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Ise attorneys for two gels who contend they were assaulted by billionaire and 
cted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein filed court papers on Monday claiming the 
U.S. Attorney's office minted the Crime Victims' Rights Act by signing a nonprosecutlon agreement with Epstein 
ut notifying them. the Palm Beach Daly News reported. 
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Epstein served 13 months in jail from June 2008 to July 2009 for one state count of soliciting 
an underage gel for prostitution. As a result. he is required to register as a sex offender. While 
he wasn't prosecuted for additional charges. more than 40 girls under the age of 18 say they 
came to his home and gave him massages. Dung the massages. they say. he masturbated 
and sexually assaulted them. 
Brad Edwards and Paul Cassell. attorneys representing two of his alleged victims. say in 
the Ming that the U.S. Attorney's office for the Southern District of Florida of deliberately 
misled the earns by telling them there was an ongoing investigation into their claims. 
However. they say. the office was concealing the fact that they already had signed a 
osecuton deal with Epsteei. 
ding to the motion. the U.S. Attorney's office in January 2008 and May 2008 sent 'false notification" letters n to 
min's alleged victims saying lt pis case is currently under investigation: However, the office had signed the agreement 
ipstem in September 2007. 
Ittomeys want a court hearing during which they a ask that the agreement be invalidated because a violated the 
is rights. In the mobon, the attorneys clan the agreement is illegal because the goverment did not protect the 
yessicnally mandated rights of victims before it entered the agreement:* 
dge grants the request. Epstein could be charged by the U.S. Attorney's office. If he were charged and convicted on
al charges, he could be sentenced to 10 yeas to ale for each charge. 
ding to the motion. 'The only reason that the (U.S. Attorney's office) concealed the existence of the non-prosecution 
iment from the victims was not to comply with some legal restriction. but rather to avoid a firestorm of pubes 
wersy that would have erupted if the sweetheart plea deal with a politicaly connected billionasre had been revealed: 
Valle. special counsel for the U.S. Attorney's Office Southern District of Florida. in an email to the newspaper that the 
Attorney's office will respond in court filings. 
ever. as we stated more than two yeas ago in July 2008 in our response to the plaintiffs' thenernergency petition for 
cement of the Crime Victim Rights Act the CVRA was not violated because no federal charges were ever filed in the 
rem District of Florida: Valle SSG 'Because the matter remains pending in court. it would be inappropnate at this time 
wide additional comment on the merits of the current motion.' 
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