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| title: "House Oversight: Estate Documents (Nov 12) (HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022763)" |
| source: "House Oversight: Estate Documents (Nov 12)" |
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| date: "2026-01-01" |
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| prosecute him (with the possibility of a 10-year sentence) and various |
| friends, associates, and lovers, or offers what seems to be unprecedented |
| deal in which Epstein's lawyers (not federal prosecutors, but Epstein's |
| lawyers, in some ultimate act of self incrimination) have to go to the Palm |
| Beach authorities and convince them to up the charges to an offense that will |
| send him to jail and get him a sex offender status. Except that a solicitation |
| charge won't produce that result. Therefore he has to agree to a procurement |
| or pimping charge (even though he has paid money, not received it-the sine |
| qua non of pimping). What's more, in a unique, if not unprecedented |
| arrangement, he has to agree to pay the legal fees of any of the girls who |
| want to sue him— and, not to defend himself from their suits- forcing him |
| to settle with each of the girls for what are reportedly high 6-figure sums or |
| more. |
| He's sentence to jail in 2008 for 18 months and serves 13 (while |
| Epstein is now frequently accused of somehow managing to cut short his |
| sentence, almost all Florida prisoners serve only 70% of their officially |
| sentenced time ) |
| Jail hardly ends the legal catch all. Epstein's butler, Alfredo |
| Rodriguez, steals and tries to sell an alleged journal or calendar with |
| Epstein's activities— but he tries to sell it to an undercover agent. Rodriguez |
| is sentenced to 18 months in jail on a charge of theft and of withholding |
| evidence (it is not so much a journal as a list of phone numbers, which were |
| apparently collected or saved by Rod Rodriguez, all of this material was |
| subsequently included in a court filing by Edwards). Scott Rothstein, a |
| lawyer whose firm represented additional girls in their suits against Epstein, |
| also goes to jail for recruiting investors to pay for these suits on the |
| fraudulent basis that settlements had already been reached. It's the largest |
| fraud in Florida history and Rothstein receives a 50-year sentence. |
| Then, Brad Edwards, Rothstein's former partner, sues the federal |
| government in 2008 for abridging the rights of two of the original |
| complainants under the Crime Victim Rights Act (giving victims the right to |
| be consulted about the disposition of their cases) regarding the Justice |
| Departments agreement not to prosecute in favor of the state action. In 2014, |
| Edwards tries to ad Virginia Roberts, another of the original complainants, |
| who has previously settled with Epstein, to the long-running suit. Roberts |
| who was paid a settlement under the original terms of Epstein's agreement- |
| that he would pay attorney's fees and not oppose any law suits against |
| him-is now trying to overturn the agreement under which she was paid, |
| and, with Edwards, further suing Epstein for $50,000,000. |
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