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ELIZABETH A. STRANGE

First Assistant United States Attorney District of Arizona

KEVIN M. RAPP (Ariz. Bar No. 014249, kevin.rapp@usdoj.gov)

MARGARET PERLMETER (Ariz. Bar No. 024805, margaret.perlmeter@usdoj.gov)

PETER S. KOZINETS (Ariz. Bar No. 019856, peter.kozinets@usdoj.gov) 

ANDREW C. STONE (Ariz. Bar No. 026543, andrew.stone@usdoj.gov)

JOHN J. KUCERA (Cal. Bar No. 274184, john.kucera@usdoj.gov) 

Assistant U.S. Attorneys

40 N. Central Avenue, Suite 1800

Phoenix, Arizona 85004-4408

Telephone (602) 514-7500

BRIAN BENCZKOWSKI

Assistant Attorney General

Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice

REGINALD E. JONES (Miss. Bar No. 102806, reginald.jones4@usdoj.gov)

Senior Trial Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section 

950 Pennsylvania Ave N.W., Room 2116

Washington, D.C. 20530

Telephone (202) 616-2807 

Attorneys for Plaintiff

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA

United States of America,

Plaintiff, 

v. 

Michael Lacey, et al.,

Defendants.

CR-18-422-PHX-SMB (BSB) 

UNITED STATES’ RESPONSE TO 

MOTION FOR EXTENSION OF 

TIME TO DISCLOSE ANTICIPATED 

INTIAL AND REBUTTAL EXPERT 

TESTIMONY [Doc. 498]

The United States opposes Defendants’ motion to extend time to disclose 

anticipated and initial rebuttal expert testimony. Due to a miscommunication among the 

government attorneys, an email responding to defense counsel’s request was never sent. 

If, however, the email had been sent, it would have objected to the continuance and 

addressed the following issues:

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First, the government does not agree that Defendants need additional time to 

disclose experts. The deadline has been set since the Court issued the Scheduling Order 

on May 2, 2018 (Doc. 131), and the government timely filed its expert disclosures on 

December 14, 2018 (Doc. 422).

Second, the government doesn’t share Defendants’ view that the government has 

failed to satisfy its obligations under Rule 16. For all the reasons discussed in the 

government’s status memorandum (Doc. 444), the government believes it has met its 

obligations through, among other things, producing 10.6 million pages in an agreed-upon 

electronic format, providing indices and “hot documents,” along with access to a DOJ 

discovery specialist, all in an effort to help Defendants navigate the voluminous discovery. 

(Doc. 444 at 2.)

Third, and finally, the government doesn’t understand defendants Lacey, Larkin, 

Spear, and Brunst’s argument that they “hav[e] no funds to hire experts.” (Doc. 498 at 4.) 

As the government highlighted in its recent response to Defendants’ motion to dismiss, 

these four defendants have received over $1.5 million in untainted funds between August 

2018 and early January 2019. (Doc. 476 at 17.) Clearly, they have sufficient funds 

available to them in order to provide “rebuttal and/or initial expert disclosures, if any” as 

required by the Court’s Scheduling Order.

For these reasons, the government requests the Court deny Defendants’ motion for 

extension of time to disclose anticipated initial and rebuttal expert testimony.

Respectfully submitted this 14th day of March, 2019.

ELIZABETH A. STRANGE

First Assistant United States Attorney

District of Arizona

s/Andrew C. Stone

KEVIN M. RAPP

MARGARET PERLMETER

PETER S. KOZINETS

ANDREW C. STONE

JOHN J. KUCERA

Assistant U.S. Attorneys

BRIAN BENCZKOWSKI

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Assistant Attorney General

Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice

REGINALD E. JONES

Senior Trial Attorney

U.S. Department of Justice, Criminal Division

Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section

Certificate of Service

I hereby certify that on this date, March 14, 2019, I transmitted the foregoing under-seal 

document for filing to the Clerk of the United States District Court and sent a copy via electronic mail to: Paul J. Cambria Jr. Esq. and Erin e. McCambpell, Esq., Lipsitz Green Scime Cambria, LLC, 42 Deleware Ave, Suite 120, Buffalo, NY 14202, 

pcambria@lglaw.com and emccampbell@lglaw.com, Thomas H. Bienert, Jr., Esq., Anthony R. Bisconti, Esq., Kenneth M. Miller, Esq., and Whitney Bernstein, Esq., Bienart, 

Miller & Katzman, PLC, 903 Calle Amanecer, Suite 350, San Clemente, CA 92673, 

tbienert@bmkattorneys.com, tbisconti@bmkattorneys.com, kmiller@bmkattorneys.com, wbernstein@bmkattorneys.com; Davis Wright Termaine, LLP, 1201 Third Avenue, Suite 2200, Seattle, WA 98101, jimgrant@dwt.com;

Michael D. Kimerer, Esq. and Rhonda Elaine Neff, Esq., 1313 E. Osborn Road, Suite 100, 

Phoenix, AZ 85014, MDK@kimerer.com and rneff@kimerer.com; Robert Corn-Revere 

Esq., Davis Wright Termaine, LLP, 1919 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W., Suite 800, Washington, D.C., 20006, bobcornrevere@dwt.com; Bruce Feder, Esq., 2930 East Camelback Road, Suite 160, Phoenix, AZ 85016, bf@federlawpa.com; Gary Linenberg, Esq., Ariel Neuman, Esq., Gopi K. Panchapakesan, Esq., Bird, Marella, Boxer, Wolpert, 

Nessim, Drooks, Lincenberg & Rhow, P.C., 1875 Century Park East, 23rd Floor, Los 

Angeles, CA 90067, glincenberg@birdmarella.com, aan@birdmarella.com, gkp@birdmarella.com.

s/ Angela Schuetta_____

Angela Schuetta

U.S. Attorney’s Office

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