Timeline of Jeffrey Epstein legal actions reveals repeated plea negotiations, non‑prosecution agreements, and alleged involvement of high‑profile officials

Wednesday, February 2Z 2019 PERVERSION OF' JUSTICE TheVirgin Islands Daily News 15 For years, Jeffrey Epstein abused teen girls, police say. A timeline of his case 2005 March: A 14,eaKild girl and .r parents report that Jeffrey Epstein molested her at a mansion in Palm stsdlaV,IT:trat Royal Palm Beach High School had taken .r to t. house to gve him a massage in exchange for money. AprIl: Palm Beach police begin trash pulls at Ep.ein, home. discovering a telepho. message for Epstein with the gri, name on it, and a time that matched t. time that she told police she vas there. They fi0 the names a. phone numbers of other girls on message slips in his trash. October: With the police probe in full swing. one of Epstein, assistants calls one of the girls just as she is beirg questioned by police. Irwestgators begin interviottng more gds. as .11as Epstein, butlers. who tell t.m that Epstein had frequent visits from girls. On Oct 20. they execute a search warrant at his Palm Beach house. 2006 May: Felice sigh a probable cause affidavit c.rging Epstein and two of his assisthnts with multiple cac'inli:or:pfTILYne= =7tawtr att=pBacprzelitrisc.r. in.ead Jur::: The gra. jurcy).saffearnhdelLrirYig 1129 299919511 1.1209 ,9 solicitation of p7osctZtriltorc:f. T. charge does not reflect that victim was a minor. July: Epstein, power.use legal team tries to negotiate a .al with the State Attorney's Office. LaNyers discuss a deferred prosecution in which Ep.ein would enter a pretrial intervention J.4c1frp=7.'m tgrn; aBef=:Z.:1:ito'ne,ru'bX,' prostitution: November: The FBI begins.. :rtydrrtnin=aFt1::i , NiesZsYsork and New Mexico. 2007 may: As t. U.S. Attor,, Office Pa=erasIgsraPrZuryt. Zestein,' =hreeret= ng June: A 53-page indictment is prepared by t. U.S. Attorneys Office as. simulthneously plea negotiations are initiated with Epstein, legal team. July: Gra. jury subpoenas are issued for Epstein, computer, which were removed from his home p.r to the police search August The U.S. attorney in Miami, Alexander Acosta enters into direct disc.sions about t. plea agreement; a motion to com.I production of Epstein's computers is .layed. September: Federal prosecutors draw up .veral fe.ral plea agreements that are rejected by Epstein and his attorneys. Epstein signs a nonroros.ution agr.ment on Sept. 24, but his attomeys continue to delay his co appeaiance. OctobliStor: With t. non-prosecution agreement stil being ACOsta meets with Epstein I,er Jay Lefkowitz at t. West Pa. Beach MaMott to discuss finalizing a .al. Among the terms agre. upon: lhat t. victims would not be notified, that the .al would be kept under sealarancpel alelagrandeciu. ry NosvuoliTeerr:aEsp‘syte i n , I e rs lobj.t to an addendum to t. ageement. The provision call. for a special master to appoint an attorney to represent Epstein victims' rights to civil compen.tion. December: The two si.s continue to .bate t..dendum. Epstein attorney Kenneth Starr asks for a review 91 the 9919991.90 by the U.S. Department of Ju.ice in Washington..rther dee,rtg its execution. Victims are told the irnestigation is continuing. 2008 January: Epstein attorney, Lefkowitz, calls A.sta, telling him his client will not go through with. agreement .cause it requires him to register as a sex offender February: With the plea negotiations and the Justice .partment review still in linbo. t. FBI contnues its probe. March: Preparations are trade for a new f.eral grand jury presentation. In court documents, t. U.S. Attor,, Office notes t.t Epstein, victims are .ing harass. by his lawyer& May: T. Justice Department issues findirg t., if a plea .al is not reached, Ep.ein can be federally prosecuted. June: Epstein, laywers r.sit plea negotiations, and on June 30, Eistein aPpears in a Palm Beech County courtroom.. pleads guilty to state charges: one count of solicitation of prostitution isorrtctirtIcor*Yul(l'ati:tsnndesfr the age of 18. He is .ntenced to 18 months in jail. folow. by a year of community control or .use arrest. He is .judi.ted as a comic. .x offender who must register twice a year in Florida. juIPI:eEaPisntesiiatv ic=tsart:;T:h=th s They file an emerge, petition to force fe.ral prosecutors to ccmply with the federal CrMe Victims' Rignts Act which mandates certain rig0 for crime victins, includng t. right to be inform. about plea agoenTents and the right to appear A 'rat Eepnsct s victims team that . has already been sent to jail. and that federal investigation is over They seek to have his plea agreement unseathd, but federal prosecutors aigue against releasing . ag.ment, ba't.itille7onZnagrristYheatriagsr Epstein, plea bargain. October: Epstein begins work release. He is pick. up ty his prnete diner six days a week a. transported to an office in West Palm Beach, w.re he accepts visitors for up to 12 hours a day. He retums tojail in evenings to sleep. 2009 July: Epstein is rel.sed from the Pa. Beech County stockade. f,e months early He must register as a sex ctlender and is on probation for a year, confined to his Palm Beach home except to travel to his offi. in West Palm Beech. Homey. records show . frequently makes t.s to Manhattan and . his home off St Thanas. Augsst: Palm Beach Police Capt. G.rge Rick finds Epstein milting along A1A in. middle of afternoon, w.n . was supposed to be at work in his office in downtown West Palm Beach. Epstein says . is walking to work, even thougi the lo.tion where . is found is not a dir.t route to his office. His probation officer says Epstein .s permission to get some exercise. September: The federal non- prosectAion agreement is ma. puble. By September 1 lea. a .zen civil lawsuits have been filed by women who allege they were molest. by Epstein when they were u.erage. Epstein begins the process of settling them. Novemben One of Epstein, former butlers t.s to sell . an u.rcover FBI agent a b.k book fil. with names of hundreds of girls and young women that Epstein alleg., procu. for sex and massages. The butler tells FBI agerts he witness. nude un.rage grls at Epstein, pool and had known that t. milionaire wes having sex with t.m. He also .id he sav pornography invoMng underage girls on Ep.ein, computers. The butler/houseman, Alfredo Rodrig.z. is later c.rged rnit°b=feldefrrrrso:.nd. dies in 2015. T. contents ofpat. Ifac k bl°1=yfitt " 2010 Ape: Fight logs obthined as part of civil lawsuits again. Epstein show an assortment of politician, academic, cel.ritie, heads of state and .rld le.ers flying on Epstein, jets in early 200.. knong t.m: former Presi.nt Bill Clinton, former national security adviser Sandy Berger. former Colombian President Andres Pastrana and lawyer Alan DershOwitZ. 2011. March: Two of Epstein, victims file a motion in federal court accusing . goiernment of violating t.ir =rig it secret. knong ot.r thngs. they went plea .al invaidated in ..pes of sending Epsten to prison. September: U.S. District J:Igiej.s. FAtetirrneeigtffrraZ,iite„t that it was under no obligation to nofify victims prior to striking a p rpYerrbe:Crs'estf=rnoit federal charges fil. against him. The d.ision marks a viCtory for Epstein's victims. but the ca. will drag on for seven more years. November: Epstein mu. register in New York as the higiest and most .ngerous level of sex offender .s te efforts by him a. the New YorkPDi.rict Attorney, office . lower the classification. A Level 3 BOI'0509&ollsp99l offense and a threat to public safety exists: according to t. states goideline. 2012 MarclvDecember: Calling himself a 'celebrated philanthropist' and a -renown:da=iax:11,17estor: rTlsatZs campaign to counter bad press about hls sexual exploit. His foundation .nates milions to scientific research a. sponsors g2c°,-',i''':foeIpceease:T;71.= t. planet. He fun. cancer, and eacirou:Clisthn=tr ects 2015 January: Virginia Roberts files court papers in Flo. claiming that she was forced by Epstein to have sex with Prince Andrew a. laNyer Alan Dershowitz when she .s underage. In a sworn affiday4t, she provides photographs of her with prince and with Epstein, close associate, British socialite .thlaine Maxwell. She claims Maxwell wort. as Epstein, madam, which s...s. .rshowitz and prince deny .r claims as .11. Aprlt A federal judge rules that Roberts cannotjoin the f.eral Crime Victims' Rights Act lawsuit and that .r affidavit — accusing Prince Andrew and Dershowitz of haring sex with her when she was underage — be stric.n from case. Dershowitz said ruing meant ..s vindicated. Howeyer. t. judge dces nOt .dreSS . yeracity of Roberts' claims, writing: "Zomtaa'n'dtv=errrielirgeTh engaged in sexual activities are inrnaterial and impertinent to this central claim: September: Roberts sues Maxwell n federal court in New York claiming that Ep.ein, alleged madam .fam..r in public statements in t. media. The lawsuit is wide, viewed as a vessel for Epstein, =PcLr lawsuits filed t..me year allege that Ep.ein and Maxwell operated a .x trafficleng operation. 2016 June: A lawsuit iS fil. in Manhattan ty a woman w. once used the name Kat. Johnson, claiming t.t she was raped by then-presidential candidate Donald Trump at a party at Epstein, Manhattan mansion in 1994 when s. vas 13 years old. Trump and Epstein both categorical, deny it .ppened. November: Johnson backs out of a press conference just .ys before Election Day, saying she had been threatened and wes fearful. S. later drops the lawsuit. 2017 February: President Donald Trump nominates former Miami federal prosecutor Acosta as U.S. secretary of labor. June: Roberts .ttles .r laNsuit with Maxwell for an undisclosed sum. 2018 December: Civil trial is schedul. ill3ir:ad 1"e; traT ua '11'4 a'St aunt °tri'm t Epsten sued him to punishshim for representing seyeral of his victim. The maicious-piosecution laystit is set 2 begin Dec. 4. Epstein has indi.ted wil not appear in court for trial. — Miami Hera.