EFTA00009440
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Page 1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA IN RE: OPERATION LEAP YEAR Federal Grand Jury, 07-103 West Palm Beach, Florida May 8, 2007 APPEARANCES: ESQUIRE Assistant United States Attorney , Foreperson TESTIMONY OF bfrei (6%0 EFTA00009440 Page 2 1 The sworn testimony of was taken 2 before the Federal Grand Jury, West Palm Beach 3 Division, West Palm Beach, Palm Beach County, State 4 of Florida, on the 8th day of May, 2007. 5 Philip W. May, Court Reporter, was authorized to 6 and did report the sworn testimony. 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 EFTA00009441 Page 3 1 (The witness entered the grand jury room.) 2 3 having been duly sworn by the grand jury foreperson, 4 was examined and testified on his oath as follows: EXAMINATION 6 BY MS. 7 Q Special Agent could you state and 8 spell your name for the record. 9 A 10 Q By whom are you employed? 11 A I'm employed by the FBI. 12 Q What is your position with the FBI? 13 A I'm a special agent, and have been so for four 14 years. 15 Q Are you one of the agents assigned to the 16 investigation known as Operation Leap Year? 17 A Yes, I am. 18 Q Were subpoenas caused to be issued on behalf of 19 this grand jury in connection with that investigation? 20 A Yes. 21 Q And have documents been received in response to 22 those? 23 A Yes. 24 Q What additional subpoenas have been issued, and 25 what have you received in response? ( at0 EFTA00009442 Page 4 1 A Additional subpoenas that have been issued 2 include OLY-28 to Colonial Bank, along with OLY-29, which 3 was issued to Palm Beach National Bank & Trust Company. 4 That was served on march 5, 2007. It should be known that 5 Palm Beach National Bank & Trust Company is now operated 6 by Colonial Bank, which we learned in the issuance 7 process. We did receive documents back from Colonial 8 Bank, which covered both subpoenas, on April 25, 2007. 9 Q And those sought information relating to bank 10 accounts belonging to Mr. Epstein? 11 A That is correct. 12 Q What else? 13 A Also served OLY-30 to Western Union Financial 14 Services seeking documents and records related to Jeffrey 15 Epstein. It was served on February 26, 2007, and we 16 received items back from western Union on two separate 17 dates, and two packages, the first on April 9, 2007, and 18 the second on April 11, 2007. 19 Q And those sought records of wire transfers from 20 Mr. Epstein to girls whom have been identified for this 21 investigation? 22 A Yes. 23 Q What else? 24 A We also served OLY-31 to Western Union Financial 25 Services. It was served on February 26, 2007, and they EFTA00009443 Page 5 1 returned information which we received on May 3, 2007. 2 Q The same type of information? 3 A Yes, the same type of information, seeking wire 4 transfer information from Jeffrey Epstein to victims. 5 We also served 0LY-32 to J.P. Morgan Chase Bank. 6 After serving that one on February 26, 2007, they informed 7 us by letter that they are known as Chase, not J.P. Morgan 8 Chase. So we had to reissue another subpoena, which was 9 taken care of on March 22, '07. 10 We also issued 0LY-40 on Chase Bank as well on 11 April 4, 2007. We received records on April 13, 2007 and 12 April 19, 2007 to cover all three subpoenas that were 13 served. 14 Q And those sought information related to bank 15 accounts and credit cards related to the defendants? 16 A Yes. Additionally, we served OLY-33 on Dr. 17 Thomas Rofranno (phonetic), who's a chiropractic doctor. 18 We were seeking records related to Jeffrey Epstein as a 19 patient. The subpoena was served on March 6, 2007, and 20 Thomas Rofranno provided materials on March 16. 2007. 21 Also we have OLY-36, which was served on the 22 Palm Beach County Health Department. it was served on 23 March 5, 2007, seeking birth certificates of our victims 24 that we were researching. We received the records from 25 the Palm Beach County Health Department on April 16, 2007. &yeti ( 0-0 EFTA00009444 Page 6 1 We also served two subpoenas on the Adult Video 2 Warehouse. The first one was OLY-41, which was served -- 3 both of these were served on April 24, 2007, and they were 4 seeking any transactions that had occurred on behalf of 5 Mr. Epstein or those individuals that were working for him 6 or with him. We received items back on the OLY-41 7 subpoena on April 30, 2007. 8 The second subpoena served on Adult Video 9 Warehouse was OLY-34. Again, it was served on April 24, 10 2007, and the Adult Video Warehouse complied and provided 11 us materials on April 30, 2007. 12 That concludes all of the items that we have 13 received to date for the outstanding subpoenas that were I 14 issued. 15 Q Are the documents that you refer to in that box 16 that's on the desk? 17 A Yes, they are. 18 : Does anyone want to review those 19 documents? At this time, no one is requesting that 20 they want to review the documents today. 21 Would you please swear in the witness to 22 maintain those documents. 23 (Witness sworn in as custodian of the 24 records.) 25 (Witness excused.) EFTA00009445 Page 7 1 CERTIFICATE OF REPORTER 2 3 I CERTIFY pages 1 to 6 is a true transcript of 4 my shorthand notes of the testimony of III'S 5 , before the Federal Grand Jury, West Palm 6 Beach, Florida, on the 8th day of May, 2007. 7 Dated at West Palm Beach, Florida this 28th day 8 of May, 2007. 9 10 11 12 13 Philip W. May, Court Reporter 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 .24 25 EFTA00009446 ( ( ( EFTA00009447