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Lawsuit says Jeffrey Epstein trafficked and abused girls on his private island as recently as 2018

The top law enforcement officer in the U.S. Virgin Islands filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the estate of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, alleging that he trafficked and sexually abused girls and women on his private island as recently as 2018. ...

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Video from Epstein’s first apparent suicide attempt lost due to ‘technical errors,’ prosecutors say

It was lost, then it was found, and now it is gone. So goes the saga of video footage from outside the jail cell of multimillionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, recorded on the day he may have first tried, but ...

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D.C. lawyer Charles Cooper takes over Epstein-related libel suit vs. Dershowitz

Washington attorney Charles Cooper, who has represented two attorneys general and is enmeshed in the congressional investigation of President Donald Trump’s contacts with Ukraine, entered the libel case against Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz Thursday after another high-powered attorney, David ...

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After Epstein’s death, attorney general replaces leader at Bureau of Prisons

Attorney General William Barr announced Monday that he is replacing the head of the Bureau of Prisons, marking the latest fallout from the death in federal custody of multimillionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Hugh Hurwitz, the agency’s acting head, will ...

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Attorney general rips ‘failure’ of prison officials to keep Epstein alive

WASHINGTON – Attorney General William Barr on Monday decried what he called a “failure” by federal detention center officials in New York to secure Jeffrey Epstein, pointing to unspecified “irregularities” there that preceded the wealthy sex offender’s apparent suicide while ...

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Analysis: Epstein’s case will be dismissed, but his death has far-reaching legal consequences

A New York federal court unsealed a trove of Jeffrey Epstein-related documents on Friday, making public for the first time some of the lurid details of his alleged abuses. The next morning, prison officials found the financier – along with ...

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Federal New York lockup draws new scrutiny in Epstein death

NEW YORK (AP) — The apparent suicide of Jeffrey Epstein has brought new scrutiny to a federal jail in New York that, despite chronic understaffing, houses some of the highest-security inmates in the country. Epstein’s death is also the latest ...

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Epstein’s lawyers say they need year to review documents

Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyers say they need at least a year to review a blizzard of documents prosecutors have gathered against the fund manager as they prepare to defend him against charges of sex trafficking in minors and conspiracy. The Justice ...

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