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5 Maxwell’s motion was denied without a hearing. Although the district court did not order discovery, it did order the government to disclose to Maxwell “any evidence supporting a defense under the NPA.” The government responded that its review “did not include search terms relevant to the NPA, and the Government has not searched [the SDFL prosecutor’s] inbox for communications relating to the NPA.” It also stated that it did not intend to request or review emails for any other USAO-SDFL or Department of Justice attorney or otherwise perform a comprehen- sive review of the internal e-mails of that prosecutor’s office from its wholly separate investigation, including by asking for any other material gathered by OPR as part of its investigation. The District Court found that Maxwell was a beneficiary of the NPA and had standing to enforce its terms, but concluded that the NPA did not grant immunity to Maxwell in the Southern District of New York. The case proceeded to trial and the jury found Maxwell guilty on, inter alia, Count Six. (App.39). She was sentenced to a 240 month (20 year) term of incarceration. (App.41). In 2019, the Department of Justice Office of Profes- sional Responsibility (“OPR”) issued a lengthy report on its extensive investigation into whether the federal government’s 2007-08 resolution of the federal inves- tigation of Epstein through the NPA was improper. See Appendix F, Excerpts of the Department of Justice Office of Professional Responsibility Report (App.93). OPR’s investigation overlapped the prosecutions of Epstein and Maxwell in the Southern District of New York. The OPR report did not contain a finding as to whether the co-conspirator clause of the NPA bound districts other than the Southern District of DOJ-OGR-00000047