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The Order Remanding Jeffrey Epstein To The Care Of The State (Part 4) (5/21/26) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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  Epstein Chronicles. In this episode, we're getting right back to
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  Judge Berman's decision to deny Jeffrey Epstein Bell. Mister Epstein
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  has not always been compliant with his legal obligations as
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  a registered sex offender. Defense counsel has contended that mister
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  Epstein has been scrupulously fulfilling his obligations in every jurisdiction
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  in which he was required to register as a sex
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  offender since his two thousand and eight Florida convictions. Council
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  argues that this shows that he is no longer a
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  danger to anyone and will faithfully obey all conditions of
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  release if ordered. The record shows that mister Epstein has
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  challenged his sex offender level and at least one jurisdiction
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  since two thousand and eight in an effort to minimize
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  his reporting obligations, and one recent press release states that
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  Epstein is not in compliance in New York State. New
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  York Posts, July tenth, nineteen, Jeffrey Epstein never once checked
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  in with city cops in eight plus years since a
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  Manhattan judge ordered him to do so every ninety days.
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  Mister Epstein is a Level three sex offender in New
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  York State, which is the highest category of risk to reoffend.
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  This designation requires that mister Epstein report his presence in
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  New York to law enforcement authorities every ninety days, as
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  discussed at the July fifteenth, twenty nineteen Bell Hearing. Council
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  for mister Epstein made an application in New York State
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  Supreme Court in twenty eleven to reduce epstein sex offender
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  registration status from Level three to Level one. If granted,
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  this reduction would have allowed mister Epstein to avoid reporting obligations.
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  In a Sex Offender Registration Act hearing on January eleventh,
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  twenty eighteen, held before Honorable Ruth Pickholtz, mister Epstein's application
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  was firmly denied principally because it had been a established
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  by the Board of Examiners of Sex Offenders see People
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  Versus Epstein, Indictment number three zero one two nine, twenty ten.
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  At the hearing, New York County Assistant District Attorney Jennifer
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  Gaffney joined in defense council's appeal to review and overturn
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  the decision of the Board of Examiners of Sex offenders
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  and achieve a downgrade modification of mister Epstein's sex offender status.
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  Judge Pickholtz appeared to be stunned by the Joint Defense
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  Council District Attorney application, stating, I'm just a little overwhelmed
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  that the people are making this application. I have done
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  many soras much less troubling than this one, where the
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  people would never make a downward adjustment argument like this.
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  I have never seen the Prosecutor's office do this. I
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  have to tell you, I'm shocked. Judge Pickholtz also ordered
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  mister Epstein to report as a Level three sex offender
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  every ninety days in New York. I'm sorry, miss Epstein
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  may have to come here every ninety days. He can
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  give up his New York home on E seventy first
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  Street if he does not want to come every ninety days.
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  Epstein appealed to Judge's decision and was unanimously affirmed on
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  November seventeenth, twenty eleven, by a panel of five judges
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  of the Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court,
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  notwithstanding Judge Pickhole's order. According to a July tenth, twenty nineteen,
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  investigative report, by the New York Post is noted mister
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  Epstein has never reported as a sex offender to New
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  York law enforcement. See July tenth, twenty nineteen New York
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  Post article. The NYPD cop assigned to monitor Epstein has
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  repeatedly complained to the New York County District Attorney Sex
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  Crimes Unit that Epstein wasn't in compliance. According to a
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  source familiar with the matter, mister Epstein's alleged failure to
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  comply with his New York sex offender obligations would appear
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  to undermine defense counsels premise that mister Epstein's perfect compliance
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  and meticulous obedience to his sex offender registration obligations should
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  lead to his release. The court also read the story
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  on July seventeen, twenty nineteen New York Post, in which
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  Attorney Brad Edwards contends that while Epstein was serving his
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  Florida state sentence after pleading guilty to procuring minor under
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  eighteen for prostitution and solicitation of prostitution, Epstein was allowed
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  to leave the jail on work release. While on work release,
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  he was having female visitors and continuing to engage in
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  sexual conduct while he was in jail, Mister Edwards, his
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  counsel to one of mister Epstein's victims, c Rouven Fenten
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  and Kate Chehe. Jeffrey Epstein had then sex while serving time.
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  The court is also aware of an article published by
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  Palm Beach CBS Local News which reports that the Palm
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  Beach County Sheriff's Office disputes the claim that Jeffrey Epstein
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  had seid on work release. A spokeswoman for the Sheriff's
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  office is quoted as saying, if he violated any conditions
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  of his release, he would have been brought back to
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  the stockade and work release would have been terminated. New Mexico, Florida,
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  and the Virgin Islands. With respect to mister Epstein's sex
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  offender status in New Mexico, Defense Council has submitted a
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  letter dated August nineteen, twenty ten from Regina Chacone, Assistant
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  Bureau Chief Law Enforcement Record Bureau of the New Mexico
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  Department of Public Safety, which states that mister Epstein is
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  not required to register as a sex offender with the
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  State of New Mexico at this time for his two
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  thousand and eight Florida conviction. Of procuring a person under
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  eighteen for prostitution. The Court requested from the defense all
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  application materials that mister Apstein may have submitted to the
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  New Mexico Department of Public Safety, believing that the Department
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  would not initiate the waiver of mister epstein sex offense
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  registration on its own. No such materials have been received
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  by the Court as of this date. The Court understands
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  that mister Epstein is also registered as a sex offender
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  in the Virgin Islands Level one and Florida Level one.
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  It has received no material from the defense regarding sex
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  offender application or proceedings in those two jurisdictions. In some
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  based upon all the profits and evidence at forth above,
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  the Court finds, by clear and convincing evidence that mister
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  Epstein poses a danger to other persons and the community
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  g mister Epstein also poses a risk of flight. In
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  the section that follows, the Court considers risk of flight
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  even though it has already been determined that mister Epstein
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  presents a danger to the community. A finding of either
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  danger to the community or a risk of flight will
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  be sufficient to detain the defendant pending trial. United States
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  vers King Eleventh Circuit, nineteen eighty eight. The Court finds
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  that the government is shown, by a preponderance of the evidence,
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  that mister Epstein is a flight risk. The factors to
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  be considered in analyzing risk of flight are the same
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  factors that apply when analyzing dangerousness. They are one the
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  nature and circumstances of the crimes charged. Two the weight
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  of the evidence against the defendant. Three the history and
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  characteristics of the defendant, including the person's character and financial resources,
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  and four the seriousness of the danger posed by the
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  defendant's release. The weight afforded to each factor under section
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  three one four to two G is within the special
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  province of the District Court Polino, three thirty five at
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  six ten. At the outset. It should be noted that
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  the pre Trial Service Report dated July twelve, twenty nineteen,
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  concludes that the defendant poses a risk of non appearance
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  for the following reasons. One mister Epstein's extensive foreign travel
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  and possession of travel documents. Two mister Epstein's residential and
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  financial ties outside this district and country. Three mister Epstein's
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  employment ties outside this country. Four mister Epstein's unexplained assets.
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  Five mister Epstein's criminal history, including his conviction for his
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  sex offense with miners in Florida in two thousand and eight.
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  The crimes charged against mister Epstein mister Epstein has been
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  charged with among the most serious crimes recognized by US
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  federal law. The government has alleged that mister Epstein intentionally
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  sought out and sexually abused minor girls, including those particularly
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  vulnerable to exploitation. He did this in multiple locations, including
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  New York and Palm Beach. Mister Epstein allegedly worked with
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  and conspired with others, including employees and associates, who facilitated
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  his unlawful conduct by contacting victims and scheduling their sexual encounters.
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  These crimes, as already noted, carry a maximum sentence of
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  forty five years of incarceration and give rise to a
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  presumption of pre trial remand the significant harms and dangers
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  of those crimes animated the Congress to create the statutory
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  presumption of detention. The nature and circumstances of the crimes charged,
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  and the severity of the potential punishment support of finding
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  that defendant poses a serious flight risk and that no
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  condition can be set reasonably to assure his appearance for trial.
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  Weight of the evidence. The government's evidence against mister Epstein
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  appears strong. Yeah, tell that to Donald Trump. The evidence
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  includes testimony of victims, some of whom were a minor
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  girls when they were allegedly sexually abused by mister Epstein,
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  other witnesses, including potential co conspirators, physical evidence including passports
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  reflecting extensive foreign travel sally suggestive photographs of nude underage girls,
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  plea discussions, and police reports describing witness tampering and intimidation
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  see United States versus Fauma, SDN Y, June seventh, twenty thirteen.
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  The Court recognizes the difficulty inherent in assessing the government's
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  case before a trial, and is mindful not to reach
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  any conclusion about the defendant's guilt or innocence. Indeed, some
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  courts have described the weight of the evidence factor as
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  the least important of Section thirty one forty two G
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  factors for these reasons. All right, we're going to wrap
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  up this episode right here, and in the next episode
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  dealing with the topic, we're gonna pick up where we
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  left off. All of the information that goes with this
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