detached, unpretentious, other
directed, quietly calm inner dialogue with Him was a place that I could live. This was
an inner land of still another kind of God than I had previously known. I could even
read and struggle with theological ideas thoughtfully, without referencing personal
mystical, psychopharmacological, Holy Ghost-mimetic, experiences. I could enjoy
the rational, social responsibility valuing, spiritual peace of a white Protestant
Sunday morning service. I could attend Reformed Jewish Friday night services
about man’s responsibility to man without restless boredom. No longer seeking the
feeling of God’s thrill, I could think about it, even without being in the state of my
father’s and Abulafia’s activated mind.
If I had been benefited with a classical language education beyond the high
school and early college Latin of Julius Caeser and Cicero or matriculated in an
academic theological seminary, I would have already studied, maybe even worn
out, the deeper aspects of what seemed like a paradox of the consonance of faith
and reason. I would have been familiar with the rhetorical argumentation in the
patristic Latin commentary on sacred texts by Tertullian and other Fathers of the
early Christian Church, the Talmudic discussions (the Mishna in Hebrew and
Gemora in Aramaic) of the oral Torah by the Rabbinate, the Muslim explication of
Koranic Islam in the oral tradition of the Hadith. Robert Wilken in his recent The
Spirit of Early Christian Thought was in no doubt about the harmonic relationship
between rationality and faith: “…by putting itself in the service of truth, faith enables
reason to exercise its power in realms to which it would otherwise have no
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access…” It is perhaps strange to come to this common knowledge so late, but I
came to my life with my forbearers and father’s magical, mystical biases.
My father had parodied what he thought was the “wasteful time” spent in
rational, Talmudic discussion. He said that is what Jewish men spent their time
doing to avoid physical work while sitting near the city gates. It was the women who
raised the crops and cared for the cattle and children. He had a favorite conundrum
satirizing the village gate discussions. Jewish males, after the age of thirteen,
accompany their morning prayer of commitment to loving and serving God with the
ritual of wrapping scripture embedded animal skin, tefillin, and winding them seven
times around the left arm, near the heart, and around the head, symbolizing the
mind. This contextualizes how my father made fun of a typical topic of these all
male Talmudic seminars: “If one had seven arms, would one wrap the tefillin once
around each appendage or seven times about one of them. If the latter is the case,
how would one chose which one.” In fact, there remains an on-going debate about
the order with which the embedded four passages from Exodus and Deuteronomy
should be arranged and inserted in the tefillin such that some compromising
orthodox Jews wear two types of tefillin, each representing one of the theoretically
justified orderings. I know now that there is an implicitly positive confirmation of a
jointly held faith and feeling of ethnic belonging achieved by such apparently
abstract discourse and argumentation.
In truth, I had not come to Warwick to explore the relationships between faith
and rationality using the cognitive style of mathematicism, but rather to be saved by
the mathematical miracles of the Brain God. Not unrelated to what C.S. Lewis saw
as a prominent characteristic of spiritual experience, “wonder,” and what Philip
Davis and Reuben Hersh in their 1981 book, The Mathematical Experience, spoke
of as “beauty” and “surprise.” I know about the attack of excitement that comes with
the sudden emergence of counterintuitive conceptual connections while exploring
new mathematical ideas. In energetic high, I start skip reading, underlining the book
frantically, jotting commentary on the margins, copying the relevant equations into
my notebook. Was this the same break through to a glimmering of grace, everything
beautifully in order and precious, that I experienced on LSD while sitting for hours
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inside Paris’s towering, echoing, Notre Dame Cathedral, hearing Latin chants in the
dank sweet smell of old church and chained, swinging canisters of smoking incense
as the pipe organ roared? Those realities that George Berkeley, the 1721 author of
Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, the theist whose name
was given to a mostly agnostic Northern California city, saw as grounded in the
spirituality of God’s infinite mind and broadcast as universal ideas through our
derivative, finite minds. Rational religion and mystical religion joined in faith by the
presence of implicit and universal mathematical structure
I spent about two years at a mathematics institute in France, Institute des
Hautes Etudes, IHES, sitting at the guru feet of the mathematical great and
metaphysician, Rene Thom. His mathematical pallet was breathtakingly broad, a
taste of what in past centuries was called natural philosophy and what seemed to
me to be about the unapologetic geometrization of the Intuitive God of the Mind.
Natalie Angiers, erstwhile mathematician, now reporter and atheistic hard ass,
writing in the New York Times, called Thom’s ideas the talk of “…an Emperor
without clothes…” The Kantian theme of the personal a priori status of an intuitive
geometry, an already in us representation of all that’s out there, was implicit in his
Catastrophe Theory research program and was published first in his classical
Structural Stability of Morphogenesis (1977) and made more overt in his later
(1990) Semiophysics.
To get a feeling for the rational-logical versus mystical-intuitive spiritual issue
in a mathematical context, consider the following: most of us remember the struggle
to unify the strange and difficult cognitive duality of the high school geometry
experience. On one hand, shapes and their relations and rearrangements could be
intuitively grasped, even manipulated; on the other hand, we were taught that these
mental images and the results of their intuitive transformations were not to be
trusted.
In mathematics, as in my belief in the fireworks of primary religious
experience, seeing is not necessarily believing. In my high school geometry class,
what was to be believed was what followed from the proper practice of the tightly
organized, Euclidean system of axioms, postulates and the derivative logical
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operations resulting in the surety of proofs. The unresolved tension about what I
believed from intuitive experience and what I was allowed to believe from the logic
of theorem and proof, perhaps not unlike my belief in the transcendent experience
over logical theological argument as Reality, continued throughout my life. For
example, many decades later at IHES, I saw the world class dynamical systems
theorist and differential geometer-topologist, Dennis Sullivan, use a projector to
display a computer-generated, intricate and beautiful, mathematical object, the well
known, computer screen saver, Mandelbrot set. It represents the control parameter
plane of the well studied complex analytic map, z → z 2 + c. Sullivan, pointing to a
small, discrete complicated little part of it that looked like a little version of the whole
of it, from a distance looking like a point, said, “An important Ph.D. dissertation is
waiting to be done on the question: is this (pointing to the little object) really there?”
In the audience of about a hundred professional mathematicians and one amateur, I
was the only one that laughed.
Historians of mathematics point to the successful generalization of Euclidian
geometry via its abstract axioms, postulates and logical operations to a new, not
naturally intuitable, almost nonvisualizable, non-Euclidean geometry (with the new
geometric axiom, parallel lines do meet at infinity), as evidence against the Kantian
idea of the intuitively accessible, a priori status of geometry. This served as an
example of where mathematics naturally resides, and argues in favor of the thought
control imposed by the modern set theoretic and logical rituals of mathematical
theorem and proof. Thom, in a hereditary-evolutionary biological argument
developed in Semiophysics, said “Objections raised to the Kantian apriority of
Euclidean geometry after the discovery of non-Euclidean geometries, and the
theories of twentieth century physics (restricted and general relativity, quantum
mechanics) appear to me to be irrelevant…they deal with …the infinitely small and
infinitely large…which lies outside the usual cognitive activity of ancient man.”
In my discussions with him, Thom found equivalence relations between
mental and real world objects and their behaviors. He described what he called an
abstract physicalist truth that describes a psychic universe, which, in turn, simulates
outside things and processes. Much like the transcendent experiential God I have
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experienced, seek and think I know about, Thom was not after the logical proofs of
geometry but rather viewed mathematical theorem and proof work as activity
derived from intuitive experience with geometric relations as the thought forms that
represented real Reality. Though a Field’s Medal winner in mathematics (recall that
it is the Nobel Prize in mathematics awarded every four years at the International
Congress of Mathematics) and for his life time, one of the most brilliant and fecund
mathematicians in the world, so many mathematicians admit that they got the seeds
of their life work from his throw away remarks, Thom, with a little smile and his eyes
twinkling, admitted to me with apparent pleasure that “I have never proven any
theorem in my life.” All his discoveries came from insightful moments of grace and
the courage to pursue them. Riding back from Paris late one night on a train that
didn’t stop at IHES’s town of Bures sur Y’vette, I watched him use the red
emergency phone to call the train’s engineer to stop the train suddenly for our exit. I
loved him, in part, because he had the courage to believe in and act on my kind of
intuitively realizable, experiential God.
In keeping with his characteristic style of generalizing mathematical systems
beyond their carefully defined specifics, Thom defined the concept of singularity
very broadly, speaking of them as distinctive and noteworthy things, points where
the usual or expected properties, laws and definitions fail, where smooth and
continuous processes become discontinuous. For Thom, these were the settings for
the unexpected and miraculous. He believed that his work and that of many others,
now and in the future, would indicate that the set of miraculous singularities were
finite, systematic, universal and describable. Most importantly for our purposes,
Thom believed them to be archetypal. It was through the structure of archetypal
singularities that he regarded inside and outside realities as mutually reflective.
I was blessed by hours of discussion with him during his car travels to
lecture around France. Thom often asked me to accompany him as he drove from
IHES to various branches of the University of Paris. He used these times to
exercise my geometrically flavored, mathematical intuitions. He used words to
create visualizable structures without the diagrammatic aid of a blackboard. He
used mental topological structures created by the properties of imagined motions,
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flows, which led to examples of some of his universal singularities that he claimed
could be found in all real physical, biological and psychological systems. For some
examples: One of his archetypal singularities was a boundary at x = 0 such that the
flow couldn’t spread from where it was in x ≥ 0 into x< 0 and was therefore like the
border, the membrane, between the inside and outside of a cell as well as the
hoped for sociopolitical functions of the Great Wall of China and the Maginot Line. If
we were to blow up the boundary line from two to three dimensions, R
2 →R 3 , the
straight boundary line becomes a cylinder for directionally organizing and
connecting flows as in blood vessels, oil pipes, cables and wires. Since production
and delivery need not occur at similar rates, temporary storage is required and may
take the form of a spherical blow-up in the vertical segment of R 3 leading to an open
bottle which may serve as a dead end storage branch of a network of connected
cylinders. In the conceptual reductionism of Semiophysics, Thom said, “…life is
essentially a question of embankment, canalization and the struggle to stem
dispersion.” These structures of mind and world are built and maintained.
Coagulation of blood is an example of a canalized fluid repairing gaps like a
tubeless tire. Thom considered apparent the problem of making something from
nothing, birth, that of finding the hidden sources: the bubbling spring emerges from
an unseen, underground network of canalized fluid flow converging on the apparent
source, birth being the invisible becoming visible. In contrast, a canalized flow
emptying into lake can represent disappearance as a flow.
Mathematicians from all over the world attended Thom’s 65 th birthday
celebration at IHES. His Field’s Medal winning work on the topology of differentiable
(smooth) manifolds, cobordism and related ideas, was mentioned frequently, and
great homage paid to him with respect to these areas of his work. However, in two
days of lectures of personal and professional tribute by the world’s great
mathematicians, his work relevant to Catastrophe Theory and Semiophysics was
not mentioned, even once. The form taken by mathematicians’ most severe
judgments is silence. As the New York Times’ Natalie Angier’s comments indicated,
this is not the time for the intuitive conduct of applied mathematics.
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It was upon Thom’s recommendation, that I spent the year in the
Mathematics Institute in Warwick, England. Using the Math House #2 s home base,
I made many trips to Oxford University and a few to Cambridge. It was in these
places that I learned first hand that belief in the Resurrection was not simply a
matter of socioeconomic class. I tried to schedule my trips to Oxford or Cambridge
to coincide with the weekend so I could hear the remarkably literate sermons at the
Universities college chapels. In these places, for hundreds of years, just because
one was a top-notch practitioner of mathematics or linguistics did not mean that the
Don did not have within him the full panoply of beliefs attendant to the Christian
God.
Maybe this easy combination of logic and Spirit derives from the character of
English mathematics. There are graduates with professorially enfranchising Masters
of Art Degrees in Mathematics from Cambridge University where the subject is
considered by many to be part of the culture of the humanities, closely akin to
philosophy and linguistics.. In the universities of United States, for example the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an academic degree of Ph.D. in
mathematics is seen by most faculty as an indication of the intellectual equipment
required for a life of scientific work in which disconfirmable experiments are the
ultimate criteria for knowledge. The field of pure mathematics (not ostensibly
relevant to the real world outside the mind) has itself evolved in this direction.
Recently, a physical scientist, a theoretical physicist, Edward Witten, was given the
mathematician’s ultimate award, the Field’s Medal. In American universities in
general, very few mathematics departments are in schools of the humanities. Most
are in the schools of science. This variation in bureaucratic, metaphysical, sorting
reflects our continuing struggle with the true nature of reality and the role of
mathematics in its knowing. The now emergent field of computer science removes
mathematics even further from intuition and Spirit. Difficult problems such as proofs
of theorems can be systematically examined for all possibilities quickly by trying
them out in what is now known as a computational proof. On the other hand,
pointing at this computation’s graphics, the theorem and proof, real mathematicians
can ask, is this really there?
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Mentioned briefly above was one of humankind’s beacons, Pythagoras, the
intellectual and spiritual progenitor of Plato. He taught the disciples of the
Pythagorean Brotherhood in Crotona, Italy, that reality at its deepest level was
mathematical thought. Studies there included philosophy, geometry, music and
astronomy, all at the service of achieving closer union with the Divine. Pythagoras
and his school, only his student’s writings remain, was said to be working at unifying
elements of the ancient tribal mystery cults with the observables of worldly events
through meditative, mathematical, philosophical mysticism. Knowledge was gained
through spiritual intuition made harmonious with formal systems of thought. As Plato
later said and as quoted by Thomas Heath in his 1921 History of Greek
Mathematics, about the study of the motion of stars, “…leave the heavens alone…”
because what one sees is only an approximation of the real and more perfect
mathematical structures involving points, lines and circles. To which Newton added
an elongated circle, the ellipse, and Nineteenth and Twentieth Century
mathematicians and physicists, the geometries of positively and negatively curved
space.
It is perhaps not an accident that debates about evidence for the existence
and location of God and where the ideas and structures of mathematics live and
breath generally involves a stand off between those that believe that both are out
there and can be seen, like thoughtful, humanistic actions and caring service for
needful others, versus those that feel the phenomenology of both are projections of
the psychobiologically intuitive Brain God and can be felt like an ecstatic rush of
insightful illumination.
Further Reading for Faith And Rationality
Introduction of Comparative Mysticism. Jacques De Marquette, Philosophical
Library, N.Y. 1949,
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Mysticism and Logic. Bertrand Russell. Norton. N.Y. 1929.
Sefer shel Devarium (The Book of Words). Lawrence Kushner, Jewish Lights,
Woodstock, Vermont. 1998.
Semiophysics: A Sketch, Aristotelian Physics and Catastrophe Theory. Rene Thom.
Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA. 1990.
Mere Christianity. C.S. Lewis. MacMillan, N.Y. 1952.
Sacred Geometry. Miranda Lundy. Walker, N.Y. 1998.
Fractals, Form, Chance and Dimension, B.B. Mandelbrot, Freeman, San Francisco,
1977.
Non-Euclidean Geometry, H.S.M. Coxeter, University of Toronto Press, Toronto,
1957.
Fundamentals of Mathematics, Vol. I. H. Behnke, F. Bachmann, K. Fladt and W.
Suss, MIT Press, Cambridge. 1983.
Religion Explained, The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought. Pascal Boyer.
Basic Books, N.Y. 2001.
Catastrophe Theory. Alexander Woodcock and Monte Davis, Dutton, N.Y. 1978.
It Must Be Beautiful; Great Equations of Modern Science. Graham Farmelo, Granta,
London, 2002.
Neurobiological Barriers to Euphoria. Arnold J. Mandell, American Scientist 61: 565-
573, 1973.
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Brain Physics and the Respiritualization of Healing. Arnold J. Mandell, Bulletin of
the National Guild of Catholic Psychiatrists. 28:19-24, 1983.
Toward a Psychobiology of Transcendence, God in the Brain. Arnold J. Mandell, In
Psychobiology of Consciousness (eds. J.M. Davidson and R.J. Davidson). Plenum,
N.Y. 1980.
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APPENDIX
AN INTUITIVE GUIDE TO THE IDEAS AND METHODS OF DYNAMICAL
SYSTEMS FOR THE LIFE SCIENCES
Arnold J. Mandell and Karen A. Selz
Biological Scientists Can Understand and Use Ideas and Methods of
Nonlinear Science
A yield of advances in computer hardware and software is that even quite
difficult applied nonlinear mathematics can become accessible to experimentally
oriented biological scientists. Before this time, the development and analysis of a
particular set of nonlinear differential equations, describing the actions of a
neurobiological system in motion, involved decades of specialty training, rare insight
and many hours of highly skilled, trial and error computations by hand. Since the
idiosyncrasies of each nonlinear system were considered unique, the results of their
analyses were thought to concern only the particular nonlinear system being
studied. Often a shift in hypothetical mechanism meant starting the long and painful
process all over again. In addition, these findings were usually communicated only
to a small and arcane mathematical community in the form of dense theorems and
difficult to follow proofs, insurmountable language barriers to biological researchers
wishing to use them to better describe and understand their experimental
observations.
For today’s neuroscientist with a desktop computer, an inclination to program
and access to computer algebra and numerical software such as Maple,
Mathematica or MatLab, operational definitions and computational empiricism can
replace the theorem and proof continuity required to do old style applied
mathematics. For those of us without sufficient facility in algebraic manipulation to
easily follow the arguments of professional mathematicians, a computer algebra
program such as Maple serves as a delightfully accessible consultant with which to
“check out what the guy is saying"". Those motivated enough to write their own data
generating or analytic programs in C, Fortran, Pascal or Basic (though not
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essential) can find easy-to-use algorithmic help in Cambridge University Press’s
Numerical Recipes series (Press et al, 1991).
The conceptual and communication gaps between applied mathematicians
and physicists and the bench practitioners of the neurosciences, that inevitably lead
one or the other, most often both, to surrender their deepest intuitions to jointly
shared images that are inevitably more simplistic, are no longer inevitable. With her
own hands on both the quantitative conjectural and experimental machinery, the
motivated practicing neuroscientist can honor her own insights, read about and
construct symbolic representations from her intuitions and do her own quantitative
theory. Computerized numerical techniques have become so powerful and
accessible that, even in academic settings, there is debate about whether
fundamental analytic tools, such as series expansions, should be taught in
undergraduate courses about differential equations.
The practice of “try it and see what happens"", with the current name of
experimental, computational mathematics, is accessible to all. In addition to the
powerful general mathematical programs noted above, there exist several sets of
more specifically targeted software with the capacity to generate, portray and
quantify the behavior of nonlinear continuous and discrete abstract and real
dynamical systems. These often also include algorithmic modules that are useful in
tailoring new models and measures (see for examples, Parker and Chua, 1989;
Baker and Gollub, 1991; Nusse and Yorke, 1991; Sprott and Rowlands, 1991;
Sprott, 1993; Korsch and Jodl, 1994; Enns and McGuire, 1997). Learning from and
using this software, along with only a little programming in the high level languages
and computer algebra programs listed above, permit the non-mathematician
neuroscientist, willing to read in the literature such as that described below, to do
independent, cutting edge research in applied dynamical systems.
Described below will be the computational discoveries in abstract systems
and real neuroscientific data that have led to multiple contexts of quantitative
description. These include those that are: (1) Geometric and conserve metric
distances; (2) Topological and conserve relative positions but not distances; (3)
Single or multiple global quantitative descriptors such as scaling numbers or scaling
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number spectra; (4) Non-Gaussian distributions with heavy tails and correlations
reflected in their Hurst, Fano, Allan and Levy exponents; (5) Statistical dynamical
descriptions of trajectories of the system in their embedding space such as
Lyapounov exponents, Hausdorff-Mandelbrot dimensions, Sinai-Ruelle-Bowen
measures, and Adler-Weiss-Ornstein topological and metric entropies.
Characteristics which discriminate between experimental versus control
conditions in parametric computational and real physiological and pharmacological
experiments serve to generate and test ideas and imagery arising out of behavior
observed in both biological and abstract dynamical realms. New experiments can
be suggested by the implicative structure of dynamical systems theory as well as
neurobiological findings and intuitions. As examples, the sudden “switch” of manicdepressive
bipolarity syndromes may be a “bifurcation” in nonlinear dynamical
systems; the “noise” of the statistical physicist may be the “arousal” of the brain
stem-thalamic biogenic amine and reticular formation neurophysiologist; aspects of
“thought disorder” in the pathophysiology of schizophrenic patients may be an
entropic sequencing idiosyncrasy in the “symbolic dynamics” of a particular brain
system attractor; neuronal “bursting” may be the “intermittency” of a neurodynamical
system; a multiplicity of “discrete ion channel conductances” may be a single “global
scaling hierarchy” of conductances times. The number of published examples of this
fusion of ideas and methodology in the biological-relevant literature is already in the
several hundreds and Medline counts indicate is growing exponentially.
Representative samples of these are described below.
In addition to the technological advances in computational hardware and
software, the major scientific surprise making this new era possible is the discovery
of universalities, the finite set of behaviors characteristic of most, if not all nonlinear
systems, across most if not all of the specific equations or neural systems being
explored. This makes the emergence of semi-quantitative equivalence relations
between model and data not only possible but likely, even though we don’t now and
perhaps never will know enough to either write or solve completely the specific and
detailed equations for the biological system of interest. We neuroscientists need not
be apologetic for using these ideas and tools qualitatively and empirically. In fact,
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unanticipated results of analog and digital computer experiments were responsible
for most if not all of the discoveries underlying the current era’s revolution in applied
nonlinear mathematics
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Modern Applied Dynamical Systems Emerged from Accidental
Computational Discoveries
A medical student named Herr, in his thesis research with the “radio
engineer”, Van der Pol (1926), was simulating cardiac electrophysiology with an
analog device which permitted real time, exploration of a full range of parameter
values long before there were fast enough digital processors to do so. Studying the
behavior of equations of a periodically, pace maker, driven, nonlinear triode
oscillator, Herr found orbital points that appeared to belong to two different periods
simultaneously thus violating the uniqueness of solutions of differential equation
theory. The Van der Pol relaxation oscillator equations, with their slow buildup and
sudden discharge of membrane potential are good models for the slow-fast
processes of repolarization and depolarization of Hodgkin-Huxley type equations
(Rinzel, 1985). Periodically driven, nonlinear differential equations of the Van der
Pol type are generally applicable to the multiplicity of dynamical regimes of neuronal
dynamics (Carpenter, 1979; Aihara et al, 1984; Chay and Rinzel, 1985) and, with
periodic and aperiodic driving and noise, can be made relevant to particular
mammalian neuronal subsystems in the context of clinically relevant global
electrophysiological phenomena such as Magoun’s (1954) brain stem evoked EEG
and behavioral arousal (Nicolis, 1986; Selz and Mandell, 1992; Mandell and Selz,
1993).
In the early 1940’s, using the pre-publication results of similar analog
computer studies (Levinson, 1949), the Cambridge mathematicians, Mary
Cartwright and Joe Littlewood (1945; McMurran, S., Tattersal, J.,1999) used
geometric methods to prove that the highly nonlinear, periodically driven Van der
Pol equations, depending upon one or two changing parameters, generated fixed
point (“homeostatic”), periodic (“cyclic”), subharmonic (“period doubling”),
quasiperiodic (“multiply periodic”), intermittent (“bursting”) and “deterministically
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random” patterns. We now know such phenomena to be universal characteristics of
bifurcation scenarios in nonlinear dynamical systems where bifurcation means
discontinuous changes in patterns of behavior (dependent variables) resulting from
smooth changes in parameters (independent variables). Alerted to their presence in
computer experiments with biologically relevant nonlinear differential equations,
these phenomena have since been found in time series from patch clamped
membrane channels, single neurons, neuronal networks, neuroendocrine systems,
brain waves and patterns of behavior in animals and man (see below). Cartwright-
Littlewood found that the inner and outer edges of the domains of attraction (all the
initial values that eventually wind up in the attractor—the limit set of all bounded
solutions) of two different sets of subharmonic periods for the same parameter
settings were interlaced at many scales in what is today called a fractal basin
boundary. It was in this way that the specific values of the end state are understood
to be indeterminate since the starting values in the fractal basin boundary are
impossible to isolate and specify with adequate experimental precision.
Similar biologically-relevant analog computer discoveries about the Van der
Pol and comparable periodically forced, dissipative (energy utilizing) Duffing
equations (Zeeman, 1976) were made in the early 1960’s by electrical engineer,
Yoshi Ueda (1992), but his thesis director, Chihiro Hayashi of Japan’s Kyoto
University, was sufficiently disturbed by this evidence for the existence of bounded
solutions (attractors) that were neither fixed points (equilibria) nor periodic orbits
(cycles), the only ones known at the time and therefore “strange,” that he refused to
let Ueda publish his findings until he did so as an independent investigator in the
1970’s.
In the early 1960’s, Edward Lorenz (1963), a meteorologist and student of
the Harvard mathematician and dynamical systems pioneer, George Birkoff (1922),
was computing the output of a very reduced subset of Saltzman’s differential
equations for predicting the weather (1962). Lorenz found that numerically
integrated trajectories manifested unpredictable times and directions of motion
between the two spiral orbits of what has come to be known as the Lorenz attractor.
Very small differences in starting values led to widely diverse final values, and, just
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as importantly, far apart initial values could be found close together in the limit set.
This behavior was called “sensitivity to initial conditions” by David Ruelle (1978;
Ruelle and Takens, 1971). It is noteworthy, however, that over a range of values of
the parameters, the overall pattern of the orbits of the Lorenz attractor results in
characteristic geometric pictures as well as invariant statistical descriptors.
Qualitative and quantitative global similarities were gained while specific solutions
were lost in these “strange attractors” of nonlinear systems. Analog computer
simulation of a simpler set of equations inspired by nonlinear chemical reaction
kinetics led to the discovery by Rössler (1976) of another early and generic strange
attractor combining sensitivity to initial conditions and characteristic geometries and
measures.
It was the Russian mathematicians, A.N. Kolmogorov (1957), Sinai (1959)
and V.I. Arnold (Arnold and Avez, 1968), the French mathematicians, Rene Thom
(1972) and David Ruelle (1978) and the U.C. Berkeley mathematicians, Steve
Smale (1967) and his student, Rufus Bowen (1975), and their associates who
gathered together these and other related computational discoveries and embedded
them in a qualitative theory of nonlinear differential equations, using a variety of
formalisms, including point set and differential topology, geometry, analysis and
ergodic (having an invariant statistical description) measure theory that formally
established the fundamentals for research in nonlinear dynamical systems. Here a
dynamical system refers generally and simply to the components and nonlinear
processes (transformations) that move points (values) in discrete (“map”) or
continuous (“differential equation”) time around in an appropriately defined space.
The phrase, “nonlinear transformation” in this context does not imply easily solvable
curved functions, such as those representing the sigmoid kinetic or threshold
functions of enzymes and neuronal networks or those that smoothly log transform
the amplitudes of auditory or other sensory modalities in man, but rather allude to
expressions containing products, powers and functions of the computational and/or
3
experimental variables , such as xx , ( x i
or si n( x)
.
x i
1 2
)
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As noted above, the cross-disciplinary cohesiveness of such a vaguely
defined field occurred as the result of the unanticipated discovery of a relatively
small set of nonlinear phenomena, universalities, that implicated many fields of
mathematics, from differential geometry to number theory, and were found in a
broad range of physical and biological realizations, from turbulent plasmas and
chemical and enzymatic reactions to neuroendocrine hormone release patterns. It is
perhaps counter-intuitive but, whereas linear systems can generate an infinite
number of solutions locating points anywhere the person writing the equations
wants them to go, nonlinear systems are generally restricted to a finite set of global
dynamics and these emerge on their own from the intrinsic dynamics of the system.
Trying to make these systems follow orders, not unlike finding the most clinically
effective dosage range of a psychopharmacological agent, require the empiricism of
trial and error experiments.
A second class of computational accidents involving nonlinear systems
resulted in unanticipated coherence rather than unpredictable disorder. Using one
of the early “high speed” digital computers at Los Alamos, MANIC I, Enrico Fermi
with Pasta and Ulam (1955) attempted to obtain a many-body statistical
thermodynamic equilibrium analogous to heat generated noise by coupling 64
particles together with nonlinear springs. They found only a few low period modes
that oscillated indefinitely. Instead of equidistribution of the energy into 128 degrees
of freedom (64 locations × 64 velocities in 128 dimensional phase space), they
found it gathered up into only few coherent modes. Although the relevance to
biological science of nonlinear multifrequency coherence is a bit off from our focus,
it is worthwhile noting that a recent (Karhunen-Loeve) decomposition of the alpha
band of the resting alert human EEG revealed only three dominant temporal–spatial
modes: anterior-posterior, rotational and standing (Friedrich et al, 1991) and “few
frequency coherence” is a frontier of inquiry in brain wave research.
A heterogeneous collection of coupled nonlinear elements in the form of
widely distributed, multi-location, multifrequency systems such as cross-cortical,
brain stem-thalamic-cortical and interconnected spinal motor neurons can generate
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coherent activity. This temporal and phase coherence plays an important role in
current theory of sensory-associative-motor integrative function, how distributed
attributions come together in the brain representation of a single object or process,
in the context of the so-called “binding problem” (Singer, 1993; Bressler, 1995;
Nicolelis, 1995; Schiff et al, 1997). Diffusely distributed neurochemical variables
have been invoked. For example, the role of metabotropic glutamate receptors in
driving the synchronization of interneuronal networks has been suggested as a
mechanistic model (Whittington et al, 1995). The objects of relevance to the
discovery of Fermi-Pasta-Ulam are studied as the nonlinear physics of
nondissapative wave processes and are called solitons (Zabusky and Kruskal,
1965). They have been invoked to model nerve conduction and information
transport in brain (Scott, 1990).
A third counter-intuitive set of accidental computational findings is in an area
of research called symbolic dynamics which involves the universal parameterdependent
coding language and capacity of nonlinear systems. In the early 1960’s,
a group around Stan Ulam at Los Alamos (Cooper, 1987) used one of the early
“high powered” computers, MANIAC II, to iterate (letting the output of the action of a
discrete time function serve as its input the next time around) simple equations they
called “maps.” These reduced dimensional objects shaped like tents, sine functions
and parabolas can be extracted from and represent the behavior of higher
dimensional, nonlinear differential equations (see Devaney, 1989; Schuster, 1989 or
Moon, 1992 for intuitive descriptions). They varied a parameter, such as the height
of the tent or parabola, to systematically change the period and/or phase (order) of
the symbol sequence (Metropolis et al, 1973). Normalizing the range of values of
the output to [0,1] and transforming the series of values into a binary code, L ≤ 0.5
and R > 0.5, they found an invariant, one parameter dependent, progression of
ordered periods, R, RLR, RLRR…RLLRL…, in all such single maximum maps. This
“U (universal)sequence” has also been found as singly or multiply present in a
variety of real systems, including complicated chemical reactions (Simoyi et al,
1982; Coffman et al, 1986). This means one can “dial” the parameter to generate
“words” of sufficient computational complexity to serve as a language. These
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computer experimental findings had already been anticipated in a remarkable
mathematical proof by Sharkovskii (1964).
The dynamical richness of these simple, single maximum, one dimensional
maps was computationally explored in the context of ecological and epidemiological
issues in the classical studies of Robert May (1976). It has been possible to relate
the individually characteristic L, R sequence behavior of human subjects on a
computer task to a unique parameter of a tent map generating those sequences
which predicted age and discriminated subclinical obsessive compulsive from
borderline syndromes (Selz and Mandell, 1993). The dynamical entropy of
unstructured L,R behavior also discriminated a population of schizophrenic patients
from normals (Paulus et al, 1996). More generally, parameter dependent dynamical
coding, built into the universal behavior of its constitutive equations, is a mechanism
with which a nonlinear dynamical system, such as nerve membrane equations as
above, or in the aggregate, the middle layer of a completely connected neural
network, can encode, Morse code-like, messages (Paulus et al, 1989).
Bifurcations in Biologically Relevant Dynamical Systems
Bifurcations, “splitting into (two) branches,” are observed over a smooth
change in control parameter(s) (independent variables), as a discontinuous and
qualitative change in the dynamical (time-dependent) pattern of the observable
(Guckenheimer and Holmes, 1993; Wiggens, 1990; see Strogatz, 1994, for a
particularly intuitive description). Qualitative here means how the dynamics of the
trajectory appear as a geometric-topological (relative shaped not necessarily sized)
pattern in phase space. In such a space, the orbital points are located along the x-
axis by their value, x at time t, and along the y-axis by their time rate of change at
that t, dx . To visualize a representative phase portrait in the plane, start by
dt
imagining the pattern made by mass hanging on a linear spring at rest as
dx
represented by a point centered at x = 0, y = = 0. When perturbed from rest, the
dt
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phase portrait of the motion of this “harmonic oscillator,” is composed of a
(continuous) series of points representing its location, graphed along x , its rate of
motion graphed along , y =
dx dx
. x and
dt dt
co-localize the circular orbit as it speeds
up and slows down while it bobs up and down. The transition from a fixed point (the
mass at rest) to a circle (the bobbing mass), a bifurcation in phase space, results in
the loss of topological equivalence. That is, the phase space geometries before and
after the bifurcation cannot be smoothly distorted into each other. Continuity and
connectedness of the space is lost. For topological equivalence, stretching, bending
and warping are allowed but not tearing apart and/or gluing together. Following the
bifurcation of a fixed point into a circle, even limitless shrinking of the ring leaves a
hole. The appearance or disappearance of an equilibrium fixed point (called a
“saddle-node” bifurcation), splitting into two (“period doubling” bifurcation), its
exploding into a circle (“Hopf” bifurcation to a limit cycle), a circle splitting into two or
more incommensurate cycles (“secondary Hopf” bifurcation) and these multiperiodic
(“quasiperiodic”) dynamics breaking down into a recursive spirals (“homoclinic
bifurcation to chaos”) are among the common bifurcations in nonlinear dynamical
systems, and all of them have been observed in many neurobiological settings.
In the forced-dissipative (energetically driven and energy consuming)
dynamical systems relevant to the neurosciences---this characteristic contrasts with
the dissipation free momentum of the classical mechanics of astrophysical bodies---
there are four “most generic” bifurcation scenarios as a parameter changes that
may, but need not, lead to chaos (see below for definition) (for early and physically
oriented treatments see Eckmann, 1981; Ott, 1981; Berge′ et al, 1984, Kaneko,
1983). These scenarios are: (1) Fixed point or cycle splittings into twice-as-long
period lengths 1→2→4→8→16…called the subharmonic or “period doubling route”;
(2) The transformation of fixed points to one and then more periodic orbits, multiple
independent (nonharmonic, incommensurate) frequency oscillations, their mode
lockings and then breakdown called the “quasiperiodic route”; (3) Fixed point or
cyclic equilibria metamorphosed into irregular bursting patterns called the
“intermittency route”; and (4) In the context of quasiperiodic dynamics, adjacent
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nonharmonic frequency encoding parameter spaces fusing, resulting in new periods
that are the sums of their adjacent ones: period 2 + period 3 = period 5, in what is
called the “period adding route”. Technically precise classification of bifurcations
involve much more careful definitions and well studied technical constraints
involving such issues as the symmetries and dimensionality of the system of
observables, how many control parameters (“codimensions”) are required to
reasonably realize the bifurcation and the particular way the fixed points of the
system become unstable, all of which are directly explorable when the equations
are known or can be hypothetically inferred from the qualitative behavior of real
data.
We note a few examples from the wide variety of bifurcating systems that
can be found in the biomedical literature of interest for the biological sciences. With
substrate input rate as the bifurcation parameter, the phosphofructokinase regulated
glycolytic cycle in yeast extract was found to change among steady state, periodic
and period doubling (subharmonic) regimes (Boiteux et al, 1975). Transitions
between steady state, oscillatory and chaotic patterns have been reported in variety
of physiological measures in man including respiratory rhythms and circulating
blood cell concentrations over time (Mackey and Glass, 1977; Glass and Mackey,
1988 ) and models of dopamine cell dynamics (King et al, 1984). Flow rate
parameter sensitive periodic, bursting and chaotic behavior has been found in a
peroxidase-oxidase system (Olsen and Degn, 1977). A brain enzyme, substantia
nigral dopaminergic tyrosine hydroxylase, manifested different saturation and
fluctuation patterns, including bursting and periodicity, in experiments in which low
(physiological) levels of tetrahydrobiopterin cofactor were the bifurcation parameters
and adrenergic drugs were used as modulators (Mandell and Russo, 1981).
All four of the generic bifurcation routes to chaos, period doubling, changing
multifrequency (quasiperiodicity), period adding and bursting (called “intermittency”)
were observed in self-sustained oscillations induced in the neural membranes of
space clamped, giant squid axons that were immersed in a 550mM NaCl, and
electrically stimulated over changing amplitudes and frequencies (Aihara et al,
1986; Takahashi et al, 1990). With external stimulus current level as the control
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parameter, the R15 cell of the abdominal ganglion of the Aplysia demonstrates
transitions between bursting and periodic modes as well as period doubling, a
signatory period 3 and the Lyapounov characteristic exponent evidence (see below)
for the discontinuous onset of chaos (Canavier et al, 1990). Manipulating feed back
delay, the human pupillary light reflex will bifurcate into regular oscillations (Milton
and Longtin, 1990). A transition between a regime of irregular discharging to
oscillatory bursting behavior was induced in basal forebrain cholinergic neurons by
neurotensin (Alonso et al, 1994). Sympathetic nerve discharge in decerebrate,
ventilated cats demonstrated transitions between periodic, multiple periodic
(quasiperiodic with changing ratios to the ventilation frequency) and subharmonic
behavior in response to inferior vena cava occlusion, vagotomy, aortic constriction
and spinalization (Porta et al, 1996). Period adding bifurcations were induced by
changing calcium concentrations or the addition of a potassium channel blocker in
the “pacemaker” formed when (rat) sciatic nerve is chronically injured (Ren et al,
1997). Changing levels of the L-type calcium channel antagonist, verapramil, alter
the pattern of vasomotion of rabbit ear arteries among sets of multiple independent
periods, “quasi-periodicity,” mode locking and chaos (De Brower, 1998). At critical
intensity and frequency, flicker visual stimulation of the salamander generates a
pharmacologically modifiable period doubling bifurcation in their ganglion cells (one
spike for every two flickers) which is also seen subjectively and in occipital lobe
evoked potentials at critical frequencies in bright, full-field flickered humans (Crevier
and Meister, 1998).
Qualitative and Quantitative Universality in Nonlinear Dynamical Systems
“Universality” (see above) entered the parlance of physics in the context of
the statistical mechanics of phase transitions near their critical points (Stanley,
1971; Stauffer, 1985; Yeomans, 1993) and has come to refer to the finite set of
transitions and quantities common to nonlinear systems arising in their
neighborhoods. A common physical example is the triple point of water-ice-steam
on the temperature-pressure phase plane where a small change in temperature or
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pressure leads to a global qualitative change in physical state. Analogously, the loss
of topological equivalence occurs at the fixed point that, for examples, splits into two
or explodes into a cyclic orbit in phase space. The same critical point behaviors and
quantities occur in a wide variety of specific processes and their equations, and they
are independent of the way the trajectories first arrived in the fixed point
neighborhood. Once the system enters the regime of critical behavior, the predictive
significance of its dynamical history is lost. This may also be the case for emergent
psychiatric disorder (Mandell et al, 1985; Mandell and Selz, 1992; Ehlers, 1995;
Paulus et al, 1996; Huber et al, 1999).
There are diagnostic patterns of behavior when a nonlinear system is in a
neighborhood of a potential bifurcation. They include sudden and/or large jumps
resulting from a small change in experimental conditions, the appearance of big
baseline fluctuations (anomalously large variance), the lengthening of the time
required to relax following evoked or spontaneous perturbation (‘”critical slowing”),
the same global change in state occurring at different values of the parameter when
increasing versus decreasing a parameter’s value (“hysteresis”), the existence of
some range of values of the observable that cannot be attained by manipulation of
the parameter (“inaccessibility”) and the availability of two or more distinct states in
the same parameter neighborhood (“modality”) (Thom, 1972; Arnold, 1984; Gilmore,
1981). It is perhaps relevant to polydrug psychopharmacology and clinical
management that the higher the co-dimension (the greater number of effective
parameters being manipulated), the greater the accessibility and control of selected
state stability becomes with respect to difficult to obtain behaviors. Examples of the
potential advantages of simultaneous manipulation of multiple influences have been
developed for affect disorder and anorexia nervosa (Callahan and Sashin, 1987).
As evidence for the independence of critical behavior from specific history,
the qualitatively universal bifurcations along the four canonical routes to chaos
manifest dimensionless ratios of parameter and phase space geometries between
bifurcations. These ratios are quantitatively universal. The formalisms that rescale
the distances from fixed points in parameter and observable spaces result in the
same picture across scale, a dilatational symmetry (also called self similarity or
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affinity). They are called renormalization group equations, and, with respect to
prediction, they replace any or all of the original specific predictive equations for the
particular system under study (Cvitanovic′, 1989). Whereas the U sequence and
critical point behaviors are manifestations of qualitative universality, these scaling
numbers are manifestations of quantitative universality. We discuss them here
because their omnipresence in computationally realized differential equations as
well as physical and chemical experiments along with their quantitative specificity
(with values in all systems as “constant” as π) constitute a most persuasive
argument for the substantiality of modern dynamical systems approaches to brain
and other biological research.
The physical and physiological requirements for manifestations of these
universal bifurcation scenarios can appear to be remarkably minimal. In physics, for
example a full panoply can be observed in a “dripping faucet” (Shaw,1984).
Similarly, a small piece of extirpated and perfused myenteric or femoral artery will
demonstrate these transitions in vasomotion spontaneously and almost
independent of flow rate (Stergiopulos et al, 1998).
Feigenbaum discovered that in dynamical systems manifesting a series of
period doubling bifurcations, the ratio of the parameter value at which the next
period doubling bifurcation occurred relative to the last one ≈
1
… and the ratio
4.
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of the magnitude of the spawning point to the one spawned ≈ 2.5. (Feigenbaum,
1979). By “rescaling” distances along a parameter value (see below) using what is
called a “universal renormalization operator” the geometric situation around each
bifurcation point (though of different absolute “size) remains relatively the same. In
intermittent systems, burst length varies as the inverse square root of the distance
of the value of the parameter from that value that elicited the fixed point (Manneville
and Pomeau, 1980). The universal characteristic of the third common parametric
route to chaos, quasiperiodicity, is that the ratio of independent frequencies found
most resistant to mode locking and breakdown into chaos is, ω i
= 1.618… the
ω
i+1
number to which the ratio of adjacent Fibonocci numbers converge (1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13,
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21…) (Shenker and Kadanoff, 1982). Similar quantitative scaling properties were
also discovered in the parametric period adding route (Kaneko, 1983).
All of these scaling numbers have been found in experiments and in
remarkable agreement with theory. Examples have been discovered in electronic
circuits, hydrodynamic and mercury flows, acoustic systems, laser dynamics and
oscillating chemical reactions (see Cvitanovic′, 1989, for representative list of
references). Whereas qualitative evidence for all of these bifurcation scenarios have
been found in brain relevant experiments, there is yet to be a bifurcating
experimental biological system with adequate precision across a sufficient range of
magnitudes such that quantitative universality could be demonstrated across a
sufficient range of values to be convincing. We remind ourselves that in order to
establish a Fiegenbaum number, each period doubling bifurcation of the several
required necessitates about a five-fold improvement in the experimenter’s ability to
specify the control parameter.
Using Invariant Measures of Dynamical Neurobiological Systems
Before the modern era of dissipatively forced (energy utilizing) dynamical
systems research, the known attactors of an experiment’s initial values resulted
from their convergence onto either a fixed point or a limit cycle. An attractor can be
regarded as a set which remains in bounded space and to which all orbits in this
neighborhood converge (Milnor, 1985). Since by the rules of differential equations,
orbits are required to be both smooth (graphable without lifting the pencil) and
unique (different trajectories don’t intersect since the point of intersection would no
longer be unique), the foundational Poincare-Bendixon theorem says that any such
orbit confined to a two dimensional phase space that doesn’t converge to a fixed
point must, no matter how long it irregularly wanders, must, eventually intersect with
itself and then go around the same route again in a (perhaps very long) cycle. In
most neuroscience research as well, we have generally regarded our data as
manifesting either tolerable (or intolerable) fluctuations around mean values (fixed
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points) or more or less regular cycles. We analyze our “fixed point” data using
quantities such as the mean and variance of distributional statistics and the cycle
data using the amplitude, frequency, cycle length and phase of trigonometric
functions. In central tendency-oriented research, rare, very high amplitude events
have usually been considered aberrations and tossed, and imperfect periodic
behavior is treated by “cosiner analysis” as regular cycles contaminated by
measurement or system noise. Whereas technically, chaotic dynamics must live in
dimension greater than two (for orbits to be more than a fixed point or limit cycle,
able to snake around without necessarily intersecting ), the Lorenz attractor has
dimension just a little over two, our difficulties with establishing the “true”
physiological dimension of real biological observables (see below) makes such a
consideration more theoretical than practical.
The orbits of a forced-dissipative dynamical system in a parameter regime
engendering chaos, converge onto an attractor which is neither a fixed point nor a
limit cycle, thus the origin of the name “strange attractor” (Ruelle and Takens,
1971). It was James Yorke that first named these dynamics “chaos” (Li and Yorke,
1975). The necessarily statistical properties of the chaotic orbits on strange
attractors follow from the generic characteristics of their motions (see Shaw, 1981
for a still conceptually current, non-mathematical treatment). These kinds of
statistics are studied in a research context called the “ergodic theory of dynamical
systems” (Ruelle, 1979; Eckmann and Ruelle, 1985). Ergodic is a word used to
characterize a system with (or without) a particular condition placed on its statistical
measures: the existence of an invariant measure which is undecomposabile into
two invariant measures and, equivalently (though not obviously) one in which the
time average equals its average in the geometric space into which it is embedded.
One may arrive at the same ergodic measure from studying a single very long orbit
or from summing across many individual but shorter orbits. This ergodic
equivalence is made possible due to the definitional existence of at least one
invariant statistical measure and the dynamics of the system which ideally include a
uniformly, sequence disordering process called “mixing” (see below).
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Of course, most real biological dynamics are not uniformly mixing and so are
non-ergodic, but we shall see that the ways they fail to be ergodic (and thus remain
in the conceptual context of ergodic measures) are descriptively useful (Mandell
and Selz, 1997a). The emergence of many statistical approaches to characterizing
these motions have been accompanied by the expected controversies about which
is best or correct (see below) and have been applied to the problem of diagnosis
and clinical discrimination in a variety of neuroscience settings. In ideal abstract
chaotic dynamical systems called Axiom A (Russians called them “C systems”),
where most mathematical theorems are proven (Smale, 1967), all these measures,
if properly computed, are equivalent. In real life, as in the related case of ergodicity,
they are not, and since no single one is complete, the more (incomplete) measures
we use in our studies along with interest in the way that they differ, supplies more
useful information about the system. Though researching and elucidating the most
reliable and valid ways of computing these measures are a valuable goal, the
current debates focused on the superiority of a single particular measure,
constructed in a particular way in relationship to issues of insoluble absolutes like
“randomness” versus “deterministic chaos may not be particularly valuable for
uncovering new characteristics and potential mechanisms underlying a specific set
of real neurobiological observables.
Emphasizing diversity and relevance to the clinical biological sciences, we
note that quantifying patterns in ergodic (non-ergodic) measures have aided: the
discrimination between normal and abnormal opticokinetic nystagmus in neurology
patients (Aeson et al, 1997); localizing a two year old subcortical stroke in an EEG
of a patient with no other signs or neurological findings (Molnar et al, 1997); the
diagnosis of early (not late) multiple sclerosis, as a nonspecific long tract disorder,
in patients with mild optical neuritis using cardiac rate dynamics (Ganz and
Faustman, 1996); seizure prediction from minutes to hours before the event in
which subthreshold, pre-phase transition spatial diffusion and oscillations in
characteristic changes in these measures can be found (Martinerie et al, 1998;
Elger and Lehnertz, 1998; Pign et al, 1997; Iasemidis et al, 1990); using these
measures on the EEG to differentially predict hereditary predisposition to alcoholism
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(Ehlers et al, 1995); indicating the presence or absence of septic encephalopathy
(Straver et al, 1998); using time series from jejunal manometry to discriminate
objectifiable somatic from psychological conversion related irritable bowel syndrome
(Wackerbauer et al, 1998); analyzing time-dependent patterns in plasma hormone
levels to discriminate between the presence or absence of a functioning tumor
(Hartman et al, 1994, Mandell and Selz, 1997a); automated differentiation of ataxic
from normal speech (Accardo and Menulo, 1998); and discrimination of
temporomandibular joint dysfunction from normal patterns of chewing motions
(Morinushi et al, 1998).
Styles of Orbital Motions in Chaotic Dynamical Systems
In chaotic dynamics, in various specific ways, an initial hypothetical handful
of points lined up along the trajectory and acted on over time by the nonlinear
differential equation (“operator”), get out of order in an unpredictable way. Here the
hypothetical handful can come from a statistical aggregate of initial conditions or
from a single recursive orbit studied over long times. As noted above, ergodic
theorists call this getting out of order “mixing” and how and to what degree this
happens consumes many mathematical theorems but for purposes of brain
research, it can be best described using a variety of statistical measures. For
example, visualizing the Lorenz attractor (see above) as a butterfly in phase space,
the points get out of order because as they spiral out (“stretching”) to the edge of
one wing and return (“folding”) to the unstable fixed point on the butterfly’s body
whence they either jump to some place on the other wing to spiral to its edge or
return to the same wing to spiral out again. Which one of these is chosen is
exquisitely sensitive to very small changes in where the trajectory started and very
small fluctuations in where it returned to the unstable fixed point on the butterfly’s
body. In fact, specification of these locations is beyond the precision of any real,
thermodynamically vulnerable system.
Chaotic trajectories on the Rössler attractor (see above) wind out (“stretch”)
to the edge along the inside of a conch shell in phase space and then are mapped
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back (“fold”) into the spiral unpredictably somewhere in a mixing mechanism that
has been called “displaced reinjection.” In the slow-fast oscillations of the forced van
der Pol in the chaotic regime, points in the slow phase (“repolarization”) jitter around
and step on each other’s heels, getting out of order while waiting on the ledge
before jumping (“depolarization”) to the next slow phase (“repolarization”) at some
unpredictable time, thus generating a variably irregular series of interspike intervals.
Stretching and folding are also responsible for getting points get out of order
in the single maximum map of the unit interval (studied for universal qualitative and
quantitative properties by May and Feigenbaum and others as described above).
With increases in parameter values, the parabolic hill function onto which the unit
line has been stretched gets steeper, more stretched. Mapping points on the hill
back onto the straight line of the unit interval results in what amounts to the line
folding back on itself. This stretching and folding eventually fills the line with points,
but their sequence, from end to end, gets shuffled like a deck of cards.
As described more generally above, points that start as neighbors may get
separated (“divergence along the attractor”) and those that start at a distance from
each other may be thrown together (“compression back onto the attractor”). These
expanding and folding motions that characterize the chaotic behavior on strange
attractors have been likened to the actions of a taffy puller (Rössler, 1976). It is in
this way that nearby points can separate without leaving the attractor. It is also the
case that once indistinguishably close but then separated points may be
compressed together again generating new, temporary (unstable) cycles of all
possible period lengths. These unstable fixed points may be the most important
feature of chaotic systems from the standpoint of new ideas about brain
mechanisms (Pei and Moss, 1996; So et al, 1997). This aggregation of unstable
loops can occur from points fluctuating away and back to the attractor as well as
during the crowding of points at the turns after their stretching out on more linear
parts of the flow. Under the mixing flow of a chaotic dynamics, it is also true that a
single point eventually explores the entire attractor, no attractor location is
inaccessible to it.
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Although counter-intuitive when expressed in words, the trajectories that one
sees in the graphics of chaotic attractors result from the actions along the “unstable”
directions of the stretching distortion; the actions in the otherwise invisible stable
directions “iron down” the points onto this unstable manifold (n dimensional abstract
surface).
As might be expected from this set of characteristic motions, the diagnostic
triad of chaotic dynamical systems are: (1) Sensitivity to initial conditions—tiny
distances between starting points are magnified and large distances between
starting points are reduced under the stretching and folding actions of the system;
(2) The presence of a theoretically infinite but countable number of unstable
periodic orbits of theoretically all period lengths—points in phase space can be
viewed an attractive-repellers, visited and left by the orbits recursively as the
dynamics proceed; and (3) Indecomposability—the attractor is not separable into
isolated regions and no points escape (see Devaney, 1989, for one of the clearest
definitions). Of particular relevance to information encoding and transport by brain
mechanisms, it is important to visualize that new information in the form of unstable
periodic orbits is being created as well as destroyed by the dynamics. The
logarithmic rate of formation of these new orbits is computed as the system’s
topological entropy (see below).
Assuming the real neurobiological system under study is behaving in these
ways (and often much has to be done to help justify such a claim), the observables
take the form of an irregular and/or episodic time series of amplitudes, as in
repeated sample, neuroendocrine studies of plasma hormone levels (Veldhuis and
Johnson, 1992) or a sequence of times between events as in neuronal interspike
intervals (Katz, 1966; Perkel et al, 1967). These time or time-sequence series are
generally studied from three relatively distinct yet complementary quantitative
perspectives: (1) As stochastic (“random”) processes with various amounts of
sequential dependency (autocorrelations) and scale (sample length) dependencies;
(2) As “deterministic” smooth or discrete, vectorial geometries in phase space
following reconstruction and/or embedding of the series as phase portraits or return
maps; (3) As information generating and transporting, topological (about relative
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nearness and sequential order not absolute distances), symbolic dynamical
processes which as either (1) or (2) can be analyzed with respect to its various
entropies, algorithmic complexities and word content and syntax. A variety of
techniques aimed at deciding between the relevance of one or another of these
underlying assumptions (such as series and Fourier phase shuffling to destroy
statistical autocorrelations and vectorial continuities but leaving the probability
density distributions intact ) may at times help emphasize one or another of these
orientations in the analyses (see Ott et al, 1994 for a collection of articles on this
topic).
Nonconvergent Distributions and Power Law Scaling in Biologically Relevant
Time Series
The statistical distribution with which most of us are familiar is the Gaussian
which can be generated by summing and averaging a series of independent
random events. The average behavior head/tails probabilities observed by one
person flipping a fair coin for a very long time or by many people flipping similar
coins for shorter times converges upon the invariant measure of 0.5. The variance,
“second moment” in the distribution of a population of coin flipping sequences will
be finite and computable. In a graph of this distribution, the tails will converge to the
x axis in a Gaussian exponential manner. The longer or the more numerous the
“sample” series of observations, the closer they will approximate the “ergodic”
invariant measures representing the true “central moments” of the behavior of this
“population” of fair flipping coins. Since the coins are not changing their relevant
characteristics over the time of observation, we say that the series is not time
dependent but instead is “stationary.” Computation of correlations over increasing
lags to determine how much and for how many flips the sequences continue to
resemble themselves yield an exponential decay with a single characteristic
correlation length. This reflects the existence of a finite variance from which its
amplitude is derived and serves as the single characteristic temporal scale of the
random process.
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Before describing the relatively new set of measures of biological processes
designed to find and quantitate what are assumed to be relatively sample size
insensitive, distributionally nonconvergent and multiply correlated processes that
are without a single time or space scale, we should remind ourselves that there is
already much more apparent “order” in a generically random situation than our
intuitions would lead us to believe. For example, if we keep cumulative scores in a
competition between heads and tails and determine the distribution of trials between
those in which the number of heads and tails are even, we will get periods between
zero crossings of many lengths with very short ones and very (very) long ones
being most statistically prominent. The distribution of these wavelengths is shaped
like a symmetrically fat-tailed, bowl (Feller, 1968). As another illustration, expected
runs of heads or tails in this Gaussian random task are longer and more frequent
than we might suspect. It has been proven that the expected run length grows with
n coin flips (as an order of magnitude estimate) like the logarithm (for a fair coin,
base 1/p = 1/0.5 = 2) of n. For example, in 512 ( e.g. 2 9 ) tosses, we cannot report a
run of 9 heads as a evidence for a biased coin or the sign of some deterministic
coin tossing mechanism (Erdos and Renyi, 1970). If we had a 0.6 head biased coin,
then the observation of a run of 13 heads couldn’t dissuade us from a random
mechanism!
Unlike our random coin task, the variances of many, perhaps most, time
series of biologically-relevant events, do not tend to converge onto a limiting value
as sample size, n, grows, but rather continue to increase (or decrease) with n in a
scale invariant manner. Instead of “regressing to the mean” with increasing sample
length or number, the likelihood of a larger deviation than previously observed
increases with n. Analyses of inter-event intervals reveals a multiplicity of
characteristic times. One interpretation of these finding might be that this represents
evidence for the inherent “nonstationarity” of biological mechanisms as reflected in,
for examples, the frequency of saccades concomitant with ceaselessly shifting foci
of visual attention (Steriade and McCarley, 1990), or our inability to not think of
“white bear” when so instructed (Wegner, 1994). Hermann Haken, the father of
laser-inspired “synergetics,” has said that biological mechanisms are not in a steady
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state for very long, spontaneously and irregularly jumping from one unstable
dynamical state to another (1997). This suggests that meaningful tension between
experimental sample lengths long enough to minimize statistical error and short
enough to be stationary may be, for the biological sciences, more apparent than
relevant.
The studies reviewed below exploit measures arising from the view that the
noisy statistics of nonstationarity in biological processes are not a sign of
measurement error, but rather evidence consonant with the statistical physics of
nonequilibrium states and phase transitions (Stanley, 1971; Stauffer, 1985;
Yeomans, 1993). Very high amplitude fluctuations and multiple, up to infinite,
correlation lengths are characteristic of the normal, on-going biological dynamical
behaviors, which are apparently without characteristic amplitude and time scales.
From this point of view, if most or all information is widely distributed in the brain
(e.g., serial order of visual tasks involving motor cortical neurons, Carpenter et al,
1999) ) then the “binding problem” (see above) could also be solved by multiple, up
to infinite spatial and temporal correlation lengths in place of the current theories of
monofrequency resonances (Singer, 1993). Hierarchical neurodynamical
mechanisms communicating across many mechanistic temporal and spatial scales,
brain information transport analogous to the energy cascade of hydrodynamic
turbulent velocities (Tennekes and Lumley, 1972), would be likely in the parametric
vicinity of incipient bifurcations and phase transitions.
Three closely related techniques for quantifying the systematic changes in
average fluctuation amplitudes with n (scale, sample length) involve a “power law,”
linear slope relationship between the logarithm of an index of variability and the
logarithm of sample segment sizes. These easy, yet powerful methods were
brought to experimentalists’ attention by Benoit Mandelbrot (Montroll and Badger,
1974; Mandelbrot, 1983; Fedor, 1988; Bassingthwaighte et al, 1994; Liebovitch,
1998). To estimate the exponent in Hurst rescaled range analysis, we compute the
standard deviation and the range of the deviation of the running sum from the mean
on sequential subsamples of increasing size. The Hurst power law exponent is the
slope of the straight line formed by graphing the logarithm of the subsample length
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along the x axis and the logarithm of the ratio of the range to the standard deviation
on the y axis. An independent random system has a Hurst of 0.5. If a sequential
increase or decrease in an amplitude or inter-event time tends to be followed by a
change in the same direction, the Hurst > 0.5. If an increase in the measure tends
to be followed by a decrease, then Hurst < 0.5. Computation of the Fano factor
(power law exponent) exploits the same general strategy using the variance/mean
in place of the range/variance and counting the number of events (such as single
neuron discharges or heartbeats) in time windows of increasing length, generating a
similar log-log graph. There is a relatively long history of the use of spike-number
variance-to mean ratio in studies of response variability in visual cortical neurons
(see Teich et al, 1996 for a review). The Allen factor (power law exponent) tends to
reduce the influence of local trends by a computation of the variance of the
difference between the number of events in two successive time windows divided
by twice the mean number of events in the window.
Each system’s invariant logarithmic slope across sample segment sizes
takes the place of its missing finite variance in characterizing experimental data in
which the distributional tails do not converge (or do so very slowly) to the x axis.
Recent approaches to these measures in the context of stochastic analysis of DNA
sequences, but also applied to normal and pathological cardiac inter-beat intervals
and gait interval sequences, have dealt with the influence of non-stationarity due to
apparent trends in the data on α-equivalent indices by local mean-normalization of
the fluctuations at each window size (Peng et al, 1993; Peng et al, 1995; Hausdorff
et al, 1995).
The rate of decay of the densities in the tails of the probability distribution as
they approach extreme values along the x axis, called the Levy exponent when
represented in Fourier space (technically, as a “characteristic function” of the
probability distribution) (Shlesinger, 1988; Shlesinger et al, 1995), can also be
computed directly on the distribution by fitting the tails with a two parameter curve
quantifying their “fatness” and rates of decay (Mantegna, 1991). We can speak of a
Gaussian tail as having an exponential decay rate representable by α = 2 implying
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finite variance. A tail with a nonconvergent decay rate of 1 < α < 2 indicates nonfinite
variance in the data such that the usual “normal curve” derived, standard
deviation dependent tests of statistical significance are without meaning. α < 1
indicates the data is without a consequential mean and will require the use of
interquartile measures to locate the center of the distribution (Adler et al, 1998).
Recalling that the Hurst, Fano and Allan indices are invariant across sample
segment size, we remind ourselves that, as is the case in the finite mean and
variance, α = 2, Gaussian, any of the other “α tails” also retain their value (“shape”)
across all partitions that might be used to sort and sum the observable. This
property is called convolutional, α, stability. In passing it should be noted that the
last outpost of convergence of a probability density distribution with α = 2 is called
“log-normal,” in which the tails along the x axis are “pulled in” by the variable being
plotted as its logarithm.
A Hurst exponent of > 0.5 in the data is associated with a Levy exponent of <
2.0, and both would be indicative of a process in which the characteristic style of
change, rather than decay with some finite correlation length, would persist across
all time. Using a bursting neuron as a generic example, a short interspike interval
would, on the average, be followed by another short one and a long one by another
long one, and this behavior, unlike our fair coin flipping sequence of observables,
would not become uncorrelated with itself even over infinite time. Another way to
represent this infinite, innumerably lengthed, correlation property is via its implicate
frequency (inverse wavelength) content by computing its best fit assortment (along
with their densities) of a range of short to long sine waves forming the Fourier
transformation of the correlation function. The condition of correlated fluctuations
across many measured temporal scales yields yet another power law slope when
graphed as the logarithm of its range of frequencies, f, plotted along the x axis,
versus their corresponding amplitudes squared, powers, plotted along the y axis.
Naming this spectral power law exponent β, the system’s characteristic scaling law
is usually expressed as 1 (Fedor, 1988; Hughes, 1995; Shlesinger, 1996;
β
f
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Liebovitch, 1998).
We see that the Hurst exponent, Fano and Allen factors, Levy exponent and
power spectral scaling exponent are kindred statistical descriptors. They are most
usefully applicable to systems with distributions that fail to be Gaussian or
asymmetrically Poisson, the latter from random data sequences with only positive x
values, thus backed up toward zero by a minimum inter-event interval or amplitude.
These time series are sequentially dependent, not conventionally stationary, without
finite central moments and with self-correlations that don’t demonstrate Gaussian
exponential decay with sample length or time. The following are some examples of
the use of these measures in studies of biological dynamics. .
Examples of Biological Data with Divergent Distributions and Power Law
Scaling
A paradigm challenging group of experiments involved models and measures
of the distribution of characteristic open and closed times of membrane ion
conductance channels. The usual approach to this problem assumed the existence
of a small set of distinguishable channel types that were reflected in discrete
conductance events with a small set of characteristic open and closed times. The
distributions of each of could be fitted with its own, Markov process derived,
exponential. With technical advances and improved temporal resolution, more
characteristic times and their associated α = 2 exponentials were reported with as
many as three not being unusual. Liebovitch (and Sullivan,1987; 1989) used
analogue to digital transformation of current recordings from the unselective corneal
epithelial channels and voltage dependent potassium channels in cultured mouse
hippocampal cells at temporal resolutions ranging from 170 to 5000 Hz and found
similarly shaped, α < 2, nonconvergent distributions across temporal scales. This
led these investigators to suggest that, related to the >16 recorded magnitudes of
characteristic times, from picoseconds to months, in autonomous protein motion
(Careri et al, 1975; Gurd and Rothgeb, 1979), that there was an “α stable” hierarchy
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of lifetimes of states, observable at almost any temporal resolution that methods
would allow.
Early and representative studies comparing the fit of the data with
hierarchical scaling functions versus a sum of a small number of Markovian
exponentials included studies of a calcium activated potassium channel in human
fibroblasts (Stockbridge and French, 1989) which yielded evidence to support both
models, as did studies of membrane conductances in corneal epithelial cells by
another group (Korn and Horn, 1988). In a systematic comparison of scaling and
Markov exponential modes of the gating kinetics of GABA activated chloride
channels, acetylcholine activated end plate potentials, calcium activated potassium
channels and fast chloride channels (McManus et al, 1988), it was found that the
latter fit the data best in most experiments. Similar results were reported in studies
of the glutamate and delayed rectifier potassium channel with respect to
distributions of open and closed times (Sansom et al, 1989). Space does not permit
a systematic account of the continuing debate and conflicting studies about these
representations and the implicit biophysics of discrete, finite versus continuous,
hierarchical channel event heterogeneity. It is interesting that recent experiments
making use of Hurst rescaled range analyses of time series of whole cell membrane
voltage fluctuations (without the assumptions and current renormalizing procedures
associated with patch clamping) have yielded additional evidence for multiply
correlated, Hurst > 0.5, α < 2 power law behavior of what some might regard more
generally as a protein relaxation time mediated hierarchical array of ion
conductance behaviors (Liebovitch and Todorov, 1996).
Following the discovery of (very) subsaturating (“far from equilibrium”) rat
brain levels of the common cofactor for tyrosine and tryptophan hydroxylases,
tetrahydrobiopterin (Bullard et al, 1978), studies of amino acid substrate saturation
functions and time courses determined at these low, physiological co-reactant
concentrations manifested patterns of hierarchical multiplicity and discontinuities
suggestive of bifurcations and time-dependent fluctuations with fractional
(hierarchical) time scaling exponents that were sensitive to psychotropic drugs
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(Mandell and Russo, 1981; Knapp and Mandell, 1983; Russo and Mandell, 1984a;
Russo and Mandell, 1986). Similar bifurcating and power law kinetics were found in
receptor-ligand binding systems (Mandell, 1984) which were confirmed by more
recent studies of diffusion-limited binding kinetics with receptors immobilized on a
biosensor surface (Sadana, 1998). Hierarchical kinetics have also been reported in
time courses of drug and metabolite levels (Koch and Zajcek, 1991), tissue tracer
washout studies (Beard and Bassingthwaighte, 1998), carrier mediated transport
processes (Ogihara et al, 1998), general pharmacokinetic functions (Macheras et al,
1996) and biochemical networks (Yates, 1992). It is likely that bifurcating and
hierarchical, power law kinetic functions will be studied more commonly in the
chemical literature in general (Shlesinger and Zaslavsky, 1996; Berlin et al, 1996)
as well as applied to a variety of protein-mediated biological functions (Dewey,
1997).
The first demonstration of and stochastic model for nonconvergent
distributions of interspike intervals of a single neuron was by Gerstein and
Mandelbrot (1964). Though rich with possibilities, it has been only very recently that
additional work from this point of view has been published. This is likely due to the
fact that most neuroscience oriented statistical packages, with rare exceptions, are
without techniques for computing descriptive parameters for these divergent
probability density distributions. This has not been the case for economic time
series, download STABLE from http:///www.cas.american.edu/~jpnolan. Recently,
applications of the Fano and Allan factor as well as power spectral scaling
exponents to observed and shuffled series of spike counts and interspike intervals
in the auditory and visual systems (including spatial and/or time resolved single unit
recordings in retinal ganglion, lateral geniculate and lateral superior olivary cells as
well a auditory nerve fibers) demonstrate the characteristic behavior of
nonconvergent, hierarchical stochastic systems (Teich, 1989; Teich et al, 1990;
Lowen and Teich, 1992; Kumar and Johnson, 1993; Kelly et al, 1996; Teich et al,
1997). These statistical techniques are well suited to the characterization of the
irregularly intermittent bursting patterns generic for activity in single neurons as well
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as in nonlinear equations representing them and other brain processes (Mandell,
1983).
An early study of power spectral scaling in the EEG reported alpha band
fluctuations that extended a 1 , β ≈ 1 pattern to 0.02 Hz (Musha, 1981), as did
β
f
other applications of the log-log power spectrum to the EEG in man (Hu and Hu,
1988; Prichard, 1992). This power law scaling led naturally to the suggestion that
the range of frequencies available in the electromagnetic signal from the calivarial
surface extends far beyond those currently appreciated and may be available for
study using relatively noise free recording techniques such as the
magnetoelectroencephalogram (Mandell and Selz, 1991). A not surprising range of
intrinsic correlation lengths reflected in Hurst > 0.5 and/or Levy exponents < 2 have
been reported in lamb fetal breathing patterns (Szeto et al, 1992). The exponent
has been shown to be sensitive to maternal alcohol intake in humans (Akay and
Mulder, 1998), rat neonatal motoric activity (Selz et al, 1995), and nuchal atonia
duration sequences (associated with putative intra-uterine REM sleep) in fetal
sheep (Anderson et al, 1998).
Sequential amplitudes in 1 Hz stimulated soleus spinal cord H-reflex
demonstrated a 1 , β ≈ 0.83 in control subjects and, reflecting the decrement in
β
f
correlations, by 0.31 in patients with losses in supraspinal input from spinal cord
injury (Nozaki et al, 1996). Whereas the sequences of fixation times in eye
movements of normal control subjects reading difficult material demonstrated an
exponentially decaying distribution, those of schizophrenic patients demonstrated a
power law tail, consistent with more sequential correlations (Yokoyama et al, 1996).
This finding may be related to the appearance of velocity arrests, runs of sticky fixed
points, in a spatially oscillating target task, called “smooth pursuit eye movement
dysfunction” in schizophrenic patients which has been modeled as a parametric
disorder in a periodically driven nonlinear dynamical system (Huberman, 1987). The
“short time fractal dimension” has been used to discriminate acoustic signal
transformations from the speech of normal subjects and ataxic patients (Accardo
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and Mumolo, 1998). Spontaneous changes in the apparent syllabic sound made by
regularly presented, word-like auditory stimuli emerge irregularly, the duration of
perceived sameness demonstrating a power law distribution of “dwell” times (Tuller
et al, 1998). The same kind of power law distribution of characteristic “brain times”
can be found in studies of gait cycle durations in normal walking (Hausdorff et al,
1996) with a decrease in this locally detrended, α-like index compared with controls
(0.91±0.05) in patients with the basal ganglia disorders of Parkinson’s (0.82±0.06)
and Huntington’s (0.60±0.04) Diseases (Hausdorff et al, 1998). Hurst > 0.5 has
been speculated to more accurately quantitate the fundamental time structure of
cells that was previously called circahoralian (ultradian) intracellular rhythms
(Brodski, 1998).
Reconstructions of Time Series as Orbital Geometries
Rene Thom (1972), extending the ideas of Poincaré and D’Arcy Thompson
(1942), argued that experimentally useful, intuitive connections between the
qualities of biological processes and the quantities of an explicit (equations known)
or implicit (equations unknown) dynamical system could be best achieved through
the use of graphic representations of their geometric and topological forms. Notably
successful examples can be found in the work of Thom, Arnold (1984) and Zeeman
(1977), who were inspired by “caustics” (the shapes made on surfaces by the
coincidence of reflected or refracted light rays) and Whitney’s representation of
parametric manifolds (surfaces) by the shadows they would make on a plane when
back lit (Whitney, 1955). This led to a small number of qualitatively predictive,
number-of-independent-parameters dependent shapes, such as “folds” “cusps” and
“wavefronts.” Experimentally crossing the values of these independent variable
forms at their singular boundaries successfully predicted discontinuities in the
otherwise smooth alterations in the dependent variable; i.e. bifurcations
(“catastrophes”) in the behavior of the observable. This approach was best suited to
the study of systems with many independent variables and one dependent variable
that could be mapped on the axis of the latter to represent a continuum of
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operationally defined “energy states.” Smooth changes along the path of the
nonlinear parameter manifold generated discontinuous changes in energy levels
indicating states of the observable. Crossing a wrinkle in an “independent variable”
(some call it “order parameter” to indicate its emergence rather than availability for
predictable manipulation) such as the nonlinear parameter surface of the
countervailing influences of survival fear and financial cost, may lead to a bifurcation
in behavior from peace (“low energy”) to war (“high energy”) (Zeeman, 1977).
In a similar geometric spirit but dealing with nonequilibrium systems in
motion, the conditions such that one could “smoothly” embed a trajectory like a
continuously recorded EEG record, a complicatedly coiled snake into a three or
higher dimensional box without loss of its essential dynamical or statistically
measureable properties, was settled by Whitney in what is now referred to as the
“embedding theorem” (Whitney, 1936). Starting with a tangled knot of overlapping
vectorial orbits with apparent “non-invertable points” (given a point, one cannot
chose among or between the more than one point that it apparently came from), it
can always be unwrapped into a non-crossing trajectory satisfying uniqueness when
reconstructed in a box of a little more than twice the parameter-determined
dimension of the original space of observables.
A common technique for the spatial reconstruction of the output of a
dynamical system is called a “time delay embedding.” This approach, first
suggested by Ruelle (1987, pg. 28) replaced the value, x, versus the time
derivative, dx , phase portrait plot described for a continuously perturbed bob on a
dt
spring above. A sequence of observables over time, in, for example, three
dimensional “phase space” (Packard et al, 1980; Takens, 1981; Sauer et al, 1991),
is depicted by a curve representing the system’s trajectory at times t 1 , t 2 , t 3 , by
sliding one-by-one down the series and plotting each p 1 , p 2 , p 3 , location with
respect to each other along the x, y and z axes respectively. The choice of time
interval between the points, the delay, can be delicate and usually some standard
fraction of the decay time of the sequence’s autocorrelation length, “the decay time
of mutual information” is chosen. There are many technical considerations,
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including those involving the choice of the embedding space vis a vis the “true”
dimension of the attractor. This becomes an issue when, for example, the attractor
shrinks over time to some subspace of the initial embedding (Liebert et al, 1991 and
references therein).
If we imagine the process of time series reconstruction to inscribe an
attractor’s untidy ball-of-string of recurrent trajectories in three dimensions, we can
then, by making the z-dimension a constant value, cut the ball with a two
dimensional plane, a “Poincaré surface of section.” This could yield a roundish
cloud of discrete points on the x,y plane and t n-1 – t n would be the time between two
piercings of this surface. It has been proven that almost any cut, as long as it is
made transverse to the direction of the orbital trajectories, is equally valid and useful
for further analyses (Oseledec, 1968). If the original embedding and subsequence
section was in high enough dimension to allow invertability, we might have enough
(trial and error) knowledge to be able to write a discrete equation, a “return map,” f,
f
that would move one point to the next on the plane as (x,y) t ←→ ⎯ (x,y) .
What can sometimes be case with real systems (Coffman et al, 1986), is that
reducing the geometric reconstruction still one dimension further, accepting noninvertability,
ironing down the points in the plane onto the x axis line (normalized to
[0,1]), and plotting the values at x t against x t+1 (“mapping the unit interval to itself”),
can generate points in the general shape of a parabola with dynamics representable
by the same family of one parameter, single maximum discrete equations that
generated May's sequence of bifurcations, Feigenbaum’s scaling and Metropolis,
Stein and Stein’s (and Sharkovskii’s) U sequence (see discussions of qualitative
and quantitative universalities above).
Although sometimes a significant change in brain system physiology, such as
penicillin-induced epileptic neuron spiking activity is revealed simply by a change in
the graphic appearance of suitably embedded time series data (Zimmerman and
Rapp, 1991), more often statistical measures made on the geometric dynamics of
the points on the attractor are required.
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t n
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Orbital Divergence Characterizes Expansive Dynamics on Biological
Attractors
In the dynamical world of equilibria (fixed points in phase space) and
periodic cycles (fixed points of a return map), a common concern involves their
stability. What happens if an adventitious jiggle moves the orbit a little distance
away from the fixed point? Would the wind wiggled suspension bridge start to flap
with increasing amplitude or would it damp back down quickly to its stable state. A
“Lyapounov functional,” L, is constructed which can be visualized like a smooth
potential bowl around the fixed point such that any L stable solution that starts at its
bottom tends to stay there or is asymptotically L stable if the solution converges to
the fixed point at the bowl’s bottom as t → ∞ . If the point is not L stable, it is L
unstable.
The modern study of nonlinear systems have produced another kind of
stability issue with a similar appellation yielding other direction specific indices, the
Lyapounov characteristic exponents, λ (Oseledec, 1968; Eckmann and
Ruelle,1985; Ruelle, 1990; Ott et al, 1994). In this context, the instability is not one
of perturbative escape from a fixed point, but of the average rate with which the
(theoretically infinitesimal) distances among a handful of points representing a set of
initial conditions (each a precision limited, hypothetical repetition of the same
experiment), are being stretched apart by the expansive action of a strange attractor
system. In three dimensions, one can envision a ball of initial conditions being
elongated along the unstable direction and ironed down from both sides along the
stable direction over time, transforming the ball into an ellipsoid and then into a
(recurrent) curve. In simplest terms and thinking about a one dimensional scalar
time series, the Lyapounov exponent reflects the multiplicative average (logarithmic
addition) of the sequence of slopes of the series of straight lines connecting the
points. An average slope of > 45 ° is expansive such that a linear distance on the x-
axis is increased when mapped onto the y axis. A slope of < 45 ° is a contraction
mapping reducing the linear distance of the x-axis when mapped to the y axis.
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Rössler’s generic chaotic system (see above) moving recurrently in a three
dimensional box can be orthogonally decomposed into three directional motions in a
moving frame, each with a signatory sign of λ . The unstable direction of expansive
stretching is characterized by some number > 0, λ( + ), the stable direction of
contractive folding, some number, < 0, λ( − ), and the neutrally stable direction of
recurrence, λ( 0 ). For The “Lyapounov spectrum” of the Rössler attractor is
[ λ( + ), λ( −), λ( 0 )] (Shaw, 1981). An n-dimensional dynamical systems has n onedimensional
Lyapounov exponents, and it is sometimes the case in relatively noise
free, finite semi-stationary data lengths of the neurosciences, that a λ > 0 can be
shown to exist for a second one, in a dynamical situation called “hyperchaos” by
(Rossler, 1979). For example, two and sometimes three λ( + ) have been reported in
the flows on the EEG attractor of normal alert subjects (Gallez and Babloyantz,
1991). The presence of measurement noise, the finiteness of neurophysiological
sample lengths as well as the relatively small expansive actions in some directions
in the chaotic attractors of brain dynamics lead to the finding that most often, only
one “leading Lyapounov exponent,” λ( + ), is reliably computable (Sano and
Sawada, 1885; Wolf et al, 1985; Eckmann et al, 1986).
A counter-intuitive fact about the stability of a dynamical system when a
decrease in the value of λ( + ) is observed such that λ( + ) → λ( 0 ), is that this more
neutral stability augers a global bifurcation (Guckenheimer and Holmes, 1983). A
small perturbation does not change the global dynamics of an already expanding
and contracting (called “hyperbolic”) dynamical system, it will maintain the style of
its motions. However, when λ( + ) → λ( 0 ), a velocity changing perturbation evokes a
bifurcation to a new dynamic in what is called “loss of hyperbolic stability.” The best
examples come from the observations of this kind of change in the EEG predicting
the onset of epileptic seizures in patients with focal or temporal lobe epilepsy
(Iasemidis et al, 1988,1990; Iasemidis and Sackellares, 1996 ).
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The number and variety of algorithmic strategies for computing Lyapounov
exponents that are applicable to real data divide naturally into those that compute
directly the average rate of separation of neighboring points from the “fiduciary”
orbit, as observed on the reconstructed attractor, from which only the largest λ can
be obtained (Wolf et al, 1985), and a variety of techniques based on assumed
model maps of the unknown flow along which the sequential products of the local
derivatives are computed. The logarithms of the straight line slopes of the sequence
of directionally decomposed local tangent vectors multiplied, yield as many
Lyapounov exponents as directions (Sano and Sawaka, 1985; Eckmann et al, 1986;
Geist et al, 1990). The techniques of regularization by which these model processes
approximate the unknown flow include those with least squares, linear fit
assumptions (Eckmann et al, 1986; Sato et al, 1987; Buzug et al, 1990), more
detailed fits involving polynomial expressions in higher powers (Briggs, 1990; Brown
et al, 1991; Bryant et al, 1991) and techniques such as “singular value
decomposition” which decomposes the flow into orthogonal components before
computing the logarithmic rate of divergence of nearby points on each of them
(Stoop and Parisi, 1991). A clever check on the Lyapounov number obtained is to
study the flow backwards so that, for example, some rate of separation of points in
the forward direction would approximate the rate of convergence in the time
reversed data (Parlitz, 1992).
Among the sources of spurious Lyapounov exponents are sample lengths
that are too short and/or too measurement-noisy to compute a statistically stable
average, embedding dimensions that are too high or low and attractors (many of
physiological relevance) that have geometric features such as sharp corners or tight
folds as in the Rössler (where points gather) or delicate boundary points such as
those on the body on the Lorenz butterfly (see above) where very small distances
determine whether the orbit makes big jumps to the right or left wing leading to
uncharacteristically large separations. This “nonuniformity” in the rates of expansion
and contraction in the dynamics over the attractor, a source of error in computations
of statistical indices of the average behavior, becomes a useful tool in
characterizing individual differences in sets of neurobiological data ranging from
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brain enzyme kinetics (Mandell, 1984) and single neuron firing patterns (Selz and
Mandell, 1991) to human psychomotor and cognitive behavior (Selz, 1992; Selz and
Mandell, 1993).
The Leading λ( + ) of Some Biologically Relevant Time Series
An early application of a simplified form of leading Lyapounov exponent to
brain data involved the computation of the one dimensional averaged slope of in
vitro studies of psychopharmacological drug and peptide effects on time series of
catecholamine and indoleamine biosynthetic enzyme activities studied at
physiological, far-from-equilibrium reactant concentrations (Russo and Mandell,
1984b; Knapp and Mandell, 1984). A contemporaneous study also suggested the
influence of differences in initial conditions for pharmacokinetic equilibrium times in
drug binding kinetics by proteins (Bayne and Hwang, 1985).
The most extensive applications to the clincial neurosciences of the
Lyapounov measure of the exponential divergence of orbital points has involved
reconstructed brain wave attractors from the intracranial or scalp recordings of the
EEG (Duke and Pritchard, 1991; Dvorak and Holden, 1991; Jansen and Brandt,
1993). Space prevents us from surveying more than a small representative set of
the studies (Jansen, 1996). It should be noted, however, that this is an area in
which “state of the art” research has grown quite complicated and somewhat
controversial with respect to technical issues. The choices of the digitizing
frequency of the smooth record, the dimension of the embedding space and time
delays continue to be debated in the context of numerical computations of λ and
dimension measures (Mayer-Kress, 1986; Ott et al, 1994).
Controls for the implicitly required statistical discrimination between
“randomness” and “deterministic chaos” consist of sequence and (Fourier) phase
randomization generating “surrogate data” which conserve the probability
distributions and destroy the correlation properties and attractor geometries (Sauer
et al, 1991; Ott et al, 1994). Since neither bring with them any connections with
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known or explorable brain mechanisms, one might argue that at this early stage of
the work it would be more desirable to simply report the quantitative findings,
leaving unanswerable questions about ultimate causality for later discussion (see
below).
The first EEG λ( + ) was reported in a patient with epilepsy (Babloyantz and
Destexhe, 1986) which was confirmed by others (Iasemedia et al, 1988; Frank et
all, 1990). An important study of simultaneous time series from 16 subdural
electrodes placed in the right temporal cortex of a patient with a right medial
temporal lobe epileptogenic focus demonstrated that a decrease in a single lead’s
λ( + ) reliably anteceded and localized the first signs of the incipient seizure. The
rest of the leads followed with similarly decreased positivity in their leading
Lyapounov exponents associated with spatially coherent patterns of behavior. In
addition, the averaged value of the leading Lyapounov exponents in the 16 leads
increased post-ictally over the averaged values of λ( + ) in the pre-ictal state
(Iasemidis et al, 1988,1990). These findings, including seizure anticipation for 25
minutes, were confirmed using intracranial recordings in 16 patients with temporal
lobe epilepsy (Elger and Lehnertz, 1998). The para-ictal decrease and post-ictal
increase in λ( + ) found in patients with focal temporal lobe seizures was confirmed
more generally in left and right pre-frontal-to-mastoid EEG recordings made before,
during and after electroconvulsive shock treatment of psychiatric patients (Krystal
and Weiner, 1991). Pre-ictal changes were also found six minutes before seizure
onset from scalp EEG recordings in 17/19 patients with chronic focal epilepsy
(Martinerie et al, 1998). The most exciting potential application of this approach is
its use, in real time, for the prediction and prophylactic treatment of incipient
seizures, minutes to hours before the event, in place of or augmenting long term
drug management (Iasemidis and Sackellares, 1996).
There is a growing literature about leading Lyapounov exponent(s) in the
reconstructed attractor of the EEG associated with a variety of normal and
pathological human behavioral states. For examples, two and sometimes three
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λ( + ) were reported in awake relaxed subjects and were lost in deep sleep (Stage
IV) and coma (advanced Jakob-Creutzfeld disease), suggesting that level of
consciousness correlated positively with amount of orbital divergence (Gallez and
Bablioyantz, 1991). A “pathologically low” leading λ( + ) was also found to be
characteristic of the EEG of patients with Alzheimer’s syndromes (Jeong et al,
1998). Technically defined sleep stages (I, II, III, IV, REM) were found to correlate
well with the values of the leading λ( + ) of the EEG in normal subjects (Fell et al,
1993; 1996; Pradhan and Sadasivan, 1996). EEG recordings during problem
solving sometimes, but not always, demonstrated a relationship between values of
λ( + ) and the kind or amount of load of the task (Micheloyannis et al, 1998;
Popivanovov et al, 1998; Meyer-Lindenberg et al, 1998). Both emotionally positive
and negative videos increased the value of the leading λ( + )(Aftanos et al, 1997) as
did computer generated music with sounds that exploited a “pleasing” hierarchical,
1/f but not an “unpleasant” 1/f 2 frequency spectrum (see previous section about
power law scaling) (Jeong et al, 1998). The EEG theta rhythm of “day dreaming”
manifested a lower λ( + ) than the “relaxed alert awake” alpha rhythm (Roschke et al,
1997). Relationships between the Lyapounov spectra demonstrated both regional
independence and task-related dependence in the magnetoencephalography record
in man (Kowalik and Elbert, 1995).
These and other studies suggest that divergence rate of orbits on a
geometrically reconstructed attractor is a subtle measure, which can be quantified
as a continuous variable and which has been found to be useful in a variety of
neuroscience-related, experimental contexts. The range includes the
characterization of the discharge pattern of a single somatic or renal sympathetic
nerve fiber (Gong et al, 1998;Zhang and Johns, 1998); quantifying the results of
perturbing autonomic nervous system activity, for examples, exercise, atropine and
propranolol decrease λ( + ) in the cardiac interbeat interval attractor (Hagerman et
al, 1996) and interference with the function of the baroreflex or clonidine alters the
λ( + ) in the blood pressure attractor in man and animals (Wagner et al, 1996;
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Mestivier et al, 1998); and predicting defects in visual learning functions from
decreases in the λ( + ) of the cardiac interbeat interval attractor in patients with
multiple sclerosis (Ganz and Faustman, 1996).
We recall that on theoretical grounds (Guckenheimer and Holmes, 1983), a
decrease in the positivity of λ( + ) → λ( 0)
in a delay coordinate, geometric
reconstruction of a time series of observables may auger an incipient global
bifurcation in the system’s dynamics. As reviewed above, this has turned out to be
the case in several studies of the EEG and electrocorticogram in epileptic patients.
Futher research will be required to see if this idea has substance more generally for
predicting “catastrophic” changes in other brain-related systems.
Power Law Scaling of Orbital Geometries in Time Series Reconstructions
Benoit Mandelbrot’s book in its first incarnation was derived from his lectures
at College de France in 1973 and 1974 and was called Les Objets Fractals: Forme,
Hasard et Dimension (Mandelbrot, 1975). This essay was translated into English as
Fractals, Form Chance and Dimension (Mandelbrot, 1977). Later expanded and
reworked editions displayed another title, The Fractal Geometry of Nature
(Mandelbrot, 1982) but the deep conceptual, sometimes poetic fusion and confusion
generated by the apparent identity among the objects of his first title remains.
“Fractal,” along with “chaos” and “strange attractor” are among the most widely
familiar new words in modern dynamical systems research. Fractal is the most
difficult to rigorously define and is commonly misunderstood due to the evocative
yet dream-like cognitive condensations provoked by the first title and its reflections
in Mandelbrot’s prose. A common conceptual confusion is exemplified by the
assumed relation between “fractal time event distributions” of the cardiac interbeat
interval and the “fractal like” anatomy of the purkinje network of the cardiac
conduction system. Data from both contexts are often shown juxtaposed in the
same illustration as though their relationships were obvious (Goldberger et al, 1990;
Goldberger, 1996; Liebovitch and Todorov, 1996). “Fractal times” and “fractal
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geometries” are not related to each other essentially, either in the mathematical or
physiological domain, but are often made vaguely equivalent on the basis of their
lexical similarity.
An experimentally meaningful relationship between fractal statistics (hazard),
dynamical fractals (dimension) and fractal geometries (form), has to be proven on a
case by case basis and not assumed from their common designation. Among the
informal attempts to do this have been those that involve the branching pattern of
nerves and the associated reductions in their diameter-dependent characteristic
conduction velocities yielding a multiplicity of “arrival times.” There is, however, a
more central idea common to these concatenated meanings of fractal: the
statistical, dynamical and geometric expressions of “scaling,” a word which is not
mentioned in Mandelbrot’s book titles. The cluster of theories, theorems and
methods associated with the idea of scaling (and renormalization) have led to Nobel
Prizes for Flory (1971), Wilson (1975) and de Gennes (1979) and the (equivalent
mathematical) Field’s Medal for McMullen (1994). There is speculation that the last
two awards were supported by the inspiration and interest given their research by
Mandelbrot’s intuitions and books.
Scaling laws take the place of (unknown causal) physical laws by indicating
the proportion by which observables of a system can be changed in relationship to
each other such that some statement about them, “this varies with that,” still holds.
In a cross species comparison, as the average weight of a mammalian body, called
lb, increases, the skeletal weight, called w, increases at an exponentially greater
rate: w goes like lb 1.08 where lb 1.0 would indicate that they grew across species at
the same rate. Plotting log (lb) on the x axis and log (w) on the y axis in a log-log
plot results in a straignt line with a slope that indicates the power law scaling
relationship between body weight and skeletal weight across mammals. The slope
of the scaling exponent of 1.08 is a little over 45 ° = 1. In contrast, the metabolic rate,
r, goes like (lb) 0.75 , r ≈ (lb) 0.75 . Larger animals (relative to their weight) have lower
basal metabolic rates (Schmidt-Nielsen, 1984). We don’t completely know the chain
of intervening mechanisms that relate these variables to each other but we do know
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invariant scaling laws that describe their relationships within some limits on the
range of values.
In describing the functional size, radius of gyration, R g , of a polymer such as
a polypeptide, composed of N monomers, assume each of the amino acids to be
the same and that they are in a “good” hydrophobic solvent that didn’t stick the
polymer together in a fold. Flory (1971) found a scaling law for certain broad classes
of polymers and solvents, R g ≈ αN ν , where the exponent, ν = 3/5, was universal, N
indicated the number of monomers in the chain and the value of “pre-factor” α
depended upon the particular monomer and solvent chosen. Log R g plotted against
log N has a “power law” slope of 0.60. For an equally static but less physical
example, there is the well known Zipf law of “vocabulary balance”(Zipf, 1949). First
reported for the 260,450 words of James Joyce’s Ulysses, the slope of the log of the
rank of the words found (ordered from most to least along x) plotted against the log
of their frequency (along y) results in a power law that is (generally) true for other
collections of words and in other languages.
An accessible example of a dynamical scaling law arises in a two
dimensional lattice model of a forest which is to be set on fire with probability p
independent random single tree ignitions. At some critical p, p c , the fire sweeps
through the entire forest (“percolates”) and the correlation length of the connected
clusters grows as |p-p c | -γ with a universal scaling exponent, γ = 4/3, for all Monte
Carlo, two dimensional percolation problems (Stauffer, 1985; Grimmett, 1989).
Mandelbrot’s scheme for the power laws that compose his fractal geometry
of dynamical objects is a measure made on the pattern of occupancy in the
embedding space by the reconstructed orbits of an attractor. It is, generally,
mass ≈ length D 0
in which D (the subscript that of the “capacity dimension”) is not the
0
whole number of Euclidian dimensions, d, of the space in which the orbits are
embedded. After Hausdorff’s “convergence of external and internal measures”
(Hurewicz and Wallman, 1948), the (capacity) fractal dimension D is also defined
as being larger than its topological dimension and smaller than its Euclidian
embedding dimension. Graphing a time series on a plane one can think of its
0
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topological dimension as that of a line equal to one. If each time step had the
largest up or down amplitude as possible, its fractal dimension would approach (but
not reach) that of the embedding plane, Euclidean d = 2.
The D 0 of the one dimensional Richardson technique (Mandelbrot, 1967) can
be computed by covering the one dimensional surface of a time series with a
number, #, of line segments of several orders of magnitude range of lengths, l
.Graphing log(l) along the x-axis and log #(l) along the y-axis yields a negative linear
slope, -s. As defined, 1- s = D 0 noting that (-(-s)→+s) such that 1 < D 0 = 1+s < 2.
Strain differences and peptide and psychotropic drug-induced changes in D 0
computed in this way were found in time series of fluctuations in rat brainstem
tyrosine and tryptophan hydroxylase activities under far-from-equilibrium coreactant
concentrations (Mandell and Russo, 1981; Knapp et al, 1981; Knapp and
Mandell, 1983; 1984). Systematic influences of stimulant drug dose on D 0 were
found as well in these systems (Mandell et al, 1982). This simple measure, made
directly on the “roughness” of the graph of a one dimensional time series rather than
on its orbital reconstruction, has been used to discriminate the pattern of
fluctuations in daily mood scales in normal subjects and mood disordered patients
(Woyshville et al, 1999). These findings confirmed dimensional scaling exponents
on higher dimensional embeddings of similar time series in mood disordered
patients (Gottschalk et al, 1995; Pezard et al, 1996). Due to the ease and rapidity of
its computation, techniques involving D 0 on one dimensional time series are
currently in development as possible real time epilepsy predictors when analyzing
the output of a large number of EEG leads simultaneously.
If M(ε) is the minimum number of d-dimensional cubes of side ε required to
cover the d-dimensionally embedded attractor, plotting a logarithmic range of rulers
of length ε (as ε→0) along the x axis and a logarithmic range of number of cubes,
M(ε), each of corresponding ε-edge size, along the y axis, results in a negative
(more smaller M(ε) ‘s and fewer bigger M(ε) ‘s) power law slope D 0 . Here the
numbered covering cubes, M(ε), are those in which the probability of containing at
least one point (its “probability density measure,” often called µ) is not zero. We
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note that changing the ratios of the numbers of cubes that are dense in point
probability to those that are sparse would not influence the value of D 0 . This helps
differentiate D 0 from other dimensions and, as noted above, D 0 as a maximal
estimate of the fractal dimension, is called the capacity dimension and by
convention the scaling law is written
M
( ε)
D
≈ ε
− 0
. More specifically, D0 is calculated
by repeatedly dividing the d-dimensionally embedded phase space into equal d-
dimensional hypercubes and plotting the log of the fraction of the hypercubes
containing data points versus the log of the (normalized) linear dimension (“length
scale”) of the hypercubes. The slope fitted to the most linear part of the slope
(usually the middle 50%) indicates the capacity dimension. D 0 is computed for
increasing embedding (and cube) dimension, d, until it achieves an asymptotic
plateau, it “saturates”. This is but one of a range of geometric scaling exponents,
“dimensions,” that are currently being computed (Farmer et al, 1983; Grassberger
and Procaccia, 1983; Meyer-Kress, 1986; Theiler, J. (1990); Gershenfeld, 1992; Ott
et al,, 1994).
Although still subject to debate, convention has it that the sample length
required to determine this most primitive of dimension computations goes like
D
10 0
(e.g. a dimension of 2.45 requires a sample length of at least 282 points).
Assuming robust findings using D0 as indicated by non-parametric tests of
significance in test-retest, before and after, drug treatment designs, this arbitrary
criteria sounds more like ritual than meaningful help for the clinical neuroscientist
with (say) 100 spinal fluid hormone and metabolite samples painfully and
laboriously collected from a patient’s indwelling catheter over 48 hours. In the
context of real data (and not numerical studies of differential equations), we are
dealing with empirical findings that must find their meaning (or lack of) in the context
of questions about issues in the neurosciences, not in abstract questions such as
those about the number of dimensions that an unknown differential equation would
require to represent the data (Broomhead and King, 1986). In a similar arbitrary
spirit, a system manifesting a D 0 > 5 is considered not discriminable from a random
process; e.g. the difference between D 0 = 5 versus D 0 = 7 (though perhaps
statistically significant) is thought to be without meaning. Since in neurobiological
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research, “random” (if it doesn’t mean measurement error) indicates unknown
degrees of freedom, this D 0 > 5 rule is also without relevance for brain research.
D 1 is called the “information dimension” and is computed by counting the
number of ε-cubes, M(ε), it takes to cover the points constituting some fixed fraction
of all of the points of the set of orbital points on the attractor and can be regarded as
the “core dimension” (without the outliers) of the set. The counterintuitive finding is
that D 1 is nearly constant across a range of fixed fractions that are less than the
whole measure (Farmer et al, 1983). The invariance of D 1 can even be taken to the
extreme by computing the D
M
lim ln ( ε )
ε ln( ε)
1
=
→o
around (typical, not all) single points. In
this context, D 1 is called the “pointwise dimension” or “singularity exponent” and, as
might be anticipated, its value is usually less than that of D 0 .
The scaling exponent that is both sensitive to point densities and easiest to
compute from real data is the “correlation dimension,” D 2. Here, analogous to the
relationship between the amplitudes of the variance and the correlation function in
conventional statistics, the measure squared is of interest for the computation of D 2 ,
e.g.
M ( ε )
2
I( 2, ε ) = ∑[ µ ( Ci
)] (see below for this use of measure µ on sum Σ of cubes Ci).
i=
1
The selection of D 2 as the fractal measure dominates the studies that invoke scaling
exponents to quantify the distributions of points on the attractor as reconstructed
from time series in the neurosciences (Grassberger and Procaccia, 1983; Mayer-
Kress, 1986; Ott et al, 1994). Several sets of programs are available for its
computation (for example, Sprott and Rowlands, 1991). Generally, a correlation
sum (“integral”, R(ε) ) is computed from a starting point by counting all subsequent
point pairs with distances between them less than ε as ε→0 and plotting
D
2
lim ln( R( ε)
= . D 2 is computed for increasing embedding (and therefore
ε → 0 ln( ε)
hypercube) dimension, d, until D 2 achieves an asymptotic plateau, it “saturates”
(Ding et al, 1993).
It is generally the case that D 0 ≥ D 1 ≥ D 2 (Farmer et al, 1983).
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In his statistical explorations of experimental results in hydrodynamic
turbulence, Mandelbrot (1974) called attention to the need for a multiplicity of
characteristic scaling exponents, a range of values for each exponent and their
sensitivity to orbital point density distributions (the latter called the Sinai-Ruelle-
Bowen or natural measure (Eckmann and Ruelle, 1985)). These needs grew out of
the intrinsic heterogeneity in the time dynamics and the nonuniform point
distributions in phase space of orbitally divergent, real physical systems. Even with
relatively uniform orbital point distributions, it is intuitively obvious that as ε → 0, the
smaller ε- cubes are over-represented and larger ε- cubes are under-represented in
the M(ε) computation (Farmer et al, 1983). For a concrete example, the fraction of
the total number of cubes containing say 75% of the points would obviously
decrease as the ε-lengths studied gets smaller. Normalizing the D i measures with
respect to point densities would correct for this systematic distortion. In addition, the
non-systematic influence of real system heterogeneity and non-uniformity in both
time and reconstruction space distributions makes the need for relating the D i
measures to the natural measure even more pressing.
The derivation of many separate scaling exponents, as well as global
generalized exponents and the incorporation of point densities in their computation,
has been approached by a kind of method of moments (Renyi, 1970; Grassberger,
1983; Hentschel and Procaccia, 1983; Halsey et al, 1986; Mayer-Kress, 1986; Ott et
al, 1994). We outline the general arguments here so that the reader will be
generally familiar with the ideas and terms, not to serve as a definitive summary. It
is a complicated area and the reader will find the required detailed descriptions in
the references. .
We recall that with respect to a statistical distribution, the first moment is the
mean; the second moment, σ 2 , the variance; the third moment, σ 3 , the distribution’s
asymmetry, the skew; and the fourth moment, σ”, its relative peakedness with
respect to the probability mass in the tail, called the kurtosis. In these moment
computations of an observable
q
x i
’s deviation from the mean, |x − x| , the value for
q accentuate particular regions of the density distribution. Similarly, the q’s of the
i
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“generalized dimensions,” D q , emphasize different aspects of the relative point
density that are assumed to be uniform in the computation of D 0 . We recall from
above that the power law slope constituting D
ln M( ε)
lim
ε ln( ε)
0 = →o
. If we emphasize the
component of the probability (measure, µ) or, equivalently, time spent by the orbit in
cube i, µ( C i
) instead of simply the number of cubes occupied by any points, M(ε),
along with the different length scales of the cube as ε→0 we have a generalized
dimension. A common expression for the generalized dimension includes the
fractional pre-factor in q written so as to make things come out right:
M ( ε )
Iq
D = 1 lim ln ( , ε)
q
, where Iq ( , ε ) = ∑[ µ ( C i
)]
q −1ε
→ 0 ln( ε)
i=
1
the dominance of the higher probability cubes,
q
. The higher the q, the greater
µ( C i
). To see how this q-induced
separation in emphasis might work, if the ratio for q = 2 between the probability
containing cubes 0.25 and 0.05 is 25, their ratio for q = 3 is 125. For q = 0, the
scaling exponent is the capacity dimension. This result of the actions of a changing
q has been analogized to the way changing temperature in a thermodynamic
system evokes different aspects of its behavior.
The “multifractal formalism” generally begins by determining the statistical
densities over a range of scale lengths by one means or another including wavelet
transformations across wavelength scale (Arneodo et al, 1988). These densities by
scale are then systematically raised to a range of q exponents. Since q, and
therefore D q , can vary continuously, functions are created that shows how D q varies
with q. These are then further transformed, resulting in a single maximum parabolic
curve whose shape and size is sensitive to the conditions of the experiment (Halsey
et al, 1986). Generalized dimensions decrease as q increases. A unique
neuropsychopharmacological application of the multifractal technique to a study of
the behavioral influence of increasing amounts of cocaine on the time-dependent
patterns of spatial exploration, temporal-spatial fluctuations, in rats, demonstrated a
global splitting in the parabolic distribution suggestive of a cocaine-induced global
phase transition, not unlike the well-known, dose-dependent, amphetamine-induced
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shift from hyperactivity to motor stereotypy (Paulus et al, 1991). Studies that
followed demonstrated that “q-moment” distributions of heterogeneous scaling
exponents and their relative statistical weightings were useful in making subtle
discriminations between effects of psychopharmacological agents and behavioral
(isolation) influences on animal behavior as well as patterns of simple psychomotor
behavior in normal subjects and schizophrenic patients (Paulus et al, 1994; 1996;
1998; Krebs-Thomson et al, 1998a; 1998b).
Fractal Scaling Measures on Reconstructed Time Series from
Biological Dynamics
Publications involving the applications of various D measures, particularly D 2 ,
to brain-relevant times series number in the hundreds and are growing
exponentially. The following constitutes a brief review of a representative set of
empirical findings. In doing so, for the reasons discussed below, we ignore what
some might consider the rather abstract and philosophical issue of “determinism”
versus “randomness” or “error” (Sugihara and May, 1990; Casdagli, 1991; Wayland
et al, 1993; Kaplan and Glass, 1992; Kaplan, 1994) since this question is relatively
unproductive with respect to generating new neurobiological insights, novel
experiments or new quantitative approaches to brain dynamics. In addition, as
noted in the final section, this discrimination may not even have definitive theoretical
meaning in that the conduct of much of the rigorous mathematics about
“deterministic dynamical systems” involve Markoff partitions and matrices which are
also the generic operators of formal probability theory (Sullivan, 1979; Kolmogorov,
1950). For example, N-dimensional non-linear Markoff processes can be shown to
capture the dynamics of multidimensional neurobiological processes such as the
EEG (Silipo et al, 1998).
We have also ignored the related issue of the presence or absence of “low
dimensional structure” (Theiler and Rapp, 1996; Rapp, 1995) which, from the
authors’ point of view, resulted from an unfortunately concrete interpretation of the
word “dimensions.” With respect to experimental brain data, dimensions are defined
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most relevantly by their computational procedures and what are computed are
empirical scaling exponents describing real observables as limited by the precision
of the observations, their resolution and series lengths (Smith, 1988; Eckmann and
Ruelle, 1992). The “correlation integral,” the probability that two vectors chosen at
random from the phase space reconstruction lie within “r” distance of each other,
not unrelated to the phase randomization controlled, D 2 measure, yields statements
about amount of “nonlinearity” (not accountable by the linear regressively
capturable component of the power spectrum), which are also difficult to translate
into experimentally or theoretically useful concepts (Casdagli et al, 1997). These
efforts contrast with a more direct attempt to establish a spiking neuron system’s
dynamical “dimension” using trial and error prediction in which “dimension” was
defined as the number of potentially physiologically relevant variables required to
make the predictive equations fit (Segundo et al, 1998).
Computations of scaling exponent descriptors of orbital point distributions on
reconstructed attractors of the brain sciences have proven to be most useful as
atheoretical, empirical techniques discriminating experimental, clinical and/or
treatment conditions with various approaches to statistical significance. In this
regard, one can say that D 2 is often found to be superior to central tendency
oriented statistics in making these discriminations. Dimension and correlation
integral descriptors appear least useful when dealing with global issues such as
chaos, randomness, linearity and the “underlying dimensions” of (unknown)
differential equations. We discuss below the possibility that the failure to find chaos
in the more recent EEG studies (Theiler and Rapp, 1996; Prichard et al, 1996) may
be because the EEG attractor is better characterized as a “strange nonchaotic
atttractor” with orbital patterns manifesting fractional scaling exponents but no λ( + )
(Grebogi et al, 1984; Mandell and Selz, 1993).
The relatively subtle influence of high altitude (Mt. Everest) oxygen
concentrations was not seen in the central moments of the cardiac interbeat
intervals, but the D 2 of the attactor was reduced significantly (Yamamoto et al,
1993). The latencies and amplitudes of the visual evoked potential failed to
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discriminate normal subjects from those with early glaucoma, but the reconstructed
attractor of the steady state visual cortical response to full field flicker demonstrated
a statistically significant decrease in D 2 (Schmeisser et al, 1993). Marginal
qualitative differences in optokinetic nystagmus were quantitatively significant when
studied as the D 2 of the attractor’s points in patients with vertigo compared with
controls (Aasen et al, 1997). Reconstructions of maximum velocity waves from
Doppler studies of middle cerebral artery hemodynamics (using phase random
“controls”) demonstrated an increase in D 2 (and a decrease in λ( + ) correlated with
age in an adult population (Keuner et al, 1996; Vliegen et al, 1996). D 2 served as a
sensitive descriptor of functional changes in the EMG from the surface of the biceps
muscle, increasing with muscle load and rate of flexion and extension and
decreasing with muscle fatigue (Rapp et al, 1993; Nieminen and Takala, 1996;
Gupta et al, 1997), suggesting its use in suspected early myotonic dystrophies and
myasthenias. Reconstructed time series of stomatognathic motions in high school
students with temporomandipular joint syndromes compared with those with
malocclusion revealed a specific decrease in D 0 in the plane of horizontal motion in
the former (Morinushi et al, 1998). Time series of plasma growth hormone levels in
acromegalic patients with functioning pituitary adenomas manifested a statistically
significant increase in D 0 when compared with age-matched controls (Mandell and
Selz, 1997) which corresponded nicely to the reduction in “approximate entropy”
(Pincus, 1991a) computed on this same data set (Hartman et al, 1994). On the
other hand, comparative in vitro studies of growth hormone release patterns in
normal rat pituitary cells and their neoplastically transformed relatives, the GH3
strain, demonstrate a decrease in D 0 in the latter (Guillemin et al, 1983; Mandell,
1986).
The number of examples of the use of D 2 on orbital point geometries in
explorations of physiological and pharmacological regulation are increasing. The D 2
of respiratory rhythms is higher with intact vagal afferents than without (Sammon
and Bruce, 1991). Histamine induced an increase in D 2 in the attractor point
distribution of rabbit ear artery vasomotion, attributed to calcium-activated
membrane potassium channels in that TEA prevented and reversed the change
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(Edwards and Griffith, 1997). The role of central and autonomic innervation in
cardiac interval dynamics has been explored using D 2 in various ways. For
examples, the transplanted heart rhythm in man has a lower D 2 than that of the
normal heart (Guzzetti et al, 1996) and general anesthesia and cholinergic (but not
β-adrenergic) blockade decreased multisystem D 2 in a series of multiparameter
(respiration, mean blood pressure and heart rate) studies in piglets (Zwiener et al,
1996; Hoyer et al, 1998).
The activities of single and aggregates of neurons are being described and
differentiated by the D 2 of their interevent interval attractors. Early and important
studies related to both neuronal and field electrical activity indicated their promise
(Rapp et al, 1985; Zimmerman and Rapp, 1991). The olefactory bulb demonstrated
spatially uniform scaling dimensions that changed with event-related perturbation
(Skinner et al, 1990). An iron-induced spiking focus in the rat hippocampus in vivo
manifested the same decrease in D 2 as it did in the kindled in vitro hippocampal
slice (Koch et al, 1992). D 2 also differentiated among characteristic single unit time
series in norepinephrine, dopamine and serotonin neurons (Selz and Mandell,
1991) and among A8, A9 and A10 dopamine neurons (Selz and Mandell, 1992).
Attractors reconstructed from single unit interspike intervals in the substantia nigra
pars compacta and the auditory thalamus manifested discriminatable values for D 2
in neurons recorded by the same electrode (Celletti and Villa, 1996) and changes in
state manifested in patterns of subthreshold oscillations in single neurons in the
inferioir olivary nucleus could be characterized using this index (Makarenko and
Llinas, 1998).
D 2 reliably discriminated between states of arousal and between the
multiparameter (eye movements, neck muscle tone, EEG stage) defined EEG
stages of sleep (Bablyoyantz, 1986; Rapp et al, 1989; Ehlers et al, 1991) with non-
REM having a lower D 2 than REM. D 2 of the EEG record was selectively reduced in
Stage II and REM in schizophrenic patients compared with controls (Roschke and
Aldenhoff, 1993), this difference was made more prominent by treatment with the
aminodiazopoxide, lorazepam (Roschke and Aldenhoff, 1992). In the waking state,
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higher EEG D 2 values were frontal in schizophrenic patients and more central in
controls (Elbert et al, 1992). The D 2 computed on the EEG during Stage IV (“delta”)
sleep was sensitive to acute sleep deprivation and recovery, but demonstrated
compensation (Cerf et al, 1996). Non-alcholic children of alcoholic parents
manifested lower values for D 1 in their EEG attractors than the children of a normal
control group (Ehlers et al, 1995). Higher I.Q. correlated with EEG D 2 in most leads
in the resting state but not during a visual imagery task (Lutzenberger et al, 1992).
These differences also correlated with individual differences in task performance in
a perceptual pattern predictive task (Gregson et al, 1990) and with a working
memory task load with regional differences most marked in the right fronto-temporal
cortex (Sammer, 1996).
Peripheral nerve stimulation in the earlobe and trapezius muscle induced
increments in D 2 in the EEG of specific brain regions (Heffernan, 1996). Memory for
but not induced pain increased EEG D 2 in chronic pain patients but not in normal
controls (Lutzenberger et al, 1997). Using contingent reinforcement of brain wave
modes by hypothalamic, but not cerebral hemispheric, stimulation reduced D 2 in the
EEG (Mogilevskii et al, 1998) resembling the changes accompanying defensive
reflex conditioning in the rabbit between the early and late stages of the process
(Efremova and Kulikov, 1997). Difficult to diagnose “periodic lateralized epileptiform
discharge” syndromes have apparently yielded to D 2 computations (Stam et al,
1998). In equally problematic “atypical seizure” syndromes in children, D 2 computed
on the autocovariance functions of 200 Hz digitized EEG records from multiple
channels demonstrated characteristic changes (Yaylali et al, 1996).
Unlike computing a reliable leading λ( + ) on a point set of a time series
reconstruction denoting the “sensitivity to initial conditions” requirement for the
diagnosis of chaos (and a potential for change such that a decrease in the positivity
of λ( + ) → λ( 0)
may auger a nearby bifurcation), the presence of a fractional scaling
exponent,
D i
, does not in and of itself implicate a chaotic dynamical state. A nice
example of a nonchaotic dynamic with
λ = 0 that has a fractional scaling exponent,
D = 0.538, is the “Feigenbaum” point where the above noted “infinite” series of
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period doubling bifurcations accumulate (Grassberger, 1981). This is a dust-like
region, which when endlessly dilated looks like the same dust. Some
mathematicians call these objects “Lebesgue points” because even though at low
magnifications when they look rather solid, they are not. Composed of points, they
have topological measure zero (a line has measure one) and non-integer fractal
dimension. These λ = 0 , D ≠ Integer, period doubling accumulation points can be
found in a wide variety of attractors, though in each case the parameter space in
which they are located is so small (in point set topology also called “Lebesgue
measure zero”) that they are very difficult to locate and therefore have little chance
of being physiologically significant.
This constrasts with a relatively new category of dynamical systems which
promises to be important in studies of the nervous system. These are ones that are
driven by two or more independent frequencies (called quasiperiodic driving). We
found them to be relevant to brain stem, thalamocortical neurophysiology of
perceptual processes and states of consciousness. They have the properties,
λ = 0 , D 0 and D 1 ≠ integer and a characteristic scaling “spectral distribution
function” (see below). They have been named “strange nonchaotic attractors”
(Grebogi et al, 1984; Romeiras et al, 1987; Ding et al, 1989). In addition, the
strange nonchaotic behavior of these quasiperiodically-driven, nonlinear oscillators
has positive (>0) measure in parameter space and thus is of potential physiological
significance. A good demonstration of a multiple frequency driven strange
nonchaotic attractor can be found and manipulated in the software package of
Nusse and Yorke (1991).
The neurobiological substrate for this system is the brain stem neuronal
modulatory driving of on- going thalamocortcal oscillatory brain waves (once called
“recruitment waves” in the 7-14 Hz, θ to α, day dreaming to quiet alert range) and
as perturbed by multifrequency driving in what was once called “reticular formation
arousal” are realized as dominant EEG modes and associated states of perceptual
acuity and consciousness (Moruzzi and Magoun 1949; Moruzzi, 1960; Klemm,
1990; Steriade and McCarley, 1990; Contreras et al, 1997). In addition to intrinsic
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multiply periodic and aperiodic oscillations of thalamic and cortical cells and their
recursive, feedback coupling, the brain stem manifests more than two orders of
magnitude of “independent” neuronal driving frequencies ranging from serotonin
discharges at 1 Hz, cortically direct dopamine and norepinephrine neurons in the
10-50Hz range and mesencephalic reticular neurons discharging as fast as 100 to
200 Hz. The “thalamocortical brain wave oscillator” as their target has been a fixture
in global state neurophysiology since the 1940’s and 1950’s and is of great current
interest (Fessard et al, 1961; Bazhenov et al, 1998). We have explored the
relationships between strange nonchaotic dynamics and brain-stem neuronal and
thalamocortical physiology from the standpoint of neuronal coding and the
properties of the EEG attractor. (Mandell et al, 1991; Mandell and Kelso, 1991;
Mandell and Selz, 1992; 1993;1994;1997a). We found that the EEG attractor could
be characterized by the diagnostic triad identifying strange nonchaotic attractors:
λ = 0 , D 0 and D 1 ≠ Integer, and a signatory power spectral distribution in which the
number of peaks, N, with amplitudes greater than ϖ, N(ϖ ), went as ϖ -α , 1 < α < 2
(Romeiras et al, 1987; Mandell et al, 1991). In addition to being consistent with
known multifrequency, brain stem driving of thalamocortical oscillations, the EEG as
a strange, nonchaotic attractor is intuitively appealing in that it has the necessary
mechanisms for the power law scaling of a wide range of characteristic times (D 0
and D 1 ≠ Integer) from picosecond fluctuations of neural membrane proteins to the
decades of bipolar phenomena and since λ = 0 , the orbital points don’t tend to
“mix”(get out of order) on the attractor, thus protecting the fidelity of sequence
dependent brain information transport (Berns and Sejnowski, 1998).
Entropies, Unstable Periodic Orbits and Shadowing; Short Time Series
Can Discriminate Experimental Conditions in Studies of Biological Dynamics
We avoid the temptation to deal with the deep analogy between
thermodynamic entropy (Clausius, 1897) and information theoretic entropy
(Shannon and Weaver, 1949), constraining our discussion to the context of an
operational equivalence (in healthy systems) between gain of information and
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decrease in entropy in brain-relevant dynamical systems. As we shall see, certain
pathophysiological processes appear to manifest themselves as reductions in
background or “resting” state entropy which then limits its supply with respect to
information gain and/or transport. Relationships between “physical” thermodynamic
observables, such as changes in heat capacity or temperature dependence of
kinetic constants, and information-transport driven, neurotransmitter evoked
conformational changes in neural membrane proteins may someday come together
in an experimentally productive way (Hitzemann et al, 1985; Zeman et al, 1987;
Borea et al, 1988), but they are beyond the scope of this paper.
The idea of taming the orbit of an expanding flow (with at least one λ( + )) by
partitioning the geometric space supporting its actions, its “manifold,” and then
labeling each box so that its trajectory is representable by a symbol string of box
indices is the way “symbolic dynamics” are applied to dynamical systems. Symbolic
dynamics arose in pure mathematics in the context of obtaining a one-to-one,
topological (sequence not distance preserving ) representation of a difficult to
characterize system of “geodesics on surfaces of negative curvature” (Hadamard,
1898; Morse, 1917; Morse and Hedlund, 1938). Geodesics here are the shortest
lines in this curved, non-Euclidean space in which nearby lines spread apart and far
away ones came together with (in Euclidian space) parallel lines meeting at infinity.
Remarkably, symbolic dynamic encoding of the motions on this abstract
manifold of negative curvature also capture how uniformly divergent (and
convergent), “hyperbolic” chaotic systems, such as brain systems, behave in
Euclidean space, an intuitive similarity about which Poincare experienced his
famous vacation bus trip epiphany (Stillwell, 1985). It should also be noted that
encoding neural spike trains in one dimension for symbolic dynamical comparisons
of sequence structure and recurrances, “favored patterns” has been developed
independently of orbital dynamics on manifolds (Dayhoff, 1984; Dayhoff and
Gerstein, 1983a; 1983b). A similar approach has been used to characterize firing
patterns and their response to acupuncture in dopamine neurons in the substantia
nigra and hypothalamic neurons (Chen and Ku, 1992).
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For real neurobiological data, a time series and its n time delays are first
reconstructed as a trajectory in an n+1 dimensional geometric embedding space
and, following partition of that geometric space into n+1 dimensional lettered boxes
(the choice of partition being a sensitive step), what was once an orbit has become
a sequence of symbols. Dynamical systems in geometric space become symbolic
dynamics in sequence space. It was Kolmogoroff (1958) who first applied
Shannon’s ideas of entropy and information (Shannon and Weaver, 1949; Khinchin,
1957) to the quantification of these dynamical system’s telegraphic messages as
discrete, “stochastic” (random, probabilistic) output. Kolmogoroff turned to Shannon
entropy,
−∑ p i
log p i
(where p = 1/n and n = number of possibilities) to decide the
question whether a dynamical system that naturally partitioned into a two or three
box system per unit time had the same entropy. His answer was no, that –3(1/3 ln
(1/3)) = 1.098 > -2(1/2 ln (1/2) = 0.6931 loge and in computer relevant log 2 , 1.5850 >
1.0 (Kolmogorov, 1959). Entropy increases with possibility.
Nonlinear differential equations representing brain-relevant expanding
dynamical systems replace Shannon’s linguistically weighted and serially ordered,
Markoff-dependent random number generator of probabilistic language. As noted
above, in the case of the Sharkovskii sequences (Sharkovskii, 1964; Metropolis et
al, 1973; Misiurewicz, 1995), a small change in the single parameter of an entire
class of single maximum maps generating motions that are coded from their
position at the left or right of center of the unit interval, alters and determines
precisely the periodic output such as {1,0,0,1,0,1,1,0,0,1,0,1…) of its binary
message. In higher dimensional examples such as the Rössler and Lorenz
systems, one can visualize the joint actions of λ( + ) and λ( − ) moving the trajectory
so as to both enter, “create,” new boxes and generate new letters as well as visit old
ones, unstable fixed points, thus forming unstable periodic orbits. The latter, one of
three diagnostic features of chaotic attractors (see above), can also be seen as
resulting from the “coarse-grained” imprecision of real world neurobiological
measurement such that two points that are brought close to attractive-repelling
points are, within measurement error, recorded as having the same value.
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Problems of measurement precision, amplified by the expansive actions of
systems that are sensitive to initial conditions, yield parameter sensitive entropies of
two (mathematically) fundamental kinds called topological and metric entropies, h T
and h M , proven to be the upper and lower bounds of any estimate of the entropy in a
uniformly expanding and/or equidistributed system (Adler and Weiss, 1965).
Measures of entropy, as “missing information related to the number of alternatives
which remain possible to a physical system” (Boltzmann, 1909), “index of
probability” (Gibbs, 1902) or the “amount of uncertainty associated with a finite
scheme” (Khinchin,1957) are obviously sensitive to the partition rules and its
fineness of the grain. The most theoretically defensible partition is called the
“generating partition” in which no box contains more than one point. Comparisons of
control and experimental data can be differentially sensitive to partition construction,
so that if a generating partition is not practicable due to sample length or dense
curdling in the point distribution, some arbitrary choices have to be made. These
have included naturally renormalized variational partitions, such that in one
dimension the boxes are defined by ±1, ±2, ±3,…standard deviations, or quartiles or
quintile, above and below the mean and in n dimensions. Partitions have also been
constructed and used to described drug effects on rat exploratory behavior by
sequential partitioning along the dimension of the highest remaining variation (after
the previous partition) called the “KD” partition (Paulus et al, 1991). Partition
strategies to capture entropic measures on serial ordering (Klemm and Sherry,
1981; Strong et al, 1998) can grow from knowledge or hypotheses about the
physiological sources of temporal irregularities and discontinuities in brain dynamics
including characteristic interval(s) of refractoriness, relaxation times of the inhibitory
surround, correlation time in dendritic tree summation, the time course of reciprocal
inhibition and its decay and chemical influences such as the synaptic half-life and
time of action of inhibitory influences such as GABA on cell firing.
The logarithmic growth rates of occupancy of new symbolically indexed
boxes or, equivalently, the growth rates of visitations to old ones generating
unstable periodic orbits, are called topological entropies, h T . They record new
happenings, the growth rate of the diversity of orbits, and not how likely with respect
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to box occupancy densities they are likely to occur ( Adler et al, 1964; Alexeev and
Jacobson, 1981; Cornfield et al, 1982; Ornstein, 1989; Ruelle, 1990). The close
relationships in real brain observables between the appearance rate of new
symbols or new unstable periodic orbits, h T , and log λ( + ), reflecting the rate of
divergence from the next expected value generating a new, unexpected value, is
not surprising. In fact, a maximal estimate of the entropy of a dynamical system, h T
= log λ( + ) whereas the largest value that h M can attain is log(#of states). A great
deal of substantial mathematics has gone into proofs that similarities (“equivalence
relations”) and differences between dynamical patterns are robustly indicated by
differences in h T and h M (Adler et al, 1977; Adler and Marcus, 1979).
If the sum of the densities in each j box were normalized so as to sum to 1.0,
such that each is a probability, p j , then - Σ p j log p j represents the metric entropy,
h M . h M was first described in the dynamical context by Kolmogorov (1958;1959).
The sum having a –1 prefactor converts the negative log of < 1 to a meaningful
positive value in the expression. h M is maximal for the equidistributed, uniformly
expansive, C or Axiom A systems (see above). As noted above, generally h T = the
maximum estimate of the entropy and h M the minimum estimate (Adler and Weiss,
1965). h T = h M in uniformly hyperbolic systems (Bowen, 1975) and the difference,
|h T – h M | is an index of non-uniformity found useful in discriminating among classes
of single neurons from their discharge patterns (Mandell, 1987; Selz and Mandell,
1992; Mandell and Selz, 1993; Mandell and Selz, 1997a). These measures applied
to temporal and spatial patterns of rat exploratory behavior have been used to
discriminate among stimulant drug effects (Paulus et al, 1990; Paulus and Geyer,
1992). Similar computations involving the symbolic dynamics and disallowed
transitions have been used to study the complexity of the the EEG (Xu, 1994) in
which both extremely low (fixed point, periodic) and high (Gaussian random)
entropies are seen as manifesting low “complexity as a function of the diversity of
the available patterns of behavior (Crutchfield and Young, 1989a).
Before describing the simple but definitional matrix operations for h T and h M
below which might seem forbidding to those “not up on their linear algebra,” we note
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that procedures such exponentiation of a matrix can be carried out automatically
using computer algebra programs such as Maple or for data processing available as
computational modules in MatLab.
One of the techniques for the computation of h T involves determining the
logarithm of the asymptotic growth rate of the major diagonal (“trace”) in the
transition matrix symbolically encoding the trajectory which would therefore count
the “self visitations” of each indexed boxes as the dynamics proceed. This involves
setting up a transition incidence matrix, each box scored for a disallowed, 0, or
allowed, 1, transitions and the matrix is exponentiated t times with the logarithm of
the asymptotic growth rate of the sum of the diagonal values serving as a (leading
eigenvalue) estimate of h T . More technical considerations involving the Frobenius-
Perron theorem guaranteeing the existence of such an logarithmic index of new
information generation rates, even in random matrices (Seneta, 1981), will not be
discussed here.
We have found that computing h T in this way is empirically useful for difficult
to obtain or only transiently stationary brain data series. Even with relatively short
samples lengths, if one is willing to make the pragmatic assumption of “temporary
stationarity” or “things as they are right now will, for the sake of argument, go on
forever” (perhaps the best we can do with intrinsically transient brain phenomena)
then this “freeze framed” representation of reality yields an asymptotic measure on
relatively short sample lengths since they are computationally infinite. A similar
approach to h M , requires repeatedly exponentiating a Markoff matrix constructed
from relatively short samples and generates the probabilistic (eigenvector) “dual” of
h T. h M computed in this way serves as a useful quantity, h M called by some the
Kolmogorov entropy in comparisons of control and experimental conditions of the
same sample lengths. Systematic decreases in h M (“Kolmogorov entropy”) have
been shown to accompany increasing “depth” of sleep using standard sleep staging
techniques (Gallez and Babloyantz, 1991) and increases in h M were associated with
both positive and negative emotional states induced by movies (Aftanas et al,
1997).
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h T and λ( + ) have been analogized to what is called algorithmic complexity,
which quantifies a computer algorithm’s minimal representation of a symbol
sequence as it grows longer (Chaitin, 1974; Bennett, C.H., 1982; Nicolis, 1986;
Rissanen, 1982; Crutchfield and Young, 1989b). Examples of applications of a
pseudocomputational compression scheme have quantified differences among
protein sequences (Ebling and Jimenez-Montano, 1980), discriminated therapistdirected
“transference” manifestations in verbally encoded processes in
psychotherapy (Rapp et al, 1991), characterized neural spike train patterns in a
penicillin kindled spike focus (Rapp et al, 1994), differentiated among spike
sequence patterns of biogenic amine families of brain stem neurons (Mandell and
Selz, 1994) and as a sample length-dependent rate, in content-free, mouse driven
computer tasks differentiated borderline from obsessive-compulsive personality
patterns (Selz and Mandell, 1997).
Computation of lexical complexity is a good example of this approach. This
procedure recursively surveys the sequence of symbols for the longest word, where
“words” are subsequences that appear at least three times if they contain two letters
or at least twice if they contain more than two letters. Upon finding a longest
repeated word, the compression algorithm replaces all occurances of this word with
a single distinct (new) symbol and looks again for the longest repeated word in the
modified sequence. When the sequence cannot be further recursively compressed,
there may remain identical adjacent symbols in the sequence. These are coded as
the symbol raised to the power of the number of its adjacent occurances. This
exponent cannot exceed five because six adjacent identical symbols would be two
occurances of a three letter word. The numerical value of the lexical complexity is
simply the sum of the number of distinct symbols and the (sum of the) logarithm of
the exponents of the symbol sequences (Ebling and Jimenez-Montano, 1980).
A clear account of algorithmic and lexical complexity in relationship to other
measures of “complexity” in the context of brain relevant research data can be
found in Rapp and Schmah (1996). The relationship between thermodynamic and
ergodic, measure theories in relationship to forced-dissipative dynamics and the
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role of self-intersection on manifolds in this new source of irreversibility (with a
resulting “arrow of time”) is developed in Mackey (1992).
As noted, the skeleton which configures attractors is composed of unstable,
“saddle” fixed points, each of which attract (iron down) the trajectory along one
dimension and repel or spread it out along another. Systems fulfilling the criteria for
a chaotic dynamical system have the property of a countably infinite number of
unstable periodic orbits composed of these unstable fixed points. Depending upon
parameters, the orbital points can pull up their tails to be discrete with respect to
each other or spread along the unstable direction to connect smoothly with others
along a curve such as a saddle cycle. Parametric control of the strengths and
structures of the saddle point skeleton of typical attractors can be used to change
both the rate of generation of novel symbols as well as recurrances to old ones in
the symbolic dynamics generating a brain dynamical system’s lexagraphic products
(Bowen, 1978; Alexeev and Jacobson, 1981)).
Using a variety of techniques to algorithmically register “return times,”
experimental condition-sensitive “saddle orbits” composing unstable periodic orbits
have been demonstrated in geometric reconstructions of real data series generated
by a 40+ component chemical reaction (Lathrop and Kostelich, 1989), in response
to natural stimuli in the time dependent behavior of the crayfish caudal
photoreceptor (Pei and Moss, 1996) and in the interburst interval sequences
recorded in hippocampal slices of the rat (So et al, 1997; So et al, 1998). If the
reader uses the software listed above to simulate the time evolution of one of these
attractors of abstract or real systems , she will learn that a remarkably small number
of points, a very short time sample, will outline, “shadow” (Bowen, 1978), the
complete array of unstable fixed points before filling in the attractor. It is tempting to
speculate about the potential nervous system relevance of this dynamical
anticipation of the attractor’s recognizable geometry, as well as a precis of what the
symbolic dynamics are going to say occurs many time steps before filling in the
attractor and its asymptotic message. Values of the measures made on the early
unstable periodic orbit arrays such h T , h M and λ( + ), resemble very closely those
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made on their attractors when they were much more densely filled (Lathrop and
Kostelich , 1989). Bowen’s “shadow lemma” in support of a thin film of points over
the skelton of unstable fixed points of attractors is the fundamental reason that short
sample length time series can often discriminate between control and experimental
conditions in brain research studies.
Another recently implemented entropy, called “approximate entropy,” is
exploiting the underlying unstable fixed point skeletal shadowing principle in
expansive dynamical systems to find statistically significant differences between
control and experimental results in reasonably short, physiologically realistic,
sample lengths (Pincus, 1991; Pincus et al, 1991). This algorithm is somewhat
derivative of those involved in the computation of the correlation dimension (see
above). Instead of computing across a range (and taking the limits) of embedding
dimensions, d, and sequential paired-vectorial distances, ε, it empirically tailors and
fixes them to compute a “logarithmic likelihood” that points remains close through
incremental change in the time series. The “approximate entropy” is not easily
relatable to either h T and h M. One is tempted to predict that this geometrically
oriented algorithm might be fooled into a postive entropy diagnosis if applied to
strange, nonchaotic dynamical systems with fractal dimension but no λ( + ) -related
mixing. Since sequence position is conserved in this computation, two
simultaneously studied (“multiparameter”) systems can be examined for their mutual
coherence as the “cross approximate entropy.” Among the interesting findings from
applications of this index to neuroendocrine studies are an increase in approximate
entropy in LH and FSH secretory patterns with age in both sexes, perhaps
quantitatively heralding menopause (Pincus and Minkin, 1998) and decreased cross
approximate entropy, a decrease in regulatory coupling between ACTH and cortisol
secretion patterns in patients with Cushing’s syndrome (Roelfsema et al, 1998).
Among the many of other empirically derived entropies, one is called “power
spectral entropy,” which is equivalent to the normalized variance of the distribution
of frequencies in a power spectral transformation of a time series (Farmer et al,
1980). This has been successfully applied to brain enzyme and receptor fluctuations
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(Russo and Mandell, 1984a; Mandell, 1984), and, more recently, to multiple
simultaneously EEG leads which demonstrated focal increases in epileptic patients
(Inouye et al, 1991; 1992). An entropy derived from the quantification of the failures
in temporal forecasting of EEG signals increased in the fronto-temporal region with
drug treatment in patients with Alzheimer’s syndrome (Pezard et al, 1998).
With respect to their implications for the clinical neurosciences, changes in
dynamical entropy in behavior of brain dynamical systems has been regarded in two
general ways: (1) Since representation of information requires the resolution of
relevant ambiguity, a nonrelevant and global reduction in the dynamical entropy of a
brain system (Stage IV sleep EEG slow waves, neuronal fixed point or regularly
periodic activity, extrapyramidal motor tremor, fixed paranoid or obsessional
mentation, the actions of some anxiolytics and antipsychotics ) reduces its potential
for information encoding and transport. In contrast, “arousal” induced increases in
the measures of entropy in brain wave and neuronal discharge patterns (pre-task
warning signals, motivating conditions, stimulant drugs) are associated with
improved psychophysical receptive and discrimination functions, learning rates and
memory. (2) Regarding as potentially pathophysiological both of the two extremes
of entropy generation, fixed point and periodic behavior as the lowest and fair coin
flipping, “Bernoulli” randomness as the highest, another descriptor, “complexity” is
defined as maximal (optimal) midway through the entropy range, making a new kind
of parabolic entropy curve (Bennett, 1986; Crutchfield and Young, 1989a).
In analogy with an optimal amalgam of periodic rotations and coin flips, in
higher dimension, the most meaningful maximum complexity of real, nonuniformly
expansive processes may derive from a multiplicity of measure invariants,
symmetries, of the system such as the growth rate of unstable periodic orbits,
divergence of the tail of a density distribution and specifiable linguistic variables
such as word length and redundancy. The more symmetries, the more potential for
complicated information encoding and transport with the maximum complexity
located midrange in each one. We have pursued the hypothesis that entropy is a
conserved property in the healthy brain and that complementarity in other statistical
measure mechanisms make that possible. For example, in uniformly expansive,
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idealized systems, topological entropy has been proven be equivalent to the product
of an index of expansion and the dimension of the support such that an increase in
expansiveness , λ( + ), is compensated by a decrease in D 0 leaving h T invariant
(Manning,1981). This relationship has also been found in the behavior of some
nonuniformly expansive neuroendocrine, neuronal and human behavioral systems
(Mandell and Selz, 1995; Smotherman et al, 1996; Mandell and Selz, 1997a;).
Is Randomness Versus Determinism a Productive Question for the Biological
Sciences? Are There Better Ones?
Measures made on realistically nonuniformly expansive behavior of
dynamical systems emerging from nonlinear differential equations and that arising
from a variety of non-classical random walk models overlap such that making what
may be more a metaphysical discrimination at this point is labor intensive,
contentious and unproductive for generating new experimental work in the
neurosciences. It is important to note that random walk theory and computation has
matured to such an extent that almost any “nonlinear dynamical behavior” can, with
respect to statistical measure, be modeled using one of many varieties. For
examples, power law distributions in continuous time random walks (times of
movement are also randomly chosen) , random walks with traps (temporarily
immobilizing the trajectory like unstable fixed points), random walks in random
environments, time of passage of ants in a labyrinth and Levy leaps and local
diffusive exploration (looking for a wallet) among many others can represent much
of the irregular behavior we observe in the brain (Shlesinger et al, 1982; Montroll
and Shlesinger, 1984; Hughes, 1995; Klafter et al, 1996). On the other hand,
(Markoff) partition of the sequence and a probabilistic style of analysis of nonlinear
dynamical systems has been a major strategy for description and quantification
from the field’s beginnings (Parry, 1964; Adler and Weiss, 1967; Bowen, 1970;
Lasota and Yorke, 1973). The issue of randomness versus determinism remains
current although many if not most properties of deterministic dynamical systems can
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be simulated with a suitably constructed random process and all of our random
number generators are deterministic.
This theoretical blind alley is reminiscent of the decades lost partialing out
causal attributes of nature versus nurture before knowledge of dynamical influences
on nucleotide dynamics was available. It is perhaps unfortunate that for finite length
real data, “house keeping requirements” (Ruelle, 1990; Rapp, 1993;1994) and
“warnings on the label” with various random sequence, random phase controls
(“surrogate data”) have become so intimidating to those of us in the early stages of
exploring the use of these theories and methods in the brain sciences. Currently the
“controls” are more relevant to abstract statistical processes and what can be said
about them rather than generating and addressing new claims and the controls for
them related to quantitatively oriented, experimental brain physiology.
Statistical caveats have arisen to retard the emergence of potentially
important and robust neurophysiologically-relevant phenomena. For example, a
recent well conducted and analyzed study of the influence of low doses of ethanol in
32 normal male subjects, which honored almost all of the current analytic rituals
including sequence and phase randomized surrogate data and searches for the
continuity features of deterministic dynamical systems such as time asymmetry,
concluded that the drug “reduced the evidence for nonlinear dynamical structure” in
the brain (Ehlers et al, 1998). Though honoring the currently popular statistical
rituals, what appears to be missing here are suggestions for new neurobiological or
mathematical intuitions that will lead to the design of the next experiment.
We now see that it is now possible to use these new ideas and methods to
ask and at least partially answer more specific questions relevant to the clinically
oriented neurosciences such as: whether increases in lithium-induced
expansiveness and mixing in the dynamics of brain enzymes, neurons and behavior
help explicate a mechanism of de-coherence in bipolar disease (Mandell et al,
1985); do these approaches to membrane conductance fluctuations suggest a new
way to think about ion channel dynamics (Liebovitch, 1990); can alcohol-induced
changes in statistical dynamics of the EEG predict genetic predilection in males to
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alcoholism (Ehlers et al, 1995); do these approaches suggest a new neural
dynamical mechanism for the actions of anticonvulsant drugs (Zimmerman et al,
1991); can these measures made on non-verbal, psychomotor tasks yield a nonintrusive
measure of personality and character (Selz, 1992); can these approaches
to deviant patterns of psychomotor sequencing in schizophrenics give us some
insight into potential (cerebeller-basal ganglia?) mechanisms of the thought disorder
in schizophrenia (Paulus et al, 1994); does cocaine induce new patterns of behavior
that conserve pre-treatment entropy in developing animals (Smotherman et al,
1996); will these quantities applied to objective gait observables supply early
diagnoses and quantification of clinical course in patients with extra-pyramidal
disorders or taking anti-psychotic medication (Hausdorff et al, 1998); can these
transformations of time series on the EEG give us an early diagnostic approach to
Alzheimer’s disease (Jeong et al, 1998) or a new acute preventive pharmacological
approach to patients with psychomotor and partial seizures (Iasemidis et al, 1990).
To end where we began: We think that if neuroscientists “did their own”
nonlinear dynamical theory and analysis, shaped and tailored by intuitions growing
out of their own experimental work and thinking, abstract and philosophical
questions about what is determinism and what is random would retreat in favor of
new specific ideas and experiments about brain dynamical mechanisms and their
pathophysiology. From the studies reviewed here, it appears that a robust move in
this direction in the brain sciences is well underway.
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Judge: Prosecutors broke law in Epstein sex case

By JULIE K. BROWN
Miarni Herald

MIAMI — A judge ruled Thursday
that federal prosecutors among
them, U.S, Labor Secretary Alexan-
der Acosta — broke federal law when
they signed a plea agreement with a
wealthy, politically connected sex traf-
ficker and concealed it from more than
40) of his underage victims,

U.S. District Judge Kenneth A.
Marr, ina 33-page opinion, said the
evidence he reviewed showed that Jef-
frey Epstein had been operating an in-
ternational sex operation in which he
and others recruited underage girls
not only in Florida — but from over-
seas, in Violation of federal law.

“Epstein used paicl employees to
find and bring minor girls to him,”
wrote Marra, who is based in Palm
Beach County. “Epstein worked in
concert with others to obtain minors
not only for his own sexual gratifica-
tion, but also for the sexual gratifica-
tion of others.”

Instead’ of prosecuting Epstein
under federal sex trafficking laws,
Acosta, then the U.S. attorney in Mi-
ami, helped negotiate a nonprosecu-
tion agreement that gave Epstein and
his co-conspirators immunity from
federal prosecution, Epstein, who

vy ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jetfray Epstein, second frorn left, in
custody in West Palm Beach, Fla., in
2008.

lived in a Palm Beach mansion, was
allowed to quietly plead guilty in state
court to two prostitution changes and
served just 13 months in the county
jail. His accomplices, some of whom
have never been identified, were never
charged.

Acosta agreed to seal the deal, which
meant that none of Epstein’s victims,
who were mostly 13 to 16 years old at
the time of the abuse, were told about
it until it was too late for them to ap-

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pear at his sentencing and possibly
reject the deal, Upon leaming that Ep
stein had pleaded guilty without their
knowledge, two of his victims filed a
lawsuit in the Southern District of F lor-
ida in 2008, claiming that prosecutors
violated the Crime Victims’ Rights Act,
which grants victims of federal crimes
a series of rights, including the ability
to confer with prosecutors about a pos-
sible plea deal.

Marra agreec, saying that while
prosecutors had the right to resolve the
case in any way they saw fit, they vio
lated the law by hiding the agreement
from Epstein’s victims, Marra’s deci-
sion capped Il years of litigation

which included the release of a trove of

emails showing how Acosta and other
prosecutors worked with Epstein’s high
profile lawyers to conceal the deal
and the scope of Epstein’s crimes
from both his victims and the public,

‘Particularly problematic was the
Government's decision to conceal the
existence of the (agreement) and mis-
lead the victims to believe that feder-
al prosecution was still a possibility,”
Marra wrote.

The U.S. attorney's office in Miami
declined to comment,

In addition to Palm Beach, Fla.,
Epstein also has a home in New York
and, lives on Little St. James Island

off St. Thomas,

Brad Edwards, the Port Lauderdale
attorney who brought the case, said
he was elated at the judge's ruling,
but admitted he is bitter that the case
took 11 years to litigate, blaming fed-
eral prosecutors for needlessly drag-
ging out the case when they could
have remedied their error when it was
brought to their attention in 2008,

While the victims ultimately would
like to see Epstein go to jail, the
judge's ruling stopped short of issu-
ing aremedy or punishment, He gave
the government and victims 15 days
to confer with each other to come up
with a resolution. [ts unclear what
that resolution would be,

Edwards conceded that Epstein’s
sentence isn’t likely to be overturned.
He was released in 2009,

But victims’ rights advocates say
that other charges can still be brought
against Epstein if more victims come
forward in other jurisdictions. There
has been no statute of limitations for
sex trafficking since 2002.

The decision follows a three-part
series published by the Miami Herald
in November, “Perversion of Justice,”
which detailed how federal prosecu-
tors worked in concert with Epstein’s
lawyers to arrange the deal.

Since then, the U.S, Department
of Justice has launched a probe into
whether federal prosecutors commit-
ted any wrongdoing,

Friday, February 22, 2019

Gov. Bryan
heads to D.C.

Gov. Albert Bryan Jr. de-
parted the territory for Wash-
ington, D-C. on Thursday for a
series of meetings with Trump
administration officials and
members of Congress,

In his absence, Lt, Gov. Tre-
genza Roach will be acting
governor,

Included on Bryan’s sched-
ule is a senior plenary session
of the Interagency Group on
Insular Areas, where he, along
with governors from the other
U.S. territories, will outline
their federal priorities with the
leadership of the U.S, Depart-
ment of Interior.

On Tuesday, Bryan will tes-
tify before the Senate Com-
mittee on Energy and Natural
Resources during a hearing
to examine the state of U.S.
territories.

He also will be participat-
ing in the National Governors
Association conference, dur
ing which the governors will
have a lunch meeting with Vice
President Mike Pence.

Bryan is scheduled to return
to the territory on Wednesday,

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sign of the times 
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Tunisia: Tunisia's transition suffered a terrible blow on February 6th when leftist opposition alliance founder and 
head of the Democratic Patriots party Chokri Belaid was shot dead outside his home in Tunis. The event drew 
thousands of protestors to the streets, clamoring against the leading Islamist Ennanda party. The events heighten 
the Islamist-secular divide that has featured in the Tunisian transition and the Arab Spring at large. Tunisian Prime 
Minister Hamadi Jebali described the event as the ""assassination of the Tunisian revolution"" and promised to 
dissolve the Islamist-led government and form a technocrat government aimed at promoting national unity at this 
divisive time. 
Egypt: The second anniversary of the Egyptian revolution on January 25th was marked less by celebration than it 
was by violence, culminating in a week of unrest that took the lives of more than 50 people. The week was also 
marked by the imposition of a curfew, state of emergency, and large military deployment in the cities of Suez, 
Ismailliya, and Port Said. The events reflect the disillusionment of Egyptians, given the lack of progress on both 
political and economic fronts, while also revealing the state's limitations in restoring order and the rule of law to 
the streets. That the army—the country's most powerful institution—warned of the ""collapse of the state"" is a 
telling and serious message, conveying the institution's growing frustration with the political impasse. 
The recent violence has also generated serious economic losses and fuel shortages, and caused yet another delay 
with the much-needed IMF loan. It will be interesting to see how the recent violence—as well as the general 
malaise caused by economic woes—affects the Muslim Brotherhood's performance in the upcoming 
parliamentary election (which is yet to be scheduled). A recent report issued by the Brotherhood's political bureau 
hinted that the party's popularity has been in decline. 
Against this backdrop of political and economic turmoil, the 12th summit of the Organization of Islamic 
Cooperation (OIC) convened in Cairo on February 5th with a number of key players in the region in attendance—
among them President Gill of Turkey, Emir Hamad al-Thani of Qatar, and Saudi Crown Prince Salman. The 
summit aimed to discuss Syria, Mali, and the Palestinian issue. The spotlight, however, was on Mahmoud 
Ahmadinejad: the first Iranian president to visit Egypt since the 1979 Islamic revolution. 
Libya: On January 31', European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton announced the launch of a two-
year civil mission to help secure Libya's 4,000-kilometer border. The announcement was complemented by a 
surprise visit to Tripoli by David Cameron, who also announced his government's commitment to helping the 
Libyan military and police with training and support. Furthermore, a meeting in Paris the week of February 11th 
will bring together a number of countries to discuss security cooperation and the future of the Libyan legal system. 
These initiatives are a telling manifestation of the urgent need to address security in Libya—especially border 
security—given the Mali crisis, the recent terrorist incident in Algeria, and concerns about security and stability 
across North Africa. 
Jordan: The results of the Jordanian parliamentary election came as no surprise: pro-government candidates 
strengthened their hold, though state television reported that the majority of the 150 seats had been won by 
independents (an indicator that tribal allegiance is becoming a more important factor than party politics). 
According to official figures, 56 percent of the country's 2.3 million registered voters turned out for the ballot, 
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with the most obvious absence being that of the Muslim Brotherhood, which protested what it considered to be a 
biased ballot. It remains unclear who will succeed Prime Minister Abdullah Ensur (who submitted his resignation 
to King Abdullah on January 29th), although analysts and commentators consider it likely that a number of 
unexpected appointments will be made in an effort to address the growing malaise. Media reports speculate that 
there are also plans to set up an official channel for communication with the Muslim Brotherhood. Meanwhile, it 
appears that King Abdullah is seeking to bolster ties with regional allies, perhaps for both political and economic 
reasons: the King made visits to Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait from January 29th to February 
4th. 
Syria: Israeli warplanes are generally believed to have struck a convoy en route to Lebanon on January 30th, 
although this has not been confirmed by the government of Israel. The convoy was reported to have been carrying 
sophisticated antiaircraft weaponry to Hezbollah. The attack—carried out on the outskirts of Damascus—was met 
by a sharp threat of retaliation from both the Syrian and Iranian governments: a significant indicator of the regional 
reverberations of the Syrian civil war and the general volatility permeating the region. 
Despite the lack of progress of an international peace initiative spearheaded by Special Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, 
a new plan by Syrian opposition leader Moaz al-Khatib—comprising a dialogue with President al-Assad based 
on the principle of the regime's departure—offers a glimmer of hope. Upon meeting with al-Khatib on February 
3rd, the foreign ministers of Iran and Russia (the closest allies of the al-Assad regime) seem to have agreed to help 
facilitate this process—an interesting turn of events. The new plan comes as the humanitarian situation continues 
to deteriorate, although some help is foreseen from the $1.5 billion in pledges made at a donors' conference on 
January 30th in Kuwait. 
Israel: While recent elections kept Netanyahu's Likud party in the lead by winning 31 of 120 seats in the Knesset, 
the new centrist party Yesh Atid's ability to win 19 seats under the leadership of Yair Lapid garnered all the 
attention. The results generated media debate about the possibility of a shift in Israeli policy vis-à-vis the 
Palestinians. In fact, the election campaign and its results were centered on domestic and socioeconomic issues, 
and internal reform. Furthermore, Yesh Atid is known to maintain an ambiguous stance on the peace process. 
On January 29th, Israel became the first country to boycott a United Nations review of its human rights practices, 
despite the United States' and other political players' advice to participate. This is a breach of an established 
practice of cooperation and thus represents precedence for noncooperation by other states. It also leaves the 
question of human rights in occupied Palestinian territories outside the jurisdiction of the international 
community. It remains unclear, however, whether the newly elected government will make a pragmatic effort to 
reengage with the UN review effort. 
Bahrain: On January 21st King Hamad al-Khalifa issued a decree endorsing a renewed national dialogue. 
Subsequently, on February 4th, Minister of Justice Khalid bin Ali al-Khalifa announced that the national dialogue 
would resume on February 10th. Press reports indicate willingness by the opposition's to participate in the 
dialogue. 
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Iran: President Ahmadinejad was warmly welcomed by President Morsi upon arrival in Cairo on February 
and, interestingly, by the Sunni leadership of Al-Azhar. The Iranian leader reciprocated by offering to provide 
Egypt with a ""big credit line"" to help its lagging economy, a telling indication of Tehran's desire for a 
rapprochement. The reaction on the Egyptian street, however, was generally negative, revealing thedisconnect 
between a dominant Muslim Brotherhood political elite reaching out to an Islamist power and a critical faction of 
Egyptian society hostile to this shift. The meeting is not necessarily an indicator that bilateral ties will improve, 
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given Egypt's much-savored relationship with other Gulf countries (not to mention the United States). It does 
represent a re-balancing of relationships in a changing Middle East nonetheless. 
A new round of talks between Iran and the P5+1 (five permanent members of the Security Council plus Germany) 
has now been scheduled to take place on February 26th following weeks of conflicting reports and what seemed 
to be a diplomatic stalemate. This represents the first effort at talks at the political directors' level since the 
Moscow meeting in June of 2012. While the talks are restarting just over a month after the start of US President 
Obama's second term, Iran appears to have moved into its political season: tensions between President 
Ahmadinejad and the speaker of the Majlis, Larjani, have gone public with mutual recriminations about corrupt 
family members and associates. 
Saudi Arabia: Former intelligence chief Prince Muqrin bin Abdulaziz was appointed second deputy prime minister of Saudi 
Arabia on February rd, a role traditionally associated with the incumbent being second in line to become king. Prince 
Muqrin is the youngest son of the kingdom's founder. 
Yemen: A UN Security Council delegation visited Yemen on January 27th in a show of support to President Hadi 
and Yemen's political transition. The visit reflects the Security Council's interest in seeing Yemen move forward 
with the National Dialogue Conference. During the visit there were large demonstrations, as thousands demanded 
a fair and just approach in dealing with former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, who has received immunity under 
the Gulf Cooperation Council initiative. 
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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026081.txt,"how about the war in yemen?

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it depends on which subject. . economic. military, tech?

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any tips on how we should communicate with him?

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much to do around the trump trip. I hope you are enjoying.

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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028516.txt,"Damian Collins

Conservative MP for Folkestone and Hythe and chair of the House
of Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee. He has
played a key role in parliamentary scrutiny of Facebook’s activities,
including invoking a rare parliamentary mechanism to seize
internal Facebook documents over the Cambridge Analytica

scandal.

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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030359.txt,"The subject of the email should have been warning enough for Jes Staley, the embattled
chief executive of Barclays. At quarter to nine on Wednesday evening, after a bruising
shareholders’ meeting, Mr Staley received a message purporting to be from his chairman,
John McFarlane. The heading read: “The fool doth think he is wise”.

In fact, the message was from a prankster, using the Gmail account
john.mcfarlane.barclays@gmail.com. The imposter described Michael Mason-Mahon, an
individual shareholder who called for Mr Staley to resign at Wednesday’s annual
meeting, “as brusque as he is ill informed” and went on to reassure the Barclays chief
executive that together they had successfully seen off any attempt to force Mr Staley out.

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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029851.txt,"From: Weingarten, Reid 
Sent: 5/22/2017 8:39:37 PM 
To: jeeyacation@gmail.com 
Subject: Fw: WaPo story-- Trump's outside counsel 
Importance: High 
Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone. 
From: Parker, Ashley < 
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2017 3:19 PM 
To: Weingarten, Reid 
Subject: WaPo story-- Trump's outside counsel 
Hi Reid, 
Ashley Parker here at the Washington Post. I cover the White House and am emailing because my colleague, Bob Costa, 
and I getting ready to post a story about President Trump's decision to move ahead with retaining outside counsel, and 
we understand you're one of the finalists for the role, and have already spoken with senior White House officials. I just 
wanted to let you know that we plan to mention your name (and of course see if you want to comment), and I also 
wanted to check and see if you were open to chatting totally off the record, just in case there is any nuance or guidance 
you'd like to provide. I'm at or my desk is 
Thanks, 
Ashley 
Ashley Parker 
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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017767.txt,"﻿Case 1:19-cv-03377 Document 1-9 Filed 04/16/19 Page 1 of 4
EXHIBIT 9
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4/15/2019 Alan Dershowitz says he's still advising Jeffrey Epstein - Axios
Alan Dershowitz says he's still advising Jeffrey Epstein
Alan Dershowitz still provides legal advice to serial pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, he confirmed to Axios.
What he's saying: ""He has called me a couple of times about legal issues, because I'm still technically
his lawyer,"" Dershowitz told me in a phone interview on Saturday. ""But I haven't had any social, or any
other kind of contact. ... You never stop being a person's lawyer.""
Background: Dershowitz helped Epstein get a sweetheart plea deal from then-U.S. Attorney
Alexander Acosta (now Donald Trump's labor secretary and a rumored long-shot contender for attorney
general).
A bombshell Miami Herald investigative series last week highlighted for the first time the extent of
Epstein's alleged crimes and the soft treatment he received from federal prosecutors.
The Palm Beach multimillionaire would ""serve just 13 months in the county jail, but the deal —
called a non-prosecution agreement — essentially shut down an ongoing FBI probe into whether
there were more victims and other powerful people who took part in Epstein’s sex crimes,""
according to a Miami Herald examination of thousands of emails, court documents and FBI
records.
https://www.axios.com/alan-dershowitz-jeffrey-epstein-legal-advice-1a13ad59-a718-46c9-9813-11231604a387.html 1/3
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4/15/2019 Alan Dershowitz says he's still advising Jeffrey Epstein - Axios
Dozens of women alleged that Epstein molested and raped them when they were underaged using a
sophisticated human trafficking network. A civil trial is scheduled to begin on Tuesday in Palm Beach
County that may finally let these women tell their stories in court.
Behind the scenes: While he was allegedly raping teenage girls, Epstein cultivated cozy relationships
with America's elites.
Bill Clinton flew on Epstein's plane, nicknamed the ""Lolita Express,"" numerous times, according to
flight logs.
And Donald Trump, in a profile with New York magazine written several years before the police
caught up with Epstein, praised his friend as a ""terrific guy."" ""It is even said that he likes beautiful
women as much as I do,"" Trump said of Epstein, ""and many of them are on the younger side.""
Dershowitz was also friendly with Epstein before the broader public knew he was a pedophile.
Dershowitz confirmed to me that he received a massage at Epstein's Palm Beach home, adding
that the woman who provided it was of legal age.
""What happened was I, um, he lent us, this was well before any of this thing came out, he lent us
his house once. And I was there, my grandchildren were there, my daughter was there, and we all
got massages.""
""And, um, it was therapeutic. I had a therapeutic massage with an old old Russian, but I never
never ... and that was part of when we had his house for about a week during I think it was
Christmas vacation.""
""Believe me, if I had known that anything improper had ever taken place in that house, I never
would have allowed my children, my grandchildren, my wife, my daughter-in-law, my son, to have
spent time there. I can tell you categorically there were no inappropriate pictures, no
inappropriate anythings. It was like any other house.""
One of Epstein's accusers, Virginia Roberts, has claimed Dershowitz had sex with her when she was
underage. Dershowitz has denied the allegation and told the Miami Herald ""the story was 100 percent
flatly categorically made-up"" so ""she could get money.""
Go deeper: Trump defender Dershowitz shunned by Martha's Vineyard
https://www.axios.com/alan-dershowitz-jeffrey-epstein-legal-advice-1a13ad59-a718-46c9-9813-11231604a387.html 2/3
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4/15/2019 Alan Dershowitz says he's still advising Jeffrey Epstein - Axios
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IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011741.txt,"I was not just angry, but frustrated at my inability to rebut the story in
person. Doron and I immediately made arrangements to return to Israel early,
which, since there was no direct air connection, meant finding the first flight out
through London. But before we left, Nava phoned again, almost sputtering in
fury. She told me that she’d just received a call from Aliza Goren, Rabin’s
media spokesperson. “Does Ehud know about the Yediot story?” she’d asked.
When Nava said yes, Aliza told her: “It is important that Ehud knows that we
are not going to get involved in getting him out of this.”

Welcome to politics, 1 thought. Rabin knew that the story was untrue. I’d still
been in Tze’elim when I’d phoned him about what had happened. He knew I’d
remained there to order in the medical helicopters and arrange for the
evacuation of the wounded before returning to brief him. Still, he did not say a
single word in public — nor, for that matter, speak to me — as the controversy
continued to gather force.

During our stopover in London, I sat with Doron and talked through how to
get my voice heard. I telephoned Yoni Koren, the officer who’d been my top
aide in the kirva and whom I'd asked to work for me in the Interior Ministry,
assuming I now actually got there. I told him to phone Amnon Lipkin and say
that I had expected him to answer the fabrications. Not only had he and I been
at the site of tragedy together. We'd /eft together, on the same helicopter.
Amnon did now issue a statement saying that he knew Yediot’s allegations were
wrong. But the story had been allowed to stand for too long. His rebuttal caused
barely a ripple.

As I read the latest Israeli newspapers before landing in Tel Aviv, I found
that at least I wasn’t totally on my own. Reporters had been phoning politicians
for comment. Most responded like weathervanes, going with the prevailing
wind, which was gusting against me. But three Knesset members dissented. One
was Ori Or, a friend even before we’d both gone into the army, and who had
now joined Labor. The other two were leading members of Likud: Dan Meridor
and Benny Begin, Menachem Begin’s son. All three said they were sure the
allegations were false. Did they know the details about the accident, they were
asked. No, they replied, they didn’t need to. They knew me.

Now all I had to do was convince the rest of the country. It had been nearly a
week since the Yediot’s “exposé”. It was Yoni Koren who passed on a request
from Channel | television, our equivalent of the BBC. They were proposing that
I appear with Nissim Mishal, the man who had interviewed me 10 years earlier,

at the urging of Rabin’s political aide, on my first TV appearance. For Mishal,

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IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022199.txt,"Definitely not gonna talk to the reporters. It doesn't feel
right. Xoxoxo

They called my friend [today and told her they are writing a story about notable people from the east and would like to talk to her about me. She didn't
fall for it.. Slovakian press is going crazy now.

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Date: Thursday, November 16, 2017 at 3:26 PM

To: Steven Pfeiffer <>, Pegsy Siegal <M, Richard Kahn

Subject: Re: 2017 IFP Gotham Awards
happy to buy your 10k of chairs and will need me plus 3 seats.

On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 1:36 PM, Steven Pfeiffer <q wrote:
Hello Jeffrey —

| hope all is well with you. As per Peggy Siegal’s office, | have included here the invitation to the IFP Gotham Awards
ceremony, which will be held on Monday, November 27 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City.

This year’s ceremony is going to be another successful event. We couldn’t be more thrilled with this year’s impressive
group of Tributees. The Actress Tribute will go to Nicole Kidman and the Actor Tribute to Dustin Hoffman. The
Director Tribute will be given to Sofia Coppola, with the Cinematographer Tribute going to Ed Lachman. With the
Industry Tribute, we will be honoring Jason Blum, founder of Blumhouse Productions. And we simply couldn’t be more
pleased to honor Vice President Al Gore with this year’s special Humanitarian Tribute. With nominees this year
ranging from Willem Dafoe, Adam Sandler and Robert Pattison to Margot Robbie, Lois Smith and Mary J. Blige, this
year’s ceremony looks to be the most star studded ever.

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IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011755.txt,"votes: one for a party list and one for a directly elected Prime Minister. This
would be a personal test, an opportunity for Shimon to build on the still-tenuous
achievement of Oslo and finally secure the endorsement of the Israeli people.

It seemed, for a while, I might even have a role. A few days later, Peres and I
met again. In Israeli elections, the campaign manager is called head of hasbarah
— media and public-information planning. He told me he still didn’t know
exactly when he would call the election. But he asked me to take on that role.

Both Peres and I proved to be right about the Syrians. The negotiations did
resume, and two rounds of talks were held at Wye River, on Maryland’s eastern
shore, in December 1995 and January 1996. They did focus on the whole range
of issues in an eventual peace, just as Peres had hoped, and some progress was
made in identifying areas of potential agreement. But the bulldog never took its
eyes of our ankle. There was no escaping the fact that without addressing the
question of our withdrawal from the Golan Heights, we weren’t going to get to
the next stage. So a decision had to be made.

Peres, no less than Rabin, knew what the trade-off would be. Israel needed a
series of ironclad security arrangements, and a genuine peace, rather than just
agreement to a cessation of hostilities. Syria would demand to get back all, or at
least virtually all, of the Golan. Peres now focused on clarifying, in his own
mind, whether we should be willing to agree to trade the Golan for a peace
treaty. Our key meeting took place in early February, in the underground bunker
in the Airya. Peres asked Amnon Lipkin, as chief of staff, and our other top
generals for a presentation on their view of the security arrangements required
with Syria under a peace deal. They recommended that Israel insist on keeping a
sizeable part of the Golan, as well as a range of demilitarization provisions
which reached pretty much to the edge of Damascus. I’d been asked for my
view by Rabin when I was chief-of-staff. Obviously, from a purely military
standpoint, the ideal situation would be to keep the whole of the Golan Heights.
No chief of staff was going to recommend pulling out. But I'd always added a
rider: to withdraw as part of a peace agreement, with all its other likely benefits,
was not a military question. It was a decision for the government. The relevant
question for a chief of staff was whether we could ensure the security of Israel if
the government decided on a withdrawal, to which I answered yes.

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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030704.txt,"Please direct all scheduling inquiries to my office t

Follow me on twitter @lhsummers
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On Feb 9, 2018, at 6:28 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:

WOW

On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 8:52 PM, LHS iE wrote:
Goofy corrupt giveaways?
Do tell.
Sent from my iPhone

Please direct all scheduling inquiries to my office at: PO

Follow me on twitter @lhsummers
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On Feb 8, 2018, at 7:16 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:

this bill has the things you were looking for in the last

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IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020956.txt,"Expense Growth by Category: Entitlement Spending Growing Much Faster than

Other Expenses and 2% Higher than GDP Growth

1965 — 2005 USA Real Federal Expenses Growth by Category vs. Real GDP Growth

Expenses Growth

‘05 vs. 40-yr

4965YY  2005Y/Y |40-yrCAGR| Variance Comments

Entitlement Expenses 12% 3% -3% Entitlement expenses grew 2
percentage points faster than
GDP and overall expenses

Defense 12 6 4
Defense spending grew 2

. . . percentage points below overall

Non-Defense Discretionary 10 6 4 expenses

Net Interest Payments ré 12 8

Total Federal Expenses 11% 5% 2%

Real GDP 7% 3% 0%

Note: All data are inflation adjusted using GDP price index from BEA; ’05 vs. 40-yr variance is rounded. *Non-defense discretionary
KP spending includes education, infrastructure, agriculture, housing, etc. Data source: White House Office of Management & Budget.
(@)E) www.kpcb.com USA Inc. | What Might a Turnaround Expert Consider? 229

Expense Growth by Category:

Observations from Previous Slide

While GDP and USA Inc. tax revenue have grown at a 3% annual rate
for 40 years, entitlement spending has grown 5%, net interest
payments have risen 3%, and defense plus non-defense discretionary
spending (including education, infrastructure, law enforcement and
judiciary) have risen by 1%. These different growth rates have become
even more pronounced in recent years.

Questions:

1) Isn’t it time for a re-set and acknowledgment of trade-offs? Should taxes,
non-defense discretionary spending, and defense spending grow in line with
GDP over time? Should entitlement spending be restructured to be more
efficient and supportable by the ongoing financial dynamics of USA, Inc. and
also grow in line with or below GDP?

Note: All data are inflation adjusted using GDP price index from BEA; 05 vs. 40-yr variance is rounded.
KP Data source: White House Office of Management & Budget.
(@E) www.kpcb.com USA Inc. | What Might a Turnaround Expert Consider? 230

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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024682.txt,"ACKRELL
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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023816.txt,"70 Teaching Minds

types of cases there are. Is it hard to gather evidence properly? Prob-
ably. It usually is. Is it hard to know all the possible results? It might
not be. It might be hard to decide on a result, however, since the result
is usually to pay some amount of money, so how much money would
be the key question. All this takes practice, so what we really need to
know is where the main areas of practice should be.

So now we have a real question to ask:

Q1: How can we practice gathering evidence, learning about
prototypical cases, and knowing how to determine the correct
final result in insurance adjusting?

Notice that this is a very different question from asking what an
insurance adjuster knows and then asking how to tell students what
they should know.

Making the transformation from the list of knowledge given above
by the online course offerers into Q]1 is the real issue in transforming
subject-based education into cognitive process- based education.

Let’s discuss a different type of example. My company was invited
into a technical college in Peru to discuss how to teach accounting.
Why would you want to teach accounting? I asked. Because the students
need to know it, I was told. Why? I said. Because they need it in their
work. So I changed the subject. I asked, What work do most people do
when they graduate from your school?

It turns out most of their graduates ran fast-food restaurants. Then
why do they need to learn accounting? They need it in order to run a res-
taurant. Iam sure there is some accounting done as part of running a
restaurant, but surely not every part of accounting is needed. And, I
asked, Do you actually teach how to run a restaurant?

Of course they didn’t. Why not? Because accounting is an aca-
demic subject and managing fast-food employees and ordering meat
are not. They hire an accounting professor and he knows accounting
and knows nothing about running a restaurant. Even a practical tech-
nical school gets caught up in subject-based education in part because
it hires graduates from that system who know only what they them-
selves were taught.

What are the cognitive processes involved in running a fast-food
restaurant? Let’s see which are relevant.

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_014962.txt,"TED2017: The future you

https://ted2017.ted.com/program

4/20/17, 12:07 PM
satellite observations to monitor and explain the changes happening around us. Her work has suggested that human activities are already
affecting global rainfall and cloud patterns. Marvel is committed to sharing the joy and beauty of science with wider audiences.

She has advised journalists, artists and policymakers, written a popular science blog and given frequent public talks. Her writing has
appeared in Nautilus Magazine.

marvelclimate.com @DrKateMarvel

Danny Hillis
Computer theorist

Inventor, scientist, author, engineer -- over his broad career, Danny Hillis has turned his ever-searching brain on an array of subjects, with
surprising results.

Danny Hillis is an inventor, scientist, author and engineer. While completing his doctorate at MIT, he pioneered the concept of parallel
computers that is now the basis for most supercomputers, as well as the RAID array. He holds over 100 US patents, covering parallel
computers, disk arrays, forgery prevention methods and various electronic and mechanical devices, and he has recently been working on
problems in medicine as well. He is also the designer of a 10,000-year mechanical clock, and he gave a TED Talk in 1994 that is
practically prophetic. Throughout his career, Hillis has worked at places like Disney and now Applied Minds, always looking for the next
fascinating problem.

appliedminds.com

Tim Kruger
Geoengineering researcher

Tim Kruger researches geoengineering: techniques to counteract climate change by deliberate, large-scale intervention in the earth system,
by reflecting sunlight back into space or by reducing the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

While our first priority should be to reduce global carbon emissions, research into geoengineering could prove vital in the fight to protect
our planet. At the Oxford Geoengineering Programme, Tim Kruger aims to assess the range of proposed geoengineering techniques to
determine which, if any, could be both technically feasible and benign environmentally, socially and ethically.

Kruger, an Oxford Martin Fellow, is a co-author of the Oxford Principles, a draft code of conduct for geoengineering. It calls for
geoengineering to be regulated as a public good, for public participation in decision-making and for disclosure of research and open
publication of results. He is involved in developing a process that uses natural gas to generate electricity in a way that removes carbon
dioxide from the atmosphere.

geoengineering.ox.ac.uk linkedin.com

Daan Roosegaarde
Artist

With his futuristic artworks, Daan Roosegaarde illuminates the intersection of technology, humanity and our urban environments.

Daan Roosegaarde builds jaw-dropping artworks that redefine humanity’s relationship to city spaces. Along with his team at Studio
Roosegaarde, Roosegaarde is devoted to “Landscapes of the Future,” city prototypes and urban adornments that fuse aesthetics with
sustainability.

From Smog Free Project in Beijing -- a tower that purifies its surrounding atmosphere and harvests pollutants to preserve as jewelry -- to
an interactive dance floor that generates electricity from dancers, Roosegaarde’s designs revolutionize the role of technology in the built
environment.

studioroosegaarde net @SRoosegaarde

Peter Calthorpe
Urban designer

Through his writing and his realized projects, Peter Calthorpe has spread the vision of New Urbanism, a framework for creating
sustainable, human-scaled places.

Peter Calthorpe’s 30-year design practice is informed by the idea that successful places -- whether neighborhoods, towns, urban districts or
metropolitan regions -- must be diverse in uses and users, must be scaled to the pedestrian and human interaction, and must be
environmentally sustainable.

In the early 1990s he developed the concept of Transit Oriented Development (described in his book Zhe Next American Metropolis:
Ecology, Community and the American Dream) -- an idea that is now the foundation of many regional policies and city plans around the
world. His 2010 book is Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change. Calthorpe Associates’ work in Europe, Asia and the Middle East has
demonstrated that community design with a focus on sustainability and scale can be adapted throughout the globe. His current work
throughout China is focused on developing standards and examples of Low Carbon Cities in Beijing, Chongqing, Kunming, Zhuhai, Jinan
and other major cities.

calthorpe.com

David Titley
Meteorologist

Scientists and retired Navy officer Dr. David Titley asks a big question: Could the US military play a role in combating climate change?

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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018386.txt,"Sneak home and pray you'll never know
The hell where youth and laughter go. *7©

As soldiers dug into trenches that would endure for a half-decade, a terrible
strategic fact dawned on the generals who led Europe’s armies. The Great War was
going to bea charnel house. The continent had built itself into a battle machine,
wired by trains and telegraphs and armies. There was no reverse gear. There was
not even a switch to slow it down, let alone turn it off. A massive, technology-
powered, fast-moving system with revolutionary implications, built beyond the
comprehension of any one figure or nation, had slipped out of control. And the men
in charge of planning and directing the use of this super-fast complex? They failed
everyone: their soldiers, their kings, their armies. They were all but insensible to the
real nature of their age.

Sound familiar?
2.

Here, then, is a question of the sort - violent, loaded with the possibility of tragedy -
that you'd rather not have to consider: A new way of war arrives, a new weapon, a
fresh idea about fighting. Does it make your world peaceful or treacherous? The
lethality of the equation of guns x machines at the end of the 19 Century appeared
to some industrialists and bankers and statesmen inarguable evidence for peace.
Everyone with such a violently efficient weapon; who dares start a war? As we now
know, machines x guns was a formula for some of the worst killing in human history.
Gatling’s fond hope that his weapons would stop war was naive, insane even. His
competitor Maxim had been clearer eyed. A friend told him: “Give up your chemistry
and electricity. If you want to make a pile of money, invent something that will
enable those Europeans to cut each others’ throats with greater facility.”227

So: Let’s be a bit warmer about this. Networks x weapons = what exactly? Is there
some disaster lingering in our own future, as unimagined from our current
perspective as machine guns and trenches were a century ago? Do we consider war
impossible now? There’s something sickening in such puzzles, of course. Think of
the men and women who, over the millennia, have contemplated similar questions
knowing full well the answer would be measured in blood and treasure and
children. Put yourself in the place of the population of Melos, a peace-loving
Mediterranean island whose destruction 2300 years ago was chronicled by
Thucydides in The Peloponesian Wars. “Surely you have noticed that you are an
island and we control the ocean,” an unwelcome Athenian general intimated to a
Melian citizens’ council one day 243 BC as his soldiers and ships collected
menacingly outside the city’s walls. Athens wanted the Melians to join an alliance

226 “You smug faced”: Seigfried Sassoon, “Suicide in the Trenches” in The War
Poems of Seigfried Sassoon, (Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 2004), 64

227 “Give up your chemistry”: John Ellis, A Social History of the Machine Gun (New
York: Pantheon, 1975) p.33

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CHAPTER TWELVE

Whistle-blower

“They elected me. The overseers... The [American] system failed comprehensively, and each level of oversight,
each level of responsibility that should have addressed this, abdicated their responsibility.”

--Edward Snowden in Moscow

While Snowden was attempting to reel in the journalists in Hong Kong, Lindsay Mills received
a jarring surprise in Hawaii. When she returned to Honolulu from her “island-hopping” trip, she
found Snowden was still away and the rented house partially flooded from a leak. The brief note
Snowden left her indicated that her eight year relationship with Snowden had, at least temporarily,
been put on hold by him. “TI feel alone, lost, overwhelmed, and desperate for a reprieve from the
bipolar nature of my current situation,” she wrote in her journal on June 2"" (which would be June
3™ across the international time line in Hong Kong.) “I've nearly lost my mind, family, and house
over the past few weeks.” She also noted that she her SIM card containing her personal data was
gone. She wrote in her on-line journal” “Oh and I physically lost my memory card with nearly all
my adventure photos.” The loss would make it difficult to reconstruct her past activities with
Snowden.

In Hong Kong, if Snowden was following Lindsay’s online journal, he would have read that his
girl friend had returned home, lost her data and needed a “reprieve” from the situation in which he
had put her. But since they were exchanging private text messages by then, he would not have
needed to consult her public journal. Snowden was certainly aware that he would soon be the
object of a manhunt that could involve those with whom he was acquainted. He instructed Poitras
to mask their email communications in cyber space “so we don’t have a clue or record of your
true name in your file communication chain.” Such precautions were necessary, he explained to
her because “every trick in the book is likely to be used in looking into this.”

The journalists arrived late in the evening of June 2nd, 2013. Snowden’s message was waiting.
Snowden’s instructions were themselves an exercise in control. Snowden had written them: “On
timing, regarding meeting up in Hong Kong, the first rendezvous attempt will be at 10 A.M. local
time. We will meet in the hallway outside of the restaurant in the Mira Hotel. I will be working on
a Rubik’s cube so that you can identify me. Approach me and ask if I know the hours of the
restaurant. Ill respond by stating that I’m not sure and suggest you try the lounge instead. I'll
offer to show you where it is, and at that point we’re good. You simply need to follow naturally.”
Even though such tradecraft was unnecessary since Snowden was registered at the hotel under his
true name, he had provided the journalists with the atmospherics of “an international spy thriller,”
as Greenwald subsequently described the instructions.

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012782.txt,"HARMING OTHERS, version 1.1: microcontrollers

In any competitive situation, whether it is animals working out a strategy for maximizing the odds of
obtaining food or humans working out a strategy for maximizing the odds of check mating an opponent’s
king, someone will walk away as the winner and someone as the loser. Winning feels good and losing
feels bad. Winning fuels confidence, losing lowers self-esteem. Depending on the opponent, including
what they look like and whether they are familiar or unfamiliar, it is possible to gauge the likelihood of
winning or losing in advance. Depending on the individual’s prior history of wins and losses, and details
of his or her personality, some individuals will embrace the challenge of a high risk-high payoff strategy
whereas others will adopt a low-risk low payoff strategy. Winning, losing, and taking risks are all
mediated by differences in hormone levels, neurochemicals, and patterns of brain activation. Some of
these differences are set by the individual’s biology, some change over the course of a year, some within a
day, and some within the period of a brief glance that allows for an opponent to assess the competition.
These physiological processes are the microcontrollers that regulate an individual’s motivation to fight or
flee, as well as the sense of reward and loss that accompanies winning and losing. These microcontrollers
adaptively regulate the capacity to harm, at least until they malfunction. Malfunctions, whatever their
cause, can convert healthy, defensive, competitive, and justifiable harms into over the top excessive and
unethical harms.

One of the primary microcontrollers is the hormone testosterone. Though it is commonly assumed
that testosterone is a male hormone, it is also present in females, though at lower concentrations.
Testosterone plays an essential role in both sexual and aggressive behavior in all social animals.
Testosterone surges when males defend their territories, and also, when they recruit sexually available
females. Stronger surges occur when individuals are challenged by competitors who want their territory,
food, mates, or position within a hierarchy. What this shows is that testosterone motivates animals within
the arena of competition.

Testosterone also surges again after an individual wins a fight, and drops following a loss. This is
highly adaptive as it motivates winners to keep defending their resources, and motivates losers to give up
and minimize future costs. Across a wide variety of species, humans included, winners are two times
more likely to win the next fight whereas losers are five times less likely to win the next fight. These
winner-loser effects are mediated by testosterone. In our own species, among male and female athletes,
in sports including soccer, tennis and judo, winners show higher testosterone levels than losers. This
effect even holds in non-physical competition, such as chess and stock trading. In a study of day traders
on the London Stock Exchange, those making the highest profits had the highest levels of testosterone.

Even those who are simply witnesses to a winning competition show increases in testosterone, including

Hauser Chapter 1. Nature’s secrets 36

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IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011033.txt,"do with words alone. One less something nearer zero, whether that something (the
thrift index) is positive or negative, is nearer one. The wonderful books of Einstein
(with Enfeld) and Steven Hawking, not to mention Mill, show that even calculus can
be put that way. My task has been to follow their tough act. But I will now start to
infiltrate notation where | think that that form of shorthand should help more then

it hurts.

Summary

The data for the free growth index of total capital @(Kt) in the charts and tables do
not represent a separate test. It is the same test adjusted to the three fourths rule.
That was proposed as a convenient rule of thumb. I would have shown a true
separate test if 1 knew how. Pure consumption might become separately measurable
some day, but human capital will not. The Phil and Bill parable shows that not even
evidence from slave markets would be on point. Human capital has no possible

value to any but its original owner.

Whether in words or notation, I hope to make the point that Chapter 4 and the
charts and tables showing ¢(K)are likely to understate the case for Mill. Those

showing @(K,) should be nearer the truth. Physical capital and pure consumption

are less than the whole. My three fourths rule will never be exact because reality
cares little for the convenience of modelers. Proportions between the kinds of

consumption will not hold exactly constant and will never exactly agree. But I don’t

think the three fourths rule is so wrong that the real value of g(K,,) doesn’t run

nearer one than the real value of @(K). (The infiltration begins.)

Then the data support free growth theory convincingly enough if we trust equation
(4.1), as do all macroeconomists as far as | know, and probably more convincingly

when human capital is considered too.

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By LARRY KELLER
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

Billionaire money manager and
Palm Beach part-time resident Jeffrey
Epstein solicited or procured prostitutes
three or more times between Aug. 1 and
Oct. 31 of last year, according to an in-
dictment charging him with felony so-
licitation of prostitution.

Epstein, 53, was booked at the Palm
Beach County jail at 1:45 am. Sunday.
He was released on $3,000 bond.

Epstein’s case is unusual in that
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Epstein sued Property Appraiser
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TEXT-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032005.txt,"From: Jeffrey Epstein [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Sent: 1/12/2010 12:28:25 AM 
To: Peggy Siegal 
Subject: Re: My Wall Street 2 Story 
terrific. i want to hear more about the trip 
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Peggy Siegal wrote: 
Wrote this for the February issue of AVENUE Magazine. Thought it would amuse you. Tell me what you 
think of it. 
xoxo Peggy 
HD: Wall Street, Take Two 
DEK: In the upcoming sequel to Oliver Stone's groundbreaking film, Gordon Gekko gets out of jail and back 
to business. Peggy Siegal takes us behind the scenes where she got herself on camera along with a few of her 
famous friends. Nice work if you can get it. 
In 1987, right after director Oliver Stone won the Academy Award for ""Platoon,"" he immediately turned to a 
domestic arena and began working on ""Wall Street"" in New York City where his father had been a 
stockbroker. Although the film was widely seen as a scathing critique of the culture of Wall Street, Stone has 
said that part of the film is a defense of capitalism, his father's vision of finance (as seen through the Hal 
Holbrook character) and an homage to his father. 
At the time Oliver was also fascinated with the connection between the psyche of Latino Miami drug dealers 
from his earlier ""Scarface"" script and the American-born 28- to 35-year-old, white collar stockbrokers. Both 
groups had an animalistic need to obtain big and fast money. They shared an obsession with corruption and 
greed. 
Oliver sent his actors to Bear Stearns for research, including then-newcomer Charlie Sheen, who played Bud 
Fox, a kid from nowhere. When he learns to cold call, and lands one big client, Gordon Gekko, Fox is thrust 
into the fast lane with a rock star financial mentor who teaches him corruption. 
Oliver needed an old-fashioned villain to create drama, and he cast Michael Douglas as Gekko against type. 
Michael was not known as a heavy at the time, but as a charming, handsome, sensitive leading man. Oliver 
also saw the anger, confidence, salesmanship and style that Michael brought to the role. Michael's Gekko 
looked a bit like Laker's coach Pat Riley with his slicked back hair and well-cut suits, and it became Michael's 
most important role, winning him the Academy Award for the villain no one could ever forget. 
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When Gekko delivers his speech, ""Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works,"" 
cinematic history was made. 
""Wall Street"" was set in 1985, a time before ten financial news networks broadcasting 24/7 existed. The entire 
financial services industry was largely unknown and Oliver Stone nailed it. 
Four years ago, Wall Street's producer Ed Pressman decided it was time for a sequel and met with Fox Film 
Entertainment co-chairmen Tom Rothman and Jim Gianopulos. Michael Douglas was immediately on-board 
pending script approval. Steven Schiff wrote the first script before the global economic crash of 2008 rendered 
it obsolete. 
Alan Loeb was brought in for a rewrite. Pressman asked me to meet Loeb at the Carlyle Hotel to explain the 
social rhythms of New York's financial high society. Whereas Gekko's character was modeled after '70s junk 
bond kings (Michael Milken) and '80s mergers and acquisitions killers (Henry Kravis), Loeb bases the new 
villain on hedge fund billionaires like John Paulson and Mike Novogratz, geniuses who have created 
stratospheric wealth beyond Gordon Gekko's wildest dreams. When Oliver Stone agreed to direct, he rewrote a 
portion of the script to focus on bankers as well as hedge funders, taking no screen credit. 
This past September, Oliver yelled, ""action"" as Gordon Gekko, with long grey hair, comes back to life as he 
emerges from a lengthy prison stint shot outside of Sing Sing in Ossining, New York. Gekko is desperate to 
redefine himself in a different era. The New York Post runs a full-page photo of Gekko and New Yorkers 
immediately become obsessed with the filming of Wall Street 2. 
A week into shooting, a glorious fall day. Ed Pressman invites me on the set at the Central Park Zoo. Oliver 
designs an elaborate tracking shot around the seal pool where Gekko, fresh from jail, walks and talks to Jake 
Moore, a young idealistic investment banker played by Shia LaBoeuf. They discuss Gekko's daughter Winnie, 
Moore's fiancée, played by Carrie Mulligan, who is also having an off-screen romance with LaBoeuf. Oliver 
played Cupid. Moore invites Gekko to the Alzheimer's Ball at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Gekko, who 
used to be a sponsor or honoree of such events, cannot even afford a ticket. 
The shot starts with a barking seal jumping for fish, then pans down to the actors. Extras weave in and out. In 
one take Michael makes a wrong turn and ends up at the monkey house. Everyone laughs. The atmosphere on 
the set is courteous but quick and tense. There is pressure when you are making a sequel to a hit. 
I watch the action on monitors while sitting on the producers' canvas chairs with Pressman, Eric Kopeloff 
(""Monsters Ball"") and Celia Costas, who was a location manager on the first ""Wall Street."" They have asked 
me to be an extra in the Alzheimer's Ball scene and bring some friends to play rich Upper East Side socialites. 
Oliver wants over the top glam, go-to-the-vault jewels and couture gowns. ""Give me the night before the 
Titanic goes down,"" were his exact words. Not a problem. 
I pay a quick visit to Michael in his trailer on Fifth Avenue where he is resting. We go way back. I was his 
personal publicist when he won the Golden Globe and Oscar for Best Actor for ""Wall Street"" and we have 
remained great friends. Gekko is just as challenging for him the second time because of endless pages of 
technical financial dialogue. We discuss Catherine Zeta-Jones' Broadway debut in a ""Little Night Music."" 
Michael has a stack of partially finished handwritten thank you notes next to him for gifts received for 
their shared birthday party on September 25th at the St. Regis. Her 40th and his 65th. 
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I tell him I have been cast as an extra in two scenes and he laughs knowing I am desperate to hang around him 
and the production. 
8:30 a.m. on Wednesday, October 21st, another warm, stunning fall day. I report to the wardrobe trailer on 
65th Street and Madison Avenue. I carry four elaborate cocktail dresses and bags of matching accessories. My 
hair is in rollers. Statuesque Julia Koch walks over from her Park Avenue apartment carrying her white 
Valentino and long diamond earrings. Her real-life financial titan husband David is unaware where she is this 
morning. 
Vanity Fair's keeper of the Best Dressed List, Amy Fine Collins, arrives totally organized in turquoise vintage 
Geoffrey Beene, and Vogue's fashion editor Hamish Bowles wears a riot of plaids, patterns and a large yellow 
fake flower on his lapel. Costume Designer Ellen Mirojnick, who created Gordon Gekko's rich slick look in the 
first film, is ecstatic with the extras I invited. 
Oliver is shooting a scene with Josh Brolin (the star of Stone's ""W""). His character Bretton (never Bret) 
James, a ruthless Wall Street kingpin, and his perfect wife Samantha (Noelle Beck) are hosting a benefit piano 
recital for a 13-year-old child prodigy in their huge, art-filled townhouse at 41 East 65th Street. The building 
actually belongs to Baby Jane Holzer, a wealthy art collector still famous for hanging with Andy Warhol in the 
'60s. The production designer had Jane's fabulous Warhols moved to storage and replaced with matching 
photographic copies. Very expensive contemporary art is again an important production element of Oliver's 
vision. 
At 10:30 a.m., all the extras are placed around the living room set. Oliver's French mother, Jacqueline Stone, 
and her friend Monique Van Vooren, both in their 80s, are seated in front of the fireplace chatting in French. 
Production assistants fuss over them. Debonair macho man Chuck Pfieffer, who appeared in the original film, 
and I immediately invent a back story—I am his corporate wife—and we position ourselves on a couch next to 
the director's mother. Julia gets the best spot close to the piano and Amy, Hamish and decorator Geoffrey 
Bradfield are right behind her. Josh is brought in and the kibitzing stops. 
Oliver appears on the set with eagle eyes and a sly grin and quickly re-positions everyone. He explains the 
scene, gives out lines to his favored extras, and on his way out to the monitors in the next room mentions that 
my earrings are too small. Wardrobe jumps. Josh rehearses and Oliver finally yells, ""Action."" The kid plays 
the piano, Josh explains why we are in his home, asks for money, the camera dollies as extras say their lines 
and Shia appears at the door uninvited for a confrontation with Josh. Three hours later a PA yells, ""Lunch"". 
In costume, Amy, Hamish and I run to The Monkey Bar. I am late to meet ""The Harpies,"" including Liz 
Smith, Barbara Walters, Cynthia McFadden, Nora Ephron, Jennifer Isham, Maury Perl and Beth Kseniak. 
Graydon Carter is at the next table. I tell him Oliver Stone wants him in ""Wall Street 2"" as an extra. (I make 
this up.) Graydon jokes that he only works with lines. I say, ""Not a problem."" (This will be news to Oliver.) 
Back on the set I tell Oliver that Graydon is willing to be in the film with lines. Oliver finds that intriguing. 
Oliver shoots the piano recital scene over and over again from different angles all afternoon. Financial wizard 
Don Marron saunters on the set to visit and Oliver spontaneously puts him in a scene chatting with Josh. Carrie 
Mulligan hangs out watching boyfriend Shia work. 
At sundown Julia Koch has to race from reel to real life and explain to her husband where she has been all day. 
(He loves it.) 
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Chuck Pfieffer plants a ""Page Six"" item and the next day socialites begin calling me to get into the film. 
Thursday, November 5, Shun Lee Restaurant, West 65th Street 
Oliver shoots a crowded tight interior scene with Michael, Carrie and Shia, who are having an intimate 
Chinese dinner. Spontaneously, Oliver decides this is the perfect scene for Graydon Carter. After a flurry of 
calls, Graydon arrives on set, and playing himself, sashays by the table. Gekko jumps up to say hello and 
Graydon brushes him off with a few dismissive lines. 
Monday, November 9, 25 Broadway 
One hundred swells show up at the former Canard Shipping building, a massive Italianate hall, at the crack of 
dawn for the Alzheimer's Ball, a grand charity event. 
Susan Hess and I are chauffeured downtown with our Vera Wang gowns and report to the VIP extra holding 
area where we join Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia in a bespoke dinner jacket, journalist Christopher Mason, 
songstress Yanna Avis, photographer Kelly Klein, art dealer Larry Gagosian's girl friend Shala Monroque in 
see-through Rodarte, beauty executive Olivia Chantecaille, producer Lawrence Robins, author Jackie Weld 
Drake, Vogue film critic Joan Juliet Buck, fashion consultant Jill Fairchild, CNN's Felicia Taylor and Italian 
newsman Mario Calvo-Platero. 
Ellen Mirojnick and her costume department have assembled racks of the most expensive elaborate designer 
gowns and work at break neck speed styling while we wildly strip to our undies in a makeshift dressing area. 
Ellen pours me into a black tulle Marchesa with a enormous wired silver bow. Twenty hairdressers and make-
up artists systematically work on 250 extras. A mile of tables are alternately filled with steaming coffee, 
fattening breakfast foods, hair sprays, mirrors, shoes and jewelry. It's a madhouse of excitement. 
We are led to the part of the set used for the cocktail reception and placed around Michael Douglas and Charlie 
Sheen stand-ins. Charlie has been flown in from LA for half a day's work to reprise his original character. He 
is now the highest paid television actor commanding two million dollars an episode of ""Two and a Half Men."" 
Oliver arrives on the set greeting, examining, tweaking the shot and always pulling the prettiest girls closest to 
the camera. Michael and Charlie arrive from their trailers and run their lines as socials drift into their sight 
lines challenging their concentration on pages of dialogue. Oliver yells, ""Action"" as the extras aggressively 
jockey for face time. Charlie is not having an easy day and they do take after take. My corporate husband 
Chuck Pfieffer has gotten his real girlfriend Lisa Crosby in the film and my marriage has become a threesome. 
Sensing our concern of not making it onto the silver screen Oliver tells his first assistant director to seat a 
dinner table with Susan Hess, Jill Fairchild, Prince Dimitri, Chuck Pfieffer, Grace Meigher and Mario Calvo-
Platero. He directs us to chat with each other turning left and right as the camera closely pans past our faces. 
Elsewhere on the set are John Buffalo Mailer, as Shia's character's best friend, Austin Pendleton, 94-year-old 
Eli Wallach and Natalie Morales. Also in this film are: the magnificent Frank Langella, as Shia's boss, who 
throws himself in front of a train early in the film, Susan Sarandon as Shia's real-estate broker mother, Sylvia 
Miles, who reprises her hilarious cameo as another real-estate agent and Jean Pigozzi as an international 
banker. 
Lunch is called at 4 p.m. and Michael Douglas takes seven heavily made-up and bejeweled women including 
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Susan, Jill and me to a restaurant around the corner. Gordon Gekko hosts a hen party talking about children, 
schools, country houses and vacations. 
Back on the set Oliver is shooting the actual dinner. Assistant directors ask for volunteers to dance to the live 
music. Prince Dimitri twirls and dips Jackie Weld. Kelly Klein, in her own Karl Lagerfeld sheer black organza, 
watches from a table with scattered champagne glasses half-filled with apple juice along with her 86-year-old 
father, Tulley Rector. Charlie Sheen leaves for LA and Shia is very annoyed he was not introduced to his 
hero. Carrie Mulligan, costumed like Audrey Hepburn, chats with us between takes. 
The final set up is a long tracking shot of Josh Brolin and his wife as they triumphantly enter the ball. It is 
close to 9 p.m. and Lord William Astor arrives to pick me up for Amalia Dayan and Adam Lindemann's dinner 
for artists uptown. 
Oliver is introduced to William and delights in calling him Lord as he immediately moves him into the top of 
the shot and instructs him to tell Eli Wallach, ""We must do lunch"". Ever the proper English gentleman, 
William advises Oliver that Lords do not use American slang and improvises his own lines. The tracking shot 
continues for numerous takes following Josh and NoeIle as every VIP extra gets another shot at instant stardom 
with one-line greetings. 
At last, ""It's a wrap"" is screamed after 10 p.m. Prince Dimitri tells The Wall Street Journal it was, ""a day of 
electrifying glamour,"" and ""the longest gala of my life. I was in black tie for thirteen hours."" 
November 25, Tommy Gun Salon, Ludlow Street, last day of shooting 
Donald Trump is on set at 7 a.m. ready for his close up. He is trying to make a mid-day departure on his jet 
from Teterboro with wife Melania and son Baron for Thanksgiving weekend in Palm Beach. Back in 
September, Oliver had invited Donald Trump to dinner at ""21"" to meet his leading men Josh and Shia so they 
could observe New York's most charismatic powerbroker in his natural environment. 
The scene is London so the grey skies are perfect. Gekko has moved abroad to make his financial 
comeback. The scene opens on the back of his head in a barber's chair as he watches the financial news on TV. 
The camera pulls back and Gordon Gekko is finally revealed as the powerful bull he once was in an exquisite 
suit and signature slicked-back hair. Donald Trump walks into the shop for a cut and the banter begins about 
the money market. From his chair, Donald leans into Michael and suggests a ""comb over"" like his famous 
do. Gekko, with a slight grin, says, ""No thanks Donald, I am a gel man."" 
The crew is yucking it up and Donald feels great. Paparazzi shoot the whole scene with long lenses from across 
the street. The unit publicist is helpless to keep this under wraps. Donald emerges, poses and gives interviews. 
Michael comes out, and the press think they have a scoop on the ending. Gekko is back in all his lovable titan 
splendor. Full-page photos of Michael and Donald run the next day in the tabloids. Never underestimate Oliver 
Stone's surprise endings. 
Twentieth Century Fox releases ""Wall Street 2: The Money Never Sleeps"" on April 23rd and it's got hit written 
all over it. 
--
*********************************************************** 
The information contained in this communication is 
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confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may 
constitute inside information, and is intended only for 
the use of the addressee. It is the property of 
Jeffrey Epstein 
Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this 
communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited 
and may be unlawful. If you have received this 
communication in error, please notify us immediately by 
return e-mail or by e-mail to jeevacation@gmail.com, and 
destroy this communication and all copies thereof, 
including all attachments. 
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Chairman, The Nobel Foundation | Director, Ludwig Cancer Research
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President, Worldwide Research & Development, Pfizer
*MS. GUNILLA VON PLATEN
Multiply Awarded Serial Entrepreneur, Philanthropist & Leader
MS. SUSANNE NAJAFI
Entrepreneur, Investor & Founding Partner, Backing Minds
MS. BARBRO C. EHNBOM
Founder & Chairman, The Swedish-American Life Science Summit
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BARBRO C. EHNBOM, Founder & Chairman
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DR. ROBERT LANGER, David H. Koch Institute Professor, MIT
MR. FREDERICK FRANK, Chairman, EVOLUTION Life Science Partners
DR. WILLIAM A. HASELTINE, Founder, Chairman & President, ACCESS Health International
DR. HANS WIGZELL, Professor Emeritus, Karolinska Institutet
DR. MATHIAS UHLÉN, Professor, KTH | Director, Human Protein Atlas
MR. MOHAMMED HOMMAN, Founder & CEO, Vironova
DR. JENNI NORDBORG, Director & Head, Health Department, VINNOVA
MR. RICHARD SERBIN, Founder & CEO, Seaweed Biotechnology
***
DR. CHARLES F. FERRIS, Special Scientific Advisor to the Chairman
MR. PETER UTTERSTRÖM, Legal Advisor
MS. LENA TIBELL, Program Advisor
AMBASSADOR KARIN EHNBOM PALMQUIST, Chief of Protocol
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IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022370.txt,"Speaker at Africa Energy Forum 2011 in Paris, France, on “Natural Gas Potential of
Africa,” June 13-15, 2011

Speaker at Platts 1‘' Annual Biofuels Conference in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, on
“Advances in Biofuel Feedstocks for African Development,” June 28-29, 2012

Speaker at Merrick & Company 2™ Annual Bioprocessing Conference in Denver,
Colorado, on “Cassava and Plantains-Biofuels Feedstocks for Africa,” Sept. 10, 2012

Memberships: National Society of Professional Engineers
Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG)
American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
American Institute of Mining and Engineers (AIME)
Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) - Legion of Honor Member
Association of International Petroleum Negotiators
European Society of Exploration Geophysicists (ESEG)*
Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists (RMAG)
American Petroleum Institute (API)*
Member Board of Trustees, Colorado Energy Research
Institute, March 1975 to March 1981
Honorary Consul, Republic of Panama, 1974-1986
Member, Uranium Subpanel of Supply and Delivery Panel

*Member Emeritus

PUBLICATIONS
“Induction Log Departure Curves for No Invasion” (Oil Base Mud or Air)
By: Jack J. Grynberg - 1953

“The Microlog - Its Application and Interpretation”
By: Jack J. Grynberg and Leendert de Witte - 1954

“Quantitative Electric Log Interpretation of “D” and “J” Sands—Denver Basin”
By: Jack J. Grynberg - 1956

“""The Continuous Dipmeter”
Articles in April 1 and 22, 1957, The Oil and Gas Journal
By: Jack J. Grynberg and Morris I. Ettinger

“Log Interpretation Charts”
By: Sylvain J. Pirson and Jack J. Grynberg - 1958

“Selected Well Logging Problems for Geologists and Petroleum Engineers”
By: Sylvain J. Pirson and Jack J. Grynberg — 1958

“DST - Success or Failure?”
Article in June 22, 1959, The Oil and Gas Journal
By: Jack J. Grynberg

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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028933.txt,"From: Lawrence Krauss

Sent: 9/10/2015 8:08:32 PM

To: Noam Chomsky yy

cc: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]; ii
Subject: Re: an article you may both hate. or like.

Attachments: DA866543-7401-4A5A-8E50-FD32E33A50EC.png

Importance: — High
Yup.

Lawrence M. Krauss

Director, The Origins Project at ASU

Foundation Professor

School of Earth & Space Exploration and Physics Department

Arizona State University, P.O. Box 871404, Tempe, AZ 85287-1404

Research Office [EE Assistant i

Origins Office

origins.asu.edu | twitter.com/Ikrauss1 | krauss.faculty.asu.edu

Sent from my iPhone

On Sep 10, 2015, at 12:09 PM, Noam Chomsky i wrote:

| quite agree. And I’m pretty sure Lawrence does too.

From: jeffrey E. [mailto:jeevacation@ gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2015 3:02 PM

To: Noam Chomsky Si
Cc: Lawrence Krauss

Subject: Re: an article you may both hate. or like.
I think religion plays a major positive role in many lives. . i dont like fanaticism on either side. . sorry

On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 7:52 PM, Noam Chomsky qq wrote:

Thanks for sending. A wide area of agreement, but not total.

On confronting dogma, | of course agree — though in my opinion the secular religions — nationalist fanaticism, etc. — are
much more dangerous. And if some find rational discussion offensive — as, for example, mainstream academics find
dismantling myths of “American exceptionalism” or “Israeli self-defense” or Obama’s mass murder campaign, etc.,
offensive — so be it.

But | don’t see why that should extend to ridicule. That includes astrologists. Astronomers can refute astrology, while
recognizing that perfectly honest and deluded people may believe it and should be treated with respect, while their
beliefs are confronted with evidence. | also don’t see why we should ridicule religious dogma, just as | don’t think we
should ridicule the much more pernicious secular dogmas. Rather, we should respond to irrational belief with

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013113.txt,"11.4 Piaget’s Stages in the Context of Uncertain Inference 197

Stage 2:Concrete Operational

\ Inference Rules

1
; Knowledge about
World “
Inference Control Strategy |
Knowledge about
how to control
inference

New
Knowledge

Fig. 11.5: Uncertain Inference in the Concrete Operational Stage

1. Conservation tasks, such as conservation of number,

2. Decomposition of complex tasks into easier subtasks, allowing increasingly complex tasks
to be approached by association with more easily understood (and previously experienced)
smaller tasks,

3. Classification and Serialization tasks, in which the mind can cognitively distinguish various
disambiguation criteria and group or order objects accordingly.

In terms of inference control this is the stage in which actual knowledge about how to control
inference itself is first explored. This means an emerging understanding of inference itself as a
cognitive task and methods for learning, which will be further developed in the following stages.

Also, in this stage a special cognitive task capability is gained: “Theory of Mind,"" which in
cognitive science refers to the ability to understand the fact that not only oneself, but other
sentient beings have memories, perceptions, and experiences. This is the ability to conceptually
“put oneself in another’s shoes” (even if you happen to assume incorrectly about them by doing
so).

11.4.2.1 Conservation of Number

Conservation of number is an example of a learning problem classically categorized within
Piaget’s concrete-operational phase, a “conservation laws” problem, discussed in [Shu03] in
the context of software that solves the problem using (logic-based and neural net) narrow-AI
techniques. Conservation laws are very important to cognitive development.

Conservation is the idea that a quantity remains the same despite changes in appearance. If
you show a child some objects and then spread them out, an infantile mind will focus on the
spread, and believe that there are now more objects than before, whereas a concrete-operational
mind will understand that the quantity of objects has not changed.

Conservation of number seems very simple, but from a developmental perspective it is ac-
tually rather difficult. “Solutions” like those given in [Shu03] that use neural networks or cus-

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016422.txt,"SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE DIVISION

FIRST DEPARTMENT
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THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, .
App. Div. No. 6081
Respondent, On Appeal from New York
; ; Supreme Court, New York
~- against - : County, Index No. 30129/10
: (Pickholz, J.)
JEFFREY E. EPSTEIN, :
: AFFIDAVIT OF SERVICE
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STATE OF NEW YORK )
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COUNTY OF NEW YORK )

JOHN BROWNING, being duly sworn, states, I am not a party to the action, am over 18
years of age and reside in Kings County, New York. On January 14, 2018, I served a true and

correct copy of the annexed by mail in the custody of Federal Express directed to the following:

Martin Weinberg
20 Park Place, Suite 1000
Boston, MA 02116

Karen Friedman Agnifilo

Assistant District Attorney - New York County
One Hogan Place

New York, New York 10013

David Aronberg

State Attorney

15"" Judicial Circuit — Palm Beach County Florida
401 North Dixie Highway

West Palm Beach, FL 33401

Dexter Lee

Assistant U.S. Attorney
Southern District of Florida
99 N.E. 4th Street

Miami, FL 33132

Dated: New York, New York

4848-4442-5859v.1 3930033-000039

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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023427.txt,"From: Michael Wolff a |

Sent: 9/24/2014 12:06:54 AM
To: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Re: Highlight

Importance: — High
Fab! And tomorrow?

On Tuesday, September 23, 2014, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
clinton woody kagan , do not add one penny to budget

On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 6:17 PM, Lisa New <> wrote:

That was fun- definitely the highlight of a day that was not without other interesting moments

Don't know which was better-- the wholly unexpected surprise reminder (by a prime minister) of my
boyfriend from 1976( who was in high school, who lived with his doting parents), or , getting creamed on my
producer's budget but then offered the opportunity to profess poetry for production funds . There may be
someone as good in New York, but i'll never tell you and you really have a heck of a seminar table there .
When do we do Whitman's ""Song of Myself"" 1-15 Who else is reading with us? I'm ready .

A few other follow ups :

David and Brigid point out that reality tv doesn't cost anything because it is, as it sounds, very low budget .
No writing , no special expertise or knowledge or research , no archival footage , no copyright clearance , no
actors , no travel beyond the one location , certainly no clinton or woody allen or justice elena kagan or david
brooks or Lena Dunham or even Professor New. That said , I think If were hiring the crew id do it for less --
probably 1, 250,000 all in . But I haven't won 10 Emmys and David has . That has value too. As does Wgbh .
But I'll be more prepared for the next conversation and want to be much more prepared for templeton, so
thank you .

I really liked Michael. I would like to send him some stuff , but in googling him I noticed that we have the
same birthday! May I have his email?

You are in! Yeay! Lets see what this may mean? I'll improve my numbers and you'll improve your deep
reading ?

Sent from my iPhone

please note
The information contained in this communication is
confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may
constitute inside information, and is intended only for
the use of the addressee. It is the property of
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Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this
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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025775.txt,"Economic Research: How Increasing Income Inequality Is Dampening U.S. Economic Growth, And Possible Ways
To Change The Tide

levels were increasing at the rate they were 15 years ago, the level of potential GDP would be 1%, or $185 billion
higher in five years. A more educated workforce would benefit from higher wages. While the increased supply of
people with advanced degrees may initially slow wage gains for jobs requiring an advanced degree, a stronger

economy would help support higher incomes for all and help government budgets.

Chart 6

Education Improves U.S. Potential Growth

= Increased education Curent path of education
(So growth)
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2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

Sources: Barra, Robert and Jong-\Wha Lee, “A New Data Set of Educational Attainment in

the Work, 1950-2010."" Journal of Development Economics, vol. 104, pp.184-198; Oxford
Economics; and Standard & Poor's Ratings Economics’ Estimates.

© Standard & Poor's 2014.

Historically, data at the state level support these results. States with a well-educated workforce are high-wage states. A
clear and strong correlation exists between the educational attainment of a state's workforce and median wages in the
state, with more educated individuals more likely to participate in the job market and earn more, and less likely to be
unemployed (31). The unemployment rate for people 25 years old and older with a college degree was 3.3% in June

2014, which is one-third of the unemployment rate of those with less than a high school degree.

Education is an investment in the health and livelihood of future generations, with greater parent education positively
correlated to a child's health, cognitive abilities, academic achievement, and future economic opportunities. Education

not only benefits workers today, but also children tomorrow.

With evidence indicating that a well-educated US. workforce is not just good for today's workers and their children but

also for the economy's potential long-term growth rate and government balance sheets, what do we need to do to get

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IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026635.txt,"From: Richard Kahn |

Sent: 11/29/2016 3:37:46 PM
To: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Tax Planning Under Trump

Importance: — High

not sure your thoughts on likelihood of his plan (with very little details) passing

my concern and thoughts are that if itemized deductions are capped at 200,000 you will be impacted by Trump
plan

your itemized deductions on the last 2 years returns were as follows:

2015 1,721,474
2014 739,139

the two biggest items on your itemized are RE Taxes of approximately 600,000 per year and investment interest
expense from STC K-1 with the majority coming from boothbay

i thought that 2016 may be a good year to contribute appreciated stock to gratitude or enhanced for three
reasons:

a) potential cap on itemized per trump
b) very low EDC income this year so your effective tax rate is higher
c) if itemized stays however tax rates go down charitable deduction is worth more in 2016

Gratitude & Enhanced Summary
Cash 4,738,854

Equities 3,792,177

Fixed Income 2,199,792

Total Value as of 10-31-2016 10,730,823

Although calculation below does not factor in growth i ran summaries how long foundations can continue to
make annual contributions at the following levels:

600,000 17.88 years
700,000 15.33 years
800,000 13.41 years
900,000 11.92 years
1,000,000 10.73 years

http://smolin.com/tax-planning-trump/?utm_medium=email& hsenc=p2ANqtz-9cVvrtlu7t-

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IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020567.txt,"108

Hiring of Former Senior Government Officials In other countries (such as Australia, UK,
France, and Germany), former senior government officials routinely take positions with
Chinese companies. This pattern appears less pronounced in the United States. A prominent
exception is the law firm Dentons, which merged with the Chinese law firm Dacheng in
2015°° and employs numerous former government officials, including former ambassadors,
members of Congress, mayors, and generals.*!

Earlier in 2018, Bloomberg News reported on the Imperial Pacific casino, a Chinese-owned
company operating in the American territory of Saipan. Its large transaction volumes have
raised concerns about potential money laundering. It has also made millions of payments to
family members of the territory’s governor and, at one time, counted the former governors
of three states as well as the former directors of the CIA and FBI as members of its board or
advisors.*

State and Local Politics Many states do not have prohibitions against foreign contributions
in local races.*? One of the most notable examples of an individual contributor comes

from Virginia, where in 2013 and 2014, Wang Wenliang, a Chinese industrialist who was
expelled from China’s national legislature in 2016, contributed $120,000 to Governor Terry
McAuliffe’s campaign.**

Chinese firms are also involved in lobbying at the state and local level, another means

of acquiring legitimate influence. While the quality of data reporting and aggregation

for local and state-level lobbying is not always as robust as that at the federal level, this
project was able to identify more than $1 million in state-level lobbying expenses over the
past decade by Chinese firms. BYD Motors, which produces buses for public transit in the
United States, Huawei, and Wanda America Group were among the biggest spenders on
lobbying.

A 2017 complaint with the Federal Election Commission against the California subsidiary
of Dalian Wanda is illustrative of the potential for exploitation granted by the US-
subsidiary exception. The FEC found that Lakeshore, a Chicago real estate company
whose principals are US citizens, was the source of the money that funded a local ballot
initiative in California that would have blocked a Wanda competitor from expanding.
Wanda acknowledged that the money for the measure had come from Lakeshore, with
which Wanda does business, in the form of a $1.2 million loan. In its conclusion, the

FEC did not rule on whether foreign restrictions applied to ballot measure activity.
Further, it argued that even if those restrictions did apply, because “none of the funds

at issue appear to originate with a foreign national” (i.e., they came from Lakeshore);

that because the Wanda deputy manager who was listed as the principal officer of the
Ballot Measure Committee was an American citizen (the general manager is a Chinese
national); and that the funds originated in and would be paid back by revenues generated

Corporations

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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024348.txt,"Table of Contents

CEO PAY RATIO

The 2018 annual total compensation of our median-compensated employee other than Mr. Garcia was $36,204. We identified our median-
compensated employee by calculating the annual salary of all our employees as of December 31, 2018, annualized for those who joined Carvana during the
year and who were not seasonal or temporary employees. Mr. Garcia’s 2018 annual total compensation was $2,075,726, as disclosed in the “Summary
Compensation Table” above. The ratio of our median-compensated employee to Mr. Garcia is 1-to-57.

CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

POLICIES FOR APPROVAL OF RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

We have adopted a written policy with respect to the review, approval, and ratification of related party transactions. Under the policy, our Audit
Committee is responsible for reviewing and approving related party transactions. In the course of its review and approval of related party transactions, our
Audit Committee will consider the relevant facts and circumstances to decide whether to approve such transactions. In particular, our policy requires our
Audit Committee to consider, among other factors it deems appropriate:

. the related person’s relationship to us and interest in the transaction,

. the material facts of the proposed transaction, including the proposed aggregate value of the transaction,

° the impact on a director’s independence in the event the related person is a director or an immediate family member of the director,

. the benefits to us of the proposed transaction,

. if applicable, the availability of other sources of comparable products or services, and

. an assessment of whether the proposed transaction is on terms that are comparable to the terms available to an unrelated third party or to

employees generally.

The Audit Committee may only approve those transactions that are in or are not inconsistent with our best interests and those of our
stockholders, as the Audit Committee determines in good faith.

AMENDED AND R ESTATED OPERATING AGREEMENT

In connection with the organizational transactions we effected in connection with our IPO, we amended and restated Carvana Group’s existing
operating agreement, which we refer to as the “LLC Operating Agreement.” In addition, on March 2, 2018, Carvana Group signed an amendment of its
LLC Agreement to, among other things, create a class of convertible preferred units. The convertible preferred units were created in connection with the
December 5, 2017, issuance and sale of 100,000 shares of convertible preferred stock of Carvana Co. The amendment was effective December 5, 2017. As
of December 31, 2018, the 100,000 shares of convertible preferred stock had all been converted into shares of Class A common stock and are no longer
outstanding.

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IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021679.txt,"e UNCLASSIFIED @

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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016624.txt,"Code Enforcement Board Meeting Minutes 07/17/08

dogs are not in the area. He said he was bitten by Duke a couple of years ago. He
was talking with Dr. Lynn and the dog just reached out and bit him, tearing his
pants and breaking the skin. He said he has been friends with Dr. Lynn and
Marerit for many years but it was just unsafe for anybody and any animals in the
area.

Bobby Goodnough said he was jogging in the area and the dog lunged at him,
causing him to have to dive through a 12 foot hedge to get away from it. He said
he just thought it was a matter of time before the dog got a person or a child. Sgt.
Krauel asked if Mr. Goodnough had reported the incident to the police department
or had a time frame of occurrence. Mr. Goodnough said he had not made a police
report but it occurred about 2 years ago.

Laura Klein, 130 Seaspray Ave., said she had lived here for 12 years, having
moved from Washington, D.C. for a sense of security. She said she was now in
the process of installing surveillance cameras. She said she could no longer walk
her dog without constantly looking around, worrying if Duke had once again
escaped from the open gates. She said it is a privilege to own a dog and dog
ownership and responsibility should go hand in hand. She said Dr. Lynn was
issued a citation in August of 2002 for locking his dog in a car with the windows
rolled up. She said she mentioned this to prove his irresponsibility. She said his
voluminous file from Animal Care and Control would attest to this. She said no
one was safe while Duke is in Palm Beach.

James Merola was present on behalf of Dr. Lynn and said he was present on a
revised Notice of Code Violation and Hearing dated July 15, 2008. He said he
was not denying there were incidents with Duke. Palm Beach County had the dog
taken into custody and the hearing was held June 5, 2008. At that hearing, it was
agreed upon by the County and Dr. Lynn that the dog would be classified as
dangerous. The dog was classified as dangerous which required certain
restrictions on the dog which Dr. Lynn complied with and the dog was returned to
him. In the event Duke has another incident, pursuant to state and county law, but
some reason not Town law, the dog would be taken into custody and euthanized.
Mr. Merola said Dr. Lynn feels very badly about the situation and agreed with the
County to do what they required. Mr. Merola said Dr. Lynn then received a
letter, dated June 16, 2008 from the police department, mentioning the order of
the County and stating for the first time that the Town was declaring the dog
dangerous and giving him ten (10) days to appeal, which he did not. On June 20,
2008, 4 days after the dog was declared dangerous by the Town, the police
department sent a second letter, citing 10-45 (i), advising that since the dog
already had two incidents, they wanted it removed or euthanized. The dog had not
done anything since being declared dangerous. This letter did not mention an
appeal, but he sent a letter anyway, stating they did not agree with that. He said
the dog was declared dangerous on June 16"", requirements were imposed and they
complied with those, including the filing of a $1000 bond and they did not agree
the dog should now be removed. There was a Town Council hearing on August
8"" and the Council said they needed to have the dog removed or euthanized. Mr.

2

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015895.txt,"Known Unknowns 205

spread through the entire body. Think about it. If 1 am allowed to prove
anything either way, of course, my system is complete. It can say anything
it wants, but the proofs I make are worthless.

Let us imagine, for a moment, we created a new system of
mathematics where all the numbers in our new theory behave as we
expect, except for the numbers 5 and 6. You may use them to count, but
they are also equal to each other! This feels bad and it certainly breaks the
Peano axioms. In my new system | plus 5 and 0 plus 5 are the same, so I
can equate 0 to 1. Because 0 and | are the basis of binary arithmetic, all
numbers can be equated. Numbers now have no guaranteed meaning in
my system and, what is worse, since logic uses 1 and 0 to represents true
and false, all of logic falls apart as well. Whenever we allow inconsistency
into mathematics it rapidly brings the whole pack of cards down.

The example I gave was glaring; an inconsistency right in the
middle of the counting numbers! Maybe I was too aggressive and a
subtle and less damaging inconsistency might be tolerable. However,
any inconsistency allows me to make zero equal one somewhere in my
system and, therefore, any theorem based on proof by counterexample
will be suspect.

There might be systems where inconsistency could be a legitimate
part of a mathematical system, but I would always need positive
corroboration for each proof. IfI tried hard enough, I could always prove
something either way. I would need to formulate a new mathematical
rule — something like “I will believe short, sensible-looking proofs to be
right and circuitous proofs to be wrong.” Mathematics would be a bit like
a court of law. You would have to weigh up the evidence from a variety
of sources and the verdict would be a matter of subjective opinion rather
than objective fact. Inconsistency is very bad in mathematics.

The Lucas Argument

J.R. Lucas of Oxford University believes Gédel’s theorem says something
fundamental about the nature of the human mind. In 1959, he wrote a
paper, Minds, Machines and Gédel, where he argued humans must be able
to think outside a fixed set of formal rules. The paper has been causing
arguments ever since. Strong AI proponents have a visceral reaction to
it. Forty years later, in 1989 Roger Penrose picked up the baton and put
the Lucas argument on a stronger theoretical footing. The Lucas-Penrose
argument is this:

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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025528.txt,"From: 
Sent: 
To: 
Subject: 
Steve Bannon 
3/11/2018 8:07:21 PM 
jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com] 
Re: Filed: German Media Confess to Underestimating Steve Bannon; He Is 'As Dangerous as Ever' 
Importance: High 
Don't worry 
All good 
On Mar 11, 2018, at 9:05 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
ill make it up to you,. sorry 
On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 2:04 AM, Steve Bannon < > wrote: 
Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T 
From: ""jeffrey E."" <jeevacation@gmail.com> 
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2018 21:03:53 +0100 
To: Steve Bannon 
Subject: Re: Filed: German Media Confess to Underestimating Steve Bannon; He Is 'As Dangerous as Ever' 
Unfortunately I just spoke to one of the country leaders that we discussed„ I will 
now and then to new york wednesday night. sorry. will be in new york thurs 
out a strategy plan. . how much fun... travel safe. 
On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 8:47 PM, Steve Bannon < > wrote: 
Pretty powerful 
On Mar 11, 2018, at 8:42 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
luv it 
On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 8:39 PM, Steve Bannon > wrote: 
Germans get it 
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From: ""Thomas D. Williams"" 
Date: March 11, 2018 at 5:13:03 PM GMT+1 
To: Raheem Kassam 
< 
fly there tomorw night 
and friday. we should lay 
Oliver Lane 
, Alexander Marlow Frances Martel 
h, Adrienne Ross <> 
Subject: Filed: German Media Confess to Underestimating Steve Bannon; He Is 'As Dangerous as 
Ever' 
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German Media Confess to 
Underestimating Steve 
Bannon; He Is 'As Dangerous 
as Ever' 
by THOMAS D. WILLIAMS, PH.D.11 Mar 201 
0 
As Steve Bannon continues his tour of Europe, energizing the anti-
establishment populist base, the mainstream media cannot help but 
admit their admiration for his abilities, despite their dislike of his aims. 
In this week's issue, the left-wing German weekly Stern articulates the greatest fear of the European 
establishment: that Bannon ""could give the fragmented right in Europe a common ideology and rhetoric."" 
Many thought that the reign of the ""Dark Lord"" had ended, writes Gernot Kramper, when Steve Bannon left 
first the White House and then his role as executive chairman of Breitbart News. It turns out, however, that 
Bannon's adversaries had underestimated him, because he is ""as dangerous as ever,"" he confesses. 
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Kramper cannot conceal his respect for Bannon's ability to move a crowd. He was greeted by ""frenetic 
applause"" in his recent address before France's National Front party, Kramper writes, demonstrating his 
""impressive potential,"" which the writer describes as ""dangerous."" 
In the mind of his audience, Bannon is something of a miracle-worker, Stamper notes, having ""done the 
impossible"" by bringing Donald Trump into the White House. 
The reason Bannon is dangerous, Kramper continues, is because he ""lays out the political program of a 
worldwide right: He has already conquered the USA; now Europe and then the whole world will follow."" 
""You are part of a worldwide movement that is bigger than France, bigger than Italy, bigger than Hungary, 
bigger than all that,"" Bannon told French populists. 
Bannon showed that he ""dominates the mood against the 'elites,' the 'establishment' and the 'perverse 
system' of greedy corporations and banks, and of course also against the press, which is led around 'like a 
dog on the Leash,' Stamper writes. 
And now he Mr. Bannon setting himself up as an instigator, if not an outright shepherd, of a movement that 
crosses borders, languages and parties. 
""Bannon is a master of apocalyptic rhetoric,"" Stamper continues, effortlessly weaving together nationalist 
interests with an international populist movement. 
The American strategist showed his ""true caliber"" by expounding modern methods of political freedom 
through blockchain technologies and cryptocurrencies, Stamper said, leaving many of his hearers behind. 
Bannon has demonstrated that if the right wants to rule the future, ""it must dominate modern themes and 
rhetorically position them,"" he added. 
Aspiring to be far more than an uncle who tells stories to his nephews of how he won the fight for the White 
House, Stamper writes, ""Bannon wants to become the super godfather of the international right."" 
Although Bannon often looks a bit disheveled, ""he should not be underestimated,"" the writer warns. Past 
business partners attribute impressive ""strategic foresight"" to the eccentric tactician, saying he was often 
""three or four steps ahead"" of his opponents in business. Because of his phenomenal memory, his nickname 
is ""the encyclopedia,"" Stamper notes with a certain reverence, and in his speeches he will spontaneously cite 
""forgotten thinkers, known only to a handful of specialists."" 
""Bannon brings with him exclusive knowledge of power from the very heart of power,"" Stamper writes, 
which he will bring to bear on Europe's fragmented populist populism. 
According to Stamper, Bannon has established his ""European headquarters"" in Italy, from where he intends 
to galvanize European populists. 
The Italian political situation is completely to his liking, Stamper declares, with a political landscape 
""dominated by populists, right-wing ideologues and the political puppeteer Berlusconi."" 
Follow Thomas D. Williams on Twitter 
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Big Government, Breitbart London, National Security, Europe, Germany, Nationalism, Populism, Stephen 
K. Bannon, Stern 
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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_014553.txt,"Exhibit 19: US Equity Volatility

Spikes in equity volatility have corresponded with major global shocks.

VIX Level
30 () Global Financial Crisis 80.9
® First Greek Bailout (11/20/08)

@) Debt Ceiling, S&P Downgrade,
70 -| Eurozone Sovereign Debt Crisis

G) Greek Default

60 + @) SIL Ebola

50 (G) Renminbi Depreciation

80 5

SPX: -42%

40 4

30 5

18.8 ie
8/22/08. ;
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0 +
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

Data through December 31, 2016.
Note: The red arrows show the S&P 500's (SPX's) peak-to-trough declines around each episode.
Source: Investment Strategy Group, Bloomberg.

45.8
(5/20/10)

48.0
Me 407
(8/24/15)

28.1

26.3
(10/15/14)

26.7
(6/1/12)

147 143 12.0 ears
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2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

another shock to the financial markets, resulting

in the tightening of financial conditions in the

US in mid-2015 and early 2016, with US equities

dropping by more than 10% in both periods.
Exhibit 19 provides a time line of shocks,

which, in all likelihood, dampened the pace of the

US recovery.

In Summary

As we review the six theories that could account
for the notably slow pace of this recovery, we
believe that all have some merit. Recovering

from the hangover from the deepest recession
since the Great Depression took a little longer.
Demographics have not been favorable.
Productivity growth appears lower, but that fact
does not portend weak productivity growth in the
future. Productivity growth is also probably not as
weak as it appears, given some mismeasurement
of GDP. Fiscal and regulatory policies hampered
the economic recovery. And the global backdrop
provided a steady source of shocks that slowed
growth in the US.

That said, we feel confident that the US
continues to progress on a solid footing, that the
recovery is intact and, as we argued in our 2016
Outlook: The Last Innings, that this recovery and

bull market have another inning or two left to run.

The glass is still half-full.
We now turn to our expected returns for the
next one and five years.

One- and Five-Year Expected
Total Returns

The Investment Strategy Group began producing
one- and five-year annualized expected total
returns for major asset classes in our 2013
Outlook. Since then, our key message has been
to stay invested in US equities despite the low
returns we have expected for the asset class.

Our recommendation has been driven by a low
probability of recession, a reasonable probability
of upside for equities, zero expected returns for
cash and negative expected returns for bonds.

We have presented these one- and five-year
annualized expected returns to: a) provide more
context for our investment recommendations; b)
encourage our clients to have a longer investment
horizon; and c) increase the odds that our clients
have greater staying power to withstand market
downdrafts.

Fulfilling these three priorities is even
more imperative moving forward. Our return
expectations are lower than in prior years after
several years of outsized returns in equities
and high yield, and, at the same time, we are
confronted with tremendous economic policy and
geopolitical uncertainty. We have been faced with
such uncertainty in the past, but today (in contrast
with periods such as 2008), we no longer have the
wind at our back with the benefit of cheap equity
and high yield valuations. In 2008, we believed
that attractive valuations would eventually lead to
high prospective returns in US equities and high

20 | Goldman Sachs | JANUARY 2017

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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022247.txt,"From: 
Sent: 
To: 
Subject: 
Jeffrey Epstein <jeeyacation@gmail.com> 
Friday, March 4, 2011 4:38 PM 
Fwd: FW: Ghislaine Maxwell 
----------Forwarded message---------- 
From: GMAX <gmax 1 @ellmax.com> 
Date: Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 8:28 AM 
Subject: FW: Ghislaine Maxwell 
To: J Jep <jeevacation@gmail.com> 
------Forwarded Message 
From: Mark Cohen 
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 11:14:35 -0500 
To: NY Max <gmax1@ellmax.com> 
Subject: FW: Ghislaine Maxwell 
FYI, following up on my email of this morning. Again, I have no intention of responding unless you direct otherwise. 
From: 
Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 11:12 AM 
To: Brett D. Jaffe 
Subject: Ghislaine Maxwell 
Dear Brett Jaffe, 
I left you a telephone message earlier. The Mail on Sunday newspaper is running a story on Ghislaine 
Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein, Prince Andrew and others this weekend. 
We urgently require responses from Ms Maxwell to the following questions. Our deadline is noon tomorrow. 
My telephone numbers are or 
Annette Witheridge 
On behalf of the Mail on Sunday 
1. says Ghislaine Maxwell offered her a job as a masseuse with Jeffrey Epstein when she was 
aged 15. Ms Maxwell led MI= upstairs on her first visit to him at his Palm Beach house. Mr Epstein was 
naked on massage table. 
Ms Maxwell initiated a bisexual encounter during which Ms Maxwell rubbed her own breasts on Mr Epstein 
and directed to copy her. 
1 
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Please respond to these allegations and all others in the original Jane Doe 102 complaint. 
2. Ms Maxwell took part in numerous other sexual encounters involving her assistant 
and Mr Epstein. 
El= 
3. Ms Maxwell kept sex toys and costumes in the Palm Beach mansion and dressed prior to sex 
sessions with Mr Epstein. S Maxwell herself wore black vinyl during sex sessions with Mr Epstein. 
4. 
men. 
was paid between US $200 and $ 5000 US sex, depending on whether it involved travel and other 
5, was required to have sex with friends of Ms Maxwell and Mr Epstein, including Glenn Dubin, Les 
Wexner, Ehud Barak, former Senator George Mitchell and Stephen Kosslyn. 
6. Ms Maxwell introduced to Prince Andrew in 2001 at Ms Maxwell's London house where 
had sex with him. subsequently was directed to meet him at Mr Epstein's New York house where Ms 
Maxwell directed to sit on Andrew's knee with________________ Andrew groped both girls. Ms 
Maxwell directed after this to have sex with Andrew. 
Ms Maxwell and Mr Epstein subsequently travelled with to Little St James where she was directed to 
stage an orgy for Andrew and Mr Epstein during which she performed oral sex on 
them. 
7. was paid extra by Mr Epstein or his employees for these sexual encounters. 
8. Ms Maxwell knew age and laughed about it when she introduced her to Andrew. 
9. Ms Maxwell and Mr Epstein tried to persuade to bear his child. 
10. After sexual encounters with male friends of Mr Epstein and/or Ms Maxwell, Ms Maxwell and Mr Epstein 
would ask explicit questions about what went on. 
11. Mr Epstein's residences in Florida and New York had surveillance cameras that taped the sex sessions and 
taped even in the bathroom. 
12. Ms Maxwell and Mr Epstein arranged for Ehud Barak to have sex with several girls, often at Mr Epstein's 
Palm Beach house. - 
13. Ms Maxwell piloted President Bill Clinton in a helicopter to a dinner on Little St James where two brunettes 
Ms Maxwell, and Mr Epstein were at the table. 
14. Mr Epstein bought Ms Maxwell the helicopter, homes in New York and London and a Mercedes. 
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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031195.txt,"From: Darren Indyke

Sent: 1/27/2016 5:02:21 PM
To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Fwd: ST THOMAS CASE TOWERS INVESTORS VS JEFF EPSTEIN PROCEEDINGS FOR THE ST THOMAS ATTACHMENT OF

ALL JEFF EPSTEIN ASSETS

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Begin forwarded message:

From: steven hoffenberg <i

Subject: Fwd: ST THOMAS CASE TOWERS INVESTORS VS JEFF EPSTEIN PROCEEDINGS
FOR THE ST THOMAS ATTACHMENT OF ALL JEFF EPSTEIN ASSETS

Date: January 27, 2016 at 12:01:01 PM EST

To: as

Steven J. Hoffenberg
New York Post Publishing INC.
CEO

TOWERSINVESTORS.COM
CEO

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IMAGES-012-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032624.txt,"On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 9:09 AM, Dre comarca wrote:
things look very bad in the gulf .. my feeling trump do not want to end it
Sent from my iPhone

On Sep 8, 2017, at 2:28 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:

your man did well . congragulations

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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023341.txt,"Date: Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 7:56 PM
Subject: Fwd:

this was sent four months ago, nothing has changed

sent oct 15. before big transaction.

Office, - adagoes. , hire heather a paralegal. Joslin goes or is closely managed by new cfo with tax
experience. .castrucii goes asap.as he merely adds to mess.( too many people , ex 7 people or more to pay a
bill ) eva goes. outsource as much as possible... bookkeeping systems built from scratch, airplane
restructure, boat . same, new grats. phaidon sale , decide on artspace survivability, regan, . do the kids really
want these? , children accounting ie bens house.etc. re do estate for new facts. redo loans, trading accounts
activity, . gaming -foreign- disclosures. . BRH TRA re thinks . household and construction

architects. . redone. art partnership , choice of paintings. . re do structure of consultants. tax re family
office. . decide if investments are a realistic option in the next three years... insurance. operations. airplane ,
etc. . artfoundation , private. max charity contributions. financial reports. still waiting. ? on line
banking, . tax planning, family office deductions ( profit center ). airplane certificate, redone jet aviation
redo. . _— paper gigi ( E )trust to avoid gift tax. .

Date: Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 6:13 AM

Subject: Fwd:

To: Melanie Spinella

Leon, Congragulations on biting the bullet. at least 18 months late , but Im encouraged and glad for
you. When you interviewed Brad two years ago you asked that i not tell him what a disaster lay before
him. what would you like me to tell Barry?

There is a HUGE amount of work to be done in the next 9 -12 months. mostly the exact same work that i
outlined in my email of 2 years ago. now complicated by years of mess on top. ( you can send it again if you
like ). Brad wechsler was never up to the task . sorry, I realize I have been saying the very same thing for a
long time. he was a not a step up from Eileen but a step sideways. in the beginning there was Eileen and
Tom and Ralph Lerner. all your hand picks. then brad. john, Joe. . joslin was chosen from a pool of 2
people. each that would be limited by a salary of 250k. ( yes i personally augmented his comp in order to get
him ) I did say hire both Lisa to do the bookkeeping and joslin tax, | He complained for over a year , re his
direction by eileen and ada , and then brad. His breakdown was not a surprise after months and moths of
warnings. Though disabled, he ran your office this year. with john and joe. He ran amok, and as i told
you he rarely failed to remind me in our conversations that you told him that he works for you and not for
me and that brad needs to pays him .

. Asking me who to hire , estate attny tax people etc. :

I have taken heat for years over the fact that 1 gave you no more than carlyns name, . no follow up

questions no interactions , not even one single question asked of me re her work. (that was Eileen _) but
somehow carlyns fuck up was my doing. . —_ when i told you that i thought Eileen wasn't up to the task, you
bellowed. that i was talking out of both sides of my mouth. . You told me this year , that by trying to protect
you from crazy joslin, I had in essence fired him and it was my responsibility to do his work. it then turns out
that he didn't consider himself fired at all he just received less money. and continued to make a really
dangerous mess.. Joshn castrucci, in your eyes, was also my doing , though email after email said , I take no
responsibility for him,and 1YOU SHOULD NOT HIRE HIM |!!! , your response was that was my opinion
was only because i didn't trust him. then to add insult to injury last jan you told me he was gone. however he
too is still there, and a waste of money and space.

My time is complicated by Donald's potentially eviscerating any reason for anyone to use the foreign
funds repatriation plan that i had put together. . however as you are aware I have some decisions to make re
my time allocation in the next year or two. so at least for a few weeks I am unable to commit much time and
make any future plans to guide you in the redoing of your procrastination produced mess.

That being said, the tasks at hand are the following.

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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025013.txt,"17

SPIEGEL: Many Arabs now feel that your institution is not very
efficient.

Elaraby: The historic moment of change has gripped the entire
region, and sooner or later it will change all Arab countries. The
League will certainly need to adjust to that. We must be capable of
reacting quickly to unexpected developments.

SPIEGEL: Surely there are a few member states, most notably Saudi
Arabia, which will hardly support such changes.

Elaraby: I too have my doubts there. Nevertheless, we still have to
try, and we have to take seriously the human rights established by the
UN, which all countries in the League have recognized.

SPIEGEL: How does Saudi Arabia's foreign minister explain that
his country supports the Syrian opposition, on the one hand, while at
the same time sending troops to Bahrain?

Elaraby: I don't ask him these questions. That's your job. You're the
journalists.

SPIEGEL: Do you support the Palestinian Autonomous Authority in
its aspiration to have the UN General Assembly give its blessing in
September to the establishment of a State of Palestine?

Elaraby: UN Resolution 181, adopted in 1947, is the birth certificate
for two nations, Israel and Palestine. What's wrong with the
Palestinians appealing directly to the UN after 20 years of
negotiations with Israel? They could spend another 20 years
negotiating without results, because the Israeli government doesn't
even want to put an end to the conflict. The Israelis are only serious
about gaining more land and expanding the settlements.

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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030643.txt,"From: Linda Stone 
Sent: 11/13/2016 3:19:37 PM 
To: jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Subject: Re: Ri did see this coming... 
Importance: High 
Perfect 
Co-authored with iPhone auto-correct 
On Nov 13, 2016, at 9:27 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
trump tower 
On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 8:53 AM, Linda Stone < 
And just had a great time with Joi. 
You still in Paris? 
wrote: 
Co-authored with iPhone auto-correct 
On Sep 26, 2016, at 7:31 AM, Linda Stone < > wrote: 
How's that? 
Which team you pulling for? 
Co-authored with iPhone auto-correct 
On Sep 26, 2016, at 2:30 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
too far to tell, we will know much more come oct 15 
On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 7:14 AM, Linda Stone 
SPEAK! Please. What do you think? 
On Sep 25, 2016, at 12:15 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
do you think he can win? 
> wrote: 
On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 9:10 PM, Linda Stone < > wrote: 
Moving (small places in Raleigh and Bellevue), wrapping up taxes, wrapping up fire claim, trying to figure 
out if technologies that soothe the nervous system (that offer the positive effects that meditation or massage 
might offer) are worth working on.... 
And wondering if the fact that so many people are on anti-depressant, adhd, and other drugs, is what makes 
trump appealing and his flaws invisible... 
Will you have a cabinet position? 
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How are you? 
Co-authored with iPhone auto-correct 
On Sep 25, 2016, at 12:01 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
bring me up to speed. 
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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016344.txt,"superintelligences is likely to be competitive. Humans might be seen as minor
annoyances, like ants at a picnic, but hybrid superintelligences—like corporations,
organized religions, and nation states—could be existential threats. Like hybrid
superintelligences, Als might see humans mostly as useful tools to accomplish their
goals, as pawns in their competition with the other superintelligences. Or we might
simply be irrelevant. It is not impossible that a machine intelligence has already emerged
and we simply do not recognize it as such. It may not wish to be noticed, or it may be so
alien to us that we are incapable of perceiving it. This makes the self-interested AI
scenario the most difficult to imagine. I believe the easy-to-imagine versions, like the
humanoid intelligent robots of science fiction, are the least likely. Our most complex
machines, like the Internet, have already grown beyond the detailed understanding of a
single human, and their emergent behaviors may be well beyond our ken.

The final scenario is that machine intelligences will not be allied with one another
but instead will work to further the goals of humanity as a whole. In this optimistic
scenario, AI could help us restore the balance of power between the individual and the
corporation, between the citizen and the state. It could help us solve the problems that
have been created by hybrid superintelligences that subvert the goals of humans. In this
scenario, AIs will empower us by giving us access to processing capacity and knowledge
currently available only to corporations and states. In effect, they could become
extensions of our own individual intelligences, in furtherance of our human goals. They
could make our weak individual intelligences strong. This prospect is both exciting and
plausible. It is plausible because we have some choice in what we build, and we have a
history of using technology to expand and augment our human capacities. As airplanes
have given us wings and engines have given us muscles to move mountains, so our
network of computers may amplify and extend our minds. We may not fully understand
or control our destiny, but we have a chance to bend it in the direction of our values. The
future is not something that will happen to us; it is something that we will build.

Why Wiener Saw What Others Missed

There is in electrical engineering a split which 1s known in Germany as the split between
the technique of strong currents and the technique of weak currents, and which we know
as the distinction between power and communication engineering. It is this split which
separates the age just past from that in which we are now living.
—Norbert Wiener, Cybernetics, or Control and
Communication in the Animal and the Machine

Cybernetics is the study of the how the weak can control the strong. Consider the
defining metaphor of the field: the helmsman guiding a ship with a tiller. The
helmsman’s goal is to control the heading of the ship, to keep it on the right course. The
information, the message that is sent to the helmsman, comes from the compass or the
stars, and the helmsman closes the feedback loop by sending the steering messages
through the gentle force of his hand on the tiller. In this picture, we see the ship tossing
in powerful wind and waves in the real world, controlled by the communication system
of messages in the world of information.

Yet the distinction between “real” and “information” is mostly a difference in
perspective. The signals that carry messages, like the light of the stars and pressure of the

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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018526.txt,"named him after the post I wrote when I met him: ""There It Is."")

KOK ok

Fear, Loathing, and S&M Sluthood in San Francisco

Since I was small, I've loved the Van Gogh painting ""Starry Night.” I loved the cypresses
in particular: winding spiral trees, hallucination trees. They were so unlike other trees I'd
seen that I thought Van Gogh made them up, and so when I first saw cypresses years
later, I was stunned: the hallucination trees had been imported into my world. I'd like to
think that my world turned a little bit sideways forever, when I first saw cypresses, but
I'm probably being melodramatic. (I'm good at that.)

San Francisco has cypresses, and a lot of other hallucinations, too. The city is full of
angles, vantages, transitions, unceasing changing views: it feels, at times, like an
unsolvable puzzle. A forested path leads darkly under a bridge, suddenly opens upon a
manicured lawn with a white lace conservatory. A cement staircase rises through a
narrow outlet, resolving itself step by step into a slice of brightly painted Victorian
facade. I walked once with a friend alongside an ocean road, pacing through thick fog,
and arrived at a dirt path that I insisted on following; thirty seconds later we stumbled

upon extraordinary ruins.

San Francisco. Halcyon city, heartbreak city. Cypress city. The place I come to recover
from being torn apart and, it seems, sometimes the place where I get torn apart again.
This is okay with me, because nothing is more fun than overanalyzing strong emotions. I
am not even kidding.

te OK ok

I returned from Africa recently; paused briefly in my adopted city of Chicago to collect
my thoughts; and then went to the Burning Man Arts Festival, thence to San Francisco.
This is my version of emotional decompression, and it worked! I feel much more
centered now. But part of decompressing, for me, was specifically going out to a lot of
dates and BDSM parties and pushing my own boundaries, which carries its own potential
decompressable risks.

At the time of this story, it had been a couple of months in San Francisco, and I was
leaving soon. I'd had an assortment of adventures, but there were two guys in particular
who I was excited about. Not necessarily in a long-term way -- I'm not in this for the
white picket fence and the 2.5 kids (or at least, not yet) -- but definitely in a wow-I-have-
to-control-myself-or-I'll-come-off-as-kind-of-puppyish way. New Relationship Energy: it
is such a mind trick, such a delicious head-trip. You are the perfect drug.

I had to control myself less when I first hooked up with The Artist: possibly the most
postmodern individual I've ever met, possibly the most creative, who I've loosely been
friends with for six whole years, and who has never ceased to fascinate me. It is hard for
me to meet people who keep me thinking, but The Artist never disappoints. If anything,
our problem was shifting a cerebral connection into a sexual one: the first time we made
out, I absolutely had to interrupt the proceedings because I'd forgotten to tell him about
this great sociology paper. It was okay to show how much I liked him because we'd

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IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022416.txt,"e Nutrition/ fitness

e Retreats

e Branded events/ sponsors

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013675.txt,"and a few years of looking for God in what he called “wondering in the wilderness”
that he began his 40 years of monastery service as cook and sandal maker. He was

tt

described as amazingly selfless and a “...gentle man of joyful spirit...” who
“...continually walked with God...not from the head but from the heart...” Doing long
hours of selfless work with such painful disabilities, how was it that he maintained
his joyful, loving and calm contact with God and his fellow man? How did he do it? |
found that, as with all miracles of God contact for me, it happened by itself.

| suffered my first testicular cancer in my thirties. | felt the little hard rock by
accident while scratching. It was on the left side. Surgical removal was followed by
a five-hour radical abdominal lymph node dissection that left me with incidental
abdominal sympathetic nerve damage, urinary hesitancy and ejaculating backwards
into my bladder. The tissue diagnosis was of embryonic cell carcinoma with
chorionic elements. The U.S. Armed Service Pathology Department’s statistical
book gave me 5% chance of living beyond two years. My second testicular cancer
occurred in my fifties and on the right, two little joined lumps found by my wife. It
was a seminoma with cure rate of 85% but requiring four weeks of almost daily x-
ray treatment. The combination of radiation induced blood vessel scarring (they had
to blast widely since my earlier lymph node dissection confused the usual
radiological anatomy), a pre-existing laterally curved spinal column and the arthritic
changes resulting from fifteen years of running over 10 miles per day with this kind
of back led eventually to the degeneration and collapse of several of the bodies of
my vertebrate pinching several leg nerves between bone spurs and radiation-
induced scarring. | have been in increasingly severe back and leg pain for fifteen
years.

It was in this way that | fell heir to both Brother Lawrence pain syndrome and
what | now think was his strong inclination to live in the Spirit, as far as possible
outside the concerns with his own mental and physical body. In my experience, this
led naturally to a decreased in my life long narcissistic preoccupations, diminished
my ego-driven achievement desperation, setting up a more comfortable inner
seating for conversations about and with God. The choice was between fully

embracing a God-oriented place for most of my daily existence or the chronic use of

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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019638.txt,"150 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS

exclusive alternatives. The point is to assure that any alternative that
fits the relevant facts, no matter how implausible it may initially
seem to be, is not neglected.

One of the most vexing problems that had to be explained by these
scenarios is how Snowden got the passwords to up to twenty-four of
these vaults. He could not have obtained these passwords during his
previous employment at Dell, because Dell technicians did not have
access to the Level 3 documents stored in these compartments. Nor,
as noted earlier, was he given access to them when he transferred to
Booz Allen, because he had not completed the requisite training.

Snowden had also, it will be recalled, relinquished his privileges as
a system administrator when he transferred to Booz Allen, so he did
not have the privilege to override password protection. In short, his
new position as an infrastructure analyst did not give him the ability
to enter compartments that he had not yet been read into.

As I've said, there are two possible ways he could have gotten
these passwords: either he had assistance from a party who had
access to them, or he found flaws in the NSA’s security procedures

© that left the supposedly closed vaults effectively unlocked. ®

The Unwitting Accomplice Possibility

It is possible that if Snowden received assistance, it was entirely
unwitting. He might have obtained some passwords through decep-
tion, such as tricking co-workers into typing their passwords into
a device that captured them. As the NSA informed Congress in
2014, three of his fellow workers told the FBI that Snowden might
have deceived them to gain access to their passwords. He could have
simply asked other analysts at the center who had been read into
compartments for their passwords. Such an approach would be
extremely risky for the analyst, who could lose his job and security
clearance by cooperating. It could also be risky for Snowden because
any analyst he approached was supposed to report any request for
a password to a security officer. Making such requests even more
suspicious, Snowden had been working at the Threat Operations
Center for just a few weeks as a trainee and was not well known to

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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029393.txt,"and Bosnia.

¢ The vision we all share — the
vision of a ""model society"" in Israel, of
positioning Israel, within 10-15 years,
among the group of the most advanced
societies — in education and culture,
science and technology, quality of life
— and eventually standard of living
(Finland and Denmark can do it? So
can we!). A society in which its sons
and daughters choose to live . And one
that young Jews from all over the
world consider a source of pride,
inspiration — and even a worthy place
to live in.

¢ The vision of a ""model society""
will not materialize unless we gather
our mental strength and political will,
despite the pain and the differences in
our positions — and together embrace

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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018532.txt,"retrospect, it seems surreal that I reacted so badly to my BDSM orientation.

I remember that I felt vaguely electrified at what I was saying, a little scared... but also
comforted. At the time, I hadn't had much contact with other sex theorists, and I thought I
was saying something radical. I was scared that my words might appear too radical to be
taken seriously. Also, since our culture mostly discusses the idea of ""orientation"" in
regards to gay/ lesbian /bi /transgender /queer, it seemed to me that -- if I dared refer to it
as ""my BDSM orientation” -- then a comparison with LGBTQ was implied in my
statement.

Would the world believe that my BDSM desires could be as ""real,"" as ""deep-rooted,"" as
""unavoidable"" as the sexual orientation of a gay/lesbian/bi/transgender/queer person?
Would I offend GLBTQ people by implying that my sexual needs are as ""real,"" ""deep-
rooted"" and ""unavoidable"" as theirs?

I later found out that some LGBTQ people do get offended by it, and others don't.
Sometime you end up with ridiculous arguments like this one from a comments thread on
an incredibly BDSM-phobic blog: one person says, ""As a lesbian, I would like to say a
sincere fuck you to people comparing BDSM to homosexuality,” to which another person
replies, ""As a queer person myself, I would like to say a sincere fuck you to people who
claim that I ought to see my BDSM and my queerness differently."" As for me, Clarisse,
I'll be frank with you -- I've come to the conclusion that I don't have a dog in that fight,
and I'm staying out of it. I'm straight as the day is long, but I've also been invited to speak
about BDSM at queer conventions and to write about BDSM on queer blogs. So I'll hang
out with the people who are cool with me, and everyone else can kick me out of their
LGBTQ circles as much as they want.

But I used to feel a lot more worried about how I'd be perceived for talking about BDSM
as an orientation. Still, as weird as the concept of ""BDSM as an orientation” felt when I
first thought of it, it also felt right. When I looked back at my memories and previous
actions, it was quite obvious that I have always had these needs, desires and fantasies.
Acknowledging this, and applying the word ""orientation"" to BDSM, helped me come to
terms with my BDSM identity.

The ""BDSM orientation"" idea cleared a mental path for me to think of BDSM as a inbuilt
part of myself, like my bone structure or eye color. BDSM became something that it was
desirable to accept, come to terms with... even embrace. It was a hugely liberating way
of thinking about it: if I thought of BDSM as an orientation, that meant I didn't have
to worry about or fight it anymore.

Since then, I've been so buried in sexuality theory and I've talked to so many BDSM
people that -- well, now the idea of a ""BDSM orientation"" seems kinda boring. I am
reminded that it's a radical concept only when I talk to people who don't think about these
things all the time. I think that the idea of BDSM as an orientation occurs naturally to
people who think a lot about BDSM sexuality, because so many kinksters either know
we're BDSM people all along, or instantly recognize BDSM once we find it. Here's a
quotation from an article about a BDSM-related legal case that quotes sexologist Charles
Moser at the end, as he very eloquently describes how BDSM can be considered a sexual
orientation:

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016350.txt,"financial resources to hire the most talented workers in the field, enhancing their power
even further. We have been giving away valuable data for the sake of freebies like Gmail
and Facebook, but as the journalist and author John Lanchester has pointed out in the
London Review of Books, if it is free, then you are the product. Their real customers are
the ones who pay them for access to knowledge about us, so that they can persuade us to
buy their products or otherwise influence us. One way around the monopolistic control
of data is to split the ownership of data away from firms that use them. Individuals
would instead own and control access to their personal data (a model that would
encourage competition, since people would be free to move their data to a company that
offered better services). Finally, abuse of data is not limited to corporations: In
totalitarian states, or even nominally democratic ones, governments know things about
their citizens that Orwell could not have imagined. The use they make of this
information may not always be transparent or possible to counter.

The prospect of AI for military purposes is frightening. One can imagine
intelligent systems being designed to act autonomously based on real-time data and able
to act faster than the enemy, starting catastrophic wars. Such wars may not necessarily
be conventional or even nuclear wars. Given how essential computer networks are to
modern society, it is much more likely that AI wars will be fought in cyberspace. The
consequences could be just as dire.

Despite this loss of control, we continue to march inexorably into a world in which AI
will be everywhere: Individuals won’t be able to resist its convenience and power, and
corporations and governments won’t be able to resist its competitive advantages. But
important questions arise about the future of work. Computers have been responsible for
considerable losses in blue-collar jobs in the last few decades, but until recently many
white-collar jobs—jobs that “only humans can do”—were thought to be safe. Suddenly
that no longer appears to be true. Accountants, many legal and medical professionals,
financial analysts and stockbrokers, travel agents—in fact, a large fraction of white-collar
jobs—will disappear as a result of sophisticated machine-learning programs. We face a
future in which factories churn out goods with very few employees and the movement of
goods is largely automated, as are many services. What’s left for humans to do?

In 1930—long before the advent of computers, let alone AI—John Maynard
Keynes wrote, in an essay called “Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren,” that as
a result of improvements in productivity, society could produce all its needs with a
fifteen-hour work week. He also predicted, along with the growth of creative leisure, the
end of money and wealth as a goal:

We shall be able to afford to dare to assess the money-motive at its true value.
The love of money as a possession—as distinguished from the love of money as
a means to the enjoyments and realities of life—will be recognised for what it is,
a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological
propensities which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental
disease.

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IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022402.txt,"a ee

Good-golly Gorsuch may turn out to be a rascal on the bench

By Dana Milbank « Read more »

President Trump’s sanest decision

By Kathleen Parker « Read more »

Trump has no idea how to grow vegetables

By Garrison Keillor * Read more »

> Sener ye ett

Reality is creeping into the Trump show

By David Ignatius « Read more »

The Trump administration’s attack on the Chesapeake Bay

By Editorial Board « Read more »

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013661.txt,"creativity and he said that this class was certainly not about that. | disliked and
feared him. He seemed to feel (and wrote a note to my parents to the effect) that,
being “too arrogant” | needed to be “brought down a peg or two.” | had gotten the
best grades in the first two exams and was enjoying the role of after school tutor for
some of my friends. | suspect | was getting pretty egotistical. In class, | found myself
eagerly shouting out answers without holding up my hand, behavior that Mr. Kirby
met with his characteristic look of fatigued disgust. Twice | was thrown out of class
for my introjections. He then began to give me problems that | could not do, for
which | was not prepared. This left me standing at the blackboard until the end of
the hour, after all the rest of the students had solved theirs and sat down. On
parent’s night, Mr. Kirby told my father that | needed more “social and intellectual
discipline.”

Inspired and personally directed hard work and socially defined correct
behavior were not synonymous to this arrogant 13 year old who had already
brought chagrin to his mother, the conservatory classical piano instructor, with his
satirical pianistic jazzy composition called “How High the Moonlight Sonata.” | was
also a secret reader of the book on the top back shelf in my father’s library by Jack
Hanley called “How to Make Mary; A Gentlemen’s Guide to Seduction.” In Mr.
Kirby’s class, inspired by the book, | sometimes reached behind me, through the
crack in my desk seat, to caress the inside part of the long smooth legs and
sometimes moist panties of a well developed, tall and beautiful brunette girl behind
me. | was never caught and she pretended that nothing was happening. In fact, she
never talked to me outside of class. | felt then, vaguely, and now, more specifically,
that a content enriched, instinctually titillated and excited unconscious could lead
me to the solutions of intellectual challenges if it were both sufficiently indulged and
untrammeled, left alone in its work of being itself. Mr. Kirby did not see things that
way.

Since then, among my graduate and post-doctoral students in the
neurosciences, | have learned that the Mr. Kirby’s of modern American educational
practice have ruined generations of potential mathematicians and physical

scientists. Worse, they have created generations of very bright math phobics who

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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029387.txt,"entire economy forward together with
the chance for stability and peace
,based on synergies and collaboration
rather than hatred and revenge.

¢ What do I mean? The events in
recent years have created a strong
common interest for Israel and the
moderate Arab countries — Saudi
Arabia and the Gulf States, Jordan,
Egypt and perhaps even Turkey (which
is not Arab). The focal interest is the
struggle against radical Islamic
terrorism and against Iran's hegemonic
and nuclear intentions.

¢ The challenge for us is based
on there being, apparently, only one
way to achieve that; and the upcoming
elections in Israel force us to put it on
hold for a few months.

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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031549.txt,"From: Weingarten, Reid 
Sent: 1/16/2018 8:42:03 PM 
To: jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Subject: Re: 
Importance: High 
When?...(did you ask him after or before he got his grand jury subpoena?) 
Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone. 
From: Jeffrey E. 
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2018 3:39 PM 
To: Weingarten, Reid 
Subject: Re: 
I told him to join me and Wolff for my birthday lunch. He said yes. He is just checking on a tea party 
conference schedule 
On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 4:36 PM Weingarten, Reid < > wrote: 
Acela...type it or wait till I get to a quiet place 
Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone. 
From: Jeffrey E. 
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2018 3:34 PM 
To: Weingarten, Reid 
Subject: Re: 
Number ? Funny story 
On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 3:35 PM Weingarten, Reid < > wrote: 
Stevie boy is all over the place 
Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone. 
From: Jeffrey E. 
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2018 1:08 PM 
To: Weingarten, Reid 
Subject: Re: 
mcgann feels if he stays he risks indicment 
On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 10:05 AM, Weingarten, Reid < > wrote: 
And...???? Trump stopped them? He cannot stand mcgahn 
From: Jeffrey E. [mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2018 10:02 AM 
To: Weingarten, Reid 
Subject: 
HOUSE OVERSIGHT 031549 
mcgann and mcmasters tried to resign 
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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015881.txt,"Chapter 9

KNOWN
UNKNOWNS

Donald Rumsfeld

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Periods of slow productivity growth have been followed by
periods of stronger productivity gains.

Average Annual Growth Rate (%)
40

3.5

2

2

1889-1917 1917-1927 1927-1940 1940-1948 1948-1973 1973-1995 1995-2004 2004-2015

Data through 2015.

Source: Investment Strategy Group, Lee Branstetter and Daniel Sichel, “Seven Reasons to Be
Optimistic About Productivity,” forthcoming Peterson Institute for International Economics
Policy Brief.

j 3.4 a9
34 3.2 :
3.0 4
2 |
2.0
2.0 -
1.6 15

1.5 4 13
0.0 + =

Exhibit 13: Correlation of 5-Year US Productivity
Growth Rates With Following 5 Years’
Productivity Growth Rates

Recent productivity trends tell us little about the future.

Correlation
0.25

0.20 5
015 4 014
0.10 -

0.05 -

0.00
Since 1957

Since 1970

Data through 03 2016.
Source: Investment Strategy Group, Haver Analytics, Olivier Blanchard, “Three Remarks About
the US Treasury Yield Curve,” Peterson Institute for International Economics, June 22, 2016.

We have examined labor productivity growth
rates and, as shown in Exhibit 13, find even
lower correlations.

There are two issues to consider. First, if the
reported productivity growth rates are accurate,
then the exceptionally low rates of the last 10 years
account for part of the slow pace of this recovery.
However, the current low productivity growth rates
do not portend low growth rates going forward.
Just as Hansen was proven wrong on his secular
stagnation theory and Krugman was proven wrong
on his diminished expectations for the US economy
(and they were both influenced by their pessimistic
view on productivity), those who extrapolate
stagnation from the current productivity trends
may be proven wrong as well.

Second, as we discuss below, there is also a high
probability that real GDP may be mismeasured.

If real GDP is mismeasured, it follows that

If real GDP is mismeasured, it follows
that productivity is also mismeasured,
thereby invalidating the whole theory of
secular stagnation and the decline of the

US economy.

productivity is also mismeasured, thereby
invalidating the whole theory of secular stagnation
and the decline of the US economy.

Mismeasurement of GDP Statistics
In addition to the productivity debate, there is
a debate as to whether we are measuring GDP
correctly in the first place. The key argument being
made is that while we correctly measure the value
of nominal GDP based on the value of goods and
services, we mismeasure the value of real GDP
when we convert nominal GDP to real GDP using
various price indices, and this therefore understates
the pace of this recovery. This debate garnered
considerable attention in 2016.

The mismeasurement argument states that
the official price indices do not adequately reflect
significant improvements in many products,
especially in information and communication
technology, due to the methodology
used by the Bureau of Labor
Statistics (BLS) and the BEA. If the
price indices do not adequately
reflect the greater capacity of
an improved product such as a
smartphone or a microprocessor,
then the price index used to convert
nominal GDP to real GDP is too
high. And if the price index is too
high, then real GDP is understated.

14 | Goldman Sachs | JANUARY 2017

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WC: 191694

Justice Brennan had agreed to join a short dissent from the denial of certiorari in Rudolph v.
Alabama (1963)—a case involving imposition of the death

penalty on a black man who was convicted of raping a white woman. Justice William O. Douglas
signed on as well. The dissenters invited the bar to address the following questions, which they
deemed “relevant and worthy of argument and consideration”:

1. In light of the trend both in the country and throughout the
world against punishing rape by death, does the imposition of
the death penalty by those States which retain it for rape violate
“evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of

[our] maturing society,” or “standards of decency more or less
universally accepted’?

2. Is the taking of human life to protect a value other than human
life consistent with the constitutional proscription against
“punishments which by their excessive...severity are greatly
disproportional to the offenses charged’?

3. Can the permissible aims of punishment (e.g., deterrence, isolation,
rehabilitation) be achieved as effectively by punishing

rape less severely than by death (e.g., by life imprisonment); if

so, does the imposition of the death penalty for rape constitute
“unnecessary cruelty’?

As soon as the dissent was published, there was an immediate reaction. Conservative journalists
had a field day lambasting the very notion that a court could strike down as unconstitutional a
long-standing punishment that is explicitly referred to in the Constitution.

One extreme criticism appeared in the New Hampshire Union Leader under the banner headline
“U.S. Supreme Court Trio Encourages Rape”:

In a decision handed down last week three U.S. Supreme Court justices, Goldberg,
Brennan, Douglas, raised the question of whether it was proper to condemn a man to
death for the crime of rape if there has been no endangering of the life of the victim. This
incredible opinion, of course, can serve only to encourage would-be rapists. These fiends,
freed from the fear of the death penalty for their foul deed, . . .will be inclined to take a
chance.

Thus, not content with forbidding our schoolchildren to pray in school, not content with
banishing Bible reading from our schools, and not content letting every type of filthy book
be published, at least three members of the Supreme Court are now out to encourage rape.

The editorial did not mention that New Hampshire had abolished the death penalty for rape

generations ago and had one of the lowest rates of rape in the country—far lower than states that
still executed convicted rapists.

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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023355.txt,"miami ), commitments dividends, BRH TRA, shareholder agreements, bank loan

agreements. wills, construction, , contracts planning permits etc..employ rules. checking account
reconciliations, crediti cards. jewelry , cost basis ,( art stock etc.) foundations regs , brokerage accts, old
stock certificates. stock options,( environmental solutions still not done !). estate tax calcualtion firedrill, (
note ,basis etc ) low basis , step ups , however with no accounting system, no reveiw of boat expenses plane
expenses etc. . many outside counsel with litle or no coordination.

Paul Weisss , Mcdermit Will, Macfarlanes. Price Waterhouse , Reich, withers bergman, Empire, , akin gump,
bbd seidman, Wendy , Apollo in house .

lumber, knowledge universe, ennvironmental, solutions 12 mii in stock, . on and on

the priority list that you asked me to prepare for brad and you in dec , unfortunatlleyso far , little change

ie no accounting system that ties, no, brokerage accounts though strongly suggested , jpm db, gs, april of
2014 . IT antiquated

dagastino hired , no inut from me, julie, temps, paralegals miriam . etc.

still need new accounting system - on line banking . staff hires. ( seprate from samantha two years out of
school ). audit system, . ?? john murphy? joslin? dag? eva? . i strongly suggest workers at the highest level of
competence. two senior accountants. not managers workers who will get into the weeds. partn expertise, ,
replace ava, get heather help. a new person legal , new IT,system and person, way way overdue, new
receptionist, bill opener, ability to oeversee

in house, boat plane review household ( 12million ) review, filings- partnerhip accounting,- familitarity with
grats, trusts etc . audit system put in place. that should be the easy part. then strategy to deal with: As new
facts on the ground develop , phaidon debra, children meeetings, ? stock sale sale of art, , apt( large gain ),
1031 trade in , plane depreciation, boat sale. construction , brad will oversee brokerage and investment, ?? pe.
real es, . publishing, grats, tra, brh ( death). foundation , museum, tax proejctions cash flow projections,
cooridnation with tax from apollo. etc

Date: Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 12:23 PM

Subject:

To: Melanie Spincll iii i Zi

1.I believe Ihave heard you , but i wanted to make certain that I have understood

Though after much discussion ,- much! you were adamant that i receive my fee only at the very END of my
work, oct 15, this was a long discussion but you felt very strongly at the time . you now feel that as it was
a very large sum of money . some of my time this year should be spent on your recent concept of ""after care
"".- and that after care should be for free . I have continued to pay others as well.

I have asked and you have previously said you would lay out for me what you thought was encompassed by
the concept. that was end of january Training brad?? who was your choice . not mine ,by a long shot. only
brought on in january? ? hundreds of hours spent . eileen debrief? 2. boat. plane
household ex[penses. personal review? , trying to create accurate ledgers of capital expenses . so to minimize
future gain.? 3. phaidon - review from head to toe? though we agreed many times in the past this was not
my responsbility, 4. overseeing the opening of trading accts. proposed and sent over first docs in april of
14. .5. art partnership.? we agreed though the draft was sent in septl4 . and still not done though little
different from first draft. .6 picasso contract? 7 art sale 1031 8 airplane review? 9. IT system
implementation. ? tra brh sec gaming comm, foerign filing , tax, disclosure. fondation returns. ? planning for
16? notsure . 10. insurane review with josh? stock sale prep. ? filing ?

Iam available by phone. you mentioned my travel schedule ----last yea,r I canceled three European trips and
two to seatle , none to my benefit.

I have been consistant , I dont have any new proposal , do you? though i am"" complicated"" , I have no
intention of trying to convince you of value, its silly ,

OOOOOOOOOCOOOCOOCOOOO _ i think if Ihave correctly deciphered your sophisticated code - should
represent -drool

Date: Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 5:18 AM
Subject: Fwd:

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Why? I don't see any contradiction between an effort to revive peace
talks and our going to the U.N. Also, [for all practical purposes] we
are already at the U.N. It's there.... And all those who support the
1967 lines [the border before Israel seized the West Bank during that
year's Middle East War] with mutually agreed swap [of land] should
support our endeavor.

The Obama administration doesn't support your bid, though it
supports using the 1967 lines with swaps as the baseline for the
border of a Palestinian state.

We urge the U.S. to see it the way it is. We are trying to preserve the
two-state solution in the face of an Israeli government that is
determined to destroy it. Going to the U.N. is an attempt to preserve
the two-state solution so Palestinians and Israelis can live side by side
in peace and security.

What's your plan if the U.S. vetoes full membership? Have
Americans told you they will veto?

The U.S. told us that the U.N. is not an option they will support. I
hope they will not veto. How will they explain a veto?

They say that direct negotiation with Israel is the only way to
reach a deal.

What have we been doing for the past 20 years? What have we been
doing since [President George H.W.]| Bush told us that if we
recognize Israel, accept the two-state solution and renounce violence,
the U.S. will stand shoulder to shoulder with us?

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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023433.txt,"From: Michael Wolff i |

Sent: 9/25/2014 1:47:51 PM
To: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Re: Highlight

Importance: — High
See you at 1:00...

On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 8:06 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
thurs 1

On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 8:04 PM, Michael Wolff (i wrote:

What time???

On Tuesday, September 23, 2014, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
clinton woody kagan , do not add one penny to budget

On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 6:17 PM, Lisa New > wrote:

That was fun- definitely the highlight of a day that was not without other interesting moments

Don't know which was better-- the wholly unexpected surprise reminder (by a prime minister) of my
boyfriend from 1976( who was in high school, who lived with his doting parents), or , getting creamed on
my producer's budget but then offered the opportunity to profess poetry for production funds . There may be
someone as good in New York, but i'll never tell you and you really have a heck of a seminar table there .
When do we do Whitman's ""Song of Myself"" 1-15 Who else is reading with us? I'm ready .

A few other follow ups :

David and Brigid point out that reality tv doesn't cost anything because it is, as it sounds, very low budget .
No writing , no special expertise or knowledge or research , no archival footage , no copyright clearance ,
no actors , no travel beyond the one location , certainly no clinton or woody allen or justice elena kagan or
david brooks or Lena Dunham or even Professor New. That said , I think If were hiring the crew id do it
for less -- probably 1, 250,000 all in . But I haven't won 10 Emmys and David has . That has value too. As
does Wgbh . But I'll be more prepared for the next conversation and want to be much more prepared for
templeton, so thank you .

T really liked Michael. I would like to send him some stuff , but in googling him I noticed that we have the
same birthday! May I have his email?

You are in! Yeay! Lets see what this may mean? I'll improve my numbers and you'll improve your deep
reading ?

Sent from my iPhone

please note
The information contained in this communication is
confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may

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NOTES

1 “Trade in Goods with China.” US Census Bureau. July 2018. https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade
/balance/c5700.html.

2 “Chinese Investment Monitor.” Rhodium Group. Accessed September 3, 2018. http://cim.rhg.com
/interactive/china-investment-monitor.

3 Feigenbaum, Evan A. “Is Coercion the New Normal in China’s Economic Statecraft?” Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace. July 25, 2017. http://carnegieendowment.org/2017/07/25/is-coercion
-new-normal-in-china-s-economic-statecraft-pub-72632; Levesque, Greg. “China’s Evolving Economic
Statecraft.” Diplomat. April 12, 2017. https://thediplomat.com/2017/04/chinas-evolving-economic
-statecraft.

4 Bland, Ben, Tom Hancock, and Bryan Harris. “China Wields Power with Boycott Diplomacy.” Financial
Times. May 3, 2017. https://www.ft.com/content/c7a2f668-2f4b-11e7-9555-23ef563ecf9a.

5 “CGCC Participates in Public Hearing on Section 301 Investigation of China and Voices for the Legal Rights
and Interests of Chinese Enterprises in the United States.” China General Chamber of Commerce—U.S.A.
October 10, 2017. https://www.cgccusa.org/en/cgcc-participates-in-public-hearing-on-section-301.

6 “CGCC-D.C. and Chinese Embassy Host Roundtable Discussion with China’s Ministry of Commerce.”
China General Chamber of Commerce—U.S.A. November 6, 2017. https://www.cgccusa.org/en/cgcc-d-c-and
-chinese-embassy-host-roundtable-discussion-with-chinas-ministry-of-commerce.

7 “CGCC Hosts 2017 ‘Lunch & Learn’ Series No. 5: Understanding Labor and Safety Issues in the US &

Get Prepared for Natural Disasters and Emergencies.” China General Chamber of Commerce—U.S.A.
November 6, 2017. https://www.cgccusa.org/en/cgcc-hosts-2017-lunch-learn-series-no-5-understanding
-labor-and-safety-issues.

8 “CGCC Promotes State-Province Economic and Trade Cooperation between China and US - Alaska and
Missouri Governors’ Trip to China.” China General Chamber of Commerce—U.S.A. October 6, 2017. https://
www.cgccusa.org/en/cgcc-promotes-state-province-economic-and-trade-cooperation-between-china
-and-us-alaska-and-missouri-governors-trip-to-china.

9 Organizations that can reasonably be considered part of United Front activities, include (official English
translations where available): American-Chinese Commerce Development Association (HBA LMWEREAS);
America-China Enterprise Chamber of Commerce (Fil. 324); China Enterprise Council (#420 8A
thts); American Chinese National Chamber of Commerce (HB4A SPA); American One Belt, One Road
Chamber of Commerce (El —#3 —#§.42i S); America Beijing Chamber of Commerce (BALR ARS); US-
Hebei Chamber of Commerce (3eE7adt 42 L); Chongqing-Sichuan Chamber of Commerce (AZUMI S BAZ);
American Fujianese Business Association (= Elta#2P4); US-China Guangdong Chamber of Commerce
(Sty FR PAS); US California-Hebei Chamber of Commerce (3 ANJA AL RASS); US-China Chamber of Commerce
(El SPS); US-Henan Business Alliance Association (EAM RAB); US-Inner Mongolia Chamber

of Commerce (KEIAR th 4S); US-Jiangsu General Chamber of Commerce (HEjL7A-AM A); US-Jiangxi
Chamber of Commerce (32 E3144); US-Macau Chamber of Commerce (EB MI18 4); US-Minjiang
Chamber of Commerce (32 E/#)51 & P43); US-Northwest China Chamber of Commerce (HE AMALRMS);
American Shandong Chamber of Commerce (27 BRA); US-Shanghai Chamber of Commerce (3B Li
APIS); US-Shanxi Chamber of Commerce (HEB WSS); US-Shanxi Jin Chamber of Commerce (2H WH
BR); Eastern US-Shenzhen Chamber of Commerce (EAR BZ); US-Tianjin Chamber of Commerce
(=H AEBS); US Silicon Valley - Tianjin Chamber of Commerce (H#HH@AA# BHA); Chinese Chamber
of Commerce in Washington State (442i Bi); US-Wenzhou General Chamber of Commerce

(= Bia WMS); Chamber Zhejiang Chamber of Commerce USA (HHL) [San Francisco]; and
US-Zhejiang General Chamber of Commerce (#4751 BPS) [Los Angeles]; Los Angeles Hunan Chamber of
Commerce (3842 ULM 34), likely rebranded from US-Changsha Chamber of Commerce (23H KW EHS).

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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016630.txt,"Code Enforcement Board Meeting Minutes 07/17/08

Mr. Vanneck asked for clarification on what the motion was and Mr. Walton
advised the motion was that the sea grapes must be cut after turtle season, by
November 7, 2008 and if they were not cut by that date, a $250.00 a day fine
would commence on November 8, 2008 and continue until compliance was
achieved.

Mr. Fried asked who the fine would apply to and Mr. Walton said it would be to
the Nightingale Trail Beach Club Association. Mr. Fried asked if this was a legally
constituted body and Mr. Maxey said it was an informal body, that on the deeds,
everyone owns this piece of property in common. There was some additional
discussion on the ordinance. Ms. Van Buren asked if every single property owner
on the street was a member of the association and Mr. Maxey said every property
owner on Nightingale Trail was and there were one or two houses on North Ocean
and North Lake as well. Mr. Maxey said there were 23 separate memberships.
Ms. Van Buren asked about the finances and Mr. Maxey said there were annual
dues of $75.00 a year and a common bank account of $3500 or $3600. Mr.
Maxey said that if a fine was incurred, that is probably where the money would
come from but he did not believe, because of his fiduciary responsibility to the
group, he could fight the decision with any of those monies. Mr. Ochstein asked if
he was an elected officer and Mr. Maxey said he was president and that he keeps
the books and makes sure the place is in good condition.

MOTION BY MR. OCHSTEIN TO GRANT THE VIOLATOR UNTIL
NOVEMBER 7, 2008 TO COME INTO COMPLIANCE AND IF
COMPLIANCE IS NOT ACHIEVED BY THAT DATE, TO ASSESS A
FINE IN THE AMOUNT OF $250.00 A DAY UNTIL COMPLIANCE IS
ACHIEVED

SECONDED BY MR. BALLENTINE

MOTION OPPOSED

ROLL CALL VOTE:

MR. OCHSTEIN YES
MR. BALLENTINE YES
MR. FRIED YES
MS. GREENBERG YES
MS. VAN BUREN YES
MR. VANNECK NO

MR. HOFFMAN YES
MOTION PASSES 6-1

Mr. Fried advised Mr. Maxey that the Code Enforcement Board’s position was to
enforce the Code and said that he had always found the Town Council members to
be very receptive, individually and as a group. Mr. Fried said it was not beyond

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On Thursday, March 19, 2015 3:54 PM, Alan Dershowitz qa wrote:

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From: ""Sullivan, John"" <

Date: March 19, 2015 at 2:57:44 PM EDT

To: <r
Subject: Mr. Clinton and Mr. Epstein

Good Afternoon Mr. Dershowitz,

I’m John Sullivan, a reporter at The Washington Post. |’ve been reading with great interest stories
about allegations that former President Clinton spent time on Jeffrey Epstein’s Caribbean Island. In a
declaration you filled in federal court you state that you have reason to believe this is not true. Are
you available to discuss this with me? Thank you for your time.

John Sullivan

John Sullivan
Reporter

1150 15 Street NW
Washington DC 20071
Phone:

Mobile

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IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022364.txt,"of direct payments for tuition and medical expenses are subject to GST but for this special exclusion.
Also, although HEETs have been written about in planning publications, it is unclear how often they are
actually implemented: donors who use their GST exemption for multi-generational trusts often feel that
they've done “enough” for those lower generations, and may lack the charitable intent necessary for the
HEET to work. In addition, given life’s uncertainties, trust creators may be reluctant to limit trust
distributions to tuition and medical expenses only.

Tax “carried” (profits) interests as ordinary income. In exchange for their services on behalf of
hedge funds and private equity funds, managers of these entities are often compensated with what are
called “carried interests,” or profits from the entity. Because these profits interests are structured as
partnership interests, they pass through long-term capital gain to the partners/managers, and are
therefore taxed at preferential rates. The proposal would not recharacterize the treatment of a partner’s
investment in the entity, but would tax as ordinary income what is viewed as compensation for the
partner’s investment management services for the partnership. Thus, a partner’s share of income in an
“investment services partnership interest” (ISPI), regardless of how the income is characterized at the
partnership level, would be taxed as ordinary income, and would also be subject to self-employment tax.
An ISPI is an interest in future profits of an “investment partnership”; an investment partnership is one in
which substantially all of the entity’s assets are investment-type assets, such as certain securities, real
estate, interests in partnerships, commodities, cash or cash equivalents, or derivative contracts related
to those assets.

Tighten up conservation easements. Donors of conservation easements typically get a charitable
deduction for the permanent restrictions they put on property that will be used exclusively for
conservation purposes. Recent court decisions have upheld large deductions for easements preserving
recreational amenities, including golf courses, surrounded by upscale homes. These contributions have
raised concerns that the deductions claimed are excessive and seem to promote private interests rather
than bona fide conservation activities. The proposal would prohibit a deduction for a conservation
easement on a golf course. A second proposal would address historic preservation easements, and
would disallow a deduction for restricting the “upward development” of an historic building, since such
development is typically already restricted under local ordinances. In addition, conservation easements
on buildings listed in the National Register would need to comply with the same (more stringent) rules
applicable to buildings in a registered historic district.

Limit protracted payout for non-spouse beneficiaries of IRAs and retirement plans. Under current
law, a non-spouse beneficiary of an IRA or a retirement plan (such as a 401(k)) must begin taking
“required minimum distributions” (RMDs) from the account the year after the account owner’s death, but
can spread those distributions out over her life expectancy. Thus, if widowed Mom names Child as
beneficiary of her IRA, for example, and Child is 40 when Mom dies, Child’s RMDs can last over 40
years, assuming those are the only distributions Child takes from the account. The proposal would
change this rule, and in general would require that non-spouse beneficiaries withdraw the balance of the
retirement account within five years after the owner’s death. (Certain exceptions would apply for
“eligible” beneficiaries, such as those who are disabled, chronically ill or a child under the age of
majority.) The reason for the proposed change is that retirement accounts were intended to benefit
owners and their spouses, and not heirs such as children and grandchildren.

Comments. It is not surprising to see this proposal, as last year, something similar was in a highway
bill, but was then pulled. Given the need for revenue, limiting the generous protracted payouts currently

permitted for non-spouse beneficiaries seems like low-hanging fruit. If enacted, the proposal would
potentially make it less attractive for owners of substantial traditional IRAs to convert that IRA into a Roth

Tax Topics 04/29/13 4

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013107.txt,"11.3 Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development 191

I cover my eyes, can you still see me?). Complex concrete operations, such as putting items
in height order, are easily achievable. Classification becomes more sophisticated, yet the
mind still cannot master purely logical operations based on abstract logical representations
of the observational world.

e Formal: Abstract deductive reasoning, the process of forming, then testing hypotheses, and
systematically reevaluating and refining solutions, develops at this stage, as does the ability
to reason about purely abstract concepts without reference to concrete physical objects.
This is adult human-level intelligence. Note that the capability for formal operations is
intrinsic in the PLN component of CogPrime, but in-principle capability is not the same as
pragmatic, grounded, controllable capability.

Very early on, Vygotsky [Vyg86] disagreed with Piaget’s explanation of his stages as inherent
and developed by the child’s own activities, and Piaget’s prescription of good parenting as
not interfering with a child’s unfettered exploration of the world. Some modern theorists have
critiqued Piaget’s stages as being insufficiently socially grounded, and these criticisms trace back
to Vygotsky’s focus on the social foundations of intelligence, on the fact that children function
in a world surrounded by adults who provide a cultural context, offering ongoing assistance,
critique, and ultimately validation of the child’s developmental activities.

Vygotsky also was an early critic of the idea that cognitive development is continuous,
and continues beyond Piaget’s formal stage. Gagne [RBW92] also believes in continuity, and
that learning of prerequisite skills made the learning of subsequent skills easier and faster
without regard to Piagetan stage formalisms. Subsequent researchers have argued that Pi-
aget has merely constructed ad hoc descriptions of the sequential development of behaviour
[Gib78, Bro84, CP05]. We agree that learning is a continuous process, and our notion of stages
is more statistically constructed than rigidly quantized.

Critique of Piaget’s notion of transitional “half stages” is also relevant to a more compre-
hensive hierarchical view of development. Some have proposed that Piaget’s half stages are
actually stages [Bro84]. As Commons and Pekker [CP05] point out: “the definition of a stage
that was being used by Piaget was based on analyzing behaviors and attempting to impose
different structures on them. There is no underlying logical or mathematical definition to help
in this process ...” Their Hierarchical Complexity development model uses task achievement
rather than ad hoc stage definition as the basis for constructing relationships between phases
of developmental ability — an approach which we find useful, though our approach is different
in that we define stages in terms of specific underlying cognitive mechanisms.

Another critique of Piaget is that one individual’s performance is often at different ability
stages depending on the specific task (for example [GE86]). Piaget responded to early critiques
along these lines by calling the phenomenon “horizontal décalage,” but neither he nor his suc-
cessors [Fis80, Cas&5] have modified his theory to explain (rather than merely describe) it.
Similarly to Thelen and Smith [TS94], we observe that the abilities encapsulated in the defini-
tion of a certain stage emerge gradually during the previous stage — so that the onset of a given
stage represents the mastery of a cognitive skill that was previously present only in certain
contexts.

Piaget also had difficulty accepting the idea of a preheuristic stage, early in the infantile
period, in which simple trial-and-error learning occurs without significant heuristic guidance
[Bic&8], a stage which we suspect exists and allows formulation of heuristics by aggregation of
learning from preheuristic pattern mining. Coupled with his belief that a mind’s innate abilities
at birth are extremely limited, there is a troublingly unexplained transition from inability to
ability in his model.

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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016690.txt,"﻿From:
To:
Cc:
Subject:
Date:
Kirk Blouin
John Page
Police Code Enforcement
Re: ARCOM
Thursday, June 26, 2008 2:09:06 PM
JP,
Here is a copy of the minutes from the April CEB hearing. Each month thereafter the case was postponed
because we were aware that it was being brought to ARCOM. Now that this matter has been resolved
with ARCOM we will proceed with a code enforcement case until the property is in compliance (meaning
they plant the shrubbery and hedges approved by the Town).
Sgt. Krauel or Rob Walton will be available on July 23rd as I will be attending a conference.
H. Case # 08-2484, 515 N. County Road, Trump Properties, LLC
Violation of Chapter 18, Section 18-205 of the Town of Palm Beach Code of
Ordinances, the Architectural Commission may attach conditions to any approval it grants
(Declaration of Use Agreement).
Lead Code Enforcement Walton presented the facts of the case and said the previous
owner of the property, Abe Gosman, had been granted approval by the Architectural
Commission to do some remodeling. One of the conditions of this approval was that the
hedge along the front of the property be maintained in the condition it was in at the time the
approval was granted. This agreement was a binding agreement, which passes on to any
subsequent property owner. The agreement was made January 31, 1990. The subsequent
buyer of this property was Mr. Trump, Trump Properties, LLC and some remodeling work
was done, removing the previous hedge. A new hedge was planted to replace the original
hedge and that one has now been removed. This is a violation of the agreement. A letter was
received from Mr. Royce, representing Mr. Trump, asking for a postponement of today’s
hearing. The Town does not feel this matter should be postponed.
Mr. Randolph summarized the letter from Mr. Royce which indicated the ficus
hedge keeps dying and they want to replace it with something different. They plan on hiring a
landscape architect to go before the next Architectural Commission meeting to get approval to
install a hedge in an attempt to meet the conditions of the declaration of use agreement. Mr.
Randolph said he had discussions with Mr. Royce and Mr. Walton and Mr. Royce was told the
Town could not recommend a postponement and the recommendation would be that they are
found in violation, assessed the $150.00 in administrative costs and be given until June 18th,
which is the day before the June Code Enforcement Board meeting, to comply. This would
give them the opportunity to appear before the Architectural Commission to see if they can get
approval to re-plant a hedge. The hedge has to be installed to the height which existed at the
time of the agreement which Mr. Randolph said he believed was twenty-two (22) feet. Mr.
Randolph said Mr. Royce was not present today because he had a planned vacation.
MOTION BY MR. FRIED TO FIND THE VIOLATOR IN NON-
COMPLIANCE, ASSESS ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS OF $150.00 AND GIVE THEM
UNTIL JUNE 18, 2008 TO COMPLY.
SECONDED BY MS. VAN BUREN
MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY
From: John Page/PalmBeach
To: Kirk Blouin/PalmBeach@PalmBeach
Cc: Tim Frank/PalmBeach@PalmBeach
Date: 06/26/2008 09:00 AM
Subject: ARCOM
Kirk: We had our June monthly ARCOM meeting yesterday. You likely know that ARCOM is working
with Mr. Trump to re-install a hedge on his North County Road property. I believe this case is now
pending in front of Code Enforcement. In May, ARCOM approved a plan to replace the former hedge
with silver buttonwood shrubbery, which would additionally be back-planted with silver buttonwood
trees....the overall effect would be an eventual 20' high screen. The shrubs have been planted, but
yesterday attorney Ray Royce asked for postponing the trees until the end of the Hurricane season.
ARCOM said NO and directed the attorney and landscaper to get the trees in ASAP. Also, more
shrubbery was required at the main entry (north side) to match the newly installed hedge on the south
side.
As the meeting was ending, the Commissioners asked for one of two things. They asked that either 1) a
quick written report from Code Enforcement be made available to them at their next meeting on July 23
(9:00 a.m.) about the enforcement status of the case, or 2) that someone from Code Enforcement attend
their meeting to provide a verbal status report. Their patience is wearing thin with the whole hedge issue,
and it has them naturally curious about what is happening with their counterparts on Code Enforcement.
Would you or the appropriate representative from Code Enforcement be available on July 23? That
would be my preference because follow-up questions almost always pop up. If not, can you provide me
with a brief summary of your enforcement history and pending status? Thanks, JP
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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016436.txt,"in 2008, witnesses and alleged victims testified in civil court that there were

hundreds of girls who were brought to Epstein’s homes, including girls from

Europe, Latin America and former Soviet Republic countries.

But Acosta and Epstein’s armada of attorneys — Harvard professor Alan
Dershowitz, Jay Lefkowitz, Gerald Lefcourt, Jack Goldberger, Roy Black, Guy
Lewis and former Whitewater special prosecutor Kenneth Starr — reached a
consensus: Epstein would never serve time in a federal or state prison.

READ NEXT

LOCAL |

Sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein was surrounded by powerful people. Here’s a sampling

NOVEMBER 28, 2018 8:00 AM

POLICE UNDER PRESSURE

There were really just two people willing to risk their careers to go after Epstein:
Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter and Detective Joseph Recarey.

For Reiter, business tycoon Jeffrey Epstein wasn’t any more formidable than any
of the other 8,000 or so wealthy and powerful people living on the island. Police
had handled sensational cases involving wealthy residents before — from the
murders of heiresses to the rape case involving William Kennedy Smith, of the
Kennedy family.

The easternmost town in Florida, Palm Beach is a 10.4-square-mile barrier island
between the Intracoastal Waterway and the Atlantic Ocean populated by some of
the richest people in the country. President Trump has his “winter White House”
in Palm Beach, and the town makes news as much for its glitz as it does for its
unusual efforts to preserve its well-mannered image, like banning shirtless

joggers.

But it was a little surprising, even to Reiter, to learn that one of its residents had a
revolving door of middle and high school girls coming to his gated compound
throughout the day and night.

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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026268.txt,"please note
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confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may
constitute inside information, and is intended only for
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return e-mail or by e-mail to jeevacation@gmail.com, and
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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025749.txt,"Time: 08/29/18 04:45:04 PM (557279104)
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Message: He and I will meet Monday you are of course welcome

Sender: e:jeeitunes@gmail.com

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Is Read: No

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Message: Im on 561 655 7626. If you want to chat ?

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Message: Spoke to my china guys , they said china stronger ,

plays weakened. Strife

art of war etc. Said all the players are xi loyalists. Main complaint is there is

no counterparty in us , either no one home or new to the game.

Time: 08/29/18 07:25:09 PM (557288709)
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Message: They said china stronger today than when we started?

Sender: e:jeeitunes@gmail.com

Time: 08/29/18 07:30:30 PM (557289030)

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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017506.txt,"Onn BWP

know this is a real case? So] was finally able to

say this is how you know, here is a case file. ] may
have, ] don't remember specifically one way or the

other, but ] may have utilized actual plaintiff names

from the cases filed, but ] may have made them up. ]
have no specific recollection one way or the other, ]
was totally geared toward simply getting the investor

money into the Ponzi scheme.

Q. Were you aware that the day after this
meeting took place on July 24th, 2009, a new federal
complaint was filed against Epstein with one of the

same plaintiffs that was already pending in state
court?

A. ] don't know that | was aware of that or
not. If they were filing it, someone may have told
me. | don't recall one way or the other.

Q. Did you ask anyone to file it to further
your Ponzi scheme?

A. No, 1 don't remember doing that,

Q. Do you recall any situation where you --

A. You do realize -- Tonja, hang on] just
want to make sure this record is clear. Other than

Russ Adler, the people that were involved in the
Epstein case had absolutely nothing to do with the

Ponzi scheme.

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A. Hold on one second.
Okay. What number am I looking at?
Q. It's a very large document. It's begins
with Bates Stamp Number 081 and ends with 264.
A. It's in the computer, hold on a second.
] have that in front of me.
Q. Do you see the date on that complaint
stamped?
A. Ido.
Q. And there's -- give me one second, Scott,
sorry.
What was the date that complaint was filed?
A. What's the last page of the complaint,
what's the Bates number?
Q. The last page is 234. I'm sorry, 263 would
be the last page of the complaint.
[The Complaint referred to was marked for
identification as Defendant's Exhibit 1.]
MR. SCAROLA: You may want to call his
attention to the filing stamp on the first page.
MS. HADDAD: | did. 1 guess he didn't hear
me.
THE WITNESS: I'm sorry.
MS. HADDAD: It's stamped on the first
page.
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Q. Directly?

A. _Orindirectly. They had nothing to do with

it.

“OQ, Yet the file was used for you to further
your Ponzi scheme. ]'m not saying that they gave it
to you to use for the Ponzi scheme, I'm asking, you
used their case. I'm not -- the question is you used

the case?

A. took advantage of some good, innecent

people for my own and my ¢o- conspirators yeah
purposes. Mr. Edwards is one of them, and for that ]

sorry, Brad,
Q. Did you ask anyone involved in the Epstein
case to file a federal complaint?
MR. SCAROLA: Objection, repetitious.
THE WITNESS: Without seeing a document,
Tonja, I can't tell you one way or the other. ]
don't want to -- ] do not want to guess. If you have
an e-mail where I'm saying to someone, file a federal
case, then obviously I did. But I have no specific
recollection of that.
BY MS. HADDAD:
Q. You do have a document with you, it's marked
for you, it's Bates stamped. It begins at EP 081 and
goes through through 264.

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THE WITNESS: Hang on, the complaint is
dated July 24th, 2009. It was entered onto the
docket on July 27th, 2009.

MR. SCAROLA: Do you have another question?

MS. HADDAD: ] thought he was still looking.

Scott, are you done looking?

THE WITNESS: Yes, one second.

MS. HADDAD: That's what J thought.

THE WITNESS: No, hang on one second. It
shows the stamp on the first page says July 24th,
2009. The filing say electronically filed July 24th,
2009. There's an entry onto the docket on July 27,
2009, and the complaint is signed July 24th, 2009.
That's all the dates ] have.

BY MS. HADDAD:

Q. Okay. And back on Bates Stamp Page Number
263, who's the attorney that filed this complaint?

A. | don't know if that's his signature, but
the name is Brad Edwards.

Q. Okay. And does that e-mail --

A. With the squiggle on top of it.

Q. And does that e-mail address Jook like the
correct e-mail address for RRA?

A. Itis.

Q. So that is, in fact, a legitimate e-mail

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FRIEDMAN, LOMBARDI & OLSON

305-371-6677
5ed93085-0554-447f-bcdd-ca2d8fe941 df

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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031817.txt,"The information contained in this communication is
confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may
constitute inside information, and is intended only for
the use of the addressee. It is the property of

JEE

Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this
communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited
and may be unlawful. If you have received this
communication in error, please notify us immediately by
return e-mail or by e-mail to jeevacation@gmail.com, and
destroy this communication and all copies thereof,
including all attachments. copyright -all rights reserved

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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024374.txt,"REMEMBERING CAVALIER MAGAZINE
LAUNCHING A MAGAZINE

My friend Michael Simmons, who has been the editor
of National Lampoon, recalls that Cava/rerhired fine scribes. A
few examples: Thomas Pynchon, Philip Roth, William Saroyan,
Isaac Asimov, Theodore Sturgeon. Characters show up from
Andy Warhol to Timothy Leary. And the photos of models

weren’ t even soft porn, merely tits and ass.

Cavalierwas \aunched by Fawcett Publications in 1952.
Men’ s magazine Cava/ier(motto: “For the American Male” )
was published the year before Playboy, to whom it has often
been compared. Back in the day, Cava/iertried to be seen as
slightly hipper, more youthful, and considered a bit more clever
than its big name rival. Almost an_ anti-establishment
in Playboy. A slogan stated: “Your dad bought Playboy, you
bought Cavalier.""

| BECAME A COLUMNIST

| was invited to write a column, named “The Naked
Emperor,” for Cava/ier that was beginning to _ publish
underground writers and artists. They paid me $1,000 a month.

My first column, in 1964, was a report on an auction of two-inch

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IMAGES-012-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033260.txt,"From: Richard Kahn

Sent: 11/30/2017 10:28:42 AM
To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Trump 'made comment about p**sy years before tape' | Daily Mail Online

Importance: — High

http: //www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5131173/Trump-comment-p-sy-years-tape.html

Richard Kahn

HBRK Associates Inc.

575 Lexington Avenue, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10022

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IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012089.txt,"Pyongyang, North Korea, is home to the largest stadium in the world with a seating capacity of over 114,000.

to release Chey Tae- Won accelerated the demise of her political
career. Ironically, she finds herself in prison awaiting trial while
the Korean stock market continues to trade at a discount to
peers. In addition, MSCI Korea’s relative valuation is also
suppressed by the mercurial behavior of North Korea whose
recent missile tests have dominated global headlines.

A truly embarrassing South Korean political scandal emerged
in the fall of 2016 when a journalist discovered a computer
belonging to a personal confidant of President Park Geun-Hye.
The contents of the device, belonging to Choi Soon-Sil, revealed
that she had access to confidential presidential documents
including speeches that were ultimately altered and influenced
by Ms. Choi Soon-Sil. In the weeks following this revelation,
the mighty chaebols of Samsung, Lotte and SK were once again
linked to the current political impropriety. It is alleged that
members of these chaebols (among others) were coerced into

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contributing large sums of money to a foundation established
by Ms. Choi Soon-Sil in order to maintain a positive relationship
with President Park Geun-Hye.

The Korean stock market languished as a result of President
Park Geun-Hye’s miscues as shown in CHART 2. The performance
of the MSCI Korea Index starting from the beginning of
President Park Geun-Hye’s term was down 25% by late August
2015, which coincided with Mr. Chey Tae-Won’s pardon in the
week prior. The Korean market drastically underperformed the
MSCI Asia ex. Japan Index which was down 14% and the MSCI
ACWI Index which was up about 9% during that period.
Korea's recursive political environment was frustrating for
many Koreans. It is widely believed that chaebols sapped the
entrepreneurial vigor of small business owners and young
adults who were experiencing unemployment rates of over 9%.
However, the decision to impeach President Park Geun-Hye on

CHART 2: PERFORMANCE SINCE PARK GEUN-HYE INAUGURATION

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IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026609.txt,"Date: Saturday, January 24 2015 05:22 AM

Subject: Fwd: January 23, 2015

From: jeffreyepsteinorg@gmail.com

To: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com>;

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Date: Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 5:36 PM
Subject: January 23, 2015

To: jeffrey@jeffreyepstein.org

Dear Mr Epstein,

Further to emails of January 21, | crossed an image of a rare 17th Century Marble Bust of Roman Emperor Vitellius
you purchased from me during the second half of the 90's.

| recalled upon many occasions you visiting Bennison, Pimlico Road and being extremely respectful and courteous,
as Miss Maxwell was on each occasion.

From recent media reports about you and our Prince Andrew, | do not believe you, Miss Maxwell and Prince Andrew
would undermine your conduct the way reports are suggesting.

| feel for you all and hope this episode clears so you can concentrate on your professional activities that do positive
things for our countries.

You may have heard a report an interesting report conducted by a genius Lawyer Michael Shrimpton - Michael
Shrimpton youtube - Exposes Ted Heath (and others)

The report is shocking and is not a hair-line what you are wrongly accused of (based upon our many meetings).

Further David Dicke reports on the USA former President George W. Bush Senior which again is shocking,
unbelievable, unacceptable...

Mr Michael Shrimpton & Mr David Dicke are worth watching if you haven't yet crossed their researching of public
figures that have (literally by reports) got away with murder.

Please find attached an image of Vitellius, pair of 19th Century Medici Lions (that are perfect for one of your estates),
emperor Vespasian and a pair of Piranesi Engravings for your consideration.

Do not hesitate to contact me should you require more details.
Warm regards,
Yours sincerely,

Mark Green.

Cel.

BEST WISHES TO THE THREE OF YOU!!!

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015117.txt,"6. Knock off Ford before the election by Squeaky Fromme, Sara
Jane Moore, whoever.

7. Replace Ford again with Rockefeller, declare martial law and
cancel the election. Alternatively, this could be done by killing
Jimmy Carter before the inauguration.

Now | realize how naive | was. Granted, Carter is more progressive
than | am—after all, politics is the art of finding a balance between the
status quo and the force of evolution—but it became crystal clear to me
that he had made some kind of deal. The intelligence-gathering system
knew about G. Harrold Carswell’ s tragic gay problem. Now, /e would
have been a fine prospect for blackmail: “We have this photo of you and
a friend in the men’ s room, Justice Carswell, but don’ t worry, we won’ t
leak it.” | wonder, if | had been successful in appointing him to the
Supreme Court, how would he have voted on the constitutionality of
entrapping homosexuals? Anyway, my suspicions were aroused when it did
not come out in the media until after the election—immediately before
Carter’ s inauguration when it was too late to do us any good—that his
son Jack had been discharged from the Navy because of marijuana.

Our hammer over George McGovern’ s head in 1972 was that his
daughter had been hospitalized for an LSD freakout. We never had to
resort to using that particular bit of intelligence, however, despite the fact

that it was wewho had arranged for her to be “dosed” in the first place.

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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025991.txt,"Chart 27: The current vega outstanding in the ESTX50-linked structured products is EUR 143mn,
which is in the 97"" percentile since 3-Jan-14

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Source: BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research. Data as of 4-Aug-16

Table 3: Volatility measures of major equity indices in the EMEA region (data as of 05-Aug-16)

Equity
3Mth ATM implied volatility 10D realised volatility {2Mth-3Mth ATM i-vol spread 3Mth 90-110 skew index
Weekly Weekly Weekly Weekly Weekly
Current change 2Yrpercentile Current change 2Yrpercentile Current change 2Yrpercentile Current change 2Yrpercentile return
ESTX50 19.2% -0.6% 31% 16.6% 5.6% 29% 1.0% 0.2% 87% 8.4% 0.1% 79% 0.6%
FTSE 12.6% 0.7% 21% 10.9% 5.2% 29% 3.4% 0.5% 100% 7.5% 0.0% 10% 1.0%
DAX 17.8% -1.1% 19% 13.6% 2.9% 11% 1.8% 0.4% 96% 8.6% 0.4% 78% 0.3%
CAC 18.5% 0.7% 30% 15.4% 5.3% 27% 0.9% 0.3% 88% 8.6% 0.3% 86% 0.7%
SMI 13.8% -1.2% 25% 14.5% 3.6% 51% 1.7% 0.6% 100% 7.6% 0.8% 57% 0.8%
RDXUSD 28.2% -1.6% 6% 19.5% 9.2% 8% 1.1% 0.3% 89% 6.0% 0.1% 15% 1.7%
TOP40 19.4% 0.3% 59% 11.1% 2.1% 19% 2.3% 0.1% 91% 8.7% 0.2% 63% -1.2%
ISE30 29.9% 0.1% 96% 25.2% -21.6% 76% -0,9% 0.0% 7% 6.3% 0.1% 77% 1.0%
Source: BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research
European volatility: Sector snapshot
Table 4: Volatility measures and indicative option prices for major European sector indices (data as of 05-Aug-16)
Bearish — <<<< ---------------------encnnncnccneennccnennncnnnnns >>>> Bullish
3Mth 90%-110% risk Equity
3Mth ATM implied volatility Real vol* 3Mth 95%-85% put spread** 3Mth 100%-110% call spread reversal™™ index
Current Current Current
price Weekly Max price Weekly Max price™* Weekly
Weekly 2Yr (%of change 2Yr payout (%of change 2Yr payout (%of change 2Yr Weekly
Current change %-ile Current spot) (bps) %-ile ratio spot) (bps) %-ile ratio spot) (bps) %-ile — return
SX3P (Fd&Bv) 13.0% 27% 6% 12.9% 0.9% 27 15%) = NT 2.5% -18 19% 39 0.5% 33 = 20% = -0.5%
SX6P (Utils) 164%  -10% 32% 20.6% 1.2% -10 31% 83 3.0% -11 45% = 3.3 -0.6% 0 22% = -1.1%
SX7E (Banks) 33.5%  -23% 16% 48.0% 2.6% -13. 82% 3.9 40% 1 1% 25 0.5% 0 37% = -1.8%
SX7P (Banks) 28.2% -28% 15% 39.8% 2.2% -T 1% 46 3.8% 7 11% = 27 -0.5% 7 35% 0.0%
SXAP (Auto) 25.5% -1.1% 56% 33.4% 2.0% -T 52% 49 3.7% 8 64% 27 0.6% 3 21% 0.6%
SXDP (Health) 15.3% 05% 24% 12.7% 1% 5 27% 9.1 2.8% -T 35% 3.5 0.4% 3 16%  -0.9%
SXEP (Oil&Gas) 23.5% 04% 44% 23.6% 9% -2 44% 54 3.6% 4 44% 2.8 -0.6% 3 28%  -0.4%
SXIP (Insur) 23.6% 04% 86% 31.7% 8% -2 84% 5.6 3.6% 3 88% 28 0.6% 2 15% 0.8%
SXKP (Telecom) 224% = -0.2% 81% 234% 1% -1 15% 5.9 3.6% -2 8i% 8 §=—2.8 0.7% 1 T% 0.5%
SXNP (Indust) 21.5% 0.0% 67% 21.9% 1% 0 M% 58 3.4% 0 66% 29 0.4% 1 T4A% = 0.2%
SXPP (Basic) 32.4%  -1.6% 538% 29.7% 2.5% -T 53% 3.9 3.9% 5 59% 25 0.4% 2 8% 1.3%
SXQP (Prsnl&HH Gds) 154% 0.0% 33% 16.9% 0% 0 25% 97 2.8% -| 34% 3.5 0.5% 1 17% 0.0%
SXRP (Retail) 22.1% -0.1% 90% 234% 1% 0 89% 5.9 3.5% -{ 94% 28 0.6% 1 1% 0.5%
SXTP (Trvl&Lsre) 19.9% 01% 55% 26.9% 1% -1 65% 6.0 3.2% -1 53% 3.1 0.2% -1 69% 04%
Source: BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research *Real vol = EWMA (Exponentially Weighted Moving Average) volatility, which measures historical price volatility but assigns greater importance to recent returns. Sigma(t)*2 =

0.94*Sigma(t- 1)’2+(1-0.94)*r(t}*2, where r(t) is the return on day t. “Indicative mid prices; strikes as % of forward ***Negative values indicate that the bullish risk reversal takes in a credit.

BankofAmerica <2”

14 Global Equity Volatility Insights | O09 August 2016 Merrill Lynch

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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016618.txt,"Code Enforcement Board Meeting Minutes 07/17/08

MOTION BY MR. FRIED TO FIND THE VIOLATOR IN NON-
COMPLIANCE, ASSESS ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS IN THE AMOUNT
OF $150.00 AND ORDER THEM TO PAY THE FIRE INSPECTION FEE
IN ADDITION TO ANY LATE PENALTIES BY JULY 21, 2008.
SECONDED BY MS. GREENBERG

MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY

D. Case # 08-2513, 329 Worth Ave., Dunville L’Antiquaire, LTD
Violation of Chapter 46, Section 46-68 of the Town of Palm Beach Code of
Ordinances, annual fire and life safety inspection fees not paid

Code Enforcement Officer Gerry presented the facts of the case and said he
followed up after the certified letters were sent but the business could not be
contacted. The Town recommends a finding of non-compliance, administrative
costs in the amount of $150.00 and payment of the fire inspection fee in addition
to any late penalties by July 21, 2008.

MOTION BY MS. GREENBERG TO FIND THE VIOLATOR IN NON-
COMPLIANCE, ASSESS ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS IN THE AMOUNT
OF $150.00 AND ORDER THEM TO PAY THE FIRE INSPECTION FEE
IN ADDITION TO ANY LATE PENALTIES BY JULY 21, 2008.
SECONDED BY MS. VAN BUREN

MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY

E. Case # 08-2514, 235 Sunrise Ave., C8, C.J.’s Simply Gourmet, Inc.
Violation of Chapter 46, Section 46-68 of the Town of Palm Beach Code of
Ordinances, annual fire and life safety inspection fees not paid

Code Enforcement Officer Gerry presented the facts of the case and recommended
a finding of non-compliance, administrative costs in the amount of $150.00 and
payment of the fire inspection fee in addition to any late penalties by July 21, 2008.
Mr. Gerry said he also tried, with negative results, to make contact with the owner
of this business as it is the same owner as the other case at this location. Mr.
Ochstein remarked that this was the same business which had been before the
Board previously and had even “bounced a check” to the Town and wanted to
know if there was something more that could be done other than the standard
$150.00 costs. Mr. Gerry said he could review the case further to see if it could be
brought back for additional fines. Mr. Hoffman asked if these cases were brought
to Code Enforcement by the Finance Department and Mr. Gerry said they came
from the Fire Prevention Bureau who handles their own billing and explained the
procedure for that. Mr. Hoffman said it seemed like a year was a long time for
these cases to be in arrears. Mr. Gerry said the cases were coming over quicker
now from Fire Prevention and he thought it would improve in the future.

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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029448.txt,"﻿President Obama and Self-deception



All of us are vulnerable to deceit and self-deception. Deception of parents by children actually begins in the womb, when they manipulate the mother chemically into providing greater investment than is in her best interests. It continues at six months of age, developing rapidly to incorporate language, other individuals and self-deception in service of deceit—the better to hide the ongoing deception.  Bright people may be more vulnerable to self-deception than dim ones. Certainly more intelligent children (and adult monkeys) practice deception more often.



Presidents are no more immune to self-deception than the rest of us, but it is much more visible to others and has potentially far greater effects.  Barack Obama’s self-deception, as is often the case, was the downside of a major virtue—the ability to integrate opposing factions. 



He gave me a scare when after winning the 2008 election he first emerged at night with his gorgeous family between a set of Greek columns. My God, I thought, so his victory is the culmination of 2000 years of Democracy. Instead of humility he chooses self-exaltation. This is exactly the reverse of what works best. What will come next?



What came next were two mistakes, one with immediate negative consequences and the other requiring 8 years to ripen.  The US was in a deep recession, second only to the Great Depression, and a major reason why Obama won. Since 1932 it was well known that the appropriate response was massive government spending directed at the newly unemployed and, if possible, at repairing infrastructure.  The unemployed will spend the money at once, giving a multiplier effect.  Likewise, infrastructure was badly in need of repair and this costs less when unemployment is high, and also increases employment, again with a multiplier effect.  

 

Howard Stieglitz and Paul Krugman, two superb economists and Nobel Memorial Laureates met with Obama and urged a 1.5 trillion dollar infusion, which would have been almost exactly right. But they had both supported Hillary Clinton in the primaries and so he went with his own advisor, Larry Summers who had a record of major mistakes when working for Bill, not to mention as President of Harvard, so Obama proposed an 800 billion infusion and then made the classic “Barry” mistake by giving 400 billion of it to small business. This was well known to have no positive effect whatsoever. Businesses do not invest during a recession, they wait for demand to return. They are happy to get the money, which they promptly put away in savings where it has no effect. In short, Obama’s stimulus was ¼ the size it needed to be. It did reverse the slide downwards leading to years of positive growth but the effect was too weak when needed most and chants of “Yes we can” turned, in effect, to chants of “Yes we can but it sure is gong to take a long time” and the Tea Party swept aside many of his powers in 2010.



Barack was known as “Barry” growing up because his Kenyan father Barack was a “rolling stone that gathered no moss” and his son always had to navigate two worlds without the support of his father. He had all the benefits of outbreeding—tall, good looking and very bright—and his ability to navigate the two worlds propelled him upwards—into Harvard Law School, then first “black” Law Review editor, then Illinois legislator—then his memorable “not Red States nor Blue States but United States” speech at the 2004 Democratic Convention. But always with the flaw of compromising where he should not.



The second major mistake he made right away was to appoint Hillary to be Secretary of State, making peace with his defeated opponent, a nice gesture perhaps but unheard of in US history. Why elevate your opponent? Why indeed. She will be in a lead position to replace you 8 years later but will in fact usher in something far worse. “Crooked” Hillary indeed—not because of some foolishness over e-mails but because she was a life-long enabler of a thoroughly dishonest husband, as when she helped him rebut Jennifer Flowers’ irrefutable evidence of infidelity in 1992. Biden, it is widely believed, would have trounced the Republicans in 2016. He is a thoroughly honest and decent man with a lifelong love for his wife and children.



Let us conclude with a minor example—the arrest of Harvard Professor Louis Gates outside his home, six months into Obama’s presidency. He did not have to comment on this trivial event but chose to. Corporatist that he is and biased toward the upper strata, he took Gates’ side. When there was a hue and cry he arranged a little beer party on the White House lawn—Obama with his long legs underneath the table, Vice President Biden opposite him, a cop wondering how in hell he got roped into this absurd situation and “Skip” Gates happy as a clam in the ocean, all aglow as he held forth on God knows what.  



If there was in fact a teachable moment, it was this. ALL Americans should know that no police officer has the right to enter your home without a search warrant or an arrest warrant.  This goes way back to English common law—the King must knock at a peasant’s door—your home is your castle. The police officer had invited Gates outside. Gates fell for the trick and was promptly arrested. He was the fool, not the cop. And black Americans especially should know the law where police officers are concerned.



Obama draws a line in the sand against Syrian bombings, they cross the line, Obama does nothing. Obama offends Michelle and she promptly puts him through three degrees of hell as he well deserved. And so on.



Finally, I have been dismayed by all the photos I have seen of him since he left office—a big grin while swimming in the ocean, taking a picture of Michelle—at a safe distance—on a super yacht and grinning ear to ear while talking to Prince Harry. He is so happy to be freed from the burdens of the Presidency while enjoying all the perks. May God forgive him.  But he did have it all. I used to joke in the 2008 campaign that I liked everything about him except Michelle. People would be all up in my face—what are you talking about? Michelle is beautiful, she is wonderful. Precisely my point, I would say, why does he get to be President AND have Michelle? It isn’t right!





























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IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011580.txt,"could see that a similar myopia, or denial, was affecting the armored corps. On
patrol along the canal, I would sometimes see the hulk of an Israeli tank which
had been destroyed by Soviet-made AT-3s. Known as Saggers, they were
portable, allowing a single soldier to fire wire-guided missiles. Their range was
nearly a mile-and-a-half, which was more than the main guns on our tanks. Yet
no one appeared to have addressed the question of what would happen if the
Egyptians used Saggers on an even greater scale in a future war.

I remained in the Sinai through early 1971, but never led my tank company
on combat operations. By the time we were due for our deployment, the War of
Attrition was suddenly over. Neither we nor the Egyptians wanted a return to
full-scale war. With Washington taking the lead, a cease-fire was agreed. Both
sides claimed victory. But both were exhausted. Certainly, most Israelis had
ceased to see a compelling reason for the 1,000 days of fighting. We had lost
about 900 dead: more than in the Six-Day War.

But in one respect, the Egyptians won. Under the terms of the truce, their
anti-aircraft batteries were barred from a roughly 30-mile strip along the canal.
Within days of the truce, however, Nasser began moving his SAM batteries
forward. Before long, there were nearly 100 missile sites in the “prohibited”
zone, giving the Egyptians control of 20 miles or more of the airspace on our
side of the canal. Golda was incensed. So was Bar-Lev. But there was no way,
and no will, to reopen the fighting and force Nasser to move the missiles back.

The cease-fire took effect at midnight on August 7, 1970. I’ve never had
trouble recalling the date, because of a phone call almost exactly 24 hours later.
It was from my mother-in-law, to tell me Nava had gone into labor with our first
child. Since I was due for deployment on the front line, we had agreed weeks
earlier that the best thing would be for her to have the baby in Tiberias, so her
parents could be with her. Now, I got a Jeep and raced north. I reached Tiberias
the next morning. I opened the door to the hospital room and saw Nava,
obviously tired but beaming, cradling our daughter Michal in her arms.

I managed to stay with them for several days before returning to the Sinai.
With Nava and Michal soon settled back into our apartment in the north Tel
Aviv neighborhood of Ramat Aviv, I made weekend visits home whenever I
could. Still, I saw nowhere near as much of our daughter’s first few months as
most fathers. As Nava and I would discover even more jarringly over the next
few years, that was an inescapable part of being an army officer.

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want to be asserting a privilege to questions as oo213 1
to which the answer is no, so you can answer coz 2
generally as to whether the subject matter was ozs 3
covered in any discussion that you had with oo2t20 4
Mr. Boies. oo2r22 5
THE WITNESS: Okay. oo2r23 | §
MR. SCAROLA: Okay. If the answer is no. If coz «7
the answer -- as I sink down in this chair, if oz §
the answer may be yes, you can't respond. oo212s 9
MR. SIMPSON: I -- I -- that's a new version. oo2135 10
MS. McCAWLEY: I'm afraid -- yeah, I want oozes 11
to -- I'm sorry. I want to confer on that cores 12
because I have an objection. coarse 13
THE WITNESS: I have to say I want to confer, ozs 14
I'm confused, too, so let's take a short break. coarse 15
MR. SIMPSON: Again, you're conferring on the | oo2:ar 16
privilege now, not the substance? ovata 17
THE WITNESS: That's right. coaras 18
MR. SCAROLA: Can we go off the record? oo2rs: 19
MR. SIMPSON: Yes. ovzrs1 20
THE VIDEOGRAPHER: Going off the video oars: 21
record, 8:48 a.m. oo2s3 22
(Thereupon, a recess was taken.) ooarss 23
THE VIDEOGRAPHER: We are back on the video | co21:55 24
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MR. SCAROLA: Because of concern about a --
an inadvertent potential waiver of the
work-product privilege, while it is not our
intent to assert a privilege with regard to
nonexistent communications, any effort to
identify the subject matter of communications in
the questions that you asked will require that we
assert work-product privilege with regard to
those questions.

MR. SIMPSON: Okay. We disagree, obviously,
on that position.

MR. SCAROLA: We understand.

MR. SIMPSON: So I will ask some additional
questions and we will see if the witness answers
them.

MR. SCAROLA: If it begins: “Did you talk
about,"" the answer is going to be an assertion of
privilege.

MR. SIMPSON: Okay.

MR. SCAROLA: Okay?

MR. SIMPSON: [ll ask the questions.

BY MR. SIMPSON:
Q. Did you discuss with Mr. Boies any meetings
Mr. Boies had had with Professor Dershowitz?

MS. McCAWLEY: Objection.

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MR. SCAROLA: Objection. Same instruction.
BY MR. SIMPSON:
Q. Did you discuss with Mr. Boies his views as
to the credibility of Virginia Roberts?
MR. SCAROLA: Same objection.
MS. McCAWLEY: Objection.
MR. SCAROLA: Same instruction.
BY MR. SIMPSON:
Q. Did you discuss with Mr. Boies any
allegations about sexual misconduct by Les Wexner?
MR. SCAROLA: Same objection.
MS. McCAWLEY: Objection.
MR. SCAROLA: Same instruction.
MR. SIMPSON: That's the same question you
allowed to be answered. Did you -- let me ask it
a different way.
BY MR. SIMPSON:
Q. Did you discuss, in any way, Les Wexner with
Mr. Boies?
MR. SCAROLA: Same objection.
MS. McCAWLEY: Objection.
MR. SCAROLA: Same instruction.
MR. SIMPSON: He's instructed not to answer
whether that topic was discussed?
MR. SCAROLA: Yes.
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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030198.txt,"lrony lives...

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013891.txt,"require physical inventory and upfront cash. His business model is more elegant than that. Here is just
one revenue stream:

1. A prospective customer sees his Pay-Per-Click (PPC) advertising on Google or other search
engines and clicks through to his site, www.prosoundeffects.com.

2. The prospect orders a product for $325 (the average purchase price, though prices range from $29-
7,500) on a Yahoo shopping cart, and a PDF with all their billing and shipping information is
automatically e-mailed to Doug.

3. Three times a week, Doug presses a single button in the Yahoo management page to charge all his
customers’ credit cards and put cash in his bank account. Then he saves the PDFs as Excel purchase
orders and e-mails the purchase orders to the manufacturers of the CD libraries. Those companies
mail the products to Doug’s customers—this is called drop-shipping—and Doug pays the
manufacturers as little as 45% of the retail price of the products up to 90 days later (net-90 terms).

Let’s look at the mathematical beauty of his system for full effect.

For each $325 order at his cost of 55% off retail, Doug is entitled to $178.75. If we subtract 1% of the
full retail price (1% of $325 = $3.25) for the Yahoo Store transaction fee and 2.5% for the credit card
processing fee (2.5% of $325 = $8.13), Doug is left with a pretax profit of $167.38 for this one sale.

Multiply this by 10 and we have $1673.80 in profit for 30 minutes of work. Doug is making $3,347.60
per hour and purchases no product in advance. His initial start-up costs were $1,200 for the webpage
design, which he recouped in the first week. His PPC advertising costs approximately $700 per month
and he pays Yahoo $99 per month for their hosting and shopping cart.

He works less than two hours a week, often pulls more than $10,000 per month, and there is no
financial risk whatsoever.

Now Doug spends his time making music, traveling, and exploring new businesses for excitement.
Prosoundeffects.com is not his end-all-be-all, but it has removed all financial concerns and freed his
mind to focus on other things.

What would you do if you didn’t have to think about money? If you follow the advice in this chapter,
you will soon have to answer this question.

It’s time to find your muse.

THERE ARE A million and one ways to make a million dollars. From franchising to freelance consulting,
the list is endless. Fortunately, most of them are unsuited to our purpose. This chapter is not for people
who want to run businesses but for those who want to own businesses and spend no time on them.

The response I get when I introduce this concept is more or less universal: Huh?

People can’t believe that most of the ultrasuccessful companies in the world do not manufacture their
own products, answer their own phones, ship their own products, or service their own customers. There
are hundreds of companies that exist to pretend to work for someone else and handle these functions,
providing rentable infrastructure to anyone who knows where to find them.

Think Microsoft manufactures the Xbox 360 or that Kodak designs and distributes their digital
cameras? Guess again. Flextronics, a Singapore-based engineering and manufacturing firm with
locations in 30 countries and $15.3 billion in annual revenue, does both. Most popular brands of
mountain bikes in the U.S. are all manufactured in the same three or four plants in China. Dozens of call
centers press one button to answer calls for the JC Penneys of the world, another to answer calls for the
Dell Computers of the world, and yet another to answer calls for the New Rich like me.

It’s all beautifully transparent and cheap.

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average human four-year-old.

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So, the third time that you met with Nesbith,

she came to your job, and she wanted to talk to you

about more facts of the case?

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Q And, during that meeting, she also talked to

you about your rights as a victim again?

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a victim.

Then there would have been a fourth time

Q

we're talking about now, where there were investigators

from Washington coming down, concerning David

and Nesbith introduced them to you,

Copperfield,

correct?

16 A Right.

17 Q I take it what you're telling me is that

Nesbith seized the opportunity to talk to you again

about being a victim, right?

20 A She always kind of comes out as asking if I'm

okay, and if everything okay. And if I ever need any

kind of help or anything, with -- you know, I could

always have help.

listen, I'm fine,

Q

Did you continue to say,

there's no issues here?

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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020085.txt,"By now Bannon believed McMaster would be out by August. He was sure he had the
president’s word on this. Done deal. “McMaster wants to send more troops to
Afghanistan, so we’re going to send him,” said a triumphal Bannon. In Bannon’s scenario,
Trump would give McMaster a fourth star and “promote” him to top military commander
in Afghanistan.

As with the chemical attack in Syria, it was Dina Powell—even as she made
increasingly determined efforts to get herself out of the White House, either on a Sheryl
Sandberg trajectory or, stopping first at a way station, as ambassador to the United Nations
—who struggled to help support the least disruptive, most keep-all-options-open
approach. In this, both because the approach seemed like the safest course and because it
was the opposite of Bannon’s course, she readily recruited Jared and Ivanka.

The solution Powell endorsed, which was designed to put the problem and the
reckoning off for another year or two or three, was likely to make the United States’
position in Afghanistan even more hopeless. Instead of sending fifty or sixty thousand
troops—which, at insupportable cost and the risk of national fury, might in fact win the
war—the Pentagon would send some much lower number, one which would arouse little
notice and merely prevent us from losing the war. In the Powell and Jarvanka view, it was
the moderate, best-case, easiest-to-sell course, and it struck just the right balance between
the military’s unacceptable scenarios: retreat and dishonor or many more troops.

Before long, a plan to send four, five, six, or (tops) seven thousand troops became the
middle-course strategy supported by the national security establishment and most
everyone else save for Bannon and the president. Powell even helped design a PowerPoint
deck that McMaster began using with the president: pictures of Kabul in the 1970s when it
still looked something like a modern city. It could be like this again, the president was
told, if we are resolute!

But even with almost everyone arrayed against him, Bannon was confident he was
winning. He had a united right-wing press with him, and, he believed, a fed-up, working-
class Trump base—its children the likely Afghanistan fodder. Most of all, he had the
president. Pissed off that he was being handed the same problem and the same options that
were handed Obama, Trump continued to heap spleen and mockery on McMaster.

Kushner and Powell organized a leak campaign in McMaster’s defense. Their narrative
was not a pro-troops defense; instead, it was about Bannon’s leaks and his use of right-
wing media to besmirch McMaster, “one of the most decorated and respected generals of
his generation.” The issue was not Afghanistan, the issue was Bannon. In this narrative, it
was McMaster, a figure of stability, against Bannon, a figure of disruption. It was the New
York Times and the Washington Post, who came to the defense of McMaster, against
Breitbart and its cronies and satellites.

It was the establishment and never-Trumpers against the America-first Trumpkins. In

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013649.txt,"speaks of the multiplicity of valid Ways to Deep Truth. The acceptability of many
ways is supported in the tales from the millennial oral tradition of the Sufi Masters in
their Teaching Stories. One of them, What Befell the Three, is attributed to the early
18"" Century Sufi teacher, the Dervish Murad Shami. In it, an apparition is mobilized
by the concentrated Truth seeking efforts of three Sufi Dervishes named Yak, one,
Do, two and Se, three. When this “...white smoke head of the very old man...” was
asked what he was, he answered “...| am what you think me to be...have you never
heard the saying ‘There are as many ways to the Deep Truth as there hearts of
man.” In the narratives about the lives of the Mevievi Islam dervishes called
Munaquib el-Arafin (1353), Jalaludin Rumi, the Sufi saint, instructs his ill and
troubled petitioner to ask forgiveness from the Christian he recently spat on saying
“...whether a ruby or a pebble, there is a place on His hill, there is a place for all...”
Cole Barks and Michael Green’s The Illuminated Prayer (2000) notes that the Rumi
follower, Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, a modern Sufi guru, was said to be keenly aware
how quickly spiritual entheogenic systems can become amphetamine-like and
“...develop rigid marching orders ...which turn into a dumb obsession with other
people’s behavior...”

It appears that entheogenic and amphetamine spiritualities can coexist
contemporaneously, in Islam as well as in all the other of the world’s great religions.

One day, sneaking home from school, taking the long way around via Troost,
| was spotted and chased up some stairs into an apartment building’s dark hall.
Terrified, | swung hard and hit the leading angry and noisy head with a propitiously
found snow shovel that had been left near the apartment’s entrance. An ambulance
was called to tend to the twelve-year-old, transiently unconscious, Lutheran boy. He
recovered completely within a day and the chases after school and my desperate
escapes stopped suddenly, never to reappear. After several months, our family
crossed the socioeconomic divide in Kansas City to a more tolerant, upper middle
class, Southside neighborhood near Rockhill Road, to a suburban home, one block
from Missouri’s border with Kansas. There, persecution for my Jewishness took
more subtle forms such as not being permitted to play teen-age golf with my friends,

though invited, on their Blue Hills and Kansas City Country Club’s golf courses. It

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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019604.txt,"116 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS

Some secret methods that Snowden made public compromised
the NSA’s state-of-the-art technology of which adversaries had
been unaware. For example, the NSA had devised an ingenious tech-
nology in 2008 for tapping into computers abroad that had been
“air-gapped,” or intentionally isolated from any network to protect
highly sensitive information, such as missile telemetry, nuclear bomb
development, and cyber-warfare capabilities. The secret method that
the NSA used involved surreptitiously implanting speck-sized cir-
cuit boards into air-gapped computers. These devices then covertly
transmitted the data back in bursts of radio waves. Once Snowden
exposed this technology, and the radio frequency transmission it
used, America lost this intelligence capability.

In addition, a considerable number of the published documents
did not even belong to the NSA but were copies of reports sent to
the NSA by its allies, including the British, Australian, Canadian,
French, Norwegian, and Israeli intelligence services. Snowden pro-
vided journalists with secret documents from the British cyber
service GCHQ, describing its plans to obtain a legal warrant to pen-

© etrate the Russian computer security firm Kaspersky to expand its ©
“computer network exploitation capability.” What the GCHQ was
revealing in this secret document was its own capabilities to monitor
a Russian target of interest to British intelligence. While the release
of these foreign documents might have embarrassed allies of the
United States, they exposed no violations of U.S. law by the NSA. It
was a legitimate part of the NSA’s job to share information with its
allies. This raises the question: What constitutes whistle-blowing?

To the general public no doubt, a whistle-blower is simply a per-
son who exposes government misdeeds from inside that govern-
ment. But in the eyes of the law, someone who discloses classified
information to an unauthorized person, even as an act of personal
conscience, is not exempt from the punitive consequences of this act.
Indeed, if a person deliberately reveals secret U.S. operations, espe-
cially ones that compromise the sources and methods of U.S. intelli-
gence services, he or she may run afoul of American espionage laws.

In the past, when government employees have disclosed highly
classified information to journalists to redress perceived govern-
ment misconduct, they were almost always prosecuted. During

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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025514.txt,"From: Lisa New 
Sent: 12/2/2014 7:15:11 PM 
To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Subject: Re: poetry and science 
Importance: High 
okay. you let me know when you can talk. 
And I hadn't added to this list neuroscience--where Emily Dickinson has it nailed-- and maybe this would be the 
right poem for your group. Notice how many metaphors are operating simultaneously here 
The Brain, within its Groove 
Runs evenly--and true--
But let a Splinter swerve--
'Twere easier for You--
To put a Current back--
When Floods have slit the Hills--
And scooped a Turnpike for Themselves--
And trodden out the Mills--
I get to New York Thursday am or perhaps tomorrow night...haven't decided quite yet which. Always 
prefer face to face if you have time 
lisa 
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Lisa New < 
Dear Jeffrey, 
wrote: 
Apropos of our conversation of a few minutes ago, This proposal went to someone I thought was 
interested in the environment and science but who seems, in fact, far more interested in supporting TV 
on a broad range of topics. 
500,000 would fund this initiative as the second HGSE course (after Poetry of the City) and could begin 
immediately, Jan 1.. I'd be thrilled to include other scientists you name, perhaps taping the group in a 
session on metaphor at the edges of fields. 
INote that taped sessions already include economics, marine biology, astronomy, evolutionary biology, 
zoology, physics and computer science. Richard Dawkins, Walter Isaacson, David Mossberg and David 
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Malan have all said yes to tapings. Footage for all the others is already shot and ready for post 
production. 
I am having a drink with Dean of Ed School today and can explore this with him among other topics 
Lisa 
Poetry in America for Teachers II: The Poetry of Earth, Sea, and Sky 
Combining study of poetry with study of science, environment and the visual arts. Materials include 
hundreds archival images and live footage shot in 
Cape Cod, Nantucket, Vermont, New York, Connecticut, Jamaica, Aspen, California, Papua New Guinea 
including oceans, ponds, marshes, birds, fish mountains, coral reefs, forests as well in some major collections 
(HMNH etc) 
with author Michael Pollan on Joel Barlow (and colonial agriculture) 
with economist Lawrence Summers on Oliver Wendell Holmes, (and technology and ""one hoss shay"" 
depreciation) 
with Harvard students at the Nantucket Whaling Museum and with , John Steele, editor of the science 
magazine, Nautlilus, on Lowell and Melville 
with Vice President Al Gore on Ralph Waldo Emerson ,and, with eco-critic Lawrence Buell (with footage 
taped on the Concord River as well as in Harvard's Houghton Rare Book Library ) 
with a dozen Harvard students and Boston area school teachers on Emily Dickinson's ""skies"" (shot at Emily 
Dickinson's home in Amherst Massachusetts) and with ED 's original mss. at Harvard University 
with Jane Pickering In Harvard's Museum of Natural History on Marianne Moore, zoology and science 
museums 
with Martin Espada and other New Yorkers (footage shot on the East River) on Whitman and urban 
greenspace and with Susan Howe on Stevens and parks 
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with Richard Dawkins on Frost, evolution and probability and with Jay Parini, Frost biographer, in Frost's 
cabin on ""The Road not Taken"". 
with Director of the College Board (and writer of the Common Core Standards) , David Coleman on Robert 
Frost's ""Birches"" (filmed in a birch grove) 
with Peter Galison on Einstein and Modernism (taped in the Harvard Scientific Instruments collection in the 
Harvard Science Center) and with author Walter Isaacson on Einstein and Modernism (Fogg Museum) 
with Ray Dalio on Marianne Moore( in Rajah Ampat with Conservation International); and with Jane 
Pickering, Head of the Harvard Natural History Museum, ( filmed in the Harvard Museum of Natural History) 
with Stefan Weiss, Walt Mossberg and David Malan on coding, computer language and L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E 
poetry 
Elisa New 
Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature 
Harvard University 
148 Barker Center 
12 Quincy Street 
Cambridge, MA 
02138 
Elisa New 
Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature 
Harvard University 
148 Barker Center 
12 Quincy Street 
Cambridge, MA 
02138 
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IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021123.txt,"XII AUTHOR’S NOTE

4 4%

I am joined in my train-wreck fascination with Trump—that certain
knowledge that in the end he will destroy himself—by, I believe, almost
everyone who has encountered him since he was elected president.
To have worked anywhere near him is to be confronted with the most
extreme and disorienting behavior possible. That is hardly an overstate-
ment. Not only is Trump not like other presidents, he is not like anyone
most of us have ever known. Hence, everyone who has been close to him
feels compelled to try to explain him and to dine out on his head-smacking
peculiarities. It is yet one more of his handicaps: all the people around
him, however much they are bound by promises of confidentiality or
nondisclosure agreements or even friendship, cannot stop talking about
their experience with him. In this sense, he is more exposed than any
president in history.

Many of the people in the White House who helped me during the
writing of Fire and Fury are now outside of the administration, yet they are
as engaged as ever by the Trump saga. I am grateful to be part of this sub-
stantial network. Many of Trump’s pre-White House cronies continue to
both listen to him and support him; at the same time, as an expression both
of their concern and of their incredulity, they report among one another,
and to others as well, on his temper, mood, and impulses. In general, I
have found that the closer people are to him, the more alarmed they have
found themselves at various points about his mental state. They all spec-
ulate about how this will end—badly for him, they almost all conclude.
Indeed, Trump is probably a much better subject for writers interested in
human capacities and failings than for most of the reporters and writers
who regularly cover Washington and who are primarily interested in the
pursuit of success and power.

My primary goal in Siege is to create a readable and intuitive narrative—
that is its nature. Another goal is to write the near equivalent of a real-time
history of this extraordinary moment, since understanding it well after
the fact might be too late. A final goal is pure portraiture: Donald Trump
as an extreme, almost hallucinatory, and certainly cautionary, Amer-
ican character. To accomplish this, to gain the perspective and to find

AUTHOR’S NOTE XIII

the voices necessary to tell the larger story, I provided anonymity to any
source who requested it. In cases where I have been told—on the prom-
ise of no attribution—about an unreported event or private conversation
or remark, I have made every effort to confirm it with other sources or
documents. In some cases, I have witnessed the events or conversations
described herein. With regard to the Mueller investigation, the narrative
I provide is based on internal documents given to me by sources close to
the Office of the Special Counsel.
Dealing with sources in the Trump White House has continued to
offer its own set of unique issues. A basic requirement of working there
is, surely, the willingness to infinitely rationalize or delegitimize the truth,
and, when necessary, to outright lie. In fact, I believe this has caused some
of the same people who have undermined the public trust to become pri-
vate truth-tellers. This is their devil’s bargain. But for the writer, interview-
ing such Janus-faced sources creates a dilemma, for it requires depending
on people who lie to also tell the truth—and who might later disavow the
truth they have told. Indeed, the extraordinary nature of much of what
has happened in the Trump White House is often baldly denied by its
spokespeople, as well as by the president himself. Yet in each successive
account of this administration, the level of its preposterousness—even as
that bar has been consistently raised—has almost invariably been con-
firmed.
In an atmosphere that promotes, and frequently demands, hyperbole,
tone itself becomes a key part of accuracy. For instance, most crucially,
the president, by a wide range of the people in close contact with him, is
often described in maximal terms of mental instability. “I have never met
anyone crazier than Donald Trump” is the wording of one staff member
who has spent almost countless hours with the president. Something like
this has been expressed to me bya dozen others with firsthand experience.
How do you translate that into a responsible evaluation of this singular
White House? My strategy is to try to show and not tell, to describe the
broadest context, to communicate the experience, to make it real enough
for a reader to evaluate for him- or herself where Donald Trump falls on a
vertiginous sliding scale of human behavior. It is that condition, an emo-
tional state rather than a political state, that is at the heart of this book.

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Within days of the election, however, there was a new source of potential
friction between us: Shimon’s future, and possibly mine, in leading our opposition
to Bibi and bringing a Labor government back to power.

The question of Peres’s leadership was unavoidable. Labor’s constitution
mandated a vote for party chairman within 14 months of an election defeat. But the
widespread assumption was that Shimon would run again. A little before midnight
on election day, with the returns beginning to show we might lose, I was invited to
a morning-after breakfast by two senior Labor ministers: Fuad Ben-Eliezer, the
man who had delivered the table-thumping warning that the hatred on the far-right
would lead to a murder, and Avraham Shochat, Finance Minister under both Rabin
and Peres. Both had been in the Knesset since the 1980s. Both were part of two of
Peres’s earlier, failed, election campaigns. Both now said that they weren’t
prepared to see him lead us into electoral battle the next time around. “Everyone in
the party understands the meaning of this defeat. Shimon is done,” Shochat said, as
Fuad nodded his agreement. “You will have to go for the leadership.”

Though their endorsement was a surprise, it would be disingenuous to pretend I
hadn’t been thinking, at some stage in the future, of running for the party
leadership. But my election-campaign differences with Ramon and Peres were not
just for the sake of intellectual argument. I badly wanted us to win: both for Peres’s
sake and the country’s, and to redeem and continue all that Yitzhak had sacrificed.
Despite my misgivings about some aspects of the Oslo process, I did believe there
was a possibility of achieving peace with the Palestinians. I knew, from my
involvement in the talks with the Syrians, that the outline of a possible peace
agreement with Assad was already in place. I frankly wasn’t confident that Bibi
was the man to lead it forward. Yes, he was smart. He was organizationally astute.
He’d been a good sayeret officer. Yet as I'd said it my TV spot, being Prime
Minister required much more than that. I was now an elected Knesset member. But
I had gone into politics in the hope of making a difference to how Israel confronted
its defining challenges of war and peace. The prospect of spending the next few as
a mere opposition foot soldier, making speeches and sitting in committee sessions,

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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024412.txt,"Nobody has done any real work to support this proposition, nor is it clear exactly how it would be tested. My
view is that the grammar “Islam is x” is itself problematic because Islam has expressed itself throughout
history in a variety of fashions. It is more useful to talk in terms of how seriously engaged with Islam, the
Koran and other texts, a Muslim is. What is significant is how Muslims today are using Islam and most of
those who are in power either throughout a large territory or within a small community tend toward, if not
fully advocate, the very supremacist ideas that we try to tell ourselves are reserved for the

few ”extremists.” Presumably most Germans did not wish to see all Nazi atrocities carried out but in the end
they fell in line because they had to. Those our politicians and press call the “extremists” are in one sense
more accurately the “good” Muslims who ar e following their Islamic beliefs dutifully.

FP: Tell us how Western shame and guilt play into all of this.

Siegel: One of the dirty little secrets the Control Factor preys upon is that if we believe we control something
we can comfort ourselves that we can change it. Remember the horror film- the threat has one purpose and
that is to destroy you. You can not change it, talk it out of it, teach it alternatives or otherwise. That is what
makes it so inherently frightening. If we can convince ourselves that we caused the threat to act the way it
does we can maintain the secret hope that we can change it. Consequently, there is a tremendous attraction to
blaming ourselves for the Islamic Enemy’s behavior. And we see this power in our readily accepting
responsibility for terror- because of our occupation, our greedy quest for oil, our failure to extend a hand of
“engagement,” Israel’s building settlements, our making videos that defa me Mohammed and so on. Again,
the relationship is defined by the enemy blaming us for his actions and our accepting such responsibility.

Shelby Steele has written brilliantly about what he calls “white guilt” and outlines how whites during the 60's
and thereafter were pressured into a transaction whereby in order to re-obtain a sense of moral authority they
accepted blame for the condition of blacks and behaved as if guilty. Blacks were able to extract great
concessions and whites were able to view themselves as morally restored and redeemed. At a certain point,
however, the behavior takes on a life of its own and the narratives become deeply embedded in the culture
and, as we can see today, difficult to uproot.

Western guilt is an extension of Steele’s notion. President Obama’s confessionals to the Arab world admitting
that America has made “mistakes” and was not born a colonial pow er express this same tendency to appease
through guilt. Hillary Clint on’s “reset” with Russia conveyed the same submissive request for a more
acceptable response. In being guilty we presume the other party will recognize our contrition and respond in
like kind. One of the Control Factor’s most devastating moves is employed- presuming the other is just like us
and will respond the way we would. This is frequently how an enabler justifies his continuous support for an
addict. The problem, however is that our Islamic Enemy is NOT like us and will not respond in like kind.
Rather, as we repeatedly refuse to learn, appeasement invites more abuse from an enemy. This becomes

the ’game of guilt;” it tends to expand to greater and greater consequences. Paradoxically, psychological
defenses tend to create the very outcomes they seek to eliminate and it is no different here. It is a game we
love to play but, unfortunately, the game gives us no rules for how to end it.

All beha vior is instructive. That is, we teach others how to treat us. The game of guilt, along with other
Control Factor tools, teaches our Enemy it is winning and to continue playing.

FP: The reason Nidal Hasan was able to perpetrate his murder spree at Fort Hood is precisely because of our
Control Factor. Please connect the dots for our readers.

Siegel: Just as I used to look at Hitler when I was young and be amazed that no one could see what he was
about, in retrospect the same applies to Hasan. It is precisely all the elements of the Control Factor that could
allow this man, a Soldier of Allah, to be positioned as he was. He was blatantly voicing his Islamist views and
Jihadi intent including, even, an essay recommending the “painful liquidation” of non-Muslims. Yet, in the
Army of all places, the Control Factor operated to allow and even foster his work. Even after the murders, we
cont inue the denial by calling it “workplace violence.” He is the Civilization-Violent Jihad combo! And we
continue to enable the same infiltration elsewhere.

FP: Tell our readers about “The Project” and “Explanatory Memorandum.” These are realities that serve as
great threats to the Control Factor, right?

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IMAGES-012-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033506.txt,"From: Jessica Cadwell [mailto fl

Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 10:20 AM
To: Jacquie Johnson
Subject: RE: Jane Doe

Great thank you. Do you have your Stays signed yet?

fesstca Cadwell, CP, FRI

Certified Paralegal

Florida Registered Paralegal

BURMAN CRITTON LUTTIER & COLEMAN, LLP
515 N. Flagler Drive

Suite #400

West Palm Beach, FL 33401

From: Jacquie Johnson [mailto
Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 9:59 AM

To: Jessica Cadwell; Bradley J. Edwards

Cc: Robert D. Critton Jr.

Subject: RE: Jane Doe

Brad is out of the office until this afternoon — | will ask him then.

From: Jessica Cadwell [mailto

Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 9:51 AM
To: Bradley J. Edwards

Ce: Jacquie Johnson; Robert D. Critton Jr.
Subject: Jane Doe

Brad —

In your answers to ROGS, you list Milton Center for girls as facility that Jane Doe attended. Milton Center is a
Department of Juvenile Justice facility; therefore | will need to get her records from DJJ. DJJ will not release the records
without a signed release by Jane Doe. | have attached a general HIPPA release for your review. Would you please
have Jane Doe sign it? DJJ does not have a standard form.

Also, will you agree to one more week on Responses to Net Wirth ROGS??
Please let me know.

Jess —

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015671.txt,"Robin Solomon

In a career spanning three decades in academic medicine, Robin Solomon has combined patient care, clinical
research, philanthropy and business development expertise to build strategic alliances, brand recognition and
revenue. In evolving leadership roles at The Mount Sinai Medical Center, she has developed a reputation for her
innovative programming, quick grasp of new situations and common sense approaches to challenging problems.

She is recognized for her comprehensive understanding of the healthcare sector, including operating models, the
political and regulatory environment, shifting demographics, financial opportunities and economic trends. Her
eighteen years as an ICU nurse informs the way she navigates patient care on a human level, collaborates with
physicians and persuasively conveys the potential impact of philanthropic gifts to donors.

Board and Donor Relations, Medical Navigation. As Vice President, Trustee Services, Robin developed and led
a high-touch, best in class Donor Relations program. The services include 24/7 medical direction, referrals and
oversight to the Mount Sinai Board and donor community to optimize the patient experience. Robin established
relationships and gained participation from prestigious corporate, financial, and legal firms including Goldman
Sachs, Paul Weiss Rifkind, Schulte Roth, Donna Karan, Warner Music and Federated Department Stores. This
program has generated hundreds of physician referrals and over $20 million in incremental revenue each year. As a
patient advocate, Robin has participated in thousands of multi-disciplinary patient care teams from initial consults to
final outcomes.

Philanthropy. Robin’s trusted relationships with medical, business, civic, and community leaders enable her to
secure funds needed to advance medical, academic and patient care initiatives. During her tenure, she raised over
$29 million in donations from individuals, corporations and foundations. Robin conceived, co-chaired and ran “A
Toast to Health” an annual wine benefit, which raised $17 million dollars over nine years, consistently attained over
85% event underwriting. She has directed philanthropic funds to capital projects including an upgrade of the
emergency room, complete renovation of the Neonatal and Pediatric ICU’s and state-of-the art modernization of a
medical school lecture hall. Her efforts have also provided $2.8 million for scholarships to The Mount Sinai School
of Medicine and supported programs including Visiting Doctors, Palliative Care Fellowships, and perinatal
bereavement social work.

Global Health. Robin has planned and executed cogent responses to critical international medical needs. At the
request of President Clinton’s office, she arranged for physicians and medical supplies to be sent with first
responders in the days following the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. She collaborated with military leaders, USAID, and
Dr. Paul Farmer of Partners in Health to organize transport of fully supplied surgical teams and re-open the
University Hospital in Port au Prince. In 2006, in close coordination with Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
and her ministers, Robin established a medical mission to Liberia. She obtained private funding to send physicians
and support personnel to provide medical care and surgical interventions. The project has continued and led to
administration of the first chemotherapy and pap screening clinic in Monrovia.

Clinical Research Leadership. As Assistant Dean for Clinical Trial Operations and Business Development, she
designed and led the Office of Clinical Trials, key to advancing translational research. She launched marketing and
outreach programs to convey Mount Sinai’s research capabilities. These efforts attracted ongoing contracts from
Novartis, Smith Kline Beecham, Amgen and Pfizer and other pharmaceutical and biotech companies. She facilitated
over $18 million in grant funding, increased clinical trials by 40% and grew patient enrollment by over 320%
annually.

Robin was Senior Research Coordinator on a CDC multicenter study measuring the effects of using safety devices
for drawing blood, inserting IV’s and giving injections. The manufacturers extended the study solely at The Mount
Sinai Hospital. This research opened the multi-billion dollar market for safety devices. Earlier, Robin coordinated
and performed clinical research at Cornell University Medical College’s Surgical Metabolism Laboratory.

Patient Care. Robin’s clinical expertise was developed over more than eighteen years as an ICU nurse at New York
Hospital, Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital and The Mount Sinai Medical Center. The scope of her medical
knowledge reflects years of hands-on patient care and thousands of decision-making conversations with physicians
and families.

Robin holds a Master of Science in Exercise Physiology, cum laude from the University of Massachusetts and
Bachelor of Science in Nursing, cum laude from the University of Florida.

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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018153.txt,"the Xplorer line for the past three years. The new line advances the state of GPS tracking
technology considerably, utilizing several ground-breaking innovations currently in the patent

process.
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security agencies and consumers

Los Angeles, California, October 4, 2006 - GTXC (GTX Corporation), the Personal Location
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represented to the public in an ethical and honest fashion. GTXC takes issue with the claims made
in those recent reports, and believes that they do not paint an accurate and truthful picture. As
such, GTXC is taking immediate, strong and active steps to respond to those claims in a
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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017260.txt,"4.2.12
WC: 191694

I was reminded of Chief Justice Berger’s bear baiting hypothetical in the I Am Curious Yellow
case, but this time the stakes were much higher. I answered the Justice’s question:

No. That wouldn't be enough.

And that is not this case in any event.

This case is handing guns over, under an agreement that no shooting would take place.
In Enmund the guns were provided.

What Your Honor, Justice Scalia, is asking for, in a sense, is a return to the felony murder
rule where guns are provided.

Justice Scalia didn’t seem satisfied with my answer, so I threw a hypothetical back to him—law
professor to law professor:

And to throw a hypothetical back, which I'm not entitled to do, but I'll throw it back to
myself...what if there were a statute saying, anyone who provides guns to an armed
robber in the course of an armed robbery, whereby death results, is guilty of first-degree
capital murder?

That would be clearly within Enmund.

That's what Enmund decided.

Because the facts of Enmund were exactly that.

The dialogue continued:
Justice:
In Enmund, had he provided the gun?
Mr. Dershowitz:
The state certainly argued that he had provided the gun in Enmund.
The gun had belonged to his common law wife.
He then disposed of the gun.
Certainly, a reasonable judge and jury could conclude that he had provided the gun.

It was an armed robbery.

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IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028156.txt,"/ BARAK / 22

struck by how different the approach was from our campaign for Peres. As I filled
my notebook with the details, Philip added a final bit of advice. “If you want to
win, have it run by the best professionals you can find. Not politicians. They
always have personal agendas. Focus is everything. Distractions and arguments
and infighting can be fatal.”

Philip recommended one professional, in particular, to get us started: Stanley
Greenberg, the pollster who had advised not only Blair’s campaign, but Clinton’s.
Doron used his contacts in New York to put us in touch not only with Greenberg
but the strategist behind the Clinton victory, James Carville, and another leading
Democratic Party consultant and speechwriter, Bob Shrum. We began working
with all of them well before the no-confidence vote in the Knesset. Philip had a
wonderfully British understatement and reserve. Stanley, with his eyeglasses and
demeanor too, came over as slightly professorial. With Bob, it didn’t take long to
understand why he was such a gifted speechwriter. He loved words, especially the
way they could be used to inspire a connection with important campaign themes:
above all with the idea of hope, and new beginnings. Carville was the human
equivalent of a volcano. If he hadn’t been a campaign strategist, he could have
made a living as a hybrid of a cowboy and a stand-up comedian. But they all
shared the easy, infectious self-confidence of people who were very good at what
they did, and knew it.

When I went to New York with Doron to meet Carville in Feburary 1988, my
confidence as Labor leader was taking some fairly hard knocks. But from the
moment he walked through our hotel-room door, it was impossible not to like him.
He showed up in a T-shirt and tennis sneakers, walked straight across the room,
slouched into a chair and said: “General Barak, I don’t get it. You’re a known
public figure, with a great mind and a great military record. It’s already been a
year-and-a-half since Israel got Netanyahu. What have you done to go after him?
Why haven’t you gone on the attack?” He said it was time for me to wake up, and
change tack. “Can you run through your stump speech for me,” he asked,
motioning me toward the center of the room like a film director.

“T don’t have one,” I said. To which he replied briskly that I should have had
one months ago.

When Stanley paid a preliminary visit with Philip to Israel, they, too, urged me
to sharpen my message and pay more attention to my image with the public.

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IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021137.txt,"26 MICHAEL WOLFF

shutting down the government would sweep that approach right off the
table.

The White House, quite behind Trump’s back, was aggressively work-
ing to pass the appropriations bill and avoid a shutdown. The vice presi-
dent gave Trump the same assurance he had been given previously when
a budget had been passed without full funding for the Wall: Pence said the
bill provided a “down payment” for the Wall, a phrase whose debt-finance
implications seemed to amply satisfy the president and which he repeated
with great enthusiasm. Marc Short, the White House director of legisla-
tive affairs, and Mick Mulvaney, the director of the Office of Manage-
ment and Budget, in a joint appearance in the White House briefing room
that Thursday, shifted the debate from the Wall to the military. “This bill
will provide the largest year-over-year increase in defense spending since
World War II,” said Mulvaney. “It'll be the largest increase for our men
and women in uniform in salary in the last ten years.”

+b

The attempt to distract the Trumpian base with these bromides utterly
failed. The hard-core cadre insisted on forcing the issue, and Bannon was
delighted to serve as their general.

Within minutes of the budget bill’s passage on March 22, Bannon,
in the Embassy, began working the phones. Calling Trump's most ardent
supporters, his goal was to “light him up” The effect was nearly imme-
diate: an unsuspecting Trump started to hear from many of those on his
noisy back bench, who were suddenly furious.

Bannon understood what moved Trump. Details did not. Facts did not.
But a sense that something valuable might be taken from him immediately
brought him up on his hind legs. If you confronted him with losing, he
would turn on a dime. Indeed, turning on a dime was his only play. “It’s
not that he needs to win the week, or day, or even the hour” reflected
Bannon. “He needs to win the second. After that, he drifts”

For the hard-core Trumpers, it was back to a fundamental through
line of Trumpism: you had to constantly remind Trump which side he
was on. As Bannon organized a howling protest from the president's base,

SIEGE 27

he took stock of the Trump reality: “There simply is not going to be a Wall,
ever, if he doesn't have to pay a political price for there not being a Wall”

If the Wall was not under way by the midterm elections in Novem-
ber, it would show Trump to be false and, worse, weak. The Wall needed
to be real. The absence of the Wall in the spending bill was just what it
seemed to be: Trump out to lunch. Trump's most effective message, the
forward front of the Trump narrative—maximal aggression toward ille-
gal immigrants—had been muted. And this had happened without him

knowing it.

OF

The night of the twenty-second, the Fox News lineup—Tucker Carlson,
Laura Ingraham, and Sean Hannity—hammered the message: betrayal.

The battle was on. The Republican leadership on the Hill, along with
the donor class, stood sober and pragmatic in the face of both political
realities and the prospect of unlimited billions in government spending—
with, certainly, no illusions that Mexico was going to pay for the Wall.
Opposing them were the Fox pundits, righteous and unyielding in their
appeal to the true emotion of Trumpism.

The personal transformation of Trump over the course of the evening
was convulsive. All three Fox pundits delivered a set of electric shocks.
each rising in current. Trump had sold out the movement. Or, worse.
Trump had been outsmarted and outwitted. Trump, on the phone, roared
in pain and fury. He was the victim. He had no one in his corner. He could
trust no one. The congressional leadership: against him. The White House
itself: against him. Betrayal? Almost everyone in the White House hac
betrayed him.

The next morning it got worse. Pete Hegseth, the most obsequious o:
the Fox Trump lovers, seemed, on Fox & Friends, nearly brought to tear:
by Trump's treachery.

Then, almost simultaneously with Hegseth’s wailing, Trump abruptly—
confoundingly—shifted position and tweeted that he was considering vetoing
the appropriations bill. The same bill that, twenty-four hours before, he
had embraced.

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IMAGES-012-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033512.txt,"From: Roy Black

Sent: 5/29/2019 4:57:42 PM

To: Martin Weinberg ME « Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]; Jackie Perczek
CS | Derren Indyxc

Subject: FW: epstein

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fyi

From: Roy Black
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2019 12:57 PM

To:

Subject: epstein

Dear MM: we have no comment on the trump story. We are finalizing our pleading regarding
the plaintiff’s position on remedies. | intend to hold off commenting until we file it. After that |
will be free to comment on the pleading which will address your question. Roy

Roy Black, Esq. BLACK

SREBNICK
www.royblack.com KORNSPAN
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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018147.txt,"Download the full article
Top-Notch Security

M2M - Specialty Publications - April 6, 2007

M2M technology providers and system integrators often cite efficiency improvements and new
revenue opportunities as common indicators of return-on-investment. However, as more and more
customers use machine-to-machine applications to collect data, security has not only become a
top-notch priority for end users and OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) but also a highly
valued part of fostering a positive ROI.

According to IDC Corp., www.idc.com, Framingham, Mass., as devices enabling a mobile
workforce continue to shrink in size, the increased likelihood of losing devices, such as laptops,
mobile phones, BlackBerrys, has caused growing concern over the sensitive corporate information

they contain.
Smart Shoes Get Smarter

M2M - Specialty Publications - April 2, 2007

Smart shoes just got a little smarter. The newest models of GPS-enabled (global positioning
system) shoes from Global Trek Xploration Corp. (GTXC), www.gtxcorp.com, Los Angeles,
Calif., will now be equipped with wireless and location modules from Enfora
Inc.,www.enfora.com, Plano, Texas.

GTXC chose Enfora’s Enabler ITG-A-GPS modules for its robust and accurate platform, company
executive say. Eric Stalnaker vice president of business development at GTXC explains, “Enfora
and the Enabler II provide us with an integrated approach to software, Internet connectivity, and

customization that lets us focus on our product and service offering.”
Wireless Briefs

by Andrew D. Smith | Dallas Morning News | Thursday, March 29, 2007

Few at conference get to soul of GPS shoe

Satellite tracking services were expected to be one of the big attractions at this year's big wireless
conference in Orlando, but the satellite shoe seemed to surprise most of the people walking around
the convention floor.

Many passers-by Wednesday furrowed their brows or shook their heads at what appeared to be a
silly toy for spoiled yuppie joggers. Only a few investigated long enough to realize that the GPS

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conviction, on the ground that the prosecution had failed to prove the scientific validity of its
theory.

We later learned that Harry Shorstein—who argued that appeal—had information that should
have led him to know or at least suspect that the test results he had presented to the jury were at
best highly questionable and at worst flat out false. Yet he never disclosed this information to the
court or to the defense. We filed a complaint with the appropriate authorities, since such conduct
on the part of the prosecutor raises grave ethical issues. Shorstein then filed a counter-complaint
alleging—quite absurdly—that the very act of filing a complaint against him constituted
misconduct. Shorstein’s tactic is only one of the ways overly aggressive prosecutors discourage
lawyers from complaining about their ethical violations.°’ Nothing came of either complaint, but
when President Obama was considering appointing Shorstein to become a United States Attorney
in Florida, we notified the White House and the Senate Judiciary Committee of Shorstein’s ethical
lapses and he was passed over for the job.

Dr. Sybers and his wife of __ years now live in .

57 Other tactics that I have experienced include:

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013885.txt,"same to your assistant, assign him or her a dozen tasks without prioritizing them. Recall our mantra:
Eliminate before you delegate.

WHAT DOES A good VA task e-mail look like? The following example was recently sent to an Indian VA
whose results have been nothing short of spectacular:

Dear Sowmya,
Thank you. I would like to start with the following task.

TASK: I need to find the names and e-mails of editors of men’s magazines in the US (for example:
maxim, stuff, GQ, esquire, blender, etc.) who also have written books. An example of such a person
would be AJ Jacobs who is Editor-at-Large of Esquire (Wwww.ajjacobs.com). I already have his
information and need more like him.

Can you do this? If not, please advise. Please reply and confirm what you will plan to do to
complete this task.

DEADLINE: Since [I’m in a rush, get started after your next e-mail and stop at 3 hours and tell me
what results you have. Please begin this task now if possible. The deadline for these 3 hours and
reported results is end-of-day ET Monday.

Thank you for your fastest reply,

Tim

Short, sweet, and to the point. Clear writing, and therefore clear commands, come from clear thinking.
Think simple.

IN THE NEXT several chapters, the communication skills you develop with our virtual assistant experiment
will be applied to a much larger and obscenely profitable playing field: automation. The extent to which
you will outsource next makes delegation look like finger painting.

In the world of automation, not all business models are created equal. How do you assemble a
business and coordinate all its parts without lifting a finger? How do you automate cash deposits in your
bank account while avoiding the most common problems? It begins with understanding the options, the
art of dodging information flow, and what we will call “muses.”

The next chapter is a blueprint for the first step: a product.

Go with the Flow

H... is a flowchart of 4HWW from reader Jed Wood, who has used it for faster decision making,

more output with less input, and more time with his wife and children.

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012543.txt,"sor & Associates

Reporting and Trensesipiion, Inn.

1655 Palm Beach Lakes Blvd., Suite 500 - West Palm Beach, FL 33401

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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020091.txt,"can help us.”

It was the president who, meeting with Scaramucci, was won over by the Mooch’s
cringeworthy Wall Street hortatory flattery. (“I can only hope to realize a small part of
your genius as a communicator, but you are my example and model” was one report of the
gist of the Scaramucci supplication.) And it was Trump who then urged that Scaramucci
become the true communications chief, reporting directly to the president.

On July 19, Jared and Ivanka, through intermediaries, put a feeler out to Bannon: What
would he think about Scaramucci’s coming on board in the comms job?

So preposterous did this seem to Bannon—it was a cry of haplessness, and certain
evidence that the couple had become truly desperate—that he refused to consider or even
reply to the question. Now he was sure: Jarvanka was losing it.

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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019610.txt,"122 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS

and student loans to credit scores and overdrafts in personal bank
accounts. This ubiquitous surveillance of virtually every non-cash
transaction came about because of advances in computer technology
that made it economically feasible to mine such data.

Snowden’s concern about NSA domestic surveillance is certainly
not misplaced. Ever since the 9/11 attacks, the NSA has increasingly
played a role in this surveillance state, not by its own choice, but
because Congress mandated it. In 2001, it empowered the NSA to
obtain and archive data on American citizens. Accordingly, the NSA
obtained the billing records of customers from phone and Internet
companies and archived these records. The bulk collection of these
billing records was intended to build a searchable database for the
government that could be used to trace the history of the telephone
and Internet activities in the United States of FBI-designated foreign
terrorists and spies abroad. The government’s rationale for keeping
these anti-terrorist programs secret from the public was that it did
not want the foreign suspects to realize their communications in
America were being monitored.

© The public only learned that the phone company was routinely ©
turning over its billing records on June 6, 2013, when Snowden dis-
closed it to The Guardian and The Washington Post. The documents
he provided the journalists showed that the NSA had been obtain-
ing phone records collected by Verizon every three months. While
this revelation might have shocked the American public, the NSA
had not acted on its own. It had acted under a warrant issued by a
secret court established by Congress in 1978 as part of the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act for each request for records. Congress
empowered the FISA court, whose judges are appointed by the pres-
ident, to hear cases and authorize search warrants in secret in cases
involving national security.

As its name implies, the FISA court was meant to deal with matters
bearing on foreign intelligence activities in the United States. That
restriction changed after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
A month after the attacks, Congress expanded the purview of the
FISA court by passing the USA Patriot Act (an acronym that stands
for Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate
Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism). Part of the

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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031213.txt,"From: 
Sent: 
To: 
Subject: 
Attachments: 
BARBRO EHNBOM 
8/21/2012 9:12:11 AM 
jeevacation@gmail.com 
Re: Program & Attendee list 
2.jpg 
Importance: High 
She is the one! Now SALSS 4 days.. will get back to you next week... 
Kram BE. 
Barbro C. Ehnbom 
Chairman, Swedish-American Life Science Summit 
Office: 
Cell: 
Sweden: 
360 E. 55 St. #10G 
New York, N.Y. 10022 
-----Original Message----- 
From: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com> 
To: Barbro C Ehnbom 
Sent: Mon, Aug 20, 2012 2:32 pm 
Subject: Re: Program & Attendee list 
who is you r wife choice this year? 
On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Barbro C Ehnbom 
Dear Jeffrey, 
_wrote: 
I am sorry I did not call back Yesterday-I was exhausted from a crazy week and fell asleep 
as soon as I came home! Anyway, here is the full program and attendee list attached, this 
is the Globalization Summit I invited Bill Clinton to when I met him in Stockholm last Summer-
But he is a bit busy I gather! 
Anyway, hope got hold of you re search service? Also, I did see your mail 
about possibly coming here end of September-however, I am supposedly arranging a fund-
raiser for Congress Woman Diana deGette of Colorado on Sept 27 in NYC; she is the only one with a scientific agenda 
and she is just super-if anything I am hoping on your involvement? 
How about going to Stockholm mid or end november..albeit a bit dark and maybe cold..? 
Let me know what you think! 
Also, I just heard from my friend Jeff Kriendler in Miami and guess who was just walking in there -our friend Goldsamt! 
First prize for perseverance! 
Also, Sofia and the prince is on every magazine here, I think it is wonderful! 
Marcus has two big concerts in Stockholm this coming week. Me - SALSS! 
KRAM 
BE 
Barbro C. Ehnbom 
Sent from iPad 
Vidarebefordrat brev: 
Fran:_____________________________________________ 
Datum: August 18, 2012 8:44:29 AM GMT+02:00 
Till: Barbro Ehnbom___________________ 
Amne: Program & Attendee list 
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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019176.txt,"James PATTERSON

RECAREY: How long have you been working for him?

DOBBS: Um. ..1 probably worked for him for a year.
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DOBBS: Those were all the girls I brought. But you have to

remember, those girls brought other girls, too.

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who else was underage? Out of all these?

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RECAREY: Under eighteen.
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IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022358.txt,"Important information

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IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011594.txt,"they have to accomplish this all on their own. A// of us must assume that. Keep
cool. Stay focused. Rely on your instincts. We’re ready for this mission. And
we are going to achieve it.”

One minute after four in the afternoon, we got the word to go. I was in the
lead buggy, consciously trying to look like a civilian, not a soldier. It was about
a mile-and-a-half to the aircraft. I glanced back at the others. Like me, many of
them had been awake for 30 hours or more, in some cases nearly 48 hours. The
air marshals had been plucked off long-haul flights on which relaxation, much
less sleep, was not an option. As before any mission, I knew everyone would be
thinking about what was about to happen. They also realized that if we failed,
the passengers trapped inside the plane would be at the mercy of terrorists
armed with AK-47s and explosives. But I was confident that any apprehension
would be overtaken by adrenalin when as the assault began.

As we got closer, Shai Agmon radioed me. He said two or three people, not
the terrorists, had come out of the plane. One seemed to be the Red Cross man.
They were about 120 yards away from the aircraft. As soon as he’d signed off, I
got word from the command post in the control tower that it was indeed the Red
Cross representative, along with two of the flight crew. They’d been chosen by
the terrorists to do security checks on the “maintenance” men.

I brought the convoy to a halt. The Red Cross man gave each of us a fairly
cursory body search before waving us on. Then, he got to Bibi. Though I had
somehow failed to notice, he had left on his red sayeret boots. In Israel, that was
the equivalent of a neon sign saying: “I am a paratrooper.” Although the Red
Cross man noticed the boots, he at first made no comment. Then, rolling up the
pants leg of Bibi’s overalls, he saw his Beretta — not inside his waistbelt, but
inside the boot. The next thing I heard was an angry spurt of French as the man
called the control tower. For a moment, I feared the mission was over, with
potentially fatal repercussions for the hostages. But whatever explanation the
Red Cross man was given — presumably by Dayan himself, who would not have
held back in conveying what was at stake — it dissuaded him from taking further
action.

As we were returning to the buggies, the Red Cross man told me that
“Captain Rifa’at” had ordered us to pull up to the generator on the side of the
plane. Each of us would then have to walk forward and open the front of our
overalls so he could make sure we weren’t armed. I passed back four orders to
the rest of the men. First, with no exceptions, move your pistol to the back of
your belt. Second: I’Il be the first to go through the inspection. Third: watch

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Virginia Roberts.

I knew Josefsberg was an attorney who had
represented Miss Roberts based on public
information, and I knew that that would be a
gross violation of Mr. Josefsberg's
attorney/client obligations. And as a result of
that, it seemed to me that, once again,

Mr. Dershowitz was giving false information under
oath In an effort to exculpate himself from the
sex trafficking that he had been involved with.

In addition to that, I learned during the
deposition on Thursday that it had, quote, not
crossed my mind, close quote -- I believe that's
a direct quote from Mr. Dershowitz -- to record a
conversation with a woman allegedly named Rebecca
who had allegedly made certain statements. That
was on Thursday.

And then yesterday, Friday, I learned that
Mr. Dershowitz, not only had it crossed his mind
to make a recording, he had, in fact, made such a
recording; and in fact, had it transcribed; and
in fact, turned it over to his attorneys. So,
once again, I had what appeared to be a false
statement under oath by Mr. Dershowitz in an
attempt to exculpate himself from the -- the sex

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trafficking that we -- we have evidence he has
been involved with.

The false statements or certainly misleading
statements continue. I suppose, some of these
could be a matter of judgment. The -~ they raise
grave concern to me.

One of them was that we had propounded an
interrogatory requesting the basis for
Mr, Dershowitz's statements that Virginia Roberts
had a criminal record. And he said that, well,
she's admitted that she had sex with various
people, so that renders her a criminal, and
something along those lines, which I didn’t think
was very accurate.

But in any event, that was the answer he
gave. And then I learned during the deposition
in the last two days, that Mr. Dershowitz had
received information that he says shows that
Virginia Roberts had stolen money from a
restaurant and had been criminally charged with
that,

That was not produced to us during discovery,
even though it would have been obviously
relevant, and it was directly called for in the
discovery that we were provided with.

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You know, I also have -- I would like to
refresh my recollection and if ~~ if counsel --
that's --
MR. SCAROLA: You can refresh your
recollection on anything you need to.
THE WITNESS: All right. I'd like to refresh
my recollection by looking at --
MR. SIMPSON: Actually, I -~ I object to this
answer as nonresponsive. I haven't heard
anything about flight logs once.
MR. SCAROLA: You can continue.
THE WITNESS: These -- you know, these all go
to the statements.
BY MR. SIMPSON:
Q. You're looking at a document?
A. Yeah. Let's mark it as an exhibit if you'd
like. This is a memory aid to me.
Q. Did you prepare it?
A. Yes, I did. All right. Let's see. At page
114 of a rough transcript that I saw prepared of
Thursday's testimony, Mr. Dershowitz was asked. Quote:
You know that Virginia Roberts is not the only person
who has sworn under oath that you were present at
Jeffrey Epstein's Palm Beach home with young girls,
right? Answer: No.
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That seemed to me to be false or at the very
least misleading testimony given that Mr. Dershowitz
knew that Juan Alessi, among potentially other people,
had identified him as having been in the presence of
Jeffrey Epstein and young girls at the Florida mansion
and, indeed, had identified a photograph of Virginia
Roberts,

At page 164 of the transcript, Mr. Dershowitz
was asked, quote: All of the manifests that have been
produced in this litigation, the ones that you say
corroborate your testimony and exonerate you,
demonstrate that you never flew on Jeffrey Epstein's
plane in the company of your wife, correct? Answer:
No, that's not true. I don't know that.

And, again, in the context of this litigation
where the flight logs have been, as this question that
I'm answering tends to show, are so central for
Mr. Dershowitz to testify under oath that he didn't know
whether his wife was depicted on the flight log, struck
me as, at the very least, misleading information, but I
concluded in my opinion was actually deliberately false
information, particularly, given this litigation where
he has produced, not only his own personal travel
record, but all of his wife's travel records for the
relevant period of time.

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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026254.txt,"From: Steve Bannon

Sent: 2/24/2018 12:48:36 PM
To: jeevacation@gmail.com
Subject: Lawyer for Susan Rice: Obama administration ‘justifiably concerned’ about sharing intel with Trump team - POLITICO

Importance: — High

https: //ww. politico. com/story/2018/02/23/susan-rice-lawyer-obama-administration-classified-intel ligence-
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now was, that according to a very, very respected
attorney here in Florida, he had found Virginia Roberts
to be credible. And had filed a lawsuit against

Mr. Epstein saying that she had been trafficked,
sexually trafficked, you know, not just abused by

Mr. Epstein, but now being forcibly sent to, you know,
other people to abuse. And in the categories of people
that were sexually abusing her were academicians and I
knew that Mr. Dershowitz fell within that category of
being an academician.

That complaint also indicated that there
might be flight logs that would show that Virginia
Roberts had been sexually abused in these various
locations. And that started to indicate to me that
there might be what the law refers to as a common scheme
or plan. And that just as Virginia Roberts was being
trafficked to these powerful people in various places,
there might well be other girls.

And so I have mentioned a flight log and you
wanted to talk about Mr. Dershowitz. On December 30th,
2009, I was aware that there was a flight log showing
Mr. Dershowitz flying with Tatiana (indicating), who as
far as I can tell was not a business person, was not
providing financial advice or something else.

I understood that Mr. Epstein was a

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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031803.txt,"From: J [jeevacation@gmail.com]

Sent: 6/15/2019 9:57:14 AM

To: DAVID SCHOEN aS

Subject: Re: From Fox News - Jeffrey Epstein, registered sex offender, settles civil lawsuit and avoids testimony from alleged
victims

no worry how are you

On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 2:21 AM DAVID SCHOEN <> wrote:

I know it was an old piece but Fox is running it again today.

The numerous young women who say they were sexually abused by wealthy, Clinton-linked financier Jeffrey
Epstein no longer appear set to testify after a last-minute settlement was reached in a closely-watched civil
lawsuit against the registered sex offender.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/jeffrey-epstein-a-registered-sex-offender-settles-civil-lawsuit-and-avoids-

testimony-from-alleged-victims

Explore the Fox News apps that are right for you at http://www.foxnews.com/apps-products/index.html.

please note
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had to have Curtis Renie or Bil! actually come into my
office, set up a special icon to allow me to do that.
It was a real pain, so it was rare.

Q. Who else attended the meetings that you had
with the Clockwork group with respect to the investors
in the Epstein case?

A. There were multiple meetings with what I'l]
call the Clockwork investors at various points in
time. A variety of people came in and out of the

meetings. Some of the meetings occurred down in Bova.

Other people came up to the meetings. Some of the
meetings involved Michael Szafranski, our fake
independent verifier. Some of the meetings may have
involved bankers and the like. ] cannot tell you
specifically who was at those meetings.

Q. The specific meetings that we are talking
about with -- where you left the boxes at your office,
do you recall who else was there with you at that
meeting?

A. J only remember there being a handful of
people from the investment group and myself. | don't
recal] -- and ] remember the guys bringing the boxes
the down, but they didn't stay for the meeting. There
may have been other people there, ] don't recal] one

me

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where we owed 20, $30 million in Ponzi payments out
and she needed to write a check for even $5,000, she
probably would have checked with me on that. So
substantial and whether or not she would have checked
with me depended upon the circumstance at the time.

Q. You stated earlier, and J think I'l] get
this quote right, that 2009 was a dismal year; is that
correct?

A. For the legitimate law firm business, it was
a dismal year.

Q. Soin the months immediately preceding the
dissolution of RRA, July to October of 2009, what
would you consider a substantial expense that had to
be approved?

A. It would vary literally from day-to-day.

Q. Do you have any independent recollection of
how you were doing in, say, July 2009?

A. The legitimate business was always doing
poorly in 2009, as far as ] was concerned.

Q. So would you have --

A. The Ponzi scheme had its moments of
significant wealth and significant poverty, so it
varied from time to time. It was a daily thing.
Sometimes it was hourly. It just depended upon what

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way or the other who it was. was coming in and what needed to go out.

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Q. Ifthe expenditures were being made on a
case that were substantial, did you have to approve
them or did you have a specific practice for them?

A. The head of a practice group could basically
approve them but Irene, our CFO, would generally run
them by me before she actually cut the check. If]
wasn't around she'd run it by Stu.

Q. So as the equity partners you had the
authority to make the determination what funds could
and could not be expended?

A. As the shareholders, as the two 50 percent
shareholders, we controlled the finances.

Q. And if Irene was coming to you to tell you
what the funding was for, to get approval rather,
would she tell you specifically what the funding was
for or just tell you ""we need $100,000""?

A. No, if it was a substantial expense --

Q. Tell me what you deem as substantial.

A. That would have been -- substantial to me
would have been based upon how much money we had in
our coffers at the time. So, if it was one of those

Q. So would you have to utilize the
illegitimate funds to fund the legitimate cases at
times?

A. Yes.

Q. And that varied daily you said?

A. Well, aj] the money was commingled together,
so we used whatever funds were in there to fund both
the legitimate and the iJlegitimate financial
requirements of the firm, the Ponzi scheme and other
legitimate and illegitimate things that were going on.

Q. Ifan outside agency or investigator was
being utilized for a case and they needed a signed
retainer agreement with your firm, would you have to
approve that?

A.. It would depend upon the significance of the
expense. | didn't necessarily get involved in every
retention of every expert in every case.

Q. Okay. So it would depend on the cost or the
nature of the case?

A. Who the lawyer was, their level of
expertise, all things of that nature.

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periods of time where we had 20 or $30 million
floating around the law firm, Irene probably would
have just written a check without even letting me know
we were writing it. If it was one of those times

Q. Ifit was this gentleman who you have no
recollection of meeting, Mr. Black, and the attorney
was Mr. Edwards, was that something you needed to look
over?
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sole beneficiary of the Ernest Irrevocable 2004 Trust III and Mr. Garcia III and his children are the beneficiaries of the Ernest C. Garcia IIT Multi-
Generational Trust III. This information is based on the Form 4 filed with the SEC by Mr. Garcia II on February 27, 2019. Verde’s and Mr. Garcia
II’s address is 1720 W. Rio Salado Parkway, Suite A, Tempe, AZ 85281.

(3) This number includes 52,937,458 shares of Class B common stock owned directly by Mr. Garcia II; 8,000,000 shares of Class B common stock
owned by ECG III SPE, of which Mr. Garcia IT is the 100% owner; 2,860,439 shares of Class B common stock owned by DriveTime Sales and
Finance Company LLC. Mr. Garcia IT is the chairman of the board of directors and largest stockholder of DriveTime, of which DriveTime Sales and
Finance Company LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary. This number also includes 11,952,000 shares of Class B common stock owned by the Emest
Irrevocable 2004 Trust II, of which Mr. Garcia III is the sole beneficiary, and 11,952,000 shares of Class B common stock owned by the Emest C.
Garcia III Multi-Generational Trust III, of which Mr. Garcia III is a beneficiary together with his children. While Ernest Garcia II is the investment
trustee over Ermest C. Garcia II Multi-Generational Trust II, the trust is irrevocable and he is not a beneficiary. While Ermest Garcia II and Ernest
Garcia III are the joint investment trustees over Ernest Irrevocable 2004 Trust III, the trust is irrevocable and Mr. Garcia II is not a beneficiary. These
shares of Class B common stock together with the corresponding LLC Units may be exchanged for 87,701,897 shares of Class A common stock.
These shares of Class A common stock represent approximately 58% of the shares of Class A common stock that would be outstanding if all
outstanding LLC Units were exchanged and all outstanding shares of Class B common stock were converted at that time. This information is based on
the Form 4 filed with the SEC by Mr. Garcia II on February 27, 2019. Verde’s, ECG III SPE’s, and Mr. Garcia II’s address is 1720 W. Rio Salado
Parkway, Suite A, Tempe, AZ 85281.

(4) Spruce House Investment Management LLC; Spruce House Capital LLC; Spruce House Partnership LP; Zachary Sternberg and Benjamin Stein
report shared voting and dispositive power of 5,500,000 shares of Class A common stock. Zachary Sternberg and Benjamin Stein each report sole
voting and dispositive power of 50,000 shares of Class A common stock. Spruce House Partnership LP holds the 5,500,000 shares with shared voting
and dispositive power and Spruce House Capital LLC serves as the general partner and Spruce House Investment Management LLC serves as the
investment manager. Zachary Sternberg and Benjamin Stein each serve as a managing member of the Spruce House Capital LLC and the Spruce
House Investment Management LLC. This information is based on the Schedule 13G/A filed with the SEC on February 14, 2019. The address for
each of these reporting persons is 435 Hudson Street, 8th Floor New York, NY 10014.

(5) Melvin Capital Management LP is the investment manager of Melvin Capital Master Fund Ltd. Melvin Capital Management LP reports shared voting
and dispositive power of 3,725,000 shares of Class A common stock. The number of shares reported above consists of 1,606,827 shares of Class A
common stock and call options exercisable into 861,600 shares of Class A common stock held by Melvin Capital Master Fund Ltd; 300,909 shares of
Class A common stock and call options exercisable into 161,200 shares of Class A common stock held by Melvin Capital Onshore LP; and 517,264
shares of Class A common stock and call options exercisable into 277,200 shares of Class A common stock held by one or more managed accounts.
Melvin Capital Management LP, as the investment manager to these funds and accounts, may be deemed to beneficially own the 2,425,000 shares of
Common Stock and the call options exercisable into 1,300,000 shares of Class A common stock held by them. This information is based on the
Schedule 13G/A filed with the SEC on February 15, 2019. The address for each of these reporting persons is 527 Madison Avenue, 25th Floor, New
York, NY 10022.

(6) FMRLLC reports sole power to dispose or direct the disposition of 3,591,784 shares of Class A common stock. This information is based on the
Schedule 13G filed with the SEC on February 14, 2019. FMR LLC’s address is 245 Summer Street, Boston, MA 02210.

(7) The Vanguard Group reports shared power to dispose or direct the disposition of 63,700 of these shares of Class A common stock. This information is
based on the Schedule 13G filed with the SEC on February 11, 2019. The Vanguard Group’s address is 100 Vanguard Blvd., Malvern, PA 19355.

(8) Wilmot B. Harkey and Daniel Mack are the managing members of Nantahala Capital Management, LLC and together report shared voting and
dispositive power with respect to these shares. This number of shares includes call options exercisable into 1,450,000 shares of Class A common
stock. This information is based on the Schedule 13G filed with the SEC on February 14, 2019. The address for each of these reporting persons is 19
Old Kings Highway S, Suite 200 Darien, CT 06820.

(9) CAS Investment Partners, LLC, Sosin Partners, L.P., and Clifford Sosin report shared voting and dispositive power with respect to 2,167,766 of these
shares and Mr. Sosin reports sole voting and dispositive power with respect to 26,738 of these shares. Sosin Partners, L.P. owns an aggregate of
2,167,766 shares of Class A common stock and CAS Investment Partners, LLC,

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015103.txt,"“In my office,” Cronkite said. “When we got the word from
Bethesda that he had passed, | cried openly.”

“And you’ re supposed to be objective,” | teased him. “I didn’ t
realize you were that much of a Kennedy supporter.”

“Well, by that time | was crying because it had also come over the
wires that Lyndon Johnson was already preparing to be sworn in as the
new president.”

It was encouraging to find that in person this superstar really was

just like your favorite uncle.

When Robert Kennedy was attorney general in 1962, he was busy
checking out the Hiss case for some reason. Of course, he discovered that
the FBI never had the Woodstock typewriter.

Then, in 1968, when he was running for president, he approached
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assassination of Bobby’ s brother.

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had a huge defense contract for helicopters—yet at the same time he

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IMAGES-012-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033274.txt,"From: Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]

Sent: 2/16/2018 2:19:27 PM
To: jeevacation@gmail.com
Subject: Alert - trump im palm

Importance: — High

February 16, 2018 9:00 AM : trump im palm

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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025985.txt,"Chart 13: The 2016 election move implied by the VIX term structure is,
in our estimate’, approx. 1.4%...
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Source: BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research. Daily data from 2-Jun-09 to 5-Aug-16. *Day count
adjustment = we adjust the VIX futures curve to reflect the Trade-Day/252 day-count convention and
use SQRT ((30/365*252/T}) as the adjustment factor to convert to the common day-count
convention used in variance swaps. Term-structure adjustment = we add the median level of the day-
count adjusted generic 1m/2m/3m fly (ie. -0.5x Sep fut. +1xOct fut. -0.5x Nov fut) to take into
account the usual VIX term structure.

Chart 14: ..which is notably very close to the typical SPX daily realized
move post-elections since 1928

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single day in the Oct-Nov period (which encompasses the US
election on 8-Nov).

Our estimated implied move is 1.4% which is notably very close
to the typical 1-day post-election day SPX realized move over
past election cycles (1.5% since 1928) (see Chart 14).

Importantly, there is a larger-than-typical variation in the
distribution of all daily post-election SPX returns (34.0 vol pts
vs. 18.4 vol pts for daily SPX returns since Jan-1928), with the
largest and the fourth largest daily post-election SPX returns
since 1928 occurring in the last two election cycles alone (see
Chart 14).

Hence, investors who believe this /s not your typical election (to
quote President Obama at the latest Democratic National
Convention) may still find that option markets are currently
pricing too little of a move.

However, as we have recently argued the debate about whether
a Trump win would be good or bad for markets coupled with the
inability to exactly pinpoint real risks are likely headwinds to a
sizeable market shock.

8 Global Equity Volatility Insights | O09 August 2016

BankofAmerica <2”
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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022711.txt,"Then there is the outside world pressed to the glass, appalled and
titillated by the monster inside the big house—a kind of Boo Radley of the
Upper East Side. I have taken friends by the Epstein mansion, and the
reaction to its other-worldly size in Manhattan is almost always the same:
audible disbelief (everybody makes their own particular odd noise). Press
accounts, seldom supplying new information, ever recycle and repeat the
mysterious (and monstrous) billionaire mythology, with brief glimpses of
him stepping out of the house (the same photos endlessly republished), and
the assumption of depravity inside.

In fact, the life in the house, without wife or children or conventional
domestic demeanor, in some way conforms to the most scripted fantasies: a
life somewhere between Daddy Warbucks and Eyes Wide Shut.

The domesticity of the house, and the background of Epstein’s
problems, centers around a group of young women who act as his support
staff and companions. Some have worked for him for many years, marrying,
having children, and continuing as part of his business and household
infrastructure. One woman, on an afternoon when I was there, recently
married, had just returned from an around the world honeymoon that Epstein
had arranged for her. Some are his romantic interests. His present girl friend
is in dental school. One former girlfriend, Eva Andersson Dubin, a
Swedish model and Miss Universe finalist, became a doctor and
married hedge funder Glen Dubin and together they finance the
Dubin Breast Center at Mount Sinai Hospital. Most at one time will
travel with him to his floating residences—the ranch in New Mexico, the
vast apartment in Paris, the Island in the Caribbean, the house in Palm
Beach.

This is so outside of conventional living or staffing or romantic
relationships that it is hard to describe in a straightforward or straight-faced
way. It sometimes seems part of Epstein’s implicit challenge: not just look at
me, but do you even believe what you see? Or it seems he is just oblivious to
what others are thinking. A willful and perhaps fatal tone deafness.

But Hefnerian prurience can also be quite businesslike: poised young
women in a mansion on the Upper East Side with various office
responsibilities—in some sense not that different from any of the art
galleries in the surrounding neighborhood.

Epstein’s young women mingle freely with his powerful guests, not so
much as hostess or, in tabloid language, harem-like (or as “sex slaves”’), but
often as attentive students (that, of course, might be regarded as having its
own fetish-like attraction).

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MR. SIMPSON: I'm not going to ask any

details at all.
BY MR. SIMPSON:

Q. I'm simply going to ask: Is it in writing,
yes or no? As of December 30th, 2014, was there a
written common interest agreement, yes or no?
MR. SCAROLA: Those are two different
questions and I think the record needs to be
clear as to which one you're asking.
MR. SIMPSON: All right. Let me ask this
question.
BY MR. SIMPSON:

Q. As of December 30th, 2014, was there any
common interest agreement that was in writing?

A. I'm not certain what date a written agreement

was executed on these subjects.

Q. At some point, was a written agreement
executed?

A. Yes.

Q. And who were the parties to the written
agreement?

A. Well, there have been addenda to the
agreement, if I recall correctly, but sitting here
today, the parties to the agreement include Virginia

Roberts, and her -- well, attorneys representing -- I

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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022922.txt,"present tabloid interest in Epstein’s old address book
with its many Clinton contacts. And his sex offender
status has transformed him from libertine playboy to
pedophile.

While he has regularly entertained PR proposals
aimed at his public rehabilitation, until Gates prodded
him, and until this recent renewed tabloid fever, Epstein
had concluded that he was perfectly satisfied living
behind high walls and in his own exclusive club. Even
now, this new Dershowitz-Prince Andrew chapter seems
like a parallel disturbance rather than something that is
actually affecting him. “Bad press is not something
actually bad,” he notes, trying to balance perception and
reality.

And, indeed, the tabloid narrative and his own story
rather define divergent realities. The ongoing case, with
the filings that introduced the Dershowitz and Prince
Andrew allegations, was brought by the imprisoned
Rothstein’s former partner, Brad Edwards. It relies
entirely on the testimony and the memoir, excerpts of
which were published by the Daily Mail, of Virginia
Roberts, who claims that Ghislaine Maxwell met her,
when she was 17, at Donald Trump’s Palm Beach resort
and got her a job in the Epstein house, which she held
for several years, traveling in the Epstein entourage. It is
Roberts—who refused to cooperate with the FBI’s 2007
investigation of Epstein—who has propounded the “sex
slave” narrative. She claims that “massage” was a code
word for sexual acts, and that she worked for Epstein for

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change’ in Syria will be outraged by President Bashar al-Asad’s
speech last Monday, 20 June. They want him out, together with the
hate figures around him who have been conducting the brutal
repression of the protest movement. But he is not stepping down. He
intends to stay on -- and to fight on.

Asad gave no ground to his political enemies. The speech was not, in
fact, addressed to them. It was addressed to Syria’s ‘silent majority’
which -- or so the President continues to believe -- aspires to security,
stability and national unity, and is terrified, above all, of a sectarian
war on the Iraqi model.

The President explained that, in order to understand the nature of the
crisis, he had held several meetings in recent weeks with citizens
from all parts of the country. He wanted to hear directly from them.
The conclusion he had reached was that there were several different
components to the protest movement.

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justice, democracy and jobs, and the resolution of problems which
had accumulated over decades. Their demands could not be ignored.
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then there were the others -- the criminal outlaws, the blasphemous
intellectuals who spoke in the name of religion, the vandals,
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Sent: 2/11/2013 5:45:09 PM
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Subject: prep for dinner, israel pres briefing /

The Wall Street Journal

The Ayatollah Always Says No

Editorial

February 8, 2013 -The Farsi word for ""no"" is na h, which is easy enough
to remember. Maybe even Joe Biden won't forget it the next time the U.S.
tries to reach out diplomatically to Iran.

We're speaking of the Administration's latest effort to come to terms with
Tehran over its nuclear programs, which Mr. Biden made last weekend at
the Munich Security Conference. The U.S. offer of direct bilateral talks,
he said, ""stands, but it must be real and tangible."" Iranian foreign minister
Ali Akbar Salehi, who was also at the conference though he refused to
meet with U.S. officials, called Mr. Biden's comments ""a step forward.""

Mr. Salehi's remark set the usual hearts aflutter that Iran is finally serious
about a deal. But the optimism was brief. On Thursday, Iran's Supreme
Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei flatly rejected direct talks with the U.S.
""The U.S. is pointing a gun at Iran and wants us to talk to them,"" he said.
""Direct talks will not solve any problems.""

This isn't the first time Mr. Khamenei has played chaste Daphne to
President Obama's infatuated Apollo. Just after becoming President in
2009, Mr. Obama sent the Ayatollah two private letters and delivered a
conciliatory speech for the Persian new year of Nowruz. Mr. Khamenei's
answer: ""They chant the slogan of change but no change is seen in
practice."" He told a crowd chanting ""death to America"" that ""if a hand is
stretched covered with a velvet glove but it is cast iron inside, that makes
no sense.""

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In case you’re interested, President-elect Donald Trump meets today with a a group of doctors at his Mar-a-
Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.
They are Dr. John H. Noseworthy, president and chief executive officer of the Mayo Clinic; Dr. Paul B.
Rothman, dean of the medical faculty, vice president for medicine of The Johns Hopkins University and chief
executive officer of Johns Hopkins Medicine; Dr. Bruce Moskowitz; Dr. David F. Torchiana, president and
chief executive officer of Partners HealthCare; and Dr. Toby Cosgrove, president and chief executive officer
of the Cleveland Clinic.
The Cleveland Clinic has lots of patients, but a notable one is U.S. Rep. Tom Marino, R-10, Lycoming Twp.,
one of Mr. Trump’s top supporters, who has undergone kidney cancer surgery there.
None of the doctors gave to Mr. Trump’s campaign and generally don’t contribute much to political
campaigns if at all. When they do, they donate mostly to Democrats.
Mr. Trump is also meeting with Isaac Perlmutter, chief executive officer of Marvel Entertainment, and David
M. Rubenstein the co-founder of Carlyle Group.
Mr. Perlumuter hardly ever gives to political campaigns either, but his wife, Laura, gave $2 million to former
presidential candidate Marco Rubio’s campaign super PAC, according to The New York Times.
Mr. Rubenstein gives extensively to candidates from both parties.
Neither he nor Perlmutter gave to Mr. Trump.
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To Your Health
Trump just met with superinfluential
health-care
executives you’ve probably never
heard of
By Ariana Eunjung Cha December 28 at 1:20 PM
President-elect Donald Trump's meeting this month with Silicon Valley's elite made
headlines for its inclusion of such big names as Apple's Tim Cook, Facebook's Sheryl
Sandberg, Tesla Motors's Elon Musk, and Amazon's Jeffrey P. Bezos. (Bezos owns The
Washington Post.)
The group talked about a wide range of topics, including bringing jobs back to
the United States, immigration, China, cybersecurity, taxes and technology in schools.
What has been less publicized is that Trump has been holding similar meet-and-greets
with other titans of industry in critical areas of the economy, including finance
and network news.
On Wednesday, his guests were health-care executives — many of whom represent
companies or institutions that have a big stake in the outcome of Trump's ambitions to
dismantle the Affordable Care Act. According to a pool report, the group, all men, met
with him at 11 a.m. at the Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla. They included John
Noseworthy of the Mayo Clinic, Paul Rothman of Johns Hopkins Medicine, David
Torchiana of Partners HealthCare and Toby Cosgrove of the Cleveland Clinic.
Noseworthy, a neurologist who is president and CEO of the Mayo Clinic, in recent
years has been an articulate commentator about health-care reform on TV shows such
as MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” NBC's “Meet the Press,” and “Charlie Rose.” He has
argued that Obamacare was basically an expansion of insurance coverage and did not
emphasize patient health enough.
In an interview with The Washington Post in November, he said his office had already
been in touch with Trump's transition team offering help.
“We’re really talking about replace and repair, rather than repeal. But we haven’t seen
a full approach yet from the administration. Personally, this is me speaking. … We’re
basically optimistic we can create a better system together,” Noseworthy said.
In a statement issued by his office shortly after the meeting began, Noseworthy said
the invitation from Trump was to ""share his perspective on the future of healthcare
delivery, research and excellence"" and that he was ""pleased for the opportunity.""
Rothman is chief executive of Johns Hopkins Medicine and several years ago found
himself in the awkward position of criticizing physician Ben Carson, who at the time
was head of pediatric neurology for the institution, after he made disparaging remarks
about same-sex marriage. Carson later apologized publicly for his “poorly chosen
words.” Carson, a onetime political rival of Trump's, has been tapped to lead
the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Torchiana is chief executive of Partners HealthCare, based in Massachusetts — a state
that has long been at the forefront of health-care reform. Partners operates two of the
most well-regarded hospitals in the world, Massachusetts General and Brigham and
Women's Hospital, which are affiliated with Harvard Medical School. But in recent
months, Partners has been under fire from some policymakers because of what they
describe as a large gap between what Partners charges and what other providers
charge.
Cosgrove, a heart surgeon and Vietnam veteran who is chief executive of the Cleveland
Clinic, may be a candidate for the head of the Department of Veterans Affairs,
according to Bloomberg News. . Cosgrove has met with Trump several other times. He's
on an advisory panel of 16 executives for the president-elect on jobs and the economy,
has been spotted in Trump Tower recently and was in Palm Beach meeting with
Trump last week.
Cosgrove has criticized Obamacare and in September appeared on CNBC's “Squawk
Box” saying that health-care providers are drowning in paperwork.
“The number of quality metrics that we have to report to the government every year is
just going up like crazy. We're now reporting well over 100 quality metrics on a regular
basis,” he said, describing regulation paperwork as coming in seven-foot-tall stacks of
16,000 pages.
Also in the meeting were Bruce Moskowitz, described as a physician in Palm Beach,
and Isaac Perlmutter, chief executive officer of Marvel Entertainment. We can't
explain what he was doing there.
Separately, former Wisconsin governor Tommy Thompson was expected to meet with
Trump later in the day to discuss Obamacare reform, according to a pool report.
Thompson served as secretary of health and human services during George W. Bush's
first term.
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Net worth: $2 billion USD (2014)

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016387.txt,"division has been critiqued by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, myself, and
others. We can discuss “should” if framed as “we should do X in order to achieve Y.”
Which Y should be a high priority is not necessarily settled by democratic vote but might
be settled by Darwinian vote. Value systems and religions wax and wane, diversify,
diverge, and merge just as living species do: subject to selection. The ultimate “value”
(the “should”’) is survival of genes and memes.

Few religions say that there is no connection between our physical being and the
spiritual world. Miracles are documented. Conflicts between Church doctrine and
Galileo and Darwin are eventually resolved. Faith and ethics are widespread in our
species and can be studied using scientific methods, including but not limited to fMRI,
psychoactive drugs, questionnaires, et cetera.

Very practically, we have to address the ethical rules that should be built in,
learned, or probabilistically chosen for increasingly intelligent and diverse machines. We
have a whole series of trolley problems. At what number of people in line for death
should the computer decide to shift a moving trolley to one person? Ultimately this
might be a deep-learning problem—one in which huge databases of facts and
contingencies can be taken into account, some seemingly far from the ethics at hand.

For example, the computer might infer that the person who would escape death if
the trolley is left alone is a convicted terrorist recidivist loaded up with doomsday
pathogens, or a saintly POTUS—or part of a much more elaborate chain of events in
detailed alternative realities. If one of these problem descriptions seems paradoxical or
illogical, it may be that the authors of the trolley problem have adjusted the weights on
each sides of the balance such that hesitant indecision is inevitable.

Alternatively, one can use misdirection to rig the system, such that the error
modes are not at the level of attention. For example, in the Trolley Problem, the real
ethical decision was made years earlier when pedestrians were given access to the rails—
or even before that, when we voted to spend more on entertainment than on public safety.
Questions that at first seem alien and troubling, like “Who owns the new minds, and who
pays for their mistakes?” are similar to well-established laws about who owns and pays
for the sins of a corporation.

The Slippery Slopes
We can (over)simplify ethics by claiming that certain scenarios won’t happen. The
technical challenges or the bright red lines that cannot be crossed are reassuring, but the
reality is that once the benefits seem to outweigh the risks (even briefly and barely), the
red lines shift. Just before Louise Brown’s birth in 1978, many people were worried that
she “would turn out to be a little monster, in some way, shape or form, deformed,
something wrong with her.”*° Few would hold this view of in-vitro fertilization today.
What technologies are lubricating the slope toward multiplex sentience? It is not
merely deep machine-learning algorithms with Big Iron. We have engineered rodents to
be significantly better at a variety of cognitive tasks as well as to exhibit other relevant
traits, such as persistence and low anxiety. Will this be applicable to animals that are
already at the door of humanlike intelligence? Several show self-recognition in a mirror
test—chimpanzees, bonobos, orangutans, some dolphins and whales, and magpies.

45 “Then, Doctors ‘All Anxious’ About Test-tube Baby”
http://edition.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/parenting/07/25/cnna.copperman/

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from the founders and most senior officials of al-Qaeda’s partners in the financial industry, many of whom had longstanding
direct ties to bin Laden, and several of whom also held positions within al-Qaeda’s charity fronts, thus placing them in a
unique position to facilitate the provision of resources to al-Qaeda via the network of financial institutions and charitable
organizations under their influence. In the case of Al Shamal, bin Laden was himself one of its major shareholders, having
contributed $50 million in capital to the bank around the time he relocated al-Qaeda to the Sudan.” The Sudanese regime that
invited bin Laden and al-Qaeda to Sudan also held a direct ownership in Al Shamal, as did Saleh Kamel, a wealthy patron of
al-Qaeda’s endeavors.” Al Shamal’s Chairman was Adel Abdul Jalil Batterjee, a close bin Laden associate who also headed
al-Qaeda charity *50 fronts Benevolence International Foundation and its Saudi parent, Lajnat al Bir.* Batterjee’s primary
role in al-Qaeda’s support infrastructure prompted the United States to list him as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist
after the September 11th Attacks.”

Faisal Islamic Bank’s leadership is similarly intertwined with the al-Qaeda organization. As is true of Al Shamal, the
Sudanese regime that provided safehaven and support to bin Laden and al-Qaeda held a direct interest in Faisal Islamic
Bank.” Its founders included Yousef Nada, another al-Qaeda financial patron designated by the United States pursuant to
Executive Order 13224, and two of its Directors, Abdullah Omar Naseef and Amin Aqeel Attas, in turn were founders of
Rabita Trust, an entity also designated by the United States under Executive Order 13224 based on its role in sponsoring
al-Qaeda.”

*31 Tadamon and the DMI entities were similarly intertwined with al Qaeda’s leadership and other members of al Qaeda’s
inner support circle. Osama bin Laden was himself a shareholder in Tadamon, and Tadamon’s other shareholders included al
Qaeda material sponsors FIBS, Saleh Kamel, Al Baraka Investment, Mohammed Hussein al Amoudi, and Dubai Islamic
Bank.” DMI Trust appointed Hassan al Turabi, the noted Islamist leader of the National Islamic Front who invited bin Laden
to the Sudan to build al Qaeda, to serve on its Board of Supervisors, and also held direct or indirect stakes in Al Shamal,
FIBS and Tadamon.*°

The pleadings similarly allege that al Qaeda’s collaborations with NCB and Al Rajhi Bank were implemented by NCB
Chairman Khaled bin Mahfouz and Al Rajhi Bank Managing Director Suleiman al Rajhi,*' both of *52 whom have direct ties
to bin Laden.** Both bin Mahfouz and al Rajhi are identified as primary al-Qaeda sponsors on the “Golden Chain,” a
document discovered during a 2002 raid of the Bosnian offices of Benevolence International Foundation that uncovered a
trove of internal documents on a computer hard drive.* After careful review of the materials, U.S. intelligence agencies
concluded that they were internal al-Qaeda documents, chronicling the formation of al-Qaeda and details of its financial and
organizational structure.“' The Golden Chain document was found within this broader collection, and U.S. intelligence and
law enforcement agencies have concluded that it is an authentic al-Qaeda document identifying al-Qaeda’s most important
financial benefactors, and the individuals responsible for coordinating their contributions to al-Qaeda.© The Golden Chain
has been authenticated by former al-Qaeda *53 finance chief Jamal al Fadl, and the Treasury Department has used inclusion
on the list as a basis for designating individuals pursuant to Executive Order 13224.*

The authenticity of the Golden Chain as a list of al-Qaeda’s most important financiers has been widely accepted. The 9/11
Commission Monograph on Terrorism Financing cites to “a group of wealthy donors from the Persian Gulf region known as
the ‘Golden Chain,’ which provided support to ... Usama Bin Ladin.”®’ The 9/11 Monograph continues:

The material seized [in Bosnia] included many documents never before seen by U.S. officials, such as the actual minutes of
al Qaeda meetings, the al Qaeda oath, al Qaeda organizational charges, and the “Golden Chain” list of wealthy donors to the
Afghan mujahideen....*

The Council on Foreign Relations Studies (“CRS”) produced a report in October 2002 that also made use of the Golden
Chain. Relying on the 9/11 Commission report, the CRS report described the Golden Chain as:

*34 an informal financial network of prominent Saudi and gulf individuals originally established to support the anti-Soviet

Afghan resistance movement in the 1980s. U.S. officials state that this network collected funds and tunneled it to Arab
fighters in Afghanistan, and later to Al Qaeda, using charities and other non-governmental organizations .... Saudi individuals

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Maze

clue which one will be better. Beware the confusing naming system, ‘N’
stands for nondeterministic in this case, whereas in normal complexity
classes ‘n’ stands for number. Sorry. That’s just the way it is. Let me give
you an example of one of these NP problems.

Let us assume we have one of those complicated recipes from the
latest celebrity chef cookbook. If all the ingredients can be bought from
one store, making the dish is straightforward, but if they come from
different stores, you will have your work cut out. What is the best order
to visit them? With 2 shops, it’s trivial. Either order will do. With 3 it is a
little harder and with 4 there is quite a bit of choice. This is known as the
‘traveling salesman’ problem because the original formulation described
a salesman wishing to find the shortest route between all the cities in
which he had customers. The complexity of this problem rises much
faster than the Rice and Chess Board problem. Try it for yourself. It
doesn’t matter if you imagine you are visiting customers or shops. I have
given you a grid to count off distances. Try to solve a problem for 3 cities,
5 and 10. What is the shortest path allowing you to visit each place?

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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031156.txt,"From: US GIO [us.gio@jpmorgan.com]

Sent: 8/4/2011 11:41:48 PM
To: Undisclosed recipients:;
Subject: On today's financial market developments

Attachments: 08-04-11 - EOTM - Market update.pdf

This is a little unorthodox, but here is the text of an internal note that I just sent to our integrated Private Bank client
coverage teams a few moments ago. Mary thought it would be a good idea to share this with our clients given the events
of the day.

“Here is what I plan to say at our Aspen Insights conference tomorrow about today’s events. The last two weeks have
been a severe setback for financial markets and the global recovery.

[1] Today, Italian equity markets sold off sharply and were eventually shut down after the ECB (for now) rejected
being the buyer of last resort for Italian government bonds, as the markets were hoping. The Bundesbank
apparently has objections to the idea. This is a problem: Italy has issued around as much public debt as Germany, but
is a considerably smaller country with almost twice the debt load as a percentage of its GDP. Absent a decision by
Germany to move to Federalism or a lot more debt monetization by the ECB, the European Monetary Union (as it is
currently configured) could be facing its final stretch. Today’s reported move by Italian regulators to seize documents at
Moody’s regarding declines in Italian bank stocks is an indication of the pressure the system is under, and the possible
search for scapegoats. I don’t think you will find a firm that has written more often and more direly about the structural
inconsistencies of the EMU than we have (I have a 2-year bibliography of what we said and when, if anyone wants

it). The “Sick Men of Europe” paper from February 2010 and “Don Quixote Thanksgiving” from November 2010 go into
the greatest detail on why. Our concerns sky-rocketed upon Greece’s financial disclosures in November 2009, after
which we took portfolio decisions to back that up, purging exposures to the GIPSI countries from our credit, government
bond and equity portfolios. Since early 2010, our underweight positions in Europe represent the largest regional
underweights we have ever held.

[2] Will there be another recession in the US? Our friend Marty Feldstein at Harvard puts the odds at 50-50. Sell
side and buy side economists missed last month’s US economic rollover by a country mile, so I am not sure how much
weight to put in their current forecasts. Most summarily dismissed our concerns that the recovery earlier this year had
elements of a stimulus-driven mirage. Bridgewater Associates was the only firm we spoke to that consistently
highlighted the broader process of household deleveraging; and cautioned that when stimulus faded, so would the US
economy, given the weakness in household income. Their insights have been invaluable to us in terms of not stepping
into this and taking too much risk prematurely during the three market swoons this year. Our central scenario for the US
in 2012 is not another recession, but low growth in the 2.0% range, which is enough of a problem given the low job
creation that entails. Note that the CBO assumes growth rates of 3.0% to 3.6% over the next few years in their analyses
of future US federal debt levels.

[3] Do not blame today’s events on the debt ceiling debate, US politicians or European regulators. If we get to the
point where economic and profit fundamentals in a given market or region are not sustainable on their own, then
we should be underweight that region (as in Europe). Owning an asset class under the assumption that there will
always be a “Lord of the Flies” type rescue from Central Banks and Treasuries is very risky, and historically, fraught with
failure. I remember similar logic in the summer of 1998, when the accepted mantra was that the US would bail out
Russia and Boris Yeltsin, since President Clinton would not want to see a nuclear power like Russia slide back into Soviet
rule, or anarchy (that view turned out to be wrong). Anyone market-weight European risk out of the expectation that
“Trichet and Merkel will fix surely it” is taking a binary risk that impossible to handicap. Similarly, we should not start
buying anything just because we think Qe3 is coming in the US (in the form of securities purchases, a permanently
controlled long bond, etc).

[4] When we began this year, I made the following decision: we would risk underperforming if there was a strong
equity rally, out of concerns about the macroeconomic landscape (weakness in the West, inflation in the East). As
a result, we have held less equity exposure than usual for a period of high margins, low P/E multiples and strong
earnings. Instead, we’ve held larger exposures to investment grade and high yield credit, and hedge funds. Over the last
couple of years, our hedge funds (long-short funds with low net positions, macro hedge funds, distressed credit) have

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_014590.txt,"Exhibit 63: Relative Performance of “Stable” and
“Volatile” EAFE Stocks

Investors have recently shifted toward firms more exposed
to the business cycle.

Relative Return (%)

8 5 m Stable
= Volatile
6

4

Last 3 2016-to-Date 5 Years 10 Years 1987-2007 = Since 1987

Months

Annualized Returns

Data as of October 31, 2016.

Note: Equally weighted USD-hedged returns relative to the developed markets {ex-US). Stable
and volatile stocks are drawn from the large-cap universe. Stability is measured using a model
based on return on equity, earnings growth, financial leverage and beta.

Source: Investment Strategy Group, Empirical Research Partners.

po

Exhibit 64: Spain 5-Year Credit Default Swap and
Relative Equity Performance

The dramatic reduction in Spanish default risks suggests
equity valuations have scope for upside.

Price Ratio (July 24, 2012 = 100) Basis Points

50 4 0

40 + ¥

30 5

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200
| 300
20 4
- 400

500

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+ G00

90 = MSCI Spain vs. MSCI EMU (Sector-Adjusted) | 700
— — — — Spanish CDS Spread (Right, Inverted)
80 4 L g00
2009 =. 2010 2011 2012 = 2013 2014 = 2015 2016

Data through December 31, 2016.
Source: Investment Strategy Group, MSCI, Datastream.

has both hobbled bank profits—which represent
a third of EuroStoxx 50 earnings—and boosted
equity valuations. But with ECB policy unlikely
to become any more accommodative, additional
valuation expansion can no longer be taken for
granted. Instead, the onus for Eurozone equity
upside now rests with earnings.

Here, the prospects are favorable for several
reasons. First, above-trend Eurozone GDP growth
is likely to lead to boosted domestic sales and
reduced economic slack, both of which have lifted
Eurozone earnings in the past. Second, the broader
pickup in global GDP growth we expect should
benefit the 45% of the EuroStoxx 50’s sales that
are generated outside Europe. Higher revenue
is particularly beneficial to these EuroStoxx
firms given their operating leverage, as small
improvements in sales spread over their sizable
fixed costs also push profit margins higher. Finally,
financial sector earnings stand to benefit from the
higher interest rates we foresee.

Against this backdrop, we expect earnings
to expand 5% in 2017. Meanwhile, valuation
multiples are likely to contract slightly as interest
rates normalize higher and investor focus shifts
toward eventual ECB tapering late this year.
Combining these elements with a 3.6% dividend
yield implies EuroStoxx 50 total returns of
3% in 2017.

The risks to our base case are skewed mildly
to the upside. After underperforming most equity
markets in 2016, Eurozone equities have room to
play catch-up. Moreover, the passing of long-feared
French and German elections could compress
today’s elevated equity risk premium, although
political uncertainty is likely to remain high in the
interim. Finally, investors’ recent shift toward firms
more exposed to the business cycle should benefit
Eurozone firms given their greater operating
leverage (see Exhibit 63).

Within the Eurozone, we are overweight
Spanish equities. Here, we are drawn to attractive
valuations (see Exhibit 64), domestic growth
momentum and embedded overweight to banks.

UK Equities: Scaling the Wall of Worry

While the Brexit vote was surprising, the
subsequent performance of the UK stock market
was even more so. Despite the tremendous
political and social uncertainty engendered by the
referendum’s outcome, UK equities generated one
of the strongest returns of any major equity market
last year in local currency terms.

Several factors at the root of this
outperformance should continue to work in favor
of UK equities in 2017. First, FTSE 100’s global

Outlook | Investment Strategy Group 57

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office in Washington, DC, and he was reported to have “major investments” in Bank Al-Taqwa, a notorious Specially
Designated Global Terrorist. JA3125-26, 3146. Dallah al Baraka “is a shareholder of Aqsa Islamic Bank, a bank that Israel
has refused to approve, ‘citing obvious ties with known terrorists.’ ” SPA60 (Terrorist Attacks I).

Both Saleh Abdullah Kamel and Al Rajhi Bank’s chairman and managing director, Suleiman Abdel Aziz al Rajhi, are alleged
to have been identified in the “Golden Chain” document as one of al-Qaeda’s principal financiers. JA3164, 3866-67,
3869-70; see also supra pp. 56-60. United States intelligence agencies concluded that the seized materials were authentic
al-Qaeda documents that chronicle the formation of al-Qaeda, detail its financial and organizational structure, and identify
al-Qaeda’s most important financial benefactors and the individuals responsible for coordinating their contributions. See
supra at pp. 54-55 nn.85-86. Jamal al *108 Fadl, a senior al-Qaeda official who defected and became a cooperating witness
for the United States, has authenticated the Golden Chain document. See supra at 55 n.86. The Treasury Department has used.
inclusion on that list as a basis for designating individuals as terrorist sponsors and for freezing their assets under Executive
Order 13224. Id. The Golden Chain has been relied upon by the United States as an exhibit in multiple criminal cases. See
supra at pp. 54-55 nn.85-86. And, the 9/11 Commission’s Final Report also relied upon the Golden Chain. See supra pp.
25-26 &n.8.

These allegations, taken together, detail an extensive relationship between the defendants and al-Qaeda, giving rise to a
reasonable inference that the defendants’ provision of material support to al-Qaeda was knowing or, at the very least,
reckless. The reasonableness of this inference is supported by the D.C. Circuit’s judicial review of habeas petitions brought
on behalf of Guantanamo Bay detainees. See, e.g., Al Alwi v. Obama, 653 F.3d 11 (D.C. Cir. 2011); Uthman v. Obama, 637
F.3d 400 (D.C. Cir. 2011); Al-Adahi, 613 F.3d at 1102; Al-Bihani v. Obama, 590 F.3d 866 (D.C. Cir. 2010), cert. denied, 131
S. Ct. 1814 (2011). In order to have a basis to continue to detain a petitioner, the United States has been required to *109
prove that a detainee was “more likely than not ... part of, or substantially supported, Taliban or al-Qaida forces or associated
forces ....” Al Alwi, 653 F.3d at 15. This inquiry is fact specific and has required the court to infer, based on circumstantial
evidence, a petitioner’s state of mind -- whether he was “part of” al-Qaeda. See, e.g., id. at 17-18; Uthman, 637 F.3d at 407
(“[I]t remains possible that Uthman was innocently going about his business ... [but] the far more likely explanation for the
plethora of damning circumstantial evidence is that he was part of al Qaeda”); Salahi, 625 F.3d at 751-52 (“[T]he
determination of whether an individual is ‘part of al-Qaida must be made on a case-by-case basis by using a functional rather
than a formal approach and by focusing upon the actions of the individual in relation to the organization” (quotation marks
and citations omitted)).

The standard employed by the D.C. Circuit is substantially more rigorous than that required in the present case, both because
the United States must establish its case by a preponderance of evidence (rather than the pre-discovery, prima facie showing
required here), and because the issue is whether a defendant actually served as “part of” al-Qaeda (rather than whether it
simply provided knowing support to al-Qaeda). Compare Al Alwi, 653 F.3d at 15 (government must put forward evidence
proving *110 that the petitioner was “more likely than not ... part of, or substantially supported, ... al-Qaida”), with Iqbal, 129
S. Ct. at 1949 (plaintiffs’ allegations need merely “allow [] the court to draw the reasonable inference that the defendant is
liable for the misconduct alleged”), and Boim ITT, 549 F.3d at 693 (required mental state under the ATA is whether defendant
“kn[ew] that the organization” to which he provided material support “engage[d] in [terrorist] acts or [wa]s deliberately
indifferent to whether it d[id]’”).

Even applying this more stringent standard, the D.C. Circuit has consistently found that habeas petitioners were “part of”
al-Qaeda. See Al Alwi, 653 F.3d at 18 (collecting cases). For example, in A/-Bihani, the court held that an individual’s
presence at “Al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan” or “Al Qaeda guesthouses ... overwhelmingly, if not definitely,
justif[ies] the government’s detention ....” 590 F.3d at 873 n.2. In Uthman, the court looked at a variety of factors, including
that the petitioner had attended a religious school where al-Qaeda had recruited fighters and “traveled to Afghanistan along a
route used by al Qaeda recruits,” to reach the same conclusion. 637 F.3d at 403-04. And, on numerous occasions, the D.C.
Circuit has reproached the district court for *111 its failure to draw reasonable inferences from a petitioner’s contacts with
those associated with al-Qaeda. See, e.g., Al Adahi, 613 F.3d at 1109-10 (finding that the district court “committed ... the
fallacy of the possible proof” in declining to infer that the petitioner had a close relationship with al-Qaeda’s leadership based
on the possibility that the evidence showing his deep knowledge of al-Qaeda’s leadership could have been learned some other
way); Salahi, 625 F.3d at 753 (finding that petitioner’s limited relationships with al-Qaeda operatives did not “independently
... prove that he was ‘part of? al-Qaida, those connections make it more likely that [he] was a member of the organization ...
and thus remain relevant to the question of whether he is detainable”).

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015842.txt,"152 Are the Androids Dreaming Yet?

Logic for Humans

Syllogisms can be used for practical purposes. Take, for example, the
following set of statements, “I want a hot drink.” “Coffee and tea are hot
drinks.” “I always drink milk with tea” “We have no milk” What drink
should I choose? I’m sure you can work it out. This logical problem
follows a simple chain and results in me getting the hot drink I like.

We use Boolean logic on a day-to-day basis. The simplest form
is a checklist. Pilots use checklists all the time; do I have wings, fuel
and a copilot? If they are all there, go ahead and fly. Otherwise do not.
Mathematically speaking, a checklist is simply the product of the options.
If they are all one, then the product is one — in this case we can fly. If any is
false — represented by a zero — the product will be zero and we cannot fly.

Life is often more complicated and we have many logical tools at our
disposal. Let’s take a look at a few, starting with a famous historical one.

Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning rod and bifocal glasses,

as well as charting the Gulf Stream and all manner of other scientific
discoveries. He described his process for decision-making when there
are many pros and cons to consider.
“. my Way is, to divide half a Sheet of Paper by a Line into two
Columns, writing over the one Pro, and over the other Con. Then
during three or four Days Consideration I put down under the
different Heads short Hints of the different Motives that at different
Times occur to me for or against the Measure. When I have thus
got them all together in one View, I endeavor to estimate their
respective Weights; and where I find two, one on each side, that
seem equal, I strike them both out: If I find a Reason pro equal to
some two Reasons con, I strike out the three. If I judge some two
Reasons con equal to some three Reasons pro, I strike out the five;
and thus proceeding I find at length where the Balance lies; and
if after a Day or two of farther Consideration nothing new that is
of Importance occurs on either side, I come to a Determination
accordingly.”

Another important piece of logic is reductio ad absurdum. Reduction
to the absurd allows us to disprove something because, if it were true, it
would lead to an absurd conclusion. An alibi is a familiar form. If I was
seen in the pub when the murder occurred in the ballroom of the manor
house and you claim I committed the murder, I must have been in two
places at once. People can’t be in two places at once — that would be
absurd. Conclusion: I am innocent!

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_014584.txt,"Exhibit 48: S&P 500 Price-to-Trend Earnings vs.
Subsequent Calendar-Year Price Return

Starting valuation multiples tell us little about equity returns
over the following year.

S&P 500 Returns 1 Year Forward (%)

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Price-to-Trend Earnings Multiple

Data as of December 31, 2016.
Source: Investment Strategy Group, Bloomberg, Datastream, Robert Shiller.

Exhibit 49: S&P 500 Valuation Multiples by
Inflation Environment

Periods of low and stable inflation have supported higher
equity multiples.

Multiple (x)
30 4 m@ Unconditional Average Over Entire Period
m Average During Periods in Which Inflation Is 1-3% and Stable

22.6

22.5

Shiller CAPE: 1881-2016 Shiller CAPE: 1945-2016 Price-to-Trend: 1945-2016

Data as of December 31, 2016.
Source: Investment Strategy Group, Bloomberg, Datastream, Robert Shiller.

This bull market is already quite old by historical
standards, second in length only to the almost 10-
year period that preceded the technology bubble
in 2000. Moreover, valuations now stand in their
10th decile, indicating they have been cheaper

at least 90% of the time historically. In the past,
starting from such a high base has led to muted
equity returns over the subsequent five years, with
only a third of those episodes generating a profit
(see Exhibit 47).

Even so, high valuations should not be
confused with certainty of loss, especially over
short periods. As seen in Exhibit 48, today’s
equity multiples tell us very little about potential
gains over the next year, explaining only 5% of
their variation historically. Moreover, history
teaches us that a strategy of selling equities based
solely on expensive valuations has been a losing
approach over time. As we noted in our 2014
Outlook, research conducted by three professors
at the London Business School concluded that

Investors have ridden this bull market

for eight years, and while we don’t
expect the ride to end in 2017, we

must stay vigilant to avoid the horns.

underweighting equities based exclusively on high
valuations underperformed a strategy of remaining
invested across every one of the 20 countries and
three country aggregates they examined.' In
short, valuations alone are a poor tactical timing
signal. Indeed, the S&P 500 has returned more
than 36% since first entering its 9th valuation
decile in November 2013, a time when many

were already suggesting that US equities were

in a bubble.

Valuations must also be considered in
the context of the prevailing macroeconomic
environment. Consider that periods of low and
stable inflation, such as we expect for the year
ahead, have supported higher valuations in the past
(see Exhibit 49). The same could be said for lower
taxes and deregulation—were they to materialize
later this year—as both would boost real returns
on invested capital and justify higher equity values.
Similarly, today’s structurally lower interest rates—
reflecting slower population and productivity
growth—reduce the rate at which
all future cash flows are discounted,
increasing their present value.

Here, it’s helpful to remember that the
S&P 500’s long-term average P/E ratio—
which many investors use to gauge
fair value—was forged over a period
when risk-free rates averaged 4.5%. In
contrast, the risk-free rate now is just
0.5-0.75% and the Federal Reserve

Outlook | Investment Strategy Group 51

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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031142.txt,"Good God! Anything is better than just giving it to Hilary and her

despicable husband.

— Judy P.

Thanks for including Jefferson and von Mises, my favorite Galician, in
the list of good guys. Our economy cannot be repaired without
dismantling the Fed. As you often point out, our monetary system is

rotten at the core, as it is based on credit.

I read in one of these letters from a libertarian source that Jefferson
wrote, already in 1810 or so, that he had failed to set up a free country
as he envisioned... and that was still more than 100 years before the

Federal Reserve Act.

On the other hand, even today, I strongly believe that if we just followed
the Constitution, we would be okay — especially the 1oth amendment. I

think that is the most important of all.

— Chaim K.

In the words of Warren Zevon, “Send lawyers, guns, and money; the s---

has hit the fan.”

The Democratic Party is electing a known criminal, and they don’t care,
as long as it’s their criminal. They just assume all politicians are
criminal, and the really good ones get their districts what they need.
Would anyone let Harry Reid babysit their children? The Republican
Party is electing anybody who is not a politician. Donald Trump just

happens to be the best known, “anybody” who is running.

— Wayde L.

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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019206.txt,"﻿Wall Street Journal, December 30, 2016
The Fable of Edward Snowden
As he seeks a pardon, the NSA thief has told multiple lies about what he stole and his
dealings with Russian intelligence.
EDWARD JAY EPSTEIN
Of all the lies that Edward Snowden has told since his massive theft of secrets from the
National Security Agency and his journey to Russia via Hong Kong in 2013, none is
more provocative than the claim that he never intended to engage in espionage, and was
only a “whistleblower” seeking to expose the overreach of NSA’s information gathering.
With the clock ticking on Mr. Snowden’s chance of a pardon, now is a good time to
review what we have learned about his real mission.
Mr. Snowden’s theft of America’s most closely guarded communication secrets occurred
in May 2013, according to the criminal complaint filed against him by federal prosecutors
the following month. At the time Mr. Snowden was a 29-year-old technologist working
as an analyst-in-training for the consulting firm of Booz Allen Hamilton at the regional
base of the National Security Agency (NSA) in Oahu, Hawaii. On May 20, only some six
weeks after his job there began, he failed to show up for work, emailing his supervisor
that he was at the hospital being tested for epilepsy.
This excuse was untrue. Mr. Snowden was not even in Hawaii. He was in Hong Kong.
He had flown there with a cache of secret data that he had stolen from the NSA.
This was not the only lie Mr. Snowden told. As became clear during my investigation
over the past three years, nearly every element of the narrative Mr. Snowden has
provided, which reached its final iteration in Oliver Stone’s 2016 movie, “Snowden,” is
demonstrably false.
This narrative began soon after Mr. Snowden arrived in Hong Kong, where he arranged
to meet with Laura Poitras, a Berlin-based documentary filmmaker, and Glenn
Greenwald, a Brazil-based blogger for the Guardian. Both journalists were longtime
critics of NSA surveillance with whom Mr. Snowden (under the alias Citizen Four) had
been in contact for four months.
To provide them with scoops discrediting NSA operations, Mr. Snowden culled several
thousand documents out of his huge cache of stolen material, including two explosive
documents he asked them to use in their initial stories. One was the now-famous secret
order from America’s Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court requiring Verizon to
turn over to the NSA its billing records for its phone users in the U.S. The other was an
NSA slide presentation detailing its ability to intercept communications of non-American
users of the internet via a joint program with the FBI code-named Prism.
These documents were published in 2013 on June 5 and 6, followed by a video in which
he identified himself as the leaker and a whistleblower.
At the heart of Mr. Snowden’s narrative was his claim that while he may have
incidentally “touched” other data in his search of NSA files, he took only documents that
exposed the malfeasance of the NSA and gave all of them to journalists.
Yet even as Mr. Snowden’s narrative was taking hold in the public realm, a secret
damage assessment done by the NSA and Pentagon told a very different story. According
to a unanimous report declassified on Dec. 22 by the House Permanent Select Committee
on Intelligence, the investigation showed that Mr. Snowden had “removed” (not merely
touched) 1.5 million documents. That huge number was based on, among other evidence,
electronic logs that recorded the selection, copying and moving of documents.
The number of purloined documents is more than what NSA officials were willing to say
in 2013 about the removal of data, possibly because the House committee had the benefit
of the Pentagon’s more-extensive investigation. But even just taking into account the
material that Mr. Snowden handed over to journalists, the December House report
concluded that he compromised “secrets that protect American troops overseas and
secrets that provide vital defenses against terrorists and nation-states.” These were, the
report said, “merely the tip of the iceberg.”
The Pentagon’s investigation during 2013 and 2014 employed hundreds of militaryintelligence
officers, working around the clock, to review all 1.5 million documents. Most
had nothing to do with domestic surveillance or whistle blowing. They were mainly
military secrets, as Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testified
before the House Armed Services Committee on March 6, 2014.
It was not the quantity of Mr. Snowden’s theft but the quality that was most telling. Mr.
Snowden’s theft put documents at risk that could reveal the NSA’s Level 3 tool kit—a
reference to documents containing the NSA’s most-important sources and methods. Since
the agency was created in 1952, Russia and other adversary nations had been trying to
penetrate its Level-3 secrets without great success.
Yet it was precisely these secrets that Mr. Snowden changed jobs to steal. In an interview
in Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post on June 15, 2013, he said he sought to work
on a Booz Allen contract at the CIA, even at a cut in pay, because it gave him access to
secret lists of computers that the NSA was tapping into around the world.
He evidently succeeded. In a 2014 interview with Vanity Fair, Richard Ledgett,the NSA
executive who headed the damage-assessment team, described one lengthy document
taken by Mr. Snowden that, if it fell into the wrong hands, would provide a “road map” to
what targets abroad the NSA was, and was not, covering. It contained the requests made
by the 17 U.S. services in the so-called Intelligence Community for NSA interceptions
abroad.
On June 23, less than two weeks after Mr. Snowden released the video that helped
present his narrative, he left Hong Kong and flew to Moscow, where he received
protection by the Russian government. In much of the media coverage that followed, the
ultimate destination of these stolen secrets was fogged over—if not totally obscured from
the public—by the unverified claims that Mr. Snowden was spoon feeding to handpicked
journalists.
In his narrative, Mr. Snowden always claims that he was a conscientious “whistleblower”
who turned over all the stolen NSA material to journalists in Hong Kong. He has insisted
he had no intention of defecting to Russia but was on his way to Latin America when he
was trapped in Russia by the U.S. government in an attempt to demonize him.
For example, in October 2014, he told the editor of the Nation, “I’m in exile. My
government revoked my passport intentionally to leave me exiled” and “chose to keep me
in Russia.” According to Mr. Snowden, the U.S. government accomplished this
entrapment by suspending his passport while he was in midair after he departed Hong
Kong on June 23, thus forcing him into the hands of President Vladimir Putin’s regime.
None of this is true. The State Department invalidated Mr. Snowden’s passport while he
was still in Hong Kong, not after he left for Moscow on June 23. The “Consul General-
Hong Kong confirmed that Hong Kong authorities were notified that Mr. Snowden’s
passport was revoked June 22,” according to the State Department’s senior watch officer,
as reported by ABC news on June 23, 2013.
Mr. Snowden could not have been unaware of the government’s pursuit of him, since the
criminal complaint against him, which was filed June 14, had been headline news in
Hong Kong. That the U.S. acted against him while he was still in Hong Kong is of great
importance to the timeline because it points to the direct involvement of Aeroflot, an
airline which the Russian government effectively controls. Aeroflot bypassed its normal
procedures to allow Mr. Snowden to board the Moscow flight—even though he had
neither a valid passport nor a Russian visa, as his newly assigned lawyer, Anatoly
Kucherena,said at a press conference in Russia on July 12, 2013.
By falsely claiming his passport was invalidated after the plane departed Hong Kong—
instead of before he left—Mr. Snowden hoped to conceal this extraordinary waiver. The
Russian government further revealed its helping hand, judging by a report in Russia’s
Izvestia newspaper when, on arrival, Mr. Snowden was taken off the plane by a security
team in a “special operation.”
Nor was it any kind of accident. Vladimir Putin personally authorized this assistance after
Mr. Snowden met with Russian officials in Hong Kong, as Mr. Putin admitted in a
televised press conference on Sept. 2, 2013.
To provide a smokescreen for Mr. Snowden’s escape from Hong Kong, WikiLeaks (an
organization that the Obama administration asserted to be a tool of Russian intelligence
after the hacking of Democratic Party leaders’ email in 2016) booked a dozen or more
diversionary flight reservations to other destinations for Mr. Snowden.
WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange also dispatched Sarah Harrison, his deputy at
WikiLeaks, to fly to Hong Kong to pay Mr. Snowden’s expenses and escort him to
Moscow. In short, Mr. Snowden’s arrival in Moscow was neither accidental nor the work
of the U.S. government.
Mr. Snowden’s own narrative asserts that he came to Russia not only empty-handed but
without access to any of the stolen material. He wrote in Vanity Fair in 2014 that he had
destroyed all of it before arriving in Moscow—the very data that he went to such lengths
to steal a few weeks earlier in Hawaii.
As it turns out, this claim is also untrue. It is belied by two Kremlin insiders who were in
a position to know what Mr. Snowden actually brought with him to Moscow. One of
them, Frants Klintsevich, was the first deputy chairman of the defense and security
committee of the Duma (Russia’s parliament) at the time of Mr. Snowden’s defection.
“Let’s be frank,” Mr. Klintsevich said in a taped interview with NPR in June 2016, “Mr.
Snowden did share intelligence. This is what security services do.”
The other insider was Anatoly Kucherena, a well-connected Moscow lawyer and Mr.
Putin’s friend. Mr. Kucherena served as the intermediary between Mr. Snowden and
Russian authorities. On Sept. 23, 2013, Mr. Kucherena gave a long interview to Sophie
Shevardnadze, a journalist for Russia Today television.
When Ms. Shevardnadze directly asked him if Mr. Snowden had given all the documents
he had taken from the NSA to journalists in Hong Kong, Mr. Kucherena said Mr.
Snowden had only given “some” of the NSA’s documents in his possession to journalists
in Hong Kong. “So he [Mr. Snowden] does have some materials that haven’t been made
public yet?” Ms. Shevardnadze asked. “Certainly,” Mr. Kucherena answered.
This disclosure filled in a crucial piece of the puzzle. It explained why NSA documents
that Mr. Snowden had copied, but had not given to the journalists in Hong Kong—such
as the embarrassing revelation about the NSA targeting the cellphone of German
Chancellor Angela Merkel—continued to surface after Mr. Snowden arrived in Moscow,
along with NSA documents released via WikiLeaks.
As this was a critical discrepancy in Mr. Snowden’s narrative, I went to Moscow in
October 2015 to see Mr. Kucherena. During our conversation, Mr. Kucherena confirmed
that his interview with Ms. Shevardnadze was accurate, and that Mr. Snowden had
brought secret material with him to Moscow.
Mr. Snowden’s narrative also includes the assertion that he was neither debriefed by nor
even met with any Russian government official after he arrived in Moscow. This part of
the narrative runs counter to findings of U.S. intelligence. According to the House
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence report, Mr. Snowden, since he arrived in
Moscow, “has had, and continues to have, contact with Russian intelligence services.”
This finding is consistent with Russian debriefing practices, as described by the ex-KGB
officers with whom I spoke in Moscow
Mr. Snowden also publicly claimed in Moscow in December 2013 to have secrets in his
head, including “access to every target, every active operation. Full lists of them.” Could
Mr. Snowden’s Russian hosts ignore such an opportunity after Mr. Putin had authorized
his exfiltration to Moscow? Mr. Snowden, with no exit options, was in the palm of their
hands. Under such circumstances, as Mr. Klintsevich pointed out in his June NPR
interview: “If there’s a possibility to get information, they [the Russian intelligence
services] will get it.”
The transfer of state secrets from Mr. Snowden to Russia did not occur in a vacuum. The
intelligence war did not end with the termination of the Cold War; it shifted to
cyberspace. Even if Russia could not match the NSA’s state-of-the-art sensors, computers
and productive partnerships with the cipher services of Britain, Israel, Germany and other
allies, it could nullify the U.S. agency’s edge by obtaining its sources and methods from
even a single contractor with access to Level 3 documents.
Russian intelligence uses a single umbrella term to cover anyone who delivers it secret
intelligence. Whether a person acted out of idealistic motives, sold information for money
or remained clueless of the role he or she played in the transfer of secrets—the provider
of secret data is considered an “espionage source.” By any measure, it is a job description
that fits Mr. Snowden.
Mr. Epstein’s book, “How America Lost Its Secrets: Edward Snowden, the Man and the
Theft,” will be published by Knopf in January.
Journal Video: Investigative Journalist Edward Jay
Epstein on Snowden;s Legend

"
IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029344.txt,"From: Halperin, Alan S

Sent: 7/2/2014 10:51:32 AM
To: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Post-Death Actions of Foundation Affecting Estate Tax Value

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| thought of you when | read this article. Was this your idea? Alan
WALL STREET

Texas Billionaire's Heirs Save Some Money on
Taxes

10Jun 27, 2014 1:26 PM EDT
By Matt Levine

e a
° A
Every so often I hear a story that I find rather wonderful, and that I then pass along to you, just in case you and I
share a similar sense of wonder. Here is one of those stories. It's about death and taxes.

The story begins on Dec. 28 of last year, when a Dallas billionaire named Harold Simmons died at the age of
82. He left the bulk of his $8 billion fortune to two of his daughters. Much of that fortune was in ""Contran
Corp., a closely held entity that holds majority stakes in four publicly traded companies: Valhi Inc., NL
Industries Inc., Kronos Worldwide Inc. and Comp X International Inc.""

The biggest chunk of the estate was Contran's 93.8 percent stake in Valhi, which was 318,156,746 shares. !
Valhi's stock closed on Dec. 27, 2013, at $14.91 per share, making that stake worth about $4.7 billion as of
Simmons's death. Another 2,481,900 Valhi shares (0.7 percent, $37 million) were held by the Harold Simmons
Foundation, a charity controlled by Simmons's daughters.’ Other family members owned about 2.8 million
shares ($41 million). Public shareholders owned about 15.7 million shares ($234 million).*

Here are two facts about the federal estate tax:

e The estate tax rate for 2013 and 2014 is 40 percent of the value of the estate.*

e The executor can choose to determine the value of the estate either on the date of death, or on the
""alternate valuation date,"" which is the date six months after the date of death.°

For Harold Simmons's estate, that alternate valuation date is tomorrow -- six months from his death. Today is
the last trading day before that valuation. How's Valhi done in the last six months?

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TEXT-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033125.txt,"From: J [jeevacation@gmail.com] 
Sent: 10/3/2018 11:29:06 AM 
To: Weingarten, Reid 
Subject: Re: 
how unfair yes, it was written by financial illiterates. . referencing "" todays dollars? with no back 
up. IRS looked at all. .they ignored taxes paid along the way.. they didnt understand the rules.. I m not a 
supporter but this is nothing but a hit job. 
On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 7:21 AM Weingarten, Reid < > wrote: 
Anything surprise you? 
Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone. 
From: J 
Sent: Tuesday, October 2, 2018 11:45 PM 
To: Weingarten, Reid 
Subject: Re: 
Florida 
On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 9:58 PM Weingarten, Reid < > wrote: 
Reading the nytimes trump tax story...so wish I was with you right now...so where are you? 
Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone. 
From: Jeffrey E. 
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2018 11:42 AM 
To: Weingarten, Reid 
Subject: 
where? 
please note 
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constitute inside information, and is intended only for 
the use of the addressee. It is the property of 
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and may be unlawful. If you have received this 
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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016393.txt,"Caroline A. Jones’ interest in modern and contemporary art is enriched by a willingness
to delve into the technologies involved in its production, distribution, and reception. “As
an art historian, a lot of my questions are about what kind of art we can make, what kind
of thought we can make, what kind of ideas we can make that could stretch the human
beyond our stubborn, selfish, ‘only concerned with our small group’ parameters. The
Philosophers and philosophies I’m drawn to are those that question the Western
obsession with individualism. Those are coming from so many different places, and

they re reviving so many different kinds of questions and problems that were raised in the
1960s.”

She has recently turned her attention to the history of cybernetics. Her MIT
course, “Automata, Automatism, Systems, Cybernetics,” explores the history of the
human/machine interface in terms of feedback, exploring the cultural rather than
engineering uptake of this idea. She begins with primary readings by Wiener, Shannon,
and Turing and then pivots from the scientists and engineers to the work and ideas of
artists, feminists, postmodern theorists. Her goal: to come up with a new central
paradigm of evolution that’s culture-based—“communalism and interspecies symbiosis
rather than survival of the fittest.”

As a historian, Caroline draws a distinction between what she has termed “left
cybernetics” and “right cybernetics”: “What do I mean by left cybernetics? In one
sense, it’s a pun or a joke: the cybernetics that was ‘left’ behind. On another level, it’s a
vague political grouping connoting our Left Coast: California, Esalen, the group that
Dave Kaiser calls the ‘hippie physicists.’ It’s not an adequate term, but it’s away of
recognizing that there was a group beholden to the military-industrial complex,
sometimes very unhappily, who gave us the tools to critique it.”

173

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the democrats — the Islamists could try to pressure the government —
through mass rallies, political mobilization, and populist rhetoric —
to abrogate the peace treaty with Israel or to qualitatively shift, if not
downgrade, bilateral relations with the United States. Such a dynamic
would inadvertently put pressure on post-revolutionary Egypt to be
more assertive in its ties with Israel and the West.

The Gushing Wound of Palestine

The Palestinian question has been at the heart of the Arab political
discourse for the last seven decades. The 1979 peace deal between
Egypt and Israel ushered in an unprecedented phase of strong
bilateral cooperation between the two former enemies, but it was also
a major cause of the unpopularity of both Sadat and Mubarak. Israel
benefited from the cold peace by neutralizing the most powerful
conventional force in the Arab world. It even coordinated closely
with Egypt on the siege of Gaza.Although the peace accords allowed
Egypt to avoid another conflict with Israel and win substantial
economic-military aid from the United States, the country’s image
has suffered a significant blow in the last three decades. Strategically,
Egypt’s withdrawal from the Arab-Israeli conflict allowed other
powers to raise their political profile and regional influence. The
resulting strategic vacuum simply shifted the regional balance of
power in favor of non-Arab and/or non-traditional powers. Iran,
Syria, and Qatar — and later Turkey — have been the biggest
beneficiaries of Egypt’s neutrality on the Palestinian issue.

Aware of the popular sentiment in favor of the Palestinian cause, the
new Egyptian leadership initiated two important policy shifts. First, it
re-opened the Rafah border, which has allowed most residents of
Gaza to escape the suffocating siege imposed by Israel. Second,
Egypt has played an active role in facilitating the unity deal between
rival factions in Palestine. The deal represents the best chance for
Palestinians to finally form a united front in future negotiations with

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Mr. Epstein. Instead, she said, they were told that Mr. Krischer would convene a
grand jury to examine the evidence and decide what charges, if any, to bring.

Around that time, the police report said, Mr. Dershowitz met with prosecutors
to share information about the accusers, including statements they had posted on
MySpace.com, the social networking site, concerning use of drugs and alcohol.
According to the report, Mr. Krischer’s office then decided to delay the grand jury

session for several months.

The Palm Beach police grew frustrated, the report said, and on May 1 the
department asked prosecutors to approve warrants to arrest Mr. Epstein.

Chief Reiter also wrote Mr. Krischer questioning “the unusual course that your
office’s handling of this matter has taken” and suggesting that Mr. Krischer
disqualify himself. Chief Reiter refused several requests to be interviewed, and his
spokeswoman would not say explicitly why he had urged the prosecutor to step
aside.

Mike Edmondson, a spokesman for Mr. Krischer, said the state attorney’s office
sometimes sent noncapital cases to grand juries when there were questions about
witness credibility. Mr. Krischer does not recommend a particular charge in such
cases, Mr. Edmondson said, but gives the grand jury a list of possible charges.

Bruce J. Winick, a law professor at the University of Miami, said that while
prosecutors in Florida rarely referred noncapital cases to grand juries, they

sometimes did so with sensitive cases to be extra-cautious.

Mr. Lefcourt said the police were wrong to have released the report so soon,
especially without correcting information that later proved wrong. He cited his
assertion that one accuser had lied about her age, adding that she had also been
arrested on drug charges and had been fired by her employer for stealing.

“What I’m trying to focus on,” Mr. Lefcourt said, “is, What’s motivating the
selective and misleading release of information to the public?”

A version of this article appears in print on , on Page A19 of the New York edition with the headline:
Questions of Preferential Treatment Are Raised in Florida Sex Case

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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019189.txt,"CHAPTER 16

ith Francine, the police drive to
re to see Cynthia Selleck, who's
according to the probable-cause
) is preparing in order to obtain
ynthia was sixteen when Wendy
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chool. She says that Wendy had
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etails, and dialogue have been :

Firtay Ricu

She considered Epstein a pervert, and he kept pushing to go
further and further until [Cynthia] explained she would keep
telling him she had a boyfriend.

Only recently, Cynthia says, did she begin to remove her
clothes in the course of giving Epstein massages.

“Jett would try to get away with more and more on each mas-
sage,” she tells the cops.

Still, Sarah had Cynthia’s cell phone number, and Sarah
would call whenever Epstein was in Palm Beach to make an
appointment for “work.”

Each time she went, Sarah would meet her at the kitchen
door area. She would bring her upstairs and prepare the
massage table. [Cynthia] advised Epstein would ask her
questions about herself. Epstein knew she was a soccer
player and would be attending [a nearby] university.

The cops want to know: Did Epstein know her real age?

[Cynthia] stated Epstein did and didn’t care. The most recent
massage she provided was on October 1, 2005.

October 1,

That's less than a week ago.

What the cops know now is that Epstein’s still at it.
What they’re about to learn seals Epstein’s fate.

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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028965.txt,"MARTIN G. WEINBERG, P. C. 
ATTORNEY AT LAW 
20 PARK PLAZA, SUITE 1000 EMAIL ADDRESSES: 
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02116 
FAX 
NIiiiiiiiiiiiCY: 
April 24, 2015 
Via Email and U.S. Mail  
John Zucker 
Assistant Legal Counsel 
Office of Legal Counsel 
77 W 66TH St, Room 1628 
New York, NY 10023 
Re: Good Morning America and Night Line interview with Jane Doe 3 
Dear Mr. Zucker: 
I represent Jeffrey Epstein. I have been informed by Producer James Hill that ABC 
intends to air an interview, conducted by a Good Morning America co-host, of a woman known 
in court papers as Jane Doe 3.1 I write to put you on notice that ABC's publication of Jane Doe 
3's accusations is grossly negligent or worse. The accusations, many of which relate to my 
client, relate to alleged conduct that occurred approximately 15 years ago. The current 
accusations are simply reformatted and embellished echoes of previous allegations, which were 
first made by Jane Doe 3 to tabloid publications in the United Kingdom in 2011 and which have 
no independent news value. These allegations were then and remain now uncorroborated and 
have been refuted or undermined by other, credible evidence. Indeed, a federal judge recently 
refused to consider these allegations in pending litigation, finding them ""immaterial and 
impertinent"", while striking the allegations and denying Jane Doe 3s Motion to Join, See Jane 
Doe 1 and 2 v. United States, 08-CV-80736-KAM (S.D. Fla.), Dkt 324 at 5. In addition, in that 
very same litigation, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent Timothy R. Slater filed a 
declaration stating that when Jane Doe 3 was interviewed by the FBI in 2007 she refused to 
cooperate with the investigation of Mr. Epstein declaring she wanted nothing to do with the 
matter. For ABC to air these untested allegations on national television as ""news"" when Jane 
Doe 3 intentionally declined eight years ago to subject these same allegations to verification by 
the FBI would be grossly irresponsible and severely damaging to Mr. Epstein and others. 
1 Mr. Hill informed me that she was waiving whatever rights to anonymity she might assert but I will, because of 
certain legal obligations, refer to her as Jane Doe 3. 
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This is particularly true when ABC knows or should know that several, very specific 
allegations of Jane Doe 3 have been rebutted and/or demonstrated by others to be false. For 
example, I understand that she has accused distinguished Professor Alan Dershowitz of Harvard 
Law School of sexual misconduct involving her. Professor Dershowitz has flatly denied that 
allegation under oath in a federal court proceeding. I further understand that Professor 
Dershowitz offered to play a tape recording for Mr. Hill that evidences that Jane Doe 3 has made 
recent contradictory statements—that is, that she was pressured into including Professor 
Dershowitz in her allegations and that she has a financial motive in making these allegations. 
The Duke of York and the Royal Palace have likewise unequivocally denied Jane Doe's 
similar allegations against the Duke. Surely, these unequivocal statements of denial of respected 
members of society are entitled to some deference by ABC, particularly where, as here, there is 
substantial evidence of bias, improper motive, and serious credibility problems of their accuser. 
Moreover, additional claims of Jane Doe 3 can be refuted with objective evidence that is 
readily obtainable by ABC. For example, she claims she was in the presence of both former 
President Clinton (after January 20, 2001, and before the summer of 2002) and former Vice 
President Gore (and his wife) at Mr. Epstein's Virgin Island home. I have been told by Mr. Hill 
that she claims to be 100% sure of the facts regarding President Clinton. The claims are 
completely uncorroborated and compellingly contradicted by others. Neither former President 
Clinton nor former Vice-President Gore and his wife have ever been present at Mr. Epstein's 
Virgin Island home. A review of United States Secret Service records, obtainable through a 
Freedom of Information Request would prove the falsity of the claim. Virgin Island government 
records would provide further confirmation. I also believe that Mr. Hill has been told by 
individuals with percipient knowledge that former President Clinton has never been to Mr. 
Epstein's Virgin Island home. Upon inquiry, I am certain that you would receive similar denials 
from Mr. and Mrs. Gore either directly or by or through their counsel Mr. Boies. Jane Doe 3's 
fabrication of these claims against respected former officials undermines completely the 
trustworthiness of each and every one of her remaining allegations. 
We would expect that, in the wake of the damning independent review of Rolling Stone's 
publications of rape allegations involving students at the University of Virginia, ABC would 
proceed with similar, uncorroborated allegations with extreme caution. At the very least, ABC 
has an obligation to verify—with independent evidence—the truthfulness of Jane Doe 3's 
claims. Merely declining to air those portions of her interview that relate to President Clinton 
and Vice-President Gore is insufficient. If ABC has concerns about her credibility with respect 
to any allegation, it must decline to republish all of her allegations. 
In June of 2008, Mr. Epstein pleaded guilty to Florida state charges that do not relate to 
Jane Doe 3. After an extensive investigation, the United States declined to prosecute Mr. Epstein 
and provided him with a Non-Prosecution Agreement. Mr. Epstein fully conformed to the 
responsibilities and obligations imposed on him by that agreement. Mr. Epstein is not engaged 
in public activities. He is a private person who has complied and continues to comply with his 
legal obligations, and he is attempting to move forward with his life in a productive way. The 
allegations of Jane Doe 3 are neither credible nor news worthy. ABC should not publish them. 
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Yours Truly, 
/s/Martin G. Weinberg 
CC James E Hill, ABC News 
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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031624.txt,"From: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]

Sent: 10/19/2016 1:48:17 PM
To: Thomas Jr., Lad) i i Ti 7 ii
Subject: Re: Saudi money

Importance: — High
sorry, no good handle without digging

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 9:47 AM, Thomas Jr., Landon (qq > wrote:
what is your back of the envelope guess as to much saudi money tied up in such funds?

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 9:43 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
most of the saudi money is tied up in pe funds. no withdrawals allowed . and im not seeing much in the
secondary market. . blackrock is more money market , more like custodian than investor .

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 9:41 AM, Thomas Jr., Landon qi wrote:
Interesting. CEO of big finance form told me that Saudis (SAMA) have withdrawn $200 billion that
has been parked with usual suspects over past year or so. That number seem in line with what you
know?

On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 7:04 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:

words that you to refer to one thing, USA. the stock market/ the Royal family, . are no longer very
useful. In politics the USA meant the white house. now there is pentagon. cia, state, and congress in
addition, each feels empowered to act more independantly. stock market even in tech, needs bio
tech, consuner tech. infrastrucrue tech. etc. same with Royal family, there are 20k members of a
tribe. called the royal family, the words are misleading. if your article is focused on bin salman, or
the very top. no one is wondering where they can find the local costco... _ but they are aware that a
message needs to be sent to their population , regarding the next 20 years,

social media, and the selfie crowds post the best of everything, their cutest pictures the amazing
food , the luxury resorts. the masses see these things and as the difference between expectations and
reality widen, the anger grows. trump has tapped in.

with the passage of the 9 11 saudi bill, unlike the french revolution where it was the people of france
that revolted against their own aristocracty, with the internet and globalization of discontect it is now the
americans that can revolt against the saudi leadership. _it is the americans that are demanding women
drive. not the saudis

On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 5:57 PM, Thomas Jr., Landon qa wrote:

I have been called in to help on a big NYT investigation into how low oil prices have been
effecting the personal finances of royal family in Saudi Arabia. Obviously they called in much of
their cash from the likes of BlackRock and others but I thought you might have some ideas.
Maybe some people to talk to?

I would think its more than cutting down on yachts and private planes or selling real estate in
Paris, Istanbul, London.

Any thoughts?

PS: does my story on Abraaj get me a meeting with Gates next time he is in town:)

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A. Okay. There are going to be -- I'm going to
end up giving you nine reasons, each of which is
complicated, so I just want to -- I don't want to be
accused of filibustering or anything. I just want you
to know that you have asked a broad question that's
going to require a broad and extended answer.

Q. Answer the question.

A. Okay. Then I'm going to refer to a -- I have

a -- well, actually, I don't.

Q. Let me ask you this: Before you refer to
something --

A. Yeah.

Q. -- please give me your best recollection of

what the basis was, the factual basis that you had in
mind, if the court said to you -- let me put it this
way .
If you went to court and Judge Marra said,
Professor Cassell, what's your factual basis for this
allegation? Tell me. What would you say?
A. — Right.
MS. McCAWLEY: Wait. Outside the context of
of anything that's been communicated to you.
MR. SCAROLA: Excuse me. You have asked two
different questions now and I need to understand

which question you are asking.

ROUGH DRAFT ONLY

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IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012062.txt,"11/14/2017 Rockefeller & Co. :: News

http:/Avww.rockco.com/news 3/3

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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022936.txt,"From: jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com>

Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2016 10:21 AM
To:

Subject: Re: Help!

Importance: High

i appreciate your support is what i meant. has anyting happened recently? it is my birthday today

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 10:46 PM iis <> wrote:
Appreciate what? I'm not sure you do. Be back for what? Where? I don't need to be photographed. I am trying
to avoid that, hence the reason why I moved out here. I don't need people coming here looking for me to give
them information about you or the ""people"" I was documented with... It's not my property. I don't think you get
It.

On Tuesday, January 19, 2016, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
i appreciate it. I should be back feb 14,

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 6:39 PM, i <r > wrote:
Because you were not available to meet me in person last year and at this point I don’t need to be seen. I can not have press,
media, private investigators, film companies, etc. contacting me or my parents and sisters at home or on cell/texts and or by mail. I
realize you don’t have much control over this, but you can at least help me to move. I can’t just get up and go like you. I left the
city to escape, make a better life and I am devastated these people found me and brought to light an association of that I would
rather them never to know. People think I was involved with something really bad and I lost a boyfriend of great potential over
this shit. I am still in debt over all these years, been working my ass off trying to get ahead, which you could never understand I
was even surviving off the pay I was getting. Well, its not any better. I dropped out of college because of you (and GM’s) advice.
Started working for a company you wanted me to and basically my life has has become hell since then.

I have been your supporter for 16 years, the media explosion with Clinton, Trump and Cosby is affecting me. I'm not prepared for
this.

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IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011543.txt,"Chapter Five

Almost no one in Israel knew what we had done. But the next morning, a
package arrived at the Sayeret Matkal base from one of the few people who did.
We opened it in Avraham’s office. It was a nearly full carton of champagne:
real, French champagne, since it would be years before Israel’s embryonic wine
industry produced anything similar. Inside was a note from the chief of staff.
“For the success of the operation,” General Tzur had written. “Minus two
bottles... to teach Ehud Brog not to shut off his field radio.”

I assumed that his reprimand was tongue-in-cheek, for the same reason I’d
escaped being locked up on General Yoffe’s orders as a gasoline thief. Had we
been captured on the Golan, the very future of the sayeret as an operational
intelligence unit would have been put at risk. Tzur, and Ben-Gurion as well,
would have faced a reopening of all the old wounds from the Uri Ilan mission.
But not only had we managed to get in and out of Syria in one piece. We had
taken at least a first step toward erasing the blind spot in our intelligence
capabilities shown up so dramatically by Rotem. A few days later, I received a
letter from the chief of staff informing me that I was to receive my first tzalash,
or operational decoration, in recognition of “a mission which contributed to the
security of the state of Israel.”

My own feelings were more mixed. I was proud of what I, and my team, had
accomplished. On a personal level, too, I felt I'd reached an important landmark
on my unlikely journey from the winter morning when I'd arrived as physically
frail, awkward kibbutz teenager at APC boot camp in the Negev; through my
years of sayeret training under the strict, sometimes sardonic, but always
supportive gaze of Israel’s most storied commandos; to, now, having begun to
make a real contribution to Avraham’s vision of a new kind of Israeli military
unit. But while Avraham, General Tzur and our other military and intelligence
chiefs celebrated our mission, I felt not so much triumph as relief. I didn’t kid
myself: I knew that the operation could just as easily have gone wrong. In fact,
it very nearly did, through errors or omissions I had made. I made that point, in
general terms, when we joined Avraham and the rest of the sayeret in a formal
debriefing. But that very night, just as I had in the days before we set off, I
wrote down in detail some of the oversights I knew I'd have to correct if we
were to succeed in further missions.

Why hadn’t I chosen a route that took us further away from the Syrian base
at Banias? How had I let us arrive so unprepared, untrained and unequipped for

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right now.
MR. SIMPSON: I've got --
THE VIDEOGRAPHER: Two minutes.
MR. SIMPSON: Two minutes. All right. That
won't take --
BY MR. SIMPSON:
Q. I want you to look at the video of that --
that testimony. Would you play it, please, for the
witness? This is from the videotape of the deposition.
THE WITNESS: I do not want to watch just --
I want to watch -- what -- what I'm seeing here
as I dive into this, I would -- if you're going
to ask me questions about what's in these
particular lines, I want to see -- I want to go
back. I want all of the -- the relevant parts of
Virginia Roberts's testimony played. And I
believe there are approximately four points in
the transcript where she’s mentioned, so can we
play all four of those?
MR, SCAROLA: We are not going to do that.
We have run out of time. Per agreement, this was

supposed to stop at noon.
MR. SIMPSON: Okay.
MR. SCAROLA: It is now 12:12, so this
deposition is ended. There were a lot of things
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329
that I would have like to have finished with
Professor Dershowitz and wasn't permitted to do
that. So by agreement, this deposition is now
over.

MR, SIMPSON: It -- it's -- it's ending over
my objection and the witness's --
MR. SCAROLA: I -- I understand that.
MR, SIMPSON: -- the -- I'm going to make my

record,
MR. SCAROLA: Okay.
MR. SIMPSON: -- the witness's refusal to

look at the videotape of the portion of the
deposition that he just characterized in his
testimony as suggesting an affirmative answer to
the question of whether Virginia Roberts and
Professor Dershowitz were there at the same time,
and I will represent --

MR. SCAROLA: That record is clear.

MR. SIMPSON: -- and anyone looking at that
videotape would know, to a moral certainty, that
that was false.

THE WITNESS: Okay. And I -- I want to make
clear that I would be happy to look at
everything. We will do that at another time
perhaps.

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MR. SCAROLA: Right.
THE VIDEOGRAPHER: We are going off the video
record, 12:14 p.m.

(Witness excused.)
(Deposition was adjourned.)

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DEPOSITION ERRATA SHEET

Assignment no: 220190
BRADLEY J. EDWARDS and PAUL G. CASSELL vs.
ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ

DECLARATION UNDER PENALTY OF PERJURY

I declare under penalty of perjury that I have
read the entire transcript of my deposition/examination
under oath taken in the captioned matter or the same
has been read to me, and the same is true and accurate,
save and except for changes and/or corrections, if any,
as indicated by me on the DEPOSITION ERRATA SHEET
hereof, with the understanding that I offer these
changes as if still under oath.

day of ;

Signed on the
2015.

PAUL G. CASSELL

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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028714.txt,"The group had a chance to visit with
Bashar Masri, the Nablus-born founder and
CEO of Massar International, the
Palestinian conglomerate financing a third
of Rawabi. Massar and Qatar Diar, the real
estate investment arm of the government of
Qatar's sovereign wealth fund, jointly
created Bayti Real Estate Investment
Company -- Palestine to build and market
Rawabi. But if two-thirds of the project's
money is coming from Qatar, the vision
behind Rawabi is Masri's.

Massar owns a private equity fund that
invests in Palestinian agriculture and
natural gas distribution. It runs travel
agencies in Jordan and brokerage firms in
Serbia. Massar invests in Harvest Export,
which sells Palestinian produce to
consumers in Russia and Western Europe --
as well as in Israel. Two years ago, Masri
made headlines when he attempted to
purchase a bankrupt Jewish housing
development in East Jerusalem. He helped
create an online trading and brokerage
platform for Palestine's stock exchange.

Masri has lived outside of Palestine for
periods of his life, and is, by all accounts,
largely untainted by connections to the
PA's notoriously rent-seeking inner circle.
He's a trim middle-aged man, smartly-
dressed, friendly and approachable. There
seemed no more appropriate a place to talk
to him one-on-one than on a wide terrace
overlooking the construction site, with

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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026283.txt,"otherwise be obscured,” the justices wrote. A single biased individual “might still have an influence

that, while not so visible . . . is nevertheless significant.”

In addition to the numerous anti-Trump messages uncovered by the inspector general, there is a strong
circumstantial case—including personnel, timing, methods and the absence of evidence—that Crossfire

was initiated for political, not national-security, purposes.

It was initiated in defiance of a longstanding Justice Department presumption against investigating
campaigns in an election year. And while impartiality 1s always required, a 2012 memo by then-
Attorney General Eric Holder emphasizes that impartiality is “particularly important in an election
year,” and “politics must play no role in the decisions of federal prosecutors or investigators regarding
any investigations. ... Law enforcement officers and prosecutors may never select the timing of
investigative steps or criminal charges for the purpose of affecting any election, or for the purpose of

giving an advantage or disadvantage to any candidate or political party.”

Strong evidence of a crime can overcome this policy, as was the case with the bureau’s investigation of
Mrs. Clinton’s private email server, which began more than a year before the 2016 election. But
Crossfire was not a criminal investigation. It was a counterintelligence investigation predicated on the
notion that Russia could be colluding with the Trump campaign. There appears to have been no
discernible evidence of Trump-Russia collusion at the time Crossfire was launched, further reinforcing

the notion that it was initiated “for the purpose” of affecting the presidential election.

The chief evidence of collusion is the hacking of the Democratic National Committee’s servers. But
nothing in the public record suggests the Trump campaign aided that effort. The collusion narrative
therefore hinges on the more generic assertion that Russia aimed to help Mr. Trump’s election, and that
the Trump campaign reciprocated by embracing pro-Russian policies. Yet despite massive surveillance
and investigation, there’s still no public evidence of any such exchange—only that Russia attempted to

sow political discord by undermining Mrs. Clinton and to a lesser extent Mr. Trump.

Some members of the Trump team interacted with Russians and advocated dovish policies. But so did
numerous American political and academic elites, including many Clinton advisers. Presidential
campaigns routinely seek opposition research and interact with foreign powers. The Clinton campaign
funded the Steele dossier, whose British author paid Russians to dish anti-Trump dirt. The Podesta
Group, led by the brother of Mrs. Clinton’s campaign chairman, received millions lobbying for
Russia’s largest bank and the European Center for a Modern Ukraine, both with deep Kremlin ties. The

Clinton Foundation and Bill Clinton took millions from Kremlin-connected businesses.

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TEXT-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032575.txt,"From: 
Sent: 
To: 
Subject: 
9/8/2017 11:15:36 AM 
jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Re: 
Importance: High 
he just did() it seems i will be in new york from sep 14 until 20 .. if you happen to be there let me know it will 
be great to see you.. if not, i will have a bag dilevered to your house with some souvenirs from kuwaitc14 
Sent from my iPhone 
On Sep 8, 2017, at 1:33 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
I will get larson to call you 
On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 12:26 PM, 
wrote: 
i will bring you some kuwaiti gifts but not food() 
Sent from my iPhone 
On Sep 8, 2017, at 11:52 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
what is your schedule in new york how long will you be there? 
On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 9:09 AM, wrote: 
things look very bad in the gulf.. my feeling trump do not want to end it 
Sent from my iPhone 
On Sep 8, 2017, at 2:28 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
your man did well. congragulations 
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New York, NY 10036

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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025952.txt,"socially disadvantaged households, but they lag behind (and never catch up) in cognitive development even
after controlling for family income.

Gorillas can crawl after 2 months, and build their own nests after 2.5 years. They leave their mothers at 3-4
years. Human children are pretty much useless during the first 10-12 years, but during each phase, their brains
have the opportunity to encounter many times as much training data as a gorilla brain. Humans are literally
smarter on every level, and because the abilities of the higher levels depend on those of the lower levels, they
can perform abstractions that mature gorillas will never learn, no matter how much we try to train them.

The second set of mechanisms is in the motivational system. Motivation tells the brain what to pay attention to,
by giving reward and punishment. If a brain does not get much reward for solving puzzles, the individual will
find mathematics very boring and won't learn much of it. If a brain gets lots of rewards for discovering other
people's intentions, it will learn a lot of social cognition.

Language might be the result of three things that are different in humans:

- extended training periods per layer (after the respective layer is done, it is difficult to learn a new set of
phonemes or the first language)

- more layers

- different internal rewards. Perhaps the reward for learning grammatical structure is the same that makes us
like music. Our brains may enjoy learning compositional regular structure, and they enjoy making themselves
understood, and everything else is something the universal cortical learning figures out on its own.

This is a hypothesis that is shared by a growing number of people these days. In humans, it is reflected for
instance by the fact that races with faster motor development have lower IQ. (In individuals of the same group,
slower development often indicates defects, of course.)

Another support comes from machine learning: we find that the same learning functions can learn visual and
auditory pattern recognition, and even end-to-end-learning. Google has built automatic image recognition into
their current photo app:
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/07/01/google-mistakenly-tags-black-people-as-gorillas-showing-limits-of-
algorithms/

The state of the art in research can do better than that: it can begin to ""Imagine"" things. I.e. when the
experimenter asks the system to ""dream"" what a certain object looks like, the system can produce a somewhat
compelling image, which indicates that it is indeed learning visual structure. This stuff is something nobody
could do a few months ago:
http://www.creativeai.net/posts/Mv4WGé6rdzAerZF7ch/synthesizing-preferred-inputs-via-deep-generator-

networks

A machine learning program that can learn how to play an Atari game without any human supervision or hand-
crafted engineering (the feat that gave DeepMind 500M from Google) now just takes about 130 lines of Python
code.

These models do not have interesting motivational systems, and a relatively simple architecture. They currently
seem to mimic some of the stuff that goes on in the first few layers of the cortex. They learn object features,
visual styles, lighting and rotation in 3d, and simple action policies. Almost everything else is missing. But
there is a lot of enthusiasm that the field might be on the right track, and that we can learn motor simulations
and intuitive physics soon. (The majority of the people in AI do not work on this, however. They try to
improve the performance for the current benchmarks.)

Noam's criticism of machine translation mostly applies to the Latent Semantic Analysis models that Google
and others have been using for many years. These models map linguistic symbols to concepts, and relate

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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024494.txt,"8. INDUSTRY OVERVIEW

8.1. Human Capital

Historically, the world economy has been viewed as being driven by an asset base of natural resources.
This has shifted to an economy driven by industrial and financial resources. This perception is reinforced
through the statistics and measurements used by governments, as seen in the Federal Reserve's
representation of the U.S. balance sheet. However, it is KUE’s view that the real assets of a city, state,
region or country are its people (human capital) and their productive capacity. KUE believes that national
economies that fail to embrace this concept will be left behind. Nobel Prize winning economist Gary
Becker estimates that in today’s service based economy, human capital accounts for 76% of the assets in
the U.S.

2005 Human Capital - $238 Trillion Market 2005 U.S. Balance Sheet - $62 Trillion Market

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Human and US Financial

Social Capital Assets
74% 26%

Source: Gary Becker
Source: U.S. Federal Reserve

Importantly in today’s economy, the value of a company is increasingly driven by creativity, innovation
and education. Companies are recognizing that human capital is their defining asset. With the value of
education becoming apparent to government and businesses alike, the Principals believe that a
significant opportunity exists to create an education company that will promote and cultivate human
capital. Today, not a single education company ranks in the top 100 worldwide as measured by market
capitalization. Within 20 years, KUE believes that the education space will contain some of the largest
companies in the world.

8.1.1. Enhancing Human Capital through Education
Education is a primary factor in improving an individual’s life-long productivity. Studies have shown that a

higher level of education leads to increased lifetime earnings, and that this is increasingly true in the new,
knowledge economy.

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IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026812.txt,"Libya: Is there any hope for peace or will it become a

hub for regional instability and violence? No and yes

-The US/EU/NATO toppling of long-time
strongman Muammar Gaddafi has led to a
cycle of instability and continuous violence.

- It has also led to severe cuts in oil production
and loss of significant revenue.

- More importantly, Gaddafi’s massive weapons
stocks have directly flowed to Boko Haram in
Nigeria, terrorist groups in Mali and to arm
other movements in Tunisia — as well as
financing them via the sales and trading of
these weapons.

- The US and EU seem to have no strategy to
deal with the situation. White House sources
tell us “it has literally fallen off the table” as an
issue of focus. Is this now Egypt’s problem
through which the US will send
money/weapons?

Libya total oil production (1980-2013)

thousand barrels per day

2,000

1995

— total oil production

Deutsche Bank Francis J. Kelly
Global Public Affairs francis.j.kelly@db.com

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IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020598.txt,"139

Although the United Front Work Department has attracted much media attention,

and the term “United Front” has become a euphemistic one for many analysts writing
about China’s influence activities abroad, the scope of the UFWD’s activities in
China’s external influence operations is actually limited. Its primary target audience

is the Chinese diaspora in general, and its elite members in particular. The mission

of engaging and influencing nonethnic Chinese audiences, individuals, and foreign
institutions is assigned to other specialized Chinese entities—such as the Chinese
Academy of Social Sciences, the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Education,

the Ministry of State Security (e.g., China Institutes of Contemporary International
Relations), and other institutions that have well-trained professionals and long-standing

ties with their counterparts overseas.

International [Liaison] Department

The CCP’s International [Liaison] Department (#RE44#8) is in charge of “party-to-
party relations” (3#fRX¥) and has the primary mission of cultivating foreign political
parties and politicians around the world. This Party organ has existed since before
1949 and was formerly charged with maintaining China’s fraternal ties with other
communist and socialist parties around the world, but in the wake of the Cold War,
the CCP/ID drastically broadened its mandate to interact with virtually all political
parties abroad (except fascist and racist parties). Today it claims to maintain ties
with over 400 political parties in 140 countries, receives about 200 delegations,

and dispatches about 100 abroad every year. CCP/ID exchanges have provided an
important prism through which the CCP and other organizations in China monitor
the outside world and absorb lessons for China’s own modernization. This kind of
information gathering goes well beyond traditional intelligence collection (although,

to be sure, the ID also engages in this activity).

Through its interactions with political parties all over the world, the CCP/ID serves

an important function as a kind of “radar” for identifying up-and-coming foreign
politicians before they attain national prominence and office. Having identified
such rising stars, the CCP/ID brings them to China (usually on all-expenses-paid
visits) often offering them their first exposure to China and trying to make the
best possible impression on them. Another key dimension of this function has been to
expose CCP leaders at the provincial and sub-provincial levels to the outside world—
often for the first time. Many provincial Party secretaries, governors, mayors and other

leading local cadres are taken abroad on ID delegations every year. The CCP/ID has

Appendix 1

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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016803.txt,"due to adverse political, economic or other developments. These risks are magnified for investments
made in emerging markets. Investments in a certain industry or sector may pose additional risk due to
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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030512.txt,"From: Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]

Sent: 3/7/2011 4:42:11 PM
To: Gmax [gmax1@ellmax.com]
Subject: Fwd: FW: Please forward

Attachments: image001.png

a Forwarded message ----------

From: Jack Goldberger i ~

Date: Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 8:18 AM
Subject: FW: Please forward
To: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com>

From: Kirsty Mackenzie

Sent: Monday, March 07, 2011 11:11 AM
To: Jack Goldberger

Subject: RE: Please forward

Iam writing in an attempt to make contact with Jeffrey Epstein and wondered if you would, as his attorney, forward this message on
to him?

We are keen to explore the possibility of conducting an interview with Mr Epstein, on the subject of the stories which are circulating,
however inaccurately, about both him and Prince Andrew, the Duke of York; we'd be keen to hear from Mr Epstein first hand so that
the various and at times, speculative reporting which 1s at large in the UK press can be better scrutinised?

Let me tell you a bit about the Today programme.

Today is the BBC's main morning news show; we have been part of the BBC for over 50 years and are generally considered one of the
most important news broadcast outlets - either on radio or TV - here in the UK. We set the news agenda for the BBC and in many
respects we set the daily news agenda for the country. Our interviews are regularly re broadcast across the BBC's national and
international news network including - BBC World, BBC World Service and BBC Online. The combination of these outlets means
the global 'reach’ of a BBC Today programme interview is second to none.

Programme guests have included a selection of some of the biggest names in politics, business, international relations and the arts
including US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, President Nicholas Sarkozy, President Hamid Karzai, HRH the Prince of Wales,
former President Musharraf, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, former President Bill Clinton, Senator George Mitchell, Al
Gore, Kofi Annan, former Prime Minister Tony Blair, the Dalai Lama, Bill Gates, George Soros, Stephen Hawking, Sir Paul
McCartney, Mick Jaggar and Salman Rushdie.

We are a programme that carries considerable weight and influence and which prides itself in being a first port of call for many of the
most important and influential figures on the international stage.

I can best be reached via my cell phone - J - or this email address.
My very best wishes and my thanks!
Kirsty

Kirsty MacKenzie,
Interviews Editor,
Today Programme,
BBC News

HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030512
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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018190.txt,"or health reasons. Nearly a third 32% say it is likely they will use a tracking device to monitor a
loved one in the future.""

""The greatest endorsement of P2P surveillance is that 66% of Americans are comfortable being
monitored by concerned loved ones in case of emergency. That's an awfully large market waiting
to be tapped by companies like GTX Corporation who debuts its first GPS-based tracking shoe for
children this week.""

Excerpts from recent Boston University Research indicating that two-thirds of Americans are

comfortable being electronically monitored by loved ones in case of an emergency
Download the full article
Brave New GPS World

By James Klein, Larta VOX Editor - November 3, 2003

In the future, we won't lose anything. Advances in global positioning system technology allow
users to easily pinpoint the location of any object on earth. GPS boards have been reduced to the
size of a postage stamp. Soon, we could attach GPS locators to everything we own - cell phones,

briefcases, wallets - and even our children.

GPS Shoe to Track Alzheimer's Patients

London, England - June 10, 2009 - A new show outfitted with a GPS chip aims to offer peace of

mind to Alzheimer's patients and their caregivers.
Download the full article

GTX Signs Deal With Aertrex Worldwide

June 1, 2009 - GTX signs its first footwear deal for its Personal Location Services product with

Aertrex Worldwide, which specializes in orthotic footwear.
Download the full article

Enfora and GTXC Advance Personal Tracking and Location with GPS-enabled Shoe
Plano, Texas - March 27, 2007 - Enfora, Inc., today announced GTX Corporation's (GTXC)
adoption of the Enabler® IIG-A-GPS embedded wireless and location module into their latest

model of the GTXC Xplorer® GPS Smart Shoe designed to monitor the whereabouts of loved

ones.

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IMAGES-012-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032803.txt,"From: Neal Kass!

Sent: 9/4/2018 12:46:09 AM

To: Melanie Walker
cc: Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Re: Introduction

Importance: — High
Thanks Melanie

Jeffery — look forward to meeting you. Wish Melanie was with us. I will be in New York from Tuesday the 25th
through Friday, 28 September. Let me know if you are available.

Be well.

Sent from my iPhone
NF Kassell MD
434 981 0100

On Sep 3, 2018, at 8:42 PM, Melanie Walker TE wrote:

Jeffrey - Neal

Neither of you requires introduction. I've known Jeffrey 28 years and this isn't a joke -
Donald Trump introduced us. I first met Neal in 16 years ago when Bob Pirie introduced
US ...

Neal will be visiting NYC end of month.

I think you would both enjoy spending time together -

Thanks to you both for always supporting me.

You are both copied.

Melanie

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IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028181.txt,"/ BARAK / 47

Whether the stories were true wouldn’t matter. They would still make the real
bargaining necessary for peace far more difficult, perhaps even impossible.

I also had doubts whether Assad was ready for real peace: embassies, open
borders, personal contact between Syrians and Israelis, and ideally an
internationally backed free-trade manufacturing area on the Golan to give Syria a
tangible stake in ensuring the peace lasted. In earlier talks, under Shimon Peres,
Syrian negotiators had at one stage brought a message from Assad. What did we
mean, he wanted to know, with all this emphasis on peace, peace, peace? Syria had
peace with £7 Salvador, but without any of the trappings we were insisting on.
Peace, in Assad’s mind, seemed to mean merely an absence of war. Plus, of course,
getting back the Golan.

I did, however, come ready to negotiate. Though I was still not prepared to
reconfirm Rabin’s “pocket deposit” as a mere ticket of admission, my position
remained essentially the one I had worked out with Yitzhak in formulating the
deposit: IAMNAM, “‘if all my needs are met.”’ Meaning that if Assad showed a
readiness to deal with /srael’s requirements in a peace deal, I did, of course,
recognize we would leave the Golan Heights. In addition to early-warning
facilities, we envisaged an open border with a demilitarized area on either side, as
well as guarantees that important sources of water for Israel would not be blocked
or diverted. As Assad knew, despite his presumably feigned puzzlement about
Syria’s arrangements with El Salvador, we also needed the agreement to embody a
mutual commitment to real peace: through elements like an exchange of
ambassadors and the establishment of the free-trade zone. As with the Begin-Sadat
peace, we assumed that our Golan withdrawal would come in phases, parallel to
the implementation of the other provisions of the treaty.

In our initial meetings in Shepherdstown, Foreign Minister al-Sharaa showed no
inclination even to talk about these other issues. So on the second afternoon we
were there, I suggested to President Clinton the Americans try to break the logjam
by drafting a paper of their own. It would detail all the issues in an eventual
agreement, with parenthetical references to those on which we and the Syrians still
differed. Then each side could respond with a view toward narrowing the gaps.

The President liked the idea. So did Al-Sharaa. Three days later, the President
presented the eight-page American draft. With his customary eloquence, he
emphasized the need for us to use it as a springboard for peace, not to score
political points, and each side agreed to take a couple of days to look through it. It

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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032463.txt,"and may be unlawful. If you have received this
communication in error, please notify us immediately by
return e-mail or by e-mail to jeevacation@gmail.com, and
destroy this communication and all copies thereof,
including all attachments. copyright -all rights reserved

please note
The information contained in this communication is
confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may
constitute inside information, and is intended only for
the use of the addressee. It is the property of
JEE
Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this
communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited
and may be unlawful. If you have received this
communication in error, please notify us immediately by
return e-mail or by e-mail to jeevacation@gmail.com, and
destroy this communication and all copies thereof,
including all attachments. copyright -all rights reserved

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"
TEXT-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032213.txt,"From: 
Sent: 
To: 
jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
3/24/2018 10:39:13 AM 
Importance: High 
https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-close-is-donald-trump-to-a-psychiatric-breakdown?ref=home 
please note 
The information contained in this communication is 
confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may 
constitute inside information, and is intended only for 
the use of the addressee. It is the property of 
JEE 
Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this 
communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited 
and may be unlawful. If you have received this 
communication in error, please notify us immediately by 
return e-mail or by e-mail to jeevacation@gmail.com, and 
destroy this communication and all copies thereof, 
including all attachments. copyright -all rights reserved 
HOUSE OVERSIGHT 032213 
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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013852.txt,"2. Three Minutes: Begin each line focusing on the third word in from the first word, and end
each line focusing on the third word in from the last word. This makes use of peripheral vision
that is otherwise wasted on margins. For example, even when the highlighted words in the next
line are your beginning and ending focal points, the entire sentence is “read,” just with less eye
movement:

“Once upon a time, an information addict decided to detox.”

Move in from both sides further and further as it gets easier.

3. Two Minutes: Once comfortable indenting three or four words from both sides, attempt to
take only two snapshots—also known as fixations—per line on the first and last indented
words.

4. Three Minutes: Practice reading too fast for comprehension but with good technique (the
above three techniques) for five pages prior to reading at a comfortable speed. This will
heighten perception and reset your speed limit, much like how 50 mph normally feels fast but
seems like slow motion if you drop down from 70 mph on the freeway.

To calculate reading speed in words per minute (wpm)—and thus progress—in a given book, add up
the number of words in ten lines and divide by ten to get the average words per line. Multiply this by the
number of lines per page and you have the average words per page. Now it’s simple. If you initially read
1.25 pages in one minute at 330 average words per page, that’s 412.5 words per minute. If you then read
3.5 pages after training, it’s 1,155 words per minute and you’re in the top 1% of the world’s fastest
readers.

=» Q&A: QUESTIONS AND ACTIONS

Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.
— ROBERT J. SAWYER, Calculating God

1. Go on an immediate one-week media fast.

The world doesn’t even hiccup, much less end, when you cut the information umbilical cord. To realize
this, it’s best to use the Band-Aid approach and do it quickly: a one-week media fast. Information is too
much like ice cream to do otherwise. “Oh, [ll just have a half a spoonful” is about as realistic as “I just
want to jump online for a minute.” Go cold turkey.

If you want to go back to the 15,000-calorie potato chip information diet afterward, fine, but beginning
tomorrow and for at least five full days, here are the rules:

No newspapers, magazines, audiobooks, or nonmusic radio. Music is permitted at all times.

No news websites whatsoever (cnn.com, drudgereport.com, msn.com 10 etc.).

No television at all, except for one hour of pleasure viewing each evening.

No reading books, except for this book and one hour of fiction! pleasure reading prior to bed.

No web surfing at the desk unless it is necessary to complete a work task for that day. Necessary means
necessary, not nice to have.

Unnecessary reading is public enemy number one during this one-week fast.

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IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011225.txt,"NewsdeskW | RT @nytimesworld: Brexit in 4 charts: a generational 23 Jun 2016, 2 | negative
ORLD divide that's about more than age 11:48 - CEST
https://t.co/YtDQcE895H
Nigel450 RT @Independent: Leave supporters are very 23 Jun 2016, | Midland 74 | positive
suspicious about the pencils at polling stations 12:05 -CEST | s
https://t.co/ygRdXrcx66 https://t.co/m4FcG3197]
7ES5E RT @Stop_The_EU: On #Brexit the UK will become the | 23 Jun 2016, | Kyoto, 85 | positive
EU's biggest export market. 12:05 - CEST | Japan
#VoteLeave https://t.co/wlI7ORkoTuM
frspch RT @Ironwand: Tony Benn would have voted #Brexit 23 Jun 2016, 14 | positive
on #IndependenceDay! 12:05 - CEST
If the establishment wants it, do the opposite!
#VoteLeave https://a€ |
Monalisazel | RT @Knack: Hoe kan u gokken op een bremain of 23 Jun 2016, 2 | negative
f brexit? https://t.co/AdpW79t5gM 12:05 - CEST
https://t.co/HVGTdGyAHD
Risto_Matti | RT @FIMRahantaju: #BrexitAxAnnestys on alkanut. 23 Jun 2016, 2 | negative
Katso, miten voi kAxydAx, jos britit [AAnhtevAxt tai jos | 12:05 - CEST
he jAtAnvAnt. https://t.co/jGSymmO3Jtj httpsa€!
orzowaymil | RT @Virginia_Reggi: E io che pensavo che il Brexit 23 Jun 2016, | Milano 47 | positive
ano fosse il cocktail dell'estate in arrivo dalla Gran 12:05 -CEST | Italy -
Bretagna London
U.K.
#BrexitOrNot #Brexit
Trendsiana_ | Jeffrey Simpson: Will a long, loveless marriage end 23 Jun 2016, | Worldwi 0 | negative
with Brexit? https://t.co/CzDGTDtfty 12:05 - CEST | de
mahonnewé6 | RT @JuliaHB1: Yet another good reason to Vote 23 Jun 2016, | brum 1330 | positive
7 Leave. #Brexit https://t.co/ZppueosTB6 12:05 - CEST
FxsignalOnli | Gold investors wrestle with Brexit vote in wild options | 23 Jun 2016, | Online 0 | neutral
ne dealings https://t.co/ngGQnAUmzd 12:05 - CEST
swimmerbo | The Brexit Vote Is the Perfect Excuse to Revisit This 23 Jun 2016, | current O | neutral
y2379 Song by The Clash via TIME.ca€ | 12:05 - CEST | location
https://t.co/DAi7mcl3yr https://t.co/aMkPOZqVXN
BoulyPorte RT @rdinho3: #Macron : en cas de #Brexit, ""la France | 23 Jun 2016, 5 | negative
sera inflexible” avec le RoyaumeUni 12:05 - CEST
#EnMarche vers plus de dictature #UE https://t.ca€ |
news89 Der BrexitEndspurt ist nichts fA%r Zimperliche: 23 Jun 2016, | on 0 | neutral
Premier Cameron kAxmpft um jede Stimme, Boris 12:05 - CEST | Twitter
Johnson kAX&sst ei... https://t.co/SEqUmxtaLW
Matt_Dark But | want to see brexit .. It will be interesting to see 23 Jun 2016, | dalam 0 | positive
how market react after that 12:05 - CEST | hati
Amani
deni ede
Mie...
awww
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'Bremain’, los britAjnicos deciden su futuro 12:05 - CEST | Mundo

https://t.co/nMV5MgOTWc https://t.co/rPX1H3pghw

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012594.txt,"ao

By signing this agreement, Epstein asserts and certifies that each of these terms is
material to this agreement and is supported by independent consideration and that a breach
of any one of these conditions allows the United States to elect to terminate the agreement
and to investigate and prosecute Epstein and any other individual or entity for any and all
federal offenses. ,

By signing this agreement, Epstein asserts and certifies that he is aware of the fact that
the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States provides that in all criminal
prosecutions the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial. Epstein further
is aware that Rule 48(b) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure provides that the Court
may dismiss an indictment, information, or complaint for unnecessary delay in presenting
a charge to the Grand Jury, filing an information, or in bringing a defendant to trial. Epstein
hereby requests that the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida defer such
prosecution, Epstein agrees and consents that any delay from the date of this Agreement to
the date of initiation of prosecution, as provided for in the terms expressed herein, shall be
deemed to be a necessary delay at his own request, and he hereby waives any defense to such
prosecution on the ground that such delay operated to deny him rights under Rule 48(b) of
the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure and the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution of the
United States to a speedy trial or to bar the prosecution by reason of the running of the statute
of limitations for a period of months equal to the period between the signing of this
agreement and the breach of this agreement as to those offenses that were the subject of the
grand jury’s investigation. Epstein further asserts and certifies that he understands that the
Fifth Amendment and Rule 7(a) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure provide that all
felonies must be charged in an indictment presented to a grand jury. Epstein hereby agrees
and consents that, if a prosecution against him is instituted for any offense that was the
subject of the grand jury’s investigation, it may be by way of an Information signed and filed
by the United States Attorney, and hereby waives his right to be indicted by a grand jury as
to any such offense.

//T-
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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020046.txt,"Since her firing on January 30, Yates had remained suspiciously quiet. When
journalists approached her, she, or her intermediaries, explained that per her lawyers she
was shut down on all media. The president believed she was merely lying in wait. In
phone calls to friends, he worried about her “plan” and “strategy,” and he continued to
press his after-dinner sources for what they thought she and Ben Rhodes, Trump’s favorite
Obama plotter, had “up their sleeves.”

For each of his enemies—and, actually, for each of his friends—the issue for him came
down, in many ways, to their personal press plan. The media was the battlefield. Trump
assumed everybody wanted his or her fifteen minutes and that everybody had a press
strategy for when they got them. If you couldn’t get press directly for yourself, you
became a leaker. There was no happenstance news, in Trump’s view. All news was
manipulated and designed, planned and planted. All news was to some extent fake—he
understood that very well, because he himself had faked it so many times in his career.
This was why he had so naturally cottoned to the “fake news” label. “ve made stuff up
forever, and they always print it,” he bragged.

The return of Sally Yates, with her appointment before the Senate Judiciary
Committee, marked the beginning, Trump believed, of a sustained and well-organized
media rollout for her. (His press view was confirmed later in May by a lavish,
hagiographic profile of Yates in the New Yorker. “How long do you think she was
planning this?” he asked, rhetorically. “You know she was. It’s her payday.”) “Yates is
only famous because of me,” the president complained bitterly. “Otherwise, who is she?
Nobody.”

In front of Congress that Monday morning, Yates delivered a cinematic performance—
cool, temperate, detailed, selfless—compounding Trump’s fury and agitation.

OOK Ok

On the morning of Tuesday, May 9, with the president still fixated on Comey, and with
Kushner and his daughter behind him, Priebus again moved to delay: “There’s a right way
to do this and a wrong way to do this,” he told the president. “We don’t want him learning
about this on television. I’m going to say this one last time: this is not the right way to do
this. If you want to do this, the right way is to have him in and have a conversation. This is
the decent way and the professional way.” Once more, the president seemed to calm down
and become more focused on the necessary process.

But that was a false flag. In fact, the president, in order to avoid embracing
conventional process—or, for that matter, any real sense of cause and effect—merely
eliminated everybody else from his process. For most of the day, almost no one would
know that he had decided to take matters into his own hands. In presidential annals, the
firing of FBI director James Comey may be the most consequential move ever made by a
modern president acting entirely on his own.

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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029378.txt,"¢ We received about $1 billion
from the US, by order of President
Obama, for ""Iron Dome"", and
assistance for the David's Sling and
Arrow programs continues.

¢ We turn to the US to veto
hostile initiatives against Israel in the
United Nations Security Council. Or to
soften the conclusions of the
Goldstone Commission and its ilk.

¢ Itis to them that we turned
(and they responded to the best of their
ability) in rather tense times, when a
handful of our people were besieged in
the embassy in Cairo, with an angry
mob at the door.

¢ Secretary of State Kerry, and
President Obama — went to great
lengths — and paid a considerable
political (and often personal) price — to
help us achieve a breakthrough with

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013846.txt,"and spending at least 2 more hours per day with his family. From 40 hours per week, he was down to 18
and producing four times the results.

Was it from mountaintop retreats and secret kung fu training? Nope. Was it a new Japanese
management secret or better software? Nein. I just asked him to do one simple thing consistently without
fail.

At least three times per day at scheduled times, he had to ask himself the following question:
Am I being productive or just active?
Charney captured the essence of this with less-abstract wording:
Am I inventing things to do to avoid the important?

He eliminated all of the activities he used as crutches and began to focus on demonstrating results instead
of showing dedication. Dedication is often just meaningless work in disguise. Be ruthless and cut the fat.

It is possible to have your cupcake and eat it, too.

=> Q&A: QUESTIONS AND ACTIONS

We create stress for ourselves because you feel like you have to do it. You have to. I don’t feel
that anymore.

— OPRAH WINFREY , actress and talk-show host, The Oprah Winfrey Show

Tre key to having more time is doing less, and there are two paths to getting there, both of which

should be used together: (1) Define a to-do list and (2) define a not-to-do list. In general terms, there are
but two questions:

What 20% of sources are causing 80% of my problems and unhappiness?
What 20% of sources are resulting in 80% of my desired outcome and happiness?

Hypothetical cases help to get us started:

1. If you had a heart attack and had to work two hours per day, what would you do?

Not five hours, not four hours, not three—two hours. It’s not where I want you to ultimately be, but it’s a
start. Besides, I can hear your brain bubbling already: That’s ridiculous. Impossible! I know, I know. If I
told you that you could survive for months, functioning quite well, on four hours of sleep per night,
would you believe me? Probably not. Notwithstanding, millions of new mothers do it all the time. This
exercise is not optional. The doctor has warned you, after triple-bypass surgery, that if you don’t cut
down your work to two hours per day for the first three months post-op, you will die. How would you do
it?

2. If you had a second heart attack and had to work two hours per week, what would you do?

3. If you had a gun to your head and had to stop doing 4/5 of different time-consuming activities,

what would you remove? Simplicity requires ruthlessness. If you had to stop Ys of time-consuming

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012580.txt,"JAY P. LEFKOWITZ, Eso.
DECEMBER 13, 2007
PAGE 4 OF 5

issue if it were raised during negotiations. As I stated, it was not, leading me to believe that it was
not a matter of concern to the defense. Since the signing of the Non-Prosecution Agreement, the
agents and I have vetted the list of victims more than once. In one instance, we decided to remove
a name because, although the minor victim was touched inappropriately by Mr. Epstein, we decided
that the link to a payment was insufficient to call it “prostitution.” 1 have always remained open to
a challenge to the list, so your suggestion that Mr. Epstein was forced to write a blank check is
simply unfounded.

Your last set of allegations relates to the investigation of the matter. For instance, you claim
that some of the victims were informed of their right to collect damages prior to a thorough
investigation of their allegations against Mr. Epstein. This also is false. None of the victims was
informed of the right to sue under Section 2255 prior to the investigation of the claims. Three
victims were notified shortly after the signing of the Non-Prosecution Agreement of the general
terms of that Agreement. You raised objections to any victim notification, and no further
notifications were done. Throughout this process you have seen that I have prepared this case as
though it would proceed to trial. Notifying the witnesses of the possibility of damages claims prior
to concluding the matter by plea or trial would only undermine my case. If my reassurances are
insufficient, the fact that not a single victim has threatened to sue Mr. Epstein should assure you of
the integrity of the investigation.'

‘There are numerous other unfounded allegations in your letter about document demands,
the money laundering investigation, contacting potential witnesses, speaking with the press, and the
like. For the most part, these allegations have been raised and disproven earlier and need not be
readdressed. However, with respect to the subpoena served upon the private investigator, contrary
to your assertion, and as your co-counsel has already been told, I did consult with the Justice
Department prior to issuing the subpoena and I was told that because I was not subpoenaing an
attorney’s office or an office physically located within an attorney's office, and because the business
did private investigation work for individuals (rather than working exclusively for Mr. Black), I
could issue a grand jury subpoena in the normal course, which is what I did. I also did not
“threaten” the State Attorney's Office with a grand jury subpoena, as the correspondence with their
grand jury coordinator makes perfectly clear.

With regard to your allegation of my filing the Palm Beach Police Department’s probable
cause affidavit “with the court knowing that the public could access it,” I do not know to what you
are referring. All documents related to the grand jury investigation have been filed under seal, and
the Palm Beach Police Department’s probable cause affidavit has never been filed with the Court.
If, in fact, you are referring to the Ex Parte Declaration of Joseph Recarey that was filed in response
to the motion to quash the grand jury subpoena, it was filed both under seal and ex parte, so no one
should have access to it except the Court and myself. Those documents are still in the Court file
only because you have violated one of the terms of the Agreement by failing to “withdraw
[Epstein’s] pending motion to intervene and to quash certain grand jury subpoenas.”

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Donald Trump) #VoteLeave wins, Cameron will step 13:13 - CEST | from
down.... https://t.co/GZtMReujdT the
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Finish. Slovakout. Latervia. Byegium. FLA
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is léefotuitter ttt 1,%0% Piaiyi,1st4iZi% #referendum | 13:13 - CEST
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he left the DWP? Hoping for more power if Brexit 13:13 - CEST
won?
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ners ‘Great' again by #VoteLeave today defying all 13:13 - CEST | Kingdo
scaremongering #Brexit #LeaveEU #EUref m
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https://t.co/MkY7UfZODC
mOrpheouz | RT @NovaShpakova: Wishing you the very best #UK 23 Jun 2016, 3 | neutral
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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020052.txt,"Republic Airport in Farmingdale, Long Island. Accompanying Hannity was a small group
of current and former Fox employees, all Ailes and Trump partisans. But each felt some
open angst, or even incredulity, about Trump being Trump: first there was the difficulty of
grasping the Comey rationale, and now his failure to give even a nod to his late friend
Ailes.

“He’s an idiot, obviously,” said the former Fox correspondent Liz Trotta.

Fox anchor Kimberly Guilfoyle spent much of the flight debating Trump’s entreaties to
have her replace Sean Spicer at the White House. “There are a lot of issues, including
personal survival.”

As for Hannity himself, his view of the right-wing world was shifting from Foxcentric
to Trumpcentric. He did not think much more than a year would pass before he, too,
would be pushed from the network, or find it too inhospitable to stay on. And yet he was
pained by Trump’s slavish attentions to Murdoch, who had not only ousted Ailes but
whose conservatism was at best utilitarian. “He was for Hillary!” said Hannity.

Ruminating out loud, Hannity said he would leave the network and go work full time
for Trump, because nothing was more important than that Trump succeed—“in spite of
himself,” Hannity added, laughing.

But he was pissed off that Trump hadn’t called Beth. “Mueller,” he concluded, drawing
deeply on an electronic cigarette, had distracted him.

Trump may be a Frankenstein creation, but he was the right wing’s creation, the first,
true, right-wing original. Hannity could look past the Comey disaster. And Jared. And the
mess in the White House.

Still, he hadn’t called Beth.
“What the fuck is wrong with him?” asked Hannity.

7 OK Ok

Trump believed he was one win away from turning everything around. Or, perhaps more
to the point, one win away from good press that would turn everything around. The fact
that he had largely squandered his first hundred days—whose victories should have been
the currency of the next hundred days—was immaterial. You could be down in the media
one day and then the next have a hit that made you a success.

“Big things, we need big things,” he said, angrily and often. “This isn’t big. I need big.
Bring me big. Do you even know what big 1s?”

Repeal and replace, infrastructure, true tax reform—the rollout Trump had promised
and then depended on Paul Ryan to deliver—was effectively in tatters. Every senior staff

member was now maintaining that they shouldn’t have done health care, the precursor to
the legislative rollout, in the first place. Whose idea was that, anyway?

HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020052
"
IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018184.txt,"There is a trend in high-tech that recommends adding location-based services to anything and
everything. But it has me pulled between wanting to see really cool gadgets and avoiding a Big
Brother-like society.

The latest is a new high-tech tennis shoe coming to the market that lets parents and guardians track
the movements of their family using Global Positioning Systems or GPS technology.

Called the ""Smart Shoe,” the miniature device is inserted in the sole of the low-top sneaker. An
antenna that runs up the back of the footwear communicates with satellites and relays a location
back to a subscription Web site service for easy viewing. Los Angeles-based GTXC, which makes
the devices and the service, said it is hoping to put Smart Shoes in stores by the end of the year.
Shoes with the technology could cost between $100 and $200. The tracking service is expected to

cost about $20 a month.
Follow That Kid

Today's technology makes it easier for parents to know where their kids are and what they're
doing.

By Joe Burris | Baltimore Sun | July 1, 2007

Michelle Smith had been reluctant to buy a cell phone for her 7-year-old daughter, Daysha. Then
one day in April, a substitute teacher placed the Radford, Va., girl on the wrong school bus.
Instead of being dropped off at her older sister's after-school program as planned, Daysha was sent
home - only to find the doors locked.

As she sat on her front porch crying, her mother drove around town, searching frantically for the
girl. No one at the school could tell her which bus the girl had been put on.
""Then my next-door neighbor called,"" said Smith, ""and said, 'I have your baby.' ""

The scary moment had a happy ending, but Smith didn't want to take a chance on losing her
daughter again. So she did what many other parents are doing - she bought her child a cell phone

equipped with an electronic device that could keep track of her whereabouts.
Download the full article

Tracking technology hits the ground running.

Wherever you go, there you are. And we know where you are.

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IMAGES-012-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032817.txt,"the use of the addressee. It is the property of
JEE
Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this
communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited
and may be unlawful. If you have received this
communication in error, please notify us immediately by
return e-mail or by e-mail to jeevacation@gmail.com, and
destroy this communication and all copies thereof,
including all attachments. copyright -all rights reserved
please note
The information contained in this communication is
confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may
constitute inside information, and is intended only for
the use of the addressee. It is the property of
JEE
Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this
communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited
and may be unlawful. If you have received this
communication in error, please notify us immediately by
return e-mail or by e-mail to jeevacation@gmail.com, and
destroy this communication and all copies thereof,
including all attachments. copyright -all rights reserved

please note
The information contained in this communication is
confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may
constitute inside information, and is intended only for
the use of the addressee. It is the property of
JEE
Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this
communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited
and may be unlawful. If you have received this
communication in error, please notify us immediately by
return e-mail or by e-mail to jeevacation@gmail.com, and
destroy this communication and all copies thereof,
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HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032817
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IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028195.txt,"/ BARAK / 61

wasn’t enough, David Levy, my Foreign Minister, told me he would not be joining
me at Camp David. He wasn’t resigning, at least not yet. But he knew that the final
decisions at the summit would be mine, he feared it would fail, and didn’t want to
share in the consequences.

None of this meant I wasn’t going. Even if the no-confidence vote succeeded,
the new Israeli electoral system, with its separate vote for Prime Minister, meant I
would remain in office, at least until the summit was over. In a nationally televised
message, I reminded the country that I’d been elected with nearly two million
votes. I felt I had a responsibility, and a mandate, that went beyond party politics.
“T must rise above the political arguments, and seek out all possibilities on the way
to a peace agreement that will end the conflict, and the blood, between us and our
neighbors.” I made the same points before the Knesset. I did, of course, want
parliamentary support. But I was acting on a mandate from the people of Israel. It
was they, in a referendum, who would ultimately decide on anything we might
agree. When the Knesset votes were counted, thanks to the fact two dozen MKs
abstained, both sides lost. Arik fell seven votes short of a majority. So the
government survived. But those opposed to the summit got more votes than we
did: 54 to 52.

There were several consolations as I prepared to fly out from Ben-Gurion
airport. Shas leader Eli Yishai passed me an envelope on the tarmac. Inside was a
note from Rabbi Ovadia Yossef, the Shas spiritual leader whom I’d met with
privately after the election and a number of times since. He wanted to wish me
good luck. Nearly 30 reserve generals also issued a public message of support.
Perhaps most encouragingly, a newspaper poll found a majority of Israelis — 55
percent to 45 — believed I was right to go to Camp David and that I had a mandate
to make concessions in return for peace.

David Levy came over to talk before I boarded. “I doubt we’ll get an
agreement,” he said. I told him what I was telling other ministers, what I’d told
reporters and, in fact what I had told Nava. “The odds are fifty-fifty.” The reporters
took this as coy, or deliberately deceptive. So I added that it was not because I
knew something they didn’t. “It’s because there are two possible outcomes, and I
don’t know which one will happen.” The gaps of substance were bridgeable. The
question was whether both sides wanted peace, and whether each had made a
serious, strategic decision to go for it. I’d made that choice. But I had no way of
knowing whether Yasir Arafat had.

347
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IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021692.txt,",

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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025946.txt,"From: Boris Nikolic iy |

Sent: 7/11/2016 1:08:58 AM
To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: RE:

Importance: — High

| was thinking of black.
It is not a gold pain but a gold leafing. It took them 2 months to do it.
What | do not like that it came out more as a Trump gold that an old gold.

B

From: jeevacation@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2016 21:06:27 -0400
Subject: Re:

To

and maybe have the large colums black instead of gold, asthe gold paint is not as good as the gold metal

objects.
On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 9:03 PM, Boris Nikolic i wrote:

Great! Happy to hear it.
Trust your advice and taste - this is why | am asking!

B

From: jeevacation@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2016 21:01:22 -0400

Subject: Re:

1

i think it was terrific , the only thing i would think about is having only one lit sculpture at atime .

in storage or covered , but you want to call attention to one at a time.

On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 8:43 PM, Boris Nikolic {> wrote:

Thank you!

Did you really like it?
How did you like furniture?
What would you change it?

From: jeevacation@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2016 20:42:23 -0400

put one

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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031618.txt,"From: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Sent: 5/16/2016 3:41:25 PM
To: Thomas Jr., Landon

Subject: Re: Trump

Importance: — High

Me too

On Monday, 16 May 2016, Thomas Jr., Landon {qq wrote:

I am kind of shocked that our reporters did not contact you re the Trump/women story. Seems to me

he got off rather lightly.

How are you doing?

Landon Thomas, Jr.
Financial Reporter
New York Times

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/t/landon jr thomas/index.

please note
The information contained in this communication is
confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may
constitute inside information, and is intended only for
the use of the addressee. It is the property of
JEE
Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this
communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited
and may be unlawful. If you have received this
communication in error, please notify us immediately by
return e-mail or by e-mail to jeevacation@gmail.com, and
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HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031618
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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024480.txt,"e focal nursery schools and child care centers, including church-affillated and other non-profit
centers;

e providers of child care services that operate out of homes; and
« substitutes for group child care, such as relatives, nannies and stay-at-home parents.

In many markets, the Company faces competition from preschool services and before and after schoo!
programs offered by public schools that provide such services at little or no cost to parents. The number
of school districts offering these services is growing, and we expect increased competition from such
services in the future. In addition, local nursery schools, child care centers and in-home providers
generally charge less for their services than the Company. Many denominational and other non-profit
child care centers have lower operating expenses than the Company and may receive donations and/or
other funding to subsidize operating expenses. Consequently, operators of such centers often charge
lower tuition rates than us. Moreover, fees for home-based care are normally substantially Jower than
fees for center-based care.

6.1.6 The Company may acquire companies that are not well-established or are
experiencing financial difficulties

The Company may acquire less established companies. Acquisitions of interests in such companies may
involve greater risks than are generally associated with acquisitions of more established or stable
companies. For example, such companies may have shorter operating histories on which to predict
future performance and may have negative cash flow. Their performance may be more volatile and they
may be unable to sustain the growth rates or success achieved by established companies. In the case of
start-up enterprises, such companies may not have significant or any operating revenues. Such
companies aiso may have a lower capitalization and fewer resources (including cash) and may be more
vulnerable to failure, resulting in the loss of the Company's entire investment in such company. In
addition, less mature companies could be more susceptible to irregular accounting or other fraudulent
practices. In such event, the Company may suffer a partial or total loss of capital invested in that
company.

The Company has invested in troubled companies in the past, and may make future investments in
companies that are experiencing, or are expected to experience, financial difficulties. !f such difficulties
are not overcome, the Company may lose part or all of any equity investment in such companies.

6.1.7 KUE will rely on the management teams of its subsidiaries

While KUE will retain overall contro! and set the strategic direction of the Company, day-to-day operations
at the subsidiary level will be the responsibility of the management teams at the subsidiary level. There
can be no assurance that the existing management teams, or any successor, of any acquired business
will be able to operate such business in accordance with KUE’s plans and/or objectives.

6.1.8. The Company has a non-controlling interest in ki2 with limited rights as a
shareholder and may acquire minority interests in other entities

The Company holds a non-controlling interest in k12 and may in the future acquire minority interests in
other companies. Holding a minority interest limits the Company's ability to protect its interests in and to
influence management of k12. Any future investments in mincrity interests of other companies will likely
involve similar limitations.

In addition, the Company may co-acquire interests in businesses or develop businesses with third parties
through joint ventures or other entities, which may have larger or controlling ownership interests in such
companies. in such cases, the Company will rely significantly on the existing management and boards of
directors of such companies, which may include representatives of other investors with whom the
Company is not affiliated and whose interests may at times conflict with the interests of the Company.

47

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IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026806.txt,"How does Clinton do vs. Republican opponents? And,
please, tell me what you really think of Mr. Trump

Quinnipiac Swing State Poll
General Hection Spreads

Quinnipiac National Poll
Released August 27, 2015
What is the first word that come to mind when you think of <name>? Released August 20, 2015

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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030506.txt,"Date: Wednesday, November 3 2010 02:40 PM

Subject: Re: Quick question
From: Jeevacation <jeevacation@gmail.com>

He couldn't for a few months , too hot

Sorry for all the typos .Sent from my iPhone

On Nov 3, 2010, at 3:36 PM, [iin wrote:

> Hey Unc,
> Quick Question...do u think Larry Summers would come to Trinity to speak about Obama, the economy, the

government in general, etc?
> Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile

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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016817.txt,"and Roger Schank, and Joseph Traub, head of the National Supercomputer Consortium.

In 1981 with Heinz’s help, I had founded “The Reality Club” (the precursor to the
non-profit Edge.org), whose initial interdisciplinary meetings took place in the Board
Room at the NYAS. Heinz was working on his book, Dreams of Reason: The Rise of the
Science of Complexity, which he considered to be a research agenda for science in the
1990's.

Through the Reality Club meetings, I got to know two young researchers who
were about to play key roles in revolutionizing computer science. At MIT in the late
seventies, Danny Hillis developed the algorithms that made possible the massively
parallel computer. In 1983, his company, Thinking Machines, built the world's fastest
supercomputer by utilizing parallel architecture. His ""connection machine,"" closely
reflected the workings of the human mind. Seth Lloyd at Rockefeller University was
undertaking seminal work in the fields of quantum computation and quantum
communications, including proposing the first technologically feasible design for a
quantum computer.

And the Japanese? Their foray into artificial intelligence failed, and was followed
by twenty years of anemic economic growth. But, the leading US scientists took this
program very seriously. And Feigenbaum, who was the cutting-edge computer scientist
of the day, teamed up with McCorduck to write a book on these developments. Zhe Fifth
Generation: Artificial Intelligence and Japan's Computer Challenge to the World was
published in 1983. We had a code name for the project: “It’s coming, it’s coming!” But it
didn’t come; it went.

From that point on ’ve worked with researchers in nearly every variety of AI and
complexity, including Rodney Brooks, Hans Moravec, John Archibald Wheeler, Benoit
Mandelbrot, John Henry Holland, Danny Hillis, Freeman Dyson, Chris Langton, Doyne
Farmer, Geoffrey West, Stuart Russell, and Judea Pearl.

An Ongoing Dynamical Emergent System

From the initial meeting in Washington, CT to the present, I arranged a number of
dinners and discussions in London and Cambridge, Massachusetts, as well as a public
event at London’s City Hall. Among the attendees were distinguished scientists, science
historians, and communications theorists, all of whom have been thinking seriously about
AI issues for their entire careers.

I commissioned essays from a wide range of contributors, with or without
references to Wiener (leaving it up to each participant). In the end, 25 people wrote
essays, all individuals concerned about what is happening today in the age of AI. Deep
Thinking in not my book, rather it is our book: Seth Lloyd, Judea Pearl, Stuart Russell,
George Dyson, Daniel C. Dennett, Rodney Brooks, Frank Wilczek, Max Tegmark, Jaan
Tallinn, Steven Pinker, David Deutsch, Tom Griffiths, Anca Dragan, Chris Anderson,
David Kaiser, Neil Gershenfeld, W. Daniel Hillis, Venki Ramakrishnan, Alex “Sandy”
Pentland, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Alison Gopnik, Peter Galison, George M. Church, Caroline
A. Jones, Stephen Wolfram.

I see The Deep Thinking Project as an ongoing dynamical emergent system, a
presentation of the ideas of a community of sophisticated thinkers who are bringing their
experience and erudition to bear in challenging the prevailing digital AI narrative as they

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IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011557.txt,"“Yes, it could,” he said.
“What?” Rabin barked.

Gonn replied matter-of-factly: “It is a physical device. It obeys the laws of
physics. When, for instance, there’s a thunderstorm in Turkey, a flash of
lightning could discharge at precisely the frequency needed, or one of its lower
harmonies, with enough energy to activate the fuse in the detonator.”

I was far junior to everyone else in the room. But as a physics student, I was
probably the only one who could fully follow the argument he was making.
Looking at Rabin’s expression, it was clear that he was about to cancel the
operation on the spot. “Excuse me, sir,” I said. “Could I ask Doctor Gonn
another question?”

I pointed at an unopened bottle of orange soda on Rabin’s desk. “Tell me,” I
asked the physicist, “is it possible that the fluid in that bottle is spontaneously
leaking through the glass even as I’m speaking?”

“Sure,” Gonn said. “It might take years before even a fraction of a centimeter
of the soda goes missing. But glass is like a ‘frozen’ liquid, and liquid water, or
the molecules, are seeping into, and through, the more viscous ‘liquid’ of the
glass. It’s just physics.”

Rabin looked at me, then at Gonn. But he had clearly got the message. “The
operation is confirmed,” he said, in the deep, gravelly voice I would become
much more familiar with in the years ahead. “Good luck.”

The device didn’t explode, but I couldn’t defuse it either. I did manage to get
the remote metal tool locked on the bolt on the booby trap. But it wouldn’t
budge — even when I waved back Nechamia and the others and took out an
ordinary wrench. Though this was the first of my sayeret missions that ended in
failure, that wasn’t what worried me as we boarded our helicopter back into
Israel a couple of hours before dawn. It was the real possibility that the
Egyptians would inadvertently discover that we’d been intercepting their
communications. Dovik Tamari, as sayeret commander, was especially upset.
This was one of the last operations during his period in command of the unit. He
was about to hand over to a veteran paratroop officer, Uzi Yairi.

Yet our aborted Sinai mission turned out not to matter. What saved our
eavesdropping network was the very thing which I was confident would not
happen when I left for university: another Arab-Israeli war.

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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028781.txt,"From: Boris Nikolic 
Sent: 3/23/2012 7:10:58 PM 
To: Jeffrey Epstein (jeeyacation@gmail.com) [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Subject: FW: World Bank Nominee 
Attachments: image005.jpg; image006.jpg 
The Atlantic Home  
Friday, March 23, 2012 
• Politics 
Massoud Hayoun - Massoud Hayoun writes for and produces The Atlantic's International channel. 
How Jim Yong Kim, Obama's World Bank Pick, 
Changed Global Health Aid 
By Massoud Hayoun 
Mar 23 2012, 2:04 PM ET 
The international public health work that made Kim, now the president's nominee for World Bank head, such a 
respected figure. 
President Obama introduces Jim Yong Kim as his nominee to be the next president of the World Bank /Reuters 
President Obama announced today that he will nominate Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim to head 
the World Bank. Although Kim is a physician by training, officials have observed that Kim's role as a key 
player in global health and development, notably with his role in the organization Partners in Health (PIH), 
makes him a key candidate to change the attitudes of developing-world nations. 
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The following excerpts from Tracy Kidder's Mountains Beyond Mountains, a biography of anthropologist and 
physician Paul Farmer, detail Kim's bold efforts to combat international HIV and tuberculosis epidemics with 
PIH: 
Some months after the official founding of PIH, [co-founder] Paul Farmer expanded the group, adding a fellow 
Harvard anthropology and medical student, a Korean American named Jim Yong Kim... Farmer offered what 
for Jim Kim was a convincing vision of the new organization. The reality was less impressive -- a charity with a 
board of advisers and no hired staff... 
They talked about issues such as political correctness, which Jim Kim defined as follows: ""It's a very well-
crafted tool to distract us. A very self-centered activity. Clean up your own vocabulary so you can show 
everybody you have the social capital of having been in circles where these things are talked about on a regular 
basis."" (What was an example of political correctness? Some academic types would say to Jim and Paul, ""Why 
do you call your patients poor people? They don't call themselves poor people."" Jim would reply: ""Okay, how 
about soon-dead people?"") 
They talked about the insignificance of ""cultural barriers"" when it came to the Haitian peasant's acceptance of 
modern Western medicine: ""There's nothing like a cure for a disease to change people's cultural values""... 
By now Peru was taxing PIH's resources severely. On average, the drugs to treat just one patient cost between 
fifteen and twenty thousand dollars. And the number of patients kept growing. Already there were about fifty 
Carabayllanos in treatment. Their average age was twenty-nine. They were students, unemployed youths, 
housewives, street vendors, bus drivers, health workers. The actual numbers seemed small, but those fifty MDR 
[a form of tuberculosis that does not respond to standard treatment] cases represented about 10 percent of all 
active cases of TB in the slum, about ten times more than might have been expected. No telling how many 
others they had been infecting as they'd traveled around Lima, coughing. No telling either how many people in 
other parts of the city already had MDR, but [there were] reports of hundreds in other neighborhoods. In 
Carabayllo itself, the Socios workers found entire families sick and dying with what turned out to be genetically 
related strains of the disease--a phenomenon common enough that the health workers gave it a name, familias 
tebeceanas, tuberculosis families. 
Kim's organization confronted Peru's MDR-form tuberculosis epidemic with what some have called unorthodox 
practices -- borrowing and cajoling its way into medicine for its patients. 
Howard Hiatt, a friend of Jim Yong Kim's and a former dean at the Harvard School of Public Health, said he 
was concerned about how PIH was getting medicine to combat the epidemic: 
""Sure enough. Paul and Jim would stop at the [Harvard-affiliated] Brigham pharmacy before they left for Peru 
and fill their briefcases with drugs. They had sweet-talked various people into letting them walk away with the 
drugs."" [Hiatt] was amused, all in all. ""That's their Robin Hood attitude."" In fact, they'd only borrowed the 
drugs... 
Then one day the president of the Brigham stopped Hiatt in a corridor. ""Your friends Farmer and Kim are in 
trouble with me. They owe this hospital ninety-two thousand dollars."" Hiatt looked into the matter. ""Sure 
enough. Paul and Jim would stop at the Brigham pharmacy before they left for Peru and fill their briefcases with 
drugs. They had sweet-talked various people into letting them walk away with the drugs."" He was amused, all in 
all. ""That's their Robin Hood attitude."" 
To many seasoned managers of public health projects, what Farmer and Kim were doing would have looked 
quite reckless--like a stunt, as some would later insinuate. They didn't have a guaranteed supply of drugs, only 
the determination to obtain the drugs and the charm to get away with borrowing. They were borrowing their 
laboratory services, too, from Massachusetts. They lacked proper institutional support. The weight of expert 
opinion stood against them. Their organization was small and it had other projects, in Haiti and Boston and 
elsewhere, and Peru put a strain on everyone. Jim had to travel to Carabayllo at least once a month. Farmer had 
to go there slightly more often. 
Kim's audacious 'Robin Hood attitude' won him and PIH acclaim for their role in changing global health and 
development. 
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In June 2002 ... the WHO adopted new prescriptions for dealing with MDR-TB, virtually the same as PIH had 
used in Carabayllo. For Jim Kim this marked the end of a long campaign. ""The world changed yesterday,"" he 
wrote from Geneva to all of PIH. The prices of second-line antibiotics continued to decline, and the drugs now 
flowed fairly smoothly through the Green Light Committee to, among other places, Peru, where about 1,000 
chronic patients were either cured or in treatment. About 250 were receiving the drugs in Tomsk, and, largely 
because of the efforts of WHO, the Russian Ministry of Health had finally agreed to the terms of the World 
Bank's TB loan--150 million dollars to begin to fight the epidemic throughout the country. 
The twin pandemics of AIDS and tuberculosis raged on, of course, magnifying each other, in Africa and Asia, 
Eastern Europe and Latin America. Mathematical models predicted widening global catastrophe--100 million 
HIV infections in the world by the year 2010. Some prominent voices, some in the U.S. government, still 
argued that AIDS could not be treated in desperately impoverished places. But this view seemed to be fading. 
The prices of antiretrovirals were falling, even more dramatically than the prices of second-line TB drugs. 
This was thanks to a growing worldwide campaign for treating AIDS wherever it occurred. Jim Kim had often 
said that the world's response to AIDS and TB would define the moral standing of his generation. In 2003, a 
new director general took over at WHO, and he asked Jim to serve as his senior adviser. Meanwhile, the 
example of Zanmi Lasante [PIH's Haiti-based project] was growing, and Cange had become a favorite 
destination for global health policy makers and American politicians. 
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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028700.txt,"activities. The Majlis al-Shura considers all
elements of the group's activities, including
its political and military wings, as part of
one holistic entity.

According to Hezbollah's top officials, this
unity of purpose among the group's diverse
activities is essential to its success. ""If the
military wing were separated from the
political wing, this would have
repercussions, and it would reflect on the
political scene,"" Qassem told a Lebanese
paper in 2000. ""Hezbollah's secretary-
general is the head of the Shura Council
and also the head of the Jihad Council, and
this means that we have one leadership,
with one administration.""

The Jihad Council is the functional council
underneath the Majlis al-Shura responsible
for all military matters. Qassem writes that
it ""comprises those in charge of resistance
activity, be that in terms of oversight,
recruitment, training, equipment, security,
or any other resistance-related endeavors.""
To accomplish its mission, the council is
divided into several smaller units in charge
of protecting the leadership and carrying
out internal and external surveillance, as
well as overseas operations. The party's
security branch is further broken down into
three subgroups: central, preventive, and
overseas security. In 2000, a dedicated
counterintelligence branch was reportedly
founded as well.

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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032311.txt,"Sent: 10/10/2016 8:09:15 PM
To: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]

Importance: — High

Jeffrey,

I was prepared to vote against Trump for all the right reasons but I’m so disgusted by the outrage over
“grab them by the pussy” that I may give him my sympathy vote.

I’m sure Bill C said things, too.

Andres

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IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_010649.txt,"OGE Form 278e (March 2014)
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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026308.txt,"If we recruit this ideal candidate; threading the needle of name ID, a center-left bent, a TV- savvy
campaign team and a pledge to serve only four years with an apartisan agenda, money and campaign
expertise would certainly follow. And 50 state ballot access is a function of time (starting in the fall of
2019 would be prudential) and hard work as we have discussed and many of you have exhaustively war-

gamed.

Part and parcel of this effort would be motivating the often politically lackadaisical middle to vote. The
raft of new technologies in data targeting and biometric mobile voting technology could transform the
electorate in the next few, amping voter participation and injecting the voices of moderates (both in
political views and level of political interest) into the process. And any third-party effort must
incorporate advocacy for accelerated adaption of these all but inevitable voter verification tools. I believe

Silicon Valley could be game-changing allies in this effort.

I am sure none of us doubt that chaos could potentially be unleashed by jamming three viable candidates
into a two-party system. An election that ends up in the House of Representatives is an uncontrollable,
murky and ancient process. But might that be a less scary prospect than relying on the Democrats to

nominate a candidate who can beat Trump in 2020?

On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 8:16 AM, Steve Bannon ii: wrote:

Buried lede
Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T

From: ""jeffrey E."" <jeevacation@gmail.com >
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2018 08:13:37 -0400

To: Steve Bannon qi >
Subject: Re: Exclusive: Bannon blasts 'con artist' Kochs, ‘lame duck' Ryan, 'diminished' Kelly | TheHill
loved , not donors - but marks

On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 7:42 AM, Steve Bannon _  £ wrote:

http://thehill.com/homenews/ad ministration/400188- exclusive- bannon-blasts-con-artist-kochs-lame-
duck-ryan-diminished

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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028847.txt,"From: Joi Ito [

Sent: 4/27/2014 2:34:04 PM
To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Re: NYTimes: Sanctions Revive Search for Secret Putin Fortune

Importance: — High
Flying to LA. Will try to call when I land.11AM Pacific or so.
Sent from my iPad

On Apr 27, 2014, at 7:41, Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:

a if you havetime
On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 6:54 AM, Joi Ito - «§ wrote:

President Obama’s response to the Ukraine crisis, while derided by critics as slow and weak, has reinvigorated
a 15-year global hunt for the Russian leader’s hidden wealth.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/27/world/sanctions-revive-search-for-secret-putin-

fortune.html?smid=nytnow-share&smprod=nytnow

Sent from my iPhone

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013067.txt,"8.5 The Cognitive Schematic 151

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cesses involved in intelligence may be understood to work together via the implication

Context \ Procedure - Goal < p >

(summarized C A P > G). Semi-formally, this implication may be interpreted to mean: “If the
context C’ appears to hold currently, then if I enact the procedure P, I can expect to achieve
the goal G with certainty p.”

The cognitive schematic leads to a conceptualization of the internal action of an intelligent
system as involving two key categories of learning:

e Analysis: Estimating the probability p of a posited C A P > G relationship

e Synthesis: Filling in one or two of the variables in the cognitive schematic, given as-
sumptions regarding the remaining variables, and directed by the goal of maximizing the
probability of the cognitive schematic

More specifically, where synthesis is concerned, some key examples are:

e The MOSES probabilistic evolutionary program learning algorithm is applied to find P,
given fixed C' and G. Internal simulation is also used, for the purpose of creating a simulation
embodying C and seeing which P lead to the simulated achievement of G.

— Example: A virtual dog learns a procedure P to please its owner (the goal G) in the
conterzt C where there is a ball or stick present and the owner is saying “fetch”.

e PLN inference, acting on declarative knowledge, is used for choosing C, given fixed P and
G (also incorporating sensory and episodic knowledge as appropriate). Simulation may also
be used for this purpose.

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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029581.txt,"From: J [jeevacation@gmail.com]

Sent: 12/12/2018 5:28:38 PM
To:
Subject: Re: Michael Cohen Sentenced To 3 Years In Prison Following Plea That Implicated Trump -

https://www.npr.org/676040070

Yup

On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 1:27 PM x wrote:
Woow(s}
Michael Cohen Sentenced To 3 Years In Prison Following Plea That Implicated Trump -

https://www.npr.org/676040070

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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029500.txt,"From: Joi Ito 
Sent: 5/10/2016 3:44:04 PM 
To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Subject: Peter Theil / Trump 
Importance: High 
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IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026999.txt,"From: How To Academy

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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031787.txt,"From: Nicholas Rit iii

Sent: 5/29/2019 2:14:44 PM
To: Jeffrey Epstein [JJEEvacation@gmail.com]

Importance: — High

Mueller statement at 1lam will be interesting - I think it's because of Michael wolff's new book and the
reference to a draft indictment- it probably will be helpful to DIT - talk after

Sent from my iPhone

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IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026741.txt,"transition might have been almost inevitable given the ‘right’ environment. We just
don’t know -- nor do we know if the DNA/RNA chemistry of terrestrial life is the
only possibility, or just one chemical basis among many options that could be realized
elsewhere

LIFE

Moreover, even if simple life is widespread, we can't assess the odds that it evolves
into a complex biosphere. And, even it did, it might anyway be unrecognizably
different.

And, by the way, it’s too anthropocentric to limit attention to Earth-like planets.
Carl Sagan and his Cornell colleague Ed Salpeter, envisaged balloon-like creatures
floating in the dense atmospheres of Jupiter-like planets. We should also be mindful
that seemingly artificial emissions could come from super-intelligent (though not
necessarily conscious) computers, created by a race of alien beings that had already
died out.

Indeed I think that’s the most likely option if evolution took a similar course to
what may happen on Earth.

If the emergence of technology ona planet lags significantly behind what has
happened on Earth then that planet would plainly reveal no evidence of ET. But life
around a star older than the Sun could have had a head-start of a billion years or
more. Thus it may already have ‘spawned’ the futuristic scenario — trasitioning from
organic to electronic -- that I envisaged as our Earth’s post-human future.

So even if SETI searches revealed some artificial emission, we’d be most unlikely to
‘catch’ alien intelligence in the brief sliver of time when it was still in organic form.
I think it’s less likely be a decodable message than to be a byproduct (or even a
malfunction) of some super-complex interstellar technology that could trace its
lineage back to alien organic beings (which might still exist on their home planet, or
might long ago have died out).

I won't hold my breath, but SETI programmes are a worthwhile gamble - because
success in the search would carry the momentous message that concepts of logic and
physics aren't limited to the hardware in human skulls.

Even if intelligence were widespread in the cosmos, we may only ever
recognise asmall and atypical fraction of it. Moreover , the habit of referring to ET as
an ‘alien civilisation’ may be too restrictive. A ‘civilisation’ connotes a society of
individuals: in contrast, ET might be a single integrated intelligence

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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030499.txt,"Different kind of fun.
It is fun for a short time but iam already getting sick of so many meetings!

Met your friend bill clinton yesterday followed up with sarkozy. Later in day meeting your other friend prince andrew as he has

some questions re microsoft.
How are you?
boris

Sent from my AT&T Windows Mobile phone.

From: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com >
Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 7:47 AM

To: Boris Niko\ic aa

Subject:

any fun?

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IMAGES-012-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033328.txt,"From: ee

Sent: 11/21/2018 7:26:45 AM
To: jeevacation@gmail.com
Subject: Top Republicans slam Trump for indicating no strong action over Khashoggi killing - CNNPolitics

Importance: — High

Does the statement will help?
https: //ww.cnn.com/2018/11/20/politics/top-republicans-slam-trump-saudi-arabia-khashoggi/index.htm]
Regards,

Sent from my iPhone

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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016988.txt,"and you turn that special capability to a human purpose, to something you want
technology to do. In the case of magnetic materials, there are plenty of ways to do that.
In terms of programs, it’s the same story. There are all kinds of programs out there, even
tiny programs that do complicated things. Could we entrain them for some useful human
purpose?

And how do you get Als to execute your goals? One answer is to just talk to
them, in the natural language of human utterances. It works pretty well when you’re
talking to Siri. But when you want to say something longer and more complicated, it
doesn’t work well. You need a computer language that can represent sophisticated
concepts in a way that can be progressively built up and isn’t possible in natural
language. What my company spent a lot of time doing was building a knowledge-based
language that incorporates the knowledge of the world directly into the language. The
traditional approach to creating a computer language is to make a language that
represents operations that computers intrinsically know how to do: allocating memory,
setting values of variables, iterating things, changing program counters, and so on.
Fundamentally, you’re telling computers to do things in your own terms. My approach
was to make a language that panders not to the computers but to the humans, to take
whatever a human thinks of and convert it into some form that the computer can
understand. Could we encapsulate the knowledge we’d accumulated, both in science and
in data collection, into a language we could use to communicate with computers? That’s
the big achievement of my last thirty years or so—being able to do that.

Back in the 1960s, people would say things like, “When we can do such-and-
such, we’ll know we have AI. When we can do an integral from a calculus course, we’ll
know we have AI. When we can have a conversation with a computer and make it seem
human... ,” et cetera. The difficulty was, “Well, gosh, the computer just doesn’t know
enough about the world.” You’d ask the computer what day of the week it was, and it
might be able to answer that. You'd ask it who the President was, and it probably
couldn’t tell you. At that point, you’d know you were talking to a computer and not a
person. But now when it comes to these Turing Tests, people who’ ve tried connecting,
for example, Wolfram|Alpha to their Turing Test bots find that the bots lose every time.
Because all you have to do 1s start asking the machine sophisticated questions and it will
answer them! No human can do that. By the time you’ve asked it a few disparate
questions, there will be no human who knows all those things, yet the system will know
them. In that sense, we’ve already achieved good AI, at that level.

Then there are certain kinds of tasks easy for humans but traditionally very hard
for machines. The standard one is visual object identification: What is this object?
Humans can recognize it and give some simple description of it, but a computer was just
hopeless at that. A couple of years ago, though, we brought out a little image-
identification system, and many other companies have done something similar—ours
happens to be somewhat better than the rest. You show it an image, and for about ten
thousand kinds of things, it will tell you what it is. It’s fun to show it an abstract painting
and see what it says. But it does a pretty good job.

It works using the same neural-network technology that McCulloch and Pitts
imagined in 1943 and lots of us worked on in the early eighties. Back in the 1980s,
people successfully did OCR—optical character recognition. They took the twenty-six
letters of the alphabet and said, “OK, is that an A? Is that a B? Is that a C?” and so on.

185

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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017328.txt,"4.2.12
WC: 191694

As one juror subsequently put it: ""She was very, very credible [at the trial], but now she's not
credible at all. Right now, I wouldn't believe anything she said. I would sign an affidavit that if we
had known about the money, I couldn't have voted to convict him. Mike Tyson deserves a new
trial.""

In light of the numerous errors made by Judge Gifford at the trial, this should have been the
easiest appeal I ever argued. The law, the new evidence and the judicial and prosecutorial errors
made at trial, clearly required a reversal of the conviction and a new trial.

Legal experts who read our brief and heard the oral argument concluded that we should win the
appeal. The law was on our side. The facts were on our side. And our briefs and arguments
were much stronger than those of our opponents. As the legal expert who reported on the trial
and appeal for USA Today put it after watching the appellate argument:

“Ex-heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson had his best day in court Monday.

As Tyson completed day 328 of his six-year prison term for rape, famed appellate lawyer
Alan Dershowitz vigorously attacked: Tyson’s accuser, Desiree Washington; trial judge
Patricia Gifford; and the Marion County (Ind.) prosecutor’s office.

In spite of a trial record filled with mistakes, omissions and elementary errors by the
fighter’s ex-defense team, Dershowitz and colleagues argued that Tyson’s conviction must
be set aside... The major arguments cited by Mike Tyson’s attorneys Monday in appeal of
his rape conviction [were the following]:

-Trial judge Patricia J. Gifford erred by blocking testimony from witnesses who
might’ve challenged the credibility of accuser Desiree Washington

-Gifford’s refusal to allow the jury to hear an instruction regarding “mistake of
fact, or “reasonable belief’ concerning whether Tyson believed Washington
wanted to have sex with him.

-Gifford should have prevented jurors from listening to Washington’s call to 911
reporting the alleged attack. Defense claims Washington invited the attack to sue
Tyson, and that the call might have been part of the scheme.

-The prosecution committed misconduct by concealing from the defense an
attorney-fee agreement for book and film rights to Washington’s story.
-Prosecutors manipulated court selection procedure to pick a supposedly
sympathetic judge.

-The judge should have stopped prosecutors from arguing before the jury that the
defense is not obligated to tell the truth.

“Tyson got his money’s worth Monday...Reversal of a criminal conviction by a jury is
rare, but Tyson’s attorneys might have successfully pinpointed the crucial issues that will
free him.”

241

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IMAGES-012-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032988.txt,"From: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]

Sent: 3/5/2017 3:53:26 PM
To: Larry Visoski
Subject: Re: TSA

Importance: — High

ok

On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 10:52 AM, Larry Visoski i, wrote:

Jeffrey

TSA called me,. They inform closing TSA inspection at 3pm,,
Asked if we could depart 2:30pm,?

Is 2:30pm ok for departure,,

Otherwise it would be after Trump's departure between 4 and 5pm

Is 2:30pm inspection / departure ok?

Thx
Larry

Sent from my iPhone

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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023235.txt,"glad to see you are personally on the mend - as well as the fence. -- As you know i dread money
discussions with you-- however -we should address the issue of what you would like to do moving
forward. re- do family office, accounting trusts , estate and apollo agreements . Along with your ""
payment ""last year we agreed . no further obligations on each side. yes, i continued to moan. I realize
that though Ive done quite a lot this year already _, it is not your responsibility. . As you often like to
remind me- you've paid a great deal of money to date. that being said - If you want my involvement
moving foward, Isuggest you pay my regular | fee of 40 m. 20 now . 20 on completion or as per the
invoice issues at the end of last year pay 30 all at once. -

To help out .im keenly aware of your current cash position. so I will consider an in-kind payment -
real estate ( Miami ), ,art , financing of my new plane (allows you to spread over years or of course the
preferred cash. Get rid of Castrucci,it is over a year since the same story of findign the right guy at the
top. youentire accounting needs to be re done. , office downsized, reporting re done. meetings to
recitify, categlorize , the various docs re appollo , rowen , suydam, alan etc. Brad can direct investment
guys, ( hopefully) my people will be in your office for a few months . reorganizing IF you decide not to
pay I fully understand, as Im sure you will re my no longer spending any serious time on these things.
Of course re any non financial issues , I am always there for you and will continue to be the best friend I
can be.

Steve jobs said that everyday he woke up , and asked himself , if he knew he was going to die tomorow ,
would he do the same thing that he had planned for the day- he wanted to check that he was doing things
that he really wanted to. after three days of getting back an answer of no, he would change what he was
going to do. . he also did not believe in LONG term plans. I dont think either one of us will figure out
what we want to do long term so my thinking is that we should try to have fun everyday, and welcome
serendipity.

I think another trust and estate lawyer should be brought in to deal with the issues of how not to allow
your family to get screwed by your partners on death. Alan, for years told me that paul weiss had drawn
the docs so no issue but when recently pushed by my new fire drill he asked akin to draft .?! PLease
ask brad about why he keeps talking about flow. I dont know what he means, its so silly .. this is only
about money control and protection .

I am leaving monday night now. free to speak in the afternoon

Date: Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 1:55 PM

Subject:

To: Melanie Spinella - «Ss

Lets start. I am aware that you are currently angry at the world. . me, karp wechsler. even yourself,
all willing absorbers of the current high heat. (though you ,calling me ,Debra , did take away some of the
sting ) Iam sorry to see you this way.

emblematic ; I was asked to opine on whether to hire castrucci. an hour after I gave a preliminary yes.

. I called you then texted you that i had thought more about it and changed my mind. The next day brad
called and asked for my vote. I told him ,in no uncertain terms itisano , I categorically voteno. I
called you . youcame to see me. I said it was a bad idea. you said you were going to do it anyway , I
said and followed up in writing IT IS A MISTAKE . and added Please don't come back to me with
anything suggesting otherwise , you and I should be clear I think it is wrong . A very strong NO. you of
course can hire whomever you like.

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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025167.txt,"imin wed, fri. edelman?

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015739.txt,"Creative Theories

nce I have exercised my free will by getting out of bed in the

morning, I often decide to do something creative. Humans seem

driven to create. We compose music, draw, paint, and solve
mathematical puzzles. Computers are not naturally creative; they spend
most of their time doing exactly the opposite — following preset rules. Is
this a fundamental limitation distinguishing the computational world
from the real world?

The Conventional View

Most scientists believe pattern-matching algorithms in the brain allow
us to be creative. To see how this might work, imagine our brains are
chaotic — not hard to do — and process many competing ideas at the same
time. The neurons in our brains build millions of useful, and useless,
connections based on the patterns in the data we see and hear. Then a
selection process goes to work — something akin to natural selection — to
sift and prune the connections until something bubbles to the surface
and we get that, ‘aha’ feeling.

Douglas Hofstadter, Professor of Cognitive Science at Indiana
University, famous for the book Gédel Escher Bach, has written a computer
program using pattern matching to discover number theorems; things
like any number ending in a zero is divisible by 5. The program produces
interesting results, even perhaps generating some new theorems. He
argues the human brain is essentially a scaled up version of his program.
By the way, if you like trivia, his book Fluid Concepts & Creative Analogies
was the first book ever sold on Amazon.com.

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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029266.txt,"From: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com] 
Sent: 5/3/2016 6:37:06 PM 
To: Moshe Hoffman 
Subject: Re: Greetings, Thanks, and Top Five Questions for the Social Sciences (which Martin thought may interest you) 
i think you might want to consider the distribution of these things , not the binary report of the individual 
On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 12:51 PM, Moshe Hoffman < > wrote: 
Hi Jeff, 
Thanks again for making the time for me last time you were in town. And for your introductions to Brockman 
and Ehud. I have enjoyed all the conversations and been learning a lot. Hopefully, a book or two will come out 
of it eventually as well. Means a lot to me. 
Martin mentioned that you are thinking about the top questions in various fields and suggested I might think of 
some of my own and pass them on to you. 
In case you are interested, I list below the five biggest questions that keep me up at night, motivate my life's 
work, and which I think ought to keep up every social scientist. Happy to discuss with you, if and when you 
are interested. 
-Moshe 
1) Where do our moral and political views come from?  
The bull shit answers most people accept clearly don't fit the facts; we are not discovering moral truths through 
reason, and our political views are not motivated by a desire to achieve the best policy outcomes. So what does 
drive these beliefs? And what causes them to have the weird puzzling features they do (e.g., why is a lie of 
commission so much worse than a lie of omission)? And what causes them to change over time (e.g., slavery 
has been accepted as moral at many points in history)? And differ across cultures (e.g., ISIS versus the U.S.)? 
And across person and context (e.g., Trump vs. Bernie supporters)? 
More generally, we believe and argue all sorts of crap (your vote can make a difference, Jesus loves you, all 
men are created equal). How do these beliefs and arguments work? Are they just random ideas propagated by 
an amorphous culture, viruses taking advantage of our own psychology for their benefit, ideas that get us to do 
the bidding of their cynical designers? 
2) Similarly, where do our tastes come from? Like the art we like? Or the music? 
Some tastes are kinda obvious. E.g., we evolved to like young curvy women because they are the most fertile. 
And maybe we like art that reminds us of this or of landscapes that are safe or what not. But there are many 
aspects of art and music (e.g. modern art, rap) that are not universally pleasing. So what makes people like 
these things? What properties do they need to succeed? What role does the artist or the history of the piece play 
in what we like? Of course, this question isn't just about art and music, but about all of our peculiar, culturally 
specific tastes. How does culture shape our tastes? Is it completely arbitrary or is there some logic to its 
influence? 
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3) Where do our political and economic institutions come from and what causes them to have the peculiar 
structure they have?  
We have one vote per person, but everyone knows dollars can buy more votes, and voters in small states are 
better represented than those in large states. Whose interests are being served and why theirs? Many 
economists and political scientists have thought about ""optimal institutions."" And much comparative and 
historical work has been done. But there isn't really a good unified theory of how these evolve, what 
characteristics are likely to emerge, and in what ways they are or are not optimal. 
4) Is there a fundamental theory of human societies that's analogous to Darwin's theory in biology?  
Can that framework be as well supported by evidence and as simple as natural selection in biology, that will 
likewise explain the interesting things humans do, like, and believe, and the institutions we construct? 
Evolutionary psychologists think this doesn't require a new theory, just an investigation of the mind that 
biologically evolved on the Savannah. Others like Dawkins have suggested that we are best understood as 
machines infested by viruses of the mind which themselves evolve to take advantage of our evolved 
psychology. Anthropologists treat culture as just random inputs. Social psychologists document the funny 
quirks of our behavior without explaining where they come from. And economists assume people optimize 
given their tastes and beliefs but take those as given. Is one of these the right theory, if not is there a more 
compelling theory out there? What will it look like? How will we find it? How will we know we have found it, 
when we have? 
5) How can we fix the perverse incentives in academia?  
Researchers get hired and promoted for publishing in top journals. Journal publication is determined by editors 
and referees. The best way to publish is to make sure your allies are the referees, cite their work, and don't step 
on their toes, and to convince the editor you are famous enough and your work is flashy enough that it will be 
well cited and get covered by the nytimes. None of this requires much attention be paid to truth, insight, or 
originally. 
Arguably, this is why the social sciences are such a mess. Few bother to incorporate evidence or arguments 
from outsiders (e.g., social psychologists don't consult historians, economists barely consult social 
psychologists). Few bother to question the fundamental assumptions driving their field that make no sense and 
go unchecked (e.g., anthropologists treat culture as random inputs). And many researchers end up spending 
their whole careers developing and propagating theories that are completely uninteresting to outsiders, or 
obviously fallacious to anyone not steeped in their literature. 
It is ridiculous that we're still using a system derived from the Society of Letters of the 1500s. Perhaps it's time 
for something more like Wikipedia, where information gets aggregated and contributors are incentivizes by 
their reputation as competent editors to integrate information from across disciplines? Or something like 
Reddit, where quality research is recognized by upvotes that aggregate the opinion of thousands from diverse 
fields? Or a certification system of sorts, where papers are certified as having done their statistics right or 
having integrated what's known from certain fields, or not citing irrelevant papers for political reasons? 
Whatever the solution is, social scientists and engineers who work on this problem will have orders of 
magnitude more impact on science than scientists doing primary research in our archaic system. 
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TEXT-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032398.txt,"From: edrobles erobles 
Sent: 12/29/2016 11:35:31 AM 
To: jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
CC: Thanu Cnx 
Subject: Re: 
Importance: High 
Sounds like a plan! 
• 
• 
• website: www.creativekingdom.com 
• address: 5th Floor Office No:504 Aspect Tower, 
Business Bay, Dubai United Arab Emirates. 
On Dec 29, 2016, at 6:24 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
will send great for schedule. . 20th is both my birthday and inauguration of trump. a nice time for a new 
project 
On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 6:16 AM, edrobles erobles 
wrote: 
Dear Jeffrey, need to be in Dubai on January 15, 2017. Then, We can fly to New York and meet you there on 
the 20 th. 
If you happen to have a survey on the Islands available? It will be very helpful to us (to get familiar with the 
site) ? If not, we can google earth the Island 
Looking forward to meet you 
Regards 
• 
• 
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• address: 5th Floor Office No:504 Aspect Tower, 
Business Bay, Dubai United Arab Emirates. 
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On Dec 29, 2016, at 5:28 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
im in caribean until the 2nd. and then fly to new york. anytime is good. I dont cellebrate normal 
holidays. . every day is a holiday.. othewise I will be in new york the 20th-22 and then fly down to island 
again, so if the 22 works we could exchange some ideas and info prior and you can hit the ground running. 
On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 10:52 PM, edrobles erobles wrote: 
Hi Jeffrey, Many options through Asia, destination New York , please let me know the dates, also it'll be 
good to have an engeenier at the site to ask some technical (local) questions 
With this plus your briefing, would be enough to asses the islands and through the two days of (blue sky 
Ideas) get your vision in a rough format 
Regards 
email: 
email: 
website: www.creativekingdom.com 
address: 5th Floor Office No:504 Aspect Tower, 
Business Bay, Dubai United Arab Emirates. 
On Dec 29, 2016, at 9:09 AM, edrobles erobles wrote: 
Hi Jeffrey, what Day, is better for you to meet in New York? It's the holidays and issue ? (New Year) , for us 
it's fine but let us know, so can arrange the date and schedule 
email:__________________________________ 
email: 
website: www.creativekingdom.com 
• address: 5th Floor Office No:504 Aspect Tower, 
Business Bay, Dubai United Arab Emirates. 
On Dec 28, 2016, at 10:39 PM, edrobles erobles wrote: 
Yes, trying now New York Via Hong Kong or Tokyo ? I'll now by tomorrow Morning 
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Regards 
email:_________________________________ 
email: 
website: www.creativekingdom.com 
address: 5th Floor Office No:504 Aspect Tower, 
Business Bay, Dubai United Arab Emirates. 
On Dec 28, 2016, at 8:48 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
new york throught asia tokyo hong kong etc. then i will fly you with me to st thomas and return 
On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 7:41 AM, edrobles erobles wrote: 
Ok 
• email: 
• email: 
• website: www.creativekingdom.com 
• address: 5th Floor Office No:504 Aspect Tower, 
Business Bay, Dubai United Arab Emirates. 
On Dec 28, 2016, at 7:37 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
in ten minutes. . ?? 
On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 7:36 AM, edrobles erobles wrote: 
Oh, In that case I'm available right now, for the next two hours , that this work for you ? 
• email:_________________________________ 
• email: 
• website: www.creativekingdom.com 
• address: 5th Floor Office No:504 Aspect Tower, 
Business Bay, Dubai United Arab Emirates. 
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On Dec 28, 2016, at 7:28 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
im in new york so does early eyeing work 
On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 7:05 AM, edrobles erobles wrote: 
Hi Jeffrey 
I'm available tomorrow, at any time after 10:00 Am (Dubai time) ( notice that Thailand its three hours 
ahead so for me it's 13:00 Pm) 
My cell number in Thailand is: 
(If possible) please let me know by email (at least) 1/2 an hour before calling me so I can be alert to the 
(phone) ring 
Regards 
• email: 
• email: 
• website: www.creativekingdom.com 
• address: 5th Floor Office No:504 Aspect Tower, 
Business Bay, Dubai United Arab Emirates. 
On Dec 28, 2016, at 6:24 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
Eduardo, I ve gotten your name from sulltan suleiman in Dubai. He and I are great friends. I have two 
islands in the us virgin islands and want to build a great home Sultan thought you might be the right fit 
. can speak directly at any time , the islands you can see on google earth or great and little st 
james thanks jeffrey 
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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013701.txt,"points) or more or less regular cycles. We analyze our “fixed point” data using
quantities such as the mean and variance of distributional statistics and the cycle
data using the amplitude, frequency, cycle length and phase of trigonometric
functions. In central tendency-oriented research, rare, very high amplitude events
have usually been considered aberrations and tossed, and imperfect periodic
behavior is treated by “cosiner analysis” as regular cycles contaminated by
measurement or system noise. Whereas technically, chaotic dynamics must live in
dimension greater than two (for orbits to be more than a fixed point or limit cycle,
able to snake around without necessarily intersecting ), the Lorenz attractor has
dimension just a little over two, our difficulties with establishing the “true”
physiological dimension of real biological observables (see below) makes such a

consideration more theoretical than practical.

The orbits of a forced-dissipative dynamical system in a parameter regime
engendering chaos, converge onto an attractor which is neither a fixed point nor a
limit cycle, thus the origin of the name “strange attractor” (Ruelle and Takens,
1971). It was James Yorke that first named these dynamics “chaos” (Li and Yorke,
1975). The necessarily statistical properties of the chaotic orbits on strange
attractors follow from the generic characteristics of their motions (see Shaw, 1981
for a still conceptually current, non-mathematical treatment). These kinds of
statistics are studied in a research context called the “ergodic theory of dynamical
systems” (Ruelle, 1979; Eckmann and Ruelle, 1985). Ergodic is a word used to
characterize a system with (or without) a particular condition placed on its statistical
measures: the existence of an invariant measure which is undecomposabile into
two invariant measures and, equivalently (though not obviously) one in which the
time average equals its average in the geometric space into which it is embedded.
One may arrive at the same ergodic measure from studying a single very long orbit
or from summing across many individual but shorter orbits. This ergodic
equivalence is made possible due to the definitional existence of at least one
invariant statistical measure and the dynamics of the system which ideally include a

uniformly, sequence disordering process called “mixing” (see below).

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016230.txt,"During the Festival, I received an unexpected phone call from Wiener’s colleague
Arthur K. Solomon, head of Harvard’s graduate program in biophysics. Wiener had died
the year before, and Solomon and Wiener’s other close colleagues at MIT and Harvard
had been reading about the Expanded Cinema Festival in the New York Times and were
intrigued by the connection to Wiener’s work. Solomon invited me to bring some of the
artists up to Cambridge to meet with him and a group that included MIT sensory-
communications researcher Walter Rosenblith, Harvard applied mathematician Anthony
Oettinger, and MIT engineer Harold “Doc” Edgerton, inventor of the strobe light.

Like many other “art meets science” situations I’ve been involved in since, the
two-day event was an informed failure: ships passing in the night. But I took it all
onboard and the event was consequential in some interesting ways—one of which came
from the fact that they took us to see “the” computer. Computers were a rarity back then;
at least, none of us on the visit had ever seen one. We were ushered into a large space on
the MIT campus, in the middle of which there was a “cold room” raised off the floor and
enclosed in glass, in which technicians wearing white lab coats, scarves, and gloves were
busy collating punch cards coming through an enormous machine. When I approached,
the steam from my breath fogged up the window into the cold room. Wiping it off, I saw
“the” computer. I fell in love.

Later, in the Fall of 1967, I went to Menlo Park to spend time with Stewart Brand,
whom I had met in New York in 1965 when he was a satellite member of the USCO
group of artists. Now, with his wife Lois, a mathematician, he was preparing the first
edition of The Whole Earth Catalog for publication. While Lois and the team did the
heavy lifting on the final mechanicals for WEC, Stewart and I sat together in a corner for
two days, reading, underlining, and annotating the same paperback copy of Cybernetics
that Cage had handed to me the year before, and debating Wiener’s ideas.

Inspired by this set of ideas, I began to develop a theme, a mantra of sorts, that
has informed my endeavors since: “new technologies = new perceptions.” Inspired by
communications theorist Marshall McLuhan, architect-designer Buckminster Fuller,
futurist John McHale, and cultural anthropologists Edward T. (Ned) Hall and Edmund
Carpenter, I started reading avidly in the field of information theory, cybernetics, and
systems theory. McLuhan suggested I read biologist J.Z. Young’s Doubt and Certainty
in Science in which he said that we create tools and we mold ourselves through our use of
them. The other text he recommended was Warren Weaver and Claude Shannon’s 1949
paper “Recent Contributions to the Mathematical Theory of Communication,” which
begins: “The word communication will be used here in a very broad sense to include all
of the procedures by which one mind may affect another. This, of course, involves not
only written and oral speech, but also music, the pictorial arts, the theater, the ballet, and
in fact all human behavior.""

Who knew that within two decades of that moment we would begin to recognize
the brain as a computer? And in the next two decades, as we built our computers into the
Internet, that we would begin to realize that the brain is not a computer, but a network of
computers? Certainly not Wiener, a specialist in analogue feedback circuits designed to
control machines, nor the artists, nor, least of all, myself.

“We must cease to kiss the whip that lashes us.”

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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030737.txt,"From: Steve Bannon 
Sent: 8/20/2018 2:21:37 AM 
To: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com] 
Subject: Re: Steve Bannon says GOP must rally behind Trump to survive I News & Observer 
Importance: High 
Yes 
but let's discuss--their is a crazed jihad against u--ive never seen anything like it--and I've seen a lot 
Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T 
From: ""jeffrey E."" <jeevacation@gmail.corn> 
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2018 22:17:38 -0400 
To: Steve Bannon<_______________________ 
Subject: Re: Steve Bannon says GOP must rally behind Trump to survive 1News & Observer 
AHHHH thats more like it „ we need to find you the exorcist hat. ! . do you think you might want to 
come to europe? 
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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019994.txt,"was a horrifying face. The president’s worst impulses seem to run through Conway
without benefit of a filter. She compounded Trump’s anger, impulsiveness, and miscues.
Whereas a presidential adviser was supposed to buffer and interpret his gut calls, Conway
expressed them, doubled down on them, made opera out of them. She took Trump’s
demand for loyalty too literally. In Ivanka and Jared’s view, Conway was a cussed,
antagonistic, self-dramatizing cable head, and Powell, they hoped, would be a deliberate,
circumspect, adult guest on the Sunday morning shows.

By late February, after the first helter-skelter month in the West Wing, the campaign by
Jared and Ivanka to undermine Bannon seemed to be working. The couple had created a
feedback loop, which included Scarborough and Murdoch, that reinforced the president’s
deep annoyance with and frustration about Bannon’s purported importance in the White
House. For weeks after the 7Zime magazine cover story featuring Bannon, there was hardly
a conversation in which Trump didn’t refer to it bitterly. (“He views Zime covers as zero
sum,” said Roger Ailes. “If someone else gets on it, he doesn’t.”) Scarborough, cruelly,
kept up a constant patter about President Bannon. Murdoch forcefully lectured the
president about the oddness and extremism of Bannonism, linking Bannon with Ailes:
“They’re both crazy,” he told Trump.

Kushner also pressed the view to the president—ever phobic about any age-related
weakness—that the sixty-three-year-old Bannon wouldn’t hold up under the strain of
working in the White House. Indeed, Bannon was working sixteen- and eighteen-hour
days, seven days a week, and, for fear of missing a presidential summons or afraid that
someone else might grab it, he considered himself on call pretty much all night. As the
weeks went by, Bannon seemed physically to deteriorate in front of everybody’s eyes: his
face became more puffy, his legs more swollen, his eyes more bleary, his clothes more
slept in, his attention more distracted.

OOK Ok

As Trump’s second month in office began, the Jared-[vanka-Gary-Dina camp focused on
the president’s February 28 speech to the joint session of Congress.

“Reset,” declared Kushner. “Total reset.”

The occasion provided an ideal opportunity. Trump would have to deliver the speech in
front of him. It was not only on the teleprompter but distributed widely beforehand.
What’s more, the well-mannered crowd wouldn’t egg him on. His handlers were in
control. And for this occasion at least, Jared-Ivanka-Gary-Dina were the handlers.

“Steve will take credit for this speech if there’s even one word of his in it,” Ivanka told
her father. She knew well that for Trump, credit, much more than content, was the hot-
button driver, and her comment ensured that Trump would keep it out of Bannon’s hands.

“The Goldman speech,” Bannon called it.

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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029272.txt,"From: jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Sent: 5/25/2016 11:16:19 AM 
To: Michael Wolff 
Subject: Re: Trump 
Importance: High 
maybe you can ask why bernie nussbaum got vince fosters letter quickly, that is a hillary problem. he would 
smile then you can ask his realtionsjipwith the elctricians unions and maralago . and out you go 
On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 7:12 AM, Michael Wolff <1111 wrote: 
Job is to get the hard ones in without being ejected from the room. What's the one question that 
pierces through? 
On Wednesday, May 25, 2016, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
do you want to be provacative . ? trump shuttle. hawaiin tropic contests. . mortgage on mara 
lago. ? revenue of golf courses as income.??! , total debt of all cos . ? people dont want to conribute 
money as he said he is worth over 10b , why should they? , calif already coming up short. . fatther bought 
chips in the casino to stave off bankruptcy, chips because it was better than a first lien, under the gambling 
rules. matt his bag man? his loan from his brother in law ( JUdges husband) how much did his father 
leave, his brother robert etc. 
otherwise you can just throw easys 
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I'm interviewing him this afternoon. Anything you think I should ask? 
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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013715.txt,"and Mumolo, 1998). Spontaneous changes in the apparent syllabic sound made by
regularly presented, word-like auditory stimuli emerge irregularly, the duration of
perceived sameness demonstrating a power law distribution of “dwell” times (Tuller
et al, 1998). The same kind of power law distribution of characteristic “brain times”
can be found in studies of gait cycle durations in normal walking (Hausdorff et al,
1996) with a decrease in this locally detrended, a-like index compared with controls
(0.91+0.05) in patients with the basal ganglia disorders of Parkinson’s (0.82+0.06)
and Huntington’s (0.60+0.04) Diseases (Hausdorff et al, 1998). Hurst > 0.5 has
been speculated to more accurately quantitate the fundamental time structure of
cells that was previously called circahoralian (ultradian) intracellular rhythms
(Brodski, 1998).

Reconstructions of Time Series as Orbital Geometries

Rene Thom (1972), extending the ideas of Poincaré and D’Arcy Thompson
(1942), argued that experimentally useful, intuitive connections between the
qualities of biological processes and the quantities of an explicit (equations known)
or implicit (equations unknown) dynamical system could be best achieved through
the use of graphic representations of their geometric and topological forms. Notably
successful examples can be found in the work of Thom, Arnold (1984) and Zeeman
(1977), who were inspired by “caustics” (the shapes made on surfaces by the
coincidence of reflected or refracted light rays) and Whitney’s representation of
parametric manifolds (surfaces) by the shadows they would make on a plane when
back lit (Whitney, 1955). This led to a small number of qualitatively predictive,

no tt

number-of-independent-parameters dependent shapes, such as “folds” “cusps” and
“wavefronts.” Experimentally crossing the values of these independent variable
forms at their singular boundaries successfully predicted discontinuities in the
otherwise smooth alterations in the dependent variable; i.e. bifurcations
(“catastrophes”) in the behavior of the observable. This approach was best suited to
the study of systems with many independent variables and one dependent variable

that could be mapped on the axis of the latter to represent a continuum of

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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019758.txt,"270 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS

deemed others too sensitive for journalists. So I wanted to find out
from Kucherena which documents Snowden had taken to Russia. I
went about it in a roundabout way. When Shevardnadze asked him
about the secret material Snowden might reveal in Russia, Kucher-
ena pointedly called her attention to Snowden’s CIA service, suggest-
ing that he might possess CIA files. I also knew that in Kucherena’s
roman 4 clef, he had Joshua Frost, the thinly veiled Snowden-based
character, steal a vast number of CIA documents that could do great
damage to U.S. intelligence. By retaining them, Frost made himself
a prime target of the CIA.

So I asked, “Is Joshua Frost fact or fiction?”

“T can’t tell you that,” he said. “If I said he was Snowden, it would
violate the attorney-client privilege.”

“T understand,” I said. “But did Snowden do what Frost did in
your book?”

“That is for you to decide,” he answered with a sly smile. “It’s my
first novel.”

When I asked if he could arrange for me to see Snowden, he

© said that first I would have to submit my questions to Ben Wizner, ©
Snowden’s American lawyer at the ACLU. He made it clear to me
that the exposure of Snowden to journalists, or at least the vetting of
journalists, had been outsourced to Wizner. Kucherena was handling
Snowden’s liaisons with the Russian authorities while Wizner was
handling the Snowden narrative, including selecting the media out-
lets. Presumably, Wizner had handpicked Snowden’s past interview-
ers in Moscow, including Barton Gellmna, James Bamford, Brian
Williams, John Oliver, Alan Rusbridger, and Katrina vanden Heuvel.

“After that, the final decision is up to Snowden,” he said. That
seemed to conclude the interview, but as I got up to leave, he added,
“His legal defense is fairly expensive.”

Snowden had said in a BBC interview in 2015, as previously men-
tioned, that he had brought enough cash to Hong Kong and Russia
to cover all of his expenses. So I asked Kucherena if Snowden had
brought his own funds.

“He was penniless when he arrived,” he replied. I found that
answer plausible because the FBI reportedly had not found a large
cash withdrawal from his account before his departure and it seemed

| | Epst_9780451494566_2p_all_r1.indd 270 ® 9/30/16 8:13AM | |

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016224.txt,"Stuart Russell is a professor of computer science and Smith-Zadeh Professor in
Engineering at UC Berkeley. He is the coauthor (with Peter Norvig) of Artificial
Intelligence: A Modern Approach.

Jaan Tallin, a computer programmer, theoretical physicist, and investor, 1s a co-
developer of Skype and Kazaa.

Max Tegmark is an MIT physicist and AI researcher; president of the Future of Life
Institute; scientific director of the Foundational Questions Institute; and the author of Our
Mathematical Universe and Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.

Frank Wilczek is Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at MIT, recipient of the 2004
Nobel Prize in physics, and the author of A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature’s Deep
Design.

Stephen Wolfram 1s a scientist, inventor, and the founder and CEO of Wolfram
Research. He is the creator of the symbolic computation program Mathematica and its
programming language, Wolfram Language, as well as the knowledge engine
Wolfram|Alpha. He is also the author of A New Kind of Science.

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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019980.txt,"In nearby Alexandria, Virginia, Richard Spencer, the president of the National Policy
Institute, which is sometimes described as a “white supremacist think tank,” who had,
peskily for the White House, adopted the Trump presidency as a personal victory, was
organizing his trip to CPAC, which would be as much a victory march for him as it was
for the Trump team. Spencer—who, in 2016, he had declared, “Let’s party like it’s 1933,”
as in the year Hitler came to power—provoked an outcry with his widely covered “Heil
Trump” (or “Hail Trump,” which of course amounts to the same thing) salute after the
election, and then achieved a kind of reverse martyrdom by taking a punch from a
protester on Inauguration Day that was memorialized on YouTube.

CPAC, organized by the remnants of the conservative movement after Barry
Goldwater’s apocalyptic defeat in 1964, had, with stoic indefatigability, turned itself into
the backbone of conservative survival and triumph. It had purged John Birchers and the
racist right and embraced the philosophic conservative tenets of Russell Kirk and William
F. Buckley. In time, it endorsed Reagan-era small government and antiregulatory reform,
and then added the components of the cultural wars—antiabortion, anti-gay-marriage, and
a tilt toward evangelicals—and married itself to conservative media, first right-wing radio
and later Fox News. From this agglomeration it spun an ever more elaborate and all-
embracing argument of conservative purity, synchronicity, and intellectual weight. Part of
the fun of a CPAC conference, which attracted a wide assortment of conservative young
people (reliably mocked as the Alex P. Keaton crowd by the growing throng of liberal
press that covered the conference), was the learning of the conservative catechism.

But after a great Clinton surge in the 1990s, CPAC started to splinter during the George
W. Bush years. Fox News became the emotional center of American conservativism. Bush
neocons and the Iraq War were increasingly rejected by the libertarians and other suddenly
breakaway factions (among them the paleocons); the family values right, meanwhile, was
more and more challenged by younger conservatives. In the Obama years, the
conservative movement was increasingly bewildered by Tea Party rejectionism and a new
iconoclastic right-wing media, exemplified by Breitbart News, which was pointedly
excluded from the CPAC conference.

In 2011, professing conservative fealty, Trump lobbied the group for a speaking slot
and, with reports of a substantial cash contribution, was awarded a fifteen-minute berth. If
CPAC was supposedly about honing a certain sort of conservative party line, it was also
attentive to a wide variety of conservative celebrities, including, over the years, Rush
Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, and various Fox News stars. The year before Obama’s reelection,
Trump fell into this category. But he was viewed quite differently four years later. In the
winter of 2016, during the still competitive Republican primary race, Trump—now eyed
as much as a Republican apostate as a Republican crowd pleaser—decided to forgo CPAC
and what he feared would be less than a joyous welcome.

This year, as part of its new alignment with the Trump-Bannon White House, CPAC’s

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TEXT-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033092.txt,"From: jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Sent: 5/9/2018 10:33:34 AM 
To: Lawrence H. Summers 
Subject: Re: 
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/08/a-putin-friendly-oligarchs-top-us-executive-donated-285000-to-
trump/  
On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 8:24 PM LHS < > wrote: 
I am now. 
Sent from my iPhone 
Please direct all scheduling inquiries to my office at: 
Follow me on twitter glhsummers 
www.larrysummers.com 
On May 8, 2018, at 8:19 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-07/d-e-shaw-fired-fund-manager-michalow-for-gross-
violations STAY AWAY! 
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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030723.txt,"From: Michael Wolff 
Sent: 7/12/2018 7:55:54 AM 
To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Subject: A few thoughts 
Importance: High 
1) I saw SB in London yesterday and he seemed especially paranoid about any reporters seeing me with him. 
My guess is that he is working hard on his relationship with Trump who he sees as newly ascendent and being 
seen with me might queer that. 
2) He went on Hannity last night and will be on Piers Morgan tomorrow and that seemed with an eye toward an 
audience of one. 
3) He was having a meeting yesterday with the French right wingers, including Le Pen's husband, about 
refinancing the National Front Party because apparently a good part of their money comes from Russia. Two 
thoughts here, these guys seemed like idiots, pure Ruritania, and Bannon, surrounded by his own thuggish-
looking security people and whacky-bloggers advisors, thrives precisely because the world of populism is so 
unprofessional (if not farcical). 
more later... 
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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023221.txt,"1 did the paul weiss bill get paid ??? 2. Talk to me before signing anything today important

10m paid today to gratitude america, a 501 c 3, willl make last year complete. 20 million paid today
ftc . 10 million july 15 5 million sept 30. , 5 million jan 1 for all of 16. tax savings paid at 37 percent .
of net. savings. 50 million credit. net. so 150 million free. 600 savings 225 million owed. - 50 credit,
175 owed.

Date: Mon, May 18, 2015 at 8:17 AM

Subject: agenda for tomorrrow

To: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com>, Melanie Spinella

as areflection on your voiced spirited concerns in the what have you done for me lately category ? ))::

in the beginning . there was eileen and tom. ( eve and adam,-- however it appears, she declined to eat

the apple from the knowledge tree)
that was it. ada was at the bank but reviewing docs. carlyn was in the kitchen making mush ( abel and

cain)
books as they were mystersiously called was being kept soley by eileen, with little or no input ,correction
or advice from tom. herarely if ever asked questions. expenses ie airplane was done in house apollo.
(1031 exchange blown etc) at this time
as I recall you got quite annoyed, and agressive and initiated the"" talking out of the both sides of your
mouth "" tiddy, when i suggested that the level of their competence left much to be desired. ( ralph lerner's
came later ) .response - eileen ran the desk, tom is a partner, ralph wrote the book etc

re tax there was almost no oversight of income, estate, gift ,sales and use, transfer excise etc . IRS
SEC GAMING NYS. real estate, valuations ( many )tax filings- disclosures, etc. re grats trusts defect
trusts, llcs corps , trustees , partnerships. foreign corps. 100 bank accounts. gift taxes, , loans, notes.
payables. expenses. . , insurance.( life , art, split dollar), cashflows, operating biz, , investments,
contingent liabilitiites.( funds , miami ) , commitments dividends, BRH TRA, shareholder agreements,
bank loan agreements. wills, construction, , contracts planning permits etc..employ rules. checking
account reconciliations, crediti cards. jewelry , cost basis ,( art stock etc.) foundations regs , brokerage
accts, old stock certificates. stock options,( environmental solutions still not done !). estate tax
calcualtion firedrill, ( note ,basis etc ) low basis , step ups , however withno accounting system, no
reveiw of boat expenses plane expenses etc. . many outside counsel with litle or no coordination.
Paul Weisss , Mcdermit Will, Macfarlanes. Price Waterhouse , Reich, withers bergman, Empire, , akin
gump, bbd seidman, Wendy , Apollo in house .
lumber, knowledge universe, ennvironmental, solutions 12 mii in stock, . on and on
the priority list that you asked me to prepare for brad and you in dec , unfortunatlleyso far , little change
ie no accounting system that ties, no, brokerage accounts though strongly suggested , jpm db, gs, april
of 2014 . IT antiquated
dagastino hired , no inut from me, julie, temps, paralegals miriam . etc.

still need new accounting system - on line banking . staff hires. ( seprate from samantha two years out of
school ). audit system, . ?? john murphy? joslin? dag? eva? . i strongly suggest workers at the highest
level of competence. two senior accountants. not managers workers who will get into the weeds. partn
expertise, , replace ava, get heather help. a new person legal , new IT,system and person, way way
overdue, new receptionist, bill opener, ability to oeversee

in house, boat plane review household ( 12million ) review, filings- partnerhip accounting,- familitarity
with grats, trusts etc . audit system put in place. that should be the easy part. then strategy to deal with :

As new facts on the ground develop , phaidon debra, children meeetings, ? stock sale sale of art, , apt(
large gain ), 1031 trade in , plane depreciation, boat sale. construction , brad will oversee brokerage and

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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025173.txt,"6. Are you aware of apps that purport to play music to enhance productivity and focus on tasks at hand?
My buddy Reese Jones has backed that; he has a fascinating set of beliefs and projects around what may
soon be understood as ""consciousness hacking."" He's on the board of Singularity University as one of the
founders. (His father was a pioneer UCSF MD researcher of hallucinogens, I believe!)

More to come in a day or so.

Thanks!

You're up late or you're not so east of my SF location!
David

PS How to trade the Trump-GOP demolition of the welfare state, erratic elevation of risks of trade
disruptions and war? Has anyone from the rational center or left given thought to how to respond to a
national emergency to cope with a kakistocratic seizure of emergency powers? The Patriot Act was on a
‘shelf as you know, ready to be used. What should the better folks in this country have at hand if, say, a
port is subject to a radiological attack of unknown origin?

On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 1:07 AM, David ero wrote:

Dear Jeffrey,

A Congratulations on another spin around the sun.

A I would like to offer you a birthday present: my best efforts for a few hours on something where I might
be able to contribute either to making something good happen for you or help you prevent the bad.

We haven't talked much at all for quite some time, so I'm not sure of the nature of your current interests but
here are some of mine, where I feel I either have some special capability or can get access to those who
have such.

* open science -- open access publishing, data publishing, and open culture institutions considered as a
network with largely consistent and mutually reinforcing values: Public Library of Science (PLoS),
Wikipedia, Internet Archive, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Creative Commons, along with allied
US, UK, European governmental and NGO funding sources and other institutions.

* early-stage life science-based ventures, especially those with one or more of these technologies: optics,
wearable-sensors, brain-computer interface, behavioral engineering that goes beyond robo-noodging. Iam
not up to speed on synthetic bio and CRISPR, but I have a good friend who is.

* cybersecurity for you and your life. I have carefully monitored the web for articles about you and I have
reason to think that those will persist indefinitely. I would be remiss as your friend if I did not encourage
you to be as diligent and smart as possible in using tools like Signal, two-factor/multi-factor authentication,
taking webmail archives off the web onto your own secure privately maintained archive or deleted (unlike
Podesta), and other measures.

* publicity for your cool-ass creative and important philanthropy in support of really good and
adventuresome, high-risk basic science research. Most obvious benefit: it would be nice to know you hung
out with the bright

L

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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_014695.txt,"From: Ens, Amanda 
Sent: 1/27/2017 8:03:49 PM 
To: jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com]; Richard Kahn 
Subject: Meet with our Global Head of Commodities - Monday at 10:15am at One Bryant Park 
Attachments: image001.png 
Importance: High 
Please let me know if you're interested in joining a small group meeting with our head of Global Commodities. Apologies 
for the short notice but they just created this based on client request. 
• Monday, January 30 at 10:15am at One Bryant Park (42nd St & 6th Ave), Room 5F 
Francisco Blanch is a managing director and head of Global Commodities and Derivatives Research. Regular Research 
publications include: The Global Energy Weekly, Commodity Portfolio Monthly and Quantitative Investment Strategies 
Monthly. Research produced by the Commodities, Asset Allocation, and Global Derivatives teams has been recognized 
by Institutional Investor, Extel, Greenwich, Bloomberg, or Energy Risk, among others. Previously he was Head of Global 
Asset Allocation Research. Prior to joining Merrill Lynch, Blanch was an energy economist focusing on global oil & gas in 
the commodity research group at Goldman Sachs & Co. and consulted for the European Commission and other public 
and private organizations. Blanch has a masters degree in public administration from Harvard University and a 
doctorate in economics from Complutense University of Madrid. 
Key topics of discussion: 
1 — OPEC / Saudi Policy - OPEC agreed to cut production by 1.2mb/d, along with 600kb/d from non-OPEC 
producers. Francisco believes Saudi's key objective will be to push the oil forward curve into backwardation to 1)lower 
global refinery margins 2) lower prices for forward sellers and prevent capex spending 3) reduce downside oil price 
risks. Francisco believes it is in OPEC's best interest to comply with the stated cuts, and thins Saudi remains under 
significant pressure to either achieve higher oil prices, or inevitably de-peg the Riyal. 
2 - Oil fundamentals - OPEC's cut has significant implications for supply/demand balances and throws the global market 
into a meaningful deficit for 2017. We estimate the global market will be in a 560kb/d deficit throughout 2017. US 
Shale output remains a headwind for a rebound in global balances and will vary with price. Given our $59/bbl 2017 
outlook for WTI, Francisco believes shale will reverse its current trend before rebounding sequentially by 660kb/d 
between 2Q17 and 4Q17. 
3 — US Energy Policy / Trump Administration — Francisco views the likelihood for Trump's administration to implement a 
border adjustment tax to be extremely low, but recognizes that if a tax was imposed, it would have profound 
implications for EM demand and the WTI/Br arb. The appointment of key cabinet members Rex Tillerson, Rick Perry, 
and Scott Pruitt pose significant implications for the US energy sector. 
4 — Commodity Macro — Forward inflation expectations around the world have jumped sharply since Trump's 
victory. So far, rising inflation and steeper yield curves have neutralized the strong dollar, pushing commodities 
higher. We believe the recent breakdown in USD/Oil correlation since OPEC/Fed can persist so long as inflation 
expectations remain supported. However, a toxic mix of much faster-than-anticipated US interest rate hikes, a much 
stronger USD, and a trade war with China pose risks. 
Amanda Ens 
Director 
Bank of America Merrill Lynch 
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated 
One Bryant Park, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10036 
Phone: Mobile: 
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IMAGES-012-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032744.txt,"From: HS

Sent: 3/24/2018 6:40:48 PM

To: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]
cc: lhsoffice

Subject: Re:

Importance: — High
Opinions
Sent from my iPhone

Please direct all scheduling inquiries to my office e

Follow me on twitter @lhsummers
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On Mar 24, 2018, at 6:40 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-close-is-donald-trump-to-a-psychiatric-breakdown?ref=home

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IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026755.txt,"From: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]
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Importance: — High

Rachel Wolfson, Contributor Digital marketing consultant, writer and fitness buff. I enjoy writing about women
in tech, innovating startups and everything in-between.

Private Donor Helps Fund Scientists After Trump’s
Proposed “Anti-Science” Budget Cuts

°
°

The famous American Astrophysicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson, once said,

“The good thing about science is that it’s true, whether or not you believe in it.”

Neil deGrasse Tyson’s quote from The Colbert Report distinguishes the difference between opinion and fact.
Science, as a base, is always true. Yet, it is interpretation that imparts human error. In other words, while
science is a universal truth, not everyone believes in the importance of science.

Consider President Trump’s 2018 budget request. Many of these call for massive cuts in spending on scientific
research, medical research, disease prevention programs and more. If these requests are met, the National
Cancer Institute would face a $1 billion cut compared to its 2017 budget. The National Heart, Lung and Blood
Institute could see a $575 million cut, and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases would see a
reduction of $838 million. The administration would cut the overall National Institutes of Health budget from
$31.8 billion to $26 billion.

The National Science Foundation, which gives $7 billion a year in grants to universities and research institutes,
is not specifically mentioned in the budget. However, unspecified “other agencies” are in line for a 9.8 percent
budget cut.

Since Trump became president, the official White House website also deleted all mentions of climate from the
site — all but one — the promise to eliminate the “harmful and unnecessary” Climate Action Plan.

Following these actions, scientists and other employees of the EPA and USDA were told not to speak to the
public about climate change or other scientific concerns that should be addressed.

Private Donations To Fund Science

Due to Trump’s anti-science policies and budget cuts, scientists are looking towards private donors for funding.
Philanthropic dollars have now come to play an important role in scientific progress.

The successful American financier and philanthropist, Jeffery Epstein, is well known for supporting science; he
is currently taking action to help a number of scientists thrive during the “Trump Era.”

None of this is new for Jeffery, though. Jeffery’s funding for science dates back to the year 2000, when he
founded the Jeffery Epstein VI foundation to support cutting-edge science and science education around the
world. The Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation has supported many leading scientists including Stephen Hawkings,

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IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022210.txt,"Friday, March 1, 2019

PERVERSION OF JUSTICE

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fo.

The home of Jeffrey Epstein has a large waterfront footprint in the Town of Palm Beach, not far from President Trump's Mara-Lago.

PERVERSION

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the entire block on 71st Street between Fifth and
Madison avenues.

He also owns a 10,000-acre ranch, named
“Zorro,” in New Mexico, a private island called
“Little St. James” in the Virgin Islands, the $13
million house in Palm Beach, a Gulfstream jet
and, at one point, owned a Boeing 727.

He has never been in the Forbes 400 list of the
wealthiest Americans, largely because the maga-
zine has never been able to determine the source
orthe size of his wealth.

He has been dogged by questions about his
financial dealings. A former business partner,
Steven Hoffenberg, sued him in 2016, clairm-
ing that Epstein was the mastermind behinda
$500 million Ponzi scheme that Hoffenberg was
imprisoned for in 1995.

Hoffenberg served 18 years forthe scam, but
he later dropped the lawsuit against Epstein.

In August, two of Hoffenberg’s former inves-
tors rekindled the lawsuit against Epstein, but the
case was dropped in October.

Epstein and his associate, British-born socialite
Ghislaine Maxwell, were alsoaccused in a 2015
federal civil suit of organizing underage sex par-
ties on his private plane, nicknamed “The Lolita
Express,” and at Epstein’s various homes.

Maxwell, who has never been charged with
wrongdoing, has denied allegations made in

Jeffrey Epstein

the lawsuit that she was Epstein’s “madam.”
The suit, filed by victim Virginia Roberts, was
settled in 2017.

It was Epstein’s contacts with powerful and

famous people that first propelled him into the
public spotlight. In 2002, he flew former Presi-
dent Bill Clinton, actor Kevin Spacey, comedian
Chris Tucker and others to South Africa on his
private jet as part of a fact-finding AIDS mission
in support of the Clinton Foundation.

But Epstein, a Clinton donor who contributed
hundreds of thousands of dollars to Democratic
candidates and causes, realized that his Demo-
cratic connections weren't going to help him in
2006, when the federal prosecutor was Acosta,

a conservative Republican appointed during the
George W. Bush administration.

All-star attomeys

Epstein’s tactic: hire the most aggressive and
politically connected lawyers that his money
could buy.

At the top of his list: Kenneth Starr, a Repub-
lican icon because of his pursuit of Bill Clinton
during the Whitewater investigation, which led
to the impeachment (but not conviction) of the
president after it was revealed he had sex with a
young White House intern.

Like Acosta, Starr had worked at the presti-
gious law firm Kirkland & Ellis. Epstein also
tapped Jay Lefkowitz, also of Kirkland, who
worked as a domestic policy adviser and later as
a special envoy to North Korea during the George
W. Bush presidency.

Epstein also hired Bruce Reinhart, then an
assistant U.S. attomey in Palm Beach.

Fite photo by MIAM! HERALD

Reinhart, now a U.S.
magistrate, left the U.S.
Attorney’s Office on Jan.

1, 2008, and went to work
representing Epstein's
employees on Jan. 2, 2008,
court records show.

In 201.1, Reinhart was
named in the Crime Victims’
Rights Act lawsuit, which ac-
cused him of violating Justice
Department policies by switching sides, implying
that he leveraged inside information about Ep-
stein’s investigation to curry favor with Epstein.

Reinhart, in a sworn declaration attached
to the Crime Victims’ Rights Act case, denied
the allegation, saying he did not participate in
Epstein’s criminal case and “never learned any
confidential, non-public information about the
Epstein matter”

The U.S. Attorney’s Office has since disputed
that, saying in court papers that he did possess
confidential information about the case.

Contacted for this story, Reinhart, in an
email, said he never represented Epstein — only
Epstein’s pilots; his scheduler, Sarah Kellen; and
Nadia Marcinkova, described by some victims
as Epstein'’s sex slave. Reinhart also pointed out
that a complaint filed against him by victims’
lawyer Paul Cassell was dismissed by the

Kenneth Starr

See PERVERSION, next page

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IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028853.txt,"Neil

Ed Boyden, Ph. D.

Leader, Synthetic Neurobiology Group

Associate Professor, MIT Media Lab and McGovern Institute,
Departments of Biological Engineering and Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Co-Director, MIT Center for Neurobiological Engineering

New York Stem Cell Foundation-Robertson Investigator

MIT, Room E15-421, 20 Ames St., Cambridge, MA 02139

web - http://syntheticneurobiology.org
twitter - http://twitter.com/eboyden3

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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013073.txt,"8.7 Is Cognitive Synergy Tricky? 157

For instance, the PLN controller could make a list of everyone who has been a regular
visitor, and everyone who has not been, and pose MOSES the task of figuring out a procedure
for distinguishing these two categories. This procedure could then used directly to make the
needed assessment, or else be translated into logical rules to be used within PLN inference. For
example, perhaps MOSES would discover that older males wearing ties tend not to become
regular visitors. If the new playmate is an older male wearing a tie, this is directly applicable.
But if the current playmate is wearing a tuxedo, then PLN may be helpful via reasoning that
even though a tuxedo is not a tie, it’s a similar form of fancy dress — so PLN may extend the
MOSES-learned rule to the present case and infer that the new playmate is not likely to be a
regular visitor.

8.7 Is Cognitive Synergy Tricky?

In this section we use the notion of cognitive synergy to explore a question that arises
frequently in the AGI community: the well-known difficulty of measuring intermediate progress
toward human-level AGI. We explore some potential reasons underlying this, via extending the
notion of cognitive synergy to a more refined notion of ""tricky cognitive synergy."" These ideas
are particularly relevant to the problem of creating a roadmap toward AGI, as we'll explore in
Chapter 17 below.

8.7.1 The Puzzle: Why Is It So Hard to Measure Partial Progress
Toward Human-Level AGI?

It’s not entirely straightforward to create tests to measure the final achievement of human-level
AGI, but there are some fairly obvious candidates here. There’s the Turing Test (fooling judges
into believing you’re human, in a text chat), the video Turing Test, the Robot College Student
test (passing university, via being judged exactly the same way a human student would), etc.
There’s certainly no agreement on which is the most meaningful such goal to strive for, but
there’s broad agreement that a number of goals of this nature basically make sense.

On the other hand, how does one measure whether one is, say, 50 percent of the way to
human-level AGI? Or, say, 75 or 25 percent?

It’s possible to pose many ""practical tests"" of incremental progress toward human-level AGI,
with the property that if a proto-AGI system passes the test using a certain sort of architecture
and/or dynamics, then this implies a certain amount of progress toward human-level AGI based
on particular theoretical assumptions about AGI. However, in each case of such a practical test,
it seems intuitively likely to a significant percentage of AGI researchers that there is some way
to ""game"" the test via designing a system specifically oriented toward passing that test, and
which doesn’t constitute dramatic progress toward AGI.

Some examples of practical tests of this nature would be

1 This section co-authored with Jared Wigmore

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IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024200.txt,"Eye on the Market | October 22, 2012 J.P Morgan

The most important energy developments of 2012: how countries are planning for Independence Day

Bottom line: China has a long history of economic, political and military co-operation with Iran. China has greater economic
linkages with the US, but for China, that fact does not negate the advantages of its relationship with Iran, particularly as its
energy needs continue to rise, and as it seeks to prevent U.S. domination of the Persian Gulf.

V: Another rough year for the electric car

Forecasts of greater electric car penetration have been around since the 1970’s. A report by The National Regulatory Research
Institute in 1980 aggregated various studies, which predicted 1.2 mm units in use in the US by 1983, 3 mm by 1990, 5 mm by
1995, 6.2 mm by 1998 and 13 mm by 2000. Instead, only 2.5 mm have been sold since 1999, and this mostly includes hybrids,
which are not true plug-in electric vehicles (most use regenerative braking for short distance trips). Since 2010, only 50,000
highway-capable plug-in electric vehicles have been sold in the US, less than 0.03% of all vehicles. For decades, scientists have
projected battery breakthroughs using nickel-zinc, iron-air, nickel-air, as well as combinations of zinc with chlorine or air and
sulfur with sodium or lithium. Progress has been slow. Affordable mass-produced electric cars are still on the drawing board.

« Toyota cancelled plans for sales of eQ vehicles, claiming that the current capabilities of electric vehicles do not meet
society’s needs. Toyota planned to sell 40,000 plug-in hybrids in Japan this year; only 8,400 have been sold so far

« After receiving a $529mm loan from the US government, Fisker developed and built the Karma in Finland. Its battery failed
during the Consumer Reports test drive, and Fisker subsequently recalled all of its 2012 Karma batteries

"" A123 Systems, Inc., maker of the recalled lithium-ion battery used in the Karma and recipient of a $249mm Federal grant in
2009, filed for bankruptcy protection on October 16, 2012

« Tesla cut their delivery targets for 2012 from 5,000 to 2,700-3,250 due to production issues

="" The Chevy Volt is the most successful electric car in the US, but only 16,400 have been sold this year through September,
vs the goal of 45,000 that was set by the Department of Energy. Sales of the Nissan Leaf in the US are down 28% vs 2011.

If you have gotten this far, I hope you enjoyed our annual energy issue. Sce you next year, when it will be the 40""
anniversary of Soylent Green, in which Edward G Robinson rides a bicycle to power a lamp so he can read a book.

Michael Cembalest
J.P. Morgan Asset Management

Biography
Vaclav Smil is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Environment at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg and a Fellow of

the Royal Society of Canada. His interdisciplinary research includes the studies of energy systems (resources, conversions, and impacts),
environmental change (particularly global biogeochemical cycles), and the history of technical advances and interactions among energy,
environment, food, economy, and population. He is the author of more than thirty books and more than three hundred papers on these
subjects and has lectured widely in North America, Europe, and Asia. In 2010 he was noted by Foreign Policy magazine as #49 on its list of
the 100 most influential thinkers in the world.

Sources, and there sure were a lot of them

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“Benefits of Fuel Economy Standards”, Union of Concerned Scientists, August 2012

“Projected Costs of Generating Electricity”, 2010 Edition, International Energy Agency, Nuclear Energy Agency, OECD

“Electricity prices scenarios until at least the year 2020 in selected EU countries”, WIP - Renewable Energies, January 2012

“Financing the Energy Transition in Times of Financial Market Instability”, DIW Economic Bulletin, September 2012

“Japan’s Power Play Options”, GaveKal Research, Yuchan Li, September 2012

“Electricity Generation Cost Model — 2011 Update’, Parsons Brinckerhoff, August 2011

“Connection costs overshadow offshore wind”, Reuters, Gerard Wynn, October 2012.

“Summary and Evaluation of Cost Calculation for Nuclear Power Generation by the Cost Estimation and Review Committee”, Yuji Matsuo,
The Institute of Energy Economics, Japan, May 2012.

“The Unprecedented Upsurge of Oil Production Capacity and What It Means for the World”, Leonardo Maugeri, Belfer Center for Science
and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, June 2012

“China and Iran: Economic, Military and Political Relations”, Rand Center for Middle East Public Policy, 2012

“Addicted to Oil: Strategic Implications of American Oil Policy”, Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College, 2006

“Special Report: Offshore Wind Arrives, Will Renewables Prosper?”, Standard & Poor’s Credit Week, May 2012

“Electric Utility Regulatory Aspects of Electric Vehicle Commercialization”’, National Regulatory Research Institute, December 1980
“President Obama Announces Historic 54.5 mpg Fuel Efficiency Standard”, White House Press Release, July 29, 2011

“Germany Power Links for Unbuilt Offshore Wind Cost Consumers”, Bloomberg, October 2012

“Long term scenarios and strategies for the development of renewable energies in Germany in view of European and global development’,
Deutsches Zentrum fiir Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Fraunhofer Institut fiir Windenergie und Energiesystemtechnik (IWES), March 2012

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IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015063.txt,"A. To be accurate, it’ s 27,006

Q. Have medical people come to you, who would otherwise shun
you?

A. Oh, yes, I' ve had medical people who bring me their wives, and
I' ve had quite a few medical people send me patients.

Q. But they wouldn’ t perform the operation themselves?

A. No, they’ d never perform it, and just exactly what their attitude
would be, | don’ t really know. Some of them, | presume, were absolutely
against it, because lI’ ve had ministers, and they’ d bring me their
daughters or their nieces.

Q. Have police come to you for professional services?

A. Oh, yes, I’ ve had police in here, too. |’ ve helped them out. |’ ve
helped a hell of a lot police out. I’ ve helped a lot of FBI men out. They
would be here, and they had me a little bit scared--| didn’ t know whether
they were just in to get me or not.

Q. What would you say Is the most significant lesson you’ ve
learned in all your years as a practicing abortionist?

A. You’ ve got to be careful. That’ s the most important thing. And
you’ ve got to be cocksure that everything’ s removed. And even the

uterus speaks to you and tells you. | could be blind. You see, this is an

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IMAGES-012-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033314.txt,"From: Robert Trivers
Sent: 6/28/2018 12:27:50 AM
To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]

Importance: — High

i think we have divergent views on Trump and trade for obvious reasons

the best economists say all-out trade war will cost the WORLD 2-3% of its GDP
this can hardly help the stock market

but the ""perturbations"" are meat for you—if you can see what to buy and sell ahead of time—or very quickly—
in response to the latest tariffs you can beat the system

TIA-CRF can not

in good times, it does better than average—here it does distinctly worse—each hit is taken hard, each recovery
is feeble—precisely because it does not change its portfolio or only slowly

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IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031963.txt,"23

too much attention to the Middle East, and too little to Asia — must
embrace a shift in priorities.

Of course, in the midst of today’s ongoing Arab revolutions, America
cannot simply ignore the Middle East. Nor must the US give up hope
on the Israel-Palestine front, or on its efforts to contain Iran’s nuclear
ambitions. But it is in Asia that history is unfolding — and where the
US must define its long-term global strategy.

Must the US, as Henry Kissinger suggests in his latest book On
China, consider the prospect of a “Pacific Community” that, unlike
the Cold War-era Atlantic Community, is not based on common
culture and values in the face of a direct threat, but on common
interests in an “age of rebalancing of world order’’?

America’s resilience may contrast with Europe’s multiple
weaknesses. But resilience will not be enough. The US must get back
into shape to face tomorrow’s challenges, and that means restoring
economic growth, reducing deficits, and improving infrastructure.
Paradoxically, only a more confident America can accept a reduced
global status, because reconciling oneself to change is always easier
once one has taken the steps needed to adjust to it.

Dominique Moisi is the author of The Geopolitics of Emotion.

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IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017472.txt,"4.2.12
WC: 191694

The case of the questionable antiques

My brother Nathan and I were retained to appeal the conviction of a Persian antiquities seller,
who was charged with arranging the theft of his own antiquities. The story, which became a lead
article in The New Yorker magazine, involved a man whose father had been the director of
antiquities for the Shaw of Iran. When the Shaw fell, the son took the family’s antiquities and
opened a shop in London. The Metropolitan Museum in New York wanted to exhibit the
antiquities, since the owner said they were pre-Mohammaden and therefore very valuable. The
owner had an expert examine and certify them as pre-Mohammaden and they were then shipped
to the museum. When they arrived in New York, they were stolen. The District Attorney charged
our client with arranging for their theft, because, as the DA alleged, they were not really pre-
Mohammaden and therefore considerably less valuable. The motive was to collect insurance
based on the artificially-high British evaluation. When the client asked us to do his appeal, he
offered to pay us in pre-Mohammaden antiquities. I responded, “Would you really want a lawyer
who was foolish enough to accept pre-Mohammaden antiquities from a man charged with falsely
dating them?” We agreed on a retainer and we won the case. Not only was the client totally
reprieved but he even got his antiquities back. Shortly thereafter, he sent me a bonus for winning.
Sure enough, it was an antiquity. I hope it’s real.

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IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_010932.txt,"chimpanzee compound near the linear reaction at Stanford. Clark Howell briefed us
on his work at Torralba and Ambrona in Spain, where our ancestors half our size
had hunted elephants twice the size of modern ones. (Elephants go back at least as
far as mammoths and mastodons.) Desmond Clark covered African archaeology in
general and his discoveries at Kalambo Falls in particular. Sherry Washburn showed

the way in which our DNA is 98% the same as a chimp’s. All were my close friends.

It was at a symposium in 1974, in Washington | believe, that I first heard and met Irv
DeVore. His talk was on evolutionary biology and Hamilton’s rule. Both were new to
me. Irv was a champion speaker. Students packed his anthropology classes at

Harvard. He became a Leakey stalwart and a particularly close friend.

I liked his topic. Genes code for traits, and traits more adaptive to niche pressures
are likelier to carry the genes that encode them into the next generation. The
likeliness is “fitness”. A beauty of this is that you can predict traits from the
environment (niche), and the environment from traits. That promised the kind of

logical challenge that I loved.

Survival of the fittest was not news to us. What was news was that bright scientists
like Irv were specializing in that logic, and making testable predictions for creatures
generally, humans included, rather than sticking to the groups they studied most.

That meant people | could talk to.

Hamilton’s rule was put up as the prime example. It starts from the principle that
the end game in biology is investment in the next generation. Hamilton had
reasoned in 1965 that genes coding for most efficient investment in closest kin, who
were likeliest to carry copies of those genes, ought to leave most copies in the next
generation. We would invest in them when consanguinity was greater than

cost/benefit ratio measured in fitness given up and fitness gained at the other end.

I didn’t like this. Something was missing. The logic was seductive. But Achilles does
overtake the tortoise. Traits compete, like those racers, for niche space. The winner

is the fittest at meeting needs of the niche. Hamilton’s rule seemed to leave that out.

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IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026334.txt,"Sent from my iPhone

Please direct all scheduling inquiries to my office at: Pe

Follow me on twitter @lhsummers
www.larrysummers.com

On Dec 1, 2018, at 8:57 AM, J <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:

results?

On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 10:54 PM LHS _ —f wrote:

What number?
Sent from my iPad

Please direct all scheduling inquiries to my office at: Po

Follow me on twitter @|hsummers
www.larrysummers.com

On Nov 30, 2018, at 10:53 PM, J <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
once you decide which way, we can set it up with option to purchase

On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 10:46 PM LHS > wrote:
You were good.

Thought if u didn’t know that we had been a couple she gave it away w familiarity and barbed
comments.

Think for now I’m going nowhere with her except economics mentor.

I think I’m right now in the seen very warmly in rear view mirror category.
She did not want to have a drink cuz she was “tired”

I left the hotel lobby somewhat abruptly.

When I’m reflective I think I’m dodging a bullet. There are huge ups with her but very self
involved and to get her to be good probably requires more firmness than I enjoy.

Think right thing is to cut off contact. Suspect she will miss it. Problem is I will too.

Sent from my iPad

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IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019016.txt,"wee eR He ew Ee Re ee eee eee eee ea ee el

Date: 7/13/06 PALM BEACH POLICE DEPARTMEN

Time: 9:27:55 Incident Report

Case No... . : 1-05-000368 (Continued)

KERR KRKEKKEKRKEERRERRERRERRRRREREE N A R RAT I V E # 27 KREKEREKKREKEKRRKRRRKEKRERRKRRKEK

NA Reported By: KRAUEL, CURTIS D. 12/21/05
Entered By.: ALTOMARO, NICKIE A. 12/21/05

On Thursday, October 20, 2005 at approximately 0936 hours, I assisted
in the execution of a search warrant located at 358 El Brillo Way,
Palm Beach, Florida, residence of Jeffrey Epstein. I was instructed
by Case Agent Det. Joseph Recarey, to secure all computer and media
related material from the residence.

Upon my arrival I was directed by Det. Recarey to a room designated as
the Kitchen Staff Office. I observed a, Silver in color, CPU with the
left side cover removed, exposing the CPU s hardware sitting on floor
next to a glass type desk. The CPU had no discernable identifiers or
features indicating a make or model. This CPU was powered off with
the power cord not plugged in. The keyboard and mouse were atop the
CPU. It should be noted that the CPU was not connected to a monitor,
printer, or other media device. On the back Panel of the CPU, I
observed an A/V card with RCA jacks attached. This type of hardware
would allow audio and video to be downloaded onto the CPU s hard disk.

The ends of the RCA jacks were unattached at the time of the search
and no external camera was located within this room.

The CPU was located on the right side of a desk that held a flat panel
LCD screen. The desk also held another keyboard and mouse, indicative
of a second computer; however, no other computer was found. It
appeared as though a second computer had been recently removed as the
cables ends from the monitor, keyboard and mouse were in the same
area. A further search of the room revealed no media storage devices,
i.e. CDs, Floppy Disks, Zip Disks, etc. This type of media is
commonly stored in an area where computers are placed, yet no media
was found.

After completing a search of this room, I secured the CPU and turned
all items over to the Evidence Custodian for future forensic analysis
via a property receipt.

I was then directed by Det. Recarey to a room designated as the Garden
Room, where I observed a wooden desk facing west. The desk held a
flat screen LCD monitor, keyboard, mouse, media card reader and
printer; however, no CPU was located. All of the cables were removed
from an area where a computer had once been. A search of the desk
area revealed no signs of any media devices.

Det. Recarey directed me to a third location designated as the Cabana
room, which is detached from the residence and located just south of
the pool. In the South East corner of the room, I observed an office
type setting, with an L-shaped desk holding a flat screen LCD monitor,
keyboard, mouse and printer; however, no CPU was located. All of the
cables were removed from an area where a computer had once been. A
search of the desk area revealed no signs of any media devices.

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TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031415.txt,"﻿A Justice Dept. discipline office
with limited reach to probe
handling of controversial child sex
abuse case
Matt Zapotosky
The Justice Department office that handles employee discipline has
opened an investigation into whether attorneys committed
“professional misconduct” in allowing a well-connected millionaire to
spend just over a year in jail to resolve allegations that he molested
dozens of young girls.
The department revealed the investigation Wednesday in a letter from
Assistant Attorney General Stephen E. Boyd to Sen. Ben Sasse (R-
Neb.), who has questioned how the department handled its inquiry of
financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Epsteinʼs case had been the subject of an investigation by the Miami
Herald, which detailed how then-U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta, now
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President Trumpʼs labor secretary, shelved a 53-page indictment that
could have put Epstein behind bars for life.
Epstein, who counts among his friends Trump and former president Bill
Clinton, assembled a high-powered legal team to address the
allegations he faced. Ultimately, he pleaded guilty in 2008 only to state
charges of soliciting prostitution. Victims told the Herald they felt
betrayed by the arrangement.
The departmentʼs newly announced investigation is likely to be of
limited consequence. According to Boydʼs letter, it is being handled by
the Office of Professional Responsibility, which explores allegations of
employee wrongdoing. The officeʼs findings, at worst, typically result
in employees being fired, and they are not usually made public, though
Boyd wrote to Sasse that the office would “share the results with you
at the conclusion of its investigation as appropriate.” It is possible,
even likely, the investigation could drag on so long that Acosta, already
outside the Justice Department, would by then be out of government
entirely.
In a statement, Sasse said: “The victims of Epsteinʼs child sex
trafficking ring deserve this investigation — and so do the American
people and the members of law enforcement who work to put these
kinds of monsters behind bars. Parents should be grateful for the men
and women at the DOJ who are committed to transparency and
accountability and for the soon-to-be Attorney General who is
committed to pursuing justice.”
A representative for Acosta, who did not respond to requests for an
interview for the Heraldʼs investigation, did not immediately return a
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message seeking comment for this report.
Martin G. Weinberg, an attorney for Epstein, said in a statement that
Epsteinʼs plea was “fairly negotiated by experienced teams of
attorneys representing each party.”
“It was anything but a sweetheart deal,” Weinberg said. “And it was
carefully and fully reviewed not only by senior prosecutors within the
Southern District of Florida Office but also at multiple levels of the
Department of Justice in D.C.”
The government, he said, “avoided litigation risks including the risks of
an acquittal and Mr. Epstein went to jail, served a period of probation,
lived up to each and every obligation under the Agreement, and has
fully conformed his conduct to the law for well over 10 years.”
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IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_014052.txt,"2014] CRIME VICTIMS’ RIGHTS 73

C. COURTS RECOGNIZE THAT CRIME VICTIMS HAVE CVRA RIGHTS
BEFORE CHARGING

Because crime victims lack a right to appointed counsel, many victims
have difficulty litigating the scope of their rights. But in a few cases,
victims have been able to secure counsel to argue that they have nghts in
the criminal justice process during the investigation of federal crimes.
When those cases have reached the issue of whether the CVRA applies
before charges have been filed, courts have uniformly agreed with the
victims’ position.

Perhaps the leading case to date to assess this question is the Fifth
Circuit’s decision in In re Dean.’ There, a wealthy corporate criminal
defendant reached a generous plea deal with the Government—a deal that
the Government filed for approval with the district court without conferring
with the victims. Citing procedural rights under the CVRA, the victims
requested that the trial court reject the plea agreement.™ The District Court
for the Southern District of Texas specifically concluded that victims’
CVRA rights could apply during the investigation of the crime: “There are
clearly rights under the CVRA that apply before any prosecution is
underway.’ The district court concluded, however, that the Government
had not violated the CVRA because it had secured judicial permission to
dispense with notification to victims.”

The victims sought appellate review in the Fifth Circuit.°’ There, the
court concurred with the district court that CVRA rights apply before trial.
Unlike the district court, however, it held that the Government had violated
the victims’ rights:

The district court acknowledged that “[t]here are clearly rights under the CVRA that
apply before any prosecution is underway.” Logically, this includes the CVRA’s

establishment of victims’ “reasonable right to confer with the attorney for the
Government.” At least in the posture of this case (and we do not speculate on the

© John W. Gillis & Douglas E. Beloof, The Next Step for a Maturing Victim Rights
Movement: Enforcing Crime Victim Rights in the Courts, 33 MCGEORGE L. REV. 689, 693 (2002).

63 527 F.3d 391 (5th Cir. 2008). Other aspects of the case are discussed in Paul G.
Cassell & Steven Joffee, The Crime Victims’ Expanding Role in a System of Public
Prosecution: A Response to the Critics of the Crime Victims’ Rights Act, 105 Nw. U. L. REV.
CoLLogquy 164, 172-76 (2011).

64 In re Dean, 527 F.3d at 392.

65 United States v. BP Prods. N. Am. Inc., No. H-07-434, 2008 WL 501321, at *11 (S.D.
Tex. Feb. 21, 2008).

[id a, *18,

67 For discussion of the difficulties crime victims face to obtain appellate review of their
claims, see generally Paul G. Cassell, Protecting Crime Victims in Federal Appellate Courts:
The Need to Broadly Construe the Crime Victims’ Rights Act’s Mandamus Provision, 87
DENV. U. L. REV. 599 (2010).

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on-camera star of a twenty-hour-long reality show, edited first into
a video and then a full-length documentary, transformed him in the
public’s mind into a hero.

It would be a mistake to assume that the central role he gave
himself was simply an exercise in narcissism. After the video was
released, he was no longer a near nonentity servicing a computer
system at a backwater NSA base in Hawaii. He had emerged from
the shadowy world of electronic intelligence to become one of the
most famous whistle-blowers in modern history. It was a mantle
that would allow him to also become a leading advocate of privacy
and encryption rights, as well as the leading opponent of NSA spy-
ing. While this remarkable transformation might not have been his
entire motive, it was certainly the result of the choice he made to go
public.

The Fourth Decision

© The final choice he made was to board a nonstop flight to Moscow ®
on June 23. Once the U.S. criminal complaint was unsealed on June
21, he needed to leave Hong Kong; his continued presence would
have been a complication for the Chinese president, Xi, scheduled
soon to meet President Obama. His only route out of Hong Kong
went through two adversaries of the United States: China and Rus-
sia. China, as far as is known, did not offer him sanctuary. According
to one U.S. diplomat cited by The New York Times, China might have
already obtained copies of Snowden’s NSA files and did not want the
problem of having Snowden defect to Beijing. In any case, if it had
not already acquired the files, it could assume it would receive that
intelligence data from its Russian ally in the intelligence war. What-
ever its reason, China did not use its considerable power in Hong
Kong to block Snowden’s exit.

Nor did Snowden obtain a visa to any country in Latin America or
elsewhere during his monthlong stay in Hong Kong. As in the oft-
cited Sherlock Holmes clue of the dog that did not bark, Snowden’s
lack of any visas in his passport strongly suggests that he had not
made plans to go anyplace but where he actually went: Moscow. His

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