Epstein Secrets

16 The Virgin Islands Daily News NATION Saturday, March 2, 2019 Dems want Acosta out over Epstein case. GOP seeking investigation. Then there's Matt Gaetz By ALEX DAUG

But Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, one of President Donald = Trump's biggest defenders in Congress, is taking a different ap- proach. In an interview with the Miami Her- ald this week, Gaetz said re-examining Acosta’s handling of Epstein’ case, which came under increased scrutiny after the Herald's three-part series Per-

the Palm Beach County jail, where he was given liberal work release, and released in 2009, and now divides his time between New York, Palm Beach and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The Herald interviewed four of Ep- stein's victims, who were as young as 13 at the time they were abused by Epstein. They said they felt betrayed by

deal, federal prosecutors had gathered enough evidence against Epstein to write a 53-page federal indictment, court records show. An investigation by the Miami Her- ald, "Perversion of Justice," found that after Acosta met privately with one of Epstein's lawyers, the govemment agreed to seal the plea agreement so tha

pproximately 55 personnel from NYO and San Juan executed a search warrant at Epstein's residence on Little Saint James (LSJ) Island near St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. This 'resulted in the seizure of various documents and pictures as well as numerous Computed, servers; and other digital items of evidence. All dig

t transactions from Deutsche Bank include a $250,000 transaction to and a $100,000 transaction to Ghislaine Maxwell in December, 2018, shorty after eMiami Herald article. • A review of 142 FinCEN filings (SARs, CTRs, and FBARs) resulted in the identification of 18 different financial/investment institutions

at the USAO opposed early termination of Epstein’s community control supervision and would object to a request to transfer Epstein’s supervision to the U.S. Virgin Islands. After serving his year on home detention in Florida, Epstein completed his sentence on July 21, 2010.

nd of another AUSA whom Villafaña was then dating, but had no professional relationship with either Villafaña or the other AUSA. 144 For example, the Miami Herald’s November 2018 investigative report stated that “on the morning of the breakfast meeting, a deal was struck—an extraordinary plea agreement that woul

Range Rover, a Mercedez-Benz sedan, a Cadillac Escalade, and a Hummer II. These cars are registered in various states and territories including the Virgin Islands, New York, Florida, and New Mexico. The defendant also has access to two private jets, giving him the ability to leave the country secretly and on a

two prostitution charges,” immunized from prosecution Epstein’s co-conspirators, and concealed from Epstein’s victims the terms of the NPA. Following the Miami Herald’s report, and after receiving a Congressional request to investigate, OPR. initiated an investigation into the allegations that prosecutors in the USAO

et between Fifth and Madison Avenues. He also owns a 10,000-acre ranch, named “Zorro,”’ in New Mexico, a private island called “Little St. James’ in the Virgin Islands, the $13 million house in Palm Beach, a Gulfstream jet and, at one point, owned a Boeing 727. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016444 --- PAGE BREAK --- HOUSE_OVER

aled — including a detailed criminal complaint — so that “no one . . . could know the full scope of Epstein’s crimes and who else was involved.” Jd. The Miami Herald’s reporting has also had serious political ramifications. As the Miami Herald has reported, “[t]he U.S. attorney in Miami, Alexander Acosta, was person