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The Order Remanding Jeffrey Epstein To The Care Of The State (Part 3) (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 picking up where we
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  left off with the order denying Jeffrey Epstein's request for bell.
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  The section fifteen ninety one presumption a pre trial remand
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  reflects the seriousness of mister Epstein's alleged crimes. The significant
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  harms and dangers of sex crimes involving miners animated Congress
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  to create the statutory presumption of detention United States versus
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  Harty twenty nineteen w Well at ten. The presumption or
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  remand reflects congress substanative judgment that particular classes of offenders
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  should ordinarily be detained prior to trial. Other serious offenses
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  that are accompanied by the presumption or remand are kidnapping,
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  aggravated sexual abuse, sexual abuse offenses resulting in death, sexual
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  exploitation of children, selling or buying children, production of sexually
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  explicit depictions of a minor for importation in the United States,
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  coercion and enticement, transport of miners, use of interstate facilities
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  to transmit information about a minor. The presumption of remand
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  does not appear even when rebutted if the defendant comes
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  forward with evidence that he will not endanger the community
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  or flee the jurisdiction. The presumption is not erased see
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  United States versus Domingues, nineteen eighty six. Rather, the presumption
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  remains in the case as an evidentiary finding militating against release,
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  to be weighed along with other evidence Us versus Her five,
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  seventeen Ninth Circuit two thousand and eight. The concern underlying
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  the presumption applies to the general class of defendants charged
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  with one of the specified offenses, not merely to defendants
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  who failed to produce rebuttal evidence, where the presumption to
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  vanish upon any showing courts would be given to little
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  deference to Congress findings Regarding this class. The pre Trial
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  Services Department recommends to the court that mister Epstein continue
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  to be remanded. The pre Trial Service Report dated July eighth,
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  twenty nineteen concludes, following pre Trial Services interview of mister Epstein,
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  that there is no condition or a combination of conditions
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  that can reasonably assure the safety of the community if
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  mister Epstein is released. Pre Trial Services Report dated July eighth,
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  twenty nineteen at four. Pre Trial Services also concluded that
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  mister Epstein's a flight risk and recommends that he be
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  detained for that reason as well. In support of its
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  assessment of mister apstein dangerousness, pre Trial Services cites the
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  following the nature of mister Epstein's currently charged intent offense
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  ie sex trafficking and conspiracy involving minor girls, Mister Epstein's
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  prior arrests in Florida in two thousand and six, mister
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  Epstein's history and conviction involving a sexual offense which principally
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  refers to defendants two thousand and eight can for procuring
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  a minor for a prostitution a felony, and for solicitation
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  a prostitution, also a felony. Mister Epstein's status as a
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  registered offender in New York, Florida and the Virgin Islands,
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  and mister Epstein's pattern of similar criminal activity history. The
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  seriousness of the crimes that mister Epstein has been charged
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  with is also reflected in the fact that the crimes
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  involve minor children. Mister Epstein is said by the government
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  to be a serial sexual predator who allegedly victimized dozens
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  or more of minor girls, including a fourteen year old.
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  He was involved in and undertook the alleged sexual activity
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  in several locations, including his mansion in Manhattan and is
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  the state in Palm Beach, Florida. By actively encouraging certain
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  of minor victims to recruit additional girls to be similarly
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  sexually abused, mister Epstein is said to have created a
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  vast network of underage victims for him to exploit. The
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  government alleges that mister Epstein intentionally sought out and knew
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  that he was abusing minors. Indeed, in some instances, the
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  victims expressly told them that they were under age before
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  during the period in which he abused them. The crimes
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  with which mister Epstein is charged carry a maximum sentence
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  of forty five years incarceration. The deprivation of liberty imposed
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  by imprisonment makes the penalty the best indicator of whether
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  the legislature considered an offense to be serious Us versus
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  Dugan five eighteen three, twenty two, three twenty six, nineteen
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  ninety six, and the crimes mister Epstein has been charged
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  with are among the most heinous in the law, principally
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  in the court's view, because they involved Minor Girls US
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  Code eighteen, Section thirty one forty two. Researchers widely agree
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  that observed recidivism rates or underestimates of the true reoffense
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  rates of sex offenders hidden offending presents significant challenges for
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  professionals w working in sex offender management, as it's difficult
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  to know whether offenders who appear to be non recidivius
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  based on official records are truly offense free wood chippers
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  for all of them, mister Epstein or his representatives have intimidated, threatened,
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  and or made payments to potential witnesses. The government's evidence
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  includes Florida police reports describing harassment and intimidational witnesses involved
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  in the Florida State criminal investigation of mister Epstein in
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  two thousand and six. Emails dated September thirteenth, two thousand
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  and seven and September nineteenth, two thousand and seven from
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  mister Epstein's former council to federal prosecutors in Florida discussing
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  the option of mister Epstein pleading guilty to witness tampering, harassment,
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  and or obstruction of justice. Upon Beach Police incident report
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  dated July nineteenth, two thousand and six states that one
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  of mister Epstein's victims reported that mister Epstein's representatives said
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  to her, those who helped mister Epstein will be compensated
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  and those who hurt mister Epstein will be dealt with.
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  The report also states that mister Epstein's representative assured the
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  victim that she would receive monetary compensation for her assistance
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  in not cooperating with law enforcement. Another undated pom Beach
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  Police incident report states that the parent of one of
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  mister Epstein's alleged victims contacted the Palm Beach Police to
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  report that mister Epstein's private investigator had aggressively driven the
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  parent's car off the road. The same report states that
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  the parent of another victim reported being followed aggressively by
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  mister Epstein's private investigator. The government contends that these reports
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  together suggest that an associate of Epstein was offering to
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  buy victim's silence during the course of the prior investigation,
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  and demonstrates mister Epstein's willingness to use intimidation and aggressive
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  tactics in connection with a criminal investigation. The government also
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  submits email evidence attached to this order as exhibit one
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  of plead discussions in two thousand and seven between Florida
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  federal prosecutors and mister Epstein's attorneys that confirm that mister
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  Epstein considered pleading guilty to witness tampering, harassment, and or
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  obstruction of justice in a case involving alleged sex crimes
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  with minor girls. On September thirteenth, two thousand and seven,
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  prosecutors wrote to mister Epstein's council that they had been
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  spending some quality time looking for misdemeanors that mister Epstein
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  could plead guilty to, including US Code eighteen, section fifteen
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  twelve D, a federal witness tampering statute of felony, and
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  US Code eighteen, section four h three, a federal statute
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  criminalizing the violation of the privacy protection of child victims
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  and child witnesses, a misdemeanor do vers us Florida Docket
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  thirty six eleven. Epstein's council replied already thinking about the statutes.
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  On September eighteenth, two thousand and seven, a federal prosecutor
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  told mister Epstein's council that if missedster Epstein pled guilty
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  to obstruction of justice. The factual proffer could rely on
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  the incident where mister Epstein's private investigators followed the victim's father,
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  forcing them off the road. On September nineteenth, two thousand
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  and seven, mister Epstein's council proposed that mister Epstein admit
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  that he verbally harassed victims of the family of victims
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  in connection with his attempt to delay their voluntary receipt
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  of process in civil action against mister Epstein in violation
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  of a federal witness tampering statute, and the government has
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  recently contended that on November twenty eighth, twenty eighteen, and
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  on December third, twenty eighteen, very soon after the publication
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  of a three part investigative report in the Miami Herald
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  authored by Julie K. Brown, relating to mister Epstein's Florida
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  non prosecution agreement dated September twenty fourth, two thousand and seven,
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  mister Epstein paid one hundred thousand dollars to a company
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  founded and run by Individual Ie, and he paid two
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  hundred and fifty thousand dollars to Individual two. The government
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  states the Individual one was a potential co conspirator from
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  whom Epstein obtained protection in the NPA. The individual one
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  was named and featured prominently in the Miami Herald Julie K. Brown,
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  even from jail, sex abuser manipulated the system his victims
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  were kept in the dark. The government states that Individual
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  two was a potential co conspirator for whom Epstein also
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  obtained protection in the NPA. She is one of the
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  employees identified in the indictment, which alleges that she and
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  two other identified employees facilitated the defendant's trafficking of miners by,
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  among other things, contacting victims and scheduling their sexual encounters
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  with a defendant at his residence in Manhattan and pom Beach, Florida.
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  Individual two was also named and featured prominently in the
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  Miami Herald report. The government states that there's no good
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  reason to infer that mister Epstein was attempting to influence
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  against these two individuals, who are close to him during
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  the time period charged in this case and who might
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  be witnesses against them at trial. Neither of these payments
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  appears to be recurring or repeating during the approximately five
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  years of bank records presently available to the government. This
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  course of action, and in particular its timing, suggests the
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  defendant was attempting to further influence co conspirators who might
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  provide information against them, and light of the recently re
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  emerging allegations, the court may order detention if there's a
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  serious risk that the defendant will attempt to threaten, injure,
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  or intimidate a prospective witness or a juror even a
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  single incident of witness tampering has been a traditional grounds
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  for pre trial detention by courts. Lafontaine two ten f.
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  Three d At one thirty two through thirty four, affirming
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  then U. S. District Judge Michael B. Muckesie's denial of
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  bail to a defendant who had met with a bristil
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  active witness in an effort to persuade the witness to
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  give untruthful testimony and where there was no evidence of influence, harassment,
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  or intimidation. See also US First singh twenty twelve at three.
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  All right, folks, we're gonna wrap up right here, and
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  in the next episode we're gonna pick up where we
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  left off. Mister Epstein has not always been compliant with
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  his legal obligations as a registered sexual offender. All of
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  the information that goes with this episode can be found
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  in the description box.