Epstein Secrets

SENATE, Washington, DC, June 6, 2011. Hon. ERIC H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General; U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC. DEAR ATTORNEY GENERAL HOLDER: I am writing about the Justice Department’s im- plementation of the Crime Victims’ Rights Act--an act that I co-sponsored in 2004. These questions r

U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC. DEAR ATTORNEY GENERAL HOLDER: I am writing about the Justice Department’s im-

this position appears to place the Department in violation of a binding court ruling that extends rights to thousands of crime victims in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. And more generally, the Depart- ment’s position simply has no grounding in the clear language of the CVRA. My first question: What is th

not to bring a case, how he and close friend Eric Holder Jr. years ago started a foundation that has helpe

ground. LD: Tell me a little about the See Forever Foundation and how it came into existence. RW: By accident of history, [former Attorney General] Eric Holder and | are extremely close. We grew up together in the Justice Department and had offices next to each other for many years in the public integrity se

did Mike Espy together. That was probably the first huge national trial | had as a defense lawyer. Espy was a very promising former congressman from Mississippi who [Bill] Clinton made secretary of Agriculture. It was very controversial because traditional, white hidebound farmers were not crazy about Mike Es

Shortly after the Department released its opinion, one of the CVRA’s congressional sponsors, then-Senator Jon Kyl, sent a letter to Attorney General Enc Holder strenuously objecting to the Department’s conclusions. Senator Kyl directly stated his view that “[w]hen Congress enacted the ' Scott Campbell, Step

to a criminal defendant in similar circumstances. If prosecutors have sufficient information to provide notice 3 Letter from Jon Kyl, U.S. Sen., to Eric H. Holder, Jr., Att’y Gen. (June 6, 2011), reprinted in 157 Conc. REc. $3608 (daily ed. June 8, 2011) (statement of Sen. Jon Kyl). 4 18 USC. § 3771(c\(1). 5

This is a truncated and deceptive description of the legislative history, so much so that Senator Kyl sent an angry letter to Attorney General Eric Holder complaining about the distortion. On June 6, 2011, the Senator wrote to “express [his] surprise that [OLC is] so clearly quoting [his] remarks out of

Shortly after the Department released its opinion, one of the CVRA's congressional sponsors, then-Senator Jon Kyl, sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder strenuously objecting to the Department's conclusions. Senator Kyl directly stated his view that "when Congress enacted the [*62] CVRA, it intended t

? It was against that backdrop that Senator Kyl gave the example of conferring about proceedings "after charging." In his letter to Attorney General Holder, Senator Kyl also noted that he had: made clear that crime victims had rights under the CVRA even before an indictment is filed. For example, ... I

t proceedings "after charging." In his letter to Attorney General Holder, Senator Kyl also noted that he had: made clear

ng such an approach would be difficult. 7° Presumably the Justice Department has already been providing such rights in at least Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi to comply with the Fifth [*95] Circuit's 2008 ruling in In Re Dean, which held that the CVRA extends rights to victims before defendants are charged

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