Epstein Secrets

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

vel 1. The judge was stunned. “| have never seen the prosecutor’s office do anything like this,” Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Ruth Pickholz toid Gaffney. “| have done many [cases] much less troubling than this one where [prosecutors] would never make a downward argument like this.” Pressed by the jud

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

ich is the least-restrictive category possible and is typically applied to offenders who pose the lowest risk of committing further crimes. Id. ADA Gaffney argued that, since "there was only an indictment for one victim," Epstein should not be placed under the heavy scrutiny required for the most danger

torney 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 prostitute, should not be registe

have kept him from being listed on a registry of sex offenders for life. ... Mr. Vance has said the request was a mistake and had been made by Ms. Gaffney without his knowledge. Still, his office's decision to take Mr. Epstein's side in the hearing drew renewed criticism this week." -- Acosta has adv

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

have kept him from being listed on a registry of sex offenders for life. ... Mr. Vance has said the request was a mistake and had been made by Ms. Gaffney without his knowledge. Still, his office's decision to take Mr. Epstein's side in the hearing drew renewed criticism this week." -- Acosta has adv