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[{"sender": "Lilly Sanchez", "recipients": ["jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]"], "timestamp": "3/5/2019 11:08:12 PM", "subject": "Herald", "body": "Miami U.S. Attorney’s Office recuses itself from Jeffrey Epstein case\n\nPlay Video\n\nDurationA 3:51\nAG nominee Barr pledges to look into handling of Epstein case\n\nSen. Ben Sasse questioned attorney general nominee William Barr about the Jeffrey Epstein case on January 15,\n2019, getting the nominee to commit to having the Department of Justice look into the handling of that case if\nconfirmed. C-SPAN Meta Viers\n\nBY JULIE K. BROWN\n\njbrown@miamiherald.com\n\nOOO00C0O\n\nJust days before a Friday deadline, the Justice Department has reassigned the Jeffrey Epstein victims’ rights case to\n\nthe U.S. Attorney’s Office in Atlanta, the attorneys representing Epstein’s victims’ attorneys said Tuesday.\n\nMiami federal prosecutors, in letter to attorneys for the victims’s lawyers on Monday, said they had recused\n\nthemselves from the case, according to Brad Edwards and Jack Scarola, representing Epstein’s victims.\n\nThe reassignment means that the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, Byung J. “BJay” Pak, will\noversee the case for the government. Pak, a former Georgia lawmaker, was appointed Atlanta’s chief federal\n\nprosecutor by President Trump in October 2017.\n\nThe Justice Department is still under a Friday deadline for prosecutors to confer with the victims’ attorneys in an\neffort to settle the case. On Feb. 22, U.S. District Judge Kenneth A. Marra in Palm Beach ruled that federal\n\nprosecutors, under former Miami U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta, broke the law when they concealed a plea"}]