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Prosecutors in Florida knew two years before the deal that Jeffrey Epstein had sexually abused teenagers

TheoJuly 2, 2024

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Two years before making a deal with Jeffrey Epstein, prosecutors in Florida listened to graphic testimony from teenage victims.

July 1, 2024, published 7:30 p.m. ET

Court records revealed that Florida prosecutors heard graphic testimony about Jeffrey Epstein sexually harassing teenage girls for two years before they offered him a deal, RadarOnline.com have learned.

The shocking transcripts were released on Monday, July 1, as part of the 2006 grand jury investigation.

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About 150 pages of court records were released on Monday.

Already in February, the governor of Florida Ron DeSantis signed a bill allowing the approximately 150 pages to be released on Monday or at a later date. Luis Delgado ordered.

Although the judge scheduled a hearing for next week to discuss how and when to release the transcripts, he made the shocking decision to release them on Monday.

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The transcripts were released as part of a grand jury investigation in 2006.

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With the unexpected release of the transcript, it became clear that the grand jury had heard graphic testimony from Epstein’s teenage victims, some of whom were as young as 14 years old.

The teenagers testified in detail that Epstein sexually abused them in his Palm Beach mansion and told investigators that they were paid to find more girls for the deceased financier.

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The transcripts show that the grand jury heard graphic testimony from teenagers detailing how Epstein had sexually abused them.

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“The details in the record will outrage decent people,” Judge Delgado wrote in his order releasing the transcripts. “The grand jury testimony concerns activities ranging from grossly unacceptable to rape — the entire conduct involved is sexually deviant, repulsive and criminal.”

Two years after the grand jury heard testimony from victims, prosecutors in South Florida agreed to a deal with Epstein in 2008 that has long been criticized as too lenient – and raised questions about the late financier’s ties to the rich and powerful.

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The 2008 deal allowed Epstein to avoid more serious federal charges. In return, he pleaded guilty to procuring and soliciting a person under 18 for prostitution. Epstein was sentenced to one and a half years in prison, followed by one year of house arrest, and was required to register as a sex offender.

As RadarOnline.com reported, a New York judge recently dismissed our lawsuit forcing the FBI to release documents related to its sex trafficking investigation into Epstein and his high-profile connections.

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Two years after the teenage victims’ statements, Epstein reached a deal with prosecutors in South Florida in 2008.

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US District Judge Paul G. Gardephe ruled on Tuesday, June 25, that public disclosure of the files could potentially interfere with a retrial of Epstein’s longtime associate and ex-girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell.

The ruling ended a seven-year saga that began when RadarOnline.com filed a freedom of information lawsuit against the FBI in 2017. Attorney Daniel Novack has vowed to “continue to fight for transparency and accountability.”

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“The FBI is covering its tracks by using a hypothetical retrial of Ghislaine Maxwell as justification for not releasing its Epstein files,” Novack said of the dismissal.

Novack said the FBI insists that “these are simply the kind of documents whose release would cause harm, without taking into account the reality that the person being investigated has viewed millions of records and was convicted in one of the most high-profile trials in U.S. history.”