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Justice Dept. reassigned oversight of Epstein plea deal to Trump‑appointed U.S. Attorney Byung Pak amid allegations of concealed immunity agreement

The passage identifies specific officials (Byung Pak, Alexander Acosta, Judge Kenneth Marra) and a concrete legal controversy – the alleged concealment of a federal plea agreement that granted Jeffrey Byung J. Pak, a Trump‑appointed U.S. Attorney, will now oversee the Epstein case. Judge Kenneth Marra ruled that former Miami U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta broke the law by hiding t The sealed agree

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November 11, 2025
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House Oversight
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House Oversight #031404
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The passage identifies specific officials (Byung Pak, Alexander Acosta, Judge Kenneth Marra) and a concrete legal controversy – the alleged concealment of a federal plea agreement that granted Jeffrey Byung J. Pak, a Trump‑appointed U.S. Attorney, will now oversee the Epstein case. Judge Kenneth Marra ruled that former Miami U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta broke the law by hiding t The sealed agree

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The reassignment means that the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, Byung J. “BJay” Pak, will oversee the case for the government. Pak, a former Georgia lawmaker, was appointed Atlanta’s chief federal prosecutor by President Trump in October 2017. The Justice Department is still under a Friday deadline for prosecutors to confer with the victims’ attorneys in an effort to settle the case. On Feb. 22, U.S. District Judge Kenneth A. Marra in Palm Beach ruled that federal prosecutors, under former Miami U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta, broke the law when they concealed a plea agreement from more than 30 underage girls in Palm Beach who had been sexually abused by Epstein, a multimillionaire New York hedge fund manager. Marra stopped short of voiding the agreement, which granted Epstein and an untold number of accomplices immunity from federal prosecution for sex trafficking crimes, provided Epstein plead guilty to minor charges in state court. At the time of the plea deal, federal prosecutors had gathered enough evidence against Epstein to write a 53-page federal indictment, court records show. Play Video DurationA 12:20 The story behind a Palm Beach sex offender’s remarkable deal The story behind a Palm Beach sex offender’s remarkable deal Emily Michot An investigation by the Miami Herald, “Perversion of Justice,’’ found that after Acosta met privately with one of Epstein’s lawyers, the government agreed to seal the plea agreement so that no one — not the victims, not even the state court judge who sentenced Epstein — would know the full extent of his crimes. Epstein, now 66, was allowed to plead guilty to prostitution charges and served 13 months in the Palm Beach County jail, where he was given liberal work release, and allowed to travel to New York and his private island in the Caribbean during his subsequent house arrest. He was released in 2009, and now divides his time between New York, Palm Beach and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The Herald interviewed four of Epstein’s victims, who were as young as 13 at the time they were abused by Epstein. They said they felt betrayed by state and federal prosecutors, who treated them like prostitutes instead of victims. Two of them sued the federal government in 2008 under the Crime Victims’ Rights Act, which grants crime victims the right to be informed about plea deals and to confer with prosecutors. Marra, in a 33-page opinion, said prosecutors not only intentionally violated the Crime Victims’ Rights Act, but they misled the girls into believing that the FBI’s sex trafficking case against Epstein was ongoing — when, in fact, prosecutors had secretly closed it after sealing the plea bargain from the public record.

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