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The Public Corruption Unit of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York led the 2019 federal prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein on sex trafficking charges, announcing his arrest on July 8, 2019.
The unit appears prominently in court documents and FBI records describing Epstein's July 2019 arrest and indictment on sex trafficking of minors charges. They are mentioned in legal filings from multiple civil cases that reference the criminal prosecution, as well as in internal DOJ correspondence where prosecutors discuss supervising the case. The unit's involvement was notable because they typically handle public corruption cases involving government officials, leading to speculation about whether the investigation included mishandling of Epstein's 2008 Florida plea deal or involvement of public officials.

Public Corruption in the United States: Analysis of a Destructive Phenomenon (Routledge Series on Practical and Evidence-Based Policing)

Fighting Corruption in Public Services (Directions in Development - Public Sector Governance)

Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story
Julie K. Brown
Investigative journalism that broke the Epstein case open
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Page: EFTA00021300 →rs. Recent prosecutions include: • Personal Attorney to the President Convicted of Campaign Finance Crimes, Tax Evasion and Fraud: In August 2018, the Public Corruption Unit secured the conviction of Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney to the President, upon a plea of guilty to a multi-count information. Of note
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Page: EFTA00027700 →ication of the civil Protective Order entered by Judge Sweet—AUSA shared with AUSA as well as one other member of the trial team and the heads of the Public Corruption Unit, everything she learned from her contacts with attorneys. Ex. N. AUSA gave AUSA and his colleagues: (1) nine pages of detailed, hand-written no
Page: EFTA00028938 →ication of the civil Protective Order entered by Judge Sweet—AUSA shared with AUSA as well as one other member of the trial team and the heads of the Public Corruption Unit, everything she learned from her contacts with attorneys. Ex. 1 . AUSA gave AUSA and his colleagues: (1) nine pages of detailed, hand-written
Page: EFTA00029109 →rict of New York ("USAO-SDNY"). I have served in this capacity since June 2020. Prior to my current role, I served as Deputy Chief and then Chief of the Public Corruption Unit in the USAO-SDNY from July 2017 and as an Assistant United States Attorney from January 2011. I supervised the Noel prosecution directly in my prior
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PersonAmerican sex offender and financier (1953–2019)
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