Memo: Sex offender Jeffrey Epstein talked to FBI to get plea deal
[{"sender": "Scott J. Link", "recipients": ["jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]"], "timestamp": "5/30/2018 11:23:48 PM", "subject": "Memo: Sex offender Jeffrey Epstein talked to FBI to get plea deal", "body": "https://www.mypalmbeachpost.com/news/crime--law/fbi-epstein-files-say-gave-info-does-explain-sweetheart-deal/NdgitAifcilk6édJgpLV630/?utm_source=newspaper&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=4832804&ecmp=newspaper_email&\n\nFBI Epstein files say he gave info. Does it explain sweetheart deal?\n\nUpdated: 12:28 p.m. Wednesday, May 30, 2018 | Posted: 12:21 p.m. Wednesday, May 30, 2018\n\nUma Sanghvi WEST PALM BEACH —\n\nTen years after convicted Palm Beach sex offender Jeffrey Epstein escaped federal charges in connection with allegations that he paid dozens of teenage girls for sex, the FBI last week released what appears to be an explosive explanation for what many have long described as a sweetheart deal.\n\n“Epstein has also provided information to the FBI as agreed upon,” agents wrote in one of dozens of heavily redacted, decade-old memos that were unexpectedly and inexplicably posted on an FBI website known as “The Vault.”\n\nThe simple declaration stunned those who have been following the tortuous and celebrity-studded case for years. It rekindled talk that the billionaire’s 2008 decision to plead guilty to state charges to make the federal investigation disappear was part of a cover up to protect Epstein’s high-powered friends, including President Donald Trump, former President Bill Clinton and Britain’s Prince Andrew.\n\n“That sentence obviously means something but I, too, am at a loss as to what it really means,” said attorney Brad Edwards, who for a decade has been trying to unravel the mystery of Epstein’s plea deal. “If there was some cooperation I would have expected that we would have been told. However, nothing surprises me at this point.”\n\nIn recent years, federal prosecutors have offered various explanations for why they agreed to drop the case they were building against the 65-year-old enigmatic money manager if he pleaded guilty to state prostitution charges. In court papers, they have said they wanted to get justice for Epstein’s young victims but worried a jury wouldn’t believe them."}]