Push to Unseal Epstein‑Maxwell Court Records Highlights Potential DOJ Non‑Prosecution Deal and Links to High‑Profile Figures

4 The Virgin Islands Daily News VIRGIN ISLANDS Wednesday, July 3, 2019 Where are the Eein records? ITtiajrnji Lill! :ler WN subsequently filed, but ti. courtpst ho yd Marra ord.. the government and to malce a final ruling attorneys for the victims to come up The Miami Herald - one of the in- with remedies to address the federal Three months have passed since a tervenors in the case - has submitted violation. judicial panel in New York h.rd azgu- a leaer to die court urging the judges to U.S. Attorney Byung Pak responded ments to unseal documents that could follow tkough on the case in the wake last week, saying that Epstein's victims reveal whether federal prosectaors of a controversial .Itttice Department are free to express their dithleasure covered up evi.nce that New York fi- decision last week. In a 35-page mo- about what prosecutors did, but they nanc. Jeffrey Epstein and others were tion, filed June2;e4.,dfttet rtta,leprse.. cutors have no right under the law to demand limning an underage sex trafficldng in eorglad ec.a y not anything from die government - opFation not :aside Epstein, federal non-prosecu- even an apology. h. h, the Sant. L. Muer, the Miami Her. United Sta. It Georgienta decision dealt another Ad, aaorney, said that Pak, decision Court of Appeals Now to Epstein, victOis who have lighlights the pressing need for the New . the Second Cir- been fighting for a de.de to have the York appeals court to expedite unsealing cuit seem. poised deal drown out a. to p.sure die the documents in Mowed', case. to release some .Itttice Department to prosecute die That case is a 2015 defamation law- documents in the 669e000k1 multimillionaire on sec suit filed against Maxwell, the daughter case. The records trafficking charges. ft also means that of die late British media mogul Robert involve Epstein, the Justice Department has no intention Maxvved Maxwell, now 57 and an ow, one-timO patine, of allowir Epstein, victims and die ronmentalist, has been accused of assist- Ghislaine Max- Jeffrey Epstein public to examine die facts of E.tein, ing Epstein in die trafficking of under- well, who has been case and reach their own conclusions, age gi. and your women to powerful accused of helping him recruit and sex- the Her. azgu. in the letter. and wealthy politicians, lawyers, scie. ually exploit gido and young women In February, a federal judge in nor- tists and businessmen. in various locations around the Unit. ida, Kenneth A. Marra, rtded in die She has denied the allegations and has Stat. and abroad in the late 1990s and victims' faVOr, ooyiog that die gthern- never been charged with any crim.. early 2000s. mera violated the Crime Victims' Right The Herald, lawyer contends that The appeals panel gave all parties in Act when it failed to inform Epstein, die Justice Depar.ent, decision hg the case until March 29 to file addition- victims that prosecutors had secredy A pleadings. Several challengoo were dispos. of the case. Zeulec.sshtntIva:thpeureTcLittcaa „,..) STUDENT. LEADER. SOLDIER. I n the Army National Guard, you can be all three. (833) 340 -1973 nationalguard.com ity and, therefore, it, more urgent than settled in 2017.4 contingent of odier ever that the Maxwell case be made media companies, a conservative social media blogger and Epstein, lawyer, ..[Pak,] submission malc. clear that Alan Derthowitz, are oho seeking to access to the document that [die Her- have the Maxwell case ma. public. ald and other parties] seek in [the Max- The .famation case was filed against well] matter remains an issue of critical Maxwell by Virg.a Roberts Giuffre, public concern,” Bauer wrote in a let- who claims the was recruit. by Mu- ter to Catherine O'Hagan Wolfe, clerk well when she was 16 and working as of the court for the appeals panel. He a spa attendant at Mar-a-Lago, Trump, said the government ..essentially argues lavith courary club in Pahn B.ch In that Epstein, victims are not entitled to court papers, she daimed that Epstein any meaningful r.ress, including par- and Maxwell directed her to have sec tial rescission, declaratory relief and with public figures. In a sworn affida- specific injunctive relief requested." vit, she has named Prince Andrew and In 2008, the FBI had identified near- Dershowitz as among those she had sex ly tiree dozen underage victims who with when she was underage. Both the were allegedly lured to Epstein, man- prince and the famed lawyer have de- sion in Pa. Beath under the .1:text ni. her claims. that he would pay diem for massages. Dershowitz want the Maxwell case The girls, mostly 1310 16 years old made public beuse he says that the were groom. by Epstein and others documents will exonerate h.. Also l'ici::Zicd'irkielidmfciran tecr'se, party to the appeal is social media blog- ger Michael Cernovich. showed. Based on the court filings, the case is In November, the Miami Herald believ. to contain a range of evi.nce, publish. an inv.tigation that exam- including t.timony from other pos- in. how then-Miami U.S. Aaomey sible underage victims who were aaf- Alexander Acosta negotiat. a secret fic.d. All parti. in the case, including non-prosecution agreement that re- the Herald, hoe agreed to redact the sult. in Epstein receivir an extraor- nam. of minors and other details that thnarily light sentence. would identify victims. Acosta, who is now President Maxwell is the sole party fighting to Donald Trump, labor secret, keep the ertire record sealed.TWo other ensurod that the agreement was currently toidentifi. people, labeft seal. so that no one - not even the themselv. as Jolui Do., have fil. victims - would .ow tile scope legal briefs in an 000090 10 conceal of Epstein, crimes or who was in- personal information that could con- li0 volv.. Epstein, lawyers worked to- nect them to die alleged underage sec gether with prosecutors to limit pub- trafficking operation. scruti,y of the case, and arranged° Epstein, who was not party to the the:gtec's ?Inet taltYe Pc loeuarl, Maxwell suit, has deni. that he ran a sex traffichng operation, and his at- ald seri. reveal.. tomeys say that the number of victims The handling of the case is nom under involv. has been-vastly exaggerated" investigation by the Department ofJustice. by the media. As part 01 160 Herald, series, the In addition to Florida and N.Y., Ep- newspper went to court in 2018 to stein liv. on Liale St. James Island off unseal the Maxwell case, which was St Thomas. • Passport PM. • Imorton Pholokos • Driver's License P • NlockBedge • Image Pestebon DO YOU NEED A PROFESSIONAL HEADSHOT PICTURE FOR WORK, TRAVEL, OR DRIVING? HUGHES PHOTO Sunny Isle Shopping Center. St Croix • (340) 778-6827