Epstein Secrets

D: PALM BEACH COUNTY, FL, JOSEPH ABRUZZO, CLERK. 3/28/2023 2:22:44 PM l • • U.S. Department of Justice United States Attorney | Southern District, ofNew York The Silvio J. Mblld Building One Saint Andrew ’s Plaza New.York- New York 10007 July 8, 2019 VTAECF The: Honorable Henry Pitman United States Distric

ly reported, the defendant is extraordinarily wealthy, and he owns and I maintains luxury properties and residences around the world, including in !Vlanhattan, New York; Palm Beach, Florida; Stanley, New Mexico; and Paris, France. Addition!ally, Epstein owns a private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands whi

h at least 2005, JEFFREY EPSTEIN enticed and recruited, and caused to be entice_d and recruited, 'oo.ze_ns. of minor girls. to visit his mansiprJ in New Yo.Jk, New·York, (the "New Y/:>rk Residence"), arid his estate in Palm Beach', Florida (the "Palm Beach Residence"),, to ,engage in sex acts with him,

2005, JEFFREY EPSTEIN enticed and recruited, and caused to be entice_d and recruited, 'oo.ze_ns. of minor girls. to visit his mansiprJ in New Yo.Jk, New·York, (the "New Y/:>rk Residence"), arid his estate in Palm Beach', Florida (the "Palm Beach Residence"),, to ,engage in sex acts with him, after which

. In this way, EPSTEIN created a vast network of underage victlms for him to sexually, exploit, .oft.en or, a dailY, l:>asis; in locations including New Yqrk c1ng Palm Beach. EPSJEIN's victims were as young as. 14 at the tim_e he abused them, and were, .for various reasons, often particularly vu Iner.abl

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

lenient when it advocated in favor of registering Epstein as a level one sex offender. On December 1, 2018, the Post published an article entitled "Manhattan DA sided with pedophile billionaire after botching investigation." Id. Ex. C. Following up on its prior reporting, the Post reported Justice Pickholz'

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aled — including a detailed criminal complaint — so that "no one ... could know the full scope of Epstein's crimes and who else was involved." Id. 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 perso

that an associate for Epstein had recruited her outside at age 14 amtate was gradually groomed for over a year before Epstein raped her in. his New York Caty mansion when she was 1.5.06- filed her suit on August44, 2019, when NewYork State law was updated to allow one year for adult survivors of child ser

r3ent officialsarho told him that pE stein was an individu portrinoe-usthrgr7et tit • it. nm' s ,Lb Rib I part of the negotiations, according to the Miami Hera , p ean provia- ed information" to the Florida federal prosecutors for a more lenient sentence and was supposedly an unnamed key witness for the Ne

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f.)) "the public and the press have a fundamental right of access to all judicial proceedings," however, this right is not absolute. State ex ref. Miami Herald Pub. Co.l. McIntosh, 340 So.2d at 908-9. In Bar- ron, the court took the occasion to establish the standards upon which the presumption of openness may

DEVELOPMENTS In the summer of 2009, allegations surfaced that Epstein had cooperated with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York’s investigation of investment bank Bear Stearns, and that he had been released early from his 18-month imprisonment term because of that

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

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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