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

re the prosecution of Epstein — and the Government was assiduously trying to conceal the agreement it had reached with Epstein. See DE 361 at 31-39; Edwards Aff. of Aug. 11, 2017, at 11 11-19. All of the Government's arguments about what Jane Doe 2 was doing back in April 2007 have no relevance to that time

32. On about February 25, 2008, Assistant U.S. Attorney Jay sent an e-mail to Jay Lefkowitz, Epstein's criminal defense counsel, explaining that the Justice Department's Child Exploitation Obscenity Section (CEOS) had agreed to review Epstein's objections to the proposed plea agreement that had been reached with the

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida regarding the plea agreement that had been negotiated between them. See Attachment 1 to Edwards Aff. These e-mail disclosed for the first time the steps that had been taken by the U.S. Attorney's Office to avoid having the victims in the case lear

On about February 25, 2008, Assistant U.S. Attorney Jay Sloman sent an e-mail to Jay Lefkowitz, Epstein's criminal defense counsel, explaining that the Justice Department's Child Exploitation Obscenity Section (CEOS) had agreed to review Epstein's objections to the proposed plea agreement that had been reached with the

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida regarding the plea agreement that had been negotiated between them. See Attachment 1 to Edwards Aff. These e-mail disclosed for the first time the steps that had been taken by the U.S. Attorney's Office to avoid having the victims in the case lear

at 12, 1 94. In January 2008, Jane Doe 1 met with the line prosecutor and an attorney employed by the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section of the U.S. Department of Justice. See Gov't Fact. Resp., DE 407 at 13, 1 97. During that meeting, Jane Doe 1 expressed her view that Epstein 9 EFTA00597326 Case 9:08-cv-80736-KA

filed a detailed affidavit from the victims' attorney, Bradley J. Edwards, about the nature of the calls that he had with the line prosecutor. See Edwards Aff. of Aug. II, 2017, at IN 11.25. If the Government fails to dispute that affidavit, of course that affidavit would provide additional evidence suppor