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Firtay Ricu moment that Epstein had to plead guilty in court, which he finally did June 30, 2008. In the interim, according to their lawyers, Epstein’s victims were only told, “This case is currently under investigation” : A lawsuit that Bradley Edwards, a victims’ rights attorney in Fort Lauderdale, filed in July of 2008 cited the Crime Victims’ i Rights Act, or CVRA (title 18, section 3771, of the US Code), CHAPTER 50 “4 ; Boa sche 4 j which states that “victims of federal crimes have rights, includ- 1 ing the right to be heard in court, and most particularly, not to i be precluded from court proceedings, and the right to be treated : r fairly.” a According to him, prosecutors had violated the CVRA rights 4 E of the victims. Edwards, who said he was working pro bono, a q knew that this suit against the government would not allow for : 4 monetary recovery of any sort (including lawyers’ fees). But he ecution agreement, a fifty-three- a 4 also knew that if the government, urged by Jeffrey Epstein, had ederal prosecutors had prepared ES 4 entered into a contract that improperly or illegally violated the one that claimed he'd abused = _ rights of Epstein’s victims, then that contract, by nature, would eveswmetiled a ___ have been improper in and of itself—in which case, the only sting Epstein’s victims were con- a i temedy would have been to have the contract invalidated. And ims were not consulted about the 7 _ while it is difficult to know what, exactly, would happen if the i i: E as inexcusable. The “government = _ contract is overturned, one possibility is that the government Sin the dark’ so that it could enter 2 4 could prosecute Epstein for crimes against his victims, if the ed to prevent the victims from — Statute of limitations on those crimes has not expired. ould argue, in documents filed on ~ 4 At the time of this writing, that case is winding its way onthe ——— claimed, from . through the courts. It has all the earmarks of a modern-day egal on September
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