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December 30, 2025 15 mins
In November 2020, lawyers representing a Jeffrey Epstein victim filed a legal motion demanding that the U.S. Department of Justice release previously concealed information related to Epstein’s secret 2007 non-prosecution agreement. The motion centered around a troubling gap in documentation—specifically, missing emails from then-U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta’s office during the period when the controversial plea deal was negotiated. Victims’ attorneys argued that these missing records could reveal undisclosed communications, potential misconduct, or improper coordination between Epstein’s defense team and federal prosecutors.

The legal team emphasized that the absence of this material undermined public trust and cast doubt on the government’s narrative surrounding Epstein’s prosecution. “I think it calls into doubt everything that we've been told about the case,” said one of the attorneys, urging the DOJ to come clean about the full extent of its dealings with Epstein. The motion underscored the growing belief among survivors and their advocates that the original agreement—which allowed Epstein to avoid federal charges and protected unnamed co-conspirators—was not just flawed, but potentially the product of behind-the-scenes corruption or manipulation that still has not been fully disclosed.


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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What's up everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
Epstein Chronicles. Yo, let's rewind the tape back to twenty twenty.
The world was still burning, yes, but have seen survivors
were still out there, still fighting, still demanding answers. And
what did their lawyers asked for? Something simple, something obvious,

(00:21):
something that in a functioning system wouldn't have taken five years,
fifteen excuses and a rotating cast of stonewalling bureaucrats, a
full accounting of the non prosecution agreement, the sweetheart deal,
the golden parachute for a predator, the corrupt document that
let a global sex trafficker avoid justice while the government

(00:41):
pretended it didn't notice the smoke pouring out of every
room he ever walked into. And what did the DOJ
do with that request? Nothing? Absolutely nothing, No urgency, no explanation,
no public reckoning, just silence or worse distraction. And now
flat forward to today, with every headline screaming Epstein's name,

(01:04):
every survivor's voice echoing louder than ever, And what do
we get from our friends at Justice? Another press release
telling us the grand jury transcripts contain nothing new. Great cool,
Thanks for the insult. That's like showing up to a
house fire with a garden hose and bragging that the
addicts untouched. And you want to talk about transparency, let's

(01:24):
start with the five hundred pound gorilla sitting in the
middle of the DOJ's conference room table, the NPA, the
non prosecution agreement, the document so outrageous, so rotten to
its core, that it reads like a payoff disguised as law.
You know, the one that let Epstein's co conspirators walk,
sealed the evidence and buried the truth behind a wall
of red tape. The one negotiated behind closed doors while

(01:48):
the victims were left in the dark. Yeah, that one.
And let's not forget the data gap in alex Acosta's emails.
Remember that whole Swaza communications conveniently gone like a magician's trick.
Nothing to see here, just your government making digital footprints disappear.
If it were anyone else, that would be obstruction. But

(02:08):
when it's the DOJ, it's just another Tuesday. If they
were serious, serious about transparency, they declassify everything tied to
the NPA, every memo, every email, every meeting note, every
whisper that helps sweep the most powerful predator of our
generation under the rug. But they won't because if they do,

(02:30):
the entire rotten architecture collapses. Instead, they'd rather distract us
with grand jury, nuthenburgers, with polite nods, and with procedural
theater designed to burn the clock. Because acknowledging the truth
about the NPA means acknowledging complicity. It means admitting that
the Department of Justice wasn't asleep at the wheel, it

(02:51):
was actively steering the getaway car. So no, we don't
want another sterile filing telling us there is nothing new.
We want the thing you keep refusing to give us
the full, ugly truth about how Jeffrey Epstein got away
with it for so long and who helped them. That
begins with a non prosecution agreement. That begins with turning

(03:11):
over every scrap of paper that explains how a serial
trafficker was gifted immunity by the very agency that claims
to fight for victims. Until then, don't talk to us
about transparency. You lost that privilege a long time ago.
This article is from ABC News and it's from twenty twenty.

(03:33):
The headline lawyers for Epstein's victims seek previously concealed information
from the Justice Department. Attorneys for an alleged victim of
deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, contend in a new court
filing that the US Department of Justice failed to turn
over significant documents related to Epstein's controversial two thousand and

(03:53):
seven deal with federal prosecutors and concealed the existence of
a nearly year long data gap in the email inbox
of Alexander Acosta, the former US attorney in Miami who
approved the deal. I'm sure that that was just a coincidence, right,
that all those emails were lost, and shockingly enough, you

(04:13):
know those emails were too. You guessed it the brass
at the DOJ and Jeffrey Epstein's attorneys. I think it
calls into doubt everything that we've been told about the
case from the Justice Department, said Paul Cassel, an attorney
for alleged victim Courtney Wilde, who sued the DOJ in
two thousand and eight over Epstein's one secret deal. We've

(04:36):
been told that they have all the information, that everything
was fine, but now it turns out they've never had
all the information. And just to be clear, Pam Bondi
can declassify all of this stuff. Today, she's in control
of the DOJ. She can declassify the MPa and show
all of us what went down, but she won't do it. Instead,

(04:56):
we get more bullshit. Instead, we get more talk about
grand jury document, we get more talk about this that
the other thing, and then they move Gleagne Maxwell. The
fix couldn't be more in if we were watching a
wrestling match. The new court filing comes in advance of
a crucial court hearing in Wilde's case, and on the
heels of the release last week of a three hundred

(05:17):
and fifty page report on the Epstein Deal by the
Justice Department's Office a Professional Responsibility, which spent more than
a year reviewing the actions of Acosta and the four
former prosecutors most directly involved in the negotiations. And it's
so laughable, I mean, it is so laughable. The DOJ
brass that's who should have been investigated. But no, of course,

(05:40):
not Mukazy, Philippe. They just walk an Acosta. He's nothing
more than the fall guy. The review, which determined that
Acosta exhibited poor judgment in his handling of the Epstein deal,
relied substantially on internal government emails, as well as communication
between the prosecutors and Epstein team of high profile lawyers

(06:02):
to reach its conclusion, but the details concerning the missing
Acosta emails were relegated to a brief section of an
appendix to the report. The gap, which did not affect
a cost to sent email, was determined by OPR to
be most likely due to a technological error, and the
OPR reviewers found no evidence that there had been any

(06:22):
intentional deletion of emails. According to the report, of course not.
Did you really think they were going to out themselves all, well,
look we're negligent, we don't know what we're doing. Sue
us for five bazillion dollars, zero chance. Instead, they pinned
it all on the bad judgment of Alex Acosta. Who
the fuck believes that? And if you do believe it,

(06:43):
you should probably go and get some psychiatric help, because
you're living in the upside down world. Under no circumstance
is a middle level manager like Acosta in charge of
the finer points of a deal with somebody like Jeffrey Epstein. Oh,
sure he signed his name, but that was it. The
email gap coincides with a critical period from May two

(07:05):
thousand and seven, when the lead prosecutor prepared a fifty
three page draft indictment of Epstein to April two thousand
and eight, shortly before Epstein entered a guilty plea in
state court that ended the federal investigation. It was during
this time frame that Epstein's defense attorneys were amounting an
aggressive lobbying effort to persuade Acosta and his deputies to

(07:26):
shelve the indictment and close the federal case. And let's
not forget the meetings they had with DJ Brass. We
can't forget that part. Very important. The gap seems to
have surgically struck on exactly the time period when most
of the big decisions were being made. Cassel said, I
was stunned because you would think if there was ever

(07:46):
a case where the Justice Department would have been very
careful to make sure they had complete records and things
weren't missing, this would be the one. Sure nothing to
see here, though, folks, And remember keep in mind, this
is in twenty twenty we're talking about. We're not talking
about this as being tinted with what's going on currently
with you know, politics and whatnot. So this has been

(08:09):
a problem for a very long time. This isn't something
that's new, and I assure you this is not a hoax.
After the OPR report was made public, Casell said that
he and his co counsel, Brad Edwards, began digging through
their case files and discovered that some emails between the
prosecutors and Epstein's lawyers that were cited in the report

(08:31):
had apparently not been produced to them in Wilde's case,
even though a court ordered the government to turn over
all those communications in twenty thirteen. All the government's going
to do whatever it wants. And who was the president
in twenty thirteen, Oh that's right, Barack Obama. And I
say that just to point out once again that this
problem is bigger than Trump. Trump is a symptom of

(08:54):
the problem. He's not the cause of the illness. This
shit runs deep, folks, very very And the big problem
for Trump with a lot of people who supported him
was he said that he was going to be different, right.
He was a difference maker, a change maker, a guy
that's going to come in and disrupt the old guard,
only to show up and put on the same robe
as the king before him in just a few minutes time.

(09:18):
I identified several external emails that appear to have been
available to OPR, but inexplicably never made available to miss Wild,
Edwards wrote in an AFFI David submitted to the court
on Monday. Among the records, Edwards contends the government may
have him properly withheld or messages between a federal prosecutor
and an Epstein attorney who was contesting a requirement that

(09:41):
Epstein register as a sex offender, and exchanges about the
government subpoena seeking to obtain computers that have been removed
from Epstein's pom Beach home prior to the execution of
a search warrant by local police. Epstein's lawyers contested the subpoena,
and it was eventually withdrawn as a condition of Epstein's deal.

(10:01):
You heard that right. They never got the computers they
were looking to get because you know Epstein had a deal. Now,
you show me any other child molester ever who has
been hooked up the way Epstein has been hooked up
all wait. So far as we can determine in our records,
this correspondence has not been produced to us. This correspondence

(10:22):
is significant because had the efforts to obtain the computer, continued,
It's likely that the prosecutors would have obtained ironclad forensic
evidence to charge Epstein with CP crimes, Edwards wrote, And
according to the investigators down in Florida, Epstein was tipped
off to the fact that they were going to raid
his house, so he was able to remove all of

(10:44):
this sensitive material, all of this incriminating information, so that
when the house got raided, none of it was there.
But who told them that he was going to be raided?
Where did he get that information? Those are the kind
of files I'm looking for. Epstein's deal with the federal
government allowed them to avoid an indictment that could have
charged them with substantial crimes against nineteen alleged victims. He

(11:08):
faced a potential sentence between fourteen and seventeen years if convicted,
according to the OPR report. Instead, he pleaded guilty to
two prostitution related crimes in state court and served thirteen
months of an eighteen month sentence in county jail, much
of it on liberal work release program, and the federal

(11:28):
case was closed. Wild's lawsuit against the DOJ alleges that
Epstein's non prosecution agreement, which also conferred immunity to any
potential co conspirator was reached in violation of the CVRA,
which requires the federal government to confer with victims, keep
them informed, and to treat them with fairness and dignity.

(11:50):
After many years of litigation, the Justice Department acknowledged that
it did not inform Wild or any of the victims
about the deal before it was done, but the govern
me argues that the law did not require the victims
to be notified because no federal charges were filed. Loopholes
and technicalities the defense of the guilty. In February twenty nineteen,

(12:13):
a federal judge in West Palm Beach ruled in Wild's favor,
deciding that the government had violated the law by not
conferring with Wild and other alleged victims before they made
the deal, but before the judge could determine if Epstein's
deal should be torn up. Epstein was arrested again in
New York and then died in prison. The case was dismissed,
but she has appealed the decision. So could the whole

(12:36):
entire thing be They killed Jeffrey Epstein in prison to
keep the NPA from becoming public. Now look obviously just speculation,
and you know I don't like to jump down rabbit holes,
but the timing is very interesting, very interesting. Indeed, early
next month, Wilde's case a schedule for oral arguments before
the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Her lawyers are now

(12:59):
urging court to consider the newly discovered information about Acosta's
missing emails and to order the government to turn over
the allegedly undisclosed records and all the materials the OPR
considered for its report. That's what I want to be unsealed.
I want that information, and I want it bad. Let's
see it. All you want to talk about transparency, My

(13:21):
tax dollars paid for that shit. Let me see it.
But no, we're not going to get that either, are we. Unfortunately,
the appeals judge don't have in front of them right
now all the information about the case. A lot of
new information came out last week when the Justice Department
finally released its internal emails and other information, and we

(13:44):
want all of that information in front of the judges
when they make a ruling, Cassell said. According to Cassell's filing,
the government has indicated that it opposes his requests. Following
the release of the OPR review, an attorney for Acosta,
Gordon Todd, released a statement contending that the report fully
debunks allegations that Acosta improperly cut Epstein a sweetheart deal

(14:07):
or purposely avoided investigating potential wrongdoing by various prominent individuals.
Opr's investigation confirm the evidentiary and legal challenges that would
have faced any attempted federal prosecution of Epstein based on
information available at the time. Todd wrote that is a lie,
one hundred percent a lie, and Epstein was cooked. Plenty

(14:30):
of information was available and all of it could have
been used against them. So the whole point of me
doing this article from twenty twenty is to show you
the kind of information that I'm looking for. I'll let
everybody else get in the moshpit and look for all
the salacious bullshit. If we want to get to the
bottom of what happened, if we want to find out

(14:50):
who the people were who were involved in this, this
is the path to be on. And these are the
questions that we should be asking. And that's because all
roads to transparency, all roads to justice, lead directly through
the MPa. All of the information that goes with this
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