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  10. "full_text": "20\nthat \"the federal Grand Jury investigation will be suspended.\" (A.178 (emphasis added)). The grand jury investigation is the one that USAO-SDFL agreed to defer in the same agreement (A.175), and not any potential federal grand jury investigations in other districts. Furthermore, the NPA elsewhere refers to the \"United States\" on occasions that could only mean the USAO-SDFL. For instance, the NPA commits the \"United States\"—that is, the USAO-SDFL—to providing Epstein with a list of victims. (A.177 (\"The United States shall provide Epstein's attorneys with a list of individuals whom it has identified as victims . . . .\")) . Another provision states that the NPA will not be made part of the public record and commits \"the United States\"—again, the USAO-SDFL—to providing notice to Epstein if it receives a Freedom of Information Act request requiring disclosure of the agreement. (A.178). The mere fact that the co-conspirator provision of the NPA used the phrase \"United States\" rather than \"U.S. Attorney's Office\" is not evidence that the parties intended an unusually broad immunity provision. See, e.g., Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 568 U.S. 519, 540 (2013) (\"We are not aware, however, of any canon of interpretation that forbids interpreting different words used in different parts of the same statute to mean roughly the same thing.\") . As Judge Nathan concluded, given the repeated limitations of the commitments in the NPA to the USAO-SDFL, including the commitment not to prosecute Epstein, \"[i]t is not plausible . . . that the parties intended to drastically expand the agreement's scope in the single sentence on",
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  14. "content": "20\nthat \"the federal Grand Jury investigation will be suspended.\" (A.178 (emphasis added)). The grand jury investigation is the one that USAO-SDFL agreed to defer in the same agreement (A.175), and not any potential federal grand jury investigations in other districts. Furthermore, the NPA elsewhere refers to the \"United States\" on occasions that could only mean the USAO-SDFL. For instance, the NPA commits the \"United States\"—that is, the USAO-SDFL—to providing Epstein with a list of victims. (A.177 (\"The United States shall provide Epstein's attorneys with a list of individuals whom it has identified as victims . . . .\")) . Another provision states that the NPA will not be made part of the public record and commits \"the United States\"—again, the USAO-SDFL—to providing notice to Epstein if it receives a Freedom of Information Act request requiring disclosure of the agreement. (A.178). The mere fact that the co-conspirator provision of the NPA used the phrase \"United States\" rather than \"U.S. Attorney's Office\" is not evidence that the parties intended an unusually broad immunity provision. See, e.g., Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 568 U.S. 519, 540 (2013) (\"We are not aware, however, of any canon of interpretation that forbids interpreting different words used in different parts of the same statute to mean roughly the same thing.\") . As Judge Nathan concluded, given the repeated limitations of the commitments in the NPA to the USAO-SDFL, including the commitment not to prosecute Epstein, \"[i]t is not plausible . . . that the parties intended to drastically expand the agreement's scope in the single sentence on",
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  19. "content": "Case 22-1426, Document 79, 06/29/2023, 3536060, Page33 of 93",
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  30. "Epstein",
  31. "Nathan",
  32. "Kirtsaeng"
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  35. "USAO-SDFL",
  36. "U.S. Attorney's Office",
  37. "John Wiley & Sons, Inc."
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  41. "06/29/2023",
  42. "2013"
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  51. "568 U.S. 519",
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  56. "additional_notes": "The document appears to be a court filing related to the case of Epstein. The text is mostly printed, with no visible handwriting or stamps. The document is well-formatted and legible."
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