Epstein Secrets

736-KAM Document 416 Entered on FLSD Docket 08/11/2017 Page 23 of 65 So far as appears in the available public materials, Senator Kyl's concern that the Justice Department's policy of conferring with victims about plea agreements before charges were filed would be a "dead letter" went unaddressed. Even today, the Justice

cted with the Justice Department's other statements on combatting sex abuse and trafficking. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. Delivers Remarks at Justice Department Event Marking National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month (Jan. 29, 2015) http:/Avww.justice.gov/opa/speech/attomey-general-eric-h- holder-jr-

are irrelevant, and we really hope he does not prove the point that a man can commit heinous crimes against children and buy his way out of it. If the Department of Justice's recent commitment to the protection of our children from child molesters is to be more than rhetoric, then this is the time and the case where the

scheme for enforcement of congressionally-created rights, the courts must give "appropriate judicial deference toward the will of Congress . . . ." Hardison v. Cohen, 375 F.3d 1262, 1264 (11th Cir. 2004) (internal quotation omitted). Congress is "in a better position to decide whether or not the public interest

the crimes against the victims; (3) discovery of records explicating why the U.S. Attorney's Office decided to grant Epstein federal immunity; (4) the Department of Justice's designation of a representative to explain the Office's decision to resolve the Epstein case without any federal prosecution; (5) mandatory CVRA t

ice Department's Office of Legal Counsel ("OLCi. Maj. Op. at 1213-14 n.20. The Justice Department's 2010 OLC opinion, like the change of position by the Justice Department's local U.S. Attorney's Office, came only after Epstein's victims filed this lawsuit. See Mohasco Corp. v. Silver, 447 U.S. 807, 825, 100 S. Ct. 2486,

tions. Federal courts have had broad authority to fashion equitable remedies after petitioners have proven a violation of statutory provisions. It Hardison v. Cohen, 375 F.3d 1262, 1266 (11th Cir. 2004); Nichols v. Ho per 173 F.3d 820, 824 (11th Cir. 1999); C e Ala. Hosp Ass'n v Beasley, 702 £2d 955, 962 (1 I

remedies also provide a way to insure that those who were responsible for violating their rights are appropriately reviewed for possible sanction by the Justice Department. For example, as the Court knows, the Government has previously declined to investigate the victims' complaint that their rights were violated durin

:08-cv-80736-KAM Document 127 Entered on FLSD Docket 12/05/2011 Page 6 of 25 historically had broad authority to fashion equitable remedies . . . ." Hardison v. Cohen, 375 F.3d 1262, 1266 (11th Cir. 2004). The Eleventh Circuit has expressly required district courts to fashion appropriate equitable remedies when p