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

legations, and every fact described therein should be treated as an allegation. i Attachment(s): Download U.S, v Jeffrey Epstein Indictment Topic(s): Project Safe Childhood Component(s): USAO - New York. Southern Press Release Number: 19-211 i Updated July 9, 2019 CA/Aronberg-0009.18 FILED: PALM BEACH COUNTY, FL, JOSEPH

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g by force, fraud and coercion." The FBI, with assistance from Harrisburg lasw enforcement, investigated the case — which "was conducted as part of Project Safe Childhood, which aims to put a stop to child sexual exploitation and abuse." WPMT-TV <https://www.fox43.com/article/news/crime/5th-defendant-in-harrisburg-sex

in place to ensure we're able to resume our normal broadcast schedule." The incident "knocked out news production systems for more than 24 hours." 9 Network's live broadcasts "were disrupted by Sunday's attack." Damian Cronan, 9 News' chief information and technology officer, "described the incident as

ed online as a woman named Mary and communicated with the teenager from South Dakota." The Oregonian says "the FBI investigated the case as part of Project Safe Childhood, a national program started by the U.S. Department of Justice in 2006 to combat child sexual abuse and exploitation." Maine Woman Charged By FBI Wi

r the district. Sloman left the USAO to enter private practice in June 2010. Matthew I. Menchel joined the USAO in 1998 after having served as a New York County (Manhattan) Assistant District Attorney for 11 years. After several years as a line AUSA, Menchel became Chief of the USAO’s Major Crimes Section.

he child exploitation cases in West Palm Beach, along with other criminal matters. In 2006, she was designated as the USAO’s first coordinator for Project Safe Childhood, a new Department initiative focusing on child sexual exploitation and abuse.2 In 2006, Villafaña assumed responsibility for the Epstein investig

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

ta’s and Sloman’s “concerns about taking this case because of [the P]etit policy and a number of legal issues” and Acosta’s concerns about “hurting Project Safe Childhood.” Defense counsel raised myriad legal and factual challenges in their voluminous letters to the USAO. Defense submissions attacked the legal theo