Case Document Entered on FLSD Docket Page of UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA CASE NO 08-CIV-80119-MARRA/JOHNSON JANE DOE NO Plaintiff vs JEFFREY EPSTEIN Defendant Related cases JOINT AGREED ORDER ON DEFENDANT EPSTEINS MOTION FOR ORDER FOR THE PRESERVATION OF EVIDENCE This matter came before the Court on Defendant JEFFREY EPSTEINs Motion for Order for the Preservation of Evidence Incorporated Memorandum of Law Motion to Preserve Evidence dated November The Court having reviewed the file including Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler P.A.s November Response to Defendants Emergency Motion for Order for the Preservation of Evidence the Court enters this Order Defendant Epsteins November Motion to Preserve Evidence DE alleges that Plaintiffs counsel Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler P.A RRA has been accused of serious unethical and possible criminal misconduct and requests an order requiring the preservation of certain documents identified in Composite Exhibit A to his Motion to Preserve Evidence On November Case Document Entered on FLSD Docket Page of Jane Doe No.2 Epstein Case No Order on Epsteins Emergency Motion for Order for the Preservation of Evidence Page of the Court entered its Order on Epsteins Motion to Preserve Evidence on a temporary basis expiring on November DE In a November Response to Defendants Emergency Motion for Order for the Preservation of Evidence Mr Stettin in his capacity as RRAs Receiver and Chief Restructuring Officer represented that he understands fully the gravity of document and evidence preservation and that he intends to continue to fully comply with his fiduciary duties both as Receiver and now as CRO of an alleged bankruptcy debtor RRAs Response at DE On November the Court entered its Order renewing and continuing in effect its November Order until such time as a proposed order on the Motion to Preserve Evidence has been issued by the Court DE In the meantime on November RRA had been put into an involuntary Chapter bankruptcy in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida RRAs Chapter bankruptcy case is still pending as In re Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler P.A Case No On November after having filed the Response in his capacity as the state court appointed Receiver Mr Stettin was appointed RRAs Chapter Trustee See In re Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler P.A Case No DE The duties of a bankruptcy trustee are provided by statute including that the trustee be accountable for all property received U.S.C a U.S.C a Therefore a bankruptcy trustee is charged with the duty of On November Mr Stettin was appointed as RRAs receiver by Judge Jeffrey Streitfeld of the Florida Seventeenth Judicial Circuit in Case No DE Case Document Entered on FLSD Docket Page of Jane Doe No.2 Epstein Case No Order on Epsteins Emergency Motion for Order for the Preservation of Evidence Page of collecting and reducing the property of the estate and is to be accountable for all such property Ohio Kovacs U.S S.Ct Since the federal bankruptcy code already requires a trustee to assemble and protect a bankrupts property therefore essentially covering the relief requested in the Motion to Preserve Evidence there is no need for the Court to enter a further order as to Mr Stettin DONE and ORDERED this __ day of February Courtesy copies All Counsel of Record Kendall Coffey Esq Coffey Burlington Office in the Grove Penthouse South Bayshore Drive Miami FL James Cunningham Jr Berger Singerman South Biscayne Blvd Suite Miami FL Linnea Johnson United States Magistrate Judge
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