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Multiple federal and state judges have figured in litigation and investigations tied to Jeffrey Epstein over many years; key names in the reporting include U.S. Magistrate Judge Henry B. Pitman (initi...
Jeffrey Epstein’s 2019 federal arrest and the preparations for any trial drew on lawyers who had longstanding ties to his earlier defense efforts — most prominently Alan Dershowitz and Roy Black, both...
Federal reporting and court filings identify U.S. District Judge Kenneth A. Marra as the judge who in 2019 ruled on the legality of Jeffrey Epstein’s 2008 non‑prosecution agreement; that 2019 decision...
A federal judge in ruled in 2019 that prosecutors violated the Crime Victims’ Rights Act (CVRA) by secretly negotiating the 2007 non‑prosecution agreement (NPA) that resulted in pleading to lesser sta...
No Epstein victims’ claims against Bill Clinton were legally substantiated in court: no criminal charges were brought against him related to Epstein’s crimes, and the best-known plaintiff, Virginia Gi...
Federal prosecutors in 2007–08 used a non‑prosecution agreement (NPA) that let Jeffrey Epstein plead to Florida state prostitution charges, serve a short local sentence and avoid federal prosecution —...