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Exhibit — USA v. Ayvazyan et al (Dkt. 391.7)

Filed May 31, 2021 in USA v. Ayvazyan et al; one of 233 filings from this case.

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CourtU.S. District Court for the Central District of California
Filed2021-05-31

U.S. District Court for the Central District of California · No. 2:20-cr-00579-SVW · Doc. 391-7 · 2021-05-31 · Docket on CourtListener

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EXHIBIT 12 
 
Case 2:20-cr-00579-SVW     Document 391-7     Filed 05/31/21     Page 1 of 5   Page ID
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United States Department of Justice 
 
United States Attorney’s Office 
Central District of California 
  
 
Scott Paetty 
Phone: (213) 894-6527 
E-mail: Scott.Paetty@usdoj.gov 
1100 United States Courthouse 
312 North Spring Street 
Los Angeles, California 90012 
 
BY FEDEX & EMAIL 
May 26, 2021 
 
Ashwin J. Ram 
Michael A. Keough 
Nicholas P. Silverman 
Steptoe & Johnson LLP 
1330 Connecticut Avenue, NW 
Washington, DC 20036 
 
Counsel for Richard Ayvazyan 
 
David D. Diamond 
Diamond and Associates 
3500 West Olive Avenue 
Suite 300 
Burbank, California 91505 
 
John Lewis Littrell 
Bienert Katzman PC 
903 Calle Amanecer Suite 350 
San Clemente, CA 92673 
 
Counsel for Marietta Terabelian 
 
Thomas A. Mesereau, Jr. 
Mesereau Law Group 
10100 Santa Monica Boulevard Suite 300 
Los Angeles, CA 90067 
 
Jennifer J. Wirsching 
Attorney at Law 
1935 Alpha Road Suite 216 
Glendale, CA 91208 
 
Counsel for Artur Ayvazyan 
 
Fred G. Minassian 
Law Offices of Fred G. Minassian, Inc. 
101 N. Brand Blvd., Suite 1970 
Glendale, CA 91203 
 
Counsel for Tamara Dadyan 
 
John David Hanusz 
Hanusz Law, PC 
800 Wilshire Blvd, Ste 1050 
Los Angeles, CA 90017-2672 
 
Counsel for Manuk Grigoryan 
 
Jilbert Tahmazian  
Tahmazian Law Firm, P.C. 
1518 West Glenoaks Boulevard  
Glendale, CA 91201 
 
Counsel for Arman Hayrapetyan 
 
Michael Freedman 
The Freedman Firm 
800 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1050 
Los Angeles, CA 90017 
 
Counsel for Edvard Paronyan 
 
Peter Johnson 
Peter Johnson Law 
409 North Pacific Coast Hwy, 651 
Redondo Beach, California 90277 
 
Counsel for Vahe Dadyan 
 
 
 
Case 2:20-cr-00579-SVW     Document 391-7     Filed 05/31/21     Page 2 of 5   Page ID
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RE: United States v. Ayvazyan et. al 
May 26, 2021 
Page 2 
 
  
Re: 
United States v. Ayvazyan et. al,  
No. CR 2:20-cr-00579-SVW 
Discovery Production – Seized Materials 
 
Dear Counsel: 
We write with respect to the following digital devices: 
 
• 1B17 – Artur Ayvazyan’s iPhone 
• 1B21 – Tamara Dadyan’s iPhone 
• 1B81 – Marietta Terabelian’s iPhone 
• 1B85 – Richard Ayvazyan’s iPhone 
On February 1, 2021, the government produced a complete forensic copy of each of the above-
listed iPhones to counsel for defendants Richard Ayvazyan, Marietta Terabelian, Tamara 
Dadyan, and Artur Ayvazyan.  As you know, an independent filter team then generated a 
Cellebrite report for each of these iPhones and conducted an independent review for potentially 
privileged materials.  Upon the independent filter team’s completion of its review of each of the 
Cellebrite reports for the above-listed iPhones, the independent filter team released a redacted 
copy of the Cellebrite reports to the prosecution team and the prosecution team, in turn, produced 
them to you.  The redacted copy of the Cellebrite reports for the above-listed iPhones were 
produced to counsel for all defendants on April 30, 2021.  Members of the prosecution team then 
conducted a review of the redacted Cellebrite reports for the above-listed iPhones to identify the 
materials that are within the scope of the applicable search warrants that would be seized.  
Although the deadline to complete the responsiveness review for these iPhones is July 3, 2021, 
the review has been completed five and a half weeks early.   
 
Pursuant to your clients’ requests for discovery and the Court’s protective order (see CR 92), 
enclosed please find a disc with discovery bearing Bates Numbers DOJ_PROD_0000163654 to  
DOJ_PROD_0000163657 and an attached index.1  These discovery materials include the 
materials from the above-listed iPhones that the prosecution team has seized pursuant to the 
applicable search warrants.  This is a subset of the discovery that was previously produced to 
you.  These discovery materials are also being uploaded to Steptoe & Johnson’s file sharing 
system and USAfx, as some of you have requested. 
 
The prosecution team is reviewing these materials to determine what materials from these 
iPhones will be used a trial exhibits at trial.  The prosecution team will disclose those trial 
exhibits on June 1, 2021, pursuant to the Court’s April 16, 2021 order (CR 284). 
 
 
1 The password to access the discovery materials will be emailed to you separately. 
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RE: United States v. Ayvazyan et. al 
May 26, 2021 
Page 3 
 
As with prior productions, the enclosed materials, and any future discovery provided to you, may 
exceed the scope of discovery mandated by the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, federal 
statute, or relevant case law, and are thus provided voluntarily and solely as a matter of 
discretion.  By producing such materials to you, the government does not waive its right to object 
to any future discovery requests beyond the ambit of its legal obligations. 
Please let me know if you have any questions. 
 
Very truly yours, 
 
 
 
SCOTT PAETTY 
CATHERINE AHN 
Assistant United States Attorneys 
Major Frauds Section 
 
Christopher Fenton 
Trial Attorney  
Department of Justice 
Criminal Division 
 
Enclosure 
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United States v. Ayvazyan et al. 
Discovery Production – Seized Materials 
Index 
 
Description 
Production BEGDOC 
Production ENDDOC 
1B17 – Reproduced Cellebrite Report 
DOJ_PROD_0000163654 
DOJ_PROD_0000163654 
1B21 – Reproduced Cellebrite Report 
DOJ_PROD_0000163655 
DOJ_PROD_0000163655 
1B81 – Reproduced Cellebrite Report 
DOJ_PROD_0000163656 
DOJ_PROD_0000163656 
1B85 – Reproduced Cellebrite Report 
DOJ_PROD_0000163657 
DOJ_PROD_0000163657 
 
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