The American lawyer for the South District of New York Geoffrey Berman underlines a photo of the sex offender Jeffery Epstein on July 8, 2019, when he announces that Epstein was accused of minors of sexual traffic and conspiracy.
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Almost six years after Jeffrey Epstein’s death in police custody, speculation abounds on information for transcriptions and other documents related to the wealthy financial surveys which was a sexual offender condemned and accused of sexual traffic by young women and girls at 14 years old.
The Trump administration undergoes increasing pressure to release “Epstein files” – a call that President Trump has sometimes joined, even if his own links with Epstein undergo renewed control.
In a process covering decades, criminal affairs against Epstein culminated with accusations that he exploited a ring of sex trafficking to young women and minor girls. Prosecutors say he was helped by Ghislaine Maxwell, his long -standing partner who is currently in prison.
But while thousands of pages of deposits and other legal documents have been filed – and some have been published – public calls have increased for a publication of all files.
The interest in the case has persisted with the perception that Epstein used its richness and its status as an elite – welcoming powerful people on private jets and socializing in Palm Beach, Florida, New York, London and a Caribbean island – not only to commit heinous crimes, but to avoid responsibility for them.
Here is a brief calendar of legal affairs against Epstein:
2005
March: The police opened a criminal investigation into Epstein in Palm Beach, Florida, after the parents of a 14 -year -old girl said he had paid her a massage.
Police collect more allegations of minor girls who say that he has sexually mistreated them in his manor, in meetings that have often started as massages. Federal prosecutors later said that abuse began in 2002.
The manor by the water of Jeffrey Epstein in Palm Beach, Florida, is seen in July 2019. The house was demolished two years later.
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2006
July 19: A great jury of the county of Palm Beach induces Epstein on an accusation of state of solicitation of prostitution. But the chief of the Palm Beach police department and the main detective then returned the case to a nearby FBI office, claiming that the accusation does not reflect “all of the Epstein conduct”, according to examination of the Ministry of Justice on the case.
2007
Can: An assistant American prosecutor – who worked with two FBI agents to find more victims – submits a draft indictment describing 60 criminal charges against Epstein, as well as a memo summarizing the proofs gathered against him.
July: Epstein lawyers meet the American lawyer’s office for the southern Florida district. The main prosecutor was then the United States lawyer, Alex Acosta (who in 2017 would become President Trump’s work secretary). The American lawyer’s office proposes to put an end to his investigation if Epstein pleads guilty to two state accusations and agrees to accept a prison sentence, to register as a sexual offender and to set up a means for his victims to obtain monetary damages.
The highly criticized agreement includes a controversial non-propulsion, or NPA agreement, in which the office of the federal prosecutor grants immunity to Epstein, four co-conspirators and “any potential co-conspirator”, said the Ministry of Justice. Prosecutors agree not to speak to the victims of Epstein of the NPA, which is deposited under Seal.
2008
June 30: Epstein pleads guilty of accusations of state of solicitation of prostitution and solicitation of prostitution with a minor under the age of 18 – and is sentenced to 18 months in a minimum security establishment.
Epstein was presented on July 27, 2006, on an arrest photo made available by the Sheriff’s office in Palm Beach, Florida.
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But the rich businessman is authorized to leave for 12 hours a day to work in a foundation which he had recently constituted, according to the Ministry of Justice.
July 7: A victim identified as “Jane Doe” files a federal legal action under the law on the rights of the victims of the crime, claiming that it and other victims had not been informed that the Epstein affair was resolved with a advocacy agreement. In 2019, a judge ruled in their favor.
2009
July 22: Epstein is released after serving less than 13 months.
September: Two years after the signing of the non-propulsion agreement, a Florida judge ordered that the document giving Epstein the federal immunity of Epstein is made public, in response to the prosecution against the victims and the Epstein media.
2010
Epstein has settled multiple civil proceedings brought against him by his victims.
2015
September 21: Epstein accuser, Virginia Roberts Guffre, continues the Confident Epstein and associate Ghislaine Maxwell for defamation, after Maxwell called him a liar for pretending to be a victim of a sexual conspiracy led by Maxwell and Epstein. (In 2021, Maxwell was found guilty of helping Epstein to exploit a sex traffic ring that attacked adolescents and young women and is currently serving a 20 -year prison sentence.)
Epstein is seen in a photo alongside the longtime partner Ghislaine Maxwell on July 2, 2020, as a American prosecutor for the South New York district Audrey Strauss indicates the photo.
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2017
Can: Maxwell settles Guffre’s trial, a question in which Epstein had repeatedly sought to avoid testifying. But journalist Julie K. Brown and the Miami Herald Subsequently deposit requests for a non-sliced files of the case, citing the right of public access and its coverage of the abuse of “dozens of minors”.
2018
November 28: THE Miami Herald Publishes a series of investigation reports on Epstein and the role of the Acosta Advocate of the Acosta Acosta in the Epstein advocacy agreement. The reports arouse intense interest in Epstein’s actions, including the idea that powerful people could have known or be involved in its illegal actions.
December 4: A week after Herald Report, Epstein reached a last minute settlement in a defamation case with lawyer Bradley Edwards, who represented women alleging that Epstein had mistreated them when they were minors. The regulations put an end to a case which had been planned to testify for the first time the victims of Epstein.
2019
July 6: Federal agents stop Epstein. He was charged to the South New York district court of a sexual traffic chief of minors and a conspiracy chief to commit sexual trafficking of minors.
The accusers of Epstein Annie Farmer (on the left) and Courtney Wild (3rd on the left) left the courthouse on July 15, 2019, after a bailing hearing in the Epstein sex traffic case in New York.
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July 12: Acosta resigns as a secretary to work, saying that Epstein matter is a job distraction of her agency.
August 10: Epstein was found dead in the Metropolitan Correctional Center, the federal detention center where he was detained in Manhattan. The New York City chief medical examiner later concluded that Epstein died by suicide.
August 27: The American district judge Richard M. Berman holds an audience on a request for rejection of the indictment against Epstein. In a remarkable decision, he also says that the court will hear “the testimony of the victims here today” – an offer taken by many women that day, under their own name or as “Jane Doe”.
Courtney Wild, who had helped start the first procedure against Epstein in Florida more than 10 years earlier, is one of those who advance.
“Jeffrey Epstein sexually abused me for years, depriving myself of my innocence and my mental health,” she said. “Jeffrey Epstein has only manipulated our legal system, where he has never been held responsible for his actions, even to date.”
