Epstein Secrets

000039 EFTA00805358 years later and had nothing to do with it." Id. But, as the Post also reported, "[slome law enforcement sources don't believe Vance had no clue that his office had a sex-offender case involving a Manhattan mogul with close ties to Democrats." Id. Unsealing of the First Departmen

pleading guilty to solicitation of a single minor. Epstein, 89 A.D.3d at 570, 933 N.Y.S.2d at 240. Remarkably, New York Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Gaffney ignored the NYBSO recommendation and asked the trial court tasked with deciding Epstein's sex-offender status to designate him as a level one offen

ttorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr.'s treatment of him. The Times's Jan Ransom reports: "During a hearing in 2011, a seasoned sex-crimes prosecutor from Mr. Vance's office argued forcefully in court that Mr. Epstein, who had been convicted in Florida of soliciting an underage EFTA00044385 prostitute, should

ida of soliciting an underage EFTA00044385 prostitute, should not be registered as a top-level sex offender in New York. Instead, the prosecutor, Jennifer Gaffney, asked a judge to reduce Mr. Epstein's sex-offender status to the lowest possible classification, which would have limited the personal information

1 legal hearing, asking a judge to cut the filthy- rich felon a break on the severity of his sex- offender status, according to court documents. ADA Jennifer Gaffney supported a request by Epstein — who allegedly peddled $15,000-a-night teen “sex slaves” to rich men like Britain’s Prince Andrew — that he only be l

o the financier. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016462 --- PAGE BREAK --- “tL don't think you did much of an investigation here,” Pickholz said. “| am shocked.” Vance's mishandling of the Epstein hearing has come under new scrutiny after a Miami Herald report last week revealed a secret “non- prosecution agreement”

als. The DA's office insists Vance “was not aware” of the hearing until years later and had nothing to do with it. “Our prosecutor made a mistake,” Vance spokesman Danny Frost said of Gaffney. Gaffney, a prosecutor working in the Harvey Weinstein probe, left the DA's office in September. She declined