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38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. Yugoslavia when she was about fifteen. said that Mr. Epstein would take naked photographs of her and other girls and display the photographs in the house. In a letter to Mr. Recarey, Mr. Dershowitz enclosed snippets gathered from | | presence on social media. Mr. Dershowitz noted that lll chose to go by the nickname “pimp juice,” and he noted tha€fiiiappcared to have a fascination with marijuana. Mr. Dershowitz said that the two investigators who tried to speak with her were instructed beforehand to take notes, out of feat that she was an accomplished drama student, who, Mr. Dershowitz said, had misled others in the past and might try to do the same with the investigators. Mr. Dershowitz suggested that . motivation was money, to be “really rich.” In July 2006, Krischer, charged Mr. Epstein with one count of aggravated assault. There was no mention of underage girls, nor a requirement to register as a sex offender, nora threat of jail time. In 2007, Mr. Epstein argued that he was being persecuted because he was Jewish. Lawyers for Mr. Epstein said that he was being unjustly targeted because of his wealth. In the fall of 2007, Mr. Epstein’s legal team negotiated a non-prosecution agreement, in which the federal government would throw out its indictment if Mr. Epstein pleaded to two state felony charges, solicitation of prostitution and procuring minors for prostitution. Mr. Epstein would also register as a sex offender and pay lawyers’ fees for the victims who sued him. The agreement also contained a clause that protected four of Mr. Epstein’s assistants, including _— prosecution. In the final days of the negotiations, an unusual provision was added that guaranteed immunity for “any potential co-conspirators.” Afterward, over nine months, Mr. Dershowitz and his team investigated prosecutors and their families, attempting to disqualify them, in order to prove the prosecution was tainted. The U.S. Attorney rejected these attempts. When officials at the Justice Department ruled that the charges offered by Mr. Dershowitz’s team were baseless, Mr. Dershowitz’s team went to more senior officials. Can you confirm that this description is accurate? On June 30, 2008, with every alternative exhausted, Mr. Epstein pleaded guilty. He was given an eighteen-month sentence in a county jail, and allowed to depart every day, on work release, for an office that he had acquired nearby. At the office, Mr. Epstein received visitors, and a policeman served them coffee. Mr. Epstein told a friend that he was reading “De Profundis” in prison. Mr. Epstein was released after thirteen months. In 2007, Ms. Maxwell called | AG was living outside of Sydney. Ms. Maxwell told aR 2: Mr. Epstein was being investigated, and that if i refused to cooperate, she’d be “taken care of.” [jtold Ms. Maxwell that she wouldn’t speak to anyone, but she declined compensation. A few days later, Mr. Epstein and his lawyer called to hear directly from her that she wouldn’t be speaking to anyone. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022241