SoftBank Group
The retained record distinguishes documented firm-level SoftBank work from unproven personal representation of Misra and from Karp’s separate Temasek appearance. It also separates Karp’s exact reply from Epstein’s stronger relay.
An archived November 6, 2018 biography from Paul Weiss listed SoftBank among Brad Karp’s recent clients in significant securities, commercial, and regulatory matters 1. The firm page establishes prior SoftBank work but does not identify its matter, scope, billing client, or Rajeev Misra as Karp’s personal client 1.
On January 26, 2019, Jeffrey Epstein asked Karp whether he represented Misra, and Karp first replied, “Sort of” 23. He then wrote, “Spoke to him yesterday” 23. Twelve minutes later Epstein told Reid Weingarten, “brad represent softbank, not rajeev, but did speak to him yesterday, re DB” 45. The categorical SoftBank/not-Misra wording and “re DB” were Epstein’s relay, not Karp’s words, and the record does not independently identify the conversation’s subject or a personal Misra engagement 5.
Weingarten separately discussed possibly using Ron Soffer for what he called the “Softbank caper” and asked Epstein not to mention his role to Karp until they considered it useful 6473. Those messages do not state that Weingarten or Soffer was retained and do not establish a common mandate 73. In a separate FTX multidistrict-litigation matter, Karp’s appearance names four Temasek-related defendants and does not name the SoftBank entities that are other parties in the litigation 8.
Karp and Misra in the January 2019 Record
An archived November 6, 2018 biography from Paul Weiss listed SoftBank among Brad Karp's recent clients in significant securities, commercial, and regulatory matters 1. The firm page establishes prior SoftBank work but does not identify its matter, scope, billing client, or Rajeev Misra as Karp's personal client 1.
On January 26, 2019, Jeffrey Epstein asked Karp, “Rajeev misra do you represent?” and Karp first replied, “Sort of” 23. He then wrote, “Spoke to him yesterday” 23. Twelve minutes later, Epstein told Reid Weingarten, “brad represent softbank, not rajeev, but did speak to him yesterday, re DB” 45. The categorical SoftBank/not-Misra wording and “re DB” were Epstein's relay, not Karp's words; the record does not independently identify “DB,” the conversation's subject, or a personal Misra engagement 5.
Weingarten separately discussed possibly using Ron Soffer on what he called the “Softbank caper” and asked Epstein not to mention his role to Karp until they considered it useful 6473. Those messages do not state that Weingarten or Soffer was retained and do not show that Karp knew of their discussion or joined a common mandate 73. In a separate FTX multidistrict-litigation matter, Karp's appearance names four Temasek-related defendants and does not name the SoftBank entities that are other parties in the litigation 8.