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What's up everyone and welcome to another episode of the
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Epstein Chronicles. In this episode, we're going to dive right
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back into Maria Farmer's complaint filed against the United States. Second,
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the NPA required Epstein to register as a sex offender.
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Epstein shall plead guilty to an information filed by the
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state attorney's office charging Epstein with an offense that requires
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him to register as a sex offender. According to the
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OPR report, the sex offender registration requirement was critical to
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USAO's agreement to the NPA. Epstein effectively avoided sex offender
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registration by declaring that he moved from New York to
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the Virgin Islands, thereby escaping the 90-day appearance required of
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other New York sex offenders. Although the DOJ Office of
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Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking in D.C.
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administers the standards for for the sex offender registration and
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notification program established by the Adam Walsh Act, neither the
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DOJ nor the Smart Office ensured that Epstein registered as
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a sex offender as required by the NPA. Third, the
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NPA required Epstein to be imprisoned and serve jail time,
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which the federal prosecutors repeatedly stated was fundamental to the agreement.
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The USAO had made clear that it expected Epstein to
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be incarcerated 24 hours a day, and Epstein's attorneys assured
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the USAO that jail time was a material term of
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that agreement. Epstein shall be sentenced to a consecutive term
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of 12 months and 6 months in county jail for
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all charges without any opportunity for withholding, adjudication, or sentencing,
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and without probation or community control in lieu of imprisonment. However,
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unbeknownst to the USAO, Epstein's attorney successfully applied for work release. Thus,
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Epstein converted 24-hour prison time into a 12-hour workday release.
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Epstein's daily work included walks on the beach, an office
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presumably located inside his attorney's office, and visits to his
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private doctor's office. The limitation on Epstein's liberty was so
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lax that he even sexually abused women during his prison term.
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One victim reported that she was coerced into performing sex
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acts with Epstein and another woman during the time plainclothes
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members of the Palm Beach Sheriff's Office were providing security,
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for Epstein. Fourth, rather than serve his days, in the
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main detention center where prisoners were usually kept, Epstein was
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housed in the low-security, cushy Palm Beach County Stockade, separate
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from other inmates, with his cell door unlocked and his
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own private security detail. He was often referred to as Mr.
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Epstein or the client, and not, like other prisoners, inmate Epstein.
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Although the NPA listed various possible crimes against Epstein, it
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said nothing about sex trafficking in or child pornography. Moreover, promptly,
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after agreeing to the NPA, Epstein's attorney spent nine months
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trying to change the terms of the agreement, seeking to
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invalidate the agreement by persuading senior DOJ officials in Washington, D.C.,
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that there was no federal interest seeking review by the
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department's criminal division and Office of the Deputy Attorney General,
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and otherwise delaying or trying to avoid Epstein's plea and incarceration.
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Contrary to the CVRA, the NPA was considered secret and
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not disclosed to the victims in a timely manner. Instead,
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in January and May of 2008, months after the NPA
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was signed, the FBI sent additional letters to victims falsely
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advising them the case is currently under investigation. This can
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be a lengthy process and we request your continued patience
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while we conduct a thorough investigation. Despite these violations of
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the NPA, An FBI internal memorandum on September 18, 2008
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reported that Epstein was currently being prosecuted by the state
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of Florida and complying with all conditions of his plea
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with the state of Florida. The government's acknowledgement of the
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report treatment of Maria and others. As the OPR report explained,
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the
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USAO mistreated victims. The government's lack of transparency was
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and its inconsistent message led the victims feeling confused and
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ill-treated by the government, gave victims and the public the
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misimpression that the government had colluded with Epstein's counsel to
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keep the NPA secret from the victims, and undercut public
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confidence in the legitimacy of the resulting agreement. The overall
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results of the subject's handling of the case understandably left
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many victims feeling ignored and frustrated, and resulted in extensive
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public criticism. In sum, OPR concludes that the victims were
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not treated with the forthrightness and sensitivity expected by the department.
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Epstein and others continued their criminal enterprise for more than
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another decade. Contrary to the FBI's 2006 promise to Maria
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and the FBI, did not get Epstein, leaving her and
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many other victims once again abandoned, vulnerable, and afraid. The
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late lumbering actions of federal authorities against Epstein and his co-conspirators.
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It was not until approximately 2019 that the defendant prosecuted
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first Epstein and then Maxwell. Such further action against Epstein
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and his co-conspirators was taken only after lengthy federal civil
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litigation alleging that the NPA violated the Crime Victims Rights
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Act and a federal court determination that the failure to
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notify victims violated the act. After numerous journalists kept tirelessly
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reporting the story, and after numerous other private lawsuits and
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many efforts to bring the conspiracy to light. During his
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decades-long criminal activity, Epstein was involved with many high-level government
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and business elites who accompanied him on multiple trips on
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the Lolita Express to the island of Little St. Jeff
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and elsewhere, where he abused and trafficked girls and young women. Still,
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these individuals have not been the subject of law enforcement investigation. Indeed,
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The only person who has been held accountable for the
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Epstein sex trafficking conspiracy is Glenn Maxwell, a woman. Federal
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law enforcement's repeated and continual failures, delays, and inaction allowed
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Epstein and others to continue their sex trafficking conspiracy for
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nearly a quarter of a century. A trove of sexually
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explicit images from Epstein's safe appears to constitute CSAM. Maria's
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1996 and 2006 reports regarding Epstein and Maxwell's sexually explicit
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images proved to be accurate. In 2019, just as Maria
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had reported to the FBI decades earlier, nude and sexually
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explicit images of young girls were, in fact, found locked
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in a safe in Epstein's New York mansion. According to
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the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New
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York Prosecutor's Memorandum seeking to deny Epstein bail, The 2019
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search of Epstein's mansion unearthed a vast trove of lewd
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photographs of young-looking girls, including hundreds of meticulously labeled nude
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pictures locked in a safe. CDs in the safe had
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handwritten labels including Young, Name, Plus Name, Miscellaneous Nudes 1,
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and Girls Picks Nudes. Despite the apparent plethora of evidence
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of Epstein's child pornography crimes, as well as the far-reaching
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conspiracy to traffic girls' and young women, federal law enforcement
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stood by silently and for years took virtually no action.
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Had law enforcement taken even minimal action to respond to
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Maria's reports and the reports of others, decades of crimes
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would have been avoided. Without discovery in the case into
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the vast trove of lewd photographs of young looking girls,
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it may never be known whether some of these images
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include the pictures of Maria's sisters which were stolen decades ago.
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There has been no effort by defendant to notify the
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victims of their existence of their sexually explicit images. There
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has been no opportunity for such victims to seek restitution.
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And it's not known whether the images are in circulation,
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resulting in ongoing child pornography violations and unending victim exploitation.
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The OPR report whitewashing the USAO's extensive failure as to
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the Florida investigation and the prosecution of Epstein. In 2020,
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the Office of Professional Responsibility issued a 300-page report criticizing
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the USAO and accusing officials of poor judgment, yet refusing
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to find professional misconduct. Under the heading, Acosta exercised poor
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judgment by resolving the federal investigation through the NPA. The
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OPR report presented detailed, multi-page critique of the USAO's handling
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of the Epstein prosecution, including Acosta's flawed application of petite
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policy principles allowance of Epstein to manipulate the conditions of
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his sentence to his own advantage, premature decisions to resolve
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the case without Epstein missing computer equipment, and a lack
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of coordination within the USAO. After considering all of the
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available evidence in the totality of the then-existing circumstances, OPR
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concludes that Acosta exercised poor judgment in that he chose
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an action or course of action That was in marked
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contrast to that which the department would reasonably expect of
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an attorney exercising good judgment. Then Senator Ben Sasse and
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many others refused to dismiss or whitewash the USAO's conduct
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as one of mere poor judgment. Letting a well-connected billionaire
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get away with child rape and international sex trafficking isn't
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poor judgment. It's a disgusting failure. Americans ought to be enraged.
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Jeffrey Epstein should be rotting behind bars today, but the
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Justice Department failed Epstein victims at every turn. The DOJ's
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cricket deal with Epstein effectively shut down investigations into his
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child sex trafficking ring and protected his co-conspirators in other states.
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Justice has not been served. Carefully restricting the analysis solely
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to the USAO's professional responsibility, which requires the government to
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meet a high bar of professional misconduct, the OPR report
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ignored the USAO's negligence regarding Maria and other victims. Alright folks,
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we're going to wrap up right here, and in the
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next episode, we're going to finish this bad boy off.
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found in the description box.