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Investigations into Epstein's activities.
The document titled EFTA00025010 is one of the Department of Justice’s publicly released Epstein-related files and is an unclassified PDF on the DOJ site that reproduces a complaint/tip submitted to t...
A reliable authentication of the viral Sascha/Sasha Riley audio requires a multilayered forensics and records approach: confirm the speaker’s identity, run technical audio forensics, map claims agains...
Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted in December 2021 on five federal sex‑trafficking–related counts for her role in recruiting, grooming and facilitating the sexual abuse of underage girls in connection w...
, then County state attorney, justified the limited 2007 state-level outcome in the matter by pointing to the evidence the local grand jury returned—a single solicitation charge—and the parallel that ...
Federal prosecutors in the 2007 Florida non‑prosecution agreement listed “potential co‑conspirators” and that document explicitly included the names Sarah Kellen, Adriana Ross (also cited as Adriana M...
The Justice Department has defended its redactions in the staggered release of Jeffrey Epstein materials as legally necessary to protect victim identities, to avoid jeopardizing ongoing investigations...
prepared by prosecutors in in 2007 allegedly laid out dozens of sex‑trafficking and related charges against and unnamed co‑defendants, describing systematic recruitment and sexual abuse of underage gi...
Multiple news organizations and investigative teams are actively trawling the ’s newly published and publishing name-driven reporting, and several outlets have built searchable write‑ups or trackers—w...
The (NPA) signed in the Epstein matter promised that would forgo federal prosecution of and “any potential co‑conspirators,” explicitly naming four women as co‑conspirators in the deal; the clause has...
Several high-profile lawyers appear in the public record in connection with ’s network — most prominently , who is tied to negotiations around the , and lead plaintiffs’ counsel such as and , who purs...
The (NPA) in effectively halted a contemporaneous federal prosecution, granted broad immunity tied to a sealed deal, and left victims uninformed — outcomes that delayed, narrowed, and complicated late...
The public debate over who had — and who still has — authority in the investigations has been framed by two competing claims: officials say federal investigative and disclosure work is complete and th...
The (NPA) with legally insulated the from prosecuting Epstein—and, by the NPA’s text and related prosecutorial practice, foreclosed that office from pursuing “four named co‑conspirators” and “any pote...
’s unsealed indictment in July 2019 charged with two federal counts: and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of minors, alleging he paid and enticed underage girls to engage in sexual acts in exchang...
The ’s recent release of roughly three million pages (part of a larger 3.5 million‑page production the department says complies with the Transparency Act) expanded the public record with emails, inter...
investigation triggered both state and federal probes into ’s sex abuse of underage girls, produced grand-jury testimony and for solicitation, but ultimately culminated in a controversial non‑prosecut...
The (NPA) in materially curtailed the immediate federal investigation into , left victims without notice, and created long‑running legal and political disputes over who — if anyone — was protected by ...
— the state attorney who first handled the matter — appears in multiple reporting threads as an active interlocutor with federal prosecutors and defense counsel in 2007–2008, but the documentary recor...
Publicly available records in the recently released files and longstanding reporting show one early complainant—artist ) about Epstein in 1996, but the sources provided do not identify other well‑know...
is a conservative lawyer and former U.S. attorney who rose from a Harvard education to senior posts and ultimately served as ’s Secretary of Labor from 2017–2019 . His career accomplishments — includi...