House Oversight Letter Raises Concerns Over Use of 18 U.S.C. § 2255 in Deferred Prosecution Deal with Jeffrey Epstein

The passage identifies a potentially novel legal maneuver-using a civil restitution statute (18 U.S.C. § 2255) to fund lump‑sum settlements in a deferred‑prosecution agreement with Jeffrey Epstein. It Federal prosecutors may be tying civil settlement payments to a deferred prosecution agreement with Lump‑sum payments to unnamed civil claimants could create incentives that compromise witness testi