Posted on 06/25/2019 9:49:49 AM PDT by Theoria
Suspected sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was handed another break by the Department of Justice on Monday when federal prosecutors rejected his victims’ efforts to throw out his plea deal and prosecute him for abusing dozens of underage girls.
In the 35-page motion, filed in federal court in the Northern District of Georgia, federal prosecutors said that there is no legal basis to invalidate Epstein’s non-prosecution agreement — and they warned the federal judge in the case against doing the same.
U.S. Attorney Byung “B.J.” Pak said that because Congress did not outline specific penalties in the Crime Victims’ Rights Act when it was created by Congress, Epstein’s victims have no right to demand anything from the government — not even an apology. A federal judge ruled earlier this year that the plea deal violated that legislation.
In the filing, federal prosecutors did concede that the U.S. Attorney’s Office in South Florida failed to treat Epstein’s victims — most of whom where 13 to 16 years old when they were victimized — fairly, but they said that the law gives prosecutors discretion in deciding how to dispose of a case. Victims have a right to confer with prosecutors, but no rights beyond that, Pak said.
The federal judge in the case, Kenneth Marra, will have to decide what happens now.
Epstein, a politically connected financier, escaped federal sex-trafficking charges after his high-powered lawyers, led by Kenneth Starr and Alan Dershowitz, pressured prosecutors in Miami to work out a secret plea deal in 2007.
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Well, we’re back to prosecutorial misconduct to protect the deep state. This smells of the Hillary non-investigation.
There should never be a ‘plea deal’ in certain types of cases.
THIS IS ONE OF THEM....................
The headline is misleading. This is in litigation, in a penalty phase, as to the actual “penalty” the gov will face for not telling the victims about the plea deal. This is a gov response. The victims have some very, very good lawyers. Hopefully, the gov loses...big time!
These United States are a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. The Sovereign is the people, not the federal or state governments, or those working in goverment. Epstein’s victims who are US citizens damn well do have the right to make demands from the government.....they ARE the government. How far we’ve strayed from an understanding of reality.
Well isn’t that just special! The Department of Injustice strikes again and who the hell is/are the DOJ to be warning a federal judge anyway...?
If I were the federal judge, I’d have to tell them, “These are significant exigent circumstances and I’m going to invalidate the plea agreement. Don’t like it, sue me.”
What happens if the plea agreement is invalidated and then some judge decides you can’t try Epstein again because of double jeopardy?
Then he wouldn’t even have to register as a sex offender, eh?
Did anyone really think they would reverse this? I doubt any of them have any of the Bribe money left, so they can’t give it back to him.
"Warned" a judge. OK.
U.S. Attorney Byung “B.J.” Pak said that because Congress did not outline specific penalties in the Crime Victims’ Rights Act when it was created by Congress, Epstein’s victims have no right to demand anything from the government — not even an apology.
A U.S. Attorney said that? Yes, he did.
In the filing, federal prosecutors did concede that the U.S. Attorney’s Office in South Florida failed to treat Epstein’s victims — most of whom were 13 to 16 years old — fairly, but they said that the law gives prosecutors discretion in deciding how to dispose of a case.
Sorry you underage rape victims - our bad.
Victims have a right to confer with prosecutors, but no rights beyond that, Pak said.
Hey, who does this U.S. Attorney work for? Someone remind me.....
Maybe "Bagpipe Bill" could spend less time having "brown bag lunches" with his employees at the Dept of Injustice (yes, he is doing that to improve their fragile "morale"), and more time cracking down on these criminals masquerading as Federal servants.
Bill Clinton, Obama, and Hillary are up to their eyeballs in this Epstein, pedophile mess.
I have very little confidence that they will be charged, or any of these crimes exposed.
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