The US Attorney's Office concealed its agreements with Epstein from the victims

LondonThe Florida Attorney General's office acted deliberately to favor the interests of pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, according to an analysis by the ARA of a tiny fraction of the 3.5 million files in the case. made public by the United States Department of Justice January 30th.

The series of emails included in document EFTA00206173 They show that the prosecution, under the direction of then-Attorney General Alexander Acosta and with Washington's approval, acted against the victims' interests to prevent the tycoon from going to federal prison. These key emails are dated between February and June 2011 and were recovered in 2013 from the inbox of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida by the Department of Justice.

The communications reveal that the agency was not only negligent but also actively lied to two of the victims—Courtney Wild and Annie Farmer—who in 2008 had filed a lawsuit to invalidate the plea agreement with Jeffrey Epstein. The tycoon's lawyers had negotiated it in 2007, and the prosecutors gave it the green light without consulting or informing Wild or Farmer beforehand. However, the unearthed emails confirm that the Department of Justice spent years defending its validity. The plea deal ultimately spared Epstein a federal trial for soliciting a minor for prostitution and for soliciting a prostitute, crimes that could have carried far harsher penalties than the eighteen months in prison he was sentenced to in 2008 in Florida, and of which he only served one. Furthermore, Epstein enjoyed a work-release program throughout his sentence, allowing him to leave prison six days a week, officially to go to work. A political, not a judicial, problem.

The core of the alleged institutional crime lies in how the two victims were sidelined. Federal victims' rights law required the prosecution to inform them, but these emails demonstrate that prosecutors worked closely with Epstein's defense to keep the plea deal shrouded in secrecy until it was too late to legally challenge it. Prosecutors referred to Courtney Wild's requests for transparency as "obstacles" that needed to be managed politically rather than resolved legally. The prosecution refused to "step aside" in the two victims' civil suit for fear of admitting that violating Wild and Farmer's rights would trigger a "domino effect" in other cases across the country. The emails show that prosecutors acknowledged the victims' request had legal merit. But they chose to protect the settlement with the sex offender, thereby safeguarding the Justice Department. However, in February 2019, federal judge Kenneth Marra concluded that the United States government had violated the aforementioned victims' rights law. Shortly afterward, Epstein was arrested in New York on new federal charges and He committed suicide – according to the official version – in prison from Manhattan in August 2019 before being tried, which led to the closure of the victims' civil case in Florida and was declared moot.

The cross-referencing of these emails with another document also made public on January 30, and crucial to supporting the version of events of both women, adds gravity to the attitude of the US Department of Justice. In turn, it raises an inevitable question: Why was a confessed pedophile like Jeffrey Epstein—very powerful and a friend of a global elite—protected?

This is a internal FBI document from Miami, which covers the period between 2006 and 2008 and shows the more operational aspect of the federal investigation. The first records confirm that Underage girls had sex with Jeffrey Epstein at his Palm Beach residence. It also identifies specific assets—the mansion, valued at more than $6.9 million, and two private planes, a Boeing 727 and a Gulfstream—as instruments used to facilitate child prostitution, opening the door to a far-reaching federal case.

However, all of this changes abruptly in September 2008, when any federal prosecution is halted as long as Epstein complies with the agreement signed with Florida. Simultaneously, the FBI requests the closure of the asset forfeiture proceedings, despite having established their use in criminal activities. The decision meant, de factoto shut down an investigation that had identified the billionaire's entire infrastructure as essential to committing the crimes.

Collaborator with federal authorities?

The now-declassified FBI documents indicate that Epstein "provided information to the FBI as agreed," a fact that has fueled suspicions for years that he acted as an informant for federal authorities. This potential cooperation would help explain why the US government chose to withdraw from the case and pursue a much more lenient state settlement, despite the seriousness of the facts documented by its own investigators.

A report by the Office of Professional Responsibility of the Department of JusticeThe report, published in 2020, justified the Florida Attorney General's Office's treatment of the victims as a "litigation strategy" to prevent Epstein's defense from accusing them of seeking financial gain. Despite admitting to "poor judgment," the office concluded that the prosecutors acted in good faith and dismissed any "professional misconduct." The plea deal with Epstein was presented as the lesser of two evils to ensure a conviction, even a minimal one. In any case, Attorney General Acosta resigned in 2019.

However, the aforementioned internal emails from 2013—known to the office but made public only ten days ago—show that the prosecutors were aware they were deliberately concealing the agreement to prevent the victims from blocking it. The more general details of the conspiracy were known through reports from the Miami HeraldBased on the accounts of the victims' two lawyers—Paul Cassell and Brad Edwards—and Judge Kenneth Marra's verdict, which hinted at irregularities, the full extent of the collusion has only now been demonstrated with the aforementioned evidence. However, the Department of Justice chose to preserve the system's institutional integrity over justice. Why?

This Monday, Epstein's associate, former partner, and accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, is scheduled to testify under oath before the congressional committee investigating the federal government's handling of Epstein's files. She will do so remotely.