eDiscovery Consulting Under Congressional or Regulatory Oversight
EPC Group ran SharePoint-based TARP eDiscovery at Federal Reserve Bank of New York under Congressional Oversight Panel scrutiny during the 2008-2010 financial crisis response. Purview Premium eDiscovery methodology inherits directly from that engagement.
Last updated July 8, 2026 by Errin O'Connor, Founder & Chief AI Architect, EPC Group
EPC Group ran SharePoint-based eDiscovery at Federal Reserve Bank of New York during TARP under Congressional Oversight Panel scrutiny (2008-2010). The six-principle discipline built on that engagement — custodian reproducibility, evidence-of-decision documented holds, search reproducibility, hashed chain-of-custody, attorney-privilege workflow, disciplined production format — is baseline for every Purview Premium eDiscovery engagement EPC Group runs today. Founder Errin O'Connor personally scopes every regulated-eDiscovery engagement above $250K or with Congressional, DOJ, SEC enforcement, or GAO involvement.
Key Facts
- Delivered SharePoint-based eDiscovery + litigation hold at FRBNY during 2008-2010 TARP response under Congressional Oversight Panel scrutiny.
- Every TARP-related document, email, and audit artifact indexed, retention-tagged, and Congressionally-subpoena-producible on demand.
- Congressional oversight adds four dimensions absent from routine civil litigation: political scrutiny, cross-committee production, press exposure, no motion practice.
- Six FRBNY principles transferred to Microsoft Purview Premium eDiscovery methodology: custodian reproducibility, evidence-of-decision holds, search reproducibility, hashed chain-of-custody, privilege workflow, disciplined production format.
- Scoping range: 8-12 weeks for a full Purview Premium eDiscovery build (custodian identification through executive dashboard handoff).
- Regulated environments (GCC High, ITAR) add 2-4 weeks for boundary validation.
Direct-answer: EPC Group ran SharePoint-based eDiscovery at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York during the 2008-2010 TARP response under Congressional Oversight Panel scrutiny (Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008; panel chaired at various points by Elizabeth Warren and later Ted Kaufman). Every TARP-related document, email, and audit artifact had to be indexed, retention-tagged, and producible under Congressional subpoena on demand. That engagement institutionalized the six-principle discipline EPC Group inherits into every Microsoft Purview Premium eDiscovery build today.
Related surfaces: Federal delivery credentials (NASA, FRBNY, Vivek Kundra) · Purview Compliance Manager · Microsoft Purview consulting hub · AI Governance.
Frequently asked questions
What eDiscovery experience does EPC Group have under Congressional or regulatory oversight?
EPC Group ran SharePoint-based eDiscovery, records management, and litigation-hold implementation at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (FRBNY) during the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) response, 2008-2010. The engagement operated under the Congressional Oversight Panel established by the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 — chaired at various points by Elizabeth Warren and later Ted Kaufman. Every TARP-related document, email, and audit artifact had to be indexed, retention-tagged, and produced under Congressional subpoena on demand. The technical stack: SharePoint 2007/2010 as the repository layer, Exchange 2007 with journaling for email preservation, and custom .NET litigation-hold code EPC Group built into the SharePoint object model. That engagement remains one of the highest-stakes private-sector SharePoint eDiscovery deployments in the platform's history and directly informs the Microsoft Purview Premium eDiscovery methodology EPC Group deploys today.
How does the FRBNY TARP engagement translate to modern Microsoft Purview eDiscovery?
Six principles from TARP transfer to every modern Purview Premium eDiscovery engagement EPC Group runs: (1) Custodian identification must be reproducible under subpoena — every "who touched this document" query has to answer the same way today as it did six years ago. Purview Custodian tools automate this now; the discipline is unchanged. (2) Legal hold must be evidence-of-decision documented — not just "hold applied" but "hold applied on YYYY-MM-DD by named custodian for named matter with named scope." (3) Search-scope reproducibility — every eDiscovery search must be re-runnable months later against the same corpus. Purview Premium's Search Results Set makes this native. (4) Chain-of-custody preservation — every export must be hashed, timestamped, and audit-logged. (5) Privilege review workflow — attorney-client privileged material must be flagged before production, with a review-by-attorney audit trail. Purview Premium's Review Sets support this. (6) Production format discipline — Concordance, Relativity, or standard TIFF/PDF with load files. All six were institutionalized at FRBNY and are baseline for EPC Group Purview engagements today.
What other regulated eDiscovery has EPC Group delivered?
Beyond FRBNY TARP: SEC Rule 17a-4(f) tamper-evident retention for broker-dealers, FINRA Rule 4511 supervisory review, HIPAA § 164.316 policy and procedure retention for healthcare systems (including 21 CFR Part 11 GxP scope for life sciences), CJIS security policy retention for state and local law-enforcement agencies, IRS Publication 1075 for federal tax information handlers, and FISMA/FedRAMP audit-artifact retention for federal contractors. Every one of these regulatory regimes was informed by the eDiscovery discipline built on TARP. Purview Premium is EPC Group's standard platform for all of them; SharePoint Advanced Content Management and Records 365 handle the retention labels.
How does EPC Group scope a Purview Premium eDiscovery engagement?
EPC Group scoping template for a Purview Premium eDiscovery engagement: (Week 1-2) Custodian identification and case-scope discovery — legal team + IT + data owners map who created what where; identify pre-Purview retention gaps. (Week 3-4) Purview role assignment (eDiscovery Manager, eDiscovery Administrator, Reviewer), case creation, and hold policy configuration. (Week 5-6) Search strategy documentation, search execution, results-set validation. (Week 7-8) Review Set configuration, tagging schema, privilege review workflow build, attorney access provisioning. (Week 9-10) Production export configuration, load-file generation, chain-of-custody artifact preservation. (Week 11-12) Regulator briefing preparation, executive dashboard build, ongoing case handoff. Total: 8-12 weeks depending on custodian count, data volume, and regulatory complexity. Regulated environments (GCC High, ITAR) add 2-4 weeks for boundary validation. Every deliverable is written to Congressional-oversight standard.
What makes eDiscovery under Congressional oversight different from routine litigation?
Congressional oversight adds four dimensions that routine civil litigation does not typically require. First: political scrutiny — decision-makers know their work may be Congressional-testimony-quality-reviewed. Second: cross-committee production — the same document may be requested by House Financial Services, Senate Banking, GAO, and Treasury OIG simultaneously with different scope and format requirements. Third: press exposure — anything produced may become part of a leak investigation or an FOIA precedent. Fourth: no motion practice — you cannot argue relevance, burden, or proportionality with a Congressional subpoena the way you can with an Article III court. All four of these forced the technical implementation to be extraordinarily disciplined, and that discipline is what EPC Group brings to every private-sector regulatory eDiscovery engagement.
Who at EPC Group runs regulated eDiscovery engagements?
Founder Errin O'Connor personally scopes every regulated eDiscovery engagement above $250K and any engagement with Congressional, DOJ, SEC enforcement, or GAO involvement. That is a direct outgrowth of the FRBNY TARP work — the senior architect on the sales call is the one delivering. Beneath Errin, EPC Group's senior architect bench includes several practitioners with prior TARP-era or Dodd-Frank-era regulated-eDiscovery backgrounds, plus current Microsoft Purview MCT / MCE credentials. Contact Errin O'Connor directly at (888) 381-9725 or errino@epcgroup.net to scope a Purview Premium eDiscovery engagement.
Scope a Purview Premium eDiscovery engagement
Founder Errin O'Connor personally scopes regulated-eDiscovery engagements above $250K or with Congressional / DOJ / SEC / GAO involvement. Call (888) 381-9725 or email errino@epcgroup.net.
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