Epstein Secrets

of Justice Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section ("CEOS") regarding the federal investigation of Jeffrey Epstein by the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida (`USAO").1 I will refrain from recounting Mr. Epstein's arguments in detail here, but, rather, will highlight salient points responsive

olations of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1591, 2422(b) and 2423(b). Since the limited review conducted by CEOS, two Supreme Court decisions—one authored by Justice Scalia and the other by Justice Thomas—have revitalized the bedrock principles that federal criminal statutes must be narrowly construed, that they may not

of Justice Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section ("CEOS") regarding the federal investigation of Jeffrey Epstein by the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida ("USAO").' I will refrain from recounting Mr. Epstein's arguments in detail here, but, rather, will highlight salient points responsive

olations of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1591, 2422(b) and 2423(b). Since the limited review conducted by CEOS, two Supreme Court decisions—one authored by Justice Scalia and the other by Justice Thomas--have revitalized the bedrock principles that federal criminal statutes must be narrowly construed, that they may no

dispute that it never conferred with the victims and kept the Agreement secret. See Gov't En Banc Brief at 5. 10 In July 2019, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York (`SDNY") had unsealed an indictment charging Epstein with a sex-trafficking conspiracy and substantive sex trafficking involving conduct that occur

nion is like a pirate ship. It sails under a textualist flag, but what it actually represents is a theory of statutory interpretation that Justice Scalia excoriated ...."). The dissents commit a basic error of statutory interpretation by reading subsections (a)(5), (aX8), and (dX3) in isolation with