December 28, 2025 • 18 mins
How does a man like Jeffrey Epstein—a serial predator accused by multiple underage victims, operating in plain sight for years—walk into one of the most grotesquely lenient plea deals in modern American legal history? How does federal prosecution quietly vanish, victims get lied to, and a man facing life-altering charges instead secure a sweetheart agreement that lets him serve time in a private wing, leave jail six days a week, and continue living like a billionaire? This wasn’t a paperwork error or a one-off lapse in judgment. Deals like that do not happen by accident. They require power, protection, and people inside the system willing to bend, break, or outright ignore the law.
So the real question isn’t how did Epstein do it—it’s who cleared the runway. Who decided the victims didn’t need to know? Who signed off on shielding unnamed co-conspirators? Who looked at the evidence, the scale of abuse, the number of girls, and said, “Let’s make this go away”? Because no ordinary defendant gets that kind of mercy. That kind of deal screams institutional fear, leverage, or complicity. And until every hand that touched that agreement is named, questioned, and held to account, the Epstein case isn’t a failure of justice—it’s proof of how selectively justice is applied.
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So the real question isn’t how did Epstein do it—it’s who cleared the runway. Who decided the victims didn’t need to know? Who signed off on shielding unnamed co-conspirators? Who looked at the evidence, the scale of abuse, the number of girls, and said, “Let’s make this go away”? Because no ordinary defendant gets that kind of mercy. That kind of deal screams institutional fear, leverage, or complicity. And until every hand that touched that agreement is named, questioned, and held to account, the Epstein case isn’t a failure of justice—it’s proof of how selectively justice is applied.
to contact me:
bobbycapucci@protonmail.com
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-epstein-chronicles--5003294/support.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What's up, everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.
One of the biggest issues when we're talking about travesties
of justice within the world of Jeffrey Epstein is most
certainly the Plea Deal. How he was able to acquire
that Plea deal has been the source of much debate
(00:22):
and of much contention. But the fact is he received
that Plea deal, and that deal, well, there is no
other deal like it. Nobody else ever has gotten a
deal like Jeffrey Epstein. So ask yourselves, how is it
that he is worthy of getting such a deal? What
makes him so special? Well, when you're hanging out with
(00:46):
the people he was hanging out with, and you're breaking
bread with some of the most powerful and influential people
in the world, you end up getting a deal that
nobody else would ever ever get. And that's certainly what
happened when Epstein scored this sweetheart deal down in Florida. Today,
(01:12):
we're going to read an article from Noreen Marcus over
at the Florida Bulldog dot org talking about how this
is a cushy deal and how it's the only one
of its kind in South Florida. Ever, So let's get
into this article and let's see what Noreen Marcus has
(01:32):
to say. Headline, Jeffrey Epstein's cushy federal deal was the
only one of its kind in South Florida for at
least three decades, and ever right when you look at it,
there was no one who ever got a deal like this.
But somehow this disgusting, gross child molesting son of a
(01:54):
bitch comes out with the sweetest deal in the history
of sweet deals. Now, remember how many larger than life
criminals have been down in Florida, got all kinds of
mob guys, drug narco professionals, you name it, and none
of them caught deals like this. What makes Epstein so special?
(02:16):
The sickly sweet deal that lawyers for serial sex offender
Jeffrey Epstein worked out with South Florida federal prosecutors veered
so far off the beaten path it blazed a path
of its own. There is no doubt about that this
is going to be studied in law classes and in
the law profession for years to come. It's going to
(02:38):
be a case study in not how to handle yourself.
This is a deal that should have never been signed
off on and say it was a Costa right, Oh,
it was all Acosta's fault. Then where was his boss
to come in and say, look, you can't do this.
This deal's terrible, my friend. There was nobody to step
in and do that. You know why, because those on
(02:59):
high Acosta's bosses, they wanted this deal to get done.
Over the last twenty nine years, three non prosecution agreements
npa NPAs the kind of deal Epstein got, went to
big companies in the Southern district of Florida, according to
a list compiled by the University of Virginia and Duke
(03:21):
Law Schools. So only to a company, only to companies,
not to personal individuals, and certainly not to unnamed individuals.
How the hell do you even get that part that
provision put in to a contract like this, to a
non prosecution agreement, you would literally have to be using
(03:42):
the Jedi mind trick like ben Kenobi. But since no
company executive was accused of anything close to Epstein's level
of depravity, his deal appears to be one of a kind.
His informal criminal enterprise that preyed upon teenage girls had
no name to include in the law school's corporate prosecution registry.
(04:04):
Oh that's easy. Jeffrey Epstein's criminal enterprise. We can just
call it that, right, or if you want, we can
go a step further. The Epstein crime family. How about that.
We love to slap monikers on people and call them
crime families, right, Well, why not call these guys the
same thing, because that's what they were. They were facilitating
(04:25):
all sorts of crimes, money laundering, human trafficking, wire fraud, threats, solicitation,
you name it, these people were into it. Out of
one hundred and ninety Southern District federal cases that were
resolved before trial from nineteen ninety two to this year,
(04:48):
the list shows eighty six percent resulted in pleas, not
including the Epstein affair, only three of the cases, or
one point six percent, ended with non prosecution agreements. Now, look,
very rarely does the federal government give out a non
prosecution agreement when they have you bent over a barrel.
(05:10):
They love to get their convictions, don't they in federal court?
And that you see it here. Eighty six percent resulted
in plead deals. Eighty six percent. Eight out of ten
people said, I can't beat the federal government at trial,
so I'm just gonna plead out, not Epstein, he gets
himself a nice non prosecution agreement that covers him, his
(05:32):
co conspirators, the Core four, and any unnamed co conspirators
as well. Now, however the hell they whipped that one up,
I'll need it explain to me how the federal government
and the state government signed off on it. They are
rarer than Hen's teeth, and Hens have no teeth, said
(05:53):
criminal defense lawyer Joel Hershorn. During a fifty three year career,
he has yet to negotiate us single one. Think about that, folks, Okay,
do you really think mister Hirshorn here is not a
good lawyer? That he can't you know, he doesn't know
his way around a courtroom. And on the flip side,
you think Dershowitz is that good in the courtroom or
(06:16):
left court or left Kowitz. Of course they aren't. You
think it's just happened to be a coincidence that they
had all these guys from Kirkland and Ellis working on
that law team, guys like ken Starr with extreme political reach,
because that's what you're paying for if you have the
right amount of money, you're paying for influence. Whereas me
(06:38):
or you, we're just looking to get a lawyer, and
we hope we get a plea deal that doesn't send
us to prison for the rest of our lives. A
special deal for Jeffrey Epstein alone. The three companies on
the Southern District's NPA list are Jakova now Wells Fargo
accused of anti trust, Republic Metals Corporation accused of money laundering,
(07:00):
and but Tom Holdings accused of securities fraud. The deals
all followed some combination of hefty fines, long prison sentences
for company executives, or cooperation with other probes. And that
is the rub right. We know that Epstein was an informer.
We know he was working for the government, and all
these people that want to act like he wasn't explain
(07:22):
to me how he always got off whenever he got
caught doing something wrong. I call it the Whitey Bulger effect,
and we see it with Epstein time and time again.
But a cushy deal like the late Epstein's is virtually
unheard of. The Use of an MPa against an individual
(07:43):
is very rare, said Miami trial lawyer Marcos Yemenez, who
was the US Attorney in South Florida from two thousand
and two to two thousand and five. Sounds like a
guy who would know what he's talking about. But nah,
this is just this is your everyday behavior. And that's
why it's laughable that the appeals court would look at
(08:04):
this and just be like shrug their shoulders and be like, nah,
you know, we're just gonna let this stand. It's an abomination.
Yemenez told The Florida Bulldog he doesn't remember authorizing any
kind of NPA. The law school's list in media reports
confirm his recollection. I can't think of a baring of
(08:27):
a bar to doing it. It's just that I've never
seen it done in any other instance than for Epstein,
said former Miami prosecutor Richard Gregory, who retired in twenty
eighteen after forty two years with the Justice Department. He
also worked in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey, and Connecticut.
(08:50):
So who's the one that's bullshitting you, folks? The people
that want you to believe that this is just a
common everyday occurrence that criminals get deals like this, or
are you going to believe the actual facts that are
in front of your face because the official narrative that
they want you to suck down is just filled and
(09:10):
riddled with holes protecting mystery co conspirators. Jeffrey Epstein's off
the charts packed let him avoid federal charges that carry
serious prison time. Prosecutors prepared but never filed, a fifty
three page indictment describing his criminal activities with underage girls
(09:31):
that could have put Epstein away for life, and we
all know how that ended up. Ah, we'll punt it
down to state they he'll get the he'll get the easier,
softer charges. Unlike standard NPAs, his carefully crafted version even
protected any potential co conspirators, prompting speculation about former Presidents
(09:51):
Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, Britain's Prince Andrew, and other
powerful men in Epstein's social circle. Well, we see that
Andrew tried to use this clause and it didn't work
out for him in New York. He got sued anyway.
But criminally speaking, this is a big roadblock from justice
(10:12):
being served in this case. None of them has been
charged in connection with Epstein. Only his ex girlfriend, co conspirator,
fellow child abuser, general all around scusbag and bipedal serpent
Glene Maxwell is being prosecuted in New York for allegedly
procuring young girls for him to abuse. Now we all
know that it's not prosecuted anymore. She has been convicted.
(10:36):
Gregory had nothing to do with the Epstein case and
wouldn't speculate about a possible accomplices, but said he's amazed
and astounded by the NPA clause granting immunity to hypothetical
co conspirators. Again, you really think that Acosta has the
power to sign off on something like this when Epstein
from mansion to jail suicide. I have never heard of
(10:58):
a case where an NPA extent did the people who
haven't been investigated or charged yet, Gregory said, it just
doesn't make sense if you were getting cooperation from someone
who would provide you with leads to take a case
to a much higher or significant person, or was opening
up the case to a much broader range of criminal
activity that might lead to this kind of agreement. He said, well,
(11:21):
we know it didn't. This all happened because Epstein and
his lawyers had friends on high. The Justice Department was
littered with creatures who were friendly with Dershowitz and ken
Starr and the rest of these guys. But how could
an unknown co conspirator, barter for immunity from prosecution. Yet
(11:44):
in exchange for extra extraordinary largess from the Feds, Epstein
pleaded guilty to too low level state prostitution offenses and
funded a victim's compensation pool. The government shut down a
grand jury that might have outed others in his sex ring.
Jeffrey Epstein got an eighteen month sentence, but served a
(12:06):
little over a year, mostly working on work release near
his Palm Beach estate. Ten years later, the wealthy financier
Pedophile died in a Manhattan jail cell in an apparent
suicide while awaiting trial for sex trafficking in New York.
Acosta's poor judgment cost him. Look for me again, don't
even I don't buy that for a second. His cowardice
(12:29):
cost him. If my boss ever came to me with
this kind of proposal and I had all of these
girls that I had been investigating to see if their
claims were true, and I had this evidence that it
was zero chance that I'd be okay with this, I'd
raise such a stink that I'd end up getting fired
and all of it. Because there are some things you can,
(12:49):
you know, look the other way. Not something like this.
Signing off on the notorious two thousand and seven Epstein
deal came to haunt Alex Acosta, the US attorney after Yemenez.
Following publication of a Miami Herald series about the Epstein
case that threw renewed light on his NPA, then Labor Secretary,
(13:10):
Acosta resigned in two thy nineteen. Very convenient fall guy. Huh,
they love their low hanging fruit. Yemenez said he agrees
completely with a finding by DOJ regulators that the NPA
was a flawed mechanism for satisfying the federal interest that
caused the government to open up the Epstein investigation in
(13:31):
the first place. The finding appeared in a November twenty
twenty report by the Department's Office of Professional Responsibility. It
concluded Acosta showed poor judgment when he approved the Epstein NPA,
but didn't violate professional norms, largely because none apply. And
you know, it's convenient, right that the emails during this
(13:53):
whole entire time of Acosta to his superiors, Oh, they
just went missing, right, Just a very convenient fact for
the other people who were involved in the decision making.
Here fall Guy Acosta. Right next to his name pencil.
In fall, Guy Yemenez expressed reluctance to criticize his successor. Still,
(14:17):
he said he agrees that Acosta exercised faulty judgment NPA's
rob's victims of rights. Earlier this month, the discredited deal
resurfaced when a federal appeals court ruled against Courtney Wilde,
who says Jeffrey Epstein began molesting her when she was fifteen.
The US Crime Victims' Rights Act says survivors must be
(14:40):
notified about about and participate in negotiations between prosecutors and defendants.
But prosecutors hid the Epstein NPA document for several months
until he pleaded guilty, avoiding any objections to its lenient terms. Imagine,
these guys hid this document when they're not allowed to
(15:02):
do that by law, and still no repercussions. Nobody held responsible,
and the deal is allowed to stand. Now, you tell
me where the equitable justice is. But the Eleventh Circuit
Court said the law supports victims only after charges are filed.
Since Acosta agreed to the NPA and no charges were
(15:24):
ever filed in that case against Epstein, Unfortunately, that was
that allowing judges to protect victims rights earlier in the
process would intrude on the prosecutor's discretion. The majority ruled
in an opinion published on April fifteenth, the courts would
be empowered to issue injunctions requiring consultation with victims. To
(15:44):
name just a few examples before law enforcement raids, warrant applications, arrests,
witness interviews, lineups, and interrogations. Judge Kevin Newsom wrote for
the majority, I'll give me a break, Judge Kevin Newsom,
wasn't he the same guy that was hanging out with
Christian Everdell? Yeah? I believe so. Two dudes, just two
(16:06):
guys hanging out. No conflict of interest. Wait what they
both want to Harvard together? Come on, still no conflict
of interest? Right right? Dissenters call the deal travesty. The
seven or four decision from the full US Court of
Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit may end Wild's thirteen thirteen
(16:27):
year pursuit of justice, though her lawyers planned to an
appeal to the US Supreme Court, we know that failed. Unfortunately,
four Eleventh Circuit Court judges dissented. Those judges, all women,
skewered the Epstein NPA and assailed the dramatic increase in
all kinds of pre indictment agreements over the last fifteen years.
(16:50):
Not one single dude, not one single man of those lawyers,
I mean judges, dissented. What an embarrassment? And you mean
to tell me not one of you guys thought what
happened here was disgusting. Maybe you need to do more research,
maybe you need better clerks. The majority's ruling leaves federal
(17:12):
prosecutors free to engage in the secret plea deals and
deception that resulted in the travesty here. Judge Frank mays
Holl wrote, it also exasperates disparities between wealthy defendants and
those who cannot afford to hire well connected and experienced
attorneys to negotiate favorable deals for them. She wrote, So
(17:34):
will there be another Epstein like travesty? I would hope
that it never happens again, and I don't think that
it will, Yeomenez said, folks, Look, how much more do
we have to explain it? This was a travesty of
epic proportions, and your courts, at every step along the way,
(17:56):
have sided with Epstein his friends. And this discussing ass
deal I'll leave you with that to think about for
a little while, and as for me, well, I'll be
back later on. If you'd like to contact me, you
can do that at Bobby Kapuchi at ProtonMail dot com.
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(18:19):
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What's up, everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.
One of the biggest issues when we're talking about travesties
of justice within the world of Jeffrey Epstein is most
certainly the Plea Deal. How he was able to acquire
that Plea deal has been the source of much debate
(00:22):
and of much contention. But the fact is he received
that Plea deal, and that deal, well, there is no
other deal like it. Nobody else ever has gotten a
deal like Jeffrey Epstein. So ask yourselves, how is it
that he is worthy of getting such a deal? What
makes him so special? Well, when you're hanging out with
(00:46):
the people he was hanging out with, and you're breaking
bread with some of the most powerful and influential people
in the world, you end up getting a deal that
nobody else would ever ever get. And that's certainly what
happened when Epstein scored this sweetheart deal down in Florida. Today,
(01:12):
we're going to read an article from Noreen Marcus over
at the Florida Bulldog dot org talking about how this
is a cushy deal and how it's the only one
of its kind in South Florida. Ever, So let's get
into this article and let's see what Noreen Marcus has
(01:32):
to say. Headline, Jeffrey Epstein's cushy federal deal was the
only one of its kind in South Florida for at
least three decades, and ever right when you look at it,
there was no one who ever got a deal like this.
But somehow this disgusting, gross child molesting son of a
(01:54):
bitch comes out with the sweetest deal in the history
of sweet deals. Now, remember how many larger than life
criminals have been down in Florida, got all kinds of
mob guys, drug narco professionals, you name it, and none
of them caught deals like this. What makes Epstein so special?
(02:16):
The sickly sweet deal that lawyers for serial sex offender
Jeffrey Epstein worked out with South Florida federal prosecutors veered
so far off the beaten path it blazed a path
of its own. There is no doubt about that this
is going to be studied in law classes and in
the law profession for years to come. It's going to
(02:38):
be a case study in not how to handle yourself.
This is a deal that should have never been signed
off on and say it was a Costa right, Oh,
it was all Acosta's fault. Then where was his boss
to come in and say, look, you can't do this.
This deal's terrible, my friend. There was nobody to step
in and do that. You know why, because those on
(02:59):
high Acosta's bosses, they wanted this deal to get done.
Over the last twenty nine years, three non prosecution agreements
npa NPAs the kind of deal Epstein got, went to
big companies in the Southern district of Florida, according to
a list compiled by the University of Virginia and Duke
(03:21):
Law Schools. So only to a company, only to companies,
not to personal individuals, and certainly not to unnamed individuals.
How the hell do you even get that part that
provision put in to a contract like this, to a
non prosecution agreement, you would literally have to be using
(03:42):
the Jedi mind trick like ben Kenobi. But since no
company executive was accused of anything close to Epstein's level
of depravity, his deal appears to be one of a kind.
His informal criminal enterprise that preyed upon teenage girls had
no name to include in the law school's corporate prosecution registry.
(04:04):
Oh that's easy. Jeffrey Epstein's criminal enterprise. We can just
call it that, right, or if you want, we can
go a step further. The Epstein crime family. How about that.
We love to slap monikers on people and call them
crime families, right, Well, why not call these guys the
same thing, because that's what they were. They were facilitating
(04:25):
all sorts of crimes, money laundering, human trafficking, wire fraud, threats, solicitation,
you name it, these people were into it. Out of
one hundred and ninety Southern District federal cases that were
resolved before trial from nineteen ninety two to this year,
(04:48):
the list shows eighty six percent resulted in pleas, not
including the Epstein affair, only three of the cases, or
one point six percent, ended with non prosecution agreements. Now, look,
very rarely does the federal government give out a non
prosecution agreement when they have you bent over a barrel.
(05:10):
They love to get their convictions, don't they in federal court?
And that you see it here. Eighty six percent resulted
in plead deals. Eighty six percent. Eight out of ten
people said, I can't beat the federal government at trial,
so I'm just gonna plead out, not Epstein, he gets
himself a nice non prosecution agreement that covers him, his
(05:32):
co conspirators, the Core four, and any unnamed co conspirators
as well. Now, however the hell they whipped that one up,
I'll need it explain to me how the federal government
and the state government signed off on it. They are
rarer than Hen's teeth, and Hens have no teeth, said
(05:53):
criminal defense lawyer Joel Hershorn. During a fifty three year career,
he has yet to negotiate us single one. Think about that, folks, Okay,
do you really think mister Hirshorn here is not a
good lawyer? That he can't you know, he doesn't know
his way around a courtroom. And on the flip side,
you think Dershowitz is that good in the courtroom or
(06:16):
left court or left Kowitz. Of course they aren't. You
think it's just happened to be a coincidence that they
had all these guys from Kirkland and Ellis working on
that law team, guys like ken Starr with extreme political reach,
because that's what you're paying for if you have the
right amount of money, you're paying for influence. Whereas me
(06:38):
or you, we're just looking to get a lawyer, and
we hope we get a plea deal that doesn't send
us to prison for the rest of our lives. A
special deal for Jeffrey Epstein alone. The three companies on
the Southern District's NPA list are Jakova now Wells Fargo
accused of anti trust, Republic Metals Corporation accused of money laundering,
(07:00):
and but Tom Holdings accused of securities fraud. The deals
all followed some combination of hefty fines, long prison sentences
for company executives, or cooperation with other probes. And that
is the rub right. We know that Epstein was an informer.
We know he was working for the government, and all
these people that want to act like he wasn't explain
(07:22):
to me how he always got off whenever he got
caught doing something wrong. I call it the Whitey Bulger effect,
and we see it with Epstein time and time again.
But a cushy deal like the late Epstein's is virtually
unheard of. The Use of an MPa against an individual
(07:43):
is very rare, said Miami trial lawyer Marcos Yemenez, who
was the US Attorney in South Florida from two thousand
and two to two thousand and five. Sounds like a
guy who would know what he's talking about. But nah,
this is just this is your everyday behavior. And that's
why it's laughable that the appeals court would look at
(08:04):
this and just be like shrug their shoulders and be like, nah,
you know, we're just gonna let this stand. It's an abomination.
Yemenez told The Florida Bulldog he doesn't remember authorizing any
kind of NPA. The law school's list in media reports
confirm his recollection. I can't think of a baring of
(08:27):
a bar to doing it. It's just that I've never
seen it done in any other instance than for Epstein,
said former Miami prosecutor Richard Gregory, who retired in twenty
eighteen after forty two years with the Justice Department. He
also worked in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey, and Connecticut.
(08:50):
So who's the one that's bullshitting you, folks? The people
that want you to believe that this is just a
common everyday occurrence that criminals get deals like this, or
are you going to believe the actual facts that are
in front of your face because the official narrative that
they want you to suck down is just filled and
(09:10):
riddled with holes protecting mystery co conspirators. Jeffrey Epstein's off
the charts packed let him avoid federal charges that carry
serious prison time. Prosecutors prepared but never filed, a fifty
three page indictment describing his criminal activities with underage girls
(09:31):
that could have put Epstein away for life, and we
all know how that ended up. Ah, we'll punt it
down to state they he'll get the he'll get the easier,
softer charges. Unlike standard NPAs, his carefully crafted version even
protected any potential co conspirators, prompting speculation about former Presidents
(09:51):
Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, Britain's Prince Andrew, and other
powerful men in Epstein's social circle. Well, we see that
Andrew tried to use this clause and it didn't work
out for him in New York. He got sued anyway.
But criminally speaking, this is a big roadblock from justice
(10:12):
being served in this case. None of them has been
charged in connection with Epstein. Only his ex girlfriend, co conspirator,
fellow child abuser, general all around scusbag and bipedal serpent
Glene Maxwell is being prosecuted in New York for allegedly
procuring young girls for him to abuse. Now we all
know that it's not prosecuted anymore. She has been convicted.
(10:36):
Gregory had nothing to do with the Epstein case and
wouldn't speculate about a possible accomplices, but said he's amazed
and astounded by the NPA clause granting immunity to hypothetical
co conspirators. Again, you really think that Acosta has the
power to sign off on something like this when Epstein
from mansion to jail suicide. I have never heard of
(10:58):
a case where an NPA extent did the people who
haven't been investigated or charged yet, Gregory said, it just
doesn't make sense if you were getting cooperation from someone
who would provide you with leads to take a case
to a much higher or significant person, or was opening
up the case to a much broader range of criminal
activity that might lead to this kind of agreement. He said, well,
(11:21):
we know it didn't. This all happened because Epstein and
his lawyers had friends on high. The Justice Department was
littered with creatures who were friendly with Dershowitz and ken
Starr and the rest of these guys. But how could
an unknown co conspirator, barter for immunity from prosecution. Yet
(11:44):
in exchange for extra extraordinary largess from the Feds, Epstein
pleaded guilty to too low level state prostitution offenses and
funded a victim's compensation pool. The government shut down a
grand jury that might have outed others in his sex ring.
Jeffrey Epstein got an eighteen month sentence, but served a
(12:06):
little over a year, mostly working on work release near
his Palm Beach estate. Ten years later, the wealthy financier
Pedophile died in a Manhattan jail cell in an apparent
suicide while awaiting trial for sex trafficking in New York.
Acosta's poor judgment cost him. Look for me again, don't
even I don't buy that for a second. His cowardice
(12:29):
cost him. If my boss ever came to me with
this kind of proposal and I had all of these
girls that I had been investigating to see if their
claims were true, and I had this evidence that it
was zero chance that I'd be okay with this, I'd
raise such a stink that I'd end up getting fired
and all of it. Because there are some things you can,
(12:49):
you know, look the other way. Not something like this.
Signing off on the notorious two thousand and seven Epstein
deal came to haunt Alex Acosta, the US attorney after Yemenez.
Following publication of a Miami Herald series about the Epstein
case that threw renewed light on his NPA, then Labor Secretary,
(13:10):
Acosta resigned in two thy nineteen. Very convenient fall guy. Huh,
they love their low hanging fruit. Yemenez said he agrees
completely with a finding by DOJ regulators that the NPA
was a flawed mechanism for satisfying the federal interest that
caused the government to open up the Epstein investigation in
(13:31):
the first place. The finding appeared in a November twenty
twenty report by the Department's Office of Professional Responsibility. It
concluded Acosta showed poor judgment when he approved the Epstein NPA,
but didn't violate professional norms, largely because none apply. And
you know, it's convenient, right that the emails during this
(13:53):
whole entire time of Acosta to his superiors, Oh, they
just went missing, right, Just a very convenient fact for
the other people who were involved in the decision making.
Here fall Guy Acosta. Right next to his name pencil.
In fall, Guy Yemenez expressed reluctance to criticize his successor. Still,
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he said he agrees that Acosta exercised faulty judgment NPA's
rob's victims of rights. Earlier this month, the discredited deal
resurfaced when a federal appeals court ruled against Courtney Wilde,
who says Jeffrey Epstein began molesting her when she was fifteen.
The US Crime Victims' Rights Act says survivors must be
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notified about about and participate in negotiations between prosecutors and defendants.
But prosecutors hid the Epstein NPA document for several months
until he pleaded guilty, avoiding any objections to its lenient terms. Imagine,
these guys hid this document when they're not allowed to
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do that by law, and still no repercussions. Nobody held responsible,
and the deal is allowed to stand. Now, you tell
me where the equitable justice is. But the Eleventh Circuit
Court said the law supports victims only after charges are filed.
Since Acosta agreed to the NPA and no charges were
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ever filed in that case against Epstein, Unfortunately, that was
that allowing judges to protect victims rights earlier in the
process would intrude on the prosecutor's discretion. The majority ruled
in an opinion published on April fifteenth, the courts would
be empowered to issue injunctions requiring consultation with victims. To
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name just a few examples before law enforcement raids, warrant applications, arrests,
witness interviews, lineups, and interrogations. Judge Kevin Newsom wrote for
the majority, I'll give me a break, Judge Kevin Newsom,
wasn't he the same guy that was hanging out with
Christian Everdell? Yeah? I believe so. Two dudes, just two
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guys hanging out. No conflict of interest. Wait what they
both want to Harvard together? Come on, still no conflict
of interest? Right right? Dissenters call the deal travesty. The
seven or four decision from the full US Court of
Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit may end Wild's thirteen thirteen
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year pursuit of justice, though her lawyers planned to an
appeal to the US Supreme Court, we know that failed. Unfortunately,
four Eleventh Circuit Court judges dissented. Those judges, all women,
skewered the Epstein NPA and assailed the dramatic increase in
all kinds of pre indictment agreements over the last fifteen years.
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Not one single dude, not one single man of those lawyers,
I mean judges, dissented. What an embarrassment? And you mean
to tell me not one of you guys thought what
happened here was disgusting. Maybe you need to do more research,
maybe you need better clerks. The majority's ruling leaves federal
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prosecutors free to engage in the secret plea deals and
deception that resulted in the travesty here. Judge Frank mays
Holl wrote, it also exasperates disparities between wealthy defendants and
those who cannot afford to hire well connected and experienced
attorneys to negotiate favorable deals for them. She wrote, So
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will there be another Epstein like travesty? I would hope
that it never happens again, and I don't think that
it will, Yeomenez said, folks, Look, how much more do
we have to explain it? This was a travesty of
epic proportions, and your courts, at every step along the way,
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have sided with Epstein his friends. And this discussing ass
deal I'll leave you with that to think about for
a little while, and as for me, well, I'll be
back later on. If you'd like to contact me, you
can do that at Bobby Kapuchi at ProtonMail dot com.
That's b O B b Y c A p U
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c c I at ProtonMail dot com. You can also
find me on Twitter at b O B B y
underscore c A p U c c I. The link
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