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Subject: RE: PAE and Litigation priorities
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 14:25:58 +0000
The PAE issue of case prioritization seems to be getting worse and we wanted to get your thoughts. The
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was put on the priority list back in September but the team is
unfortunately now back to getting the answer from PAE/database managers that there are only 2 priority cases that is
taking up all of the PAE resources, Epstein and 377 Union Street. ThE team sent search warrant returns to PAE on
9/22 and followed up yesterday to see if there was any ETA on getting them loaded and were told no. I completely
understand that not all jobs can be a rush job but am hopeful that we can find a way for some of the PAE bandwidth to be
reserved to load data in the normal course. If there could be a set expectation in terms of a timeline by which PAE is
expected to load data in the normal course, I think that would be helpful guidance for us to provide to our unit so they
can plan accordingly.
Happy to discuss.
Thanks,
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Yes, of course.
On Aug 28, 2020, at 10:02 AM, wrote:
an we chat on Monday. PAE is looking to us to help them set priorities. As you can se has hounded them and
now 377 Union Street is their number one priority.Malso hounds them. Between the two, t ey monopolize
IT/Litigation Support to the detriment of other AUSAs.
Sorry to bother you on vacation. Hope it has been restful.
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just met wit=and in addition to the priorities listed below, we have an number of other cases that are hot as
well. Currently 377 Union is the priority PAE is working on due to a proposed September production date set by the
AUSA. Due to the data size and complexity, other requests are still being worked on by in a limit capacity mode. Grisel
will reach out to PAE to get a sense of when they can addresnrequest.
Also, are you available Monday morning to chat about PAE, requests and the updates to the meeting we held with the
SDNY working committee.
PAE also mentioned there are other "hot" cases they're working on:
1. We Build the Wall Data must be processed and
uploaded to Relativity asap to begin privilege review
2. Epstein Data must be
processed and uploaded to Relativity asap to begin privilege review
3. PPI AUSA mentioned to SDNY PM there's a
cou ea me.
4. Keefe v US FD : court deadline to produce every 25th of the month
5. US v Jai allegedly a deadline
to produced ugus
6. 377 Union Street: 5 HDs of mixed data. Du licate data issues with load files, data disorganized
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Or starting them.
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PAE is taking much longer to respond to my requests to move potentially privileged documents out of databases;
weeks instead of days, which is affecting the ability of AUSAs to access their evidence in a number of investigations
and prosecutions. Do you know what is causing the delays? And how long it is expected to continue? And if there is
any wa that I can assist, please let me know.
Thanks
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Southern District of New York
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