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Email chain discussing leveraging Jeffrey Epstein's alleged Clinton ties to target a Trump administration official and defending federal handling o...

The passage reveals a strategic conversation about using Epstein's purported connection to Bill Clinton to politically damage a Trump administration official, and it references high‑level officials (S Michael Wolff suggests reviving Epstein's alleged Clinton connection to attack a Trump administratio Ken Starr’s forwarded email defends the federal intrusion into Epstein’s Florida case and praises

Date
November 11, 2025
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House Oversight
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House Oversight #030318
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The passage reveals a strategic conversation about using Epstein's purported connection to Bill Clinton to politically damage a Trump administration official, and it references high‑level officials (S Michael Wolff suggests reviving Epstein's alleged Clinton connection to attack a Trump administratio Ken Starr’s forwarded email defends the federal intrusion into Epstein’s Florida case and praises

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From: Michael Wolff iS | Sent: 12/15/2018 5:03:19 PM To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com] ce: Kathy Ruen ne) Es Doren indvke a; Subject: Re: Seems very good. Is there reason or opportunity here to evoke JE's Clinton connection? He had been publicly connected to the former President and became a proxy for the considerable anger at high levels of the Federal government that still surrounded Clinton. Likewise now, one reason to revive the story is that it is a way to tara Trump administration official, who, in the normal course of his duties, happened to deal with the case. On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 11:28 AM J <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: thoughts. From: Ken Starr {i Date: Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 11:24 AM Subject: Re: To: J <jeevacation@gmail.com> Cm NCE Do sie #8 = le Here goes: "Sweetheart deal! " So goes the critique of the resolution of a long-ago case involving our former client -- and now-friend -- Jeffrey Epstein. The critique is profoundly misplaced, supported neither by the law or the facts, nor by the structure of our constitutional republic. To the contrary, Jeffrey was subjected to an unprecedented federal intrusion into a quintessentially local criminal matter in south Florida. His offense to the social order -- involving sex for hire -- was entirely a matter entrusted to laws of the several States, not the federal government. His conduct -- a classic state offense --was being treated exactly that way by able, honest prosecutors in Palm Beach County, but the overweening federal government intruded where it did not belong. And now, over ten years after the fact, the current assault on federal decision-makers at the time, including now-Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta (then the United States Attorney in south Florida), condemns the federal authorities for not going far enough. The critics are entirely wrong. Neither the facts nor the law support the misguided criticisms being leveled by journalists and politicians at federal officials from over a decade ago -- including the highest levels of the Justice Department in Washington, D.C. . Here are the key facts: Jeffrey Epstein, a successful self-made businessman with no prior criminal history whatever, engaged in illegal conduct that amounts to solicitation of prostitution. That was wrong, and it was reasonably viewed as a violation of Florida state law. Although no coercion, violence, alcohol, drugs and the like were involved, the unsavory facts were carefully assessed by experienced state prosecutors who aggressively enforce state criminal laws. No one turned a blind eye to potential offenses to the public order. To the contrary, the Palm Beach State Attorney's Office conducted an extensive 15-month investigation, led by the chief of the Sex Crimes Division. Mr. Epstein was then indicted by a state grand jury on a single felony count of solicitation of prostitution. During that intense investigation, the state prosecutors extensively gathered and analyzed the evidence, met face-to-face with many of the asserted victims, considered their credibility -- or lack thereof -- and considered

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