Jay Lefkowitz

Partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP (New York office, Citigroup Center, 153 East 53rd Street). Primary negotiator of the 2007 Non-Prosecution Agreement (NPA) for Jeffrey Epstein. Former colleague of U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta at Kirkland & Ellis — both Lefkowitz and Kenneth Starr had been partners with Acosta at the firm before his appointment by President Bush. Lefkowitz led the defense correspondence with the USAO-SDFL, working alongside co-counsel Kenneth Starr, Roy Black, Jack Goldberger, Gerald Lefcourt, Guy Lewis, Lilly Ann Sanchez, Michael Tien, Alan Dershowitz, and others on a 10+ attorney defense team. After the NPA was signed on September 24, 2007, Lefkowitz emailed AUSA Marie Villafana: "Please do whatever you can to keep this from becoming public." He continued to represent Epstein in post-NPA compliance matters and in the Jane Doe v. United States CVRA litigation (Case No. 9:08-cv-80736, S.D. Fla.). Associates from Kirkland & Ellis "researched discrete issues" in support of the defense. Lefkowitz's Kirkland & Ellis colleague Michael D. Shumsky also appeared pro hac vice in the CVRA proceedings.

Classification basis: T6 (Peripheral — Defense Attorney). Primary NPA negotiator from Kirkland & Ellis. Former partner of Alexander Acosta. Requested secrecy: "Please do whatever you can to keep this from becoming public" (EFTA00215004). 25+ corpus documents across DS1, DS5, DS9, DS10.