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xander Acosta | a Aftermath Former U.S. Attorney Southern District of Florida HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_010553 --- PAGE BREAK --- | CH

xander Acosta | a Aftermath Former U.S. Attorney Southern District of Florida HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_010553 --- PAGE BREAK --- | CH

y encourage the view that the office should have been tougher. Although the terms of confinement in a state prison are a matter appropriately left to the State of Flor- ida, and not federal authorities, without doubt, the treat- ment that he received while in state custody undermined the purpose of a jail sentence. Some

us that you already have our May 19 and May 27 communications to the Deputy Attorney General, as well as our prior written submissions to CEOS and to the Southern District of Florida. In light of the significant volume of our prior submissions and to facilitate your review, we have drafted four supplemental submissions that will

he pertinent federal statutes, and respectfully request that the Office of the Deputy Attorney General end federal involvement in this matter so that the State of Florida may resolve this case appropriately. Summary of the Facts Mr. Epstein has maintained a home in Palm Beach, Florida for the past 20 years. While the

creates a substantive right which prevents prosecution and conviction of an individual after the statute has run.” See State v. King, 282 So. 2d 162 (Fla. 1973); Tucker v. State, 417 So. 2d 1006 (Fla. 3d D.C.A. 1982) (citing cases). Given the one-year statute of limitations, any conduct that might amou

response to probative evidence offered against them.” Baxter v. Palmigiano, 425 U.S. 308, 318 (1976); accord Vasquez v. State, 777 So.2d 1200, 1203 (Fla. App. 2001). The reason for this rule “is both logical and utilitarian. A party may not trample upon the rights of others and then escape the conseque

the conduct escalated to full sexual intercourse. As part of the resolution of the case, Epstein has agreed that he would not contest jurisdiction in the Southern District of Florida for any victim who chose to sue him for damages pursuant to 18 USC 2255. Mr. Epstein agreed to provide an attorney for victims who elected to proceed

the litigation of his abuse of process claim against Edwards. For support, he relies primarily on the decision of Wolfe v. Foreman, 2013 WL 3724763 (Fla. 3d DCA July 17, 2013), wherein the Third District found that the litigation privilege barred both an abuse of process claim and a malicious prosecut

e 12 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013330 --- PAGE BREAK --- discussions, on September 24, 2007, Epstein signed an agreement with the U.S. Attomney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida. Under the agreement, Epstein agreed to plead guilty to an indictment pending against him in the 15" Judicial Circuit in and for Palm Beach County ch

knowledge, two of his victims filed a lawsuit in the Southern District of Flor- ida in 2008, claiming that prosecutors violated th

uding the ability to confer with prosecutors about a pos- Photo by ASSOCIATED PRESS Jeffrey Epstein, second from left, in custody in West Palm Beach, Fla., in lived in a Palm Beach mansion, was allowed to quietly plead guilty in state court to two prostitution charges and served just 13 months in the co