Epstein Secrets

Bill Berger, also representing victims, called the agreement a "sweetheart deal." "Why was it so important for the government to make this deal?'' Berger asked rhetorically. "We have not yet had an honest explanation by any public official as to why it was made ... and why the victims were sold down

in New York, where he owns a 51,000-square-foot Manhattan mansion. "It's validation of what we're saying in the civil cases," said Miami attorney Jeffrey Herman, who represents the alleged victims in the federal lawsuits. West Palm Beach attorney Ted Leopold represents one alleged victim in a civil suit in

d former Circuit Judge Bill Berger, who now represents some of the women. "Everybody was in on this deal except the victims and the public," Berger said. "The public should be outraged it has gone as far as it has." A second attorney representing the women, Brad Edwards, has seen the seal

him in New York. Upon his release, Epstein, 55, will be under house arrest for a year and must register BILL INGRAM/Staff Pitotovapher Attorney Jeffrey Herman, whose clients are suing Palm Beadier Jef- frey Epstein, speaks Wednesday outside the county stockade. for life as a sex offender. He will be under

victims” until after Epstein was sentenced and incarcerated. We have reason to believe that, around this same time, Mr. Sloman’s former law partner, Jeffrey Herman, had met with the father of one of the prospective plaintiffs, Saige Gonzalez.> At the same time (and until as recently as March of 2008), the Offici

e of the people of the United States, the duty of a federal prosecutor is not simply to seek conviction as at any cost, but, rather, to seek justice. Berger v. United States, 295 U.S. 78, 88 (1935). (“The United States Attorney is the representative not of an ordinary party to a controversy, but of a sove