Epstein Secrets

notification letter and agree that the 323 In his June 3, 2008 letter to Deputy Attorney General Mark Filip, Sloman wrote, “Acosta again consulted with DAAG Mandelker who advised him to make the following proposal [to defer notification to the State Attorn

that “there was an agreement reached” and “we would not be pursuing this federally.” In October 2007, for example, the case agents met with victim Courtney Wild, “to advise her of the main terms of the Non-Prosecution Agreement.” According to the case agent, during that meeting, the case agents told Wild “t

ey Wild, “to advise her of the main terms of the Non-Prosecution Agreement.” According to the case agent, during that meeting, the case agents told Wild “that an agreement had been reached, Mr. Epstein was going to plead guilty to two state charges, and there would not be a federal prosecution.”302

current and former USAO staff and attorneys and current and former Department attorneys and senior managers, including former Deputy Attorney General Mark Filip and former Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division Alice Fisher. OPR also interviewed former State Attorney Barry Krischer and former As

id not inform them about the NPA.431 On January 31, 2008, the FBI agents, Villafana, and the CEOS Trial Attorney interviewed three victims, including Courtney Wild, and they interviewed at least one more victim the next day.432 Wild and two others had been contacted by the FBI in the fall of 2007 and may have be

t this time of the state plea; rather, she likely only told those who knew about the resolution from the FBI. In her own 2015 CVRA- case declaration, Wild stated that she “was not told about any [NPA] or any potential resolution of 431 FBI agents also interviewed victims in March and May of 2008, withou

irst by the heads of CEOS (the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section), then by the Criminal Divisi=n, and finally by the Deputy Attorney General, Mark Filip, who, with the excep=ion of the Attorney General himself, was the highest ranking official at the Department. In short, despite the Herald's critici

opined that inclusion in =he Agreement of these wild unprecedented provision should be avoided, as=the

rrent and former USAO staff and attorneys and current and former Department attorneys and senior managers, including former Deputy Attorney General Mark Filip and former Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division Alice Fisher. OPR also interviewed former State Attorney Barry Krischer and former

ent’s interactions with victims, OPR concludes that victims were not treated with the forthrightness and sensitivity expected by the Department. Wild’s criticisms of the government’s conduct were based on interactions that are similar to and generally representative of the government’s interaction