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Epstein & Trump “Best Buds.”
Epstein Time Line
2005 March: Police open a criminal investigation into Epstein in Palm Beach, Fla., after a 14-year-old girl's parents say he paid her for a massage.Police gather more allegations from underage girls who say he sexually abused them at his mansion,starting in 2002
2006 July 19: A Palm Beach County grand jury indicts Epstein on one state felony charge of solicitation of prostitution. They refer the case to a nearby FBI office, saying the charge doesn't reflect "the totality of Epstein's conduct."
2007 May: An assistant U.S. attorney — who has been working with two FBI agents to find more victims — submits a draft indictment outlining 60 criminal counts against Epstein July: Epstein's attorneys meet with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida. The top prosecutor was then-U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta (who in 2017 would become President Trump's Labor Secretary). The U.S. Attorney's Office offers to end its investigation if Epstein pleads guilty to two state charges and agrees to accept a prison term, register as a sexual offender, and set up a way for his victims to obtain monetary damages. The much-criticized deal includes a controversial non-prosecution agreement, or NPA, in which the federal prosecutor's office grants immunity to Epstein, four co-conspirators, and "any potential co-conspirators," the Justice Department says. Prosecutors agree not to tell Epstein's victims about the NPA, which is filed under seal
2008 June 30: Epstein pleads guilty to state charges of solicitation of prostitution and of solicitation of prostitution with a minor under the age of 18 sentenced to 18 months in a minimum-security facility. Allowed to leave the facility for 12 hours a day
2009 July 22: Epstein is released after serving less than 13 months. Two years after the non-prosecution deal was signed, a Florida judge orders that the document giving Epstein federal immunity should be made public,
2010 Epstein has settled multiple civil lawsuits brought against him by his victims.
2015 Sept. 21: Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre sues longtime Epstein confidante and associate Ghislaine Maxwell for defamation, after Maxwell called her a liar for claiming to be a victim of a sexual conspiracy run by Maxwell and Epstein. (In 2021, Maxwell was found guilty of helping Epstein operate a sex-trafficking ring that preyed on teens and young women and is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence.)
2017 May: Maxwell settles Giuffre's lawsuit, Epstein had repeatedly sought to avoid testifying. But journalist Julie K. Brown and the Miami Herald later file motions to unseal records from the case, said the public right of access and its coverage of the abuse of "dozens of underage minors."
2018 Nov. 28: The Miami Herald publishes a series of investigative reports into Epstein and the role of then-U.S. Attorney Acosta in Epstein's plea deal. intense interest in Epstein's actions, including the notion that powerful people might have known about or been involved in his illegal actions Dec. 4: A week after the Herald report, Epstein reaches a last-minute settlement women alleging that Epstein abused them when they were minors. The settlement puts an end to a case that had been anticipated to bring court testimony from Epstein's victims for the first time.
2019 July 6: Feds arrest Epstein. charged in the Southern District Court of New York with one count of sex trafficking of minors and one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of minors. Aug. 10: Epstein is found dead in the Metropolitan Correctional Center, the federal detention facility where he was being held in Manhattan.hung himself ya right his death derailed the prosecution Aug. 27: U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman holds a hearing on a motion to dismiss the indictment against Epstein. says the court will hear "the testimony of victims here today" Courtney Wild, who had helped start the first proceedings against Epstein in Florida more than 10 years earlier, is among those who step forward. The Miami Herald then waged a five-year legal battle to have all documents linked to the case made public. According to the newspaper, thousands more pages will be released by the court in the coming days.
JULY 2025: a 8-2 vote The House Committee on Oversight also issued a subpoena Wednesday for Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted sex offender and girlfriend of the late Epstein, to testify before committee officials in August. 3 repbs voted with the dems Mike Johnson said the House won't take action before leaving town for the August recess at the end of the week. To sideline the investigation.
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