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Late 2007 Documents Show Continued Effort to Shield Epstein From Federal Exposure (Part 3) (10/21/26) · 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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  Speaker 1: Epstein Chronicles. In this episode, we're going to dive right
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  Speaker 1: back into the letter sent by Epstein's lawyers to Alex Acosta.
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  Speaker 1: Redacted boasts about her marijuana use. Also on our MySpace
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  Speaker 1: webpage can be found Redacted's admission of purchasing and using
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  Speaker 1: marijuana and marijuana paraphernalia. Specifically, Redacted states she can't wait
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  Speaker 1: to buy some weed. I can't wait. Hold on. Let
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  Speaker 1: me say that again. I can't wait to buy some weed.
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  Speaker 1: I also want to get a vaporizer so I can
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  Speaker 1: smoke in my room because apparently there are narcs everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: Redacted also posted a photograph of a marijuana cigarette and
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  Speaker 1: labeled it what heaven looks like to me. This information
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  Speaker 1: and supporting documentation was provided by the defense to the
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  Speaker 1: PBPD and was not included in the police report or
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  Speaker 1: probable cause affidavit, although there is both a fleeting reference
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  Speaker 1: in the police report to redacted's use of marijuana with
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  Speaker 1: her boyfriend at 67, and in the probable cause affidavit
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  Speaker 1: to redacted marijuana arrest at 10 and 11. Redacted, while
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  Speaker 1: the police report and probable cause affidavit contain numerous assertions
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  Speaker 1: intended to negate redacted's taped admission that she clearly told
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  Speaker 1: Epstein she was 18, omitted from these documents in reference
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  Speaker 1: to redacted's MySpace webpage, presented to the state attorney's office,
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  Speaker 1: where in no connection to this case, she affirmatively represented
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  Speaker 1: to the world that she was 18, thereby corroborating her
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  Speaker 1: lie to Epstein. Also admitted is any reference to her
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  Speaker 1: long history of run-ins with law enforcement. Among those are
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  Speaker 1: multiple runaway complaints by her parents and her assignment to
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  Speaker 1: a special high school for drug abusers. Redacted's MySpace webpage
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  Speaker 1: states she drinks, uses drugs, gets into trouble, has beaten
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  Speaker 1: someone up, shoplifts, has lost her virginity, earns $ 250, 000 and higher,
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  Speaker 1: and contains naked and provocative photographs. The first image seen
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  Speaker 1: on Redacted's MySpace webpage, the photo Redacted chose to represent her,
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  Speaker 1: is that of a naked woman provocatively lying on the beach.
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  Speaker 1: The illuminating webpage also contains Redacted's assertions that all of
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  Speaker 1: her body parts, she loves her ass, she drinks to excess,
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  Speaker 1: uses drugs, gets into trouble, has beaten someone up, has shoplifted, lots,
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  Speaker 1: already lost her virginity, and came $ 250, 000 or higher. As
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  Speaker 1: with the other impeaching information, this material, vital to determining credibility,
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  Speaker 1: was provided by the defense to PBPD, but was never
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  Speaker 1: included in the police report or probable cause affidavit. Redacted's
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  Speaker 1: prior record, drugs, alcohol, running away from home. Redacted has
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  Speaker 1: a history of running away, turning up missing from her
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  Speaker 1: parents' various homes, or using drugs and alcohol, and of
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  Speaker 1: associating with individuals of questionable judgment. For example, a Palm
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  Speaker 1: Beach County Sheriff's Office report details only two days after
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  Speaker 1: she returned to Florida to live with her father on
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  Speaker 1: March 31, 2006, police were called to her home in
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  Speaker 1: response to her father's report that she and her twin
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  Speaker 1: sister were missing. The police report describes her as under
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  Speaker 1: the influence of a narcotic as she could barely stand up,
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  Speaker 1: eyes were bloodshot, and her pupils were dilated. It further
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  Speaker 1: documents that redacted and her sister, had stayed out all
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  Speaker 1: night and were returned home by a drug dealer. This
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  Speaker 1: event coincided with Redacted having been found at an inappropriate
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  Speaker 1: location by Georgia police in response to a call about
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  Speaker 1: Redacted's disappearance. Although this information material to determining credibility was
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  Speaker 1: provided by the defense and known to the PBPD, it
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  Speaker 1: was never included in the police report or probable cause affidavit. Redacted,
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  Speaker 1: while the police report and probable cause affidavit rely on
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  Speaker 1: statements of redacted's father redacted his federal bank fraud conviction,
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  Speaker 1: which defense investigators discovered and turned over to PBPD during
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  Speaker 1: the course of the investigation was omitted. Redacted served 21
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  Speaker 1: months in federal prison for his offenses. Redacted, while the
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  Speaker 1: police report and probable cause affidavit rely on statements of
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  Speaker 1: redacted and redacted's stepmother omitted redacted's state conviction for identity fraud.
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  Speaker 1: This information uncovered by defense investigators was also turned over
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  Speaker 1: to the PBPD during the course of the investigation. D.
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  Speaker 1: In light of the compromised nature of the evidence, a
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  Speaker 1: fulsome review should be conducted. These tainted and inaccurate reports
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  Speaker 1: compromised the federal investigation. As you know, the PBD took
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  Speaker 1: the unprecedented and highly unethical step of releasing these reports
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  Speaker 1: to the media as well. These reports spread across the internet,
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  Speaker 1: and were undoubtedly read by the other individuals who were
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  Speaker 1: later interviewed by the FBI for giving Mr. Epstein massages.
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  Speaker 1: As we have shown, these reports contain multiple fabrications, omissions,
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  Speaker 1: and outright misstatements of fact. Moreover, the evidence and the
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  Speaker 1: allegations were undeniably misrepresented to the FBI, with no inclusion
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  Speaker 1: of the evidence exposing the deficiencies of the proof, and
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  Speaker 1: the exculpatory evidence upon which the state relied. Furthermore, it
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  Speaker 1: should be noted that that many of these same individuals
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  Speaker 1: were also interviewed by the FBI after their state interview,
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  Speaker 1: but prior to Mr. Epstein's counsel providing the government with
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  Speaker 1: the transcripts of the recorded interviews. The transcripts and tapes,
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  Speaker 1: which we hope to share with you in person, will
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  Speaker 1: likely present a very different view of those interviews taken afterwards. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: in the interest of truth, we ask you to review
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  Speaker 1: the transcripts, compare them to the FBI reports upon which
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  Speaker 1: the indictment was predicated, and then determine whether the FBI
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  Speaker 1: summaries and the prosecution memorandum upon which the charging decisions
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  Speaker 1: were made overstate Mr. Epstein's federal culpability. Concomitant to these requests,
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  Speaker 1: we would ask that you determine whether the investigative team
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  Speaker 1: ever provided these trustworthy tapes and transcripts to those in
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  Speaker 1: your office who were being asked to authorize the prosecution
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  Speaker 1: so that they could themselves assess the reliability of the
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  Speaker 1: FBI interview reports against a verbatim record of the same
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  Speaker 1: witness's prior statements. We believe that this request is fair
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  Speaker 1: and would not be unduly burdensome. 2. The improper involvement
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  Speaker 1: and conduct of federal authorities. As established above the state's
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  Speaker 1: charging decision, of one count of the solicitation of prostitution
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  Speaker 1: was hardly irrational or irregular. Indeed, redacted a Florida sex
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  Speaker 1: prosecutor for 13 years concluded that the woman in question
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  Speaker 1: were prostitutes and that there were no victims here. There
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  Speaker 1: was no evidence of violence, force, drugs, alcohol, coercion, or
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  Speaker 1: an abuse of a position of authority. Each and every
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  Speaker 1: one of the alleged victims knew that to be expected
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  Speaker 1: or what to be expected when they arrived at Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Epstein's house and each were paid for her services. In fact, Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Epstein's message book establishes that many of these women routinely
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  Speaker 1: scheduled massage sessions with Epstein themselves without any prompting Redacted
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  Speaker 1: also notes that many of these individuals worked either as
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  Speaker 1: exotic dancers or in one of the many massage parlors
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  Speaker 1: dotted across West Palm Beach. Redacted also specifically stated that
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  Speaker 1: Redacted could not be trusted and was only interested in money.
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  Speaker 1: She further found that it was inappropriate for Mr. Epstein
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  Speaker 1: to register as a sex offender because she did not
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  Speaker 1: believe that he constituted a threat to young girls and
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  Speaker 1: because registration was had not been required in similar, even
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  Speaker 1: more serious cases. Redacted thought and still believes that the
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  Speaker 1: appropriate punishment is a term of probation. Yet the government
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  Speaker 1: has devoted an extraordinary amount of its time and resources
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  Speaker 1: to prosecute Mr. Epstein for conduct the state believes amounts
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  Speaker 1: to a sex-for-money case. While we are loath to single
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  Speaker 1: out for criticism the conduct of any particular professional, we
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  Speaker 1: cannot escape the redacted, cumulated effect of the conduct of
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  Speaker 1: Assistant United States Attorney Redacted, led your office to take
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  Speaker 1: positions during the investigation and negotiations of this matter that
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  Speaker 1: has led to unprecedented federal overreaching. In fact, Judge Herbert
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  Speaker 1: Stern states, the federal authorities inappropriately involved themselves in the
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  Speaker 1: investigation by the state authorities and employed highly irregular and
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  Speaker 1: coercive tactics to override the judgment of state law enforcement
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  Speaker 1: authorities as to the appropriate disposition of their case against
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  Speaker 1: your client. See Judge Stern's letter of facts to you,
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  Speaker 1: December 7th, 2007. A. The Petit policy should have precluded
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  Speaker 1: federal involvement. As you know, prior to negotiating the terms
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  Speaker 1: of the agreement, we requested that the government consider the
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  Speaker 1: Petit policy and the problems associated with conducting a dual
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  Speaker 1: and successive prosecution. We stressed to your office on a
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  Speaker 1: number of occasions that we had reached the final negotiated
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  Speaker 1: resolution with the state and were only being forced to
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  Speaker 1: postpone the execution of that agreement for the sake of
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  Speaker 1: the federal investigation. We made submissions and met with your
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  Speaker 1: office to present analysis of the fact that federal prosecution
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  Speaker 1: in this matter was in direct conflict with the requirements
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  Speaker 1: of the Petit Policy. It was our contention and remains
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  Speaker 1: our contention that federal prosecutors had never intervened in a
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  Speaker 1: matter such as this one. And because there was no
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  Speaker 1: deficiency in the criminal process that would otherwise require federal intervention,
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  Speaker 1: the expressed terms of the Petit Policy precluded federal prosecution
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  Speaker 1: regardless of the outcome of the state case. Since the
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  Speaker 1: state investigation was thorough and in no way inadequate and
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  Speaker 1: the concern implicated by the matter all involved local issues
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  Speaker 1: and areas of traditional local concern, we urge your office
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  Speaker 1: to contemplate whether a federal prosecution was appropriate. However, on
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  Speaker 1: August 3, 2007, Redacted rejected a proposed A plea, which
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  Speaker 1: included that Mr. Epstein serve two years as supervised custody
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  Speaker 1: followed by two years of incarceration in a state prison,
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  Speaker 1: with the option of eliminating incarceration upon successful completion of
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  Speaker 1: the term of supervised custody, among other terms. Redacted stated
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  Speaker 1: that the federal interest will not be vindicated in the
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  Speaker 1: absence of a two-year term in state prison, see August 3,
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  Speaker 1: 2007 letter. Such an articulation of the federal interest, we believe,
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  Speaker 1: misunderstands the Petit policy on two grounds. First, the office's
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  Speaker 1: position that the federal interest would not be vindicated in
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  Speaker 1: the absence of a jail term for Mr. Epstein runs
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  Speaker 1: contrary to Section 9-2.03.1d of the United States Attorney's Manual,
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  Speaker 1: because this section requires the federal prosecutor to focus exclusively
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  Speaker 1: on the quality or process of the prior prosecution, not
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  Speaker 1: the sentencing outcomes. Second, the state plea agreement offered was
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  Speaker 1: not manifestly inadequate. Under USAM Section 9.2.03.1d, indeed, the only
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  Speaker 1: real difference between the state and federal plea proposal was
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  Speaker 1: whether Mr. Epstein served the sentence in jail or community quarantine.
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  Speaker 1: We formerly believed that our petite policy concerns were being
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  Speaker 1: addressed or at least preserved, but we learned that only
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  Speaker 1: after reaching a final compromise with your office as to
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  Speaker 1: the terms of the agreement, and the very last minute
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  Speaker 1: the language regarding the Petit Policy was removed from the
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  Speaker 1: final version. The two following references to the Petit Policy
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  Speaker 1: had been included in the draft prosecution agreement up until
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  Speaker 1: September 24, 2007, the day the agreement was executed, at
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  Speaker 1: which point they were eliminated by your office. It appearing
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  Speaker 1: after an investigation of the offenses in Epstein's background that
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  Speaker 1: the interest of the United States pursuant to the Petit
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  Speaker 1: Policy will be served by the following procedure. Epstein understands
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  Speaker 1: that the United States Attorney's Office has no authority to
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  Speaker 1: require the State Attorney's Office to abide by any terms
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  Speaker 1: of this agreement. Epstein understands that it's his obligation to
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  Speaker 1: undertake discussions with the State Attorney's Office to ensure compliance
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  Speaker 1: with these procedures, which compliance will be necessary to satisfy
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  Speaker 1: the U.S. interest pursuant the Petit policy. We reiterate that
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  Speaker 1: this case was at the heart of a local matter
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  Speaker 1: that was being fully addressed by the state criminal justice system.
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  Speaker 1: The state process resulted in an appropriate resolution of this
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  Speaker 1: matter and would have vindicated any conceivable federal interest. Thus,
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  Speaker 1: there was no substantial federal interest that justified a federal prosecution.
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  Speaker 1: It's recently come to our attention that the CEOS chief
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  Speaker 1: statements may be relevant to this matter. While we welcome
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  Speaker 1: the opportunity to consider the statements, Our extensive research had
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  Speaker 1: found only one federal action that was remotely similar to
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  Speaker 1: the federal investigation for the prosecution of this matter, and
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  Speaker 1: that case has since been distinguished as well. Alright folks,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to wrap up right here, and in the
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  Speaker 1: next episode dealing with the topic we're going to pick
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  Speaker 1: up where we left off. All the information that goes
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  Speaker 1: with this episode can be found in the description box.