Epstein Secrets

y, and, at a minimum, provided the victims with Belohlavek’s contact information. Acosta could have interacted with the State Attorney, or instructed Villafana or others to do so, to ensure the state intended to make notifications in a way that reached the most possible victims and that it had the informatio

ons leading to the agreement: former U.S. Attorney R. Alexander Acosta, and former AUSAs Jeffrey H. Sloman, Matthew I. Menchel, Andrew C. Lourie, and Ann Marie C. Villafana. Each subject submitted written responses detailing their involvement in the federal investigation of Epstein, the drafting and execution of the NPA,

is,~ on~ ~roscclilion_.Agrccmcnt and agrees to somrly. with. thcrp. By; CA/ Aronberg-000777 R:. AtEXANDERACOSTA UNITED s:r'.iTESATI◊R.NEY • A. :MARIE VILLAFANA AssfsTANT fos .• ATTQ~N-tY ·OERALi;:>.L13FCbUJ{t;:ESQ: C0VNSELTQ JEFFREY EJJ,SJEJN LiLLY ANN'SANCIJ~Z; isQ'. NFTORNEY FQR J½FFREY EPSTEIN FILED

.that he understands the clarifications to the Non- Prosecution Agreement and agrees to comply with them. R. ALEXANDER ACOSTA UNITED STATES ATTORNEY A. MARIE VILLAFASA ASSISTANT U.S. ATTORNEY Dated: JEFFREY EPSTEIN GERALD LEFCOURT, ESQ. COUNSEL TO JEFFREY EPSTEIN Dated: LILLY ANN'SANCHEZ, BS' ATTORNEY FOR JEFFREY EP

prosecutors, such consultations may be limited to gathering information from victims and conveying only nonsensitive data and public information.”443 Villafaha’s concern about generating potential impeachment evidence by informing victims of their potential to recover monetary damages from Epstein was not un

has also been very helpful and indispensable in this matter. The news on August 10, 2019, that Jeffrey Epstein had been found dead in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, at the MCC, was certainly shocking. Most of you, and myself for that matter, were anticipating that the next steps in this case would be defense

es should be brought to bear.”75 While the defense was reiterating its objections to the federal investigation, CEOS expressed its endorsement of Villafaña’s legal analysis and proposed charges. On July 18, 2007, CEOS Chief Oosterbaan emailed Sloman, Menchel, and Lourie, stating that he had read Villa

Investigation ............................................20 5. October 2006 – February 2007: Epstein’s Defense Counsel Initiate Contact with Villafaña, Lourie, and Sloman, and Press for a Meeting ....................................................................................22 6. February

Federal Investigation Is Initiated, and the USAO Opens a Case File In early 2006, a West Palm Beach FBI Special Agent who worked closely with AUSA Ann Marie Villafaña on child exploitation cases—and who is referred to in this Report as “the case agent”—mentioned to Villafaña in “casual conversations” having learne

e believed to be a minor. The court ordered Epstein detained pending trial, and he was remanded to the custody of the Bureau of Prisons and held at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan. Meanwhile, after publication of the November 2018 Miami Herald report, the media and Congress increasingly focused attention on Ac

PBPD brought the case to the FBI’s attention because of a concern that the State Attorney’s Office had succumbed to “pressure” from defense counsel. Villafana informed both Acosta and Sloman of this when she met with them at the start of the federal investigation. Acosta confirmed that he was aware that the

ng of the Ep~teip underage ~ex trafficking case, Appendix at 3 (OPR1R,eport; p, vii). 53. On August 10, 2019, Epstein was found dead in his ce(l at the Metropolitan Correctional Center. His cause of death was determined to be suicide. Appendix at 3 (QPR Report, p. v). C. The August 27, 2019, SDNY Hearing: Epstein's Victims Speak.