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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
ICE reported 12 deaths in its custody for fiscal year (FY) 2024, up from 4 in FY2023 and 3 in FY2022, and human-rights and public-health reviews identify medical neglect, suicide and COVID-19 as leadi...
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...
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 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...
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...
There is no authoritative public count of how many migrants have died or gone missing specifically while in U.S. Border Patrol custody since 2010; federal oversight reports and advocacy databases docu...
The question "How many federal officers were injured on January 6, 2021?" lacks a single undisputed tally across the presented sources, but multiple contemporaneous and later reports converge on that ...
Definitive proof that a current or former ICE employee is a member of the Proud Boys would come from primary-source personnel or investigative records that explicitly document affiliation — records ag...
Federal prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) brought the July 2019 indictment that led to Jeffrey Epstein’s arrest; the arrest was announced by SDNY’s...