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Prosecutors Documented Epstein’s NPA Breaches and Still Let the Deal Stand · The Epstein Chronicles

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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. One of my biggest beefs when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to the government and Jeffrey Epstein is the fact that
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  Speaker 1: this NPA is still on the books. That NPA should
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  Speaker 1: have been erased a long time ago. And that's because
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  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein was in violation of all the terms. Literally
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  Speaker 1: all of the terms. And nothing ever happened. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: all of his paperwork from that time went missing. So today,
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  Speaker 1: we have an article from Florida Bulldog talking a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more about why the MPA should be done away with.
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  Speaker 1: And the headline, Jeffrey Epstein breached 2007 non-prosecution agreement five times,
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  Speaker 1: but Miami U.S. Attorney's Office did zip. This article was
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  Speaker 1: authored by Francisco Alvarado. And just a quick shout out
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  Speaker 1: to Francisco for this article. because it's very important. And
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  Speaker 1: I think that anybody who really cares about justice here
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  Speaker 1: needs to focus on this NPA. It's hard to put
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  Speaker 1: into words just how much damage this NPA has caused
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  Speaker 1: over the years and how many people have tried to
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  Speaker 1: use it or have used it to keep themselves out
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  Speaker 1: of trouble when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein's bullshit. So
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  Speaker 1: it's about time that it goes away. Notorious New York
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  Speaker 1: financier and politically connected sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein has violated
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  Speaker 1: the terms of his 2007 non-prosecution agreement five times during
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  Speaker 1: a two-year span after he signed the scandalous sweetheart deal,
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  Speaker 1: and the survivors told us all about it. If you remember,
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  Speaker 1: when they were telling us what was going on with Epstein,
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  Speaker 1: they were telling us that when he was under quote-unquote supervision,
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  Speaker 1: he was still abusing them, and people just discounted it,
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  Speaker 1: acted like they were lying, like they weren't telling the truth.
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  Speaker 1: But when you look at the records and you look
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  Speaker 1: at the contemporaneous evidence that's been provided, it's obvious that's
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  Speaker 1: exactly what he was doing. So why the fuck is
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  Speaker 1: this NPA still on the books? Yet despite strong language
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  Speaker 1: in the agreement that a single breach of its condition
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  Speaker 1: would allow the government to void the deal and investigate
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  Speaker 1: and prosecute Epstein and any other individual or entity for
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  Speaker 1: any and all federal offenses, the Miami U.S. Attorney's Office
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  Speaker 1: chose to let it go. Well, I guess that was
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  Speaker 1: an oversight too, right? Another coincidence, if you will. And
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  Speaker 1: don't tell me for a minute they didn't know at
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  Speaker 1: the time they did. Instead, a top Miami prosecutor who
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  Speaker 1: helped negotiate the agreement sent Epstein's team of high-powered lawyers
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  Speaker 1: a letter on June 15, 2009, warning them of Epstein's
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  Speaker 1: repeated breaches of the agreement. Florida Bulldog obtained the letter
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  Speaker 1: from the online website containing millions of pages of documents
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  Speaker 1: set up by the U.S. Department of Justice, under the
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  Speaker 1: Epstein Files Transparency Act. The letter and its contents have
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  Speaker 1: not been previously reported. Tell me again that the fix
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  Speaker 1: wasn't in? Tell me again that I'm crazy. There have
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  Speaker 1: been several instances of breaches by Mr. Epstein of the
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  Speaker 1: letter in spirit of the non-prosecution agreement, included the implied
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  Speaker 1: duty of good faith and fair dealing, then acting U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Attorney Jeffrey Sloman wrote. As soon as notices provided by
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  Speaker 1: the United States were told that Mr. Epstein was relying
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  Speaker 1: on his lawyer's and had not intended to willfully breach
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  Speaker 1: the agreement. Mr. Epstein, through those same lawyers, then undertakes
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  Speaker 1: a perfunctory cure and continues to enjoy the benefit of
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  Speaker 1: his bargain until he decides to breach it again. Time
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  Speaker 1: and time again, this man did whatever he wanted and
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  Speaker 1: nobody stopped him, even when he was under supervision or
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  Speaker 1: should have been under supervision. It's such a fucking joke.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm tired of everybody making pretend that Alex Acosta
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  Speaker 1: was the guy in charge. He was not. And look,
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  Speaker 1: I respect Julie K. Brown, and I'm thankful to her
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  Speaker 1: for her work, but she missed the mark there. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: Acosta was part of it, and of course he should
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  Speaker 1: have been called out, but it went further up the chain.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what I've always said, that a guy like
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  Speaker 1: Alex Acosta, he doesn't make the final decision here. That's
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  Speaker 1: something that happens at, you know, DOJ main office, with brass,
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  Speaker 1: with people that can actually make that decision, people who
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  Speaker 1: have access to the president. Although Sloman's name is redacted,
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  Speaker 1: his title still appears on the signature line of the letter.
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  Speaker 1: Sloman was appointed acting U.S. Attorney on June 5, 2009,
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  Speaker 1: the day that his predecessor, Alex Acosta, left the position.
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  Speaker 1: And listen, don't get it twisted. I'm not saying Acosta
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  Speaker 1: is a good guy, and he doesn't deserve criticism. He does.
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  Speaker 1: But it shouldn't end there. He shouldn't be the fall guy.
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  Speaker 1: In a phone interview, Sloman said he could not remember
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  Speaker 1: specific details of the events that led to the letter
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  Speaker 1: and what happened after he sent it. It was a
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  Speaker 1: laundry list of things he and his lawyer pulled before
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  Speaker 1: and after he went to Palm Beach County Jail. Sloman
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  Speaker 1: told Florida Bulldog, I don't remember what the exact calculus was. Well,
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  Speaker 1: he was up to no good. And he was abusing
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  Speaker 1: girls while he was supposed to be a ward of
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  Speaker 1: the state. That's something that needs to be addressed And
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  Speaker 1: even if the women were of age, if he was
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  Speaker 1: bringing women in from Eastern Europe, or getting women from
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  Speaker 1: Jean-Luc Brunel or wherever the fuck, and then abusing them,
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  Speaker 1: that still matters. That's still human trafficking. The 2007 non-prosecution agreement,
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  Speaker 1: generous in its terms, allowed Epstein to avoid being charged
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  Speaker 1: for federal sex trafficking crimes that could have sent him
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  Speaker 1: to life in prison, while also giving immunity to others
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  Speaker 1: involved in his criminal activities. Acosta approved the deal, which
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  Speaker 1: also involved Sloman and two other then-assistant U.S. attorneys, Matthew
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  Speaker 1: Menchel and Anne-Marie Villafana. Well, we all know that Menchel
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  Speaker 1: ended up becoming one of Jeffrey Epstein's buddies, vacationing together,
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  Speaker 1: emailing each other. Well, isn't that funny, huh? I wonder
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  Speaker 1: how many of these prosecutors became buddies with El Chapo.
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  Speaker 1: Acosta did not respond to phone messages and an email
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  Speaker 1: requesting comment. Jay Lefkowitz and Jack Goldberger, two of Epstein's
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  Speaker 1: lawyers the letter is addressed to, also did not respond
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  Speaker 1: to a request for comment. The third attorney, Roy Black,
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  Speaker 1: died in 2025. Well, we know that Goldberger and Lefkowitz
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  Speaker 1: aren't going to say shit, but Mr. Jack Goldberger has
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  Speaker 1: a lot to answer for. And frankly, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if everything he did is on the up and up.
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  Speaker 1: So he needs to be investigated for his part in
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  Speaker 1: that non-prosecution deal. And if he did anything untowards, maybe
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  Speaker 1: he should be disbarred. Sloman said he wanted to prosecute Epstein,
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  Speaker 1: but defended Acosta's decision to approve the non-prosecution agreement. Everybody
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  Speaker 1: knows we didn't lower the boom on the guy, Sloman said.
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  Speaker 1: It was a bad call, but nothing nefarious. Oh no,
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  Speaker 1: nothing at all. Nothing at all, Mr. Sloman. Everybody just decided, hey,
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  Speaker 1: this is okay. No big deal that the main office
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  Speaker 1: is getting pressured by his lawyers. That's not a problem.
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  Speaker 1: No big deal here. Like, who do they think they're
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  Speaker 1: dealing with? They think people are stupid and that people
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  Speaker 1: are still asleep. Well, I can assure them that is
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  Speaker 1: not the case. Seven years after Jeffrey Epstein's death, the
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  Speaker 1: federal government's files on him existed as a sprawling, largely
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  Speaker 1: inaccessible paper trail that included FBI interview memos, flight records,
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  Speaker 1: seized photographs, emails, witness accounts, and investigative material generated by
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  Speaker 1: agencies whose handling of Epstein's crimes was had long been
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  Speaker 1: shadowed by questions about his privilege, his power, and selective accountability.
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  Speaker 1: All of that times ten. And over the years, the
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  Speaker 1: Florida Bulldog has done very good reporting when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to this issue. In fact, they were one of the
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  Speaker 1: only outlets back in the day talking about this. You know,
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  Speaker 1: before it became safe. Before it became profitable. The non-prosecution
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  Speaker 1: agreement was predicated on Epstein facing state charges for his
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  Speaker 1: sex trafficking crimes, but it helped fuel a conspiracy theory
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  Speaker 1: that he had deep state protection because he was sex
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  Speaker 1: trafficking underage girls to some of the world's most powerful men.
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  Speaker 1: That's kind of part of it, but not really. It
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  Speaker 1: was the information. That's what Epstein really was at his core,
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  Speaker 1: an information broker. Now, of course, like I always tell you,
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  Speaker 1: this part of it is the most nefarious, the most disgusting.
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  Speaker 1: the most reprehensible. But if we want to get these
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  Speaker 1: guys behind bars, we want to hold people accountable, we
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  Speaker 1: have to follow the money. Because when you do that,
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  Speaker 1: there's no denying what happened, right? And if there isn't
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  Speaker 1: tons of financial malfeasance here, then there's no such thing
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  Speaker 1: as financial malfeasance. In 2019, a year after the Miami
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  Speaker 1: Herald's Perversion of Justice series, That re-examined Epstein's sweetheart deal
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  Speaker 1: featuring new interviews with victims who came forward. Federal prosecutors
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  Speaker 1: in Manhattan charged Jeffrey Epstein with sex trafficking of minors
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  Speaker 1: and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of minors involving dozens
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  Speaker 1: of girls as young as 14. On August 19th, 2019,
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  Speaker 1: Epstein died by suicide in his cell at a New
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  Speaker 1: York City federal prison facility. Allegedly, and I say that
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  Speaker 1: because I still don't feel like his death has been
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  Speaker 1: explained adequately. His co-conspirator, Glenn Maxwell, is serving a 20-year
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  Speaker 1: federal prison sentence after His co-conspirator, Glenn Maxwell, is serving
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  Speaker 1: a 20-year federal prison sentence after a New York jury
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  Speaker 1: found her guilty in December of 2021 of five felony
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  Speaker 1: counts related to sex trafficking and conspiring with Epstein to
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  Speaker 1: sexually abuse minors. Her transfer last year, days after meeting
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  Speaker 1: with now Attorney General Todd Blanche from a low-security federal
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  Speaker 1: prison in Tallahassee, To a minimum security prison in Bryan,
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  Speaker 1: Texas without traditional cells, guard towers, or heavy fences spark
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  Speaker 1: controversy and congressional scrutiny because Bureau of Prisons policy typically
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  Speaker 1: bars sex offenders from minimum security camps. And it just
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  Speaker 1: shows you what the Trump administration thinks about the whole
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  Speaker 1: story and what they think about the girls who were
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  Speaker 1: abused and what they think about you for demanding justice.
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  Speaker 1: Now think about that for a minute. They would rather
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  Speaker 1: move Ghislaine Maxwell to this minimum security facility than actually
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  Speaker 1: pursue justice. Ask yourself why. In June, a Congressional Oversight
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  Speaker 1: Committee sent a letter to Todd Blanch seeking criminal investigation
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  Speaker 1: into former Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine, a longtime friend
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  Speaker 1: of Maxwell, who has repeatedly downplayed a similar relationship with Epstein.
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  Speaker 1: A former female employee of Epstein testified before the committee
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  Speaker 1: that Levine sexually assaulted her during a trip to Saint-Tropez
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  Speaker 1: in the early 2000s. Levine denied the allegation, insisting he
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  Speaker 1: had a brief, intimate encounter with a consenting adult in
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  Speaker 1: a statement provided to various media outlets. Well, Mr. Levine,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you know this or not, but
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  Speaker 1: she has to consent too, not just you. You can't
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  Speaker 1: just show up with your dick in hand and think
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  Speaker 1: everything's cool. During the 2024 campaign and into his return
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  Speaker 1: to the White House, President Donald Trump and his allies
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  Speaker 1: helped fuel expectations that the government's Jeffrey Epstein records would
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  Speaker 1: finally be released. By last summer, the Trump regime had
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  Speaker 1: changed its tune, blocking efforts to release all the files
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  Speaker 1: held by the FBI and Department of Justice. Survivors, transparency advocates,
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  Speaker 1: and lawmakers in both parties accused the Trump regime of
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  Speaker 1: slow-walking a promise that had become central to the president's campaign. Look,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you know this or not, but politicians?
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  Speaker 1: Not exactly known for being truthful. Congress eventually passed the
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  Speaker 1: Epstein Files Transparency Act, requiring DOJ to publish the records online.
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  Speaker 1: The website contains more than 3 million pages, 2,000 videos,
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  Speaker 1: and 180,000 images. The department has withheld the release of
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  Speaker 1: millions of additional documents claiming victim privacy, child sex abuse material,
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  Speaker 1: legal privilege, and other statutory exceptions. The Sloman letter is
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  Speaker 1: identified as EFTA 00213048 in the database. About a year
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  Speaker 1: after Epstein pleaded guilty to the state prostitution charges, Sloman
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  Speaker 1: wrote to the financier's lawyers Black, Goldberger, and Lefkowitz about
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  Speaker 1: the five warnings sent to their client about violating the
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  Speaker 1: non-prosecution agreement. The first breach occurred shortly after Epstein signed
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  Speaker 1: the agreement by missing a DOJ-imposed deadline, of October 26, 2007,
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  Speaker 1: to plead guilty to the state charges, and that he
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  Speaker 1: begins serving his sentence no later than January 4, 2008.
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  Speaker 1: From the start, and as mentioned in extensive correspondence in
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  Speaker 1: October and November 2007, Mr. Epstein did not use his
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  Speaker 1: best efforts to enter his guilty plea and be sentenced
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  Speaker 1: within the time frame set by the agreement, Sloman wrote.
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  Speaker 1: In addition, Epstein and his criminal defense team waited until
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  Speaker 1: shortly before he was set to enter his guilty plea
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  Speaker 1: to send federal prosecutors a draft of the state plea agreement.
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  Speaker 1: I received a copy of the proposed state agreement, which
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  Speaker 1: contained language that directly contradicted the non-prosecution agreement, Sloman wrote.
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  Speaker 1: A second notice of breach had to be prepared and
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  Speaker 1: sent to bring the state plea agreement into compliance. The
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  Speaker 1: other violations occurred after Epstein pleaded guilty and was sentenced,
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  Speaker 1: according to the letter. First, Mr. Epstein's counsel, obstructed our
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  Speaker 1: ability to abide by our obligation to notify the victims
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  Speaker 1: of the outcome of the federal investigation, Sloman wrote. Second, Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Epstein refused to promptly fulfill Mr. Epstein's obligation to secure
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  Speaker 1: the services of an attorney representative for the victims. I
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  Speaker 1: always thought that part of it was kind of weird anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Why should Epstein provide a lawyer? Maybe he should just
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  Speaker 1: pay for a lawyer that these girls decide to select.
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  Speaker 1: but having one of Epstein's lawyers as the lawyer for
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  Speaker 1: these girls, or a lawyer that he is in charge
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  Speaker 1: of getting, I never liked that. I always thought that
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  Speaker 1: was dumb. And not only dumb, I thought it was
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  Speaker 1: another way for Epstein to try and control things. Epstein
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  Speaker 1: also sought to block a subpoena for his computer equipment
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  Speaker 1: to be analyzed in order to identify additional victims. Epstein's
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  Speaker 1: actions resulted in the third warning. The fourth warning stemmed
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  Speaker 1: from Epstein making false, and threatening statements to the Palm
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  Speaker 1: Beach Sheriff's Office that it would face legal repercussions from
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  Speaker 1: the U.S. Attorney's Office if he was not admitted into
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  Speaker 1: the work release program that allowed him to leave county
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  Speaker 1: jail for 12 hours every day. The South Florida U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Attorney's Office learned about his work release after being accused
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  Speaker 1: by Epstein victims that federal prosecutors had violated laws requiring
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  Speaker 1: victims to be notified of any development, Sloman wrote, and
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  Speaker 1: of course that's where the CVRA beef comes in. And
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  Speaker 1: that's why it was so important for them to pursue that.
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  Speaker 1: The letter does not explicitly state what the fifth warning
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  Speaker 1: was about, but noted that Sloman had a conversation about
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  Speaker 1: it with Lefkowitz on June 12, 2009. Epstein's lawyer told
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  Speaker 1: Sloman that his client did not intend to breach the
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  Speaker 1: non-prosecution agreement and was merely relying on his attorneys. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: in that case, all's forgiven, no big deal. Relying on
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  Speaker 1: his attorneys. In light of the fact that Mr. Epstein
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  Speaker 1: is highly intelligent and experienced with the law and is
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  Speaker 1: reportedly spending more than 12 hours a day at his
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  Speaker 1: attorney's office working on nothing but the litigation pending against him,
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  Speaker 1: this excuse will not be accepted, Sloman wrote. The letter
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  Speaker 1: is being provided to all three of you with the
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  Speaker 1: recommendation that you circulate it to any attorney who's acting
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  Speaker 1: on Mr. Epstein's behalf. Sloman closed the letter by acknowledging
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  Speaker 1: Epstein had received a lenient deal Yet he continued to
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  Speaker 1: play games with federal prosecutors. Importantly, while Mr. Epstein has
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  Speaker 1: continued to receive the benefit of the bargain by not
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  Speaker 1: facing federal prosecution, our office has not received the benefit
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  Speaker 1: of finality, savings of resources, or the punishment and victim
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  Speaker 1: restitution terms envisioned by the non-prosecution agreement. All by design.
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  Speaker 1: And again, that has to do with Maine Justice. And
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  Speaker 1: if Maine Justice had a beef with it, they would
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  Speaker 1: have stopped it. The non-prosecution agreement contains tough language warning Epstein,
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  Speaker 1: who signed it on September 24, 2007, that a breach
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  Speaker 1: of any of these conditions allows the U.S. to elect
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  Speaker 1: to terminate the agreement and to investigate and prosecute Epstein
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  Speaker 1: and any other individual or entity for any and all
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  Speaker 1: federal offenses. Still, for unknown reasons, the U.S. elected not
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  Speaker 1: to act on the authority despite its findings about Epstein's lies, threats,
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  Speaker 1: and multiple failures to comply with the terms of the agreement.
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  Speaker 1: Sloman told the Florida Bulldog he cannot recall why he
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  Speaker 1: and the South Florida U.S. Attorney's Office did not do
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  Speaker 1: more than issue Epstein five warnings, but he still defended
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  Speaker 1: the non-prosecution agreement. The decision that was made, that this
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  Speaker 1: was uniquely a state case and that it should have
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  Speaker 1: been resolved by the state, Sloman said, that's what Alexander
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  Speaker 1: Acosta decided to do. No, that's what Philippe decided to do.
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  Speaker 1: That's what Mukasey decided to do. Alex Acosta was just
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  Speaker 1: there to put it into effect. But he didn't make
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  Speaker 1: that decision. That's for damn sure. And I'll tell you what,
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  Speaker 1: if they're serious about justice, if they're serious about transparency,
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  Speaker 1: if they're serious about pursuing the people that were involved
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  Speaker 1: to the ends of the earth, this is where you start.
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  Speaker 1: And the truth is, the DOJ can get rid of
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  Speaker 1: this deal today if that's what they want to do.
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  Speaker 1: And the fact that they haven't or won't tells me everything.
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  Speaker 1: I need to know all the information that goes with
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