Epstein Secrets

olice search August The U.S. attorney in Miami, Alexander Acosta enters into direct disc.sions about t. plea agr

r: With t. non-prosecution agreement stil being ACOsta meets with Epstein I,er Jay Lefkowitz at t. West

er.use legal team tries to negotiate a .al with the State Attorney's Office. LaNyers discuss a deferred prosecution in whic

ought the matter to an Assistant U.S. Attorney (AUSA), who opened a file with her supervisor's approval and with the knowledge of then U.S. Attorney R. Alexander Acosta. She worked with two FBI case agents to develop a federal case against Epstein and, in the course of the investigation, they discovered additional

stants to recruit girls to provide massages to him, and in many instances, those massages led to sexual activity. After the PBPD brought the case to the State Attorney's Office, a Palm Beach County grand jury indicted Epstein, on July 19, 2006, for felony solicitation of prostitution in violation of Florida Statute § 796.0

o settle the case, the parties' cross motions for summary judgment remained pending for more than a year. In 2017, President Donald Trump nominated Acosta to be Secretary of Labor. At his March 2017 confirmation hearing, Acosta was questioned only briefly about the Epstein case. On April 17, 2017, the

you and your client to agree to unconscionable contract terms cannot square with the true facts of this case. As explained in letters from Messrs. Acosta and the indictment was postponed for more than five months to allow you and Mr. Epstein's other attorneys to make presentations to the Office to c

to complain because our independent investigation uncovered facts that are unfavorable to your client. You complain that I "forced" your client and the State Attorney's Office to proceed on charges that they do not believe in, yet you do not want our Office to inform the State Attorney's Office of facts that su ort the ad

dress your accusations to me so that I can correct any misunderstandings before you make false allegations to others in the Department. Sincerely, R. Alexander Acosta United States Attorney By: cc: R. Alexander Acosta, U.S. Attorney EFTA00013542

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etter that the Chief handed out, but some of these stories reference the letter. I do not believe that the letter mentioned any specifics. But, when the State Attorney's Office basically shut down the case, the Chief deemecilieolice investigation "closed," which meant that the PC affidavits for the arrests of Epstein, and

er for the victim [Mary]. She was calling because the State Attorney's Office still had not returned any of her calls as to whe

ef Reite took the extraordinary ste prosecutor's office. At the time, the federal Florida was a Republican Reiter recalls being presen and remembers Acosta’s dec be the prosecution, to the who takes advantage of th sex crimes. Disgusted with I recalls thinking he’d found | In Acosta, the chief saw from

ith no intent tc CHAPT = would have resulted in 1 register as a sexual offer underage victims. Local police were dis 4 q ney’s conclusions, and re R. Alexander Acosta’s letter to the general public, Federal authorities recei M h 20. 2011 a engaged in additional inve arc 3 7 the quality of the evidenc: at trial. Wit

ay have civil damages claims against Mr. Epstein. The U.S. Attorney's Office and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (jointly

Edwards learned that Epstein violated ie sores with the U.S. Attorney’s Office to do so and delayed entry of his plea. See Letter fain U.S. Attorney R. Alexander Acosta to Lilly Ann Sanchez, Dec. 19, 2007 (Exhibit “L.”). 29. On January 10, 2008 and again on May 30, 2008 E.W. and L.M. received letters from the FBI ad

plea. See Letter fain U.S. Attorney R. Alexander Acosta to Lilly Ann Sanchez, Dec. 19, 2007 (Exhibit “L.”

40, at 17 (stating that the victims relied on the U.S. Attorney's Office representatives "to their detriment[,]" that if t

ater revealed that after negotiations started, "what followed was a year-long assault on the prosecution and the prosecutors" by Epstein. Letter from R. Alexander Acosta, former U.S. Att'y, to Whom It May Concern (Mar. 20, 2011), reprinted in Conchita Sarnoff, Behind Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's Sweetheart Deal, Daily

011), reprinted in Conchita Sarnoff, Behind Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's Sweetheart Deal, Daily Beast (Mar. 25, 2011, 3:17 AM), http://goo.gi/kyveiF’. Acosta, however, claimed that the pressure did not influence the ultimate disposition of the case. Id. “4 Landon Thomas Jr., From Paradise to County Jail:

Epstein in the dark about the status of his case. The U.S. Attorney's Office signed a non-prosecution agreement with the multi

pared a 53-page federal indictment charging Epstein with sex crimes that could have put him in federal prison for life. But then- Miami U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta signed off on a non-prosecution agreement, which was negotiated, signed and sealed so that no one would know the full scope of Epstein’s crimes. The

--- Even from jail, Jeffrey Epstein manipulated the system | Miami Herald Page 3 of 17 Case 1:19-cv-03377 Document 1-1 Filed 04/16/19 Page 4 of 18 Acosta, who is now President Donald Trump’s secretary of labor, told lawmakers last year at his confirmation hearing that he did not know that Epstein would

all that at one meeting you and Ms. Sanchez raised the idea of Mr. Epstein hiring Sheriff's Deputies to guard him as equivalent to imprisonment. Mr. Acosta specifically rejected that suggestion. It is our understanding from the Sheriff's Office that Mr. Epstein is paying off-duty Sheriff's Deputies to

months in county jail for all charges, ... without probation or community control in lieu of imprisonment. Thus, the proposed plea agreement with the State Attorney's Office does not comply with the terms of the Non-Prosecution Agreement. To comply with the Agreement, Mr. Epstein must make a binding recommendation of ei

from his breach of this Agreement. Sincerely, R. Alexander Acosta United States Attorne B cc: , Chief, Northern