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‘TERSON that side of the political aisle. He nton’s nemesis, Ken Starr, work- ke sure they'd covered the bases, Roy Black—the lawyer who'd of rape and kept Rush Limbaugh il drug use—and Jay Lefkowitz, _with US attorney R. Alexander 5 attorney’s office reached a for- team: the United States would or of prosecution by the state of nt (NPA) was drafted; among that he would not be prosecuted ida for felony offenses involving rls. (By that point, thirty known Instead it allowed him to plead yr solicitation of prostitution and rostitution. The NPA established ein’s victims to sue him in civil lary step of ensuring that “any 4 ipstein’s would be immune from n’s agreement to plead guilty and — the manner described above, if 4 | of the terms and conditions of i ates also agrees that it will not © against any potential co-conspita | t stated, mentioning Sarah Kellen le. Fittuy Ricw The parties anticipate that this agreement will not be made part of any public record,” the document concludes. “If the United States receives a Freedom of Information Act request or any compulsory process commanding the disclosure of the agree- ment, it will provide notice to Epstein before making that disclosure.” Remarkably, despite assurances they'd received from the feds, none of the victims was consulted prior to the drafting of this NPA. If Epstein did not sign the agreement, he faced a fifty-seven- count indictment and a decade or more in prison. But Epstein’s team of lawyers had gotten him a deal so sweet it could have rot- ted all the teeth in South Florida. For all his protestations of innocence, there was every reason in the world to agree to an NPA. On September 24, 2007, Epstein did sign it. Once again, none of the victims had been consulted or notified. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_010530