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The 2008 Florida resolution was a state guilty plea combined with a secret federal non‑prosecution agreement (NPA) that allowed Jeffrey Epstein to plead to two state charges—solicitation and procuring...
No — ICE agents are not legally permitted to kill civilians with impunity; federal policy and criminal law limit use of deadly force to situations of imminent threat and make willful deprivations of r...
Federal law permits immigration officers to carry firearms and use force as part of their statutory powers, but that authority is tightly framed by departmental policies, constitutional limits, and in...
The resolution allowed to avoid prosecution through a secret non-prosecution agreement (NPA) negotiated by federal prosecutors while he pleaded guilty in state court to two prostitution-related counts...
Jeffrey Epstein did not plead guilty to federal crimes in 2008; he pleaded guilty in Florida state court to two solicitation/prostitution offenses and entered a non‑prosecution agreement (NPA) under w...
Jeffrey Epstein’s 2007–08 resolution with prosecutors was a non‑prosecution agreement (NPA) that led to Epstein pleading guilty to two state solicitation charges in June 2008, registering as a sex off...
Independent reporting and organizational statements from late August through October 2025 show that consequences for ICE agents accused of misconduct during raids include — but recent accounts also do...
The 2008 prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein centered on a controversial non‑prosecution agreement negotiated by then‑U.S. Attorney R. Alexander Acosta and his office, which allowed Epstein to plead to a s...
Federal prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida negotiated and executed the 2007–2008 non‑prosecution agreement (NPA) with Jeffrey Epstein; the Office of Profess...
says it conducts multi-step pre-employment vetting—including security forms, fingerprint-based background checks, credit checks, and, for some law-enforcement roles, polygraphs—before hiring agents . ...
Federal prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida (USAO‑SDFL), overseen by then‑U.S. Attorney Alexander “Alex” Acosta, negotiated and signed the 2007–2008 non‑pros...
The 2007–08 non‑prosecution agreement (NPA) between federal prosecutors in the Southern District of Florida and Jeffrey Epstein shielded him from federal sex‑trafficking charges in exchange for a guil...
The definitive public repository for ) detainee death reports is ICE’s “” page on ICE.gov, where individual Detainee Death Reports (DDRs) and related announcements are posted pursuant to a congression...
Alexander Acosta, as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, approved and signed off on a 2007 non-prosecution agreement (NPA) that led to Jeffrey Epstein pleading guilty in 2008 to two st...
The lead prosecutor who negotiated Jeffrey Epstein’s 2008 plea deal was Alexander (Alex) Acosta, then U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida; as U.S. attorney he approved a non‑prosecution...
Federal reporting and court records show multiple external lawsuits, judicial rulings and public scrutiny tied to operations led by , but public, detailed accounts of formal internal or CBP disciplina...
In , recorded its deadliest year since 2004 with roughly 31–32 people dying in custody, and reporting and watchdog reviews identify ), ) and ) as among the facilities that have held the most deaths hi...
The available reporting shows two separate threads: Republicans led by Rep. Jim Jordan have opened multiple oversight investigations into the Justice Department, Jack Smith, Big Tech and platforms lik...
Reporting and public documents show that Jeffrey Epstein’s case involved many civil settlements and a controversial 2008 federal non‑prosecution agreement (NPA); some documents and officials describe ...
The investigation of allegations against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents is led internally by the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), which assesses reports via an integ...