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Court papers filed Monday say the U.S. Attorney's Office violated 
the Crime Victims' Rights Act by signing a nonprosecution 
agreement with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein without notifying his 
victims. 
Attorneys Brad Edwards and Paul Cassell, representing Jane Doe 
#1 and Jane Doe #2. want a court hearing. where they will ask that 
the agreement be invalidated because, they say, the victims' rights 
were violated. If that happens, it could open up the 58-year-old 
Palm Beach billionaire to a slew of federal charges involving sex 
crimes with minors that were set aside by the agreement. 
The motion, filed Monday in federal court in West Palm Beach, 
accuses the U.S. Attorneys Office of deliberately misleading the 
victims by telling them the investigation was ongoing, while 
concealing they had already signed a deal with Epstein. 
According to the motion, the U.S. Attorneys Office sent 'false 
notification" letters in January 2008 and May 2008 to the victims 
saying "(t)his case is currently under investigation" after the 
government had signed the agreement with Epstein in September 
2007. 
'The only reason that the (U.S. Attorney's Office) concealed the 
existence of the non-prosecution agreement from the victims was 
not to comply with some legal restriction, but rather to avoid a 
firestorm of public controversy that would have erupted if the 
sweetheart plea deal with a politically connected billionaire had been 
revealed." the motion says. 
If Epstein were found guilty on federal charges. Statutory penalties 
ranged from 10 years to life. 
Instead. the sealed pact was part and parcel of Epstein's 
acceptance of a state plea deal, where he received an 18-month 
sentence for soliciting a minor for prostitution and soliciting 
prostitution. He served 13 months segregated in a vacant wing of 
the county stockade and was let out on work release six days a 
week for up to 16 hours a day. 
Edwards and other attorneys fought in court for a year before 
successfully getting the agreement unsealed in September 2009. 
More than 30 minor girls were identified as Epstein's victims in the 
pact. 
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Doe 1 and 2. who were 14 and 13. respectively, at the time of the 
incidents. received monetary settlements in civil cases. They are 
among more than two-dozen underage girls who filed lawsuits or 
settled claims against Epstein. alleging they were lured to his Palm 
Beach mansion to give him sexually charged massages and/or sex 
in exchange for money. 
The motion filed Monday says the agreement is Illegal because the 
government did not protect the "Congressionally mandated rights of 
victims before it entered this agreement: 
Alicia Valle. special counsel for the U.S. Attorney's Office Southern 
District of Florida. said in an e-mail that the U.S. Attorneys Office 
will respond in court filings. 
'However, as we stated more than two years ago in July 2008 in our 
response to the plaintiffs' then-emergency petition for enforcement 
of the Crime Victim Rights Act, the CVRA was not violated because 
no federal charges were ever filed in the Southern District of 
Florida: Valle said. "Because the matter remains pending in court. It 
would be inappropriate at this time to provide additional comment on 
the merits of the current motion." 
The attorneys reference e-mails and letters from the federal office to 
Epstein's lawyers acknowledging the government's legal obligation 
to inform victims about the pact. The e-mails are redacted in the 
motion because they are under seal. The attorneys filed a separate 
motion Monday to unseal the correspondence. 
'The reasonable inference from the evidence is that the U.S. 
Attorney's Office wanted to keep the agreement a secret to avoid 
intense criticism that would surely ensued had the victims and the 
public learned that a billionaire sex offender with political 
connections had arranged to avoid federal prosecution for numerous 
felony sex offenses against minor girls: the motion says. "As pan of 
this pattern of deception, the U.S. Attorney's Office discussed victim 
notification with the defendant sex offender and. after he raised 
objections, stopped making notifications." 
Epstein sought "a higher level of review" within the Department of 
Justice, the motion says. "A reasonable inference from the evidence 
is that Epstein used his significant political and social connections to 
lobby the Justice Department to avoid significant federal 
prosecution." the motion states. 
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