Epstein Secrets

• • I I B. Acosta Exercised Poor Judgment When He Failed to Ensure That Victims Identified in the Federal Investigation Were Informed of the State Plea Hearing Althoug

ble sharing any information about the case.” Villafana also told OPR that because of “all of these concerns and instructions that I had been given by Alex [Acosta] and Jeff [Sloman] not to disclose things further and not to have any involvement in victim notification,” she felt “prohibited” from providing additi

activity with him at his Palm Beach, Florida estate. The Miami Herald reported that in 2007, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, R. Alexander Acosta, entered into an “extraordinary” deal with Epstein that permitted Epstein to avoid federal prosecution and a potentially lengthy prison sentence by p

notify the victims, “OPR identified no reason why Secretary Acosta should have distrusted his team on these points.”

stoms and Border Protection for their assistance.; This case is being handled by the Office’s Public Corruption, Unit. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Alex- Rossmiller, Alison Moe, and Maurene Comey are in charge of the prosecution, with assistance from the Office’s Human Trafficking Co-Coordinator, Abigail Kurland.

est shed renewed light on the deal he struck in 2008 with local and federal prosecutors in south Florida. The U.S. attorney in Miami at the time was Alex Acosta, who went on to become labor secretary for President Donald Trump. During a lengthy press conference last Tuesday, Acosta defended the deal, saying

Miami at the time was Alex Acosta, who went on to become labor secretary for President Donald Trump. During a lengthy press conference last Tuesday, Acosta defended the deal, saying it was the best prosecutors could do at the time. Acosta resigned Friday. Prosecutors have said Epstein has long made a h

l indictment on similar charges. He ended up serving a 13-month sentence in a local jail and avoided federal prosecution. That deal was brokered by R. Alexander Acosta, a former United States attorney in Miami who resigned last week as President Trump's Labor Secretary after public outrage over the Epstein agreemen

forward. EFTA00064800 Prosecutors told the court that new accusers have come forward to claim that Epstein abused them while they were underage. Rossmiller, who did not reveal how many new accusers there were, said the case is "already significantly stronger and getting stronger every single day." Two

rosecutors in Manhattan charged Mr. Epstein on Monday with sex trafficking, dealing an implicit rebuke to that plea agreement, which was overseen by Alexander Acosta, then the United States attorney in Miami and now President Trump's labor secretary. The indictment in Manhattan could prompt a moment of reckoning

for work. He was also required to register as a sex offender. Mr. Berman made it clear that his office was not bound by the 2008 agreement that Mr. Acosta's office had negotiated. "That agreement, by its terms, only binds the Southern District of Florida," Mr. Berman said. The agreement has been exam

ory attitude that Mr. Epstein continues to have toward young women, prosecutors said. `This is not an individual who has left his past behind," Mr. Rossmiller said. In the hours since Mr. Epstein's arrest, prosecutors said, several other women contacted them with complaints about Mr. Epstein. Some of thos