Epstein Secrets

Memorandum SubjectDate Re: Operation Leap Year May I, 2007 (Revised 9/13/07) (2nd Revision 2/19/08) a ToFrom R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney Jeff Sloman, First Assistant United States Attorney M, Chief, Criminal Division MAUSA, Northern Reg

hat I forego the Section 1956 charge and, instead, charge Epstein with aiding and abetting the unlicensed money transmitting by causing his bank and Western Union unwittingly to transmit funds intended to be used to promote and support sex trafficking and white slave traffic. The Money Laundering Section refe

Memorandum SubjectDate Re: Operation Leap Year (Revised 9/13/07) ToFrom R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney Jeff Sloman, First Assistant United States Attorney M, Chief, Criminal Division MAUSA, Northern Reg

hat I forego the Section 1956 charge and, instead, charge Epstein with aiding and abetting the unlicensed money transmitting by causing his bank and Western Union unwittingly to transmit funds intended to be used to promote and support sex trafficking and white slave traffic. The Money Laundering Section refe

Memorandum SubjectDate Re: Operation Leap Year April 23, 2007 ToFrom R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney Jeff Sloman. First Assistant United States Attorney M, I Chief, Criminal Division MAUSA, Northern R

stern Union were the innocent intermediaries who operated the money transmitting business. Nonetheless, Epstein's directions to pay the girls caused Western Union to transmit funds that were intended to be used to promote or support unlawful activity — the prostitution of minors. Epstein's directions to Banasi