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Attorneys Say Miami Prosecutors Violated Crime Victims' Rights Act I Main Justice 4/7/11 1:38 PM JEGOTIATING WITH THE DOJ: yikiN2y!-ncE 3TRATEGIES FOR OPTIMAL RESULTS FREE Webinar - Wed., April 13 BRACEWELL &GIULIANI Lawyers with DOJ Experience J Of THUR DAY. APFUL 07. 2011 Search GO to Email or thername GO AIN JUSTICE Remember me: g ITICS, POLICY AND THE LAW JusTJOBS ANTI-CORRUPTION orneys Say Miami Prosecutors Violated Crime Victims' Rights Act 7 Into tephanie Woodrow I March 22. 2011 11:52 an =, Potable Version Ise attorneys for two gels who contend they were assaulted by billionaire and Rights/Reprints cted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein filed court papers on Monday claiming the .cadership changes in the 93 U.S. AU or ..__s, with Bush holdovers and Obama U.S. Attorney's office minted the Crime Victims' Rights Act by signing a nonprosecutlon agreement with Epstein candidates. ut notifying them. the Palm Beach Daly News reported. Epstein served 13 months in jail from June 2008 to July 2009 for one state count of soliciting an underage gel for prostitution. As a result. he is required to register as a sex offender. While he wasn't prosecuted for additional charges. more than 40 girls under the age of 18 say they came to his home and gave him massages. Dung the massages. they say. he masturbated and sexually assaulted them. '11111r1 Providing clients with proven experience and innovative solutions to complex compliance and Brad Edwards and Paul Cassell. attorneys representing two of his alleged victims. say in enforcement issues inside the al the Ming that the U.S. Attorney's office for the Southern District of Florida of deliberately Beltway and around the globe. r Epstein (pov) misled the earns by telling them there was an ongoing investigation into their claims. However. they say. the office was concealing the fact that they already had signed a MIIN a CIRwalie.Charipod osecuton deal with Epsteei. IRIlletChrf014f COM ding to the motion. the U.S. Attorney's office in January 2008 and May 2008 sent 'false notification" letters n to min's alleged victims saying lt pis case is currently under investigation: However, the office had signed the agreement ipstem in September 2007. COVINGTON Ittomeys want a court hearing during which they a ask that the agreement be invalidated because a violated the COVINGTON & BURLING LLP is rights. In the mobon, the attorneys clan the agreement is illegal because the goverment did not protect the yessicnally mandated rights of victims before it entered the agreement:* Recognized for its Leading dge grants the request. Epstein could be charged by the U.S. Attorney's office. If he were charged and convicted on White Collar Crime and al charges, he could be sentenced to 10 yeas to ale for each charge. Anti-Corruption Practices by ding to the motion. 'The only reason that the (U.S. Attorney's office) concealed the existence of the non-prosecution Chambers and Legal 500 iment from the victims was not to comply with some legal restriction. but rather to avoid a firestorm of pubes wersy that would have erupted if the sweetheart plea deal with a politicaly connected billionasre had been revealed: Valle. special counsel for the U.S. Attorney's Office Southern District of Florida. in an email to the newspaper that the Decisions about who, where and nth, Attorney's office will respond in court filings. to prosecute have always been--and ever. as we stated more than two yeas ago in July 2008 in our response to the plaintiffs' thenernergency petition for must remain--the responsibility of the executive branch."- Attorney General cement of the Crime Victim Rights Act the CVRA was not violated because no federal charges were ever filed in the Eric Holder discussing pressurefrom rem District of Florida: Valle SSG 'Because the matter remains pending in court. it would be inappropnate at this time members ofCongress to prosecute wide additional comment on the merits of the current motion.' 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